#Consistent Pacing

[allnovellas]

Keeping the Beat: How to Maintain Consistent Pacing in Your Story

In storytelling, pacing is like the heartbeat of your narrative, providing rhythm and timing to your story’s unfolding events. It controls the speed at which your story progresses and influences how engaged your readers are throughout your narrative. However, maintaining consistent pacing can be a challenging task for many writers. This guide will provide insights and practical techniques on how…

[emmathompsonegot]

Finishing the recent seasons of ofmd and wwdits makes me appreciate Harley Quinn SO much more. Everyone ever should watch Harley Quinn

[bacchuschucklefuck]

class swap design masterpost for convenience (from top to bottom: bard!riz, cleric!gorgug, sorcerer!kristen, barbarian!fig, artificer!adaine, and rogue!fabian)

[mttonex]

redraw again 😁

[pastafossa]

I have thoughts about tonight's Born Again ep that I'll post in a bit, but first, a comment on pacing.

Daredevil S1's pacing was a well organized meal, with the perfect amount of time between courses.

Daredevil S2's pacing was a line of coke we snorted off the table before sprinting around the room naked.

Defenders' pacing was when we ran out real quick to throw up in the dumpster before coming back in.

Daredevil S3's pacing was some slower recovery time followed by some excellent, excellent comfort food to bring us back to a good place.

And Daredevil: Born Again's pacing so far has been us getting through a couple meals fairly normally but in between we'd sometimes lick the remaining cocaine off the tablecloth when we thought people weren't looking and then vibrated in our seat like an angry hive of bees for a bit.

[maybe-boys-do-love]

and thus, thamepo goes down as one of the best BLs in the history of the genre. not a single note.

[warmsol]

i love taking my time. i love working slowly. i love creating things at my own pace

[essektheylyss]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Midst is a perfectly-paced show. I know the story arcs are largely outlined, but it is actually astounding how flawless the pacing is given the improv aspect. It's clearly created by people who understand on an intrinsic level when and how plot points need to land in order for it to flow smoothly. Absolute chef's kiss, infinity/10, perfect pacing, no notes because I am in fact taking notes.

[piowasthere]

(I know I don’t really ask for drawings but I want to because I feel like trash and I know I’m going to have a bad day today)

Can you draw me giving a flower to Solar and kissing his forehead? He deserves all the love in the universe right now

hope u'll feel better <3

have these 2 doodles i speedran for u,

[mizzskelter]

I'm not dead! (Somehow)

I swear this fandom is way bigger than last I remember, but it’s different and yet still the same crazy talented bunch in a lot of ways.

Unlike how it’s been so long I forgot how to draw my own damn PC. It’s been what? A year. Over? Yet much like a circle of hell I keep returning to this town, this game in my restless dreams. 

All seriousness though I had to focus on my studies first before some financial difficulties hit. Then my mental health was on the decline—and now I realize I could fill this whole desc with ‘and then’s. A lot of I don’t even know how many months anymore were just rapid fire problems.

Ironically, it took an experience within the fandom I wish happened differently or really never at all made me start drawing DoL content again, I guess to reclaim my PC in a way. Funny how that works.

Welp, I won’t keep anyone reading this rambling much longer when you probably came here for some art, and don’t worry I plan to keep on drawing. It’s one of the only things I really can do right-kinda-maybe.

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

Idk I just love fantasy books with weird pacing

[monabee-draws]

There are too many things to say about Act 3 but one truth is that Episode 7 is the best episode in the season. And I mean in terms of a complete, narrative arc in one episode. There are plenty of absolutely perfect scenes and moments in other episodes (Isha's scene in ep 6, Jayce and Viktor's final reconcilliation) but wow was 7 the best written episode overall.

The Ekko/Heimer plot:

- Explores the beauty of a world entirely uncorrupted by the Hextech dream because this Powder chose to close the power away in a drawer.

- We watch Heimerdinger see the fruit of what his work might have done if he didn't dig his head in the sand for decades. It is blissful inaction and lack of compassion that kills. It is the maintenance of the status quo by those who benefit from it that kills. It is the entire false dream of Piltover that kills. And it can be changed, but only if those in power recognise their own hubris.

- Heimerdinger's death foreshadow's Jayce and Viktor's as well. He chooses to 'evaporate' into the Arcane so that the younger generation can try again, and make up for his mistakes. His brand of scientific omniscia did not work, and neither will jayvik's.

- The sister's tragedy persists in every universe. Vi and Jinx never get to be together no matter how perfect things could have gone. Vander warns our Vi that the kids will always follow her lead, and its on her head if things go wrong. Their Vi paid that price for them. She saved Mylo, Claggor, Vander and Powder. But there will always be a loss somewhere. There is no perfect world.

