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I see there's poetic prose in your tags, that I couldn't not mention @solostinmysea <3🌻 you have a kind heart <3

"Sometimes kindness is all we need"

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We are but flowers hoping for a sunny day. Would you deny them that simple kindness. If not. Then why do we deny our self's.

I just want to say that everyone here has been so lovely and kind. When I first started posting I was hesitant at first, I thought perhaps I would be laughed at, I had hoped to be ignored In a way. I'd thought at least I won't know if they think my work laughable. At least I can be ignorant to the mocking.

But I found that people here are kind. They have so much talent and words that I wish the world could see. To share my writing with others has been a pleasure. To read the beautiful and sad and often the beautifully sad has been a lifeline. This place is my candle in the dark.

Like you wish you never met someone

Or you have never met someone

I assume your referring to this post

It's about a young boy who tragically lost his life in a road accident down my street. Most days I pass by the memorial that has taken up the space. A simple black iron fence now covered in colorful blooms of different kinds, his picture and trinkets from his time alive.

I never knew this boy, and probably never would had he survived, but I feel the echo of grief non the less and so I pay my deepest respects. May he have a peaceful rest.

Sunlight dripping yellow liquid in my eyes, rainfall dry and vapid has for me an evening surprise. Time to strengthen these old wrung ties.

There is something hiding nearby. I see it's small beadly eye. What does it want? Am I a mouthful it's trying to hunt. Or am I the hunter and it my prey. what creature hides? I hear you say?

Forces to be found

Forces could be people I think, in their own way. Not human. Not animal. But something that makes up the depths of a beating heart.

Do we regard it as such. Living that is certain, breathing and changing. Does the rain cry for the ground so barren, sadness forms in grieving clouds and a wind picks up forgotten leafs pushing them to be found.

We a but small leafs, growing green then dropping dried and dead, but still we have a purpose, it's to be swallowed by the dirt to help something be brought anew,to be a small dust mote catching in the hue, of light against a shadow of an ultimate demise.

Consumption N.02

The woman watched her footprints in the sand fade, it was nothing big or grand, just one trace of her existence, being replaced by something else. She was alive in some sense of the word, but so where most and not all belived it worth their while. She was one of them.

She would usually walk the long coastline til her feet would ache and the cold air made her fingers painfully numb. She would walk until she felt completely undone. Today she was skipping wide flat stones across the water, they'd plonk and sink, rarely did they skim the surface. Looking down as the tide rushed to her feet, she saw the stones wash towards her, whether they where the ones she threw, she didnt know.

If she could catapult her disbelief into the ocean , perhaps it would come back one day as belief: something light in the face of forever. That was what these walks had been for after all, a way to feel lighter, to somehow shed the heavyness of living from her bones.

---N. 01

Tragedy has been turned into a theatrical event, people turn up in expensive clothes then hurridly turn up their nose, when tragedy exits the stage to take a seat next to it's audience.

Through cracks

New light blooms;

Stronger,

Gentler,

Free.

My heart

Once shattered

Whispers, "Love, it was meant to be."

- Flynn Caulfield

My eyes

Once clouded

Now reflect the morning's grace.

My smile

A sunrise banishing any trace

Of doubt or shadows that once held me down.

- Flynn Caulfield

I can paint a picture with words and maybe even make you laugh with a clever turn of phrase.

-Flynn Caulfield

Laughter's echo

Is a cruel and taunting lure

Of promises whispered

Futures once held dear.

-Flynn Caulfield

It’s kind of funny how I went from “I like writing silly little fanfics” to “I’m writing my own book to publish” 💀

On Writing for Yourself and Not for Notes

AKA How to Enjoy Writing for the Sake of it

Get off social media! I know it’s tempting to blabber on about a WIP to get those hella cool notes, but doing so only reinforces that writing’s only fun if it gets you attention. We all need that boost now and again, but too much of it will whittle away your self-reliance. Close your laptop, leave your phone in a different room, and sit down with a notebook if possible and if you need to. You’ll get to know what enthralls you personally about your story.

Don’t write for an audience for now. Tumblr likes to do this thing where it says “blah blah blah X is problematic in media” and while it’s well-intentioned, internalizing too much of this can make you feel like you’re trying to write through a maze and constantly failing at it. Forget about your audience–you can flag and catch problematic stuff in edits after tossing it to the betas.

Remember what made thirteen-year-old you lose their mind? Yeah, write that. Once you’ve let go of writing for an audience, you won’t worry about being “cringey” anymore, and that’s when things start to get real good and real fun. You don’t have to show your writing to anyone, or even tell them you wrote it, so just go buckwild! Trust me, it’s so liberating.

