Merry Yaoimas 2: Electric Boogaloo (they Finally Kissed)

“Be curious about what you’re writing about” is not stock Common Writing Advice but it really, really should be. There are a lot of written works that fail due to the authors just being obviously incurious about what they are writing about.

Katsuki Bakugou has reflected on that singular river incident for too long for him and Deku not to have a hand holding/grabbing moment before the manga ends

Hori make it real 😤 (the oracle said you have to)

Batfam X 1-A class🫠🫠

l was supposed to finish this one for the last Halloween lmao... Sorry (I lowkey forgot to finish it...).

@bi-focal12 you probably forgot that i was gonna draw them too, sorry😔😭

ALSO, for the people who wants to know which one cosplayed which one ⬇️

Iida = Alfred

Sero = Jason

Eijirou = Dick Grayson

Mina = Stephanie

Uraraka = Batgirl

Denki = Tim Drake

Yaoyorozu = Wonder Woman

Shoto = Superman

Mineta = Damian

Izuku = Joker

Katsuki = Batman

MHA tweets pt.21- 🕸️Halloween special pt.2 🕸️ +bonus poll

if the drawing wasn't rigged in the bakusquad's favor, what costume would you want to win?

togachako as... my melody and kuromi 💕

deku’s father hasn’t been present in his life at ALL so deku’s thinks his family constellation (father living separately from the mom and kids) is the default, and then he visits bakugo for the first time and sees mr. Bakugo in the kitchen preparing lunch for them and deku is like kacchan why is there a grown man in your kitchen!!!! and Masaru has to sit down with deku and explain to him that some husbands and fathers do, in fact, like their families and live with them (it takes deku a while to get used to seeing Mr. Bakugo in Mrs. Bakugo’s house like that just doesn’t sit right with him)

this is kinda stupid but i googled heart monitors for two seconds and came to a conclusion

You’re a demon. One day, you’re summoned into a living room, and an exhausted woman quickly rambles about needing to get to work and being unable to find a sitter before flying out the door. Now, you stand in your summoning circle, a toddler staring wide eyed at you.

MHA tweets pt.8

For me, I try to replace words like said with something more specific, but only if the dialogue needs it. So like:

“I hate you,” he said.

can be a lot less effective in an argument scene than,

“I hate you!” he shouted.

So advice #1 is add specificity so you can paint the image that you want your readers to have. If I’m struggling to find the specific word I want to use I’ll sometimes try OneLook Thesaurus, but honestly sometimes the simple ones you think of first work best (he shouted vs he vociferated, yk?)

But sometimes you don’t even need the specificity in the dialogue tag to make the image clear, you can focus on description and leave the dialogue standing on its own, like:

Tommy gripped Clarence by the collar, his nostrils flaring.

“I hate you!”

As long as it’s clear who’s speaking, stand alone dialogue can be really effective and it’s smth I’ve had recommended to me before. So advice #2 would be to simply drop some of the said’s or ask’s that aren’t doing much for your dialogue. (But this doesn’t mean it’s automatically better to cut out all of them, especially if some of those tags do a lot of work for the pacing of your dialogue, it’s really up to your own judgement as the all-knowing author)

And advice #3 is just that writers notice the said’s and ask’s way more than a reader ever does, bc to a reader those words tend to become part of the landscape of what they’re reading and feel very natural but if you choose a synonym of said that feels really out of place, then they’ll definitely notice it

So overall I’d say don’t get too in your head about it :)

Having a lot of said’s and ask’s is totally normal, it’s really just up to you if you think they’re not doing enough work to paint the picture you want or if it might be punchier to have to dialogue be without tags! Might even be worth it to look at a piece of writing you really like to see that author’s balance of said/asked vs more specific tags vs no tags at all, especially to note which ones you, as a reader, like the most

Hope this helps and best of luck with your novel!!

I'm using said and asked way to many times in my writing. Where do you all get your synonyms from??

And don't tell me 'Google'