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Inkstay Prompts July 2020

Write a short story, poem or anything that inspires you based on one of these prompts and tag it with #inkstay. Make it clear somewhere in the post that it is written for one of the inkstay [July] prompts (also mention specifically which prompt you’re writing for) and post it before the 25th if you want your work to appear in the magazine [currently postponed].

Prompts of the month 1# - Walking into nothingness 2# - Holding onto hope 3# - Wishing for the bittersweets 4# - Joint exclusion 5# - Illusive somber notes 6# - Bottled and broken 7# - Wintering in Summer and Springtime in Fall 8# - Shameless self-indulgence 9# - Weak knees and weaker needs 10# - Humanity has come along way to forget how horrid it can be

Word prompts 1# - music 2# - platform 3# - nuance 4# - recklessness, barrier 5# - poison, light 6# - written 7# - sauna 8# - suffering 9# - muttering, muses 10# - withering, yarn, trauma

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May 2020

Write a short story, poem or anything that inspires you based on one of these prompts and tag it with #inkstay. Make it clear somewhere in the post that it is written for one of the @inkstay [May] prompts (also mention specifically which prompt you’re writing for) and post it before the 25th if you want your work to appear in the magazine.

Prompts of the month (book inspired) 1# - The Great(est) Gatsby flaw. 2# - Animal Farm and the dark harvest. 3# - Huckleberry Finn’s false identity 4# - Fahrenheit 451/Fighting fire with fire 5# - Lord of the flies and the feast on the black sands 6# - Holes, dug deep and with purpose 7# - The Scarlet Letter quoted for accuracy 8# - Night/History at it’s worst 9# - To Kill a Mockingbird and love the remains 10# - Of Mice and Men and tortured echoes

Word prompts 1# - elixir 2# - legion, rune 3# - fostering, humane 4# - deep, justice 5# - mindful, ordained, nimble 6# - ether 7# - indecent, yearnful 8# - scathing, detached 9# - sanity, influence, kindness 10# -requiem

For any questions contact @imperiallefty or @aprilmayblossoms

[batboyblog]

Books you need to read right now so some books, like Percy Jackson or Raven Boys have big happy fandoms and thats GREAT but here are some books I feel are just as good but never seem to have gotten the love they should

The Half Bad Trilogy (Half Bad, Half Wild, Half Lost) Bisexual main character, epic gay love story, Harry Potter by way of Raven Boys, go read them, cry.

Young Wizards (So You Want to Be a Wizard, Deep Wizardry, High Wizardry,  A Wizard Abroad, The Wizard’s Dilemma, A Wizard Alone) before there are a Harry Potter there was Nita and Kit, hispanic main character, a gay couple (in the 1980s no less!) magic by way of Star Trek

The Old Kingdom (Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen) do you want Lord of the Rings with a bad-ass woman lead? and way more magic? okay go read this, maybe the richest fantasy world ever written

The Dark Is Rising (Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark Is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King, Sliver on the Tree) the classic of classics, one part Narnia, one part Lord of the Rings, and one part Harry Potter, weird and otherworldly 

Bartimaeus Sequence (The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem’s Eye, Ptolemy’s Gate) Steampunk magic, grubby Victorian London with demons and snobbish wizards and one sassy djinni

The Keys to the Kingdom (Mister Monday, Grim Tuesday, Drowned Wednesday, Sir Thursday, Lady Friday, Superior Saturday, Lord Sunday) steampunk clockwork weirdness, really I can’t think of a book to compare these too, a well realized and original world with lovable characters 

PC Peter Grant (Rivers of London, Moon Over Soho, Whispers Under Ground, Broken Homes, Foxglove Summer) With a mixed race main character and black goddesses it’s a diverse cast, Harry Potter as an all grown up police book, very smart and well written 

so go read them, now, come on what you waiting for? well I’ll be waiting, let me know if you do read any of them? 

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April 2020 Prompts

Write a short story, poem or anything that inspires you based on one of these prompts and tag it with #inkstay. Make it clear somewhere in the post that it is written for one of the @inkstay April prompts (also mention specifically which prompt you’re writing for) and post it before the 25th if you want your work to appear in the magazine.

Prompts of the month 1# - “simply plucked and allowed to wither dry.” 2# - “pale green flavor and aroma” 3# - “shapelessly rolled into place.” 4# - “heat is applied to slow down remorse” 5# - “black tea ceremony” 6# - “Bland yet unwavering” 7# - “The last solstice in her eyes”  8# - “walking the mahogany path” 9# - “The river in the sky has a new name.” 10# - “ Play nice with the neighbor kids.”

