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Chris Hemsworth as King Liam Rys

Disclaimers:

This character profile was created specifically to fit King Liam on Liam and Jade's Love Story universe. I unfortunately don't own the character, I don't assume to know everything about him and I have no intention to affirm this is exactly who he is and how other people should write him. I'm merely a hardcore enthusiast of this lovely character and I do my best to keep his essence while adding a few headcanons of my own;

Though I mostly write canon compliant fics in L&JLS, Lena isn't included in this character profile because I haven't played TRF and I personally don't know how relevant she would be for the series.

Name: Liam Rys

Nationality: Cordonian

Birthdate: January 10, 1990

Hometown: Cordonian capital

Current Residence: Cordonian capital / Duchy of Valtoria, Cordonia

Occupation: Politician, Head of State of Cordonia

Titles: His Royal Majesty of Cordonia, Colonel-in-Chief of Cordonian Army, Duke of Valtoria, Patron of the University of Cordonia, Patron of the National Museum of Cordonia, Patron of the National Library of Cordonia

Talents/Skills: Combat training, empathy, leadership, musicality, negotiation, perceptiviness, public speaking, self-defense, strategic thinking, survival skills, sword fighting, teaching, writing.

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Belated happy birthday , Dani! I hope you had a wonderful day and I wish you great things always.

Since I did a moodboard of Alex last year, here's a moodboard for Olivia. Btw, she's such an interesting character. Ice cream is a great choice for comfort food, but I've never had bubblegum ice cream. It got me curious lol. And I love that she chose pedriatrics as her specialty. It totally fits her personality.

Happy birthday again and thank you for sticking around dedicating so much of your time and talents to this fandom.

LORI!!!! You are absolutely the sweetest gem!! ohmygosh that moodboard is so gorgeous and so perfectly Olivia. Ughh I love it so much!!! Olivia is sunshine. She warms the hearts of all her patients but she warms mine two. She's such a comfort character for me and this moodboard just radiates that. It's so soft and comforting! I can't stop staring at it! Olivia's birthday is Sunday so this is so so so perfect 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

Thank you so so much! I appreciate you and your kindness!!!

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WIP Wednesday because I haven't done this in awhile...

tagging @missameliep @rosesnink @sazanes @lizzybeth1986 to know what are you all up to 😊

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The Unnecessary Sex Scene

(I won't dare to call this a writing advice. This is merely an opinion of a reader/writer with a few suggestions for fellow writers)

I love smut. I always loved reading it, I love planning it, I love researching about it and, sometimes, I even like writing it 😅. But as I began to research and improve myself as writer, I became more judgemental and selective when it comes to reading, especially if it includes smut.

There was a phase when I only read smut and, fortunately, I was surrounded by great fanfic authors, which means I rarely was disappointed. Then it came the year I dedicated most of my fanworks to smut. As time passed and my writing attracted diverse audiences, blogs and people with different perspectives on sex scenes, I began developed what in the fandom realm is known as squick. In case you don't what it means, squick is like a turn-off, something you read that makes you embarrassed or you find cringy. Everybody has their own and that's fine. What is appealing to me may not be appealing to some of my friends and vice versa.

If I have to point out my biggest squick is the unnecessary sex scene. When I say unnecessary sex scene, I'm not saying erotica is less important in the story. If you created an allosexual character, eventually they will think of sex or have sex in your story (even if you only choose to mention it). But to write a great sex scene, you need more than an idea, the characters and a list of sexy verbs, nouns and synonyms for private bits. Unluckily, not all writers understand that concept. So, allow me to show you some sex scenes I find unnecessary:

1. The no chemistry ships

Have you ever read a story that you know the characters are supposed to be in love, but you just don't feel it? If it's fanfiction, the author relies on the fact that the ship exists in canon and just assumes the audience is going to vibe with them. They often doesn't even write another potential LI for MC to ensure the readers know “they belong together". Even if you try to keep on reading in hopes it'll get better, you still don't see them together. Now, imagine when the author decides to write their "perfect ship" a sex scene. If you grimaced at the thought of it, you know what I mean.

The squick in this situation might be the ship per se, which is fine. Fanfic writers write for fun and it's not their job to convince anyone those characters they don't own belong together. But what if it's their own creation? What if the reader actually likes that ship but still doesn't the smut scenes they find online?

If the characters lack chemistry, the author probably isn't working so much on the how the characters express their emotions. Regardless if they're writing characters who talks openly about what's on their minds or not, a bunch of "I love you", "I want you" or "I need you" mean squat if the readers can’t see passion in actions. As a reader, I need to see stealing glances, hearts racing, dry mouth, pupils dilating, eagerness to be close of the object of their affection... Without the proper body language during interactions, the romance story is weak.

