silliest musings

my head is full of fog, fiction, and existential horror and memes. lots of memes

[thoughtkick]

“We need to have a mask that we never take off”

— Tokyo ghoul

[stealingpotatoes]

rereading your own fics/wips is a very slippery slope into finding out you actually have to finish your fics if you want them finished

[writingwithoutconfidence]

Welcome to the June Dialogue & Trope Challenge! (Also my first time ever doing one so forgive me if there's any mistakes)

Each day includes two prompts: ✦ A line of dialogue ✦ A trope

The dialogue and trope won't always seem like they fit together—and that's intentional! The fun is figuring out how to connect them. Maybe the dialogue is spoken by the hero. Maybe it's the villain. Maybe it's a memory, a lie, a prophecy, or something else entirely.

Interpret the prompts however you like: ✦ Any fandom or original characters ✦ Any genre ✦ Any length ✦ Any rating (just tag appropriately) ✦ Mix and match genres, tropes, and settings

If you participate, feel free to tag your work with #JuneDialogueTropeChallenge (long I know) so everyone can find and share each other's creations.

Happy writing!

Text version:

June 1: "Go ahead. Underestimate me." | Found Family June 2: "Don't make me regret saving you." | Kidnapping June 3: "I thought you were dead." | Fake Dating June 4: "Open the door." | Soulmates June 5: "You weren't supposed to hear that." | Friends to Lovers June 6: "Whose blood is that?" | Love Confession June 7: "You lied to me." | Apocalypse June 8: "You should've left me there." | Sacrifice June 9: "You're late." | Possession June 10: "I heard you screaming." | Rivals June 11: "Take my hand." | Betrayal June 12: "I wasn't supposed to survive." | Alternate Universe June 13: "Why are you looking at me like that?" | Chosen One June 14: "How long have you known?" | Monster Hunt June 15: "Trust me." | Doppelgänger June 16: "You shouldn't be here." | Reunion June 17: "I can explain." | Ghosts June 18: "Who did this to you?" | Time Loop June 19: "That's impossible." | Character Study June 20: "Don't touch me." | Prophecy June 21: "I never stopped looking." | Forbidden Magic June 22: "You promised." | Enemies to Lovers June 23: "I remember your voice." | Reunion June 24: "What aren't you telling me?" | Soulmates June 25: "They're lying." | Redemption Arc June 26: "Wait. You're alive?" | Secret Society June 27: "You left me." | Vigilante June 28: "It's not safe after dark." | Haunted House June 29: "Look at me." | Deal With The Devil June 30: "You came back." | Murder Mystery

Have fun!!

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

if you comment some demanding shit like this on fanfic writers’ works, you don’t deserve the privilege of getting to read fanfiction for free

[killergirlfuria]

Fun fact! Demanding updates is also likely to make authors delay them, either out of spite, or because you bring their mood too low to effectively write!

For me it causes both <3

[silliestmusings]

Or spite-delete the fic entirely.

[monthlywritingchallenges]

Past prompt list

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Missed a month? Don’t worry! Creativity doesn’t expire. Our past prompt list is here for anyone who wants to revisit old challenges, find inspiration, or simply write at their own pace.

2024:

Comforcember

2025:

January Song Challenge

Finding February

Matching March

April Showers

Moodboard May

Just one June

Golden Hour

Summer Vacation

Sparktember

Darktober

Nostalgic November

Dreadcember

2026:

Reset January

February Tag Challenge

Mating March

AUpril

MisadventureMay

MoonJune

Whether you’re catching up or discovering new favorites, every prompt is still open.

Tag your work with @monthlywritingchallenges so we can see what you create, no matter the month.

Have fun writing!

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[monthlywritingchallenges]

Past prompt list

❄️🌱☀️🍁❄️🌱☀️🍁❄️🌱☀️🍁❄️🌱☀️🍁

Missed a month? Don’t worry! Creativity doesn’t expire. Our past prompt list is here for anyone who wants to revisit old challenges, find inspiration, or simply write at their own pace.

