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POV we live in a little cottage and spend our days baking ♡

hate 2 say it but british ppl had the right idea with saying whats all this then. like literally whats all this then

Are you the "I will eat the good food first and let the bad come last" neurodivergent or the "I will suffer through the bad food first so I can end with the good" neurodivergent?

biting???? as a way to show affection???? yes yes yes yes

Unpopular opinion: Being intelligent isn’t an excuse for being unkind.

Pretentious asshole is OUT! Pretentious Sweetheart is IN! Wearing dapper clothes and holding the door open for others makes you feel COOL AS H*CK! Glance up from your hefty books to give a stranger a smile!! Quote literature to inspire others! Be presumptuous in the way that you presume that everyone needs their day to be a little brighter!!!

Administration showed us this tweet on day one of grad school and boy did it hit home

“distinguished yourself by being kind” is my literal life motto at work, holy shit

writing a sex scene is the same as writing a fight scene, in this essay I will

Oh, it 100% is. At an industry event during a book expo I met two authors, one of which wrote spy thrillers and the other wrote erotica and they talked with glee about the similarities, down to the vocabulary!

#in that both scenes are intense and emotional?#then yes I'm an emotional writer#uh a little but I'm mildly worried about how violent some of these sex scenes are then?#because the ones I write aren't violent?#have some issues with saying sex/fighting should be written the same but that's just my opinion#but I'm not a fan of enemies to lovers either because it doesn't usually work for me#and I hate the implication that if I dislike someone that I must actually really like them#no I don't like them don't put words in my mouth#people can dislike eachother without ever wanting to date/sleep with eachother/whatever#that's normal#you won't like everyone you meet you don't have to#guess it depends on the sex you're writing about but in my experience generally no

lmao the first thing, but also there’s more to it than the emotional nature of both types of scenes (imo EVERY kind of scene should have an essential emotional element). note that i didn’t say READING a fight scene and a sex scene are the same, or that the scenes themselves are the same, but that writing them is the same

to elaborate on a shitpost i made in the middle of the night after line editing a sex scene (and feeling incredibly smug about how well it went but i haven’t checked my work in the AM and one knows never to trust these feelings), the tools you use for both types of scenes have a huge amount of overlap on a craft level. Action beats, physical reactions, emotional reactions, internalization, etc--the structures of the scenes on a line level have a lot in common. Fights and sex have their own specific rhythms that can vary, and fights often have a winner where in a sex scene one hopes everyone is a winner, but mostly it’s just.. the same. action, reaction, emotion, action, reaction, emotion (and trying to figure out how not to say “hand” five times in one paragraph, also fuCKING PRONOUNS IF THE CHARACTERS ARE THE SAME GENDER)

so yeah you dont have to uhhh worry about everyone who reblogged this being into super violent sex lmao, this post is about drawing helpful connections between one and the other that writers who are good at one but not as confident in another can use to strengthen the complementary skillset.

i personally have always found fight scenes easy breezy while sex scenes felt impossible to me until relatively recently in my writing career, so the parallels are something i think a lot about now when i write sex scenes

(also, far from the point, but the thing people love about enemies-to-lovers is the idea of someone who knows you at your worst, who’s seen you as the worst possible version of yourself, still coming to love you, and finding that connection with a person you thought was completely dissimilar to yourself etc, it’s not meant to make people point at two people irl who hate each other and say “ooooh u got a crush~” so it sucks if people do that to you)

It's not at all about violence, it's about how both fight scenes and sex scenes are deeply grounded in physical actions and sensations in the characters' bodies, and involve the back-and-forth of two characters' movements and reactions.

Writing both types of scenes feels like there are suddenly 5 verbs in the entire english language and you are tethered to them with a heavy chain.

As long as you know your intentions are pure, never stress yourself about anything or anyone. You have to trust that you will always end up being where you’re meant to be and that it’s never your loss respectfully.

Literally the most important lesson I've learned this year.

every girl should be allowed to lie on the floor for 16 hours a day to cope with the agonies

I think I deserve to be flirted with. Just a lil bit. Wooed, courted, maybe even romanced? Is it fair that no one's sweeping me off my feet right now?? I don't think so.

— Charles Bukowski, “how to be a great writer”

Always in a constant state of "hmm maybe I wasn't as normal in that conversation as I thought I was"

The latest from my sketchbook.

one thing i really love about humans is that we laugh when we are alone. there is no one to show our delight to, no one who we must perform for, no social cue to politely pick up on, and yet, when reading a book, watching a movie, seeing something funny happen outside the window, we laugh. we laugh not because we have to or because we have learned to, but because it is our natural reaction to joy. we laugh because we want to

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cat inspecting a fallen star outside in the garden