I Really Want Chris Zylka's Flash Thompson To Become Agent Venom :(

writers' resources

sick of using "very _____" ? : https://www.losethevery.com/

want to simplify your writing ? : https://hemingwayapp.com/

writing buddies / motivation ? : https://nanowrimo.org

word you're looking for but don't know ? : https://www.onelook.com/thesaurus/

need a fantasy name ? : https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/

need a fantasy name ? : https://nameberry.com/

want a name with meaning ? : https://www.behindthename.com/

who wants a map maker! : https://inkarnate.com/

story building / dnd ? : https://www.worldanvil.com/

need some minimalistic writing time ? : https://zenpen.io/

running out of ideas ? : https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/

setting a goal ? how about 3 pages / day ? : https://new.750words.com/

what food did they eat ? : https://www.foodtimeline.org/

questions on diversity within writing ? : https://writingwithcolor.tumblr.com/

now what was that colour called ? : https://ingridsundberg.com/2014/02/04/the-color-thesaurus/

want more? : https://www.tumblr.com/blog/lyralit :]

Abigail Armstrong and Oliver Lloyd's friendship is goals. They're such an underrrated pair.

I feel like I’ve read this fanfic before, I just cannot remember the title of it

Draco Malfoy: you look like shit, Weasley.

Ron Weasley: **smirks** but still fuckable, right?

“For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, i hope you have the strength to start over.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I can't believe I'm crying over Amber Volakis

under the cut are a list of websites and articles i like, that perhaps may come in useful for writing reference. a lot of the sites linked are NSFW, so please be careful when you click! they’re separated into 5 sections (sex, drugs, death, technology, and culture) and a lot are archived links. happy browsing!

sex

boogie sites | article from 1998 detailing the rise of online porn

‘the fuck brief’ | a lawsuit regarding fuckingmachines.com, their use of the word ‘fuck’, and how it relates to the first amendment

the teenager and the porn star | longform article from 2006 (with a postscript) about then-18 year old pornstar sasha grey. features lots of in-depth info about the porn industry and the sets.

rubbed the wrong way: sasha grey’s porn set pet peeves | interview with sasha grey (then 22) focusing on her porn set dislikes

photos and stories from the secret world of strip clubs | anecdotes from strippers, taken from the book ‘wanting you to want me’ by bronwen parker-rhodes and emily dinsdale

peer inside japan’s secretive love hotels | photos of love hotels in japan, ranging from simple to extravagant

the vice guide to becoming a whore in 2004 | a-z by an anonymous sex worker detailing her lifestyle in the sex industry

a lap dancer answers 17 prying questions about working in a strip club | q&a with a lap dancer about her work

romance @ homedespot | offshoot of tokyo damage report, linking to the page about romance, love, and sex. there’s other links on the page to different sections.

bdsm ettiequte @ evilmonk dot org | simple website with a wealth of information on bdsm history, manners, and other readings.

drugs

candyland: the secret life of a tokyo coke baron | long read on the rise of foreign criminal activity in the japanese drug industry

death

the splat calculator | input some data and see how fast you’ll fall, as well as your impact velocity

tailstrike database | a database of ‘black box’ recordings/transcripts from plane crashes

9/11 thread on fark.com | one of the few livethreads on the internet providing live updates from 11/09/01; it stretches on for nine pages

i am pen pals with deathrow inmate richard ramirez aka the night stalker. ama. | reddit ask-me-anything thread with a person who is penpals with noted serial killer richard ramirez. features images of letters, drawings, and other paraphernalia the user was sent, as well as some talk about the man himself.

nukemap | drag the pointer to anywhere in the world, enter some data, and see what effect a nuclear bomb would have

inside stalin’s ‘cannibal island’ | in the 1930s, joseph stalin deported thousands of opponents and prisoners to a barren, isolated location that would become known as ‘cannibal island’

somethingawful 9/11 thread | often-referenced livethread from 9/11/01 on the website somethingawful dot com. has pictures, emojis, and other turn-of-the-century forum goodness. stretches for 18 pages (you need to click from the truegamer links to view) and has a retrospective thread from march 2002.

technology

fuck you and die: an oral history of something awful | touches on turn-of-the-century internet/messageboard culture

how shock sites shaped the internet | from shock horror movies to rotten dot com - how disgust evolved for the internet age

unscathed corpse | blogspot site gathering various other ‘curious, weird, sexiest, funny, crazy and interesting’ websites

this is what campaign websites looked like in 1996 | screenshots of political websites from the 1996 election

urban desires | online zine from 1995 focusing on various interesting topics (music, sex, food, fashion etc)

the curious history of the y2k cyberbabes | details the early 00s obsession with 3d women

next year’s models | featured in the above article, this specifically focuses on webby tookay, a virtual 3d model

disinformation dot com | defunct website from 1996 that stretches into the 00s, focusing on news that isn’t reported by the mainstream media

rotten library | ‘an unforgettable collection of all that mankind swore to forget’ - rotten dot com’s library, with various information on everything from the occult to languages to art to hoaxes

textfiles dot com | archive of ascii texts on various topics

cyborg foundation | website created in 2010 to ‘help humans become cyborgs, defend the rights of cyborgs, and promote cyborg art’

