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That post that's like "stop writing characters who talk like they're trying to get a good grade in therapy" really blew the door wide open for me about how common it's become for a character's emotional intelligence to not be taken into consideration when writing conflict. I remember the first time I went to therapy I had such a hard time even identifying what I was feeling, let alone had the language to explain it to someone else. Of course there are plenty of people who've never been to therapy a day in their life who are in tune to their emotions. But even they would have some trouble expressing themselves sometimes. You have to take into account there are plenty of people who are uncomfortable expressing themselves and people who think they're not allowed to feel certain ways. It also makes for more interesting conflict to have characters with different levels of understanding.

#the writing life

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i love mutual pining to lovers because it gives some of the vibes of a love triangle without the needless drama. alternatively it’s like a love triangle except the third person is just mutual stupidity.

#give me all the tropes

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#this world

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#the fandom life

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Lazy day~ a commission for secretfanboy

#oh love this #mahealahey #danny mahealani #isaac lahey #teen wolf

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In the moment

Sleep broke as suddenly and sharply as fine glass: there was a blade at Damen’s throat, its cold point pressed into his thundering pulse.

“I longed for this,” Laurent whispered. 

Damen watched his lips form the words, from under the warmth of Laurent’s body, and felt the truth of it.

Again inspired by the prompt from @skeptiquex sharing Hanif Abdurraquib’s wonderful poem ‘it is once again the summer of our discontent’ ❤️ thank you for the prompt darling!

#lamen #damen x laurent #captive prince #capri #damen of akielos #laurent of vere #mine #my microfics #holiday microfics #my writing #hanif abdurraqib

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the thing about mr darcy. is that everything he does he does because of his eldest sibling syndrome. it's so important that he has a younger sister and it's so important that she's 16 and it's so important that their parents are dead. it's so important that georgaina is friendly and cheerful and that he hates everyone. it's so important that he loathes wickham for what he did to her and gets involved to stop him from destroying lizzy's younger sister's life. it's so important that he moves bingley away because he thinks he's about to get his heart broken. it's so important that bingley is a lot like georgiana. like seriously darcy is an asshole because he's an eldest sibling and he's so so sweet because he's an eldest sibling that's the whole point

#pride and prejudice

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Irresistible histories

The party washes around Derek as he watches Stiles. 

Stiles laughs over his drink, and Derek remembers kisses sour-sweet with beer and want. 

Stiles finds him, of course—a magnet for things he’s better off without, even now.

“Hi, stranger.” (Stranger. Hurts worse than bullets.) “Join me.”

“Yeah?”

“It’s about time.”

Inspired by the prompt 'the poem 'it is once again the summer of our discontent' by hanif abduraqqib’ suggested by the wonderful @skeptiquex - I adore this poem and Hanif Abdurraqib's work and entire outlook, it was such a treat it inspired two microfics ❤️

#sterek #stiles/derek #derek hale #stiles stilinski #teen wolf #my writing #mine #holiday microfics #microfic #my microfics #hanif abdurraqib

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Mood.

@plasmabear

I miss that particular stilinski sass

#absolutely adore this #sterek #eternalsterek #sterek fanart #!!! #teen wolf

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i love male characters who are extremely stuck-up and "inside the box" [like, proper, way too formal, cold, almost boring] from an outside perspective but their brain is actually an assembly of the weirdest shit you could possibly find

#give me all the tropes

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“I feel very strongly that if historical romance can give women a happy ending, it can give queer people a happy ending. M/f historical romance doesn’t tie itself in knots over the likelihood of the rake having syphilis, the terrible dentistry, the lice, the prolapsed uterus after multiple pregnancies, the prospect of death in childbed, or the horrifying legal discrimination against married women. We don’t close the book on the wedding scene reflecting that the heroine can now be legally raped, has just lost all her property to her husband…and would be vanishingly unlikely to obtain a divorce. Historical romance readers aren’t stupid; we know this stuff, but we choose to believe our heroine will be one of the lucky ones. And I don’t see why we can’t extend that happy glow to other stories, too. If women’s lives don’t have to be blighted by social oppression in romance, neither do those of people of color or queer people. Moreover, human nature doesn’t change. A lot of what we read about LGBT people in history is appalling because the rec­ords we have are the legal documents, the newspaper reports, the accounts of people who were victimized. We don’t generally have the hidden stories of the people who lived under the radar…. But we know…people we’d now call gay, bi, trans have always existed and [that] as a matter of statistics plenty of them must have lived and died without ever coming to the law’s attention. Which is not to hand-wave the horrors of the past but only to say that horror isn’t the only story, and it’s not an acceptable reason to deny marginalized people their happy-ever-after.”

— KJ Charles (Library Journal interview)  (via bookgeekgrrl)

#yes yes YES AND YES AGAIN #the writing life #the reading life #kj charles

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don’t invite me unless these are the plans

#oh look it’s me

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Requests? How about some Sterek?

Me at myself during this entire ask: REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE

Sterek is where this entire account begin, and damn it, it’s where it’ll END too.

(ALSO WOAH HEY, MY STYLE HAS CHANGED A LOT LOL)

Anyway, scene: 

Derek’s solution when Stiles gets too belligerent during an argument is to pick him up like a log. This usually ends in Derek throwing him onto a bed, so it’s not so bad. 

Art requests are closed until my next follower milestone :)

#this is THEM #sterek #eternalsterek #sterek fanart #cackling I love this so much

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Do you feel the hunger Does it howl inside? Does it terrify you? Or do you feel alive? © Karliene – Become the Beast

#gorgeous gorgeous #stiles stilinski #stiles stilinski fanart #teen wolf

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Dior Fall 2023 Couture

#get on my body

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When you’re holding a fort while your Prince is away and an enemy Akielon army shows up outside so you ask your commander (Akielon) what to do and he says “oh no these are our reinforcements”

And then when your commander lets the army into the gates and they kneel to him and call him “Damianos”

#😂😂😂 #captive prince

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Sterek Coffee time Sketch

#gorgeousness #sterek #eternalsterek #sterek fanart #so soft and lovely