Foxtrox

[f0xtr0x]

Whiplash, my TFA oc

[catholicguilt87]

Survival Guide: Love Affair With the Sentence

Flirt, Don’t Marry. Admire the sentence, but don’t chain the whole piece to its ankles.

2. Keep a Graveyard File. Kill your darlings gently. Save them for another day.

3. Perfection Is a Mirage. The line you worship today will look different tomorrow. Keep moving.

4. The Draft Is the Real Lover. The sentence serves the draft. The draft doesn’t serve the sentence.

5. Readers Don’t Care About Your Shrine. They want the whole song, not your favorite lyric.

6. Write Through the Hangover. One glowing line isn’t enough. Keep bleeding words.

7. Don’t Stop at the Spark. Fire is useless if you don’t build it into something bigger.

8. Beware the Fragment Trap. A folder of pretty lines isn’t a book.

9. Ten Ugly Lines Earn One Good One. Dirt first, gold later. Accept it.

10. Keep Walking. The sentence is a signpost, not the cathedral. The road is the work.

made a little survival guide for all of us who fall too hard for that one perfect sentence & then forget to finish the damn draft.

print it out, scribble it in your journal, tape it to your wall above your desk, whatever — just keep it where you’ll see it when you’re stuck polishing the same line for the 47th time.

remember: the line is a spark. the work is the fire. keep walking.

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Writing Reference: Colour Vitamins

11 key ‘colour vitamins’ related to a range of positive (+) and negative (–) attributes.

RED

+ up-beat, confident, assertive, exciting – aggressive, domineering, bossy, threatening

PINK

+ feminine, gentle, accessible, non-threatening – pathetic, unimportant, safe, under-confident

BLUE

+ peaceful, trustworthy, constant, orderly – ‘holier than thou’, tiresome, predictable, conservative

BROWN

+ earthy, homely, gregarious – safe, boring, unsophisticated

YELLOW

+ cheerful, hopeful, active, uninhibited – impulsive, tiresome, whirlwind, volatile

GREEN

+ self-reliant, tenacious, nurturing, dependable – boring, stubborn, riskaverse, predictable

ORANGE

+ vital, funny, enthusiastic, sociable, uninhibited – superficial, common, faddist, giddy

VIOLET

+ imaginative, sensitive, intuitive, unusual, unselfish – weird, impractical, immature, superior

GREY

+ respectable, neutral, balanced – non-committal, deceptive, uncertain, safe

BLACK

+ formal, sophisticated, mysterious, strong – mournful, aloof, negative, lifeless

WHITE

+ pure, clean, fresh, futuristic – clinical, ‘colourless’, cold, neutral

The symbolic or psychological associations of colours have a long history.

In the 12th century, a colour sequence for the liturgical year in the Roman Catholic Church was outlined by Pope Innocent III, and continues to be used today. Examples:

Red vestments are used at Pentecost or for the feasts of martyrs, the colour representing tongues of fire and the shedding of blood;

black vestments are the colour of mourning;

violet vestments represent the mitigation of black, in Advent and Lent; and

green is the ‘neutral’ colour, used ‘in ordinary time’, when there is no special period or feast-day being celebrated.

These and certain other colours (notably white, blue, gold, and rose) are also often used symbolically in many medieval religious paintings.

In modern times:

The psychological associations of colours, and thus the connotations of colour vocabulary, continue to be exploited in a wide range of contexts, such as in the description of paint shades, advertising language, and techniques of self-imaging.

The Color Me Beautiful system is a good example within the last category.

This consultancy was founded by Carole Jackson in the USA in 1974, and now has branches in many parts of the world. Its aim is to help women discover their natural beauty through colour, using the metaphor of the four seasons.

In much the same way as each season presents a distinct array of colours, a person’s colouring is said to be in harmony with one of these palettes, and advice is given about how to enhance these natural colours, and about how to choose additional colours (of make-up and clothing) (M. Spillane, 1991).

