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A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE.

paradoxspaceheater

bonus: when using ‘you’ (plural & formal), ‘ye’ is often used where one would use ‘thou’ and ‘you’ is used where one would use ‘thee’

so ‘ye whoresons’, but ‘i gave it to you’

#helpful #reference

nsaint1

Black Girl Summer Braid Styles

1. Knotless box braids

2. Goddess faux locs

3. Passion twists

4. Long box braids with curled ends

5. Fulani braids

#reference #i guess?

iobeyfandoms

AUs

Here are some aus, divided in different themes.

College themed

I’m really passionate about this cause and I will give you this flier if I have to shove it down your throat

My roommate’s boyfriend is staying over so can I please sleep on your floor

We’re studying in the library and there are two people very obviously fucking in the stacks and we keep sharing embarrassed glances

You peed on my car. You were drunk. I was in the car. There will be hell to pay

My friend dragged me to this party and I just saw my ex quick make out with me

It’s 3am, in the dead of winter, some motherfucker pulled/set off the fire alarm and I am being very vocal about how I’m gonna make that fucker pay

I swear I’m wearing this Batman costume because of a dare

Accidentally knocked on the wrong dorm room college au

Heard a scream and thought you were getting killed but it was just a spider

Somehow, we always end up sitting next to each other during the weekly gatherings to watch [Game of Thrones, SVU, Rupaul’s Drag Race, pick a show] in our dorm’s really good TV room

I took a bunch of free condoms from health services just because i could and they all fell out of my bag at once and now you’re staring at me weirdly

Awkward first meeting themed

“This horrible umbrella won’t extend! Oh shit I just hit you in the stomach/crotch! I’m so sorry!”

“I just tripped and fell face first into your crotch, god end my life now please.”

“I drunkenly tried to fight you and knocked myself out but you were kind enough to take care of me till I woke up.”

Trapped in a bank during a robbery

“I met you last night when you were drunkenly patting my dog in my backyard at 3 in the morning and when i asked you what the hell you were doing you slurred something about dogs being great and then you threw up on my feet and then fifteen minutes later you were passed out on my couch so that’s why you’re here right now also what the fuck is your name and why were you patting a dog in a stranger’s backyard in the middle of the night”

“Last night was a haze for both of us and somehow we woke up hungover in a bed that isn’t either of ours and also neither of us recognize this apartment we should probably get out of here before someone calls the cops on us”

“You found me hanging by my fingertips from your window and i don’t want to tell you i was trying to rob you but idk how else to explain this and i don’t want to go to jail and also you’re kind of cute we should make out when i’m not clinging onto your window ledge for my life”

‘you thought i was someone else and started making out with me at a club and you’re really hot so i just went with it and now we’re heading back to your place and idk how to break it to you’

‘we’re two thirds of the threesome we had last night and we’re walking awkwardly out of the last persons’s apartment together’

‘i’ve had a really awful day so i started kicking a car out of frustration and it turned out to be your car i’m so sorry’

“I ordered pizza but the pizzeria got my order wrong so now I’m screaming at my really cute pizza delivery boy because I’m angry and very hungry”

Nobility themed

“your country’s trying to take over/annex my country and you’re making it difficult to hate you because you’re so nice and attractive stop it”

“we’ve been engaged to be married since we were three but this is the first time we’ve met and your portraits really don’t do you justice”

“i’m a prince/ss and you’re a servant and we’re not supposed to hang out but we’re gonna fall in love anyways”

Opposites attract themed

a hopeless romantic and a single-but-proud meet at a store on valentine’s day. the latter is buying valentine cards ironically, the former buying them sincerely in hopes of getting a date

a scary-looking person who unintentionally makes kids cry and a daycare volunteer meet at a children-filled park

rebellious teenager who’s failing all their classes is assigned a studious tutor

really distinguished food critic and fast food chef

a hopeless romantic and a horny beast are set up on a blind date

High school themed

“We’re the only ones in detention”

