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I am currently taking a small break on my main project to finish the next chapter of my fanfic, the Withering Rose. Hopefully I'll have chapter 6 up by Sunday. Might work on it while watching the life series. But I will keep you all updated on it. Anyways, if you all haven't read the first 5 chapters you can read it here!

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Write it anyways! You might have a different take on the trope!

Must be devastating to refrain from writing something you love because it’s ’overdone’.

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So what have I learned from this picture?

Hands are hard.

That is what I've learned. Lol (might have been easier if I made hands bigger)

I am trying to get better by drawing the characters in my wips. But I can only do so much at a time and I am trying. 😭

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yiou can only reblog this post on july 17th dont reblog it on any other day or you will be boiled

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sorry if i'm gonna be quiet for a while. my country recently introduced laws that make it so that in order to use social media to the fullest (not being able to view ns/fw content and in a few cases, not even having access to dms), i HAVE to give the sites my id/face scan.

it goes into effect july 25th. it'll probably effect here too, since this place allows mature content (tho not full on ns/fw)

i'm very distressed about it bc i might end up not even being able to talk to my internet friends. i don't really have any irl ones

if i have to disappear on most socials by then, you know why.

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We'll finish the projects... eventually...

currently outlining a new story while actively working on two other stories and ignoring a third story that is 80% done. the adhd creative pipeline is like a revolving door with spikes

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Thought this might help others who struggle when writing. I know I get in my head too much.

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So, if anyone ever wants to pick up any kind of craft after a long hiatus or just a new type of creative medium. My advice would be to be okay with being bad. The goal for creativity should not be to be good. But to create something that is simply you.

As a human, you are not perfect. No human is perfect. The goal of art isn't perfection, but to simply be and to create.

No one can create like "you." Just like no one can ever truly be you.

I always tell people "perfectionism is the killer of the arts." We put so much effort to make art look "perfect" when it is okay for it to just be.

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In summary, your story is always worth writing. Your writing doesn't have to be perfect it just has to be you.

Your story is still worth writing even if it veers off from what you planned originally.

It’s still worth writing even if you aren’t feeling it right now.

It’s still worth writing even if it’s fanfiction.

It’s still worth writing even if you don’t think anyone else would ever want to read it.

It’s still worth writing even if it doesn’t get published.

It’s still worth writing even if it doesn’t get adapted into a huge blockbuster movie.

It’s still worth writing even if you can’t have fancy illustrations at the beginning of chapters or a map of the world at the beginning.

It’s still worth writing even if someone you trusted told you to stop.

It’s still worth writing if you just rolled your eyes at me.

It’s still worth writing, SO WRITE IT.

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And yet, I can guarantee your writing will still be 100% better than AI. Write bad, and be proud!

Write your story, even if you have to write it badly. In fact write it badly for the AIs so they don’t feel bad :(

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So my partner came back from a week long vacation, and while he was out, he said that he saw something that made him think of me and bought it. I saw him for the first time today after about a week and a half of not seeing him. (Or last night, this post is going to say 1 something in the morning.) And he handed me a box that had a necklace in it. I smiled and said that I loved it. As someone that is autistic that isn't something that is easily faked so it was a genuine reaction. He told me to lift up the flap on the box and there was an oster with a pearl in it. Ya'll, the necklace was for the Pearl. It was a little locket to hold the pearl. I legit was holding back tears the whole time, and all I could do was hug him and thank him.

The way I reacted and felt, you'd think I was purposed to. But it really was touching. Especially since, for the past decade before I started dating him about a year ago, I had been in really shitty relationships where I was made to feel inferior and like an afterthought.

He genuinely makes me feel like I am special and like I genuinely mean something. I was starting to believe that relationships like I have with him were just fiction. Like for the past 15 years, I've written stories about relationships like what I have now. He isn't perfect. No one is. But it makes me wonder why I ever settled for being treated as less than human.

Here is the pictures of the pearl and the pearl inside the little locket.

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I'm pretty sure I'm probably on some watch list for the things I've googled for my work.

Non-writers don't understand how much of writing is just googling things like "when was the croissant invented" for worldbuilding reasons and staring off into the distance.

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I'm still trying to figure out the color background. But my editing phase is starting to reach its end. I am excited about this book as I now need to figure out how to market it. It is going to probably be shorter than the rest of the series as the first book falls under "light novel" in length. But I can guarantee that the next ones will be longer.

Made what I am thinking is possibly going to be my cover art for my one project "The Violate Star Witch". I am currently working on the other half and I am thinking about doing little sketches for it. But currently trying to find out what I want the backdrop color being. I'm thinking possibly a light grey. Not quite sure.

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Please remember your favorite writers are attention whores with a praise kink, they need validation to survive. Feed them comments and reblogs to save a life.

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The story that I have up for free that i know has the most traction to it was definitely smut. I'd be surprised if one person didn't like it like that. I may are may not be in the process of editing that story to put it up on my ko-fi later in the year... or early next.

"Did you know people are masturbating to your smut fics-- 🤢" I hope they get twice as wet as I did writing it, mind your fucking business.

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Random thought, my tumblr is old enough to have a tumblr. Yet, I was never as active on here as I am now.

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If even one person likes my work or says it was impactful in some way, that means it does mean something. Put your work out there. Let it be terrible. Your voice matters. <3

writing is radical when the system tells you your voice isn’t worth anything