Wiwinia

Wiktoria / 21 / Ace / She/Her Please ask me for fanfiction recommendations. AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/wiwinia/profile Whenever I'm overwhelmed, I disappear. I get overwhelmed easily. Sorry. My current fandoms: Dracula Carmilla DC (mostly Batman) TMA (I am like half a season behind on Protocol AT LEAST, dodging spoilers like I'm in Matrix. Could I just unfollow all of my people from this fandom / block tags? Obviously, but where's the fun in that) The Mechanisms The Witcher (not the Netflix series) The Raven Cycle (haven't read the Dreamer Trilogy yet tho!) All For The Game (I suppose the Six of Crows series as well, to complete the trio, but it's been A While) Game Changers series and Heated Rivalry Hannibal (it may suprise you, but this is a new one) Merlin (this is also a new one somehow) The list Will get longer

[heedra]

"I'm just going to pop in to the big used bookstore to see if they have this one thing I'm after, and if they don't, I will leave emptyhanded." 👆This is the most seditious, deceitful statement in the universe. The vizier in your head is betraying you. .

[heedra]

(two unrelated books now sitting on passenger seat) "Well let me just pop in to the other big used bookstore to see if they have the one thing I'm after, and this time I'll really commit to leaving emptyhanded if they don't."

👆Your kingdom is being divided up among internal conspirators at this very moment, and you are none the wiser.

[jordiipordii]

How I sleep at night after another day of not comparing the pains & traumas of the AFTG boys bcs I know it’s not a race/competition & I’m just SO happy that they’re all still alive atp

[lastvalyrian]

> medical problem > unsure if it's serious or will go away on its own > sees a doctor to be sure > "why the fuck are you here. this is nothing. it will go away on its own"

[lastvalyrian]

> medical problem > unsure if it's serious or will go away on its own > decide to wait to not overreact > problem remains > sees doctor with concrete problem after all > "why did you wait so long. we could have done something if you had come immediately"

[lonelydipshit]

> medical problem

> unsure if it’s serious or will go away on its own

>sees a doctor to be sure

> “why the fuck are you here this is nothing it will go away on its own”

> doesn’t go away on its own

> sees a doctor

> “why did you wait so long we could have done something if you had come immediately”

[aquarines]

vampire sucking blood from the inner thigh can be something so erotic and more vampire media needs to get on this train

look at this post with your eyes if you agree

[bump-of-whump]

Ref Recs for Whump Writers

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 

Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook

[scriptmedic]

So so honored to get THREE separate mentions in this list! (I haven’t read the first few, but the first one sounds fascinating!)

To differentiate the last 3, which are mine:

10 BS Tropes: this is how not to piss off medical folks in storytelling. It is short, and it was free the last I checked.

Maim Your Characters: this is a guide to injury as a plot structure tool. As in, how and when do you make the most out of a good character thrashing, from a plot perspective?

Blood on the Page is the book that tells you how long a specific injury might take to heal, what the character would go through, and details about their treatment.

Also, if cash is an issue, most of Blood on the Page and Maim Your Characters is available in my blog archives if you can navigate the hellsite. (The #masterposts tag is your best bet). And 10 BS Tropes was free the last I checked!

(Since I’ve had people ask: I priced the books so that, last I checked, I earn equivalent royalties whether you buy paperbacks or digital.)

xoxo, Aunt Scripty

P.S.: While I no longer answer asks about specific scenarios or injuries, I’m happy to answer questions about the books themselves via DM or ask box. Including the “hey I want this but REALLY can’t afford it could you PDF me?” ones.

[thefuzzyaya]

Hey, I am so sorry for reaching out and i might be tweaking, but were *you* the artist who drew Spideypool, where Wade plays with Peter‘s wrist, right where his organic Spiderwebs come out? It might have been a four panel comic or something, just their hands. Because i randomly remembered it but can‘t remember or find it any more.

Feel free to completely disregard if i am wrong!

Yeah, that's me 😂😂😂

I actually have two arts about it

[a03minyard]

hey in case anyone wants to know what single line from the entire series haunts me more than any other, here it is !

[gayhoediaz]

“it sounds like you’re justifying their actions-“ i am. they’re a fictional character. i’m okay with anything they do all the time. hope this helps.

[some-stars]

this shit from the comments is unironically so fucking sad to me. this is where we’re at now? “aren’t books supposed to have morals?” genuinely let’s all just pack it in and go home, we tried the whole “experiencing life and art at a greater complexity level than an eight year old can handle” thing and it didn’t work out, somebody break the news to oscar wilde, we’re done here. “books are meant to teach you something.” christ.

[napalm-waistcoat]

[starlightshadowsworld]

Every once in a while I think about something in All for the game a bit too hard, get confused by it, start theorising about it…only to then realise it’s oh this is just an American thing.

Like yeah, yeah the mafia whatever what do you mean Jean watched the Trojans VS Foxes game on TV?

You’re telling me that a game between university students was televised? Why? Is it because of the Moriyama’s? Did they start this whole thing for more money and publicity on their players? Or was it the ERC thinking it was so they could get more people engaging with this relatively new sport.

