Soulmate AU Where Enjolras Has Sorry I Dont Mean To Startle You But Theres A Spider On Your Hair Tattooed

Soulmate AU where Enjolras has “sorry I don’t mean to startle you but there’s a spider on your hair” tattooed on his arm and Grantaire has just the capitalized letter A repeating and twisting all over his body (like a scream), from the top of his shoulder to the bottom of his foot and the both of them are very apprehensive about finding their soulmate

You know you fucked up if your OTP consists of a light and dark haired person

Describing Accents

Anonymous asked: Hey there! In the story I am writing it takes place on a different planet. However I really want a certain race of people to have African accents. How do I describe accents that don’t necessarily exist? I hope that made sense!

There’s a wealth of ways to encapsulate an accent, what with all the words available to you. It’s a matter of how straight-forward or creative you want to go. Maybe some of the methods below will help.

Adjective:

She had a fragile accent.

The people had throaty voices, sawing out words in blunt grumbles.

Metaphoric:

His voice was splinters and broken glass.

Her accent had a song-like quality that reminded her of swaying tides.

Straight-forward:

He had a French accent.

“I have to go,” she said, though from her accent, French, the words sounded more like “I hive tego.”

Straight-forward & ‘Technical’:

He had a French accent, perhaps Northern, his voice lilting the edges of his vowels and dragging out others.

Some methods work better in combination with others, such as straight-forward combined with technical (as shown). It truly shouldn’t take many sentences to give readers enough info to imagine how someone’s voice or accent sounds. Therefore I wouldn’t overdue the clues, as it can stir into offensive.

More Reading:

Describing Voices

55 Words to Describe Someone’s Voice

Online Thesaurus

Describing Qualities of the Human Voice

~Mod Colette

imagine your ot3 figuring out which of them is which powerpuff girl

A Way With Worlds - World Creation Column 

This is a list of all columns, in chronological order.

Your Main Character - Why your setting is your main character.

It’s The Little Things That Count - What you need to know to build a good world.

IN THE BEGINNING … there was a lot of planning - Origins of worlds.

Intelligent Life and Culture - Who’s in your setting?

Magic and Technology - They may work different, but setting-wise they’re the same thing, and important.

Pyramids of Power - Influence, action, and effect in your world.

Getting a Vision - The warm-and-fuzzy issue of getting a feel for your world.

Your World Is In Danger! - The importance of preserving data in worldbuilding

Retcon as Continuity - Turning screw-ups into actual plots.

The Fanfic Rebellion - Why fanfic sometimes takes odd turns, and what you can learn from it.

Attitude - Except in some cases, the concept of ‘attitude’ can give you a bad one.

Finding Inspiration - When you need ideas.

Webbing your World #1 - A crash course in web development (somewhat dated) for putting your world and works on the web.

Webbing Your World #2: Getting fancy and getting involved - Going beyond simple pages (somewhat dated)

Webbing your World #3: What goes into your webbed world - Good page design and philosophy.

Writing Religion in your Continuity - Writing religion in a way that works.

Webbing Your World #4: The Revenge of Whoever - By popular request, a column on making your web world’s design work for visitors.

Getting Readership for your Continuity - The evils of pandering.

Readership on your terms - Getting readers for your world.

Creating New Religions - Spirituality from scratch.

Timeline-Based Writing - Using timelines for inspiration and story writing. Worth reading.

Yin and Yang; Utopia Dystopia Cornucopia - Absolute good, absolute evil, absolute writing nightmare.

Sex: A completely boring discussion - Writing from biology to society.

Putting it All Together: Xai - My own experiences in worldbuilding.

World View: Evolving with Alicia Ashby - Taking a simple anime and making something new without changing it.

Yin and Yang: The Deadly Hero - Killer heroes, stereotypes, and bad writing

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed - The largely illusory quest for originality.

The Paradox of the Badass - Tough characters can be tough to write.

The Stakes - Know who’s fighting for what and why.

The Persecution Rests - Bigotry, biases, persecution - and how to write them.

Service, Service - What’s worse than Fanservice? Find out!

Crime and Punishment - Crime, law, punishment - and a step-by step way to review these elements and address issues.

More Crime and Punishment - Odds and ends on crime and punishment

Yin and Yang: Self-Serving Self-Sacrifice - It’ isn’t self-sacrifice if you do it for yourself.

Timeline based Writing: The Critical Axis - Further expanding on the Timeline-Based Writing column, looking at ways to find coherent storylines when you can’t seem to.

Why Are We Doing This? - The first anniversary column of Way With Worlds, and an introspective look at creativity.

Cycles of Conflict - A little psychology applied to writing conflicts, and exploring using a specific theory in your stories.

Losing The Race - Making your own races can lead to creating stereotypes if you aren’t careful.

Yin and Yang: Knowledge and Ignorance - Sometimes it’s what your character’s don’t know that’s important.

Yin and Yang: Subjectivity and Objectivity - You know what you know - or do you? And what do your characters really know?

The Odds - Just what are the chances of things happening in your world?

Normalcy - Just what is normal in your world - and just what is normal, period?

The March - History is happening as you write, not just when you build your world.

God, Darwin, History - Avoid the three biggest excuses in writing and life.

Parallel Earths - Alternate Earths require subtlety they don’t always receive.

Technology and Terminology - Beware Technobabble! A look at how characters refer to technology.

Communicating your World - Just because you built it doesn’t mean readers will understand it.

Playing God - A great way to make your work less than divine.

Without Words - There’s more to communications than just things your characters say.

TMI - You may have a world, but writing about it the wrong way can negatively affect your readers.

The Drought - Your readers need to know what’s going on - don’t disappoint them.

Aslan Meets His Match: Theme versus Setting - A look at the idea of new Narnia chapters, and what it can tell us about worlds and story themes.

Dark Mary Sue - There’s something worse than a heroic Mary Sue - a Mary Sue villain.

The Realism Factor - Reality is a two-sided process - or is it one?

Apocalypse How - It’s the end of the world, and amrageddon is a lot of work.

And In Closing - Way With Worlds draws to an end.

which one of your otp is the one to die and which is the one to sit in the middle of the street, holding their dead body, rocking back and forth, screaming “come back, come back, come back”?