Your inner critic is useful–but not now. Shut that bitch up! Your job when drafting is to make something. If you did that, you win, so your critic’s opinion is worth squat here. However, if you try to fight her {I always envision mine as some bitchy middle-aged woman lol} she’s just gonna get louder. So tell yourself you can be as critical of your writing as you want during edits. You’re not working for perfect, or even good right now. You’re working for existing.

Remember that this is a process. Companies like tumblr are investing a BUNCH of cash into getting you to stay glued to their platforms, and if you’re a creator this might manifest in your feeling like you need to live your creative life online. You don’t. But retraining your brain isn’t easy. Remember that divorcing yourself from the validation of online noise takes work and time and a lot of discomfort and redirecting, especially for folks like me who thrive on routine. And don’t discipline. Redirect. Negativity has no right to be in your creative space ♥️

I wasn't tagged but wanted to do this anyways

Used Downfall cause it has the most ideas worked out

If we're playing with four corners then I got double bingo

Some of them I wasn't sure I understood but I think I did

Explanation cause I wanted to do it:

Everyone has trauma - pretty simple, everything is terrible and Ruere is often the worst(unless you live in the Silver City, Seolfor insures things are good there so his nonstop party for life isn't interrupted)

Mental illness my beloathed - not sure I understand this one, think it just means the characters have mental illnesses. Seolfor deals with histrionic personality disorder, which is part of why he built the life he did, to make it easier on him. And Alius could be said to have antisocial personality disorder, but he's an alien, so I don't think he does

The process of grief - lot of grieving in the books, and the main story only happens because of mistakes made in grief

World building - self explanatory, there's been a lot of world building, that might take too long to fully explain though

Bi4bi - pretty sure that means a bi person in a relationship with a bi person. It's pretty clear Michael and Seolfor used to have a thing going on, and while not dating in the story, seem a little interesting in being together again, before they unfortunately start arguing

Just regular torture - I'm sorry for what happens to your Felix

Oops it's a series now - yeah Downfall quickly become a series instead of a book during the plotting stage

Magic - decently high fantasy with lots of different ways to cast magic, though most aren't very good at it

Assassin's, hitman, and murderers oh my - all the bad guys are murderers, and so is Michael, and Seolfor, and the Witch Thief, and Colpus, and Felix, and Sean, and Cullen

SFF - Sci Fi and fantasy right? That's what that means? Well this is a fantasy so?

Big ass monsters - Michael killed some giants in his time

Queer rep - think that means representation? Which yeah you'd get with Seolfor, Michael, Felix, and Cullen. Actually, kinda funny story. Cullen was originally a character named Athena who was a girl, and she had the love interest of Felix. For some reason, I don't remember why, during my fourth attempt to right the thing, Athena became Cullen and I started having more success (it was probably for unrelated reasons). Despite that change however, I never switched Felix in my notes, so I just decided, why not, Cullen is gay now

Found family - Sean and Cullen with Michael, plus Seolfor and Felix and the Witch Thief and the run away Skel

Writing Trope Bingo

ALRIGHT gonna try and kickstart a new tag game now I guess! I'm gonna go ahead and credit @duskforged for creating this card format and finding the website as well.

Rules: Either download the blank copy or go to BingoBaker and fill out a card with the tropes and elements in your WIPs. Tag as many people as you like and see who can get a bingo!

Mine is:

I'm gonna go ahead and tag everyone who interacted with the original post and soft tag some of my mutuals as well! @ryns-ramblings @authoralexharvey @jadiealissia @kaylinalexanderbooks @akiwitch @kckramer @hesperos-xi @puttingwingsonwords @digital-chance @rainbowcoloreddays @teafuelledwritng @spookyceph @mikathewriter @riveriafalll @vesper-roux @pandoras-comment-box @alecthewreck @somethingclevermahogony @simonnebethel @star-ch4ser @televisionjester @shadow-of-tea-and-tea @elsie-writes @toragay-writing @jezifster @starlit-hopes-and-dreams @oh-no-another-idea @hallowedfury @asassydork @blind-the-winds and an open tag for anyone I missed!

Blank card will be under the cut!

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Oh this seems fun

Haven't done one of these tagging games in awhile cause I hadn't been feeling well, but let's try this

As I understand it I need to pick a character and say what inspired them

Michael from Downfall was inspired by a couple characters which I'll listen below:

-Eragon from Inheritance Series. He was originally just literally called Shade Slayer like Eragon and I took inspiration from Dragons style of magic plus weapons

-Eda from Owl House. Just kind of in now they serve as a mentor character

Tagging: @dyrewrites

Would tag more but I can't remember anyone else's names and I'm too lazy to check

So In that case if you see this consider yourself tagged

OC inspiration tag

Thanks for the tag @hyba! (you can find their post here)

Rules: Pick a character(s) from your wip(s) and tell us who they were inspired from!

