A writeblr, maybe?

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. I follow from @ironhusband.

[mymilim]

[Image Description: A picture of dark brown, sharp rocks with the background of dark blue sky with a meteor shower. The rocks end at their top and cover a third of the photo and the colors of the stars vary between orange, blue, purple and white. The yellow square in the middle of the picture has the brown word “mymilim” in the middle, and a line below it the pink word “introduction”.]

Hi! My name is Dru, my pronouns are she/her and this is my introduction post! I’ve been holding onto this blog for a while now and slowly dipping my toe in the writeblr community -  so I’ve decided it’s time I introduce myself!

I’ve been writing for nearly a decade and I’m always excited to make new writing friends. This blog will mainly have what inspires my writing, my love for queer lit and probably writing memes. I’m hoping to sometimes post original content too, like a queer lit graphic or a snippet of one of my stories, but probably not right away.

Enjoy your stay and I hope you’ll say hi if you want to!

more about me:

I'm jewish.

I’m bisexual and cis.

I’m learning how to edit gifs and graphics. 

I recently discovered queer lit. Also I’m catching up with a lot of queer shows.

I’ve been writing for eight years now. 

The stuff I write is usually long. I’m trying to finish my long stories right now, but sometimes I still write short stories.

My writing style is a mix of writing banter and writing poetically. 

My favorite genres to write are romance and sci-fi. 

My favorite themes to write are identity exploration and coming of age.

My favorite non-writing part of writing is the world building and character obsessing. 

My favorite writing part of writing is writing dramatic, emotional scenes and the banter between characters. 

My favorite genre to read is romance. ...Let me be self indulgent. 

jsyk:

My dms and asks are always open for book recs or gushing about your wip!

Check out my WIPs! (eventually I’ll make a post for each of them)

navigation:

me: my about my carrd my main writings: my wips #writing tag #be happy #fate and other superpowers #the planning committee of flakes valley books: my bookshelf #book tag #editing tag

[sivsii]

I love it when my creativity spurs other creativity. literally no better feeling as an artist than when someone looks at something you’ve made and goes “I saw this and liked it so much I could do nothing more with myself than turn it into drive for my own creativity” like that’s really what creativity is huh!! an instrument to further human expression and community and connection 

[wordfather]

choose a trope but i ruined it

academic rivals but they're trying to be the worst in class

too many beds

grew up with powers but lost it and now they gotta go to normal school

soulmate au but soulmates are chosen by just some guy

you think you're in a timeloop but you're just being pranked

love octagon

bad boy with a bright past, literally nothing happened to make them that way

love at last sight

Voting ended onOct 4, 2023

[micahabram]

Saw this advice on Twitter today, and I think it's going to end up being useful for me. 🥹 Thought I'd share it with y'all, too.

[thenighttrain]

favourite book genre?

mystery

thriller

fantasy

horror

sci-fi

historical

romance

dystopian

non-fiction

other (what?)

Voting ended onSep 9, 2023

[coldresolve]

'people can write whatever the fuck they want' and 'its good to approach writing about sensitive topics with some diligence and forethought' are statements which can and do coexist

[ad-wills]

it's a lot of stuff...

[crispyliza]

[furbearingbrick]

ouch, baby. very ouch.

[typewriter-worries]

Cloud Atlas (2012) dir. Tom Tykwer and The Wachowskis

[ Text ID: A half-finished book is, after all, / a half-finished love affair. ]

[lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks]

Stupid poll for no reason at all How do you pronounce 'WIPS' in your head?

Works in Progress - standard, reasonable, basic

Work in Progresses - grammar is dead and this was the weapon

Whips - I am but a humble farmer, I reads it as I sees it

Whips - I did not know what it stood for and was too afraid to ask

You guys think in words?? cringe

Obligatory vanilla extract (I just wanna see the answers)

Voting ended onApr 20, 2023

[lexosaurus]

...um

wee-eye-pees

[bobbyinthegarden]

Jumping on the weirdly specific poll trend, but only for books

You have read over 25 books already this year

You own The Silmarillion by haven’t read it (yet)

You order your bookshelf alphabetically (by author)

