Revenge of the Writers Block

welcome writers and whatever's!

[deep-dark-fears]

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[madamemanly]

In the midst of the world fucking falling apart, I think I need an honest to god therapist.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[icantwritegood]

rawest fucking florence and the machine lyrics in no particular order:

no more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone

want me to love you in moderation, do i look moderate to you?

this will be my last confession, ‘i love you’ never felt like any blessing, whisper it like it’s a secret only to condemn the one who hears it

because i am done with my graceless heart, so tonight i’m gonna cut it out and then restart

tenderest touch leaves the darkest of marks and the kindest of kisses breaks the hardest of hearts

you don’t have to be a ghost here among the living, you are flesh and blood, and you deserve to be loved and you deserve what you are given, and oh how much

but the loneliness never left me, i always took it with me, but i can put it down in the pleasure of your company

at seventeen i started to starve myself, i thought that love was a kind of emptiness, but at least i understood then the hunger i felt, and i didn’t have to call it loneliness 

the fabric of your flesh, pure as a wedding dress

it’s an evensong, it’s a melody, it’s a battle cry, it’s a symphony 

but i know it’ll have to drown me, before i can breathe easy

to the crowd i was crying out, and in your place there were a thousand other faces

and it’s over and i’m going under, but i’m not giving up i’m just giving in

in a moment of joy and fury i threw myself from the balcony like my grandmother, so many years before me

and it’s peaceful in the deep, cathedral where you cannot breathe

i know i seem shaky, these hands aren’t fit for holding

i’m not beat up by this yet, you can’t tell me to regret, been in the dark since the day we met, fire help me to forget

it seems that i have been held in this dreaming state, a tourist in the waking world, never quite awake

shower your affection, let it rain on me, pull down this mountain, drag your cities to the sea

and i did cartwheels in your honor, dancing on tiptoes, my own secret ceremonials

a year like this passes so strangely, somewhere between sorrow and bliss

in the spring, i shed my skin and it blows away with the changing winds

i swallow the sound and it swallows me whole until there’s nothing left inside my soul

And how does it feel now you’ve scratched that itch? And pulled out all your stitches? Hubris is a bitch

and i want you so badly, but you could be anyone 

i was in the darkness, so darkness i became

[radiqueer]

one fairly common experience of gifted children is wishing for pain. wishing you had some great big horrible thing in your past so that you can justify the pain you’re in, and so that you’ll deserve help. it’s exhausting and it fucks you up and to anyone out there who feels like they haven’t suffered enough to get help: you’re allowed to want help. you’re in enough pain. you deserve to feel better

[rexieboii]

holy shit yeah

[homoslovenc]

[skiinny-bird]

is this one of those things that everyone actually does?? i just assumed i was a shitty person

[sir-ghost-the-green]

Wait that’s normal?

[star-anise]

It’s not “normal” as in “everybody feels this way so suck it up and quit whining”.

It’s “normal” as in “many people experience pain, loneliness, anxiety, self-hatred, and other symptoms of mental illness that feel like they ‘don’t count’ because there’s no real Thing they can point to to explain it, but their pain and suffering are real and ought to be taken seriously.”

However, when I say “many people” I actually mean “less than a quarter of the population”. The vast majority of people aren’t in massive internal pain most of the time. If this post resonates with you, I super recommend you look into mental health resources, because nobody deserves to feel this way, and there’s a very real hope that information, understanding, therapy, and/or medication can work together to help you feel better.

[star-anise]

Fantasizing about being hurt or dying in some way so that everyone realizes how much pain you’re in isn’t a sign that you’re a terrible person. It’s a sign that YOU’RE IN A LOT OF PAIN. Pain that deserves help and that CAN be helped.

The notes on this post today make me wanna CRY.

[lightning-crown]

…sorry, did you just say the vast majority of people aren’t in massive internal pain most of the time???? what

[star-anise]

So here’s where I’m getting my statistics from:

One basic test of massive internal pain is a depression test. Here’s one such questionnaire. It lists nine symptoms of depression and asks people how much they have experienced them over the last few weeks. Among them are symptoms like, “Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless,” “Feeling bad about yourself – or that you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down,” and “Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way.”

