psychicreadsgirl:

❤️Ask Game: Love Edition ❤️

❤️Rules❤️

1. This ask game will close on October 10, 2023 at 11:59 pm KST. Any asks sent after this time will not be answered.
2. I may or may not answer everyone’s asks.
3. For non anons:

a. Reblog or like this post.

b. You can pick only ask 1 question.

c. You can ask for yourself or for a celebrity. If you are asking about a celebrity, you must let me know the name of that celeb.

d. The question that you ask must be one of the following:

i. 💌: What’s holding you back from love? (For a celeb, it’d be what’s holding them back from love?)
ii. 💋: What would a relationship between you and your crush be like? You must tell me the initials of your crush and how you know them (i.e. like are they your friend/classmate etc) for me to answer this question.
If you’re asking for a celebrity, you can ask what a relationship between this celebrity and another celebrity would be like or generally what are they like in a celebrity.
iii. 🤝: What will your next partner be like? (For a celeb, it’d be what sort of partner are they usually attracted to.)
iv. 🏹: What problems or obstacles do you usually face in love or in a relationship? (If it’s for a celeb, then the q what problems or obstacles does this celebrity usually face in love or in a relationship?)
v. 🔥: Free for all - I will tell you whatever I can pick up about you and love. (If this is for a celeb, then I’ll tell you whatever I can pick up about them.
vii. 🕰️: Past life & love - How have your past lives influenced your current love life?

4. For anons:

a. Give me your initials and at least 2 different emojis to represent you.

b. You can only pick 1 question. (Anons, you only have 4 qs to pick from. If you go as non-anon you get more qs to choose from.)

c. You can ask for yourself or for a celebrity. If you are asking about a celebrity, you must let me know the name of that celeb.

d. The question that you ask must be one of the following:

i. 💌: What’s holding you back from love? (For a celeb, it’d be what’s holding them back from love?)
ii. 🤝: What will your next partner be like? (For a celeb, it’d be what sort of partner are they usually attracted to.)
iii. 🔥: Free for all - I will tell you whatever I can pick up about you and love. (If this is for a celeb, then I’ll tell you whatever I can pick up about them.
iv. 🕰️: Past life & love - How have your past lives influenced your current love life?

Originally posted by goodsoftsquish

lurkinglurkerwholurks:

ICYMI, there was fear that companies were scraping public AO3 fics to train their AI without the consent of AO3 or its users. That fear has been confirmed.

AO3 has written about what they’re doing (and what they’re not able to do), and they recommend restricting your work to AO3 registered users only. [Instructions here]

This gross misuse of the archive by techbros is why I’ve locked down my fics for the foreseeable future. I recommend the rest of you do the same.

abalonetea:

dreamtofswallowingcoins:

abalonetea:

my writing fundamentally changed forever ten years ago when i realized you could use sentence structure to control people’s heart rates. is this still forbidden knowledge or does everyone know it now

??????
*raises hand* I’ve been writing for years and don’t know this trick by these words!
do tell?

Okay, so a few people have asked for me to cite the dark magics at them, and i’m super happy to share because it’s my favorite thing ever. 

so, let’s see if i can explain this the same way that i learned. read a sentence out loud. you come to a full stop when you hit the period, and you take a normal, breath. but, when you hit a comma, you take a slightly longer pause. and when you hit a dash - you take an even longer pause. 

this is a natural rhythm that we pick up when we’re first taught to read; we do it without even thinking. but when you start to think about it, you realize that it can become a tool.

think of your heartbeat. a period is badump. a comma is badump-dump. and a dash is thump badump. one breath. a longer breath. two breaths.

that means what you read automatically affects the rhythm of your breathing and your heartrate. which means that you can control the amount of physical tension your reader feels… by altering your punction and your sentence structure.

for fast paced scenes, you use short sentences. a lot of hard stops. mostly periods, with just a few comma’s thrown in for the full breath. your reader’s heartrate accelerates. their breathing is slightly and unintentionally, on their end, quicker. you hit the dramatic ending of the scene - and your reader’s body phsyically feels the gasp, the breath of fresh air, of these longer sentences.

now, read that paragraph again ant take note of your natural pauses, and how it subtly affects your breathing. 

the same thing can be said of comma’s and dashes. while they can be used as a breath of fresh air, they can also cause a new line of tension as they lead your reader to hold their breath. during this section, you should use longer sentences; breaking up the harshness of the pauses by using variations of punction. read this paragraph out loud from the start and take note of how long you go between pauses and full breaths. 

and then, comes the biggest trick.

the hard stop.

the paragraph.

because while the periods, commas, and dashes are variations on a short stop, the paragraph is a hard stop. you take a full breath. you pause for a moment, then move to the start of the next paragraph.

which means you can create an entirely new sort of dramatic tension. read the sentences that are in bold. see how you take a naturally longer pause at the end of each paragraph?

see how it makes you feel? 

how it makes you breath different? 

how doing it once, twice, or three times creates a different line of tension? 

this little magic trick can be used to cause a reader’s heartrate to speed up during a fight or chase scene. it can be used to cause their breathing to slow down during moments of dramatic tension, sorrow, or softness. and it can be used to create hard breaks that add a new level of physically felt emphasis to your written work.

i hope these examples make sense! it’s my favorite writing trick!

(via abalonetea)

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bizarrelittlemew:

bizarrelittlemew:

Are you frustrated you can’t leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who’s-counting kudos?

Well, have I got the html for you!

Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author’s day and show your appreciation!

• Second kudos:
  <img src=“https://i.ibb.co/tHMjbb6/second-kudos.png” alt=“second kudos”>
• Third kudos:
  <img src=“https://i.ibb.co/52bggQH/third-kudos.png” alt=“third kudos”>
• nth kudos:
  <img src=“https://i.ibb.co/6y7qGtC/nth-kudos.png” alt=“nth kudos”>
• yet another kudos:
  <img src=“https://i.ibb.co/wKtcj0s/yet-another-kudos.png” alt=“yet another kudos”>

It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):

Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)

So happy to see people enjoying these and spreading the love 💖

UPDATE with some suggestions from the replies! And bonus: cookie kudos.

HTML codes under the cut.

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redstonedust:

writers wishing they could draw whats in their head
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artists wishing they could write whats in their head

bizarrelittlemew:

Are you frustrated you can’t leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who’s-counting kudos?

Well, have I got the html for you!

Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author’s day and show your appreciation!

• Second kudos:
  <img src=“https://i.ibb.co/tHMjbb6/second-kudos.png” alt=“second kudos”>
• Third kudos:
  <img src=“https://i.ibb.co/52bggQH/third-kudos.png” alt=“third kudos”>
• nth kudos:
  <img src=“https://i.ibb.co/6y7qGtC/nth-kudos.png” alt=“nth kudos”>
• yet another kudos:
  <img src=“https://i.ibb.co/wKtcj0s/yet-another-kudos.png” alt=“yet another kudos”>

It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):

Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)