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The I-Will-Get-Back-to-Them Story List:

💚🩵Villains Aren't Born. They're Made.: Intruality ancient deity AU

🩵💙Where the Air is Sweet: a month of short and sweet Logicality fluff

💙💚 Every Where

Increasingly Inaccurately Named Coming Soon List:

Thrall - The conclusion of the vampire/werewolf Beside Me universe, takes place immediately after Ours and Dee

Echoes of Our Future - Platonic (?) Intrulogical, canon(ish)verse, part of Echoes of the Past October writing event

Recently Completed Stories:

vale-gaai

c!Thomas: *sigh* Okay. So, basically, just to sum up;

c!Thomas: My morality doesn't trust his own judgement on anything anymore, my logic's having a mental breakdown because he realized he has feelings, my self preservation would rather suffer in silence for years than have one honest discussion with anyone, my anxiety is -

Virgil: - Uh, yeah, no. No need to say anything -

c!Thomas: - ...and Remus only functions if we all actively consider him evil!

c!Thomas: Is there ANY part of me that has a healthy sense of self esteem?!

c!Thomas: ...Roman, put your hand down

dracula61

wolfythewitch

Taking pictures of the street for class. Oh hand cave paintings u will always be famous

viralfrog

notsafeforbinary

lillylikescats

I'm an electrical engineer and for the longest time I was saying that electricity and electronics isn't magic, but think about it.

You literally have to collect rare stones from remote locations, put them into specific formations to work. All of this gets written down in symbols which don't make sense to the uninformed. It gets powered by energy which can not be seen in most cases.

Like what else do you want. What's your standard for calling something magic.

transcribepaige

"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."

Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld #30)

ijustwannawritepls

How to Write When You Don't Feel Like Yourself

There are going to be days (or weeks, or months) where you sit down to write and feel... disconnected. From your voice, from your characters, from your ideas. Like the person who used to write your stories just packed up and left.

They didn't. They're just tired. Here's how to keep writing anyway:

Lower the bar (Until it's on the floor) You are not here to write something brilliant. You are here to write something. A paragraph. A sentence. A single line of dialogue. Movement matters way more than quality.

Write around the story Don't force it. If you can't write the scene, try: ⋆ A character ramble / journal entry ⋆ A conversation that won't be included in the final draft ⋆ A list of things the character would never admit out loud ⋆ A messy summary of what should happen Engage with the story from a different angle.

Borrow a voice until yours comes back No, not with AI. Read something that feels close to what you want to write, or watch a scene that captures the tone, then write immediately after. Not to copy, to reignite your instincts.

Write the emotion, not the plot. What is your character feeling in this moment? What are they afraid of? What do they want but won't say? What's being kept from them? The emotion leads, the plot catches up later.

Stop trying to "feel like a writer" first. You don't write when you feel like a writer. You feel like a writer because you write.

You are still a writer, even on the days it feels distant. Especially then.

luna-azzurra

Signs your protagonist is just a placeholder with a name

✦ Their personality is "chosen one" and nothing else

✦ No hobbies, interests, or opinions until the plot needs one

✦ Described as average-looking but everyone finds them magnetic (hm)

✦ Has a tragic backstory that never actually affects how they act

✦ Good at everything after one training montage

✦ Their greatest flaw is "caring too much"

✦ Every side character exists to tell them how special they are

✦ Makes the right decision every time except when the plot needs them not to

✦ Two love interests, no chemistry with either

✦ Refuses help, gets in trouble, accepts help, learns nothing

✦ Their "character development" is just getting stronger

✦ Delivers inspirational speech they have no business delivering

✦ Survives everything because the plot isn't done with them yet

✦"i'm not like other [-------]" said unironically

✦ Parents dead or absent. always. no exceptions. ever.

✦ The prophecy is about them specifically (of course it is)

✦ Refuses to use their power until chapter 24 when it's dramatically convenient

✦ Has one (1) flaw mentioned in chapter two, never seen again

✦ Enemies become allies purely because they met the protagonist

✦ Their internal monologue is just the theme of the book, stated plainly

✦ Never wrong about anything that actually matters

✦ Wins the final fight by believing in themselves (the power was inside them etc)

✦ Described as funny but nothing they say is funny

✦ Best friend is more interesting but that's not the author's intention

✦ Doesn't eat, sleep, or use the bathroom during the entire adventure

✦ Their name means something in a dead language. light. hope. chosen. destiny. we get it.

✦ Trauma mentioned once, processed instantly, never brought up again

✦ Every room goes quiet when they enter (every single room)

✦ Makes a huge mistake, apologises once, fully forgiven by everyone immediately

✦ Their arc is "learns to trust people" but they trusted everyone from page one

✦ Described as an outsider but beloved by literally everyone they meet

✦ Their defining character trait is determined by what the plot needs that chapter

✦ Gives up everything to save the world. gets everything back by the epilogue. sacrifice: meaningless.

writeouswriter

Controversial, but I think it's harmful to tell people you're never going to write something good on the first try or it's always going to be pure garbage, like that may be helpful for some on some level, but I personally don't think it's a healthy way of thinking, and it causes others to second guess work that is good. Is editing often helpful? Yes. But you're not going to have to Ship of Theseus everything you ever make. Anyway, the phrase "idk, man, it depends" strikes again.

yaboykujo

Adding on to this: it's like if a kid were to hand you a drawing they did of the family, you look at it, grimace, and say, "Well... You tried..."

Discouragement from improvement snuffs out the motivation to even start (like the OG poster said)

BUT, if they are unhappy with it after it's done, or display signs of self-originating disappointment, I think it's more encouraging to add a gentle reminder that it's their first work: "Well, if you're unhappy with it, then try again. You'll do even better next time."

allthingswhumpyandangsty

flightyalrighty

never sand down your story or your characters to make them more appealing to a wider audience, ok? Do what YOU want

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#on it‚ boss!

cannibalcaprine

big fan of whatever the Markiplier IronLung and Ryangosling ProjectHailMary fans are up to. feels like some old-fashioned weird tumblr fandom shit

#too good to keep on my phm sideblog

manicpixiedckgirl

theaudientvoid

There are multiple chapters that are set in hospitals where the characters are attempting to recover from injuries that never fully heal. I must once again stress that my experience in WWI was perfectly normal.

aro-ace-from-outer-space22

There is a giant horrible mudplain full of unrecoverable and perfectly preserved dead bodies that the characters have to walk through in a land where the air is poisoned gas, and on a compLETELY UNRELATED NOTE: WWI WAS TOTALLY FINE AND NORMAL!!

punksalmon

worst part of anxiety/ocd is that sometimes your fears actually do happen and you have to wag your finger at i like this still doesn't prove you're right asshole. it's like having a venom symbiote except you don't even get to have gay alien sex

snek-snacc-deactivated20251015

explicitlyrics

Im getting emotional about this korean man who speaks in such poetic english

k-0-d-y

woa I drew remus surprise!

possibly-evil

i have this image pulled up on my laptop to force me to stop procrastinating

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