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Ocean Vuong, To My Father / To My Future Son

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How To End Your Story

The Circle Ending: A story that does a full circle and comes back to the beginning

The Moral Ending: An ending where you learn a lesson and see the character develop

The Surprise Ending: A big plot twist last-minute

The Reflection Ending: The character looks back on their past achievements and experiences

The Emotional Ending: Leave your readers feelings sad, bittersweet, or happy

The Cliffhanger Ending: End on something that will leave your readers at the edge of their seat

The Humor Ending: Finish in a funny or humorous way

The Question Ending: Make the reader wonder what will happen next

The Image Ending: Show, don't tell

The Dialogue Ending: Finish with a quote from one of your characters

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I forgot how lonely it is to write original fiction.

Where are the kudos? The subscriptions? The comments? The people cheerleading me chapter to chapter? Where are the kind words and compliments and reassurances that what I'm writing isn't complete crap? Where are the unhinged emojis? The asks on Tumblr? Where are my mutuals in my dms apologizing for not reading the latest chapter right away (side note, you know you don't have to apologize at all, right??). Where is the fanart? Where are the recs?

Where is my motivation to keep going?

It's something I've been thinking about a lot, actually, lately. How the experience of writing fanfic is so unique. How you already have an audience, willing and waiting and captive. And that's really it, isn't it? You have an audience. It's almost performative, writing fanfic. It's being on a stage, a one-person show (or two, if you do it with a friend); it's getting live reactions to your performance, it's feeding off the energy of the crowd and informing it back in a feedback loop; it's improvised, sometimes, in almost-real-time. It's building something that you couldn't have built by yourself. A thing that takes on a life of its own.

It's an experience you can't get writing original fiction, and, honestly, not having it is making it hard to write something original at all.

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ok. guys. what's the most batshit hindu myrh you know

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“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Budhapa checklist :

Baal jhadte jaa rahe hain ✅

Guthno (knees) mein dard ✅

Mari hui yaddasht ✅

सठियाई hui dimaag ✅

Kamjor aankhein ✅

Back pain ✅

Short temper ✅

Isolation ✅

Short term memory loss ✅

Lost interest in everything ✅

Marne maraane ki baatein ✅

Congratulations you complete the criteria 👏

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How beautiful is it when he remembers the little things you like and knows when you will get angry? He knows you have such an attitude,yet he treats you with love. He knows you have high standards when it comes to love, yet he loves you unconditionally. He knows you love him the most because you cannot see him unhappy. You are clumsy, but you are cute enough to make him feel loved. You know he's meant for you when your heart feels peaceful and you feel loved by a man who has everything to offer to make you feel loved. He knows you will cry a lot, so he takes care of you and makes you smile all the time, so you have no room for sadness. He clicks beautiful pictures of you because he knows you love to dress up, and he tirelessly takes photos of you to make you feel good. He knows you are stubborn, so he loves you in a way that even love gets jealous of him in the way he loves you.

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is it just me or does the way people treat like "dopamine" and "serotonin" in modern pop psych context read exactly like balancing the humors

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➡️ Content warnings on fiction are a courtesy. 

➡️ Not every medium of fiction and storytelling has or is expected to have content warnings or extensive tagging.

➡️ Print novels do not traditionally warn for content in any way.

➡️ Until AO3 came along, fanfiction did not traditionally warn for content in any significant way.

➡️ An author is only obligated to warn for content to the degree mandated by the format they publish their fiction on.

➡️ Content warnings beyond the minimum are a courtesy, not an obligation.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is a valid tag that authors are allowed to use on AO3. It means there could be anything in there and you have accepted the risk. 'May contain peanuts!'

➡️ Writers are allowed to use 'Creator chose not to warn' for any reason, including to maintain surprise and avoid spoilers.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is not the same thing as 'no archive warnings apply'.

➡️ It is your responsibility to protect yourself and close a book, or hit the back button if you find something in fiction that you're reading that upsets you.

➡️ You are responsible for protecting yourself from fiction that causes you discomfort.

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Being arospec is HILARIOUS bc I gaslight myself into thinking I have a crush and then gaslight myself out of the crush and then gaslight myself about being bi and then straight and then gay and then aspec and then-

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“to be a woman is to experience pain”“to be a woman is to perform”“to be a woman is to-” SHUT UP SHUT UP 💥💥💥💥

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Another sonnet I wrote ❤️

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Is love and sex really a human necessity or can you just not perceive people existing out of the amatonormative mold?

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really not a fan of how much not having a driver's license restricts my autonomy

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Rawaaj

They've left and now want me gone too

They think it's how it should be

I'm sick of how they perceive my words

And call them disrespectfully abrupt

I've said I'll stay and that I never wanted to leave

But what I get to hear is painfully familiar

" It's against all custom, all tradition and rawaaj

Against thought, against culture, against belief

Even birds fly away when they're old enough

That caterpillar turned butterfly just made it's way"

I turn to stone, whenever they think

I've got wings like them, towering on my back

They're wingless too, though they'll never admit

And will just shout profanities at me

When told how in love I am with this place

" We're never coming back"

I know that for sure

" You're a psychopath who'll never move on"

When did moving on get so literal?

" You're going against our rawaaj, there'll be consequences"

I've seen better ones when I abided by them

So they've moved on, and think I haven't

They just don't know how much I've learnt

Staying in the same old place they've known as hell

They used to say I get attached too bad

 I know I do, and it's always too hard

But just to say, at least I'm glad

That my heart chose to hinge

In the right places, with the right souls

-Sophia