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Toby if it where any other publisher I would have ran away

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I want to write a book called “your character dies in the woods” that details all the pitfalls and dangers of being out on the road & in the wild for people without outdoors/wilderness experience bc I cannot keep reading narratives brush over life threatening conditions like nothing is happening.

I just read a book by one of my favorite authors whose plots are essentially airtight, but the MC was walking on a country road on a cold winter night and she was knocked down and fell into a drainage ditch covered in ice, broke through and got covered in icy mud and water.

Then she had a “miserable” 3 more miles to walk to the inn.

Babes she would not MAKE it to that inn.

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"Three HEROES appear at WORLDS' edge. A HUMAN, A MONSTER, And a PRINCE FROM THE DARK. Only they can seal the fountains and banish the ANGEL'S HEAVEN."

Happy Deltarune Chapter 3+4 release day!

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Night of the Final Day

-12 Hours Remain-

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....its probably better not to ask where she got the axe-

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Thinking about Deltarune again (I'm in a bit of a rush to get as much done as I can in Chapters 1 and 2 before 3 and 4 drop in two days), and I had a bit of an interesting thought about Kris as I was waking up.

Deltarune Chapter 2 spoilers below the cut--

There's three different entities sharing Kris' body:

The original Kris, the one that everyone tells stories of being a bit of a little shit.

The Knight, that tears out the soul and creates the dark fountains with their blade.

The player, who we control throughout most of the game.

I honestly think that, despite not being in control, there's still small bits where Kris either shows a bit of control over their actions or does things involuntarily, such as:

Protecting Susie from the King just as she was about to be attacked

Straining with some choices made by the player (or just stopping them from examining particular things outright)

Their reaction after the normal route Spamton Neo fight

Them being distraught after reuniting with the rest of the party in the weird route

The Knight is the one that we see in control of Kris when they rip the soul out of Kris' body, and what makes me think this isn't the original Kris is that slashing Toriel's tires seems… particularly malicious. At most, I take Kris as a mischievous little shit, not the sort to do things like that.

I'm going off the assumption that the Knight is in Kris' body because after both cutscenes where they have the knife, another dark fountain appears. Before the end of Chapter 1, the computer lab is occupied by a dog, but after we get yeeted from Kris's body and Chapter 2 begins, it's suddenly a dark world entrance. Plus we literally saw a fourth fountain be created at the end of Chapter 2. Who's to say that the Knight didn't sneak out and create the fountain in the computer room, and devour the pie either before or after?

But we'll probably find out more in the upcoming chapters, so I am fully prepared (and expecting) to have this silly little idea absolutely turned into swiss cheese by lore and info drops in 48.75 hours.

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[Tweet from @/fozmeadows: "human gender and sexuality are very much like animal taxonomy, in that both look structured and simple on the surface, but once you start investigating, it turns out there's actually no such thing as a fish despite the fact that we all know what a fish is, and that's okay"]

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The most important writing lesson I ever learned was not in a screenwriting class, but a fiction class.

This was senior year of college.  Most of us had already been accepted into grad school of some sort. We felt powerful, we felt talented, and most of all, we felt artistic.

It was the advanced fiction workshop, and we did an entire round of workshops with everyone’s best stories, their most advanced work, their most polished pieces. It was very technical and, most of all, very artistic.

IE: They were boring pieces of pretentious crap.

Now the teacher was either a genius OR was tired of our shit, and decided to give us a challenge.  Flash fiction, he said. Write something as quickly as possible.  Make it stupid.  Make it not mean a thing, just be a quick little blast of words. 

And, of course, we all got stupid.  Little one and two pages of prose without the barriers that it must be good. Little flashes of characters, little bits of scenarios.

And they were electric.  All of them. So interesting, so vivid, not held back by the need to write important things or artistic things. 

One sticks in my mind even today.  The guys original piece was a thinky, thoughtful piece relating the breaking up of threesomes to volcanoes and uncontrolled eruptions that was just annoying to read. But his flash fiction was this three page bit about a homeless man who stole a truck full of coca cola and had to bribe people to drink the soda so he could return the cans to recycling so he could afford one night with the prostitute he loved.

It was funny, it was heartfelt, and it was so, so, so well written.

And just that one little bit of advice, the write something short and stupid, changed a ton of people’s writing styles for the better.

It was amazing. So go.  Go write something small.  Go write something that’s not artistic.  Go write something stupid. Go have fun.

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hi im not dead and i also had to upload the lower quality version so tumblr wouldnt take a dump on me BOOOOO THUMBS DOWN anyways. pokemon :)

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This was in Sioux Falls South Dakota! The green sky is caused by large hail stones within the storm refracting back green light to the observer.

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let's scale the mountain with mama

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Today's Doonesbury cartoon.

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The full thing for anyone who wants it!