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their purpose was to be a demonstration of Asgore's love for Toriel for one day and nothing more, but Asgore has kept them alive for a near 20 years, how could they not love him?

This is why they are so willing to do what is essentially a suicide mission. It doesn't matter if the dark world staying up means their real selves will no longer be able to receive care and they die, they were meant to die a long time ago, they will die one day. Why not die by repaying the person who has kept them alive this whole time?

But Asgore doesn't love them that way. He cared for them because they were a representation of the love between him and Toriel. He kept them alive not because he wanted the flowers themselves to live on, but because Asgore did not want the flowers, the representation of his and Toriel's love to die.

This is why when the dark world was made and the flowers were able to become people to give Asgore the affection that he had always given them Asgore does not reciprocate because the care and love he gave them as flowers was never actually directed towards them.

It is a very unique and fascinating take on an uneven relationship

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

recycle your darlings

how the parallels between Magolor and bwd are so painfully clear. as Magolor, who was looking for a shortcut to world domination ultimately failed and lost everything. while Bandana Waddle Dee worked endlessly hard to be able to stand toe to toe w/ Kirby and Dedede received through that same journey a place among them as a friend and peer. how he sees growing stronger not just as an action for the self, but an activity which should be achieved through friendship and connection ("Together, we polish up our skills / And grow stronger"). instead of someone like magolor, who grew as a mage in isolation and only saw kirby&friends as means to an end for power.

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On the year and half anniversary of my previous gemstone post I bring you brand new gemstone charts from LabradoriteKing.

I never expected the original post to take off. I found these gemstone charts to help me design crowns for the royal family in my Harry Potter au and posted them so I could quickly find them again. Apparently everyone else thought they were useful, too. I hope you find these new charts as useful in your creative endeavors as I will in mine. Which reminds me, I need to work more on my Harry Potter au.