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[redlands-writing]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply  Relationships: Bakura Ryou/Yami Bakura  Characters: Bakura Ryou, Yami Bakura  Additional Tags: Angst and Fluff, mentions of death/loss, Parasite/Host Relationship, Battle City Era, Gift Fic, Yugioh Secret Santa 2025, we got some good tendies here! i love them being idiots, Ryou calls Yami Bakura "karinushi" (tenant)  Summary:

Bakura was a parasite, sinking himself into Ryou's skin and bones. And maybe Ryou liked it, liked Bakura's company.

gift fic for @ohnomirrorcoat for the Yugayohs Secret Santa!  i had a blast writing this.  i fucken love tendies, and will 100% be writing them again for sure.  thanks so much for the prompt too!  :D

[redlands-writing]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bakura Ryou/Yami Marik Characters: Bakura Ryou, Yami Marik Additional Tags: Fluff and Smut, Eventual Smut, Shower Sex, transmasc ryou bakura, Yami Malik's Name is Khinjar, Biting, Blood Drinking, Leaving Briuses, mentions of cannibalism, Alternate Universe - Postcanon, based on an rp, Gift Fic, if I missed any tags lmk, this is my first published smut fic shhhh Summary:

They found exactly what they needed.

Gift fic for @lynkiedoodle :) merry crimis broski :D

[write-on-world]

[for-the-freaks-and-geeks]

[lizardsfromspace]

Oh no! You committed to the bit too hard & it developed lore

[greenspacefish]

That moment when you realize your entire WIP has just been you processing your trauma through various characters and giving yourself the comfort and space you need to process through those characters because you don’t have years to let yourself fuck off and be shitty bc you got hurt but your mc sure does

[azrielsshadows42]

There are two types of writers:

1. 'It's fiction, it doesn't need to make sense!'

2. 'I didn't account for the rotation of the planet and how that affects the constalations while my characters stargazed at different times of year, I have failed as a writer, and this entire thing is trash'

[glassfrogforest]

[melodicwriter]

[bramble-berries]

your writing does not have to be outstanding or exceptional. seriously, I read books all the time with just average writing, maybe some of the minor characters are one dimensional and cliched, maybe the dialogue is a little cheesy, maybe the plot is a little shaky, but the characters and their dire situation have hooked me. your story doesn’t have to be 5 stars to be worth writing and sharing and it will find the people who will love it.

[saltwaterscully]

what you must understand is that i have five incredible fan fictions in the works. and you might never see any of them

[madisonissneezing]

how to write endings that don’t let readers sleep

✦ killing everyone is lazy. corpses are boring. the real cruelty is survival—but the kind of survival where the character will never sleep right again. give them trauma, paranoia, scars that don’t heal. it’s way worse than a clean death.

✦ horror endings should feel unfinished. neat bows are for romance novels. if your reader closes the book thinking “oh good, it’s over,” you’ve failed. the best endings itch. they should feel like there’s still something lurking just off the page.

✦ leave something unresolved. don’t describe the monster’s body—describe the mug it left behind. the voicemail still playing. the dog still waiting at the door. absence is scarier than closure.

✦ the last line is everything. it should feel like a splinter under the skin. short, sharp, unforgettable.

examples:

“she turned off the light. something else turned it back on.”

“the baby monitor crackled: don’t forget to feed me.”

“his reflection waved first.”

“she tucked herself into bed. then felt the blanket tuck tighter from the other side.”

✦ horror doesn’t end when the book closes. horror ends when the reader stops thinking about it… which should be never. the goal is for them to set your story down, turn off the lights, and then immediately turn them back on again because something in the silence feels too heavy.

[madisonissneezing]

how to write monsters that actually scare and not sparkle

✦ first rule: don’t over-explain. once you give me the monster’s exact height, weight, claw count, and dental record, it’s not scary anymore. it’s a pokémon. mystery is the muscle. a shadow that almost looks human will always hit harder than a full description of a swamp beast. leave gaps. let the reader’s brain fill them in with their own worst fear.

✦ physics should not apply. horror monsters are terrifying when they break the rules of the world we think we understand. a body folding in ways it shouldn’t. joints bending the wrong direction. silence in a place that should echo. footsteps that sound like they’re coming from the ceiling instead of the floor. once you warp reality, the reader doesn’t feel safe in their own.

✦ chasing is fine. but waiting is worse. scarier than claws, scarier than snarling—try a monster that just stands in the corner and watches. even scarier? it smiles. because predators don’t smile unless they know something you don’t.

✦ let it act like it knows you. a growl is scary, sure, but a whisper of your name in the dark is worse. a hiss of your birthday. a laugh in your mother’s voice. monsters are no longer “other” once they feel personal. they’re invasive. they’re inside your head.

✦ bonus tip: give them wrong appetites. a monster that eats flesh is cliché. a monster that eats wallpaper? horrifying. one that eats memories, so a character wakes up without knowing their own name? disgusting. one that eats reflections from mirrors so you don’t see yourself anymore? revolting.

[writercultureis]

somewhere out there, a writer is looking at the anguished keysmash and string of emojis you left on their fics and smiling. somewhere out there, somebody's shitty day has been made a teensy bit brighter because of you said you want them to update their writing. somebody who's feeling insecure about their story is sitting down to write a few more paragraphs because you said you loved their style.

you may have left a detailed paragraph about the structure of their sentences and their usage of extended metaphors. you may have also left a "COMPLETE PERFECTION. PLEASE WRITE MORE I NEED IT". we love you and need your validation more than oxygen nonetheless. 🫵 go comment on somebody's fic

[r0ttdweller]

—and so september comes to it’s narrowing end.

[nondelphic]

writing isn’t hard. i just have to extract 80,000 words from my brain using sheer psychic force

[yohjimuse]

[scribefindegil]

someone: hey I noticed this thing you did in your writing!

me, kicking my feet up flirtatiously: oh??? do you want to hear my thoughts on why I did that? do you want a play-by-play of the language choices in every related sentence? do you want an exhaustive breakdown of The Themes???