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No, no, that's my hyperfixation in-law twice removed on my mutuals side.

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A demon that writes messages on your mirror with blood but they’re useful messages. Like “remember you have yoga at 6 tonight”

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i know people are loathe to try podcast recommendations from strangers on the internet, but please, you have to listen to The Wandering Path

it JUST started releasing, but i've been fortunate enough to hear the first 5 epsiodes and i've genuinely never listened to an actual play where the table has such insane chemistry with one another- i think a lot of the time in actual plays, it feels like the players just kind of...tolerate any time when the spotlight isn't on their pc? but this group is palpably invested in the other characters at the table, and you can feel the joy they have about one another's characters, and the world itself

so far there are just 2 worldbuilding episodes based on a hack of caro asercion's "i'm sorry did you say street magic", and episode 1, which released yesterday

truly, if you think you might like a new actual play in your life, you have to at least give the preview a shot

(Also, if you ever listened to Ars Paradoxica or StarTripper!!, it's created, edited, and DM'd by the same person who made those, Mischa Stanton)

(Also also, if you ever liked the things @bext-k has been in, they're a player and producer on the show!!)

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tired: mermaids are all women

wired: much like elves, merfolk are mistaken by sailors for being all women because they have long hair and are very pretty

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Posters for Sesame Street, the musical

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Some excellent fiction podcasts that need more love! Go check them out!

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"podcasts are a passive form of media" then why the fuck am I listening to this gripping the table like I'm on a goddamn rollercoaster

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do you guys ever like forget you're interested in something until you start engaging with it again and you go "oh wait i'm like crazy crazy about this yeah"

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My liege, I bring news from beyond the hellsite. Yes. They twinkified him and made him white. Mhm. I’m sorry, my liege, the mistranslations have gone too far. I shall start dad-bodding this man as soon as I leave your sight. What’s that? You want me to make him trans as well? In which direction, your highness? It doesn’t matter? Well said, my lord. I shall commence at once.

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“i could fix him” “i could make him worse” well DONT im trying to study him and your tampering would completely throw off my results

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Packed my husband a slice of cake with his work lunch and he sent me this

I am losing my mind over this.

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probably has been done several times but aftg!trc au:

Kevin as Gansey: privileged background on the surface, the Royal (Queen, in Kevin's case, obviously he CANNOT be the Raven King) ("so... what do you know about EXY?")

Andrew as Ronan: the most infamous and most unapproachable, loyal to Kevin/Gansey through and through. (though, in terms of the Lynch brothers, Andrew is more similar to Declan than Ronan imo)

Neil as Adam: horrible father, paranoid, vicious and merciless, particularly when being protective

Nicky as Noah

Jean as Blue

Jeremy as Henry

Aaron as Declan (misguidedly protective, antagonistic sibling; though honestly, Aaron fits better with Ronan and Andrew with Declan)

Riko as Kavinsky

Wymack/Abby/Bee as Maura/Calla/Persephone

Uncle Stuart as the Gray Man (with Kengo as the Gray Man's brother?)

might add on to this as I think of more...

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Tips for writing those gala scenes, from someone who goes to them occasionally:

Generally you unbutton and re-button a suit coat when you sit down and stand up.

You’re supposed to hold wine or champagne glasses by the stem to avoid warming up the liquid inside. A character out of their depth might hold the glass around the sides instead.

When rich/important people forget your name and they’re drunk, they usually just tell you that they don’t remember or completely skip over any opportunity to use your name so they don’t look silly.

A good way to indicate you don’t want to shake someone’s hand at an event is to hold a drink in your right hand (and if you’re a woman, a purse in the other so you definitely can’t shift the glass to another hand and then shake)

Americans who still kiss cheeks as a welcome generally don’t press lips to cheeks, it’s more of a touch of cheek to cheek or even a hover (these days, mostly to avoid smudging a woman’s makeup)

The distinctions between dress codes (black tie, cocktail, etc) are very intricate but obvious to those who know how to look. If you wear a short skirt to a black tie event for example, people would clock that instantly even if the dress itself was very formal. Same thing goes for certain articles of men’s clothing.

Open bars / cash bars at events usually carry limited options. They’re meant to serve lots of people very quickly, so nobody is getting a cosmo or a Manhattan etc.

Members of the press generally aren’t allowed to freely circulate at nicer galas/events without a very good reason. When they do, they need to identify themselves before talking with someone.

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I've had this little idea in my head for a while now, so I decided to sit down and plot it out.

Disclaimer: This isn't meant to be some sort of One-Worksheet-Fits-All situation. This is meant to be a visual representation of some type of story planning you could be doing in order to develop a plot!

Lay down groundwork! (Backstory integral to the beginning of your story.) Build hinges. (Events that hinge on other events and fall down like dominoes) Suspend structures. (Withhold just enough information to make the reader curious, and keep them guessing.)

And hey, is this helps... maybe sit down and write a story! :)