I live to spite, say I can't I just might.

AU idea: Pomni can't handle the thought of

i giggle every time i draw my bloodymary au bc how the hell is anyone supposed to know the flesh man is Simon lmfaoo

˙⋆✮ The vampire is three thousand years old and profoundly tired. He just wants a garden. Something keeps interrupting.

˙⋆✮ "I'm not a monster. I'm the thing that eats monsters. Your village should be thanking me. Your village is not thanking me."

˙⋆✮ The werewolf built a life around her condition. A butcher shop. A schedule. Very understanding neighbors. Then a hunter arrived who refuses to believe she has it handled.

˙⋆✮ She's been the sea serpent of this bay for six centuries. She's watched empires rise and fall. A fishing boat just accidentally made her laugh for the first time in four hundred years.

˙⋆✮ "The fae didn't steal your child. Your child walked into the forest and asked to stay. We're still negotiating the terms."

˙⋆✮ The basilisk is blind. Has been for decades. Someone did this to him. He remembers exactly who.

˙⋆✮ Every town has a local legend. This town's legend is sitting in the back of the tavern nursing a drink and asking everyone to please stop staring.

˙⋆✮ "I've been called a demon for so long I started to believe it. Then someone asked my actual name. I hadn't heard it in two hundred years."

˙⋆✮ The kraken sank ships for centuries. Then shipping lanes moved. Now it's just lonely and occasionally tips over small boats by accident trying to get attention.

˙⋆✮ She made a deal with something ancient and terrible. The something ancient and terrible made a deal with something worse to protect her. Nobody asked for any of this.

˙⋆✮ "We don't hunt the creature in the woods. The creature in the woods hunts the things that hunt us. There is an arrangement."

˙⋆✮ The goblin market grants any wish for the right price. The goblin running it has been trying to close early for three hundred years. Someone always shows up at the last minute.

I guess God wanted the little robot to enjoy some sushi 🍣 🥲

A supporting character is an intruder working for the villain.

It is revealed that the hero has an unheroic past.

The hero and villain each live dual lives — one where they are the hero and another where they are the villain.

The hero ends up being revealed as the true villain.

The hero is one of a triplet trio. 

The hero is related to the villain.

The hero must die to save everyone else.

The narrator is the villain telling the hero's story.  

The narrator is the hero telling the villain's story.

The opening hero is killed within the first act. 

The protagonist is both the hero and the villain. 

The strength of a character is actually their greatest weakness.

The supportive friend is the killer.

The villain ends up being revealed as the true hero.

The villain has a change of heart but has driven the hero too far over the edge and must stop them.  

The villain is a twin of the hero.

The villain is an evil clone of the hero.

The villain is in love with the hero.   

The villain is revealed to have been right under the hero's nose the whole time.

Two villains are two of a triplet trio — the hero is the third.

Your character is a superhero that lost their powers.

A character's strength defeats them.

A character's weakness saves them.

A gift is really a danger.

A gigantic meteor streaks across the sky.

A missing child planned their abduction to get back at their abusive parents.

A stranger enters the story, informing the characters that they are all being watched. 

A surprising person ends up being the puppet master behind everything.

A terrible storm moves in, threatening all.

A weakness of a character is actually their greatest strength.

An object has a special meaning.

An otherwise straightforward romantic comedy leads into horror territory.

Red Herring — All suspicion points to one character, but when the truth is revealed, it's another that did the terrible deed.

The antagonist is living two lives.

The conflict the protagonist was going through was a practical joke.

The conflict the protagonist was going through was a ruse concocted by their friends to help them with confidence or to overcome fear.

The conflict the protagonist was going through was a ruse concocted by former victims of their bullying.

The dead body isn't dead.

The goal achieved ends up making things worse.

The informant is actually the mastermind.

The love interest is the antagonist.

The most skilled character succumbs to the least skilled character. 

The narrator is not the person we thought they were.

The parent is really the grandparent. 

The protagonist is living two lives.

The protagonist receiving help actually doesn't want it.

The protagonist that doesn't seem to want help actually does.

The smartest character is the first to be outwitted.

The strongest character is the first to die.

The supposed mastermind is actually a red herring.

The weakest character is the villain.

The wrong first impression of a character.

