#Narrative Blending

[ancientroyalblood]

Exploring Magical Realism in Literature: Blurring Reality and Fantasy

Within the vast landscape of literature, where words are both colors and brushes, the genre of magical realism emerges as a unique and enchanting tapestry. It’s a genre that possesses the alchemical power to blur the boundaries between reality and fantasy, allowing the extraordinary to dance with the ordinary. In this exploration, we dive into the enchanting realm of magical realism, uncovering…

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

not enough discussion about the gavins' complicated relationship with feminine-coded/beauty products, i don't think.

[novelconcepts]

The more the show progresses, the more I want to see the 90s cast infiltrating the modern timeline. We've gotten hints of it with Shauna and her younger self, her Jackie hauntings. We've gotten a little more with adult Lottie seeing teenage Nat (and Laura Lee), and with Natalie getting teenage Lottie in her final moments. I want more. I want the teen cast to be absolutely invasive on pivotal adult moments, infecting their adult counterparts when least expected. I want Taissa's argument with Van to dissolve into their teenage selves, their bond endless and timeless and inescapable. I want Misty absolutely wrecked by young Natalie lurking around corners, watching from mirrors. I want to see these women unable to navigate adulthood without the specters of their teenage selves cropping up absolutely everywhere, more and more as they let the memories in, as they stop being able to repress the trauma. They didn't grow up. They never could. You are always doomed to regress around your high school teammates. You are haunted by the phantom elements of your misspent youth. It is a comfort, and it is a gift, and it is a trial, and it is a curse. I would love to see that reflected with greater intensity, until the lines blur, until the timelines have no choice but to intersect. They haven't escaped themselves at all. They didn't grow up. They just got older.

[jinnyart06]

Make summer last forever

[a-total-and-complete-nerd]

Brandon Sanderson: Fantasy vs. Sci-Fi

Almost all of BrandoSando's books straddle the line between the two genres, and after seeing @approximateknowledge's post here, I wondered how they would lay out on that chart. I was also inspired by this fascinating WOB about Skyward's genre. These are just my opinions, so let me know if you agree or what you think you'd change!

[pippin-pippout]

Yeah so I fully expected bebe Ace to not like Luffy at first given that he has never felt love his entire life. Also not shocked at Ace dropping a tree on him or otherwise trying to kill him (I don’t think Ace knew Luffy couldn’t swim when he dropped him into the water). After all he’s grown up hearing how much people hate him, how they would rather humiliate and drag him through the world begging for someone to end his worthless life. Listening to Dadan say she’d rather he died because he’s the devils child. (And like I get Dadan did not want to raise children).

But also the fact that Luffy decided to get over him spitting on him. Because of what Shanks taught him about not starting a fight over little things, and doing his best to laugh.

[v7n5]

RIP Lalo Salamanca. If you had ever been in love, you would have been Jalousie by Jacob Gade.

[whoblewboobear]

I love dnd and actual play shows but I do tend to get a lil bored when a battle goes on for a while so thank god d20 moved away from the storytelling and battle being their own respective episodes. I really like the blend of the two they’ve been doing for junior year.

[friezaglasiencold]

Unscrupulous

Rip me open Plunge your hands into my viscera Examine with practiced thoroughness each quivering tendon Untie the knots of veins and arteries Lay them out in single file. You must check carefully inside my lungs Leave no stone unturned Inspect each fold Of brain, and then Unsatisfied, Wrap your fingers around my heart and squeeze to break the code of sinus rhythm. It was dirty even here. How disappointed you must be. Now, Breathe the tang of my fresh corpse. Since it's ceased its struggling you may scrub it clean. Paint the pretty picture you must have always wanted; but try not to smudge the canvas with what filth is left behind.

[des-no9]

half of the fun writing anything for me is making stuff up and taking small things from canon I like or that work for me and expanding on that.

I'm very faithful to lore in the "the things that matter to me and that make the fundamentals and foundations of the races and characters I love are important" but then I build on that and create out, up, back, to the side or whatever for my own enjoyment and narrative. Because for the likes of DND (specifically 5e and BG3 I write and create for) no one is writing lore for a romance and narrative between an ancient githyanki and a GOOLock tiefling who is far older that she deserves to be. So I write it myself.

[killman-enderson]

Pods Jesstel falin-esque squirrel chimera DO U SEE IT...

[deedjre]

"i'm going to write a sequel fic for my transfem au for funsies" i say before getting distracted and making a fully rendered art piece halfway through writing it. i should really finish it.

[tritoch]

argggh i can't stop it. It's happening. having forbidden FFXIV classpect thoughts. Hydaelyn and Zodiark as our cherub equivalents. Meanwhile, events in Elpis result in a Mobius Double Reach-Around pair of interlinked sessions between the Scions and the Unsundered, which are largely asynchronous and separate and link up only around the time of ARR through EW. spoilers through 6.0.

