A Mood Board: Desmond & Alia

Trying to write fanfiction for the first time is so humbling, it feels like I've never written anything ever.

Can everyone spawn my finished wip into their heads so i don't have to write it please and thank you.

Nasira bay - a mood board

– Song of lost secrets

"Those people are out to get us. They always have, and always will. He's human, he can't love you."

Book tropes & dynamics i love (in no order)

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author who writes for fun x reader who's dying for something new

enemies, but lovers

*explains everything simply but in detail* x "..huh ?"

mute/rarely talks x never shuts up

takes care if siblings a lot x doesnt know how to handle kids

enemy goes to mc for help bc they didnt know what else to do

insanely fucked up woman that no one actually suspects x "what the fuck did you do to him ?!" only one who knows about it guy

academic rivals

found family ofc

*literally has a knife to their throat* "wait, youre kinda cute"

My fave & least favorite things about being a writer

Yay I'm a writer:

perceiving books differently than non writers

finishing a piece

designing characters

choosing chapter titles

finally figuring out how to fix a plot hole

when writing just becomes so smooth and rolls from your brain like an old film strip

writing romantic scenes of my fave ship

sharing my writing with people

those random top tier ideas you have to jot down before they go away in 10 seconds

thinking about people loving your story in the future

developing villains

making playlists & moodboards for my wips

writing desperation (for some reason ??)

Please never again:

describe the setting correctly

coming up with a cover

the first draft.

"so which ending would make the most sense'

share my writing with people

killing my fave character (i do it anyways)

trying to remember a word i cant even describe

make the side character parents well rounded

that one super cool idea you get 3/4 way through the story that doesn't actually fit anywhere

actually having to fix plot holes

writing.

wip game of birds!

Rules: askers can send a bird, and receive the corresponding thing. If you don't have something that corresponds to whatever bird it is, or you don't want to share the only thing that fits (I'm not telling!) then either share a matching quote from a published work and link it, or share a random quote from your wips of your choice. :)

🐦‍⬛ a great quote of dialogue (maybe you're proud of how in-character it is, or how sharp the back and forth!)

🦜 a pretty quote (you like the prose, or symbolism, or it's poetic, or you just like how it feels/the word choice!)

🐧 a funny quote (silly! laughs! jokes! puns!)

🦚 a sexy quote (spicy, outright nsfw, etc--if you're not comfortable with this one specify in the tags!)

🦃 a big, meaty quote (JUST A BIG OL PARAGRAPH YOU WANNA SHARE)

🦉 a clever quote (something you're proud of!)

🦅 an angsty quote (something PAINFUL!! ouch ouch ouch!)

🕊️ a sweet quote (something sweet, fluffy! maybe it's cute or funny banter! or sappy wedding vows!)

🦤 a quote you had to delete :( (but still wanna share!)

🐦 a romantic quote (can be sweet or sad or sexy, or just your favorite interaction between them!)

🐤 a mystery quote (take out the context, even censor the names if you want! let em guess!)

🐓 fuck quotes, give me a summary or some ao3 tags

🦆 asker's request (what do you want to see? from a specific wip, a specific mood, a specific ship or character...?)

🦩dealer's choice (choose any quote at all! or the summary / ao3 tags thing! whatever! wild card!)

Rayen Perez - a mood board

– Song of lost secrets

"Hey stop, you know that wasn't your fault right? Neither of us could have predicted that night. "

as someone with club foot, PLEASE WRITE MORE CHARACTERS WITH IT☹️ also it can be disabling, and it can affect the knees, hips, and ankles if comorbig with another condition; commonly knock-kneed. another thing though is to avoid "curled", it just sounds weird; curved is a good alternative with the same effect

How To Write Club Foot Characters

A guide to writing club foot.

To understand what club foot is, you need to understand it's causes. You can't develop club foot in your life, you develop it in the womb. It can be from how you're positioned, how you develop, etc.

Club foot is the twisting of a foot in the womb. It is a birth defect.

History (Earlier "Cures")

Note: the only reason why I put "cures" in quotes is because of continued nerve damage that'll continue for the rest of your life. However, people who undergo successful treatments can live a normal life.

400 BC: Hippocrates described manipulating the foot and placing them with bandages, much like modern day treatments.

1834: The Thomas Wrench was discovered. It was used to forcibly change the position of the foot.

70s-80s-90s: This is when surgical treatments became popular. There are a lot of methods for correcting club foot, but the most popular are postero-medial release (PMR) which entails the extensive release of the contractive soft tissues of the clubbed foot/feet. Surgical treatment can give the foot a more "normal" look and ensure that the patient can walk on the foot. This does not erase any nerve pain, though, as overtime the foot can become stiff, weak, and show early arthritic changes. This is why this practice kinda fell out of practice.

The Conservative Technique:

Casting and wrapping to stretch the foot/feet and molding the bones so that it's less painful and the patient can walk on the feet/foot.

LANGUAGE:

What language do you use to describe club foot and what to avoid.

Words to Avoid:

Gross

Disgusting

Anything related to how "gross" the characters foot looks, or how the mc wants to "throw up" at the sight.

Words to Use:

Curled

Clubbed/club

AIDE:

Mobility aide is something many need as they get older, some even use it when they're younger. The list includes:

Crutches

Canes

Wheelchairs

Braces

Walker

Please let me know if you have any questions (I'll add to this post)

Kid wanted to remind you guys