It’s scored by asking people to rate if they’ve experienced the thing: 0, not at all, 1, several days, 2, more than half the days, or 3, nearly every day. Then you get a total score by adding up the ranking of each of the nine symptoms listed. So the lowest possible score is 0 (never experienced all the symptoms) and the highest possible is 27 (all the symptoms nearly every day). The PHQ-9 considers scores above 5 to indicate mild depression, above 10, moderate, and above 15, moderate to severe depression.

When you run thousands of people through the PHQ-9–for example, ask doctor’s offices to ask everyone seeing their doctor for any reason to take it–this is what the score distribution looks like: 

Far and away, the most common score is 0. The vast majority of people experience no symptoms of depression in their daily lives. The vast majority of people do not feel hopeless, do not feel like failures, and do not think they would be better off if they were dead in their day-to-day lives.

Depression really is unusual, not the natural state of human existence, and, in the majority of cases, really truly treatable. 

[chillyarea-moved-deactivated202]

i find it ironic how a lot of popular horror artists are pretty nice people while there’s a high chance pastel blog will call you a slur 

[chillyarea-moved-deactivated202]

Nature is beautiful

[logicallyblind]

hi i’m seeing no one talk about this cover??? this is HAUNTING, it’s dedicated it to everyone who’s died from the coronavirus so far especially healthcare staff i just,,,

[elodieunderglass]

Hozier singing trad song “The Parting Glass”

[elodieunderglass]

Other celebrities: (goopily drip upon, of all things, “imagine”)

Us: (call for the guillotine)

Hozier: (a bittersweet lad, sings an ancient song to the departed)

Us: play this over silent, crisply shot black and white footage of the empty streets and silent landmarks. cut with shots of our drowning hospitals. An acceptable future documentary of 2020 that we will allow.

[datl-a-g]

Some psychological things for writers (probably typos too)

As someone who likes to breakdown the psychology of characters here is some psychological things.

A trauma doesn’t always appear in the form of nightmares, the brain can block the memory to protect itself but it can appear as lingering things like phobias or just an awkward feeling.

(For romantic stories) Let’s say Character A suffer from a break up which give a chance to Character B to get together with A. But A suffer a lot from the break up and B tries to heal them, B will slowly see that they’re taking advantage of a situation that is making their loved one suffer and B will feel like trash from profiting of the pain of A for their own gain.

The “mere exposure effect” : If a character cames in contact often with something (even something they hate) they will progressively like it or consider it as familiar or reassuring. It’s also one of the factor that comes into place when falling in love, closeness makes the heart grow fonder.

When in a situation of tension, the mere exposure effect applies even more. The brain is in desesperate search of familiarity and will either reject all or be extremely attached to any people getting close.

A character in true despair isn’t a character who screams or cry, it’s one that stays silent and doesn’t even ask question since they’re in too much pain, sadness and sorrow to have any energy to refute or fight against the reality of things. It’s even more effective on characters that are extremely expressive or has a strong temper.

(Just when where on the despair train) Depending on the chracters personnality, despair can be either expressed by sadness (crying, giving up) or anger (struggling, screaming, refusing to accept reality).

When a character loose someone close to them, they will hang on to the other close person to them even harder of fear of loosing them too, as well as being more protective ect.

When something is new, you fear it. Basic instinct.

In a situation of life or death, even the most stoic person can break by simple shock. Like I said, the brain is panicked and hangs on tight to anything familiar.

A real asshole doesn’t break people physically, but emotinaly. Female villains do that more than male ones do by the way.

Familiar = good. Basic Instincts as well.

For a character that has a hard time making social connection when they do have one, they will hang on to it with all their might and feels like they must protect the other at all cost.

“Friends are the family you choose” keep that in mind.

Even when a character is like : “Yeah I would die for this or that”, the fear of death is extremely real and the brain tries to reject it at all cost.

The most precious person to someone isn’t always someone you love romantically.

When you truly care for somebody you don’t say to them the things they want to hear but the things they NEED to hear.

Everything can be important. To a person, a object, or a word.

Love is a slow process. And even if love at first sight exist it takes time as well to realise it ect.

Tolerance to pain and torture change by each person.

Everybody can be manipulated or angered. You just need to push the right buttons.

Facing a threat they are three main reactions : Submission. Opposition. Evasion.

Their is always a reason for everything in a characters personnality. Little events can do major changes.