Source ⚜ More: On Colours ⚜ Colour Symbolisms ⚜ "Magical Uses" of Colours Writing Notes & References ⚜ On Symbolism

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Writing Notes: Dark Blue

Symbolism of Dark Blue

In color symbolism, dark blue color meanings include:

Cool temperatures: All shades of blue, including dark blue, signify cold temperatures. Cool colors on the color wheel include blue, green, and purple. Additionally, blue skin can indicate a low body temperature.

Intelligence: Many people associate blue shades with knowledge, intelligence, and concentration.

Loyalty: Having a “true blue” friend implies commitment and dedication to the relationship.

Masculinity: Historically, the lighter blue tint of baby blue signifies the male gender; however, all shades of blue, including light blue, medium blue, dark blue, and navy blue, suggest traditional forms of masculinity.

Night sky: Whereas you associate sky blue with a daytime sky, dark blue signifies the sky at night. Midnight blue connotes a moonless night, with a heavy saturation of black combined with a deep blue.

Predictability: The phrase “out of the blue” means the occurrence of an event you weren’t expecting. In a similar vein, “once in a blue moon” implies an event that doesn’t happen very often.

Sea: You can use dark blue to symbolize a stormy sea or a deep body of water. Though many shades of blue signify water, including blue-green or aqua for tropical waters, dark blue suggests a more mysterious depth or ominous quality.

Power and authority: Dark blue signifies power and responsibility. Police officers often utilize dark blue or navy blue colors for their uniforms. The slang term “boys in blue” refers to the police.

Sadness: To “be blue” or “feeling blue” means you feel sorrow or despair. In Korea, dark blue is the color of mourning.

Social prominence: A “blue blood” defines a socially prominent person or someone born into nobility.

Though sometimes confused with navy blue, dark blue represents a specific color code.

In the RGB color space, dark blue (hex code #00008B) contains 54.5% blue and no red or green, while

in the CMYK color space, dark blue contains 100% cyan, 100% magenta, no yellow, and 45% black.

Some Pros of Using the Dark Blue in Design

Dark blue implies professionalism and reliability, which explains its use in graphic design by many banks and corporations. In design, dark blue:

Complements darker rooms: Acclaimed interior designer Corey Damen Jenkins encourages you to work with your room’s natural lighting rather than fighting it. When decorating a low-light room, “go for the more smoldering, rich, dark, sexy colors that actually enhance the lighting,” like shades of dark blue.

Connotes authority: Dark blue works well as a design choice if you want to exude strength, expertise, reliability, and trust with your design.

Serves as an alternative to black: If you need a darker shade in your work but want to retain color, a dark blue color scheme offers a workable solution.

Works well in color combinations: Use dark blue with complementary colors such as orange to create an appealing color scheme. Or play with other shades of blue, such as light blue or teal.

Some Cons of Using the Dark Blue in Design

Though you can use dark blue in your designs without worry, keep these possible negative traits in mind as you work:

Absorbs heat: If your project involves something significant in size, remember that dark shades like dark blue absorb heat and can make a room or enclosed space feel warm.

Can fade: Dark blue–painted art or objects fade in saturation over time, particularly in sunlight. Potential fading makes dark blue a better choice for low-light rooms than for rooms with lots of bright sunlight.

Can feel oppressive: Too much dark blue can make you feel as if you’re surrounded by darkness, especially in a small room. Walls painted dark blue can make a room feel more cave-like.

Shows scratches: Like all dark colors, dark blue shows every scratch, chip, or imperfection, and you may have trouble getting touch-ups to match.

A Brief History of Dark Blue

Egyptians first used blue pigment.

They created a lighter blue shade from ground limestone and copper minerals.

Dark blue pigments didn’t appear until the 6th century with ultramarine, a deep blue color pigment made from grinding up the mineral lapis lazuli.