Word prompts 1# - essence 2# - raindrop, mask 3# - literally, points 4# - withering 5# - slender, quaint, inky 6# - slander 7# - softness, mint, yearn 8# - normalcy 9# - bygones, awkwardness 10# - sand, garish, rosy

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Rocked and Rolled - Submitted by Trialgrounds

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Virgin Slayer - Submitted by meowstic-seer-of-the-future

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Laundry Law - Submitted by SeesawSiya

#009cc4 #19c6e8 #d3e5f3 #bcae94 #bd90cb

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March 2020

Write a short story, poem or anything that inspires you based on one of these prompts and tag it with #inkstay. Make it clear somewhere in the post that it is written for one of the inkstay March prompts (also mention specifically which prompt you’re writing for) and post it before the 25th if you want your work to appear in the magazine.

Prompts of the month 1# - “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold.” 2# - frosty pink twilight 3# - we believe we must go through hell to get to heaven, so we keep marching. 4# - By March, the worst of the winter would be over. 5# - the world remained unfriendly and cold 6# - can they afford to wait any longer before buying their spring wardrobes? 7# - If you’re not angry, you’re either a stone, or you’re too sick to be angry. 8# - you might also find that you have forgotten how to speak. 9# - half-echo of the past, half-menace of the future 10# - It is when speaking is not safe that we must speak.

Word prompts 1# - calling 2# - video 3# - drowning, litter 4# - broomstick 5# - waxing, lining, open 6# - semblance 7# - reason 8# - window, lawn 9# - eagerness, earnestness 10# - willow, midst

[mushrooomfriend]

a tutorial for how to make a full circle skirt dress like the one in this post!

I had fun making it! please tell me if you like the tutorial and maybe I will make more (mushroom hat perhaps?)  🍄🍃✨

[preidyboy]

I am so excited to try this

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Juice Those Beets - Submitted by meowstic-seer-of-the-future

#FCF6EF #CC8AAD #C44A8D #592870 #1F201F

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These Colors are Watching You - Submitted by SeesawSiya

#3c4959 #b4b6cd #d8cabd #f1d6a1 #e7afbc

[logarto]

comics that give Emotions

bart simpson and chris griffin go to couples therapy

kermit internalised homophobia

neo and morpheus go clubbing

[succulentbud]

4. a boy with red tipped horns

5. bee real

6. they call her the cornerwitch

[succulentbud]

7. aliza

8. how to draw a horse

9. pink in the night

10. counting sheep

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[lyricaokana-deactivated20200808]

A Beginners Gif Tutorial By Eim

So i’ve gotton a couple asks requesting I make a gif tutorial so here it is! Shoutout to Liz @girlmeetsfarkle because she taught me to how make my gifs look better and basically showed me everything i’m gonna show you today!

I’ll be showing you how to make a gif like this one but the tutorial applies to all gifs. I’ll also leave some tips and links to different resources at the end!

If you found this any bit helpful a like/reblog would be greatly appreciated! If you’ve any further questions don’t hesitate to ask, tutorial under the cut!

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[reverie-lavellan]

idk if anyone will find this useful, but this is how i go about planning my stories. i mostly write fantasy, so that’s what this is most applicable to. but it could work with other genres too.

so there’s three major components to a story: the characters, the plot, and the world. creating them individually is the easy part, but they all connect and affect each other in different ways. (like you can’t have a character who loves peaches and eats them every day if they live a peasant in a region that doesn’t grow peaches, for example.)

so i created a cheat sheet to help connect all three components together.

1) the world creates the characters.

this is related to the peach example above. the characters should be a direct result of the environment they grew up in and the environment they currently live in.

2) the characters are limited by the world.

also related to the peaches. characters can’t do anything outside of what the rules of their surroundings and universe allow, such as eating peaches when they’re not available. this also applies for magic users. they can’t have unlimited magic, so keep in mind what you want out of both the characters and the world when creating magic systems.

3) the characters carry the plot.

we’ve all heard it before: “bad characters can’t carry a good plot. good characters can carry a bad plot.” but we all like a good plot anyway. try to make sure you’re not giving your characters too heavy or too light of a plot to carry.

4) the plot pushes the characters.

if nothing in the plot happens, your characters will remain static forever. if you struggle with plots, try starting with what character development you want to happen, then go from there.

5) the plot depends on the world.

you can’t overthrow the evil government if there isn’t one. think of what your world needs most and what your plot is centered around, and fit those two together.

6) the world is changed by the plot.

even if your plot is centered around something most of your world would call “insignificant”, the world will still experience some change from the plot. either the evil government will be gone, or maybe that one teacher is now way more careful about keeping an eye on the test key. either way, the world will be different from now on.

final note: usually people will be able to write one or two of the components with ease, but don’t know where to go from there. i personally can’t write plots, but thinking this way has really helped me actually make a story out of the world and characters because i looked at what i needed from what i had. i really hope this can help you too! happy writing!

tl;dr this is a cheat sheet to help anyone who struggles with writing one or two of what i consider the three major components to a story.

[peelingmandarins]

this new korean movie about a daughter and her mother visiting japan to find her mom’s first love (a japanese woman) looks really interesting and the posters are very pretty

[sunfortune]

its called Moonlit Winter for anyone wondering! 

