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[confirmed-and-contorted]

slamming your knights visor down when you’re finished talking to them, like slamming the phone back on the receiver.

[valtsv]

voted most likely to stumble out of the woods onto the highway 10 years after i went missing covered in blood that isn't my own with no memory of how i ended up like that

[valtsv]

and then you almost hit me with your car but you manage to swerve at the last second so you honk your horn yell at me to watch where i'm going but i just keep staring blankly at you and the blood on my face and in my hair and on my hands isn't quite dry and your words trail off and die in your throat and you start to feel just a little bit afraid but you offer me a ride into town anyway because you feel bad for shouting at me

[valtsv]

and then i'm in the car and you put down some plastic bags so i don't get blood on your upholstery but you can smell it thick and metallic in the air and i still don't say a word and you try to make small talk and ask me if i want to charge the radio station but i just keep staring straight ahead expressionlessly with no sign of stopping and you soon run out of small talk and so we drive on in silence in the dark and you keep your eyes on the road but you can feel when my own turn to look at you instead

[random-questions-fairy]

Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

[theredscreech]

Heads up that this is a very extensive questionnaire and might be daunting to a lot of writers (myself included). That being said, it is also an amazing questionnaire and I will definitely be using it (or at the very least, some of it).

[heroineimages]

Bookmarking this…

[backofthebookshelf]

This inspired me to see if Patricia C. Wrede’s Worldbuilding Questions are still online, and not only are they, they’re on the exact same page I saw them on in 1998. Somewhere there’s a binder of the Word doc I made of all of them and the answers I filled in for Baby’s First Fantasy World

[valtsv]

"came back wrong" but it's more explicitly + intentionally about medical and/or caregiver abuse

[valtsv]

came back wrong in the sense that the person who revived you subtly or even obviously changed aspects of your appearance to conform better to their concept of beauty, but no one else notices, or thinks that you look better like this anyway so they don't care and are even jealous of you. came back wrong in the sense that you never consented to be brought back; don't know who dressed you like this and arranged your body in the position that you woke up in; it feels like a violation that no-one will admit to. came back wrong in that everyone is so smotheringly protective of you now; won't let you take even minor risks or "abuse" your newly-revived body with substances and poor lifestyle choices.

[willjulep]

Can you guys watch my fairy tale prince with the lamb motif and my jaded knight who sees himself as nothing more than a starving and desperate wolf while I step out for a moment? And DON'T 🫵 let them kiss.

[willjulep]

I'm starting to think that none of you are taking this seriously

[caemidraws]

Crescent Moon

[carebeardean]

[pawbeanies]

heyy can we do a sexy roleplay where im a prince from a fallen kingdom and youre the powerful warrior who has taken me for their own pleasure. yes? yipeeee ok so before we start first here's a google doc with the whole history of the fictional land we're both from and the intricate geopolitical workings of the- oh yeah and here's a supplementary doc on the agriculture and trade routes of said fictional land and stuff and yes this is important. the dirty talk has to be lore accurate

[teafromthemicrowave]

MOTH JON MOTH JON MOTH JON

[autistic-evil-xisuma]

people always talk about evil clones like oooh a dark mirror oohh what if you saw what are cruel person you were/are capable of becoming. and well yes but what if you were the evil clone. what if you looked in the mirror and what you saw was so bright it blinded you. what if you had to know exactly how good you could have been.

[roughentumble]

you know it really isnt immoral, if you do it right, to raise cows and sheep for meat. so. well. i think there should be a story about, vampires who have a town of humans that they keep well-maintained, so long as the humans donate their blood once a month, like vampire blood farm stuff

but instead of antagonistic everyone's like. no he's a nice man you leave the count alone. he keeps us safe and cared for and he just needs a lil snack now and then, it dont hurt anyone. like a cow that loves the farmer and the farmer that loves the cow, even with both knowing one will end up on the other's table. because its like. its like. cows just have such pretty eyes, you know? they love you so much. i think it should be like that

[roughentumble]

literallyyyyyy

i want to be part of a vampire's herd. and i want him to pet me like a cow

[valtsv]

i think that killing a dragon should have catastrophic nuclear-fallout level environmental consequences tbh. their blood should scorch and wither the earth with fire and poison, the toxic fumes released as they decay should choke the land and all nearby living creatures, and the entire landscape where they fell should be transformed into a blighted wasteland where bleached leviathan bones loom upwards out of the ground as a warning that can be seen from miles away, the boundary markers of an exclusion zone.

[valtsv]

i also think that it would be wonderfully ironic if those who sought the fame and glory of the title of 'dragonslayer' only ended up with the bitter, enduring reminder of the devastation they're responsible for. this is not a place of honor. no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.

[valtsv]

my main advice for writing an enemies to lovers relationship is to resist the urge to make the characters' loathing and attraction mutually exclusive opposing forces. it's okay if they're getting weirdly into it and having Thoughts whilst also sincerely wanting to kill each other with hammers.

[valtsv]

sometimes the best place for an "oh" moment of realization is while reeling from a punch and tasting blood in your mouth. it's kind of like a fucked up first kiss.

[fairycosmos]

fine i gues i will say it. i miss when uquizzes were everywhere. cringe about it. i don't care. has anything ever felt real or true since. exactly

[nortess]

rereading the pool scene after knowing what gideon thought of it is a humbling experience ngl

[lishenkaaa]

i never picked this up before but gideon moving her hands from harrow's jaw when harrow talks about The Body... im gonna explode

SHE WANTED TO KISS HER!!! SHE WANTED TO KISS HER AND THEN HARROW STARTS TALKING ABOUT HOW SHE'S IN LOVE WITH A CORPSE AND GIDEON PULLS AWAY!!!! "her eyes starting to sting from it" they were in that pool forever there's no way that was from the salt she wanted to cry it's so gideover for me

[elucubrare]

a character type i'm really into is the ex-something - exile, obviously, but also anyone who used to have a role that was also an identity and now does not: ex-mage, ex-assassin, ex-monarch --

it's about loss of identity and recreation of identity; it's about how being an ex-something is impossible because the ghost of what you were haunts what you are now; it's about reshaping the way you see the world and yourself in the world.