Emotional Walls Your Character Has Built (And What Might Finally Break Them)

(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.

✶ Sarcasm as armor. (Break it with someone who laughs gently, not mockingly.) ✶ Hyper-independence. (Break it with someone who shows up even when they’re told not to.) ✶ Stoicism. (Break it with a safe space to fall apart.) ✶ Flirting to avoid intimacy. (Break it with real vulnerability they didn’t see coming.) ✶ Ghosting everyone. (Break it with someone who won’t take silence as an answer.) ✶ Lying for convenience. (Break it with someone who sees through them but stays anyway.) ✶ Avoiding touch. (Break it with accidental, gentle contact that feels like home.) ✶ Oversharing meaningless things to hide real depth. (Break it with someone who asks the second question.) ✶ Overworking. (Break it with forced stillness and the terrifying sound of their own thoughts.) ✶ Pretending not to care. (Break it with a loss they can’t fake their way through.) ✶ Avoiding mirrors. (Break it with a quiet compliment that hits too hard.) ✶ Turning every conversation into a joke. (Break it with someone who doesn’t laugh.) ✶ Being everyone’s helper. (Break it when someone asks what they need, and waits for an answer.) ✶ Constantly saying “I’m fine.” (Break it when they finally scream that they’re not.) ✶ Running. Always running. (Break it with someone who doesn’t chase, but doesn’t leave, either.) ✶ Intellectualizing every feeling. (Break it with raw, messy emotion they can’t logic away.) ✶ Trying to be the strong one. (Break it when someone sees the weight they’re carrying, and offers to help.) ✶ Hiding behind success. (Break it when they succeed and still feel empty.) ✶ Avoiding conflict at all costs. (Break it when silence causes more pain than the truth.) ✶ Focusing on everyone else’s healing but their own. (Break it when they hit emotional burnout.)

— 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫 ˖𓂃.⋆ ݁˖

we're two best friends who have been writing & living life together for over 10 years now. we met on a niche writing site in 2013, and we've stuck together all these years—through high school & college, through love & heartbreak, through every high & low. (w.i.p.)

— 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐮𝐬 ˖𓂃.⋆ ݁˖

minnie's about | minnie's main blog venus's about | venus's main blog

— 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 ˖𓂃.⋆ ݁˖

'a friend group like every other' masterlist

5 notes View Post

br1ghteyed

2 weeks ago

yes sometimes books/fics are just way too corny. but sometimes you need to be willing to participate to get what the author is trying to deliver. like a roller coaster or a horror movie, you have to decide to partake in the experience or thrill instead of trying to be above it

Tags

fanfic x reader writeblr writers on tumblr writing fanfiction reading books ao3 writer ao3 reader insert author female reader books and reading booklr ya books bookblr book review goodreads young adult book lover ya fiction ya fantasy romance reader young adult books young adult fiction ya novel young adult romance young adult fantasy young adult lit

30 notes View Post

br1ghteyed

2 weeks ago

i still can't believe they fed us with mekamechanic in official overwatch media. don't give up on your dreams girls

clearly someone on the overwatch team understands the true beating heart behind magical girl content: lesbians

Tags

overwatch overwatch 2 sapphic ow2 overwatch au d.va overwatch overwatch fanfic mekamechanic mekanic

436 notes View Post

br1ghteyed

1 week ago

writing is best when it’s "an inspired plague", writing feeling like work is the kiss of death

-from "on writing", on the idea of enjoying your writing

Tags

writeblr writers on tumblr writing fanfiction reading books writers books and reading creative writing booklr writers and poets writer writing advice writing community stephen king bookblr writespo book lover

23 notes View Post

br1ghteyed

2 weeks ago

"be the change you want to see in the world," i say as i write the most ultra-indulgent and specific fic possible because anyone else is going to write it wrong

693 notes View Post

br1ghteyed

2 weeks ago

me trying to piece back together my character after giving them the most tragic insane and inescapable backstory imaginable

I can fix him [drill sound] [screaming] [chainsaw revving]

Tags

writeblr writing writing memes writing community

140K notes View Post