boldly going forward because we can't find reverse

My name is Beth. I was born in 1988 (feel free to do that math) and I don't need this. I'm going to be weird about things because this is the weird about things website. It's all going to be okay.

[deesarrachi]

I have a perpetually-open "Make Me Write" emoji challenge going (because I need to be creative more often and work on my wips)

These are all 911 fics, and all of them are (at least in part) Bucktommy!

🎄White Christmas AU

⭕ The Circle AU

🦃 Thanksgiving fic

🌈 Soulmate Colours AU

🔬 CSI crossover ficlet

🦇 Stranger Things (specifically Owen and my Domesticated Bats verse) crossover ficlet

[wlwarhammer]

A lot of people ignore the absolutely radioactive levels of frat boy coming from Shane Hollander because it’s inconvenient to their hyper feminized bottom stereotyping

[knebulae]

i like these tags @miscelium

#i'm still thinking about backwards cap shane in the champagne spray metros locker room scene. frat boy coded fr#and autism be damned my boy knows how to work a grill#in the stairwell when ilya is like 'what you're dreaming of a bronze medal?' and shane goes 'you fucking wish dude'#need more shane using dude man bro etc as pet names immediately after tender anal sex lmaooo#there's a kenstewy fic where they autopilot dap each other up instead of kissing goodbye that's the bro4bro i want#and jock4jock! they're spotting each other's chest presses and using the same 3 in 1 shampoo conditioner body wash#heated rivalry

[mumblesplash]

it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

[mumblesplash]

so true there could be any number of undiscovered species down there all of which are none of my business and never will be. peace and love on (the surface of) planet earth 💕

[cpericardium]

hey everyone "I" have something to show "you"

[cpericardium]

[cpericardium]

[shigaeru]

One flesh, one end, bitch.

[hug-bees]

1001 Dalmations

[parkchanwoohoo]

Incredible faces OP, love how loose the lines are and the expressions/profiles are brilliant

[rylandsgrace]

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[ilyasvodka]

has anyone drawn this with Shane & Ilya yet

[princejeanot]

Op the vision is hilarious, you win

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

I've acquired a creature that stares at you no matter which direction you look at it from

[orphanedsource]

I’m hypnotized 

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

Two years on, their wood grain has darkened because they live on my laptop keyboard and I'm constantly patting them <3 To be loved is to be changed

[annchovi]

Oh! Oh! Oh! I was gifted a similar handsome little fellow today!!! The delight I felt upon seeing him!!! Unmatched!!!

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[alexaloraetheris]

Chocolate Guy's Wario

[sadlilyvalley]

stranger things textposts + lucas sinclair

snipers chew gum

[kuromi-hoemie]

me when i see an animal that is known for being in my area

[rhodeys]

the 118, according to Chimney "Rebar" Han

[chamxmxle]

Do you have any tips and tricks for writing?

I wrote a whole reply and it got completely eaten! No draft or anything! Nightmare.

I'm skimming the basics you already know (read more, write more, stop waiting for inspiration, skimp on speech tags and use said as often as possible when you have to, spend as much time editing as writing) to give you an abridged version of advice I'm obsessed with that I call Total the Car. (I didn't coin this idea, but I may be the only one who ever talks about it. Forgive me if you've heard this lecture before.)

This advice references Ryan North's excellent Tumblr blog, BttF, on which he did a page by page reading of the novelization of Back to the Future. Ryan North is a very funny guy, and so it's an entertaining read, but it is also educational. Back to the Future is one of the tightest screenplays ever written, and the novel is a strange, meandering mess, made more so by the idiosyncrasies of its author and the likely fact that it was based on an earlier draft of the a screenplay. This allows us to compare and contrast the two works.

Early on in the story, Biff Tannen wrecks George's car. In the novelization, Gipe calls the car "nearly totaled," which causes Ryan to melt down; why nearly total the car? What value does the car have not being utterly totaled? The state of the car is mostly irrelevant. "Total the car!" Ryan says, on his blog. "You're the writer! You have the power! Total the car!"

I love this advice. I think writers often get bogged down in details like this; we're married to realism, or some research we did, or we think that going that far will be "too much," and so we rob our scenes of their own power. The phrase "nearly totaled" is not only weaker - it lacks the emotional gut punch - but it also raises questions where there should be none.

I think, when making a choice like this in writing, you should always err on the side of totaling the car. Kill the survivors. Burn the house to the ground. Make it harder on yourself. On your characters.

Stories don't happen in the almosts. They exist in the things that happen, the things that can't be undone. I love forcing people to go through a piece and circle every "almost" and "nearly" and "started to," and force them to write the piece that would have happened if there had been less restraint.

Go crazy! Total the car!

[ryannorth]

TOTAL THE CAR

[teomodo]

src

[teomodo]

[nancywheelesbian]

what about lucas being the first one to clock Steve having a crush on Eddie. Dustin’s so happy that Steve’s taking an interest in Hellfire, Mike’s annoyed that Steve’s hanging around more, but Lucas sees through both of those and is like. Okay Steve tell the truth you like him don’t you

[jncogoldfish]

Who was gonna tell me how hard it is to draw middle aged men