Taylor J.

aspiring writer & poet• 17 y/o• she/her• occasional artist• "sleep is good, and books are better." -George RR Martin

[lookinpeach]

Reasons to write:

You can

You like it

You want to get better at it

You can only improve by doing it

Goddammit just go do it, okay?

A reminder for whoever needs it... including myself lol. Also hi, I'm back from the dead accounts of tumblr. And before you ask, yes, hell was hot.

[lookinpeach]

Everyone,

this is one of the reasons I've been so inactive. This is my new puppy Sia- pronounced (Sigh-UH). She's a very sweet, cuddly, crazy mini Australian shepherd-Lab mix. Blame her. She's taken over my life. My time is greedily eaten up by tug of war, serving her three meals a day on a metal platter, waking up every two hours of the night, yelling "no" as I run to take her to the yard mid-stream. Its great. I'm tired. I haven't wrote anything creative outside of my literature class for a while (I will be posting some of these poems/stories from my lit class soon). I'm in for more rough weeks with training Sia as she learns and adjusts, so it's likely I will continue to be inactive for quite a while. That being said, I'll try to check my messages because I truly do love talking to you guys! Updates will continue to come.

Thanks,

Taylor.

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she transformed her enemies, or those who offended her, into wild beasts // Circe by Wright Barker (1889)

[takealookatyourlife]

tits out surrounded by big cats is how I wanna live my life

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reblog if you wanna live tits out and surrounded by big cats

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@somecunttookmyurl

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Writing Update: Yay

I’ve been writing for the first time in a looong time last night and this morning and let me tell you guys- it feels great! :D

:) 

[sunday-romance]

Sunday Romance - Week 4

Welcome again Everybody!

Here we go again, after the wonders you created last week!

As before, you may use the prompt in any shape or form, as an inspiration, use the line, don’t use the line, whatever you like.

There are two versions and I’d like to ask everyone to tag properly so those who don’t want to see NSFW content can block the tag:

clean tag: #sundaylove

NSFW tag: #sundayheat (trigger warnings are highly appreciated)

Everyone is most welcome, this is a safe place for all of you.

And now to the point, this weeks prompt is:

“You’re Driving Me Crazy!”

Is this a cute declaration of love? Is this the middle of a fight? Is this someone responding to some loving touches? It’s all up to you! Remember, you don’t have to use the specific prompt line if you don’t want to, taking inspiration from it is just as valid.

Word limit: 100-1500 (please, put it behind read more over 500 words)

You have until noon, 21st September (UK time)

If you don’t see me interacting with your post, it means Tumblr didn’t notify me, feel free to DM me.

Works submitted at a later time are going to be posted at the end of every month in a master post.

Have fun and keep the romance going xx

Tag list:

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Please, let me know if you’d like to be added/removed.

[lookinpeach]

Hi everyone! I know I've been a bit absent lately but life sure is busy sometimes! Anyway- I hope you guys like this painting I made my boyfriend for his birthday- its us as our animal crossing characters.

Im hoping to write more and be active on here more soon- but until then my message box is always open. Have a lovely weekend! 💖💕💗💞

[a-storm-inside-a-teacup]

Setting talk! (We Are Here)

Hey everyone! I haven’t seen anyone else in the writeblr community doing anything like this–from what I’ve seen, most of the writing content out there is pretty character-focused. Which is cool! But also, I think settings are a huge part of developing a story, so I wanted to talk about the main settings of We Are Here. Oh, you don’t know what that is? You can find more about it by hitting this link. :)

Harrison

Harrison is a sort of medium-sized city–not Vancouver or New York big, but big enough there’s probably a respectable university there, and public transit decent enough you don’t really need to own a car. It gets a lot of storms and rain and stuff, and it’s also very dense, so you can get most places just by walking. 

It’s a few hours drive off of Hendricks, the town Where The Broken Things are took place in. Although Hendricks is much more rural and foresty, Harrison still is surrounded by trees, with lots of lakes and foothills and things like that. 

Scott lives above his moms’ cafe, Kings, maybe twenty minutes walking from Charlie, in the centre of the city. 

Charlie lives in a much poorer area,in a small, shitty, apartment. And of course, Angelina lives in one of those suburban hellscapes every city has to have, where every house is painted in grey, white, or beige, and every single lawn is disturbingly green. Because her parents are terrible. Oh, she even has an old treehouse in her backyard that her and Charlie like to hang out in.

