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— aesthetic words to fill up your vocabulary ♡

✦ if you're tired of using the same repetitive words to describe feelings or actions on your writing, here are some aesthetic words that are not frequently used to help you evolve your vocabulary better and also maybe help you with creative titles <3

ABENDROT: the color of the sky while the sun is setting.

ABIENCE: the strong urge to avoid someone or something.

ACHROOUS: colourless.

AEQUOREAL: marine, oceanic.

AESTHETE: someone with deep sensitivity to the beauty of art or nature.

ALIFEROUS: having wings.

AMITY: warmth and heartfelt friendliness in a friendship; mutual understanding and a peaceful relationship.

AMBROSIAL: fragrant, delicious.

ANTHOMANIA: great love for flowers.

AQUAPHILE: someone who is an enthusiast of all things related to the water.

ARENOCOLOUS: living or burrowing in sand.

ASPERSE: change falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone.

ASTERISM: agroup of stars; a constellation; a cluster of stars.

ATTAR: essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.

AUREATE: golden or gilded; brilliant, splendid.

AURICOMUS: with golden or yellow colored foliage.

AVIOTHIC: the strong desire to be up in the air or to fly.

BALTER: to dance artlessly, without particular grace and/or skill but usually with enjoyment.

BATHIC: pertaining to depths, especially of sea.

BELAMOUR: the one who is loved; a beloved person.

BELLICOSTIC: aggressive, belligerent, warlike.

BENEFICENCE: the quality of being kind or helpful or generous.

BERCEUSE: a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep.

BLÁFAR: indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health; attractive and possessing charm.

BRONTIDE: the low rumble of a distant thunder.

BURBLE: to speak in an excited manner.

CAELITIS: the divinities who dwell within the celestial planes.

CATHARSIS: the release of emotional tension, especially through kinds of art or music.

CELERITOUS: swift, speedy, fast.

CERAUNOPHILIA: loving thunder and lightning and finding them intensely beautiful.

CHEVELURE: the nebulous tail of a comet.

CINGULOMANIA: a strong desire to hold a person in your arms.

COCCINEOUS: bright red; scarlet.

COCKAIGNE: an imaginary land of luxury and idleness.

CONSTELLATE: to eluster; to compel by stellar influence.

COSMOGYRAL: whirling around the universe.

CORDOLIUM: heartache; heartfelt sorrow.

CORUSCATE: to reflect brillantly, to sparkle.

CRAMOISY: of a crimson color.

CREATURELY: a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else.

CRYSTALLOMANIA: an obsession with crystals and other crystalline objects.

CHRYSALISM: the amnotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

CLINQUANT: glittering with gold and silver.

CLYSMIC: cleaning, washing.

CUPIDITY: greed for money or possessions.

CYANEOUS: a sky-blue color.

CYNOSURE: guiding star; a object of common interest.

DARKLING: of or related to darkness.

DÉCLASSÉ: having fallen in social status.

DEIFORM: god-like or divine in nature.

DEMERSAL: that lives near the bottom or a body of water.

DESIDERIUM: an ardent longing, as for something lost.

DISPITEOUS: cruel and without mercy.

DOUX: sweet, soft, mild, gentle.

DRACONTINE: belonging to a dragon.

DYSANIA: the state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning.

ECCEDENTESIAST: someone who fakes a smile.

EFFLORESCENCE: a period or state of blooming, blossoming.

ELEGY: a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

ELEUTHEROPHILIST: someone who advocates free love.

ELYSIAN: beautiful or creative, divinely inspired; peaceful and perfect.

EMACITY: desire or fondness for buying things.

EMPYREAL: pertaining to the sky; celestial.

EPHIALTES: a nightmare; the demon Incubus that supposedly causes a nightmare.

EPICARICACY: the joy that results from others misfortune.

EREMOPHOBIA: the deep fear of stillness, solitude, or deserted places.

ETHEREAL: extremely delicate, light, not of this world.

EUMOIRIETY: happiness due to state of innocence and purity.

FLORENTIS: abounding in flowers; being in bloom and adorned with plentiful flowers.

FREICEADAN: guard, garrison, watch, sentinal.

FULMINATE: cause to explode violently and with loud noise.

FURCIFEROUS: brat; rascally, scandalous.

GLOAMING: twilight, dusk.

GRAME: anger, wrath, scorn; sorrow, grief, misery.

