How do i get over the notion writing is for ‘other people’ ? I always feel too poor, uneducated and unworthy to write. In high school I loved writing essays / homework / emails and was told I was good at it and then life happened and everything is about money and life and creativity has been on the back burner for so long the pan twice boiled over and all is left is a smoking pa(i)n.

oh-emdee:

bettsfic:

spite.

like i want to say something super deep and inspirational here, but seriously. spite is the only way out. sheer, unwavering, feel-it-in-your-bones rage. 

when you’ve had the absolute core of who you are ripped out of you by circumstance, there’s no taking the high road. there’s no greater understanding or wisdom i can offer. be sixteen years old again, and when your parents tell you not to go out, sneak out anyway. be six, and when your mom tells you not to touch stuff in the store, and go around touching everything. be a toddler and scream when you don’t get what you want. creativity is not a practice of the higher mind. it’s a practice of play, and to reach it, you need to let yourself be young again.

when it comes to writing, you have to be selfish. be greedy. be the absolute worst version of yourself, the one that wants and wants and takes and takes. be a narcissist. be an egoist. be a hedonist. humility, rationality, moderation – it’s all a farce. you can’t be creative and still conform to expectations. you have to choose. and once you’ve chosen, all that stuff, money and life, it’s all in the background. it’s stuff that needs done, it’s an obligation to make sure you eat and keep a roof over your head, but everything else, every other second of the day, you can be creative. you can choose that life for yourself, and you never have to look back. 

so, writing is not for other people. it’s for you. it’s yours. it’s the shiny expensive toy on the shelf, and you might not be able to afford it, so that means you have to steal it. 

betts this gave me chills

party boys – saltandlimes – loki/thor [Archive of Our Own]

saltandlimes:

rating: explicit
archive warnings: no archive warnings apply
word count: 4795
tags: canon-typical violence, omegaverse, heat, alpha thor, omega loki, modern au

When Loki shows up at a party unexpectedly, smelling of pre-heat and
turning heads wherever he goes, it’s hard for Thor to keep himself under
control. It becomes impossible when Loki’s flirting smiles draw in
young alphas right and left.

@cuppyren and I worked out the idea of this fic a while back, and I finally finished writing it! (Happy belated birthday dear!)

party boys – saltandlimes – loki/thor [Archive of Our Own]

trilllizard666:

augustdementhe:

funereal-disease:

Thesis: the rise of fanwank and anti culture correlates directly with diminished understanding of what “romantic”, in a literary sense, actually means.

It doesn’t mean “this is ideal or healthy or even realistic”. It means “this is beautiful, this is tragic, this is grotesque, this stirs emotion”, even if it’s not, as @starryroom puts it, something you would be comfortable seeing play out in front of you at Taco Bell. It’s about grandiosity and mythology and heroism writ large. It’s about playing with the id, as beautiful and terrible as it can be. 

LET LOVE AND LUST BE MONSTROUS.

that’s why Wuthering Heights is STILL a romance

O

O – Choose a song at random, which OTP does it remind you of

So I put my music library on shuffle and got “Maybe” by Alison Krauss and Union Station, which I adore. It actually works well for Thorki, with Loki angsting about how his life is going:

Trying to sort the whole thing out
Tell me that I’m smart enough
To deal with all the information
Spinning inside my head
Every word he ever said


Maybe I can stand alone
Maybe I’m strong as stone

But it also works well for snamione, at least in the incarnations I really like, ones where Hermione is learning to stand up for herself, but also take pleasure in her relationships at the same time.

[fandom asks]