Oct 3, 2025
Hiya ! I'm Zamia, a paladin from the Black Sea serving my lovely wife Starling
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Hiya ! I'm Zamia, a paladin from the Black Sea serving my lovely wife Starling
am i back? i don’t know! is it almost 5am? yes! am i probably manic? just a little bit!
anywho. hi guys i miss my ninjago hyperfixation <3
i have exactly 17 minutes to finish my homework but instead I'm massively bored so fuck this
Bit of writing advice.
No. 1: Have writer’s block? write a different scene, link it up later.
No. 2: Write the beginning first, the end second. the middle can wait.
No. 3: Once you’re done, remove 10% of it. Actually consider what’s important and what’s meaningless guff and padding.
No. 4: If a character description is taking an entire paragraph, rewrite it. The more stuff you say, the less the reader will remember. the pace will take a hit if you spend a quarter of a page writing about somebody’s pants.
No. 5: ‘Gay’ is not a character. it is a part of a character. if you’re writing a gay character, don’t make their sole defining trait be ‘loves boys/girls/both/neither/and-the-rest’.
No. 6: keep to three or four alternatives to refer to a character. this should be: their name (or names), their pronoun, and a short description (’the silver clad knight’, ‘the lumbering colossus’, ‘the village idiot’). The more you come up with the harder it is to keep track. conversely, too few means dialogue gets repetitive.
No. 7: When writing a death scene, remember the pace. drawing out the description of the death can fuck up the pace badly (’The wraith’s blade dragged across the hero’s gut, ripping open their stomach, tearing apart muscle, shearing through bone. the hero felt their stomach acid pouring out, mixing with their blood and spinal fluid as their upper torso slid from their lower half. their armour and weapons clattering on the stone of the battlefield as they hit the ground, their heart pumping blood through vessels no longer there. as their vital fluids poured from their ruined body, their legs, still standing, collapsed to the floor. Pain tore though their body, darkness closing in around the corners of their vision. “HERO!” cried [love intersest] as they ran to [hero]’s dying form. “it’s okay, [love interest]”, spoke [hero], their words soft as their life flowed from their ruined frame. “I’ll live on in your heart.” [Hero] raised their hand to carress [love interest]’s face, closed their eyes, and passed on, their face peaceful, as though they were merely sleeping. but [love interest] knew, those eyes would never again open.’)
No. 7(B) Don’t resurrect characters. ever. If the power to resurrect people exists in your world, the narrative stakes lose their impact.
No. 8: make a power limiter mean something aside from ‘i beat you using only 1% of my true power’. in other words, if a power limiter only exists to make a character look cooler, don’t. for this example, I’ll explain my own story’s power limiter. In my story, the cyborgs of Crystaltia run on antimatter cores. because of the massive danger posed by even a singular gram of antimatter, the cyborgs can only carry tiny amounts of antimatter in their power cores, and use heavy surge protectors to get the longest possible amount of time out of their cores. when a character disables their surge protectors, it’s so that they can perform more energy intensive actions, at the cost of running down their power sources, which they need for (among other things) the life support system that keeps their brains alive without the rest of their human body.
No. 9: Don’t write love triangles. if you must, just take prozd’s sage advice:
No. 10: When you write a scene that you intended to have a soundtrack, don’t write the points where the song starts and ends. if you do this, fuck you.
No. 11: If you start inserting words from different languages into an english story, (especially if you’re putting Japanese words in as part of a vain attempt to be more ‘anime’,) fuck yourself with a baseball bat, because all you’re doing is butchering both languages in the process. If a character starts speaking another language, keep it consistent.
No. 12: on the topic of ‘trying to be anime’, don’t. I like anime quite a bit too, but if you write something like “and then Tim-kun blushed as Nigel-sama’s pants fell down, and Nigel-sama yelled at him with that vein on his forehead like they do in anime’, then go swallow some barbed wire, pull the end out your ass, and floss yourself to death.
ok i understand why the su blogs i follow are self destructing now
just spent an hour talking about borrower subtypes i made up because three groups called innies outies and nomads isnt fucking enough to account for specific enrionments bitch
gonna get that happy chemical after my braces come off
sometimes i think about how most of my digital art is for the most part on discord
yall are missing out on a lot of things (mostly bc a lot of the ones i like the most dont have watermarks and im lazy)