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oh my god bruh

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"Life is a burden and I resent my flesh" from this tiktok

a mood

join the stream here, i'm writing live

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shakespeare was ahead of his time

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All my haters become aligators when I activate my gatorinator.

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Men will date a convicted embezzler and say "all women are gold diggers"

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May I offer Cyberverse Roddy in this trying time

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God sent an angel down and her name is U-BLOCK ORIGIN and she has protected me ten million times. She says its not enough its only 31% but i need her to know she is everything to me.

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this is going to be controversial but someone has to say it:

i don't knuow

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My new Bit is going to be using the word "fortnight" to refer to two weeks in both casual conversations with strangers and within professional contexts. "Yeah I'll probably be able to get back to you within a fortnight or so" exquisite

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look at this horrible creature

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PRESS Ⓐ TO BE WEIRD AND UNSETTLING

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um................... can i help you

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storytelling rule 1: contradiction

Everybody knows that a character has to have conflict to be interesting. I have become disenchanted with the use of the word "conflict" in storytelling. Some conflicts in stories are better described using words like: movement, transformation, or even decay. My favorite concept of conflict within a character is contradiction.

I made a rule for myself that, no matter how small a character's role in the story is, even if they exist for only one sentence, they must contain an element of contradiction.

Viewing a character from the outside, their internal state can't be known, so this contradiction often takes place in the mind of the POV character, or even in the mind of the reader, rather than necessarily being inherently part of the character.

Tropes and stereotypes are deeply related, overlapping things, in fact almost the same thing. As background characters populate the background of a story, they become sorted into recognizable forms: bratty children, air-headed teenage girls, sweet old ladies. As we traverse the world around us, a similar process occurs where we understand the people we encounter according to categories.

We can't know very much about a stranger, so they aren't complex to us, they are simple. This simplicity can take away the humanity of people, deprive them of value, and lead to treating them badly. That is the harmful action of stereotypes.

I noticed that many writers evoke the reader's feelings and attitudes using stereotypes. If a character is fat or ugly, the story is shaped so that we are meant to dislike them; if a character has some foreign characteristic, we are supposed to fear them. It's mean-spirited, and a betrayal of the purpose of literature. Literature illuminates humanity; to use a stereotype to strengthen a response of disgust or fear is the opposite of illumination. Stereotypes simplify and obscure humanity.

The rule of contradiction means that each character must change the reader's perception of them. Even within a single sentence, the reader's understanding must break into two parts: an initial impression, and a deep and fundamental change to that impression. The reader's first picturing of the character and their second picturing of the character must be incompatible. Contradiction.

For example, let's say I mention a character who is a little old lady. The reader pictures a trope or a stereotype. How can I contradict that first picture? I can say that she is carrying a large python. I can say she is wearing thigh-high leather boots and a jacket with spikes. I can say that she is covered in mud and twigs, or that she is reading a book about penguins, or that she has a gun holstered at her hip. Even if she only exists in the story for one sentence, I can communicate that she is fully human and has complexity.

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always abide by the golden rule of fandom. talk shit in private and ignore things you dont like in public.