queen-of-the-merry-men:

When writing always remember… a character flaw is only a flaw until becomes useful. 

Is your protagonist manipulative? Well that’s awful… until they manipulate the antagonist into making a decision that saves the lives of their friends. 

Is your protagonist a skeptic? Well that’s not good… until someone tries to lie to them. 

Is your protagonist overprotective? That sucks… until someone they love is in danger. 

Is your protagonist remorseless? Well that makes them pretty unlikeable… until a hard decision has to be made. 

Is there anyway you could do like a (short?) list of rare superpowers or something of the like? I always have trouble straying from the commonly used/old ones and I can’t seem to find anything new or sensible online. But things like heliokenesis are really good but I can never think of them. Anyways, this is like a super long explanation so I’m going to leave it here! Thanks for all your hardwork!

gingerly-writing:

honestly I could but there are much more comprehensive resources out there than just my lil cranium, specifically:
http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Powers_by_type

go wild my friend!

justqueenthoughts:

Bohemian Rhapsody. We Will Rock You. Somebody To Love. All hit singles, and all the direct product of a band that was formed when an astrophysicist and a dentistry major found a new friend in an art college, who then went on to recruit a fourth member from the electronics school. Based on this alliance I propose the rift in society between Arts and STEM students was fabricated to keep us separated so as to dilute our true power – and fabricated by who, you may ask? The business major, the only member of society who reaps no reward from art and science and thus must weaken us so as to stay ahead. In this essay I will

cricketcat9:

pbandjesse:

thebabbagepatch:

curlicuecal:

curlicuecal:

anotheralexandros:

squaliformes:

squaliformes:

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i’d like to point out that when i made this post, all of these comments were at the top, but now if you look at the thread they’ve been replaced by completely different comments 

so please, for the love of god, look at the source link this thread is a neverending source of entertainment. people have added so much fucking shit since i made this

I was proctoring an exam for a student today while reading these, and I had to stop because I got to this one and almost fucking died

these are making my day

Okay, this one’s killing me:

These ones got me:

Ooohhh noo I can’t breathe and there are literal tears streaming down my face

Have a very, VERY good laugh people