HALCYON: calm and peaceful; happy, prosperous.

HELLION: a rowdy or mischievous person.

HELIOPHILIA: desire to stay in the sun; love of sunlight.

HEAVENIZE: to render like heaven or fit for heaven, to purify and make a holy place or a person.

HENOTIC: promoting harmony or peace.

HIRAETH: a homesickness for a home you can't return to, or that never was.

HOLILY: belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power.

HYPNAGOGIC: the state immediately before falling asleep.

IGNICOLIST: a worshiper of fire.

ILLECEBROUS: attractive and alluring.

IMPLUVIOUS: soaked with rain.

INCANDESCENCE: light produced by high temperatures.

INCALESCENCE: the property of being warming.

INCENDIARY: designed for the purpose of causing a fire, likely to cause anger or violence.

INEFFABLE: too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.

INSOUCIANT: free from worry, concern or anxiety.

IRENIC: aiming or aimed at peace, promoting peace.

IRIDESCENT: producing a display of rainbow-like colors.

INVIDIARE: to envy.

ISOLOPHILIA: a strong preference and affection for solitude.

KALOPSIA: the delusion of things being more beautiful than they really are.

KALON: beauty that is more than skin deep.

LACONIC: expressing much in a few words.

LACUNA: a blank space; a missing part.

LATIBULE: a hiding place, a place of safety and comfort.

LAMBENT: to glow or flicker softly. Luminous, light or brilliant.

LIMERENCE: the state of being infatuated with another person.

LONGANIMITY: still suffering while planning revenge.

LOUCHE: disreputable; morally dubious.

LUCIFORM: resembling light in appearance; having, in some respects; the nature of qualities of light.

LUMINESCENCE: light produced by chemical, electrical or physiological means.

MALTALENT: the negative emotions of wanting injury or harm to befall someone; a hostile behavior or attitude towards someone considered an enemy.

MARMORIS: the shining surface of the ocean.

MAZARINE: a dark blue color; rich blue or reddish-blue color.

MELIORISM: the belief that the world gets better; the belief that humans can improve the world.

MÉLOMANIE: an excessive and abnormal love and deep attraction to music and melody.

MERCURIAL: subject to sudden or unpredictable changes.

MESMERIC: appealing; drawing attention.

MORDACIOUS: biting or given to biting; biting or sharp in manner; caustic; capable of wounding.

MORPHEAN: of or relating to Morpheus, to dreams, or to sleep.

MOXIE: courage, nerve, determination.

NEBULOCHAOTIC: a state of being hazy and confused.

NEFARIOUS: wicked, villainous, despicable.

NEMESISM: frustration, anger or aggression directed inward, toward oneself and one's way of living.

NERITIC: pertaining to shallow coastal waters.

NOETIC: of or associated with or requiring the use of mind.

NOIRCEUR: the state of being pitch black in color; a state of lacking illumination.

NUBIVAGANT: wandering in the air, moving through the air.

NUMINOUS: spiritual or supernatural; surpassing comprehension or understanding; mysterious.

ONEIRODYNIA: restless, disturbed sleep, characterized by nightmares and sleepwalking.

OPHIOMORMOUS: snake-like.

ORPHIC: mysterious and entrancing, beyond ordinary understanding.

PETRICHOR: the scent of rain on dry earth.

POIESIS: creation; creative power or ability.

PORPHYROUS: purple; of purple hue.

PRATE: to talk excessively and pointlessly.

PROCELLOUS: tempestuous, stormy.

QUIDDITY: the essence of something.

QUIXOTIC: extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical or impracticable.

RANTIPOLE: a wild, reckless young person; to be wild and reckless.

REDAMANCY: the act of loving the one who loves you; a love returned in full.

REDOLENT: having a strong distinctive fragrance; serving to bring to mind.

REMEANT: coming back, returning.

RESPLENDENT: having brilliant or glowing appearance; dazzling and impressive in appearance through being richly colorful or sumptuous.

REVERIE: a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream.

RODOMEL: juice of roses mixed with honey.

ROSEATE: rose-like; overly optimistic.

RUTILANT: glowing or glittering with red or gold light.

SANGUINEOUS: accompanied by bloodshed.

SASHAY: to strut or move about in an ostentatious or conspicuous manner.

SCIAMACHY: a battle against imaginary enemies; fighting your shadow.

SEQUACIOUS: lacking independence of originality of thought.

