#i WILL take the opportunity to complain

[seeesame]

11 and 28 for the writer's ask game :D :D ♡♡♡

11. Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?

Betts' wrote about this in the latest edition of her newsletter. I took nothing but notes and I still don't know if I have any WIPs.

She says, 'I don't believe in killing your darlings, except when you really have to,' which is what I imagine the first person to give this advice said. But I'm far removed from a professional writing environment, so what do I know.

I've killed a few darlings. Either jokes that don't make it into the manuscript or some kind of gaping wound. Dial that back. Turn down the rating. Make sure that you don't feel anything when you read it. I can't stand being dependent on what other people think of me. I don't even love being liked, I just need to be everyone's special little girl or I will start shaking like a chihuahua.

I should delete that too! Icky feelings. Icky icky icky. Bothering you and ruining your life and contaminating you. You're welcome<3

28. Who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? Why?

I'M PICKING AN OC. Lin Ursa.

Assassin falls for the person he was sent to kill and ends up fretting over her to a ridiculous degree. Ex-assassin feels so, so evil about being attracted to someone who literally likes him back. Double agent misses his not-girlfriend so much he starts crying and has to make up an excuse. HE HELPS HER WITH HER HAIRRR aaaaaaaa HE GETS SO FLUSTERED EVERY OTHER SECOND aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa HE REALIZES HE HAS TO BE A REAL PERSON IN ORDER TO PROTECT HER UEUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(And no, I haven't written anything. I just. Them.) (ALSO HE'S PRETTY(TM))

[spiderzlover]

Moment from opening that felt familiar...🐙🦑

[anglerflsh]

wow ive been kind of off lately I should take a day to rest an[explosion]

[noveltybee]

Imagine putting your heart and soul into a project because you love the source material, but have to work around certain scenarios because they won’t really translate well to screen, which is fine because you’ve gotten help/blessings from the ORIGINATOR of said source material so you’re feeling really good about everything. Maybe you wish you could change somethings, but you’re proud of the story that you’ve told and how true it is to the HEART OF THE STORY…

Only to then read that some of the fans of said source material think the show is awful and (somehow??) worse than the bad movie adaptations that disregarded the heart of the material (the actually STORY), all because of a casino and either adding or dropping minor story beats.

Wow. Just wow.

[bloodysparklez]

i redrew one of my favorite scenes from the novel! they're literally so silly. it's comedy central out here in puqi shrine

[palossssssand]

Denchuuuu denchu denchu. I think they're the cutest I wanna know more :] Sending you 1, 2, 8 and 21 for funsies from the pride prompts ^^

1. What's your oc's gender identity? What's their relationship to their gender?

Denchu is genderfluid and uses any pronouns (he/she/they/and more?).

2. What's your oc's orientation? (Romantic/sexual/platonic alterous ect) Do they have opinions about it?

I'm not sure if this has a label but Denchu is attracted to masc-presenting people. any gender

8. Have they had struggles with their identity, be it due to internal or external reasons?

I think he definitely tends to downplay how he feels about being genderfluid because he's used to presenting as Girl and it's "easier" to present as Girl. They probably experience the feeling of "I go by any pronouns" and proceeding to only be referred to be she/her and then get frustrated later. Maybe there was a period of time where she didn't want to use she/her at all and ultimately circled back into including it because she still liked being Girl

21. Free ramble card wee

I would not be surprised if Denchu started figuring their stuff out after Kanu confides to them about being a trans guy, inspiring them to figure out their own stuff (says this as if they're not my characters and they're out doing things of their own free will)

[nerdgirlnarrates]

Lame opinion I guess, but I lose a little respect for people who use chat GPT for assignments. I don’t get why people wanna avoid learning so badly.

[benevolenterrancy]

relistened to Last Beacon, aka Ianto And Owen's No Good Very Bad Hiking Trip

[sysig]

Hazing (Patreon)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

my stepdad's a real one fr...

[atlas-of-galaxies]

thoughts on ruikasa? negative? negative neutral? neutral? positive neutral? yaoi?

ah, ruikasa ... [staring out the window forlornly]

honestly. if I could enjoy prsk perfectly in a vacuum with no fandom influence whatsoever, I'd like them a lot more, but I am just so so tired of the rampant misogyny in this fandom; in a cast where girls outnumber the boys 4 to 1, they're constantly overlooked and pushed aside anyway. like, one look at the ao3 tags really says all you need to know:

ruikasa has more than double the amount of fics the most popular wlw ship has. and there's not even the main character excuse like a lot of other fandoms have; everyone gets the same amount of attention in-game.

it's not like this problem is unique to this fandom, but man is it noticeable and especially egregious when the ratio is so off. and it's really not the ship's fault, but unfortunately the oversaturation of it has made me not exactly its biggest fan.

on a canon level tho! I do genuinely enjoy certain moments between them, and I absolutely see their appeal (the end of the pandemonium event especially comes to mind. very good scene for them both). and I adore polysho so it's not like I don't ship them in some capacity lol.

I'm just not wild about them, and it's not like the fandom is hurting for content for them, so I don't feel particularly inclined to do much for them by way of art or discussion, y'know.

[stillcarmine]

If R*ck hadn’t hit the sitcom continuity reset button on valzhang after Mark of Athena then Nico would have watched them and been like, “Okay, guess I’m not the only gay one here.”

[yellowhollyhock]

Casey: I'm really glad you and Angel are dating. I know you'll take good care of each other. You're a great guy; I trust you.

Donny: Thanks, Casey. That means a lot.

Donny: It's also really awkward though because I was gonna say that if you hurt April I'll bash your head in--

[scribblingface]

the most exhausting part of every US election is seeing the same pro voting vs anti voting discourse over and over and over

[val-of-the-north]

Cannibal/Butcher women in Soulsborne (somehow a recurring trend)

Unnamed Meat Cleaver Lady

Maneater Mildred

Melinda the Butcher

Isabella the Mad

Anastasia, Tarnished-Eater

And they are always somehow kinda pretty how is this possible?

[bl00dhoundsfang]

i swear bro, when this semester is over, i’m writing some cute/filthy fics with the Men of COD x PlusSize!Reader (gn). too many of y’all cater to skinny white girls in your xReader fics and i’m SICK OF IT. SICK AND TIRED. i do NOT have a narrow waist and porcelain skin, i have BROWN SKIN and a MUFFIN TOP and my thighs rub holes in every pair of pants i own, aite??

also i’ve always had a headcanon that König prefers chubby girls/bois and absolutely nothing and no one can convince me otherwise. he’s a big boi, he’d want someone that he wouldn’t snap like a twig, u feel me?