“I desperately need my books but my locker is blocked and you’re the only one in the hall”

“Someone wrote I’m cute in the bathroom stall and your notes match the handwriting”

“I twisted my ankle and you’re the only one here strong enough to carry me to the nurse’s office but we’re both really awkward”

“We were both left out when everyone was picking partners and now we always choose each other when we have classes together”

“I lent you my cool pencil months ago and you still use it”

“I accidentally took your notebook thinking it was mine and you have really nice handwriting and cute doodles”

“You started sitting by me at lunch because I’m alone at my table but we never talk to each other”

“I was really hungry but had no money and you bought me lunch even though I don’t know you”

“I left my phone number on the bathroom stall wall and you text me about your day and your frustrations for a month & it’s really nice and cute but I still don’t know who you are”

“I fell asleep on your couch after a party but you didn’t complain and made breakfast for the both of us”

sharing a textbook and leaving each other notes and answers in page corners

found their phone number in a library book

dancing partners

younger siblings are best friends

playing romantic interests in a play

“yes i understand that it’s may and this classroom is stuffy but why are you taking your shirt off and why aren’t you in trouble (not that i mind)”

“i can’t believe you dropped the frog we’re dissecting on tHE FLOOR WHAT THE FUCK”

“i’m fightin this person and they shoved me into u im sooo sorry- oh hey you’re cute- oH MY GOD UR KICKIN ASS MARRY ME!!! PLEASE!!!!”

“you asked me to prom by filling my locker with ping pong balls that say “prom?” on them but i tripped on one and smacked my head on a locker but thanks for taking me to the nurse!!! i still want to go with you!!”

Ridicously sentence themed

“I’m going to need you to put on some underwear before you say anything else.“

“Quick catch that cat it stole my wallet!”

“I hope you know that my name is actually ________.”

“That is the tenth demon summoning this week holy shit.”

“Please put me down it’s just a sprained ankle"

“Why exactly do you need chloroform at 2AM?”

“I’m like 75% this won’t explode on us.”

“I understand the whole sleep talking thing but what I don’t understand is the princess dragon dream and why I’m in it.”

“I’m sorry that I got way too into playing house and accidentally kissed you passionately.”

Height difference themed

“I’m in a bookshop and I really need that book can you get it for me??? Wait you’ve read that book? let’s have an in depth conversation about it.”

“You were trying to reach for a box of cereal and a whole shelf’s-worth of cereal boxes fell on you here let me help”

“We’re both baristas and sometimes I have trouble reaching for things and I show up to work one day to find a personalized stool with hearts and my name on it i hATE YOU but also thanks”

“You are very tall and I am very short so you run into me all the time and honestly this is getting ridiculous”

I’m in art class and I just opened a cupboard to find a tiny person (you) squished inside and you just looked at and said “shh i’m hiding”

“We’re on the bus and I’m really not trying to take up your space I’m sorry I just have rlly rlly long legs”

“You’re afraid that you’ll lose me in big crowds so you always hold my hand but now you just hold my hand when there’s only, like, five people around and I’m getting vry suspicious”

Reincarnation themed

I fell in love with you three lifetimes ago and I’ve been looking for you ever since but I’ve been starting to give up and my friend’s new crush has your eyes and oh god I’m not going to steal someone’s date just because I’m hoping you’re the person I met in a past life

We keep reincarnating as people who speak different languages and it’s kind of pissing me off because I can never initially confirm if it’s you but at least I keep learning a bunch of cool new languages each lifetime

Mythical creatures themed

“i’m a newly-turned werewolf without a pack and i can’t really control myself well on full moon nights yet and you keep finding me passed out naked on your lawn”

“i got cursed and turned into an animal and taken to the shelter and ended up getting adopted by someone who is really hot OH NO”

“i’m a history major and i keep getting into arguments with one of my classmates about things because they keep saying i’m wrong so i finally scream, ‘how would you know?!?’ and they’re like, ‘because i was THERE!’ and that’s how we all find out that there is a centuries-old vampire taking our British history class”

