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Collection of writing resources I've gathered. Grammar, prompts, general writing advice, research tools, thesauruses (or thesauri 😉)... Enjoy!

General

English Language and Usage Stack Exchange

UW Madison Writing Center - Grammar/Punctuation rules/basics

Wheaton College Writing Resources

UNC Writing Tips and Tools

Purchase College Editorial Style Guide

Writing Forum - The Writing Process

Absolute Write Forum

English Plus Grammar Slammer

Onelook Thesaurus

Online Etymology Dictionary

Literary Devices

Fiction Writing

Instead Of...Simple Writer's Guide by anaemicc

'How to Become a Better Writer' by @tapwrites

'50 Tips for (Fanfic) Writing' by @ao3commentoftheday

Fic Writing Advice by @radioactive-earthshine

'How to Exploit Facial Expressions' by Kathy Steinemann - absolutely check out the rest of the site too, it is a goldmine.

'Writing Inspiration and Resources' by Bryn Donovan - some digging required but there's tools here for everyone.

'World Building and Writing Advice' + a brilliant list of Prompts, Scenarios, and Dialogues by @pendarling

Writing Questions Answered Masterlist

One Stop for Writer's Character and World Building Thesaurus

ProWritingAid Emotions Thesaurus

Descriptionary - it's...ways to describe things. Just check it out, lmfao.

Neurodivergent Fic Writer's Advice by @bookishdiplodocus

The Sexy Stuff

KJ Scott's Lewd Vocab Survey Results

'The Smutwriter's Dictionary' by @maybeeatspaghetti

Laurel Clarke's Sexy Thesaurus

Quinn Anderson's Ultimate Guide to Writing Smut

Smut Writing Tips + Smut Thesaurus by @prurientpuddlejumper

'How to Write Smut' by @bohemiantea-scorpiocoffee

Misc.

Tropes

Case Converter

Fake Text Message Generator and Another Fake Text Message Generator for your fics

Epithet Flowchart

Historical Timeline of Slang

Fashion History

Writing Realistic Injuries

Hiveword - Search Engine specifically for writing tools

Mythbank - Sort of a world mythology encyclopedia

Skeptic's Dictionary

Written Sound Onomatopoeia Dictionary

LitCharts Shakespeare Modern Translations

Stanford Geospatial Network Model of Roman World

Writing Sketchy Topics by @wordsnstuff

Writing Scents by @thewriteadviceforwriters

Ao3commentoftheday Beta Reader Checklist. Actually, for AO3 tips/basics/everythings you just really need to get yourself to ao3commentoftheday's AO3 and read everything there. Including their bookmarks!

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Some of you are kinda misunderstanding the consequences of a golden core removal. No, it’s not like being disabled. And before I go further, I'm not trying to downplay how much pain Wei Wuxian went through, both mentally and physically, but it's not like him suddenly turning disabled. He would have been disabled if he had to live with chronic pain after the surgery, but he doesn't. Such a thing is never mentioned and it's more reasonable to assume that he didn’t have it than that he had. Also, Wen Qing was the best doctor of the generation. It's ridiculous to assume that she would leave Wei Wuxian disabled after her surgery.

Golden core is an extra appendage. Without it, you return to the default setting. Wei Wuxian was once again a regular human.

Though, not really. He went through the whole war, not once lagging behind the cultivators. He hit the bullseye blindfolded. He went against 3000 cultivators. In Mo Xuanyu's body, with a weak golden core, he, without a sword, went against Xue Yang.

Wei Wuxian is truly phenomenal, with or without a golden core. His sacrifice of debt and gratitude shouldn’t be disregarded, but it shouldn’t be exaggerated either.

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Does anyone have any idea why I can’t see any of them? I was trying to answer yall but- 😭

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Hola, que buen ship el que tienes ahí, dibujas muy bien

Oh! Muchísimas gracias! 🥺

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Welp. I succumbed. I’m drawing nsfw jayvik. Inevitable ngl

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lab vs. forge: cool or warm setting/atmosphere?

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if my friend is real imma be real too!

The way this is only for one story 😂

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Jayvik, the missing years 1\2

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this is what I imagined happening in the shadows of this fanart

they’re so in awe of each other, your honor

anyways, I made a trillion versions but I like b&w the most for some reason, here’s some fully colored ones

night version went kinda hard too I think 🤔

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first meeting? the official one at least. the one to finally kickstart their friendship, for real this time

(this is a flashback from a little jayvik hogwarts professors au)

I started it with a friend, this would be the fragment of the draft corresponding to the sketch above:

Viktor walks into the library like every other day and finds it a bit more crowded than usual. Searching for a place to sit, he spots Jayce Talis. He’s facing away from him, hunched over the table, flicking his wand in one hand hitting the back of his head repeatedly, as a quill moves wildly in his other hand. Viktor approaches him quietly.

