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The Drowned Halls

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the concept and idea of “you can always start trying to be a better person” is extremely important to me both in media and irl and i continue to be deeply deeply disturbed by the trend on this site pushing that these ideas in media are bad writing or even morally reprehensible

because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person 

from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating

it’s fucked up. 

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Love them

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-I will be good. I will be good. I will be good. I will keep Seraph hidden, locked up in my chest, whatever it takes to make sure the Angels never get the weapon they made of me.-

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Benji from Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

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Finish the doomsday yaoi

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Weirdly Healing Things to Do When You’re Feeling Creatively Burned Out...

Write a fake 5-star Goodreads review of your WIP—as if you didn’t write it. Go ahead. Pretend you're a giddy reader who just discovered this masterpiece. Bonus: add emojis, chaotic metaphors, and all-caps screaming. It’s self-indulgent. It’s delusional. It’s delicious.

Give your main character a Pinterest board titled “Mentally Unstable but Aesthetic.” Include outfits, quotes, memes, cursed objects, and that one painting that haunts their dreams. This is not about logic. This is about ✨vibes.✨

Make a “deleted scenes” folder and write something that would never make it into the book. A crackfic. A “what if they were roommates” AU. The group chat from hell. This is your WIP’s blooper reel. Let it be silly, chaotic, or wildly off-brand.

Interview your villain like you’re Oprah. Ask the hard-hitting questions. “When did you know you were the drama?” “Do you regret the murder, or just the way you did it?” Bonus points if they lie to your face.

Host a fake awards show for your characters. Categories like “Most Likely to Die for Vibes,” “Worst Emotional Regulation,” “Himbo Energy Supreme,” or “Best Use of a Dramatic Exit.” Write their acceptance speeches. Yes, this counts as writing.

Write a breakup letter… to your inner critic. Be petty. Be dramatic. “Dear Self-Doubt, this isn’t working for me anymore. You bring nothing to the table but anxiety and bad vibes.” Rip it up. Burn it. Tape it to your mirror. Your call.

Create a “writing comfort kit” like you’re a cozy witch. A candle that smells like your WIP. A tea that your characters would drink. A playlist labeled “for writing when I’m one rejection email away from giving up.” This is a ritual now.

Design a fake movie poster or book cover like your story is already famous. Add star ratings, critic quotes, and some pretentious tagline like “One soul. One destiny. No chill.”

Write a scene you’re not ready to write—but just a rough, messy outline version. Not the polished thing. Just the raw emotion. The shape of it. Like sketching the bones of a future punch to the gut. You don’t have to make it perfect. Just open the door.

Let your story be bad on purpose for a day. Like, aggressively bad. Give everyone ridiculous names. Add an evil talking cat. Write a fight scene with laser swords and emotional damage. Just remind yourself that stories are meant to be played with, not feared.

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genuinely find it fascinating how much fantasy writing discussion/advice online is centered around the struggle of making a dndish/tolkien rip off fantasy world stand out and feel different than the others, and regularly comes to the conclusion that to succeed at this you should focus even harder on realistically detailing the cultures of the elves/humans/orcs/dwarves/whatever random group of fantasy races are hanging around (the thing most of these projects already massively focus on) in the hopes that yours is simply the most vivid and evocative ever, as opposed to, like, just writing anything else

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Peeta deserves more credit!!

I'm already going crazy at the thought of Peeta not being considered as "important" as the other three when considering the D12 victors, but I'll lose it if I see more people with the idea that Peeta did nothing for Katniss in the 74th Games

Excuse me? Pardon?

1-He literally came up with the star-crossed lovers look. Katniss might've had some other straws to grasp for to attract sponsors without it, but it's nowhere near close to what Peeta gave her. What if that burn cream she received was mostly from Capitol people digging the romance plot? What if she just got overshadowed by the other tributes in terms of sponsors? She might've sustained more permanent injuries or hell it might've even slowed her down in an attack and she could've died

2-Peeta literally saved her life amongst the tracker jacker attack, he forced her upwards and forced her to move when Cato was wildly thrashing around back there. Katniss literally says it herself "Peeta Mellark has just saved my life"

Also not to mention the bread from when they were kids?? Katniss might not even have been alive by the 74th games if not for Peeta's kindness and bread.

So quit saying Peeta was useless to Katniss. When he became hurt and injured, yes, Katniss did have to care for him, but she did it willingly. She did it out of care and wanting to repay her debts, because she knew this boy saved her.

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inner monologues of the hunger games characters: coriolanus snow: deranged insecure manipulative sociopath with every attachment issue ever haymitch abernathy: dork who happens to be charismatic and tends to switch between smart and stupid constantly katniss everdeen: autistic

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After reading Sunrise on the Reaping Katniss really is the perspective that would cause other characters to lose it if they could read her thoughts. Haymitch has to witness the Spark Notes version of their lives with Peeta footnotes every 2 pages while he has an encyclopedia of everything in his head. Gale has to deal with a girl “choosing” him while pining for some other guy’s arms and hoping to never kiss him again. Peeta has to deal with pages of a girl saying he’s all that’s good in the world, that she lusts after his eyelashes and arms, and in a different world a teenage pregnancy may have happened between them— all while refusing to give what they have a name.

Katniss Everdeen, narrator of all time.

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50th annual Hunger Games District 12 tributes.

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My problem with heterosexual romance novels (which I am reading under duress due to my coworker book club but find somewhat entertaining cuz they're not something I normally wld read) is that whenever the love interest is an asshole the author also makes him all dommy dom. when what I really want is for him to be thoroughly put in his place. All of these shithead Christian grey knockoff guys in these books would be excellent brat material but nobody cares what I want. Nobody cares what I want

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of all the iterations of the Damaged Character, i'm such a total sucker for what i call the longest con. yes! please! god! DO IT, make your ENTIRE LIFE into the world's most elaborate undercover operation, seal up every chink and crack and opening, make them ALL THINK you're evil and dissolute and louche [looks piercingly at Laurent VI of Vere]—make them fully believe you're just a shallow pretty playboy who might also be a sociopath [stares at Fei Du]—let the entire town be convinced you're an unhinged serial killer who's just too smart to get caught [gazes at Lee Dongsik and tries not to sob]. THEY'RE ALL WRONG ABOUT YOU, especially the ninnyhammer who to his complete horror is falling ineluctably in love with you, but DON'T DROP YOUR STORY, whatever you do, however tormented and devastated you are, because you're SO CLOSE to your revenge—

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Katniss *thinking about the Mockingjay pin*: Wow this was Madge’s aunt’s, what a precious and valuable family heirloom, it must have been special to her, I’ll treasure it forever.

Maysilee *thinking about the Mockingjay pin*: this bird is ugly and stupid I’m literally never going to wear this.

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We don’t talk enough about how fanfiction writers love to give character large amounts of non-specific paperwork they hate doing

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The biggest compliment ever is when someone sees your creative work and says that they’re now inspired to go out and create something, too