#writing lyfe

[cielrouge]

Y'all I just finished my revision and turned it back to my agent. it took an extra 2 months to finish while working on it all summer but I am FREEE for now :')))

[thepatronsaintoffilth]

i learned today that bunnies like to mount to show dominance, not just for sex ... sometimes it won't even lead to sex ... aaaaaand now I'm thinking of what i wouldn't give to have a breedable thing just minding their business in our shared living space when I'm suddenly on top of them for no discernable reason. Not even in a hurry or pinning them with my hands, just ... climbing on top, letting them feel how heavy i am, the heat of my cunt pressed against their ass, my breath in their ear and on their neck, my chin propped up on the top of their head .... they're reading a book on the floor, now I'm over their shoulder, reading along with them as their focus gradually drifts from the words on the page

[guggi04]

Hey!!!!

GUESS WHO’S TREMBLING🫨😍

[hungerpunch]

mandate from god

[fandomsbyladymelodrama]

No pressure on this, but I wanted to ask if you'd like to tell me about one of/some of your favorite Christy scenes, and the things you like most about it/them? I can't singlehandedly revive the fandom on here, but it's such a joy to talk over this show with other fans!

I didn't realize until recently how thoroughly the Neil/Christy relationship informed my romantic preferences in all the media and writing I've done since watching it in my teens. Older, scholarly man/younger, determined woman, some kind of angst in the man's past, a need to change things for the better as an intrinsic part of the woman's character, a taboo element that stands in the way of the relationship... Even in the slash pairings I love so much, there's still so many elements of it!

Hey filmmakers, don't think we don't notice that you frame these two with Christy on a step/incline half the time to de-emphasize the height difference...

Oh my, oh my. Okay, first, let's be real. I've been waiting for an ask like this since 1994 (baby Tumblr wasn't even born yet 😂) so get ready for some major Neil/Christy feels that I've been suppressing but also diligently-tending-in-the-background for 30+/- years. THEY. ARE. PERFECT. Top-shelf OTP bottle, for sure. You understand, right? Of course, you do. We've discussed. But yeah, I feel the same way about this show/book/pairing influencing and informing both my writing style and romantic preferences in fiction over the years. Happy to admit it. Yes *raises hand* 1000 times yes. Hello, my name is ladymelodrama, and the fact that CBS so cruelly stole resolution for Neil/Christy from us forever (I'm not counting the PAX movies, I'm just not) is a crime against good television everywhere and will haunt my Christy-loving bones until I'm dead and buried in the ground deep enough so's the critter's can't find me, as Little Burl or Creed Allen would say. Anyway, you asked about Neil and Christy and favorite moments and since I can't just pick one...

I have a proposition to make :) Let's trade fave moments until we run out of them, maybe? No pressure, of course, but this is me mostly unwilling to commit to my Top 5 Scenes until I finish my rewatch, and even then I'll probably change my mind a couple times 😂 But here's one that I'll discuss in detail today and which I like to call the "Will This Do?" scene aka "and then they both smiled their little smiles at each other and lived happily ever after. The end." <3

(Credit to @heatherfield for this gif, and bless you, friend, for continuously shipping the same pairings as me - makes my gif-hunting so much easier haha <3)

So why do I love this scene so much? Oh, you know. Margret's dress. Objectively, it's gorgeous (the woman had style, even if she had no heart). And hey, it only coded Neil/Christy as endgame from the first episode, no big deal. Plus it was one of the softest moments in the whole show and THE WAY THEY SMILED AT EACH OTHER. Ugh. Soffffffft. I'm mean, you're seeing this too, right? ;) Meanwhile, I'm sure David is over here in the corner...doing what David does best XD Lurking. Always lurking.

