forget the good girl meets bad boy plots seriously give me all the bad girl meets bad boy and makes him succumb to his knees and plays hard to get and drives him crazy and he’s never been this into someone and she enjoys the attention so much and IF YOU’RE WILLING TO BE DARING, THIS COULD BE M/M AND STILL BE SO MUCH FUN pls dance your way into my inbox or like this and i’ll just rain headcanons and feels on you pls- 

neon gods prompts week 12

one : i tie up your wrists, every ribbon a promise binding you to recovery, to exorcising your body of the demons that coil around the curl of your spine, tucking false promises between the knots of bone — two : — it’s rotten, the apple of our youth, and this is something we both know, something we cannot escape; yet still we bite into it, for we are hungry, and air alone can’t fill the gaping hole gored inside-out into our abdomens — three : — we lay down on the road, the flesh of the fruit laying between us colored an even more cadaveric hue. it’s cruel, this harvest moon; a mother of lies, pulling at the tide of our hearts in directions synonymous with doom — four : — a myriad glass eyes bear witness to this downfall: i lean in and i kiss you, hot and bruised, right on the mouth, and you taste of cheap bourbon and home and something howls inside me, because the crook of my arms can only ever offer you a burial — five : — you press the pads of your fingers to my hair and you say, it’s alright it’s alright it’s alright, until you yourself are no longer sure who it is you’re talking to. you reach up and take the moon in your hands, tearing it off in clean halves; here, you say, hanging the crescents off my ears. it can’t hurt us anymore.

Writing Advice - How to Make Your Characters Feel More Human

Hey pals!! This will be tips on how to make your characters feel more well-rounded as well as human to your readers. If you are worried about your character being too bland, too over powered, or you just want to develop them a bit more, please feel free to use these tips!! 💕💕💕

But without any further ado here we go.

How you can help accomplish this is to give them personailty-traits. For example, a character could be really be shy and keeps to themselves. People can not only relate, but this is a very basic human trait that people can identify with and understand. This helps get a feel for this character.

You can also give them quirks to make them more human. For instance, maybe your character bounces their leg up and down alor or they will only wear one colour or they just really love puns and try to slip them into conversation. This allows your readers to give them something to identify them with.

Give them goals to accomplish. Everyone has a goal in life. Regardless if it is to be an astronaut or learn how to bake cookies, we all have goals and so should your characters. Give them goals that make sense to the story and who they are. Character goals can be really simple such as, “I wanna defeat the villian!” That’s a goal and can also be a driving force within the story. This also lets us know who your character is. Which would most likley either be the hero or anti-hero. Make sure that the goal makes sense to your character, if your character is a hero, it wouldn’t make any sense to have them go and try to con people. An anti-hero could do that, but not a hero who wants to do good and only good. Match the indiviudal goal with the individual character. Not every goal has to be a big one either, you can have a character who’s goal to be able to balance a spoon on their nose, this wouldn’t be a driving part of the story, but this would be good for character development and gives us an insight to their personaility. For example, intently trying to balance a spoon on their nose could be a way of procrastinating instead of study for exams.

Give your character fears. Everyone has a fear and it can drive us to do crazy things, it’s the same with characters. For example, if your character is afraid of frogs, they might jump at the sight of them, and this may or may not be socially acceptable at the time. Maybe your character is attending an outdoor wedding and during the ceremony just when the couple is about to say ‘I do’ your character screeches at the sight of the frog that hopped over. You can also get into ‘deeper fears’ such as death, dissapointment, rejection, being alone, ECT. Fear can be a driving force of a story as well as make your character more human and not over powered.

Give your character flaws. We all have flaws as humans, and if we have flaws, so should your characters. A flaw is something that affects the character and hinders them. A simple flaw would be being too nice to others. This can cause your character ALOT of problems. They could get dragged to going to social event because they don’t know how to say no, or stuck listening to a sales pitch or being friends with someone they don’t like. This hinders what they want to do. This can also mean your character doesn’t have much of a backbone and allow people to walk all over them, which again, would cause your character issues. With this flaw in particular, your character could go through character growth and learn to say no. Flaws don’t always have to be big like having a twisted moral compass or being power hungry, small ones can be just as impactful and cause your character just as many issues. But always remember to give your character flaws, it doesn’t just make them human, but also relatable.

Give them likes and dislikes. Everyone has likes and dislikes, and so should your characters. This also allows your readers to feel like your character is more human. Maybe your character loves rock music but hates spinach, this can give your readers something to identify your character with.

