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oh no, not masturbating to SEX

anything but that

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Some of y'all don’t want fandom to be fun at all you want it to be like some kind of gd AP Lit class where all we do is have pointed debates over the most Correct interpretation of media like NO get fucked I will project onto my favorite character and write whatever shitty nonsense fic for whatever illogical pairing I want die mad about it

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Sony after realizing that everyone loves Venom as an inter-species rom-com and marketing as a romantic comedy in the new trailer:

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writers: *intentionally write villain as sympathetic*

fans: *sympathize with villain*

the purity police on tumblr dot com: 

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Progress

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Tips for Writing Fight Scenes

Keep them short and fast paced. This will keep them exciting, especially if you use short sentences to establish the fight’s fast pace. Plus, it’s unrealistic to have characters fighting each other for too long. Fights are exhausting, so they usually only last a few minutes (note that this does not apply to battles, only fights between a fairly small number of characters).

Experiment with unconventional weapons when possible and, even if you don’t want to do that, at least have different characters use different weapons. Not everyone is likely to fight with their bare hands or a sword. Consider letting your characters use weapons that aren’t used as often in fiction such as battle axes or improvised weapons that are only limited by your imagination and the resources your characters have available. Of course, you should make sure the weapons your characters use suit the time period and setting. Your characters shouldn’t have access to things that haven’t been invented yet, so make sure you do your research if you’re writing historical fiction.

Don’t focus on people’s thoughts or have them talk too much. That should help you keep things fast paced.

Show the effects of characters’ injuries. For example, a character who has hurt their leg might avoid putting weight on it. Little details like this emphasize that the injured character’s safety is at stake while also letting the reader know that injuries have lasting, important consequences in your story. Don’t shy away from having other characters take advantage of these injuries. This is a great opportunity to show which characters are willing to fight dirty.

On that note, give your characters different fighting styles. Not everyone fights the same way. Some people fight dirty while others don’t. Also, people’s fighting styles naturally differ because they have different strengths and weaknesses. For example, an agile character might quickly dart in to hit their opponent before swiftly retreating while a slower, more bulky character might want to stay close to their opponent for the duration of the fight and overwhelm them with their strength. Keep in mind that characters’ emotions can alter their fighting style. This is especially true when characters get really mad as that tends to make them more likely to fight aggressively and recklessly.

Keep characters’ goals in mind. Characters don’t always want the same outcome from a fight. One character might want to kill their opponent (and therefore fights viciously, without any mercy) whereas the other character might just want to incapacitate their opponent by knocking them out (and therefore holds back to a degree). Possible goals include killing their opponent, incapacitating them, talking them down, and creating an opportunity to flee. These are by no means the only goals your characters might have while they’re fighting, but I figured I’d give you some food for thought since each of these goals would feasibly lead a character to behave in very different ways.

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AS A PILOT SEES THE WORLD......

A Lake in Pomerania, Poland

Amsterdam

Athens

Bac Son Valley, Vietnam

Barcelona

Bern

Cape Town

Central Park, New York City

Chicago

Dubai

Dubrovnik

Giza Pyramids, Egypt

Mali, Maldives

Mangroves in New Caledonia

Marina Bay, Dubai

Maze at Longleat, England

Meskendir Valley, Turkey

Mexico City

Moscow

Namib Desert, Namibia

Niagara Falls, U.S.A.

Paris

Rio de Janeiro

Seattle

Shanghai

Terraced Rice Fields, China

Tulip Fields, The Netherlands

Vancouver

Vatican City

Venice

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general techniques to avoid gross shipping of your characters

have most characters be non-minors, around the same age range. this is mostly to minimize underage nonsense.

while family relationships are important, save them as background elements, explored every now and then. focus mainly on the bonds of non-related characters and how their different backgrounds play off each other.

limit the overly edgy tone, where pain and suffering are near-romanticized. try to emphasize wholesomeness, health, and the various ways characters can have good relationships despite their differences. a lot of nintendo franchises are good examples.

avoid creating significant characters who are utterly irredeemable with harmful ethics. (for me personally, i limit elements such as abuse and discrimination for background conflicts while presenting more interesting, morally gray arguments, where either side is right/flawed) if you’re going to have a villain, either make them team rocket goofy or classic disney fun.

