The Emotion Thesaurus: Adoration

Hello, everyone! I will be starting a new series that will help you the writers describe emotions.

This guide will be a writer’s tool to characters expression.

This section comes from The Emotional Thesaurus by Ackerman and Puglisi.

Adoration

Definition: the act of worship; to view as divine.

Note: the subject of adoration can be a person or thing

Physical Signs:

Internal Sensations

Mental Responses

Cues of Acute or Long-Term Adoration

May Escalate To:

Cues of Suppressed Adoration:

Writer’s Tip:

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trust me, when you see a dove couple doing this for half an hour without ever getting bored of each other, something in you changes fundamentally

this post has been getting notes again, so let me tell you this: whenever someone tells you something cynical and pessimistic about love, that it doesn't exist and it doesn't mean anything etc. remember that there is a mourning dove couple somewhere in the world, kissing, cuddling and raising their baby together with so much love and tenderness, and it is all a part of nature. it is all a part of our beings.

October Mood: dusty pink velvet, cozy sweaters, ballerina buns, Carmilla by Le Fanu, rose tea, satin pajamas, vintage horror movies, dark rose lips, reading during rainy evenings, messy curls.

we really devolved as a society when we stopped using fully painted pictures on romance novels and started using cheap photoshop instead 

case in point

this is a Hell of a downgrade 

worst crime capitalism ever committed was eliminating Horny Oil Painter as a viable career option.

I went down a rabbit hole this summer researching romance novel covers and painting fanart in this style and

Her name was Elaine Duillo, and she had a long and extremely productive career spanning from the mid 60’s to her retirement in 2003. She worked mainly in acrylics.

She did illustration work in other genres as well, but she really found her niche in romance novels. She pretty much redefined the aesthetic conventions of the genre, popularizing male models and male nudity and sexualizing men to cater to the female gaze in a way that simply wasn’t the norm before her work. You know Fabio? she’s the one who started using him as a model, and essentially launched his career. And honestly, just look at her work:

magnificent

Wait shit, she retired in 2003? I think that’s exactly when I started seeing shitty photoshops on all the new romance novel covers.

She was literally carrying the entire industry single-handed and then they just did not replace her.

my favorite negative character traits

some of these aren’t necessarily negative in all contexts, and actually, lots would be really great to have in certain scenes, but there are plenty of situations in which these traits are seen as generally negative :)))

reblog with yours, i wanna seeeeee 

@turchinorain​

Sophia and Oscar 

Another WIP! Finished my show work early so I spent the rest of the day expanding my previous WIP to include all my ocs enjoying a shopping trip.

Fina’s expression being so done with everything is so perfect. I assume Joleena sipping on a coffee? She seems like the type to drink coffee.   

ユンカース誕。

iPadがお手軽すぎて楽しい…ヤバイ…；；；；

We must reframe the narratives/dialog.

#LanguageMatters

The history of corporate propaganda.

'Nobody wants to work' fails to mention the poverty wages and horrible workplaces.

Reframe the narrative: Capitalists refuse to pay thriving wages.

Whipped up an animatic with some music for my "Cassie" series. I love seeing my storyboards come together like this. Tell me what you think!!

music by bendsound

WHY AM I SEEING THIS RIGHT NOW? The concept is so good! 

Bath & Body Works logo but it says Back & Body Hurts

Fucking SUPERB

oh this is making the rounds again

mutuals lets nap. lets just sleep. i am giving you all extra blankets

Photo by Azad Balabanian

it sounds ridiculously obvious now, but one of the best pieces of writing advice i've ever received is that most of the time, a character's flaws are also their strengths. a smart person might have trouble admitting they're wrong, or break down when they don't know how to solve something; a practical, capable person might lack emotional intelligence. a determined person might be so focused on their goals that they neglect their friends and ignore anything "superfluous" (i.e. they don't notice minor details that turn out to be important later on). kindness can become naivety; open-mindedness can become centrism; confidence can become arrogance. sometimes it's tempting to just reach into a grab bag of positive and negative traits and sprinkle them in at random, but it's much better to instead isolate the things you like about your character and take those traits to the logical extreme.

To all the writers who haven't written in a while. May the right words come to you and may they actually get written down.