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body language descriptions please?
(eg: she cocked her head)
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Body Language Descriptions
-> feel free to edit and adjust pronouns as you see fit.
Anxiety/Nervousness
She fidgeted with the hem of her shirt, her fingers tugging nervously at the fabric as she struggled to find the right words.
They bit their lower lip.
He looked away, unable to meet her gaze, a clear indication of his guilt.
She absentmindedly rubbed her neck.
He chewed his nails, a nervous habit that he couldn't seem to quit.
They rubbed their hands together nervously.
He tightened his jaw.
She felt beads of sweat forming on her brow, betraying her calm facade as her heart raced.
Frustration/Impatience
Their fists clenched at their sides.
He tapped his fingers rhythmically against the table, a clear sign of impatience as he waited for her to finish.
He rolled his eyes, the gesture full of exasperation as he dismissed her words.
She let out a heavy sigh, the sound heavy with resignation as she faced the inevitable.
He threw his hands up in defeat.
Curiosity
He leaned forward in his chair, eager to hear more, his eyes sparkling with curiosity.
She raised an eyebrow, her expression skeptical as she questioned his intentions.
She tilted her head slightly.
He watched intently, his eyes wide with wonder as he took in every detail of her story.
Confidence/Assertiveness
He stood tall with his shoulders back, projecting confidence even in the face of uncertainty.
They sat on the edge of their seat.
She gestured wildly, her hands moving animatedly as she tried to express her excitement.
He stood with his hands on his hips, exuding an air of authority and control over the situation.
They held their chin up high, projecting self-assurance even in the face of adversity.
Defensiveness/Resignation
He crossed his arms over his chest, a defensive posture that spoke volumes about his discomfort.
He braced himself against the wall, a protective stance.
She folded her hands in her lap, a sign of restraint as she fought the urge to speak.
They shrank back slightly, their shoulders hunching as if trying to make themselves smaller in the face of criticism.
He held his breath momentarily, steeling himself for the inevitable conflict he sensed was coming.
She covered her face with her hands, overwhelmed by the situation as she tried to block out the world.
Thoughtfulness/Concentration
She furrowed her brow in concentration, her mind clearly racing as she tried to solve the problem at hand.
She nodded slowly, processing the information, her expression thoughtful and contemplative.
He stared blankly into space, lost in thought as he processed what had just been revealed.
He drummed his fingers on the table, the rhythmic sound a sign of his deep contemplation.
She tapped her foot lightly, her mind racing.
Eagerness/Excitement
He paced back and forth, his restless energy manifesting in the constant movement as he considered his options.
She bent forward, her elbows resting on her knees, a sign of intimacy and engagement in the conversation.
She swayed slightly from side to side, a subconscious display of her nervous energy as she waited for the verdict.
He bounced on his toes, his excitement palpable.
She jumped up and down, a spontaneous display of her joy that couldn’t be contained.
Romance Masterpost
How to write it
How to write romance
Love Language - Showing, not telling love
Love Language - Showing you care
Honeymoon
Slow burn
Forbidden Romance (+ prompts)
Reasons for a break-up while still loving each other
How to write a wedding
How to create quick chemistry
How to write a love-hate relationship
How to write enemies to lovers (+ prompts)
How to write lovers to enemies to lovers
Arranged matrimony for royalty (+ prompts)
Date gone wrong
Academic rivals to lovers
Romantic Fall Date Ideas
How to write a polyamorous relationship
Milestones in a relationship
How to write age difference
Fluffy Kiss Scene
Reasons a couple would divorce on good terms
Reasons for having a crush on someone
Ways a wedding could go wrong
Prompt Lists
Romance Prompt Lists (Masterpost)
