Happy Book Birthday To This Week’s New Releases! 📚

✨FFF 205 Masterlist

Thank you for all your wonderful entries, we loved reading every single one ^^ (If we missed your entry, please let us know)

Consider checking out your fellow writers’ pieces, give out those likes and reblogs and gather some inspiration for the new prompt at 12pm!

We’ll see you then!

Where the flowers grow by @somealienquill

The Magic Mirror by @charlies-storybook

Imaginary flowers by @rins-love-wins

Where the Flowers Grow by @renee-writer

Hanahaki by @lix88888

She will wait by @whogavemeapen

Everyone Deserves a Flower by @shipping-through-eternity

Where the Flowers Grow by @aquadestinyswriting

Soar, young one by @writing-with-olive

Curses by @drowning-in-cacophony

Clarification by @lisbeth-kk

Where the Flowers Grow by @clarislam

of ancient roots by @ginneke

Where the Flowers Grow by @stories-by-rie

Growing to be who we really are by @mimisempai

Missing home by @sam-glade

Stolen Moment in the Fields by @pen-of-roses

Something About Poppies by @scottdarlingstorytime

A lovely day by @ngkiscool

Where the Flowers Grow by @lassiesandiego

Desolation by @odysseywritings

Two Suns by @theoriginalsapphic

What She Left Behind by @starlightswitch

Make It True by @jlilycorbie

The Beauty You Are by @edosianorchids901

Snowdrops in the Summer by @betweenthetimeandsound

Disappearance by @e-lisard

so hold my hand, i'll walk with you my dear by @ineedaplacetostay

soil under his nails by @asher-orion-writes

✨ intermission ✨because you wrote so much that tumblr can't post them all in one block ✨ apparently ✨

Where the Flowers Grow by @landofspaceandrainbows

Wherre the Flowers Grow by @nooowestayandgetcaught

Life on a new Sphere by @goblin-writer

Hiii!! You know those memes with birds and quotes besides them? The ones like 'the risk i took was calculated but man i am bad at math' and such? Which ones do you think apply to the ROs (or the cast?) ? 🦉

Bahaha okay so:

The Sage:

Oisein:

The Healer:

The Magesmith:

The High Sheevra (just...all of them aksjdjssk):

Thank you for the ask! ❤️

Hi!! i love how you write gods and the lore surrounding them!! i cant wait for more- salvatore my beloved

!!! 🥺🥺 thank you so much, charm-writes!! I see this is your writeblr, so I also wish the best for your own writing endeavors! I'd love to see what you write in the future. Before that time comes, I will have to keep refining the lore and the world to keep up!

Thanks so much for sending your love, and Salvatore sends theirs as well through the warmth of tomorrow's morning sun ☀️💖

“Vote”

CAN YOU BELIEVE THE FACT THAT I NEVER ACTUALLY DREW THE BEGINNING OF THE AU????

Anyway, here it is XD

"guys we're so cooked" "it's wraps" "the end is near" shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up. i say that with love because you are probably saying it out of distress and hopelessness, but for your own well-being and for everyone else's, please stop saying this shit.

no we are not "cooked." and by saying that, by the way, you are giving more power to the neo-nazi oligarchy in charge.

they want you to abandon all hope of a better life. they want you to believe "oh well, it's over, we might as well stop trying to fight back and just resign ourselves to despair forever."

every time you get on tiktok and comment "guys we're so cooked haha it's over," you are feeding into the mindset of hopeless compliance. you are, unknowingly, spreading this infectious idea that just because we've lost one battle, we've lost the entire war.

your words matter. i am saying this out of love and concern for our future, but please stop choosing words of defeat.

found out that there’s a book centered around a daughter of Chang’e, and i wanted to play around with designs a bit

One struggle 🫡

People in badly written fantasy stories will usually talk about the major historical events of their world and how magic has affected the lives of everyone, but ask a person in the real world to describe the effects of WWI and the invention of the combustion engine on modern life and they’d probably couldn’t tell you.

The screenwriters are my comrades and I fully understand how they feel🫡

Words to Describe Hair

Image: Words to Describe Hair: Afro | Curly | Straight | Look | Texture | Style | Color 

Photo credits: Alex Nemo Hanse

This began as a guide to describing Afro / curly hair but of course, I got carried away. From look and texture of hair, colors and various styles, this guide serves as a thesaurus of sorts for hair, as well as pointers for use in your writing.

Please check under the read more for an accessible version of these lists

Culturally Significant Hair Coverings:

Know the meaning behind head wear and why it’s worn, when and by whom, such as a Native Nation’s headdress, before bestowing a character with it.

Head Coverings Resources:

More on various head coverings.

See here for more Islamic Veils. 

See here for more on the Nigerian gele.

See here on African American Headwraps. 

View our hijab and headscarves tags for discussion on these topics.

Afro - Curly - Straightened

There are many varieties of braids, twists & Afro hair styles; have some more!

African/Black Hair: Natural, Braids and Locks

African Hair: Braiding Styles 10 African Types

Describing Black (Afro) hair:

Appropriative Hairstyles: Keep in mind that Afro styles should be kept to those in the African Diaspora, such as dreadlocks, cornrows + certain and many braided styles. 

Also, “locs” is a more favored term over “dreadlocks” for many people.

Tread carefully describing Afro hair as “wild” “unkempt” “untamed” or any words implying it’s unclean or requires controlling.

“Nappy” and “wooly” are generally words to stay away from, the first having heavy negative connotations for many and the latter, though used in the Holy Bible, is generally not acceptable anymore and comes off as dehumanizing due to Animal connotations.

There are mixed feelings on calling Black hair “kinky.” I’m personally not opposed to the word in itself and usage depends on the person’s race (I’m more comfortable with a Black person using it vs. a Non-Black person) as well as their tone and context (if it’s used in a neutral or positive tone vs. negatively/with disdain). Get feedback on your usage, or simply forgo it.

See our tags “Black Hair” and “Natural Hair” for more discussion on describing Black hair.

Texture - Look - Styles

Hair Colors and Style

Writing Tips & Things to Keep in Mind:

Combination Words: Try combining words to illustrate look of hair. A character with springy coils that dance across her shoulders with every movement, the man with thick silvery hair slicked back into a ponytail…

Mind Perspective: Depending on POV, a character might not know exactly what cornrows or a coiffure style is, at least in name, and it might make more sense if they described the hairdo instead. More defining terms might come from a more knowing source or the wearer themselves. One book I read described a girl’s afro puff as “thick hair pulled up into a cute, curly, poufy thing on top of her head and tied with a yellow ribbon.”

POC & Hair Colors: People of Color’s hair comes in all shades and textures. There are Black people with naturally blond and loosely-textured to straight hair, East Asian people with red hair, and so on. Keep that in mind when coding characters if you tend to rely on hair color alone to denote a character is white vs. a Person of Color.

Related Tropes: There are tropes and discussion related to People of Color, colored hair, and light-colored hair and features. 

Check out these posts on the topic: The East Asian Women + Colored Hair Trope - Black Characters & “Wild” Hair Colors - POC w/ Supernatural Colorful Features. - ‘Uncommon’ Features & POC Characters

~Mod Colette

Read more for accessible versions of the lists:

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