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The little list of random things that bring me joy — because you might need something to distract you one day and that something is now a list

I’ve been wanting to make one of these for the longest time because it’ll be easier for me to send stuff to people if I just have like all my favorite shit in one list. I might come back to add more if I feel like it, feel free to reblog this with things that bring you joy too!!

This thread of Japanese mascots getting stuck

This video of people acting out the Monster Hunter cat cooking montage

Cats

Dumb cat

This YouTube series called Old Gays where they have, well, four older gays on to talk about things

UNHhhh which I know I know raunchy humour isn’t for everyone and this is super nsfw but trixie and kaeya genuinely brought me so much joy and I wouldn’t have a personality if it wasn’t for them lmao

The Victorian Way which is like, a historic cookshow with very nice visuals

All of hollow_va’s demon boyfriend role play asmr videos

Laughing foxes

That one reverse mermaid sings Part of Your World clip I’m obsessed with

Fred and Ginger dancing in Swing Time

Unraveled, because bdg is a god

All of Choki’s videos because they are so cozy and nice to watch, you’ll understand when you watch them

I can’t tell you why I think this is the funniest thing other than that I’m a terrible person

A cat getting a massage from piano keys

I’m not sure if this comes with English subs but this is the funniest fucking thing

The “game of darkness” series on Hanae Natsuki’s youtube

This one specific performance of Mr Brightside

This Jersey Boys medley by the mean girls obc

Minecraft foxes, even though I’ve never played mine craft once in my life

This video of Katrina Lenk singing If I Were A Rich Man while playing the violin

She really tried

Just John Mulaney

Victorian time traveller being disappointed for 2 minutes

I show this to my friends regularly and they are annoyed about it

Drag queen teaches you doll history

For all you writers out there!

When To Keep Your Writing Stiff (pt 7)

Part 6

Part 1

Gonna shoutout a specific fanfic, “Salvage” (ATLA) for writing that is even leaner than mine is, and mine has zero fat whatsoever. This was really good. I particularly like how some scenes were only 2 or 3 lines long as an example of what I’m going for here.

When I say “stiff” in the following examples I’m specifically talking about a lot of the same syntax, few similes and metaphors, few ‘said’ synonyms, very little, well, “life” in the prose. And this can be good in a few situations.

1. Your narrator is in shock

Shock doesn’t all look the same, but the kind of shock I mean is the one where the person is really quiet and un-emotive, they’re probably not speaking or reacting much to whatever catastrophe just happened and probably not responding to their name or anything spoken to them. Their body is pretty much going “uhhhhhhhhh factory reset!” when whatever it is, is too much to process.

A asks them a question. Once. Twice. B stares ahead. There’s a brown stain on the wall that looks like a thumb.

So if they’re narrating, they’re probably going to be giving the absolute bare minimum, need-to-know information and won’t be thinking about the best adjectives and adverbs. Especially if you normally write with fluffier prose, a jarring shift like this can really help sell the shock and dissociating of the character, something so traumatizing that it effects how the story is told.

2. Your narrator is depressed

Somewhere between New Moon’s 4 pages of just Months to show Bella did absolutely nothing in a depression rot and normal prose (though it was effective, particularly in the movie when they could draw out the words on the screen for longer and did the whole spin-around-her-depression-chair montage).

January came. It rained a lot.

They’ll probably either narrate very thinly, or listlessly. They might focus on a random detail and start going on a long ramble about that one detail that isn’t at all important, but it’s either all they can think about or all that can move them to feel anything in this moment, like:

On the bedside table, that coffee mug still sat there in a thin sheet of dust. What had been liquid now long since dry and gluey. It still sits there, collecting cat fur.

This might be the best place for sentences that all sound and flow exactly the same, but use it sparingly.

3. Your narrator is having a panic attack or trapped in a traumatic situation

Different from shock in that while they are physically capable of moving and interacting, they can’t let themselves describe what they’re seeing and feeling in grand detail. Maybe they’re moving through the horrific aftermath of a battle and all they can describe is the mud under their feet and how it squelches. Or they simply say that “there’s bodies everywhere” because looking too long or too hard at who those bodies belonged to is too much.

