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[domiej]

It’s over😭 my babies

Best manga I’ve read.

The slow burn was executed well, in my opinion, I’ve seen ppl complain about it but I was realistic and not fast but not extremely slow to the point where you feel like dropping.

The thing I liked most was yoon’s attitude. Eeevveryone seems to complain about it and she just didn’t care. And he liked her anyways. I think a lot of times we see FL be bubbly or easily dominated, or meek but she wasn’t. I love her stubborn hardheaded self.

Now it’s over and my heart is broken because I know I’ll never find anything like it.

I guess that’s the price of a good book.

[domiej]

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[domiej]

Cruelty

April 22

I use to write a lot

I don’t anymore, maybe I should

Writing to me now, is sore, it makes me tired. Tired because I never really get anywhere, it doesn’t go anywhere, it’s all just inward. It reverts back to me

Writing is an ache to me now, reaching out and never getting even the wind to blow past your hand. It’s just nothingness. An ache that has nowhere to go.

I keep thinking about my mother. She sits on the top of my head. I ask her the same things over and over again and I never get an answer because she never really ever speaks to me. She just sits there, on my brain, with no face and no hood explanation as to why it had to be like this.

I’m getting older and all I must do is bite so hard against my own teeth. Everyone’s finding love and creating families or even making stupid wrong decisions. And all I can think about is who I am.

Yes! Call it self pity, call it lazy and unprogressive but I can’t get over it.

My adoptive mother is getting old, she’s declining slowly. And other people might look to her with pity and sympathy but all I can look at her with is hate, is that wrong to say?

I wonder what joy you get out of lying to someone for so long. What joy you get out of deception.

I wonder how much hate you must have to lie to someone for so long and smile as if nothing is wrong.

Everyone deceived me, everyone who ever knew me, friends of family, family itself, regular people and now I must pretend like nothing is wrong.

My faith in peoples words are forever shaken. I now question everything about everyone and even myself.

I trust no one. No one at all. How did strangers have more right to my life then I did about myself?

My adoptive mom is sad because I don’t love her, I don’t. I don’t think I could ever love someone who found safety in cruelty.

[domiej]

Y’all I seen this on twitter and why does this make so much sense

[domiej]

[domiej]

I’m attracted to the deep poetic saddness in other people, it’s art, it’s tragically and slightly beautiful in a weird way

I don’t care about looks, I have no need for it

It’s the sadness I’m drawn too

[domiej]

I’m so very mad at my mom for having me

I’m so very mad at her for giving me away, this feeling is deadly, I want to be gone just to be rid of it.

I never fit in my adopted family, all I ever was was lonely. No matter where I was, who I stood around, I was lonely. I was lonely in my head and no matter how hard I cried, it never went away. I was always alone. No one EVER liked me.

It’s so alienating. It’s so odd, people will talk about being lonely but they have people the seem to love them. I was only ever tolerated. Why did she leave me here. Why would she do this to me.

What did I ever do.

[domiej]

Something I must get off my chest

Timebomb⏳

I wouldn’t go as far to say I’ll never ship these two together but I will say I just don’t care for them as a ship.

Sure, I get it, childhood friends to enemies, what a touching compelling story. But

I just always wonder why no one hold jinx accountable for murdering Ekko’s friends…..

You’ll get hit with all her issues and her bpd, as if we can’t argue that all these characters in Arcane have some sort of mental issue. Jinx isn’t the ONLY one with struggles.

Why does everyone write off the fact that jinx KILLED Ekko’s friends? Members of his formed family.

Everyone shrugs and says “they got in the way” but can’t the same thing be said for jinx and VI’s parents?? They “got in the enforcers way”?

The firelights (in my opinion) we’re the only ones with the right idea. They built a safe haven free from whatever was going on in Zaun, and tried to dismantle Silco’s corrupt system, while keeping distance from Piltover.

Yet his people died for it for what? Because Silco’s evil ass wanted him gone? And Jinx was the hit dog to do it.

I think it’s SO STRANGE how Vi is expected to hold Caitlyn accountable and the Zaunites can hate the Piltover citizens but Ekko shows restraint and distrust to the person who merked his friends and then he’s wrong?

I hate this fandom sometimes lmaoooo

I feel bad for the firelights, what a slap in the face

[domiej]

I wonder if I’ll ever be an author able to write anything worth reading

There are SO MANY books, written by so MANY people

How can I even compete in such a competitive field, am I even built for it

What is what I’m writing different from anyone else

To be talked about like one of the greatest, it’s impossible, I’m smart enough to know this but if I even get a sliver of recognition I’d be happy, like really happy.

