The Many Faces Of Drunk Jack

some fucking resources for all ur writing fuckin needs

* body language masterlist

* a translator that doesn’t eat ass like google translate does

* a reverse dictionary for when ur brain freezes

* 550 words to say instead of fuckin said

* 638 character traits for when ur brain freezes again

* some more body language help

(hope this helps some ppl)

sir….

Burpy mouth

(from “Bloopers & Outtakes #2″) (insp)

Do you have any advice on how to write a grieving character? Thank you!!

Hi!

Grieving isn’t pretty. It isn’t always dramatic, either – while some people certainly do go home and throw their favorite vase against the wall, some people retreat into themselves and become emotionally unresponsive (that’s what I do). Violence or anger is more likely to occur if the death is sudden – so is retreating into an emotional shell, really, because it’s often a result of shock. But both can occur outside of a sudden death – cancer isn’t always sudden, but many people still become angry when their loved one is diagnosed with or dies because of it. Basically, if the death feels unfair in any way – if it’s sudden, or if it feels like it happened too early, such as in the case of cancer or of some sort of cardiac disaster (a heart attack, a stroke, etc) – it’s more likely to provoke anger or shock, depending on your character’s temperament and attachment to the dying/dead character.

That was just a general disclaimer. Now, onto the meat of grieving!

Firstly, grieving can begin before the person is technically dead – you don’t have to wait for the person to go flatline and physically stop breathing for your other characters to feel a sense of loss. If your character suffered a medical disaster or an accident that rendered them comatose, or if your character is obviously fighting a losing battle (again, terminal cancer comes to mind), your other characters could start grieving them even though they’re still breathing and their heart is still beating. However, the likelihood is that your characters won’t be able to really start working through the five stages of grief until your character actually does physically die, because rarely does death really hit home until it has occurred.

Speaking of the five stages of grief, those are important! They’re as follows:

Denial/Isolation: your characters can’t believe your dead character is really dead. This is a defense mechanism of sorts for your mind – a way to delay at least some of the pain, and give yourself time to process what’s happened (although that processing happens subconsciously, because on the surface you’re denying that anything’s happened at all). If the dead character fought a long battle with an illness before death, this stage may be expedited by the fact that your characters had time to process the character’s dying as it was happening. If the death was sudden in any way, this stage may be prolonged, because it will be harder to comprehend something that happened so quickly, and shock will be more likely to occur.

Anger: the pain your characters were masking in the denial stage starts to come to the surface, and as a response to the pain, your characters get angry (just as many other vulnerable emotions, such as fear, are expressed as anger – anger is a tough emotion, as opposed to fear and grief, so most people subconsciously opt for anger because it makes them feel less vulnerable). They may feel they’ve been robbed of your dead character’s companionship. Their anger may manifest itself in many different ways: isolation, irritability, or self-destructive behavior, to name a few. Their anger may also direct itself at various places: the medical professionals who failed to save your dead character’s life, God for taking your dead character, even the dead character him/herself, if they could in any way be responsible for their own death (if they were driving intoxicated, if they never ate healthily and suffered a heart attack, etc.).

Bargaining: before death, this stage may manifest itself as “please God, just let them live and I’ll tithe my ten percent and go to church every Sunday”, or “please, [Dying character’s name], just hold on and get better and we’ll [do that thing the dying character has always wanted to do]”. (Keep in mind that most people have an astounding impulse to be religious during a time of crisis, whether they’ve been religious in the past or not.) After death, this stage may manifest itself in the “could’ve-should’ve-would’ve” philosophy: “if only we’d taken them to the doctor sooner”, “I should’ve made him stay home”, “I knew there was something wrong with him!”, and so on. This stage is generally an attempt to regain control of the situation – your characters feel like they’re taking some kind of action by offering a proposition, or by placing blame.

Depression: there are two types of depression associated with grief. In the first (which is almost more similar to anxiety) your characters worry more about others: what if I haven’t been there for people when they needed me, how are we going to pay for the funeral/burial services, and so on. Basically it deals more with the practical aspects of the character’s death. The second type is more introspective – your characters may retreat into themselves and analyze old memories of your dead character, and their feelings on everything that’s happened. This type is private, and your characters probably won’t share much about their thoughts if they experience it.

Acceptance: this stage is marked by withdrawal and calm – it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish from depression. It’s not a stage of joyous frolicking and exclaiming, “It’s okay! I understand everything about [Dead Character’s] death!”. Your characters may still not understand the purpose of your dead character’s death, but understanding and acceptance are not synonyms, nor are they mutually inclusive. The important thing about this stage is that your characters can make peace with the death, and can move on.

