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I Will Be Sure When I No Longer Remember Myself

Personal piece <3

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You ever get so excited you start fangirling over your own ideas that you haven't even written yet?

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*About to write a chapter*

"Hold up—"

*opens notes to see their personalities.*

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Slow burn but it's written by an impatient person

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Hyperfixating on your own original work is the worst. Why tf can't I find fanart of my unpublished book on tumblr?? Worst fandom ever smh.

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You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick

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been toying with the concept of vampirism as like, needing something that you inherently can't provide for yourself. vampirism as dependency- especially in cases of vampires who refuse to (or straightup *cannot* for whatever reason) feed on anyone without consent, who must rely on blood freely given by living humans.

an independent young adult, so eager to move out on her own and see the world by herself, is turned into a vampire. her human parents are willing to feed her, but now she'll be dependent on them. she can't move away, can't stray too far from the family farm by herself, because she can't be too far from her source of blood for too long. she's afraid of what will happen when her parents are too old to give blood to her, if she'll be able to find someone else to depend on. she'll outlive them all eventually, if she's not left to starve.

a sociable vampire with a wide network of human friends who are willing to offer up their blood to her. they're happy to help her, but she still feels like a monster for having to take their blood all the time. she tries to take as little as possible while they beg her please take more, we hate seeing you so hungry all the time, please let us help. 

a vampire trapped in an abusive marriage because he relies on his wife for blood. if he leaves her without an alternate support system to feed him, he'd starve. she isolated him from all his other loved ones who might've been willing to feed him years ago. she holds the fact that she gives him her blood over his head anytime he tries to defend himself.

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do you all see my vision here

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an ornithologist pointed a microphone at a bird sitting alone on a wire and caught the sound of the bird singing a song at a decibel so low that it would be impossible for another bird to hear it, meaning the bird was singing quietly to itself I love life

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What's the worst trap you see amateur writers falling into?

Not appreciating the whole story.

Scroll around "Writing Tumblr" for a few hours and you'll see something to the effect of "I was daydreaming about this big fight/plot twist/dramatic irony, but I hate writing all the stuff leading up to it!"

Everything leading up to the big third act is treated as an obligation. The 'homework' before you get to the 'fun part.'

See this enough times, and you start to realize why you see so many stories meandering around for the first two acts until they can have their big, dramatic climax. You start to see why everything that isn't a Baysplosion is considered "filler" now.

If you're only into writing to write memorable third act reveals, then everything you write is going to be terrible.

There's a video by Noralities going over an old anime, which she admits she hated at first because she was skipping the episodes that were dubbed "filler" by some idiot, and her friend who suggested it to her had to sit her down and tell her that the filler was some of the best parts. And she was in disbelief about that.

"A character-based show feels worse when you watch only the plot episodes and none of the character episodes? Say it ain't so!"

It is a moment of spectacular brainrot in what is otherwise an S-Tier Youtuber, because it's such a basic concept that some people will weirdly fight you on.

Character moments, slow moments, things that might be considered boring to a hyperactive, plot-obsessed weirdo, these are all important. Trying to have a big grand plot without these things is like trying to build a bridge without supports. If you don't have as much of a deep and abiding love for those things as you do for the big fight scene at the end, you're going to make shit.

There are entire genres of storytelling that don't have villains, fight scenes, or dramatic plot twists. There are NO genres of storytelling that don't have characters and character relationships as a core component of them.

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keep seeing people make memes of "oh when the live action atla gets to ember island players–" lmao girlies what is this """when"""????????? you think these eight-episode cut-all-character-development no-self-awareness motherfuckers are going to put in the ember island players episode???? they didn't even have the fucking earthbender prison break episode you think they're gonna do ember island players? bitch they ARE the ember island players

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i am not immune to Character Who Has Been Called from the Start to do an Act of Good that They Will Not Survive.

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Absolutely livid that every work of fiction under the sun depicts "losing your humanity" as something inherently bad and morally wrong.

"I'm not human anymore and that makes me automatically evil and bad in every way possible and now you have to kill me for the plot" Yeah sure thing buddy get bent.

"I'm not human anymore and it's okay because I don't need to be a human in order to be capable of giving and receiving love, and you know what? I think I'm better this way." Oh sweetheart I understand completely and I love you so much. Come here you kind beautiful inhuman little thing

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Give that character a big nose. Give that character freckles. Give that character moles. Give them dimples give them acne give them big eyebrows give them a tooth gap give them eyebags please its good for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its enrichment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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purple folklore dress, I’ll love you forever

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"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess