Totally Not a Cult Leader

queer af | zey/zem/zeir and fae/faer | High Priestex of the Triangles and aspiring harpist | I like stuff and things, most of them silly. All hail the Triangles.

[highpriestexofthetriangles]

Why do people ask if I’m okay all the time? But only when I am doing okay? Whenever I’m feeling absolutely terrible and genuinely want to die nobody says anything but when I’m just chilling thinking about my stories random strangers ask if something is wrong. What the hell.

[highpriestexofthetriangles]

How to ask a girl to take a knife and slice long and deep and then lick it up slowly and then kiss me with my blood still in her mouth while she continues to dig into the wound

[highpriestexofthetriangles]

I don’t even try to not be horny on main, I do what I want, fuck you.

Literally.

[importantcatpics]

[highpriestexofthetriangles]

This is my own private domicile and I will not be harassed!

Bitch!

[whatagrump]

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

[thewritinggrindstone]

And!

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

Reblog to save a writer’s life.

[jaydove-writes]

Thank you

[localcanadiancryptid22]

Oh my god thank you. No wonder grammarly keeps complaining about my punctuation when I boot my writing up into word counter

[highpriestexofthetriangles]

Here’s the thing, I have been asked out by random old men on the street when walking alone multiple times now. But here’s the other thing, every time new people find out my age they’re like “What?! I thought you were fourteen!” And separately, in a vacuum, these things are annoying, but whatever. But then you put them together. And you realize.

[highpriestexofthetriangles]

Gendering hobbies and interests is not conducive to heterosexuality. If girls can only like girl things and boys can only like boy things, how can a boy and a girl have anything in common? There’s no basis for a good (hetero) relationship in that world.

[highpriestexofthetriangles]

Look, I acknowledge that hunting is better than factory farming (really anything’s better than factory farming), sometimes it’s necessary for population control (though it’s kind of our own fault it needs our control), and for some people it’s the only option for food. But if you actually enjoy hunting, whether you do it for a good reason or not, and your enjoyment is not just “yay I’m gonna have dinner tonight” or “yay I’m helping keep the balance of the ecosystem”, but instead you find pleasure in taking a life. Watching the life leave a living, breathing, thinking, feeling creature’s eyes brings you joy. You think it’s fun. You call it a sport. I don’t trust you. You are the difference between the person who is crying and hating themself when forced to eat another person in a horrible survival situation, and the person in the same situation who is the first to rip into the body with gusto. We’re always talking about how cruelty to animals is a sign of psychopathy, yet we don’t bat an eye at people whose idea of a good time is causing the death of those same animals. Let me reiterate, I don’t have a problem with eating meat or hunting, I have a problem with people who don’t feel even the tiniest bit sad that they had to end something’s life. People who don’t see it as “they had to” but as “they got to”. If you would miss hunting in a perfect world where it was no longer necessary, there’s something wrong with you. I kill bugs sometimes. I always feel bad. I try to avoid it, but sometimes there’s a spider in the bathtub and I really need a shower. I feel terrible every time. Maybe I’m up on a high horse here, but I don’t think I’m completely wrong. If you’re doing to something for the right reasons, but you enjoy it for the wrong ones, you’re still in the wrong.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

ao3 turns 16 today.

reblog if you’re older than archive of our own

[luna-azzurra]

Tips for Writing Injuries

✧ Broken ribs suck. You don’t just “walk it off.” Breathing hurts. Laughing hurts. Existing hurts. Characters with rib injuries won’t be doing heroic sprints.

✧ Concussions aren’t instant naps. Dazed vision, nausea, dizziness, maybe even personality changes, but they’re not going to collapse neatly like in the movies.

✧ Blood loss is sneaky. It’s not just about dramatic pools of blood. It’s dizziness, confusion, and the body getting cold as circulation tanks.

✧ Adrenaline lies. Someone can take a serious injury and not feel it until the fight’s over. That “I didn’t realize I was bleeding until later” trope? Very real.

✧ Twisted ankles are brutal. One bad step and suddenly running is off the table. Even walking hurts like hell. Perfect way to ground a chase scene.

✧ Burns linger. Even small burns hurt more than most people expect. Blisters, infection risk, constant pain, it’s not just a cool scar later.

✧ Dislocated shoulders = useless arm. Characters can’t keep swinging a sword or firing a gun. They’re basically fighting one-armed until it’s fixed.

✧ Shock is a thing. Pale skin, trembling, rapid heartbeat, and eventually disorientation. A character might not even realize how bad their wound is.

✧ Stitches aren’t magic. Getting sewn up is painful and recovery takes time. They’re not instantly battle-ready after a needle and thread.

✧ Scars tell stories. Some fade, some don’t. Some stay sensitive forever. Don’t forget the aftermath when the wound becomes part of the character.

[highpriestexofthetriangles]

I’m tired of the soldier or whatever robots always being human shaped. Humans are objectively one of the worst shaped creatures for combat. That’s why we use distance weapons. And don’t even say that the robots need to be humanoid to use guns, cause guess what, they’re robots, the guns can be part of them. So unless the robot is also a spy and needs to be able to pass as human, it should be shaped a lot more like a tiger.

[highpriestexofthetriangles]

Humans are like Batman; We can defeat any threat, with enough prep time.

You’re dropped down into the arena immediately right next to the wolf? You’re gonna die. You’re both put on opposite sides and you have the time to make a weapon? In theory you can win.

[highpriestexofthetriangles]

Apollo: Daaaad, some guy killed one of my cows :(

Zeus: Don’t worry son, I’ll take care of care of him. And all his friends too. No one hurts my son’s pets!

Athena: Okay, I won the game you came up with according to your rules, can you free my friend now like you agreed?

Zeus: Fuck you

[skribblegurl]

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

[heywriters]

I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.

[bumblewyn]

ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website

[breelandwalker]

REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER'S LIFE

[myfairkatiecat]

LIFE SAVED

REBLOGGING TO SAVE ANOTHER WRITERS LIFE

[sirowsky]

I use this every time I sit down to write. It's the best tool in the world and I would be lost without it!

[highpriestexofthetriangles]

Jason and Thalia should be able to talk to birds

[highpriestexofthetriangles]

I love getting gender euphoria from the bad parts of my gender. I’m incredibly lonely, how very man of me!