Keep in mind that while I’ve listed these stages in what is regarded as their general order, every person (and character) grieves differently – they may experience these emotions in a different order than that above. They may also go through one or several of the stages more than once, or cycle through the first four of them multiple times before reaching the fifth. Some characters may not even reach the fifth at all – depending on the circumstances of the death and the character’s attachment to your dead character, they may never fully accept your dead character’s death. The stages above are just a general framework for grieving.

Also, keep in mind that if your character’s death was tied in any way to traumatic incidents for your other characters, it may complicate the grieving process for those other characters, because the character’s death will be tied to other painful or triggering memories.

I hope this helps! If you need anything else, please feel free to ask. - @authors-haven

you don’t understand. you don’t believe. you don’t care —

Words to replace said, except this actually helps

I got pretty fed up with looking for words to replace said because they weren’t sorted in a way I could easily use/find them for the right time. So I did some myself.

IN RESPONSE TO Acknowledged Answered Protested

INPUT/JOIN CONVERSATION/ASK Added Implored Inquired Insisted Proposed Queried Questioned Recommended Testified

GUILTY/RELUCTANCE/SORRY Admitted Apologized Conceded Confessed Professed

FOR SOMEONE ELSE Advised Criticized Suggested

JUST CHECKING Affirmed Agreed Alleged Confirmed

LOUD Announced Chanted Crowed

LEWD/CUTE/SECRET SPY FEEL Appealed Disclosed Moaned

ANGRY FUCK OFF MATE WANNA FIGHT Argued Barked Challenged Cursed Fumed Growled Hissed Roared Swore

SMARTASS Articulated Asserted Assured Avowed Claimed Commanded Cross-examined Demanded Digressed Directed Foretold Instructed Interrupted Predicted Proclaimed Quoted Theorized

ASSHOLE Bellowed Boasted Bragged

NERVOUS TRAINWRECK Babbled Bawled Mumbled Sputtered Stammered Stuttered

SUAVE MOTHERFUCKER Bargained Divulged Disclosed Exhorted

FIRST OFF Began

LASTLY Concluded Concurred

WEAK PUSY Begged Blurted Complained Cried Faltered Fretted

HAPPY/LOL Cajoled Exclaimed Gushed Jested Joked Laughed

WEIRDLY HAPPY/EXCITED Extolled Jabbered Raved

BRUH, CHILL Cautioned Warned

ACTUALLY, YOU’RE WRONG Chided Contended Corrected Countered Debated Elaborated Objected Ranted Retorted

CHILL SAVAGE Commented Continued Observed Surmised

LISTEN BUDDY Enunciated Explained Elaborated Hinted Implied Lectured Reiterated Recited Reminded Stressed

BRUH I NEED U AND U NEED ME Confided Offered Urged

FINE Consented Decided

TOO EMO FULL OF EMOTIONS Croaked Lamented Pledged Sobbed Sympathized Wailed Whimpered

JUST SAYING Declared Decreed Mentioned Noted Pointed out Postulated Speculated Stated Told Vouched

WASN’T ME Denied Lied

EVIL SMARTASS Dictated Equivocated Ordered Reprimanded Threatened

BORED Droned Sighed

SHHHH IT’S QUIET TIME Echoed Mumbled Murmured Muttered Uttered Whispered

DRAMA QUEEN Exaggerated Panted Pleaded Prayed Preached

OH SHIT Gasped Marveled Screamed Screeched Shouted Shrieked Yelped Yelled

ANNOYED Grumbled Grunted Jeered Quipped Scolded Snapped Snarled Sneered

ANNOYING Nagged

I DON’T REALLY CARE BUT WHATEVER Guessed Ventured

I’M DRUNK OR JUST BEING WEIRDLY EXPRESSIVE FOR A POINT/SARCASM Hooted Howled Yowled

I WONDER Pondered Voiced Wondered

OH, YEAH, WHOOPS Recalled Recited Remembered

SURPRISE BITCH Revealed

IT SEEMS FAKE BUT OKAY/HA ACTUALLY FUNNY BUT I DON’T WANT TO LAUGH OUT LOUD Scoffed Snickered Snorted

BITCHY Tattled Taunted Teased

miscellaneous movie quote sentence starters pt. ii.

