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writing is so funny because i could write nonstop for 9hrs and then hit a block where im like "how do i transition between this moment and the next?" and then i just dont touch it for 6 months

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some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

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Creating drama between protagonists who get along can be a big challenge. Reasonable people avoid fighting, and protagonists need to stay sympathetic or they could alienate audiences. But sometimes the story calls for friction between best friends or an obstacle for a relationship arc that’s almost finished. For such situations, let’s look at seven ways to open a rift between characters who are already close.

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Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

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Emotional Walls Your Character Has Built (And What Might Finally Break Them)

(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.

✶ Sarcasm as armor. (Break it with someone who laughs gently, not mockingly.) ✶ Hyper-independence. (Break it with someone who shows up even when they’re told not to.) ✶ Stoicism. (Break it with a safe space to fall apart.) ✶ Flirting to avoid intimacy. (Break it with real vulnerability they didn’t see coming.) ✶ Ghosting everyone. (Break it with someone who won’t take silence as an answer.) ✶ Lying for convenience. (Break it with someone who sees through them but stays anyway.) ✶ Avoiding touch. (Break it with accidental, gentle contact that feels like home.) ✶ Oversharing meaningless things to hide real depth. (Break it with someone who asks the second question.) ✶ Overworking. (Break it with forced stillness and the terrifying sound of their own thoughts.) ✶ Pretending not to care. (Break it with a loss they can’t fake their way through.) ✶ Avoiding mirrors. (Break it with a quiet compliment that hits too hard.) ✶ Turning every conversation into a joke. (Break it with someone who doesn’t laugh.) ✶ Being everyone’s helper. (Break it when someone asks what they need, and waits for an answer.) ✶ Constantly saying “I’m fine.” (Break it when they finally scream that they’re not.) ✶ Running. Always running. (Break it with someone who doesn’t chase, but doesn’t leave, either.) ✶ Intellectualizing every feeling. (Break it with raw, messy emotion they can’t logic away.) ✶ Trying to be the strong one. (Break it when someone sees the weight they’re carrying, and offers to help.) ✶ Hiding behind success. (Break it when they succeed and still feel empty.) ✶ Avoiding conflict at all costs. (Break it when silence causes more pain than the truth.) ✶ Focusing on everyone else’s healing but their own. (Break it when they hit emotional burnout.)

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Imagine you're a mob boss of the biggest and most feared mafia of the land. One day your subordinates find a homeless hippie and bring him to you because he can do magic. The hippie denies being able to do magic and then performs magic right in front of you. He says it's not magic because he knows how it works. It works by god's will, is what you're hearing when he explains it. He might be insane but he's definitely magic.

So you take the hippie with you because your former boss and now mob rival is holding your sister hostage and you're hoping to use him as a weapon. He says he won't use his magic to hurt people, and you can't make him. To prove his point, he makes a volcano explode and dies in front of your eyes. You're angry you lost someone so valuable but what can you do? He's dead.

Then a month later you hear that someone in this little town is performing miracles, healing people of incurable ilnesses. You send a spy and find out that hippie you found literally resurrected himself and is now about to marry whoever becomes the new mayor.

So you go over there, beat up the other Mayor candidate, and go into the church with your soon-to-be-husband hippie. You walk in and the hippie suddenly asks where did you get the picture of his dad's favorite angel? You're confused as fuck and then the priest says, 'Do you take this man, Jesus Christ, as your lawfully wedded husband?' and you can't even call bullshit because this weird homeless hippie being the literal Jesus Son of God actually explains a lot.

Of course you say 'yes', but you wonder what the fuck you got yourself into.

That's essentially Tsukasa's perspective in God's Favorite Problem Child.

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Hi there! I recently discovered your fanfiction series The World Your Father Left You and binge-read the entire series in one go – I’m utterly obsessed with this brilliant story! The meticulously researched details, spot-on character portrayals, and raw, immersive emotional depth completely blew my mind. Your work has lived rent-free in my head ever since (I’ve thought about it at least three times a day for the past month, zero exaggeration 😭), so I painted some fan art inspired by your God’s Favorite Problem Child as a tribute. Hope you like it! Thank you so much for pouring your heart into this masterpiece – it’s truly a gift to readers. Wishing you all the best! 💖💖💖

(I originally commented as FlyingJackdaw on ao3,but later on found out this account of yours by chance so I decided to send them here.I'm still not quite familiar with tumbrl,and I use a translator to write the comments.Apologies for any mistake!)

