my ABSOLUTE favorite „no happy end“ tropes
1. „I am rotten to a point of no return… and so are you“
2. „I just started loving you and now you’ve been violently taken from me again“
3. „You are such a broken child and I am trying so desperately to fix you but no amount of love in the world can save you from your own wrath“
4. „You became so obsessed with winning that you overstepped every boundary. Even mine, though you had sworn from the bottom of your heart not to.“
5. „it’s so ingrained in me that my worth can’t be measured in love and gentleness, only in the amount of suffering I can go through without breaking just yet“
6. „My everything has never been enough“
7. „Finally. Death.“
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"i want more media with zero drama, no tension, and zero problematic characters and i am not joking"
Great! Here are my recommendations:
yes. a shadow of my former self
ahh full moon tonight *I start turning into something*
chat reminder to just write whatever the fuck you want. write that overused trope. write that obscure shit that no one will have heard of. just. do it. your writing is yours stop depriving it of that.
#Queer Agony
Everyone keeps talking about "the writer's barely disguised fetish". But I still haven't heard about "the writer's barely disguised huge ass pet peeve"
do you torture the character you relate to most and recreate your own abuse in fiction to cope or were your needs and feelings acknowledged as a child
If the character you’re writing doesn’t have a theme song that you assigned to them three years ago then cut them out because they clearly aren’t that important to the story
If this wasn’t my job I would always write „deffo“
being a writer is spelling disembowelment correctly on the first try but somehow always screwing up definitliely
So writers joke a lot about "drinking the tears of our readers", but I want to be so honest with you when I tell you that making you cry isn't our real goal. Making you feel is.
Kicking your feet? Giggling? Can't stop smiling? And yes, crying? Feeling anything, everything. That's our goal. That means we did The Job.
ugghh uaahhfh aaafdhhf a I write about war. Constantly in the trenches. You’re safe and wanted here.
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