as much charm as a dead slug

Occasional fanfiction writer who invests too much time in the lives of fictional characters. Currently shipping real hard: Everlark (THG), TJ/Spinelli (Recess), Lumax (Stranger Things) -- formerly Dracoisalooker76

[hymnism]

making a collection

[putridghost]

Wait I have more

[acemingo]

[alicentsgf]

no you do not need to hold fictional characters "accountable". they are not real.

[alicentsgf]

[acourtdelaluna]

CALL THE CHURCH ELDERS

[veggiesforpresident]

honestly one of my favorite things about fanfic is when you can see the canon influences come out in really subtle ways. like a canon line thats mentioned once as a throwaway is suddenly the entire premise for a fic or it influences the characterization or something. its just so cool to see how people weave their ideas around a source material, especially if its not a detail i'd thought about before

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[aquilacalvitium]

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

[gazpachoandbooks]

Sometimes I think about Finnick trying to befriend Katniss before the Quell and I lose my shit

The other rebels are like you need to subtly let her know you're on her side, so you go bet and turn your charm up to 11. Which would have maybe worked on anyone else but this is Katniss Everdeen we're talking about.

So now you're stuck doing increasingly ridiculous social gymnastics every time she's around and still by the time the night before the Games arrives the only thing she's convinced of about you is that you are going to try to fucking murder her

So you freak out, seek out Haymitch and basically go "hey what the fuck is wrong with your kid". And Haymitch just stares ahead for a second, nods, takes off his bracelet, says "wear this" and leaves. You fucking hate district 12

So you go okay. Breathing exercises. This is fine. Guess I'll have to save her life during the Games or sth maybe that'll do the trick. And when you see the Arena you cheer up for a sec bc you definitely have the advantage here she'll have to trust you right?

Wrong. She can fucking swim. SHE CAN FUCKING SWIM.

So now you're in the Cornucopia with no cards up your sleeve, no time left, and arguably the other deadliest tribute in that Arena pointing at you with a bow, and so you go "you know what, fuck it, I'm going to die anyways" and you show her the bracelet

AND IT FUCKING WORKS

Bear in mind Finnick had no first-hand experience on Katniss and Haymitch's bitch-to-bitch telepathy this was his first contact with it

Just saying lucky for the Rebellion this was Finnick and not me if I was in his place I would have killed her there and then just out of principle

[belabloomseps]

inspired by zendaya’s dress for the odyssey!

[bebemoon]

"The sculpture in the image is “Das Schicksal” (Fate), created in 1905 by Hugo Lederer. The sculpture portrays fate as a ruthless woman dragging two vulnerable bodies by their hair.

The work is currently located in Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg, Germany."

from @dustseasons on instagram .

[ohheyitsjustjinx]

[luna-azzurra]

Something nobody prepares you for is that the better you get at writing the harder it becomes. beginners write freely because they don't know enough to know what's wrong. then you learn. and suddenly you can see every single flaw in real time as you're making it and you have to write anyway while your own brain is in the corner going "that's a weak verb. that transition is lazy. you've used that word three times." getting good at this is mostly just getting better at ignoring yourself.

[dailyflicks]

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL (2006), dir. by Kenny Ortega

[redstonedust]

my worst habit as a writer is that i lovveeeeee to expand on families as character and worldbuilding but then i have to sit here like. is there any possible way for me to introduce "has an aunt whos a postal worker and single mother trying to bounce back from a recent divorce' into the narrative. can i naturally drop my aunt lore. its important to me.

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[catasters]

[philcollinsenjoyer]

about 90% of fanfiction takes place in a utopia where men are thoughtful and unsure of their place in the world

[moonlit-sunflower-books]

friends to lovers never had a bad track. “scared i’ll ruin what we have” SLAPS. “friendship cuddles while secretly dying inside” BANGER. “teasing each other and holding eye contact for a little too long” KILLS ME. and don’t even get me STARTED on “screaming i love you in the middle of a heated argument.”

[honey-kyun]

“Do you… remember how it felt?” 

⋆｡°·☁︎ inspired by: “get you under pink skies” by @whenyoureplayings0litaire ☁︎‎‎‧₊˚ Happy Birthday Annie! Thank you for sharing your beautiful, inspiring writing with the world and being such a lovely friend to me always. You know how important this story is to me, so just I had to try and capture it as vividly as you wrote it 💗💗

Continuing my little art journey by challenging myself to try a few things I never have before with this piece. Starting with drawing a comic style page which is a huge undertaking, didn't really realize til it was done that I basically made 4 drawings. I also continued the challenge by limiting my color palette. I wanted to see what would happen if I had constraints and it actually taught me so much. (The colors used were #002D41 #09849B #7ACED4 #F15E84 #F5A2C4 #F9EED8) And if that wasn't enough, I also only used the default studio pen for the whole thing (exceptions were made for the wallpaper stamp in the first panel and I used the blender on the face closeup for full disclosure). I clocked 11 procreate hours making this. I am immensely proud of myself for what I accomplished here and I'm sure it will sink in when I'm not so extremely tired of looking at it anymore lmao. 

[that-fan-girl]

[lexirosewrites]

what they don’t tell you about being a writer is that returning to a long fic you haven’t touched in a while means rereading 50k words first because you don’t actually remember your own fics that well