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This isn't about whether you think it's likely that you'll die in this body of water; it's about which body of water you would give the right to take you.

For example, for me it's Lake Michigan.

Tag discussion encouraged of course

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No, I am not 'hoarding craft supplies.' I am sourcing materials for a very big project that will be revealed to me at a later date- perhaps in a dream.

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the way this shiba puppy yawns (please unmute)

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Fishbourne Roman Palace's Bluesky account posted this adorably scuzzy owl mosaic for Superb Owl Sunday. I feel him very deeply, so I drew him.

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spin this wheel for a length of fic. you have to write a fic that length

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tiny death roll

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The Voice, Hobart, Tasmania, April 23, 1938

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Yep, I'm a city slicker. Wake up one morning and your city's all slick? That was me.

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My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

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Perhaps a mushroom barely holding it together?

tres

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Headcanon: Anne and Wentworth have a very fun time together on his ship after they're married

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"youd do numbers on tumblr" girl i am on tumblr and the numbers? 4

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Generational spin-offs generally don’t have to do much to make the old heroes bad or absent parents because by and large they’re still living their original show. We’re now seeing it from the kids’ perspective.

You think The One True Hero stops getting calls to go fix stuff? They’re the Hero. They have to miss birthday parties and baseball games and school recitals because no one else learned to do a damn thing in the meantime and they still get called to save the world. Kid knows their parent is important and parent hasn’t learned to stop being self-sacrificing to put their kid first, so kid feels unimportant and selfish for even wanting their parents’ love—they have so many more important things to do, after all.

The couple whose True and Purest Love saved everyone? They put each other first. Always. They had a kid but the kid does not come first, ever. And they put each other on a pedestal when they talk to the kid, so the kid develops a complex about it and of *course* they’re unlovable, why would someone so good and perfect and loving want to deal with an imperfect child?

Unless there’s someone else who stepped up to become the New Main Character so the old heroes could properly retire, they’re still on call. Forever. And that fucks up their kids. We just get to see how that happens now, just like we see how what your parents went through ended up fucking your sense of self up.

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Also getting in my feelings a bit, may the leopards not go hungry.

Sticker available.

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I couldn’t find any gritty Valentine’s so I made my own

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IC 1805 - The Heart Nebula Talon Abraxas

The Heart Nebula is an emission nebula, 7500 light years away from Earth and located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia.