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Flirting telepathically tonight so if you get nightmares its just me

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I was talking with my writing instructor on how it can be excruciating to put too much of yourself into a book and then have people read it, and she was like “I know exactly what you mean, I always have to tell my mother ‘this character isn’t based on you; their issues are not our issues, I promise.’”

and I was nodding along and going “yeah, yeah, totally” but what I’d meant was all the weird old man bdsm scenes.

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pausing torture to let the victim know i don’t personally get anything out of this sexually and if i did get off on torture they are nottt the one i would pick bc i find them kind of repulsive lol but anyway yeah i’m not like some kind of pervert this is old fashioned love of the game. you know you’re like kind of unresponsive and shitty to talk to. like i’m giving you information about my life this is a conversation. you should work on that it’s really unpleasant. Anyway so this one is called the “scavengers daughter”

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the problem w making up OCs is before you can get the rewards of shitposting about them you must first submit yourself to the mortifying ordeal of explaining who they are.

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standard oc development process

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what writing fic is always meant to feel like

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I think grabbing an angel's halo should feel like choking to them. That is the conduit of their power it should feel stifling, restricting, like something has been cut off! I want to run my finger along that blinding circle of light and watch their eyes shoot open in panic as they feel the tightness shoot across their whole body

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Character who doesn't get to die & character who doesn't get to live. Is that anything.

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hey sorry it's just that i don't think i'm very good at being a person. thanks for letting me try with you, anyway.

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“Living weapon” covers a lot and all of it is hot

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Stone, please, your boss is about to cause an international scandal

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if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.

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being obsessed with your own oc and you can only see them if you go in and take the screenshots or draw or write the fucking fic yourself there’s no search there’s nowhere else you can dig them out except from inside your own head

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Night’s Gaze, 2023 - oil on wooden panel. — Annie Stegg Gerard (American, b.1982)

https://www.gallerygerard.com/