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Not today Justin
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@ohheyitsprompts
Unfriendly reminder that if you're displeased with a piece of fanfiction your courses of action are:
Read something else
Bitch PRIVATELY to friends
Write your own take on the premise (strongly recommend!)
All of the above
Under no circumstances should you try to "politely" critique the author who put the story up as a hobby. For free. Especially if the story in question is multiple years old. Ao3 is not Goodreads
Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.
Deep Water Prompt #3506
As eating the fruit of the dead will condemn you to the underworld, the opposite is also true. I guard the orchard by the cemetery from souls stubborn enough to claw their way back, for a bite of permanent undeath.
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again
All supervillains share one unbreakable rule: never seriously harm children or teenagers, whether they are heroes or sidekicks. Today, a rookie villain broke that rule and will have to face the consequences.
Uncommon Words / Phrases to be Inspired by
Absquatulate: to leave without saying goodbye
Cassandra Complex: a psychological penomenon in which someone's accurate prediction of a crisis is ignored or dismissed
Cicatrize: to find healing by the process of forming scars
Even a Worm will turn: the belief that even the most docile creature will retaliate if pushed too far
Fernweh: the ache for distant places; the urge to leave everything familiar behind
Hamartia: a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero
Hiraeth: homesickness for a home you can never return to
Ichor: a fluid that flows like blood in the veins of gods
Jester's Privilege: the ability and right of a jester to mock his king without fear of punishment, for nothing he says seems to matter
Lachesism: longing for the clarity that comes with living through a disaster
Lotus-Eater: a person who lives their life in a constant state of dream and fantasy
Novalunosis: the state of relaxation and wonder experienced while gazing up at the stars
Pyrrhic Victory: a victory with such devastating consequence and collateral that is becomes a 'hollow victory'
Swan Song: a final act or effort given just before death
Wanderlust: a strong desire to wander and explore the world free from any obligation
Weltschmerz: the pain that comes with the realisation that the material world will never satisfy the demands of the soul
Whistle in the Dark: to make a show of bravery despite one's fear
Yhprum's Law: 'everything that can go right will go right'
[Prompt Calender: January 9th, National Word Nerd Day]
If Neil Gaiman shows his face on tumblr again we all have an obligation to bully him out of here with rocks
And I’m sorry if this is how you had to find out he’s on an “apology” tour (denying everything) and promoting a new book that we are all going to very loudly ignore
make amends to your victims and fix your heart
When I was in college, my Creative Nonfiction professor would regularly have us do something she called "hotspotting" (she didn't know that this was already a term tbc) with our rough drafts. Basically, hotspotting is when you look at your draft and pick out your favorite sentence, or one of your favorite sentences--one that you're really proud of--and write it down in a blank sheet in a notebook. Not a new document, a physical notebook. (You are not allowed to use technology for hotspotting.) And then you set a timer for however long--like maybe ten to twenty minutes--and you elaborate. You treat that one sentence as if it's the opening sentence to a new draft, and you write from there, until the timer is up.
It sounds like a gimmick, but honestly, some of my best writing in that class came from hotspotting. Usually, the sentence you consider the "best" is the one that really gets to the heart of something you're trying to convey. In a rough draft, it tends to be that you're fumbling around a bit before you really hit on the heart of things. So with hotspotting, you're starting from a less fumbly place, which means you're able to dig into your subject in a much deeper and more precise way. It makes you feel like a surgeon, a little bit.
So I do recommend trying it, even just for fun, even if you think the rough draft you have is already good. You might surprise yourself with what you come up with! :)
so....do i make a post about other (re: better) magic school/wizard books or what?
because i have strong opinions!
i want to read....
something that pre-dates jkr
young wizards by diane duane
wizard's hall by jane yolen
a wizard of earthsea by ursula k leguin
the worst witch by jill murphy
the dark is rising by susan cooper
something for adults that is darker and edgier
the scholomance by naomi novik
magic for liars by sarah gailey
rivers of london by ben aaronovitch
an unkindness of magicians by kat howard
babel by rf kuang
vita nostra by marina and sergey dyachenko
ninth house by leigh bardugo
something for middle schoolers
witchlings by claribel a. ortega
the last fallen star by graci kim
the school for good and evil by soman chainani
the marvellers by dhonielle clayton
charlie bone by jenny nimo
maya and the rising dark by maya barron
something for young adults
hex hall by rachel hawkins
the old kingdom by garth nix
the left-handed booksellers of london by garth nix
the whispering dark by kelly andrew
in other lands by sarah rees brennan
the demon king by cinda williams chima
how to succeed in witchcraft by aislinn brophy
witch haven by sasha peyton smith
legendborn by tracy deonn
dark rise by cs pacat
a lot of books in the Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey show the young Heralds as students at school
Nsibidi Scripts series (Akata Witch/Warrior/Woman) by Nnedi Okorafor (highly recommend)
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett is about Esk who inherited a wizards staff even tho she's a girl. it's an odd one tho, ngl.
the ones below are teacher and apprentice stories rather than off to a school to learn with the masses.
