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A blog for all my memes and schemes. Main/Art acc: @unicwolf. Rio. 24. They/Them. I write Fanfics sometimes so if you like my shit you can give me requests.

[tenderwatches]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[stories-by-hails]

For anyone who needs this

[writing-prompt-s]

!!!!

[literaryvein-reblogs]

more "beautiful" words for your next poem

Afterwit - wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.

Antapology - a response to an apology.

Bovarism - a conception of oneself as other than one is to the extent that one's general behavior is conditioned or dominated by the conception.

Cogitabund - given to deep thought; having the appearance of being in deep meditation.

Dolorifuge - something that banishes or mitigates grief.

Doundrins - afternoon drinkings.

Epistemophilia - love of knowledge; specifically: excessive striving for or preoccupation with knowledge.

Estivate - to spend the summer usually at one place.

Eudaemonic - producing happiness.

Eye-servant - one that attends to duty only when watched.

Formication - an abnormal sensation resembling that made by insects creeping in or on the skin.

Hygeiolatry - worship of health; excessive devotion to hygiene.

Nidifugous - leaving the nest soon after hatching.

Obsibilate - to make a whistling noise, as trees stirred with winds.

Undusous - full of surges and waves.

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or leave a link in the replies. I would love to read them!

beautiful words list pt. 1 / pt. 2

[twoblogger]

Genuinely 90% of historical fiction would be so much better if more writers could get more comfortable with the fact that to create a good story set in a different time period you do actually have to give the characters beliefs & values which reflect that time period

[laerugo]

#even if they share your values they would phrase things differently. ‘​I hate to see a man hanged for it’ vs ‘love is love’ (via @aurpiment)

[anjing-jam]

You can research what people actually said in history!

In 1726, when William Brown was on trial for attempted sodomy in London, he didn't say "I was born this way", he said, "“I think there is no crime in making what use I please of my own body”.

In the 12th century, Hildegard of Bingen didn't say, "A woman can do anything a man can do!", she said, God created men and women with different humours and having too much of the male elements will throw society out of balance.

In the 1860s, Millicent Garrett Fawcett didn't say, "Women are just as smart as men", she said, Men get to vote no matter how dumb they are.

In the 1850s, William Craft didn't say, "Africans are just as smart as Europeans and it's bigoted to say otherwise", he said that Africans have thick skulls “to defend the brain from the tropical climate in which he lived. If God had not given them thick skulls their brains would probably have become very much like those of many scientific gentlemen of the present day”

[deathsmallcaps]

I genuinely like how all of those examples are killer quotes but also represent something that may be considered unkind or overly religious or oddly phrased or straight up untrue today. Excellent job picking them out @sourjen .

[thewritingumbrellas]

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

[writerlyn]

This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.

[kiramartinauthor]

Please write stories that are problematic. 

Stories need conflict.

Write them to show what’s healthy. Write them to show what’s unhealthy.

Write them because problematic behaviors exists, and writing is a medium to explore and show– to teach and make the reader think. Shying away from these topics only creates ignorance. 

I see so many people telling writers to avoid anything that could be problematic, like writing about it is supporting it. They fail to see the importance of writing with depth and meaning. 

Writing has always been about conveying thoughts and ideas without fear of censorship. Being able to present problematic situations in a healthy way is important. 

[foone]

I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"

TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE

[digital-magus]

Ok, unless something's going on I'm not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term "Pet Play" is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.

[foone]

Yeah, I'm not mad about using the term "pet play". That's a perfectly fine term. I'm mad because they didn't use that term: they used "pet p!ay", a censored version

[digital-magus]

Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.

[jack-of-blades]

To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 

[emperorsfoot]

For everyone new to tumblr, the same rule applies to tumblr too.

You cannot censor your tags! Censored tags cannot be block or filtered. Censoring tags HARMS your audience, it does not protect them

[themadauthorshatter]

Reminder to newcomers to Tumblr and AO3:

DO NOT CENSOR YOUR TAGS!

