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me justifying the actions of my found family of morally gray characters

[howlpendraig]

The assassin you sent after me is part of my found family now

[velveil]

combat baby pop remix! // a pop playlist for beatrix and yasmeen

listen to on spotify / tracklist + lyrics below

rollercoaster / charli xcx

looked like a teenage runaway

oh god i never thought we'd take it that far

some killer queen you are

now i'm running and i can't stop anywhere i go

i think about it everyday and night, i can't let go

strangers / halsey, lauren jauregui

when i wake up all alone and i'm thinking of your skin

i remember, i remember what you told me

said that we're not lovers, we're just strangers

with the same damn hunger

to be touched, to be loved, to feel anything at all

bad idea / ariana grande

i got a bad idea

forget about it, yeah, forget about him, yeah

forget about me

yeah i know we shouldn’t, baby, but we will

need somebody, gimme something i can feel

(you should know i’m temporary)

too much / carly rae jepson

be careful if you’re wanting this touch

cause if i want you then i want you too much

is this too? is this too? is this too much?

graveyard / halsey

you can think again, when the hand you want to hold is a weapon and

you’re nothing but skin

oh cause i keep digging myself down deeper

i won’t stop til i get where you are

i would’ve followed all the way to the graveyard

wolves / selena gomez

i’ve been running with the wolves to get to you

i’ve been down the darkest alleys, saw the dark side of the moon to get to you

i’ve looked for love in every stranger, took too much to ease the anger, all for you

talia / king princess

if i drink enough i swear that i will wake up next to you

across the world / juletta

cause we don’t talk about it

no, we don’t talk about it

the archer / taylor swift

(i got a hundred thrown out speeches i almost said to you)

cause all of my enemies started out friends

help me hold onto you

i bet on losing dogs / mitski

you’re my baby, say it to me

baby, my baby

tell your baby that i’m your baby

i bet on losing dogs

old friend / mitski

someone who loves me now, better than you

and that pretty friend is finally yours

(i'll take anything you want to give me, baby)

i haven't told anyone, just like we promised

have you?

ain’t together / king princess

being chill with you, oh, it kills, i ain’t chill at all, at all

we say i love you but we ain’t together

darling do you think that if i talk enough i will make you want to be mine?

silver / nic nim

if you want this, then you should talk to your girl

i’ve got a light coat, i’ve got a lighter as well

you’ve got these silver fingers that lead me to your hotel

you & jennifer / bulow

i know that you’re out with her

go pretend that you’re just friends

i’ll pretend that i’m not hurt

cry for me / camila cabello

you’re so good to her, it’s vicious

yeah, she should be thanking me

who’s gonna touch you like me?

yeah, tell me who, who could make you forget about me?

hit the back / king princess

ain’t i the best you had?

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combat baby // a playlist for beatrix and yasmeen

songs to fistfight to

listen on spotify

tracklist and lyrics below

sister / kate nash

she wanted to be my lover but my heart was with another

yeah i really wish that we could be friends but i know that i’m never gonna get you back again

your honor / regina spektor

i kissed your lips and i tasted blood

i asked you what happened and you said there’d been a fight

you said i’ve been fighting for your honor but you wouldn’t understand

i said hold on, your honor, i’ll get ice for your hand

loving feeling / mitski

what do you do with a loving feeling

if the loving feeling makes you all alone?

holding hands under the table, meeting up in your bedroom

making love to other people, telling each other it's all good

bad idea / girl in red

you pushed me up against my wall

threw my clothes down on the floor

you said "darling, are you ready for more?"

it was a bad idea calling you up

was such a bad idea, i'm totally fucked

nineteen / tegan and sara

when i laid beside you for the first time, i told you

i feel you in my heart, and i don’t even know you

you were all mine

i was yours, right? i was yours, right?

combat baby / metric

no one here wants to fight me like you do

combat baby

come back, baby

crushcrushcrush / paramore

if you wanna play it like a game

come on, come on, let’s play

cause i’d rather waste my life pretending

then have to forget you for one whole minute

(they taped over your mouth, scribbled out the truth with their lies)

pretty face / bones uk

what a waste of a pretty face

that face, what a waste, that face, that face

black sheep / kailee morgue

hello again, friend of a friend

i knew you when our common goal was waiting for the world to end

now that the truth is just a rule that you can bend

you crack the whip, shape-shift and trick, the past again

lightning turns sawdust gold / sleigh bells

if you count to ten, i'll show you how to shake the pain

like it's cinnamon

(i was dreaming of a dead-end street that we used to run down)

cruel /  st vincent

forgive the kids, for they don’t know how to live

run the alleys, casually cruel

they could take or leave you, so they took you and they left you

how could they be casually cruel?

i don’t smoke / mitski

i don’t smoke except for when i’m missing you

to remember your mouth, how you tasted true

being with you makes the flame burn good

if you need to be mean, be mean to me

i can take it and put it inside of me

if your hands need to break more than trinkets in your room

you can lean on my arm as you break my heart

new girl / be steadwell

now you never loved me like that and

you won't fight to get me back so

i won't wait around for you, girl

i, i got myself a new girl

[chronicintrovert]

hey Alice! I hope you're doing well today. I was wondering if you could share some tips for young teen writers maybe? What kept you motivated to write while you were still a teen and how did you handle it all with school work? I'm planning to participate in NaNoWriMo this year and I was hoping you could maybe share something from your own experience because you started writing as a teen too❤️

I just did it for fun honestly! I wrote a story that brought me a lot of joy and peace, I genuinely looked forward to working on it every day. I think that’s the key - finding the story that you’re just SO excited about, you can’t NOT write it!!!

