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Art for @sisdukewrites’s sweet child of ours (thank you)
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Relationships: Stacie Conrad/Aubrey Posen Characters: Stacie Conrad, Aubrey Posen, Bella Conrad Summary: They're stable, they're in love, and they even have a child together, so what's next on the agenda for Aubrey and Stacie?
(A ring may be in order.)
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"What do you want?"
"That's a dangerous question."
...
"I can't give you Posen if you're gonna say that."
Artwork for @sisdukewrites‘s “can’t we be seventeen” for Staubrey Week Day 1: Soulmates
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“I’ll see you in calc,” Aubrey said lowly, waving the paper in her hands up and down, eyes darting down to it and then back up to Stacie’s own grey-green ones. “And chem. And gov.”
Stacie finally snapped out of her daze and took the schedule, smile brightening when Aubrey’s words registered. She tapped the table one last time before saying, “I’m counting the seconds.”
I just wanna let y’all know that you do fanfic tropes all of the time, we just don’t describe them like beginning writers do. You:
Push your shoes off with your toes or with the tip of your shoe, most likely. Props for drama if you yank your converse or your vans or your boots off like a soldier in a scyfi drama, but otherwise, you’re “toeing your shoes off”
Humans are much better at dissecting scents than we give ourselves credit for. If you sit there long enough, you could dissect how your friend smells. I smell like “old, beat up cars, the sour citrus he isn’t supposed to have, and something musty and natural and unique to him that clings to all of his clothes.” In order that’s old flannel, three day old hair mousse, and fish tank water. Smells like cigarettes and oils cling to your clothes, stuff like fishtanks and the food in your kitchen seeps into your belongings. Don’t feel bad about describing scents, people carry our houses with us everywhere.
Have you ever pet someone else’s hair? That’s “carding your fingers through.” That’s it. It’s the same thing.
Ever walked around barefoot? Its three am and you’re trying to make Dark Lunch? You’ve padded around. You signal to other people nonverbally whether its coughing or sighing that you’re there so that you don’t scare them.
Smirking is a thing most of us do with our face. Grinning, looking cheeky, and raising our eyebrows are also all things your face does. Sorry :/
You might not get this if you’re a straight girl whose never had sex, but sometimes that little strip of skin between ya shirt and ya hips? The mouth can go there. That’s an intimate place to touch and its a vulnerable place to be exposed. Overused maybe, but a valid way to show a shift in the situation.
We all sigh!! Are some of y’all really saying that sighing isn’t a thing you do ten thousand times a week?? You don’t sigh when someone says something stupid as shit?? You don’t sigh when you gotta get up??
SAID IS A VALID WORD
Everything on your face casts shadows, I’m sorry you have weak eyelashes, or that somehow your brows are flat with your eyeballs
People laugh silently! I’m sorry you’ve never laughed that hard!! People giggle! People snort! People double over and move and flail! Have you ever fucking laughed?
For that matter how do y’all not blush and can you teach me
I’d also like to say sorry if: your heart has never skipped a beat reading something terrible, or when you saw someone you liked even platonically, or if you’ve never been so surprised all you could do was blink, that you never looked at someone like you loved them, and that you somehow never fucking show any emotion in your voice or your posture at all
Tl;Dr: Some of y’all are dragging people for shit you don’t know how to describe and damn if you ain’t still reading things and then telling beginning writers that they’re describing impossible things and writing weirdly when y’all don’t even write shit, its obnoxious as hell. To y’all that do write and are aggressively against this post, I bet you sure as hell use EPITHETS INAPPROPRIATELY ANYWAY, DON’T YA?
OP knows the deal. Besides, anyone who thinks “using tropes” in fiction is a bad thing doesn’t know what a trope is to begin with, and is just looking for ways to make themselves feel better about their pitiful existence by pretending they know what they’re talking about to put others down; you can safely ignore anything an “anti-trope” person says about writing in general, and… well, anything, really.
Every story you love uses tropes. Every type of protagonist, antagonist, and conflict is a trope. Everything written by Shakespeare, Miéville, Atwood, Gaiman, Pratchett, and so on? Chock full o’ chewy trope goodness. “Ordinary person becomes a hero” is a trope. “Seemingly-ordinary person is actually the Chosen One” is a trope. “Tragic Hero” is a trope. “Human against __________” (fill in the blank) is a trope.