Ultramarine proved popular with medieval European artists for its deep blue quality, but its expense made it accessible only to the wealthy.

Cobalt blue became the more affordable and popular blue pigment amongst artists in the 8th and 9th centuries, particularly in Chinese porcelain and later with Dutch Delft porcelain.

Artificial ultramarine appeared in the mid-19th century, replacing the more expensive version.

Indigo dye became popular in the 16th century, becoming the color of the Beau Brummell blue suit in the 18th century and blue jeans in the 19th century.

The British Royal Navy adopted navy blue (also known as marine blue) for their uniforms in the 19th century.

Prussian blue, a vibrant darker blue, appeared in the early 1700s and became Pablo Picasso’s pigment of choice during his Blue Period.

Source ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

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Writing Notes: Black

Symbolism of Black

Black commonly symbolizes death and mourning.

It is a psychologically powerful color, due to both its visual impact and cultural significance.

Traditionally a color for representing contrast to white, it has historically been associated with darkness in opposition to light, and mystery and evil versus purity and goodness.

Black has the power to stir strong emotions, conjuring feelings of fear, mystery, strength, defiance, and aggression, but it’s also often associated with neutrality, formality, and authority.

With its social neutrality and slimming properties, black is favored by fashion designers. This darkest of colors was readily adopted by the fashion industry, treasured for its ability to slim the body and create a chic neutral backdrop to jewelry or accessories.

The Little Black Dress is a cultural symbol of elegance and sophistication.

Because black represents the absence of color, it is also often associated with mystery and the unknown. As a result, it has also been long associated with magic, witchcraft, and spirituality.

Black doesn’t feature on a traditional color wheel. It is generally considered to be a non-color, as it absorbs all the other colors of the visible spectrum. This creates an absence of visible light.

Like white or gray, it is an achromatic color, i.e., it is technically without hue.

However, black is often treated by designers as a color in itself.

Black is able to bring distinct psychological and aesthetic traits to a design.

It’s a sleek and elegant choice in design, especially minimalistic ones.

To design with, look at or wear black is to increase a sense of potential and possibility, but in excess it can stimulate feelings of gloominess and sadness.

A Brief History of the Color Black

“As black as night” summarizes black’s origin as a color representative of darkness and nighttime.

Particularly in ancient times, in which light pollution was almost non-existent, blackness would have characterized half of a person’s lived experience.

Historically, black pigment could be created easily by burning wood or bone, producing charcoal.

Charcoal pigments were used in some of the earliest cave paintings, such as those at Lascaux in France.

In many early cultures, black was symbolic of death and the underworld.

In Ancient Egypt the guardian of the underworld, Anubis, was a black jackal, while in Ancient Greece the worlds of the living and the dead were separated by a black river called Acheron.

Hades, the king of the underworld, was seated on a throne made of black ebony.

In German and Scandinavian cultures, the goddess of the night, Nótt, crossed the sky in a chariot drawn by a black horse, and Hel, the goddess guarding the kingdom of the dead had black and red skin.

In the early Middle Ages, black came to be representative of evil in Christian culture.

In paintings of this period, devils and demons are often pictured in black, as opposed to the red that developed in popular culture later.

By the 14th century, black experienced a cultural revision. Partly as a result of high-quality black dyes being more widely produced, magistrates and government officials began to wear black as a sign of importance and authority. The choice of black also visually separated officials from the other classes, who favored either bright colors if wealthy or were limited to drab, indistinct colors if poor.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, black was adopted by Protestant reformers as a sign of purity and humility, in opposition to the rich red robes worn by the Pope and his Cardinals.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, black fell from favor as a fashionable color. Instead, bright pastel and jewel tones promoted by Parisian couture houses trickled down into fashionable society in Europe and America.

In the Victorian period, black became strongly associated with mourning, with the famous example of Queen Victoria choosing to wear black for the remaining 40 years of her life following the death of her beloved husband, Prince Albert, in 1861.