SERAPHIC: beautiful and pure; having a sweet nature befitting an angel or a cherub; of or relating to an angel of the first order.

SERENDIPITY: finding something good without looking for it.

SKINT: having little or no money avaliable.

SOLIVAGANT: someone who wanders or travels the world alone; a solitary adventurer.

SOMNIATE: to dream, to make sleepy.

SORTIGER: delivering prophecies of the future; having the qualities of being oracular.

STELLIFEROUS: having or abonding with stars.

STELLIFY: to transform from an earthly body into a celestial body; to place in the sky as such.

SUCCIDUOUS: ready to fall, falling.

SPUME: a white mass of bubbles or froth on the top of a wave.

SYNODIC: relating to or involving the conjunction of stars, planets or other celestial objects.

TARANTISM: the uncontrollable urge to dance.

TEMENOS: a sacred circle where no one can be oneself without fear.

THANATOPHOBIA: fear of death.

TYYNEYS: the state of peacefulness; absent of worry or fear, being composed and at ease.

ULTRAMARINE: beyond the sea; greenish-blue color.

VELLEITY: a wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action.

VENERATION: a profound emotion inspired by a deity.

VESPERTINE: in or of the evening; setting at the same time as, or just after, the sun.

VERDANT: with plants and flowers in abundance.

VERMEIL: a liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.

VERTICORDIOUS: to turn the heart from evil.

VIOLESCENT: tending toward violet color.

VORFREUDE: the joyful anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures.

WANDERLUST: a strong desire to travel and explore the world.

WHIST: to hush or silence; to still, to become still.

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Memo to everybody :

Never be afraid to recycle an idea you had for a WIP you abandoned. Sometimes the idea needs a different set of characters or a different setting.

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ways you can further develop your main character

give them a misbelief

no characters have a personality when the plot starts. all of them have backstories, a past, and a mindset that they grew up with!

basically, a misbelief is the wrong mindset that they grew up with, and is also a belief that will be restructured by the end of your novel.

this not only shows character growth and development as their mind is “restructured” or they learn their life lesson, but also drives the internal plot of your story, which differs from the external (or action) plot that most people seem to read.

+ this gives readers a deeper insight to your character!

give them a goal

every character has a goal, or something they want in their lives. having them strive for it would essentially drive your plot, and may also help you dig deeper into your character’s motivations!

this goal doesn’t always need to be achieved, or may be impossible to (for example, someone wanting to meet a loved one who turns out to be dead; they may have not reached their goal, but it took them on a journey)

this goal should also be concrete if possible! vague ones like “they want to be happy,” isn’t very helpful. what do they think will make them happy?

(side note: wanting everything to be the way that it is can also be a goal, cause they’re striving to make things go back to the way they were!)

more notes / explanations here! most of these notes in this post are taken from story genius by lisa cron, and i thought they might help. please take all this information with a grain of salt, and maybe use it in a way that’ll work best for you! <3

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normalize not knowing shit about your special interests. normalize studying your special interests for 12 hours straight and not retaining a single shred of information

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show, don't tell:

anticipation - bouncing legs - darting eyes - breathing deeply - useless / mindless tasks - eyes on the clock - checking and re-checking

frustration - grumbling - heavy footsteps - hot flush - narrowed eyes - pointing fingers - pacing / stomping

sadness - eyes filling up with tears - blinking quickly - hiccuped breaths - face turned away - red / burning cheeks - short sentences with gulps

happiness - smiling / cheeks hurting - animated - chest hurts from laughing - rapid movements - eye contact - quick speaking

boredom - complaining - sighing - grumbling - pacing - leg bouncing - picking at nails

fear - quick heartbeat - shaking / clammy hands - pinching self - tuck away - closing eyes - clenched hands

disappointment - no eye contact - hard swallow - clenched hands - tears, occasionally - mhm-hmm

tiredness - spacing out - eyes closing - nodding head absently - long sighs - no eye contact - grim smile

confidence - prolonged eye contact - appreciates instead of apologizing - active listening - shoulders back - micro reactions

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Is this a problem?

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i posted my first sandman fic!! it’s dreamling obviously (because you put two immortal beings in a show and i WILL lose my mind) and i’m very excited to write more for them but take this for now! happy reading <3

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Knowing a fic author through AO3 is like attending someone’s thesis presentation and politely clapping at the end, knowing a fic author through this hellsite is like going over to their house at 3AM to watch them eat mayonnaise out of a jar

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Archaeologists: “Uhhhh, there’s still a lot of debate about how effective leather armor really could have been on a battlefield. Alas, we shall never know.”