“ you’re not death. they are. “

“ it wouldn’t mean much for me to kill you. when you love someone, it’s easier to do it. “

“ i killed ____. i wanted him to die. “

“ love doesn’t mean anything in your life. you think you can turn it on and off. by pushing a button like you do a light. “

“ i’m bad. you said it yourself. well, i was born that way, see? and what’s more, i don’t care. i like it. “

“ nature is mysterious, but never sad. “

“ i tried to love you. but now i know love is not enough. “

“ maybe i want to feel badly. maybe i’m tired of pretending that nothing bothers me, that all i care about is myself. “

“ i don’t want to be worshipped. i want to be loved. “

“ i’m afraid to turn around. i’m afraid i’ll see nobody. that i’m alone here. “

“ you must destroy us both with that weakness you call virtue. you must keep me tormented with that cruelty you think so pious. “

“ i don’t think i belong in heaven. “

“ be with me always. take any form. drive me mad. only do not leave me in this dark alone, where i cannot find you. “

“ i am different. i don’t even vaguely resemble others, any of them. “

“ whenever a woman has a problem, men always presume it’s love. “

“ i don’t want to pierce you, but how else will i get free? “

“ try as i might, i can’t ever forget. “

“ i do not love you. i love nobody. “

“ i feel nothing for no-one! “

“ i can’t love, i can’t! don’t you understand that? “

“ i have no feelings. get that into your head. “

“ our love was a dream. never lived, only a fantasy. an emotion transparent like smoke. “

“ i will always be hiding in a corner of your mind so you can find me. “

“ there is always something watching me, following me, controlling me. “

“ you didn’t look human. didn’t have any emotions. or rather, you looked cruel. very cruel. “

“ i wish you could stay here forever. just the two of us, isolated from everything. “

“ i’ve been feeling something so strange lately. it’s hard to explain. it’s like a constant state of panic, of anguish. “

“ when the night comes, all that’s left is the anxiety. “

“ you’re the source of all this evil. “

“ i respect your pain. but don’t forget that i’m also in pain. “

“ i’m insane but, sometimes i’m wise. “

“ wise women know well enough what monsters men make of them. “

“ i departed this world without ever having known love. “

“ it grieved my heart to see your sorrow. “

“ the ocean as my companion, the sky as my friend. seagulls… and silence. a great silence. “

“ they say i’m sick. very sick. “

“ i try to find out what’s wrong with me, but i can’t. “

“ everything scares me. sometimes, my whole body trembles. “

“ you seem to distrust me. you think i’m an enchantress… don’t you? ”

“ you’re mine now. from now on… you must devote your whole life to me. “

“ there is no good in me. where should it come from? “

“ i can’t cry. why can’t i cry like other people? “

“ now i’m broken, the toy that god didn’t want. “

“ you’re afraid. i feel you’re afraid. “

“ i want to feel their bones breaking between my fingers. i want to overpower them, drink their blood and wounds. i’ll smash them with my heels and you’ll be there to see it. “

“ the cruel animal is always reading to snap up the innocent who come too close to her she-wolf jaws. “

“ do you think the dead come back and watch the living? “

“ not as good as blood. but it’s stronger. “

“ we women must defend ourselves… or they will bully us. “

“ i’m alive. i’m still alive. i’m here. “

“ men are tricks. they are so simple-minded. “

“ i’m still here. i won’t go away, ____. i’ll never go away. you’ll never get better. i;m still here, i’m in your blood. “

“ dreams or nightmares. madness or sanity. i don’t know which is which. “

“ i can feel with your body. i am you. “

“ a new wickedness is coming, i feel it. “

“ love is about craving. our craving for transformation. and all transformation, all movement, happens because life turns into death. “

“ where is reality? where is the dream? “

“ i’ve always been fascinated by death. the feel of it, the smell of it… and the stillness. “

“ we will return, ____. we will be the wind and the rain. we will be the elements that men fear the most. “

“ i am you, and you are me. “

“ you smell of blood. you’re the statue of a goddess. “

“ how i crave to sink my teeth into your pink flesh. “

“ i wanted to be alone! alone! free! “

“ maybe i should’ve followed the dark voice in my heart, maybe i should’ve run away. “

“ that’s the only truth… being alive. being blood, flesh. “

“ you cannot live in isolation from the human race, you know. “

“ they should’ve known i’d always love you… even if you are different. “

“ there’s so much blood all around me. “

“ you shouldn’t ask questions that are bigger than us. “

“ the pain will fade in time… but the memory will remain for as long as i live. “

“ you’re beautiful like that, with blood on your mouth. “

“ ____, i am your death. “

“ i feel sorry for you and your lack of soul. “

“ i’ll never be like you. i change all the time. “

“ you can do what you want. you won’t get to me. “

“ sweet flesh cannot live forever. “

"Greetings to the Universe in 55 Different Languages", a poem compiled out of messages from the Voyager spacecraft

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