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I get asked for writing tips all the time, here are some quick tweets that some may find helpful. :)

Imagine Person A of your OTP is bilingual, and Person B only knows English. Person B likes the way A sounds when they speak this other language, especially in the bedroom. B asks them to talk in their non-English language, and Person A proceeds to talk about something completely un-sexy. Person B has no idea and listens to A through the whole session. Bonus: A tells them what they were saying afterward and teases them about it.

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Person A and B have a one night stand together. In the morning, when they wake up, person A takes B out to breakfast bc dang they’re cute.

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Imagine your OT3 where Person A and Person B are in bed together and whatever they’re doing is interrupted by Person C vacuuming right outside the door.

otpprompts

A and B are at school and it’s the last period. A is really horny and manages to get out of the class with B. They find an empty classroom and get in. A and B start fucking (trying to be as quiet as they can be) and time flies by. When they finish they cant find a single student or teacher. They try to get out but all the doors are closed. They are locked inside their school praying to god no one finds out.

otpprompts

A and B both have the whole day off to themselves and desperately want to have sex, but any time they even consider it one of A’s relatives (or someone of your NOTP) keeps spontaneously interrupting them with something unimportant, and it’s the same person every time. By the end of the day when they’re finally alone and get the chance to fuck, the same person tries calling them. Instead of answering the phone, a very frustrated A screams, grabs it, and violently throws it out of the room.

kingofgemini

Person A and B were cuddling together in bed, mostly in silence, but occasionally chatting.

Person B (little spoon) was struggling to remember how a conversation that they had earlier went because of how tired they were.

Person A (big spoon) lifted their hand up and pat B’s head and said “It’s okay, I know your tired.”

The little spoon just closed their eyes and responded with “Don’t fucking patronize me you twat.”

The big spoon then responded by cracking up and almost falling out of bed.

EXTRA:

Little spoon then turned around and shoved their big spoon off the bed because they were annoyed at being laughed at that much.

#tenshi & blazie

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Myths, Creatures, and Folklore

Want to create a religion for your fictional world? Here are some references and resources!

General:

General Folklore

Various Folktales

Heroes

Weather Folklore

Trees in Mythology

Animals in Mythology

Birds in Mythology

Flowers in Mythology

Fruit in Mythology

Plants in Mythology

Folktales from Around the World

Africa:

Egyptian Mythology

African Mythology

More African Mythology

Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

The Gods of Africa

Even More African Mythology

West African Mythology

All About African Mythology

African Mythical Creatures

Gods and Goddesses

The Americas:

Aztec Mythology

Haitian Mythology

Inca Mythology

Maya Mythology

Native American Mythology

More Inca Mythology

More Native American Mythology

South American Mythical Creatures

North American Mythical Creatures

Aztec Gods and Goddesses

Asia:

Chinese Mythology

Hindu Mythology

Japanese Mythology

Korean Mythology

More Japanese Mythology

Chinese and Japanese Mythical Creatures

Indian Mythical Creatures

Chinese Gods and Goddesses

Hindu Gods and Goddesses

Korean Gods and Goddesses

Europe:

Basque Mythology

Celtic Mythology

Etruscan Mythology

Greek Mythology

Latvian Mythology

Norse Mythology

Roman Mythology

Arthurian Legends

Bestiary

Celtic Gods and Goddesses

Gods and Goddesses of the Celtic Lands

Finnish Mythology

Celtic Mythical Creatures

Gods and Goddesses

Middle East:

Islamic Mythology

Judaic Mythology

Mesopotamian Mythology

Persian Mythology

Middle Eastern Mythical Creatures

Oceania:

Aboriginal Mythology

Polynesian Mythology

More Polynesian Mythology

Mythology of the Polynesian Islands

Melanesian Mythology

Massive Polynesian Mythology Post

Maori Mythical Creatures

Hawaiian Gods and Goddesses

Hawaiian Goddesses

Gods and Goddesses

Creating a Fantasy Religion:

Creating Part 1

Creating Part 2

Creating Part 3

Creating Part 4

Fantasy Religion Design Guide

Using Religion in Fantasy

Religion in Fantasy

Creating Fantasy Worlds

Beliefs in Fantasy

Some superstitions:

nimblesnotebook-blog

Here, I have some more:

Africa:

Ancient Egypt: the Mythology

Egyptian Gods

Legendary Monsters of Africa

The Americas:

Aztec Mythology

Incan Mythology

Haitian Mythology

Mayan Mythology

Asia:

Chinese Mythology

Japanese Mythology

Korean Mythology

Hindu Mythology

Japanese Folklore and Mythology

Chinese Mythology

Europe:

Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology

The Olympians

Women in Greek Myths

Greek Mythology

More Greek Mythology

Even More Greek Mythology

Greek/Roman Mythology

Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas

Norse Mythology

The Muse

Creepy Irish Creatures

Irish Folklore

Norse Mythology

Arthurian Mythology

Celtic Mythology

Latvian Mythology

Norse Gods, Goddesses, and More

A Celtic Pantheon

Welsh Gods and Goddesses

Celtic Deities

Werewolf Legends from Germany

Welsh Deities

Celtic Gods and Goddesses

Oceanic:

Australian Mythology

Polynesian Mythology

General:

Ancient Myth and Magic

Massive List of Mythological Creatures

Mythical Creatures

Hairy Hominids

Cryptozoology

Mysterious Beings, Monsters, and Creatures

Amulets and Good Luck Charms A - Z

Modern Monsters

Myths and Legends

Folklore and Mythology (2)

More Links

Folklore, Myth, and Legend

Names of Gods and Goddesses

Folklore Mythology

redadhdventures

Reblogging because wow. What a resource.

darkdungeonsrpgideas

Study the magic and monsters of other cultures. You never know when it will be important to know, or a useful tool.

probablybarpgideas-blog

I have nothing to add, this is just a good resource.

To stay on theme though, I’m drunk af.

brewerssupplies

Advertising this resource for y'all to use!!

constantlyonfirerpgideas

Fingers crossed some are fire related, I didn’t read them all.

probablybard

this is off theme but its a good resource

probablygoodrpgideas

This is good

highlyquestionablerpgideas

This is incredible, my only complaint is that there’s no russian mythology… i love me some firebird

imsopopfly

Omg myth post myth poooooosssst!

askbelgie

{ I did it I made another one!!!

It’s hard to find outfit memes with diversity in styles so I made one myself where each row has a theme!

Send a Character + Letter + Number to draw in that outfit!

Not taking any right now but feel free to reblog!! }

#art memes

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Character Development Questions: Hard Mode

Does your character have siblings or family members in their age group? Which one are they closest with?

What is/was your character’s relationship with their mother like?

What is/was your character’s relationship with their father like?

Has your character ever witnessed something that fundamentally changed them? If so, does anyone else know?

On an average day, what can be found in your character’s pockets?

Does your character have recurring themes in their dreams?

Does your character have recurring themes in their nightmares?

Has your character ever fired a gun? If so, what was their first target?

Is your character’s current socioeconomic status different than it was when they were growing up?

Does your character feel more comfortable with more clothing, or with less clothing?

In what situation was your character the most afraid they’ve ever been?

In what situation was your character the most calm they’ve ever been?

Is your character bothered by the sight of blood? If so, in what way?

Does your character remember names or faces easier?

Is your character preoccupied with money or material possession? Why or why not?

Which does your character idealize most: happiness or success?

What was your character’s favorite toy as a child?

Is your character more likely to admire wisdom, or ambition in others?

What is your character’s biggest relationship flaw? Has this flaw destroyed relationships for them before?

In what ways does your character compare themselves to others? Do they do this for the sake of self-validation, or self-criticism?

If something tragic or negative happens to your character, do they believe they may have caused or deserved it, or are they quick to blame others?

What does your character like in other people?

What does your character dislike in other people?

