We're All Fucked

If you're going to hunt demons you might as well lose an arm and a couple of friends.

[figdays]

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[syneva]

went hiking today and it was so beautiful

[katorei]

Finder , ( 2016 )

[zahraaxix]

How to be both

[imsoshive]

When ya girl taller than you

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I wish

[shinjukugewalt]

Why not me

[imagine-your-oc]

Another OCTP Ask Meme

Send me a number and I’ll tell you about my OCTP! (That’s an OTP, but with OCs.)

How did they meet?

What’s their favorite thing about each other?

Are they canon in your story?

What’s the biggest fight they’ve ever had?

How do they bring comfort to one another?

What would you say is their most adorable quality?

In what ways do they express their love?

What gifts would they get for one another?

What would their domestic life look like?

What do they think is the strangest thing about each other?

What was their first date like?

How do they adjust to being part of each others’ lives?

Was there ever a time when it looked like things wouldn’t work out?

What’s their ship name?

Is there a song that makes you think of them?

What’s your favorite AU for them?

Are there any other OCs you enjoy shipping them with?

Draw your OCTP!

Write a poem that one of them would write!

Write a short story for them!

[tag-your-oc]

Tag your oc who has scars/marks that constantly remind them of horrible backstory you probably gave them.

You know the one.

[melxncholymermxid]

[whoarei]

lmao this is the hardest iv laughed all day

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For the Writers out there: Common Injuries And How To Treat Them

In my experience, RPers and Writers alike enjoy one thing: Making characters suffer. This little guide is supposed to help you with keeping injuries and the First Aid - in case you want to patch your character back together - realistic.  I am no medical professional, but I dare say I picked up a thing or two during my First Aid school-medic training ;)

Under read more for length! Also, trigger warnings for blood, I suppose?

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100 Words for Facial Expressions

1. Absent: preoccupied 2. Agonized: as if in pain or tormented 3. Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire 4. Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest 5. Beatific: see blissful 6. Bilious: ill-natured 7. Black: angry or sad, or see hostile 8. Bleak: see grim and hopeless 9. Blinking: surprise, or lack of concern 10. Blissful: showing a state of happiness or divine contentment 11. Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent 12. Brooding: see anxious and gloomy 13. Bug eyed: frightened or surprised 14. Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed 15. Cheeky: cocky, insolent 16. Cheerless: sad 17. Choleric: hot-tempered, irate 18. Coy: flirtily playful, or evasive 19. Crestfallen: see despondent 20. Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelings 21. Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor 22. Dejected: see despondent 23. Derisive: see sardonic 24. Despondent: depressed or discouraged 25. Doleful: sad or afflicted 26. Dour: stern or obstinate; see also despondent 27. Downcast: see despondent 28. Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing 29. Ecstatic: delighted or entranced 30. Etched: see fixed 31. Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible 32. Fixed: concentrated or immobile 33. Furtive: stealthy 34. Gazing: staring intently 35. Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive 36. Glaring: see hostile 37. Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion 38. Gloomy: see despondent and sullen 39. Glowering: annoyed or angry 40. Glowing: see radiant 41. Grim: see despondent; also, fatalistic or pessimistic 42. Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness 43. Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty 44. Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism 45. Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant 46. Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit 47. Impassive: see deadpan 48. Inscrutable: mysterious, unreadable 49. Jeering: insulting or mocking 50. Languid: lazy or weak 51. Leering: see meaningful; also, sexually suggestive 52. Meaningful: to convey an implicit connotation or shared secret 53. Mild: easygoing 54. Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playful 55. Moody: see sullen 56. Pained: affected with discomfort or pain 57. Pallid: see wan 58. Peering: with curiosity or suspicion 59. Peeved: annoyed 60. Petulant: see cheeky and peeved 61. Pitying: sympathetic 62. Pleading: seeking apology or assistance 63. Pouting: see sullen 64. Quizzical: questioning or confused 65. Radiant: bright, happy 66. Roguish: see mischievous 67. Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident 68. Sardonic: mocking 69. Scornful: contemptuous or mocking 70. Scowling: displeased or threatening 71. Searching: curious or suspicious 72. Set: see fixed 73. Shamefaced: ashamed or bashful 74. Slack-jawed: dumbfounded or surprised 75. Sly: cunning; see also furtive and mischievous 76. Snarling: surly 77. Sneering: see scornful 78. Somber: see grave 79. Sour: unpleasant 80. Stolid: inexpressive 81. Straight-faced: see deadpan 82. Sulky: see sullen 83. Sullen: resentful 84. Taunting: see jeering 85. Taut: high-strung 86. Tense: see taut 87. Tight: see pained and taut 88. Unblinking: see fixed 89. Vacant: blank or stupid looking 90. Veiled: see inscrutable 91. Wan: pale, sickly; see also faint 92. Wary: cautious or cunning 93. Wide eyed: frightened or surprised 94. Wild eyed: excited, frightened, or stressful 95. Wistful: yearning or sadly thoughtful 96. Withering: devastating; see also wrathful 97. Woeful: full of grief or lamentation 98. Wolfish: see leering and mischievous 99. Wrathful: indignant or vengeful 100. Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling

[too-many-souls]

Words to describe someone's voice

adenoidal: if someone’s voice is adenoidal, some of the sound seems to come through their nose

appealing: an appealing look, voice etc shows that you want help, approval, or agreement

breathy: with loud breathing noises

brittle: if you speak in a brittle voice, you sound as if you are about to cry

croaky: if someone’s voice sounds croaky, they speak in a low rough voice that sounds as if they have a sore throat

dead: if someone’s eyes are dead, or if their voice is dead, they feel or show no emotion

disembodied: a disembodied voice comes from someone who you cannot see

flat: spoken in a voice that does not go up and down. This word is often used for describing the speech of people from a particular region.

fruity: a fruity voice or laugh is deep and strong in a pleasant way

grating: a grating voice, laugh, or sound is unpleasant and annoying

gravelly: a gravelly voice sounds low and rough

gruff: a gruff voice has a rough low sound

guttural: a guttural sound is deep and made at the back of your throat

high-pitched: a high-pitched voice or sound is very high

hoarse: someone who is hoarse or has a hoarse voice speaks in a low rough voice, usually because their throat is sore

honeyed: honeyed words or a honeyed voice sound very nice but you cannot trust the person who is speaking

husky: a husky voice is deep and sounds hoarse (=as if you have a sore throat), often in an attractive way

low adjective: a low voice or sound is quiet and difficult to hear

low adverb: in a deep voice, or with a deep sound

matter-of-fact: used about someone’s behaviour or voice

modulated: a modulated voice is controlled and pleasant to listen to

monotonous: a monotonous sound or voice is boring and unpleasant because it does not change in loudness or become higher or lower

nasal: someone with a nasal voice sounds as if they are speaking through their nose

orotund: an orotund voice is loud and clear

penetrating: a penetrating voice or sound is so high or loud that it makes you slightly uncomfortable

plummy: a plummy voice or way of speaking is considered to be typical of an English person of a high social class. This word shows that you dislike people who speak like this.

quietly: in a quiet voice

raucous: a raucous voice or noise is loud and sounds rough

ringing: a ringing sound or voice is very loud and clear

rough: a rough voice is not soft and is unpleasant to listen to

shrill: a shrill noise or voice is very loud, high, and unpleasant

silvery: a silvery voice or sound is clear, light, and pleasant

singsong: if you speak in a singsong voice, your voice rises and falls in a musical way

small: a small voice or sound is quiet

smoky: a smoky voice or smoky eyes are sexually attractive in a slightly mysterious way

softly spoken: someone who is softly spoken has a quiet gentle voice

sotto voce adjective, adverb: in a very quiet voice

stentorian: a stentorian voice sounds very loud and severe

strangled: a strangled sound is one that someone stops before they finish making it

