Fantasy Guide to Common Poisons

Poison is one of the best ways of dispatching a character, political enemy, unwanted spouse or annoying neighbours. Here are some of the top interesting poisons and if you don’t choose any, I’ll be adding a post on how to create your own poison. Please don’t kill anybody in real life (there I think that covers the legal side). Let’s kill some characters.

Nightshade

Or as it is more commonly referred to as Belladonna is a poisonous flowering plant. All of this plant is poison but the berries are infamously toxic. It is called Belladonna (pretty woman) as it was a cosmetic. It is poison yet it is used today in modern cosmetic surgery.

Hemlock

Hemlock is a flowering plant. All parts of the plant contain poison. It causes paralysis, mostly in the respiratory system.

Cyanide

Cyanide is a poisonous chemical. It kills by latching onto iron in the blood and constricting them, not allowing them to to transfer oxygen.

Batrachotoxin

This is a neurotoxin that lives on the sking of dart frogs. One frog has enough toxin kill around two dozen people. The poison attacks the nerves, causing paralysis.

Azaleas

Common flowers that are poisonous. It’s symptoms are nausea, drooling, vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, coma, and death. It takes six hours to work.

Arsenic

This poison causes gastric distress, burning pain, vomiting, and bloody diarrhea. Arsenic is almost virtually indectable only found when a high dose is used or if there is an almond smell off the corpse.

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@withswords

Had to reblog this asap

Being a writer means referencing the character information you made up on the spot for an ask, because it’s more canon then all those notes you forgot to take.

And the award for Most Relatable Post of the Year goes to Bryn.

Me. Every day.

Stop asking little girls if they have boyfriends Stop referring to the boys that little girls are friends with as their “little boyfriends” Stop telling little girls they’re going to have boyfriends or be “boy crazy” Stop raising children on heteronormativity and let them be children

Additionally: 1. It’s not funny 2. It’s not cute 3. You are embarrassing them 4. You are completely disregarding them when they tell you “no” and you insist

Stop doing the same to little boys too.

They are not “a little lady’s man.”

Don’t excuse him picking on a girl as him having a crush. Correct the behavior and stop treating it like it’s cute and normal.

Also stop insisting little boys have crushes on significantly older women. It’s gross.

Just let kids be kids.

@raevenlywrites What oc that you have reminds you the most of yourself?

Zig. Totally, definitely, completely Zig. He is own beast, to be sure, but if he and I did some Freaky Friday body swap. I doubt anyone but our most intimate relationships would notice. :P

Thank you so much for asking!

Your totally welcome! I love love love hearing about others writers wips :)

Follow-up question: how do you pronounce xe/xir/xirs? I’ve seen them a bunch, but never heard them.

all g my dude this question comes around a lot as well

xe/xir/xirs and ze/zir/zirs are phonetically the same (the ‘x’ version was introduced after the ‘z’ version to further distinguish the pronouns visually from she/her/hers) and it goes

zee/ zer/ zers

ce/cir/cirs i believe would be see/ ser/ sers

ey/eir/eirs is based n they/them pronouns and would be ay/ air/ airs

Characteristics to make your OC more original without the classic “red hair, pale skin, different coloured eyes”

Note that you can still do whatever you want to and even if your OC is a ginger named ginger then thats totally fine - its your story. These are just preferences of mine

I hope this helped! Feel free to add on

okay, as a straight guy I have a complaint

So what do you call a group of women?

Friends

Then why are a group of men a threat? A group of women can be a threat if they wanted to

The difference is that women have to want to be a threat to be one whereas men just be like that

Not all men are like that

And not all bacteria are pathogenic but we still wash our hands out of fear of the ones that are so what’s your point?

And not all bacteria are pathogenic but we still wash our hands out of fear of the ones that are so what’s your point?

how to trick writers into giving you more fanfic to read

Works for comics and art as well.

…this has the opposite effect.

instead try; I love you *generic keysmash* h OW DA RE *lavish praise* *inside fandom joke* *quote fave part* *more generic keysmashing*

you. i like you

Also, the favorites: 1) DID I SAY YOU COULD HURT ME LIKE THIS?!?;?!; 2) DONT HURT MY BABY WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS 3) why must you hurt me this way 4) WHY IS THIS A CLIFFHANGER?! WHAT HAPPENS NEXT I NEED TO KNOW 5) This made me cry/squeal/giggle/wake the dead with my laughter 6) I almost woke my family laughing at ___ part 7) I DIDNT KNOW I NEEDED THIS AU UNTIL YOU POSTED THIS 8) this is so cute I’m dying 9) and (writer’s name) strikes again! 10) I had to reread this bc it’s so good and I love it 11) I wish I could like/heart/kudos this more than once Like, seriously guys, freak out with us and you’ll have us wrapped around your little fingers.

This is so true! A lot of the time, I get stuck in a writer’s hole. But whenever I get a comment like the above ones, it makes me want to write more!

GUYS! THIS IS CHEATCODE FOR MORE!!! SIGNAL BOOST 😱✨😂

Honestly someone called my fic a masterpiece and I legit cried.

Every single time that @panic-at-marengo says they hate me I’m fueled to write more

This is how you fuel the writing train! Encouragement on one story gets me pumped for all pf what i write!

Just gonna leave this here

Reblog if it’s ok for your mutuals to just send you posts they think you’d like or talk to you about random parts of their day

I feel like there needs to be some kind of post for MCU fans on How To Write About Africa because I feel like there’s a lot of people out there who want to write about Wakanda and T'Challa but are worried about being problematic and that makes me sad because there’s SO MUCH GREAT meta to be had about T'Challa and Wakanda but at the same time there’s a lot of legitimate concerns about perpetuating racist stereotypes and yeah.

T'Challa and Wakanda could be such a great way to introduce people to amazing sci-fi concepts that people should know

This is SO needed. 

It’s so easy to be like ‘just try it!’ but the problem with this website is that people don’t think its okay for people to make mistakes. I’ve gotten messages from people who want to write about T’Challa/Wakanda but are nervous about how their work will be perceived and its so sad. 

We really need to gather some people who’d be interested in writing a nice little info post!

I’ll start

How to Write About Africa

How to Write About Africa II: The Revenge

Wikipedia - Afrofuturism

An Afrofuturist Reading List

We Are Wakanda

Writing With Color

You Don’t Know Africa 

Signal Boost

Like if you’re a writer and you want me all up in your asks about your OCs

Or tag me in your ask games or whatever, just do something to get my attention! I am always about giving people asks, cause I know how frustrating it is to post games and get nothing but crickets 😆

But seriously! I am going to go through every single note on this post and drop some wild Qs!!!!

Oh yes please I love it!