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i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror

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kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

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Presenting to you my writing cycle

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out of boredom i decided to scan a stuffed shark. here are the results.

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Add realism to your fantasy stories by having characters from different backgrounds struggle to pronounce each others' names.

"My name is [low guttural sound] but I don't want to hear you butcher it. So you may call me She Who Arises With The Cold Mountain Sun."

"...Is that what your name really means? All that in just one word?"

"Yes. If you stress the wrong syllable it comes out as 'She Who Coldly Wakes Up The Mountain Sun', or 'The Cold Woman Who Wakes The Mountain Sun', and you will not call me that."

"Oh, huh. Could we just call you Mountain Sun, for short?"

"Hmh. It's boastful, almost bordering on blasphemy, but it is flattering. I accept it."

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Part 4 of my favorite One Direction omegaverse fics as requested in this ask. A long rec because I love this trope! Please leave kudos and comments for the writers if you enjoy the fic! You can find my other fic recs here. Happy reading!

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

- Alpha Harry / Omega Louis -

🪢 Note to Self by @berzerkshires

(E, 42k) When he saw Harry for the first time in many years at the Euro finals, and Harry grabs Louis' hand, lacing their fingers abruptly to help him out of the way of a drunken fan. They immediately know.

🪢 Rogue omega by @loretheloner

(M, 38k) Louis is a rogue on the run from his birth pack, who want to kill him because he’s a male omega. A story about prejudice, prophecies, and rejection. Also a story about kindness, resilience and soulmates.

🪢 the evenness i fake by @shimmeringevil

(E, 26k) Harry doesn’t do relationships. He has a perfectly enjoyable friends-with-benefits agreement with a perfectly lovely omega, and he doesn’t see the need to change that anytime soon.

🪢 'cause I want you (for the worse and for the better) by nonsensedarling / @absoloutenonsense

(NR, 26k) When Louis gets invited along to Anne's wedding, Harry is prepared to let people think whatever they want about their relationship. That's what Louis said -- let people think whatever they want. 

🪢 On a starlit night by @lunarheslwt

(M, 24k) omega and future Luna Louis is holding a mating ceremony to find his mate, but what he doesn’t expect to see amongst the alphas vying for his hand, is a familiar, yet unexpected face: Harry Styles.

🪢 Behind Smoke Stained Curtains by @jaerie

(E, 19k) The worlds align when Louis meets an alpha from the road with as many secrets as he holds himself.

🪢 Too Young by @jaerie

(E, 18k) accidentally bonded as 8 and 10 year olds, Louis starts resenting Harry once they were old enough for him to realize what had been taken away from him and now they're roommates who fuck out of obligation

🪢 Captain Cupid by @2tiedships2

(NR, 15k) the one where Niall enlists his friends to help start a speed dating side hustle. Things don't go as planned... or maybe they do?

🪢 Fight For Us by @fallinglikethis

(E, 11k) one dark night, long after all of the other omegas in the pen have fallen asleep, biology comes calling for Louis.

🪢 Midnight by @kingsofeverything

(E, 10k) All Harry’d wanted to do was be a good neighbor. Now, here he is, half a year later, balls deep and four months into a no strings attached, sex only situation with the Omega of his dreams.

🪢 Behind closed doors by bluegreenish / @greenblueish

(E, 10k) the one where omega Louis finds a sock on alpha Harry's door handle that causes a big misunderstanding but is also the beginning of something new.

🪢 Harmony by @nouies

(E, 6k) When they get stuck together in an elevator, Harry scents Louis after nothing else works to bring him out of his panicked state.

🪢 The Way to My Heart by LadyAJ_13 / @ladyaj-13

(T, 6k) Louis' having a bit of a dry spell, until he bumps into an attractive alpha in the supermarket and leaves with his number. It was a hard bump. Very... muscular. The only problem is, said alpha asks Louis to cook for him - which is not exactly his skill set.

🪢 The Nestuary by @homosociallyyours

(T, 5k) Louis has never gotten the hang of nesting, so when she gets an Instagram ad for a nest building service, she worries it's too good to be true. It's not, fortunately. She's hooked.

