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unavoidable that you will be the villain in someone else's story. You will be painted in an unfavorable light. You will be the irredeemable one. and all of this will happen despite how nice you might usually be or how kind or how respectful or how warm. and you will just have to move on.

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Rumor Has It

“It has come to my attention that there is a rumor circulating throughout the school regarding my relationship with Miss Higurashi.”

There was a murmur from the crowd. Kagome ducked her head, willing herself not to blush from embarrassment.

“If you are aware of this rumor, please raise your hand,” Sesshomaru instructed the students.

Nearly every one of them raised a hand.

“Very well. It seems you have all heard the same story. It is my responsibility as your teacher to set the record straight.”

Kagome held her breath.

“The rumor is true. Miss Higurashi and I are dating.”

During the school assembly, Mr. Taisho addresses the rumor that he and Miss Higurashi are dating.

Read it on A03, Dokuga, and FFnet

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Untitled by Pas (paxiti), on May 23, 2018

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Sleep not, dream not.

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You can start over anytime.

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its rude to reblog things from people you arent mutuals with fyi. :/

💀 my brother in christopher

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En lo que termino el garabato del que subí un avance a Twitter, aquí un lineart/crossover que difícilmente pintaré. 🤣 Porque nunca puede faltar el respectivo crossover entre mi anime favorito y la serie que este viendo en el momento. 😎

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¡Yo! Por fin pude sentarme a terminar ésto hoy, así que dejaré por acá el resultado final del lineart que subí a Twitter. Espero les guste. 🤗💖

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yes

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"people show their true colours in life threatening situations" no, they show you what they act like when they're mortally terrified, an emotion notorious for literally turning your entire brain off to the point where people who go into those situations as a profession need to be literally trained on how to not have that happen

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We're back for our second annual Kikyo Weekend, dedicated to celebrating our tragic and elegant priestess.

This event will take place May 3rd - 5th.

The prompts for this year's 2024 event will be:

May 3rd: Rouge

Historically, rouge has been a color associated with youth and vigor, communicating innocence, acquiescence, and vitality; good luck and happiness; innocence of youth.

May 4th: Bow and Arrow

The bow and arrow are a reflection of life's journey, signifying direction, personal growth, and the relentless pursuit of goals; it symbolizes moving forward, new adventures, and curiosity; struggle and triumph.

May 5th: White Ribbon

White ribbons often show a need for simplicity and purity in life, especially since its often tied to trying to wipe out past trauma and cutting ties with the past; for someone who likes the job well done, who doesn't like clutter; purity of the soul.

These prompts are not required, but are there to assist in the creative process. Please feel free to submit anything related to Kikyo during this weekend. We'd love to see it!

The tag for this event will be #kikyo-weekend! Please use this tag for your works, be it fanfiction, artworks, edits, etc, or tag this blog, @kikyo-weekend.

For any questions, overall ideas, or suggestions, don’t hesitate to send a message here on this account or the channel on the FC discord

Let’s all have some fun celebrating this beautiful shrine priestess!

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Invisible Battles

I was listening to this song (by Carolina Rial), and it hit closer to home than I thought.

Everyone has something they're fighting. Something that can't be seen by others, something they're hiding from most people, if not everyone.

Everyone's coping mechanisms as different. Creativity is an outlet, and there are so many ways of expressing ourselves that allow us to create a world that is better. Even for a moment, it is better.

So when someone comes in and shits all over it, it causes a strain. Correcting the grammar on a person's very first story or disagreeing with a colour palette because you haven't taken that extra second to understand how much work went into makes you a terrible person.

End. Of. Sentence.

Are some of us looking to cultivate our creative experience by asking for advice or feedback, of course! But you have to wait for us to ask. Most of us are just looking for a good time. For someone to acknowledge our hard work, and tell us creating this thing was worth it. That someone likes it.

Does that make us shallow? Maybe. But look me in the eyes and tell me you've never done something solely for the sake of feeling better about yourself. Most jobs don't allow us this outlet, which is why we come home and seek it out. How many times have you seen kids go onto reality shows and talk about how the only reason they're alive is because of music, or dance, or something else artistic?

Cultivating our creative experience, whether it's inside a fandom or not, is up to us. So stop telling people you don't like the way they're portraying a character. Stop commenting on people's grammar when it's their first or second or tenth story and they haven't asked for it. Stop forcing people to stop creating because they don't adhere to your personal view and preferences.

Don't like? Don't read, don't comment, don't subscribe, just don't. Ignore, scroll past, and find something you do like, and blow up their comment section about your favourite part of it. Creativity saves lives. Stop squandering it. Stop discouraging it. Curate your own experience by building people up so they continue to create and give you more of what you love.

If your day doesn't include making someone smile, you're doing it wrong.

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For week 3 of @kagomes-hanakotobamatsuri- fertility and abundance

I kept the baby’s features vague so there’s no specific pairing 😉

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Pros and Cons of Different Points Of View

Objective Point Of View

“With the objective point of view, the writer tells what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story’s action and dialogue. The narrator never discloses anything about what the characters think or feel, remaining a detached observer.”

Pros

Adds a potentially useful suspense to the events of the story, as the reader cannot predict as easily what will happen next based on the characters’ internal thoughts.

More direct with the events and description of elements of the story, such as setting and the rate at which time passes in the story, which can be muddled in stories in points of view like third person, where these details can be overshadowed by descriptions of thoughts, feelings, backstory, etc.

Descriptions can come across more fluidly and make the actual images and scenes visualize more easily in the readers head. It is the closest point of view to a movie, as films don’t typically focus on what the audience is explicitly being told, but what they see and what they can deduce from the images in front of them.