just. try not to have characters + relationships rely on racial tropes. if you overly rely on a tough dark-skinned / dainty light-skinned formula, you’re going to see some racist shipping. mix it up. round ‘em out.

same goes for gendered tropes. if a dude is downright violent and irresponsible and a level-headed girl has to put up with his flaws without him facing consequence, that’s a downright unbalanced relationship. and do keep in mind that if two boys utterly despise each other, people will absolutely take that a certain way. again, with #3, try to play off disdain as comedic or with exception rather than constant seething hatred.

obviously these aren’t hard and fast rules, and what/how you create will vary. but it’s how i generally approach my work

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Friends, how does one back up their Tumblr? Once upon a time we used Semagic during the great LJ Strikethrough of 2007, but will Semagic work for Tumblr? Is there a newer, better backup device? All suggestions are appreciated.

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source

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ppl changing their icons and urls at the same time

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Yahoo Graveyards

Geocities

Del.ico.us

Flickr

Tumblr

Vidders and fan artists both need to start pushing to own their own servers aka AO3 2.0

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The first time Stiles kills, it’s to protect Lydia from being gutted by the monster of the week. He numbly stares at the body for a long time, until someone guides him away, and then the shaking starts. It’s soon followed by puking his guts out, tears streaming down his face, and Scott has to drive him home.

Stiles has breakdown after breakdown at home, varying between crying, panic attacks, uncontrollable anger and the fear that his dad might arrest him when he finds out.

He spends his days holed up in his room, away from the pack, because he doesn’t want to know how they look at him now. He sees how they look at Peter, and he thinks he couldn’t stand being looked at like that.

On the third day Peter climbs through his window.

Stiles curls up small on his bed, in no condition to be mocked or made fun of because he can’t even stomach one measly murder.

But Peter sits down on the bed next to him, gently resting one hand on top of the sheets Stiles has buried himself under.

And then Peter starts to talk.

He talks about the first time he killed, acted as the left hand for Talia for the very first time. He confines in Stiles that he didn’t sleep for two days, couldn’t eat for even longer, weighed down by the knowledge of what he did.

He tells Stiles about the most inconsequential things that still remind him of the first time he killed, stupid, useless details he never got out of his head, even though he forgot so much during his coma.

And then he tells Stiles that it doesn’t necessarily get better, but that they learn to live with it. They learn to swallow around the lead in their stomachs and to close their eyes at night anyway.

When Stiles still stays silent, still remains unresponsive, Peter leans down and whispers his last secret to Stiles.

That when Stiles finally realizes that he did it to protect someone he loves, and when he accepts that he willl kill again for the people he loves, that’s the moment it stops being a burden and starts being a strenght.

Stiles starts sobbing uncontrollably for a while at that, Peter a steady presence at his side, but afterwards, he feels lighter.

It’s good to know that someone understands.

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because apparently this needs to be said AGAIN

in the most general aesthetic terms possible

1600s: most witch-hunts ended in this century. no witches were burned in North America; they were hanged or in one case pressed to death

1700s: the American Revolution. Marie Antoinette. the French Revolution. the crazy King George. most pirate movies

1800-1830: Jane Austen! Pride and Prejudice! those dresses where the waist is right under one’s boobs and men have a crapton of facial hair inside high collars

1830-1900: Victorian. Les Miserables is at the beginning, the Civil War is in the middle, and Dracula is at the end

1900-1920: Edwardian. Titanic, World War I, the Samantha books from American Girl, Art Nouveau

1920s: Great Gatsby. Jazz Age. Flappers and all that. most people get this right but IT IS NOT VICTORIAN. STUFF FROM THIS ERA IS NOT VICTORIAN. DO NOT CALL IT VICTORIAN OR LIST IT ON EBAY AS VICTORIAN. THAT HAPPENS SURPRISINGLY OFTEN GIVEN HOW STAGGERING THE VISUAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ERAS IS. also not 100 years ago yet, glamour.com “100 years of X” videos. you’re lazy, glamour.com. you’re lazy and I demand my late Edwardian styles

I just saw people referencing witch burning and Marie Antoinette on a post about something happening in 1878. 1878. when there were like trains and flush toilets and early plastic and stuff. if you guys learn nothing else about history, you should at least have vague mental images for each era

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you: sweater weather me, an intellectual: seasonal depression