- Powder/Jinx was never going to be happy staying in Zaun and always needed to be free beyond other people's wants for her/their protectiveness/the cycle of violence. This foreshadows her imagined conversation with Silco and her flight at the end of episode 9 (she's alive I'm sorry.)

- Ekko learns to reconcile his vision of freedom with the imperfect nature of his own world (a very necessary lesson for a time traveler), a realisation that also foreshadow's future Viktor's realisation that perfection isn't good actually.

-> overall, this half teaches us Jayce's lesson about the importance and beauty of imperfection, of freedom of will, and going beyond the will of others. It's a perfect microcosm of the story as a whole, and expertly sets up every other character's choices in the end. Not to mention the literal time travel device ends up saving the world. That small imperfection - "That device cannot be" - is what sets everyone free.

For Jayce's story:

- Se see that Viktor's beautiful commune was always a lie, and all of the people he 'healed' were already dead at his hands. Hextech was never going to save anybody. The dream was tainted from the beginning.

- Jayce's resillience and agency grow and recover beyond what we see of him in season 1. He takes real accountability for his actions for the first time. The sheer spread of the consequences contradicts Jayce's insistence that they thought of every countermeasure. This entire sequence destabilises his (and Viktor's) images as gifted scientists whose intellect is equivalent to omniscience. They too are blinded by the same folly of Piltover's elite - their superiority is finally and thoroughly challenged in an indisputable way.

- His injury and leg brace level him with Viktor in a way that is crucial visual language for their later reconcilliation and Jayce's speech about accepting flaws in the finale. The fact that it is his Hextech hammer that breaks his leg is even more important - more evidence of the corruption of their dream, and of violence not being the correct solution.

- The scope of the dead world needed to be explored for us to understand how bad of an apocalypse we risk facing such that Zaun and Piltover cooperating could even be conceivable despite Caitlyn and Ambessa's fascist campaigns tearing the cities apart. The audience needs to have that disbelief suspended, and those scenes achieve that. In-story the cooperation between cities is still unbelievable, but this episode succeeds at making it understandable from a meta-perspective. We know what lies beneath the mask.

-> Overall, this half reinforces the themes of glorious imperfection, but also helps better set the stage for the audience to suspend their disbelief later on. And, it very importantly reminds us that no one character in Arcane has ever or will ever be 'correct' about the best path to move forward. It must always be a collaborative effort, and when we forget that, we forget ourselves, and we doom the world to a twisted vision.

[lucabyte]

very good reread activity: drawing the homestuck trolls from memory (correctly remembered which 5 show up before a5. and vriska.) before i see them in the comic and now i gotta draw the other six now that im sat on page 1 of act 5.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2025: METAL FROM HEAVEN by August Clarke.

This is pitched as For Fans Of GIDEON THE NINTH (by which they mean: ow, and messy lesbians, with a side of immersive worldbuilding) and THE PRINCESS BRIDE (by which they mean: Inigo Montoya and Fantasy Politics). Personally, I would also comp it to ARCANE, for the aesthetics and Loadbearing Mysterious Malleable Resource and class warfare and explicit sex scenes lol.

The titular metal from heaven is ichorite, a weird and versatile substance that's kicking off an industrial revolution. The book opens with the brutal strikebreaking massacre that sets young Marney (our hella dyke--sorry, crawly--MC) on her quest for revenge: She's going to kill the foundry owner who had her entire family of striking workers gunned down. She gets adopted by crawly bandits and becomes a notorious highwayman and prepares for her revenge (because we hate capitalism in this house, and we're working for our Hereafter beyond it).

I loved the prose, I loved the POV fuckery, I loved the worldbuilding and religions and names and community and colors and aesthetics and the ichorite weirdness. I loved the exploration of gender and of grief, of revolutions and of cycles of violence. As soon as I finished, I immediately reread the first paragraph, and holy shit it broke my brain a little (affectionate, astounded).

If you're looking for a messy, raw, tragic, brutal struggle with grief and takedown of capitalism, this might be the book for you--it's definitely not for everybody, but it sure was for me!

[psink]

The overarching plot of both of the spin-off games is quite similar, largely due to Kuusuke being the only character (from the manga) who fits the role of an antagonist. Both games start with setting up Kuusuke as the antagonist who introduces a strange game.

But, as that’d be too simple, it’s revealed that it Wasn’t actually Kuusuke

Kuusuke himself had good intentions all along

And then the final battle is against a 'second' Kusuo

(Though psi battle does all of this better in every way)

[gutterclan]

going to updates once every 2nd week for a bit, combination of turbo depression & some really long updates coming up are making it too hard to keep up weekly, but i am still chipping away