- Alpha Louis / Omega Harry -

🪢 and i would search the night sky to find you by devilinmybrain / @thedevilinmybrain

(E, 56k) Harry Styles is a high class, well-bred Omega attending Bosworth Academy - a prestigious boarding school looking over the small town on Kinsey. He has his whole life already planned for him, learning his place as the potential mate for an important Alpha, practicing his home making skills, and be obedient above all else.

🪢 You're Not My Type (still I fall) by Imogenlee / @imogenleewriter

(M, 38k) This is just a bit of rain; it'll blow over. Then Harry will just... well, alright, he isn't entirely sure what to do when the rain stops because he'll still be stuck and lost. 

🪢 Not having a breakdown! (I’m just here for the kid.) by louisismycat / @liminalkittyfics

(E, 28k) Harry has to park outside his ex-husband’s (Louis) wedding so that he can whisk their kid away if a meltdown ensues during the day. Guests will not know this and will only see him parked outside, it cannot be stressed enough, his ex-husband’s wedding.

🪢 Runaway Bride by IceQueenRia

(E, 22k) Suffering an injury while coming to the rescue of some of the kingdom’s orphans, Harry is welcomed into the castle and finds himself face-to-face with Prince Louis himself, praying that he won’t be recognised as a member of royalty.

🪢 I'm Weaker Without You by The_Halcyonic_Lachesist / @chai-hat-tea

(T, 20k) Alpha Lord Louis Tomlinson is a rake who refuses to settle down. Will he settle down for the Society's most talked about Omega? 

🪢 tread lightly on my ground by fairytalelights / @lookslikefairytale

(E, 20k) the one where Harry is having Louis' baby, but Louis doesn't know it's his.

🪢 Lost But Won by @2tiedships2

(NR, 16k) When Harry loses his passport after a weekend trip to see Niall, the inconvenience of being stranded in America becomes a little more bearable after meeting Louis. Or a lot more bearable.

🪢 The Checkout by @silverstuff50

(E, 12k) Omega Harry is a bit obsessed with one of the workers at the small supermarket around the corner from his flat.

🪢 Court Wine by @enchantedlandcoffee , red_panda28 / @red-panda-28

(T, 7k) after a misunderstanding during a scrabble game, Alpha Louis starts courting Omega Harry without the latter being aware of it.

🪢 you give me feelings that i adore by @alwaysxlarrie

(T, 7k) 5 times Louis scents Harry's things and the 1 time Harry returns the gesture.

🪢 never just the tip by journeytothepast / @suckerforhome

(E, 6k) Harry believes alphas can't control themselves. Louis proves him wrong.

🪢 Good-Old Fashioned Lover Boy by not_fitzwilliam / @not-fitzwilliam-darcy

(NR, 5k) When a miscalculated decision leads to an accidental courtship with the sweetest, most gentle alpha, Harry is torn between breaking the alpha's heart and telling the truth. 

🪢 Timeless by babyhoneyhslt / @babyhoneyheslt

(G, 3k) After visiting an antiques shop, Harry gets transported through time, and discovers that he and Louis are Timeless.

- Nontraditional dynamics H/L -

🪢 feed a fever, starve a heart by @insightfulinsomniac

(E, 12k) Most people don’t find their soulmates before they present, especially since soulmate identification can only come through pheromones released after presentation. But if a first rut or heat begins without the person’s soulmate present, so does dangerous rut fever.

🪢 we could be enough by @hellolovers13

(M, 5k) Louis never imagined anyone could love him for who he truly is. Then he meets Harry.

🪢 Change of Plans by @haztobegood

(G, 2k) Harry and Louis plan to visit their families over Christmas. Sometimes, plans don't work out.

- Rare Pairs -

🪢 One (series) by @allwaswell16

(E, 6k, Louis/Tommy Shelby) When omega Louis Tomlinson becomes pregnant after an unexpected encounter, he decides his only option is to flee his pack. But Tommy Shelby, pack alpha of the Peaky Blinders, might not be willing to let him go so easily.

🪢 i tell myself i'm done with wicked games by haveufoundwhaturlookingfor / @sup3rbloom

(T, 5k, Louis/Michael Clifford) Omegaverse: Alpha Louis has never questioned who he is, a strong, loving Alpha who defies stereotypes. When he meets Michael, a beta, he certainly doesn't expect to fall for him (and hard).

