(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.
✶ Sarcasm as armor. (Break it with someone who laughs gently, not mockingly.) ✶ Hyper-independence. (Break it with someone who shows up even when they’re told not to.) ✶ Stoicism. (Break it with a safe space to fall apart.) ✶ Flirting to avoid intimacy. (Break it with real vulnerability they didn’t see coming.) ✶ Ghosting everyone. (Break it with someone who won’t take silence as an answer.) ✶ Lying for convenience. (Break it with someone who sees through them but stays anyway.) ✶ Avoiding touch. (Break it with accidental, gentle contact that feels like home.) ✶ Oversharing meaningless things to hide real depth. (Break it with someone who asks the second question.) ✶ Overworking. (Break it with forced stillness and the terrifying sound of their own thoughts.) ✶ Pretending not to care. (Break it with a loss they can’t fake their way through.) ✶ Avoiding mirrors. (Break it with a quiet compliment that hits too hard.) ✶ Turning every conversation into a joke. (Break it with someone who doesn’t laugh.) ✶ Being everyone’s helper. (Break it when someone asks what they need, and waits for an answer.) ✶ Constantly saying “I’m fine.” (Break it when they finally scream that they’re not.) ✶ Running. Always running. (Break it with someone who doesn’t chase, but doesn’t leave, either.) ✶ Intellectualizing every feeling. (Break it with raw, messy emotion they can’t logic away.) ✶ Trying to be the strong one. (Break it when someone sees the weight they’re carrying, and offers to help.) ✶ Hiding behind success. (Break it when they succeed and still feel empty.) ✶ Avoiding conflict at all costs. (Break it when silence causes more pain than the truth.) ✶ Focusing on everyone else’s healing but their own. (Break it when they hit emotional burnout.)
An awesome way to motivate yourself to write: leave an open bag of chocolate next to your computer or notebook, and go head and reward yourself for each paragraph (or sentence; either one works!) you write with a piece of chocolate
Bugborg incorrect quotes ! I love this two so much!
Mantis : Change is inedible.
Nebula : Don't you mean inevitable?
Mantis , spitting out coins: No, I did not.
Mantis : I turned out perfectly fine!
Nebula : Mantis , this morning you thought a ghost made your toast
Mantis : I DIDN’T PUT THE BREAD IN! YOU DIDN’T PUT THE BREAD IN!!!
Mantis : Whaddya call a fish with no eye?
Nebula , not looking up: Myxine Circifrons
Mantis :
Mantis : fsh
Mantis : Date someone who will drag you outside at 3am to look at the stars.
Nebula : If anyone, and I mean anyone, wakes me up at 3am to go look at the damn sky they will be removed indefinitely from my life
Nebula: Valentine’s Day is a Terran consumerist holiday that holds no real value other than driving people insane buying heart shaped chocolates for their significant others and pos-
Mantis: I wrote you a poem!
Nebula already crying; you did?
Mantis : You saved me. I owe you my life.
Nebula : No thanks. I’ve seen it and I’m not very impressed.
Mantis : How do I deal with my enemies?
Nebula : Kill them
Mantis : That's a bit extreme, I was hoping for a more passive solution
Nebula : Kill them only a little?
Mantis : I’m in love with you.
Nebula : We called off the prank war last night at midnight, dork.
Mantis : I know.
Nebula : Ah. Okay. Um. Cool. Neat. Very cool. Cool. Cool. Coolcoolcool-
Nebula : This date is boring!
Mantis : This isn't a date. I said I was going to the store.
Nebula : Then why did you invite me?
Mantis : I didnt, I specifically said "don't come with me," then you said, "fuck you Mantis I'll do whatever I want!
Mantis : I have feelings for you.
Nebula : Why? What's wrong with you? Are you sure you're okay?
Mantis : I think I just figured something out. I got to go.
Nebula : Aren't you forgetting something?
Mantis : Uuh...*hesitantly kisses Nebula 's forehead before running out.*
Nebula : No, pay your bill! Damn, who raised you?
Nebula : That was so hot, Mantis .
Mantis : I literally called the person who just flirted with you a degenterate dog and told them I hope they get dragged through the streets.
Nebula : I'm so in love with you.
Mantis : Do you want to explain the text you sent me last night?
Nebula : It was autocorrect.
Mantis : Autocorrect wrote "You're so hot. Please step on me."?
Nebula : Yes.
Mantis : Being gay is a constant battle between "I wish to sit on a window bench with my lover, our legs tangling as we listen to the birds" and "Hey, let's go throw rocks at fascists" and I think that's very sexy of us.
Nebula : If the window's open and you time it right, you can do both.
i gotta remember this
can’t explain why but good children’s fantasy is usually closer in essence to good adult fantasy than good YA fantasy is to good adult fantasy. the best children’s fantasy reads like the best adult fantasy, and vice versa.
just remembered this old clickhole video i used to be obsessed with
a whole foods of pearl & overcast
Bank of Sapphire Cold?
correction: something I'd LOVE
i love when characters lie to themselves in the complete privacy of their own minds