(and, based on the pic I chose, maybe taking notes on how to have better chemistry with Christy? - "Dear Diary, Neil MacNeill is kinda the worst, have I mentioned?" 😂) But in all seriousness, what I love about that scene (and the exchange of smiles, in particular) is how there's an honest-to-goodness, my-spirit-just-spoke-to-your-spirit bit of humanity happening there. I die for those moments, little and quiet as they may be. It's just so...SOFT. They don't know each other yet. Not really. There's no romance at play (other than what I assume might be mutual physical attraction, even if Christy would never let herself go there. Not on her first days in the Cove) so it's more a budding friendship that we're seeing and friends-to-lovers is one of my favorite things? (Jorleesi, Jisbon, Siegfried/Audrey, Obidala, Red Cricket, Dickon/Mary much?). I also really enjoy when she comes down the stairs looking all pretty-in-lavender with her hair down (still lolling at your comment on that detail btw because...c'est vrai 😂) and "Oh no, David, it's so late...how will we ever get to Lufty Branch in time?" "Not we, Christy." (exactly, David, you're getting it). Too bad she has to spend all afternoon in this rustic cabin with a plaid-shirted, barrel-chested, brogue-speaking, moody mountain man with inside pain for dayssssss. Oh the everlasting horror XD

So yeah, so much to love about this scene (and the entire convo in the cabin afterwards and him plucking her from Theo prior to the whole dress thing - guy helps girl down from horse = I'm in love 😍). To witness the very beginning of their arc (okay, Part II of the beginning, but the doctor was busy with brain surgery during Part I, so you know what I mean) and to have the actors play it so, so beautifully and in an Appalachian setting that's just misty and magical and to die for all by itself... Mmmm *chef's kiss* Your turn, @darsynia <3

[halflife2dotnet]

hi plz help me if you can afford to? i have a medical appointment the day after tomorrow & nothing came in yesterday. plz im goddamn miserable & can't afford to miss it have enough for the appointment,

i need help paying for my HRT consult on the 29th & maybe the resulting prescription if that happens.. also being able to eat without getting sick would be great

you may know me cause i've recently spent months begging and trying to escape an extremely abusive & unsafe living situation without much luck, & trying to help my brother & 2yr old nephew not end up homeless.

i'm unable to work. fighting with chronic disability and my health is declining. like horribly. i'm having almost nonstop headaches and hallucinations, lights and distortions in my vision that are making it hard to read. it's hard to even do basic counting and getting harder to remember things and talk right. i'm fucking scared. i've been sick and it hasn't stopped getting worse for the past 4 years.

i have a doctor's appointment on the 22nd which i need 90 bucks to make sure i can pay for it. i also have a consultation for HRT on the 29th and that's.

stellar.

what's more is i was recently fucked over and my food stamps were discontinued. if you know anything about my situation it's that i live with people who intentionally ONLY let me have food that makes my sickness drastically worse and i can't go without eating either cause, i've almost ended up in the hospital from what happens if i don't eat anything at all for 2 days. but i'm also going to end up in the hospital if i keep eating the shit my family feeds me :')

at this point i feel like theres no hope of getting away from my family again. at the absolute least i'd like to finally be able to find out why i'm so sick after suffering for years and maybe find a way to make it hurt less.

rb's help a ton, but if anyone can afford to toss me any cash at all it would mean a lot. i really hate begging like this, but it's about the only way i'll even have a chance at making it to these appointments because my adopts are not selling :')

for those interested. you don't have to have a toyhouse account to buy my adopts, just be 18 years of age or older

[becausethathappens]

link: be chill about it. rhett: prof, if i have to be honest...

[killershrike]

I want to say to all writers or would be writers; we gotta stop comparing ourselves to other authors. Take inspiration, absolutely!!! I have taken sooo much inspiration from media in my fic Dark Suspension. Not just from books, movies, tv shows, songs, paintings, everything. I think it's absolutely so important to use the things that inspire you to create and not be afraid of "ripping off." Obviously if you copy and paste a whole paragraph and just change the names then maybe rework it a bit. But, personally, I see absolutely no problem in having direct inspirations. Yes I have a lot of original lines and things, but I also have reworked some of my favorite moments and lines into the story.

