[ijustwannawritepls]

Scenes to Write When You’re Blocked

Not to keep, not to polish… Just to shake the rust loose.

• A character deletes and rewrites a text three times before sending it • Two people arguing quietly so no one else hears • Someone almost confessing something and backing out • A character lying about being “fine” in a way that convinces no one • Bonus: Same scene but they convince everyone, and it's even worse • An apology that comes moments too late • A secret revealed accidentally, not dramatically • A character overhearing only half a conversation • Someone packing a bag and pretending it’s temporary • A reunion where one person is happier than the other • A goodbye that is meant to be casual but isn’t

Low stakes, high emotion. Momentum comes from movement, not brilliance.

[rainintheevening]

Okay, we got a new one, boys.

[fleshengine]

Close enough welcome back Chekov's gun.

[comma-souptra]

Prev you can’t bury this in your own tags

[justbreakonme]

I also like the idea of showing something as a problem before it’s shown as a strength. Almost every character trait has two sides, and by showing the “bad” side first, it sets things up to not only make sense, but to also be very satisfying.

[pansexualpasta]

For the authors

[inkatesbush]

they're saying spending 2 hours in the word doc changing words slightly to be more specific and evocative and moving endless commas around is one of the most noble and respected things that you can do

[inkatesbush]

they don’t even know I actually spend like 8 hours a day many days in a row doing this when I’m in the trenches it was just that I was only on hour 2 when I made this post

[kayforpay]

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

[kayforpay]

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

[archaeologysucks]

You mean like this?

The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun

I grew up with this book, which is frickin’ enormous, and it was endlessly fascinating to young me to pour over the side by side comparison of events taking place concurrently under different headings and in different parts of the world.

Or if you want something you can put on your wall, there’s this:

World History Timeline

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I had this book! My grandpa gave it to me and it was really freakin useful!!

[mckitterick]

I loved this book! Same for The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science.

Same for The Timetables of Technology: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Technology. Great references!

[lepetitpoete]

okay but here’s an even cooler (free!) visualization that goes a step further and tracks ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

✨️with a special focus on colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure✨️

You can spend hours upon hours exploring this

[hooptedoodley]

“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.”

—

Sophie Scholl

Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and other members of the White Rose were arrested on this day - February 22 - 68 years ago for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. Four days later, Sophie, Hans, and Christoph Probst were found guilty of treason and executed hours later.

(via slothstyle)

[artemisiasea]

From Eyeshot Magazine

Reading this over and over is really inspiring me

[aniteaart]

[e-e-marie]

Silco turns, pressing his face into Vander’s chest as a storm howls inside him. Vander strokes his back.

“You can ask me to hold you, birdie,” he murmurs. “I won’t turn you away.”

“It’s too hard.” Silco’s voice is choked. 

Vander hums and dips his fingers beneath Silco’s collar, massaging the back of his neck. Silco shudders, squeezing at his thick sides.

“I always want to hold you,” Vander says, like a confession. “Is it alright when I reach out and touch you?” 

Silco nods against his chest.

“And you’ll tell me if you want me to leave you alone,” Vander prompts.

“I’m quite capable of being mean to you.” Silco tries to lilt his voice with irony, but he sounds weak and quavery.

“It’s not being mean,” Vander insists. “Please be honest with me if you don’t want something. You can always turn me down. I want to be close to you, in whatever way you want.”

Silco shudders against him, tension rippling through his torso and limbs. Vander holds him tighter, wrapping their legs together and squeezing his sides. Eventually, Silco’s trembling slows and his tension releases, his muscles going loose and pliant. Vander nuzzles at his temple.

After a long moment Silco speaks.

“My safeword shall be ‘Zaun,’” he says languidly. 

“That’s a terrible safeword,” Vander protests. Silco can hear the smile in his voice. “You say it all the time! You should pick something you wouldn’t normally say, like ‘eucalyptus,’ or something.”

“Eucalyptus?”

“Or something!”

“My safeword shall be, ‘Leave me alone, you distracting oaf, I’m trying to work and you’re talking to me about eucalyptus.’”

Vander laughs. Silco feels it vibrate through his chest and belly. His breath releases in a gasp.

“I love you,” Vander says against his temple.

“...’love you,” Silco murmurs.

Instigator(s) on AO3 - Chapter 15: Love is our freedom

[humanerrers]

x

[humanerrers]

stop spreading despair and nihilism

stop buying into the idea that nonviolent activism is useless, rather than (by far) the most effective form of protest

stop falsely claiming that BLM accomplished nothing and that most citizens “don’t care” when people are murdered by the state

start understanding that most of your neighbors care about your rights, and their own

start noticing that most people are moved by injustice, including against people who look nothing like them

[yourlocalprocrastinator]

Finished drawings of Silco^^

[zaundads-week]

hi, is the image behind your propmt reveal a screenshot from the show? Which episode if so?