strangulated: strangled

strident: a strident voice or sound is loud and unpleasant

taut: used about something such as a voice or expression that shows someone is nervous or angry

thick: if your voice is thick with an emotion, it sounds less clear than usual because of the emotion

thickly: with a low voice that comes mostly from your throat

thin: a thin voice or sound is high and unpleasant to listen to

throaty: a throaty sound is low and seems to come from deep in your throat

tight: a tight voice or expression shows that you are nervous or annoyed

toneless: a toneless voice does not express any emotion

tremulous: if something such as your voice or smile is tremulous, it is not steady, for example because you are afraid or excited

wheezy: a wheezy noise sounds as if it is made by someone who has difficulty breathing

wobbly: if your voice is wobbly, it goes up and down, usually because you are frightened, not confident, or are going to cry

[readingwithavengeance]

On Writing: Gun Safety

Few things will tick me off faster than improper gun safety in fiction.  Unfortunately, many authors fail to properly research guns, gun usage, and gun safety.  Guns are so ubiquitous in our culture that many people think that they already know all they need in order to write gun usage into a story, but what one picks up from cultural osmosis is even less accurate than your average summer blockbuster.

Deaths and injuries from gun accidents are distressingly high, and most of them could be prevented by following the three basic rules that every gun user is taught (assuming they go to a professional class). 

1. A gun is always loaded.  Always.  Even if you personally took the magazine out and cleared the chamber, the gun is still loaded.  This means you should treat every gun as if it could kill you, all the time, regardless of what you think is in it.  It is very, very easy to mistake a loaded gun for an unloaded gun, and it only takes one mistake to get shot in the face.  This means: no treating guns like toys, no tossing guns around willy-nilly, and NEVER HAND A GUN TO SOMEONE BY POINTING IT AT THEM.  In fact, any weapon being handed from one person to another should be passed handle-first.  Guns should always be treated with respect and never with carelessness, because the key here is to built up good habits.  You want careful treatment to be your default, the way you act when you’re not thinking, because it only takes one careless moment at the wrong time to kill someone.

2. Never point at something you don’t intend to hit.  This ties back to the first rule.  If a gun is always loaded, then anything you point at, you should be fully prepared to put a hole in it.  This seems obvious for while you’re shooting a gun, but I mean always keep track of your muzzle.  When you’re carrying it, when you’re loading it, when you’re transporting it, when you’re walking around, always.  People will get careless all the time, standing around with their gun out, and end up pointing it at a neighbor’s foot or back, simply because they’re not watching where their gun is.  I’ve seen people put a weapon down on a table and it points at the person sitting across from them, or they’ll be firing at a range and turn to look at something without realizing that the gun they’re holding turns with them.  I’ve seen people put on holsters wrong so the gun points at their own foot.  And I’m sure we’ve all seen (at least in pictures) the idiots who stick a gun in front of their pants and have the barrel pointed straight at their junk.  (If you must stick something in your pants, stick it in the back; you have a better chance of surviving a shot to the butt.)

The part of this rule that most people forget (especially when writing) is that what you’re aiming at is not the only thing you’re pointing at.  We call it a backdrop; all the things around and behind your target.  Bullets travel through bodies, so if there’s a mom holding her baby right behind the bad guy, don’t shoot the bad guy because you’ve got a good chance of hitting her as well.  Also, don’t fire into a crowd.  Even the best crack shot in the world can’t count on hitting a bad guy in a crowd without hitting bystanders.

3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger until you’re ready to shoot.  It takes very little, especially when you’re scared, to pull that trigger by accident.  A good startle, tripping over something, or even simply being too tense can make someone fire off an unintended round.  (Putting steady pressure on a trigger, as if getting ready to fire, can make you pull it back far enough to fire without realizing it.  It happens a lot.)  There are times when you’ll walk around with your finger on the trigger, but generally speaking those are times when you’re ready to hit any bad guy you come across.

