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[gillyporter]

June of Doom links

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[averygorrykeeper]

sophie foster :0

(reblogs mean the world to me:)

Character challenge: day 1 (normal)

How long this took me: 40 minutes

[gillyporter]

YOU FINISHED THIS IN FORTY MINUTES?????? IT LOOKS SO FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!

[hyliantomatoes]

wait now i’m curious what’s everyone’s go-to pair of shoes

[imastoryteller]

20 Ways to Show Extreme Fear in Your Writing

As I dive into researching signs of fear for my horror WIP, I wanted to share some of the most compelling and visceral reactions I’ve come across. Whether you’re writing a chilling scene or crafting a character’s panic, these 20 signs of fear can help bring tension and realism to your story.

Physical Reactions

Hyperventilating — sucking in air but never feeling like it’s enough

Chest tightens — feels like a weight or hands pressing down

Limbs shaking violently, knees buckling

Complete loss of muscle control — collapsing or unable to stand

Cold sweat soaking through clothes

Heart hammering so hard they feel it in their throat or head

Tunnel vision — the world narrowing down to one terrifying focal point

Ringing in the ears or sudden deafness, like the world drops away

Dizziness / feeling faint / vision blurring

Dry mouth — unable to speak or even scream

Uncontrollable Behavior

Screaming / sobbing / gasping — involuntary vocal outbursts

Panic run — bolting without thinking, tripping over everything

Clawing at their own skin / chest / throat — like trying to escape their body

Begging / pleading out loud even if no one’s there

Repeating words or phrases — “No, no, no” / “This isn’t happening”

Hiding instinctively — diving under tables, closets, or corners

Desperate grabbing — reaching for someone, anything solid

Loss of bladder or bowel control (for extreme terror)

Total mental shutdown — frozen, slack-jawed, staring blankly

Memory blackout — later can’t recall what happened during the worst moment

[chxrry-bombs]

5 Tiny Writing Tips That Aren’t Talked About Enough (but work for me)

These are some lowkey underrated tips I’ve seen floating around writing communities — the kind that don’t get flashy attention but seriously changed how I write.

1. Put “he/she/they” at the start of the sentence less often.

Try switching up your sentence rhythm. Instead of

“She walked to the window,”

try

“The window creaked open under her touch.”

Keeps it fresh and stops the paragraph from sounding like a checklist.

2. Don’t describe everything — describe what matters.

Instead of listing every detail in a room, pick 2–3 objects that say something.

“A half-drunk mug of tea and a knife on the table”

sets a way stronger tone than

“There was a wooden table, two chairs, and a shelf.”

3. Use beats instead of dialogue tags sometimes.

Instead of:

"I'm fine," she said.

Try:

"I'm fine." She wiped her hands on her skirt.

It helps shows emotion, and movement.

4. Write your first draft like no one will ever read it.

No pressure. No perfection. Just vibes. The point of draft one is to exist. Let it be messy and weird — future you will thank you for at least something to edit.

5. When stuck, ask: “What’s the most fun thing that could happen next?”

Not logical. Not realistic. FUN. It doesn’t have to stay — but chasing excitement can blast through writer’s block and give you ideas you actually want to write.

What’s a tip that unexpectedly helped with your writing? Let me know!! 🍒

[gillyporter]

hiro and baymax after tadashi except it's Peter Parker and whatever invention Tony stark made after Tony stark

the concept of loving something without a human mind because it has a piece of your favorite person who is now gone

[antwriterr]

[what-the-cap-dude]

Hey, so, please kiss the brick.

[ivvyela]

nothing on this god's green earth can convince me that peter parker doesn't have an ao3 account where he is elbows deep in a 'rise of skywalker' fix-it fic. like, fully invested in it, been writing it pre-spider bite with ned, who is just as enthusiastic about it. but the thing is, it's really hard to do updates when you are literally spider-man.

every three months he'll post and in the author's note there's some shit like "sorry this took a while, i got shot seven times :/" or "i know it's been a minute, i literally got hit by a bus and then stabbed in the leg, but i'm all good!" or sometimes ned would log in and post with a note "hey i'm a friend posting on the author's behalf, they're healing from severe hypothermia but promised an update, so here it is!"

and the fic just gets increasingly more popular for the author notes alone. a good handful of the comments are something along the lines of "i'm not even in the star wars fandom, i'm just here to see if the author is good" or "every update i cheer for another day the author gets to live at this point"

and any reader who is a native new yorker kind of pieces together that holy shit the author might be spider-man because the timeline adds up, and they just fully embrace it. spider-man will stop a robbery and the guy behind the counter will ask when the next chapter will be up. spider-man returns a stolen backpack to a girl and she'll tell him that he "really got poe's voice down so well, it's really impressive."

ned thinks it is hilarious. mj finds out about the fic from twitter, to peter's absolute horror, and changes peter's contact name to "friendly neighborhood ao3 author". but the worst thing to happen is after an avengers battle where peter took a pretty big hit and ends up in med-bay. and during a press conference, when someone asks how spider-man is healing, tony just drops "spidey won't be down for too long. the star wars fic will be updated within the week, probably."

ao3 goes down for two days.

[daily-daydream]

Non-spicy ways to show Intimacy

Intimacy isn't always just the spicy stuff! Here's a few ways to show it through your characters in a few, simple ways...

Kissing their S/O's hand, knuckles, wrist...bonus points for eye contact!

