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“Take a screenshot” 😭😭

So you remember that final scene in The best of both worlds just before the dramatic cliffanger when we see Picard on the Borg Cube? So we later see the photo of it from the same angle in Star Trek: Picard (season 1), The Impossible Box.

That implies that either computer automatically saves transmissions from the main viewscreen and they can be acessed later and watched frame by frame or Riker went: "Mister Worf... Fire. But first, take a screenshot.".

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I like writing the angst of killing off characters, but I don’t like actually doing it. This is why I end up with the recurring theme of characters believing that each other are dead.

“Authors love killing off characters!”

*me, sitting at my desk with shaky hands*:

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A small collection of my fave out of context Star Trek: TOS stills

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Ellipsus update makes me so happy!

I just started using it and one of my only major issues with it was the lack of any kind of password but now that’s fixed and I’m really happy having switched off of Google docs

My only other issue is I wish it had a mobile app… it works on my mobile browser just fine- but I have a tab problem and keep losing it 😅

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Part of the fun of writing a first draft knowing your gonna scrap it as soon as you have a better idea is the ability to use words like “bamboozlement” in a completely serious context

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I feel the post in my bones- and *totally* believe you-

Nah but I have an entire document in my notes app dedicated to using voice typing to figure out how words are spelled because even spell check doesn’t understand why I’m trying to say-

I promise I know English. I promise that I can spell simple words right on the first try. I don’t need to look up ‘different ways to say said’ 50 times I day.

I promise.

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Me: writing a scene that’s very important to setting things up for my story

Me: realizing said scene has the unintended side effect of giving my mc more trauma and trust issues

Me: oh well, guess I have to find a way to write that in to everything else, should be fun!

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Reposting for reference later

Things done in real-life dialogue

(Found on Pinterest ages ago)

Laughing at their own jokes

Don't finish/say complete sentences

Interrupt a line of thought with a sudden new one

Say 'uh/uhm' between words when unsure

Accidentally blending words - may restart the sentence

Begin/end sentences with 'eh?' or 'you know?' etc, may be turned into an actual question for others to respond to

Repeat words such as 'like/literally/really/anyways/I think'

Repeat words or phrases when excited

Words fizzle out when they realise no one is listening

Repeat themselves when others don't understand them, or to get their point across

Non-verbal replies like gestures/expressions/noises (or lack of)

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Writing character with he/they pronouns

I would like one of my characters to use he/they pronouns, but I’m not sure how to write it. I’ve seen it done a lot in fan fiction where the writer switches between which one they use, but I’m concerned that doing this is going to confuse my readers. I don’t want to commit to just he or they because neither quite feels right for the characters, I just don’t know how to deal with it with my writing style. This may just be an issue in my writing that I’m not making it clear enough who I’m referring to but I don’t know how to fix that either. How would you approach this? Any advice is hugely appreciated!

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Repost for reference later

A Complete Character Development Profile (redo)

- When filling out my own character template for my oc, I realised there was so much I missed, so I did a redo

Section 1: Basic Identity

Personal Information

Full Legal Name:

Stage/Preferred Name:

Aliases/Online Personas:

Name Origins and feelings

Did they choose or inherit their name:

Meaning (linguistically, cultural, familial):

Do they feel like fit their name:

Any resentment or pride around their name?

Do they hesitate before introducing themselves? Why?:

Nicknames and Titles

Current nicknames:

Who uses them and in what tone:

Nickname they hate but tolerate:

Nickname they miss hearing:

Professional titles or honorific’s:

Age Profile

Chronological age:

Mental age:

Emotional age:

Age they appear:

Age they feel:

Age related feelings

DO they feel behind or ahead of peers?:

How do they relate to others their age?:

Do they lie about their age? Why?:

Gender identity

Assigned at birth:

Current identity:

How they embody their gender:

Have they explored or questioned it?:

Do they surprise aspects of their gender:

Do they correct misperceptions? How:

How do others perceive their gender:

Sexual Orientation

How they identity:

Are they open about this:

Are any internal conflicts or journeys of discovery:

Current living situations

Where they live:

Type of dwelling:

Who they live with:

How long they’ve been there:

Environmental impact

What their space smells like:

Soundscape of their area:

How the environment has shaped them:

Do they know the shortcuts and hidden sports:

Do they feel connected or displaced:

Dream living situation:

Birthday and celebrations

Birthday:

Zodiac sign:

Do they believe in astrology:

Birthday feelings and traditions

How they celebrate:

Do they dread or enjoy birthdays?

first birthday they remember:

Worst birthday experience:

Do they tell people hen their birthday is?

How they feel about surprise celebrations:

Section 2: Personality Deep Dive

Internal Srengths

Primary strengths:

How it manifests:

Do they recognise it as a strengths:

External strengths

Primary strengths:

How it manifests:

Has this strengths ever backfired on them? How:

Hidden strengths (ones they don’t recognise in themselves)

Primary weaknesses

What is it:

Is it a flaw or defence mechanism:

How to they hide it:

How their weakness effects others

How their behaviour Echoes in a room:

Are others protective or exploitive of their weaknesses:

Psychological Profile

MBTI Type:

Enneagram type:

Core childhood wound:

How this derived their behaviour:

How it manifests in

Conflict:

Decision-making:

Daily Routine:

Big 5 Personality traits each on a 1-5 scale)

Openness:

Conscientiousness:

Extraversion:

Agreeableness:

Neuroticism:

Do any traits clash with each other?:

Character Archetype

Which archetype do you think they are:

Which archetype would they think they are:

Emotional Landscape

Attatchment style:

How it manifests

In conflict:

When needing others:

Do they test people of cut them off quickly:

Primary fears (physical)

What is it:

Triggers:

Physical responses:

Primary fears (Emotional)

What is it:

Specific triggers:

Physical response:

How they rationalise this fear:

Core memories: Happy

What happened:

Associated textures/smells/songs

Would they share this with others:

Core memories: Sad

What happened:

How it shows up in dreams/habits/reactions today:

Would they rewrite it or cling to is as part of their identity:

Object of significance

What is it:

Condition of the object:

What this condition represents:

Associated memory or person:

Beliefs and philosophy

Core beliefs:

How they justify their morals:

Do they act in line with their beliefs or just speak them:

Do they believe in fate:

If not, how do they explain the unexplainable:

Confidence and self perfection

Where their confidence is real:

Where their confidence is armour:

Do they crumble when unseen or rejected:

How they see themselves vs how others see them:

Section 3: Goals dreams and motivations

Current goals

Surface level goal:

What it’s really about:

Obstacles in their way:

What they’re willing to sacrifice for it:

Long term dreams

Big dream they’ve never spoken aloud:What haven’t they shared it:

Is this dream inherited or self born:

What would achieving it mean to them:

Shame and pride

What they’re embarrassed to tell others:

Why is this shameful to them:

Source of pride:

What accomplishment do they cling to when feeling worthless:

Do they overplay or minimise their accomplishments:

Regrets and pain points

Petty regrets:

Large scale regrets:

Which ones keep them up at night:

Source of misery (the unscratchable itch in their soul)

Admiration and envy

What they admire above all else:

Person who embodies their unmet potential:

Trait they mock in others but secretly envy:

Section 4: Mental Health and coping

Mental health

Diagnosed conditions:

Undiagnosed conditions they might have:

How long diagnosed/untreated:

Do they deny it or medicate it:

How it manifests for them specifically:

Coping mechanisms

Healthy coping strategies:

Unhealthy coping strategies:

Crisis response:

Who they call in a crisis:

Intelligence and emotional processing

IQ (estimated):

EQ (estimated):

How they intelligence isolates or connects them:

Do they weaponise their emotional intelligence:

Humour style

What makes them laugh when no one else does:

What humour makes them uncomfortable:

Do they use humour as a defense mechanism:

Section 5: Behavioural Patterns and Habits

Daily habits and routines

Morning routine:

Evening routine:

Work/productivity habits:

Self care habits:

Bad habits

Sensory tics:

Toxic coping:

Avoidance ritual:

When do they allow these habits in front of others:

Behavioural tells

When stressed:

When content:

When scared:

Normal state:

Verbal Mannerisms

Do they use rhetorical questions!

Sarcasm level:

Do they complete sentence or often drift off in thought:

Precise or vague in speech:

Do they often mirror others:

What they say vs what they don’t

Truth they always avoid:

What they overstate to distract:

Are they brutally honest or do they sugar coat:

Physical presence

How they move across a room:

How much space they take up:

Are they aware of their physical presence:

Posture and body language:

Expressions of love and care

How they show love:

Do they know their actions make others feel loved:

What they need to feel loved:

Section 6: Hobbies and Interests

Current hobbies

Public hobbies (ones they don’t hide):

Secret hobbies (tell few to no people):

Hobbies they wish they had more time for:

How they feel whilst doing hobbies:

Skills and talents

Natural talents:

Learned skills:

Skills they’re working on:

Skills they’ve abandoned:

Section 7: Physical Appearance

Defining features

What a police sketch would capture:

Parts of their body they highlight:

Parts of their body they hide:

Facial features

Face shape:

Nose shape:

Eye shape:

Eye colour:

Lip shape:

Eyebrow shape:

Eyelash length/thickness:

Body details

Height:

Weight:

Body type/shape:

Skin tone:

Skin details:

Tattoos:

Piercings:

Facial hair:

Body hair:

Style and presentation

Clothing style:

Signature detail:

How much effort they put into their appearance:

What’s habit vs performance:

Personal preference vs societal pressure:

Self perception and others reactions

Why do they dress (to disappear, seduce, intimidate etc)

Their opinion of their appearance:

Their most attractive feature in their opinion:

Body part the obsess over:

Are they conventionally attractive:

How they handle compliments:

How they handle stares:

The vibe they give off

What music would play when they’re introduced in a movie:

What do people assume about them based on looks:

Are those assumptions correct:

What type of people are drawn to their vibe:

How do they react to that attention:

Section 8: Relationships and social connections

Trust and loyalty

Person they trust most:

Why they trust them:

Was this trust earned or given easily:

How they test trust:

What they wish they could to for this person:

What’s holding them back:

Conflict and animosity

Person they hate the most:

What they wish they could do to them:

How this hatred affects their daily life:

Family dynamics

Biological family structure:

Relationship with parents/guardians

Mother/maternal figure:

Father/paternal figure

Quality of relationship:

Siblings

Number and ages:

Relationship quality:

Birth order effects:

Extended family

Family members they avoid:

Family secrets or dynamics!

Chosen family:

How their chosen family differs from biological:

Friendships

Best friend:

How they met:

What they value in this friendship:

Friend group dynamics

Size of social circle:

Role they play in the group:

Group activities:

Childhood friends still in their life:

Friends they’ve lost and why:

How they make new friends:

What they need from friendships:

Professional relationships

Work/school relationships:

Mentors:

People who believe in the

Professional reputation:

Romantic relationships

Current relationship status:

Relationship history:

What they seek in a partner:

What they believe love should look like:

Relationship patterns:

How they behave when in love:

How they handle breakups:

Deal breakers in relationships:

Social expectations and roles

What others expect of them:

Roles they’ve earned vs inherited vs resent:

Where they belong:

Where they pretend to belong:

Non human bonds

Relationship with animals:

Significant objects:

Connection to places:

Spiritual or supernatural beliefs:

Section 9: Background and history

Childhood and upbringing

Where they grew up:

Type of community:

Socioeconomic background:

Families reputation in the community:

Were they known, invisible, praised or feared:

Childhood environment

Sensory memories:

Neighbourhood dynamics:

Safety level:

Cultural influences:

Defining incidence

Stories they retell:

Stories they never tell:

Pivotal childhood moments

When they realised something was wrong in the world:

When they realised there is good in the world:

First time they felt truly seen:

First major disappointment:

Education and development

Educational background:

Academic performance:

Favourite subjects:

Teachers who influenced them:

Extracurricular activities:

Notable people from their past

Person who made them feel they could become something:

Person who made them feel small:

First crush:

Childhood hero:

Early role models:

Major accomplishment

What they minimise:

What they overplay:

Trauma and loss

How they carry it:

Do they use it as a weapon, warning or wound:

How it’s shaped their worldview:

Life changing moments:

Biggest regrets:

Moments of triumph:

Current life context

How they view their past:

What they’ve learned about themselves:

What they’re still learning:

Section 10: current life and daily reality

Living situation

Current home:

How they feel about their space:

Personal belonging that matter most:

How they maintain their space:

Financial reality

Current financial situation:

How money shapes their decisions:

How they treat expensive things:

Financial goals or fears:

Relationship with money:

Daily life and routine

Typical structure:

Morning person or night own:

How they spend free time:

Daily stressors:

Daily joys:

Current challenges

Biggest current problem:

What they’re working on improving:

What they’re avoiding dealing with:

Support systems they have:

Support systems they need:

Future outlook

Where they see themselves in 5 years:

What they’re most excited about:

What they’re most worried about:

Changed they want to make:

What’s holding them back from change:

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would love to know who the npc because that’s funny as hell. players have a sixth sense for this kinda stuff. —a CoS DM

I don’t know if he’s evil in the original storyline (at least to the degree he is in our campaign) because our dm has gone pretty far off book, but it’s Radahan (I have no idea if that’s how his name is spelled)

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Creating a timeline for my WIP is so… interesting

It’s like trying to assemble a puzzle where half the pieces are blank and the other half are covered in barely coherent scribbles about betrayal and tragedy, but occasionally I’ll come across one that just says “gay” and I have no idea where it fits into all this but it is VERY important that it does… is this a story? Or just a mess of half formed feelings and a desire to understand the human race? I don’t know

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Me: casually and kind of jokingly hating an npc bc he interrupted my character’s crash out and was also a little weird

Everyone else: “what did he ever do to you??”

Me: “he’s just evil ok??”

Them: not believing me bc “he’s just a lonely little guy”

The NPC: turns out to literally be the big bad for season two of the campaign

Me: I FING KNEW IT!!! I KNEW THAT GUY WAS SKETCHY AF!!

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Museums are such an interesting experience

Like I’m wandering around this huge building full of super rare stuff reading small plaques with random pieces of information, most of which I will not retain for more than 2 minutes, but then I come across a fact that makes me stop and question everything I know and I have to go look up more information bc WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE MAGNETIC POLES CAN SWITCH??? And suddenly I’ve spent half an hour sitting on a bench researching geomagnetic reversals and I’m filled with a very subtle sense of impending doom but I don’t have any time to process what I just read before I’m wandering around a room full of very very shiny rocks of immense value. I don’t feel like any time has passed but at the same time I might have been here forever for all I know because everything is artificially lit and I don’t even know what time of day it is? I could wander around this place for all of time and probably still find new things… but my feet hurt and I’m really tired of being run into by screaming children. So I leave feeling slightly smarter, a little overwhelmed, a list of new research projects I will probably never get to, and a whole bunch of random facts that may or may not randomly materialize in my consciousness at inopportune moments to be awkwardly interjected into unrelated conversations

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The number of time I’ve had to google “distance from the sun to the nearest star” for reference in my sci-fi WIP is embarrassing. I feel like I should remember this information by now…

For the record it’s Alpha Centauri and it’s a little more than 4 light years away

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This situation is made worse by the fact that what I want to write is fluff but I don’t know *how* to write fluff and the closest I can get is incomplete hurt/comfort

Does anyone else have the thing where you’re like I have so many thoughts but none of them are coherent or even words??? Like I have a vibe and the crushing need to write but I couldn’t even translate it into something I can understand???