#(based on my limited understanding)

[library-windows]

"which of the suspects in Pentiment do you think committed the murders?" is the question I often see people ask, but I think a much more interesting question is "why assume that the suspects Andreas is investigating are the only possible culprits?"

[hiddensneker]

I’ve seen some posts about the current ninja meeting the past ninja (around pilots) again and if that happened I like to think it would go like this:

[kairi-fruit]

This has been my mind for years now. I always flip flop. I had to get this off my chest.

[caruliaa]

playing around with this picrew and made lesbian odypen

[magentasnoodle]

please not again

[imagine-nerd]

Personally I think the funniest (ie also the saddest thing) is that in the newest interlude archon quest recollection review talked about shadows admist snowstorms you know the limited time event and event story quest that happened in version 2.3, in November 2021

[kindlykelpie]

watching midnight mass for the first time (I'm on episode 6 so almost finished with it!) and... wow... that priest really is a pathetic wet mop of a man... fantastic.

[u3pxx]

every now and then i get like spite-motivated to consider a career as an art teacher in the uni i currently go to just bc i think i can do a better job than my profs who are constantly raising my blood pressure orz

[doodlepede-doodles]

Maybe my understanding of what exactly a S-3LF is is limited since I haven't played the game yet. But, based on my understanding, I want you to understand that A and B are not two S-3LFs and not a split S-3LF either like Hank. It's 1 S-3LF in that body, they are a DID system made up of two alters.

[occasional-owl]

Tragic how much effort the daily task of Being A Person takes

[cowboyhorsegirl]

As a recovering Catholic, one of my fav anecdotes the spn set is Misha mentioning that they had all these papers flutter around when Cas flies in angry sometimes and he once looked at WHAT the papers were and they were bible pages. And he pictured all the set dressers just ripping up bibles and thought it was funny and mentioned it in an interview (or at a meet and great with some network people? it was years ago lol) and the show higher ups were like 🙅🙅🙅🙅😬😬😬 maybe we don’t mention that?? But he still tell that story at cons

Anyway, for me that’s how I’ve interacted with the religious themes in spn, as ripped up bible pages for set dressing (that they did knowing that they might get in trouble for it is anyone was paying attention) lol idk if that helps but it does for me haha so I hear you on the “complicated feelings on religion while watching spn” front

now imagining misha collins himself feeding bible pages into the company shredder to make Castiel Confetti

[ricksanchezbignaturals]

as an effeminate trans guy i've never played another game that gave me the kind of gender envy i get from cyberpunk 2077. if you don't know, the gender of the player character, v, is determined by which voice you pick, not which body. and male v with a female body type goes so incredibly hard for me

like running around the city dressed however you like, with gavin drea's hotsexy deep voice and a pair of fat tits, getting he/him'd and "mr. v"d no questions asked is literally ideal. the fuckin street goons that shoot when you get too close know that you're a man, idec that it's a dystopian nightmare world take me to night city bruh

[wonder-worker]

"As for the government of the kingdom, [Edward V] had complete confidence in the peers of realm and the queen."

— Dominic Mancini, The Usurpation of Richard the Third / J.L. Laynesmith, The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503 / Alexander R. Brondarbit, Power Brokers and the Yorkist State, 1461-1485

"According to the Crowland continuator, [Elizabeth Woodville] seems to have taken the king's place in listening to his council immediately after Edward IV's death. It does appear that she expected to have some role in her son's kingship, and the Crowland continuator’s report of the letters sent to her by [Richard of Gloucester] indicates that she had good reason to expect to be able to work with him and the other councillors: 'the duke of Gloucester wrote the most pleasant letters to console the queen; he promised to come and offer submission, fealty and all that was due from him to his lord and king, Edward V, the first-born son of his brother the dead king and the queen'."

"[However], in what was Gloucester's first coup, Edward V was separated from his household and Woodville advisors. When the young king questioned the move, Buckingham was reported to have told the boy 'It is not in the business of women but men to govern kingdoms'. The blunt remark referred to the authority of Elizabeth Woodville as queen and the power she must have anticipated within the new political climate left by Edward IV's sudden death. [...] While the veracity of this scene is questionable*, the words attributed to the duke no doubt seemed plausible to Dominic Mancini who believed they exemplified the popular sentiment held by men [...]."

*One of Mancini's key sources seems to have been Edward V's own doctor, John Argentine, who attended to him in the Tower. It's very likely that he was the one who recounted this scene to Mancini, which suggests that it should probably be considered more credible than not.

[yellowocaballero]

Talk Shop Tuesday: what’s the most important thing to you when it comes to characterization?

[Sorry I am so behind on these I have been so fucking busy] CHARACTERIZATION I LOVE YOU SO. What a good question!!!!! I get compliments on my characterization a lot so I should probably think about this. Also @lazuliquetzal chime in if you want because you're just as good at this.

There's a lot of important things. The most important, I think, is that the character has consistent internal logic. It's like worldbuilding or magic. Their actions don't have to be objectively logical, but they do have to be consistent. The character has a framework for understanding the world, a way of perceiving the world and how it works, and an idea of how they think other people work. Everything that happens in their lives is filtered through that. They have to feel like a real person making real decisions, not an instrument of the plot.

Something I like to do is to make their greatest strength their greatest flaw. I think in writing there's no 'good' or 'bad' character traits - no virtues or sins. I think character traits are neutral, and that they can be used to good or bad effect. I think we do things because of other things that have happened to us, and that these things have positive and negative consequences.

Obviously a character has to have consistent motivations and to change over time. A character shouldn't end the story in the same place where they started. Character focused stories ought to have your characters change throughout the story - Sherlock Holmes doesn't have to have moments of character growth but your slice of life character definitely should. I think the setting around them really helps - giving them foils really helps develop and flesh out both characters.

I feel like that's all pretty basic notes though. For me and characters, there's way more to it than that. It's hard to explain. I think I can only ask that you make the plot and tropes fit the characters, not the characters fit the plot and tropes. Fanfic has a horrible habit of making characters one dimensional and stripping away a lot of nuance to fit in with different slots in relationship dynamic, roles in a team dynamic, or niches in an AU. The character should come first. And love of god if you make their personality seme or uke I will come find you with my yaoi baseball bat.

Oh and the best character-building exercise is to figure out if the character would ever be a cannibal or not and I am barely joking.

[manicali]

The weekend isn't enough I've literally been passing out on the bus.

[creepyscritches]

Just finished another class on how to not put my foot in my mouth and it's soooo validating to know people have to learn these skills like anything else. I've signed up for uhhh I think this is like my 3rd or 4th? And experts on how to not sound like a dick will school me and 30 other professionals on how to not sound like a dick. Wiiiiiiild how much there is to learn on the intricacies of communication :O