Sometimes when you’re exhausted you can get angry easly since you want people to leave you alone.

A character with a low self-confidence assure all the time that what they’re saying insn’t meant to offense.

(While I’m on low self-esteem) When those characters tries to do something but can’t no matter how hard they try, they can’t stop themselves from crying, it’s incontrollable. The brain wants to show to the poeple around the struggle they’re in like a call for help.

I have more things to write but since I’m scared my computers gonna crash I’m going to post only this for now I’ll update later.

[fuckyeahcomicsbaby]

Different Stories Resonate with Different People

[lovingmyselfishard]

I will always reblog this.

[dog-of-ulthar]

the joker isn’t harley quinn’s love interest he’s her origin story

[animatedamerican]

A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

[left-circle]

Originally posted by smooshywrites

[herwitchinesss]

@ajohnster 

yaaaas!

[yessoftball-lover06]

I WANT TO KNOW THE STORY BEHIND THIS. I HONESTLY THOUGHT THEY WERE LOVERS.

[autijacen]

Okay, okay, so short version:

Joker seduced Harley while he was in Arkham and she was his psychologist. He did so by manipulating sessions to make him seem pitiable.

Harley broke Joker out. Joker was originally going to kill her then, but fans had latched onto Harley Quinn’s new look and she was a fan favorite (mind you as I recall, she was originally introduced in BTAS, and then transferred to the comics later). So she ended up surviving his first murder attempt.

He decided that although annoying she could still be useful (since she’s actually brilliant, and at this point somewhat codependent). This leads to a string of horrific abuses and murder attempts. Including (in the TV show alone) throwing her through a window that is at *least* three stories up, choking her, beating her with a hammer, threatening her with one of his gag guns (which, depending on the gun, may or may not kill her in various ways), and attempting to get hyenas to eat her.

In the comics, it includes starving her, chaining her to a wall in a sewer on top of corpses of “failed Harleys,” poisoning her, leaving her in burning buildings, pushing her into the line of police fire, gaslighting her basically every time he fails to kill her, and the list goes on. When she becomes pregnant with her and Joker’s kid, she leaves for nine months, to her sister’s place, and gives birth there. She doesn’t tell Joker about the kid (and goes out of her way to prevent Joker from finding out). She tells Canary that it’s because Mr. J would be too busy for a kid, but if you pay attention to Harley’s behavior throughout the comic, the clear subtext is “My kid would end up dead or worse if Joker knew about her.”

Additionally, post break up, she notes he was abusive, says it wasn’t love, it was manipulation, and frequently describes it as the worst part of her life.

[bee-whistler]

I’m no expert but I remember one more thing… she said he never noticed she was gone for those 9 months.

[brucediana]

THANK YOU FOR CLEARING THIS UP.

[fluff-that-pillow-deactivated20]

This is why couples are creepy as fuck for dressing up as Harley and the joker and why people are especially fucked up for thinking the relationship they had in suicide squad was “goals”

[bellatrixship]

All. Of. This

[coolcurrybooks-deactivated20230]

I’ve done some Twitter threads on this topic, so thought it might be nice to do a Tumblr post too. One of my pet peeves is when people act like adult fantasy (or sci-fi for that matter) is just a straight white dude thing and that diversity only exists in young adult fantasy. That’s such a disservice to all the authors of marginalized identities currently writing adult fantasy!

Authors and books below the cut, including links to Goodreads. I’m not providing trigger warnings (if I make the post too long Tumblr starts freaking out about it), but you can use the search function on Goodreads reviews to find more specifics. 

Keep reading

[thegaylists]

Trans Music

some cool songs with explicitly trans themes (and with a few exceptions all by trans artists!)

for trans ladies

boy in a dress by namoli brennet

delicate, petite & other things ill never be by against me!

family by she/her/hers

for today i am a boy-antony & the johnsons

g.l.o.s.s by g.l.o.s.s

gender is boring by she/her/hers

genderless by jonesin and the hurt

girl its your time by vivek shraya

i am her by shea diamond

i could use a hug by girls rituals

identity by mina caputo

invertible penis by polythene pam

lined lips and spiked bats by g.l.o.s.s

love is not love by too attached

masculine artifice by g.l.o.s.s

middle age transsexual theme song by polythene pam

outcast stomp by g.l.o.s.s

part time woman by vivek shraya 

salt by bad suns

tall girl posse by polythene pam

targets of men targets of men-g.l.o.s.s

thoughts and prayers by black dresses

touch and go by john grant

trans is love by marissa kay

transgender dysphoria blues-against me!

