You run a café on the edge of life and death. Souls who have been departed from their bodies temporarily, such as in comas or near-death experiences, can relax in your quaint cafe for as long as they need before they can either return to their bodies or begin their journey to the afterlife.
Sirius: Why must you assume the worst of me?
Sirius: Aside from my history and general personality?
James: Sometimes your evil leaks out
Sirius: No argument.
Sirius: Can't fight the beast within forever.
James: Did that sound creepier now than in your head?
Sirius: No.
James: Ah.
James: Just checking.
“Nobody is going to find out about this,” the hero said, but at the same time, let themselves melt further into the villain’s arms.
“What, you’re scared to admit to everyone that you’re the little spoon?”
“More like the entire city doesn’t need to know we’re doing this.”
“Still sounds like you don’t wanna say you’re the little spoon.”
yeah yeah yeah mortifying ordeal of being known and all that but sometimes a friend mentions something about you that you didn’t think was noticeable and it feels like your heart is being cradled in their hands
that some people respond to any well-foreshadowed reveal with “ugh that plot twist was so predictable” proves bad faith criticism has rotted their brains to the point they think it’s bad writing if they can correctly identify information the writers were intentionally giving them
Do you have any good words for pain? (Hurt for example) Like being in pain or exclamations of pain (ouch for example)
Ache - a usually dull persistent pain
Affliction - a cause of persistent pain or distress
Agony - intense pain of mind or body; anguish, torture
Anguish - extreme pain, distress, or anxiety
Bruise - an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin; an injury especially to the feelings
Burn - to produce or undergo an uncomfortable or painful sensation like that of being injured by fire
Chafe - to make sore by or as if by rubbing
Clonus - a rapid succession of alternating contractions and partial relaxations of a muscle occurring in some nervous diseases
Colic - an attack of acute abdominal pain localized in a hollow organ and often caused by spasm, obstruction, or twisting
Cramp - a painful involuntary spasmodic contraction of a muscle
Deleterious - harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way
Discomfort - mental or physical uneasiness; annoyance
Distress - pain or suffering affecting the body, a bodily part, or the mind; trouble
Fester - to generate pus; putrefy, rot;; to cause increasing poisoning, irritation, or bitterness
Gripe - a pinching spasmodic intestinal pain—usually used in plural
Inflamed - to cause inflammation (i.e., injury that is marked by capillary dilatation, leukocytic infiltration, redness, heat, and pain) in (bodily tissue)
Lancinate - pierce, stab, lacerate
Malaise - a vague sense of mental or moral ill-being
Misery - a circumstance, thing, or place that causes suffering or discomfort
Noxious - physically harmful or destructive to living beings
Pernicious - highly injurious or destructive; deadly; (archaic): wicked
Prickle - a prickling or tingling sensation
Sore - a source of pain, distress or vexation; affliction
Spasm - an involuntary and abnormal muscular contraction; a sudden violent and temporary effort, emotion, or sensation
Sting - a wound or pain caused by or as if by stinging (sharp or piercing)
Suffer - to endure death, pain, or distress
Throb - to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity
Travail - a physical or mental exertion or piece of work; task, effort; agony, torment
Twinge - a sudden sharp stab of pain
Woe - a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief
ouch, boo, ow, aw, woe, shucks, ay, rats, yuk, sheesh, alack, tush, pooh, yuck, wirra (Irish), phooey, alas, tsk, pshaw, bah, humph, tut, pish, ho hum, faugh, fie
Hope this helps with your writing. Do tag me, or send me a link. I'd love to read your work!
I have a question how can I pick Chinese names for my original characters there not real people and I see people in Chinese vocals use them I was wondering if there are any tips on choosing Chinese names
Hello! Chinese naming IRL is super complicated and takes into account a huge number of factors. This is why there are professional naming services, to help you calculate the most favorable name. A great twitter thread summarizing it for the casual audience is here:
https://twitter.com/yurouchng/status/1211935445619073024?s=20
If it’s only OCs, Jia Pu and Ba Zi are way too much to consider (and you likely won’t have them anyway), so I’d focus on meaning and how the name sounds, if possible.
I also have an additional suggestion regarding surnames: the top 100 most common surnames covers almost 85% of China’s population, and I’d guess the top 400 list should cover at least 99%. Hence there isn’t much room to be creative with them, unlike in English. I recommend just checking out the top 400 list on Wikipedia and picking your favorite:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surnames
“No, no. Trust me; it works. Humans love to take care of pregnant and baby things. I’ve even seen them adopt things they eat!” “What about things that eat them?” “Oh, humans like those best of all! So just go up and act weak, they’ll take care of the rest.”