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Good luck reviewing this month, YWS!

Liminality wrote:Looking for something to inspire your writing? Try participating in one of the many interesting threads in the Writing Activities forum!

What would your characters do? invites a bit of roleplay and a think about how your character might respond to a situation.

Connotations gets you thinking about imagery and symbols.

Haiku Train and Tanka Train get you to write a poem based on lines someone has written in theirs, in the previous post.

What's Happening In The Story? invites you to respond to a short scene or paragraph with what you think is happening and to post a scene of your own.

Mageheart wrote:what if i...wrote a novel with a main character with funky gender vibes. will it easily get published? probably not. do i think it'll be the most visceral piece of writing i've written since i wrote a self-insert novel in 7th grade? yes.

“I’m sorry,” Envy muttered, even though he really wasn’t. They ran their fingers through Nina’s hair. He couldn’t promise to make things better. The only thing he could do was promise to not let things get worse. “It’s not safe for you to be home anymore. I’m going to get you and Alexander somewhere safe.”

“Don’t…like…game,” Nina decided.

“We’ll play better games later,” Envy promised, all too reminded of Gluttony and Sloth then. “Did he hurt you?”

Nina shook her head.

That was something good, at least.

“We need to wait here awhile first,” Envy said. “We’re…playing hide-and-seek. We have to win.”

Nina nodded.

The three of them sat there in the alleyway. Envy wasn’t sure for how long. The rain kept pouring, and the world kept moving beyond the alleyway’s entrance. Tucked behind a row of boxes, no one could easily see the soaked soldier and humanoid dog.

Envy pushed aside the strange little knot in their stomach.

“I’ll think of something,” Envy said, distracted.

Edward and Alphonse mulled it over.

“Maybe you could go out with her and Alexander!” Alphonse suggested. Suddenly remembering where the last member of their little group was, he added, “You could go by the shops downtown. You could run into Uncle Reyes there.”

“Maybe,” Envy said, uncertainty lacing his voice. His hand went to his thigh. He didn’t like this kind of weather. It reminded him too much of-

The three of them went to take a right. Envy saw a flash of long, black hair. Eyes widening, Envy spun around, hearing the ghost of a laugh that sounded all too familiar. Walking in the opposite direction down the street was a woman that reminded them so much of her that it made their chest hurt. Her hair was so much longer. Her arm was intertwined with one of a blond-haired man dressed in a soldier’s uniform. Envy couldn’t see her face from this angle, but he knew it was just his mind playing tricks on him. It wasn’t her.

“William?” Alphonse quietly asked. “What’s wrong?”

Envy finally tore his gaze away from the couple. They were a speck on the horizon, now.

“Nothing,” he said. They tried to think of Nina, or Alexander, or of Reyes, but all that they could think of was her solemn but soft face, asking them to promise to be safe as she ruffled their hair one last time.

Edward and Alphonse exchanged a glance, but they didn’t push it.

Omni wrote:happy pride happy pride yeet

Queer Inklings wrote:happy pride, fellow queer inklings!

this is the current club admin, mage. i've admittedly fallen seriously behind on actually running this club, but wanted to share some fun links with you from the club.

one of the topics i've always loved in this club is the pronoun testing room. questioning gender is a frequent queer experience, and that topic is a great place to test out pronouns you think you might vibe with. you can post there as many times as you like with as many pronouns as you like, too!

pride can be a stressful time, sometimes, too, and queer jokes is a great little pick-me-up. i may or may not be a frequent poster in that topic, seeing that i'm very queer and very much love puns. dad jokes for the win!

got some queer works here on yws? then pop by the your queer works topic! alternatively, if you're looking for some queer things to read this pride, swing by there, too.

and on that topic: want some queer reading recs off of yws? favourite queer books? has you covered.

i can't promise i'll be the fastest at editing them, but there's also avatar requests, a thread where you can request queer pride icons! i've made them for years at this point, and will always be happy to make more. gotta rep those flags!

as two last little notes that are only somewhat related to pride: if you ever have any ideas for this club, feel free to pop them over into club ideas! and if you're interested in admining this club, please let me know. i'm not nearly active enough to do it myself these days, and i'd love for this club to flourish back to its old activity levels.

Spearmint wrote:*gasp* is that a new tagbook i see?? eeeee!! :3



(psst, click the image! c: )

Spearmint wrote: reviews! rewards! geese! :]

Hey, you! Yes, you! c: Have you done a Green Room review today? If so, make sure to log it so you can claim some awesome badges and doodles!

1. If you're in a team, add your review to the total count! Team Maple Team Lily (If you haven't joined a team yet, go sign up in this thread! ^^)
2. If you write 5 Green Room reviews between June 1 and August 1, you can complete the Following the Feathers Challenge and claim a badge and green hat avvie!
3. If you do 10 GR reviews, you can log them at the KotGR Main Challenge thread and claim a badge and custom drawing from me! =D I can draw flowers, buildings, and occasionally characters~
4. You don't need to do GR reviews for this next one! Any reviews count towards the Review A Week Challenge. The rewards are a badge and a goose doodle from alliyah (who makes some pretty mean bird doodles)!
5. If we, as a site, manage to clear the Green Room by August 1, we'll celebrate with a super fun social week and free works for 3 days! If you haven't done a GR review yet, why not pull out your sword/spear/pen/weapon of choice and get to fighting those green beasts?

Last thing: check out the Summer Review Events forum for more info and cool things, like a tagbook! Happy reviewing!! =D