transworld by girls rituals

transylvania by kim petras

true trans soul rebel by against me!

for trans men

binary by spook school

burn masculinity by spook school

changes by jake edwards

daughter by ryan cassata

daughterson by coyote grace

dysphoria by saint wellesley

fagette by athens boys choir

ftm at the dmv by schmekel

gay shame by schmekel

ghost boy by coyote grace

guy named joe by coyote grace

hold my yod by schmekel

im your man by lucas silveira

man enough by katastrophe

pink & blue by jake edwards

maybe she’s shomer negiyah by schmekel

new men with old man names-schmekel

second puberty by jake edwards

tell me a story by skylar kergil

the binding of isaac by schmekel

the trans slam by ryan cassata

the village by wrabel

you can’t tell me by jake edwards

you’re not the only bear ive fisted-schmekel

for nonbinary folks

am i a girl? by poppy

aquafina by cj run

body was made by ezra furman

gender bronoun by human kitten

gender fluid by elbe

gender queer by lip shit queers

genderqueer love song by schmekel

girl or boy by dani shay

just me (gender binary blues)-jinkx monsoon

precious by jay boogie 

sex:male;gender:whatever-human kitten

they/them by atlas

they/them/theirs by worriers

for gay nb/trans people

aquafina by cj run

fagette by athens boys choir

flirting with her by sir babygirl

gay shame by schmekel

hold my yod by schmekel

homocoming king by athens boys choir

i lost my innocence by ezra furman

return to sender by cj run

spaghetti by cj run

straight boy by shamir 

tangerine by cj run

the metrosexual threw off my gaydar-athens boys choir

you’re not the only bear ive fisted-schmekel

[targetdotcom-deactivated2026011]

Wanted to just reblog this to say that Transylvania by Kim Petras was produced by Dr Luke, yes the same Dr Luke who abused Ke$ha and many other women in the industry.

Kim is aware of this and chooses to work on every single song she puts out with him.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Plot A Month, W1D6: Plot Sketch

If you’ve been taking side notes (I hope you’ve been taking side notes), or if you haven’t, it’s time to gather your materials together and sketch out your plot as best you can. Don’t worry if some details are fuzzy; also don’t worry if you think you have too much. We’re going to just get down everything you have.

In order to construct your plot, let’s look at the tools you should have by now.

Main Character’s Objective. What does the MC want or lack?

Main Character’s Conflict. What internal force keeps them from getting their goal? What external force keeps them from getting their goal?

Main Character’s Obstacles. What challenges await them when they attempt to get this goal? Why are they challenging?

You can also do this with your supporting characters; chances are there are some interesting subplots to be found there. Now that you hopefully have these, let’s look at your basic plot:

Beginning. Your character is at a point where they need to change. This change needs to be apparent to the reader, if not to the character themselves.

Middle. SHIT HAPPENS. IT IS BAD.

End. Your character has reached their goals. They have changed both internally (emotionally) and externally (something has changed for them; the environment, their situation in life, etc).

It’s okay not to know what happens in that treacherous, uncharted territory known as the middle; right now, you just need to be able to fill in enough blanks to know where to get started, and which direction to go to. Now let’s take this concept and apply it to a basic three act structure.

Act 1 - Will introduce us to our character and their needs for change. The coming change will start at the end of the act with the Inciting Event: the trigger that forces the character down the road to change. (Harry Potter finding out he’s a wizard, Katniss volunteering for the Hunger Games, etc).

Act 2 - The longest act, it will have a rise in tension as the characters try to reach their goals and fail, each failure becoming increasingly serious/dangerous. The characters will charge onto the Final Confrontation.

Act 3 - The plot reaches it’s Resolution. Characters achieve their goals.

The three act structure is not perfect (it’s often better suited for script writing because it works better in a media format), but it can help you figure out what needs to go where and how to get started. Don’t get locked into a rigid format if your ideas take off. Go after them!

