Sometimes You Just Need To Darumdarimda Your Way Through Life.

Sometimes you just need to darumdarimda your way through life.

Mahmoud Darwish, “Like a Small Café, That’s Love,” in Almond Blossoms and Beyond, tr. Mohammad Shaheen [text ID under the cut]

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underused tropes in writing (or ones I would like to see more):

hero and villain to lovers

*actually* unwilling hero

side character or villain as mc instead of hero

mc is evil but slowly turns good

mc is good but slowly turns evil

lovers to enemies

enemies to I-will-kill-for-you-friends

the understanding what they're saying without saying a word

street smart / brain smart

enemies who are actually very similar from the reader's pov

wants to be a hero but the journey makes them more, not less, scared

this should not be underused but: faerie/human relationships where the age difference is not of literal millennia. I get they're attractive, but if they did not have their looks—are they still attractive? why is that the going factor?

people who have tension and almost become romantically inclined but don't

slice of life

mc is the villain

symbolic magic

a human mc who is sent to live in a fantasy world

the good guys win, but at a terrible cost

the mc dies

the villain wins

people who have a happy, healthy family relationship

antagonists who truly believe they're doing something for the greater good—and would sacrifice themselves for this great cause

female characters who are strong but act feminine

gentle giant

whatever the opposite of the above is (evil minion?)

neutral magic instead of "light" or "dark"

characters who stay friends

well-written traitors

a villain who is working to redeem themselves

{Quotes by : Khaled Hosseini, from "And the Mountains Echoed"/Margaret Atwood, from" The Blind Assassin".}

It's september, honey<3

here's a random theory i have about dead poets society.

when keating breaks down at the end of the movie after seeing the 1st page of that book, that is because it reminded him of the time when he was a boy and was part of the dead poets. what more could have happened was that neil's death had reminded him of one of his friends who had also killed himself at that time.

after opening the book, he saw the text written by his friend who had died back then and that made him realize the parallel between then and now.