Fuck anyone who’s ever made you feel like you were hard to love.

Here it is, my secret santa gift for Ren/tumblr user Renpouinn!!! Betcha never would have guessed, huh?

Sorry that I couldn’t make it the full song, time restraints and all ;v; Of course, I put my all into this as best I could! So I really hope you enjoy it!! ^q^ It was honestly really fun to make.  I’ll maybe go back and do the whole song one day, and when that comes, I’ll show it to you!

So this is for you!! Happy Holidays, Ren! (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))

Music: Phillip Phillips’ “Gone, gone, gone” Series: Hunter x Hunter by Yoshihiro Togashi Art: amie/xskyward@tumblr

note: please excuse that my theme puts the video up twice, idk why it does that and I can’t fix it ;o;

The real fight between Chrollo and Kurapika…

wow, look at this! the overhanging leaves.. on the shoreline are pretTHERES A CRAB

when i figure out how to die without hurting my mom’s feelings it’s over for me, bitches

Words to live by.

Free hugs. And kisses.

“This is known as an Indoor Fish. Made from Nen, it can only exist in enclosed spaces. It’s a carnivore that enjoys human flesh. Its victims don’t bleed or feel pain. And they won’t die until the Indoor Fish disappears.”

Hunter x Hunter (2011)

7 Things that Block your Happiness

1. Self hatred and self blame

2. Not being able to let go of the past.

3. Not being able to forgive yourself.

4. Not being able to cherish who you are.

5. Needing other to validate you.

6. Letting other people define who you are.

7. Trying to be perfect, and to please everyone.

Troping 101: Writing True Companions

Now this is one I’m sure we’re all fond of. A group of friends with a bond so strong that they would do anything for eachother. A group of friends brought together by circumstances. Wheter it be traveling together to defeat the evil mastermind, or just a mundane setting where they have eachother’s backs through day to day life. Either way this trope can be extremely heartwarming so it’s no question as to why it’s so prevalent with storytellers. But as with all tropes, there is a wrong way to use it so as always, I’ll be giving you the tips on what to avoid and what to encourage with your group of companions.

Getting the biggest pitfall out of the way first, numbers matter. By numbers, I mean the numbers of characters in this pact. Unless you’re writing a minimalist story where these characters will be the only center of focus, keeping the group down to a certain amount will be very advantageous to your plot. I know how much fun it can be to showcase your fun loveable characters to your audience, but unless you’re writing a long running epic, a group of 10 companions doing whatever is going to be a bit much to swallow. Not to mention the inevitable unbalanced screentime that will come with such a number. My recommendation if you’re a beginner is to just start with 5, and if you’re feeling cocky, 8. But 10 is something I could only offer to someone who considers themself an expert at pacing and character development.

Next up, individuality. Doing whatever you can to make your characters stand out from one another is a must, but the difference should be so strong that one character’s traits should make another’s even more apparent. Every detail counts. Make them have varying vocabulary levels, their own sense of what’s ok and not ok. Another important thing is that individualistic traits must pop out on the character’s personal level, physical level is just a plus.

Now focusing on the stars themselves- The Characters. You must be very careful with who is a part of this group. I know this sounds obvious but trust me it’s not. When I say be careful whose a part of this group, I mean don’t let a character who would obviously hold the group back be a part of it because all you would be doing is making the reader wonder why they’re there, and trust me they always do. Giving you a straightforward example, don’t use family members as a members of the group. Unless the entire family is the group, don’t put a character up with strangers they could be pals with then throw their little brother in there. By doing this, it restricts the relationships the character could develop with the others because of the pre-existing relationship with their sibling. So unless there’s special circumstances, tagalong family members can’t be around. Imagine the pact in an adventure setting and the group is in a dangerous situation. The dude with the little brother is obviously going to prioritize his own blood over his friends, and of course there’s nothing wrong with that, but from a narrative standpoint, you have a cast of how ever many, and 2 of them are spending their time reaffirming their already established relationship instead of forming new ones.

Last but not least- Interactions. I mean interaction in general. You can have them fight,argue or get along with almost no conflict whatsoever, but make sure the Main Character isnt the center of it ALL. Obviously the MC will interact with everyone because they’re the primary POV, but theres no harm in everyone else interacting with each other too. I’m sure you have a favorite TV show where you wanted to see the interaction between 2 characters but it never happened cause the writer(s) had no idea how they would actually talk to eachother. So now you found yourself in Fanfiction Purgatory looking for any bite you can get. Our personalities bring out the best in eachother, wheter it’s for good or bad, it makes for good storytelling so dont hold back on it.

Well that was the topic for today, let me know if I was missing anything and I’m also taking any request. I’ll be doing this daily until further notice, but until then, have a nice evening.

Troping 101 : How to make your Romance Believable

We all know what romance is. Person A meets Person B, they fall in love and live happily ever after. On paper its a simple concept that can have a variety of executions. But in the past decade, the romance genre has been getting a bad rep, since alot of amatuers aren’t to keen on what really makes it enjoyable. It’s gotten so bad that usually mentioning romance in a story is enough to get almost any millennial to roll their eyes and distance themselves from the nonsense. This can be a problem if romance is your favorite genre, so although it’s not my cup of tea, I will you give tips on how to fix your romance stories.