Speaking of which...eyes. Glances across the room, prolonged eye contact, staring at each other

Tending to the other's wounds/ injuries

Knowing the other's tiny habits

Reaching out to the other when in pain, trouble, ect

Whispering jokes to each other

Carefully wiping off a stain from their clothes or face

Taking care of each other when sick or hurt

Hand over the heart/ ear over the heart just to hear it beat

Pressing their thumb over the pulse point for the same thing

Tracing scars, tattoos, birth marks, freckles

Giving the other something tiny that means a lot, a picture, a shiny rock, a flower

In fantasy settings, helping the other put on/ take off armor...trusting the other to know where daggers, knives, poisons are hidden

Telling each other secrets/ thoughts they've told nobody before

Tucking back the other's hair

Putting a piece of jewelry on the other or letting them borrow clothes

Keeping each other warm in the cold

In cases with chronic illness, letting the other care for/ know symptoms

Brushing, braiding hair, applying skincare, etc.

Nightmare comfort

Wiping away tears

Proximity- sitting near each other, sticking close, standing beside each other while doing a task such as cooking, laundry, painting...

Sharing a book, sitting close enough to read it together

[writing-prompt-s]

you and your best friend are superheroes who studied under the same master. He’s one of the strongest while you’re one of the weakest. When you ask him how, he confusingly asks you “Didn’t you take of the restrictor bands master gave us?”

[crazy4keeper]

More random KotLC memes cause I’m still addicted

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

there are fanfic writers who are: "I want to write about this prompt but other people have already done it before, unfortunately. I would have loved to write it 😢"

and then there's me who unapologetically writes about the same prompt, same trope (that has absolutely been written by other people before), same ship — in slightly different ways, at least 200 times in across 200 different fics of mine.

[writingdose]

writers, instead of asking ai for help, you can always use your childhood trauma and repressed issues to help you with that fic

[gillyporter]

I love Keefe so much, don't get me wrong, but I would not want to be around him if he was real. He pushes jokes quite a lot and is rarely serious . I don't suppose I would hate him if he was real, either, but I still wouldn't want to be around him. I understand him, he's a kid hiding behind a mask that he's curated out of necessity after dealing with a toxic home situation. plus he's overcompensating trying to be goofy so he's not perfect like his parents. but in real life, people who hide behind jokes are exhausting to be around. maybe it's because i'm neurodivergent, but I can barely understand people when they're genuine, much less when they tease you constantly.

(I will honestly believe someone if they say something, I cannot take a joke well, unless it is explained to me that it is a joke.)

[gillyporter]

Sophie is such a nerd, and I mean that in the best of ways. It doesn't matter how smart you are, some of these things don't just happen accidentally.

She made the decision to read the dictionary when she was little, not to impress people, but purely because she loved learning and found it fascinating. she memorized all the stars, which had to be more than just her photophographic memory. perhaps she did it for an astronomy class or something, but still.

not to mention, Sophie has canonically read fantasy books like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, which yeah, are more popular books, so that doesn't mean she's a nerd, but that's because Shannon Messenger wanted to reference books people would know.

I'd have liked to see more of nerd Sophie. She should have every right to on a rampage about her favorite element on the period table (perhaps I'm projecting, my favorite is radium) and why it's the best and who created it and all the little details. Surely, Sophie loved learning and reading, and also before she learned that people didn't want to hear these things (wrongly, there are definitely people who would love to hear her rambles, rip Sophie foster, she would have loved Tumblr).

i would love to see dex and Sophie nerding out together over science and exchanging words in quick rushes. also dex is a movie nerd, there's no denying that, and I fully believe Sophie is a fandom nerd, more leaning toward books, but she definitely would be able to discuss movies for ages.

(also, Sophie was greatly isolated as a child, she would have definitely spent her time in a book or watching her favorite movie/tv show for the fifty billionth time)

Oh, and Sophie is a music nerd. I think it'd also be neat to see Sophie obsess over the different styles of music with the different cultures with Dex, but them still being obsessed with human music.

and I 100% canon Sophie blurting out to Keefe all about a book or something, and he thinks it's adorable, but also he's obsessed with fandom and she gets him hooked on her favorite books and she writes fanfic and he draws fanart.

[d0eeyed-deer]

I'm working on a henderhop fanfic set during season 3. should it start with Jane and Mike being together? or should it be platonic mileven from the getgo?

I could use some opinions 🎀

[overthinkingao3]

We write for ourselves, but we post for others.

(this came out of a conversation in the comments on a previous post about an author threatening to stop updating a fic because of lack of engagement)

So there’s this idea that fic writers should write for themselves and not care too much about stats or engagement,

and i totally get the sentiment behind that. if writing becomes entirely about stats and external validation, something important does get lost - creative freedom and joy, conviction in your own writing

but i also think:

“i write for myself, but i post for others.”

because posting fic is not only self-expression. it’s social. ao3 is called an archive, but emotionally it often functions as a community space.

people post for connection, for participation, for others to bear witness to their pain and trauma and grief,

and i don’t think most people are asking to be admired so much as acknowledged. there’s something deeply human about wanting another person to encounter something that mattered to you and go:

“ok, yeah, I see what you were trying to say. I see you.”

especially because fanfic is often people processing very real feelings through fictional characters at a safe distance, one step removed,

and then uploading that deeply personal thing into a shared archive and hoping somebody else might connect with it.

And i think that’s why it hurts so much when you summon up the courage and post a fic into the void and you get nothing back,

and then it’s like,

does anyone see me? does anyone even care?