#first climax of book

[panlight]

Twilight: Edward sucking the venom out was a NOBLE, HEROIC ACT that SAVED Bella form vampirism!! New Moon: Edward leaving was a NOBLE, HEROIC ATTEMPT to SAVE Bella from vampirism!

Eclipse: Jacob is acting Like That to TRY and SAVE Bella from vampirism! Breaking Dawn: Vampirism is great, actually.

[lizzibennet]

the thing about each pjo book is that each of them is uniquely the best in what it sets out to do. each is so monumental in what the story ends up amounting to, picking a favorite is almost like pointless. you could not have all 5 work so well if one was missing

[antis-hero]

A List of American Anti-Suffrage Literature/Articles (and Literature they Recommended):

Thoughts on Female Suffrage and in Vindication of Woman's True Rights by Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (1871)

Some of the Reasons Against Woman Suffrage by Francis Parkman (1883)

Why Women Do Not Want the Ballot: Sixty Essays compiled by the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women (1884-1903)

Woman and the Republic by Helen Kendrick Johnson (1897)

The Wrong and Peril of Woman Suffrage by James Monroe Buckley (1909)

The Remonstrance by the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women (January 1911-October 1920)

The Ladies' Battle by Molly Elliot Seawell (1911)

The Business of Being a Woman by Ida Minerva Tarbell (1912)

Anti-Suffrage: Ten Good Reasons by Grace Duffield Goodwin (1912)

The Unrest of Women by Edward Sandford Martin (1913)

The Ways of Woman by Ida Minerva Tarbell (1915)

Anti-Suffrage Essays by Massachusetts Women compiled by the Massachusetts Women's Anti-Suffrage Association (1916)

The Eden Sphinx by Annie Riley Hale (1916)

The Climax of Civilization, Socialism, and Feminism by Correa Moylan Walsh (1917)

The Woman Patriot (Vol. 1-2) by the Woman Patriot Publishing Company (April 1918-April 1919)

The Woman Patriot (Vol. 3-4) by the Woman Patriot Publishing Company (April 1919-December 1920)

The Woman Patriot (Vol. 5-7) by the Woman Patriot Publishing Company (January 1921-December 1923)

*Many of these were written by Northerners, whose perspective differed in some ways from Southerners.

[adrift-in-thyme]

Sometimes a book stays at its climax for waaaaaayyy too long

[curls-cat]

im reading c s lewis' space trilogy and i was not expecting the take "it is good and righteous for women to be bisexual" in there

[meadow-roses]

HOW DID FELIX LOSE HIS EYE???????

Let's just say it was an, unfortunate accident -twirls my cape around to conceal my dramatic exit-

[scribble-dee-vee]

Realizing that Act II of Lost Letters is SO FUCKIN LONG because I have hardwired my brain to write a four act structure. Despite my best efforts, it has been going thru mitosis and splitting into two discrete acts. Fml

[cwritesfiction]

Rain and eclipse!

💧Rain - What’s the most emotional scene you’ve ever written?

I don't think this counts as the "most" emotional scene but my first thought was the climax of No Illusions. I wouldn't necessarily call it an emotional moment for the characters (because they're too busy physically scrambling,) but it's an emotional moment for readers. Like, I hope when readers hit That Callback Line they start screaming "YES GIRL YES!!!!!!"

🌙 Eclipse - What’s the most common / reoccurring theme of your WIP(s)?

Feeling seen - since I've fallen into a rom-com niche, this is always what ends up bringing the characters together. Somehow, they make each other feel seen, whether it's because they're experiencing something similar or because they listen well.

WIP Weather Ask Game

[velvetbunniie-archive]

exposition dump!!!!

[waitineedaname]

the dashboard osmosis has zapped your blorbos into my subconscious bc despite not having read a word of svsss last night I dreamed about a musical adaptation of it. thought you should know. (the dream musical kind of slapped btw)

OH MY GOD??? that sounds incredible holy shit now all I can think about is which scenes would make good songs. this is amazing omg I'm so glad my dashboard osmosis powers were strong enough to do this to you

[druidics]

I will say the worst part of writing and being a planner is that sometimes you will revise the plot 5 billion times before you've written a word

[neonacidtrip]

[text ID: Black image with purple text showing the tags from Tumblr user lyriumrain. The tags read as follows: #i’ve been thinking a lot about how you really can just tell whatever story you want #there are components that your story *can* include if you want to #but you don’t have to #there’s a billion trillion stories out there #might as well tell the one you want to tell how you want to tell it. End ID]

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

[szkicel]

so like 2 days ago I finally read one of the comics I bought blind a while ago with comics that I was actually looking for.

anyway Rat Queens is just mid, if not below average. I wrote a rant/review about it but before i finished it I realised this title is just not worth it lmao

After I read it I only wanted to start reading Dungeon Meshi so I can read sth actually good tbh and maybe i’ll sit down to do it today kjhkjh

[webism]

prt one, prt three

pornstar!satoru who pays for a month of your onlyfans—for research purposes. he needs to find out who this boyfriend of yours is, and figure out a way to get rid of him.

pornstar!satoru who knew it was a long shot, that you might not even show him on your page at all. and of course he got distracted a few times whilst scrolling through your posts, dick rock solid and at attention with each new angle of you of his screen.

pornstar!satoru who, when he finds the more homemade stuff, he’s pathetically jealous of the man that frequents your bed so often. how big his hands look as they lay lovingly over your skin, how in love you look as you suck his cock, how well his tip hits your g-spot over and over and—of course he fucking knows him. a video of you on your back piques his attention, your man in between your legs and lapping at your needy pussy like he’s starved. satoru knows that long hair, that cheeky sexdrunk smile that pulls at his lips while he eats you out, he knows those purple fucking eyes that turn to glance at the camera.

of course it’s pornstar!suguru.

pornstar!satoru who suddenly has his cock out, languid strokes of his fist over his length is nothing to the memories of pornstar!suguru's lips wrapped around his length. who is so enthralled by the knowledge that both him and his former co-star have gotten to feel the flutter of your pussy around their cocks.

pornstar!satoru whos fingers are frantic as he searches for more of you together, and ends up spending way too much money on subscriptions just to watch you get fucked stupid on the same cock that he once did for a film a few years back. who wonders if you feel the same stretch with suguru as you did with him. if you were forced to choose, relationships be damned, who you'd say made you cum harder.

pornstar!satoru whos dick gets impossibly harder at the thought of you not choosing at all. who lets himself picture it, you spread out for both him and pornstar!suguru, your eyes wide at the prospect of taking both of them at once. how he'd take your mouth first, how with each thrust of suguru into your pussy would push you forward onto his cock. how he'd kiss your boyfriend breathless while they're both balls-deep inside of you.

pornstar!satoru who strokes himself along to a video of you riding pornstar!suguru. who times his orgasm just right with your shared one, who goes fucking blind for a moment with the way his climax washes over him. your noises, suguru's noises, the imagined smell of sweat in the air. he moans, a dirty mixture of your name and his, something embarrassing and still he remains steadfast in his lust.

pornstar!satoru who, because he respects himself at least a little, gives himself fifteen minutes for post nut clarity to set in. and when it doesn't, he's texting his agent in the dead of night and very firmly requesting to be booked again

with both of you.

pornstar!suguru who, upon having you home from a particularly tiring shoot, is doting on you with heart-shaped pupils. He's got you laying down with him on the couch, big hands working magic on your sore muscles.

pornstar!suguru who doesn't always ask for details about your shoots. he knows it's just work, hell, he's a pornstar himself, he doesn't need the raunchy details of your jobs to keep himself from spiralling. but something about today feels different. today, you seem uncharacteristically fucked out.

pornstar!suguru who is more than surprised when you're still rearing to get fucked silly that night. you groan about your shoot with a new pornstar, and how his touch is still lingering on your mind. and suguru laughs, because jealousy doesn't come easy to him-- if anything, knowing you're still in his bed at the end of the day just gets him even more worked up.

its when pornstar!suguru bottoms out inside of you, that shared gasp of ecstasy leaving both your lips that you mention how he asked you out for drinks after the shoot. you add on, of course, that you turned him down, but the comment still has your boyfriends interest piqued.

pornstar!suguru who, with a kiss to the corner of your lips and a gentle thrust into you, asks who this admirer of yours is. and just as the names about to leave your lips, his phone chimes on the bed with an email.

an offer. a threesome shoot: him, you, and a second male. it's the best paying shoot he's gotten in a long time. he hasnt quite scrolled down to see who the other talent was, so when you snatch his phone, legs still wrapped around his waist, he catches that smile on your lips. he catches the way you clench around him.

"that's him," you speak, such pretty words from your lips as you turn the screen to show him the name and headshot of pornstar!satoru.

and pornstar!suguru's dick gets impossibly harder.

tags: @meowforluv @p1xlesk1nn @ch3rryistheg @miizuzu @okayiamkassandra

PART THREE HERE!

[daisypath]

Just finished the outline for the final three chapters of this book. What a relief

[beguilingcorpse]

one of the genius things about the way gideon the ninth (and the locked tomb as a whole) is structured is the way that it continues to emphasize gideon as the pov character. we see the world through her eyes. we interact with characters only as much as she interacts with them. and when she blatantly misses things going on. she has no interest in the politics that are occurring and no basis for any of the existing relationships between the scions of the other houses. her priorities are (1) piss off harrow, (2) let the hot old sick girl flirt with her, and (3) sword. and that is mostly it!!

so especially during the third act, gideon - and by extension, the reader - is hit with WAVE AFTER WAVE of epic climaxes and denouements to plots that she literally was not aware were occurring. she stumbles into the aftermath of a bloody and lethal confrontation between teacher and the second house. she trips into babs’s murder and ianthe’s ascension into lyctorhood. she nearly ruins the crucial pull-back-the-curtain reveal between palamedes and cytherea because she literally tries to run into the middle of it to apologize because she didn’t know that she had been flirting with his almost-fiancée.

when you read the book for the first time, all of these things feel as overwhelming to you as they do to gideon. the uptight military commander is injured and the slightly less uptight military lieutenant is dead?? that prick with the quiff got cannibalized by his evil stick figure bully??? harry potter BLEW UP???

and then you go back to everything on reread, knowing the context for where things will eventually go, and go ohhhhh. all of the information was there the first time. you just never had any reason to care about it. it’s such a brilliant way to hide information in plain sight and play with an unwittingly unreliable narrator