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Bank of Sapphire Cold?

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Was talking to a coworker today who explained that her grandfather was like Snow White “but Californian. And an old man.” in that the creatures of the forest would follow him around and presumably duet with him.

“When he died the ravens sat in the trees outside for a week, watching. Taking turns. A horde of raccoons tried to break into the house every night, tearing at the siding. Eventually they gave up, but it was unsettling.”

“Aww. They were checking on him!” I said, like a normal person. Internally, I thought “Maybe you could do the thing you do with dead pets, where you show them to the living pets so the living pet understands they’re gone. But I guess if you did that to a bunch of scavenging species, they’d be like “Well, that’s very sad but he IS food now.” So what you’d need, for human sensibilities, is some sort of transparent corpse barrier. Like a see-through coffin oh that’s what the dwarves were doing! You’ve stopped paying attention to this conversation about the loss of a beloved family member you gotta phase back in.”

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it’s awesome how we have unlimited chances to become a better version of ourselves

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Text: The irritable bartender has hair of flaxen gold and skin that glows. An angel who's been banished but not quite disowned, accidentally smiting half the bar when annoyed, one extra bad night away from crossing the line.

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Imagine washing up on Dinotopia and getting a talk saying "unfortunately, you can't escape this island! You'll never go home or see your loved ones ever again" & then while you're crying they say "I'm sorry, you'll just have to live on the island of dinosaur communism for the rest of your life" and you look up through your bleary eyes and go. Wait what

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WTW PRESENTS OUR 49TH EVENT!

Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society. . . WelcomeToWriteblr calls this event the Summerween Sleepaway Camp Crawl! Over the course of 19 DAYS, participants will be tasked with completing 19 CHALLENGES, by the end of which they'll have added a minimum of 5K WORDS to their chosen WIP!

THE SERVER

You MUST be a member of the server to participate. You must also give yourself roles from the role menu when you join. We only require AGE and PRONOUNS. If you need any help, feel free to ping the mods! Please try and join before JULY 13TH. Anyone who joins a week late (JULY 20TH) will not be accepted into the event.

HOW IT WORKS

The leaderboard will be based upon the PERCENTAGE of how close you get to your word goal. Anyone who reaches their goal before the end of the month will be asked to increase it to make the crawl more fair for slower writers. The TOP 3 participants with the highest completed word goal, and who have completed the 19 BONUS CHALLNGES, will receive a prize of their choosing—whether it be a playlist, moodboard, banner, or graphics! Additional information is contained within the spreadsheet accessible within the server’s designated event channels.

GATHER 'ROUND THE CAMPIRE, JOIN OUR SERVER HERE!

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characters going “we were lovers once”: eh, it’s okay i guess. it’s nice enough

characters going “we were friends once”: absolutely devastating. one hit knockout i’m gone

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Fairy tales are the curse of the kingdom.

This is the order.

The first is the heir to the throne. At sixteen, they will prick their finger and sleep. They will sleep for a century and their parents will rule, long enough for them to awaken, to take the crown, to crumble into dust.

The kingdom has a ruler now, and they must stay, otherwise the roses will wrap tight again.

The heir will marry a mysterious person, either from the land or the sea, one after the other. The land spouse will appear at a party and dance until midnight, leaving a shoe. The sea spouse will walk out from the sea, leaving bloody footprints, silent despite the pain.

The order changes, but the kingdom always provides.

The first spouse will die, leaving the ruler with their child, with the flush of the roses in their cheeks and the darkness of slumber in their hair. The second spouse will appear and love them, except they are so very cruel.

There is always a pleasure to get rid of the stepparent after their safety crumbles to dust.

And it starts again.

The stages of life have happened again and again and again and again and again-

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the author's barely disguised open wound splattered livid and filthy across everything they create

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nobody talks about the hardest part of writing: resisting the urge to add "suddenly" before every dramatic moment

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Reblog if your art project has not, does not, and never will make use of generative ai at any point in your creative process.

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"don't let it bother you" first of all, everything bothers me

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hey man do you have anything i can swear blind loyalty to

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fanfiction writers when a character is remotely non-human

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Writing isn't the hobby. Being insane about little fake people is the hobby. Writing is just the only outlet i have for that

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for you and your warped reflection