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must a fic writer actually write? is it not enough to plan fics for four hours and write nothing bc you cannot solidify an idea that feels completely satisfying?

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Sometimes the real tragedy is watching heroes burn themselves to the ground because no one will step in and tell them they have value outside of their inevitable death fighting for good.

Heroism of the front-line kind is not sustainable and the compact a hero should have with their society is eventually someone or something else moves forward and tags them out.

So much of heroism in stories and life is tunnel vision and the inability to step back because no one else is stepping forward. My favorite stories are the ones where the hero is on their last legs... and someone new (who was allowed to grow because of the time the hero helped buy) steps forward and pulls them out.

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Writing is zipping along through six pages in under an hour and then getting stuck on a single transition sentence for three weeks.

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Text: Our woods are different, bleach white trees standing still and leafless. We ache deep inside as we approach, and bone recognizes bone. 

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Hiraeth Creature #1154 - Ozusei

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I've gotta say, niche Tiktok spaces are so educational. Those made by disabled persons, people with mental/behavioral disorders, people in specialized occupations, and myriad ethnic and cultural accounts provide so many humanizing details that no "how to write X" cheatsheet could ever teach me.

Sometimes just seeing that pet owners in Russia, Japan, Pakistan, and Canada all talk to their pets with the same combination of love and exasperation is beautiful. I could write a book about humans living on Mars visiting their friends in ancient Egypt who just adopted a large fantasy creature, and how they upload videos of it chasing a laser pointer and use some heart emoji filter, and that would feel authentic! Because we know that feeling!

Forgot what this post was about, but if you have Tiktok and are trying to write about a group you don't know well, follow accounts made by people in that group. Wikipedia can teach you plenty, but learning what unique things make certain people laugh or groan in frustration is, imo, more important to their character than dry facts and figures.

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Elisabeth Van Aalderen

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In many traditional cultures, the divisions between sacred and secular are less pronounced: potters venerate gods who shape human bodies from clay, fishermen and fisherwomen make offerings to the goddesses of river and sea, and smiths align with the lords of fire and metal. Work is not separate from life, and everyone participates in transforming the raw elemental powers into food, shelter, and offerings for both the human community and the gods.

Daniel Foor, Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing

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It’s been 5000 years since humanity bombed itself back to the stone age. You are searching for a new location for your village when you see a set of enormous black stone monoliths. Among them is a pillar on which is written, “This is not a place of honor, nothing valued is here…”

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hi i heard we were talking about ship dynamics again 👁️👄👁️

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writing is going super well. my vocabulary has never been more expansive

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same energy

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noooo bro please wake up :(

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Elisabeth Van Aalderen

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the fight is harder each year.

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out: naming girls after virtues

in: naming them after vices