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I’m so excited about this game.

Aloy in the Horizon Forbidden West gameplay reveal

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I’ve always wondered what they were for...🤔🤔🤔

Stumbling across another forbidden planet, I begin to pontificate the purpose of these enormous gates… will they soon unveil their secrets?

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eye contact

when I drew the Hermione and Draco portraits, originally the plan was to do a short comic panel where they make eye contact across the Great Hall…but then I got carried away and the portraits came out a little too pretty so I posted them individually. The concept was still buzzing in my head though so I made this thing.

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Feeling targeted right now. I swear no worries is always just one text away for me. A close second is all good. My problem is that every emotion I’ve ever felt is blatantly displayed on my face...they always know they’ve upset me and then I get upset because I upset them by upsetting me and then the upset just keeps building and then I’m crying. 😅😅😅

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Preview of some art I did for a collab with @phoenixdragon111 for the MF Fest! She wrote a wonderful story titled Mandatory Electives and you should all definitely check it out!

Heres a synopsis:

Hermione and Draco are tasked with revamping Hogwarts’ Mandatory Elective curriculum. What will happen when they come together?

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My kink is unloved characters suddenly being loved unconditionally

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Red String Crew, Unite!! 😂🕵️‍♀️

It’s your Friday snippet of Bring Him to His Knees!

“My name is Draco Malfoy and I’m with MLE. I’m the lead Auror on a case involving the murders of several young women. Your description matches one of my victims. I need to ask you to make an identification, Mr Price.”

The lift stopped and the door slid open. Draco stepped out but Billy didn’t follow him. Draco turned, took the man by the upper arm, and led him out of the lift. Billy didn’t speak, didn’t protest the decontamination procedure, didn’t even seem to notice the swinging doors as Draco guided him into the morgue.

Chapter eight coming on Sunday!

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How to write a kiss

Rebloggable version, as requested by davrosbro. :)

Oooh!  Yes!  I love kisses.  Kisses are where it all starts ;).

Okay, first, remember that a kiss is much, much more than just lips.  It is lips, but also tongues, teeth, eyes, faces, hands, noses, bodies, heartbeats,  breath, voice- and most importantly, a kiss is emotions.  A kiss without emotion is just wet mushy lips stuck together.  Ew.  Gross.  The most important part of a kiss isn’t the how, but the who- because of the emotions between the two people.

Okay so:

lips- Lips can slide, glide over each other smoothly, or they can be chapped and rough and dry and get stuck on each other.  They can match, top-to-top and bottom-to-bottom, or they can overlap, with one person’s top or bottom lip captured between the other person’s lips (yummy).  If there is lipstick or chapstick there is lipstick or chapstick flavor, otherwise, lips don’t have a taste (can you taste yours?).  Lips also can smack- the sound of two of them coming together or pulling apart, because they’re wet and warm and soft.

tongue- Tongues are always wet, and always warm.  They’re very versatile.  They can trace over lips, teeth, or another tongue.  They can be smooth and graceful or teasing and flicking.  When tongues are involved, there is drool.  It’s only sexy when you like the person you’re kissing, or else it’s kinda gross. :P

teeth- teeth can clack together awkwardly, or teeth can bite down sensually.  A person biting their own lip is cute, a person biting another’s lips is sexy.  A person biting gently is sensual, a person biting roughly is sexual.

eyes- Eyes can be wide open with surprise, half-lidded with desire, fully closed with pleasure.  Eyes can gaze lovingly, lustfully, wistfully, hungrily, seductively- it all depends upon the emotions of your characters.  Have them do whatever you like, but don’t leave them out- give them at least a mention!