How quick is your character to trust someone else?

How quick is your character to suspect someone else? Does this change if they are close with that person?

How does your character behave around children?

How does your character normally deal with confrontation?

How quick or slow is your character to resort to physical violence in a confrontation?

What did your character dream of being or doing as a child? Did that dream come true?

What does your character find repulsive or disgusting?

Describe a scenario in which your character feels most comfortable.

Describe a scenario in which your character feels most uncomfortable.

In the face of criticism, is your character defensive, self-deprecating, or willing to improve?

Is your character more likely to keep trying a solution/method that didn’t work the first time, or immediately move on to a different solution/method?

How does your character behave around people they like?

How does your character behave around people they dislike?

Is your character more concerned with defending their honor, or protecting their status?

Is your character more likely to remove a problem/threat, or remove themselves from a problem/threat?

Has your character ever been bitten by an animal? How were they affected (or unaffected)?

How does your character treat people in service jobs?

Does your character feel that they deserve to have what they want, whether it be material or abstract, or do they feel they must earn it first?

Has your character ever had a parental figure who was not related to them?

Has your character ever had a dependent figure who was not related to them?

How easy or difficult is it for your character to say “I love you?” Can they say it without meaning it?

What does your character believe will happen to them after they die? Does this belief scare them?

sinksanksockie2

Oh hell yes

steveogers

three internet trends i will (regrettably) probably never grow out of:

• typing in a cresCENDO TO EXPRESS EXCITEMENT • …………..unnecessarily……. long……….. ellipsis’ • puttinfh a typo in eveyr other word to shwo u dont really give a fukc but u actually do

satorugojjo

also unnecessary!!!! punctuation marks??????? like…… ??? what is going on here????? i!! am!!! so!!! excited!!!!

fihli

and™ totally™ unneeded™ trademark symbols™

strangehorse

personally I enjoy Random Capitalisation to show things are Very Important

eearth-deactivated20180601

can we also talk about starting a sentence and then kind of just

studyandlush

stating something reblog if you agree

watermellens

dude this isn’t even a collection of memes, this is a demonstration of internet grammar… anyone who says that when you type and communicate on the internet you lose too much inflection to get the real meaning just doesn’t understand internet syntax. the evolution of language in action.

brain3at3r

the Rosetta Stone of the twenty first century

cosyhowell-deactivated20180822

Also :) doing :) this :) to express :) bottled :) pain :)

throwlamp

or,,,,,using commas,,,,,, for elipsis’ ,,,, bc,,, it sounds better,,, in your head,,,, than periods,,,,,,,

charlieism

pu t ting sp a ces in your wor ds at r and om time s because w hat the fu ck

honey-stick

Is it just me, or did anyone else read all of these with different tones of voice, volume, and inflection?

popcorn-fox

Don’t forget the B I G S P A C E S F O R E M P H A S I S

misplacedsp-ace

👏or👏putting👏hand👏claps👏 between👏words👏to👏show👏 importance👏

noloveiswasted-deactivated20240

I think this entire post sums up the conversations I have with very passionate individuals, and I love it.

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annabellioncourt

There’s a lovely old English myth that if someone who truely loved and trusted the werewolf called it by name that it would turn back to human.

Others include throwing their human clothes at it and it’d turn back but that’s a bit less romantic

mothfishing

#ok i understand ppl would take the romancey route here#but imagine the werewolf’s mother#or grandmother#some wizened old woman or middle aged woman#with wrinkles or hands toughened from years of labor#just going out into the woods#where even the men with axes won’t go anymore#and facing down the ravening beast#and saying#it’s time to come home

the-golden-ghost

I actually like the “throwing clothes at it” better cause now I’m picturing Grandma stomping out of the house at 3 AM in her slippers, arms full of clothes and facing down this horrible, snarling beast.

