Dawnbringer

I've bit the nail I've swallowed truth I've fought through hell so who the fuck are you? You’ll never get to me But I’ll get to you I am the ugly truth

[luna-azzurra]

Found family dynamics!!!

˙⋆✮ The moment a group of strangers became something nobody had a word for yet

˙⋆✮ Showing up to something alone and leaving with people who felt inevitable

˙⋆✮ The table that expanded without discussion every time someone new needed a seat

˙⋆✮ Inside jokes built so fast it felt like they'd always existed

˙⋆✮ Choosing each other in the specific way biology never gave them the option to

˙⋆✮ The house that became home because of who was in it and not what it was

˙⋆✮ Fighting like siblings with people who share no blood and meaning every bit of it

˙⋆✮ The role each person fell into naturally that nobody assigned but everyone honors

˙⋆✮ Showing up at 2am with no explanation required and none given

˙⋆✮ The way grief moves through a chosen family with the same weight as any other kind

˙⋆✮ Celebrating milestones for people whose early years they never knew and feeling the loss of that

˙⋆✮ The unspoken agreement to never make anyone feel like a guest in the space they built together

˙⋆✮ Someone becoming mom or dad or sibling shaped without the title ever being used out loud

˙⋆✮ The holiday tradition invented from scratch because the old ones didn't fit anymore

˙⋆✮ Defending each other in rooms the others will never enter with a ferocity that surprises everyone

˙⋆✮ The photograph where everyone is laughing and nobody remembers what started it

˙⋆✮ Loving people through versions of themselves because they were there for all of them

˙⋆✮ The new member who arrived broken and was simply absorbed without making it a thing

˙⋆✮ Being known completely by people who had no obligation to stay and stayed anyway

˙⋆✮ The family that was built instead of inherited and loved twice as fiercely for it

[amaraqwolf]

Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

[willow-wanderings]

It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.

The only things that work without rest are machines; literally everything that lives requires rest.

EVERYTHING THAT LIVES REQUIRES REST. STOP JUDGING YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING A ROBOT.

[roach-works]

robots require very frequent breaks! welding machines generally have it programmed in that they can’t run so long they melt themselves. ive overseen two different manufacturing robots now and each of them were fragile, finicky idiots that require constant maintenance and repair. they pause in between moves, in between jobs. you’re always keeping an eye on programming errors, on coolant levels, on heat. you’re always pulling bits of scrap out of joints, sweeping up debris, washing off nozzles and untangling hoses. and even then it snaps a chain and takes a whole morning’s vacation.

even robots need downtime.

[quantumphoenixblue]

It is a day ending in Y and so I am Experiencing Emotions about the relationship between Ghosts and their Guardians.

[naminaer]

i've wanted to try my hand at an aerith-inspired namine look for a while. clothing is NOT my strong suit but the vision is there. i think.

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[luna-azzurra]

Your First Draft Is Supposed to Be Awful

Somewhere, in some cursed corner of the internet, a writer whispered the dangerous idea that your first draft should be… good. And like all bad ideas, it spread. Suddenly, everyone’s trying to make their draft read like it could be printed and shelved in the bookstore tomorrow. Which is ridiculous.

Your first draft isn’t a book. It’s… well, it’s barely even a thing. It’s the ugly braindump you slap down before the real work begins. The plot doesn’t make sense yet. Half the characters sound the same. There’s a paragraph in chapter six you don’t even remember writing. And that’s totally fine.

Right now, your only job is to get the story out of your head and onto a page before it rots in there. Forget about making it pretty or “good.” You’ll get to that later. <3

[doriangraysrockcollection]

i must say, i am a huge fan of when a book is in the middle of a very exciting plot containing many interesting problems when out of nowhere for a few pages it's like, "hey by the way, real quick, here's a detailed explanation of the city's water filtration system! i'm telling you this for a reason and you should worry about it. anyway! haha okay back to the plot" and you just get to be Scared for a while

[doriangraysrockcollection]

i am kissing you on the mouth right now

you are the only person who understands me. you and the person who tagged a series of unfortunate events

[puncertainty]

a leap of faith !

