So Beautiful, I Want This As Tiles Or A Bandana

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They Get Married.

Rating: Explicit

Words: 28.1k

Chapters: 5/12

Summary:

It’s been five years since Simon Snow saved the magickal world (again). A lot has changed since then. If you told me this would be my life five years ago, I wouldn’t have believed you. Simon was so dysfunctional and broken and we were both so traumatized that I never thought there was a future where we were happy. Where we built a life together and were content. But thank magic, against all odds, it happened.

I think I’m gonna propose to Simon.

Post-AWTWB, they finally went to therapy, marriage rites, dueling, bound together in five dimensions.

I hope every trans person is proud of themselves today. Even if you are not in a place where you can be visible to others, you are visible to yourself.

And being able to see yourself for who you are is no small accomplishment.

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little print inspired by ✨🗡️♠️Simon & Baz ❤️‍🔥🎻🧛🏼‍♂️

sword, wings, and tail for Simon ✨ matches, violin, and fangs for Baz

starlight, magic, and love for the two of them ❤️‍🔥

Have you been Baz? 😂😂 I forgot the inside :P

Smut-writing Advice

Rebloggable version, since this seems to be so popular ;)

Anonymous asked you: Do you have any advice for writing smut?

Yes. 

1) Be shameless.  Get comfortable writing sentences like “He trailed the tip of his tongue down the length of his lover’s cock, making him shiver and twitch as the heat spread to his tip, turning it purple.”  The more a sentence makes you blush, the better a sentence it is and the more it belongs in your story.  If you’re censoring yourself, if you’re not writing things that are super-hot to you and make you hot as you write, then it’s gonna be a dry, boring smut scene.

2) Be detailed in actions, and more importantly, reactions.  Which is hotter?  “He swirled his tongue around his lover’s nipple, tracing around the areola in a slow circle before closing his lips around the tip.” or “he slowly licked over his lover’s nipple, making her shudder and gasp, arching her back into the warm heat of his mouth.”

The first example is good detail, but includes no reaction, so your reader is probably just going to get bored.  The second sentence has less detail on the action, but more detail on the reaction- and that’s what shows a character is feeling something, how they react.  

Shivers, moans, groans, whimpers, clasping fingers, twitches, eyes closing or opening, faces tilting or turning, toes curling- those are the reactions, the hot stuff, the stuff that says “this character is feeling.”

Put that in, and you don’t have to worry about describing every detail of the actions.

3) Don’t use words that you normally wouldn’t use.  “Ministrations”, “gyrations”, etc.  This words make me want to vomit, they’re so horrible.  No one uses them.  Describe your smut with normal everyday words.  This does not mean use boring words.  There are a hundred ways to describe breathing, for example: gasp, hitch, inhale, pant, sigh, hiss, etc.

4) Watch porn, but with a grain of salt.  It can give you some references for areas you have no personal experience with, but keep in mind that the people are acting and this is scripted. 

5) DETAILS, details, details.  Mention many details and EDIT YOUR STORY to KEEP THEM STRAIGHT.  First, write the scene.  Let it flow the way you want, the way it wants to go, get in the emotion and the character’s reactions.  Then go back and make sure that you have kept track of articles of clothing, the positions people are in, who’s eyes are open, closed, where hands are, etc.  Nothing ruins a smut scene like someone getting a blow job while their pants are still on in the reader’s mind.

6) Make the PACE SLOW.  Writers tend to be embarrassed so they rush through their smut scene.  BUT THIS IS THE PART YOU’VE BEEN BUILDING UP TO, THAT YOUR READER IS WAITING FOR.  So don’t rush it- let it linger!  Most smut scenes feel too long when you write them- and then fly by too quickly when you read them.  Three pages of smut is short.  And I don’t mean make it longer by dragging it out- I mean make sure that the pacing of your writing is slow.  Don’t have everybody stark naked after the first paragraph.  Tension and build are what sex is all about; don’t sell it short.  How do you know if your smut scene is paced correctly?  Same way you tell if the rest of your story is paced correctly.  Reread it, reread it, reread it, edit, edit, edit.

If you haven’t reread your scene at least twice, it’s not done.  That goes for any scene, not just smut.

7) EMOTION.  Show it.  Sex is powerful, regardless of who’s having it. It intensifies everything.  If the character is miserable, they are very miserable; if they are happy, they are very happy.  Show it, describe it on their face, in their actions, in their motions and possibly with words (I like to write smut scenes full of dialogue, but that’s my style, other authors are different).  But connect your reader to how at least one character is feeling, depending on the point of view of your story. 

8) And lastly, did I mention be shameless?  BE SHAMELESS.  If you’re not mortified to show it to your grandma, then you’re not doing it right. (Unless you have one heck of a cool grandma).

Okay, that’s all my advice on smut for today.  Hope this helps! :)

I originally wasn’t going to have Dev & Niall get together in “They Get Married.” because it’s canon-compliant I didn’t think they realistically would in canon. But then I remembered it’s my fic and I have free will, so I did it anyway 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏳️‍🌈✨

It has been quite a while, but I really want to show u this ❤️ I usually post in my IG, but I want to show you first ❤️😭

Never not thinking about all of them, honestly. Even so many books away from them.