And then she just starts flinging clothes at it like “GODDAMN IT JEFFERY IT IS THREE IN THE FUCKING MORNING YOU GET YOUR PANTS ON AND COME BACK INSIDE RIGHT THIS MINUTE”

deleriousfromcoffee

I love both these versions.

rewordfully

you know how mathematicians have the journal of recreational mathematics, right? where they publish stuff like, ‘oh i found this cool property of this one seemingly boring number’, or, ‘this is literally nonsense but it sounds ~scientific~’ and it’s all great fun to read?

well

behold, the journal of recreational linguistics

with such delightful papers as ‘tennis puns’, ‘animals in different languages’, and ‘gifts from a homonymous benefactor’

excuse me while i go read all 50 volumes in one sitting

rewordfully

they even have linguistic magic squares im crying

sarenraegalpaladin

wait wait where is the maths one ;A;

rewordfully

ask and you shall receive

recreational mathematics magazine

sarenraegalpaladin

OH MY GOD THANK YOU

impling

based on EVERY TAG I’VE SEEN ABOUT HIM, @copperbadge should see this if he hasn’t already….

copperbadge

I actually really struggle with linguistics but this is the kind of language play I could sink my teeth into :D

ameliareadsandcurses

What canvas size do you draw on? I use 3000×3000 (300 ppi) and save as a png, and when I post on here it's always blurry :(

around 1500x1500 - 2000x2000 smth. AND PAL, MY ART HERE IS /ALWAYS/ BLURRY AS WELL! its a fucking nightmare to get it right! i dont htink there’s much we can do about it :’’’’^( it also changes depending on phone or computer, so it seems to just be kinda inevitable

prophecydungeon

that’s not………. how child speech works…………………………………………..

prophecydungeon

god okay in an attempt to be less of an asshole, here’s how child speech DOES work (or tend to work, at least)

kids tend to hypercorrect — this means that they tend to say things like “sleeped” instead of “slept,” “writed” instead of “wrote,” “goed” instead of “went,” etc

kids tend not to make errors such as omitting verbs (“i hungry”)

kids also tend not to make errors in the i/me, she/her department (“me am hungry”)

simplification of difficult sounds — consonant clusters especially, so things like st, sp, ps, etc., as well as f, v, th-sounds, ch-sounds, etc.

“babbling”-type utterances (“apwen” for “airplane,” using one babbly word for multiple objects, things like that) generally occur in children under the age of three and a half

say it with me: an eight-year-old child is not going to be saying “me hungwy”

do not confuse child speech with stereotypical learner english mistakes, that’s not only incorrect but also gross on the stereotypical learner english front (“me love you long time,” anybody?)

if you’re going to write kidfic please do some * research

prokopetz

Totally. It can be helpful to remind yourself that young children tend to speak as though the English language actually made sense. Our brains are pattern-recognising machines: children are really, really good at puzzling out the implicit rules of the English language, but they don’t necessarily know all the silly exceptions and bizarre edge cases that break those rules yet - those can only be learned through experience and rote memorisation.

Basically, when children who speak English as a first language make mistakes, it typically reflects a tendency to treat English as more grammatically, syntactically, and/or orthographically consistent than it really is. In some cases, this can be compounded by the fact that some kids will get offended at how little sense “proper” English makes, and insist upon using the more consistent forms even though they know very well that they’re technically “wrong”.

for a long young portion of my life I insisted on pronouncing Sean “SEEN” because that’s how it’s spelled.

pftones3482

As someone who spends a good majority of her time working with kids, it irks me to no end when I see children written as if they’re babies.

Past the age of about five or six years old, children can have deep, intellectual conversations about the most bizarre of things. I HAD A CONVERSATION LAST WEEK WITH FOUR THIRD GRADERS ABOUT THE GAS PRICES AND TAXES IN HAWAII.

Were they entirely correct in the facts they were giving? No, because it was all from what they had heard from parents or on the news. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that I was having a genuine conversation with four eight and nine year olds about taxes.

Just about the only speech problems most kids have, unless they have a speech impediment, is not being able to pronounce certain consonants (replacing ‘th’ with ‘fw,’ for example, and some letters are harder to form with your mouth than others) and doing exactly what the person above said: using the English language the way they know how, which isn’t always the way English works.

