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queensinchains

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022– ) 3.04 | Tumbleton

tswiftw

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#taylor swift

gameofthronesdaily

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON 3 COUNTDOWN ↳ Day 2: Relationship(s)

Rhaenyra Targaryen & Alicent Hightower

orion-lake

SHADOW AND BONE | SIX OF CROWS EPISODES [X]

a7estrellas

PEDRO PASCAL Chanel Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2026/2027 Show in Paris

rylandsgrace

Project Hail Mary (2026) + Tumblr text posts

baelcrtargaryen

Bethany Antonia as Baela Targaryen HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022 - )

ddestroyangels

Clara Novello by Edward Petre Novello, 1833

National Portrait Gallery, London

stupendousnightinspo

my treasury barren, my house full of rats, my council unfilled, my body bleeding, my uncle husband megalomaniacal, my dead son in the hallway, my bed stained with my mother’s blood, my girlfriend socialist, my night restless, my step-brother an impostor, my anointment denied, my queen’s guard meager, my bearings not gotten, my coronation postponed, my ghosts thick in the air, my prisoner wife a port in a storm

kylieminvogue

#dua lipa

ormundshightower

James Norton as Ormund Hightower in House of the Dragon S03E03

queenrhaenyras

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026) dir. Francis Lawrence

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) dir. Francis Lawrence

tlbodine

For the last goddamn time...

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief....

prof-grace-aspen

Also, you don't have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you'll need it later.

earhartsease

yes, your killed darlings are ripe for rebirth

eldritchsandwich

compost your darlings

recycle your darlings

Darlings who don't fit this narrative go into the use later folder

ethanmaldridge

"The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

-Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country