talons & tea leaves

TATL is a jcink, all-original supernatural sandbox roleplay set on the island city of Wilder Ness, just off of New York City. Tracking #tatlrp

[prideandpen]

on behalf of white people I am so sorry It is ridiculously hard to find a picture of black women (or any black couple for that matter) holding hands on pinterest Guess what I’ve been doing for the last like half hour? Guess what I’m still doing.

[lmartinezwrites]

I was going to make a post about this too like ???? First of all tried to find female pirates, then Black and brown female pirates and Pinterest was like woah no none of that here and I’m like ??? Why you do this

And don’t even get me started on couples

[boothewriter-deactivated2018122]

Hello tes boo to the rescue since were all in the same boat Haha pun Anywho

If you put in “character inspiration black” (i am so terribly sorry for the wording but pinterest suggests it like that and its how i got a lot of results) you should have a more fruitful result!

[heywriters]

AGREED and I’ve actually been working on this myself! I’ve compiled four years worth of diverse character inspiration. PoC couples, interracial couples, and PoC vintage photographs are on my Pinterest - ALL CLEAN as in no fetishistic or erotic imagery (which Pinterest also has plenty of, ugh). I have a problem with the idea of segregating character inspiration by race/appearance, so you’ll still have to sort. 

Groups/Couples

Historical/Fantasy Characters

Male Characters

Female Characters

[outwriterandom]

There are quite a few blogs that post good pics like blkgirlaesthetic, kvmes, afrocentricqueens, youngblackandvegan, and some others but i cant think of all the names. But there are quite a few outside of Pintrest. But on pintrest, I have seen a lot of Black graphic novel style art that are pretty cool. If anyone knows of more…(or even sees this…) Add on….

[paigerambles]

tauhreliil:

wants to write long reply: can only come up with like six sentences

meant to keep it short: writes fucking gone with the wind

[tatlrp]

why writing takes forever

writer: *stops mid-sentence* damn what's the word I want?

writer: *spends 25 minutes on google trying to figure out the right vocab word*

writer: *gets a paragraph done*

writer: *starts another sentence, stops* what is that really specific fact I need?

writer: *spends an hour trying to figure out this obscure thing that probably doesn't actually matter*

writer: Wait what's that thing called again?

writer: *has no idea how to search for what I need*

writer: *ends up digging through blogs and other archived websites for details*

writer: *needs to reference source material for fact checking*

writer: *has to eat and sleep at some point*

writer: should it be "she regards him with disdain" or "she glares at him with disdain" ??? (hint: it doesnt matter but gunna go back and forth over it for an hour)

writer: *gets distracted by the internet in general*

writer: HOW IS THIS ONLY 800 WORDS???????

writer: fuck proofreading

writer: okay fine i'll proofread.

writer: holy shit this is awful.

writer: *reworks entire sections*

writer: *doesn't think I'm good enough as a writer and stops for a few days*

writer: repeat process as needed.

[loriisms-deactivated20200617]

jiminhelps:

namppa:

planning horrible headcanons with your friends but accidentally crossing the line like

[rp-ask-memes-deactivated2026012]

when we roleplay --

understand that, when you roleplay with me, you’re not just writing with my CHARACTER. you’re writing with a real person behind the screen. a person with feelings, and who genuinely wants to write with you. I don’t want to feel like EVERYONE ELSE all the time. I want to feel like a person you ENJOY writing with. so TALK TO ME !! give me plots and scenarios and message me late at night so we can ramble for HOURS about the interaction – something different than just casual roleplay.

[tatlrp]

[teawitch]

The cauldrons

[simplewritingtips]

LET ME TELL Y’ALL ABOUT THIS WRITING APP

Fighter’s Block is the best writing app I’ve come across in a long time.

You type in the amount of words you want to write and as you write, your mini lil avatar fights a monster. Each word you write acts a hit towards your monster, and once you’ve hit your word count the monster is defeated!!!

How cute!!!!

Work quick though as how long you spent not writing decreases your avatar’s health. It’s a productive fight to the death against the clock!

Best things about this app:

You can PAUSE it!!!! Need go get a cup of tea? Need to sneeze? You can!!!!!

Settings are adjustable! You can change the monster’s speed and the attacks!

You can change the theme and font!

You can level up!!!!! The number of words you write equals your EXP. You can unlock one avatar thus far, but I believe there may be more in the future!

You can minimise the fight above if it serves as a distraction, and only show the decreasing green bar.

Best of all: If you don’t hit the target word count in time, YOUR WORK DOES NOT DISAPPEAR. In the past I’ve lost so much work because I wasn’t typing fast enough, or sneezed.I cannot express enough how thankful I am that it presents a challenge where the consequence is a knock of pride and not a fit of rage.

Honestly, I urge all writers out there to give this app a go. It’s my new favourite thing. 

[allthingsroleplay]

TALONS & TEA LEAVES

Just off the coast of NYC, there lies a sixth borough concealed by a magical border. This borough, Wilder Ness, was created by mythics for mythics and has remained a safe human for the supernatural for over a century. The city has its own problems modern-day problems: political corruption, crime, traffic… but none are quite so urgent as the issue of whether to let humans know of their existence or not.

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[allthingsroleplay]

Zendaya wanted as a guardian angel-type character for Nico Tortorella in a messy love triangle plot.

[retributingmara-blog]

Words to use more often

acrid - pungent; irritating to the eyes/nose adversary - opponent blithe - casual, unworried cacophonous - noisy, unpleasant sound contrite - remorseful crepuscule - twilight edacious - devouring; consuming enigma - puzzle fallacy - misbelief; misconception forlorn - sad; dejected haphazard - random; unplanned incongruous - out of place mordant - biting; cutting; sardonic ostentatious - pretentious; designed to impress penitent - regret petulant - bad-tempered prelude - introduction resilient - recover quickly riposte - clever response stringent - strict

[notsuchasecret]

Character: so what’s our next move? Me, the writer, six coffees deep into an existential crisis: I don’t know, what is your next fucking move?

[aestheticgram]

[heardrpc-blog]

SECRETS MASTERLIST

i think we’re all tired of having our characters have the same dirty little secrets. so here are some realistic secrets you can use for your characters. i am putting an overall trigger and mature warning on this. they’re in the sections of: lighthearted, hardcore, family, involving others, criminal, embarrassing, sexual, romantic, and other..

scared your secret isn’t creative - change it up! it mentions drugs? change it to sex or alcohol. something mentions family? turn that into a romantic secret! the options are endless if you change details.

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[chamberofaesthetics]

What is Magic? 

Magic, Madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

-Susanna Clarke, The Ladies of Grace Adieu

[thewritewire]

[gordonramsayrph]

The Ultimate Occupation Masterlist

Some of these jobs are super fucking obscure. This list doesn’t even cover all of the types of political jobs or government department jobs you could have. That being said, I’m going to create another masterlist entirely for the political sector. There may be repeats on this list, and I will probably update it in the future.

[gordonramsayrph]

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