Coming to stand behind him, he looks over Jayce’s shoulder and watches as he crumples a piece of paper in his hands and throws it away. There are three more of those on the table. Intrigued, Viktor inches closer and tries to read. That’s when he realizes Jayce is mumbling to himself.

“No, this is… It has to be som… ing else. But… What? Ugh. Wha… id I write here?” He lifts the parchment and starts looking at it from different angles. “Blue… do…Dartwing?”

“Butterfly wings.” Viktor says before he can stop himself.

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This is 3rd yeah btw! They’re both the same age in this AU.

You may be wondering what happened 1st and 2nd year… well, let me tell you about that in another post! But this is def not their first interaction. I guess it’s a bit like canon, we all see a certain scene as their first meeting, but actually they’d already met.

Note: I personally think Jayce is Hufflepuff at heart but my friend sees him as Gryffindor and it works for me, cause that savior complex gotta go there lmao

I also love when people put them in Ravenclaws, but to me Viktor is more Slytherin (resourceful and ambitious). Plus we already made timebomb Ravenclaws, we needed diversity ahaha

At the end of the day you can choose your house regardless of what the sorting hat says soooo maybe they exercised free will, who knows!

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first meeting? the official one at least. the one to finally kickstart their friendship, for real this time

(this is a flashback from a little jayvik hogwarts professors au)

I started it with a friend, this would be the fragment of the draft corresponding to the sketch above:

Viktor walks into the library like every other day and finds it a bit more crowded than usual. Searching for a place to sit, he spots Jayce Talis. He’s facing away from him, hunched over the table, flicking his wand in one hand hitting the back of his head repeatedly, as a quill moves wildly in his other hand. Viktor approaches him quietly.

Coming to stand behind him, he looks over Jayce’s shoulder and watches as he crumples a piece of paper in his hands and throws it away. There are three more of those on the table. Intrigued, Viktor inches closer and tries to read. That’s when he realizes Jayce is mumbling to himself.

“No, this is… It has to be som… ing else. But… What? Ugh. Wha… id I write here?” He lifts the parchment and starts looking at it from different angles. “Blue… do…Dartwing?”

“Butterfly wings.” Viktor says before he can stop himself.

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This is 3rd yeah btw! They’re both the same age in this AU.

You may be wondering what happened 1st and 2nd year… well, let me tell you about that in another post! But this is def not their first interaction. I guess it’s a bit like canon, we all see a certain scene as their first meeting, but actually they’d already met.

Note: I personally think Jayce is Hufflepuff at heart but my friend sees him as Gryffindor and it works for me, cause that savior complex gotta go there lmao

I also love when people put them in Ravenclaws, but to me Viktor is more Slytherin (resourceful and ambitious). Plus we already made timebomb Ravenclaws, we needed diversity ahaha

At the end of the day you can choose your house regardless of what the sorting hat says soooo maybe they exercised free will, who knows!

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They save each other from dying until they decide to die together

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Happy Valentine’s Day! Do you have a Jayvik first kiss headcanon? Because I do.

I tend to have strong hcs for who would kiss who first, and.. Viktor would pounce on Jayce, me thinks.

Nothing at all foreseeable, just after Jayce said something so genius that Viktor simply couldn’t resist it. (Later he would gaslight Jayce into believing it was of no consequence btw lmao but in truth wishes to marry him)

That’s what I was thinking about when I drew this 😅 It was originally a warm up sketch… but you know me, I get carried away.

Picture this.

Viktor visiting the forge because he’s been stuck on the same problem all afternoon. Sometimes he just needs that back and forth with Jayce to get his ideas flowing.

He’s a little frustrated when he gets there. He can’t seem to get anything right. But Jayce, whose mind is fresh and clear from all that hammer work, would absentmindedly just— say something absurdly brilliant.

And Viktor, whose mind has not been that clear or fresh, wouldn’t find any better way to respond than by kissing him on the mouth. Hard. And probably with tongue. Simply because Jayce deserves it.

Jayce would still be standing there, trying to process what the hell just happened, while Viktor goes on and on about their work—having suddenly found the inspiration he’d been missing!

Jayce wouldn’t hear a single word, of course, and when Viktor turned expecting a response he’d realize what Jayce was still stuck on. He’d wave it off. And Jayce, too stunned to speak, would simply follow Viktor to the lab—all brilliant ideas gone for the evening…

Almost as if Viktor stole them through that kiss.

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ANYWAYS next Jayvik will hopefully be the first half of the comic (slow but steady!!!)

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Happy Valentine’s Day to them 🥰 (just a cute sketch before I finish my other piece. posting later)

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he’s beauty, he’s grace (and my favorite warm up face)

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Am I at risk of overdoing contrast and saturation? Probably. Will that stop me from trying to add more drama? Not really.

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Shin Hati • Stylized Portrait Study (that ended up looking kinda like a movie poster? I’d watch a movie about her tbh)

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