ur problematique fave

etienne / he/they / 21+ / a 3.1 out of 5 according to goodreads

[problematiquefics]

it's funny to me that non-Americans trying rootbeer for the 1st time will dislike it because it's too medicinal, while Americans dislike it because it's too sweet.

[longwaaaaa]

oopsie🫣🫣

[augustwritingchallenge]

Dear diary this list came to me in my dream! Looks like AU-gust 2026 is here...

What is AU-gust? It stands for Alternate Universe August, and it is a creative challenge for everyone. Writers, artists, fans; anyone can join! Be sure to check out our FAQ for more answers! Join us on BlueSky, AO3, Discord and under the tags #au gust and #au gust 2026.

Special thanks to @yaoyorozoops for creating our wonderful graphics!

[ID] 31 days challenge prompt list as follows: 1 Steampunk, 2 Roommates, 3 Boogyman, 4 Hero, 5 Farmers and Markets, 6 Magic Realism, 7 Long Lost Relative, 8 Alternate Timeline, 9 Seamstress, 10 Arthurian Mythos, 11 Small Business, 12 Reality TV, 13 Cults, 14 Isekai/Reincarnation, 15 Fourth Wall Broken, 16 Only One Bed, 17 Time Travel Fix-It, 18 Sirens, 19 Animal Trainer, 20 Graveyard Keeper, 21 Glitch in the Matrix, 22 Technopunk, 23 Midlife Crisis, 24 Post, 25 Monster Hunter, 26 Soul-bound, 27 Virtual Reality, 28 Bad End, 29 Survival, 30 Earth Two/New Planet, 31 Two of the Above. You have four Jokers: Not Related, Daemons, Furry, TTRPG Players.

[auroradiation]

To the God of Eternal Youth.

"Since the day I first laid a lock of my maiden's hair upon your altar, many decades have passed. Now I am old and withered, but you are still beautiful as ever."

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[hiveswap]

big fan of when you peel back all layers of a character and at the bottom of it there's love

[hiveswap]

why are they doing this? because they loved someone so much it caused the plot to happen. Grief counts btw

[hiveswap]

ESPECIALLY a big fan of when this isn't enough to make them a good person

[lypsys]

"Write character relationships that are normal" WRONG ☝ CODEPENDENCY BEAM 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

[midnightssea]

I think a lot of people would benefit from unlearning the idea that casual sex is inherently disgusting, harmful, or immoral just because they personally don’t want to partake in it. You can stand up for sexual safety and consent without acting like people who enjoy fucking strangers are degenerates. I take no issue with anyone asserting boundaries or stating that they’re not interested in certain kinds of sex or even sex as a whole. But when you condemn or express disgust at others for engaging in consensual sex, that’s when you start to sound like a puritan.

[midnightssea]

Btw, this includes self-proclaimed “feminists” who shame and lecture women for giving men “access” to their bodies. Bodies are not commodities and sex is not inherently transactional. You don’t lose anything by having sex on purpose with a person you find attractive. Sex is not some metaphysically transformative thing that bonds you to the other person forever. It is literally not that deep.

[thedorkurge]

What stage of durgetash brainrot is "Writing sad double-column poetry"

[sirexeclides]

Back to my Elric of Melniboné hyperfixation

I love this saga so much I can't even put it into words

Arioch is so homosexual for Elric

[rory-flynn]

sleepy studies

[yeats-infection]

hey Gen! I love your fics & I was wondering if you had any tips on plotting & pacing? I really admire how comfortably your writing flows, even w/ the pacing changing from story to story ... whereas my writing feels very still usually. & I'm ok w my prose & dialogue separately but I don't transition well between them. that's something I really admire about your writing!

hi! thank you <3 i’ve done a lot of thinking about this ask... one, because i think stillness can be good! it’s a different prose style with a meditative quality... i don’t necessarily think it’s something you need to “fix”! if you’d like to bring more flow into your writing i’d encourage you to think about balancing that with your stillness! (i sound like a yoga instructor.....) 

two, plotting is hard for (probably almost) everyone, but pacing has always felt pretty instinctive to me... but i realized there are some weird things i do especially between prose and dialogue. 

1) a good dialogue tip is to try reading some screenplays, or thinking about the writing when you watch TV or movies. one thing that screenplays do with much ease that is harder when you’re a prose writer is the [beat] thing. screenplays write in time for both the character and viewer to pause and digest. that both mimics how people actually behave and allows for non-dialogue elements like the scenery or the actor’s physicality to put us in the place. when i feel like there has to be a beat of digestion within dialogue, i try to use the beat for something the way they would in a movie. what is the character doing/feeling? what might they notice around them? that way you get to mix your prose in with the dialogue, and the dialogue is paced the way people actually talk and react. basically, think about the pauses that may come in natural conversation. can you fill in those pauses with prose? 

2) you need a lot less space than you think you do to say what you want to say. just getting across what you need to is really, truly enough! i often start writing a story from the top and then i write the pieces throughout where i know what happens and put a [ TK - what has to happen here ] between each piece. i usually write the hardest parts (which are usually the dialogue-heavy conflict parts) at the end. i always get really stressed about these pieces and think, these need to be like thousands of words of storytelling... but they often don’t need to be! they need to get the thing done and that’s it! 

3) can you write dialogue with movement? this is my go-to cheat haha... characters talking while driving, walking, etc... that way, the scenery keeps changing while they are speaking, so you have that excuse to keep weaving prose into the dialogue. that also interrupts the “stillness” with literal movement! 

i hope this helps! i’ll get into plotting another day, if that’s okay... that’s a whole different post....... 

[fuerrziah]

[neuters]

have a shitty ms paint style definitely-not-haunted-house

[rozzed]

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....

[rosieandthemoon]

by Elizabeth Elder

[sanctvvm]

made this for an AU i'm writing but i write so slowly i might as well post this here in the meantimeee

[ghostlydoggie]

the masculine urge to be told to lay there and take it like a good boy