You have read at least one book in a foreign language

You have a tattoo that is related to one of your favourite books

You own more than one physical copy of the same book

Your favourite author is Jonathan Lethem

You have a paid subscription to a literary magazine (i.e. The London Review of

Two or more of these apply to me

None of these apply to me

Voting ended onApr 22, 2023

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

you have to live with a booktok love interest for a week. which do you subject yourself to

the mafia boss who is always saying "don't fucking touch her"

the rich bad boy who spends his trust fund partying or whatever

the popular jock who likes the quiet nerdy student

the hitman who just stalks the girl he's supposed to kill

one of the monsters in siggy shade stories

the professor who says shit like "i'll teach you a lesson babygirl"

Voting ended onApr 15, 2023

[systlin]

Me, making any writing decision; you know what would be either fucked up or hilarious

[ironhusband]

I made a new meme format. 

[ironhusband]

If I can offer a further explanation…

[ciaran]

i think a lot of media makes the mistake of treating the child as a cardboard cutout of idealized childhood (state of purity, unfiltered joy, innocence) and its only thru corruption of that ideal that the past selves of adults are made complex. which is a very poor view of childhood and it makes child characters profoundly unsatisfactory at its lamest and borderline reactionary at its most egregious

[ciaran]

a lot of writers are great at writing adults bc they see adults as people with 1. motivations 2. a past 3. a concrete ability to work towards a goal. all of these are things children are presumed to lack, for one reason or another - adults see children as impulsive, distracted by every shiny thing, when not all children are like that, and the impulsiveness of certain children still does not preclude underlying desires that are consistent to them; children have a way higher past:person ratio than the average adult! week for week, children are more profoundly affected by regular experiences because it is all new to them. everything sticks, and they remember. what they don't remember and what they do can be random at times and less random at others, but each child has (again) an underlying logic for what gets held onto harder than other things; children's lack of ability to work towards their goal is in large part why they are so prone to meltdowns. if you couldn't drink a glass of water when you're thirsty - if you had to get someone to help you each time, you'd end up pretty pissed every time they dragged their heels as well. and if that was true for everything you needed? [a/n: i'm aware this is reality for many disabled people! which is why adultism and ableism are so closely entwined as well]. but children ARE capable of working towards many of their goals in their own ways, whether those are emotional or physical goals.

but if you don't see children as people, though, all of those things fall apart, and you end up with the...idea of what role this creature is supposed to fill in the lives of people who look at her. this is inherently dehumanizing, make no mistake, it makes the child something that never appears to experience emotions that don't fill that idea or diverge strongly from that role, which in turn makes the character flat and uninteresting. there's no reason for us to care what happens to her, narratively, because the only thing we do have to care about is what happens to the people who care about her. she's not a character, she's an object that furthers the emotions of the other characters. she's a morality pet, or meaninglessly cute, or an aesop. there's nothing outside that for her. you could replace her with a puppy and literally nothing would change.

[daisywords]

do you read fanfic?

yes, all the time, for a variety of fandoms

no, not at all

I've read a few

only for one specific fandom

I read fic that I haven't even seen/read/played the original source material for

only if written by a friend

other (specify in the tags)

Voting ended onFeb 15, 2023

[lostintheclouds321]

if you see this poll pick one and do it

write 3 lines of your wip :0

character info sheet :3

edit one chapter :>

title your wip c:

beta for a friend <3

start a new wip >:)

worldbuilding ;)

Voting ended onFeb 13, 2023

rb to share with other writers :)

[mymilim]

My absolute favorite thing to do with my OCs is make sure stan culture will never accept them. Oh, I’m making an evil scientist war criminal with fucked up morals and a desire to be loved? She’s a black woman now. Tell me you wouldn’t like her if she was a white man. Oh, I’m making a guy with a tragic backstory that is kind but insecure? He’s the side character now. Tell me you didn’t choose him as your favorite character because he’s the only guy. Oh, I'm crafting a found family story that would seamlessly fit into your Christmas fluff fanfic? They all textually don’t celebrate Christmas and hate it with a passion. Tell me why you still think it’s okay to write that Christmas fluff for the Jewish character if she’s wearing a Hanukkah sweater.