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"you have to smile~" "i'm going to fucking kill you."

WAAAAAH this lovely kailune... i'll cry. thank you to @scarameownya for this comm ❣️

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wolfwood,,,,,

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oh to have foxes play where I've laid to rest

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Parents be like that’s my emotional support eldest daughter

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one more day of packing……and then move tomorrow…..so close yet so far….

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How tall are u guys.

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hate when you find a character whose so infuriatingly Your Type that its embarrassing like yeahg no one is gonna be surprised when i announce this is my new Guy Of The Month

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sae enjoys you being extremely high maintenance. he likes that not everyone can afford you lol

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the backhanded compliments ppl leave on fics never fail to crack me up. some ppl give comments on fics like they’re the fucking king of the realm. ahh hmm. you see i wasn’t initially drawn in by such a trite summary but i must admit…this dribble is quite good. i wouldn’t normally give my word on these contrived fables—such things are oft beneath me but alas..,perhaps there’s real talent here.. and i’d be remiss not to deign it with a comment. fine work, scribe…

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A lot of fiction these days reads as if—as I saw Peter Raleigh put it the other day, and as I’ve discussed it before—the author is trying to describe a video playing in their mind. Often there is little or no interiority. Scenes play out in “real time” without summary. First-person POV stories describe things the character can’t see, but a distant camera could. There’s an overemphasis on characters’ outfits and facial expressions, including my personal pet peeve: the “reaction shot round-up” in which we get a description of every character’s reaction to something as if a camera was cutting between sitcom actors.

When I talk with other creative writing professors, we all seem to agree that interiority is disappearing. Even in first-person POV stories, younger writers often skip describing their character’s hopes, dreams, fears, thoughts, memories, or reactions. This trend is hardly limited to young writers though. I was speaking to an editor yesterday who agreed interiority has largely vanished from commercial fiction, and I think you increasingly notice its absence even in works shelved as “literary fiction.” When interiority does appear on the page, it is often brief and redundant with the dialogue and action. All of this is a great shame. Interiority is perhaps the prime example of an advantage prose as a medium holds over other artforms.

fascinated by this article, "Turning Off the TV in Your Mind," about the influences of visual narratives on writing prose narratives. i def notice the two things i excerpted above in fanfic, which i guess makes even more sense as most of the fic i read is for tv and film. i will also be thinking about its discussion of time in prose - i think that's something i often struggle with and i will try to be more conscious of the differences between screen and page next time i'm writing.

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vash + close combat

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i just do whatever @dave-bimmel wants me to so now im watching this

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my favorite romance trope is like. you dont want to hurt me but i am asking you to hurt me. i need you to stab me. i need you to hit me. i need you to carve this out of me. i need you to cut something off of me. this will hurt both of us in incredible ways. yours are the only hands i trust enough to weild this knife. you do not want to hurt me. i am asking you to hurt me.

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