2024:

Comforcember

2025:

January Song Challenge

Finding February

Matching March

April Showers

Moodboard May

Just one June

Golden Hour

Summer Vacation

Sparktember

Darktober

Nostalgic November

Dreadcember

2026:

Reset January

February Tag Challenge

Mating March

AUpril

MisadventureMay

MoonJune

Whether you’re catching up or discovering new favorites, every prompt is still open.

Tag your work with @monthlywritingchallenges so we can see what you create, no matter the month.

Have fun writing!

❄️🌱☀️🍁❄️🌱☀️🍁❄️🌱☀️🍁❄️🌱☀️🍁

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

there will always be a calling with your name on it. always. maybe not today. maybe not next week. maybe not while you’re sitting in that uncomfortable posture staring at the your screen, disassociated, mourning the person you used to be at 17, back when the future felt ENORMOUS. but eventually something will tap you on the shoulder and you’ll have the epiphany: a book or a person. some city. could be the literal wind before a storm, a random stranger smiling. a patch of saturated light on the floor.

but eventually something will look directly at you, it’ll hold you by your face and lock eyes with you and in the most electric way possible scream at you: “YOU NEED TO GET UP. WE ARE NOT DONE YET”

[gromqueer]

sometimes writing fanfiction is like building a fire because you're cold but then you find out more people are also cold so they gather around the fire and you all warm up together and then someone else builds a fire and you visit their fire and so no matter where you go, which fandom it is, what concept someone may be looking for, someone out there has a fire for you

[luna-azzurra]

Dark Forest & Woodland Names!!

˙⋆✮ Rowan ˙⋆✮ Fernsby ˙⋆✮ Sylvan ˙⋆✮ Briar ˙⋆✮ Wren ˙⋆✮Ashwood ˙⋆✮ Moss ˙⋆✮ Hazel ˙⋆✮ Cormac ˙⋆✮ Thornwood ˙⋆✮ Ivy ˙⋆✮ Aldric ˙⋆✮ Galen ˙⋆✮ Nettle ˙⋆✮ Birch ˙⋆✮Sylvie ˙⋆✮ Fable ˙⋆✮ Oakley ˙⋆✮ Wilder ˙⋆✮ Sedge ˙⋆✮ Elara ˙⋆✮ Bramble ˙⋆✮ Reed ˙⋆✮ Lowen ˙⋆✮ Sorrel ˙⋆✮ Thicket ˙⋆✮ Ash ˙⋆✮ Elowen ˙⋆✮ Grove ˙⋆✮ Foxglove ˙⋆✮ Cade ˙⋆✮Hollow ˙⋆✮ Lyra ˙⋆✮ Thorn ˙⋆✮ Mistral ˙⋆✮ Fern ˙⋆✮Coppice ˙⋆✮ Ember ˙⋆✮ Stag ˙⋆✮ Alder

[monthlywritingchallenges]

1. Eclipse

2. Nocturne

3. Silver

4. Shadow

5. Whisper

6. Dream

7. Veil

8. Mystery

9. Glow

10. Abyss

11. Starlight

12. Tide

13. Phantom

14. Midnight

15. Reflection

16. Enchant

17. Dusk

18. Ether

19. Obsidian

20. Lullaby

21. Crescent

22. Silence

23. Mirage

24. Velvet

25. Halo

26. Forgotten

27. Ritual

28. Solitude

29. Luminary

30. Eternal

Your thirty prompts for Moon-June! 🌑Here is the Ao3 collection as well.

Have fun and tag us!

[ellipsus-writes]

Pope Leo XIV wrote 42.3K words on human dignity in the age of AI. (But Ellipsus has written over 65K words on the topic since 2023. 💪)

Solidarity is a weird thing… all of a sudden you’re seeing the Pope on your dash and the tea is… piping hot? (To offset the Vatican.va link, here's a tl;dr from The Onion.) ... Look at him go!

(Disagreements with his Holiness aside, it’s great to see a powerful figure power taking the side of the people.) ... EDIT: Wake up babe, a new Inquisition just dropped - apparently, not even the Pope can escape being wrongly accused by AI "verifiers."

