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New York By Night S01E01 - Isaac Brooke

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*struggles while writing* i suck and writing is hard

*remembers some ppl use ai* i am a creative force. i am uncorrupted by theft and indolence. i am on a journey to excellence. it is my duty to keep taking joy in creating.

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discovered something terrible today. if you change plot elements early on in the story. later plot elements will be affected

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Posting on AO3 is like, I'm doing this for myself, but also immediately refreshing the page every 5 seconds to see if you get any hits comments or kudos. But totally only writing for me.

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New vampire chronicle!

The cast of NY by Night are getting together while waiting to film Season 3 and are filming a new vampire story with Alexander Ward as the storyteller! There will be bonus content on their Patreon, called Project Ghostlight, to reward the loyal fans who have waited so long. Ghostlight is named after the light kept on in theatres to keep the ghosts company when no-one else is there.

Joey Rassool, Aabria Iyengar, Mayanna Berrin, Xander Jeanneret, Gina DeVivo and Luis Carazo are all slated to play in this new series!

Project Ghostlight on Instagram

Project Ghostlight on Patreon

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why are people not more insane about wyllach. he jeopardized everything to protect her and he didn't even know her. Everyone tells her to endure hell a second time just to keep living but he's the only one who tells her he will go there with her. she is SO much taller than he is. can anyone hear me is this thing on

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Louisiana-based photographer Frank Relle captures the nighttime magic of New Orleans in his ongoing series New Orleans Nightscapes. He uses long exposures to capture the feeling of the powerful, haunting beauty throughout his hometown.

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This is the magic lucky word count. Reblog for creativity juice. It might even work, who knows.

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"he would not fucking say that" but about injuries. he would not fucking recover that quickly. those scars would not fucking heal like that. he would not be fucking able bodied after that. he would not be fully lucid after that.

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Everybody always talks about "oops the fic was longer than it was meant to be"

But shoutout to my fellow "can't/can rarely write a multichap/anything longer than 5k or so max, often way less" writers who just can't seen to stop their fic from being shorter than intended.

Anyway longform and shortform writing are different skillsets and while fandom often only cares about, appreciates, and praises the former, I always love you, fellow shorter fic writers. A drabble is a challenge, and not every story needs to be 30k+. Shorter fics are amazing.

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Great eared nightjar

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It's fanfiction it doesn't have to be perfect it doesn't have to be accurate this is a hobby you're doing this for fun it's okay if it isn't perfect and polished you're doing it for fun [talking to myself in the mirror]

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HMS Minerva rescuing the Jolly-boat, by John R Christian 24. 2. 2024

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fanfiction is so unbelievably stupid you’ll be like oh i want to write about some finctional dudes and suddenly you’re knee deep in two hundred year old inheritance laws

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people who let me wake up to this get a special place in heaven. firefly_fox how does it feel to hold my life in ur hands....

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i hope you write (i hope we both write)

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Being single forever and never experiencing romance is only sad for someone who actually wants to have those things.

When an aromantic person says they’ll be single forever, that’s not “sad.” That’s just a statement of what they want out of their life.

Imagine if I responded to someone calling their partner their other half with “that’s actually kind of sad. Are you saying you’re not a whole person on your own? Why would you want to be trapped with someone who makes you feel like you’re incomplete without them? Are you okay? Do you need help?” They would probably be annoyed with me and I can’t blame them. But that’s coming from the fact that they’re not viewing it the way I am; they’re actually happier with the person.

Personally, as an aromantic, I’ve never felt more broken than when I’ve tried to force myself to date and be alloromantic like everyone else. I would be miserable in a relationship no matter how healthy it was because I wouldn’t feel any of those feelings they’re feeling and I’d feel stuck either being honest and hurting them or playing the part for their sake and feeling even worse. And a major reason for all that is cause I don’t even actually want any of that. I’ve just also felt like I didn’t get a choice because before I discovered the aro community, as far as I could see, nobody was willing to entertain the idea of someone being single because they wanted to. You see characters in media that say “I don’t do romance” and they’re always paired up with someone in the end and always portrayed as happier for it. You see characters that actually stay single forever and they’re shown as having something so wrong with them nobody would willingly date them. You step outside of fiction and you talk to people and it’s never if you’ll get married, it’s always when. When you go to prom. When you have your first kiss. When you start dating. When you fall in love. When. When. When. Never if. Because god forbid we consider the possibility you won’t. God forbid we consider you might not even want to. And if they don’t, then we start dragging out the godforsaken yet. I don’t get crushes… yet. I don’t date… yet. I don’t want romance in my life… yet. When did you get your first crush? I’m 28. When will I be old enough for you to stop saying yet? And if this sounds romance negative, sorry, I’m just sharing how I’m feeling about it. But if you don’t want more aros as angry and sad about it all as me, maybe do us a favor and stop treating romance like something as inevitable as death and taxes.

I initially planned for this post to be way shorter but I don’t think I could find a shorter way to express the gravity of how insufferable it is to be told “that’s so sad” when I say I want to stay single. Cause if I’m being real, it isn’t fully comparable to any annoying thing I can say to an alloromantic. It won’t have the same weight. Throwing salt at someone’s face might lead to it getting in their eyes, but it won’t sting like it would if you did it to someone covered head to toe in paper cuts.

I don’t feel like I’m asking for much. Just entertain the notion that someone can be happy without a romantic partner. That being single, temporarily or for life, isn’t a sad fate.