#tpw edit

[henwilsons]

— the drowning faith, r.f. kuang (2020)

[sortahealingbookowl]

"Fire: the heat in your blood on the midst of a fight, the kinetic energy that makes your heart beat faster." Jiang tapped his chest.

"Water: the flowing of force from your muscles to your target, from the earth up through your waist, into your arms. Air: the breath you draw that keeps you alive. Earth: how you stay rooted to the ground, how you derive energy from the way you position yourself against the floor. And metal, for the weapons you wield. A good martial artist will possess all five of these in balance. If you can control each of these with equal skill, you will be unstoppable."

"How do I know if I've got control of them?"

He scratched a spot behind his ears. "Good question. I'm not actually sure."

[audif1]

I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.

[novaae]

the girl from the south

[iiowaw]

“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”

[nidstiniens]

miqo boy ear wiggles, you agree.

[adamsrcnan]

- the young marshal

(a playlist for Yin Nezha, the dragon warlord's son)

[LINK]

[witchqueenofthemoon]

That feeling when you finish writing the book you’ve been working on for three years, where do you put that feeling

[thestars-inheaven]

Currently making this edit up in my mind and crying

the day i see an edit of altan to "you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me" in reference to shiro's lab i will die on the spot

[platonicau]

the sneak peek illustrations from that tpw special edition that rf kuang posted on her instagram story a few days ago r living in my mind rent free..

some blurry screenshots of them under the cut !

[ziangjiya]

⭒ about me ⭒

⭒ they/any pronouns

⭒ lesbian

⭒ seventeen

⭒ capricorn

⭒ aus 🇦🇺

interests/likes ⭒

⭒ media: the poppy war trilogy, madoka magica, afk arena, great pretender, death note, lotr, merlin, ons:ca16, fma/b, tomodachi life, acnl,

⭒ hobbies: writing, drawing, reading, conlangs

⭒ characters: jiang ziya (tpw), guren ichinose (ons), stephen gevanni (dn), halle lidner (dn) hanelai (tpw), su daji (tpw), fawkes (afka)

⭒ ships: gureshin, haneziya(?), lidvanni,

⭒ misc: music idk, ,

music ⭒

⭒ hozier!!, fiona apple, mitski, ethel cain, the crane wives, billie eilish, otyken, mj, muse, del amitri, iniko, phoebe bridgers

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will edit over time

thanks!

[henwilsons]

@lgbtqcreators creator challenge: literature, media from asia, gradient, magenta

he loves her. of this he’s certain. he loves her laugh; that sharp, sudden sound; the cynical laugh that always comes too quick, like it’s ripped out of her. he loves her quick, confident grin. he loves her resilience, her bravery, even her impulsiveness. she’s everything he’s not: unbound, reckless, free. he’s never known anyone like her. she terrifies him, and he loves her so much it hurts.

[sortahealingbookowl]

When Altan moved, his fiery wings swirled and dipped as a reflection of him, sweeping indiscriminately across the flotilla and setting things freshly aflame.

It made sense, she thought wildly, that the Cike became living manifestations of their gods.

When Jiang had taught her to access the Pantheon, he had only ever taught her to kneel before the deities.

But the Cike pulled them down with them back into the world of mortals, and when they did, they were destructive and chaotic and terrible. When the shamans of the Cike prayed, they were not requesting that the gods do things for them so much as they were begging the gods to act through them; when they opened their minds to the heavens they became vessels for their chosen deities to inhabit.

The more Altan moved, the brighter he burned, as if the Phoenix itself were slowly burning through him to breach the divide between the world of dreaming and the material world.

[capesse]

hi im esse, i am one of the many who exodused following quotevs ultimate nerf. you might know me as user infinitives from q, or if you are from dark times, favonius-captain on my genshin tumblr writing account. i was apart of cni, and can occasionally produce friction between 2 braincells

edit: tags you should filter if you don't want spoilers

: bg3 spoilers

: baru cormorant spoilers

: tpw spoilers <- ( the poppy war )

[hyumjim]

fic writer asks: 💞 and 🎈 and 💫 !

💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language

I think.... maybe as both a writer and a reader, the most important thing is the use of language itself... on a technical and on a figurative level. as a reader, I will literally stop reading from the first sentence if the style is not for me lol! and as a writer, when I am able to express ideas in a particularly novel or exciting way, that's very satisfying for me :-)

of course, characters and plot are important too, especially for longer-form works. but language is the most important when it comes to keeping my interest, personally, especially at the start.

🎈describe your style as a writer; is it fixed? does it change?

it definitely changes, even if only subtly! especially when I read novels, I often feel like I end up cribbing from the style of whoever I'm reading... as for how I'd describe my own style, I think that's a very difficult question, because it's really personal, right? It's like being asked to describe your own face... but something that's been reflected back to me is that my stories are very dialogue-heavy, and the dialogue itself is very naturalistic (like a lot of "um"s and "uh"s and so on). other than that, I am addicted to semicolons and em dashes and parentheses and I am a fan of the rhetorical device known as "humor"....

✨What's a fic you've posted you wish you could breathe life into again and have people talking about it? (or simply a fic you wish got more credit)

Since I already talked about TPW, Where There's Smoke / Exile series, for anyone who can stomach reading about teens going through conversion therapy, is kind of my favorite child out of my published works so far, and was recently updated :) <3 It is a big outlier because it's my foray into sort of "young adult series" type writing, which I did not realize until relatively recently that I really enjoy doing!! Maybe I could make a small amount of money someday as a young adult author and also get cancelled on Twitter... dream big, right?

EDIT lmao i read the last one as the wrong emoji somehow dbfjhjhfbs well u get me...

[audif1]

He loves her laugh; that sharp, sudden sound; the cynical laugh that always comes too quick, like it’s ripped out of her. He loves her quick, confident grin. He loves her resilience, her bravery, even her impulsiveness. She’s everything he’s not: unbound, reckless, free. He’s never known anyone like her. She terrifies him, and he loves her so much it hurts.