🚨 THE END 🚨

'I'll be gone in a month', you thought.

And it made you really terrified. You're still young and there's so much more you wanted to do. So you tried to avoid it- anything that you thought dangerous, you completely stopped doing it.

You stopped climbing up stools to take plates from higher cabinets because you afraid you'll fall. You started to be really anxious to cross the road because you're afraid to be hit by a car. You're extremely careful when walking down the streets so nothing like a flower pot would hit your head. You asked your friends to taste you food first before you eat to make sure it was not poisoned. You took every precaution you could.

You don't want to die yet. You can't die yet.

But every single day when you look through the mirror, it's empty. No matter how safe you were, it remained empty.

Until one day, you're all curled up in your blankets, fidgetting and bitting you finger nails as you're anxious because a month had passed, someone entered your apartment.

Quickly you stood up and reached for the nearest vase you saw just in case.

"Woah there, there's no need to be so violent", the uninvited guest smirked. "I mean no harm."

He handed you a glowing pendant. Warily, you took the pendant and asked,

"Who are you? What's this?"

Instead of answering, he showed a mirror in front of your face.

There it is, your reflection. You can finally see your reflection back. You smiled and screamed in joy.

"H...how? Why?", you managed to stammer although you're already speechless.

"Because you're a witch", he replied.

Then you knew that you're not a simple human but a species of immortal witch. Before being immortal, your reflection will disappear for some time- as for your case, a month.

Your reflection became normal- the mirror no longer showed your reflection a month after. And you're also able to see the future through the mirror.

-this just came to my mind and pardon me for my bad English.

From a young age, you realized the mirrors never showed your reflection; they showed you how you’ll look in a month. One day, your reflection is gone.

The Shards of Childhood

gofundme.com

Donate to Fundraiser to help Ghada's children from Gaza, organized by Lucrezia Fontana

Hello, I'm Lucrezia. I created this fundraiser in hopes of helping a fr… Lucrezia Fontana needs your support for Fundraiser to help Ghada's

The city I knew, the one my children chased pigeons in and learned to ride bikes on, is gone. War, a cruel sculptor, has reshaped its once vibrant streets into a desolate landscape of twisted metal and shattered dreams.exclamation Buildings that held laughter and the scent of baking bread now stand as hollow shells, their windows vacant eyes staring back at a ravaged sky. Memories, too, lie fractured beneath the rubble. Gone are the echoes of children's games played in sun-dappled courtyards, replaced by the relentless thud of shelling. The familiar scent of jasmine, once a signature note in the summer air, is now tainted by the acrid tang of destruction. Each corner used to hold a story - the bakery where my daughter devoured warm croissants, the park bench where my son scraped his knee for the first time. Now, these fragments of our lives exist only in the fragile museum of my mind, a place where the war cannot reach, but still manages to cast a long shadow. Yet, amidst the wreckage, a flicker of hope remains. Like fragile wildflowers pushing through cracked concrete, the resilience of the human spirit endures. We, the survivors, carry the weight of this loss, but also the fierce love for our children and the yearning to rebuild. We will gather the shards of our memories, piece by broken piece, and weave them into a tapestry of a new future, one where laughter finds its voice again and our children can dream safe dreams, free from the haunting echoes of war

qjj volume 4 cover reveal ♡

“Do it scared” but please realize that, if you Do It Scared too much and don’t let yourself rest + relax + have fun in between, you will fuck yourself up. If you “do it scared” all day every day, you will burn out badly and quickly. Sometimes this is temporarily necessary but please keep this in mind.

I have a question how can I pick Chinese names for my original characters there not real people and I see people in Chinese vocals use them I was wondering if there are any tips on choosing Chinese names

Hello! Chinese naming IRL is super complicated and takes into account a huge number of factors. This is why there are professional naming services, to help you calculate the most favorable name. A great twitter thread summarizing it for the casual audience is here:

https://twitter.com/yurouchng/status/1211935445619073024?s=20

If it’s only OCs, Jia Pu and Ba Zi are way too much to consider (and you likely won’t have them anyway), so I’d focus on meaning and how the name sounds, if possible.

I also have an additional suggestion regarding surnames: the top 100 most common surnames covers almost 85% of China’s population, and I’d guess the top 400 list should cover at least 99%. Hence there isn’t much room to be creative with them, unlike in English. I recommend just checking out the top 400 list on Wikipedia and picking your favorite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surnames

"How can you like these very toxic and horrible characters that have done despicable and unforgivable things?" oh it's quite simple actually, this is fiction and I think with my dick.

despite what popular opinion may lead you to believe, some rocks actually do have scientifically-proven auras! Unfortunately, those rocks are uranium and the aura is cancer. 

It is absolutely useless to point out to me that my favorite characters went insane and perhaps slightly evil, especially when they were the ones wronged first. I support them and think they could have been more insane, actually. I think they should have just started attacking people on sight. They should have gone off the walls completely. They should have made all their decisions based off of grief and fear for far longer! I support rights and wrongs indiscriminately. I think forgive and forget should only come after they've worked through their hurt in the most destructive way possible and traumatized everyone back. Pls never assume otherwise

NEED HELP WRITING? (a masterlist)

I have likely not added many that I've reblogged to this list. Please feel free to roam my blog and/or ask/message me to add something you'd like to see on this list!

Synonym Lists

Look by @writers-potion

Descriptors

Voices by @saraswritingtipps

Show, Don't Tell by @lyralit

Tips & Tricks

5 Tips for Creating Intimidating Antagonists by @writingwithfolklore

How To (Realistically) Make a Habit of Writing by @byoldervine

Let's Talk About Misdirection by @deception-united

Tips to Improve Character Voice by @tanaor

Stephen King's Top 20 Rules for Writers posted by @toocoolformedschool

Fun Things to Add to a Fight Scene (Hand to Hand Edition) by @illarian-rambling

Questions I Ask My Beta Readers by @burntoutdaydreamer

Skip Google for Research by @s-n-arly

Breaking Writing Rules Right: Don't Write Direct Dialogue by @septemberercfawkes

Databases/Resources

International Clothing

Advice/Uplifting

Too Ashamed of Writing To Write by @writingquestionsanswered

"Said" is Beautiful by @blue-eyed-author