Bad romances/unrequited/break-up (Masterpost)
Flirting + Teasing Prompts (Masterpost)
Kisses Masterpost (Prompts, First Kiss, Accidental Kiss, …)
Two smart and also stupid people in love
Push and pull romantic prompts
Lovers to enemies
Love to hate relationship
Smut Prompts (Masterpost)
One-Liners Dialogue - Romantic, Smutty + Physical
Things said during sex prompts
Jealousy Prompts
OTP Christmas Prompts
Fluffy Winter Holiday Prompts
Romance Sentence Starters
Romantic Question Prompts
Domestic Fluff Prompts
Fluff Prompts
Fluff Bingo
Fluffy Sentence Starters
Sleepy Starters
Fluffy Dialogue Prompts
Super soft intimacy
make ‘em swoon
Cute Interactions
Romantic, non-sexual intimacy prompts
Fake Dating Prompts (Masterpost)
OT3 Prompts (Masterpost)
Meet Cutes/Meet Uglies
Royal Love (Masterpost)
Hurt/Comfort Dialogue Prompts
Hurt/Comfort Prompts
Caring for their partner prompts
Roommates to Lovers (Masterpost)
Professor/TA Romance
Friends with benefits to lovers Prompts
Romance Dialogue Prompts – Uncomfortable with affection
Matchmaking Prompts
Valentine’s Day Prompts
Hand-holding
Kisses
Hugs
Touching
Hugging Dialogue
Physical Reactions
Casual Affections
Intimate Moments
Doing nice things prompts
Love Languages (Masterpost)
Subtle Acts of Love
Bed Sharing Scenarios
Seeking out physical affection
Asking for permission
Love Confessions (Masterpost)
Lovers being caught Prompts
Love Triangle Ideas
Soulmates AU (Masterpost)
WLW Plot Ideas
Second chance trope
Cooking/Baking Dialogue Prompts
Quiet movie night Prompts
Grumpy + Sunshine Dialogue
Grumpy Affectionate Dialogue
Exes to lovers Prompts (Masterpost)
Reluctant allies to friends to lovers dynamic
Best friends to lovers Prompts
Childhood friends to lovers Prompts
Workplace Romance (Masterpost)
Secret relationship dialogue
Date Prompts (Masterpost)
One Night Stand Prompts
Parallel Universe Romance Prompts
Lover being hurt Prompts
Relationship Milestones (Masterpost: moving in, getting married, honeymoon)
Relationship Problems
Relationship Changes
Ship Dynamics
OTP Prompt Challenge
Enemies to Lovers Masterpost
‘Imagine your OTP’ Prompts
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100 Dialogue Tags You Can Use Instead of “Said”
For the writers struggling to rid themselves of the classic ‘said’. Some are repeated in different categories since they fit multiple ones (but those are counted once so it adds up to 100 new words).
1. Neutral Tags
Straightforward and unobtrusive dialogue tags:
Added, Replied, Stated, Remarked, Responded, Observed, Acknowledged, Commented, Noted, Voiced, Expressed, Shared, Answered, Mentioned, Declared.
2. Questioning Tags
Curious, interrogative dialogue tags:
Asked, Queried, Wondered, Probed, Inquired, Requested, Pondered, Demanded, Challenged, Interjected, Investigated, Countered, Snapped, Pleaded, Insisted.
3. Emotive Tags
Emotional dialogue tags:
Exclaimed, Shouted, Sobbed, Whispered, Cried, Hissed, Gasped, Laughed, Screamed, Stammered, Wailed, Murmured, Snarled, Choked, Barked.
4. Descriptive Tags
Insightful, tonal dialogue tags:
Muttered, Mumbled, Yelled, Uttered, Roared, Bellowed, Drawled, Spoke, Shrieked, Boomed, Snapped, Groaned, Rasped, Purred, Croaked.
5. Action-Oriented Tags
Movement-based dialogue tags:
Announced, Admitted, Interrupted, Joked, Suggested, Offered, Explained, Repeated, Advised, Warned, Agreed, Confirmed, Ordered, Reassured, Stated.
6. Conflict Tags
Argumentative, defiant dialogue tags:
Argued, Snapped, Retorted, Rebuked, Disputed, Objected, Contested, Barked, Protested, Countered, Growled, Scoffed, Sneered, Challenged, Huffed.
7. Agreement Tags
Understanding, compliant dialogue tags:
Agreed, Assented, Nodded, Confirmed, Replied, Conceded, Acknowledged, Accepted, Affirmed, Yielded, Supported, Echoed, Consented, Promised, Concurred.
8. Disagreement Tags
Resistant, defiant dialogue tags:
Denied, Disagreed, Refused, Argued, Contradicted, Insisted, Protested, Objected, Rejected, Declined, Countered, Challenged, Snubbed, Dismissed, Rebuked.
9. Confused Tags
Hesitant, uncertain dialogue tags:
Stammered, Hesitated, Fumbled, Babbled, Mumbled, Faltered, Stumbled, Wondered, Pondered, Stuttered, Blurted, Doubted, Confessed, Vacillated.