[artofflorescence]

the kind of angst that really gets me is betrayal— but specifically the kind that is quiet and hopeless and heartwrenching. angst with betrayal always gets me but it’s the ones where the protagonist is like “I knew this would happened, but I loved you anyways and I am no god, so I will still die and in the end it does not matter than you ripped me to pieces. In one hundred years, no one will remember me. So— At least the bliss was real— if ever so fleeting, if ever so temporary, because I too am transient.”

It doesn’t have to be betrayal that ends in death either, its just betrayal that creeps in and at the end, when it’s been revealed, instead of surprise, or shock, or anger, it’s this desolation. This helpless hopelessness of all along, I knew this would happen but I let it, because at least I could pretend, for just a moment. It’s when the protagonist can’t help but ask, “You too?” resigned, and aching in all the ways that blood does not touch. Instead of fury, it’s “Of course, you’d leave too. Of course, this wasn’t real. How could it be?” It’s just the tiredness of “Just go. Please, just leave me here. Haven’t you done enough already?”

Not a why, but I knew. I expected it. It was always going to end like this.

I saw it in the little moments, and your quiet guilt or maybe it was cold nonchalance. It doesn’t matter. I knew you’d be the death of me (or my heart). Maybe I live. Maybe I don’t.

But I’ve always known.

[kokoasci]

Project T2 is now available to read on Webtoon Canvas!!

Project T2

After a great nuclear war, society has rebuilt to make the city-state of Nova, dividing itself into hundreds of guilds specializing in the d

Project T2 is a sci-fi action indie manga set far into a post-apocalyptic future. After a great nuclear war destroyed the countries where it once stood, society has rebuilt to make the city-state of Nova, which divides itself into hundreds of guilds specializing in the different labor specialties a city needs to thrive, each seeking political power to better society in its own view. Seven citizens, each with different goals, values, and guild loyalties find themselves tangled in the web of a mysterious collusion called Project T2, which threatens to shatter Nova’s already fragile political system and hides a dark secret about the society humanity has recradled itself in.

The first three chapters are available with the fourth on the way! I'm hoping to update this monthly-ish

if you read these chapters please know it means the world to me :) i worked so. so hard on this so any sort of shares, reshares, anything would be so amazing!! Thank you SO SO MUCH to everyone who's supporting this project for so long, i truly don't think i would have gotten to a debut if people weren't so supportive

[luna-azzurra]

Things to consider when writing a character!! --1

⊹ What do they want vs what do they need. these should not be the same thing. what they want is the surface goal ( the job, the person, the revenge, the answer.) What they need is the thing underneath that they can't name yet. The story is what happens in the gap between those two things. if they're identical your character has nowhere to go.

⊹ What are they wrong about. Not morally wrong necessarily. just. what belief do they hold that the story is going to test. What assumption do they make about themselves or the world that turns out to be incomplete? A character without a wrong belief is already finished. They have no arc, give them something to learn even if learning it hurts them.

⊹ How do they talk when they're nervous. Do they go quiet or do they talk too much? do they deflect with jokes? do they get weirdly formal? do they ask questions instead of answering them? the way a person behaves under pressure is who they actually are. And it should be different from how they behave when they're comfortable.

⊹ What do they find funny. this one sounds small and it is not small at all. Humour is worldview. What makes someone laugh tells you what they value, what they're afraid of, how they handle pain. A character with no sense of humour is just flat. even the gravest person finds something absurd. find the thing.

⊹ What are they ashamed of? not their tragic backstory. their actual shame. The small ugly thing they would never say out loud. The time they were a coward. The feeling they pretend not to have. The desire they think disqualifies them from being a good person. Shame is where the most interesting character work lives and most writers skip straight over it :(

⊹ What do they do when no one is watching? how do they move through a space alone. What do they reach for when they're sad. What do they do with their hands??? Public behaviour IS performance. Private behaviour is truth. you don't have to show all of it but you have to know it or the character will feel hollow in a way the reader notices without being able to name.

[quotefeeling]

“I believe in the kind of love that doesn’t demand me to prove my worth and sit in anxiety … Something that allows me to me without question.”

— Joey Palermo

[hymnfell]

[vexheart]

Some luxuries can’t be bought — they’re simply felt in the quiet moments. ☕📖✨