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[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[writerxwren]

I can't believe we lost Dino Dad AND Pigeon Lady in the same week 😞 Rest in peace, legends 🕊️Thank you for raising us ❤️

[luna-azzurra]

What Characters do when they're Alone!!!

˙⋆✮ Talking out loud to themselves through problems like no one is listening because no one is

˙⋆✮ The face they make when finally alone after too long being perceived

˙⋆✮ Dancing in a way they would die before doing in front of anyone

˙⋆✮ Practicing conversations that will never happen or already have

˙⋆✮ Eating whatever they want with zero performance of restraint

˙⋆✮ The shows they watch that they'd never recommend because they reveal too much

˙⋆✮ Crying at something small that was really about something large

˙⋆✮ Lying on the floor for no reason and finding it solves something

˙⋆✮ Narrating their own life quietly like a documentary no one commissioned

˙⋆✮ The hobby they've never mentioned to anyone because it belongs only to them

˙⋆✮ Laughing at their own thoughts in an empty room

˙⋆✮ Rehashing old arguments and finally saying the perfect thing three years too late

˙⋆✮ The way their posture completely changes when the last person leaves

˙⋆✮ Making elaborate meals or eating cereal over the sink with no in between

˙⋆✮ The music played at volumes that would concern the neighbors

˙⋆✮ Sitting in silence so deliberately it becomes its own kind of noise

˙⋆✮ Allowing themselves to want things they'd never say out loud to another person

˙⋆✮ The kindness they extend to themselves only when no one is watching

˙⋆✮ Falling apart in the shower because it's the only place that feels private enough

˙⋆✮ The version of themselves they are at 2am that no one else has ever met

[luna-azzurra]

[luna-azzurra]

Sailor & Maritime Skills!!

[lordeisonfire]

Sam Neill’s dream, if anyone wants a good cry.

[luna-azzurra]

Love interest whose only personality trait is being hot and wanting the main character. He has no opinions. No hobbies. No friends we ever see. No problems that aren't about her. He exists in a vacuum of attractiveness and devotion and we are supposed to root for this. Root for what. He is a golden retriever in a leather jacket. I need him to want something for himself. Anything. A sandwich. A dream. A minor inconvenient opinion. SOMETHING.

[luna-azzurra]

People pleaser flaws!!

˙⋆✮ Changing their opinion mid-sentence because someone's face shifted

˙⋆✮ Laughing at something that made them uncomfortable to keep the peace

˙⋆✮ Never sending food back even when it's genuinely wrong

˙⋆✮ The resentment that builds silently because they never just said no

˙⋆✮ Agreeing to things and hoping they get cancelled so they don't have to

˙⋆✮ Shrinking their own needs down until they're not even sure what they are

˙⋆✮ The carefully worded text that took forty minutes to seem casual

˙⋆✮ Feeling personally responsible for everyone else's emotional temperature

˙⋆✮ Complimenting someone back immediately because receiving one felt dangerous

˙⋆✮ Saying what someone wants to hear and hating themselves a little for it

˙⋆✮ Noticing they have no idea what they actually like anymore

˙⋆✮ The exhaustion of monitoring every reaction in every room at all times

˙⋆✮ Volunteering for things no one asked them to do to feel worthy of being there

˙⋆✮ Being so easy to be around that no one thinks to ask if they're okay

˙⋆✮ Adjusting their personality slightly for every single person they know

˙⋆✮ The anger that only comes out sideways because it had nowhere else to go

˙⋆✮ Apologizing to furniture they walked into

˙⋆✮ Needing to be needed as a substitute for feeling genuinely wanted

˙⋆✮ Realizing they've been performing themselves for so long they forgot the original

[stars-bean]

Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir

[luna-azzurra]

Introverts show love differently and if you don't write this right it reads as coldness. They don't fill space with words. They show up. They remember the thing you said four months ago and they bring it up now. They send you something without explanation. They sit with you without needing to talk. The extrovert in the room says i love you loudly and often. The introvert rearranges their whole day because you need them to. Write both as love. Just write them as different languages of the same thing.

