#Something that is normal to want :) And possible to achieve :)

[sthilarions]

Crystal, in an intensely mocking voice: Ooh, I’m Charles, I’m going to get a good grade in protecting my bESt MaTe, something that is normal to want and possible to achieve

Charles, with great offense: It is absolutely possible to achieve and I’m gonna do it, thank you very much, Crystal,

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Three weeks later

Crystal, in an intensely mocking voice: Ooh, I’m Charles, I’m going to get a good grade in loving Eeeeedwin, something that is normal to want and possible to achieve

Charles: You bloody well bet I am

[swifty-fox]

little beasts boys being normal in p6

“Two strange men fightin’ to the death over me today,” John recites, “I think it’s about any sort of thing you really fuckin’ want, and can’t – or shouldn’t – have. Seduction of need, or something like that.” 

The priest goes rigid, a muscle in his jaw feathering wildly. The side profile of him cuts an elegant view, narrow waist and lean shoulders and a face angular and soft in all the places it needed to be. His skin was pale, regardless of season. Too much time spent indoors, bent over his books and his pews, and over John’s desk, but it shows off the scattering of beauty marks that John had tongued over again and again. Fingers rasping over the tops, Gale flicks through the albums until he stops at a Grateful Dead album. He brushes over the painted rose, flips it to read the discography on the back.

“It wasn’t a come on, Gale,” John says, and then wobbles his head in self-correction, “mostly. I’m not just talking about sex.” 

His mouth feels a bit runaway from him at the moment, a horse given too much rein. He reels himself back in, just a bit. Shuts his mouth on any more words and taps a nervous rythm against the worn wood of the shelves, watching Gale slip the Dead record back into its home. He smells like incense, and vanilla aftershave. The real stuff, not the fake cloying sweet vanilla. Something a little rich and woody. 

“So then what is it you want?” Gale asks quietly. 

The air around them is suddenly thick, hard to breathe like it was laden with steam, or smoke. John has to inhale deep, exhale with intent. Watch the dustmotes dance around Gale’s hair like they understood their luck at being so close. Drink in the faint flex of his shoulderblades as he breathes, a gentle shifting of muscle against the stiff fabric of his shirt. What was it that John wanted? A list full of things, crammed to the margins with numbered desires; handwriting cramped to save as much space as possible. Things material and incorporeal, both achievable and little more than pipe dreams. Everything fom the most basic of simplicities up to problems so complex it hurt his head to think about. Things he was willing to admit to himself, and things he refused to admit he knew; because as soon as he did he knew he wouldn’t be able to keep it from invading his every waking moment. 

“Right now?” John asks, “Right now, I want to take you into the backroom and make you come down my throat.”

[awesome-cookies-and-cream]

shirosaki and momose's relationship is so funny to me. shirosaki is an airhead but has a very good sense of responsibility. so he sees this guy who he inspired and decided to take him in (and went absolutely extra especially after realizing how shit his previous boss was). Then there's momose who hasn't had a good relationship since his employment, he'd take any morsel of kindness and be a hundred times grateful for it to the point he doesn't just tolerate shirosaki's goofiness, he adores it (anything is better after his previous boss after all)

so now they're in a weird ??? is this what normal people do??? relationship

[troutsoup]

Against his better judgment, Gale spends a night with Astarion. Then he does it again.

Sanguine and its (recently finished) sequel Decathect, in one place for your reading convenience.

[belovedcarrion]

Every time I talk to Kim I hear 🎶don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious🎶 as I try to convince him that I absolutely know who I am

My name? Don't worry about it!

and I know what I'm doing

No I haven't questioned anyone or removed the body, why do you ask?

and that of course I have my badge!

[ritualslaughter]

honour mode on pause, endoscopy time

[captaintiny]

i am gonna try the instructions for 6-braid round challah this year tho. i will get a good grade in congregation baking

[pyjamac]

in terms of character writing (but also in general) im often thinking about types of smartness. i’m repeating something often said but i’m of the belief that the idea of intelligence is a grouping of a bunch of very different skills and talents all of which you have to have to be considered smart, and most people do not have every single one of these traits. but also even then i think that ideas like emotional intelligence and booksmartness are also too broad of categories in terms of writing characters at least. like for example sal is emotionally intelligent in that he is a really good communicator, generally charismatic, good at reading people and situations, has good self-regulation, but you would never say he is because he is not naturally empathetic, isn’t self-aware or introspective, is immature, has little forethought… i like to think about the ways characters are smart and why they are, sal has these skills for the same reason he could fix a car, he’s really systems-minded. he operates very well on the way things work and fit together, and social interaction is a machine which can be gamed to him. :•)

[remxedmoon]

f. five hours of sleep…

[pouroverpaloma]

Editing this chapter AGAin because I’m so worried my free and anonymous video game erotica is hamfisted in places

[fandomfairyuniverse]

Most people: don’t indulge the parasocial relationship

Jungkook: I’m going to indulge the parasocial relationship

[eowyntheavenger]

I got my performance review yesterday, and it was so GOOD! My supervisor said I've made a huge impact in the last six months, and "As expected, you're a fantastic analyst and writer"! (Which is why he made me sole author of my articles on the website!) He said the institute it really happy to have me. :) WHICH IS GOOD BECAUSE I'M SO HAPPY HERE

[poisonheadcrabsalesman]

Getting a good grade in harming people with words tonight

[wilsons-hotlittleprettyboymouth]

Real talk why does social interaction feel like you’re trying to get a good grade in being a person

[amazing--disgrace]

Sending all my mutuals a hug, a high-five, or ten psychic damage

[rags-n-bones]

13? :3

What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy?

I can't actually think of anything that is incredibly difficult. Intoxication, maybe? That might be a lack of personal experience with it, though. I don't drink or do drugs, so I don't know much about how it feels.

Easiest thing to write is things being creepy, and a sense of things being off in some way. Characters noticing things are a little too quiet, or just that something is off in some way.