But as you can see, this isn't hard to fix. Work on the characters' body language. You can literally Google "signs of attraction" and click on those relationship advice articles. You'll find tons of ideas to apply to any romantic scene. Another cool idea is to switch to LI's perspective. When the story switches to other character's point of view, the reader can understand their feelings, personal opinions, things they think but don't share with anyone (by the way, it works with any kind of narrator's voice). This is an amazing trick to use, specially if you're writing a LI who doesn't wear their heart on their sleeve.

2. Casual sex

Just like in real life, not all characters have sex because they're madly in love with each other. Some just want to have fun or release the tension, others are lonely and need some sort of intimacy, affection or validation. Even in the author uses the love at first sight trick, most likely the scene will be unrealistic because: a) love at first sight isn't real, and b) characters who fall in love at first sight are too romantic to move things to the bedroom right after they just met. When you eliminate love of the equation, it gets harder to write a good sex scene, but it's not impossible.

But this is when I often find sex scenes that make me cringe. Sure, instant attraction is real, but it doesn't happen just because the author said so. Stories lacking of good initial dialogues, physical signs of attraction and with rushed sex scenes won't convince the readers those characters are attracted to each other, no matter how many times they mention "hard-ons" or "heat pooling between someone’s legs".

It's important to establish a connection between the characters involved in the scene, even if they're strangers. Yes, it's casual and some people/characters don't even ask each other's names before banging. But giving the characters a good conversation (specially if it's their first one) and some flirting will make the physical attraction more real and captivating. But, most of all, work on signs of physical attraction. Body language and good dialogues are exactly what an author needs to write a compelling casual sex scene.

If it's enemies to booty call lovers, these details are essential to make the sex scenes believable. I personally dislike that writing trope. I lost count on how many times I closed the tab/book when the characters are yelling or in the middle of a physical fight, and then they just glare at each other and kiss. Sex scenes between characters who dislike each other need signs of sexual tension and even some flirting, depending on how they interact. Adding details to make physical attraction evident is the key ingredient to write a "this is wrong, but it feels so good" sex scene between enemies.

3. You missed your shot, writer.

Picture this: you found a great story, the ship is great, the writing is awesome, but the characters never move past a kiss. And no, it's not a period piece. For a moment, you wonder that maybe one of them is demisexual or asexual, but it's never mentioned. Then it hits you that the writer might not even know what it means, so you know they'll never explore it. What a shame... But okay. The story is still good. Then the story is a succession of almost kisses and too tame scenes for a ship that everyone knows is dating. The author keeps dragging this incredibly slow burn for who knows how many chapters until the story is only ashes, but you never saw anyone burning. The ship eventually made it to the bedroom, but since you nearly died of boredom, you didn't even care when it happened.

Now picture a story where everything goes too fast. The kiss is fast, making out is too fast. Sex happens, but you never saw any hints except the cliché arousal sentences and hands grabbing a few places that you don't even know if those are actually the characters' sensitive spots because the writing barely mentions sexual responses, eve though they, somehow, climax every time. There are no talks about sex, not a single moment of non-sexual intimacy. Foreplay? They don't know her.

Here's one last mental image: They get somewhere less crowded and, before you know, they're banging. Wait, are they still wearing clothes? What position is this? Why aren't they kissing? Where do hands, legs, arms go? Are they really getting aroused just with this? You don't know. You blinked again and the scene is over. You even re-read it. And yeah, it happened. Except it only happened inside the author's head.

These three completely different stories have one thing in common: wrong timing and pace. Some ships will have sex pretty fast, some will take their time. It depends a lot on each character's views on sex and relationship first times. But no matter what tropes and plots the writer uses, where the story is going and if it's centered around romance or not, knowing how to build up the interaction between characters until they take it to the "next level" is precisely what will make your readers eager to read the sex scene.

In the first case, I often see writers who write slow burn saying they don't like to write smut. And it's fine, they don't have to. Not everyone is comfortable writing those scenes because, let's be honest, they're not easy to write. But the author can use slow burn in their favor without boring readers. Here are a few suggestions:

Talk about sex: It can be something simple. No need mention anything in details. They can talk about their first times. If it's going to be the first time for one of them, they can talk about their expectations for it, joke a little. Make it fun, light-hearted, romantic;

Intimacy isn't just sex: intimate moments happen all the time in relationships. A hand caressing the other character's hair/head, a slow dance, cuddling on the couch, falling asleep over one another, a first night sleeping together where nothing more than a kiss happens... None of these scenes include sex, but they add something really important in a relationship that builds up slowly: trust. When the characters trust each other and feel completely comfortable with each other, soon they'll be ready for more than kissing and holding hands;