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Ella’s name was blatant plagiarism from my favorite book, Ella Enchanted. Her story comes from a book I read when I was small because it was haunting and entirely devastating. (I also watched 10 Things I Hate About You, and I would be lying if I said Kat Stratford didn’t weasel her way into my mind.)

Georgia was a dream of mine. She always pointed me home and kept me safe. Maybe one day I’ll write it all out, but now isn’t the time ;)

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I’m tagging @kaylinalexanderbooks @scribble-dee-vee and @fortheoneswhowish (sorry, I can’t seem to tag your other blog!). Good luck, and no pressure if youse don’t want to ;)

Okie, last one and then I'll be all caught up. And my goodness we got another character voice tag. Writers on Tumblr, I love yall, but we need to add a little variety to our tag games.

Okay so my line is: "Is it just me, or is it really cold in here?"

Well if it isn't broken, I haven't used it enough, lets try to come up with more Downfall lines on the spot

"Is it just me, or is it really cold in here?"(no context)

The Witch Thief: "Perhaps none of you have noticed yet, but is it not starting to get a tad cold?

Caitlin Skel: "It's freezing in here, like the breath of far deep caves still populated with Roring Burgs, we should move."

Hollower: "Cold."

Alius: "Have you noticed it yet, Michael, the chill in the air which forewarns a coming doom?"

EDIT I FORGOT TO TAG PEOPLE Your line is: "When is it all going to end?"

@dyrewrites @shepardsherd @illarian-rambling

Character Voice Tag

Rules: rewrite a line in the voice of your OCs, then make up a new line for the next people

Thanks @illarian-rambling for the tag! My line is, “God, she’s such a bitch,” although I swapped the pronouns on it a few times

Belladonna: “She’s insufferable. She has no manners, no decorum, no sense of- anything! She’s unbearable!”

Cassie: “God I fucking hate her stuck-up prissy ass. What a fucking bitch.”

Nellie: “I don’t like her. She shouldn’t treat you like that.”

Narcissus: “I cannot believe him. The nerve, the absolute arrogance- to draw attention away from me? At my engagement party? Practically criminal! He should be taken away at once. I will not stand for such despicable behavior at my engagement. This should be about me, not some minor noble with a constant need for attention.”

Ricinus: “That bitch. Whoring herself out again, no doubt.”

Goldenrod: “He’s such an unbearable bastard. Have you seen where his eyes linger?”

Cassiopeia: “That slimy little clever bitch. You think you can outsmart me?”

Stellaris: “I hate her. She’s so mean, and it makes me feel…” *gestures for the right word, eventually settles on one that’s close* “bad.”

Rhys: “She… isn’t very nice, I’ll admit.”

These might’ve gone a little further off the line than usual but I decided to have a bit of fun with this one :). Every character in this one is talking about another character in this list! I’d love to see your guesses on who’s complaining about whom :)

Anyway, I’ll see if @kaylinalexanderbooks @elsie-writes and @autism-purgatory want to play this one! Your line is, “Why are you staring at me?”

Prompt #4

when the grump has to assure the sunshine that they’re not a wimp 

From The Notebook- The Rose I saw this Morning

I saw a rose today, morning dew fresh on its leaves, a May flower of April showers

It was beautiful, it is beauty. Rose by any other name still beauty

But if we never spoke about it, if we never uttered the word "rose" or any other word for it,

Would it still be beauty embodied?

If we never had a name for the flower, would it still be "rose"?

If our words and definitions cease all rose operations,

Would the world forget about rose?

Would it forget the symbol of love and beauty and passion?

Would it forget the thorns and the petals? The pink and red and all the colors of the rose?

Would it forget about the rose itself?

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From The Notebook- Delusions

To you I am a frothy little bubble,

Sweet strawberry ice cream dripping in the Georgia sun

And you prefer vanilla.

Silly, frivolous, a pretty pink, delusional little girl

My head is filled with balloons that have floated far far away from your reality

You see the stars I hold in my hands as fools gold, chocolate coins

Delusional, for whatever reason I am delusional

You are smarter than me in love and everything else my heart that beats to a different melody is all just fiction, a dream I crafted for myself

My boy you know better, or do you? Let a girl dare to dream, dare to think, don't give me the answers just yet

You think you are always right, maybe you're just delusional

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From The Notebook- Return

is nothing sacred? is nowhere safe? all the mockers throwing glass plates shattering at my feet i don't care i don't care!!! i scream as the glass cuts my skin new week new day new problem the old ones aren't gone either i thought i was leaving her behind but she's back, sad as ever i ran away from the beast to drop into another one's mouth

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