Very Tired Of The ‘Dick Grayson Is Mostly A Pretty Boy With Bad Puns, Golden Retriever Vibes’ Trope.

Ref Recs for Whump Writers

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 

Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook

Athena’s Uncles

I've come to realise that having motivation issues (linked to executive dysfuction) is like owning a car that doesn't have a starter motor. You have to physically get out and push the fucking thing to get it to go.

Meanwhile everyone else's cars start fine with the turn of a key or press of a button.

You wanna do the thing and go to the place like everyone else but it takes such a monumental effort to start the car each time that a lot of the time it's easier to bail on the thing and not do it.

Some people are lucky to have someone who can help them push the car and get it to start, and this makes it easier, and you don't have to expend as much energy.

Some of us have developed systems and hacks like the routine of parking the car on a hill so next time we need it to start we have momentum helping us out.

But once the car is started then hey ho you're good to go!

...until it stalls.

We can never install a starter motor for our car and yeah the clock is broken and there's no sat nav, but it goes faster than everyone elses, it has tons of storage space and a bitchin media and sound system.

So do what you gotta do to get the car rollin', lads, even if you feel stupid doing it. Peel out like a boss with the music cranked up, go to the place and do the thing.

p.s and don't forgor to put fuel in it

p.p.s and check your tyre pressure regularly

Linked Universe the anime

I think it’s really important to talk about how different people have different power fantasies.

For example:

For some people, the idea of someone redeeming a villain is a power fantasy.

For other people, the idea of a villain being defeated is a power fantasy.

And for other people, the idea of a character owning their villainy is a power fantasy.

I would argue a lot of fandom conflicts re: villains come from people being unable to see that their fantasies, which put them in control of a narrative (and all three of these are designed to give the author or reader control of the narrative in different ways) are someone else’s horror stories.

After roughly two months, I finally finished it!

Four from @linkeduniverse

Train, have I ever mentioned how much I love your work? Because I fricking love your work

Based off of Just a Little Joke by @fuckit-hero-of-trains

I couldn’t include the entire scene but I did what I could within my page limit

This only took forever to make OTL i hope i didnt screw up the signs

But hey Link signing is rad nintendo make it canon

EDIT: reuploaded! tumblr fix your videos

The small collection of huevember art i've done bc I can't commit to a whole month.

Featuring: Etho doing Redstone, desert duo (my beloveds), sun god bdubs, ranchers (also my beloveds), welsknight, pearl, and the king of Mezalea.