Thought this might help others who struggle when writing. I know I get in my head too much.
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Thought this might help others who struggle when writing. I know I get in my head too much.
Emotional Walls Your Character Has Built (And What Might Finally Break Them)
(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.
✶ Sarcasm as armor. (Break it with someone who laughs gently, not mockingly.) ✶ Hyper-independence. (Break it with someone who shows up even when they’re told not to.) ✶ Stoicism. (Break it with a safe space to fall apart.) ✶ Flirting to avoid intimacy. (Break it with real vulnerability they didn’t see coming.) ✶ Ghosting everyone. (Break it with someone who won’t take silence as an answer.) ✶ Lying for convenience. (Break it with someone who sees through them but stays anyway.) ✶ Avoiding touch. (Break it with accidental, gentle contact that feels like home.) ✶ Oversharing meaningless things to hide real depth. (Break it with someone who asks the second question.) ✶ Overworking. (Break it with forced stillness and the terrifying sound of their own thoughts.) ✶ Pretending not to care. (Break it with a loss they can’t fake their way through.) ✶ Avoiding mirrors. (Break it with a quiet compliment that hits too hard.) ✶ Turning every conversation into a joke. (Break it with someone who doesn’t laugh.) ✶ Being everyone’s helper. (Break it when someone asks what they need, and waits for an answer.) ✶ Constantly saying “I’m fine.” (Break it when they finally scream that they’re not.) ✶ Running. Always running. (Break it with someone who doesn’t chase, but doesn’t leave, either.) ✶ Intellectualizing every feeling. (Break it with raw, messy emotion they can’t logic away.) ✶ Trying to be the strong one. (Break it when someone sees the weight they’re carrying, and offers to help.) ✶ Hiding behind success. (Break it when they succeed and still feel empty.) ✶ Avoiding conflict at all costs. (Break it when silence causes more pain than the truth.) ✶ Focusing on everyone else’s healing but their own. (Break it when they hit emotional burnout.)
You want me to introduce myself? The thing that almost killed Odysseus?
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MODERN AU ACESAN !!!! first impressions with a guy who barely passes the No Shoes No Shirt No Service rule
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A question keeping me up at night:
Is Ace able to ice skate?
Like. Not physically, I bet he'd be a rad hockey player or something.
But more at the lines of 'is he running so hot he'd trip over the puddles he creates around him'?
Does his devil fruit influence his surroundings? Him running around just barely clothed all the time could fanonly be a consequence of that. Sabo doesn't seem to have any problems layering his clothes, but maybe he's just that much of an unhinged mess (just like he should be).
It would be so funny to me, though, if this would spark yet another one-upping contest between these two. Sabo elegantly gliding on the ice, making fun of Ace trying not to break his neck because he's literally too hot for this.
Whereas Luffy just jumps and zooms all over the place as always.
Interestingly enough, before ace and deuce realize that ace has just eaten a devil fruit, deuce comments that the ambient temperature is noticeably warmer than the day before, so it seems that ace literally does make the air around him warmer.
And on Drum Island we see that the day Ace arrives is the only day it isn’t snowing on the island (which it normally is).
Since he was affecting the temperature even before he knew he had a devil fruit abilities, he isn’t doing it consciously. So it would be funny to imagine that even when he’s made aware of it he simply doesn’t know how to turn it off.
So Ace is here, trying his damn hardest to keep the ice solid beneath his feet, only to have it melt even faster the more flustered he gets. Luffy can’t understand why Sabo and Ace are concentrating so hard for something as simple as ice skating and is having a blast
firefox just started doing this too so remember kids if you want to stream things like netflix or hulu over discord without the video being blacked out you just have to disable hardware acceleration in your browser settings!
for the people saying this might be too difficult: idk about chrome but in firefox it just goes
> open settings
> search "hardware acceleration" and there should only be one result
> uncheck use recommended performance settings
> uncheck use hardware acceleration
done!
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way to give a man a heart attack...
Reframing Show vs Tell
Notes and excerpts from the section on Showing vs Telling in Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne. I thought the way she reframed show vs tell gave us a better understanding of their respective function in a story. Basically:
Showing → Scenes
Telling → Narrative Summary
Scenes take place in real time; the reader experiences what is going on at the same time as it occurs in the text. Narrative summary, on the other hand, describes what happened after the fact. Both are essential to a story, but writers tend to overly rely on narrative summary.
Narrative Summary (Telling)
Large-scale
Don’t use this to start your first chapter–you want to engage your readers early on. Turn any narrative summary you have into an actual scene taking place and deliver the information you want to give through it
Varies the rhythm and texture of your writing. Scenes are immediate and engaging, but sometimes you want to slow things down and give readers a chance to catch their breath, and narrative summary is a good way to do so.
Gives continuity on a larger scale. Narrative summary can capture weeks or months of slow, steady growth and development. The critical moments of this development should be captured by scenes, but the summary can help fill-in the gaps of a longer period of time.
Helps consolidate repetitive actions. For example, if there are multiple races occurring, not all of them may be important enough to justify a scene. Summarize the unimportant ones and give scenes to the crucial ones.
Use it when a plot development isn’t important enough to justify a scene. For example, you can narrate a minor event that leads up to a key scene. Or two key events being separated by narrative summary of what occurs between the events puts emphasis on the important key events while giving reprieve between the scenes.
Small-scale
Avoid telling us character traits or emotions. Examples include: “Wilbur felt absolutely defeated” and “Geraldine was horrified at the news”. It’s better to show these by describing their reactions, expressions, words, and body language. However, I personally believe sometimes it is okay, and even preferred, to tell emotions and traits. Just don’t overdo it, and save the telling for when it’s difficult to express by showing.
You don’t want to give your readers information. You want to give them experiences. Resist the urge to explain
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers Checklist
How often do you use narrative summary? Are there passages when nothing happens in real time?
Do the main events in your plot take place in summary or in scenes?
If you have too much narrative summary, which scenes do you want to convert into scenes?
Does any of it involve major characters, where a scene could be used to flesh out their personalities?
Do you have at least some narrative summary, or are you bouncing around from scene to scene without pausing?
Are you describing your character’s emotions too much? Have you told us they are angry/irritated/excited?
"smart appliances" fuck u i want them dumb as a brick and incidentally as sturdy and enduring
Are you sure luffy
ARE YOU SURE
Something something Danny phantom One Piece au where Luffy’s ghost form looks like fifth gear. The crew supporting Luffy in his quest to become the ghost king while making sure the bad ghosts don’t hurt the people of their town. Marines would become the governments ghost hunters and pirates would be ghosts.
Zoro the former ghost hunter deciding to protect this precious half-ghost hybrid, Sanji trying to figure out what ghosts would eat, Nami wanting to create a map of the ghost world, Ussop wanting to become brave and overcome his fear of ghosts.
Koby idolizes Luffy’s ghost-sona and finds out his identity when lufffy saves his butt. The brain rot is unreal
Redraw my boarding school AU.