First things first, I’ll go over the various traps that new authors fall into when creating these stories and the main one without a doubt is “Love Triangles.”

Now I can totally understand why someone would try it out, but it’s rarely useful anymore due to how badly everyone’s worn it out. Afterall, people watched “Romeo x Juliet” for the titular duo , not “Which one will Juliet choose??? Oh-la-la-la”. Traditionally , love triangles were used as a speed bump in the relationship to help the characters confirm that they actually do have feelings for each other, but now most people utilizing them use it as a tool for “Shipping wars”. Now although, that’s not inherently bad, it does show the audience that you care more about the IDEA of falling in love, as opposed to ACTUALLY falling in love.

Next pitfall, physical attraction being the main factor of romance. Now hear me out, physical attraction can play a PART in a relationship, since you can’t fall in love with personality at first sight. But it should a plus, not the main requirement. You ever notice that when people make fun of Twilight, they usually point how the plot wouldn’t have happened if Bella was on the chunkier side? You see when you have two love birds, try to avoid things like “ She/He was the hottest girl/boy in the whole school.” If these characters truly have a burning passion for another, it should be because they have something deep, that no one else can provide for them. If Person A is just going for Person B because they’re “hot”, it’s not a romance story, it’s a conquest story. So unless your story is about the MC losing their virginity to their defintion of a sex god, tone down the physical attraction aspect just a notch.

Now that we got those giant bear traps out of the way, let’s get back on track the big picture- The Romance! The biggest problem I’ve noticed with mainstream romance stories is that the people the characters are at the beginning, and the people they are at the end… Are the exact same people, with the only difference being that they’re dating or married.

The Golden Rule of writing is to “Show, Not Tell.” Just like with real life , just saying “I love you” shouldn’t be enough. Have the characters make sacrifices to show they care about one another. If these characters are the soul mates the story makes them out to be, there should be a “Before” and “After” in their lives. The “Before” being the people they were before they met, and the “After” being…well you know.

Even something small like Person A quitting cigarettes or anyother bad habit helps. Sure, it will take alot more than quitting bad habits to prove their love, but the fact that they’re willing to make such a change for one person proves that they want to make this relationship work.I don’t like Twilight, but even Edward marks a “Before” and “After” in Bella’s life, from making her a boring teenage girl, to being a sorta better vampire girl.

All in all, if action stories have fight scenes, mystery stories have deduction scenes, then Romance stories have talking scenes. Every word counts, because these words are what’s going to make the characters realize how they’ve been longing for this person so deeply. In a romance story, romance should dictate everything from character motives to character development.

I hope you enjoyed today’s topic and I’ll gladly take any request you may have. I’ll be doing this daily until further notice. Until then, have a nice evening. :)

Troping 101: How to use a Depressing Setting

Hello, everyone this is Troping 101 where I not only discuss certain cliches and tropes, I talk about how to use effectively in your stories and avoid their various pitfalls.

And what better to start my first post with then with “The Depressing Setting” also known on Tvtropes as “A Crapsack World”.

This is the type of trope you’ll see in Grimdark stories where characters have lost faith in humanity and for good reason.This type of trope is usually utilized in scifi stories or zombies stories but is also welcome anywhere else…usually.

You’re probably wondering why I chose such a trope as my first topic and honestly it’s because of how risky it is. I will admit that the trope lends itself well to morbid stories, but the thing that comes with that is also apathy, the last thing you want as an author.

See as an author your stories only work if the audience cares about your characters enough to continue reading the story. And if you’re bringing them a setting where the characters behave in such a way that reader can only care about one or two characters, who are probably going to die by the way, they don’t have much reason to put up with it.

I’ve noticed in my experiences , that other pitfalls new writers fall into when playing with this trope is that the main character is usually the one likeable character. And trust me, it’s not cause the main character is a likeable person, just that we’ve been following them around the most, so you get attached via stockholm syndrome.

But the good news is , despite the MC usually being the person that can make this trope worse, they’re also the first step in making it better. In the few ways I’ve seen this trope being used properly, it’s always in one of two ways.

1.There will be a glimmer of hope, that the main characters work towards.

Forget stories, let’s think about life for a second here. What do we always tell people who are going through a rough time? “Things will get better.” We should lend that ideology to this trope. If you set up your world as a place that morally hurts to live in, giving your characters a goal to work towards not only gives your story a plot but the audience has something to care about as they work towards making their life a better one. But what do you do if theres no hope for your characters?

2.Make the audience fall in love with how Determined the characters are to live to see another day.

This trope and zombie stories go hand and hand. You ever notice that zombies never have an end goal. Just living is good enough for the characters. I always admired that most about the zombie genre, because if you really think about it, the characters are better off dead then living in a world where they are not only being hunted by zombies but by their fellow man as well. Even autobiographies based on someone’s suffering always put an emphasis on how they never gave in to death

And at the end of the day, unless you want your audience to read your story ironically, this is what they want. Something to care about. Loveable characters to follow. It’s hard to realize this when most stories using this trope just involve depressing the reader just for the sake of depressing the reader.

I hope that this blog helped out, and I plan to do it daily until further notice. If you want to share your thoughts and opinions feel free or if you have any requests, I’ll gladly take any.

hunty x hanter episode 103 probably

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