Your dialogue is stiff because everyone is being too honest
Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people
dodge questions
answer indirectly
lie (badly)
change the subject
crack jokes to avoid serious answers
lie (convincingly)
say half of what they mean
tell the truth but get so anxious/angry/defensive others now think they're lying
If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.
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one of my friends in a discord server was talking about how they were nervous about their first scheduled acupuncture appointment. another friend offered to do a tarot reading for them. sent this picture.
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All The Wanting In The World (ao3) - moonytoast35
Sirius/Remus
M, 7k
Summary: He is quite clever, he considers, in the way he doles out his observations. A look in the hallway between classes during which he focuses on Remus’s fingers as they hold his textbooks, is enough to tide him over until lunch. At lunch, he can risk a prolonged glance into his eyes, green and full of speckled yellow spots. This can keep him full until bedtime. At night, he watches Remus in his too big shirt and tiny, tiny shorts that should be illegal, as he puts on his reading glasses and buries himself in some muggle romance novel, and this is enough to fill Sirius’s dreams that night, until he wakes up in the morning and the cycle inevitably begins again.
Elucidation Practice (ao3) - montparnasse
Sirius/Remus
M, 21k
Summary: Christmas, 1978. Remus, wrestling with the mighty problems of gift-giving on a budget, contemplates life, love, London in winter, and falling off the edge of the world with Sirius Black.
for the hope of it all (ao3) - mischieflower
James/Lily
G, 2k
Summary: "That's because I'm not" She snaps, filing her papers together that were on her desk. She stands, and moves towards him to shove them into his outstretched hand. "If that's all, I would love for you to leave me alone as your presence can be suffocating"
"My dear Evans, when will you learn that you're inevitable to fall to my charms" He responds in a way that infuriates her, as his dimple appears while he says the words. As he walks away, she let herself watch his retreating figure. Her now faux scowl giving in to a small smile.
Oh when was he going to realize she already had.
Good Love Going Wrong (ao3) - LoveReed555
Regulus/James
M, 3k
Summary: Regulus fakes his own death after escaping the cave and the Dark Lord, and even though he chose power over love, he still wants to know whether James would mourn him.
heartsickness (ao3) - EnbyHighMage
T, 3k
Summary: It wasn’t just Sirius’ beauty and effusiveness that was the problem. If he were merely the most gorgeous and fascinating person Remus had ever known, maybe he could have forgotten him after a year or two.
Home Bakery (ao3) - Ghostofafruit
Narcissa/Lily
G, 526
Summary: Narcissa doesn't have much skill in the kitchen, but that doesn't stop Lily dragging her in to help with their Christmas baking
How to get a werewolf onto a plane (and why you should) (ao3) - RoyalPrince24
Sirius/Remus
T, 7k
Summary: A guide on how to get a werewolf onto a plane, and the consequences that might follow.
OR
Sirius finally convinces Remus to go on a graduation trip with James and Peter to Cancún the summer after their seventh year.
OR
Sirius is desperately obsessed with Remus, and needs to tell Remus how gorgeous he is. Remus, however, has decided to go out solo exploring in Cancún. Sirius decides to do some solo exploring of his own, particularly of a gay bar, where Remus would never step foot. Right?
I’d go through it again (if I could hold you for a minute) (ao3) - cherryblossomkiss04
Sirius/Remus
M, 6k
Summary: “In that moment, desperate and unmoored, Remus lets himself drown. Lets Sirius drag him closer, their bodies colliding – all fire and storm and scar against scar. Lets it take him under, dragging him down to the sea floor.”
Or;
Exiled to a lonely lighthouse, Remus is haunted by the return of a monstrous black dog - and the man he once loved.
ink-stained hearts (ao3) - Sorealis
Sirius/Remus
E, 9k
Summary: A few years after graduating Hogwarts, Remus Lupin and Sirius Black find themselves still without direction, one due to discrimination against him being a werewolf, the other because of years of strict expectation from his family finally relieved. In a lucky turn of events, Sirius’ uncle decides to retire early, leaving him a bookshop to tend to. In what was perhaps a momentary lapse in judgement, Remus agrees to help. He can easily push aside his long-standing crush on one of his best friends and not let it bother him, right?
Keyhole to Spotlight (ao3) - BNJWhitman
Sirius/Remus
T, 9k
Summary: Countless letters sent. Zero replies. Stopping would hurt more than the silence, so Remus keeps writing.
Sirius is hoarding every letter. The stash is growing impossible to hide, the firewhisky is failing, and the real reason he can’t write back is closing in: it’s not indifference keeping him away, it’s terror of how violently he wants Remus.
New Moon (ao3) - halfbl00dprincess
Hermione/Remus
T, 4k
Summary: "It was hard to be upset about not returning to his past when someone like her was in his present."
On this night, in this life (I think I’m falling for you) (ao3) - cherryblossomkiss04
Sirius/Remus
M, 5k
Summary: Sirius is in love. Remus is terrified. Neither of them is particularly subtle.
Pathetic in the Best Way (ao3) - TheBlueBlues
Sirius/Remus, Sirius/Remus/James
E, 6k
Summary: Autumn 1979. In a cramped Islington flat above a Muggle bookshop, Sirius Black and James Potter have one very clear goal: remind Remus Lupin—scars, doubts, and all—just how fucking perfect he is.
Summary: As the war trudges on, and the deaths inch closer to their inner circle Sirius suggests Remus move in with him. Begrudgingly Remus agrees, and together they find their own happy bubble in the midst of the war. Not only hiding from the death eater, but hiding their love from their friends.
Right Where You Left Me (ao3) - meninaveneno
James/Snape
N/R, 5k
Summary: On Christmas Eve, Severus waits for James to put up their first Christmas tree together.
Summary: They had one last summer spent all together — wild, quiet, tragic in retrospect.
And though they didn’t speak it aloud, they all felt it: the end had already begun.
tension (ao3) - SapphireLeo
Sirius/Marlene
E, 5k
Summary: When Sirius Black went for relaxation, he didn’t know it would be quite like this.
Blackinnon PWP.
The Last Thing I’ll Remember (ao3) - datymenyzaebal
Sirius/Remus, James/Lily
T, 7k
Summary: All those dreams were so hauntingly bright. Remus always awoke in tears, crushed by the reality of where he was and what had happened. Nothing was left of the old times, save for the bitter memories slowly consuming him from within.
Twinkies in the City (ao3) - orphan_account
Sirius/Remus, James/Lily
T, 1k
Summary: The summer after Hogwarts, James, Sirius, and Remus spend a week in New York pretending to be muggles.
When the Stars Forgot Their Names (ao3) - xXAria_ParkinsonXx
James/Lily, Frank/Alice
T, 25k
Summary: Eight years after disappearing without a trace, Regulus Black turns up on a harbour dock in the middle of an ordinary seaside day — sun-browned, broad-shouldered, wearing a red Sea Shepherd jumpsuit, and apparently spending his life chasing poachers across oceans like some kind of eco-pirate.
Sirius is still trying to process the fact his little brother is alive when Harry and Neville decide Regulus is the coolest person they’ve ever met.
By the end of the afternoon, there are promises of emails, beach clean-ups, conservation work, a future trip to Greece, and the unsettling realisation that goodbye no longer means forever.
just saw a pigeon doing the puffed up courtship dance thing to another pigeon, and as he was strutting around he suddenly stopped for a split second to do a very brief preen-peck at his own side, then returned to the strutting around. and i surprised myself by instantly losing respect for the male pigeon in that moment, like come on man i appreciate you had an itch or whatever but how is she supposed to feel special when you're getting distracted by bullshit like that? which on reflection i don't endorse, i mean those are pretty harsh dating norms i'm imposing on these pigeons, from a total outsider perspective, for no reason. probably not all girl pigeons are as uptight about that sort of thing as i would apparently be if i was a girl pigeon, maybe she even found it endearing who knows, i don't know her. it's none of my business really. sorry pigeons.
One of the guys I worked with told us a story about how, when they were doing archaeology surveys in the woods they ran into a bigfoot hunter. Bigfoot guy asked if they had seen signs of bigfoot, and he was like "Sorry, nothing like that. We're archaeologists, so we're looking for human stuff." and the bigfoot guy was like "Oh! I saw some Native American cairns on my way out here. I can give you a general location." and when he was like "Yeah dude, that'd be sick. We're actually looking to document those." the bigfoot guy was like "Yeah, they looked pretty cool. I didn't touch them though, because Native Americans built them, not bigfoot."
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shoutout to the words "overmorrow" and "ereyesterday". english losing these words was stupid. "the day after tomorrow" "the day before yesterday" clunky-ass constructions. revolting. i'm bringing overmorrow and ereyesterday back in my idiolect and there is nothing you can do about it
one time I went over to a friend's house and their housemate was making paper in the living room, and we saw this big tub full of water they were using to dissolve old scrap paper into a slurry, and everyone was immediately like "oh, you need scrap paper?" and started turning out their jacket pockets and producing expired coupons and bus tickets and crumpled receipts and old shopping lists and whatever else they'd been carrying round with them for no good reason, and passing it all to the paper-making housemate to make sure it was suitable before it got torn up and dropped into the tub, while people took turns stirring the slurry with a big wooden stick. it was strangely ritualistic, like presenting an offering to some kind of temple elder for inspection before placing it in a watery shrine to be devoured and reformed. pulp for the pulp god.
Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.
He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"
"What?"
He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"
"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."
Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.
Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.
The vet noted that Vice had a little bit of plaque built up on his teeth at his appointment last week, so we're now ten minutes into teaching him to tolerate having his teeth brushed. Step two will be increased tolerance and three will be finding a pet toothpaste he likes.
So this is literally only ten minutes of training on the toothbrush, but prior to this I have made a point of occasionally touching teeth while petting for all of my cats, because dental checks are part of routine vet visits and this normalizes that kind of contact. So sometimes while I'm petting their faces, I'll move their lips and press against their teeth a little.
Then, I introduced the toothbrush! It's one of the soft bristle spares I keep packaged in my guest room-- I opened it up, swirled it through the treat jar to cover it in crumbs, and held it out for investigation. Mmmm tastes like treats
And then I used the toothbrush to brush over his face and head, which he enjoyed quite a bit! This is a good face, trust me. Gradually I focused on petting and brushing near his mouth, eventually bringing a second hand in to stabilize his head. Lots of treats at this stage. And then...a little bit of brushing and still more treats.
He's food motivated enough to stick around throughout this whole process. If anything, I'd encourage you to occasionally gently handle your cat's mouth during normal petting, just to make vet visits easier.
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call me crazy but there is actually no platonic reason to be listening to a voice clip of your partner saying “love you” over and over and over again to the point that even your neighbors are sick of hearing it
It's crazy that 90% of the new Zootopia movie is just Judy running into danger and Nick frantically chasing after her, picking up things she dropped and desperately trying to prevent her from killing herself. Nick Wilde was a conman, he's not USED to being the responsible one but now that he's partners with Judy he literally has no choice because she's twice as chaotic as him with half the sense of self preservation.
