CandyThePuppy

I've never kissed a man.

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Vague writing tips I use all the time:

(doesn't mean you have to follow them)

Never start at the beginning. Start in the middle, or right before the end. This goes for world building, characters, items, lore, relationships, you name it.

Build your characters' "houses" on the sand. Watching that is far more interesting than what was built on the rocks.

Crafting a story should feel like a good sparring match. The plot is one opponent and the readers' expectations are the other. And the readers are hungry for a good fight.

Procrastinating? That's caused by a lack of stimulation/your mind going into autopilot. Push your current skill beyond its comfort level. Force your brain to dive head first into a specific problem you've been putting aside for months/years. Let every chapter tackle a feasible problem you need to overcome.

Plan to kill off all your characters from the start. Then force them to convince you why they should live.

NEVER name one of your characters Justin.

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Oops! Sorry, I couldn't go to sleep until 4am because I was too busy imagining how my life would irreversibly change if someone poured gasoline on and lit me on fire!

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There was once a man who thought like me

He killed himself

- poetry

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Me every time I see a police car with its lights on: Aw yeah, it's disco time

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Comparing myself to my childhood friend will never not be funny 🤣

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My accent so sublime

I confuse them all the time

- Poetry

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I don't know about your guys' dreams, but I just dreamed I helped Gojo save the multiverse and it was rad af! Even got to talk to my past self and give her some life advice!

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I was both somehow.

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Honestly WHO let me have Internet access? 🤦

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I'd hoped growing up and maturing would mean finally feeling smart enough to have some confidence in myself. But, no, I feel dumber now than I ever have before. 💀

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Just woke up from a dream where my cat kept dropping her limbs and I had to keep taping them back on. 😭

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Just rereading some of my older fics and DANG do I like to make up extremely specific and uncomfortable family drama around Reigen Arataka that his love interest of the fic has to navigate! 😂

Like I got CREATIVE with this crap!

Still haven't found that scene. Sigh.

(yes it's 3am and yes I've got nothing better to do)

Like in this one fic the whole family had this generational trauma thing stemming from WWII I think. Something about coffee and immigrants too. (Didn't specify in the screenshot post but Reigen's grandpa dies while sitting next to him when young Reigen was already on a depressive spiral.)

And in another one- I've been so tempted to draw fanart of it- both his parents have dwarfism and his sister's a h0. (Honestly don't know what else to call it. Trust me she's a multidimensional character with a lot of layers to her and isn't meant to bash women of a certain variety.)

And in BOTH of those fics Reigen is, if I remember correctly, trying to navigate a romantic relationship while being Asexual. xD

Yeah--no, I haven't written a normal fanfic since I was 17...

Crap I have work tomorrow

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😭🙏 I just received the most fanfic comment of all time on Wattpad

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At almost exactly 5 am I woke up from a dream just now where I and my parents were taken to some underground pristine bunker and shown some videos barely proving aliens exist through eye witness accounts. Stories about a young man being experimented on, using parts of him to create a weird small dog he then had to take care of and was always terrified of, and more I can't remember so well. All of them were so close to proving aliens exist, but could still be explained away by the simple fact that there was lacking physical evidence and good quality, provable photos.

My parents were convinced, however. Walking back to the very narrow elevators down the very narrow hallway, my parents, as well as the older man and woman who were trying to convince us, were all glaring at me for outwardly saying I still didn't believe in aliens. My dad was alright, though disappointed, with me still not believing, however the lady guiding us was giving me a very Karen look. Most terrifying of all was how pushy my mom was being. She even borderline hit me a few times while talking, putting me through scenarios trying to get me to agree with her. It was so unlike her I started to fear she was possessed in some way. At the elevators my mom was trying to prompt me into choosing her side by giving me two options to pick from. Either stay ignorant and in the dark or not. I countered, feeling the dream fade from me as I said it.

"As long as I can choose between living in a world where aliens exist and don't exist, I'd rather live in a world where they don't."

I still think it's funny that I said it like some quotable line in a movie. 😂

...Guess this means I chose the blue pill..? 😅

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New book haul~

Finally something kot language related thrown in. 😂

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Haven't seen Surfs Up in YEARS but while napping today dreamworld decided it was the perfect time to create a sequel.

A sequel complete with:

Crazy family lore around the washed up former pro penguin forgot his name. Big Z, maybe? Like, turns out he had a son who's currently a mob boss, as well as a crippled daughter who didn't make it to adulthood, hence the shared traumatic past. After the daughter died big z left his family out of grief, so his son was abandoned essentially. For a mob boss though he was REALLY nice. His gang were basically just a bunch of other abandoned boys who needed a father figure, which he was to them. So it was very wholesome but also they did get into quite a bit of trouble and I think at one point I got so annoyed I reached through the screen and pushed them all down a cliff. (They survived)

There was also the start of some kinda war about to go down but I don't remember why. Even while I was dreaming I was like "is this necessary??" and my other half was like "YES." So there's that but I don't know where it was going.

And there was this human photographer too who only made a few appearances and was always treated like some horrifying cryptid every time they were on screen. It just looked like some random guy in an orange shirt and tan shorts, but the music would cut out and the screen would darken with sharp contrasting shadows, as well as other framing effects, to make this random photographer as CREEPY as possible.

Overall, chaotic but GREAT viewing experience. 10/10 can't wait for it to come to the big screen.

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Book haul! 💖✨

(They were free by the side of the road :D)

They're all in German, a language I am not fluent in...yet. 🙏😵‍💫