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hanging from the meat hook all by yourself, handsome?

FOR ANY WRITERS OR THOSE WHO LIKE GOTHIC LITERATURE

I found this. It's basically a huge list of how to write in a gothic horror-like style. It gives you words to use, and what types of adjectives to put down, and it explains them rather than just giving you a list too. I hope someone beyond myself finds this useful because holy shit am I going to use this tool

Sci-fi short stories are so efficient; they take 15 minutes to read and then you think about them for the next 5 years

Hey I noticed you said you write fic for TSV. Would you drop your A03?

i'm scorpionwedding on ao3! i've only written one so far, but i'm currently working on the sequel fic, which is a little more than halfway complete (it's... long)

hi!!! I have a question about ronin :3 Has he undergone any gender affirming care? I know T is mention in game, but anything other than that? If he hasn’t had top surgery, does he bind and how safe is he about it if so?

(Sorry if it’s weird I’m writing a fic and want to know for the content. You don’t have to answer any of this if it makes you uncomfortable or if you just don’t want to!! I just love the game and want to know more so I can do it justice in my fanfic)

in killer chat, ronin has undergone top and bottom surgery! (he got them in pretty sketchy backalleys both times, but it worked out for him, so...)

but of course, if you'd like to write about a ronin who hasn't had top surgery and binds, feel free to write as you wish! ❤️ in many of his canon's iterations he binds and how safe he is with it really just depends on his mental state.

these tiktok comments pass the vibe

time travel fics where it’s Luke and/or Leia who goes back to the prequels as opposed to prequels characters going back to the prequels are incredibly funny because instead of emotional tension you could cut with a knife and horrible grief overlaying every action it’s just one (or two) ridiculously powerful people running around with absolutely no idea what’s going besides (a) that the chancellor everybody loves is pure evil and plotting the downfall of the republic and (b) that their dad (with whom they have a VERY complex relationship) is, at best, old enough to be barely out of space college. who needs complex and carefully rendered plans based on a million different remembered factors when you can have one of the space twins seeing Palpatine and trying to kill him with their illegal laser sword on sight

Severance is about rebellion, about people who were literally created to obey finally questioning and breaking through that conditioning. There’s a storyline about someone doing a complete 180 and choosing to rebel when they realise they have a child that they’re not allowed to see, and I love that the storyline wasn’t given to the female lead, but to a previously comic male character. There’s a storyline about breaking protocol because for the first time ever you have fallen in love, in intense, overwhelming, impossible love, and I love that the storyline wasn’t given to the female lead, but to a pair of awkward old guys. The storyline about grief and guilt also goes to a guy, to the male lead.

I love that the female lead is the only one whose radicalisation comes entirely from within, the person motivating her is her, she’s not doing it for anyone else, she wants her freedom, and failing that, she wants bloody revenge even at the cost of utter self-destruction.

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Too many writers are using generative 'AI' to make their book covers, so I've written a guide on how to make your own cover for free or cheap without turning to a machine.

If you can't afford to pay an artist, you CAN make your own!

I hope this is a helpful overview that covers the basics and points to some free resources.

Following my redesign of Mal, here’s my take on Evie from Descendants! 👑 I wanted her look to be contrast Mal and be a lot more polished since she’s royalty. I also leaned more into prim and princess-like based on her personality in the movie, but still maintaining dark elements in her aesthetic. I gave her a little skull makeup bag as a nod to the skull in her mother’s dungeon from the original film!

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