Often the mightiest things-

have the humblest beginnings

[taqdeers]

WRITEBLR INTRODUCTION

(yes, again. Bear with me)

✴️ Z

✴️ they/them

✴️ writer in name and vibes only. Some poetry, some stories, some journalling when I remember writing about feelings is good

WIPS:

A Wild Wind (temp title I'm working on it trustttt)

Three siblings put in a position of power they most definitely do not deserve try not to kill each other and/or themselves

Genre:

Cyber punk!

Featuring:

+ The fantasy of Pakistan but if they were rich

+ fictional politics and an exploration of class dynamics and what it means to be a lowkey dictatorship and whether democracy is really the be all end all we want

+ gay ass people!!! Not a single straight MC!!!! It goes against my religion!!!!!

+ dead people coming back to life and living people dying

+ hopefully humour and hopefully angst

+ shit ton of family drama

Zarmina Khalid

Wildly depressed twenty one year old Pakistani loses her parents; deals with it through diary entries that would make it seem like nothing is wrong. On the other end you have her brother whose losing it in the inbox of someone he has no business talking to would have you think everything ever is wrong. Truly the full representation spectrum of what it is to be gay and Pakistani and siblings (can't really attest to the experience of losing your parents)

Genre:

Uh. Erm. Uh. Fiction?

Featuring:

+ yet more gay people, but this time they're in the real world

+ the fucked up reality of being Pakistani

+ Eldest Daughter. Enough said.

+ Religious guilt but I'm not fully sold on that yet

+ Coming to terms with grief! Learning to live with your trauma! Cute moments with your siblings!

+ Happiness is NOT fake and it is NOT fleeting and you WILL figure it out. You're literally just twenty one.

[taqdeers]

I don't smoke anymore—I've found other reasons to stay alive

[joseopher-deactivated20260418]

before you stab someone: THINK!

how can you make it Tender?

how can you make it Homoerotic?

how can you make it Implicitly intimate?

how can you make it Noticeably a metaphor for sex?

how can you make it Kind of gay?

[chucktaylorupset]

*emerges from the other room covered in blood* you should see the word document

[wantonlywindswept]

does it look like this

[vickythestrange]

[honorlessrogue]

today i wrote zero words! but i did think about my story twice in passing. that probably counts for something

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I love insufferable protagonists. I love heroes who are smug little shits. I hope the trials and tribulations of an entire book series fail to teach them even the smallest smidgen of humility. i hope it makes them worse. gimme that sweet sweet hubris candy coating

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

lady reporter/superhero's love interest who gets kidnapped so often she ends up forming a lasting friendship with the henchperson who is assigned to guard her cell. their relationship is initially based on having someone to play cards with to pass the long hours while they wait for the hero's rescue attempt. eventually they get together for weekly poker nights even when there isn't a kidnapping on the calendar

[orcboxer]

the ONLY fucking thing that matters is punching

[the-orc]

what about kissing

[orcboxer]

the ONLY fucking things that matters is punching and kissing

[transmasc-wizard]

i'm AWARE this is a stupid hill to die on, but like. trope vs theme vs cliché vs motif vs archetype MATTERS. it matters to Me and i will die on this hill no matter how much others decide it's pointless. words mean things

[transmasc-wizard]

trope: 1) the use of figurative language for artistic effect; includes allegories, analogies, hyperbole, & metaphors, among others. 2) commonly reoccurring literary devices, motifs, or clichés. Includes things like the medieval fantasy setting, the Dark Lord, enemies-to-lovers, and the Chosen One.

theme: the reoccurring idea or subject in a work of art. Death, life, rebirth, change, love, what it means to be human, the definition of family, the effects of war, etc.

cliché: an element of an artistic work that has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even becoming annoying or irritating. (Most clichés are tropes but not all tropes are clichés.)

motif: a distinctive repeating feature or idea, such as the green light in The Great Gatsby. May overlap with tropes and is often used to further explore the theme.

archetype: a constantly-recurring symbol or motif; it refers to the recurrence of characters or ideas sharing similar traits throughout various, seemingly unrelated cases in classic storytelling. E.g. rags to riches, the wise old mentor. Again may overlap with tropes, clichés, and motifs, but they're not the exact same thing.

[s-n-arly]

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

⁂

Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

[homemadde]

(via FlimsyFlamingo on Twitter)

[whumpsday]

and my favorite:

[ultimatestellar]

yall r forgetting the best one

[wordfather]

*makes a smart character* *realizes im the one who has to make them smart*

[thegayjoker]

i love you free verse i love you tangents i love you stream of consciousness i love you run-on sentences i love you rambling prose i love you surrealism i love you non-traditional styles of writing

[starpeace]

god this scene i haven’t written would be so emotional if it came with 50k words of context i also haven’t written

[valtsv]

guy kneels down and holds out his sword to swear loyalty to me but i just take the sword and run

[pansyfemme]

i think its funny how facial scars are seen as like a major character plot point where they reveal that someone tried to kill their dad or something when i know a ton of ppl (including myself) who have facial scars bc they rlly arent uncommon and all of them are like. from tripping and falling as a toddler

[pansyfemme]

i could use this post as an oppritunity to talk about how scarring is a natural and human thing and everyone has scars, and larger scars as well as facial ones and burn scars should’nt only exist in media as a storytelling device but im also gonna just say that your oc is still hot as hell if he has a massive slash going through his eye i just think it would be funnier if he got it from falling down the stairs and then picking the scab too many times