Heat things up a little: anyone who read writing advice posts about "how to write a kiss" knows people don't kiss just with their lips. People hug, hands tug on shirts, on hair, wander up and down their partner(s) body/ies, slip inside clothes. Characters are exactly the same. Heated kisses are perfect to create more sexual tension. And in their pace, they can move on to making out with less clothes, trying new things until they're ready for sex;

Explicit sex isn't mandatory: I do like a good explicit sex scene. But more than that, I like well written stories. I don't think anyone will mind if the writer doesn't use curse words and make the scene a little less detailed. Writing the scene in a way the readers know what's happening without exaggerating on euphemisms and metaphors will keep readers happy;

Still can't write a sex scene? Write a "fade to black" scene. The scene can be finished insinuating the characters removing clothes, closing the blinds, dimming the lights, lying down and restart right after it, when they're catching their breath. It'll work just as well as if the scene completely written and no one will struggle to write something they’re not comfortable with.

This is a bit ironic, but if you think about it, you'll see that these flawed scenes of dragged out slow burn and instant gratification actually have the same issue, except the author's motivation's behind it is slight different. While he slow burn writer (who doesn't like or know how to write smut) never hints there's any sexual tension and they write it super fast to "get this over with", the instant gratification writer wants to write sex, but they might end up hitting the fast forward button on everything. Sexual tension, foreplay and even the sex scene are rushed. To the reader, a scene with the wrong pace is hard to read and they might find it underwhelming.

The way to fix it is almost the same, but not quite. The author who usually writes instant gratification sex scenes is eager to get to the good stuff, but they need to slow down a bit and respect the pacing. Don't be scared to prolong the foreplay. Remember that sex isn't just penetration and for penetration to happen in a pleasant way for all parties involved, there must be signs of arousal, fluids, hands, arms and legs in motion. I'm not getting into many details about it. For more information on writing smut, read this post or look for the hashtag #how to write smut in the search of this blog.

One last recommendation to both kinds of authors: read erotica. Julia Quinn and Vee Keeland can be good references for those who don't like writing smut and Sparrow Beckett for those who like it.

4. The story doesn't really need a sex scene

I left this one for last because I'm going to talk from personal experience. I've made this mistake more than once. I leave those stories there because they aren’t that bad. But, truth be told, I’m not proud of them.

About two years ago, I used to receive lots of specific requests from one single person. They sent me a random sentence starter and I wrote smut from there. I could start by pointing out my issue with one sentence and dialogue prompts, but I’ll leave it for another opportunity. Anyway, one thing I rarely do is to write porn without plot because I like writing everything with a purpose. And it includes smut. To answer those requests, I ended up creating a plot and developing a story to justify the sex scene. But, sometimes, I came up with a plot I found so cool that I only added a sex scene because the story was written for someone else.

I often go back to re-reading my stories and when I find room for improvement, I edit it (I write fanfiction and I write by myself, so who's going to stop me changing a thing or two in my stories?). But every time I read those stories, I think I should simply delete the sex scene. Those aren't bad scenes and I know I always do my best to connect everything to the main plot. But I also know that if I ever decide to cut out those scenes, it won't matter that much because the essence of the stories will remain the same.

Maybe this is all an exaggeration of mine. I'm the kind of author who likes to keep things simple so the scenes have the right pace and I can give my stories a nice flow. So I tend to cut out sentences, paragraphs and, sometimes, entire scenes when I feel like there’s no relevance in the story. But as I said before, sex is always relevant if you're writing allosexual characters. This is more of a personal squick and I don't really have an advice to fix it. The goal of the post to show fellow writers that sex scenes are awesome, but they can easily ruin a story that didn’t need sex. Sometimes, your story is good enough on its own and you don’t have to make it hotter to please other people.

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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you. Get to know your mutuals and followers :)

Since I've received this ask twice, I'm answering both here.

1. My family

2. My cats

3. Writing

4. Making people smile with my storytelling (specially my daughter)

5. Cooking

Thank you, @lorircreates and @dalishessence for the ask and I hope you have a lovely week! 😊😘

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@lorircreates is a fantastic, positive force in the fandom. her content is amazing and she runs all these fun events, running the CFWC archive, and her writing is truly something to enjoy. thank you for all that you do lori!!

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💛🌼🌼💛 Send this to the twelve nicest people you know or seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome 💖✨💖✨

so sweet, thank you lori! right back at you <3

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*warm hug 💓* pass it on to spread some love

Thank you! 💕

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