Hello! So the art we used for the prompt reveal was done by @fangfuckers and although it was heavily referenced it is an original art piece!

[judblanc]

being a southern and watching people act like Blanc calling Jud son was some type of paternal feeling is funny to me because no, he's just southern. Son and Miss are the two most common ways in the south to refer to an Adult who is younger than you that you don't know well but noooooooo they gotta project or something

an older southern gay man oscillating between addressing a young priest as "son" vs "father" depending on how highly-strung they both are is first and foremost 1. sexual 2. all those other smart things you are saying

[midnightcore]

Silco in my drawing attempt ❤️

[e-e-marie]

How did he spend a decade in Silco’s presence without noticing that everything about him sets Vander alight with passion? 

Vander watches Silco from behind the bar throughout the night on Schemer’s Eve. His eyes stray repeatedly to Silco’s waist and tight trousers, though he does his best to behave. 

His friendship with Silco has always been this huge, incomparable part of his life. He would never risk it for his own selfish gratification. But for a long time, Vander refused to even acknowledge to himself that he was sexually attracted to him. 

His denial had been intense. And he’d been perpetually horny, hadn’t he? Down to fuck any woman that made eyes at him. One night stands helped tame the beast, for a while.

It would have been one thing if Silco had said he was interested. Vander can’t imagine him doing that, though. More likely, he would ignore his feelings as long as possible until he snapped and jumped him or something. Just laid a kiss on him out of the blue…

Vander’s heart starts to pound. He fiddles with a glass in his hand, blinking at it sightlessly. Silco had spontaneously kissed him one night. It was a little before everything went to shit, wasn’t it? Powder’s third birthday. They were cleaning up.

Vander has drifted back to that memory once, twice, or more in the intervening years. He’d been sitting at the bar. Silco had pushed himself from his stool to stand between Vander’s legs, falling against his chest. Then Silco wrapped his fingers around the back of his neck and pressed warm lips to his. 

Vander has spun a few daydreams of how he might have responded if Silco had meant it seriously, if he hadn’t been drunk. He’d have held him by the waist and pulled him on his lap, spread his fingers through his hair and sucked on his tongue. He wouldn’t have stopped there.

Something about the memory feels unreal, a hazy fantasy that only happened in his mind. But he remembers the mortification that Silco tried to hide when Vander brought him back to reality. When he stopped him from doing something he’d regret later, when he gently pushed him away.

When Vander pushed Silco away. After Silco tried to kiss him.

Suddenly Vander sees the memory in a different light. Has he never considered the possibility that Silco had kissed him… because he wanted to? When did Silco make personal overtures that he didn’t actually mean? He hardly made them at all. 

Instigator(s) on AO3 - Chapter 14: Love is a cycle

[nightshadowcat]

Silco

Last commission I made!

[notawomanimagod]

gonna use these as refs to draw young silco hehehe in my head silco looks pereptually haunted and emo

[shabby-chic-detectives]

i am honestly grateful to find that the younger MC ships (caitvi, jayvik, meljayce, and jinx/ekko) do more or less dominate the arcane fandom and that older characters with comparatively minimal content (vanco, sevika, ambessa, benz, felicia & connel) are still a niche to exploit

because let me tell you, there is nothing more fun in fandom than getting older and discovering you can still write/read mature characters who are the same age as you, the author, despite the relative youth of the main characters

and this is definitely a component of aging i did not expect. i know for a fact i would have been wild for jinx/ekko if Arcane had come out during my teen years - any adhd fan of manic pixie dream girls has to love jinx. every parent in the world would also be happy for their kid to date ekko. cait and vi (oh, vi) are wonderful on their own and together, and i already fell down the jayvik rabbit hole because at least one of them is more mature than most adults by the time he’s like, eight.

but those poor fuckin kids from the fissures really do deserve all the love. just not directly from me. my fortyish zaundads and sevika and benz are gonna give it to them in my place.

they are BABIES. sweet little powder losing what remained of her family in one fell swoop and blaming herself for it makes me want to throw up. so even if the adults i put in the place of MC’s are still suffering, the kids will be happy. and safe.

(none of this has anything to do with me being a grown adult who works directly with child welfare services and has beloved niblings and just wants all children to have unremarkable non-traumatic childhoods noooooooepe nope noep)

[e-e-marie]

i so agree!! i love ships like zaundads because you get the backstory of their younger years together but by the time we meet them in canon they have Been Through It… so much angst, but the potential for Something Lovely is there, too ❤️