What first seemed like a wrong first impression of a character ends up being right.

What seems like a dangerous object at first is actually a gift that helps the protagonist. 

When the protagonist solves the mystery, it opens up a Pandora's Box.

hello and welcome back to me yelling on main about storytelling crimes. today we are talking about plot twists. specifically: the good, the god-tier, and the why-would-you-do-this-i-trusted-you tier.

let’s go.

✨ The Twist That Reframes Everything ✨ a.k.a. the “wait. WAIT.” twist. This is when you drop a twist that doesn’t just add drama - it recontextualizes the entire story. It makes the reader go back and reread earlier scenes like “was this character ALWAYS sketchy or am I just stupid??” It retroactively changes the emotional weight of everything that’s happened. Suddenly that offhanded comment in chapter three hits like a brick. The romance subplot becomes 500% more tragic. The villain’s motive makes SENSE now. Delicious.

✅ Best used when: the breadcrumbs are subtle but real. The twist shouldn’t come out of nowhere - it should feel inevitable in hindsight. Like Sixth Sense, Knives Out, that one betrayal in your favorite anime you still haven’t recovered from.

2.🧨 The Emotional Betrayal It’s giving: “i would’ve died for you” energy. This is the kind of twist that hurts. You thought they were loyal. You thought they cared. They did care - and still did it anyway. Or they never cared, and now you’re spiraling. This twist slaps because it’s not just about plot, it’s about trust. It stabs the characters AND the reader in the same motion. Bonus points if it’s a slow burn betrayal. Bonus bonus points if the betrayer feels genuinely torn up about it.

✅ Best used when: the reader is emotionally attached. Don’t waste this one on a side character we barely know. Save it for the love interest. The best friend. The mentor figure with dad energy. Make it personal. Make it RUIN lives.

3. 🧊 The “They Were Dead the Whole Time” but Make It Interesting Listen. This one’s risky. It’s a classic for a reason but also easy to flop. But when done well? Haunting. Creepy. Unhinged in a gorgeous way. It doesn’t have to be death either - maybe the character’s been possessed. Or they’re not real. Or the narrator’s memory is lying. The KEY is to not lean too hard on the shock. Lean on the vibes. Give it eeriness. Make it a slow unraveling. Give us dread. Give us melancholy. Give us psychological decay with a side of unreliable narrator.

✅ Best used when: you’re writing something surreal, gothic, speculative, or emotionally weird. This twist isn’t about plot logic, it’s about atmosphere and emotional rot.

🚨 The Twist That Should Be Arrested: “It Was All a Dream” 🚨 I’m sorry but. no. if I read 80k words of someone’s descent into madness just to find out it was their stress dream and now they’re normal again?? I will throw the entire book into a lake. This twist erases tension instead of escalating it. It invalidates everything the reader emotionally invested in. It’s the narrative equivalent of gaslighting. don’t do it. UNLESS - and this is a big unless - you’re doing it with INTENT. Meta intent. Dream-within-a-dream psychological horror intent. If you’re gonna do it, it better haunt me. It better RUIN me. Otherwise? Into the lake.

okay that’s all. go forth and commit plot crimes responsibly. bonus points if you use all three Good Twists in the same story and then look me in the eye like “oh was that too much?”

it wasn’t.

tag me when you emotionally destroy someone with it.

🕯️ download the pack & write something cursed:

What if the children go to schools unafraid of tear gas and bullets?

What if the birds come back, and the bees are healed, and every species moves from endangered, to threatened, to thriving?

What if the rainforest ADVANCES?

What if every parking lot had solar panels? What if every structure had solar panels? What if we built climbing gyms and terraced gardens in the skeletons of old coal power plants?

What if you baked your neighbor bread, and they shared their home-grown blackberries?

What if every person who needed a home, had one? What if every person who needed healing was healed?

What if every body was treasured for what it was, not what it should be?

What if every trans child's parents attended their graduation, their wedding, their new-name-day?

What if every warehouse became a closed-circle repair station? Goods flowing out, and back, and out again? What if landfills started to SHRINK?

What if the water and air were clean? What if there was enough public transit that the cars dwindled, leaving the streets safe for kids on bikes, evening deer, midnight cats and foxes?

What if we win?

#hello again martin and bosco!! sending you boys round for another go :)