Vampire Queen X Female Dragon Shifter (nsfw)

eastern jack-o-lantern mushrooms (Omphalotus illudens) completely encircling the base of this giant northern red oak tree

More writers should consider just not telling their readers all of shit. Just don’t tell them stuff. What’s that monster? Fuck if you’ll find out. How did that weird as hell landscape marker come to be? Wouldn’t you like to know. How does the magic work? Just believe it does, motherfucker.

Readers don’t need to know everything. In fact, I absolutely advocate for not telling them certain stuff. If the characters don’t know, neither do they. If the narrator is omniscient? Lol no they aren’t.

Is this necessary for every story? Probably not. There’s plenty of good stories you could write while explaining all of it. But leaving those gaps, leaving those holes, can bring a story to life. Sometimes things happen in life that just… happen. Fucked if anyone knows why. Sometimes information gets lost. Sometimes information is hidden. But even beyond that, it expands the narrative.

If you explain when and why and how the murder monster became a murder monster, well… that’s forever set in stone now. Now they know. But if you leave it blank, absent of explanation, any explanation… it becomes an unknown. It forces your audience to wonder. Makes them think. That, more than you might think, makes a story get into your audience’s head, and once you’re there, you can make some real impacts.

So yeah, tell a story. But sometimes? Don’t tell your readers something. Make them fill in the blanks themselves.

dissertation writing advice

fantasy characters: “Geez”

me: who the fuck spread Christianity there

The point of this painting is mostly that anyone who tags my creepy angel beings as gender are extremely valid and correct

What is the most cursed plant fact you know of?

the manchineel tree is so all-around toxic that even standing under it while it's raining is enough to give you severe chemical burns!

actually eating any part of it will absolutely kill you, and it will hurt so so bad the whole time you're dying.

Art by jocelin carmes

Malyarova Olga Couture

Amazing day to night time-lapse of a Ghost fungus.

It has bioluminescent properties and is known to be found primarily in southern Australia and Tasmania