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Poison list

While it's important to approach writing with creativity and imagination, it's crucial to prioritize responsible and ethical storytelling. That being said, if you're looking for information on poisons for the purpose of writing fiction, it's essential to handle the subject matter with care and accuracy. Here is a list of some common poisons that you can use in your stories:

Hemlock: Hemlock is a highly poisonous plant that has been used as a poison in various works of literature. It can cause paralysis and respiratory failure.

Arsenic: Arsenic is a toxic element that has been historically used as a poison. It can be lethal in high doses and can cause symptoms such as vomiting, abdominal pain, and organ failure.

Cyanide: Cyanide is a fast-acting poison that affects the body's ability to use oxygen. It can cause rapid loss of consciousness and cardiac arrest.

Nightshade: Nightshade plants, such as Belladonna or Deadly Nightshade, contain toxic compounds that can cause hallucinations, respiratory distress, and even death.

Ricin: Ricin is a potent poison derived from the castor bean plant. It can cause organ failure and has been used as a plot device in various fictional works.

Strychnine: Strychnine is a highly toxic alkaloid that affects the nervous system, leading to muscle spasms, convulsions, and respiratory failure.

Snake Venom: Various snake venoms can be used in fiction as deadly poisons. Different snake species have different types of venom, each with its own effects on the body.

Belladonna: Also known as Deadly Nightshade, Belladonna contains tropane alkaloids such as atropine and scopolamine. Ingesting or even touching the plant can lead to symptoms like blurred vision, hallucinations, dizziness, and an increased heart rate.

Digitalis: Digitalis, derived from the foxglove plant, contains cardiac glycosides. It has been historically used to treat heart conditions, but in high doses, it can be toxic. Overdosing on digitalis can cause irregular heart rhythms, nausea, vomiting, and visual disturbances.

Lead: Lead poisoning, often resulting from the ingestion or inhalation of lead-based substances, has been a concern throughout history. Lead is a heavy metal that can affect the nervous system, leading to symptoms such as abdominal pain, cognitive impairment, anemia, and developmental issues, particularly in children.

Mercury: Mercury is a toxic heavy metal that has been used in various forms throughout history. Ingesting or inhaling mercury vapors can lead to mercury poisoning, causing symptoms like neurological impairment, kidney damage, respiratory issues, and gastrointestinal problems.

Aconite: Also known as Wolfsbane or Monkshood, aconite is a highly toxic plant. Its roots and leaves contain aconitine alkaloids, which can affect the heart and nervous system. Ingesting aconite can lead to symptoms like numbness, tingling, paralysis, cardiac arrhythmias, and respiratory failure.

Thallium: Thallium is a toxic heavy metal that can cause severe poisoning. It has been used as a poison due to its tastelessness and ability to mimic other substances. Thallium poisoning can lead to symptoms like hair loss, neurological issues, gastrointestinal disturbances, and damage to the kidneys and liver.

When incorporating poisons into your writing, it is essential to research and accurately portray the effects and symptoms associated with them. Additionally, be mindful of the potential impact your writing may have on readers and the importance of providing appropriate context and warnings if necessary.

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What it looks like: I've abandoned my fic

What's actually happening: It consumes my thoughts every single day. The urge to write gets stronger but my putty brain just. won't. let. it. happen.

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Who stabbed Iluvia? Wrong answers only

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Work in progress? More like "will I post"

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Herc has a degradation kink

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Saw my first post with someone admitting they used chatGPT to ‘write a fic’ which they then shared here on tumblr and on Ao3.

To be clear, using AI to churn out a piece of fiction is not writing.

Using a bot (possibly one that was trained using a scrape of Ao3, that is to say, the theft of work from every writer who has posted their work on Ao3) is NOT WRITING.

It is theft. It isn’t creation. It’s a regurgitation of the consumed collective work and effort and heart and time of every writer who has shared their work on Ao3.

‘I’m not a good writer’ is no excuse.

Want to be a writer? Put in the time everyone else does to practice.

Don’t feel confident in your work? Open yourself up to the same vulnerability and risk that the rest of us do.

You don’t get to use a fucking bot to vomit out an approximation of a story and pretend you’ve got skin in the game.

The sad thing? This bot-assembled fic wasn’t bad. It was bland, but it had internal logic, some passing context to character and canon. It wasn’t like those early AI art pieces that had surreal compositions and extra fingers. It wasn’t immediately obvious it was made by a bot.

In this instance the person who posted it admitted they had used a bot. Which, actually, I have some respect for. But it probably isn’t the first and it won’t be the last.

I don’t know that there’s a solution to this, but it is both hurting my heart and enraging me.

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me again

this ones more spicier

enjoy

“If you were the hero of Mel Senshir, I would follow you.”

The words don't sound mocking when you say them. In fact, if Hugo was a madman, he might think they were even…affectionate. If he weren't so distracted by the way your mouth forms words that a clumsy, cowardly sheep farmer far too out of his depth could never deserve.

He doesn't know how the next bit happens; who makes the first move; but his mouth is against yours in a moment. You turn from the edge of the pool, letting your braid land against it as you open yourself to him. He takes the opportunity, moving between your powerful thighs and pressing you against the cool tiles with a whimper as his skin meets yours. He has no skill or experience, but you thread your fingers through his hair and guide his mouth with yours so tenderly that for once he can't be ashamed of himself for it. Confidence rising, he grabs two handfuls of your perfect ass and seats your hips right against his, swallowing your gasp as even more of your skin comes into contact.

If one of you was to be labeled a hero, surely it would be you. You rescued him from a life of torment and treated him as an equal. You took him under your wing when you knew he could only be a burden, have shown him the patience of a saint as you've taught him things he would never have learned on his own; how to defend himself, how to hunt, how to survive. “Hero of Mel Senshir” be damned. They were only ever an idea, an infatuation.

You're his hero.

… You're his hero.

You're the hero of Mel Senshir.

He has the hero of Mel Senshir; an existence he has idolized so thoroughly that he abandoned his family's generational farm to travel Mithros and become an “adventurer”; pressed naked against him, half hard, panting and gasping against his mouth.

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Making fandom posts is really fun because every now and then someone will stumble across something you did months ago, go "hm, eight posts about my blorbo? I'll take the lot, thanks and goodbye" and you may or may not ever see them again.

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GAY SEX <3

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hey remember me?

yeah me neither

anyway have some...whatever this is

The sound of your voice shocks him out of his gawking, and he turns just in time to see the fabric of your shirt slip up over your shoulders. He's seen you without it before, of course; how could he avoid it after traveling with you for so long? But never in such close quarters, with the setting sun casting its light through stained-glass, blessing your skin with intricate patterns and soft colors.

Somewhere at the edge of his awareness, he hears your boots drop to the floor next, but he's too transfixed by the scars woven across your back, and his sudden yet all too familiar desire to trace them with his fingers, to chase their patterns with his lips-

The sound of fabric hitting the floor and the dulled clank of your belt landing after it startles him out of his thoughts again, and his mouth goes dry when you shift and his gaze drops just a few inches to see your perfect backside, completely bare. Gods spare him, is this some kind of test of his willpower? Just when he starts to wonder whether this is all real, you turn, and he wheels around to face the opposite wall so fast he nearly makes himself dizzy. For one shameful moment, he thinks you've caught him and you're about to give him the scolding of his life. But the next, the gentle slosh of water reaches his ears followed by a soft, slow sigh, and he rams his eyes shut in a futile attempt to block out images of parted lips, water glistening against charcoal skin, long lashes fluttering past shining green eyes-

“You should come in.”

Hugo's eyes snap open again, and a few attempts at words stutter out of him.

“It's alright, I won't look.” The quiet mirth in your voice makes his cheeks burn, and he briefly considers whether making a run for it would be less humiliating. But the shifting of water and the change in the way your voice echoes through the humid room and settles into his bones has him turning toward you again before he can stop himself. (Does he even want to stop himself?) You're turned away from him now, chest deep in the steaming pool and resting on your arms on the edge of it, long, thick braid gathered up in one hand, gazing up at the stained-glass as multicolored mist drifts lazily down to meet you.

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You don’t have to be a perfect writer to start working on your story. You’ll learn so many things as you go. The most important thing is to actually start.

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ADHD culture is overusing ( ) and — and ; and … in everything you write because you have so many side thoughts that just GO there and wouldn’t make sense anywhere else

New tag game: are you a Too Many (Parentheses) ADHD, a Too Many — em dashes — ADHD, a Too; Many; Semicolons; ADHD, or a Too…. Many…. Ellipses… ADHD…? 

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One merit of fanfic that I don’t think gets mentioned enough is that while you are starting off without having to create new characters and worlds, you are also uniquely constrained by the characters and worlds that you choose to write about, because the audience has expectations for them that you must match.

In that sense, it’s essentially a writing challenge in consistency with a specific style, in a particular range of voices that aren’t always your own.

What’s the worst thing a fanfic can be, in my opinion? Out of character. If you’ve come to a fic to read about a specific character, with a distinct personality, style of speech, and set of morals, and the author of the fic hasn’t done their job properly, you won’t feel like you’re actually reading about that character, and you will have a hard time reading the fic.

There is so much that goes into creating a unique character that is easy to not think about until you have the extreme constraint of writing the actions and speech of a character you did not originate, where you have to match the thought process, ideas, and syntax of someone else, essentially trying to insert yourself into the mind of the professional writer who originated the character, and extrapolate how they would make their creation react to the situation you’ve put them in, what words they would put in that person’s mouth, etc.

So fanfic is an excellent exercise in making sure your characters have distinct personalities, and making sure those personalities are consistent. Because if they’re not, your audience will be able to pick up on it immediately.

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Oh hey btw: If you're starting your second draft of something and you're having a hard time editing out the useless fluff that doesn't lead the story anywhere, consider changing tactics: Condense, don't cut.

"Kill your darlings" is bullshit, you shouldn't throw out things that spark joy, just put them into good use or somewhere they're not in the way. Combine scenes, characters and locations. You've got two beloved but unimportant background characters with only a vague scraping role in the story? Combine them. Have just one, who now has the traits, speaking lines and the role of both of them.

You've got a Super Important But Boring scene, and a scene that doesn't progress the story but was basically just you indulging in describing a wonderful location? Combine them. Have the characters have that Super Important Conversation in the pretty rose garden or the lovely bookshop you wanted to include.

You've got two really cool locations that are in the same city but both only show up once, and it feels like a waste to indulge in describing them in detail? Combine them. The smoky tavern and the smoky witch's brew shop are now working out of the same building - the witch and the tavern keeper are now married.

If you feel like you have too much description or too many characters, don't throw anything out before you've checked if you have an empty shelf to put them in. Give the Cool Character Description to a previously nondescript character who only shows up to tell the protagonist the One Important Thing. Make the Cool Location You Described For Three Pages But Which Only Shows Up Once show up again later.

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your writing does not have to be good. your author’s note does not have to go on its knees for a hundred words before each chapter repenting. you only have to let the soft gremlin of your brain write what it wants.