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Don't Fall In Love With A Writer by Milk-and-Pie, literature
Literature
Don't Fall In Love With A Writer
Just because they will bruise your neck with pearls of metaphors; and splash palettes of colours onto your chest with reckless waves and boundless twilight. They will smear ink onto your lips as you kiss them because that is how they leave hickeys. They are wildest in their 2 a.m. diary, and liveliest in book racks of novels; they have butterflies in every heartbeat and they breathe living poems. They leave trails in libraries and coffee shops like Hansel leaves crumbs in forest and they have undying lovers because every love story is ever living in their abyssal oceans of analogies and
Synonyms, the Thesaurus, and You by ML-Larson, literature
Literature
Synonyms, the Thesaurus, and You
Every now and then, I see one of those lists going round, be it on Tumblr, shared on blogs, or whatever. You know, those lists; the ones that go on for eight miles listing ten synonyms for dozens of common words.
I hate those lists. In the wrong hands, they often do more harm than good. And in the right hands, they‘re just sort of useless.
There's one going around I do rather like, because it points out the idiocy of these lists. At the top, it says, 'instead of whispered, consider…' and lists off a whole bunch of words. One of those words is 'insinuated'. And the very first response to that list? 'Aye lil mama, let me i
Contest Begins by AnimeFanFics, journal
Contest Begins
Yes, I am finally going to open up a contest. Now of course there are going to be a few rules, and here they are:
1. No lemons, sorry to those of you who like them, but I'm not one to enjoy reading them and I cannot just let you write them when it's going to be unlikely that I'll read it. Not fair to you guys
2. The story can take place in any anime, just know that if by chance I don't understand what's going on because I don't know the anime, then it's less likely that it'll win (but not impossible).
3. Reader inserts are allowed, so write those to your hearts content.
4. I prefer no yoai/yuri, but I'm not going to forbid them. Just reme
