Words To Use Instead Of ‘said’

And speaking of Sophia Tolstoy, her diaries are just so depressing. 

“I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman. I try to suppress all human feelings. When the machine is working properly it heats the milk, knits a blanket, makes little requests and bustles about trying not to think […].“

She wrote this when she was 19, one year into her marriage to Leo and as she was pregnant with the first of his 13 children.

A few years later, when she was 25 or so:

“I am so often alone with my thoughts that the need to write in my diary comes quite naturally … Now I am well again and not pregnant—it terrifies me how often I have been in that condition. He said that for him being young meant “I can achieve anything”. For me […] reason tells me that there is nothing I either want or can do beyond nursing, eating, drinking, sleeping, and loving and caring for my husband and babies, all of which I know is happiness of a kind, but why do I feel so woeful all the time, and weep as I did yesterday? I am writing this now with the pleasantly exciting sense that nobody will ever read it, so I can be quite frank with myself […].“

During her 12th pregnancy she wrote about taking scalding baths and jumping from high pieces of furniture to try and miscarry.  And at one point while reading her husband’s diary (which he told her to read) she found the sentence “There is no such thing as love, only the physical need for intercourse and the practical need for a life companion.” In her own diary she wrote “They ebb and flow like waves, these times when I realise how lonely I am and want only to cry…”

A few years before her husband’s death, she published a cycle of prose poems titled “Groans”, under the pseudonym “A Tired Woman”.

✷ “stop the Heidi hate” no ♡ she is literally so problematic and here’s the reasons why: she made fun of a Hindu god and wore a costume for Halloween basically calling it demonic, she humiliated, shamed and sexualised a bunch of young aspiring women on GNTM,taught people to starve themselves, ¿¿blackfishing?? and are we gonna talk about her oiling up models feet so they fell on the catwalk

EMILIA CLARKE as DAENERYS TARGARYEN in GAME OF THRONES ↳ 5.01 - "The Wars to Come"

Cillian Murphy in The Delinquent Season (2018)

How to write smut ?

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writing smut depends on each person's writing style but i think there's something so gut-wrenchingly beautiful about smut when it's not very graphic and vivid. like., would this turn on a reader more?

"he kissed her, pulling her body closer to him."

or this?

"His lips felt so familiar it hurt her heart. His breathing had become more strained; his muscles tensed. She let herself sink into his embrace as his hands flattened against her spine. He drew her closer."

One may like either the top or the bottom one better, but it totally depends on your writing to make it work. Neither is bad, but the second example is more flattering, talking literally.

express one's sensory feelings, and the readers will automatically know what's happening.

writing, "her walls clenched against him, her breath hitching with his every thrust" is better than writing, "she was about to cum".

are some vocabulary you can introduce in your writing:

whimpered, breathed lightly, stuttered, groaned, grunted, yearned, whined, ached, clenched, coaxed, cried out, heaved, hissed

shivering, shuddering, curling up against one's body

swallowing, panting, sucking in a sharp breath, thrusting, moving gently, gripped, biting,

nibbling, tugging, pressing, touching, licking, flicking,

wet kisses, brushing soft kisses across their body (yk where), licking, sucking, teasing, tracing, tickling, bucking hips, forcing one on their knees

holding hips, guiding the one on top, moving aimlessly, mindlessly, sounds they make turn insanely beautiful, sinful to listen to

he sighed with pleasure

her skin flushed

he planted kisses along her jawline

her lips turned red, messy, kissed.

his hands were on his hair, pulling him.

light touches traveled down his back

he arched his back, his breath shuddering

her legs parted, sinking into the other's body, encircling around their waist.

sources to refer to for more: (will be updated soon!)

Anya Taylor-Joy as Emma Woodhouse

Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen GAME OF THRONES (2011-2019) — “The Dance of Dragons” (5.09)

There were more dragons than ever before as well, and several of the she-dragons were regularly producing clutches of eggs. Not all of these eggs hatched, but many did, and it became customary for the fathers and mothers of newborn princelings to place a dragon’s egg in their cradles, following a tradition that Princess Rhaena had begun many years before; the children so blessed invariably bonded with the hatchlings to become dragonriders. –Fire and Blood

TOM GLYNN-CARNEY as GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR in DOMINA (2021-)