Writing: A Love Affair

I'm a lover of stories, storytellers and a dabbler in fandoms.

[milominderbindered]

frequently, secretly fond of each other.

| the hollanov boston raiders teammates au |

chapters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23

Shrugging one shoulder far more casually than he possibly feels, Ilya says, “I like both. Is secret, okay?” “Okay,” Hollander says. He doesn’t say anything else. The air’s so heavy around them that it feels like being in the middle of a scrum, the weight and heat of all those bodies pressing down on you. Danger always feels like hockey; it’s the most dangerous thing Ilya knows, except for this. Everything dangerous in his life involves men’s bodies and just how close he can get to them. Closer than he probably should.

Nobody knows why Shane Hollander dropped out of the 2009 draft at the last second, and a year later it stuns the whole hockey world when he's signed by the Boston Raiders. Having the two biggest stars in the league on the same line is great for Boston - but playing alongside their worst rival was never exactly in Shane or Ilya's plans. Especially not when staying away from each other starts to feel just as impossible as getting along.

[milominderbindered]

The uncertainty then, like some sentence of sin, punctuated by moments of tenderness; when there were long conversations, sharing of beds, giddy, impressionable - nana grizol

chapter twenty three is here !

[writingaloveaffair]

Why the _fuck_ do I have to work right now? This is the worst 😭😭😭😭

chapter 23, I will come for you sooon

[milominderbindered]

every post i see about shane and rose just makes me think of this meme

[mrsterlingeverything]

One day i will make or do something

[alxnxllix]

Reblog if you're grateful for your internet friends

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

Building off of the romantasy sex scene anon question, what makes a good sex scene in romantasy or any other kind of literature by your metrics?

I honestly find the described physicality of sex scenes pretty boring to read or write on their own? But simultaneously the challenge of them is really interesting to me from a craft perspective! I think the way characters have sex can be very revealing, and therefore valuable for painting a broader picture of their psychology. But… a lot of sex scenes actually aren’t that entrenched in character

The important thing that I think gets missed a lot is that sex scenes are scenes. Constructing them requires consideration for arcs, larger story purpose, and pacing. The way open door sex scenes are most often approached in romantasy/romance heavy genres though is just throwing in a laundry list of sex acts. And that itself often has no sense of emotional continuity with who the characters involved are. There’s a direct correlation imo to whether a genre treats sex scenes like they are a prize unlocked after a relationship dynamic achieves a certain point, with no other purpose than to be sexy, to how irrelevant and poorly written the scenes in it often are

So for me, the most important metric is whether the scene in question can be skipped. The answer should be no!! If it adds nothing to the story then it is a bad scene and it’s going to feel stagnant and weird or like it’s bringing the plot to a grinding halt

How the characters interact and what they do and how they view it and think about it should all matter and it needs to change something about the story. So in that sense I don’t think a good sex scene really depends on idk what sex acts are happening or how explicit or vague it may be, those can all vary so much based on particular context. But the most important thing is just character and story relevance

[snowstories]

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

[mossbear-minese]

I don't remember where I saw this piece of advice so I can't credit it, unfortunately

But it was along the lines of "instead of asking whether something is out of character, ask 'what would it take for this character to do this'"

Which I think fits really nicely with this advice of making the actual action itself also feel in character

[infinitebookshelves]

REBLOG IF YOU ACTUALLY READ TAGS

[1617]

sometimes home is a person

[pomplerrr]

please don't say that

[gayhockeyshow]

[blacksheepcolorfulskin]

Dallas Kent says something homophobic about Shane to the press so next game Ilya cross checks him right in the teeth. He gets fined $5,000.00 and the press asks him about why he pulled such a cheap shot. He replies, “As you said, was cheap. Only cost $5,000.00. I would have done it for 10. Great deal.”

[writingaloveaffair]

Who knew I’d be searching whether onlyfans allows video calls for work?

[wyatthazy]

HEATED RIVALRY WEEK 2026 | day 3: favourite kiss soft + emotional + hot

[overfalls]

IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

[owlbearcounter]

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU

[ranetree]

ADDITIONALLY:

YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’

IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.

ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME

‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’

THANK YOU

[tassiekitty]

BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE

BREATH - THE NOUN FORM

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE

WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY

WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)

[fairywails]

DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN

[melancholicmarionette]

WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)

WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING

[proletariatbitch]

BAWL- TO SOB/CRY

BALL- A FUCKING BALL

YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT

[soggywarmpockets]

AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.

THANK YOU.

[everylineeverystory]

*slams reblog*

[leonawriter]

IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.

[penbrydd]

SLEIGHT - DEXTERITY, ARTIFICE, CRAFT (FROM ‘SLY’) SLIGHT - VERY LITTLE, FRAIL, DELICATE

IT’S ‘SLEIGHT OF HAND’.

[maverlok]

[celynbrum]

DISCRETE - SEPARATE, DISTINCT, PARTED

DISCREET - SUBTLE, STEALTHY, DIPLOMATIC

[othercat2]

BORN= existing as a result of birth

BORNE= carried or transported by

[typesetjez]

LIGHTENING = to make something less dark in color or to lessen its weight

LIGHTNING = bright flash of light during electrical storms

[intellectualhedonist]

REIN IN (not reign or rain, it’s an equestrian metaphor)

[satanfemme]

[stuckinapril]

I’ve had tumblr for 4 years but some of you bitches have had it for a decade. It’s time to seek penance

[stuckinapril]

wait I’m curious now . Reblog this with how long u’ve been on tumblr for. Dating back to ur oldest blog ever !!!

[milominderbindered]

frequently, secretly fond of each other.

| the hollanov boston raiders teammates au |

chapters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22

Shrugging one shoulder far more casually than he possibly feels, Ilya says, “I like both. Is secret, okay?” “Okay,” Hollander says. He doesn’t say anything else. The air’s so heavy around them that it feels like being in the middle of a scrum, the weight and heat of all those bodies pressing down on you. Danger always feels like hockey; it’s the most dangerous thing Ilya knows, except for this. Everything dangerous in his life involves men’s bodies and just how close he can get to them. Closer than he probably should.

Nobody knows why Shane Hollander dropped out of the 2009 draft at the last second, and a year later it stuns the whole hockey world when he's signed by the Boston Raiders. Having the two biggest stars in the league on the same line is great for Boston - but playing alongside their worst rival was never exactly in Shane or Ilya's plans. Especially not when staying away from each other starts to feel just as impossible as getting along.

[milominderbindered]

in honour of hr episode 6 'the cottage' i am here to deliver a my own emotionally intimate bottle episode, now with far more pain and anxiety but ultimately relief!! chapter twenty two

[lampshadefrankly]

we need John green to buy tumblr

@sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

I do often think, "You know what's missing from my life? 200,000 nerds yelling at me every day."

[thememedaddy]