ASDFGHKL!?!?!?!😭♥😭♥😭♥😭♥😭 THERE'S ART???? I HAVE FANART??? I'M PUTTING THIS IN THE STORY OMGGGG

@birbliophile GET OVER HERE AND ADMIRE THIS!!!!

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Here’s an invaluable writing resource for you.

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Low space & low budget weaving

Want to weave but don't have space for a loom? Have a few sticks and yarns but no DIY skills? Come, be tempted anyway. Weaving is a whole family of crafts, some of which don't require a loom at all.

Small-ish looms like box looms (as basic as yarn wrapped around a cardboard grocery tray), inkle looms, and rigid heddle looms exist, but I'm assuming every possible space for a box in your life is already filled. In this post we're going even smaller and cheaper. As far as possible, everything either is flat enough to stow behind/under furniture or rolls up safely into a bundle of just sticks and yarn.

Many of these crafts have some crossover - the same setup can be used for multiple styles of weaving. Most of them can be improvised at home depending on what you have on hand, or if you need to buy something there is not a huge gulf between homemade vs professional equipment. Alas I am not skilled in any of these and my descriptions will not be wholly accurate; corrections and additions welcome! If you need help, I'd only be able to tell you to seek out books and tutorials yourself, ask other weavers, and just try stuff out.

All photos included with permission. My thanks to the people allowing me to use their projects! I saw so many gorgeous and skillful projects when assembling this and I wish I could have included them all.

Fingerweaving

Projects by @kitteniestkitten (here) and @wefty-weaver (here)

Culture - I am aware of this as a Native American technique, I don't know its history with any more specific tribe.

Fabric - "Warp faced" cloth of any width, insofar as warp and weft have meaning for this craft as the weaving is on a diagonal. Often used for sashes or blankets.

Method - There is no loom! A couple sticks hold the yarns to begin with, but then it is all freehand. Starting at one corner, you use your fingers to weave a strand through the other strands, and... that's it. Very simple beginnings work up to very complex patterns that no loom is capable of. The whole project can be rolled up when not active.

Backstrap loom

Projects by @calendae-creations (here) and @weavingforlooms (here)

Culture - I am most aware of this from the Andes but I think it is much more widespread than that.

Fabric - Warp faced or balanced fabric of any width up to your own reach, suitable for blankets and clothes and many other things.

Method - You are the loom! Several horizontal rods hold and manipulate the warp threads but your body provides the tension, with the other end hooked to some furniture or around your own feet. When not in use, you can roll up all the equipment into a small bundle of yarn and rods. You can also use a backstrap loom setup for other methods like tablet weaving.

Warp weighted loom

Projects by @shadowcreepling (here) and @doctormead (here)

Culture - used by ancient Greeks among many many others.

Fabric - any kind of fabric at any size. Shadowcreepling is using a warp weighted loom for a tablet-woven band, Doctormead is probably using heddle rods to make a wider piece of cloth.

Method - the warp threads are held by a bar at the top and tensioned with weights on one end that hang down towards the floor, then the weft is woven into them with any method such as tablets, heddle rods, or by hand (if you have a lot of patience) and beaten into firm fabric at the top or bottom of the loom. Warp weighted looms can be very big, but they are simple and can also be very small and taken apart when not actively weaving.

Tablet weaving / card weaving

Projects by @damage-ko (here) and @foxease (here, hardware from CellesKit on Etsy)

Culture - found as far apart as textiles (geographically and temporally) from Byzantine Egypt and the Vikings

Fabric - a warp faced fabric with patterns made by twining warp threads around each other, usually used for strong narrow bands like collars, belts, and shoelaces.

Method - the cards hold open the shed so you can pass the weft through, then rotate the cards to advance the pattern. Many people make their own with cardboard or playing cards, or you can buy some. The rest of the weaving setup can be improvised with a backstrap (or just a shower curtain hook clipped to your trousers), a cardboard box loom, or warp weights.

Rigid heddle band weaving

Projects by @pisaracraft (here) and @crookedtines (here)

Culture - small rigid heddles like the first project have been found in Roman archaeological sites across Europe. The larger rigid heddle in the second project is being used for "baltic pickup" style designs on the band.

Fabric - can be warp faced or a balanced weave, size limited by the size of your heddle.

Method - you provide tension with any setup you please such as an inkle loom, backstrap, or warp weights. The heddle creates sheds so that you can pass weft yarn through the warp easily. Infinitely many "pick-up patterns" let you weave patterns and even words into the cloth.

