she walks in beauty

i go by many aliases. i'm an administrator of wicked grace. these are my roleplaying shits. characters, writing rambles, all the fun stuff. if you want an actual introduction to me, check out the about page. <3

[mhysa]

[fy-theladymorgana]

i think there’s a flaw in my code,

        these voices won’t leave me alone.

[pennndragon]

Morgana’s strengths and weaknesses.

[write-like-a-freak-deactivated2]

Maybe you’re like Old Me and you suck at editing/revising so when you’re trying to fix your novel after the 2nd read through you panic and think “I HAVE TO REWRITE EVERYTHING” and after crying for a long time you give up and rewrite everything. You do this approximately a...

[benzarro-smash-blog]

Attention anyone who needs hairstyle references

I want to introduce all of you to this amazing place called the ukhairdressers style gallery.

It’s basically a massive database full of high-quality images of different hairstyles. I mean, look at all the options in that sidebar (and part of it’s cut off):

In total they have 976 pages of hairstyles with about 17 styles each, that’s about 16592 hairstyles to look at. 

Look at all the stuff they’ve got! Long hair:

Short hair:

Straight hair:

Curly hair:

Afro hair:

Men’s hair:

Hair on older models:

Extra-fancy hair:

Even crazy avant-garde hair:

So if you need help with designing a character or you just want to practice drawing hair, this is a fantastic resource.

[apileofsmiles]

ocdemmeryn for haircut ideas! :D

[fictionwritingtips]

Real People vs. Characters

As a writer, one of your main jobs is to get your readers to believe in the illusion you’re creating in your story. Deep down, we know that characters aren’t real people, but we suspend our disbelief to really put ourselves inside a fictional world. While characters can also be layered and complex, there’s a big difference—they’re not real people.

Here are a few differences to consider when building your own characters:

Characters are simpler than real people

I know, I know. How can I say that your favorite character from your favorite book series isn’t as complex as your next door neighbor? You know a lot more about your favorite character because you’ve followed their ups and downs for like 5 books now.

But the truth is your next door neighbor has a very real and very complex life and they’ll always have more depth than any character in a fiction novel. Authors only tend to focus on certain traits of a character; ones that pertain to the story and help drive the novel forward. Adding a lot more detail could bog the story down and feel unnecessary. Like I said before, characters can be complex and layered, but we’re only experiencing a powerful illusion. This is actually helpful for writers because it helps manipulate your readers’ emotions depending on what story you’re trying to tell. You get to guide your characters and where they’re going.

You’re only sharing a slice of life

Most of the time when you’re writing about a character, you’re only sharing the most dramatic moments of their existence. There’s a reason you’re telling the story and it’s not just them living their normal day-to-day lives. There’s usually the stasis that moves on to the inciting incident that gets them away from what they’re used to. We all know that real life can be tedious and boring for the most part. I’m not saying nothing exciting happens to real people, but we do work and go to school and sleep every night…the boring parts are usually cut out of fiction (depending on your story)

Again, obviously this all depends on your story, but there’s usually some excitement that pops up in stories that doesn’t always happen to real people. We are reading about what’s most representative of your character’s life.

You never know exactly what real people are thinking

This is one of the biggest differences between characters and real people. In novels, if the writer chooses to do so, the innermost thoughts of characters can be revealed. In real life, it’s impossible for us to know what someone else is thinking. They might tell us, but we’ll never have that sort of deep insight we’d have in a work of fiction.

Use this to your advantage as a writer because it doesn’t happen in real life.  Share your protagonist’s thoughts if you think it will help develop your story.

