🍂 September Poems 🍂

It is well-known that if you give your name or eat the food of a Fey, they have power over you, and in turn own you. You decided this wasn’t a terrible deal.

"He would not fucking say that" but it's "He would not handle someone having a breakdown in front of him like that."

"someone who allows you to rest" is the relationship dynamic of all time

you know how mathematicians have the journal of recreational mathematics, right? where they publish stuff like, ‘oh i found this cool property of this one seemingly boring number’, or, ‘this is literally nonsense but it sounds ~scientific~’ and it’s all great fun to read?

well

behold, the journal of recreational linguistics

with such delightful papers as ‘tennis puns’, ‘animals in different languages’, and ‘gifts from a homonymous benefactor’

excuse me while i go read all 50 volumes in one sitting

☛ GET INSIDE YOUR CHARACTER'S HEAD! aka The Excessively Detailed Headcanon Meme

You are an evil doll. You were trapped under a lake by some kids for twenty years. You planned your revenge—but now, their lives are already so awful you don't need to do anything.

One of my favourite questions for figuring out a character’s motivations is which qualities they most fear being assigned to them. Are they afraid (consciously or unconsciously) of being seen as stupid? Ungrateful? Weak? Incompetent? Lazy? Cowardly? Intimidating? Like they actually care? etc.

It’s such a fun way to explore into who they are, why they do what they do, what they don’t do out of fear, and how they might be affected by the events of the story. And I love when characters have negative motivations—trying to avoid something (in this case, being seen a particular way) as much as they’re trying to achieve a goal.

“Try not to die; I’ve become emotionally invested in you.”

Deep Water Prompt #3414

Ghosts form a ring around me, facing outwards and moving as I do, ephemeral hands linked. They have stood like that since I was an infant, imperceptible to everyone else. 

You allowed your child to join the vampire hunters against your better instincts. A decade later, they return home for dinner with a vampire spouse.