Punks: “Hey, fresh cut, the boneheads carry knives sometimes so make sure and lift a good leather jacket. It’ll save your life.”

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Reblog if you think asexuality is a legitimate sexuality.

I'm trying to prove something.

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Fanfiction Work-In-Progress Guessing Game

Send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in

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I was getting pretty fed up with links and generators with very general and overused weapons and superpowers and what have you for characters so:

Here is a page for premodern weapons, broken down into a ton of subcategories, with the weapon’s region of origin. 

Here is a page of medieval weapons.

Here is a page of just about every conceived superpower.

Here is a page for legendary creatures and their regions of origin.

Here are some gemstones.

Here is a bunch of Greek legends, including monsters, gods, nymphs, heroes, and so on. 

Here is a website with a ton of (legally attained, don’t worry) information about the black market.

Here is a website with information about forensic science and cases of death. Discretion advised. 

Here is every religion in the world. 

Here is every language in the world.

Here are methods of torture. Discretion advised.

Here are descriptions of the various methods used for the death penalty. Discretion advised.

Here are poisonous plants.

Here are plants in general.

Feel free to add more to this!

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/41223063

Coffee and ADHD do not mix, actually by from_saturn_to_mars Tony lives purely off coffee, Peter hyperfixates on spiders, and they eat Oreos at a Very Late Hour Of The Night while having a semi-serious discussion about ADHD Words: 1257, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Tony Stark, Peter Parker Relationships: Peter Parker & Tony Stark Additional Tags: Fluff and Crack, Peter Parker has ADHD, Tony Stark Has Undiagnosed ADHD, Irondad, spiderson, Tony Stark Acting as Peter Parker's Parental Figure, Tony Stark Has A Heart, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping

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Coffee and ADHD do not mix, actually

by from-saturn-to-mars on ao3

Tony lives purely off coffee, Peter hyperfixates on spiders, and they eat Oreos at a Very Late Hour Of The Night while having a semi-serious discussion about ADHD

Tony Stark does not always make good life choices. 

He considers this as he downs his fifth cup of coffee in the last hour and double checks the equation on yet another project. In his defense, he just came up with a new plan for solar-powered generators.

Tony pauses, checks the time, notices the date, and then revises his previous statement. 

In his defense, he came up with a plan for a solar-powered generator seventy two hours ago  and hasn’t looked up from his work since. 

He’s helping people! Yup, that's a solid argument, he thinks to himself as he sways on his feet and almost pours oil into his coffee cup. He reaches for the coffee pot, but it’s empty.

“Friday, dearest, could you refill the coffee?” He requests without pausing in his work. He could have sworn he just had something in his hand. Where was it..?

“I'm afraid you're out, sir. There’s more in the kitchen.” 

Tony finds the thing that was in his hands. Its buried under a pile of paper he hasn’t touched in weeks

 Tony weighs his options, looks at the empty coffee pot,  and trudges out of the lab with a sigh of defeat. The halls are eerily quiet compared to the whirring and humming of machines in his lab. The sudden shift from blinding lights to cool darkness sends black spots dancing in front of his eyes. 

Tony pads into the kitchen and zeroes in on the coffee sitting on the counter. He feels like a lion hunting in one of those nature documentaries and has the wild urge to narrate in a British accent. 

“M’sr Stark?”

Tony spins around, almost loses his balance, and looks wildly around the room for the source of the voice. His eyes land on a small, hoodie-clad figure seated on the kitchen counter.  

“Peter?”  

The boy gives a little wave in response and continues to stare at him.

 “Why are you awake?” Tony asks in a high-pitched voice. 

Peter gestures to the towering stack of textbooks next to him with a slightly manic look in his eyes,“I’m researching spiders! Did you know spider's blood is called hemolymph? And spiders have an open circulatory system!”

“And… How long have you been researching spiders, exactly?” 

Peter thinks for a minute and pulls out his phone. He stares at the cracked screen for a solid thirty seconds and then looks back at Tony with a vaguely horrified look on his face. 

“...Six hours?” 

Tony facepalms, “Jesus, kid,” 

“Says the man who's been holed up in his lab for three days,” Peter shoots back with a smug smirk. Tony distantly wonders when Peter stopped idolizing him and started being such a little shit.