Pin loom / potholder loom

Projects by @pardalote (here) and @weavingmyheartout (here)

Fabric - a small square (or rectangle or triangle) of balanced weaving, which can be used alone or patched together into larger fabrics. Pin looms are finer and suitable for many knitting/crochet yarns, potholer looms are chunkier and designed for big elastics, but the method is similar.

Method - wind yarn lengthways around one set of pins and then pull yarn widthways through these strands with a hook. Or, work at 45 degrees in continuous strand weaving! Lots of room to experiment with colour and texture. You can improvise a pin loom by cutting notches in a square of sturdy cardboard.

Needle weaving / stick weaving / peg loom

Projects by @thaylepo (here) and @pastelispunx (here)

Fabric - weft-faced fabric and rugs of any size.

Method - thread long thin warp threads through the pegs, then wind a thick weft (eg heavier yarn, sheep fleece, or long scraps of fabric) around the pegs. Push the weft down along the pegs as they fill up, so that it slides off onto the warp. The pegs can be secured in a base to make a peg loom for large projects, or just handled freely. I believe these evolved as separate crafts and the nuances are different, but the overall method is similar.

Frame loom / tapestry loom

Projects by @squeakygeeky (here) and @battlestar-gasmacktica (here)

Fabric - weft-faced or balanced fabric ideal for wall hangings and upholstery, size limited to the frame being used.

Method - (usually) thinner warp threads are wound round a frame, such as heavy cardboard with notches cut in the end, a picture frame, or a small and flat purpose-made loom. Thicker weft threads are woven in by hand using needles or just small lengths of yarn. Some people make lifelike images, others make more ordinary fabrics or geometric patterns.

Bobbin lace

Projects by @crochetpiece (here) and @noxx-notions (here)

Culture - began in renaissance Italy and spread throughout Europe, often as a cottage industry.

Fabric - balanced fabric usually made of very thin threads in freeform shapes. It's not usually considered "weaving" but the basic cloth stitch is definitely a woven fabric!

Method - each thread is wound onto a bobbin (e.g. a clothespeg) and then bobbins are crossed over each other to weave threads together. The lace is pinned to a cushion to hold everything in place while the design grows.

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Everything he does to make the world safe for her is pushing them further away from viability - I mean, there wasn't much to start with (she only sees him as family) but he can't even woo her and try to change it because she'd never be one of many.

But also - this drama is so rare (not unique but rare) in showing that the whole marriage for alliance and part of a harem sucks for the women but it sucks for the man too, unless it's a particular kind of man. It makes nobody happy. I remember him in s1, being "gifted" those spy women and having to take them to bed to alleviate suspicions and breaking down enough to tell XY how he loathes their smell and by implication how he loathes taking them to bed. And yet he gets more and more women for power and not many people enjoy sleeping with women they don't at least fancy sexually (and it's clear CX doesn't have a massive libido or w/e and in another life would be happy just being with XY and that's about it) and it's like unpleasant unpleasant work.

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@rithalie-sideblog

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One of the most common ways you preserve pork without refrigeration is keeping it in really salty water. This makes the pork borderline inedible because it’s so salty. What you don’t see in medieval fantasy is people soaking their meat in water for a bit before they cook it.

That’s also a reason to boil your meat though. Like yeah meat tastes better if you sear it first but sometimes you’ve gotta get that salt out.

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We don’t talk enough about how fanfiction writers love to give character large amounts of non-specific paperwork they hate doing

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site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition 

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

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put your number (0-20) in the tags!!!!!! i think i got 14!!

anyone who comments that finding ways to enjoy the brief time we have on this bitch of an earth is cringey will be blocked ^_^ <3

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I just have to say I love love LOOOOOVE your works 💖❤️‍🔥💖💖💖💖💖💕🫰

You're such a good writer. 🥰

I especially love "Gods favourite problem child" I stayed up all night reading it.

You're especially good at writing dialogue and character interaction. I laughed out loud at so many jokes. 😂

You're great and I hope you're doing great 😸

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Thank you! I'll continue writing it after the exam period, the next chapter is 90% done, so in the next few days there might be more! Thank you!♥

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Me, typing 90k fic in two weeks high off my gourd on metyphenidate and some kind of mind control bacteria: God I hope I don't ruin my AO3 career with this shit.

Multiple commenters♥: This is one of the best fics in the fandom.

Me, coming out of a pile of tissues and anticongestants: ...how?

ao3 commenter: wow I didn't expect this fic to be good

me, the author: