hopes & dreams

Shoutout to characters who run from their fate I looooove characters who see what's ahead of them and go "yeah actually, no thanks" and run as fast as they can in the opposite direction. It will catch up to them eventually because fate doesn't need to stop to rest, but they'd rather slam doors behind them and knock things off tables in an attempt to trip it than go without a fight.

yeah yeah fire-based characters are destructive and angry and violent and evil blah blah blah BORING overdone. more fire as a lifegiver. warm and comforting. fire-based characters as guides lighting the way. personal heater in the cold and dark but don’t sleep too close or you’ll wake up with heat rash. fire sterilizes and cauterizes!! more fire-based healers. plants perking up and flowers turning towards them and they attract moths. fire-based characters who are hearths instead of wildfires!! the core of a home the pillar of a community the key to societal advancement. give them an internal flame that visibly glows and flickers instead of a heart that beats. extinguish that light when they die. etc

I'm obsessed with characters we only hear about second or third hand, especially when those accounts are conflicting. No, you don't get to see them, but here's a warped mirror of what other people thought they were. Enjoy your contemplation of how being known is an act of translation and communicates only aspects of the self.

#persisting only as part of the mythology of others

loveeee characters who think they're likable but not lovable. characters who know they have surface-level admirable or alluring traits and so make sure to highlight those traits so that nobody looks closer to see what's underneath. characters who know they're hot or clever or cool and use that as a suit of armor so that no one ever gets close to them, because when they strip bare and show their vulnerability they're not any of those things, which means they have nothing left to make up for who they inherently are

when you're a shapeshifter i bet letting yourself slowly fall off a rooftop only to turn into a bird and fly away feels soooo good

not enough scenes in books where characters kill someone and throw up afterwards. like something has to be done

someone is putting up pictures of me around town and they all say I’m ‘wanted’. which is nice

When maids and concubines do murders in historical dramas I don’t think that’s a crime. They should be allowed to do that

ugh we need more manipulative characters that aren’t evil. lie and cheat and steal for a good cause. control every narrative. use narcissism for justice. ruin all of your personal relationships for the good of the mission.

"time heals all wounds" WRONG. time is chasing me with a knife