The Nowhere

 The second main setting of the series! Okay, so, the ghosts in We Are Here aren’t actually physically in what they call the Land of the Living (aka normal human world). They’re kind of these projections, from a world called The Nowhere–a strange little pocket dimension, where nothing grows, the air is unbreathable, and the ground is made of ash, and there’s loads of radiation. To survive in this realm, the literal only thing left to feed off of in what is essentially is a deadly vacuum, is the suffering of others. 

This a whole plotpoint in later seasons, so I won’t tell you too much more than that, but basically how it works is that ghosts are born at the exact same moment a human is born in our world. These ghosts are immediately tied to their counterpart, and rely on that person’s suffering to sustain themself. Should they fail–or should their human die, and they not be able to handle living without their primary source of energy–they will start to die as well, and become pulled towards the South Pole, somewhat magnetically. 

However, if they can survive the death of, essentially, their food source, they come out of it much stronger, and are now free to choose who next to latch onto. This is what Angelina’s ghost, Lavinia, has done–she’s been around for thousands of years, and killed hundreds of people, via many different methods–often, as simple as encouraging them to do stupid, risky things, like walking in the middle of a highway, talking to them and upsetting them while driving, etc.

It is here at the South Pole the dying are collected, and brought to Auren, the leader of The Nowhere, who lost his connection with his human, and is only able to feed off his own kind. (His whole thing is being able to absorb the energy of others.)

The Nowhere is about the same size as our planet, and The Axium–its capital is located near the equator.

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I hope you enjoyed reading me ramble about my settings and all the worldbuilding around them, I had a lot of fun writing this! WAH is an indie podcast, and I need all the help I can get, so if you’d be interested in beta reading, drawing promotional art, voice acting, whatever, although I don’t have the financial means right now to pay you loads or money I am open to doing any kind of suitable trade for your contribution. If you want to help out, fire me a message :)

TAGLIST:  @summersdaze​ @cream-and-tea​ @sundaynightnovels​ @a-bruised-display @lookinpeach @elliewritesstories

[gharibajameel]

horses are inherently funny because they come in so many sizes. like draft horses

this looks so fake. this horses skull is bigger than the dudes entire torso. this horses NECK is thicker than the dudes entire BODY.

and then at the opposite end of the spectrum you have shit like this shetland pony which ALSO looks fake

what the hell happened to this thing who bred this line of ponies to be so ridiculous

[hapalopus]

fun fact, while most mini horses and ponies look fat, like the shetland above, some are genuinely just scaled down versions of regular horses

you look at this and think “wow that’s a horse i bet I could ride that” but you’d be wrong because this is an american shetty and it’s the size of a large dog

also fun fact, this is the world’s smallest horse, thumbelina

and this is the largest horse ever, brooklyn supreme

[catgirl-kaiju]

B R O O K L Y N S U P R E M E

[dreams-in-daylight]

Holy megafauna

[phidippusregius]

pepper tries to woo peach…..bonus episode

highlights include peach’s “….anyway” and pepper looking to me for moral support.

[phidippusregius]

bringing this back because i think this video helped a lot of people to realise that spiders aren’t all that scary. after posting this I got so many messages saying they love pepper and that he showed them that spiders are actually pretty cute, so hopefully this will help any new people who happen to come to this blog now. ♡

[raevenlywrites]

[happyorogeny]

WIP Intro: Faehunter

Genre: Fantasy, adventure with mild horror, romance and LGBTQ+ themes.

POV: Third person limited.

Status: Undergoing Content and Line edits, ~70,000 words.

Themes: Living forests and ancient powers, reluctant-allies-to-enthusiastic-lovers, mountains, beginning to find a family but not quite there yet, reincarnation, monsters and folklore, guilt, friendship is magic, small rural towns, old magic, the power of love, old gods, unquestioned authority corrupts, balancing the old and the new, the Otherworld. 

Characters:

Lai, the Feyling:

Light-hearted and free-spirited, Lai spends her days befriending the animals of the forest and chasing bandits away from hapless travelers. Though she only came to this world on midwinters eve, she feels like she’s lived here forever. With little memory of the otherworld, Lai is content to marvel at the beauty of the forest, brew beer in her meadow and find lost children in exchange for companionship and the occasional slice of honeycomb.

