This app is literally a balm to my soul. Going through such absolute shit and the minute i’m here my heart eases
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Discoholic 🪩
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This app is literally a balm to my soul. Going through such absolute shit and the minute i’m here my heart eases
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Ocean Vuong, from “Dear Rose”, Time Is a Mother
"What I like to remember more than anything else about the middle of Italy is how luxurious it can feel; staying in a villa with some friends, all of us painting and sketching, cypresses delineating every hill and with olive groves and little orange churches scattered below them. It was on a weekend like that I went to see the Villa Buonaccorsi and its glorious terraced gardens looking down over the Adriatic. It is in the Marche, where a beautiful sort of brick is the dominant material, and where fantastic church spires, obelisks and all sort of quirky, mannerist details sprout up everywhere you look.
That is one side of it, but of course there are others. The kitchen of Fabrizio, a friend of a friend, has all the unforced beauty of the peasant tradition. It is simple, not trying to be anything it isn't. The pots and pans hanging round the room, the fire, the kitchen stove, the logs stacked underneath, the bottle of Chianti hanging on one side, the beams, the terracotta tiles of the floor above—all the ingredients of coherence, integrity and charm are there, naturally achieving what self-conscious architects always strive to create."
— Caroline Mauduit, An Architect in Italy
i come back from a book and its like how the hell are you people just going on like this. didnt you read the book with me. how is the real world so disconnected from the whole book world i just experienced
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
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Jeanne Rosier Smith, ‘Water Melodies’, 18" x 24"
The dream girl I'm trying to be
reads one book per week
is ahead of her college assignments and readings
is top of her class
is hyper feminine
has manners, grace, poise and elegance
is always put together: nails, hair and outfit always on point
listens to jazz and classical music
is extremely cultured
seeks validation within, not on other people
has flawless skin
cooks healthy meals for herself and is not a sweet tooth or impulsive about food
attracts masculine, high caliber men that wants to provide for her and apprecieates her feminine presence
I just logged back in here after two years and omg 🥺 seeing the place I was at two years ago, it makes me sad how I feel now. I feel like the version of me two years ago was so much lighter, in touch with spirit, romantic.
Now I just feel jaded and resentful. This is my inspiration to get the version I was back, to retreat to her 💗
How To Write Smut: Characterization
I don't know about you, but I'm one of those writers who takes writing very seriously and writing erotica isn't an exception to me. If you think writing is hard, try writing a sex scene with the right pace, flow, making it sexy and at times romantic without forgetting the anatomy, the setting, avoiding clichés and cringy words, giving life-like actions to every single character involved... And yes, you have to do all that without getting distracted.
I tend to research and read a lot about it (hence the many writing advices, sexy thesaurus, how to write smut posts I reblogged in here). But there's one thing I rarely see in any of these writing advices about smut that I'd like to talk about in this post.
Every author has their own way to plan their scenes when they're writing erotica. As for me, I tend to envision two aspects when I plan a sex scene: setting and characters. When I think about the characters, I like to picture what they will do, how they will do it and their reactions. But not just physical ones. I'm talking about how each character experiences and expresses their sexuality during a sexual activity.
Think about your favorite fictional character. If they have a sex scene in canon, you're probably know if they're shy or not, serious or playful, adventurous, creative, passionate. If you know these details about them, you know how they behave during sex. And that's exactly what we should aim when writing that character in a sex scene.
I've briefly mentioned this in an ask, but as I watched Jenna Moreci's video about Ten Worst Tropes In Erotic Fiction, her video made me realize how important it is to follow the characterization previously established for a character when writing a sex scene. The main reason to do it is to make your reader can recognize each character in the story. Otherwise, it will look like you forgot to do your proper research on the character and they'll look OOC.
On that note, let me give you a personal example to clarify my opinion. When I started writing fanfiction, I got caught up in a sea of so many awesome fanfics that a fanon concept about a character I love ended up showing on my many of my first fanworks, even though it was completely OOC. Yes, I was newbie, I didn't understand much about characterization and let myself be influenced by these fanfics and headcanons I read back then, but I already knew how that character was like during a sex scene in canon. And I also knew most of these fanfic authors wrote this character OOC in order to fit their plot. When I look back at those stories of mine, I cringe at the thought that I knew how that character was like in canon, that I liked how they were written, but on a whim, I wrote something that doesn't fit their characterization in my stories.
But as I mentioned before, there are characterizations that might fit better the plot of your story, so there's no reason why a character can't be written a little kinkier or more vanilla once in a while. It's just important to keep a consistency in your writing in a way that it won't make it look like you wrote a character with multiple personalities disorder instead of making them more playful or raunchy 😁
To help fellow fanfic writers, I created my own sexual character sheet, so use it wisely:
the hottest thing a hero can do is be completely doomed from the start & know it & keep going <3
Theories of what could happen should not take up space in your mind. There is only the situation in front of you and what matters is how you are going to handle it. No more what-ifs or lack of action.
“I dream of a magic wand that changes my kisses to stars. At night you can gaze at them and know they are innumerable.”
— Dunya Mikhail, from ‘Non-Military Statements’, The War Works Hard (trans. Elizabeth Winslow)
Observe him, and then accept who he shows you he is. Nothing more. Nothing less.
“The wound is a sign, and the wound is a crossing too.”
— Adonis, from The Wound; trans. Khaled Mattawa. (via xshayarsha)
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