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See also, "We're in a drought; conserve water!" Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.

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"How do you write such realistic dialogue-" I TALK TO MYSELF. I TALK TO MYSELF AND I PRETEND I AM THE ONE SAYING THE LINE. LIKE SANITY IS SLOWLY SLIPPING FROM BETWEEN MY FINGERS WITH EVERY MEASLY WORD THEY TYPE OUT. THAT IS HOW.

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Me waking up: I want to write

Me eating breakfast: I want to write

Me getting ready for work: I want to write

Me at work: I want to write

Me eating lunch: I want to write

Me driving home: I want to write

Me at home, sitting in front of my laptop:

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i love when characters get angry when they're frightened. shelter dog characters. i love when they bite, not able to tell the difference between a hand that feeds and a hand that strikes. there is no difference. a hand is a hand is a fist. i love characters that are deemed unadoptable. unlovable.

and i love when someone loves them. i love when someone sits with them, patient. they don't flinch at the snarling and snapping. they're not trying to fix it—there's nothing to be fixed. this is you, all of you, and ill wait. because one day, one day you'll take the treat. go on, draw my blood. spit and curse and rage. you're safe with me. one day, you'll feel safe with me.

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i don't know who needs to hear this, but guilt, self-hatred and shame are not sustainable sources of growth and healing. you can't hate yourself into feeling better, or being better. you can't repeatedly punish yourself for your flawed humanity and expect wholesome results.

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really love dynamics that are like 'it honestly doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it's there'. gotta be one of my favorite genders.

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Hey writeblr :)), I'm Leah, and I'm looking for other writers to follow and interact with! My dash has been kind of bland recently, and I'm hoping to participate in some tag games with fellow writers! I don't mind reading works of any genre, as long as you're willing to discuss WIPs and swap ideas.

Some deets about me:

I write mostly fantasy

My main project's Mind of a Mercenary, a novel following the antics of cult-leader-turned-convict-mercenary Luna, after she gets caught trying to take over as major city with mind-magic

I also do a lot of short stories

I really, really, reeeaaaallllyyy love villain protags. Luna's one, for starters

Aroace and she/her

I live in Asia so my timezone is basically 12h apart from the US's

Reblog or like this if you want me to check you out and give you a follow ;) Or just tag me in a game, I don't mind

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– Faraj Bou al-Isha (b. 1956), “Wait” translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa in: “Poems for the Millennium. Book of North African Literature”, edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour

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is YOUR Blorbo a wertherino?

If they:

are a beautiful young man with a somber/serious/melancholic disposition;

have a job that they hate;

are discriminated against at some point for their social status;

are the narrator of the media they appear in;

are being pressured by their families to do something they don’t want to do;

are desperately in love with an unattainable person, who may or may not love him back;

love that person to the point of harming themselves/others if they cannot have them;

are extremely jealous/possessive;

do weird stalky things to their object of desire, like following them home or spying on them;

view their object of desire as the culmination of all virtue and goodness combined in one person;

give their beloved a kind of “surrogate kiss”, like kissing them through a veil or having a canary peck the beloved’s lips and then theirs;

have the seasons/nature represent the internal state of their emotions;

like sending long winding letters to their one friend whom they dump all their feelings on about their ills and sufferings.

Then they might be a wertherino!

If five or more apply:

Be sure to keep them away from pistols, knives, scissors, poison, and student rebellions;

Be sure that their beloved does not get married to another, sail away to England, cheat on them with their best friend, etc. if it can be avoided;

Provide him a bench under a tree where he can read Homer and watch children play in peace;

Do NOT let him go dancing, drinking, gambling, or such unless under close supervision.

If your wertherino still succumbs, remember that laborers will carry his coffin, and no priest will attend his funeral.

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me today finally working out the answer to a plot hole that's been bugging me for months

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thinking about the finding. oh yes the bruise-littered skin and rubbed-raw wrists and red-rimmed eyes, oh yes the shallow, pained breaths and semi-consciousness, in and out for the pain, but more acutely: the finding. the 'you are safe now' as well as the 'how do i touch you without hurting you'. the 'i'm here, and i'm sorry that i'm late'. you know

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I love it when two characters are completely and utterly obsessed with each other to an unhealthy degree. Utter devotion to the point of insanity. To the point the lines blur as to what the nature of their relationship even is. Romantic? Platonic? Sexual? Familial? Professional? All and none of the above, somehow. They can’t exist without each other. Being together is making them both worse. They would watch each other sleep in bed at night every night if they could. They are literally always thinking about each other. They would kill and die for each other. They resent each other. Even seperating them isn't going to fix the situation at this point. They permanently live inside each other.

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Writeblr Intro

Hi! I've set up this sideblog to help me collate useful resources on writing, follow other writers and (probably mostly) as a place to infodump about my world and characters.

My WIP is The Maelhithe Trilogy, a fantasy series based in Maelhithe, a coastal city in the throes of industrialization. Magic is being sold off and exploited by powerful interests with disastrous consequences looming on the horizon (and lurking beneath the waves). What the city needs is a saviour. What it's got is a couple of mining technicians, a sex worker, an anxious wizard, and the renegade son of the Lord of Maelhithe.

Plus we've got sea monsters, pirates, wizards, witches, a whole spectrum of romance, and the cosiest tavern in the multiverse.

I am not a published author, perhaps one day I'll pursue that path but for now I'm writing this for the love of it! Thanks for reading if you've got this far 🩵