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I’ve been laughing at this picture for like 5 minutes I love cats

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image i am in love with

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inspired by a friend misspeaking

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What is this? A crossover episode???

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presented without comment

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Reblog if you ship the world’s top two sexiest women! 👑🌹

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Hello, Dear Chasers, Dorkin's, Keys and all inbetweens With the approaching release of Cinderella Boy S2, a few of us within the community have come together and decided to make a fanzine to be released upon Season 2's release date!

"Zinederella Boy" aims to celebrate all the wonderfully creative people within this amazing fandom, and to show of many of the stunning pieces that you've all shared! So we'd love to see your submissions!

But how do you actually submit, Theus? I heard you say! Well, there's two ways!

For new works, just post them on here on Tumblr with the appropriate hashtags mentioned in the outro! Make sure you include your character hashtag and medium hashtag!

For existing works, go back and edit the appropriate hashtags in!

Now, as I'm the one collecting the Tumblr submissions, I ask you to leave a single comment with your submissions in under this post, with your favourite must get in post at the top! You'll only have three submissions places you can make, so choose wisely what you submit!

Be aware that only your top option may be used depending on the amount of submissions we get!

The Zine will be published both on Punko's patreon Server and then its own website for non patreon users!

Oh boy, the rules and conditions! Lets make them quick! Please make sure to follow them to be considered into the submissions.

Posting works under this tag gives us permission to use your work in the Zine, so only use the tag in your final pieces

This Zine will be non commercial use only, so no money will be made off this, especially as we don't own Cinderella Boy.

Three submissions per person, please!

Make sure your piece submitted is appropriate for teens, that means no NSFW submissions or gore, no upfront mentions of drugs and such.

The deadline for possible submission is the 18th May so make sure you get your submissions in before then!

Now that we've gone over everything, here are the tags you'll need for your submissions! Again, make sure you use the appropriate tags, including your character tags and media tags (For example, a fanfiction about Stargoth would have the tags for Chase, Nox and Fanfictions!

Submission Tag:

#ZinderellaBoy25

Media Tags:

For Fanfictions Submissions: #ZinederellaBoy25Fics

For Art Submissions: #ZinderellaBoy25Art

For Edit Submissions: #ZinderellaBoy25Edits

For Other Creative Submissions : #ZinderellaBoy25CS

Character Tags

Chase: #Zinderella25Chase

Nox #ZinderellaBoy25Nox

Deacon #ZinderellaBoy25Deacon

Prunella #ZinderellaBoy25Prunella

The Keys #ZinderellaBoy25Keys

Original Characters #ZinderellaBoy25OCs

Other Characters #ZinderellaBoy25Others

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the aftermath.

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crawled out of my grave to post student council stargoth. hi

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You’re not beating the “vampire” allegations, Buddy… 😒

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Requiem arc tarot cards, based on the Rider Waite deck. Maybe I can finish all of the major arcana before the heat death of the universe?

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ngl this is probably the hardest I’ve laughed this year so far

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What is the “Law of Opposing Powers” and how can it level up your scenes?

Writing can be a really tough nut to crack. Readers should find every single scene interesting and be glued till the end, and let’s be honest—that’s not an easy thing to do.

With the rise of TikTok—to be honest, I don't know if we can blame TikTok or not, but since it’s banned in my country, it’s fun—readers need something interesting all the damn time. Like, you can't have a scene where your characters are just messing around, y’know. You need to move the story forward, or at least present a sort of conflict to the readers.

The readers should always have something to look forward to as the scene plays out. Is it because of their low attention span? Or, were the readers always like that? I don't really have an answer to that question. But, like I said, blaming TikTok is fun, so that’s all I’m gonna say.

Anyway, how do you solve this issue? How do you make sure each scene keeps your readers glued, even if it doesn't really push the story forward?

The answer to your woes, my friends, is the Law of Opposing Powers. (im sorry the name is so damn cringe but i jus came back from jim what else can u expect?)

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#01. Character versus Character

So, what is this Law of Opposing Powers?

It’s simple, actually: you just need to have opposite powers at play in your scene. Let me explain.

