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A ghost will ALWAYS protect its HOST.

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Check out my ongoing comic Crow Time. It has crows, and also neat pantheons of epic beasties.

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I think it’s time to dig up old Victorian dead people names

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Thinking about how Catherine overdosed but when Bruce asked what happened to her Jason told him that she got sick. The most obvious explanation for this is that Jason didn’t wanna expose his mama’s business to some judgmental furry he didn’t know but it amuses me to think that Jason was a very progressive 1980s 12 year old who was decades ahead of his time thinking of Catherine’s addiction as an illness that wasn’t properly treated rather than a personal failing of Catherine’s

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@duckbunny on wanting to live

companion weave

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the moment i first understood the myth of meritocracy i think was when i read the "Eragon" books as a teenager, and it said on the back that the author had started writing them at 15 and it became a bestseller. this stressed me out so much, I also wanted that kind of success in writing at such a young age & kept thinking I should also be able to do it, that I must be doing something wrong – and then YEARS later i found out his parents had a publishing company and financed him touring through the whole U.S before the books became successful

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Lesser-known steps of the writing process:

Finding all the paragraphs where you used some hyper-specific word more than once

Rearranging paragraphs that you swear you wrote in the right order but turned out to be totally backwards

Going for a walk, coming up with the perfect line, and forgetting it as soon as you get home and open your laptop

Creating a separate document where you can dump all of those nice sentences that no longer fit in anywhere

Waking up in a cold sweat because so-and-so was supposed to be barefoot but never actually took his shoes off

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He thinks he's so funny...

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i love unrequited love, i love blind devotion, i love guard dogs. i love being desperately obsessed with the object of your affections. i love when devotion rots into cruelty, i love when love doesn't know any better, i love when love is ugly. i love defanging and declawing yourself just to be loved. i love when a character will wait for the next time they will be loved like a bird or a dog at their beloved’s door. i love when love is insanity and by the LORD do i love betting on losing dogs

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icarus and helios

icarus received no divine punishment for his blasphemous hubris… it was cruel enough that he looks up into the endless black of hades each morning and knows that never again would he see his beloved sun

the text:

mine lord helios,

the scribes know not of how i smiled as i reached for you

the lonely years in that tower soothed by your holy company

you warmed me from so far

so i built my wings, eager to touch you

you seared my skin and melted my feathers

mine lovely lord, i could not care less

i, my father’s wretched son, ignored his pleas

your eternal face graced my eyes, amused at my audacity

your blistering embrace cradles me, and then you release me back to my mother earth

and as i fell i looked to you and laughed

because your radiant face wept,

knowing never again will such reverent human flesh caress you as mine did

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affirmations for writers: i know how to write. i have seen sentences before, and i know how to make one. i can identify up to several words and their meanings. i am not afraid of semicolons.

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FAIRUZA BALK The Craft, 1996

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I love it when the same character honorifics are basically used as a barometer for an evolving relationship over the course of a story.

"...Princess" (Derogatory)

"Princess." (You have disproven several of my previous assumptions but I'm still guarded and critical.)

"Princess," (Mildly impressed but still snarky)

"Princess," (I am coming to terms with how much your office has demanded of you and am finally considering you an equal)

"Princess," (I genuinely respect you, your office, and how much you have grown beyond it since we have met.)

"Princess." (Uh oh I've started catching feelings and am now using your title to remind both you and myself of the distance between us.)

"PRINCESS!" (You are in danger and I am now utterly devoted AND DOWN SO BAD.)