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Does free will exist?

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You'll notice that people do this in multiplayer games for much the same reason!

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haikaveh college au + drinking games

it’s still 11.11 somewhere right

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People who switch pronouns in songs to no-homo the situation are so funny. The idea literally never even occurred to me as a kid. Couldn’t be me. I am a woman scorned. I am a man who had his heart broken. I am a guy who hates his hometown. I’m a country boy, I’m a city girl. I’m a slut. I’m addicted to cocaine. It’s a song, man.

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Wanderer’s Advice

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scrolling twitter today and then coming over here is like walking out of a burning building and then walking into the calm remains of a building that burnt down 5 years ago and has been reclaimed by nature.

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there is something so darkly comical about tumblr potentially outliving twitter

tumblr, which is held together with duct tape and madness, run by three raccoons in blood stained Yahoo! hats and a handful of crabs, its only discernible source of income the sale of shoelaces from an inside joke so inside no one knows the original source anymore and fake blue checkmarks... that website still lives on

truly the cockroach of social media and I love it for that

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Dcmk kaishin fics (+1 doujinshi) appreciation doodles

devil's advocate ● Directions Heretofore Untold ● Tabula Rasa

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C: …??? We have money?? We have lots of money from the Royal Highness actually? Why are you scamming these innocent people while USING ME AS AN EXCUSE?? 

K: shhh, you city boy, it’s cheaper this way. (and I also promised I’d help them out at the tavern.) So be the sickly, frail boy you are and shoo, up to your room.

traveling with a penny pincher

Something something, chapter 7 of cinders is up but here’s the old art that inspired the entire scene!

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Fanfic Recommendations

Sometimes I get questions about fanfic recommendations, but I’m terrible at that because I don’t read fanfics too often; however, thanks to our amazing followers, we now have compiled a list so that other fans can check it out and contribute too, if interested! 

I’ll update this list (in alphabetical order) whenever I get a new recommendation. If you think a must read fic is not here, please send an ask and let us know!

Please, remember to check all the tags and warnings before reading anything so you don’t end up with a bad experience.

Recommended Fics

A Study in Scarlette

A Study in Trust

All In

Aquatic Bouquet

Beneath a Waxing Moon

Dominoes

Dove Letters

Fall Into Flying

Imagine Us in Bloom

In The Soul

Irresistible Urges

Let’s Go Get Lost

Lure

Measured In Moments

Ocean Eyes

Shoobute (勝負手) 

swear i’ll never leave again 

The Cat Who Loved Moonlight

Trophy Magnet

Tumble

Words Without Voices 

Recommended Authors

helloitstrash

LunaDarkSide

Phantoms_Echo

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What's the story behind this au?

UHHH.

Let’s. Let’s just say Shrio is really, really bad at writing and this AU is still in deep works until I figure out a proper storyline or something. (I only have little snippets and moments about it so far; I’ll probably make a collection of little one shots in my AO3 (@/berryuu) someday.Someday.) But on another “story behind this au”, I absolutely LOVE wings and LOVE character with wings and I had to create a wings! AU for my current fav character. Ta-dah, wings! AU Shinichi. There are more wings! AU Shinichi out there (mostly fics) but this would be my version :D !

If you guys are interested btw, there are a few wings!AU fics in AO3. I recommend these two greatly!!! (watch out for angst tho)

Fractured Fall by Cesela (Inspired by my wings!AU Shinichi! ;Q; ) Still on going but it’s really great and amazing so far!! Chucks love at Ces <33 Check out their other DCMK works, too! They’re great!)

Time Marches On by MintChocolateLeaves (Angsty AF I love it. I’m still wounded about this Mint oh my god. Criesss)

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Troubleshooting Your Plot

                Plots are such complicated things that often when something doesn’t work, we can tell that it’s falling apart, but we can’t really tell where. I’ve spent many hours picking apart my plots and looking for the loose thread, so here’s some ways I’ve noticed plots most commonly go wrong.

The character transformation isn’t believable

Very likely whenever an arc goes wrong it’s not because of the circumstances the character went through, it’s because the character didn’t have enough agency. If your characters are never forced to make tough decisions, they’re also never forced to change. I’d go back to their goal and motivation and look through your plot to see which ways they are actively choosing it again and again.

2. It feels rushed

Plots that meander or feel rushed are usually not due to the plot itself, but pacing issues within it. Before you touch your outline, look into your scenes and see where you could be adding more description. Are you using all five senses? And if you are, are you getting into your character’s head? Sometimes all a rushed scene needs is a moment of reflection, a little “check-in” with your protagonist.

                Look through your work and mark down what the pacing of each scene should be. Fast-paced action scenes should have shorter paragraphs and less reflection than say a deep discussion between two characters.