In the 1920s Coco Chanel elevated black to the status of high fashion, declaring:

“A woman needs just three things; a black dress, a black sweater, and, on her arm, a man she loves.”

Over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries black has been repeatedly revisited by fashion designers, with the color prized for its chic and figure-slimming properties.

In the 1950s black became a symbol of rebellion and social anarchy, with the color adopted by members of the Beat Movement in New York and San Francisco.

Black is also the color of choice for many other counterculture movements and groups, such as the goth and punk subcultures and motorcycle gangs.

Black is also associated with the African-American civil rights movement. The Black Power movement of the 1970s coined the slogan “Black is Beautiful.”

Sources: 1 2 ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[mauesartetc]

Stick figure test for original characters

In a recent post https://mauesartetc.tumblr.com/post/650139669708800000/what-the-hazbin-umim-supposed-to-feel-bad-for I criticized fans of Stolas from Helluva Boss for being so enamored with his design that they’ve ignored the awful ways he treats those closest to him. It got me thinkin’: If I removed appearances from the equation, could I still convey my own characters’ personalities with text and generic stick figures?

I referenced MIT’s 638 Primary Personality Traits http://ideonomy.mit.edu/essays/traits.html to gather some specific facets of personality for my ocs. Obviously, the list isn’t perfect; some traits are a bit redundant for having too-similar meanings, and a couple aren’t really personality-based (such as “attractive” and “sexy”). I might revise it at some point for a version that’s more useful for character development. But if you have a cast you want to flesh out with unique traits for each character, this is a great resource to start with.

I ended up picking 140 traits from the list, enough to assign ten characters five positive, five negative, and four neutral traits each. (If you try this, you can pick any amount you want, as long as everyone has the same number of positives and negatives so their personalities are balanced.) From there it was just a matter of matching the descriptors with the characters (color-coded, natch) they’d fit best.

I then drew stick figures in poses the characters would make, because, importantly: Character design isn’t just about unique appearances. It’s also about unique poses. It’s all well and good if you’ve avoided sameface/samebody syndrome, but if all your characters pose in too-similar ways, it means they think in too-similar ways. You don’t want your main cast to be a boring hive mind. I also avoided drawing faces, as I wanted these to be as bare-bones as possible, with no form of expression but the body language.

Posture’s an important factor, as is the position of hands and feet. A useful tool to help with character posing is the power center, described in detail here: http://www.animatorisland.com/perfect-posing-1-listen-to-the-character-and-to-physics/

You can also take a trait from one character and ascribe it to another to create a potential bonding experience for them, or pair a trait someone has with someone else’s opposite/near-opposite trait to create conflict.

So yeah, just one method to flesh out characters. Hopefully I was successful in expressing my ocs’ personalities, as well as making them interesting and sympathetic despite the lack of unique appearances. It’s crucial for every character creator to remember that if your lovelies aren’t well-rounded and balanced as people, your audience will soon find them grating, regardless of how they look.

(Or at least that will be the case if said audience possesses critical thinking skills and actual standards for their entertainment.)

Thanks for reading!

[incohorace]

what studying literature feels like

[quillsand]

i think everyone should be sillier. i think life would be better that way. i used a marker pen to change the label on the oat milk so that it says boat milk and now i crack up laughing every time i open the fridge

[abessinier]

Stuff kids on tumblr better relearn

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.

[vesperlionheart]

6. Content creators are not your parents and owe you nothing, not even a breakdown on why their content isn’t problematic. You don’t get to demand a dissertation denouncing any and everything unhealthy in a piece you don’t like. Move on.

[summerpipedream]

7. Tagging is a nicety but not an obligation. You can message people, politely, and ask them to tag things, and many people will, but understand that it’s their blog and they aren’t obliged to say yes. Unfollow and block when you need to. Circling back to number 1, you are responsible for curating your own experience.

