Encouragment For Writers That I Know Seemsdiscouraging At First But I Promise Its Motivational-

Encouragment for writers that I know seems discouraging at first but I promise it’s motivational-

• Those emotional scenes you’ve planned will never be as good on page as they are in your head. To YOU. Your audience, however, is eating it up. Just because you can’t articulate the emotion of a scene to your satisfaction doesn’t mean it’s not impacting the reader. 

• Sometimes a sentence, a paragraph, or even a whole scene will not be salvagable. Either it wasn’t necessary to the story to begin with, or you can put it to the side and re-write it later, but for now it’s gotta go. It doesn’t make you a bad writer to have to trim, it makes you a good writer to know to trim.

• There are several stories just like yours. And that’s okay, there’s no story in existence of completely original concepts. What makes your story “original” is that it’s yours. No one else can write your story the way you can.

• You have writing weaknesses. Everyone does. But don’t accept your writing weaknesses as unchanging facts about yourself. Don’t be content with being crap at description, dialogue, world building, etc. Writers that are comfortable being crap at things won’t improve, and that’s not you. It’s going to burn, but work that muscle. I promise you’ll like the outcome.

Thinking a bit about Mammon and what we know of him canonically, his behavior, values, principles, and conduct, and how they seem entirely different from what we know of his fanon interpretation.

Canon Mammon is…well, let’s just call a spade a spade, he’s a clown. The certified Butt-Monkey of the brothers, if something bad is going to happen, nine times out of ten, it’s going to happen to him. Dude is a truffle pig for trouble and for the most part, loves to sniff it out and roll in it.

Have the fans explain it, and Mammon is a saint who's never done anything wrong in his life ever, yet story-wise, Mammon’s downfalls and shortcomings are usually due to his own dubious inclinations, though to be fair, are a consequence of him being the literal physical manifestation of one of humanity’s sins: greed. We see this through his gambling habits, his tendency to engage in shady deals or practices, his lying, and his cheating, but what really gains him the ire of most of his siblings and others is his tendency to steal and sell any and everything he assumes may bring him a profit, regardless if the item is sentimental or not.

Needless to say, Mammon isn’t the most respected of his brothers, and they remind him of it every chance they get, specifically with the words “scumbag,” ‘moron,” “idiot,” “money-obsessed moron,” etc. Mammon even suffers for his actions physically, with Lucifer finding little issue in stringing him up and leaving him there to rot for a while.

There’s also the fact that in the first season of the OG game, like most of the brothers, Mammon is kind of an asshole. Your typical Tsundere archetype, his personality is initially brash and not too keen on learning of his forced role as a human attendant, constantly insulting the MC while bemoaning his position all the while, a position he almost fails in upholding more than once when the MC’s life is threatened.

Yet because this is an otome game, Mammon eventually begins to have feelings for the MC as soon as the fourth lesson, and that whole being your “first” thing holds a lot of weight to Mammon, so much so that he’ll bring it up repeatedly. He becomes a bit more clingy, vying for the MC’s attention, to the point where personal space is but a mere myth to this man.

For you see, beyond his salty attitude is a man with a huge heart. Canon Mammon is competent and capable of showing a surprising amount of wisdom, intelligence, strength, and kindness when he puts his mind to it (the man admits himself to being sensitive, after all).

Despite his shortcomings, there’s a reason Lucifer entrusted Mammon with the MC, as out of all of his siblings, he is the only character capable of keeping his “bloodlust” in check. And despite his flakiness at times, Lucifer relies heavily on Mammon to complete certain tasks, to the point where he’s accused of showing favoritism towards the secondborn. Speaking of which, that second-born title also includes his power level, having the ability to clearly fight and defend himself, yet choosing to either run or hide from altercations, if possible. It’s rare for him to get angry or fight back, which is why it’s so scary when he does.

More importantly, Mammon is completely and utterly in love with the MC. This is true for all the brothers, but Mammon is the most consistent, a constant in his character that never changes and is the main drive to his appeal imo. Unlike the other brothers, who seem to have interests and relationships outside of the MC, Mammon’s focus is single-targeted, and it’s one of the many reasons why he’s the most popular character in the game. There are no limitations to his affections. No scary or overly complicated parts to his character. We are his “first,” and that’s a comfortable place to be because regardless of what we do or how we look, Mammon isn’t one to give up and will literally fight, yell, and cry his way into your heart, whether you choose someone else or not.

However, you wouldn’t be able to tell this with Fanon Mammon, a soggy wad of therapy session tissues. He is an absolutely miserable wreck of a man. A traumatized, suicidal-inclined, helpless dude in need of a serious hug. A prone character to hurt/comfort fics, he's the trauma dumpster for the fans who like to project, which would be fine if it weren’t for the fact that these traits are sometimes treated as actual aspects of Mammon’s canon character. Fanon Mammon is essentially boiled down to his most pathetic traits, woobifying him. In fics where the brothers are present, such as Lucifer and Asmodeus, expect them to be written OOC to make Mammon appear even worse. In essense, Fanon Mammon not only has his complexity completely taken away, but takes away the complexity of everyone else around him in the process.

I'm not certain why this happens to Mammon more than other characters. Maybe because of his "kick the dog" status in canon, which causes people to sympathize with him more. And if you're someone who can relate to a lot of Mammon’s shortcomings, then that probably adds to his "woobie" nature.

