manako-no-yami

[manako-no-yami]

this is about procrastinating. or executive dysfunction. i think

[manako-no-yami]

Useful life hacks:

Spice up your prose and really make your writing stand out by using exciting active verbs such as "bite" and "tear" and "rend" and "rip" and "feed" and "hunt" and "devour" and "chase" and "run" and "eat" and

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Minho comes home so drunk that he immediately stumbles for the toilet. Thomas holds his hair back and strokes his back soothingly while he vomits. Gally collapses onto the couch from exhaustion.

"You shouldn't have let him drink so much," Thomas tries to scold after putting Minho to bed

"Please don't talk to me right now," Gally just groans back at him. "Trying to pull him away from guys that he thought were attractive but were obviously straight was difficult enough."

(the words of a man who had to stop Minho from trying to hit on a guy who was literally in the middle of kissing his girlfriend)

"They could still like men," Thomas says innocently, and Gally groans loudly and throws a pillow at him

(the actions of a man who has heard that way too many times in one night.)

(They could like guys, but they almost never do, and Gally has had to deal with a drunk, sobbing, rejected Minho too many times to take the risk anymore. Maybe Minho can just get rejected sober for once)

"Next time, I'll go with you," Thomas promises earnestly

"No, save yourself."

"Don't be dramatic."

"Run while you still can."

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Bro, we are cooked. The knight that dogs the prince's shadow like a dark and silent wraith just knelt to press his forehead to the prince's hand. Yeah, now he's uttering a prayer whose recipient is ostensibly God but in reality is the deified version of the prince that exists only in his mind. Aaand the prince just caressed his cheek to preemptively grant him absolution. I gotta... I gotta get out of here.

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The children's show villain is a figure who sadly is not seen outside the children's show. There are few stock characters who as succinctly declare, from sheer stage presence, "the world is unloveable and it is painful to live here; that which delights mankind is like ash on my tongue" without being too fucking whiny about it.

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Do y'all ever read a fic so good that it makes you want to elevate your own craft and also befriend the writer? It's almost like, "Hi! You write so well that you've inspired me to embark on a creative training arc. Also, can I yell about the character in your dms because you get it?"

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sometimes writing isn’t about talent. sometimes it’s about sitting in your chair and suffering for 45 minutes until a single sentence crawls out of your skull

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Doomed siblings enjoyers when the one that dedicated their whole life to trying to live up to their parents is still worse at it than their sibling who spent their whole life rejecting them

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"You don't know me. I'm not the same person anymore."

"That's okay. I'll get to know you again."

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The biggest compliment ever is when someone sees your creative work and says that they’re now inspired to go out and create something, too

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her voice was as silky as silken tofu. but her words were as firm as extra firm tofu

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types of writing hell

blank page hell

too many words hell

not enough words hell

not the right words hell

why isn’t there a word for this hell

in my damn feelings hell

edit hell

wrong music hell

i love this too much hell

CHARACTERS, NO! hell

why can’t i word hell

repetition hell

line break hell

GRAMMAR HELL

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I love the idea of a roomba topography map being the jumping on point for a liminal horror story. House of Leaves II: Roomba.

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editing is just your past self leaving you an angry, unhinged scavenger hunt.

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i’m gonna make a movie where two normal ladies fall in love. everything’s chill, no age gap, they’re both out of the closet, their families love them, everything’s fine. the catch is that one lady has a cat and the other lady never figured out what the cat’s name was cause the Owner Lesbian ALWAYS uses a dumb nickname and now it’s been three years and they’re getting married and it’s too late to just ask

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wizard college is going to kill me I swear to god. I just saw someone without a component satchel reach into their pocket and pull out a handful of LOOSE tapioca to use as a substitute for blood in their fell ritual. and it worked. I've never been so fucking mad.