Vier, The Beasthunter

Orphaned at a young age in a monster attack, Vier was taken to the beasthunter academy and reared in the care of the Church. Wielding a sharp sword and a sharper tongue, she has made herself a family among the hunters. But her mind is cursed with curiosity, questions and doubts as to certain doctrines. Meeting Lai only makes her wonder more, for the beast lives in harmony and balance with the local community.

Synopsis:

The beasthunter Vier finds herself in the mountains, tasked with slaying a feyling. Lai walks the living wood with a crown of flowers and a sword of amber, unafraid and beloved of the local villages. But the nature of the beast is irrelevant. Creatures such as this corrupt and devour mortal souls. They must be destroyed.

A greater problem looms: a Gauntwolf, a monstrous manifestation of hunger and rot. Neither of them can kill the beast alone. Though it goes against everything Vier was ever taught, they strike a deal to hunt the monster together.

But the longer Vier stays, the more complicated the situation becomes. Lai’s very existence challenges much of what she thought to be true. To kill her seems wrong. Images of her adorn every local shrine. She can resist the rot of the gauntwolf. What exactly is she? And how can a monster and a hunter ever trust one another?

Taglist:

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Add me to your taglist please!

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Prompt “_____ was the type of person who _________.”

Jane was the kind of person who always knew how to make you feel better. I can’t count how many times she calmed Gil during one of his fits, flailing his arms and wailing profusely. She grabbed him and set him up in the lap of her jeans and combed through his hair with her fingers. Her blouse was flowy and bunched around him like clouds. She hushed him- with words too delicate to hear- and he would settle, tears sticking to red cheeks and snot dangling from his nose. As she cradled him, she smiled at me, and she kept smiling even when I didn’t smile back. Jane knew when it was good to say nothing. Like when I’m too angry to sit and all I can do is pace around, or like when my Father died, crumpled up like a damp paper in his bed, thin and white and weak. She held my hand and was silent- silent like my tears. And she never did say that I couldn’t cry.

Another prompt from my literature teacher! I just love these!

I was a bit inspired by the movie What’s Eating Gilbert Grape for this one if you couldn’t tell hehe. But this is the most writing I’ve been able to do lately- so I’m grateful for it!

Anyone who wants to try their hand at this prompt go right ahead, I really like this one! 

I’m tagging @a-bruised-display, @flimseywhimsey, @gloriafrimpong, and anyone else! Don’t feel pressured to do it, It’s fine if you can’t, but if you do please tag me in your creations! I’d love to see your spin on things! Happy writing!

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Reblog if Black Lives Matter to you

Where are those woke white people at!?

[neesie09]

The amount of notes this doesn’t have bothers me…

[tangdynastie]

Tumblr has 30-50 million active users. Why does this not even have 1 million notes?

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

I said what I said and I did not stutter

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

Motherhood should not be the punishment for having sex. Not all girls are able to receive appropriate sexual education.

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

Also, children deserve to be born WANTED. Children deserve to be born into families that are financially and emotionally ready to receive them into the world. Pro life is just pro birth and anti choice- pass it on

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No author is entitled to comments, to interaction, to reblogs or likes or reviews or anything, but in a community where you’re essentially a bunch of indie writers, that’s the lifeblood that keeps people *posting*. Writing doesn’t necessarily stop, but when someone feels like no one gives a shit whether you’re sharing or not, you quit sharing.

[hellenhighwater]

In the simplest possible terms: creators aren’t entitled to your support, but you’re also not at all entitled to their creations.

If you want content, support content creators.

[writing-and-nutmeg]

[lookinpeach]

Its Tender Tuesday! Spill the beans on meaningful touches--doesnt have to be erotic (but can, if that's their thing), just any special little touches your special someones share with each other <3

The most meaningful touch for each of my characters:

Silas: Hugs and hand holding <3

Celia: A hand in the small of her back and/or in her hair :)

Kiyo: The two woman tango if ya know what I mean ;)

Micae: Kisses 

Arlin: LITERALLY ANYTHING I mean... haha what? no he’s so slick... 

[lookinpeach]

Happy Tender Tuesday! What are your ocs’ love languages? What do they do in order to show their affection, and how do they like to receive affection in return?

Silas is very playful when it comes to love- he likes to make fun and tease those he cares about. His long language is probably a toss up between quality time and touch. 

Celia’s love language is words of affirmation and quality time. She is very sure on the outside (most times) and usually worrying like hell on the inside. Hearing reassurance- and getting quality time- is what makes her feel most loved.