2020 Update

Hello my fellow broke artists. This is for you

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Whumptober - 07: Drugged

John Mactavish x reader

A/N: For @bunnyreaper here's the whump version, sorry it took so long, hope you like it <3

Soap knows that something’s wrong the moment you call him. You drunk calling him wasn’t exactly out of the norm, in fact, it was weird if you didn’t spam him with texts and tik toks letting him know how much you loved him. 

His team often sledged him jokingly for how whipped he was for you, but it was that adoration and care that let him know within seconds that you weren’t okay. There was no excited shout of his name, no blaring music that you were drunkenly singing along to and none of your friends were yelling at him for interrupting girl's night. 

There’s just silence, a terribly concerning silence only accentuated by the shuffling of clothes and shuddering breaths. He’s on his feet and crashing into the wall on his quest for the keys in three seconds flat. His shoes aren’t even on properly and he’s already in the car when he finally gets a response to his barrage of questions. 

“Johnny?” Your voice is slurred and confused in a way that has his blood freezing. You very rarely got so sloshed you couldn’t function anymore but Soap knew what you were like even then, and this was not it. 

When the phone connects to the car's Bluetooth he’s throwing his phone into the passenger seat and reversing so quickly the tyres screech in protest. He knows where you are, you were always good at updating him if you moved venues but it doesn’t stop him from double-checking. 

He has to ask the question three times before you eventually confirm that you haven’t gone anywhere, his heart rate increasing frantically with each second that passes and he’s not by your side yet. 

“Johnny? Wh’re you? I think somethin’s wrong. Don’t feel so good.” Your whimpers fill the car and Soap starts to drive even faster, blowing through two red lights and a stop sign with little concern over the inevitable tickets and demerits he’ll get. 

“I know baby. Am almost there, just hold on a little longer.” He commanded as firmly and gently as possible. “Ye in the bathroom? Locked the door?” 

Once again it takes a while for you to understand and respond to his question but when you do he allows himself to relax a little. He tries to ascertain where your friend has gone and not for the first time he wants to kill her when you tell him you have no idea where she’s gone. 

“Johnny?” you call for him a few more times as if forgetting you’ve already gotten on the line.

He throws the car into park when he arrives, not bothering with the handbrake and not caring that he’s just stopped in the middle of the road. Cars are honking and people are yelling but he doesn’t give a single fuck, his mind is on a one-track mission. 

He’s even left his phone on the seat in his haste and the door open. Undoubtedly, you’ll yell at him when he relays the details later but he’s willing to cop all of your anger if it means he gets to you in time. 

He runs past the bouncer, outpacing the shouting man and ducking past various security members as he beelines towards the bathroom. Vaguely he recognises that he’s being chased but it doesn’t matter because he makes it to the ladies' bathroom well before they catch up.

It doesn’t even register that the bathroom door isn’t locked like you’d said it was when he bursts into the grimy space because his attention and fury are quickly dragged elsewhere. Namely to the motherfucker that was sticking his hand down your pants as you sobbed and tried to get away with your body’s sluggish movement. 

He’s letting out a furious roar and when the man turns with wide eyes at the commotion behind him Johnny’s fist smacks into his nose with a sickening crack that sends him stumbling backwards bleeding and onto the tile floor. 

It’s only the fact that your legs give out without someone supporting you that stops him from beating the man to death as he grabs you and pulls you against him. 

You’re so out of it that you protest, pushing against his chest as you cry because you don’t recognise him straight away. 

It takes a bit of cajoling and pressing soft kisses into your hairline before you recognise him but when you do you completely devolve into a crying, sobbing mess, collapsing against him even further as you finally allow yourself to feel all of the overwhelming panic you’d been trying to hold off. 

Security’s caught up and the commotion they make as they barge into the bathroom sets you off even further and Soap simply shoots them a heated glare before shouldering past them with you safe in his arms. 

Perhaps miraculously, both the car and his phone are still where he’d left him and Johnny gently deposits you in the passenger seat, clipping your seatbelt in. His heart shatters a little further when you start to beg him not to leave you. 

“M not leaving ye bonnie, just need to get myself strapped in.”

“Promise?” you sound so small and Soap is now certain that once you’re safe and looked after he’d going to hunt down the scumbag that dared lay a finger on you. For now though, 

“I promise love.” When he slips into the driver's seat you’re reaching blearily for his hand immediately and he takes it just as quickly, pulling away and driving far slower than he’d gone to get to you. 

“I promise.” The words are so soft that they’re more for himself than you. They’re an oath that he’ll keep even if it kills him.

DON’T TRY TO CHEAT WITH ANTIBIOTICS

I’m seeing a disturbing amount of posts here claiming that people are not finishing their antibiotics (or not carrying on with their doctor’s intructions) in an attempt to “save” their antibiotics for later use.

DO NOT DO THIS.

If your doctor says to take your medicine for 2 weeks, take it for 2 weeks. 

Not finishing a course of antibiotics properly means the bacteria are not all dead. They may come back and you’ll have to do a full course again.