[blueskittlesart]

i hope everyone in nintendo’s management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and i’m not kidding

[blueskittlesart]

download desmume. download dolphin emulator. download higan. download mgba. hack your consoles. dump your cartridges. fuck nintendo do not let them take this from us

[blueskittlesart]

YUZU MIRROR ON GITHUB. download this now if you ever even think you might want to emulate switch games. we don't know how long it will stay up

edit: CITRA MIRROR ALSO (thank you SO MUCH to the person in the replies who found these!!!!)

[blueskittlesart]

ok clearing up a few things:

Several people have exressed confusion about how to download code from github. if you're on PC (Which you should be because citra and yuzu are PC emulators) there should be a green 'code' button in the top right corner of the screen. Click it, and it will open a dropdown menu with a 'download zip' option at the bottom. click that, unzip the folder once it downloads, and you should be good to go. (note that both citra and yuzu require a decent amount of processing power & a certain level of graphics card to function.)

for those of you who don't know, the leadup to the screenshotted statement was a lawsuit between nintendo and yuzu in which yuzu was forced to settle, and has now folded due to the settlement. (obligatory reminder that yuzu settling does not necessarily mean that they would have lost the lawsuit/they did something morally wrong. what it DOES mean is that nintendo is a multibillion dollar company with corporate lawyers targeting a much smaller organization with much less budget, because both yuzu and citra were completely free up until very recently.)

given the way this statement from yuzu is worded, i think it's extremely likely that this was a part of the settlement agreement. no one who is even on the outer edges of emulation communities would ever organically use the words "nintendo's technological protection measures." this bootlicking ass wording indicates that yuzu has been bullied into renouncing everything they once stood for. being forced to put out a statement like this which legitimizes nintendo's predatory security measures and obsession with piracy vs "legitimate purchasers" is a punishment more than anything else, and i think it's likely also an intimidation tactic aimed at other emulators. for the love of god, do not take anything in this statement at face value.

emulators are not exclusively vessels for piracy. I can't believe i have to say this on tumblr of all sites, but the reason most open-source emulators are allowed to exist right now is often because they claim status as archival tools. there are countless games that are unplayable without emulators, whether that be because their initial console is no longer widely available, because they only exist in ROM format, etc. Destroying emulators is an easy way to ensure that media will become unplayable and be lost. Citra was one of the only reliable PC 3ds emulators out there. We're lucky that we still have android emulators and console hacks that can play 3ds ROMS, because otherwise literally thousands of games that were a part of one of the most fondly-remembered eras of nintendo gaming could have been completely lost. that shitty $4 eshop game you bought with points in 2011 that sucked but you played for 200 hours because you were eight and you loved it? fucking scorched earth unless there's software that can play it, because it wasn't commercially successful enough to warrant a $60 switch remake or a $50 virtual console adaptation. Emulation keeps those kinds of games alive. If you care about video games or art preservation, you NEED to care about emulation. this is how we archive and maintain access to games that would otherwise be completely lost to time.

dumping a cartridge does not mean throwing it away. please do not throw out your cartridges. this is the exact opposite of what i'm advocating for here. please. to "dump a cartridge" means to copy the playable game files from the cartridge to an external drive of some kind so that it can be copied and distributed without passing on the actual cartridge. this is one of the standard ways roms are made. if you have a hacked 3ds and a bunch of old game cartridges that you don't want to lose, i highly recommend dumping them via gm9. this ensures that even if you lose the cartridge you'll always have a backup of the actual game files.

I cannot stress enough that i am not going to be the cause of a mass emulator takedown for making a tumblr post with one thousand notes. I know that you people have good intentions by warning people not to spread this too far, but 1. i promise you nintendo already knows about all the emulators that i've listed. they're popular. this isn't a big secret thing. Emulators are currently kind of dubiously legal and nintendo HATES THAT which is why it resorted to this lawsuit to take yuzu down (which, again, they didn't win. yuzu settled because nintendo is a gigantic corporation) but it's not like they're not targeting the other emulators because they don't know about them. There are emulators on the google play store. Yuzu has a fucking twitter account for god's sake. this isnt the dark web. and 2. the point of emulation is accessibility. I want people to see this. I want people to know what nintendo is doing to an archival tool in the name of profit. I want everyone with a 3ds to hack it and dump all their cartridges and send the roms to other people to install and play. I want people to download these code repositories and keep them and use them and distribute them because while it's easy to take down a company distributing an emulator, it's much harder to take down code being passed between multiple unaffiliated internet users. don't let them take it from us.

if you bootlick in my comments to any degree i am blocking you. thank you and have a good night

[unicwolf]

I need more Randy Radman in my life so I had a fun idea:

I want to try drawing different Randys in my Style!