Master of the Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy (is old so might be showing its age)
the Mancer books by Don Callander (Pyromancer, Aquamancer, Aeromancer, Geomancer, Marbleheart) might be hard to find but they were cute.
And the Tiffany Aching quintet by Terry Pratchett starting with the Wee Free Men, which has Tiffany being apprenticed with different witches after a big adventure to save her baby brother. (love these books)
The Enchanted Forest series by Patricia C Wrede
More adult-oriented stories;
The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey (500 kingdom series) (has romance)
The Elemental Masters by Mercedes Lackey
Mairelon the Magician by Patricia C. Wrede
The Cecilia and Kate novels by Patricia C Wrede (victorian epistolary books)
the Glamourist Histories by Mary Robinette Kowal (Austenish setting but with magic)
Riddle-Master series by Patricia A McKillip
The Warlock of Gramarye series by Christopher Stasheff (sci-fi with magic, probably hasn't aged the best but I haven't read them in ages)
A Wizard in Rhyme series by Christopher Stasheff (old, sci-fi with magic, alternate history)
The Dragon and the George by Gordon R Dickson (again, old)
I'm sure I've got more but I can't remember lol
how the hell did I forget the Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce??
And her Immortals series!
And Chrestomanci by Diana Wynn Jones! (ty @gothfirefaerie for reminding me!) And Howl's Moving Castle
Whumpuary 2026!
these prompts came together through community submissions and a voting form where people voted for their favorites, here are the top 53 prompts
i enjoy this format so like last year there are 15 creation prompts and 15 community prompts/questions. the community prompts are entirely voluntary but are here to possibly inspire some community interaction and trying new things
very excited to see some awesome creations in january!
go here for info/rules/tagging go here for faqs go here for the 2026 ao3 collection
(note: number 31 is not a creation prompt and not required to complete the challenge, it's just colored black so the colors add up)
text version of the prompts and rules is under the cut
"wahh i only like enemies to lovers if it's gay bc i don't want men to be mean to women" what about a woman doing heinous shit to a man and that man (who also sucks) being pathetically psychosexually obsessed with her. you people have no fucking vision. if you were willing to read & write women doing actual wrongs this wouldn't be a problem. let that female character commit atrocities with the sole goal of ruining one guy's life while they have weird sexual tension about it
vampires are so full of shit. "oh the human race is beneath us, you're just livestock to us" I don't think you know what livestock is. do you feed us? care for us? protect us from predators? no. you just slink around dark alleys and ambush people. that's not what a higher being does. that's a bottom feeder. a parasite. karate punches your head off
who has recs for horror novels by women. all the go to successful horror authors are men (due to the misogyny) and thus all my favs are men its a problem -_-
i said some of this in the tags but let me offer some recs of my own in exchange because i promise i dont read just men:
mister magic and hide by kiersten white; her novels feel kinda like goosebumps for adults, feature queer characters, first is a supernatural horror novel about a childrens tv show that mysteriously went off the air and the cast doing a reunion many years later. think candle cove meets IT. hide is more straightforward, spend a night in a creepy amusement park playing hide and seek and be the last one hiding to win cash money. failed to mention that the seekers are also gonna kill you
anything by gretchen felker martin. so amazingly talented. cuckoo is one of my favorite novels ever, her queer and trans characters are so rich they make my heart ache and shes a master of all things disgusting. if you like the losers club you’ll like cuckoo
if you like more humor in your horror you might like rachel harrison, shes got a few novels! the return is my fav of hers so far and is probably the most serious, but she has a nice voice and i like her characterization. painfully straight at times though
recently i read and enjoyed this wretched valley, the debut novel of jenny kiefer. it feels so much like a horror movie, i loved it! not super like, intellectual? but really fun
all the white spaces by ally wilkes; queer historical horror! doomed polar expedition with your usual human conflict and also some kind of maybe supernatural fuckery. really well done i loved her characters a lot
our share of night by mariana enriquez. this is not just a good rec for horror by women this is a good rec for the best horror novels EVER its an creepy fantastic deeply rich and unapologetic no punches pulled epic thats steeped in incredibly interesting argentinian history and culture. you must check this out
cj tudor leans a bit on the thriller/mystery/more tame side but i like her work! the drift and the chalk man are the ones ive read so far
the writing retreat by julia bartz is a funnn twisty little queer horror novel about a young writer who gets to go to an exclusive retreat with her idol and a few others including her ex Something. naturally once theyre there its fucked up for everyone
tell me im worthless by alison rumfitt is a devastating piece of queer horror the fits firmly into our current fucked up dangerous political climate with a supernatural twist. sickening read i loved it
anything by shirley jackson…haunting of hill house is so so good genuinely i cant believe how long it took me to read it
honorable mention for graphic novelist e.m. carroll, who is Not a woman but their place as a non binary horror author and artist needs to be recognized all their work is stunning
Unreliable narrators are one hell of an idea. You can just write whatever, and if a reader points out "hey the way this scene happened should not be physically possible if it's done the way this character described it", you can just be like "yeah I don't trust that fucker either."
