per aspera ad astra

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
bisexualcrises
gatheringbones

[“Anger is actually trying to tell us something. Anger is confessing that it’s not the main event. There’s tension arising from my unwillingness to be with this deep sense of being hurt. When I begin to look at that, one of the hardest things that I could ever admit to myself was that I was just hurt, that I wasn’t just pissed off. I wasn’t pissed off because of racism or homophobia or something else. I was actually deeply, deeply hurt. I was deeply in despair because of the situation. This realization just made me feel weak. And never in my life had I ever been told and ever been supported in touching deeply into this woundedness. I call it heartbrokenness.

To sink beneath the anger or to move through the anger was to recognize the anger for what it was: an indicator that my heart was broken. When I allowed myself to experience my heartbrokenness, my activism began to change. I wasn’t out there in the streets any longer trying to do stuff because I was angry. I was out because I was just really hurt and I wanted someone to recognize that. I wanted someone to recognize that for the first time my struggle wasn’t to get people free or to disrupt systems. My primary struggle was to embody and communicate that I was not okay, that I was struggling to be happy, and that I wasn’t, above all, being distracted by the anger. I suppose, in other words, my activism was to first give myself permission to be free to feel deeply into my experience so I could enter into change work more myself and in deeper attunement to other people’s struggle.”]

lama rod owens, love and rage: the path of liberation through anger

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unboundbymusic
missveils

made another uquiz <3

you are invited to the starlight ball. tell me how you attend, and i will tell you who will dance with you. 

there are 9 options for dance partners (gender ambiguous), all with a small piece of story and a prompt at the end to continue it if you so wish! (do let me know if you do, would love to read it!)

[link on reblog]

missveils

https://uquiz.com/pvAqQv

a being from the forest fuck yes im going back during the new moon maybe its a monster idc it can have me
writerlydays
thewritingumbrellas

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

  • If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.
  • Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.
  • Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.
  • Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.
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calypsopond
kittenscully

being in your early 20s is crazy bc there’s people who are literally married and people who’ve never even dated and people who are trapped in their childhood bedrooms waiting to get out and people who are trying to live out romanticized dream lives and people who are completely on their own and people with multi tiered support systems and we’re all supposedly peers and none of us think we’re doing it right at all

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