Furthermore, not finishing a course contributes to the rise of resistant bacteria, because you haven’t killed all of the bacteria that were making you ill and they can now mutate to become resistant to antibiotics. Your illness could come back, but this time, it won’t be treatable with the same antibiotics.

📘📗📗🖤🖤🖤 RIP Natsuki

Hi! I have a really hard time adding descriptions to my story and seem to only want to write dialog. Is there anyway to work around this?

Balancing Dialogue with Action and Narrative

While description is an important part of writing dialogue, when you say dialogue is all you want to write, what’s missing from your story isn’t description specifically, but action and narrative.  A good scene should have a balance between dialogue, action, and narrative. But what are they?

Action - contrary to what you might think, “action” doesn’t have to mean a car chase or an epic battle. “Action” just means something is happening–things are in motion. An action scene can be your protagonist at her job as a store clerk, stocking the soup aisle when a couple of friends come in to tell her about a party, or it could be your protagonist riding the bus to school. And yes, it can be a car chase or a battle, but it doesn’t have to be. Every scene should include some action.

Narrative - narrative is probably what you mean when you say your story is lacking “descriptions.” Narrative is when things are being explained by the narrator. This can be the narrator explaining back story, character thoughts or feelings, something that happened off-the-page, plot or setting elements–really anything that is being explained rather than playing out as an action or dialogue sequence. Every scene should include some narrative.

Dialogue - dialogue is obviously a conversation between two or more characters, but dialogue should also include description. In other words, you don’t want a dialogue sequence that looks like a tennis match of spoken words. You need to add action and description to make it more interesting. So, instead of:

“Do you know what time it is?”

“No, want me to check?”

“Sure, I guess.”

“Okay, it’s ten o’clock.”

(Which is very boring…) You would do this:

Sam sauntered into the room. “Do you know what time it is?”

“No,” Sarah said, glancing up from her needlework. “Want me to check?”

The truth of the matter was, Sam wasn’t sure he wanted Sarah to check the time. Was it better for him not to know? Was it true that a watched pot never boils? Letting out a frustrated groan, he shuffled to the window and parted the velvet curtains to peer out. Snow was still falling in apocalyptic fashion. The carriage would never make it through. They should be here by now!

“Sure, I guess. I mean, yes. Please check the time,” Sam said at last.

“Okay.” Sarah fished around in the deep pocket of her skirt until she found her pocket watch, which she pulled out by the chain. “It’s ten o’clock.”

Now that was a lot more interesting, wasn’t it? Plus it tells us a lot more than just back and forth dialogue. Here’s how all the things we discussed come into play:

Sam sauntered into the room. (action and description) “Do you know what time it is?”

“No,” Sarah said, glancing up from her needlework. (description) “Want me to check?”

The truth of the matter was, Sam wasn’t sure he wanted Sarah to check the time. Was it better for him not to know? Was it true that a watched pot never boils? Letting out a frustrated groan, he shuffled to the window and parted the velvet curtains to peer out. Snow was still falling in apocalyptic fashion. The carriage would never make it through. They should be here by now! (narrative)

“Sure, I guess. I mean, yes. Please check the time,” Sam said at last.

“Okay.” Sarah fished around in the deep pocket of her skirt until she found her pocket watch, which she pulled out by the chain.(action and description) “It’s ten o’clock.”

So, now that you know what all of these things are, how do you add them in? Well, there’s no special method. You just do it. It takes practice to do it well, but you’ll get there. For now, just try it. When you find yourself writing “tennis match” dialogue, figure out where you can add a little action, narrative, and description to flesh things out. And when you’re writing a scene, make sure you include narrative to explain what’s happening, action to move the story forward, and description to tell the reader about the characters and settings. :)

Alternative Inktober Promptlist Collection 2020 Edition

This list is by no means exhaustive, it won’t include anything for specific fandoms, and there will definitely be other ones that I’ve missed. Last year’s promptlist collection can be found [here].

Generally Unthemed: [list 1], [list 2], [list 3], [list 4], [list 5], [list 6], [list 7], [list 8], [list 9], [list 10], [list 11], [list 12], [list 13], [list 14], [list 15], [list 16], [list 17], [list 18], [list 19]

Halloween / Autumnal / Fun Spooky: [list 1], [list 2], [list 3], [list 4], [list 5], [list 6], [ethereal], [ghosts], [list 9], [list 10]

Horror / Disturbing Spooky: [list 1], [list 2], [list 3], [unreality], [list 5], [gore], [halloween with some gorey], [eldritch]

Witchy: [list 1], [list 2], [list 3], [both witchy and spooky lists], [list 5], [list 6], [list 7], [tarot]

Other Magical / Fantasy / Myths: [greek myths], [fantasy quests], [fairytales]

Original Character / Character Design: [list 1], [50 prompts], [randomly generated characters], [robots]. [furry, mostly], [various OC themes], [colour palette based demons], [anthropomorphic characters]

Other: [draw your OTP, 3 lists], [memory], [musical theatre], [1 list with several themed sections], [1 relationships + 1 self lists], [fandom in general], [various aesthetics], [item in environments], [adventures], [wild animals], [objects], [colour palettes]

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