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kiss me beneath the milky twilight / a happier playlist for yasmeen and nadia

listen on spotify

tracklist and lyrics below

pressure / milk & bone

all that you can deliver

i want it bad

night go slow / catey shaw

forget today, just follow me tonight

do you understand why i put all my plans on hold?

and doesn’t the night go slow?

when we are here alone, something inside you shows

mango / catey shaw

when you take my hand and dance with me

there’s nowhere else i’d rather be

little mango, mango, my love

intoxicated / orion sun

i wanna be your girlfriend

i can take you where you want to go

i can show you what you didn’t know

drugs in public / kiko

i wanna take you out

i wanna take you round the town

i wanna kiss that mouth

shut up and dance / kina grannis

she said don’t you dare look back, just keep your eyes on me

i said you’re holding back, she said shut up and dance with me

clementine / halsey

would you make out with me underneath the shelter of the balcony?

'cause i don't need anyone, i don't need anyone

i just need everyone and then some

my face is full of spiderwebs, all tender yellow blue

and still with one eye open, well, all i see is you

homegirl / king princess

they stare when you walk in the room, like they're looking at heaven

you taste like danger but i feel so safe in your arms

you don’t have to say it: we’re friends at the party, i’ll give you my body at home

well i stare when you walk in the room, like i'm scared to forget you

come into the water / mitksi

do you wanna be my baby?

are you waiting to touch me?

you look so good, but i keep my hands 'til you come into the water

i didn't know i had a dream, i didn't know until i saw you

so would you tell me if you want me?

'cause i can't move until you show me

she interlude / nakala

she could light the sky without a single star

universe ain’t nothing next to who she are

who she is is god-like or similar

i know i see my god when i look at her

iris / kina grannis

and i’d give up forever to touch you

'cause i know that you feel me somehow

you’re the closest to heaven that i’ll ever be

kiss me / kina grannis

oh, kiss me under the milky twilight

lead me out on the moonlit floor

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you taste like danger // a playlist for yasmeen and nadia

listen on spotify

tracklist and lyrics below

black magic woman / vctrys

black magic woman, you’re gonna make a devil out of me

eve / kat cunning

you are my eve and i might be your snake

(i like the way you kiss me with your eyes open all the while)

i walk the line / halsey

i keep a close watch on this heart of mine

i keep my eyes wide open all the time

because you're mine, i walk the line

11 hours / wet (remix)

and i've been watching you taking your time

it's more trouble than it's worth but it's you

you leave me no choice

i'll wait eleven hours

up all night, you took my power

wipe your tears / halsey

keep your friends close, but this pretty girl closer

kiss her on the neck, little baby is a poser

thinks she’s so cold, but the world is colder

i keep a pistol when i sleep

inside my mouth so i can shoot down all the bad things

you know i tell her all the time

nothing's gonna hurt you, baby

tell me / johnny jewel, saoirse ronan

tell me i’m your baby

and you’ll never leave me

when the party’s over / billie eilish

don't you know i'm no good for you?

i've learned to lose, you can't afford to

tore my shirt to stop you bleeding

but nothing ever stops you leaving

running up that hill / peakes

do you want to feel how it feels?

do you want to know, know that it doesn't hurt me?

do you want to hear about the deal that i'm making?

it's you and me

and if i only could, i'd make a deal with god

and get him to swap our places

(come on angel, come on, come on darling, let’s exchange the experience)

pink in the night / mitski

i hear my heart breaking tonight, do you hear it too?

i could stare at your back all day

and i know i’ve kissed you before, but i didn’t do it right

can i try again?

riptide / bely basarte

lady, running down to the riptide

taken away to the dark side

i wanna be your left hand man

i just wanna know

if you're gonna stay

i just gotta know

i can't have it any other way 

[thesesummersonspoet]

V.E. Schwab’s advice on creating memorable characters.

[doebunnybooks]

this has changed me character creation entirely

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Remember to apply this to both protagonists and antagonists!

[writerlyn]

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i got a bad idea

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being with you makes the flame burn good

[sapphonics]

some beatrix & yasmeen drawings from the last few months

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i made a little video for nadia and yasmeen!

edit: okay ignore all those glitches at the beginning they werent there when i was editing and i am not going to reupload this just to get rid of them so they r just there now

[velveil]

took a shiner from the fist of your best friend

[sapphonics]

a nadia inspired by the art of daniel clarke

[sapphonics]

hey! if anyone is interesting in beta reading my book (more info at my oc blog @velveil hmu! i know i already advertised this but a lot of people never actually got back to me! so i would really appreciate it

[writeouswriter]

Someone: So what is your novel? Middle grade? YA? Adult? NA?

Me: