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"Astrid is the strongest of the group, she obviously has-"

ASTRID was blinded by looking in the General Direction of a lightening strike which landed Too Close To Her Face multiple feet away. SNOTLOUT JORGENSON, on the other hand, who has been struck by lightning on screen 12 times-

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Kids on the internet now a days are literally wild.. like when I was 12 and on the internet, i was lying out my asshole I was telling people about my kids and my wife. I was talking to them about taxes and how I miss my college days.....now 12 year Olds are out here telling their AGE?!?! OR REAL NAME?!??! I was literally fucking Garry that worked at staples and had 2 children for like 4 years...

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anyone remember what these things are called like little cartoony expressive doohickies i think they have a real name but i can’t remember

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Just realised that whenever I see the phrase "I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole" I automatically think of a ten metre pole. Like a comically long pole. A ten foot pole isn't all that long. That's slightly less than two of my body lengths. Not touching something with a ten foot pole still lets you get pretty close to it actually.

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🕳️ What to Write When You Have No Idea What Happens Next

aka: you’re staring into the creative abyss and the abyss is not only staring back, it’s asking for a rough draft

hi writer. welcome to that fun little liminal space in your project where ✨absolutely nothing✨ makes sense. you wrote the last scene. you know you’re not at the end. but suddenly your characters are just standing there like NPCs waiting for a quest marker and your brain is doing the spinning beachball of death.

so. what now?

let’s break down some actually useful strategies for when you hit That Point™️. not vibes. not ✨manifest your way out✨ energy. not the “just keep writing” slog. here’s what to do when your story is refusing to tell you what happens next:

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zoom out: do a “scene audit” ———————————————

you don’t need a full outline to do this. take five minutes and sketch a bullet list of every scene that’s happened so far. not just what happened, but why it mattered.

like this:

MC lied to their boss (sets up stakes re: trust/power)

antagonist shows up at cafe (establishes tension + location crossover)

best friend gets suspicious (emotional complication, adds pressure)

this gives you a birds-eye view of what you’ve set in motion. often you’re stuck because you’ve lost sight of the threads you were pulling, your own story has momentum, you just need to feel it again.

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try “ghost drafting” (aka fake writing) —————————————————————

open a doc. start typing what would happen, if you were writing. super casual. something like:

“okay i think the next scene is maybe them at the train station?? or wait--maybe we need to see the fallout of the argument. i don’t really know what x character wants rn but i think y might be planning something…”

this trick works bc it removes pressure. no fancy prose, no perfect structure. it’s literally you telling yourself what might happen. and weirdly? your brain will often finish the scene for you without asking. (the number of times I’ve ghost drafted myself into 800 usable words… witchcraft.)

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pin your characters to a corkboard and interrogate them ——————————————————————————

not literally. (unless you're into that. i don’t judge.)

but seriously: when you’re stuck, it’s often because your character has no immediate goal or emotion. pause and ask:

what does this character want right now? like, in this moment?

what are they trying to avoid?

what’s keeping them from getting either?

character-driven scenes are rarely static. even if it’s just an awkward dinner or walking to the store, someone’s always trying to do or hide something. if everyone in the scene is just reacting or waiting, you’ve got fog. bring in the fire.

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don’t skip the “boring” stuff--weaponize it —————————————————

sometimes we’re stuck because we think the next scene is dull. like “ugh i guess they just… travel to the manor” or “they regroup at the safe house.” but these slow beats are GOLD if you embed purpose.

try giving the “boring” scene:

a time limit or interruption (they’re hiding but someone knocks)

a secret (someone is lying about something small but important)

a reversal (what they expected is the opposite of what happens)

even if it’s a quiet scene, layer it. conflict isn’t just yelling or action. it’s discomfort. it’s misalignment. tension between what’s said and unsaid.

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when all else fails: write the next emotional beat —————————————————————

strip it back. forget plot. forget pacing. ask yourself:

then write that. a monologue. a journal entry. an outburst. a line of whispered dialogue.

sometimes it’s not that you don’t know what happens next. it’s that your character hasn’t processed what just happened, and until they do, the story can’t move forward.

