Spoilsport.

Sarah. INTJ. Ravenclaw/Slytherin. Definitely has a thing towards BBC News; specifically Jon Sopel - not to mention books, anime, superheroes and the occasional combination of detectives, timelords and an Impala.

[theweirdwideweb]

Hope you’re enjoying the last 100 days of the decade, lads. 

[all-that-once-slithered]

[queerclouds]

my dumb ass always thought the song went “i guess it rains down in Africa” and i was like damn i guess it do

[infininoodle]

are we human

or are we dentists

[centurdays]

[GMV] robot | detroit: become human

watch in hd! first GMV oh lordy 'tis a mess but it's beyond repair now for once, an edit that lasts more than a minute, miracles do happen y'all song used: r...

i don’t know what to do with this edit so imma just let this one go free.

[just-shower-thoughts]

If it wasn’t for Fortnite “Gaming Disorder” would not have been classified as a mental health condition.

[kcgane-deactivated20190222]

cinematic parallels 

[emilydoesthething]

[vintar]

i’m watching a british youtuber’s birthday stream and an aussie viewer sent in a comment saying “why was he born so beautiful, why was he born at all? because he had no say in it, no say in it at all” which was received with confused existential horror, and this is how i just discovered that australian happy birthday songs are not universal

[argumate]

oops

[languageoclock]

do you not sing this in other countries?!?!??

[stele3]

NO we do not sing a lament for someone’s personal beauty wishing they’d never been born. That is some weird Greek tragedy shit.

[refrasers-blog]

the problem with 100 Days+: which presenter do you look at throughout the show like do you look at the presenter who’s speaking or do you look at the other presenter to see their reaction i dunno man this keeps me awake at night

[sirobvious]

What is heavier? A 200 pounds of bricks or 200 pounds of feathers?

The answer is the feathers.

200 pounds of bricks is just a bunch of bricks, but if you try to carry 200 pounds of feathers, you also have to carry the weight of what you did to those poor birds.

[tacoabel]

[shitpost-senpai]

[mizules-deactivated20240615]

An idealist with a pure heart and unquestionable honour.

[greetings-deactivated2015-01-23]

i’m that kind of person who between two choices always pick the wrong one

[glitchysims]

All of the dads???? In one place???? What a gift???

[sonypraystation]

why am i skeptical of any other car i see driving around at 3am . like i know why IM out ….why YOU drivin round this late 👀

[docbe]

[ellelalee]

writing is hard

[pandoyareblogs]

I feel this in my soul

[phantomrose96]

No one asked but:

For anyone who feels this, let your first sentence be crappy.

Building up momentum while writing is the easiest way to get the story flowing but you need to start somewhere. And the start might just have to be crappy.

Like, let your first sentence be “It was raining.” “He was unhappy.” “When he woke up, his head was hurting.” It’s easy to be hyper-critical of the first sentence you write and that can lead to typing and erasing for hours and giving up. Let it be bland and generic and dull just so you can get the ball rolling. 

Edit it later.

Write a place-holder first sentence (sentences, paragraph) that sucks, and then write the rest of the chapter, and then go back and fix that sentence last.

[clairelutra]

i’d like to add that those opening sentences aren’t actually ‘crappy’ at all, storytelling-wise. ‘it was raining’ sets a tone and states a fact, and allows for the placement of characters in relation to the rain. ‘he was unhappy’ is a fact that sets a hook and allows for expansion, giving the pov character a problem to deal with right off the bat—why is he unhappy? how are we gonna fix that? (or make it worse, but yknow.) ditto ‘when he woke up, his head was hurting‘—it stands to follow that, at some point, he’s going to get out of bed to fix that, or lie still and suffer and regret whatever made his head hurt.

so, second piece of writing advice:

start with a statement of fact

any fact, just pick one thing about the beginning of the story you wanna tell. if it gives the pov character a dilemma or trouble, all the better. it’s not the only way to start, but it’s simple and fairly concrete as a starting line.

definitely still give yourself permission to suck and rewrite later on, but if you just don’t know how to start, see if you can identify something about your story—where are we (location, time, in relation to some other event), what are we doing (verbs!), and/or what’s troubling us (pain, worry, discomfort, confusion, suspicion, etc.)—and slap it down.

[gaynfl-moved]

sometimes i get a little stressed out because i’m living in a part of history that’ll one day be talked about and discussed and papers written and what am i doing? what have i done? laundry, barely