Two examples from me specifically:

• Cersei Lannister and Margaery Tyrell speaking together. "Gone, a gentle word, why not say slaughtered?" reworked into So-yin saying "Force, a gentle world, why not say slaughtered?" When Ghost tells her about "forcing" Bad Bloods to give up info.

• In The Terrfier 2 Art the Clown brutalized a victim and two of the ways is by snapping the victim's arm in half and tearing it off her, and another way is by tearing her hand apart so it rips down the middle. This was reworked into Ghost, tearing an arm off a corpse and snapping it in half to create a "knife" to throw at someone escaping. And then directly tearing a man's hand apart so it rips down the middle.

Someone could argue this isn't Changed enough, not Original enough, I disagree. This is where it comes to opinion and where I hope to help me and other writers or potential writers to feel some ease. I've been seeing a lot of people saying they're too scared to post their fics cause of people saying things like "copying too much," "too much description," and "too much dialogue." And really, at the end of the day, everyone is wrong. Even I am.

Art has always been subjective, but I feel like writing can be some of the most subjective of all. One person can read Homer's Odyssey, a literal world renowned classic, and say it's boring. Someone can read The Lord Of The Rings books and say they're stupid, even though it's arguably the most popular book series to date.

No matter who you are or how "good" or "bad" your work is, there will always be people who either love it or hate it or don't care. We have got to stop comparing ourselves and holding ourselves back from sharing the things we want to because of other people's stupid little "writing rules." Those dont exist.

You know what the only rule of writing is? You gotta write. To be a writer, you have to put words down somewhere. That's it. That's all. Whether it's me, you, or Stephen fucking King. We're all just silly Little Guys with thoughts in our head that we put down and share with other people because they mean something to us. Just because you aren't a published author and Stephen King is doesn't mean you're a worse writer, or shouldn't bother posting your stuff. He just had the opportunity, luck, or possibly both, to end up in a position as a famous and published author.

But even he didn't start that way. So many authors don't put their stories out as a way to get famous or attention, I definitely didn't. I use my story as a way to work through my own pain and hopefully come up with some fun and interesting ideas along away. I'm not saying one way is right, go for that bag if you want! Or just post your story for fun! Just don't feel like you can't post your writing or people will hate it or won't read it because these stupid "rules." Someone will read it. Even just one person. And you never know, maybe that one person could turn out to become a friend!

I've found so much happiness by posting my story and characters. Yes, I've received some hate, but the love and support I've gotten so outweigh that. Sometimes, I get caught up in the negative and the anxiety, but overall, I don't regret posting my writing and will continue to do so. I hope you can too!

[magicalgirlartist]

Happy last teacher AU Sunday for the next couple weeks, I'll be back in December

Summary: Picking up the pieces.

[beautyofsorrow]

for the Rare Pair Exchange 2023 i tried my hand at a couple new pairings:

B'Elanna/Kes in just give me trust and watch what'll happen for @trillscienceofficer, in which the grief & tumult of the events in "Before and After" and "Real Life" allow them to make an unexpected connection

and

Una/La'An in in my defense the truth has consequence for igrockspock, a 5-times food-as-love oriented 5k oneshot that spans La'An's first day at the Academy to the night after Una's trial and touches on all the messy, rewarding, tender, & circumstantially unrequited emotions in between

i really enjoyed the challenge of writing these and am pretty proud of the results. i have also accidentally given myself major L'Una brainrot, so if they strike your fancy, have a read!

both are rated T

[milflewis]

my fingers do not feel like my fingers do you think they're still mine

[cielrouge]

You know...perhaps one of these days I will actually be capable of writing a first draft that doesn't exceed 200K, so I don't have to like...delete an entire whole-ass novel in between when I'm trying to shave done the word count (clearly not the case for this new women's fiction WIP) but I am DONE for now!!!

