Tag: :D

hattedhedgehog:

Kíli can’t tell elf genders apart, he just finds everyone really pretty.

(I headcanon that dwarves express their gender with braids, as it’s simple but effective and can be changed as the individual sees fit. As elves don’t have a similar system, younger Dwarves find it difficult to address elves with proper pronouns, because “what do you mean we have to guess based on their features? Assume based on stereotypical traits, how impolite!”)

Source: hattedhedgehog

how to write an action scene

jedusaur:

jedusaur:

it’s kind of mind-boggling how many action scenes out there (including sex scenes) are straight-up boring. that is the opposite of what an action scene is supposed to be. so here’s a little how-to, for those who have trouble with action. 

(standard disclaimer: all writing processes are different, my way is not the only way, if it doesn’t work for you that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you or your work.)

step 1: decide what your action scene needs to accomplish plot-wise and character-wise. if the answer is nothing, scrap the scene.

step 2 (optional): if you’re the kind of writer who needs to write a crappy first draft before you can do anything productive with a scene, write your crappy first draft.

step 3: break down the scene into a bulleted outline of everything that happens in sequential order, and make sure there’s a “therefore” or “but” relationship in every transition. every action should either be caused by the previous action, or interfere with it. no “and then” relationships.

step 4: check your outline against the results of step 1.

step 5: stick an exclamation point on every sentence of your outline. if it doesn’t deserve an exclamation point, either cut it or make it more exciting until it does.

step 6: write the scene from that outline. do not use any exclamation points (except in dialogue, sparingly).

step 7: check your finished scene against the results of step 1. all good? high-fuckin’-five, send it to your beta.

the best thing about posting writing tips on tumblr is all the people tagging it “thank you!” writing tumblr is so darn sweet ❤

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elevenwalnuts:

if straight people gotta change pronouns when they’re singing covers so they don’t sound gay, then asexual singers have every right to replace any and all pronouns with “chicken nuggets”

No no no.  This is so problematic because chicken nuggets has a different number of syllables, and it’s going to throw the whole song off.  You have to pick a one syllable word.  Like bears.

“Then he looks at bears, bears look at me, I look at bears and we look at bears.”

– R. Kelley, Trapped in the Closet ch. 7

I KISSED A BEAR AND I LIKED IT

doncha wish ur bearfriend was a freak like me

HEY HEY YOU YOU I DON’T LIKE YOUR BEARFRIEND

Bear was a bear, bear was a bear, can I make it any more obvious

Bear’s so tall and handsome as hell, bear’s so bad but bear does it so well

somebody told me that you had a bearfriend who looked like a bearfriend

my bearfriend’s back and you’re gonna be in trouble

And everybody’s watching bear, but bear’s looking at youuuuuuuuuuuu

Looking for bears who are bears who like bears to be bears who do bears like they’re bears who do bears like they’re bears
ALWAYS SHOULD BE SOMEONE YOU REALLY BEAAAAAAR