And this isn't to say you can never go beyond canon and write Mammon any other way, yet it's like I've stated before, there's your headcanon and there's canon. You can think what you want, write what you want, yet something doesn't become a fact just because you want it to be/are emotional about it. And you also don't get the right to attack people for it.

Anyway, these are just things I've noticed about his fanon vs canon that I personally don't like, though opinions are always appreciated.

50 MORE Ways To Say “I Love You”

“Of course I waited for you”

“You’re the only thing that matters”

“I’ll always come when you need me to”

Referring to someone as “my [insert name]”

“Please, tell me everything”

“I haven’t felt anything like this before”

“Nothing in your past will ever stop me caring about you and loving you for who you are”

“I wasn’t sure which flavour you wanted so I got all of them”

“You don’t need to pay me back, it’s my pleasure I promise”

*talks about their future* *later talks about the same future but with their partner as a part of it*

“We’ll get through this together, okay?”

“Keep it. It looks better on you”

“Ive been dying to do this with you”

“Don’t say another word- I’m on my way”

“What did the world do to deserve you?”

“You make me happy all the time”

“I’m gonna go take a nap, wanna join?”

“I’m ready to be serious now. I promise”

“I would kill for you- not another person or anything. I’d kill a spider or someone’s hopes and dreams”

“You do be kinda sexy”

“Hmm? Oh sorry- I kinda zoned out while looking at your face . . . what are we talking about?”

“I’ll be with you every step of the way”

“I can’t say no to that face”

“Don’t worry- it’ll be a lot prettier at our wedding”

“IM NOT LEAVING YOU BEHIND!”

“When I get out of here I’m taking you with me”

“When the world does eventually end, there’ll be a little house on top of the horizon. It’ll be small and in shambles and always smell of laundry but it’ll be perfect. That’s where we’ll live- in our little house on the edge of the world”

“Youre family now”

“I will always be your best friend”

“I don’t want this to be a one time thing!”

“You are more than your flaws”

“I’m staying here whether you want me to or not”

“This one’s mine!”

“I’m just waiting it out until later when I can crawl into bed and cuddle you”

“Did I buy this cologne/perfume because you use it and the smell reminds me of you? Yes yes I did”

“You don’t have to waste your day doing this with me” “Nothing is a waste as log as you’re there”

“Ugh your FACE I LOVE IT”

“You’re the [blank] of my dreams”

“We’ll get through this together, okay?”

“The last thing I want to do is hold you back”

“Ask anyone- since I met you, I’ve changed for the better”

“Anyone with eyes can see how beautiful/talented you are”

“You got this”

“Go kick ass you beautiful machine of death”

“I’m here whenever you need me, okay?”

“I’ve never taken anyone here before”

“I want to be in your life, if you’ll let me”

“Ugh our kids are gonna be awesome”

“You’ll always be my kid”

“I really love you”

[part one]

[50 ways to say I hate you]

(Sorry if I repeated some!)

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A Vulcan named Stork works at the Terran adoption agency. Parents always request that he be the one to deliver their child to them.

poor ashoka imagine her trying to brag about having her work on (insert boring homework here) corrected by her master only to know that it was a random master with the same color pen, just because anakin hates studying and doesn't know no shit….

I like to imagine there's a common Jedi tradition where masters give their padawans fountain pens the color of their lightsaber crystals after they return from Ilum. As a soft and gentle reminder to balance martial training with thought and philosophy.

Jedi Padawan Mc

☄ Jedi Padawan Mc, summoned by Barbatos from the future in a very distant galaxy. ☄ MC is a descendant of Lilith as in cannon, but for some reason Barbatos was unable, for a few millennia, to locate MC's lineage so he could later discover its location ☄ MC is Master Mace's padawan, his second padawan, because the force had said he was supposed to be her master after Depa. ☄ Yes, the force exists in this reality, in fact god and the angels would be a version of the Ones, based on the darthomir myth of the father, daughter and son, with god being the "father" and the daughter being the angels and the son the "demon" king who created the others. ☄ Barbatos is the only one who knows that MC is from the future and from a distant galaxy, he asks her not to reveal her origins due to ancient laws ☄ Barb couldn't change time, but without MC, Diavolo's project would go down the drain ☄ Mc is seen as a Gray Jedi by the order ☄ Mc kept her crystal in a hidden bag that stays stuck to her body 24/7, she hid the body of her saber so that mammon doesn't steal it. ☄ Mc is still seen as a human without magic, however later she presents herself to each of her brothers, after the pact ordering secrecy, that she has "psychic" powers ☄ The brothers believe that she was raised within an Order of traditionalist Monks, monks who had no contact with the outside world and that's why Mc didn't know pop culture things from the human world, Levi took it personally when he discovered that mc didn't know what a telephone was.. ☄ Mc is super intelligent and hardworking due to the teachings of the order, she is also very diplomatic ☄ Form VI, Niman is the formation that mc chose to specialize in, sometimes she sparring with Bel, after making the pact with Bel, in the forest near the house of lamentations, using bleeding bamboo swords (a demonic version of a banbu) ☄ Mc has 2 lightsabers and a shoto, gifts from her own strength that she received on a mission after losing the previous one.