This is my aesthetic. I've found it at last. mountain road signs bearing sexual puns.
Fariha Róisín / Grzegorz Gwiazda / Clarice Lispector / Henrik Uldalen / Neil Hilborn
continuing to push my black people in rock agenda … <3
black people created rock btw (original post): a playlist of black rock artists from various alternative subgenres including: pop punk, metal / hard rock, psychedelic rock, post hardcore, and more. (listen)
black g!rl pvnk!: a playlist similar to the one above but it’s just black women. this playlist includes rock and rock subgenres, as well as rock influenced rap. (listen)
Adding small moments of existence to your writing
What I’m talking about is proof of life outside your characters in your world. Not in the sense of ‘talking to the cashier at the checkout’, but things like:
Graffiti etched into a desk your character sits in during an exam
Realising that someone has come along and arranged the cans on the shelf so the labels say something stupid
Dirty vans that have ‘wash me’ written in the dried mud
A coin that has been stuck into a piece of gum on a handrail
Little things that show the world still goes on despite whatever is happening to the characters.
This helps make the world a world, not just a setting. There are other people with other lives doing stupid, funny, dangerous, things that in no way impact the protagonist. You don’t have to dwell on them, they can only be mentioned briefly in passing during the set up of a scene, but it will help create life within the background of the story and give the characters a chance to briefly think about something other than themselves/their situation.
Apple carvings
now that spotify wrapped is here, tell me your 3rd, 6th and 9th songs in the tags
i hope shein gets shut down i hope ai projects get shut down i hope billionaires go bankrupt i hope public transportation expands fast i am so tired of the world’s bs
"Vampires" by Takato Yamamoto.