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Writing Prompt #28

“That was your first mistake,” she said mockingly, her eyes sparkling in amusement as he struggled against his chains. “Caring.”

[jordanmcmakin]

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[corbynikkelson-deactivated20200]

Story Starter #375

You’d think I’d have learned by now, but you’d be fucking wrong.

[so-many-aesthetics]

OC Assassin

Requested by: @eveshadows

[theprincessbard]

Character Mood Board - The damaged made strong

Everything always played out in black and white or the vibrancy of red in her soul. Blood, passion, darkness and light. This was who she was and who she would ever be. She had learned to own it instead of letting it own her.

And she became her own hero.

[yuudachimemes]

Arrow Inspired Sentence Starter

“After five years in hell, I returned home with only one goal” “Obviously you were never a Boy Scout.” “You’d better hurry. The wolves come out at night” “I know, I was watching you. Thank you…for the entertainment” “All my life, all that I’ve ever thought about is myself" “I know it is too late to say this but I am sorry” “I’ve always cared” “I admire your work. Guess you won’t be extending me any professional courtesy.” “That’s not true. I’ll feel a sense of accomplishment” “Call yourself whatever you want” “You trying to reassure me or yourself?” “You need to anticipate your opponent” “I hate to break it to you, but saving people isn’t your specialty” “Forgive me if I don’t find that comforting”  “I don’t wanna be on an island anymore”  “What sort of business has a lost and found that’s just filled with women’s underwear?”  “Ohh, having this much fun should be against the law”  “They don’t send blondes there”  “I’d be pulling these triggers right now, except there’s nobody paying me”  “Please do not ask me if I’m okay, because I’m sick to death of everyone asking me that”  “Guns’ are a coward’s weapon. What are you without your sidearm?”  “If I say she’s/he’s in there, what’s keeping you from shooting me?” “Is it okay to laugh? Because I was ordered not say anything about you being in prison just to avoid any awkward exchanges” “Maybe he thinks he penetrates just fine”  “He’s still sleeping… I prefer sleeping to coma, because coma sounds, you know, not fun”  “Does that mean I have a shot at employee of the month?”  “Is that judgment I’m hearing?”  “You’d think that would make the news”  “I wouldn’t be here if you hadn’t been so brave”  “Who do you want to kill more than me?”  “Because once you let the darkness inside, it never comes out”  “That’s a bit flamboyant. I like it” “Because you’re important to me”  “Bitch with wi-fi”  “If you’re so far gone and so irredeemable… then why would they know you by such a beautiful name?”  “All that I ever wanted to do is honor those people”

[chainspo-blog]

“I’d be pulling these triggers right now, except there’s nobody paying me” 

“Guns’ are a coward’s weapon. What are you without your sidearm?”

I already knew I was a coward.

[chainspo-blog]

Am I good person who’s done bad things or a bad person who occasionally trips over a good deed? I fear it is the second.

[dctvrph]

There’s a girl who can’t stop running her feet are too short to carry her far but she just keeps running, chasing, trying to be fast enough for the world There’s a girl whose laugh carries throughout a mansion her smiles light up the world and her world is an adoring, happy place There’s a girl whose tears have dried up she lost everything to the water but her eyes aren’t even damp  her world came crashing down and she doesn’t feel anything but empty There’s a girl who’s drowning though her feet are on dry land her lips smirk and her eyes twinkle but her heart screams the only things that make the world okay are rotting her There’s a girl who’s remembering the meaning of okay there are people who love her and remind her everyday the world is starting to lack emptiness There’s a girl who just learned what losing everything means she only knows the lying and the dead the world didn’t care what it took from her There’s a girl who has learned to fight back the devil teaches her how to wield a sword and pulls her close the world may take but it’ll have to rip it from her cold hands There’s a girl who lost her innocence the moment a bird fell she can’t remember who she used to be  but she knows not to be proud of this There’s a girl who stopped running at night she pulls taunt the strings of a bow and let’s it fly she finally thinks that she’s got the world figured out There’s a girl so filled with rage it spills out like blood she tries, she tries, she tries, but there’s no escaping monsters the world keeps showing her that she is one There’s a girl lying on a hospital bed she’d rather die from the inside than to take another life the world has decided a lot of things, but this one’s hers.

You will be a Queen ‘till your last breath // Thea Queen [ j.f ] (via dctvrph)

[ofwalkingdead]

character aesthetics: modern day princess

“i cared a lot once,” she admitted wryly. “and it ruined me. so now i don’t care for much at all. i work in extremes like that. ”

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Urban desertstorm ghost by Rembert Montald

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[alinarps]

THE AESTHETIC SERIES » THE CRESTFALLEN.

You can’t see past the shadows you’ve cast and all I can do is watch you stumble in the dark.

[ourwritingprompts]

Writing Prompt #60

“Do you miss me?”

“I miss the person you used to be.”

[write-like-a-freak-deactivated2]

Protagonists I Want to See More of in YA

girls written by men, and boys written by women (I have a long explanation for this and I may turn it into its own post one day, but for the sake of brevity i’m going to leave that like it is rn)

non-bookish protagonists who are still well-developed

UNLIKABLE PROTAGONISTS. Actually my favorite characters are the ones who are complex/real enough that sometimes you really love them and sometimes you super duper hate them (see: every character in Breaking Bad)

protagonists who actually like instigate the main plot of the book (I cannot tell you how tired I am of the whole “jane ‘whitey mcnerdgirl’ smith’ had a super boring life but then some wild thing happened to her so now her life is interesting”) (wait yes I can and I did so already here)

socially anxious protags where their social anxiety is realistically portrayed and their resulting struggle with having friends/relationships is portrayed (less “i’m just cute and shy and that strange hot guy is really into me” and more “i am in a constant state of terror and my anxiety has kept me from having any legitimate relationships since i was 12″)

same with other mental health issues/disorders BUT without the book being an issue book that focuses mainly on that issue/disorder. A good old fantasy/sci fi/romance/whatever book with realistically portrayed disorders is what I want to see

optimistic, friendly, non-cynical protags (not everyone’s teenage years are 50/50 angst and sarcasm)

non-quirky protagonists

on the other hand, manic pixie dream girls (yes i said it. i love manic pixie dream girls. i hate them for the male gaze, as the object of a male protagonist’s obsession, but make a manic pixie dream girl the teller of her own story and i’m so here for that) (but she can’t be a mary sue)

A N G RY  G I R L  PROTAGONISTS

protagonists who fail. hard.

religious protagonists. And not just like using their flimsy religion to emphasize how angsty and cynical they are. actual firm believers in fantasy/sci-fi/dystopian/whatever books. doesn’t really count if the religion is fictional. and not just Christians either.

this goes along with the “protagonists who instigate the main plot” point, but protagonists who are eager to face the conflict. I’m tired of it feeling like the story has to be set up perfectly to force the character into action. Protagonists who are ready to step up to the plate and do some damage.

protagonists who fall from grace over the course of the story.

protagonists who are wildly amoral but their amorality isn’t excused, it’s made to be a complex aspect of their character. protagonists who sometimes step out of line. possibly too far to ever really return.