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March isn't neurotypical but she forgot

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#mabosstiff #love #very large huggable

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15 38 46 for the ask game? or just one/two of these 👍!!

15 — writer's block: This is different for TTRPGs and my actual writing projects. In the former, since I can have deadlines imposed onto me, I usually just impose them and get the job done. But in my other writing... Just let it pass. It would hurt even more if I forced it. Just let it pass, or erase the scene and start over.

38 — weirdest idea: I used to have a lot of ideas but I also have shit memory. Probably the Persephone Myth but it's about climate change and Hades is not a person but rather a place and no one remembers what spring even is so Persephone disappears from memory too.

46 — rereading: Usually I don't. I burned some of the stuff I wrote in middle school with the precise purpose of never seeing it again and I don't regret it. But I also read some of my current WIP out loud recently and I didn't hate it. Helped me catch some dumb mistakes, even.

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For the writer's ask game, in the basics, 1, 2, 9, and 10? 😊

1 — music: I do! It's usually something ambient that fits the atmosphere of the scene, preferably no vocals so as to not distract me. I have amassed a small playlist on YouTube that I put in the background when I'm writing, it's mostly horror OSTs, one Midwestern gothic mix with a bunch of songs, and compositions I enjoy. Sometimes I just loop something and let it rip.

2 — pantser or plotter: A bit of both. Mostly stories pop up in my head as messages from God and I do not dare question. I make outlines, but rarely. My current WIP has a vague plan of events, and my Vampire chronicle has like 2 Google Docs and a conspiracy board, full Charlie Day style.

9 — current WIP: I've always dreamt of writing a book and I've been doing so sporadically ever since I dropped out of uni last year. It's called "Postmortem", I have the prologue and 4 chapters done, and chapter 5 is going smoothly. If I had to describe it, it's like a sci-fi urban coming-of-age story set in a small town in Nebraska about a dead girl and her dad hunting ghosts. My girlfriend calls it "pure anime" (affectionate). I'll enclose an excerpt from chapter 5 under the cut (translated into English as I wrote it in my native tongue).

10 — deadlines: I am bad with self-inflicted deadlines, so I don't bother. I don't feel like forcing words out of myself is right, my uni already does that for like 1000 bucks a term. Then again, that explains the leisurely pace of my book writing process doesn't it...

Mio spat on the pavement, then turned exactly ninety degrees with the precision of a soldier, and stomped away from Hunters’ Hall. She could probably wait around; the tiny patch of concrete here acted as both the parking lot and smoking spot for the locals. Yet the mere act of waiting seemed a grueling task in itself, not to mention talking. She could taste the ennui already. A stack of convenient lies upon more convenient lies made up the legend she’d repeat and slightly alter in each town Doc and her stopped at. This time it was “Mio Miyawaki”, yet another empty promise of a person, one that could answer every question about herself without ever telling anything important, nod along in conversation while never revealing what she really thought, and mislead everyone into believing that she was actually, truly genuine despite not even being real.

“Well that’s just great.”

Mio didn’t really hate this bleak reflection of herself. Neither did she like her.

She turned around the corner. The passing-by truck dragged a gust of hot air past her, and Mio instinctively clasped a hand over her nose. In Carrion, summer was always a haze of smog descending into the valley, a mix of exhaust fumes, burning trash and forest fire smoke. Unable to escape the clutches of the trees, like a sea not being able to escape its shores, the sickly fog of ash and stench stayed calm and still. Then, autumn winds would carry it away, and heavy clouds full of snow would come instead. The town, therefore, existed in a constant state of rigor mortis. No life was possible there – aside from, perhaps, the writhing of parasites in roadkill.

The smell of burning and grey ash didn’t feel as annoying as the odor of tobacco in the fog, both gently tickling and cruelly scratching at her throat from the inside.

Her jaws dragged against each other, an industrial chew of machinery, and Mio only felt it as a thin streak of blood ran down her chin. She’d chewed her lower lip into raw meat. Wiping the blood was a mechanical, meaningless gesture. The red of her uniform jacket soaked it up all nice. Neither blood nor ectocardium really stained it.

All so that the illusion of calm wouldn’t be disturbed.

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A Writer’s Ask Game

Send me an ask with the number(s) you’d like me to answer!

The Basics 1.     Do you listen to music when you write? 2.     Are you a pantser or plotter? 3.     Computer or pen and paper? 4.     Have you ever been published, or do you want to be published? 5.     How much writing do you get done on an average day? 6.     Single or multiple POV? 7.     Standalone or series? 8.     Oldest WIP 9.     Current WIP 10.  Do you set yourself deadlines?