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the void is normal. getting stuck doesn’t mean you failed or picked the wrong idea or that the muse packed up and left for a better writer’s house. it just means your brain needs space to regroup.

writing isn’t linear. stories aren’t built in perfect lines. they loop. they stall. they circle back. and that’s okay.

if you’re in the middle of nowhere, here’s your sign to sit on the side of the metaphorical road, open your weird little notebook, and write anyway. write wrong. write messy. write ghost drafts. the path shows up when you start walking.

🕳️ you got this, writer.

tag me if you end up crawling out of your stuck scene with a little victory paragraph. i’ll bring snacks for the next one 🧃✨

P.S. I made a free mini eBook about the 5 biggest mistakes writers make in the first 10 pages 👀 you can grab it here for FREE:

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This wouldn't happen to me if i were a huge dragon

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hi if ur unaware georgia 🇬🇪 (where i live) has officially banned gay marriage, gay ‘propaganda’, gender reassignment surgery and anything ’promoting’ it. a trans model, kesaria abramidze, has been murdered as a direct consequence of this legislation. if you have a queer georgian in your life pls let them know they are loved and let this solidify why we Need pride and hope cause jesus fuck man

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I pre-ordered Volume 1, and it's a good thing too because it's sold out for at least 50 km around me. Also your author's note/foreword fully killed me. Like. "The scariest thing I've ever done was accept that I was going to put a story out into the world that was not above reproach, because I loved that story too much to let it wither and die in the privacy of my own brain.".

ma'am?? ma'am????? how dare you come for me and punch me in the feelings before the STORY has even STARTED

perfectionism is the worst, i have some things to chew on

yes good destroy the perfectionist in your brain

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Minotaur is not a species

The Minotaur was named that because he was the son of King Minos. Anyone with a bull head has to be named after their dad, like the Kyletaur or something.

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I created this piece after some lively conversations with friends about whether or not “evil” people exist and how we should deal with harmful behavior. The conversation ranged from individual behavior to the actions of entire nations.

Ultimately we all agreed that everyone acts one way or another because of their upbringing and the upbringing of their ancestors. However, regardless of one’s past, no one should excuse harmful behavior and it’s up to everyone within a community to hold themselves and others accountable. In the small scale this means deep learning, listening to the most marginalized, tough conversations with loved ones, and reparations. On the larger scale it means the international community has to use their collective power to prevent nuclear wars, genocide and climate catastrophe.

I had a lot of fun with this piece and felt like a good stretch of my graphic design muscles 💪🏾

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"unalive" should just mean the opposite of undead. if undead means a dead thing thats alive, unalive shuld mean an alive things thats dead. no i dont have any examples. ☝️yet

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Not to offer advice nobody asked for but fixing ur sleep schedule is life changing

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in the kitchen with my mom having poured vinegar in the electric kettle to clean the gross deposits out. put it on to boil look away. turn back a couple minutes later having subconsciously smelled something awry to see a vinegar disaster. vinegar everywhere in huge wet puddles having pissed out of the kettle somewhere. electric kettle sitting in an inch of vinegar entire tea/coffee shelf swimming in vinegar. at risk of vinegar electrocution unplugging it. now my hands smell of vinegar and the entire damn kitchen smells like vinegar. there was nowhere near enough in there to bubble out. i dry the kettle off empty it out refill it with water. zero leaks. vinegar disaster mystery. kettle peeing everywhere for no reason mystery. what the fuck caused the fucking vinegar tanker spill. my mom has lit a blueberry candle and i am encouraging its efforts but nevertheless am filled with dread at the idea of blueberry pie overlaying 1 million vinegar blast.

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You don't need to believe that people as a whole are good or well-intentioned to be an optimist about fixing climate change.

A lot of the time, it's enough to trust in this: people hate being screwed over. And even more than that, they hate feeling screwed over.

Climate change is actively screwing over almost every single person on this planet, whether they know it or not. We just need to keep making sure that people do know that they're getting screwed over, along with all their loved ones, and who's doing it.

Spite and righteous anger will honestly do a lot of the rest.