#plain simple writing

[pondphuwin]

bed friend, episode 3

middleman's love, episode 3

#kinguea #middleman's love #middleman's love the series #the middleman's love #bed friend #bed friend the series #until i was writing this caption it did not fully hit me that these are both episode 3 #i think about them more than is probably clinically advised #anyway have you thought about how these lines are such a perfect depiction of their relationship #king. lying through his teeth saying that he doesnt like uea #because he knows that is the only way uea will let a fwb relationship between them operate #king protecting them both because neither of them have it in them to be honest #to uea proudly and happily and easily declaring their love #not just that he loves king #but acknowledging that he knows king loves him #something that uea had honestly come to believe was impossible #but it is king's love and honesty and support that has allowed uea to love himself more #and to realize he is capable of being loved by others #no more lies no more hiding in order to protect their hearts #just their love. simple plain and honest for everyone to see #they are ..... so perfect #*

[writergeekrhw]

Do you think Garak smells nice? (Please help settle a debate. I say he smells very nice.)

Absolutely. I think Garak is extremely well groomed and smelling nice is part of that. In fact, he probably choses his scents very specifically to cater to his situation, so while your typical Cardassian scent might not be appealing to the average human or Bajoran, you can rest assured that Garak will still smell nice to anyone he expects to encounter.

#ask me anything #tv writing #ask me stuff #ds9 #star trek ds9 #deep space nine #star trek #star trek deep space nine #deep space 9 #star trek deep space 9 #elim garak #plain and simple but still very nice smelling

[sulliedsorrow]

going insane thinking about skk breakup dazai leaving the port mafia again because. he really just up and left without saying anything. not a word, not a goodbye, not a “chuuya would you like to come with me.” and he never said anything after. didn’t try to get in contact at all. no texts, no calls, no letters, no cryptic messages decipherable only to the both of them.

imagine being partners with someone. imagine forging a bond so strong that it’s been likened to a diamond sharpening another diamond. imagine spending three years with someone, forging a relationship, learning about each other and what makes them click and how to work together and how exist together.

imagine they throw it all in your face. they leave and not only do they leave, but they do so in a manner which shows that they never even considered you. they left as if your lives aren’t connected, they left as if it was the easiest thing in the world.

imagine everyone else finding out before you.

what was the past three years for then. what was them telling you that you gave them a reason to live for then. has it expired? has it run out? was it not enough? did they find something better?

and the lack of respect of it all. you never would have stopped them from leaving if they just explained why they had to. you would have been angry, you would have been pissed off because it’s the same story over and over again, you hurt everything you touch, you hurt everything you get close to, you’re never enough of a reason for someone to stay; but you would have understood. eventually. but they didn’t do that.

they wrote you so neatly out of their life that you wonder if you were ever a part of it in the first place.

#my writing #bungou stray dogs #soukoku #chuuya centric #he makes me sad #they make me sad #*smacks chuuya* the amount of abandonment you can fit into this boy #like what dazai did was just insulting plain and fucking simple #i’ve always thought it was more than him just leaving yknow. dazai has always been a flight risk and i think on some level chuuya was aware #but to not Say Anything #man. fucking blew up his car and thought that would be enough LMAO #one day i’ll tackle dazai’s perspective on this because i do think it’s incredibly nuanced #or at least it’s nuanced in my head #giving them the complexity they deserve #if asagiri won’t write it well i will #bsd #chuuya nakahara #dazai osamu

[attaboy-art]

watched evil dead with my bf the other night

[Image ID: A digital drawing of Ash Williams from The Evil Dead in profile in front of a dark background. He is covered in blood and looking towards the viewer from the side of his eye. There are two shining car headlights in the background. /.End ID.]

