past me: canon is sacred I must carefully fact-check everything to make sure it is canon-compliant

present me: canon is a box of scraps in a cave I’m gonna tear that shit apart throw away 90% of it and out of the good bits build something absolutely beautiful and amazing

when ur trying to write fic but u don’t wanna write it u just want it to exist

winnyverse:

source: Rupi Kaur

Is there a word for the feeling you get when you want to return to a place you can no longer return to, like missing an old house that’s been sold or a time when you were young?

word-stuck:

Hiraeth is a deep, wistful, nostalgic sense of longing for home — a home that is no longer or perhaps never was.

Pronounced [hɨraɪ̯θ], this Welsh word is defined as a yearning and wistful grief for people and things long gone, a homesickness tinged with grief or sadness over the lost or departed.

It is a mix of longing, yearning, nostalgia, wistfulness, or an earnest desire.

Hiraeth bears considerable similarities with the Portuguese concept of saudade, Brazilian Portuguese banzo, Galician morriña, Romanian dor, and Ethiopian tizita.

There’s a phrase, “sitzfleisch”, which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, “If the muse is late for work, start without her”. You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you’re probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.

Peter S. Beagle (via fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment)

“If the muse is late for work, start without her.”

(via watsonshoneybee)

iamhisgloriouspurpose:

vortexsophia:

Thank you, Mr. Rogers.

this is so sweetly adorable, i cannot TT^TT

Source: vortexsophia

Peacefic.

pervocracy:

I want to pioneer a new* genre of fanfiction: the peacefic.

Peacefic simply follows characters through a day or week when everything goes fine. Buffy goes to school and hangs out with her friends and goes on a quiet patrol; the Enterprise charts a new planet and finds it to be an entirely lovely place; the Doctor and Rose visit an era, enjoy the local color, and leave without any unexpected difficulty.

It may not make for great storytelling, but I feel like it would be extremely therapeutic.

*if this hasn’t already been thought of, which it probably has

I love Peacefic! The kind where no one is slain by arrows, bitten by zombies, or led to believe someone is in love with them, when–surprise!!–they get together with someone else. >:c