#i am my own enemy

[apileofashandember]

Desperately need to stop going into writing fanfics thinking it'll take one or two days tops to finish....

it never does...

it never does.

[kiingbiing]

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[imfullofworms]

[editloids]

Sorry for not doing RQs by the way , we don’t have a proper queue and it demotivates me but the person MAKING the queue is …. ME. ☆

[rggie]

Your sebek content is lovely but....I find it fun to slander him and the slander wont end from me😈😈

But I fear....that I'm growing soft on him🥲

you are not immune to the charms of sebek!!!

imagine: he quotes shakespeare to you (because he loves literature)😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰 flirts with you in old english and thinks he’s the smoothest guy in the world

[spotlightstudios]

It's part 2 of: Not the content you signed up for, but I'm posting it anyways!

Just uhh... just laughing at myself. Actually enjoying the piece rn, it's just got a lot of moving pieces to it.

[koravelliumavast]

i knew my gifted burnout mixed with the piss poor need for academic validation, my executive dysfunction and my never really needing to study in high school was going to bite me in the ass in college.

[ghostheadlock]

If you don't mid me asking why did you stop writing that dahmo fic a long time ago?

short answer is i got bored and i didn't really have the fic well mapped out lol most of the time if i stop writing something it's because I'm bored or didn't properly outline it

[ctommyisnt]

Arfhhffhjf thinking of trying to draw again but every time I’ve tried has been super disheartening

[onanay]

*mickey mouse voice* HYPOCRITE THAT U ARE

[nyarados]

I set a notif on insta so it reminds me to pause for a break every 20min but now I'm just on tumblr

[sugarcherriess]

Good morning!!! I have like an hour to spare so I thought I’d empty my inbox! How are y’all doing? r u doing the things i asked? You best be or else I’ll haunt your every waking moment

[adrenaleene07]

My everyday mantra

🎥: Melancholia (2011)

[seagull-scribbles]

“Ain’t turtles supposed to be endangered?”

“Only the ones who can’t do this!”

[undercoverpena]

tell me why I can’t stop thinking of post colombia!javi being in love with his childhood best friend—and why I’m reopening a wip oneshot of him going to her city to surprise her. only to fall more in love with her. tell me why. tell me.

[bethanydelleman]

I think I figured out the problem with the Enemies to Lover's trope, it has a bimodal distribution. Let me explain!

Most tropes have a normal distribution:

I hypothesize that with EtoL, there is very little middle ground. This is a bimodal distribution:

You either do EtoL well and join the ranks of the immortals, or you crash and burn. I've discussed previously what makes EtoL work, but there seem to be a lot of traps for writers to fall into when it comes to this trope. For example:

the turn being based too heavily on lust (common JAFF trap)

never fully establishing the enemies phase

insufficient apology on one side (almost always the man's) which makes the other's acceptance unsatisfying

the pair have the communication skills of a newborn baby (ei: the misunderstanding could be fixed with a single sentence)

one side is a real asshole but it's excused because of TRAUMA

growth is ignored in favour of acceptance (can work, usually doesn't)

Relationship is clearly toxic, above and beyond the extenuating circumstances/magical premise (The problem isn't that Edward is a vampire, that's part of the premise. The problem is his disregard for Bella's autonomy)

One side gives in because the other is too obsessed with them

Once Upon a Time flew by having Hook feel meaningful remorse for his past actions (the scene with the Little Mermaid got me so good) and establishing begrudging respect between him and Emma, The Mindy Project crashed and burned by not showing sufficient growth in Danny (does he respect her career now or are they just horny?). Parks and Recreation got it by making the leads both good people who just got on each other's nerves because they had different valid approaches. I think Brooklyn 99 is one of those rare mediocre ones, because the enemy stage isn't fully established but the relationship is still satisfying. The Kdrama Alchemy of Souls got it right by having both main characters display an impressive amount of personal growth, while 100 Days My Prince burned because it relied too heavily on obsession and trauma excusing behaviour.

Pride & Prejudice and Much Ado About Nothing show that the beginning dynamic can be completely different, old antagonists vs. first impressions, but the trope can still work if it's done right. The problem is that it's so often done wrong.

So when it's good, it's SO GOOD, when it's bad, it sucks.