Kids aren’t stupid. Stop writing them like they are.

oldtoadwoman-deactivated2018121

I was tutoring a little kid (second grade, I think). He was complaining about a worksheet. “This is hard.” I started to correct him as I knew he was more than capable of it and this bright kid, who had obviously heard the lecture before from others, interrupted me and said: “I know. I know. It’s not really difficult. It’s just time consuming.” Some kids are spooky-smart and even quite articulate.

If you need (plotwise) to emphasize that the child is specifically childish … have them tell the same joke to everyone they meet, cracking themselves up before they get to the punchline … have them ask “Why?” incessantly … have them fidgeting and possibly breaking things (”Oops.” “What?” “Nothing!” “WHAT?!”) … and if you have more than one kid, even of the same age, you don’t have to write them at the same intelligence level or emotional maturity. Some kids are messy and some are obsessively neat. Some are quiet, some loud. Some giggly, some surly. They basically come in the same range of personalities as adults.

If you don’t want to invest a lot of time writing dialog for kids, just establish that you have a quiet kid. But a kid who gives single-word answers is usually doing so because they don’t like you (or trust you) or they are focused on their own thing and you’re interrupting them. It doesn’t mean they lack the vocabulary or that they don’t understand the adult conversation going on “over their head” (the more inappropriate the conversation, the more likely the kids are paying attention).

santheum

I have jabbed the back button so many times on terrible kid fic. This is an excellent resource - kid fic, when done well, is a real treat for me.

thaxted

The only children I have ever met who did say things like “me hungwy” were the ones who had figured out that if they sounded “adorable” they could wrap adults around their precious little fingers. Kids get it.

spiletta42

Good resource for people who write but spend no time with children.

shadowkat678

“KIDS GET IT”

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS

naamahdarling

In my experience, kids five and up* converse basically like less-educated but still-intelligent adults with smaller vocabularies, a slightly more sketchy understanding of grammar, and really delightful (and often gross) senses of humor.

They are people. Real people with complex thoughts and inner lives, strong opinions, and the ability to draw accurate conclusions about the people around them and their motives with surprisingly little to go on. And writing them well is actually a hell of a lot of fun.

Kids are cool. Write them like it.

* I don’t have much experience with kids younger than this, but I know I was able to read at three, so never, ever underestimate the intelligence of children, for purposes of fic or anything else.

tinysidestrashcaptain

This is gold, thank you for this oh my god!!! I know I am guilty of writing the Tiny Sides with the “w” sound and omitting words or consanents, but to be fair, I don’t really spend a lot of time with kids so I have no idea what a normal development curve would be. I’m going to use this to improve their dialogue, and frankly it will be much easier for me to write and you guys to understand this way.

So if you’re wondering why they’re going to be speaking much more eloquently from now on, here’s my reasoning.

bemusedlybespectacled

I was thinking about this post while I was babysitting an almost-two-year-old so I’m glad it’s back on my dash again.

What an actual toddler sounds like (or at least, what this one sounds like):

everything is limited by vocabulary. if kid knows “no,” “up,” and “mama,” then kid is going to say “no up! mama!” instead of “I do not want you to be the one to carry me, in fact I would prefer my mother to do so.”

similarly, if kid knows “milk” and “water,” and sees juice, kid may call juice “water” because she doesn’t have a word for “beverage”

loud shrieking for no reason. not just crying, but being excited or happy, too. children’s laughter is loud.

kids learn by repeating what they hear. for example, the kid I babysit not only knows “no,” but “nonononono” because that’s what I say when she’s about to do something dangerous, and she treats them as two separate words. same with “oh gosh,” which I think she just says without knowing what it means.

“uh oh” is baby for “fuck”

sign language is a thing. baby!me would pretend to drink from a glass for “thirsty.” baby I babysit mimes a shark with her hands because her favorite song is “Baby Shark.”