under duress

☆ Aly, 21 ☆ I hyperfixate on things like it’s my day job so here we are!! ❀requests: open❀

[lydiaas]

I’m not used to being loved. I wouldn’t know what to do; I never got the trick of it. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

[esterexpositio]

Sarah Cameron + Outfits

[kiarasukulele]

HI ITS BEEN A WHILE.

This edit just popped up on my fyp and inspired me quite a bit. I just handed in my final assignment for this semester at uni so once I recover from the burnout …. I’ll see y’all soon (if anyones still out there) 🤍🤍🤍📝📝📝

[winchvster]

OUTER BANKS 

 2.04 “Homecoming”

[avadcniels]

this look >>>

[gaylecleven]

the johns™

[fanficmemes]

I wish all writers who haven’t been able to write in a long time bc of depression a very I love u and I promise u will write again

[northernstarkey]

[poge-life]

It’s a great day to be a Drew simp

[poguesgold]

two pretty best friends

[kiarasukulele]

also sidenote..... anyone else here fuck with All the Young Dudes

My head has been completely empty besides thoughts of a dead gay werewolf slash wizard from the 70s and I’m okay with that

I have about 150 pages left of my second read through and idk what I’m gonna do with myself... read it a third time perhaps?

[kiarasukulele]

hii soooo seasonal depression has been kicking my ass.

but it’s now starting to get a tad warmer where I live which has been putting me in the mood for writing again (especially writing for outer banks because hashtag summer motherfucking vibes)

but to get to my point... fics coming soon if y’all are down to wait for me. I’m starting to read other creators fics again which will inevitably inspire me so she’s a coming pls be patient with me, especially if you’ve been waiting for the ‘Hate That I Love You” part 2.

[worldwithinworld]

When you are writing a story and refer to a character by a physical trait, occupation, age, or any other attribute, rather than that character’s name, you are bringing the reader’s attention to that particular attribute. That can be used quite effectively to help your reader to focus on key details with just a few words. However, if the fact that the character is “the blond,” “the magician,” “the older woman,” etc. is not relevant to that moment in the story, this will only distract the reader from the purpose of the scene. 

If your only reason for referring to a character this way is to avoid using his or her name or a pronoun too much, don’t do it. You’re fixing a problem that actually isn’t one. Just go ahead and use the name or pronoun again. It’ll be good.

[roane72]

Someone finally spelled out the REASON for using epithets, and the reasons NOT to.

[futureevilscientist]

In addition to that:

If the character you are referring to in such a way is THE VIEWPOINT CHARACTER, likewise, don’t do it. I.e. if you’re writing in third person but the narration is through their eyes, or what is also called “third person deep POV”. If the narration is filtered through the character’s perception, then a very external, impersonal description will be jarring. It’s the same, and just as bad, as writing “My bright blue eyes returned his gaze” in first person.

[cimness]

Furthermore, 

if the story is actually told through the eyes of one particular viewpoint character even though it’s in the third person, and in their voice, as is very often the case, then you shouldn’t refer to the characters in ways that character wouldn’t.

In other words, if the third-person narrator is Harry Potter, when Dumbledore appears, it says “Dumbledore appears”, not “Albus appears”. Bucky Barnes would think of Steve Rogers as “Steve”, where another character might think of him as “Cap”. Chekov might think of Kirk as “the captain”, but Bones thinks of him as “Jim”. 

Now, there are real situations where you, I, or anybody might think of another person as “the other man”, “the taller man”, or “the doctor”: usually when you don’t know their names, like when there are two tap-dancers and a ballerina in a routine and one of the men lifts the ballerina and then she reaches out and grabs the other man’s hand; or when there was a group of people talking at the hospital and they all worked there, but the doctor was the one who told them what to do. These are all perfectly natural and normal. Similarly, sometimes I think of my GP as “the doctor” even though I know her name, or one of my coworkers as “the taller man” even though I know his. But I definitely never think of my long-term life partner as “the green-eyed woman” or one of my best friends as “the taller person” or anything like that. It’s not a sensible adjective for your brain to choose in that situation - it’s too impersonal for someone you’re so intimately acquainted with. Also, even if someone was having a one night stand or a drunken hookup with a stranger, they probably wouldn’t think of that person as “the other man”: you only think of ‘other’ when you’re distinguishing two things and you don’t have to go to any special effort to distinguish your partner from yourself to yourself.

[undertailsoulsex]

This is something that I pretty consistently have to advise for those I beta edit.  (It doesn’t help that I relied on epithets a lot in the earlier sections of my main fic because I was getting into the swing of things.)  I am reblogging this so fanfic writers can use this as a reference.

A good rule of thumb: a character’s familiarity with another character decreases the need for an epithet (and most times you really don’t need one at all).

[gaylecleven]

silhouette.

[kiarasukulele]

hello(: hope all is well! just found your hate that i love you fic and omggg def following and reading more. you should make it into a series if you want cause i would eat that shit up lmao

hi angel!! been a while since I’ve been on this account but this makes me really happy to see. I’m currently in the midst of finals season at university but over the winter break this story is something I’d really love to revisit as I’ve been thinking a lot about it recently!! Thank you for the lovely message and motivation 💗💗

[celestiallglow]

Without the halo, wingless angel.

[kiarasukulele]

hellooo babes

just an update :)

I moved back into my university apartment a week ago so I’ve just been taking some time to settle in and readjust to everything.

I hate being so inactive and I really miss the feeling of interacting with this fandom. Hopefully I can gather the motivation to write some more before my classes start to become more demanding.

also I’ve saved a bunch of writing that I’ve scrolled past over the past little bit so I can’t read what all of you have been working on when I get the time over the next few days🖤

[sunnypogue]

every time I see this man’s vids I think of coho rafe + gf.

this is 200% their energy.

[kiarasukulele]

picturing this provided me with so much serotonin THANKYOUUUYYYYYU