10. Surprise Tags
Shock-inducing dialogue tags:
Gasped, Stunned, Exclaimed, Blurted, Wondered, Staggered, Marvelled, Breathed, Recoiled, Jumped, Yelped, Shrieked, Stammered.
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Writing is hard. Writing fanfiction...is also hard.
In an effort to get back into a groove with my writing and find my author voice again, I've started writing some Dramione (Canon fans, please don't hate me. I love Ron Weasley, but when an idea keeps you awake at night, you have to just go with it).
I'm only about 8,000 words in, but that's 8,000 more words of fiction than I've been able to write in an absurdly long amount of time.
However, here's the tricky bit - I need a beta reader. So...any volunteers?
the purest, most sincere love
Latest Sketch-a-Wish voted on by my lovely Patreon members for September, featuring Elspeth and Ravyn from ONE DARK WINDOW by Rachel Gillig! I don't know about you all, but I got Pride vibes (from Full Metal Alchemist) with The Nightmare and so paid a little homage to that here. I know functionally it would be more like Greed/Ling, but the patient and lethal personality reminded me of Pride.
Can I get @toorumlk to illustrate my stories? I feel like they just get the vibe. LOOK at the adorableness of this family portrait!!
the weasleys, circa 1995
This. Just all of it.
While we're on this, where has this idea that Ron Weasley is unintelligent coming from? I'm seeing it a lot even when people are discussing canon. He might not be academically inclined, like everyone's favorite witch, but he's strategically quite clever.
I lied. Put your clothes back on.
We are going to talk about how Harry James Potter is so criminally underrated in his own fandom, how people completely ignore his trauma and his suffering and act like he is a selfish person with anger issues even though he is just a boy who went through too much too young.
We are going to talk about the infamous sentence 'But xy had it so much worse' even though it‘s Harry who we see growing up in a literal cupboard, who got raised up as a pig for slaughter, who always put everyone else above himself, who could have turned out to be the villain but instead he chose love.
AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN HOLLY BLACK YOU CANT JUST SAY THIS 😭😭😭
like am i stupid or what bc WHOS POV IS THE NEXT BOOK GONNA BE IN?! she says it won’t be nicasias??? but i totally thought it was?
cardan was the one who said what was gonna happen next, but holly has also said that there’s a lot of story left in Jude?
and we were left on almost a cliffhanger w the prisoners throne, never rly seeing oak and suren together officially.
AND since it’ll be undersea focused, but not nicasias pov, will it be the pov of her husband???
the prisoners throne mentioned a something “croin” guy who’s the underseas opp so will he be nicasias future hubby? or will he be Jude and cardans and potentially nicasias political problem?
But what does “straight sequel” mean 😭 sorta seems like it’ll be cardan pov but IDKK
I’m panicking. Let me know what you think of this bc idk
"Love everlasting, love wished for desperately, love that walks in through the door, love that is a mistake, love that is yours alone."
— Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons
"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."
Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]
PRACTICAL MAGIC (1998) dir. Griffin Dunne
oh september, how you have my heart.
Greenteacups genuinely understands the Harry Potter characters on such an insane level. This kind of character study is spectacular.
Re: Hermione’s parents. To me it always felt like THEY were also very responsible for being out of the picture. First year Hermione is a child who feels like breaking the rules is worse than death and is very sure that she is going to be expelled at any given moment. Her attempts at making friends are laughably bad. We can assume that she had difficult relationship with authority figures growing up, where she had to be perfect or else.
Mr Weasley is shown to be trying to make contact with the Grangers through a topic that is interesting and not intimidating to them, and we never hear about him getting hit back with “yes yes electricity, now tell us everything about your world”, which seeing that Arthur Weasley is a grown ass man who actually can be quite subtle was presumably the point.
Finally, Hermione obliviating her parents tells us a lot about Hermione, true, but it also tells us everything about her perception of them. A 17 year old teenager thought that it wasn’t a big deal to erase all of her parents’ recollection of her, maybe permanently. To me that action speaks of anger at them but also complete and utter lack of belief that they want to do anything with her.
I thought it was a very sad thing happening to Hermione behind the scenes, one that Ron might have been aware of, but not Harry.
Arthur's interactions with the Grangers are an interesting point. I agree that it's probably an overture to the Grangers, with the bonus of being something he likes talking about; Arthur is restoring a car engine, he almost assuredly knows how electricity works.