8. Don’t be a jerk. Remember at the end of the day, there are actual living, breathing people behind each screen name. Don’t say anything you wouldn’t say to someone’s face in real life. 

[pixie-mage]

I cannot stress enough how important it is to remember this.

[varenikiy]

Do something creative even if it sucks. Do something creative even if it sucks. Do something creative even if it sucks. Do something creative even if it sucks. Do something creative even if it sucks. Do something creative even if it sucks. Do something creative even if it sucks.

[queen-breha-organa-archived-dea]

Do you ever like physically feel yourself pass your mental breaking point and then all you can think is “oh these next few days are going to be interesting”

[queen-breha-organa-archived-dea]

Like you’re just sitting there silently and on the outside you seem fine and gathered but in your head you’re like “oh this is gonna hit me like a train any second”

[queen-breha-organa-archived-dea]

Glad to see all 19k of us are clearly fine and okay

[queen-breha-organa-archived-dea]

Glad to see all 52.8k of us are clearly fine and okay

[betterlucky]

My Adventures with Superman keeps teasing Gotham and I REALLY hope next season has Bruce Wayne in it. Not Batman, mind you, JUST Bruce.

Imagine, Clark and Lois are supposed to track down this reclusive billionaire at some charity event but he just DOES NOT WANT to talk to reporters and keeps giving them the classic "where'd he go?" Every time they turn around. Nothing villainous or untoward happens at this fundraiser, it's just a 30 minute cat-and-mouse game with an extremely slippery guy who by all accounts should NOT be this hard to get.

I would watch the shit outta this. Manifesting it

[gotjacobian]

been thinking about empathy as horror:

1 - You relate to someone you think is bad. You worry this means you’re also bad, like them - or at least, that you could be.

2 - You relate to someone you think is bad. You worry this means they’re not *really* bad. You were okay with opposing someone bad - but can you still oppose them now? Would that make you something you weren’t before? Are you capable of destroying something that looks like you? Do you want to be?

3 - There’s someone you think is bad. You don’t want to relate to them. You know you might relate to them, if you knew them better, and that scares you. You close yourself off. You try not to see, to hear. You draw a line between what you know, and what you never want to know. Is it going to be enough?

4 - There’s someone different from you. You don’t want to understand their pain, their sorrow, their rage. It hurts. You don’t want to feel how it echoes in you. But you can’t not see it. You can’t not *know*.

5 - There’s someone different from you. You don’t want to understand them. You don’t want to know where understanding could live in you - the parts of your body and mind that could play out patterns that aren’t yours. Because once that mechanism is revealed, once you’ve found the refracting lens through which you and the other become the same, it can never be hidden again.

6 - You don’t want to understand. Understanding reshapes you to accommodate the unknown. Your plasticity betrays you. You become the connections that complete the circuit, the receiver that accepts the signal, and you can never see how you saw before. That version of you becomes the stranger, and you become something you never wanted to know.

7 - Destroying your capacity to change is self-destruction. Change is self-destruction. The other exists, and you exist to blur the lines between it and you. You cannot perceive without transformation, one you cannot stop and you cannot control. You cannot become impermeable. Your heart was made to be opened.

[mob-zombie]

No, reading/creating dark fiction to deal with ptsd or other mental illness is not just re-traumatising selfharm

Apparently not typing this is costing me sleep because I can’t stand people being this aggressively wrong on the internet and actively harming other people’s treatment because they’re a fuck wit who thinks their feelings are more true than medical research and other people’s personal experiences.

1. I’m going to upfront state if someone’s re-traumatising themselves using dark fiction they are DOING IT WRONG.

This is why the variety of warnings exist. This is why tags exist. We’ve created a space in which the viewing experience can be more informed than that of the average book or tv show explicitly to protect people and allow them to inform their viewing experience. Hell we even broke down rape and sexual assault tags to cover multiple varieties of these things to make sure people were as safe as they could get.