Let’s suppose that there’s a scene where two characters are discussing something. Let’s say… they’ve just had a near-death experience and are discussing how they could have lost their lives in it. The scene is set; how do you make it interesting now?

One direct way is that you might let your characters agree on the issue, y’know. All of them say how it was actually really dangerous, and that the consequences would have been deadly. But, this scene won’t really be interesting to the readers.

Give your characters different opinions. Don't let one of them be the yes-man, y’know. Both of your characters should, firstly, have something to add to the discussion, and secondly, should have different opinions. That’s what you call opposing powers.

Let’s say that one of the characters isn’t really all that serious about it. He’s like: alright, we might have lost their lives, whatever. But, however, the other one is dead serious about it, and is trying to explain to him how bad the results could have been. Probably let a third character be completely dismissive; he’s like: ah, what nonsense, we’d have never lost our lives.

Now, you have opposite powers in your scene. Now your scene is ready to be written and presented to the readers.

This discussion might not push the story forward in a literal sense, y’know, but it has a really important part to play: showing a part of each character. This law, therefore, also helps you show differences between your characters and their attitudes.

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#02. Setting

However, as you would have guessed, it’s not always possible. You can’t let your characters argue with each other all the damn time, y’know. That just doesn't make sense. And what if the characters in question are good friends, or have similar attitudes? What do you do then?

Well, guys, this is where I show you another application of my law of opposing powers.

The thing is: the opposing powers shouldn't have to be your characters’ opinions all the damn time. You can add something more.

For example, let’s suppose your character is in enemy territory. They wanna penetrate deeper inside, but don't know how to. Here’s another pair of opposing powers: your character and their setting.

Yeah, your setting can act as an opposing power too. A scene where the character is struggling—or not struggling, doesn't matter—to know more about the setting means that the setting is a power they need to overcome, y’know. This is how most adventure-fantasy stories remain interesting—exploring the settings plays an important part in these stories.

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#03. An Easier Way

Well, if you’ve grasped the concept—which I believe most of my students must have by now—you might be wondering how you are even gonna use it. It seems like it’s a tough nut to crack, right? To think about a scene so damn much…

But it doesn't have to be this tough. It doesn't have to be this draining. While writing this blog, I realized that there’s another way that I can use to teach you the Law of Opposing Powers. And that’s through conflict.

Now, stay with me here. I think you all must know what a conflict is, but if you don't, let’s go back to the basics. How do you create a character-arc? You give them a goal, a motive, and a conflict. You can also give your characters several goals, motives, and definitely many conflicts, but for simplicity, let’s assume we give our character just a single goal, a single motive to achieve it, and a single conflict.

Now, what’s a conflict? It’s the opposing power—something that’s stopping your character from achieving their goal. But, it’s a macro-level thing—you unfold the characters’ conflict through several scenes and acts, not just a single one.

For this, I’d urge you to give each scene a micro-level conflict. It doesn't really exist—I made this up. A micro-level conflict is a conflict that resolves within the said scene.

You can see the difference between the characters’ opinions as a micro-level conflict for your main character. Or even exploring a setting can act as one.

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#04. Application

You might feel that it’s still a tough thing to implement in your writing. And you’re right: adding a micro-level conflict in each scene might be tough. But, if you wanna make it easier, I can give you a little trick.

For each scene, ask yourself what the purpose of the scene is. Why is the scene here? What’s it doing?

Knowing the purpose of your scene can really help bring forward the opposing powers that your scene may hold. Now, all you have to do now is to polish them and make them shine. Easy peasy.

And, if your scene doesn't have a purpose, give it one. Before beginning each scene, you can just define what you want out of this scene. How it’s gonna end. Defining all that would really level up your writing.

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#05. Conclusion

I hope the Law of Opposing Powers would help you guys in your writing. I came up with this idea when I was discussing about writing with a friend of mine.

Man, discussions about writing with other writers can really help you gain some insights, y’know. Even I don't know how I reached this idea—I just did. And probably this is the magic of talking about writing.

That’s why I’d never stop yapping about writing.

Anyway, that’s it from my side. See you guys later!