Have them get along with others as well as clash. We are all human and we either get along with one another or not. This again, gives us an insight to your character. If your character is going to a family reuinion and doesn’t want to run into that one family member. This allows us to not only feel for the character, but also relate. We all have that one person we never want to see again and how your character deals with it can give the readers alot of insight to your character. Does your character just nods and act polite, start a fist fist, start a verbal fight, leaves, avoid them at all cost? What ever they choose to do, it will have an impact on the reader on what type of person your character is. Maybe the family member had it coming, maybe your character over heard that family member gossiping and just had enough and decided the throw a punch, maybe your character just leaves and goes get pizza because they don’t want to waste time and energy on that person anymore. Each of those decisions allows us to see their personailty.

And remember, characters, just like anyone else make mistakes. Your character is going to mess up, and I can’t tell you how much as a reader, how much I love that about characters. When characters mess up, it’s honestly the best because I probably would have done that too. Making mistakes is apart of life and it’s an important thing to have your character go through them too. Mistakes are all about learning and growing from them, and that’s what you want your characters to do.

Using these tips can definitely help create a character that is not just well rounded but also undeniably human. As a writer you never want your characters to come off as boring, over powered or not developed. Keeping these in mind can definitely help your characters pop off the page just like the precious babies that they are!

I hope these tips have helped you in someway! 💕💕💕

Love,

Rocky Moondust

No you don’t understand how frustrated I am that we always depicted the Apostles as old men, especially when it comes to during-Jesus-alive stuff.

They were probably late teens to early 20s, given the time and the description and some Biblical passages.

They were not ancient old men with long beards and wrinkles at the Last Supper.

They were young adult rebels with a cause.

where my punk-rock apostles at

I can’t remember where, but the bible says that Jesus was the only one who was old enough to pay the temple tax required by Jewish law, none of the disciples had hit that age. A quick google tells me that Jewish men pay it from the age of 20 - all of the disciples were teenagers.

Not all of them! Matthew 17:24-27 addresses the issue of the temple tax, in which Jesus tells Peter to get a four-drachma piece from a fish’s mouth to account “for my tax and yours”. In addition, Peter is the only person directly mentioned to have a mother-in-law; Jesus heals her in according to three accounts (Matthew 8:14-17, Mark 1:29-31, and Luke 4:38).

So! The “Disciples were ancient old men with long beards and wrinkles" factoid is actually just statistical error. The average disciple was under 20. Simon Peter, who lived with his mother-in-law and his fishing boat and payed the temple tax was an outlier adn should not have been counted.

Are you a “can’t write dialogue” writer or a “can’t describe anything” writer

last-person-on-earth type story where somehow pokemon go still works, so the survivor is amusing themselves catching pokemon to not feel so isolated and alone

and one day, on their screen, they see in the distance

someone has set up a lure.

Richard Siken poems be like

I have twelve quarters in my pocket Or was it thirteen? Either way they keep falling out and you’re not here to pick them up Remember I used to make you pick them up? So you’re six feet under and my twelve or thirteen quarters keep falling out into the street I promise I won’t make you pick them up this time

a plot where the muses are best friends with obvious sexual tension but they’ve never done anything about it until one night they’re watching movies together like they always do and their hands accidentally touch and muse a just so happens to notice that it makes muse b blush and of course they start being cocky and teasing muse b endlessly like “really THAT’S enough to make you blush wow” and then it becomes a personal goal of muse a’s to see what else makes muse b blush and so muse a puts a hand on muse b’s leg like “does this make you blush” and muse b keeps ignoring them so it gradually gets worse and muse a starts kissing their neck and maybe even slips a hand between muse b’s thighs like “what about this” and it’s just ! lots of tension and teasing and :~)

I started to burn when I was seven years old. I was alone in the basement with my mother’s lighter, squatting in the corner behind the furnace. There was a pile of desiccated leaves at my feet, with a moulted skin of my pet snake coiled on top. I started with dead things first, the unwanted trash that accumulated around our lives; old receipts outlining our physical space in the world: what we wanted and sometimes needed, last year’s fashion magazines with health tips that had recently been disproven, and–recently–I’d started to pile my old picture books. My parents would buy them and never read them to me, and the shiny paper released a wonderful smell as it crisped.

I didn’t burn these things as an outlet for something else–some other repressed desire or frustration. It wasn’t because my family neglected me or that I felt alone or had psychopathic tendencies. You see, it’s easy for doctors and therapists to diagnose something after the fact, to map up your psyche in a few simple lines of cause and effect. When you are the one living it, you don’t see your habits as a natural result of your mother not breastfeeding you or your father not spending enough time teaching you how to hold a baseball bat–it’s just a flow of the moment. I didn’t burn things for any reason like that. I did it because I simply wanted to. There was a beautiful satisfaction in destruction, of closing my eyes and breathing in the mold of the basement and the smoke of all the unwanted. I liked making nothing out of something, of feeling the ghost of it in my lungs.

And then, of course, I started burning bigger and better things.

Rupi Kaur,

 Milk and Honey

(via mingd4)