[coolcurrybooks-deactivated20230]

All of these books are queer, but they all have back blurbs that don’t say they’re queer. While this can be a pain if I’m scouting for queer SFF, it can come in handy for people in a situation where they don’t want to be reading queer books openly. 

Please do note that I don’t have hard copies of the books on hand so it’s possible that an author quote or something mentions one being queer (I feel like this isn’t super likely, but I don’t want to rule it out). Some might also have author biographies mentioning that the author is queer. Also, some may be shelved as LGBT on Goodreads or categorized as queer on Amazon. So if you’re planning on asking for any of these as holiday gifts, I would suggest going to the Amazon page or where ever your relative is likely to buy it from and double check that it’s something you’d be comfortable with sharing openly. 

I wish I had more pansexual books, but the ones I know of tend to mention queerness in the back description. 

With the exception of The Spy with the Red Balloon, these are all books I have read or are currently reading. If you want to recommend others, feel free to do so in the replies!

You can find my other queer book recommendations here.

Links to the queer books database (or Goodreads if the book hasn’t been added yet) are available below the cut. You can find information on content warnings there.

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[ms-demeanor]

Hey you know how I said I was going to make a workbook on the kind of bullshit you need to do when someone you love dies? I actually did that.

HERE IS THE VERSION WITH LOTS OF SWEARING AT THE USELESS, SHITTY SITUATION YOU’RE IN.

HERE IS THE VERSION WITH A FAIR AMOUNT OF BLACK HUMOR BUT NO CURSEWORDS.

Featuring Helpful Sections such as:

Death Certificates – What you need, why you need them, and how to get them

Prepare to spend a long and miserable time on the phone

What the Everloving Fuck is Probate

Some Simple Dos and Don’ts

Shitty Mad Libs – Templates for writing Obituaries and Memorials

How to plan a non-religious death party

So you suddenly have to become some sort of hacker or some shit

This is an eighteen page book that you can print out, download, share, and give away; it is meant to be used to collect information about funeral planning and account management after a death OR you can use it BEFORE you die and give people information so they’re not stuck playing Nancy Fucking Drew while trying to keep seventeen cousins who crawled out of the woodwork from gutting each other in front of the fucking casket as they argue about who’s inheriting grandma’s favorite dentures.

It’s not exactly cheerful and it’s full of things that are probably going to feel really fucking raw if you’re processing a fresh death.

I’m sorry! I love you! Death is shitty! I’m trying to laugh about it a little and I hope you can laugh a little too because otherwise we’re all just going to cry together.

Good luck!

(in memory of my weirdo mother and her weirdo siblings who all died too fucking young and left me holding this flaming bag of dogshit)

[djhinnwe]

@ms-demeanor Tumblr wont let me message you privately, so is it ok if I share this to my FB page? The business I am in wants information like this to be public knowledge, but it’s still a business so I don’t want to post without permission.

[ms-demeanor]

YES, please share it!

And actually facebook blocks links to my blog for some reason so I have no problem with you just straight-up copy/pasting the PDF links! Credit me if you want (”@ms-demeanor on tumblr” is fine) but you don’t even have to. Just share it and spread it I want people to have an easier time of things! I’m universally  OK if people share these links so long as you’re not selling the booklet. I’m actually even okay if someone prints up a bunch of these and hands them out so long as they’re handed out for free.

[ms-demeanor]

Also I want to make this point: I was very lucky. I had talked to my mom about her death plans and she and my dad have had their cremations planned and paid for for 25 years (Neptune Society baybee). I got lucky, we had talked about a book like this and she had started writing down passwords. I got lucky, she never took my advice about putting a passcode on her phone.

But things were still harder than they needed to be. We’d talked about a death planning workbook because I’d found one on Amazon and we both thought it would be a good idea to fill it out because she was sick.

I just never scrounged together $26.00 in the time between when we talked about it and when she died.

You know what’s better than regretting that you couldn’t afford a death workbook? A FREE DEATH WORKBOOK.

I mean, I don’t begrudge the authors of other death books their pay. I’m sure the other books are more comprehensive than mine and maybe some of them do a decent job of explaining probate.

But death is expensive and living ain’t cheap.

This is free explicitly because there are tons of people (though certainly not everyone involved) who will bypass compassion in order to profit off of the death industry and I want you to have at least this one thing that’s there for you free, as a gift, as something given to you for the sole purpose of making this easier on you in a time when every step is going to be expensive and difficult.

This is free, no charge. All I ask is that, if possible, you share it with someone else who needs it and that you tell somebody you love that you love them.

[ms-demeanor]

Hey all if you’re new here because of the firefox post or the browser wars post or the bastardous positivity post please consider downloading the free book I made about what to do when someone dies because you know what this is sad and shit but things are going to be much easier for you if you know the level of bullshit you’re going to be dealing with.