#queue it good
Here’s a check in and reminder to:
• Eat and drink if you feel thirsty, hungry or havent done it all day
• go to the toilet if you need to
• take a break for 5 minutes and relax all your muscles, be aware of your breathing for a few minutes
• take a look outside and look for nature, insects and birds
• enjoy the start or the rest of your day depending on what time it is!!
affirmations for when you have to send emails
your life is too precious and too limitless to revolve around making yourself smaller and prettier and “easier” to love.
Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
The local superhero is also secretly the head of the most influential crime family. He sees it as a necessary evil - controlling or outcompeting the crime he can’t stop.
You are allowed to write a better world than you see.
Write soft academia. Write loyal friends. Write healthy relationships. Write good parents. Write siblings who get along.
You can have a plot even when your characters love each other. You can have tension even when people are kind.
Writers going psspsspssp to their brains trying to lure them into writing
there is something so reassuring and satisfying about getting snippets of the life of characters after their story ends. they’re not the main characters anymore, the spotlight –the hurdles, the emotions, the glory– has already touched them and moved on to other stories. what remains is a throwaway line, a dusty photograph, a memory from a side character, someone describing them at a party: it tells the reader don’t you see how they survived, how they endured? look, their love remains. they’re slow dancing in the crowd at a party, you only see them for a moment before following the main character somewhere else. their adopted son is at the helm of the new story, and he has the same taste of adventure as their mother. those two characters you loved remained friends until they died, they lived in the same street. the seeds of the story you loved live on, growing in a beautiful garden of which you get to see the fruits
well, hes a fine young man. if you overlook the atrocities
actually @ every fanfiction writer whether you wrote something that got thousands of reblogs and comments and became a staple in your fandom, or you wrote one fic and deleted it, or you write mutilchaptered fics that never get a final update, or write short fics, or long fics, or used to write and now you don’t, or you deleted/orphaned your works, or you only share with friends:
thank you.
sharing your writing is hard. and sometimes it’s thankless. sometimes it’s such a negative experience that I wonder how anyone does it at all. but you are needed; you are wanted. whether or not we properly acknowledge it, you are a vital part of fandom culture. thanks for sharing.