[domiej]

My days are filled of absence

I don’t know what to do so I do nothing

I’m walking no where

Everything bores me, I bore myself

So bored and uninterested all I think about is my next life

[domiej]

It’s march 12th 2025

Why do I STILL miss him? Anyone brings up one direction in a slight mere reference and my heart hurts all over again

I will grieve this loss for a long long time, it doesn’t make sense

Liam? Our Liam?

It’s not like listening to the music will bring us back to him but damn it feels so close

Damn, Liam?

It doesn’t even feel right saying one direction anymore.

Walking in the wind

Long way down

Night changes

Fireproof, I listen to them because I want to cry because it doesn’t make sense

Liam was no saint, clearly obviously, I can admit that, he had his flaws, but we can still grieve him.

I can be 20 and still think about being 12 sat up until 6 am in the morning with my sister I didn’t get along with because the only thing that we didn’t fight over was the 1D video diaries and we’d sit there for hourssss and we lost ours of our summer to fanfics on wattpad.

Liam I still miss you

[domiej]

Thank you

You’ve been gone for a year.

I found this series at 6 and I’ve been bound to it every since.

The first series I’ve ever indulged it, I wanted to LIVE in this world, y’all don’t understand.

The first stories I remember writing were derived from dragon ball.

Your influence has lasted in my mind for 14 years. Thank you

Thank you thank you thank you, for my favorite series ever

Rest In Peace Akira

[domiej]

Happy March sweet Babies

Your not who you were yesterday, your so much brighter

The spring equinox is in 20 days

Get up

[domiej]

I still miss him

Is that so wrong

[domiej]

[domiej]

I think I’ve kinda reach this point in my life where it’s inevitable I’ll just have to be way I am

Since I was young, battling feelings of such heavy shame and loneliness and seeing life through this lense I couldn’t quite explain.

Im not an evil person, I truly think that. I do have good parents in me, the parts that charish genuine conversation and a strong urge to protect kids and animals, because they’re truly innocent, and the world hates those things. i don’t mean to be mean. I don’t enjoy being mean to ppl that don’t deserve it.

But being deliberately mean to ppl that deserve it does make me kinda happy.

Avoiding people and being all by myself is the only way I can be quiet. I crave attention but I just can’t be normal around other people. Everything is worrying if im fitting in, if im being looked at weird, how they REALLY genuinely feel about me. In my head the notion that no one genuinely likes me will never go away.

Having to mask. I feel constantly like I’m playing some part in some play that I hate. But I act anyways. And I perform on a rigorous stage and the lights hurt my eyes, and I don’t actually look into the crowd ever, I just preform and I hate every second of it.

[domiej]

Writing Notes: Compelling Characters

Characters & Goals

“Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.” –Kurt Vonnegut

Characters should almost always have clear goals, even if these goals are not immediately made obvious to the reader.

Without goals, characters lack motivation—that is, they have little reason to do anything interesting.

For this reason, many writers connect the main character's goals to the main conflict in the story. This generally means that the main obstacle to those goals plays a key role in the plot as well (for instance, in the form of a villain).

Often, the main character is most interesting and when confronting his own shortcomings in pursuit of his goals.

There are a few ways to construct this character-plot connection:

CHARACTER-FIRST APPROACH

Constructs a story’s plot for a character that already exists.

It asks a writer to build a character that they find interesting and then assemble the plot around them.

Example: A character who is struggling to overcome a phobia might, as a plot element, come into contact with the thing she fears. Success in this instance would mean that she doesn’t let the fear overcome her.

PLOT-FIRST APPROACH

Starts by defining the major conflicts the writer wants to include in a piece of fiction and then builds a character who will be motivated by those conflicts.

Example: A writer could decide to explore the effect of a catastrophic storm on a city before writing a main character. A character that would feel motivated by this conflict would be one with a connection to the city or to someone living in the city. Therefore, the son of someone who went missing in the storm would likely be a good focal character for this story.

Small Goals & Big Goals

Though it’s important for characters to have at least one big goal, it can be boring for the reader if a character is totally preoccupied with a single motivation.

Strong characters generally have two or more goals of varying sizes that they might confront separately or at the same time.