And then I learned oh you guys just do that 😅. All my thoughts about Exy being so heavily pushed onto younger people so much is just yeah this is the country who used their University (or College for you guys) stadiums to host World Cup games this year, that’s just their sports culture.

And I’m not saying this to be mean okay it’s just a case of oh I thought this was something to do with the series and it’s not. You know fairs honestly it just means I have to look things up more before I go on full arse tangents that amount to absolutely nothing 🥲

I’ve learned a lot about you guys from reading these books most of it is rather unintentional but you know it’s been fun.

[charlesoberonn]

America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

[charlesoberonn]

To anybody asking if the Amish are a cult, the answer is yes, very much so.

They’re a high control group that isolate you from society. The cult decides how you dress, how you behave, who you marry and how. They control what you know, blocking all information from the outside world. They control how you feel and what you’re allowed to think with threats of both social and supernatural harm. They’re a cult.

[charlesoberonn]

The best method to determine if a group is a cult, in my opinion, is Steven Hassan’s (cult expert and former cult member himself) BITE model.

BITE stands for Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control, and Emotional Control.

The more points a group “scores” on the model, the more of a cult it is.

I think this model is the best one for several reasons:

It’s more nuanced than “cult” or “not cult” and doesn’t make false equivalences between groups

It’s versatile, applying to groups big and small, and cults of all kinds, religious, political, financial, etc.

It focuses on what’s important, which is what the cult does to its members, and those members’ experiences, and not on irrelevant details like how uncommon their doctrines are or whether they have a charismatic leader

[charlesoberonn]

This is a great example of Thought Control used by cults whenever they’re confronted with criticism.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

#you might notice that there are a lot of similarities between cult techniques and those of abusive partners#and that is an important thing to be aware of

yah that goes in the post

[charlesoberonn]

The creator of the BITE Model considers abusive relationships to be two-person cults.

[forgotn1]

It’s important to note that almost every sect of evangelical christianity in the US today fails the BITE Model.

[alp-crispy]

This was the post that lead to breaking my JW mindset. Been a while since I seen it.

[charlesoberonn]

I’m glad I could help in your deconstruction, if only a little bit. I wish you all the luck in your journey moving forward.

[tuulikki]

And to highlight a key aspect of the “two-person cult” dynamic:

Not all high-control groups are religious. Secular cults exist.

I’d strongly recommend reading this brief bio of Janja Lalich. She’s a deprogramming therapist, but she’s also a cult survivor from a political cult.

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

high control groups can also form in friend groups and online! any social group can theoretically be a high control enviroment that’s abusive. any group can be a cult if someone uses that group to control and abuse others.

[rainpeacetea]

I just know the aftg universe fan girls were writing Neil x Jean fanfics after seeing them interact on court after the Foxes x Trojans match. and then after the game hearing Neil talk positively about Jean(which is rare because Neil usually roasts the living shit out of his opponents). Every fanfic Neil finds he sends to Jean. Neil: “look, in this one I’m the bottom again. Why am I always the bottom in our love stories?” Jean: “lose my number.”

[homeofhousechickens]

Baby chicks will say "peepeepeep peep peep" and they're so right imo

Very important peeping opinions

[parsonkenny101-deactivated20161]

[blondeninazenik]

All y'all better be reblogging this

[dateamonster]

can we send up a quick thank you to pdf uploaders, torrent seeders, copy sharers, scanlators, fansubbers, digitizers, paywall dodgers, and various other internet archivers for making niche art and information more accessible in a media landscape where all but the most profitable mainstream are often tossed aside and left to rot

[korakos]

remember that time I had to rip out the most important 75K words of this book because they weren't working? that was really funny right

[cunning-and-cool]

actually fuck it here's some stuff i know to be true about kyle swift:

bottle blond

on that note: gets it dyed professionally, but didn't start doing so until he was almost twenty-two, prior to that he was the guy who showed up with a different colour hair basically monthly

noah kahan stan

stress smoker

on that note: eric didn't know kyle smoked until he looked out the window of the townhouse the morning before the kingfisher reopened to see kyle just standing there smoking like his life depended on it

was a whoops baby, his older brothers have ten and seven years on him, respectively

was a major party boy when he was younger and absolutely had a fake id during his entire time in college

huge percy jackson fan to this day. is a "the musical is best adaptation" truther

had a bellybutton piercing for like six months

changes his name to bennett after him and eric get married

definitely has climbed out at least two windows to escape bad hookups, if not more

annoying

not an animal person. or a kid person

however: he's a really great uncle to skips and maria's future children! the type the kids call when they Do Not want to call their parents

chronic clothing stealer

also he hogs the bed. for some reason eric finds this charming

[cloud-hymn]

Imagine you’re a seasoned fbi agent trying to take down the literal mafia and your key witnesses are 2 asshole 19 year olds who refuse to let themselves go into witness protection bc then they can’t play their college sport. Let’s just say that Agent Browning should count his lucky stars he hasn’t discovered how Kevin Day connects to all of this bc he would not leave one conversation with Kevin with his sanity intact