While objectively rape, non-con and dub-con  are all rape tags, it’s not about softening that it’s rape, it’s about classifying the type of rape or grade of content so someone can inform their viewing experience. Can you senseless fucks please stop insisting it’s claiming these things aren’t rape. Two seconds of googling the tags would tell you up front they’re all rape, they’re just differentiating the variety of rape so people can inform their viewing experience and not be triggered.

For people who claim to be fighting for victims you sure fucking love actively removing things victims have to protect themselves.

2. Shipping to cope isn’t just exposure therapy. God there’s a million fucking ways people can use fiction in recovery and only like two of those are forms of exposure therapy.

The more common usages are:

‘using fiction to break down the events that happened to you into a manageable set up’ because post abuse for a lot of people the thoughts, memories and understanding of the experience are a big old noodly jumble that gets tangled up and eventually fucks with the ability to move past it. By reading or writing about the experience the feelings and thoughts can be de-tangled and ideally turned into something manageable to process.

‘creating a fictional version of events of how you wish things happened’ which is simply a variety of wish fulfilment that can make the experience in the past less painful or otherwise lessen the effects of the trauma sustained.

 Seeing a character you love experience what you went through and come out the other side of it possibly recovering or working towards recovery can help enable seeing yourself eventually doing the same. if you can’t conceptualise recovery or surviving, it’s very difficult to move forward, sometimes seeing a character you love doing it is the push needed to think ‘I could do this.’

Alternatively, simply seeing a character experience the same thing can just make you feel less alone.

Sometimes fictionalising the experience helps separate the experience from you.

Sometimes sexualising the experience makes the event less threatening to reduce the fear of future victimisation or take control of existing experiences. This doesn’t diminish the seriousness of the original event, it’s simply how the person chooses to handle this.

If you’re unable to express what personally happened to you, sometimes putting those experiences on a character and vicariously experiencing sympathy through the audience or the story can help.

And there’s so many more, this is just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. The fact is everyone recovers differently and there’s as many ways of utilising fiction in the process as there are people who’ve experienced some form of sexual assault. As long as they’re not hurting themselves (re-traumatisation), tagging correctly (preventing others from accidentally being triggered), and listening to tags on the fics they read (again preventing re-traumatisation) AND thus not hurting anybody else, it’s legal, it’s safe and it isn’t your business.

3. Not everyone is coping with victimisation. Specifically generalised anxiety disorders and OCD which is also an anxiety disorder are two obvious examples of mental illness that can be treated through fiction.

The biggest thing with an anxiety disorder is that they love to jam random intrusive thoughts into your brain, and it really isn’t as simple as just ignoring them or pretending a douche bag is telling you to do something.

In an anxiety disorder, trying to ignore it will make it worse. Worrying about it will make it worse. Trying not to worry about it, guess what? makes it worse.

Sometimes the only way to ditch a thought is to address it directly.

People who’ve experienced intrusive thoughts about how if they don’t perform the rituals they’ll murder their family, therapists have them write out plans about killing their family to prove that despite what the brain is telling them, they aren’t going to do it. Therapists have handed people knives to prove they can be trusted not to murder people.

With the use of fiction an intrusive thought can be assigned to a characters actions. Fiction can be used as a way to think about an intrusive thought without becoming anxious you might turn the thought into action and by having directly addressed the intrusive thought you can get rid of it.

If you’re anxious about an event, you can write about a character experriencing the worst case scenario to reassure yourself that the thing your scared of is fictional. Or you could write about what you’re worried about going well as supporting evidence you’ll be fine.

Again these are just examples, there are many many more ways people manage mental and physical illness with fiction just as fiction can be used and mental health upkeep after a traumatic event.

And hell, even if you’re not mentally ill and haven’t experienced a traumatic event, if you want to write about a dark scenario, you should. Because not everyone going through these things can write or draw and rely on others to provide content to manage these things.