If you want me to do yours sent or reblog me your version of Randy.

Im excited to see all the different Interpretations of the fandom and how they will come out in my style, so don't be shy!

(This post won't really have an expectation date, so if you see this just sent away!)

I'll also do other Stickpeople, if you're interested to see some other characters!

[gl1tchb1tch0]

Look! I wrote another Fic:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[gl1tchb1tch0]

Writing a new FanFic:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[daily-prompts]

I need everyone’s best character advice. STAT.

[theidealistcynic-deactivated202]

You're not creating real people, you're creating the illusion of real people. You don't have to mention their favorite food if it doesn't come up, you don't even have to know it, though if they were actual people they'd have one. You can throw plot events at your characters to force them to take certain actions, or you could just rewrite the characters to be the kind of characters who would take those actions anyway. Your characters have a life of their own in their own little world, but don't be afraid to play god to get what you want out of them.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

In the vast majority of cases, a character's strengths and flaws should be the same thing. There are exceptions (you can have a character be clumsy for the lols without needing to find some way that it's an advantage), but for most character traits, the difference between a flaw and a strength is the situation at hand and learning when to indulge it.

[radioactive-earthshine]

Writing tips for long fics that helped me that no one asked for.

1.) Don't actually delete content from your WIP unless it is minor editing - instead cut it and put it in a secondary document. If you're omitting paragraphs of content, dialog, a whole scene you might find a better place for it later and having it readily available can really save time. Sometimes your idea was fantastic, but it just wasn't in the right spot.

2.) Stuck with wording the action? Just write the dialog then revisit it later.

3.) Stuck on the whole scene? Skip it and write the next one.

4.) Write on literally any other color than a white background. It just works. (I use black)

5.) If you have a beta, while they are beta-ing have them read your fic out loud. Yes, I know a lot of betas/writers do not have the luxury of face-timing or have the opportunity to do this due to time constraints etc but reading your fic out loud can catch some very awkward phrasing that otherwise might be missed. If you don't have a beta, you read it out loud to yourself. Throw some passion into your dialog, you might find a better way to word it if it sounds stuffy or weird.

6.) The moment you have an idea, write it down. If you don't have paper or a pen, EMAIL it to yourself or put it in a draft etc etc. I have sent myself dozens of ideas while laying down before sleep that I 10/10 forgot the next morning but had emailed them to myself and got to implement them.

7.) Remember - hits/likes/kudos/comments are not reflective of the quality of your fic or your ability to write. Most people just don't comment - even if they say they do, they don't, even if they preach all day about commenting, they don't, even if they are a very popular blog that passionately reminds people to comment - they don't comment (I know this personally). Even if your fic brought tears to their eyes and it haunted them for weeks and they printed it out and sent it to their friends they just don't comment. You just have to accept it. That being said - comment on the fic you're reading now, just do it, if you're 'shy' and that's why you don't comment the more you comment the better you'll get at it. Just do it.

8.) Remove unrealistic daily word count goals from your routine. I've seen people stress 1500 - 2000 words a day and if they don't reach that they feel like a failure and they get discouraged. This is ridiculous. Write when you can, but remove absurd goals. My average is 500 words a day in combination with a 40 hour a week job and I have written over 200k words from 2022-2023.

9.) There are dozens of ways to do an outline from precise analytical deconstruction that goes scene by scene to the minimalist bullet point list - it doesn't matter which one you use just have some sort of direction. A partial outline is better than no outline.

10.) Write for yourself, not for others. Write the fic you know no one is going to read. Write the fic that sounds ridiculous. You will be so happy you put it out in the world and there will be people who will be glad it exists.

