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One of the best tips for writing descriptions of pain is actually a snippet I remember from a story where a character is given a host of colored pencils and asked to draw an egg.

The character says that there’s no white pencil.  But you don’t need a white pencil to draw a white egg.  We already know the egg is white.  What we need to draw is the luminance of the yellow lamp and the reflection of the blue cloth and the shadows and the shading.

We know a broken bone hurts.  We know a knife wound hurts.  We know grief hurts.  Show us what else it does.

You don’t need to describe the character in pain.  You need to describe how the pain affects the character - how they’re unable to move, how they’re sweating, how they’re cold, how their muscles ache and their fingers tremble and their eyes prickle.

Draw around the egg.  Write around the pain.  And we will all be able to see the finished product.

i feel the need to remind everyone that Damen’s literally one of the smartest and most well-educated characters in the series. He’s extremely well-read and knowledgeable about military tactics and strategy, which if you didn’t know also includes a huge depth of history knowledge, and his talent comes from both education and years of experience. He’s smart enough to know geography and terrain information of an area he hasn’t needed to have information on in seven years, and even then, the lands they are talking about were in mainland Vere, not Delpha, so his studies were his own initiative. he has favorite poems! HE ENJOYED DEBATING OBSCURE PHILOSOPHY WITH HESTON!!! like y’all Damen is just as intelligent as Laurent, it’s just that Laurent’s intelligence is about manipulation and chess and Damen’s just a nerd.

(also people are gonna be coming for me for this one but i think Damen likes books and libraries a lot more than Laurent ever did)

What could have been capri AU doodle

(bb laurent's first teeny crush 🤏💙 )

the vocabulary of loss is the dictionary

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the extent to which every single interpretation Wei Wuxian/the narrator offers for Jiang Cheng’s actions is wrong is honestly incredible

@anotheraffair​ YES this is so well put 

#this is possibly one of the major things that fuels the jc brainrot#like the way it works as a narrative tool is that it requires the audience to engage with the material#in a way that triggers your imagination bc you’re trying to solve these apparent conflicts#and then you have these oh! i see! moments#that are not shared by the characters#so it becomes this special thing YOU hatched in your own mind#a special important thing you realized and which is important and which you cannot share with fictional characters#and so cannot change the narrative – it only changes your experience of it#there are other characters who get a bit of that#but for jc its like the sole entire way his character is handled#and its framed so that it’s like. HUgely important but it’s always in like littler reveals#like he doesn’t make a speech NO ONE ever seems to get him ever#so the receptive audience is just gnawing on their arms screaming yelling at wwx to stop being like that

I like Laurent and Nikandros getting along and all but I also love Nikandros always being ready for Laurent to fuck it up with Damen so he has an excuse to beat him up for once

AND he is also the one crying snot at lamens wedding

hi, this is im out of touch and this is his boyfriend im out of time

—Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Ethel Smyth, December 1932 (in Letters)

A bliaut…for a growing boy

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