[chiisana-sukima]

Additional positive attributes of darkfic:

Seeing characters we love undergo bad experiences and us still loving them afterwards helps us to see that we are still lovable too.

Hurt/comfort fics or whump fics with comfort at the end allow us to vicariously experience comfort when our hurt is too big for our real friends and family to handle.

Hurt/no comfort fics can help with processing the hard truth that sometimes we *don’t* get what we need, but we have dignity, and still deserve comfort (just like the hurt hero does) even when it’s not there.

Seeing characters make a variety of choices in traumatic circumstances and not thinking they are bad because of the choices they made helps us to see that we aren’t bad either, even if we didn’t react according to some arbitrary standard of perfection during the original event.

Curtain fics/recovery fics/permanent injury or mental illness aftermath fics help us visualize a life in which we are still valuable and have elements of peace and happiness even though we may struggling.

Fics with dark versions of characters (evil!character X) can help with processing the fact that people are complicated messes and may have loved and harmed us both.

Fics with dark versions of characters can also help us deal with and process dark feeling we may be having too. Assault isn’t pretty, and most of us aren’t saints. We may have aspects of our post-trauma personality that emulate the perpetrator, long for inappropriately severe revenge, are self-destructive, or that we otherwise don’t feel comfortable with and need to process in a way that doesn’t harm ourselves or others.

Art is about examining the human experience in all it’s beauty, horror, and variety. War, death, illness, pain, sacrifice, and so on are all common topics of art. Sexual assault is a (sadly) common part of the human experience too. Seeing it depicted in art dignifies survivors as people, and helps us understand that even though we underwent a painful experience, we’re still normal human beings who are part of the human family.

[scribefindegil]

being a writer leads to a genuinely helpful but also very stupid kind of mindfulness where you'll be having a sobbing breakdown or the worst anxiety attack of your life and think "okay, I really need to pay attention to how this feels. so I can incorporate it into my fanfiction."

[gallusrostromegalus]

Yes, this is stupid

It does work to disrupt unhelpful behavior

If it's Stupid but it works, its not stupid.

[skriveting]

OTP Questions MASTERLIST

updated 18.01.22

Who’s the primary protector of the two?

Who sleeps in and who is the early bird?

Who is the least patient?

Which of the two listens to old music and which one is more into the newer stuff?

Who’s the first one to quit a new hobby because they’re not great at it on the first try?

Who holds a grudge the longest?

Who secretly knows all the lyrics to the other’s favorite songs but refuses to expose themselves?

Who’s more likely to cry about a plant dying?

Which of the two is the most outspoken?

Which of the two is quick to speak and which one is quick to listen?

Who’s the most eager to have kids?

Which of the two rolls their eyes the most often?

Who’s an open book and which one is more reserved?

Who gets the most invested in their hyperfixations?

Who’s into Eurovision?

Which one’s the first to help a stranger in need?

Who’s had the same pair of jeans for years and refuses to change them out?

Which of the two is the most gullible?

Which of the two acts bothered by the other one but secretly enjoys every second of it?

Who’s more likely to get into a bar fight?

Who’s the optimist and who’s the pessimist?

Who gets more easily embarrassed?

Which of the two would you rather team up with for a game of laser tag?

Who gets a little too invested in board games?

Which of the two is more likely to take care of the other’s elderly parents?

Which of the two is more likely to stand out in a crowd?

Who will be the one baking banana bread on a Sunday after a week of complete mayhem?

Who brings CapriSun to a frat party?

Who’s the designated driver?

Who sugarcoats and who shoots it straight?

Who insists they’re the best at everything and who lets them believe it?

Who’s the first to apologize?

Who takes on boring tasks around the house so the other person doesn’t have to do them?

Who’s the more skeptical of the two?

Who picks up languages faster?

Who’s better at dealing with emotional trauma?

Who’s more foulmouthed?

Who’s more in touch with internet culture? Alternatively, if they live in a world where the internet doesn’t exist, who would be more in touch with it if it did exist in their world?