[scoups4lyfe]

Tag 10 People You Want To Get To Know Better

Tagged by @killerandhealerqueen ; thnx <33

Three ships: Taro/Sonoi; George/Hiromi; and Ace/Keiwa/Neon cuz those are the three right off the top of my head rn

First ever ship: Jasmine and Aladdin LOOL

Last song/album is: TXT Temptation album; Farewell Neverland

Last movie: The Little Vampire

Currently reading: Dracula 🤪

Currently watching: Code Lyoko, Kamen Rider Geats, Avataro Sentai Donbrothers, Revice Juuga Spin-off

Last thing you wrote: literally was working on my middle-grade children's book, "Antony and the Witch"

What you’re writing right now: currently working on a lot of nonsense LOL. I'll even add excerpts because I can't help myself <33. Since I'm including excerpts I'm putting it below the line ;).

[1] Antony and the Witch -- mentioned this one above, its a middle-grade fantasy fiction novel following young vampire Antony after his family essentially send him away/abandon him, he ends up at Nothing and Nowhere where he meets the infamous Witch of rumors. But she isn't the kid-eating monster they depict her as. Soon Antony has to make the choice of choosing to betray the Witch to steal her magic wish-granting ruby, or to abandon his family as they did him. And maybe he'll learn the that the real treasure was the family he found along the way.

my favorite scene:

I have so much I love from my Antony and the Witch book even though its a WIP LOL. I could share tons but I'll cap it there 🤪.

[2]Babybirds & Bad Decisions

This is a Jason Todd gen fic that I'm working on, where Jason loses his memory even after being thrown in the lazarus pit, and therefore has no idea where to take Damien when Talia tells him to take Damien to "his father". It follows their journey together to Gotham and the process of finding out who the Batman is, in order to deliver Damien to him.

[3] My third WIP doesn't have a working title rn :P. It's a cross between the movie/short story 'the Black Telephone' and Revice.

Where, Ikki ends up getting kidnapped in-place of Daiji when he happens upon the serial killer and serial kidnapper "The Deadman" trying to take his brother.

The last thing I can say I'm definitively working on is a horror-romance Y/A novel titled ADAM -- following a boy named Adam as he moves to a new town, almost dies, and ends up cursed. Now it's a race against time to find a way to break the curse before the evil lurking within the town takes notice. Or at least, before it has a chance to go after him.

(This was a terrible description of the novel LOL....) I won't add an excerpt of that because we already have enough of those here 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪.

ANYWAYS

I know I'm supposed to tag 10 people but I'm both in lack of 10 people and in lack of the motivation to find 10 people, so I'll do the bare minimum and tag one person ;).

@indigoretsu

[allfortzu]

hi, melpomene-writes here. (i’m just reading other author’s works while i focus on myself before i get into writing again.)

MELPOMENE WRITES 🥹🫶 i hadn't actively started writing before you deactivated so we've never interacted much before, but im so happy to know that you're still around even if not writing -- i was just worried in general 😭 i hope everything is going well, that whatever it is you get through it, that youre enjoying yourself and reading good fics! thank you especially for curbing our worries when you didnt have to 😭💓

you write amazingly and with such care and nuance, if you ever get back into writing again i'll always be here 🫶

we love you and twice loves you 🌬💞

[hungerpunch]

happy munch gotcha day to me :') yeah i am making multiple posts, she deserves them.

the pictures on her shelter listing:

meeting her:

freedom ride + first night home:

after spay surgery:

decompressing from all the trauma she endured in her short life:

celebrating her second birthday (which we know):

munch now, a year of love, care, good food, and learning she's safe later:

<3 <3 <3

[fen--harel]

me, freaking out during laurence's fight: MY LUDWIG HOLY BLADE ISNT DOING ANY DAMAGE

me @ me: WHATS HOLIER THAN THE FIRST VICAR HIMSELF !??