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sir that's yassified information

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Friday Kiss tag

Thank you to @kittensartswriting and @indecentpause for the tags! I have gone searching through my wips with a magnifying glass for those few and far between kisses, but here is one from my marinating wip about Sal <3

“I miss the days when you were skinny enough that I could push you over,” Sal said, and the words were bittersweet. Of course, she missed the days colored by childhood glories. These days, with Anaar tall and strong and lovely…they weren't so bad either. Not that she’d ever speak those words aloud. He looked down at her and though only his dark eyes were visible above his red scarf, she knew he was grinning. “Sorry,” he said, spreading his hands, not looking very sorry at all. Sal sighed and turned to examine a spice vendor’s wares. The lovely vibrant powders had been poured to such heights that each rose from its barrel into a thin tapered point. How the vendor didn’t knock into one and send it spilling across the street, Sal would never know. “Don’t be grumpy,” Anaar cajoled. “It’s not that I’m not used to it, but why spoil the afternoon?” In his far hand, he produced a rabbit candy from thin air. Sal couldn’t help but swipe for it even though she was playing right into his hands. He grabbed her around the shoulder and tugged her close. She could feel the kiss pressed to her forehead through his soft scarf. Then she had the candy in her hand and unfurled the rice paper wrapper, safe from the crowds, sheltered by Anaar’s useful bulk.

I would like to see all the kisses! Please feel free to take this OPEN TAG and tag me so I can see your writing :) also pssp pssp any interest in playing, @catchingbigfish @awritingcaitlin @jasmineinthenight @eccaiia @reneesbooks

@winterandwords @chayscribbles @chauceryfairytales @talesofsorrowandofruin 💙

#omg this is so gooooorgeousssssssss #tysm for the tag!

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‘Not to Be Reproduced’ by René Magritte, c. 1937.

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is anyone else here extremely candle-pilled. do yall roam overpriced boutiques scanning for indie candles whose scents perfectly evoke your wips or characters or is it just me

#ugh i wish i had this power it sounds so cool #i love the idea of candles but never actually indulge in them

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Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.

#i want to take this a step further and say everybody is a little bit of a bad person #i see so many characters where their flaws are the writing version of bad job interview advice #too protective of their friends or too hard on themselves or too untrusting etc #every person is a little bit of a bad person and everyone is too afraid of that in both real life and in writing #make your characters a little too greedy with a tendency to hoard resources and not share #make your characters a little gross and too quick to blame someone else for the mess #give me characters who aren’t bad people but have bad traits and do bad things thoughtlessly #i’m honestly so bored with characters who are all good or all bad

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and on the fifth day god invented people who are younger and more successful than you in order to teach you some kind of fucked up and evil lesson

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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (2023)

↳ final moments

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Sometimes I feel like a big chunk of my professional life is people asking me to step into a management position and me being like "😎💖 absolutely not 💖😎"

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i love pictures of the international space station which are just completely overexposed because that is just.. unequivocally an angel.

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― Louise Glück, Snowdrops, from: The Wild Iris (1992)

#wip: so it goes

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A school bully who keeps up with intercommunity issues so that he always uses the most non-problematic terminology to insult you with

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Eww, I'm crossing you out.

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leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

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#untitled wip