im both depending on the story lmao
There are two types of writers:
1. 'It's fiction, it doesn't need to make sense!'
2. 'I didn't account for the rotation of the planet and how that affects the constalations while my characters stargazed at different times of year, I have failed as a writer, and this entire thing is trash'
i just got the greatest comment in the world like omg i will NOT recover like shsjdjdjdnfndjajdkf
gods i fucking hate this house i cant fucking wait to move out and be able to do my own god damn shit and be alone for once IN MY FUCKING GOD DAMN LIFE
aaaaa anxious anxious anxious everything feels cold omffggg everything is cold im shaky fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckhahahhhaa
â° First of all â being sick is boring as hell
Nobody tells you that. You think itâs gonna be poetic and tragic and emotionally moving, maybe a few tears on the windowpane and a soft piano soundtrack? Wrong. Itâs pacing in a waiting room for two hours to be told to come back next week. Itâs reruns of trash TV because your brain fog is so bad you can't even process a podcast. It's Googling "why do my bones hate me" at 3 a.m. and finding nothing helpful, only vibes. So if you're writing a sick character and every scene is Deep and Heavy and Symbolic, I love you but no. Let them be bored. Let them be over it. Let them fall asleep halfway through someoneâs big speech.
â° Second â sickness is basically a toxic relationship with your own body
And wow, the drama is unmatched. One day your character wakes up and thinks, âMaybe today will be normal.â Their body: âPlot twist, bitch.â Now theyâre sweating through a hoodie, canceling plans, and pretending they're âjust tiredâ because explaining the truth is somehow more exhausting than the illness itself. Let your character hate their body sometimes. Let them feel betrayed by it. Let them mourn the version of themselves that used to just do things without needing a three-day nap after. But alsoâlet them fight for their body, too. Advocate. Adapt. Try again. Because itâs not all despair. Sometimes itâs really freaking brave just to get out of bed and put on pants.
â° Third â itâs not cute
Hollywood loves to write illness like itâs an aesthetic. Clean blankets, sad smiles, a gentle cough. Yeah⌠no. Sometimes itâs vomit in your hair. Itâs medical tape pulling off skin. Itâs being too tired to shower but still scrolling through memes like your life depends on it. Give us the gross stuff. The embarrassing stuff. The human stuff.
â° Fourth â let them be funny
Sick people are hilarious. Mostly because we have to be. Youâve got two choices when your body is a disaster zone: laugh, or fully unravel. So we joke about our failing organs. We flirt with the nurse while on IV fluids. We name our medical devices. We send memes from the ER. Let your character joke. Let them be sharp, sarcastic, absurd. Not because they're âtaking it well,â but because thatâs their armor. Humor is one of the most honest forms of pain. Use it.
â° Fifth â sick â broken
Please hear this: your character is not less than. They are not just here to suffer and die and inspire others with their angelic perseverance. Theyâre a person. Maybe a chaos goblin. Maybe a genius. Maybe a mess. Maybe a lover, a fighter, a giant emotional raccoon with a heating pad. Let them live and have goals. Let them chase things. Let them screw up. Let them be loved and desired and complicated. Their illness is part of them, not all of them.
â° Lastly â donât wrap it up too clean
Recovery isnât linear. Some illnesses donât âend.â And thatâs okay. You donât need a miracle cure in the third act. Sometimes strength is just learning to exist in a different way. Sometimes itâs re-learning how to hope. Sometimes itâs finding a new rhythm instead of forcing the old one to work. Let your character find peace, not perfection. So yeahâif youâre writing a sick character, youâre doing something important. Youâre making space for people whose stories rarely get told with truth and teeth and tenderness. Just promise me you wonât turn them into a symbol. Let them be a person. A funny, scared, strong, exhausted, hopeful person. Like the rest of us.
@katrein05 I Hope This Helps a little... :)
just kidding haahhahahahahahahhgjgsk
heres the question-
do we have prussia and russian empire do friend things but just treat it as 'you're a guest, and my ally' and that's it or they are pretty just standoffish and suddenly theyre skipping through flower fields (russian empire's garden /hj)
@mouse-rain YOU!!! decide for me pleaseeee :(
wife took too long we're going a wheel smh /lh
my question is why call forks and stuff utensils and they're widely known as just UTENSILS and then someone turns right around and says 'writing utensil' like how come that gets a well known specific
why isnt everything a utensil then???
electronic utensil uhh sitting utensil sleeping utensil????? walking utensil
if you're gonna do it at least do it all the way
i love my wife more than anything else in this entire world <3
this kitten is impossibly stupid it decides to run around all crazy and hyper adn somehow manages to tumble into the tub of water we used to wash it
its fine yes
but fucking idiot omg