I don't know that we can assume Hermione had strict parents per se, though. Book 1 gives us a very realistic portrait of a socially awkward eleven-year-old whose inability to connect with people her own age, due to some combination of being smarter than them and a bit stuck-up, has manifested in a desperate desire for approval from older role models. She doesn't seem to be afraid of them; she's not afraid of McGonagall or Dumbledore, and she's certainly not afraid of Snape, though she would have the most reason to be. She just wants them to like her, and probably all the more because she knows most people don't.
We do see that as the series goes on, she develops a distaste for authority, particularly authority that's abused, but that seems like a natural consequence of Hermione never facing any consequences for breaking the rules. Her fears rotate more around being expelled, and losing access to the world of magic, than they do being 'punished' as such by McGonagall or Dumbledore. She's not afraid of them, she's afraid of failing. It's a subtle difference, but an important one for her relationship with her parents, I think.
I agree that it indicates a staggering problem in their relationship when she basically writes off her value in their lives, though I'd add that we don't know what or if they talked to her about the war beforehand. It strikes me that we actually don't know most things about the circumstances of Hermione Obliviating her parents — did she try to talk it out with them first? Convince them to flee? Did they refuse? Was this a first resort, or the last? All of those change what we might think of the Grangers' relationship with their daughter, and we just don't have the answers to those questions in the book.
Okay, but who do I have to buy a drink for to get my hands on a JM Binding with art by dracodormiensss??
Dramione Summer Paperback Collection ☀️🕶️
Art by @cocotamarindo and dracodormiensss (IG)
When I tell you I would sell my soul for this house...
Bitches don't want money, they want the Practical Magic house
Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.
— Vincent van Gogh
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Cottagecore aesthetic
𝗂𝗀: 𝖻𝗅𝗎𝖾𝖼𝗁𝗈𝗋𝖽𝗌
that one scene in devil wears prada where Andy says that she would have never betrayed anyone like Miranda betrayed Nigel at the end in order to save herself and her position on top in the fashion industry and Miranda Priestly is quiet for a beat before she whispers in that lilt whispy voice ”you already did”…..that was a better written psychologically dynamic scene between two characters than most modern hero/villain scenes you see today in cinema
Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones “fake” is stupid because it’s the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it’s all fuckign carbon
It's complete and it is GLORIOUS. I have read it twice - once while in progress and once as a full read. And oh my goodness. It's just. Agh. I love it.
Lovefool is now complete and I couldn't be more excited!
(art by the amazing @swottydoodler)
Telling myself this every day so here's a meme
Reposting because, ACCURATE.
I always hear 'Ron wasn't intelligent enough for hermione' this post is not about the couple's compatibility. This post is about Ron's intelligence. So bear with me.
Ron defeated Mcgonagall at chess when he was 12.
He casted a nonverbal spell *almost* successfully at the age of 12 when malfoy called Hermione a mudblood. That too with a broken second hand wand. Yes. 'Eat slugs' was a nonverbal spell in the books.
He got more O.W.Ls than Fred George combined without studying properly.
He got 7 O.w.Ls. and 6 exceed expectations in top 6 subjects and he didn't study like Hermione.
He could produce a corporeal patronus at the age of 15 when many grown up wizards and witches struggled with it. Even Hermione the brightest witch of her age struggled with this charm.
He fought the deatheaters in the 5th year and 6th year.
He saved Tonks' life during the 7 potters scene. Even Tonks, a qualified auror was impressed with his skills.
He deceived the snatchers in the DH and survived WITHOUT HERMIONE for many weeks
He disarmed bellatrix at malfoy manor. He took down greyback with the help of Neville. He fought in the battle of hogwarts.
He became a successful auror after the war.
Also he came up with the idea that tom riddle killed moaning myrtle, he told Harry to use Felix felicis, he discovered how to get back to Harry Hermione even though they had strong protection spells around their tent, He mimicked harry's parsletongue successfully, he came up with the idea(in the DH) that the basilisk's fangs could destroy horcruxes, He told Hermione to use her wand when she was panicking under pressure, he was the best liar among them. He easily fooled lucius and other deatheaters at the manor by mimicking Peter.
Not to mention his wit!! His one liners were unmatchable. Many times he was even funnier/wittier than Fred George.
Dear Hp fandom, academic intelligence is not the only form of intelligence. Try to understand it. Don't dismiss someone's intelligence just because he is not studious.