In addition to this, you probably have a lot of extra scenes that you don’t know where to include. Get those down! If you feel the need to start writing, do it! Whatever you do now will be helpful later.

[ghibli-gems]

Powerful Ghibli Girls

“It doesn’t really matter what color your dress is. What matters is the heart inside!” 
~ Kiki’s Delivery Service

[justavpdthings]

I once said to my therapist after a particularly hard week, “I wish I could just fix all of my problems and move on to live a normal life” And he looked at me and said, “There is no finish line”.

Those words felt like a stab in my heart, but they were words that I desperately needed to hear. There is no finish line to my problems. It’s not possible to get through a certain point in life and have my problems simply disappear. And it’s unhealthy to think that way. Up to that point in my life, that’s what I though recovery was. I thought it was like working your way forward until it seems like your problems never existed in the first place.

The finish line does not exist. Instead, everyone has a capacity for recovery. You may never completely rid yourself of whatever causes you pain, but you will move miles from where you started. Don’t set your expectations too high and create that theoretical finish line in your life, or you will only end up chasing it. Instead, focus on your own capacity for recovery, and be proud of yourself for every step you take.

[justavpdthings]

Just saw Eighth Grade and reblogging the heck out of this bc wow it gets so much better if you just take it one step at a time

[mintedwitcher]

Okay but I cant help but hear “there is no finish line” and immediately respond with “then why am i running the race?” What is the point*? Where is the benefit of putting in the effort if its not going to ever end? If i am always going to battle I would rather just give up the fight.

*(Im not saying recovery is bad or whatever ppl wanna reach for, this is my personal view)

[dalniente]

That’s the thing, though: it’s not a race. It’s a garden.

No matter what your garden looks like in the beginning, you have to weed it before it can grow into what you want it to be. And when your flowers are planted and growing, you still have to keep up with the weeding. You have to keep up with the weeding even after your flowers are tall. A garden can’t survive on its own. There will always be weeds.

But there will be flowers, too, if you give them space to grow. Give them room, give them time, and keep checking in to make sure the weeds don’t get too tall. You will always have weeds, but you will also have flowers.

And maybe your garden doesn’t look exactly like you imagined it would. Maybe you aren’t sure how to get rid of that one big thistle in the corner. Maybe you’ve got bindweed and nutgrass (which will always, always come back). Either way, you’ve got flowers now, and it’s a nice place to sit and look around, and it looks nicer than it did before, and it’s yours. Keep going with it. If you miss a few days, or months, or years, that’s okay. Pull up the weeds when you’re ready, uncover your old flowers and plant some new ones, and keep going.

Gardening is a process, not a project or a problem that can be solved. The same is true for your mental health. Weeds will grow, but you’ll get better and better at pulling them, and you’ll grow flowers, too.

[edo-vivendum]

Shit though. That made me tear up. I struggle so much with the “if I’m never gunna recover then why try” mentality… But damn. That garden metaphor is powerful. @nientedal thank you

[90sjamz]

Big and Loud | From Cats Don’t Dance  (1997)

[bemusedlybespectacled]

the best part is that her actress was twelve and her singing voice was eleven

like

this is an actual child being a terrifying little shit and that is amazing

[ranchoenthusiast]

God DAMN the animation was flawless in this movie.

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Why did so many people sleep on this film? It’s honestly a classic.

[submalevolentgrace]

dear Americans very concerned and angry about the concentration camps your government is running:

you should be angry, you should be furious, you should do everything and anything you can to shut them down.

but here in Australia, we've had concentration camps for refugees for nearly 25 years. we've protested and petitioned and yelled, but the government was 'clever' and put them offshore, away from the mainland where we can't reach them, can't storm them. then they banned journalists from going. then they banned doctors.

the only time mainstream news tends to report on the "offshore detention centres" is when yet another group of children try to commit suicide.

yes, the Australian government has concentration camps for people fleeing warzones, and the people in those camps are tortured so bad that the children try to kill themselves.

Americans, I hope you manage to close your governments camps, by law or by force. maybe when you're done, you can turn your attention to us? we could use some loud international outrage from a western ally, the government might care. the public has spent 20 years trying and failing.

non-Australians, please spread this information. I don't think many people know internationally, except the island nations we pay to host our camps and keep quiet.

[honey-stick]

a bbc article for more further reading on this