THE BIG TWO:

Hydaelyn: Muse of Time

Zodiark: Lord of Space

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SOURCE SESSION:

WoL: Knight of Hope (one who wields hope as a weapon. Hope is canonically an extremely powerful aspect and linked to elemental light and the power of belief. Brilliant Conviction, the canonical warrior of light buff, is extremely Hope energy. Also, since light is juxtaposed against despair in the Big Answers Monologue, the Warrior of Light represents not the aspect Light, which is luck and knowledge, but Hope)

Minfilia (& Ryne): Heir of Light (literally everything about Minfilia and Ryne points to this it is almost impossible to ignore. Also again, Homestuck Light represents luck and foresight and this ties to both Minfilia's time as Word of the Mother and Ryne's role as the Oracle)

Alphinaud: Prince of Blood (one who destroys relationships and alliances, see the Crystal Braves, but also one who destroys through or using alliances, see everything after that. Also, all the Princes destroy their aspect in themselves at some point, and ARR Alphinaud is absolutely a bloodless technocrat in all senses)

Alisaie: Rogue of Breath (an outlaw Rogue in contrast to Alphinaud's noble Prince but also because the Rogues are generally affable, unpretentious, and natural adepts of their aspects. Breath stands for freedom, flight, and change. The curing of tempering not only figuratively steals back the breath of Halric and all the tempered (and the porxie animation is even sort of a symbolic transfer of breath), but also restores their freedom and marks perhaps the greatest change to the setting's status quo)

Thancred: Bard of Mind (mind deals with thought, possible futures, the paralysis of choice. The bard allows destruction of their aspect and invites destruction through their aspect. It is difficult to sum up how I think this applies but consider both Thancred, paralyzed by his failure to save Warburton, and also the image of the Fatebreaker. Also he's literally a bard)

Y'shtola: Witch of Void (witch is obvious. Void stands in for forbidden knowledge, obscured things, darkness. Connects to both her personal drive to uncover the hidden things of the world and her time as spiritual leader to the Night's Blessed. Also on a meta level we know the least about her because she is underdeveloped lmao)

Urianger: Seer of Doom (lay-up)

Estinien: Maid of Rage (both the HS Maids are naturals of their aspects, and also go sorta corrupted or weird in relation to it. also the idea of Estinien as Nidhogg's handmaiden (as well as Handmaid) makes a lot of sense to me)

G'raha: Page of Time (again, a lay-up, but note that Pages have the potential to be among the most powerful given time and development. Also as the Exarch has many parallels to Hydaelyn thematically)

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UNSUNDERED:

Elidibus: Sylph of Heart (Heart deals with identity, the soul, motivation, but also self-knowledge through others. Also Elidibus is a little bit damsel-coded imo)

Emet-Selch: Mage of Space (BEHOLD, A SORCERER OF ELD and also the close narrative link to Zodiark)

Lahabrea: Thief of Life (steals life, as Hephaestus made life. Also life has thematic links to the march of progress and the exertion of will, and through the Condesce and Betty Crocker, power and its abuse (impeach Lahabrea))

[recitedemise]

Interesting. As great as his love is for all things Weave, Gale can't say he's leant toward spells more clerical. He's dabbled in all sorts, of course, even sampling in flavors tremendously necrotic, but thatching up wounds and mending back flesh? Well, that, admittedly, was more Jenevelle's thing. It's why he's here today, a slight flutter in his chest as the apothecary nears. He's been hurting, aching, his chest still pink with the freshness of his scar, and gritting his teeth has done wondrously little. No. It's time for magic. A healing touch.

"A lovely little place, this. Oh, but you came enthusiastically recommended--well, in a manner of speaking, of course, though should any dour-faced clerics come sauntering in at all, I would appreciate forgetting I ever said that." Jenevelle, he means. Gale walks in, feeling the rippling Weave off every sun-lit corner. He smells all manners of herbs, the air thick with the smell of earth and green, but the latent magics calling to his orb... The potency seems a bit comparable to her. "Ahem. I hear you're quite the aspiring practitioner of magic. Always pleasant to see. Your wares feel considerably better than the usual fare I would find scattered about--though I may require something a bit more...'tailored.' And I hear you're quite the seamstress." / @miidnighters ♡'d.

[fideidefenswhore]

Past events and characters inspire the works of writers of historical fiction in whatever form and, in so far as they seek to maintain that their central characters and events are 'real', all the authors, playwrights and directors find it important to defend the authenticity of the main events and actions. Catherine Delors, herself a historical novelist, has described the film version of The Other Boleyn Girl as 'melodramatic abuse of history' in its portrayal of Anne Boleyn as adulterous and incestuous. Frequently writers of historical fiction lay claim to being 'historians'. For instance, Philippa Gregory, despite her training in English Literature, has been happy to be called a historian as a result of her many novels about the Yorkist and Tudor periods.

The Debate on the English Reformation: Modern Biography, Fiction, and the Media, Rosemary O'Day

[phantomsaboteur]

i'm almost done writing up the first chapter of rollo's fic. just one more scene, then i can go back and check it over.