-Kris Noel

[wordsnquotes]

People think they know you. They think they know how you’re handling a situation. But the truth is no one knows. No one knows what happens after you leave them, when you’re lying in bed or sitting over your breakfast alone and all you want to do is cry or scream. They don’t know what’s going on inside your head—the mind-numbing cocktail of anger and sadness and guilt. This isn’t their fault. They just don’t know. And so they pretend and they say you’re doing great when you’re really not. And this makes everyone feel better. Everybody but you.“

William H. Woodwell Jr. (via wordsnquotes)

[clownjpg]

the funniest and best thing i’ve learned while doing research for this shakespeare project is that in the late 19th century, there was this group called the american acclimatization society and their thing was bringing european plants and animals to the u.s. so one member was this guy named eugene schieffelin and he was like obsessed with shakespeare, so he went, “hey, wouldn’t it be cool if we tracked down EVERY SPECIES OF BIRD SHAKESPEARE EVER MENTIONED and brought them ALL to America” so he rounded up like a hundred European starlings and released them in central park, and now there are upwards of 200 million starlings in North America and they cause around $1 billion worth of damage to crops every year, all because shakespeare mentioned them exactly ONCE in Henry IV part 1

[eroscestlavie]

#the shakespeare fandom is wild

[wordsnquotes]

It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.

J.R.R. Tolkien (via wordsnquotes)

[faeyr-deactivated20140420]

forms of transphobia you should watch out for in your speech and thought processes

casual cissexism: associating genitalia/body parts with gender, statements like “god i’m such a lesbian i love vaginas” and “guys don’t understand periods at all” or anything that implies people with vaginas and breasts = female and people with penises = male

nonbinary erasure: phrases like “opposite gender”, statements that imply male and female are the only genders

intersex erasure: phrases like “opposite sex”, statements that imply there are only two sexes and that everyone is born with strictly a vagina or penis

assuming gender based on appearance: if you don’t know someone’s gender, don’t assume they are female and don’t refer to them as “she” just because they appear dfab or femme. don’t use gendered terms to refer to someone whose gender you do not know.

[the-lady-lionheart-deactivated2]

but can we please also remember that when people make these mistakes they are- more often than not- unintentional and the way you should react is to try to educate them not to rip them to shreds just remember that everyone makes mistakes and some people were raised in such a way that these things aren’t things they actively think about and they WILL need time to work on this so help them education before evisceration everyone!!!!!

[wicked-divinity]

This times a million. I make mistakes but I want to learn, not be terrorized until I no longer want anything to do with these issues.

[civismundisum]

I will be wild. I will be brutal. I will encircle you and conquer you. I will be more powerful than your boats and your swords and your blood lust. I will be inevitable.

Iphigenia, from A Memory of Wind by Rachel Swirsky (via lucreza)

[wicked-divinity]

Guys

I already have a good portion of my first character's app done ;-; I'm way too excite

[wnq-writers]

She guarded her heart so tightly that her own flames consumed her.

shypanda2315  (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

She wanted to be alone, but not lonely. That was very different; that was something that ached and hurt dreadfully right inside one.

Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Enchanted April (via wordsnquotes)

[sappysuperspies]

Idea???!?!?! So I know some of us already know each other and that’s a+ gREAT BUT not all of us do so like this is a little push I guess- everyone should hit each other up for AIM/Skype/whatever so we can chat and bond and build amazing friendships before the site even opens!!! 

(I personally have both AIM and Skype yoooo)

So let’s get w the bonding, y/y? <3

[wicked-divinity]

But consider this - I don't WANT to be your friend. (Other people tho I'm cool with so my AIM is queenofomega and my Skype is a super fucking long email address so pls send me an ask if you want it. ♡ [ u better want it okay :° ])

[fuckyeahroleplayadvice]

My affiliate as of late has been bombarded with questions concerning underage smut and I myself have covered the topic briefly in the past, but because it is apparently a very confusing issue for most people, I hope this post will put your questions to rest.

First, I need to address the fact that...

[wnq-writers]

I have a tragedy inside of me just waiting to be written.

tashorganic  (via wordsnquotes)

[doglets-deactivated20140515]

If you are the older twin, call your little sibling a few times a day and be like “when I was your age” and then describe what you did 7 minutes ago