01 · No house style
Sound like yourself, even when you're still auditioning voices. Weird commas welcome.
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The reading room
Long reads, half-finished drafts, and odd obsessions all belong. No résumé voice required: just something you mean.
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Loose rules · real talk
How we treat writing here
(Not a handbook, more like sticky notes on the monitor.)
02 · Write before you're ready
No niche deck required. One honest thread in public beats a year of outlines in private.
03 · Build a voice, not an audience
Follower math isn't the point. Write for future-you; the right readers tend to drift over.
04 · Short is fine
Three paragraphs of thinking-out-loud still count. Not every post needs a bow on it.
05 · Nobody is performing here
The deal is simple: we're all mid-process. Try things without apology.
06 · Your worst post is still yours
Polish is cheap; live thought isn't. Messy drafts age better than empty pages.
07 · Write like nobody's grading you
Because here, they are not.
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
🎬 Videos Are Here We've added native video uploads to LavishMade. Upload your MP4 and MOV files directly to your posts... no algorithms deciding w...
death mania things I guess
So found out my love for cemeteries is considered a mental condition called Coimetromania. It’s this abnormal or unusual fascination with and desi...
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"Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow."
A line I think about almost daily. Found from a music playlist's description on YouTube.
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Ashes of the Fleet
The fleet had broken in the sky. Fire still rained in streaks, burning trails across the night like the heavens themselves were bleeding. Of the t...
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Shards of Faith
The Metropolis skyline burned orange in the late afternoon. Traffic hummed, the air thick with exhaust, when the sirens split the streets open. Su...
Why we made LavishMade
It’s easy to forget, as we scroll endlessly through feeds engineered to be bottomless, that the internet was once a different place entirely. Befor...
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Silence of the Sea (Screenplay)
Silence of the Sea © 2021 Jason Scalfano EXT. OCEAN FLOOR - SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE - DAY A figure trudges through an infinite expanse of darkne...
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What's your favorite scary movie?
If I had to name mine, I couldn’t pick just one. I’ve got a holy grail list. These are the ones I return to again and again: 1. Pumpkinhead 2. Hall...
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Ashwood: The Marrow Hunt
The Ashwood was never quiet anymore. The trees whispered with the dry rasp of infected lungs, the ground crawled with the stink of rot, and the win...
Just paranoia or something else?
Hey Lavish. I'm glad to have found this place. There's a certain atmosphere that comes from small communities, that you just don't get on larger so...
Halloween Costume Ideas 2025
Halloween is in 81 days. EIGHTY-ONE DAYS! I'm beyond excited and I've been trying to figure out what I want to be this year. I always go to som...
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