#this guy is gonna sit in my brain for the rest of my life now #also. um. hai #so. sorry about not posting art for like Months #(or at least not posting art on This blog) #i got. really fucked up by stress & burn out so i kinda just stopped for a while and committed to writing #(which i may or may not share to this blog) #ive had a few ideas for layton art but like. auuugh. i shouldn't have done those art weeks. i really shouldn't have #i think i just overworked myself plain & simple #ill probably come back to it sometime down the line but for now ... Im just gonna post whatever i guess #no promises! #anyways #I love ashley joanna williams with all of my heart #evil dead #ash williams #evil dead 1981 #art #my art #illustration

[mattodore]

this is what i do when i'm having bad days 🤺

#river dipping #mattodore as a coping mechanism 🧘 #i'm actually having a better day than yesterday i'm just grumpy atm from lack of sleep 🚆🚶 #i stayed up last night watching old jerma streams yk how it is #made a character page yesterday but i’m not sure if i want to keep it… the character pics are TEMPORARY!!! btw. #i gotta take new plain bg cas pics for it but i was thinking abt making my own cas poses first 🤔 #finally went back to finish writing the [redacted] scene with mattodore #have been super slowly adding more aesthetically pleasing images to theo’s text heavy board 🚬 #also this picrew having a blue and red background option 😋 #anyway… that’s my little update 🫡 #i’m going to make theo’s custom beauty marks today and then i’ll get in blender to make this mattodore pose that is. #just. dog motif. you know. you understand the dynamics i don’t need to say anything else. #i’d show it off but for some reason matthias’s ripped sims all are missing his teeth cc…? so. can’t. the teeth are important to the pose ☝️ #i’ll share pics when i actually go in-game later #‘later’ <- when i feel like turning on my desktop #i should do it soon tho that way i can slap new pics onto that oc page and see if i like it or not #i decided to try it out since it’s mobile friendly like my actual blog theme #like if you open up a browser on your phone and type in my blog or this character page’s url they both look nice ! #i hunted for my blog theme for agesss but i found this character page pretty fast #it’s nice… it’s relatively simple looking (the code isn’t tho lmao) which i like. sometimes character pages are just. a lot. #and i think i prefer simple over complicated atp

[sunthroughtherust]

crying sobbing and throwing up if ken's arc in the movie is becoming sexist

#ugh the movie looks great it's clearly going to be funny #but im so sos so wary of the actual writing #im sure it'll be great but genuinely if ken is a bad guy i'm going to hate this movie even if the writing is great #HE'S JUST KEN! HE LOVES BARBIE! HE RESPECTS WOMEN! LEAVE HIM ALONE #barbie 2023 #also movies about sexism aren't necessarily supposed to be relatable to everyone but as a girl i just did not share these experiences so id #and plain and simple i don't want to watch ken be sexist. i want to watch ken love and support barbie #ugh it'll be fine whatever hope the movie is good and everyone likes it even if i won't

[emblazons]

not me literally guessing the entire plot of Millie’s book after 60 pages omfg ( @magentamee can confirm 😂)

also: no spoiler review? the book is the quainter, pinned up English version of what this song feels like. iykyk

#it’s like. such stereotypical romance fiction I’m dying #the writing is really simple and the setup is so plain if you’ve seen ANY romantic movie u know what’s gonna happen #but also? #it’s literally the British version Pearl Harbor (2001) LMFAOOOO #like. if you know the love triangle plot of that movie u have a solid 80% chance of knowing what happens here LOL #someone play Tennessee by Hans Zimmer #the me tag

[wantbytaemin]

the song im asking the DJ to play: going out in balkan with 3racha edition

chan: dodji tati which if you understand the language you’ll know immediately why i just know we’d both be into the same type of songs and he’d go fucking crazy for these lyrics (as do i. whenever a balkan man refers to himself as ‘tata’ im like bitch that’s ME and he’d be the same 100%) but also moje leto the australia reference would get him every time also this song literally sounds like something he’d produce in 30 mins just fucking around on channies room. the one downside is i feel like we’d be into the same girls and he’d be taking my spotlight w his dimpled short guy charm -__-

changbin: PROTEINI VITAMINI SAMO DA JE GUZA TOP this is a song abt working out btw LMAO it’s literally made for him also he’d be soooo much fuckin fun i can see us both fist pumping to this and šarafimo žarulje no idk the english term for that specific dance but one of those that men who can’t dance do even though he CAN dance but that’s beside the point.

han: some shit like bebo 3 that’s like still a club song but you’re remembering your ex you’re still in love with and fucking crying in the club (key voice you’re in the club?? I know key. me and jisung are both shocked he’s even there actually) alternatively suhi bc. well i’m giggling at the lyrics if you know you know but also he’d be the type to dislike new ‘sold out’ connect and only like their old ‘actual music’ stuff (and he’s kinda right about it too)

