i’m haunting your house. probably.

she/her. ghost story writer. AO3 @residentspook. perpetually living in a Halloween state of mind.

[triaelf9]

Surprise! So I had the honor of doing the M9 pre-show trivia art again, and here they are close-up! ^_^

It was a blast working with folks as always and so much fun coming back home to the M9. I hope you all enjoyed the arts!

[buckymilf]

so true steve

[ganen-cheese]

Life shall rise again in the spring breeze

[vampurrring]

Maybe if I was prettier. Or maybe if I was more horrifying actually

[sailormoonclassicseries]

[lyralit]

ʀᴇᴍɪɴᴅᴇʀꜱ ꜰᴏʀ ᴡʀɪᴛᴇʀꜱ <3

it's okay to stray from your story. go write that short fic you can't take your mind off of! give you—and your characters—a break.

you! won't! always! make! your! word! count! -- you don't need to keep stretching sentences because the scene you finally got right is a hundred words too short. sometimes it's better that way.

the "rules" and "tips" are just ~guidelines~ (especially for people who like to swear by them) -- writing has no laws. especially first drafts. scrap the grammar, scrap the emotional tips, write it because it feels right, not because someone else says so.

every writer procrastinates. it's not easy being a writer.

take time off for yourself. the only thing harder than writing a story is to keep pushing it when you need a break the most. come back to it later. I promise there will be no dumpster fires when you're gone.

all writing is "real" writing. I don't think there's an explanation here?? fiction writers are writers. nonfiction writers are writers. fanfic writers are writers. (like how all reading is real reading!! in every format, too!)

it doesn't need to be perfect. honestly, it might never be. but it can be really close to it. if you're not satisfied with it, move on and come back when you're ready.

you are just as skilled as any bestselling author. remember that everything you read has been heavily edited by teams of people! their first draft could not even be as good as yours is now.

not using clichés is cliché. you will find one in any story. no one can bring you down for liking a certain trope. just because it's common doesn't mean it's bad!

no writer is fully well-rounded. dialogue will be easier to write for some, and description for others.

and, finally, no one knows what they're doing. trust me. we're all stumbling around blind here.

[yourbuckies]

some more of my favorite fics:

Asymmetry • candlemaker If This Is As Far As We Go • BeauRadley my gaunt uneating heart • astrolesbian For the dead there is no story • hansbekhart Walk It Off • fannishlove, Thatswherethelightgetsin And you’ve got me wanting you. • barthelme a crack in everything • hiljainen i want it, i got it • bornes There’s So Much That You Want (You Deserve Much More Than This) • orphan_account Cat Person • The_She_Devil

[residentspook]

I was looking through my fic bookmarks and saw your fic "Thanking You Kindly" and I saw on tumblr that someone linked your old tumblr username and it autocorrected to here. I understand if you don't want to but I remember really enjoying that fic so I was wondering if you had a copy of it. I hope this isn't a bad reminder of the past.

Hi! I’m sorry this is super late in response, but thank you so much for messaging, I’m super flattered 💕

I took that fic off of AO3 because I started to work on it as an original work, incorporating my own characters, etc, so unfortunately I don’t have a copy I can share with you. Perhaps one day it will see the light of day 😂

[geezerwench]

X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get X-Men.

Black Panther is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Black Panther.

Captain America literally fought Nazis. He is the embodiment of fighting the alt-right. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Captain America.

The Empire in Star Wars is fascist. The Rebel alliance are Anti-Fascist. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Wars.

The Punisher isn’t meant to be a role model for police or armed forces. So much so that the writers of The Punisher made him actively speak out against it in a comic. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get The Punisher.

Deadpool is queer. He’s pansexual. Fact. If you didn’t get that you didn’t get Deadpool.

Star Trek is about equality for all genders, races and sexualities. As early as the mid-60s it was taking a pro-choice stance and defending women’s right to choose. One of its clearest themes is accepting different cultures and appearances and working together for peace. (It’s also anti-capitalist and pro-vegan). If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Trek.

Superman and Supergirl (and a whole host of other superheroes) are immigrants. The stance of those comics is pro-immigration and pro-equality and acceptance. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Superman or Supergirl.

Stan Lee said “Racism and bigotry are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today.” If you’re bigoted or racist, you didn’t get any of the characters Stan Lee created.

The stories we grew up with all taught us to value other people and cultures and to treasure the differences between us. Only villains were xenophobic, or sexist, or racist, or totalitarian. I can’t understand how anyone can have missed that.

If you’re upset that there’s a black Spider-Man, or a black Captain America, or a female Thor, or that Ms Marvel is Muslim, or that Captain Marvel was pro-feminism, or any of the other things right wing “fans” say is “stealing their childhood” - you never got it in the first place. The things you claim are now “pandering to the lefties” were never on your side to begin with.

If you consider yourself a fan of these things, but you still think the LGBTQ+ community is too “in your face”, or have a problem with Black Lives Matter, or want to “take the country back from immigrants”, then you’re not really a fan at all.

Geek culture isn’t suddenly left wing... it always was. You just grew up to be intolerant. You became the villain in the stories you used to love.

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Kenny Boyle - Actor and Playwright

07 June 2020

[viaov]

Waldemar van Kozak, Friday 13

[blackbirdcall]

[42paintbrushes]

Just a couple of wizards doing wizard things

[kurosmind]

Clerics recommend to schnuggle your wizard first thing in the morning

[saturdaysky]

a shadowgast prompt for you: a nap in the middle of a study session~

at long last, coziness appears!

it was stormy and I had all my fairy lights on last night, so I unearthed and touched up this old WIP. enjoy~

[zmeess]

i asked my twitter followers for memes in exchange for this shadowgast picture and i received so many memes god bless. please enjoy some silly wizards

[neinofthem]

essek: caleb did you fight a demigod. caleb answer me did you fight the fucking ocean.

caleb, tenderly cradling his face: you’re so hot.

[luckthebard]

Perfect. Look how fancy he’s become.