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Writing is like caring for a tree. Your first draft is watering the seed, even when you can’t see what lies underneath the soil. Once you finish your first draft, you see a glimpse of green peeking above the surface. Each revise, each edit, each polish, your tree grows. Just like a seed, your story doesn’t grow into a tree overnight, but every time you work on it, every time you care for it, you’re cultivating something beautiful

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they were just normal guys but terrible terrible dancers

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one dream, one couch, one direction

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a comment a day keeps the insanity at bay

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Sherlock Holmes adaptation told entirely from the perspective of Watson's editor at the Strand, who is constantly one wrong word away from a breakdown because Watson will not stop submitting gay shit and it is 1882

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Another fantasy trope story:

A story where a prominent prophesy very clearly states that this specific important thing Must Be Done by the firstborn of one specific guy. So three young heroes head out to fix this: This Guy's official firstborn heir, his bastard he didn't even know about before getting married, and his unofficially adopted orphan kid who just started living with him at some point, who is the oldest of the three so technically speaking is still the one who was born first. And all three must go because while the meaning of the prophesy itself is very clear, it's an utter mystery to everyone which one of them counts as their father's firstborn.

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Tired of stories where the author worldbuilds a whole religion only to chicken out at the last moment by making the main character a skeptic. You mean to tell me that there’s all this richness in lore and culture, but you’ve trapped me with the one person in this society who doesn’t care about it? So bland. I could meet an agnostic easily enough by walking down the street, but your story is my one chance to hear the perspective of someone who follows whatever religion you’ve contrived. You made this whole world; convince me that your character really is from there.

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I haven’t been on tumblr for quite as long as a lot of people but over several years I’ve noticed this interesting gradual sorta,, shift in the general culture? that it went from this mostly depressed, nihilistic outlook where people would regularly joke about hating themselves and being hopeless and depressed, to a wave of vehemence of “STOP hating everything actually the world is Good and you deserve love!!!” type posts, to now, where those aggressive ‘PSAs’ have faded away and instead I regularly see people romanticizing simple things like stars and hot tea and rainy mornings, and waxing poetic about their friends, and just trying to put love out there. and I don’t know exactly what that means (someone who knows more than me could probably say something smart about generational expression and trauma or popular perception of mental health and whatnot), but I do know that it makes my heart very full to see people learn to love the world and themselves by extension, and a whole userbase adopting healthier coping mechanisms, and therefore teaching the younger users to do so as well. I might just be following different people, but I really do think we’ve grown. everyone has grown. five years ago it wasn’t unusual for the next post on my dash to be a scathing commentary on why nothing matters or an anon ripping into someone they barely knew or someone complaining about how pathetic their interests are. now I have mutuals who get excited and spam reblog art of cows and friends I see tagging each other in pictures of frogs and strangers writing paragraphs about how much I matter. it makes me happy. idk. just an observation I wanted to make. I think people are good and everyone’s just trying their best at the end of the day

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The Symbolism of Weather

Weather in stories is not just there to make your characters wet or sweaty or annoyingly cold. It means stuff, like, big emotional metaphory stuff. You can totally use it to say what your characters aren’t saying out loud, or to punch your readers in the face with vibes.

༄ Storms – Big messy chaos energy. Fights or maybe Panic. Something bad is either happening or about to, like the universe is yelling “brace yourself!”

༄ Rain – Sad tears or soul shower, take your pick. Sometimes it’s like, "boohoo everything sucks," but also kinda healing? Think of it like an emotional reset button.

༄ Sunshine – Happiness, duh. But also those moments where everything is finally clear and warm and safe, even if just for a second.

༄ Fog – No one knows what the hell is going on. Secrets, confusion, probably someone making a very questionable decision.

༄ Wind – Change is coming, dear. Restlessness in the air...Could be thrilling, could be terrifying. Hair will get messed up either way.

༄ Snow – Either magical winter wonderland vibes... or total emotional frostbite. Loneliness, silence, maybe death if you’re feeling extra dramatic.

༄ Heatwave – Everyone’s cranky and sweaty and one second away from snapping. Tension is so thick you could cut it with a popsicle stick.

༄ Thunder – Something (or someone) is pissed off. Like divine wrath, or just the universe doing a mic drop.

༄ Lightning – FLASH of truth. Insight. Or rage. Whatever it is, it’s fast and it changes everything.

༄ Clear Sky – The deep exhale after the chaos, like things are finally chill. Maybe even… hopeful?