Brutal Heart

pax per violentiam Writing + RP inspo blog

[blackvoidspace]

Book Rhaenyra and Daemon are finally here.

This is what i have been asking since s1.

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[wordfather]

something strange going on with my wip where nothing is happening because im not writing. does anyone know how to fix this

[visenyaism]

80s misogyny saved the Star Wars galaxy because Darth Vader wasted all his time and effort trying to convince his starry-eyed gayboy empath son to become an evil space fascist when if anyone had any point asked his daughter “hey do you ever just want to KILL these people” she would’ve been shooing lightning out of her hands to prove a point in like 10 minutes

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

(via prev)

[jabbadeeznutts]

what the actual fuck anakin lol

[dying-crying-pining]

“i’m sorry” in whump

• mumbled and muffled into B’s shirt when A can barely walk without B holding them. B pauses to squeeze A tight against their chest, the fingers of one hand threaded through their sweat-damp hair. “i’ve got you.”

• slurred and cut off half way through when A’s eyes roll back and they fold to the ground in a heap before B or anyone else can move fast enough to catch them

• a gasp at the end of a cough that speckles blood over their chin and the front of caretaker’s shirt

• coming out of being possessed/under the influence of mind control, eyes wide, hands trembling violently. repeated breathlessly as they back away, horrified by the damage they’ve caused, their soul barely able to contain the agony of the what they’re seeing and that it’s their fault

• choked out as a sob, A convinced it’s their fault someone they love/on the team got hurt. the desperate guilt. the paralyzing, crushing realization. bonus points if they have it all wrong and are blaming themselves for no reason. B rushes forward to take A’s face in their hands, shush them gently, calm their hitching breaths. “no, no, no. shhh. it’s not your fault.”

• right before they shove B out of the way and take the hit for them

• repeated over the sound of A’s shuddering gasps as B scrambles to keep them from bleeding out

[go-whump-in-the-night]

[glorioustrainwrecks]

visual proof of mental manipulation. things changing color (eyes/hair/fingers), pupils dilating, that one blank look on whumpee’s face… anything that. just showing others that something fucked up is going on.

[luna-azzurra]

Tips for Writing Injuries! (AGAIN)

Your action hero just got shot in the shoulder, stitched it up in a motel bathroom, and is now running through a forest. I need you to know that a shoulder wound severs muscle, nerves, and sometimes bone, and the human body's response to that is not "mild wincing followed by full range of motion." here is what injuries actually do to peoplee...

⊹ Adrenaline is REAL and it does allow people to do extraordinary things immediately after injury, BUT it is a loan, not a gift. you borrow the function and you pay it back later with interest. Your character might genuinely be able to run for twenty minutes after being stabbed. and then the adrenaline drops and everything the body was delaying arrives all at once. the collapse is NOT weakness. it's biology collecting its debt. write the debt collection. it's more interesting than the heroic sprint anyway.

⊹ Blood loss changes cognition before it drops you. you don't go from "fine" to "unconscious." you go through a whole middle stage of confusion, poor decision-making, emotional dysregulation, a strange calm, tunnel vision, difficulty forming sentences. Your injured character making a bad call, saying something they normally wouldn't, becoming suddenly and inexplicably gentle--that's blood loss. use the middle stage. it's dramatically rich and almost nobody writes it.

⊹ Recovery has a timeline and the timeline is long and boring and inconvenient to plot. a broken rib takes six weeks and during those six weeks sneezing is a genuine emergency. a concussion means no screens, no reading, no bright lights, and symptoms can persist for months. a stab wound to the abdomen means weeks of infection risk, limited mobility, and a specific kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with sleep. Your character being sidelined and frustrated and useless for a long time is not a narrative problem. it's the story.

⊹ Pain also affects personality in ways writers skip. chronic pain makes people short-tempered and then guilty about being short-tempered. it makes concentration difficult. it makes intimacy complicated, both emotional and physical. a character who was patient and warm before their injury and is now snappy and withdrawn is not a character regression. they're in pain. pain is exhausting in ways that don't show on the outside. the people around them noticing and not knowing how to help is a whole story in itself.

[annabelle--cane]

really nice gift for Specifically Me when the character has an immediate and violent panic response to being held down / physically restrained. especially if their affect is usually cheerful or relaxed or reserved and this is their one "sicko mode (wildly uncharacteristic)" button.

[silvercap]

Glazed-eyed half-lidded breathless half-consciousness appreciation post 🥰🥰🥰

[wwditsdaily]

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS Season 1, Episode 3 - Werewolf Feud

[vilecousin]

SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND | 1.02 — Sacramentum Gladiatorum

[aireemacpherson]

over here sharing the content

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[tokkibean]

get a really good scene idea

write fic so that you can write the really good scene idea

write the really good scene idea

realise that you now need to write the rest of the fic

realise that you have no plot & no idea what to do bc you've already written the really good scene idea

panic.