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JOE KEERY Flaunt Magazine (2017)

#joe keery #if i had a million muses

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having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer

#love #inspo

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YANG YANG for WSJ China, September 2023

#yang yang #if i had a million muses

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fyodor dostoevsky (the brothers karamazov), charles bukowski (a vote for the gentle light)

#inspo #quotes #writing #depression

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31 Days of Horror Marathon 2023 ↪ Day 22: Lake Mungo (2008) dir. Joel Anderson

#lake mungo #films #october

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Anya Taylor-Joy | ODDA Magazine | Fall/Winter 2023-24 | 📷 Alana O'Herlihy

#anya taylor joy #if i had a million muses

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#autumn #aesthetic #photography #seasons

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Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

#quotes #divine rivals

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Alex Dimitrov, from "Love"

#inspo #quotes #writing

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INDIA AMARTEIFIO for Armani Beauty in Venice

#india amarteifio #if i had a million muses

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A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde

#writing #quotes #poetry

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Some of My Favorite Ways to Describe a Character Who’s Sick

pressing their forehead into something cool or comfortable (this could be an array of things. the table, the floor, someones leather jacket, their water bottle, the countertop)

warm to the touch, or heat radiating from them (could be noticed if someone’s gauging their temperature with their hands, hugging them, or just generally touching them)

leaning into people’s touch, or just spontaneously leaning on them (like pressing into their hand when someone’s checking their temp, or just, like, literally walking up and laying their head on them from fatigue. bonus points if the character is usually feral and the other is scared to engage™︎)

falling asleep all over the place (at the dinner table, on their homework, in the car, in the bathroom — just being so exhausted from doing literally nothing)

being overly emotional (crying over things that don’t usually bother them, like their siblings arguing, or their homework, or literally just nothing)

stumbling/careening/staggering into things (the wall, furniture, other people. there is no coordination in feverish brains. running into chairs, hitting the door, falling over the couch, anything and everything)

slurring their words (could be from fatigue or pain. connecting words that shouldn’t be connected, murdering all of their conversations with the excessive use of ‘mm’ and ‘nn’ in place of words) (this is my favorite thing ever)

being overly touchy (basically like a sick kid — just hold them, please. do that thing where you brush their hair back out of their face, or rub circles on their back, or snuggle them. they won’t care. bonus points if this is also the feral character and they refuse to believe it afterwards)

being extremely resistant to touch (flinching away when they usually don’t so someone can’t feel the fever, not letting themselves be touched because they’re so tired they just know they’ll be putty in their hands if they do)

growing aggressive or being extremely rude (it’s a defense mechanism — they feel vulnerable and are afraid of being manipulated or deceived while they’re ill)

whimpering/whining/groaning (this was in my “characters in pain” post but it’s so good that i’m putting it here too. this shite is gold, especially if it’s just an involuntary reaction to their symptoms)

having nightmares caused by a fever and/or delirium (crying and murmuring in their sleep, or being awake but completely out of it and convinced they’re somewhere else)

making themselves as small as possible (curling up into a ball everywhere they lay, hunching over slightly when standing, wrapping their arms around themselves)

TW for vomiting below cut !!

sleeping in the bathroom floor because they keep getting sick over and over (bonus if someone finds them all weak and pitiful. bonus bonus if they find them there in the morning only to learn they’ve been there all night)

using their hands/other body parts to clamp over their mouth so nothing can come out (like pulling their knees up to their chest and using that, or like, their arm, y’know) (~maccreadysbaby who has emetophobia suddenly gets very awkward about this post~) (~yes i have a phobia of puke and still write this happening to my characters, shut up~) (~it’s about the hurt/comfort okay~)

sympathy pukers (people who aren’t the sick ones but get nauseous/vomit when they see someone else throw up) (~aka me~) (~okay I’m done now~)

dry heaving (it’s gross, but good for making your characters absolutely freaking miserable)

rolling/churning/spinning/cramping/ lurching and all those awesome words that describe what stomachs do when sick (i hate these words with a deep, fiery passion. but they’re good for writing or whatever)

#resources #writing tips

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BTS photos from Troye’s fan email

#troye sivan #one of your girls #BTS #something to give each other

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SCREAM (1996) dir Wes Craven

#films #scream

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do NOT offer me a big spoon if you see me with a small one. i know what im fuckin doing

#lmao #about #me

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Franny Choi, from "I Guess By Now I Thought I’d Be Done With Shame"

#inspo #quote

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Taking the first ever hybrid accounting class at my college means the schedule is super accelerated and i already have a midterm to study for. I’m in good shape though (for now).

#teilo aisling #aesthetic