Cons

This point of view can be more difficult to relate to as readers, due to the story being told and described in a more detached way, rather than being pulled into the story in a way that makes them feel like a character themselves.

You have to really utilize subtext and context with this perspective. You can’t convey the story’s tone through any of the characters’ thoughts or feelings, so you have to rely completely on the pure course of events to tell the story and grip the reader emotionally.

This makes it really hard to connect to the characters and understand their motivations unless the reader is looking really deep into the context and reading between the lines.

Third Person Point Of View

“Here the narrator does not participate in the action of the story as one of the characters, but lets us know exactly how the characters feel. We learn about the characters through this outside voice.”

Pros

This is pretty much exactly like first person narration, but with different pronouns. Instead of “I walked to the store” it’s “he walked to the store” and eliminates the reader’s potential skepticism of the narrator’s reliability while still telling the story in the same words.

You have the potential to divulge more about what other characters are thinking or doing at any point in time because you’re not technically limited to one character.

It’s a pleasing way of telling a story. It doesn’t take too much analysis for the reader to imagine how the perspective could be tainted by emotion in some way. It doesn’t require too much brain power to read. It flows nicely.

Cons

This isn’t as much a con as it is a warning. Your characters need to be rounded and diverse if you’re going to write a story in third person. If they all share the same characteristics and motivations and emotions, your story will fall flat super fast.

Third person has a viewpoint character, typically. If you want to be able to tell whatever you want about whomever you want, then you need an omniscient point of view. Third person usually focuses on a main character and occasionally shares about other characters when it serves the story.

Second Person Point Of View

“Second person is a point of view (how a story is told) where the narrator tells the story to another character using the word ‘you.’ The author could be talking to the audience, which we could tell by the use of ‘you,’ 'you’re,’ and 'your.'”

Pros

Your reader feels what you write so much more intensely, because you’re referring to them specifically. It’s a reader insert point of view. You’re speaking directly to them. 

Action and romance are really good genres for this, I imagine, because those are stories where readers often put themselves in the place of the protagonist anyway, so second person would amplify that to your advantage.

There works so well when it’s done correctly, and if you take the time to practice with it and master the pacing and what really makes a reader tick in second person point of view, it will grab that reader and pull them very, very quickly.

Cons

You usually have to be really really vague about descriptions. If your reader doesn’t have blonde hair and hazel eyes, but your character does, this will really put a damper on their experience because every time you describe how their blonde hair blows in the wind, they’ll detach from the story.

Sometimes your reader may feel confused because second person is a very hard point of view to read about at first. It takes some time to get used to. A lot of fanfiction (mainly reader-insert) is second person point of view and I’ll be the (not) first to say that it took so time to adjust to, at least for me.

First Person Point Of View

“In the first person point of view, the narrator does participate in the action of the story. When reading stories in the first person, we need to realize that what the narrator is recounting might not be the objective truth. We should question the trustworthiness of the accounting.”

Pros

Is not limited to the point of view of the main character, as displayed in books such as The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

A certain connection between the reader and the character can create a sense of authenticity and intimacy between the reader and the story as a whole.

The themes and motives behind the story can become easier to decode, as they are disclosed in a more clear and direct manner.

The character can be easier to understand and relate to, as everything is being told by them, with their bias and interpretation included.

It puts the reader inside of the story rather than having them watch from the outside. The intimate details and description can make put them in a position to experience the story from inside and therefore make the story mirror their reality in a way.

Cons

It may become difficult for the reader to differentiate who is speaking to them in the story, as many sentences will begin with “I” or “we” and create a repetitive narration and lose the reader alone the way.

The reader may become bored with hearing the story from only one’s perspective. The style in which the story is told {the adjectives, the themes, the personality} may not vary enough to keep them entertained. 

Imagery can be difficult to pull off in this point of view because the writer may get into the habit of telling the reader what is happening instead of showing them through smooth interjections of descriptive vocabulary. 

The writer may experience a dependence on dialogue to try to compensate for lack of description of events, and the reader may lose track of story details that may become imperative to events later in the scene/story.

This makes it a lot easier to pull an “unreliable narrator”, as first person is only the perspective of a person, rather than the story told from a purely factual position.

Omniscient & Limited Omniscient Points of View

“A narrator who knows everything about all the characters is all knowing, or omniscient. A narrator whose knowledge is limited to one character, either major or minor, has a limited omniscient point of view.”

Pros

This makes it really easy to include details about many characters that you wouldn’t be able to from the perspective of a single person.

You are writing as yourself. You are the author, you have all the information to give the reader, and you get to give it in the least convoluted way you could ever desire, and in your own words. In any other point of view, you are pretending to be somebody else, even in third person, so this allows you to really demonstrate your unique voice as a writer and express your own style.

You can write fast paced scenes without the reader questioning what an individual character is feeling all the time. You can slip in whatever information you want at whatever point you wish and it just sounds natural to the reader.

Cons

Plot twists are ten times more difficult because there’s no reason why anything would be a surprise. Your reader technically has access to all information and foreshadowing required to predict what will happen next, so if you’re planning a big surprise, prepare for a challenge delivering it.

Keeping the focus on one subject is more important when you’re writing for younger, less experienced readers. You have to have a protagonist and a linear story for them to follow, which can be tricky with omniscient point of view. It’s important to keep your audience in mind if you’re going to choose any point of view, but especially this one.

These pros and cons are subjective, depending on what you are intending to convey in your story. Please consider this with a grain of salt and take the detail and unique qualities of your own work into account when using this resource. Not all pros and cons in this piece will apply the same to every story, and that is something to keep in mind. I hope this will be useful to you all. Cheers! 

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