“Trope” and “cliché “ are NOT synonyms. Certain tropes can (and have) become tired and cliché through over-use, but even clichés are okay if you do them well enough (or if you hang a lantern on them) and know when to stop.
Using a tired, worn-out, overused trope is one thing. Using tropes in general, though? Without tropes, you have no stories.
So what is a trope? Here’s a quick and dirty run-down. Usually when we talk about tropes in writing groups, we mean anything in a story that can be expressed as a simple concept, and that we can find general examples of elsewhere. (“Okay, so you’re going with the ‘reluctant hero’ and ‘tragic here’ tropes here.”) It’s no crime not to know every term professionals use when discussing writing, but it’s pretty fucked up to criticize someone for using tropes when you don’t even know what they are.
Oh, and just to go a bit harder on one particular point before I go–people who say things like, “said is dead” should just… stop saying things. Like, in general. If your story is boring with “said,” it’s going to remain boring no matter how many thesauruses you pillage and strip-mine for increasingly-stretched synonyms.
alexis knapp as stacie conrad in pitch perfect 2
character in a fight scene: *restrains their opponent by pinning them against the wall by their wrists*
me:
character in a fight scene: *pins their opponent down by straddling their waist and holding their wrists to the floor*
me:
character in a fight scene: *lifting their disarmed opponent’s chin slightly with the business end of their weapon*
me:
character in a fight scene: [ spits their own blood into their opponent’s face ]
me:
character in a fight scene: *restrains their opponent by grabbing at their hair and pulling them in to whisper huskily into their ear*
me:
Characters in a fight scene: *have both their weapons on each other, making it mutually assured destruction if either one makes their move*
Me:
Enemies to “ugh I can’t believe I’m saving your life” to “ugh we have to work together or the world ends but it’s not like I like you or anything” to “oh we actually connect pretty well but that doesn’t mean anything” to “I would die for you but don’t read too much into it” to “I’ll kill anyone who lays a finger on you” to Lovers.
REBLOG if you have amazing, talented WRITER friends.
Because I certainly do, and I love every single one of them and their work.
Yeah I do!!
@theslytherinintheroom @too-coolio-for-youlio1 @agent-absinthe @reformedkingsmanagent @agent-thorn @missredherring @thatdamnokie and many many more❤️❤️❤️❤️
and @bloodofthepen, and @tinkishmalone, and @whirlybirbs and @cyber-nya and @multi-fandomxmess and @ghostriderofthearagon and @agentargus…
@a-r-i-l , @lxyaltxafault , and @victorious-sigyn
@whistler-king , @kfawkes , @gryffindorwriter , @flippingeggsy there’s so many people on here that are amazing
My god, lets be honest I don’t deserve this but I would like to second @reformedkingsmanagent where the book?!
gay people be like. hands.
Definitely Kari.
Also, we be like. Leg.
Hi and welcome to the official promo post for Staubrey Week!
Staubrey Week will take place March 3rd through March 9th. Anyone and everyone is welcome to participate! Be as creative as you want, you’re welcome to post anything you like, be it fanfiction, fanart, fanvids, playlists, edits, moodboards, manips, gifs, or anything else we haven’t listed here. (And even if you’re a few days late, that’s okay—upload your stuff anyway and we’ll be sure to reblog it)
The official theme/prompts are as follows:
Day One: Soulmates
Day Two: Bedsharing
Day Three: Workplace AU
Day Four: Oblivious
Day Five: Enemies to Lovers
Day Six: Bella Conrad
Day Seven: Free Space
A more in-depth explanation of the themes can be found on our Themes page. If you have any other questions, you can go to our FAQ page, or just message us.
Be sure to tag your submission as #staubreyweek so we don’t miss it.
We hope you all have fun and we look forward to seeing what you guys create!!
xoxo - Amber & Sarah
HEADS UP ALL U STAUBREY LOVERS!
GET👏🏼ON👏🏼THIS👏🏼SHIT👏🏼
It’ll be fun❤️
Just when I didn’t think I could love her more.