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Between the later acts of Wandersong and already two chapters in to Chicory, I have one thing to say: I want to see Greg Lebanov make a full-on horror game.

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Ow ow ow ow OW OW OW

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Hi, I needed to hear this.

Writing Advice #4

Some of y’all are sitting on genuinely good story ideas and trashing them because “it’s not complex enough.” Because it doesn’t have a twist ending or a spreadsheet full of plot threads.

But Simple isn’t the enemy. Boring is, and a story is only boring when it forgets to FEEL.

We have been emotionally devastated by stories with the barest bones of a plot, something like “Boy and dog become friends. Then sad happens.” Or “Boy meets girl. They hold pinkies under the table.” Tears. “Stranger gives someone a sandwich.” Existential crisis.

It’s not about complexity, not really guys, it’s about impact.

Simple stories give your characters room to be human, they give your readers room to care. They don’t bury the heart under eight subplots and a riddle only your Reddit fandom can decode. You don’t need a chosen one and a revolution to earn a reader’s tears (I promise). You just need something that matters.

So please stop apologizing because your story is “just” about a guy who’s been writing love letters to someone he thought was dead.

That’s not “just.” That’s everything.

And if anyone tells you it’s not enough? Write it anyway, and go tell them to fuck off.

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Reblog if your art project has not, does not, and never will make use of generative ai at any point in your creative process.

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Video of a kitten at a vet’s office protesting loudly as it’s scooped from the floor. Another kitten turns around the corner and walks up to the camera, also protesting loudly for its friend. From here.

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Once again, the difference between liking and respecting something.

Tumblr is super big on the "I didn't say it was good, I said I liked it" but really need to discover the value in its opposite of "I didn't say it was bad, I said I hated it".

You can acknowledge that something is good, great, a masterpiece even, and just straight-up not enjoy it.

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Woah mama hating on fat people is a shitty thing to do by the way

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im gods weakest faggot

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Now is the time to stay engaged. Stand together with your neighbors. Expand your solidarity.

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you're the only one who understands me mr strobbery

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"im okay with gay and trans people i just don't wanna see it or hear about it" perchance that may be a sign that you are..... not... okay with it?

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And that's that on that.

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My oathbreaker paladin, Wilkin, broke his oath in more or less a crisis of faith. He was groomed by a zealot group into a soldier of Torm and basically whenever he questioned why the enemy was their enemy, he was told to pray about it and shut up, and of course got no answers. Then on the battlefield he encountered an opponent whom he saw himself in, and just couldn’t bring himself to kill him, which broke his oath (oath of vengeance).

He’s in Barovia now, struggling to figure out his identity without a higher power giving orders and getting increasingly afraid of this festering necromantic power he’s suddenly learning.

This is him btw. I love my boy.

i'm just so passionate about nontraditional paladins

paladins of atypical gods. a paladin of the god of storms whose divine smite is a literal bolt of lightning from the heavens. a paladin of one of the gods of death who seems scary but just wants the dead to receive justice and comfort.

a paladin of one of the "darker" gods who sees themselves as responsible for those that other paladins wouldn't protect— those who are lost, those who maybe aren't innocent but who deserve compassion all the same.

hell, there's a god of thieves (and theyre chaotic neutral)! what does a paladin of the god of thieves look like— how do you have a stalwart defender of a group defined by its secrecy and fluidity? what are they defending— the right of thieves to exist? the value of individual moral codes over societal laws? the honor code of thieves? maybe they strike down "false" thieves, those in it for greed with no respect for the art of theft or the standards respected by other thieves.

and then there's oathbreaker paladins. i just think there are so many more interesting reasons to break an oath than "i didn't want to be good and help people anymore."

give me an oathbreaker paladin whose god commanded them to do something against their morals. who is now branded as a traitor to their god when really it's their god who betrayed them.

give me an oath of vengeance paladin who is tired, not as angry as they once were, and sick of bloodshed. who breaks their oath by sparing an enemy.

give me a paladin whose oath is noble but who is frustrated with the moral absolutism of it. who is sick of their power being dangled over their head, able to be taken away at the slightest mistake. a disciple of ilmater who has been told too many times to bear the suffering of others and for once wants to be cared for. a disciple of the god of fate, sick of being told that theirs and others' suffering is inevitable and unchangeable.

i don't know man just. nontraditional paladins.

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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No transphobes allowed, only transborbs.

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