Following those three rules, and treating weapons as things that require careful handling and not as things that simply make you cool, will go a long way toward not only making gun-using readers happy, but showing your character as competent.  But there’s also a few miscellaneous faux pas that I see all the time in books that drive me nuts:

DISABLING SHOTS ARE NOT A REAL THING.  No, stop whatever you were about to say, THEY’RE NOT.  Why?  Because guns only require one working arm.  If your opponent has a firearm and you shoot him anywhere — ANYWHERE — he can still return fire.  True, some people will faint or be incapacitated by injuries, but YOU CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT COUNT ON THAT.  Besides which, a person distracted by their bleeding leg might only be distracted for however long it takes to put a field tourniquet on it, and then they’re back to firing but you’ve stopped paying attention to them.

SHOOTING EXTREMITIES IS NOT SAFE.  I’ll grant you that it’s safer than shooting someone in the head, but it’s entirely possible for someone to bleed out or die from shock after being shot in the arm, shoulder, or leg.  Major complications can also arise which cause the person to die later.  If they survive, they have a good chance of suffering from nerve damage or other life-long disabling injuries.  Now, if your (character’s) only aim is to try not to kill someone, if they want the guy to have the best possible chance of surviving, then fine, shoot at a leg.  But it should be treated as ‘best possible chance,’ not a certainty.

SHOOTING THE TORSO IS NOT IMMEDIATELY FATAL.  It’ll take several minutes to die, if they die at all.  Back when dueling was common, it was often the case that both parties would get shot for just this reason.  The first guy to get hit would still be on his feet and going, only now he’s pissed off from being hit so he fires back.  This happens in combat a lot, too, especially with combatants hyped up on adrenaline.  This is why military and police types are taught to empty their gun into people, not fire once and wait to see what happens.  Also, people have survived being shot multiple times in the torso.  It’s not as uncommon as you think.

In short, while it may be more common to survive being shot in the leg and die from being shot in the chest, you should never count on a bullet to do any given thing in a body.  Bodies + bullets have too many variables, and just about anything can happen.  That, really, is the key: don’t have a character expect a specific outcome, because anyone with experience would know better.  (Those without experience could still expect movie science, but you don’t have to give it to them.)

STOP TRYING TO GET HEAD SHOTS.  Lots of people seem to think that headshots make a character more ‘badass,’ but they’re not what a serious shooter would try and take.  Heads present a smaller target, and if you miss them then you miss completely.  Military and police types are trained to aim for the center mass, because not only does a torso provide a bigger target, but if you’re slightly off you’ll still at least hit something.  Also, a dead target is a dead target, whether you put your bullets in the chest or the head.  Don’t try and tell me that your character is just such a good shooter that they never miss; that only works in comic book physics.  In the real world, with movie targets and no superpowers, even the best shooters miss.  A lot.

DON’T CROSS LANES.  If there are multiple shooters on each side (i.e., your character and her buddies), then it is extremely important for the shooters to keep track of each other.  If they have trained together, they should know what each other person is going to do so that they don’t run in front of each other.  Crossing into another person’s lane is a great way to wind up with friendly fire.  If your shooters haven’t trained together, this should be a concern for them, which means they should be talking a lot to keep track of each other.  (This is also why emergency responders don’t want bystanders to help, even if they have training.  Being trained doesn’t mean you’ve trained with them, and odds are you’ll all just trip over each other.)

Now, obviously, you might have an inexperienced character that doesn’t know all of these rules.  They might have no more knowledge than your average movie-watcher.  That’s fine.  But you, the author, should know all the rules of gun usage so that you can display the consequences of misusing guns.

[clararph]

Does your character use a knife as a weapon? Do you know absolutely nothing about knives? That’s okay, because I am here to help with this handy-dandy guide about knives and knife fights.

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[ommatidia]

“it’s what’s inside that makes you beautiful”

*the demon possessing my body blushes*

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