*takes bow*

#this is SOOOO fully and completely self indulgent i just really wanted to write it in my diary here bc i was listening to dodji tati and #having a dance party thinking i NEED to show this to chan #also i can envision us at a nucci show and ‘KURVE PARE I DROGA JA NE MOGU BEZ TOGA’ and jisung crying in my shoulder singing the next line #‘AL JE MOJE SRCE NEKAD BILO NJENOOOO’ im giggling this is so much fun to me #i need a tag for my posts i might want to save for later and revisit hmmmmm #i don’t want it to include my name bc WELL it means something that i do not wanna associate with so like.. #let’s have it plain & simple i say #textpost

[imwritesometimes]

I think the most damaging aspect mentally, as an author, of knowing ppl are creating private discord servers to rec fic to their friends is that for a while now I've had this very suspicion. I'll see groups of usernames leave kudos all over my works for various fandoms but they never, ever, even on a single fic, drop so much as an 'I enjoyed this! Thanks!' But I know they're passing it around in a discord server I'll never see and talking about liking it.

It's demoralizing and I just wish ppl understood that. I don't expect someone to read my fic and be inspired to create sistine chapel levels of gratitude posts/art/comments. But a simple 'hey this was good!' let's me know 'hey ppl like what I'm doing and it's worth it to continue to not just write but share!'

#write/draw/create for YOU gets real fuckin old to hear when no one talks abt why we SHARE #we share for feedback ok. plain and simple. if I JUST wrote for me nothing I ever wrote would get edited 40 times over #or plotted for weeks at a time #or have 3 drafts in a notebook before ever making it to a word doc #it would just be in my brain for me rotate like a rotisserie chicken and that's IT #so yeah create for you but holy ppl we're sharing for COMMUNITY. sorry ppl don't comprehend that anymore #your walled discord group is NOT community. it's you grabbing a piece of cake and LOVING it but not bothering to tell the baker thanks #idk I just wasn't built like that.... show a little fuckin gratitude. it's online for YOU. it's not online for ME. it's already on my lapto #least you could do is drop a 'hey I liked this so much I recc'd it to my friends!' #and that's it. that's my rant for the day. #if you want to continue to have fic to read you need to practice gratitude...... #erin explains it all #fic #fanfiction

[the-cookie-of-doom]

protip for making yourself write/edit multiple drafts, if you're a first draft-last draft person like me: write the first one by hand on paper. Preferably out of order. Then type everything up mostly the way you wrote it, editing as you go. Now open a second document and start rewriting everything again, this time in chronological order, editing again. Boom, 3 drafts out of the way right there.

#cookie speaks #in other words #i like to make life hard formyself but it works out in the long run #writing with pen and paper just feels more honest #i cant get hung up over simple mistakes #trying to come up with the most perfect sentences #it's total stream of thought #i use docs most of the time but when I need to get past a block #plain old paper is my best friend #changing the format like that also helps make the brain go #same effect when changing the formatting a ton #like going from regular essay format to traditional novel format can help a ton

[rachelspoetrycorner]

The Early Bird (2003) & So This Is Nebraska (1980) by Ted Kooser

In Episode 276, Rachel shares two poems by her favorite Great Plains poet!

Rachel: Um, the thing I like is there's a real opportunity when you grow up in that area of the country. To kind of not have that kind of pride in what some people would consider like the simplicity of that experience, right? [...] There's a real opportunity for him to move on from that, but he loves and celebrates that place and still lives there today and it's very evident in his work. Uh, and I think it's really inspiring to people who are pursuing poetry or like recognize like, You're okay, right where you are, you know.

