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Lollllll I sense a new tumblr meme in the making

a scene must be included PRIOR to sex where the characters READ their birth certificates OUT LOUD so the reader will know they were born on the SAME DATE to avoid any disgusting AGE GAPS

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Here’s something I’m curious about.

Picture this. You’re reading a book, a standard book divided into chapters. Let’s say it’s fiction (don’t know if nonfiction would get different results). You’ve been reading for a while and you want to stop for now. Assume you are not literally falling asleep, you’re still awake and lucid.

You are in the middle of a paragraph, in the middle of a page, somewhere in the middle of a chapter in the middle of the book.

“Power through and finish the book” is not an option, but if you really do that you have my sympathies.

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So there's gossip about some version of kinktober over on twitter adding a bunch of nonsensical rules this year, and I am fascinated. Studying this like a bug.

Like, what the hell.

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it’s Tenz’ b-day- quick wish him a happy birthday!

Happy birthday to this loser (lovingly)

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me, after spending two hours deciding which synonym of “laugh” to use and only managing to add one sentence to my WIP: well, that was draining. that’s enough work done for the week, at least.

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Truly I hate to do this to you all but; you can watch all the videos and read all the blogs in the world but you cannot learn to sew without at some point picking up a piece of fabric and fucking it up. No tutorial exists that will stop you at some point ruining this poor piece of cloth. The visceral act of holding a project and wondering where you went wrong is the only way to learn sewing; you cannot escape it. I’m sorry

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dislike and discomfort are normal and healthy parts of the human experience actually

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when you listen to a song and it gives you inspiration to daydream an answer to the plot hole in the story building inside your head

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Sometimes I like to make collages, so... These are my associations 🤭🍡

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"I want him" not sexually not romantically but a secret third way (squeaky toy)

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Original Hikaru is such a fascinating character to me, I can't even explain this. When I started reading manga 4 years ago, I was mostly interested in his character and I still am. We know almost nothing about him and the information we are given can be false because everything is told through Yoshiki's eyes. Every single thing about him is how people in village/Yoshiki saw him. We will probably never know what really he was like. He's the character that the whole story centers about and yet we know the least about him. He's the one haunting the narrative from the very beginning.

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"What do you hear in my song?"

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*through a drive through mic* hi can I get ughhhh some barn owls?

Well, you have been good lately, so you deserve a little treat...

Barn Owl (Tyto alba), MELANISTIC, family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, found across the northern hemisphere

photograph by fremlin

Barn Owl (Tyto alba), EAT A TASTY MOUSE!!!, family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, Worth Valley, West Yorkshire, England

photograph by David Driver (@driver.david)

Barn Owls (Tyto alba), family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, UK

photograph by Janet Sharp | Flickr

Barn Owls (Tyto alba), family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, Carrizo Plain National Monument, CA, USA

photograph by Mitch Waters

Barn Owl (Tyto alba), family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, UK

photograph by Russell Finney

Barn Owl (Tyto alba), fledgling chick hauling ass across a lawn, as it was learning to fly, family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, Netherlands

photograph by Hannie Heere

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Romantic Subplots That Don’t Make Me Want to Eat My Laptop

✧ The enemies-to-lovers pipeline is not just “we yelled once” and now we’re making out. Where is the tension? Where is the mutual respect beneath the knives? Where is the unbearable yearning while they patch each other up post-battle, covered in blood and unresolved feelings?

✧ You do not have to pair everyone off like it’s a high school dance and the chaperones are judging. It’s okay for characters to stay single, or in situationships, or be in love with someone who doesn’t love them back (ouch, but delicious).

✧ If they fall in love because they’re “both hot and there,” I am going to demand emotional receipts. What do they see in each other that nobody else does? Give me the specificity. “He brings her tea when her hands shake.” “She doesn’t mock his cursed poetry.” That kind of slop.

✧ Consent is hot. I don’t care if they’re vampires, enemies, rivals, or literal gods at war. “Do you want me to kiss you?” with the voice drop is sexier than 87 pages of unspoken tension ending in a sudden smooch that makes no sense.

✧ A love triangle is not “who is hotter.” It’s “which future does this character want.” One boy represents safety, the other chaos? Great. But we’re picking identities, not abs.

✧ Please stop writing characters who fall in love after knowing each other for twelve seconds and one trauma. That’s not love. That’s a bonding exercise at Emotional Camp and it will implode. At least let them flirt awkwardly first.