faces- Faces are what the lips are attached to.  Noses bump, cheeks flush, ears turn red, foreheads either wrinkle or relax.  Kisses can leave lips, quite easily, and become kisses on chins, cheeks, noses, foreheads, ears, necks, throats.  Kisses on noses or foreheads are cute and adorable, kisses on cheeks are sweet, kisses on chins, ears, and throats are very sexual.  And a kiss on the lips can be all of those! <3

hands- Hands are super-important.  In order to describe a kiss, usually you want to also describe the hands.  Where are they?  Does one character have their hand behind the other’s head or back, holding them close?  Are they on someone’s shoulders pulling them near, or pushing them away?  Fingers brushing someone’s cheek or palms grabbing someone’s ass convey two very different kinds of situations, even if the kiss itself is exactly the same.

noses- Noses are annoying.  They easily get in the way, especially for first kisses!  People have to tilt their head to one side or the other, and if they don’t, noses bump.  I’d only mention noses if a kiss is supposed to be awkward or uncertain or nervous.

bodies- bodies are either close together, or far away.  Someone can be surrounded comfortingly by someone’s arms, or terrifyingly trapped by them.  Bodies are warm or hot, they are calm or nervous, relaxed or tense.  Body language says a lot.  Is your character pulling away, or moving closer?

heartbeat- Hearts can beat fast or slow, and that’s about all they can do- but there are lots of reasons why they do!  A heart can beat fast with fear or excitement or nervousness; a heart can pound with lust or race with terror or sing with joy.  Hearts can glow, cower, or shatter.  When you really want to drive the emotions of a character home, mention the heart.

breath- To me, the most consuming part of a kiss is the breath.  The air that someone else has just breathed going deep into your lungs is very intimate.  Lips and tongues don’t have a taste, but breath does.  Each person’s breath tastes different, smells different, and surrounds a person differently than anyone else’s breath.  Breath can be warm and sweet, breath can be hot and sexy, breath can be hot and frightening.  It is something that is very present and should not be left out.  A lot of writers leave breath out.  And it’s so important; it’s the most intimate part of a kiss.  Someone else is breathing into your lungs, and it’s either heaven or it’s hell.

voice- Voice conveys much, even without words.  A voice can groan, whimper, gasp, moan, catch, whine, scream, sigh.  Voice can convey emotion powerfully, and while some kisses are silent, usually they’re not.

emotion-  Emotion is the most important- and the thing you try not to say.  You want to describe it, through all of the things above, so that it’s perfectly clear what your characters are feeling, without you ever using the “feelings words”.  If they’re in love, their bodies will lean close, their eyes will smile, their voices will giggle softly.  If they’re nervous, their palms will sweat, their noses will bump, their voices will shudder.  If they’re afraid, their muscles will be tense, their faces will grimace, their lips will not open.  Emotion is the color that you keep inside your mind as you write; it’s the base line that drives the description behind everything else you say.

Wow, that was a lot!  Gosh I hope it wasn’t too much!  Keep in mind not every kiss has all these things- this is just a list of things to consider when writing a kiss, and based on how long of a kiss you want to make.  Keep in mind that typing “they kissed for a long time”…that’s six words, it takes half a second to read, so that’s a short kiss!  If you want a long kiss, you need long sentences that make the reader linger.

So maybe to start off, pick three things on the list to describe in your first kiss.  Don’t try to do it all- that would be too much for even the most epic kiss.  Just pick what’s most important to this particular scene, to these particular characters, and describe those parts along with the lips, and you’ve got yourself an awesome, emotional kiss. <3

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cinemagraph artist on instagram

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Oh god. Truth.

I could spend hours thinking of names. The list is endless.

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This ^

have you taken your meds today?

quick check-in:

have you taken your meds today?

do you need to drink some water?

have you stretched recently?

do you need to eat?

do you need to take a minute to breathe and de-stress?

just because:

picture of a kitten!

picture of a puppy!

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Harry thought he had it bad, but I’ve been literally one day at Hogwarts and someone’s already trying to kill me

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I wish lesbians were as easy to find in real life as they are on tumblr

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Reading Times, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1906

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Meeeeee.

i hate that my first reaction to stress is always Time To Die™ like ok calm down edgelord

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