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Humans are beautiful things. We create ourselves based on our surroundings. Every piece of us is a shard of someone else, creating a beautifully broken mosaic of memories and loved ones. We are all works of art, making the world the richest museum to exist.

How wonderus is that?

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Beautiful words to use more!

Languages are wonderus things, full of equally amazing words that each bring their own sense of beauty.

1. Aurora: the dawn; goddess of the dawn

Origin: middle English/latin

2. Allure: powerfully or mysteriously attractive or fascinating

Origin: old french/latin

3. Diaphanous: sheer and light; almost transparent; delicately hazy

Origin: Greek/Medieval latin

4. Ebullience: extreme excitement or enthusiasm

Origin: Latin

5. Effervescent: fizzy; vivacious; enthusiastic

Origin: Latin

6. Enthralled: capture the fascinated attention of

Origin: late middle english

7. Forevermore: an endless amount of time in any and all futures

Origin: British English

8. Incendiary: flammable; incites agitation or sedition

Origin: Latin Middle English

9. Ineffable: too great to describe; unspeakable

Origin: old french/latin

10. Sanguine: happy and hopefully; red, flushed or related to blood

Origin: Middle English/Old French

11. Sanguinolency: bloody; related to blood

Origin: Latin

12. Serendipity: the chance occurrence of events in a beneficial way

Origin: English

13. Serpentine: characteristic of, or resembling, a serpent; having a winding course; senuous, shrewd, or cunning

Origin: Middle English/Medieval Latin

14. Supine: lying face upwards

Origin: late middle English

15. Limerence: intense infatuation, obsession, and/or love for another person

Origin: entirely made up by Dorothy Tennov

16. Petrichor: the earthy smell when rain falls on dry dirt

Origin: Greek

Words are glorious things aren't they? They can express so much more than we could ever imagine. These are personally my favorites and words I think are stunning, both spoken and written.

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Listen up!

You see a post like this? Where OP might hurt/kill themselves? You hit that button that I circled

Hit that.

Click Suicide or Self-harm Concern

Yes.

Fill in the rest of it, and hit submit. The "content you reported" will fill itself in

Tumblr will follow up and help them.

Warning: this is only for mobile. If anyone knows how to do this for desktop, please add it!

This could SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.

YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOT TO REBLOG THIS.

I DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF IT DOESN'T GO WITH YOUR BLOG'S THEME.

And yes, REBLOG. Liking does no shit at all. This isn't ig.

You reblog, people see it. You don't, people don't see it. This shit's that simple.

This could save someone's life. It's not a joke.

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Ice breakers, but make it Dark Academia:

📖- what author/book inspires you?

🌧- go to activity on a rainy day?

☕- tea or coffee?

🖤- tweed, silk, corduroy, or velvet?

🎻- favorite composer/ music artist?

🤎- you switch places with the main character from the last book you read, how are you doing?

💀- favorite dead language?

🕰- what era do you wish you could've lived in?

🤍- do you believe in soul mates?

🖋- what poem resonates with you?

🕯- favorite subject?

💫- favorite quote?

🧠- field of study?

😈- do you enjoy scary/unusual things?

📽- favorite film?

🍁- favorite season? why?

🍇- sweet tooth?

🍷- do you believe in opposites attract? why or why not?

⏳- carpe diem?

♟- favorite games/ sports?

⚖- philosophical stance? favorite philosopher?

💡- things you look for in a partner?

⚰- if you were to die today, would you have any regrets?

⚜- do you have a type? (personality and/or physical appearance)

🗝- what is your key to everything?

🎨- a piece of art that you find otherworldly?

🎭- Shakespeare? if yes, favorite play?

🌙- are you a night owl or an early riser?

🥂- you get to spend an entire evening with anyone (dead or alive) who is it and why?

🕷- one topic you know way too much about

🥀- best love story of all time in your opinion?

🏹-you've been hit with cupid's arrow, you fall in love with what's on your left. What's the lucky object?

🍄- if you had to choose to never see or hear again, which would you choose and why?

⚔- you've been challenged to a duel, weapon of choice?

🕸- who do you get your fashion taste from?

👣-somewhere you want to visit?

🧸- last but not least, why did you join Dark Academia?

Send me questions(anon), reblog, do whatever makes your heart happy, and carpe diem!🖤

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How to Write Heartbreak!

Writers love to torture their readers, whether it be with death or breaking a character's heart.

1. Calm before the storm.

Give your readers a happy chapter, just before everything falls apart. Allow your characters to have a chapter where they're all sitting around, laughing and enjoying each others company. Let them talk about what life is going to be like when they defeat the villain or win the war. The next chapter, crush all of that. The characters enter, but not all come back out.

