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Elaborate in the tags, maybe even link your fic if you're able to! I like seeing what people's driving force to write fic is, because it always seems to be different depending on who you ask.

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The longer I exist as a loudly proudly gay man the more I think that cishet men aren't actually attracted to women.

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If you see this post you’re legally required to tell me at least one trans woman headcanons you have for a canonically male character, I never get to see transfem headcanons like that, give me them, and for equality of my own please know estrogen could have saved Insector Haga and Dinosaur Ryuzaki I will not elaborate, also Yuya.

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there are people in the notes of the teacher crush poll just casually confessing to some of the most psychologically fascinating shit imaginable like it's completely normal to say. got somebody in there saying they never had a crush on a teacher because they automatically hate literally any woman old enough to be their mother. hello.

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you have to be fucking kidding me

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Hello ladies I am dropping another fnv meme like im dropping my shits

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Rewatching Treasure Planet (great movie, watch it) made realize something about the way that stories convey information to their audiences. There's been a lot of discussion on the overuse of plot twists and how many stories prioritise surprising their audience over telling decent stories. However, if you instead reveal the "twist" to the audience before it becomes known to the characters, you can build tension and stakes. Treasure Planet comes right out and tells you that Long John Silver is the main villain almost immediately after his introduction (And even before he's introduced we're warned about a cyborg, so you'd have to be pretty dense to not put 2 and 2 together and realize he's a bad guy). So when the audience watches him and Jim bond and grow closer, it builds tension for when Jim finds out and it highlights the tragedy of their friendship, because we all know it's not going to end well. Then, after the truth is revealed, stakes are created because we want the friendship between Jim and Silver to be repaired, because we know it was real, but we don't know if can be after what Silver's done. And all of this would have been lost if Silver's true nature had been a cheap plot twist. The tragedy would be completely overshadowed by the surprise and betrayal, and any investment in their relationship would have been built on the false impression that Silver was a good guy.

Another good example of this is Titanic. Even if you were somehow ignorant of the ship's sinking, the film makes sure you know that it sank with its framing device of Old Rose telling her story to people salvaging the Titanic's wreak. And Titanic's plot structure could only possibly work if you know the ship is going to sink. I'm not just talking about building tension, tragedy, and stakes for the characters like with the above example, I mean that if you didn't know that the Titanic was going down walking into the film, the abrupt shift from romance to suspense-disaster would be an increadibly tough pill to swallow. But it works because we expect it. You don't walk into a film called Titanic without expecting the damn boat to sink.

However, the sad thing about both of these examples, is that despite all the benefits that came from telling the audience these things ahead of time, I think the main reason the creators didn't make them plot twists was because they couldn't have. Treasure Island is the single most influential piece of pirate media out there, and you'd have to have been living under a rock for over a century to not know the Titanic sank. So, the writers had to work around the fact that these important turning points in the narratives were common knowledge, and they wound creating incredible stories as a consequence.

I want to see more of this style of writing in stories where the writers aren't forced to do it. We've clearly seen that you can tell some really damn good stories by giving information to the audience before the characters learn it, and I just wish more works would do that instead of trying to surprise people with shocking twists.

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absolutely love abusing the power that comes with 3rd person limited pov and just ignoring things and being vague sometimes. does the character know all the details? no? then I don't have to either.

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a lot of artists dont know how to draw bullets and to be real it bothers me a lot. here's my simple guide on bullets

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what on earth happened when annihilation was being adapted to a movie. the themes are all still there but the plot is completely jumbled around. kinda fitting in its own way

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THE PLAYER'S RESPONSE TO THE ARCHITECT - A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Fic

“I’ve given you the knowledge. I’ve set you free. Do you understand?” (A) SAY SOMETHING ⵄ (B) KISS COLIN

Part 1 is live! If you miss watching Bandersnatch on Netflix, I hope this can fill the void a little bit. Let me know what endings you get! Stay tuned for Part 2!

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As part of her social media detox this girl on YouTube made herself do one hour of understimulating tasks every day and she just counted rice for 60 minutes straight because its no different from doomscrolling in terms of wasted time

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the horrors persist but my friends write beautiful fanfic

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maybe i was made for loving things. maybe that's what life is all about.

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you and me are going to outlive this website. you and me are going to outlive everything. one day it will just be you and me