The Specifics 11.  Books and/or authors who influenced you the most 12.  Describe your perfect writing space 13.  Describe your writing process from idea to polished 14.  How do you deal with self-doubts? 15.  How do you deal with writer’s block? 16.  How many drafts do you need until you’re satisfied with a project? 17.  What writing habits or rituals do you have? 18.  If you could collaborate with anyone, who would it be, and what would you write about? 19.  How do you keep yourself motivated? 20.  How many WIPs and story ideas do you have?

The Favourites 21.  Who is/are your favourite character(s) to write? 22.  Who is/are your favourite pairing(s) to write? 23.  Favourite author 24.  Favourite genre to write and read 25.  Favourite part of writing 26.  Favourite writing program 27.  Favourite line/scene 28.  Favourite side character 29.  Favourite villain 30.  Favourite idea you haven’t started on yet

The Dark 31.  Least favourite part of writing 32.  Most difficult character to write 33.  Have you ever killed a main character? 34.  What was the hardest scene you ever had to write? 35.  What scene/story are you least looking forward to writing?

The Fun 36.  Last sentence you wrote 37.  First sentence or your current WIP 38.  Weirdest story idea you’ve ever had 39.  Weirdest character concept you’ve ever had 40.  Share some backstory for one of your characters

The Rest of It 41.  Any advice for new/beginning/young writers? 42.  How do you feel about love triangles? 43.  What do you do if/when characters don’t follow the outline? 44.  How much research do you do? 45.  How much world building do you do? 46.  Do you reread your own stories? 47.  Best way to procrastinate 48.  What’s the most self-insert character/scene you’ve ever written? 49.  Which character would you most want to be friends with, if they were real? 50.  [Other question—ask me anything]

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"nightmares" -- lawlight angst comic

based off that one angst post i made

#AGH this comic is so good it gave me stomachache #biting biting tearing flesh #thank you for the comic and for the of post op

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Reblog the writers’ fortune cookie for luck!

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✨ beth the witch apprentice marybeth barros the merchantess ✨

arcana fandom, how are we doing up here? I replayed a couple of routes back in february and slowly started the design of my main character beth. so, two months of an office job and occasional weekend drawing later, I present to you:

main outfit

traveling coat

casual outfit

mandatory bathrobe

masquerade dress

pre!resurrection outfit

extra pics and a bit of info under the cut

beth is a master illusionist, most of her magic based on "a lie" as she herself puts it. playing with people's perceptions brings her much joy, but to weaponize it is not a hard task by any means.

she has spells to make her mouse-brown graying hair disappear, spells to cover cheap clothes with golden embroidery, and spells to make her perfume your favorite smell in the world. the way beth presents herself is an elaborate show she won't stop, and it comes not entirely from the place of self-hatred, but rather from love for all things theatric. supporting these intervened strings of magic costs her a lot of energy, but all good things in our world are, aren't they?

backstory-wise... things are not complicated, but rather long to tell. she's not vesuvian, and comes from a merchant family, but after the family business fell into other's hands, she chose to do her own thing. believing herself to be the one who brought the red plague with one of her ships, her fortune rotted alongside the dying city she tried to help out of immense guilt. marybeth barros died, got revived, and trade and fondness of riches still runs in her blood.

#gf art please appreciate

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me joining a discord server- "hello!"

guy named floyd- "hi! would you like a colour role?"

me- "what does that mean?"

floyd- "it means your name gets to be a colour. like how mine is pink for example"

me- "cool ok! so what colors can i have then?"

#good one

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You’ve grown into someone who would have protected you as a child. And that is the most powerful move you made.

#i hope so. i really do

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RB if you think CD drives in computers are not obsolete, but in fact still necessary, despite being artificially phased out

#my uni requires us to burn some data into cd drives and submit those to our teachers #since they have to store these things in the archive and they would have to take our flash drives away #i use an external drive #but we have such a large collection of dvds it feels like a cruel joke #i still remember how dad taught me how to burn cds with torrented movies #so much history

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ingrid sundberg's colour dictionary - writing help

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When you’ve been cooking for long enough, you stop making recipes and start making “shit in a skillet” and “whatever soup”

#and it's the tastiest thing ever. my depression pizza always hits the spot. #we call it хрючево

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i made my own<3

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I hope there’re at least two people who like Honkai Star Rail on this page

Cuz I do

I came back to this game after one year hiatus.

I haven’t even started the Penacony storyline but I already draw characters together who haven’t been announced yet and seems like will never meet in the story 🤙

My favorite

#idk where this ship appeared from but i love it #it's hella cute

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What is the most amount of your favorite food that you can eat before regretting life, served in individual mop buckets?

Hm. So the food is pasta. If I am forced to eat it in one go without stopping, then I'd say one bucket. If it means eating just that food in a given prolonged period of time, then I could probably last like. A lot of buckets. I don't think I would ever get tired of it.

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