Funny meeting at a party themed

“i was on my balcony and you started loudly quoting romeo and juliet at me”

“spilled my drink down your shirt and then tried to drink it off you”

“we had an impromptu rap duet in the middle of the party”

“you kept asking everyone to play the cha cha slide then proceeded to pass out when the song started”

“you keep shouting “THIS IS MY JAM” at every song that comes on i have a headache the size of nebraska you’re lucky you’re cute”

“whenever you saw me you’d shout ‘WHOOOOOOOOO’ really loudly and then do finger guns at me before walking off to god knows where”

“you thought I was your friend and pulled me up on the table to dance with you now you’re shirtless and grinding on me”

“you got up to the mic and started singing and holy shit you’re really good???”

“you’re really bad at beer pong but you do this really cute dance before you throw the ball so I’m letting you stay on my team”

“our mutual friend dared the two of us to chug a whole pint of beer and I’m not going to let you beat me”

“we both grabbed for the last bottle of the good beer and i’m not saying we’re going to fight for it but we are”

Competitive themed

we’re both ‘team leaders’ at a summer camp for little people and you may be hot but goddammit my collection of twelve-year-olds are going to beat yours into the dust

I used to be the best baker in the neighbourhood but then you showed up at Mrs Appleby’s 80th birthday with a stack of brownies which almost gave me an orgasm my honour is at stake and I’m going all out for the next event

a mutual friend invited us to their laser tag party and we’re the last two alive on opposite teams and goddammit if I’m going down you’re going down with me

you’re going to be at the halloween party and you’ve won best costume for the past three years but this year I am wearing the best costume ever if you defeat me I will eat my - wait you actually look really cute when did you turn hot what the fuck um

we’re always making stupid bets like ‘bet you can’t drink this whole bottle of BBQ sauce’ but then you did and now you’re sick and I feel really bad here let me look after you

did you actually just blue shell me on our date you fucker

“We’re bad at dating” themed

I can’t tell whether this is a date because you asked to see a movie but I’m still not sure you’re queer, and I’m toeing the line because maybe you’re just trying to make friends

I decided to flip a coin about every decision in my life for a week and that’s how we ended up on a date

We’re both meant to be going on blind dates with other people but we sat down at the wrong table and got our hopes up

We had one really bad date and never spoke again and now our friends have set us up on a blind date

We’re going on a blind date - but wait a moment, aren’t you that went down on me in a back alley behind a club year ago? … what do you mean “which one”?

You’re my waiter and I’m on a really crappy date with an asshole

roonilbloodywazlib

@blackjacktheboss @ananbeth god please all of them are great

#reference #prompts #because boy oh boy i have ideas

thewritingrealm

If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

ezzydean

# my favourite part about this post # is that nowhere does it say to reblog this # but we’re all reblogging it # because if we have to suffer # so do other writers

bitegore

F u c k

pyromaniac-fairy-of-water

;-;

ckret2

some of the best writing advice I’ve ever received: always put the punch line at the end of the sentence.

it doesn’t have to be a “punch line” as in the end of a joke. It could be the part that punches you in the gut. The most exciting, juicy, shocking info goes at the end of the sentence. Two different examples that show the difference it makes:

doing it wrong:

She saw her brother’s dead body when she caught the smell of something rotting, thought it was coming from the fridge, and followed it into the kitchen.

doing it right:

Catching the smell of something rotten wafting from the kitchen—probably from the fridge, she thought—she followed the smell into the kitchen, and saw her brother’s dead body.

Periods are where you stop to process the sentence. Put the dead body at the start of the sentence and by the time you reach the end of the sentence, you’ve piled a whole kitchen and a weird fridge smell on top of it, and THEN you have to process the body, and it’s buried so much it barely has an impact. Put the dead body at the end, and it’s like an emotional exclamation point. Everything’s normal and then BAM, her brother’s dead.