404pagefound | active vintage websites, old webpages, and web 1.0

tokyo damage report | autobiographical website from an american man living in tokyo. the css seems to have failed, so it’s rather unreadable, but you might be able to find some material if you click on the many, many links.

culture

lolita history | gallery of j-fashion magazine scans

what indie sleaze was really like at the time | article on the ‘indie sleaze’ movement and subculture of the mid-00s

answer me! | magazine from 1991-94 featuring social pathologies and various topics

aids in the heartland | series of articles from the late 80s providing an on-site look at the aids crisis in rural america

how to be amuro! | fansite for japanese singer namie amuro; this section focuses on how to look and dress like the singer, providing a useful insight into the budding gyaru style of japan

hubris | an online journal that the user has been keeping since 1998

a look inside british invasion obsessed teen magazines (1965-1966) | photos of articles and comics from 16 magazine during the height of the british invasion

hippies from a to z | everything you ever wanted to know about hippies, by a hippy

s&m: brutally good indie | text-only playlist from a college radio station that ran from september 2000 to december 2001

mixing for the 80s | interesting article from 2009 on how 80s songs were mixed

video vixens tell all about the ‘wild west’ mtv days of the 80s and 90s | various models from videos for artists such as zz top, jay-z, and billy idol detail what working as a ‘video vixen’ was like

britney spears and the myth of the ‘get ready with me’ video | thinkpiece on the culture of GRWMs and how they have affected personal appearance

and you thought you were obsessed with buffy the vampire slayer…: makeup counter | fansite page detailing the cosmetic makeup used on the set of buffy the vampire slayer, as well as makeup worn by main actress sarah michelle gellar in her spare time

tooth and nails | 1997 article on the rise of urban decay, which at the time was a fledgling makeup brand making major waves in the industry

urban decay shrine | neocities website featuring various products, adverts, and other outside links relating to the ‘glory days’ of urban decay

yolk magazine, 1994-2003 | blogspot article about yolk magazine, a magazine targeted at the asian-american demographic. the blog as a whole also focuses on chinese-american visual artists and culture, and stretches back to 1861!

star1973 dot com | star was a short-lived controversial teen magazine from 1973 that circulated around la’s teenage groupie scene and glam rock.

capitol hill staffers explain dc’s complex dress codes | the world of political fashion is probably more complicated than you could have imagined

That feeling when you're drawing a female and it looks like a dude

When you drawing a male and it becomes a female...

I've watched it a million times already but "If They Only Knew" MV by Alfie Arcuri deserves a book inspired by it. The MV deserves a book. It's so sad and the kiss scene was ahakbaoana.

There was no clear time to be told. No exact date, exact time, exact moment that would be able to tell people. It was this...

Poison.

This slow killing poison that settles in the gaps of your jonts, the spaces in your muscles. It flows with your blood, following the set trail set by the veins. Until it reaches your brain.

If you asked, you would not be given a clear answer as to when everything cleared up and the thought came.

It was something that was planted long before the time came. It slowly blossomed, the poison as its water that tarnishes the soil it growing on.

It seeps into your being, poisonous, inky black blob of venom that crawled into the crevices of your body, your orfices and settled into you. Blending in with the crowd in your system until it leaked into your soul, painted your heart, manipulated your mind.

It was the blueish, the purplish, the disgusting array of colors that appeared on your skin as the bruised formed from another hit from an unloving and unlovable and disgusting and cruel and demonic hand. It was the bright and angry red that shaped itself as a hand that cupped the entirety of one half of your face.

It was the leakage of dark red blood that tasted like iron and smelled like it from your nose or your split lip or a cut from a bottle shard. Or the torn walls from where it slipped outside and slipped back once more.

This poison.

It takes several forms. It could be that droplet of blood that fell on your desk with a "plink". It could be the next person you talk to. The next hand that slots itself in your hand and it feels so so so wrong. It could be that stripe of saliva somewhere on your skin. It could be that look of a parent so unlike a parent's.

It could be the glinting of a silver blade that blinds you and cuts you with it's sharpness, and that blood that drips from your hand to the matress. And another. And another. And another. And another. And another. And another. And another.

Until.

Until it forms that big wet puddle of red. Like wet paint leaking across the surface of the canvas and spreading. Or blood on a tissue that spreads and leaks onto the bottom.

It could be that void in your chest as you stare at the opened and lifeless eyes of an abuser. Eyes that opened a minute before the final breath was taken. Fear etched onto them. That same fear you saw in your reflection. That same fear you saw reflected into those cruel, cruel orbs.

It could be the steps you took as you walked out.

Or it could be the tiny splash of water from when you dropped the bloody knife.

Or it could be that feeling in your chest you can't identify as you watch the crime, your crime, your sin, reported in the news and printed in the papers and talked around.

Or it could be that sickeningly sweet feeling you felt as you moved forward. Or the faint regret as you looked back.

Or that happy, giddy feeling as you left and started new.

Or that ghostly, cool touch of a hand that explores your every part with a burning, seering, hot pain.

Or that feeling of fear and relief when you woke up and your heartbeat's loud beating of thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thumo, thump...

I tried ( Ŏ艸Ŏ)