[space-wizards]

There are some really, really important lore cards on random cosmetics in the Monument of Triumph.

Also, this thing!

[bioluminosity]

Do Not Go Gentle:

a collaborative comic for the light, dark, and against the end of all things

credits to:

@eiramew (hive, rhulk) @toastoat (zavala) @ninthriven (cayde-6) and @rivaldi22 (logistics)

[fermi-on]

brb being really emo about ghost

[helianthusdoodles]

Your Ghost makes a list of the things he wishes he could say to you:

“I’m here. I’m still here.”

- Thin Line lore entry

[phantomrose96]

When you meet Edward Elric he gives off the impression that he's the short-tempered hot-headed "violence is the answer to all life's questions" kind of protagonist, and it's in fact incredible character craft that he's actually the character who ends the series with a negative-3 kill count.

[phantomrose96]

people killed: 0

direct orders of "you really really need to kill this guy" ignored: 1

ongoing murders being committed by Ed's own friends/colleagues that Ed got in the way of to specifically stop that murder from happening: 2

[phantomrose96]

God's worst soldier Edward Elric. Showed up as the youngest member of the Amestrian army, took millions of dollars from them, never followed a single order, helped dismantle their fascist regime, left with a lower kill count than he arrived with, then fucked off to go be a house-husband. Character of all time.

[brainstreams]

Underused Ways to Write Nonverbal Characters (Without Making Them Silent and Forgettable)

• They answer questions with timing instead of words

• They tap or gesture toward objects instead of explaining

• Their expressions react a beat before everyone else processes something

• They repeat small gestures that the people close to them learn to read

• They tilt their head instead of asking a question

• Withdraws into focused work when emotional rather than seeking conversation

• Their body language is emphasized

• They communicate urgency through movement, not sound

• They might use sign language, texting/notes, gestures, or expressions with basic sound

• Keeps track of details about people (favorite food, routines, habits) and uses those details to show that they care)

• A sarcastic nonverbal character might rely heavily on eye rolls, slow claps, and deadpan stares

• A shy one might use tiny gestures, hesitant touches, and lots of eye contact avoidance.

• Solves problems immediately instead of discussing them

• A confident one might use bold gestures, direct eye contact, and very confident physical language

• They interrupt conversations physically instead of verbally

• They point things out others missed because they’re always observing

• They respond to tone, mood, and tension faster than dialogue

• They use eye contact very deliberately

• They hand people objects instead of explaining what they mean

• They create their own small signals with people they trust

• They pay attention to things everyone else misses

Follow for more! <3

[solarmane]

new fanfic writer who has marked their work completed ao3 only to leave a note at the end saying: thanks for all the support guys if you want to read the rest of the fic subscribe to my patreon :)

me, an elder fandom veteran, suddenly having anne rice flashbacks:

no.

NO.

starting to rock back and fourth.

you do not understand.

you were born into an age of peace. i was there Gandalf. i was there three thousand years ago. i remember the cease and desists. i remember authors hunting fanfic writers for sport. i remember when every fic opened with a disclaimer because we genuinely thought it might protect us.

we do not charge money for the copyrighted gay wizard stories.

do not tempt fate youngling.

step away from the paywall.

that is how you summon the ancient evils.

that is how you wake the lawyers.

[odins-price]

Remember people, this is against AO3s terms of service. If you see a fic that does this REPORT THAT THING!!! These people may not know better or they might, but them doing this has the potential to ruin things for everyone.

[peppermintquartz]

Tell the writer to read the TOS. Writers absolutely CANNOT ask for payment in exchange for fanfic. If they won't take it down ASAP, report it to AO3.

[theslowesthnery]

when someone is completely fucking wrong about your blorbo but you don't want to argue about what basically boils down to opinions about shit that doesn't matter so you just sit there like

"that guy's wrong tho"

[theslowesthnery]

you get it

[selfship-quotes]

I love soulmates but also this-

[qilingxiong]