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not doomed by the narrative but saved by the narrative. yeah i know you'd rather die than keep suffering but the story doesn't actually care what you want. you have to keep going, even when it hurts. even being erased from existence won't stop you from being salvaged from the wreckage of un-being. get up. keep pushing. keep bleeding. keep living.

#rick tverse yes yes

crashdavis

baseball is often about using your mind to grant a beautiful and rich personality to a white boy with a fuck ugly cross tattoo

#and sometimes this is why life is worth living #the thing w rpf to me is sometimes you’re trying to portray a guy as close to lifelike as possible #and other times. that’s a husk brother

bobdylanyaoi

testimony by robbie robertson // fast car by tracy chapman // star wars dir. george lucas // born to run by bruce springsteen // thelma and louise dir. ridley scott // original screenplay of butch cassidy and the sundance kid by william goldman // sleep on the floor by the lumineers // psycho dir. alfred hitchcock // the graduate dir. mike nichols // long island city here i come by geese // midnight cowboy dir. john schlesinger // coyote by joni mitchell // punch-drunk love dir. paul thomas anderson // the last waltz dir. martin scorsese

#insp

WHAT IF WHO YOU NEEDED WAS WHAT YOU ONCE WERE!!! gavin sheets i see you i see what’s happening i won’t be silent about it

#the padres are a fictional team made up to torment me. this can’t be real #dadsposting #max talks

phleb0tomist

he would not fucking say that, but with disability.. he would not fucking be able bodied. sick n tired of characters walking away from multiple life changing injuries without a scratch. let’s get some natural consequences in here.

give that knife/sword fight survivor nerve damage. give the character who was shot in the gut a stoma. give that fire survivor lung damage and an oxygen cannula. give that leg injury survivor a cane. give that starvation survivor gastroparesis. give that spinal injury survivor a manual chair or powerchair.

while we’re at it, give your characters congenital disabilities too, just because. give them intellectual and development disabilities. give them acquired and postviral illnesses. dare to make somebody bedbound. for me.

fuckrozanov

the worst writing crime you can ever commit in my opinion is watering down the dirty talk because you’re self-conscious that it sounds like it’s from a bad porno…..i cannot stress this enough……leave it alone. the moment you tell yourself he would not fucking say that you’re doomed. people will say almost anything if their dick is hard enough

#i should have a self reminder tag bc i need this

theresonly1u

🌚 IT TAKES TWO: A TO1U MINI-FEST 🌚

Because your mod wanted it and some other people said yes. 2 weeks to prompt/create/post, 5 prompts per account, 500 words (or equivalent)...and TOMORROW we hit the ground running!!

Check collection for work limits, FAQ, rules etc. Generally the same rules as to1u but with a tighter timeline and shorter work limits 🤙

Schedule

Prompts and Posting opens: August 22

Prompts close: August 26

Posting closes: September 4

Fanworks and creators revealed: September 5

As per my own rules I spent 25 time theft minutes working on that graphic. Any questions, send an ask or an email!

#👀 perhaps I try it?

gatheringbones

[“When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaningless of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. One of my students wrote a story about a nun who got a piece of dental floss stuck between her lower left molars, and who couldn’t get it out all day long. I thought that was wonderful. The story dealt with issues a lot more important than dental floss, but what kept readers going was anxiety about when the dental floss would finally be removed. Nobody could read that story without fishing around in his mouth with a finger. Now, there’s an admirable practical joke for you. When you exclude plot, when you exclude anyone’s wanting anything, you exclude the reader, which is a mean-spirited thing to do.”]

kurt vonnegut

smokehoney

I have decided that all of my followers should see this. I can’t screen record anymore so pretend its a video. (From 8/9/25)

#me when im in a being homoerotic with my teammates challenge and my opponent is xander bogaerts #seeing him w everyone obsessed and hanging onto his every word. like coming home #dads posting

mirefireflies

“the ending is always the same”

war of the foxes - richard siken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology

#insp

raydandies

mutuals what are you majoring in at rpf university

#non linear narrative and heavy handed metaphors #also minoring in objectification ❤️

me: ugh guys I’m struggling to write this one without a strong external motivation i just think xander in my characterization wouldn’t fuck him on his own

x irl: talking abt his body in the postgame. hand on the back of his neck. wearing his damn glove.

#miami hallelujah fic may never exist but at least he’s trying to help #dadsposting #max talks #whys this the whole acc now #im not even a padsrpfer for the most part i just follow xander around wherever

HE’S BEEN WEARING HIS FUCKING GLOVE?

#I JUST NOTICED THIS IN THE PIC W JAKE FROM LAST NIGHT #WHAT ARE THEY DOING #padres mutuals do you have any insight here. please #dadsposting #max talks

canethatssecretlyasword-deactiv

i actually kinda like it when a character getting better includes them becoming weirder and less polite and more confusing and strange. no more "domestication" i wanna see the weird guy be weird!!!