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A dagger, obelisk, or obelus † is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. The symbol is also used to indicate death (of people) or extinction (of species or languages). It is one of the modern descendants of the obelus, a mark used historically by scholars as a critical or highlighting indicator in manuscripts. In older texts, it is called an obelisk.ALT

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general CW that common themes in my writing and art are incest, abuse and trauma, war, heavy violence and major character death, rape and sexual assault, dubcon, underage sex/sexuality and CSA, corpses and their various uses, the violent spectre of imperialism we all labor under, blatant evidence of having been a 2012 homestuck fan, and more along those lines. i write erotic horror, and not necessarily the kind with sexy werewolves and tentacle monsters.

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she/her or it/its are the most accurate pronouns to use for me, but you can use any you choose. feel free to drop me a line, about my work or otherwise; i’m always down to chat.

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listen. its 2:00 am and i have to talk about this. i think that, in horror, particularly in supernatural horror, the biggest, most scary, most dread inducing thing that can happen to a character is not, in fact, death. it is an unspecified, horrific dread fate that exists only in ambiguity. i like to call this fate Death 2. Death 2 is the scariest thing that can happen to a person. even if none of us can outline what it is, we’re all, for the most part, in agreement that it’s out there, and that we’re very afraid of it. nobody knows what it is, it will never be defined, but what is important is that a ghost, or a demon, or a guy who looks at you, what’s important is those things likely have the power to do it to you. the key, the absolute key to keeping supernatural horror effective is to never, ever eliminate the possibility of Death 2 as an outcome. the moment you reveal too much lore about your monster’s intentions or methods, whether it’s by establishing the rules of their haunting too clearly, or giving them the opportunity to clearly communicate their goals (through a seance or ouija board, for example), or merely by raising the curtain a little too much, you have eliminated Death 2. Now the worst that can happen to the characters gets established as being death, or possession, or pain, and that’s just never going to be as scary as whatever Death 2 is. If you wanted to watch a fun horror movie where the tension was in whether or not people were going to get killed, you could watch something like Alien, or Friday the 13th, or Us. If there’s ghosts or demons involved though, and that’s what ends up happening, it’s like, why did I bother coming here, I could have had way more fun watching a slasher romp if I wanted this kind of horror, because a slasher romp knows what it’s doing and how to use narrative tools to make “what if a guy was coming to kill me” an actually effective plot. you have to preserve ambiguity with ghost stories. with entity stories. you gotta. you have to preserve the possibility of Death 2.

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20 Ways to Show Extreme Fear in Your Writing

As I dive into researching signs of fear for my horror WIP, I wanted to share some of the most compelling and visceral reactions I’ve come across. Whether you’re writing a chilling scene or crafting a character’s panic, these 20 signs of fear can help bring tension and realism to your story.

Physical Reactions

  1. Hyperventilating — sucking in air but never feeling like it’s enough
  2. Chest tightens — feels like a weight or hands pressing down
  3. Limbs shaking violently, knees buckling
  4. Complete loss of muscle control — collapsing or unable to stand
  5. Cold sweat soaking through clothes
  6. Heart hammering so hard they feel it in their throat or head
  7. Tunnel vision — the world narrowing down to one terrifying focal point
  8. Ringing in the ears or sudden deafness, like the world drops away
  9. Dizziness / feeling faint / vision blurring
  10. Dry mouth — unable to speak or even scream

Uncontrollable Behavior

  1. Screaming / sobbing / gasping — involuntary vocal outbursts
  2. Panic run — bolting without thinking, tripping over everything
  3. Clawing at their own skin / chest / throat — like trying to escape their body
  4. Begging / pleading out loud even if no one’s there
  5. Repeating words or phrases — “No, no, no” / “This isn’t happening”
  6. Hiding instinctively — diving under tables, closets, or corners
  7. Desperate grabbing — reaching for someone, anything solid
  8. Loss of bladder or bowel control (for extreme terror)
  9. Total mental shutdown — frozen, slack-jawed, staring blankly
  10. Memory blackout — later can’t recall what happened during the worst moment
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try as i might i know i am not meant to be a succintposting brevitygirl. i open tumblr.com/new/text with the intention to write two sentences, and the next thing i know, twenty minutes have vanished into the void, and there are Paragraphs being saved to my drafts. i'm cutting myself off by force as i write this post, because in any other world, it will become engulfed in Citations and Clarifications, and inevitably, relentlessly, hurtle towards Paragraphs

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pocketaltar asked:

in early episodes of kjb i swear you referenced something called the mother problem in sci fi? do you happen have any additional sources or writing on it (bc i was about to reference it to a professor and then realized i didnt know enough about it to reference it correctly)

postoctobrist answered:

it’s from an old sci-fi writers’ guide of what not to do called the Turkey City Lexicon, and it’s called ‘the motherhood statement’:

The Motherhood Statement:

SF story which posits some profoundly unsettling threat to the human condition, explores the implications briefly, then hastily retreats to affirm the conventional social and humanistic pieties, ie apple pie and motherhood. Greg Egan once stated that the secret of truly effective SF was to deliberately “burn the motherhood statement.”

for the record, i personally think that radical feminism is stupid and dangerous even when trans people do it.

so, if you have been feeling like trans sff/litfic authors who share this opinion are at a premium, lately… i’m here, i guess? and always, eternally happy to network and collaborate with other trans weirdos writing fucked up fiction.

certified dagger original if you disagree on the other hand... well i'm glad to get this one out of the way to be honest because i do not think that anyone who genuinely cleaves to trans-affirming radical feminism will have a good reaction to my writing ongoin not after... well not after the sorts of things i have in my drafts get edited and released

in the year of our lord 2013, there was a character named July in something called Stardust. this Stardust in question, however, was a paragraph style roleplay hosted on a wiki through my online high school. it was extremely silly and involved time travel, holograms that make aliens look like humans, and a central plot point revolving around a character falling in love with the concept of belgian waffles.

during the duration of this roleplay, it became a running joke that my character, the aforementioned July, liked to stab people with bobby pins. (the origin of this joke was a total misread – it came from a scene where she was trying to stab someone with a hinge pin, like from a doorframe, but the person i was roleplaying with misread the paragraph and i just rolled with it.) other characters regularly brought this incident up to needle her. somehow, this snowballed into the solution to every problem being bobby pins. characters using bobby pins as increasingly ridiculous improved weapons. a gun that shoots bobby pins. bobby pin grenades. in a later roleplay, the macguffin that functioned as the control panel for an entire universe was – you guessed it – a bobby pin.

in the hallowed words of 2014:

“WHAT IS IT WITH EVERYONE AND BOBBY PINS!”

“I actually don’t know,” July replied. “You try to stab one person with a bobby pin, and suddenly everyone thinks it’s your signature…”

certified dagger original vern if you are reading this i think it's fucking hilarious this all came from you not knowing what a hinge pin was anyway i have a couple of scenes with July (modern incarnation) that reference bobby pins specifically to amuse myself there's no joke to land to a larger audience but it makes me giggle when i'm writing it and that's what matters

fandommusings asked:

For the WIP thing because I am required by law to do this :D

Bobby pin

I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU REMEMBERED THIS. IT’S BEEN. WHAT. A DECADE??? AT LEAST??? my goodness, i didn’t even realize you’re still active on tumblr, or following me!

““Oh, stop that,” June said fussily, and then her hands were in July’s hair, sliding out bobby pins and carefully unwrapping elastics until July’s hair tumbled around her shoulders.”

thank you for this experience, i feel like i was just punched in the jaw by my 2014 self and it’s beautiful.

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