[secretchordstyx]

If I may add a couple:

11.) Not every story is the same and doesn’t NEED to be the same. Just like with other media, there’s the stuff you’re spending 30 hours a week on, on top of your daily hullaballoo, and then there’s stuff you’re writing because it came to you in the middle of doing laundry and came out to 1200 words after you managed to put pen to paper. You’re 90k masterpiece with seven revisions is just as valid as your 2k smutfic you wrote after watching a 80s flick with lots of skin.

12.) In the same spirit, not every story will require the same energy and precision as another story, and you shouldn’t feel forced to apply the same level of energy to gain a reasonable output. Some stories are structured novels built for publication. Others are between you, your god, and your two other friends who are peering through a window trying to see what godforsaken nonsense you’ve come up with after being awake 36 hours straight.

13.) Not everything is built for publication and you shouldn’t feel pressured to do so. Sometimes it really is just something you share amongst your closest buddies, and that’s OK! Sharing with the world is a gift YOU decide to give, and if it’s not something you’re comfortable with sharing widely, that’s cool!

[officialprydonchapter-deactivat]

How do you write healthy parent-child relationships?

[dragon-in-a-fez]

this might be more response than you want, but interesting (and kinda depressing when you think about it) fact: there’ve been a bunch of research studies where parents have been asked what they think makes a healthy parent-child relationship, and they tend to like…not answer the actual question because they think they’re being asked what good parenting is, which is not the same. so they talk about things like helping kids with homework and making sure they eat well. children, on the other hand, usually respond to the same question with stuff that’s literally just the definition of healthy relationships generally. affection, honesty, respect, spending time together, sharing interests. and the real kicker is, objectively, we know that’s the kind of stuff that actually has a much better impact not only on whether or not the relationship is strong and positive but also the kid’s overall happiness and psychological health.

so, if you want to write a character who’s really intent on being a Good Parent you’d have them putting massive effort into making their kid Grow Up Right, worrying about shit like if they have The Right Friends and they’re spending Enough Time Outside. but if you want to write a good relationship, just make parent and kid laugh together and respect boundaries and be emotionally supportive, like you would when writing a solid pair of friends or romantic couple.

[officialprydonchapter-deactivat]

No that was actually really helpful and I’m glad you took the time to give a serious response

[oceanwithouthermoon]

the more i see people deny that saiki kusuo is a tsundere, the more i literally go insane at how badly people have missed the entire point and misinterpreted the whole manga/show

let me tell you this right now, just because you dont ship him with anyone doesnt mean he isnt a tsundere☠️his ENTIRE character arc and the LITERAL WHOLE STORY is based on him not wanting to admit that he loves and cares about his friends and family.. "tsundere" doesnt just mean for romance, i dont know why people think that

[gl1tchb1tch0]

He legit calls himself a tsundere in that episode with his grandpa, how do people think he ISN'T one?!

His whole family members is meant to be a play on the different dere types!

[breelandwalker]

Once again, I am BEGGING people to realize that tumblr tags are a filing system and not a visibility metric.

One does not come to tumblr to tag-spam for notes and get popular. There is no algorithm here. There is no monetization here. There are no influencers here.

This is where every other social media system comes to die. And we cackle and roast marshmallows on the pyre like the gremlins we are.

[actualaster]

If you tag-spam to get your post seen by as many people as possible you are actually getting blocked by a bunch of people pissed off that you shoved an unrelated post into a tag they were looking through for relevant content. You also are going to be reported by people for spam. Because you are spamming.

[schattenschreiberin]

Cruel World Happy Mind deserves to be heard like everyone who's been 'recently' attacked by Blair.

[alphagodith]

a collection of motivational insights regarding content creation and creative hobbies

and of course the classic

[shadowen]

I’ve shared this story before, but some of the best advice I’ve ever gotten was from a writing professor who said, “The thing that makes your work interesting isn’t the stuff you’re good at, it’s the stuff you struggle with. Because you’ll either focus on improving those skills until you’re really good or you’ll figure out how to work around it in really cool ways.”