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[kiryuing]

[samgiddings]

@staff @support @engineering @music @books

Have you ever considered this is a really stupid layout to have when there’s no way to easily get your account back if you accidentally hit the wrong button???

[iknownowmerlin]

[mesopelagos]

various flavors of mettatenna

[rheas-chaos-anthology]

Questions to ask beta readers

General:

Were you confused at any point of the story?

What genre would you say this book is?

When did you put the story down?

Is the ending satisfying?

If you had to cut 3 scenes what would they be?

When did you feel like the story really began?

What was the last book you read before this story?

Characters:

Do you get any of the characters names confused?

Which character is your favorite?

If you had to remove a character who would you and why? (you don't have to remove the character, just make sure their role is meaningful)

Which character do you relate to the most?

Which character do you relate to the least?

Do the characters feel real?

Are character relationships believable?

Are the goals clear and influence the plot?

Are the characters distinct (voice, motivations, etc)

Setting:

Which setting was clearest to you?

Which setting was the most memorable?

Am including enough/too much detail?

Plot and conflict:

Are the internal and external conflicts well defined for the main characters?

Are the internal conflicts and the external conflicts organic and believable?

Are there enough stakes?

Are the plot twists believable but still unexpected?

[roach-meat-art]

i present to you: a doodle

[elbdot]

LMAO SURE THING, HERE YOU GO! Please use responsibly, thank u 😌

[fratercrucis]

if someone is being mean to sam winchester then this is what I do

[gravitatives]

.ೃ࿐ overlay dump ༉‧₊˚.

♡ ˚   ︶   all of these have been slightly recolored , but none r mine !!!

︵︵ f2u , do not credit me

︵︵ send ask 4 credit /removal

[5ummit]

[leucanella]

WHEN YOUR NOT-BOYFRIEND IS SO FUCKING TALL

[pixel-is-blooming]

OH BOY WELCOME TO MY TERRITORY I HAVE A LIBRARY.

*cough*

here are a few of my recs under the line.

The Arrangement - @goddessofroyalty

[One Piece] Sanji’s method of dealing with his heats to date has been to find an alpha willing to help him out. His options are a little more limited now he’s joined the Strawhats.

three years, three rules - aminami (@akihmorn )

[Persona] “The truth is, I hate all alphas,” he stares at Akira coldly. “And that includes you.”

Three years after getting married, Akira and Goro face an unexpected challenge.

a fish hook. an open eye. / nails (on fingers, in coffins) - @mistresseast

[Persona] “According to his biometric readings—” Futaba sucks in a breath through her teeth, “—Joker is in rut.”

The thieves rustle in surprise and Goro feels his jaw go slack.

The Mast of the Redeemer - @somanyjacks

[Persona] Akechi is an omega pretending to be an alpha, and Ren Amamiya is an alpha masquerading as a beta. When Akechi's heat finally betrays him, his sworn rival/temporary teammate is all too happy to pick up the pieces. But who is using whom? And will Akechi ever escape the torturous grasp of the trickster god in his mind?

and on toward the edge of night - @j-plash

[Critical Role - Bells Hells] Ashton would love every fucking alpha in Jrusar to take a long walk off a fucking cliff.

Orym just knows it's not right that Dorian has to be so careful walking down the street at night.

("There you go, sweetheart, keep breathing for me.” Ashton doesn’t think he could stop breathing that in if he tried.)

feverish, burning up inside / burning out, helpless - @ivelostmyspectacles

[Critical Role - Mighty Nein] Even hailing from the circus, nesting in a wagon on the side of the road is not Mollymauk's idea of a good way to handle being in heat.

So, naturally, he's going to do his best to make sure Caleb is well looked after when it happens to him.

aka the omega/omega Widomauk fic no one asked for

Filling the Hourglass - i do (makkachincrossing)

[Critical Role - Mighty Nein] Every 25 years, omega Drows enter their period of fertility. The time is rapidly approaching for Essek as summer only grows hotter, and his husband grows older with no way to stop it.

But he hopes Caleb can leave a piece of himself behind.

Synced To You - TuppingLiberty (@animalasaysrauer )

[Star Wars Sequels] Canonverse but Omegaverse: Though everyone can choose whomever they want as mate, your one true mate, the mate with which you 'sync', is your one best match in the entire galaxy. Poe recognizes Finn as his sync-mate immediately, but Finn is reluctant - extremely.

Chapter 3 and various chapters thereon are explicit.

This fic is now in epilogue-mode. Everything after Chapter 13 is epilogue. I will come back to it as it pleases me, which, right now, is often. :D

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I hope this helps start your library.

If anyone told me a year ago that i would honest to the gods be unironically enjoying a/b/o i would have shot them. And yet here we are.

[khaotunq]

i fixed some dialogue, idk

[rheas-chaos-anthology]

Create your characters voice

Write one to ten pages (I usually do 5 for major character, 1 or 2 for side characters) as your character. Anything they would say, opinions, diary entries, complaining, etc.

Ooooh I have collected some helpful things to maybe include:

adopting slang from people they are close too/love interest

do they have a raspy voice? High pitched? Overly sweet? Commanding? Figure that out.

to make characters have their own voice vary rhythm, word choice, use of profanity, how much they talk about themselves or others, their politics.

Take some dialogue and ask if readers would be able to tell who is speaking with no context.

Write an AITA post from their point of view.

Identify what role your character has, a leader? a follower? a disrupter? a rebel? an antagonist? a peacemaker? How does that change the way they speak?

The character traits will tell you what your characters will say or how they will say it.

[616witch]

It is not the sun rising, but our sins.

[tea-cat-arts]

Sometimes I wonder what Jiang Cheng could've become if his parents didn't instill a mix of "crippling fear of failure" and "impossibly high standards" in him. Cuz like, his dad was holding him to the vague standard of being as good as wwx, his mom yelling at him whenever he goofed around like wwx, and then both of them expressed disappointment when he's less successful than wwx. The thing both of them seem to ignore though is that wwx got where he is entirely because he had the freedom to fuck around and find out- he trained tirelessly because he made training fun for himself, he was innovative as a cultivators because he experimented and persisted through failures, and he was able to act in line with the Jiang clan moto because his actions had less political pull than members of the main family. Jiang Cheng on the other hand- if he fucked around he got told to "stop stooping to the level of servants." If his achievements were lesser than wwx's, he got either dismissed by his dad or yelled at by his mom to try harder. And if he picked fights with the Wens, they'd have an excuse to destroy his clan. Like ya- no shit that'd create an adult who's terrified of failure.

The kite game serves as such a good metaphor/embodiment of this set back- with Jiang Cheng never being able to shoot as far as Wei Wuxian because he pulls back and shoots closer the second he misses.

And its sad too because he's shown to be pretty brilliant when he's in "fuck it, we ball" mode. Like, when he's not freezing up, he manages to pull off things like rebuilding his entire clan from the ground up, leading armies and taking back territories from the Wens, and I'm fairly sure he's the only character we see counter the Lan music cultivation techniques (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on that last one. Also feel free to add any of the other cool shit he did that I'm blanking on at the moment, cuz I know I'm forgetting something).

That being said- even with his anxiety, he's still one of the top cultivators. Imagine what a force of nature he'd be if he could sustain "fuck it we ball" mode