Which of the two is more artistic?

Who’ll be the first to snap if someone makes a bad comment about the other person?

Who’s the most self-aware?

Who has the most self-control?

Which of the two would be more likely to make a family album with physical pictures?

Who would confess their love first?

Who gets most excited about holidays? e.g. Christmas

Who gets most intense during a fight?

Who’s the cheapest?

Who’d refuse to pay the others bail just to mess with them?

Who’s the most concerned about details and semantics and who doesn’t care at all?

Who invites the other to dance for the first time?

Who overthinks the most?

Who whines the most when they get sick?

Who’s the most ambitious?

Who’s the most likely to get stage fright?

Who’s the best cook?

Which of the two is the most competitive?

Who’s got the highest pain tolerance?

Who’s the most fashionable?

Who’s the most stubborn?

Who’s the most childish?

Who’s the best at throwing axes?

Who’s more likely to buy some stupid NFT just because it looks cool or cute?

Whose grammar is so bad it’s a miracle they graduated 5th grade?

Who starts gearing up for Christmas first?

Who’s got the most scars (physically)?

Who would survive the longest in the wild?

Who’s the most spiteful?

Which of the two would you choose to be stuck with in an emergency situation?

Who’s the most likely to hurt the other’s feelings unintentionally?

Which of the two has the most dominant traits, aka., which of the two would their child end up resembling the most?

Who makes their bed in the morning and who's more of a slob?

Who'll be caught saying "rules are made to be broken"?

Whose hobbies/interests change every 2-5 business days?

Who'd be able not to talk for the longest?

Whose I-Hate-Everything-And-Everyone teenage phase was the most intense/lasted the longest?

Who'd take the gingerbread house decorating contest just a little too seriously?

Who's more likely to execute their threats?

Who has the more embarrassing Spotify Wrapped? + Give a run-down of each character's Spotify Wrapped, in as much or little detail as you want.

Who's the most likely to take a bribe? Who has the hardest time finishing a train of thought because they get distracted by a million other things along the way?

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❤️35 OTP Questions❤️

Struggling to stay focused on my current WIP and I'm going to help myself by adding another distraction.😋 I don't usually do these because I tend to go over the top with my responses. But I really liked this list. I'd love to answer some for my pairing.

Credit: The Moon Witch

1. Who fell for the other one first?

2. Who made the first move?

3. Describe their first date.

4. What’s a perfect date for them?

5. What do physical trait do they love the most about each other?

6. What personality trait do they love the most about each other?

7. What’s one way their personalities complement one another? (Is it opposites attract or are they pretty similar?)

8. What are some things they don’t agree on?

9. What is each member’s love language?

10. What’s each member flirting style?

11. Who’s the bigger tease?

12. What is their favorite place to kiss the other? (Cheek, hand, closed eyelid, neck, nose, etc.)

13. What was the most surprising thing they learned about one another once they started dating?

14. Do they like public display of affection?

15. Are they jealous/possessive of each other?

16. Can they sit side by side without touching the other or are they handsy? (lacing fingers, touching knees, etc.)

17. How do they comfort each other?

18. Who’s the primary protector of the two?

19. Who is more sentimental?

20. Who worries more?

21. What articles of clothing do they "borrow" from one another?

22. Who is the big/little spoon?

23. What reminds each of their partner?

24. Are they sentimental about gifts they’ve received from each other?

25. What holidays do they like?

26. What happens if one of them gets sick?

27. Can they stay up all night just talking?

28. Do they get along with each other’s friends and family?

29. How likely are they to have fur babies? How many and what kind?

30. Are they interested in marriage? Why or why not?

31. Are they interested in having children? Why or why not?

32. What do they do turn the other on/put them in the mood?

33. What is their sex life like?

34. Do you have other ships that resemble your OTP?

35. Choose one song that perfectly describes their relationship.