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Pebble and sea glass paintings!

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pretty sure i’ve used this but it just keeps happening

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don’t know who needs to hear this but AO3 comments section is not Letterboxd. giving unsolicited criticism to a fanfic writer does not make you a “fanfic critic” because there’s no. such. thing.

giving unsolicited criticism to a fanfic writer just makes you a spoiled, rude, entitled asshole at best, makes the author stop posting their works altogether at worst.

a reminder that it’s always okay to just stop reading and quietly click away from a fic if at any point you feel like you don’t like it for whatever reasons. unless specifically asked, there’s no need to tell the author, whose work you read for free, how you dislike something they wrote for themself for fun.

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*Kicks down the door* YOU KNOW WHUMPY TROPES I LOVE SO MUCH BUT BARELY EVER SEE?

MAGIC FATIGUE/EXHAUSTION/OVERUSE.

Give me those sweet side effects of overusing magic:

Getting lightheaded and weak, struggling to stand let alone keep fighting

"Are you ok?" "Yeah I'm fine. *immediately faceplants because their legs can't support their weight anymore*"

F a i n t i n g

Physical injuries like burns, broken bones, etc

The risk of permanent damage either physically or mentally

Can I get uuuuhhhhh "loses a sense either temporarily or permanently depending on the severity of the overuse"?

Stopping their heart (cue the team scrambling to drag their dumbass friend back from death)

THERE'S SO MUCH YOU CAN DO AND I SO RARELY SEE IT.

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Glad everyone is getting so much joy from early Quaker names! Looking forward to seeing any future pets/children/bands/drag acts named after stuff on this list.

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The haunting ancient Celtic carnyx being played for an audience. This is the sound Roman soldiers would have heard their Celtic enemies make.

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Flash Fiction Friday 310- Could Have Been Worse

As soon as the goons release Scott’s arms, he lurches further into the almost empty room. He doesn’t see the door shut and lock behind him but he does hear it, and it sounds both high tech and secure. A problem for later.

Now he sinks down to the cold stone floor and gently turns John over from where he was dumped painfully on his front, to get a better view of what they’d done to him.

His face is smeared with blood – from his nose or his lip or maybe his scalp – and bruises are already darkening across his cheek. From what Scott saw- being held tight while their captors demonstrated the consequences  of ‘disobedience’  - John’s likely had some ribs broken and his wrist definitely is.

“I’m sorry, they wouldn’t stop.” Scott had begged, but they just carried on the brutal beating.

“It’s OK.” John manages between groans and wet coughs. He twitches his unbroken fingers in Scott’s direction and Scott takes the hint, gripping it firmly in both of his. There’s not much more comfort he can provide with no first aid kit. “It could be worse. It could have been Alan who went with you today instead of me.”

And Scott hates himself, because as much as this is breaking his heart, that would  have been worse.

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✨ Today, everything is perfect!

Flash Fiction Friday is here and it's time to get creating!

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We always do our very best to keep the prompt’s genre open, entertaining, positive and encouraging.

Write between 100-1000 words. It can be any genre, in any text format and 18+ is fine by us, just please tag accordingly.

Use this Friday’s theme in your text. Any way you see fit.

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✨ And now, the new prompt!

[#FFF310 Could Have Been Worse]

This prompt has been brought to you by @cocoamoonmalfoy, thank you very much! Is it a heist that did not turn out well? A bad grade that could have gone better? Tell us what happened and the consequences of "could have been worse"! We want to know all about it, be it explosions or weird cakes! Get writing now, go go go!

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The Collective <3

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As always, I’m here to answer the important questions!

There’s more about this on Patreon!

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a while ago i compiled all stargate novels into one big spreadsheet including publication info and tried to put it into one coherent timeline

also on a completely unrelated note

this is definitely not a google drive folder with all stargate novels as ebooks and pdf

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“we want more morally grey female characters” ya’ll can’t even handle Moiraine Damodred

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I know that some British people take umbridge at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

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I designed this Tiffany lamp themed bulbasaur with a lot of hesitation. I’m not sure how the design conveys but I thought she would be cool what with the pull string whips and all.

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a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

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No joke you guys NEED to get more comfortable blocking people. No more insulting people in public over different blorbo opinions no more making 2k long posts on how whatever ship you don't like shouldn't exist we've grown past that shit. Consistent posts about shit that make you uncomfortable? Block. Rancid blorbo opinions? Block. Is mildly annoying in your replies? Block. Pisses you off for reasons so petty you could never admit it publicly? Block. YOUR mental health will improve from not being upset 24/7, THEIR mental health will not be at risk of you lashing out because you happened to catch their posts on a bad day, and EVERYONE ELSE will benefit from not seeing the most embarrassing arguments known to man on their dash. "Oooh but they didn't deserve it-" dude you're presumably running a personal blog as a hobby not a public service. Who fucking cares.