The reader excitedly anticipates your character's success or failure in achieving their goals.

Believability

Another factor that can contribute to a successful character is an element called “verisimilitude,” also called “believability.”

When writers talk about believability, they talk about whether the constituent parts of a character make sense and feel cohesive.

Example: We might expect a character who gets paid minimum wage to struggle to pay her bills, so if we see her driving an expensive car or spending several hundred dollars on a meal at a fancy restaurant, we would question these details.

There are, of course, stories in which these situations could exist, but the reader would need to know what allowed them to happen (inheritance from a late relative, perhaps, or an irresponsible approach to personal debt).

Suspension of Disbelief

Stories that take place outside of a realistic modern setting will generally require some extra work on the part of the writer to make them believable.

This is because of an idea called “suspension of disbelief.”

This refers to the tendency of readers to challenge details of a story that seem out-of-place, but not to question those details if they are presented with enough contextual justification.

Example: A story contains people who can fly with human-size wings. The reader would need to learn early on that this is a normal event that occurs in the story world. A reader who unexpectedly encounters flying humans three-fourths of the way into a short story could easily be baffled by this development, and might also consider it a cheap cop-out if it's used to resolve a plot conflict.

Adding Physical Detail

In addition to planning your characters thoughtfully, you must also sketch them coherently on the page.

Careful selection of physical and environmental details will make some of your character’s traits visible to your reader without you having to tell them outright what you mean. Examples:

A character who is disorganized might have wrinkled clothing or might consistently arrive late to appointments.

An introverted character might bring a book or notebook everywhere they go and might also stay out of crowded spaces (or feel uncomfortable in those spaces).

Symbolic Meanings

Be aware of the other meanings that a detail can bring into a piece.

A physical detail, especially one that appears multiple times within a work, might also develop symbolic meanings in addition to its literal meaning.

Writing Exercise

In a short vignette, and using only physical details (e.g., characters' clothing, appearance, or body language), make it clear to a reader that a character is experiencing one of the following conditions: worry, hunger, grief, joy, confusion, lack of sleep, anxiety, homesickness.

The word you chose should not appear in your vignette, nor should any synonyms.

Adding Personality

Broadly, “personality” refers to the collection of beliefs, thought patterns, and other mental qualities that dictate a character’s actions.

A personality trait could be the character’s bubbly disposition, their self-deprecating humor, or the fact that they’re always nervous.

When constructing a character, it’s important to think about how she would react in a number of situations.

Here are some questions to help you discover your character’s personality traits:

Is he fond of attention, or does he avoid it?

Is she curious to learn more about a topic/location/person, or does she keep to herself?

How big of a role does fear play in his day-to-day activities?

How does this character react if things don’t go the way she wants them to?

Does he think that he’s more intelligent/less intelligent than others around him?

Does she think she’s average? How would she define “average?”

How does he feel about making decisions?

Does she make decisions quickly or slowly?

Does he tend to regret decisions they’ve made?

It’s helpful to connect these traits to elements from the character’s life or past.

Example: A character who grew up with a controlling parent might have difficulty making decisions once they start living on their own.

Personality traits might also overlap with physical traits.

Example: Talking too loudly or too softly or interrupting others.

It’s also important to make sure that your characters aren’t good at everything they come across.

Doing so will reduce your story’s believability because—let’s face it—no one is good at everything.

To this end, you should allow your characters to fail at something, whether that something is huge or inconsequential.

Writing Exercise

In a short vignette, deliver some news to your character.

The news can be good or bad.

It can affect just the character, or the entire world population, or any number of people in between.

How does this character react?

Who do they tell, if anyone?

How do they interact with the space they’re in (e.g. punch a wall, hug a stranger)?

Try this exercise several times with the same character but different contexts (e.g., the character receiving the news alone versus receiving it in a public place) to see how they react under different circumstances.

CAUTION: Using Fictionalized Versions of Real People

It’s common for writers to borrow details from real life—the shape of a stranger’s chin, a classmate’s clicking of their pen during a quiet exam, or the restaurant server’s shrill laugh, to give just a few examples—but a writer should be wary of recreating an entire person on the page.

There are legal reasons not to do this, of course, but there is also the danger that a story filled with too many real-life people and events will be flat and boring.

Fiction should generally be a healthy mix of the ordinary and extraordinary.

If the mix is skewed too far in one direction, the reader can find the piece too unbelievable or too boring.

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