[luna-azzurra]

If your character has a chronic illness or chronic pain please understand that they have already made peace with a version of their life that other people would find unbearable. They are not constantly in crisis. They have adapted. They have systems. They know their body in a way healthy people never have to. They are also exhausted in a way that doesn't show and angry sometimes in a way they feel they're not allowed to be. Write that competence and that exhaustion together. Both are true at the same time.

[mirch228]

I really love Shay Cormac.🚬

[viruswinebottle]

ALRIGHT WHO WANTS TO BE SAD TODAY. Behold, prototype Haytham:

Young Haytham was dissociating hard to make his circumstances bearable. He had no choice from the start, really, this cut dialogue illustrating that.

"Death is who I am."

he's so human here. fuck me

[boon-mone]

shaythem

[luna-azzurra]

Tired & Exhausted Character Traits

 ˙⋆✮ Reading the same sentence four times and still not absorbing it

 ˙⋆✮ Losing track of a word mid-sentence and just trailing off

 ˙⋆✮ The specific clumsiness of bumping into furniture that's always been there

˙⋆✮ Forgetting why they walked into a room and standing there deciding whether to care

 ˙⋆✮ The way emotions become unreasonably huge when exhausted

 ˙⋆✮ Staring at a text for minutes and then forgetting to reply

 ˙⋆✮ Laughing at things that aren't funny just because the filter is gone

 ˙⋆✮ The way sarcasm sharpens when someone is running on nothing

 ˙⋆✮ Falling asleep in any position that isn't fully horizontal

 ˙⋆✮ Asking a question and immediately forgetting the answer given

 ˙⋆✮ The squint at a screen that's been at the same brightness all day

 ˙⋆✮ Rubbing eyes until colors appear behind eyelids

 ˙⋆✮ That slight delay before responding like the signal is lagging

 ˙⋆✮ Eating whatever requires the least effort regardless of hunger

 ˙⋆✮ The way a tired person's handwriting changes completely

 ˙⋆✮ Nodding along to a conversation they've fully checked out of

 ˙⋆✮ The misdirected irritability that lands on whoever's closest

 ˙⋆✮ Forgetting whether they locked the door and being too tired to go back

 ˙⋆✮ Phrases becoming shorter and shorter until it's just sounds

[luna-azzurra]

The protector Archetype!!

✮ Standing slightly in front of whoever they love in a crowd without noticing they do it

✮ The threat assessment that runs automatically in every new room they enter

✮ Learning everyone's allergies preferences fears exits on the first meeting just in case

✮ The voice that goes very quiet and very calm when something is actually wrong

✮ Absorbing conflict before it reaches the people they've decided to shield

✮ The violence they are capable of living quietly beside the gentleness they choose

✮ Remembering every person who ever hurt someone they loved with a precision that never fades

✮ Saying I'm fine through injuries that are not fine because worrying people feels worse than pain

✮ The tenderness that exists beneath the armor that only specific people ever get to see

✮ Being the person who stays sober at the party without being asked because someone should

✮ Noticing the shift in someone's energy before they've said a single word about what's wrong

✮ The apology they give for being overprotective that doesn't fully reach the eyes

✮ Carrying the weight of keeping everyone safe and never naming it as a weight

✮ The flaw of loving people in ways that leave no room for them to need anything from anyone else

✮ Fighting for everyone else's right to be soft while never allowing it in themselves

✮ The exhaustion visible only in private when the door is finally closed and no one needs anything

✮ Needing to be needed in a way that is both a gift and a wound

✮ The person who finally protects them back and the way that completely undoes them

✮ Having kept everyone safe for so long they don't know who they are when there's nothing to protect against

✮ Being someone's safe place and never having learned they were allowed to have one too

[weevilwizard]

so we all agree that lord of the rings is a musical

[weevilwizard]

you. you get it