things in 2017 ♡ female characters ↬  Joy Meachum (Marvel’s Iron fist, Jessica Stroup)

This One’s For You

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i’m all about heartless girls, the kind who define themselves by how much they can live through. girls who walk around holey, girls who scare everyone with our emptiness, girls who are fragile but almost immortal, self destructive and never destroyed. girls with mean eyes and soft lips and more magic than they know how to handle. girls who are sometimes cruel, ruthless, parasitic but always hungry. girls who wonder if they see beauty in this breaking because it’s really there or just because seeing anything else would hurt too much. girls who can’t grow up now, won’t - don’t call us woman, we will never be yours to hold or will hold anything for you, we just can’t be that kind of nurturing anymore. girls who hardened their heart and still came out bloody, girls who love their softness with vicious hands, girls who aren’t afraid to bleed. girls who are somewhere between cockroach and phoenix. girls who weather every storm, girls who take, take, take and take back what you tore out, girls who know nothing but how to survive.

I didn’t fall in love with you.              I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open,           choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny,                but I also believe we are only f a t e d to do the things that we’d choose anyway.                And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds,                     in any v e r s i o n of r e a l i t y, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”

Team “I imagined a scenario too hard and it upset me”

Description: Kissing and Smiling

Writing smiles and kisses without using the word “lips” is pretty tricky, but it can be done. Just don’t go overboard in trying to avoid using the word. Lips are crucial to both of those actions, so you can’t avoid them entirely. One thing to keep in mind with describing kisses is that lips touching lips or skin isn’t the only thing going on. Hands are roaming, hearts are speed-thumping, and hormones are going crazy—so just spending a little time on what else is going on will both flesh out and lengthen the scene without having to keep describing what the lips are doing. Smiling, at least, gives us a little more to work with. For one thing, there are multiple ways to indicate that someone is smiling:

There are also many ways to describe the face of someone who is smiling:

And there are ways to describe what the mouth is doing when someone smiles:

And, instead of smiling, you could describe other visible aspects of the emotion causing them to smile:

Also, internal aspects that the person smiling might be feeling:

(with thanks to The Emotion Thesaurus for help here…) Here are some additional resources for you: Kissing Scenes How to Write a Kissing Scene via letsvvrite Pucker Up! via WriteWorld 5 Steps to Writing the Perfect Kissing Scene via Miss Literati Describing Character Reactions And Emotions: She Smiled, He Frowned

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via henrydear)

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