3. It’s too short!?

When it’s not an issue with pacing the problem might be with the scope. Is the transformation you’re writing large enough for the word count you were expecting? Lord of the Rings couldn’t have been written in a novella, and an episode of Spongebob couldn’t have been turned into a novel. Consider the stakes of your story—if it’s too short, the inciting incident might not have turned the world upside down enough.

4. The character dynamics aren’t coming together

Ah the friends that just don’t seem to want to be friends, the group that’s constantly falling apart, the attractive strangers who stay strangers. Characters are really good at ruining our plans. In cases like these, it often comes back to the goals and motivations of every character involved. When groups don’t come together maybe not all of them have a reason to want to be there—how will it help each one of them achieve their goal?

                Good luck!

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What is Love to your Characters?

(feel free to speculate, create discussions and leave your own interpretation of love in the comments!)

sometimes, it's the most beautiful feeling that envelopes you, that overflows out of you. at times, it drains you, it leaves you empty, tired. both are love, but one is what it's supposed to be, and the other is what happens unfortunately.

maybe your character has loved so much it broke them. maybe it is something they fear, they try to avoid. if only, someone or themselves makes themselves realise, that, their love didn't drown them but filled them.

love, could be, being able to hold your partner and feel it, literally.

or, it could be in those moments of bidding goodbyes and you realise you never want to say last goodbyes to each other.

love could be just presence of the right person at the right time, to ur character. (being present to show you care does a lot than one can imagine)

just the thought of love might make your character smile. it's not the thought of loving a certain someone, but it's the thought of being able to love at all.

love is present in subtle touches, glances, unsaid words, comfortable silence between each other, being able to be you w them, and so many small things !

it's always visible in those frowns when you're sick, smiles when you're lovely, kisses when you're not feeling like yourself<3

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Extremely displeased to announce I just opened my writing doc to find the fic has not yet written itself. Will check back in tomorrow to see if it’s made any progress

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✽✾Why We Don’t Use Magic with a K✾✽

A case against Magic[k].

The version of the word has been popularized by a terrible racist, and if that is a good enough reason for you not to want to use it then feel free to stop here.  However if you're interested in learning more about the wider context, here is a short history.

Agrippa

Agrippa is cited as being the author of the first occult book where magic is spelled with a k at the end.  There is a 1600s translation where someone used that specific spelling, and there is no denying that it is technically used. However, those that point to this in order to justify its use now seem like they just don't want to change.  When the document had been written, English had not been codified, and many other spellings of magic (magik, magyk, magique) are also floating around during this time. These do not nearly get the same defense.

The word would not return to the occult community for nearly four hundred years between the book's English translation and the popularization of magic[k].

Aleister Crowley  The real meat and potatoes of why we don't use the word magic[k], is that it was popularized by a man by the name of Aleister Crowley. The quotes from Crowley that demonstrate his character are actually so terrible that for common decency, and the safety of my account, I'm not quoting them here.  They are not too terribly hard to find, and you'll hardly find a soul denying they exist. He wanted to differentiate from stage magic (elaborated on more below).  However, even at the time no one was having trouble telling the difference [see generally: historians at the time, anthropologists, and other practitioners], so Crowley justified it in other ways.  In his mind he wanted magic to have six letters.  He liked hexagrams a lot.  The number six was significant for him.  Thus, giving magic six letters was his mark on the word itself.

He left a nearly irreparable scar on modern occultism both being the progenitor to things like Wicca, and the writer of his own system based on the teachings of the Golden Dawn, Thelema.  Not only are a lot of these systems often more than dipping their toes in, but prone to soaking their whole feet in appropriation and bigotry if the practitioner isn't careful, they were often based on the writings of a lot of people who were wholesale racists/ antisemites. The work that goes into removing the bigotry from these systems, and occultism/ modern practice at large, is often substantial, and this is a step we've chosen to continue doing so. Namely, by removing Crowley's personal influence where we can.

Stage Magic argument

There is an argument that magic[k] as a spelling is necessary to differentiate from stage magic. (Or in some cases differentiate between witchcraft and Magic the Gathering.)  I've personally seen this argument a lot, but have not personally encountered a situation where it was necessary.  There are far too many, in my mind anyway, easy swaps (witchcraft, energy work, etc.).  There has also been no evidence I've found of this ever being the true intentions of the word's use.  Especially since if that were the case, they probably should've also changed the objectively more confusing turn of calling themselves "magicians", or of the word "magical".

Circling Back

Coming back around to why we don't use it today, we find the reasons above to be compelling, and beyond that we strive for above and beyond sourcing, care, and respect for our minority members.  If we can push magic in a direction that has more easily accessible information and less of the past's notions that are often founded in bigotry, we are going to. More often than not, that means trying to remove Crowley’s mark on everything. While some might seek to reclaim it, we've chosen to let it fade.

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Essentially, his character summary