Тread Softly, My Heart is Broken

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[tockamybeloved]

To Cast No Shadow

[pup-purgatory]

you reminded me that being wanted and being chosen are two different things

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.

If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Um. Yikes

[tockamybeloved]

Sometimes there are storms within a heart that must be released - shared with other storms. Otherwise the locked heart implodes, dies upon itself in violent self defense, preferring destruction rather than opening up to light knowing inevitably the light will vanish and leave only pain. 

[trovadora-de-versos]

If that person wholeheartedly wants to stay by your side, they will do everything possible not to lose you. He will get rid of fears, he will ignore the desire to run, he will silence that voice that says that everything will go wrong.

[rinibayphoto]

[thoughtkick]

“Never let the sadness of your past, and the fear of the future, destroy the happiness of the present.”

— Unknown

[str-ngeloop]

one must be able to see the world as utterly horrible and absolutely lovely at the same time and have the loveliness in the incompleteness of the horrible and the horrifying in the incompleteness of the lovely too.

[fairy--bread]

[xishimonz]

Just passed by these pictures on my phone, and maybe I should go back to finishing this drama not at all cuz he's looking hot while miserable and im kinda looking forward to his definitely tragic ending

[darithings]

who am I not to reblog a post with Xu Haiqiao

[pup-purgatory]

i don’t know which is worse, being the one with the fear of abandonment or being the one who causes it

[nondelphic]

sometimes the best writing advice is "just let it be bad." revolutionary. terrifying. but it works.

[thoughtkick]

“Behind every beautiful thing there’s some kind of pain.”

— Bob Dylan

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[cbk1000]

So, I lurk in some writer subreddits, and a frequent topic of discussion is prose: what constitutes good prose, how do you write it, how do you improve it, etc. And yesterday I stumbled across one topic about the difference between good descriptive prose, and purple prose. OP asks people to share some of their favourite authors who they think write beautiful prose without tipping into purple. No problem; people are happy to oblige.

One person says that Steinbeck is one of their favourite authors for prose, and then they share an example of what they would consider purple prose. It is so violetly awful that I think the poster must have written it themselves as a kind of parody of purple prose. Other people assumed the same.

But as it turns out, they are quoting from a book written by a YouTuber whose channel ia dedicated to talking about writing (namely, their own writing, which is genius, but often not comprehensible to the drooling plebs).

Naturally, I read the free sample of their book in awe and horror, and I'd like to share some screenshots with you. If you also have trouble defining or understanding what purple prose is, it's this.

Yes, every single fucking page is written like this.

[cbk1000]

Reading some more of the preview for this book, and I realise this is by far not the biggest problem, but I'm begging this guy to just use 'shadow' instead of 'umbra'. I promise I will not accuse you of being a philistine.

[cbk1000]

'Noctilucent orbs'. Even fanfic written by a 14-year-old wouldn't dare.

The author is a man in his 30s, btw.

[the-pen-pot]

*throws this in the face of everyone who has ever accused me of writing purple prose*

[tockamybeloved]

I'm beginning to feel how I did when I first started writing. This isn't good. It's pain. I don't need to clarify my words. If one pays attention and is intelligent, one does not need me to explain what I have written even though I use metaphors. You will understand the metaphors if you understand me. I should take down all of it. But I won't. Not until I have the promise and guarantee from the other side. Is it pride? A little. To reveal more is to give ammunition. I am at peace.

[ashen-crest]

I can do it. I can write a chapter. I am capable of putting sentences together. I know what a comma is. I am Aware of the Character.

[knights-of-the-glittery-table]

💀 Fuck it, not again… Ready the cannons

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Flint, Benjamina has some words for you and your feral child.