It's almost impossible not to think about Bob Hicok's A Primer, or Anna Journey's Mississippi: Origins while reading these poems. In my mind, they're all holding hands, swingin' them back and forth. If you’d like to hear more, you can do so here: One More Time, Dampen, from 5:55 - 18:08

#poetry #rachel mcelroy #griffin mcelroy #poem #Ted Kooser #poet #The Early Bird #So This Is Nebraska #writing #words #literature #nebraska #great plains #country #simple life #country life #joy #wonder #bird #wonderful! #wonderful! podcast #rachel’s poetry corner #episode 276

[marypsue]

No this is actually also part of why turning around and saying No Actually Brenner Is ‘Not What He Seems’ He’s Ackshully A Good Guy Forced To Do Awful Things is so fucking maddening - because it’s a complete betrayal of the story and the central theme. We already had Dr. Brenner Is Not What He Seems - that was all of season one! But what he seemed was authoritative and trustworthy! What he seemed was the face he put on for the underlings he sent into the Upside Down to get shredded, and for the Wheelers, and when he tried to talk Joyce around to ‘helping’ him in the final episodes, and even when he bargained with Hopper! And actually, he was bad! He was putting Will and El and the entire town in mortal danger for his own gain and saw absolutely nothing wrong with that! He regularly and knowingly sent people walking to their deaths with absolutely no compunction! He talks fatherly and doesn’t give a shit if anyone else lives or dies! He is already Not What He Seems, and what he Seems is a Good Guy Working Under Difficult Circumstances! That’s the lie! 

And to turn around and say otherwise is to say that the story that you set out to tell is bad and stupid and wrong! Leaving totally aside all questions of morality or ethics or what this says about how the Duffers think about how No Cis White Man Can Ever Be Ackshully Bad, They’re All Just Misunderstood, this about-face is a fundamental betrayal and an undermining of the story they set out to tell and it’s plain old bad fucking storytelling.

#stranger things #i'm sorry i can't get over this i can't forgive this #it's bad storytelling brent. plain and simple. it's like Shitty Writing 101: How To Ruin Your Own Story In One Easy Choice

[sixofravens-reads]

okay, well, I've read almost 50 pages of The Woman in Me in about half an hour, so I guess starting it was a good idea...

#the writing style is extremely plain and simple which is mildly annoying but makws for a quick read #maybe finishing this book will give me the motivation to read more of Rebecca... #thinking about reading

[pragmatic-optimist]

So TK and Carlos got engaged without discussing their future plans for a family and kids?

Yes, it's a short clip, but the word choice is very specific, with TK asking pointedly, "Since when do you not want to have kids," and Carlos replying, "Since when did I ever say I did." 

So TK proposed marriage with the assumption Carlos wanted a family. That's what is being said here. It’s canon. 

They’re legit surrounded by kids in their close circle/found family every day, and the “writers” are saying it’s canon that it has never come up until now. I—

It keeps coming back to this for me: story execution > story idea. 

Season 4 insists on following through on the delivery of ideas and arcs that, yes, could have been fascinating for character development if introduced much, much sooner. Exploring them now is terrible execution and character derailment (looking at you Carlos “flippantly jokes about the marriage I never mentioned” Reyes). 

No matter how you spin it—at its core—it remains nonsensical. The writing on Lone Star has always been a rollercoaster when it comes to consistency, but Season 4 takes the cake. 

#i made the decision to stop subjecting myself to weekly disappointment around ep 6 #and thank goodness for that #because the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again #and expecting different results #aka watching lone star #i’ve stayed largely silent about s4 on purpose #but yeah #it is bad writing plain and simple #i appreciate the olympic level of gymnastics it takes to be excited about whatever season 4 is #i simply do not have the time or the energy to participate anymore #and also tim minear is the quintessential White Male Showrunner™️ #patting himself on the back for mediocre writing at best in a few eps 🙃 #911 lone star discourse #911 lone star negative discourse #911 ls spoilers #sonia musings

[mini-uzzy]

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#god fuck im finally done with askal.. why it took a month and more than 10 tries idk.. im battling crippling emotions #its simple and it looks rushed and it looks plain but i needed that done BEFORE mw3 drops so yeah #its done and im proud of my cringe OC so much i really do #i put so much into writing and designing this NPC-coded piece of shit #wyn talks :)

[robbed-ghost]

I love ideas. I love headcanons. I’m alright with crossovers. But when we start blatantly lying about how a character would act in a given situation when we have ample canonical evidence suggesting they would NOT act that way, the confusion and/or criticism it results in cannot be brushed off or deemed unfounded when a liberty is knowingly or unknowingly taken.

#this is about all fandoms actually #and it will continue to happen I just thought I’d put this out there for anyone that may need to hear this #if you’re writing something or imagining something and have to change an entire character’s personality to make it make sense #then it doesn’t make sense #plain and simple