4. You’re writing something that has incredibly fast pacing

This post was inspired by a fic I just wrote that spanned about 5 months in about 18k words. Narrative was skipping days ahead between paragraphs at some point as my character was processing the end of an abusive relationship. It sped up and slowed down where necessary, but compared to its sequel that I also just finished (22k words across 7 days), I’d covered a whole month in about 2 sentences in the first one.

See nearly any part of Salvage (or my fics if you feel like it)

What happened in that month didn’t matter, only what was before and what’s different now and how this character realizes how their life is slowly changing, some things they never noticed that are suddenly right in their face or things that quietly slipped away.

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TLDR; sometimes the lack of emotion and sensory details and frenetic, dynamic syntax is the point, that can sell the reader on the narrator’s mental state far better than picking the juiciest adverbs. If it’s so impactful to them that the physical telling of the story is changed, you’ve done your job.

No Love to Hide

yandere hawks x reader, past enji x reader

summary; trading one god for another is like trading poisons; hawks may be sweeter but he’s so much worse

a/n; technically this is a sequel to this fic but also like i feel like u can read this on its own pretty okay

tw; mentions of rape, kidnapping

word count; 4.2k

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The gods are selfish. They don’t mean to be, but when your existence spans millennia, it’s hard to think of how one decision will affect a mortal’s life. An ant has no quarrel with a boot.

The gods are selfish, you know this firsthand. A god stole your childhood from you, forced you from the bright flirtations of youth to the heavy responsibilities of adulthood far too soon, ripped your mortality from you like plucking a particularly beautiful bloom. 

Poseidon may have stolen your life, but you built it back. You created a haven, a safe house, an asylum for persecuted women to flee for. The refuge you wish you had been able to flee to, when Enji first came into your life. 

Another god had taken it all from you. Or rather, had taken you from it, but it didn’t really matter. Nothing did, anymore.

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However, Hawks always reminded me the popular “Red Tail Hawk.” Yes I know this is a fan favorite, probably because the name “Red Tail Hawk” has the word “red” in it. However, the bird has very little (if any) red on its feathers. To be honest, I’m not sure why I personally associate Keigo with Red Tail Hawks. Maybe it’s because I see them all the time (The species is very popular here in North America.) They are truely magnificent animals and have to be one of my favorites...

However if you want another bird species that is actually red in color that could have inspired Keigo’s character, then might I recommend the “Red Lorikeet” aka “Red Lori.” I actually have seen these birds twice in person from a traveling Lorikeet exhibit. Pictures do not give justice to how beautiful and vibrantly colored the birds are in real life. They are also extremely intelligent. Lorikeets are sometimes even kept as pets.

Everyone says red tailed hawks are what Hawks is but they got no black face markings, they are brown, and have no fluffy head doohikies. They also say he must be a raptor because he eats meat, but he is also human. And we eat meat.

Consider

Black eye marks

Red wingies

Lil upraised hair doohikies

Im not here to start discourse in the birb fandom im just sayin---- consider

I wonder what they are dreaming about...

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When one BFF is an introvert and the other is an extrovert

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Obsidian and Ivory (Part One)

(1: You Are Here!) (2) (3) (4)

Summary: As a child, Tamaki Amajiki could have grown up to be a piano playing prodigy - until one unpleasant incident in the past killed all his passion for the instrument and permanently drove a wedge between him and his demanding mother.

Tamaki swore he’d never play the piano again, that he’d never want to.

…But that was before he met you.

Warnings: Anxiety, Tamaki’s emotionally manipulative, ableist and abusive mom (I’m so sorry, Tamaki!)

Other than that, this story is mostly pure fluff!

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Einstein's God is infinitely superior, but impersonal and intangible, subtle but not malicious. Art by Nicholas Moegly

I need to try this

“Quarantine had me bored so my stepdad and I made a cat tank that we saw somewhere on reddit”

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