This rule doesn’t just apply to sentences: structuring lists or paragraphs like this, by putting the important info at the end, increases their punch too. It’s why in tropes like Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking or Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick, the odd item out comes at the end of the list.

Subverting this rule can also be used to manipulate reader’s emotional reactions or tell them how shocking they SHOULD find a piece of information in the context of a story. For example, a more conventional sentence that follows this rule:

She opened the pantry door, looking for a jar of grape jelly, but the view of the shelves was blocked by a ghost.

Oh! There’s a ghost! That’s shocking! Probably the character in our sentence doesn’t even care about the jelly anymore because the spirit of a dead person has suddenly appeared inside her pantry, and that’s obviously a much higher priority. But, subvert the rule:

She opened the pantry door, found a ghost blocking her view of the shelves, and couldn’t see past it to where the grape jelly was supposed to be.

Because the ghost is in the middle of the sentence, it’s presented like it’s a mere shelf-blocking pest, and thus less important than the REAL goal of this sentence: the grape jelly. The ghost is diminished, and now you get the impression that the character is probably not too surprised by ghosts in her pantry. Maybe it lives there. Maybe she sees a dozen ghosts a day. In any case, it’s not a big deal. Even though both sentences convey the exact same information, they set up the reader to regard the presence of ghosts very differently in this story.

scribbledwriting

My characters during the editing process:

heartseeker

brainstatic

Can I give completely unsolicited advice to fantasy writers that I wish someone had given me when I was into fantasy writing? The cliche “write what you know” is bad advice if taken literally, it’s how we get books about depressed middle-aged creative writing professors who contemplate having an affair. But generally speaking it can be helpful. Tolkien wrote a medieval fantasy because he was the world’s foremost expert on medieval English literature. His book about Beowulf is still considered academically significant. He gave every race detailed languages because he was also a linguist. He wrote about giant battles because he was traumatized by his time in World War I and wrote during World War II. You don’t have to do any of this because that isn’t you. You are allowed to write a whole fantasy epic without a single battle (or you can make battle scenes modern urban melees because clashes of great armies aren’t a thing anymore.) If, say, you’re really into fashion, feel free to describe in painstaking detail every outfit that elves wear for all possible occasions. I promise you it’s no weirder than describing the dialects of tree people. What I’m saying is, you’re not Tolkien and that’s a very good thing because your voice is needed more. Let your freak flag fly and make the world that comes from you specifically.

cawolters

Oh. Oh this is SOLID F*ING GOLDEN ADVICE! Take this advice and remember it over and over and over and—

And just fucking soak in it, because this is what’s gonna make your story, amazing.

theunwrittenones

“Your voice is needed more.” Let’s be the writers of our generation.

wierdkid20

I’m using this as an excuse to write about the importance of alien infrastructure

the-loquacious-lark

Also, as an avid reader, I GREATLY enjoy when I can tell the author is like REALLY REALLY into woodworking or sailing or fashion or infrastructure or anything like that. I can tell when the author puts their passion of the thing in the story and I go “Oh ho! Really into embroidery, are we? Tell me more!”

Please please please put all your passions in to the writing. Your readers will love it.

laylainalaska

@glorious_spoon’s tags: #not necessarily ‘write what you know’#but ‘write what you love’#write what’s meaningful to *you* instead of trying to copy genre conventions or famous writers

mostlysignssomeportents

Random mansion generator

The Procgen Mansion Generator produces large three-dee dwellings to toy with your imagination, offering various architectural styles and other options. Each mansion even comes with floorplans:

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/random-mansion-generator.html

something-from-elsewhere

Oooooh! Saving this

lady-feral

That’s fun

vesperlionheart

Hey, but don’t fall asleep on this Medieval Fantasy City Generator

h-brook-writes

valtsv

the closest things on earth we have to old eldritch abomination gods are the sun, the ocean and nuclear radiation

valtsv

the sun:

unfathomably ancient, here before all of us and will outlive us all by billions of years

its light is so strong that prolonged exposure can burn or blind you even from millions of miles away

also emits invisible rays of energy that can pass through your skin like it’s nothing and lead to the growth of tumors which cause a wasting disease that consumes your healthy cells until you die

once worshipped as a god by various religions and cults who made sacrifices to appease it

will eventually expand as it burns out and dies and consume us in a desperate attempt to extend its lifespan

‘screams’ as a warning before emitting solar flares

the ocean:

an enormous, singular mass that’s constantly heaving and tossing its bulk against the land we build our homes on and gradually ‘eating away’ at it

also extremely old and likely to outlast any of our lifespans

countless people, ships and even entire landmasses have vanished into its depths, never to be seen or heard from again

so vast and dangerous that it’s still mostly uncharted, and less is known about its deepest areas to us than our solar system

full of teeth and tentacles and enormous storms and even more unknown terrors none have ever returned from to tell the tale of that can and will consume you without thought or reason

also worshipped as a god in the past and often characterized in myths and legends as an vengeful, merciless entity

those who sail on it tend to be deeply superstitious and respect its power with a reverence bordering on awe

a single strike from the superstorms it brews on a regular basis can devastate vast areas of civilization

will eventually rise and consume us

nuclear radiation:

can rip straight through your body with zero resistance, causing long-term and irreparable damage, and cannot be completely blocked out, only ‘shielded’ by thick barriers of lead and concrete

radioactive waste is so toxic that it’s buried deep underground and/or entombed within a ‘sarcophagus’ of multiple layers of shielding to prevent it from escaping and infecting the ground we grow and raise our food on, the water we drink and the air we breathe

areas where it has escaped or been set loose and leaked into its surroundings are evacuated and abandoned for hundreds of miles, and anything that survives within them is shunned as a carrier of the infection and contained in ‘exclusion zones’

also capable of outlasting us by many centuries, to the point that people have considered setting up intimidating architecture and writing unsettling cryptic messages to warn future generations not to seek out or disturb it in areas it is concentrated in that sound like biblical accounts of our smiting at the hands of a malevolent god

volatile and unpredictable, many accidents that have occurred while handling it are a result of a combination of our lack of knowledge about its abilities and hubris

silver-tongues-blog

i wonder if the sun and ocean would resent radiation since radiation is a man made eldrich horror

valtsv

#interesting #reference #prompts #i guess?

robbyiswriting

I think all writers need a friend who will encourage their desire to write absolute garbage. Not necessarily something that is badly written, but like, stupid self indulgent bullshit. “Cringey” aus or crossover fanfics. Aus or crossover fics of your own ocs.

Writing that stuff is fun and is great practice, but sometimes I feel like “wow, this is hardly productive, why am I even writing this, who else would ever want to read this?” The answer is your friend who encourages your trash writing, that’s who. Write it for yourself and for them.

vuurkorf

@panda-noosh ily

writterings

we’re getting into BOOKS again, kids. we’re out here reading BOOKS. it doesn’t matter if it’s YA lit or elementary school readers or “”great classic”” novels or comic books or even creative non-fiction. we’re reading BOOKS and we’re having FUN with it.

soontodisappear-deactivated2020

Is this a threat?

writterings

yeah

officialjimmybuffett

them: don’t start your book with irrelevant characters. if they’re gonna die in the first five pages you will never get published me, creating a deep backstory for two characters that will die before the prologue is over: sorry i can’t hear you i have my airpods in

lewd-plants

New goddess idea: She’s an earth goddess of the new age who’s domain is spinning and weaving, but specifically spinning and weaving gigantic structural steel cables for construction and other industrial purposes. Her skin is steel grey and hard to the touch and her hair is like long dredlocks of woven steel. She laughs at shitty architecture deigns that will fall apart if actually built and protects well-made bridges and buildings she likes. She might warn you of unforseen danger if you always wear your proper PPE.

Okay now what do I name her