“I was working, it's not my fault,” Tony pouts and pours himself another cup of coffee.

Peter heaves a huge sigh and shuts his textbook, “I like science! And spiders! It's not my fault I hyperfixated,” He says with a small yawn, “ADHD is annoying,” 

Tony squints at him. 

“What?” 

“What's ‘hyperfixation’?” He asks the boy. His brain feels like it's underwater. He takes a sip of his coffee. 

Peter looks slightly surprised, “It’s where your brain fixates on something and kind of takes over your mind, I guess? Like its all you can think about. I hyperfixate on science a lot and, right now, spiders. My brain kinda just zeroed in on that one topic and then I couldn't think about anything else, and then I looked up and six hours had passed.” 

Tony processes this, “Huh….” He looks back on the days and weeks he’s spent in his lab, completely engrossed in his work. He then reviews the last three days in his head. Was that hyperfixating? Maybe he shouldn't be thinking about this right now. If he remembers correctly, the sleep-deprivation hallucinations start right about now, so he could very well be hallucinating the spider-child sitting on his counter. 

“It’s pretty common among people with ADHD and other neurodiverse people,” Peter informs him. 

“Where did you learn all of this?” 

Peter shrugs, “I just did some research, once I got diagnosed with ADHD.” 

Tony considers. He’s never been diagnosed with anything – Howard and Maria were not the ‘therapy’ type, and he never really saw the need for it, but maybe he should do some research….He loses his train of thought and takes another draw from his coffee.

“Dude, at this point your blood is like ninety percent caffeine,” Peter remarks. He hops down from the counter and opens the cupboard, surveying the contents with narrowed eyes. Tony peers over his shoulder, only now registering that he also hasn't eaten in a while. He half-remembers someone bringing him a cold pizza roughly two days ago. He hasn't eaten since. Peter grabs a pack of Oreos and pulls out a handful, stuffing them into his mouth all at once. 

“So, what are some other ADHD things?” Tony asks him.  He carefully pries one half of the cookie off and chews it slowly. 

Peter swallows his mouthful of Oreo, “Well ADHD is short for ‘Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.  That basically means you have a short attention span and you're hyper active, but there's a lot more to it than that, and it's different for everyone. I use fidget spinners for hyperactivity and for stimming,” He elaborates at Tony’s confused look, “Stimming is doing repetitive things to stimulate your mind, like flapping your hands or rocking back and forth or things like that,”

Hmm. That sounds familiar. Howard always used to tell him off for running around in circles in the kitchen. He remembers doing it over and over, unable to stop. He never had a problem with it, and he had forgotten about it until now, but Howard always yelled at him for not ‘acting normal’.

Tony stuffs an Oreo in his mouth and chews thoughtfully. After a long silence, he says, “Cool”

He prides himself on his eloquent vocabulary. 

Peter nods and shifts himself into a laying-down position, so hs looking at Tony upside down. Tony has no idea how the child hasn't choked on his Oreos yet.

“Do you think you have ADHD too?” Peter asks him around a mouthful of frosting. He's taken out all the insides and is left with a pile of chocolate cookies. 

‘Barbaric…’ Tony mutters, but he answers Peter’s question seriously, “Maybe? I'll have to do some more research, but i wouldn't rule it out–  What are you doing?” He cuts himself off. 

Peter freezes, about to dump the chocolate cookes into the trash, “They’re too dry, i just like the frosting part,” 

Tony stares at him in black shock for a minute. 

“Okay, we can fix this.” He pulls out two Mason jars and gestures for the cookies while he pulls a few intact ones out of the wrapping.

“Get milk,” He orders. 

Peter regards him skeptically but retrieves the milk as ordered. Tony shows him how to crumble up the Oreos with a spoon and mix the milk in. 

The look on Peter’s face when he takes a bite is absolutely priceless. 

“This is so good,” He marvels. Tony nods in satisfaction. Once Peter finishes ating, he taps him on the nose with his spoon. 

“It’s time for spider-kids to go to bed now. You have to eat a real meal in the morning, too. Not just hot cheetos and lemonade like yesterday.”

Peter grins at him, hops off the counter, and racs down the hall. 

Tony goes to sleep. 

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every fic writer has that one person who comments on every chapter and is the reason they write

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being a writer is hard

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heh...sorry guys