2. Betrayal.

A character tells their most trusted secrets with their best friend, or someone they care deeply for. Next thing they know, that same person is standing on the side of the antagonist. They were leaking the secrets to the antagonist. That's why character A's plans were always foiled. Character A's heart is completely shattered. They don't know what to do with themselves anymore. The one person they trusted most betrayed them. Use flowy words and flowery language to describe the despair they fall into.

3. Manipulation.

Character A manipulated Character B forcing them to believe something that simply wasn't true. Character B gets a bad case of Stockholm Syndrome and then finds out their entire world was lies. All a ruse created by character A. Character B's heart is shattered and torn. They have no clue what's real or what's fake anymore. Character B falls into insanity or loses all sense of reality. Maybe character A realizes what's happening and what they did was wrong, and they now try to save character B, but can't. They are too far gone.

4. Death.

Death is an obvious way to hurt a reader and character, but done in certain ways it can have a huge impact on them. Make a character so lovable nothing bad could ever possibly come to them. Make a character a fan favorite. Make characters fall in love with other characters. Then, kill them off. Make other characters watch the deaths, but don't make them go all revenge. The first stage of grief is denial. The characters should sit there, perhaps clutching the body of the dead ones, and weep, tell themselves its all a bad dream. Have them pinch themselves saying "wake up! Wake up!" Make them convince themselves that they aren't dead. They're just sleeping. They're just injured and if I take them back to base and fix them up everything will be fine. Especially if the bond between them was unbreakable.

5. Crush Dreams.

Allow your characters to achieve something they've always wanted too and have been working for years to get too. Let something from their past fuel them, like trying to make a long lost friend proud or making a promise to a family member on their death bed. Once they are right there, and their goal is in the palm of their hands, snatch it away. Crush their hopes and dreams. Make them doubt their abilities. Make them be a hero who failed at saving the world. Make them think they disappointed everyone. Put them at the lowest point they could be at. Then, bring them back up. Before knocking them down again. Kick them when they're already on the ground.

6. Blame.

Let's say character A's mother was killed and they watched. Make them go through their story blaming themselves for her death. Make them always think "if only you had done this you could have saved her." "If only you were stronger she would be here." They think they killed their mother when in reality there was nothing they could have done. Especially if they were a child and this is their childhood trauma. If the character is the hero, make this hinder them. Everytime they try to save someone, they remember how they "killed" their mother and freeze up.

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Writing Memes!

Just a few memes while I work on my next writing tips post!

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Writing Villains!

We all love a good villain, but what makes a good villain?

Personally, I dislike when villains have no fleshed out backstory or a throwaway line of "[something traumatic (normally death of parents) so that's why I'm the villain." That could be a good reason, but if its not fleshed out, it may come off as a pity scene to make you feel bad for the villain just before the book ends or the villain is defeated. To fix this, you could dedicate a flashback chapter(s) to the villain in order to really describe just what happened and why the villain is the way they are.

Make sure the reason and reaction make sense. If the villain was bullied as a child, and wants revenge on the people who did it, they most likely won't go out of their way to burn an entire city to the ground. Depending on the volume of the bullying, they might hunt down said bullies and make their lives miserable or even resort to killing them, but not tear down the whole city.

Villains are normally masterminds. They wouldn't just give out their plans. If a villain did, giving fake intel and leaving red herrings to trick the hero would show just how smart they are. Now, of course if this doesn't fit the personality of the villain in your story, you do not have to follow it, however, when a villain gives out their plan to "make the scene dramatic" I find it overused and out of character, almost like a cartoon.

I love when a villain gets a redemption arc, however, when everything is perfectly fine between the hero(es) and villain(s) it takes way the gravity of the whole arc. When writing a redemption arc, there's going to still be that mistrust and judgment. There will be fear and doubt, accusations and lies, because when befriending the enemy you cannot forget that you were enemies in the first place. Forgiveness and redemption take time and proof. It won't happen like the snap of your fingers over a few days.

Allow the villain(s) to get a win or two on their side, even if the hero(es) ultimately defeat them in the end. Villains always losing and heroes always winning doesn't create a sense of tension that you are probably aiming for when writing these kinds of conflict. If a villain wins, they may get cocky or confident, while the hero will realize how high the stakes truly are. It may knock the hero down a peg or two and give the villain some kind of ground to stand on, some kind of proof that they are a formidable foe.

Please note, these are all tips in the context of your WIP! Depending on what you're writing and how you're writing it, these may be different!