#short natural styles

[iheartyaya]

It’s my month 😌 prepare to be in love with me

[sheabuttaqueen444]

𝑰𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚? 🌹

[belocc]

I can’t wait for my locs to grow out but I’m embracing it

[blujayonthewing]

can't decide what her other arm should be doing though 🤔

[toyastales]

Alexander McQueen Resort 2025

[mariocki]

Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)

"Come children, Uncle Alan's going to curdle your blood."

"Uncle Alan already does. Turns my stomach, too."

[pulquedeguayaba]

Sugubuns

[romanceyourdemons]

the thing about my fic is i want the different pov sections to be more or less balanced, but lestat talks SO much fucking more than tyler durden. i just burned 1000 words saying what tyler durden got through in fifty. because of course lestat has to express and justify his opinions on all the decor first

[fotos-art]

Caribbean Flamingos, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

© Claudio Contreras

NPL/Minden Pictures

Did you know that Caribbean flamingos, also known as American flamingos as we see them today, fly in groups called "flocks"? You can see them on the Yucatan Peninsula and in the Caribbean, where they are the largest of their species in the Americas. These birds are distinguished by their characteristic pink color, long necks and curved beaks. They live in marshes, estuaries and brackish coasts, where they eat shrimp and small crustaceans that give them their characteristic pink hue. They make short migrations in search of food, and you can also find them in the southeastern United States and South America.

[iheartyaya]

Me 2 seconds after crashing out

[nailsandinspo]

[pixiegirlcam]

[sheabuttaqueen444]

𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑶𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓 🧡

[artistryaffinity]

kangaroo wearing a short denim

[phoenixcatch7]

The thing I like about my writing is that I never write a story the same way twice. Everything I write demands a different flow.

For example, of the two stories I'm writing now, one wanted present tense (which I am, it turns out, terrible at) and lots of Internet slang/grammar, and the other one decided it had to be made of very short snippets, with one or two longer scenes forming naturally and lots of run on sentences. Both of them I originally tried in my 'more typical' style and both times it failed miserably to click until I scrapped it entirely and restarted.

Ironically enough, the present tense one I'd been intending to write in more episodic bursts, and the snippets one is the start of a long and twisting story delving into deeper themes than I ever have before. But that's the way they wanted to be written! It's more thinking on my behalf than I might have wanted (I am truly fighting my instinct for past tense), but in return I'm finding a rhythm and pattern that's working so well!

I guess the morale of the story is that if you've just started a story or art piece or whatever but it's just not working out, try approaching it from an unusual angle, something you haven't tried before. Something about it isn't clicking, so try a new method entirely!

But most importantly, have a folder somewhere you can move all the little bits and pieces you made but had to take out. It's old advice, but the problem is usually further back than you think. Doesn't mean you have to lose your progress.