a drag path, etched in the surface

belle. 23. they/them. nonbinary dyke.

[punkscully]

hi, i'm belle!

theatre student + musician + writer of sorts

lesbian boyfriend

a mess of fandoms. i mostly talk about speculative fiction, film & tv, languages, writing, and rock music

🗣️ — english / español

-> currently loving: project hail mary, pluribus, dc comics, spiderman, stranger things, the x-files

📺: the good place + silo

📖: just kids

🎧: ‘incarnate’ by THEATRE

fandoms | interests

-> other haunts:

ao3 | spotify | letterboxd | serializd | storygraph

mutuals: ask for my discord or instagram!

[punkscully]

i love miserable female characters who would rather die than admit it

[carolsturkas]

"It all started right here, as you obviously know.."

[punkscully]

manousos oviedo mi colombiano favorito :]

[dykeselfcest]

finally watching the only pluribus video essay that has looked even remotely decent to me ("pluribus, and why anything matters at all") and I was slightly nervous about some framing at the beginning but not in a deal-breaker way, and he's very much expanding things and adding nuance. also he won a lot of points with me early on by saying "it's like how frankenstein isn't about a green monster, it's about being a woman" and then "helen umstead. yeah, I know her last name. from the mail." [zoom on the envelope that showed her name]

[dykeselfcest]

okay yeah I've been entirely won over lmao

[dykeselfcest]

he didn't really challenge the idea of helen being her True Real Love who's perfect for her but I forgive him because he also lamented the lack of helen fancams and referred to miriam shor by name

[cheddar-baby]

i could smell your boytoy coming from down the road. Wretched little rotted morsel of a thing, may he fall to time and become carrion

[kosmogrl]

they should invent a yourself you can forgive

[cpericardium]

Carol is literally always injecting Zosia with random substances and blowing her up with explosives. Tom & Jerry type relationship

[thankeschoen]

girl realising they’re a lesbian call that 💡yurika  

[headspace-hotel]

i hate how you get desensitized to the cool stuff in your WIP if you've been writing it for a long time so when you read back over it you're like "this isn't as cool as i thought :(" but it still is! you just read it too many times

[headspace-hotel]

Gotta recirculate this post periodically just cuz

[martinkhall]

Just don't read the post too many times.

[headspace-hotel]

Oh god oh fuck

[moveslikekeithrichards]

this might be kind of a reach but is there a way for printers to connect to devices so that documents can be printed from them

[doomedblade]

Do you have any writing advice? you're really good at it :)

first of all waow thank you anon! complimenting my writing has me kicking my feet and squirming so i really appreciate it waaaah.......

secondly, this is kind of a broad question, but i think the places where i see people trip over the most when i'm reading their writing is actually in sentences. :p plot + characterisation are actually pretty easy; it's the sentence-level stuff that i think people (myself included. btw) need to focus on more

i try to keep these questions in mind when i'm writing, and ideally every sentence should have a 'yes' answer to at least half of the below:

does this sentence propel the narrative? are we one step further along than we were?

does this sentence contain micro-pacing? does the rhythm of the sentence match the mood?

does the sentence tell you something about the narrator?

is there varied sentence architecture?

is there exposition? and, harder question: is it invisible?

is the spatial blocking good? do we actually know where each character is in the room?

i dont mean you should literally read Every sentence in your work and go "hmm... yes or no...." with a pen and paper because you'd never get anything done, but more that it's a good idea to keep the sort of broad strokes of these in your mind when you're writing

i hope that's helpfullll! writing, like most stuff, isn't a talent but a skill you can refine so honestly reading a lot + writing a lot are the two best things you can do to improve <3

[segamascott]

[stainedinink-deactivated2026041]

reblog to give the pervious person a nice rock

[redlipstickresurrected]

Michele Poirier-Mozzone (American, based MA, USA) - Sidekicks II, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[danceundersparklinglights]

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

[carolsturka]

carol sturka top gentleman moments

putting down her own shit to hold the door open for zosia

reaching across zosia's bed to get the straw that was closer to zosia

picking up helen's luggage when she didn't have to

forgetting to hold the door open to zosia but trying to do it anyway