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HELLO! so a friendo is helping me organise everything regarding this project (I know it's been dormant for a long time) and I hope I start it in a few weeks, so if you're still interested in providing voice lines or helping out with storyboarding/animation or scriptwiting let me know!!

Hi, septimus heap fandom

I'd be willing to do septimus heap animations once I learn the basics of storyboarding and how to get the camera angle right, I'll definetely need people to provide voice lines so dm me if you're interested ig :)

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When your teacher says you need to figure out what you want to do beyond this course: 

[ronaldmeltonbraxton-blog]

Two roommates (Anthony Gorilla & Geoffrey G. Raff) debate the age-old question... What breakfast is tastier and errr... HAS MORE SELF ESTEEM?!?!?! Waffles or Pancakes? Drop your answer in the comments and let's find out what the world thinks!!!

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The script for my next project after #Unchronicled is finished and I'll be moving on to more concept art and layouts soon. Stay tuned! #ivyinthedark #comic #comicbook #art #artist #scriptwiting #project

[jbk405]

Discovery is really starting to lose me

“An Obol for Charon” episode was such a hash.

Being four episodes into the season, I can now officially say that the plotline is too much about Burnham and her family.  We’re not getting An Episode about Burnham and her family, it’s the point of the entire season so far.  It’s the driving point of drama, with the Red Angel only important because it is somehow connected her her relationship with her brother.  It was already overpowering the story in the preceding episodes, but now characters are acting like Michael repairing her relationship with Spock is the focal point of their mission.  As though her family drama is their overriding goal and they're willing to accept death and the destruction of their ship in furtherance of that point.  The crew of the Discovery are all-in on pursuing Spock, but with the way Burnham and Pike talk about how some info is secret and classified they can't know how it's all connected and yet they're all-in anyway.

Pike's presence isn't overpowering the plotline, but it is overpowering the series.  Every-other-scene with him is a joke reference to TOS or a handwave explanation to connect the current story to TOS.  Over and over again.  And nobody loves a good inside reference more than me, but it's taken over the show.  In the gap between seasons one and two I was giddy at the thought that we might get an appearance by Number One, but when she shows up here it's just so that she and Pike can meta-reference why the original Enterprise has flatscreens instead of the holograms that we see throughout this show (And also to again talk about Michael's family).  Pike should have been a guest-star in the first episode of the season, staying on his own ship, and then should have gone his way to let this continue to be its own thing.  Instead Discovery is no longer its own show, it's a "When they were young" special event for Star Trek itself.

With this episode in particular, it was like I said at the start, a hash.  The overall concept could have worked well, and would have been Trek to its core, but the execution fell apart completely.

When that woman they rescued at the start of the season shows up and says she was sent by the Chief Engineer I was gobsmacked, because I thought Stamets was the Chief Engineer.  If he isn't, then who is?  We've never seen anybody else on the bridge or reporting to the captain, and apparently the room with the Spore Drive does connect to main engineering since that's where Michael ended up when she was going to engineering, so where is this hypothetical chief even working?  On that same note, the argument between her and Stamets over Warp Drive vs. Spore Drive made no sense, and does not function as an allegory for the modern day fossil fuels vs. solar power argument like they tried to claim.  In the current argument there at least are some benefits to fossil fuels (They're far outweighed by the benefits of renewable energy, but they do exist), where her entire point about Warp drive is just that it's old and therefore better.  She doesn't make a single actual point about why the Spore drive is bad.  It just read like a bad hackjob at writing the old Spock vs McCoy scenes where they argue about emotion vs. logic.

Saru's "I'm going to die so I want you to kill me first" schtick was horrible.  Just atrocious.  Apart from the fact that they somehow managed to turn his death scene into again being about Michael and Spock's relationship, the scenario was completely pointless.  He said that the issue is that Kelpiens are driven insane by the pain of the process, and if he isn't killed now he will simply go mad and likely die as a result.  So then the answer is simple: Sedate him and wait for the process to pass.  That's it.  As he himself admitted, this wasn't a natural onset of the process, it was being artificially created by the mysterious object.  So, if they just put him in a medically induced coma -- something which we can do now in real life -- he avoids going insane due to the pain and hopefully when they bring him out of it in a day the process will have stopped because the mysterious object is gone.  This was such an obvious point that I actually expected them to bring it up because it's such a basic part of treatment methodology.

Just getting into the pure technicalities of the episode, they had a dozen self-contradictions throughout its runtime which showed either poor scriptwiting or very lazy copy-editing.  Characters use the comms and then refer to comms being down.  There's a half-a-dozen "Like doing XXX" analogies strung throughout the episode, and they never had that many even during Voyager when technobabble was such a critical element of every episode.

Because the comms are down (Even though we saw them used) the captain leaves the bridge during a crisis so he can check in with sickbay instead of sending anybody else to get information and then relay it back to the bridge.  When in sickbay, there is apparently no support staff of any sort because he and Michael are shown assisting the doctor in treating a wounded crewman even though the ship as a whole is under threat and if they don't deal with that they'll all die.  We know sickbay isn't overloaded because only a few individual crewmen were injured in accidents, it's not as though they've suffered battle damage or lost a significant chunk of their complement, so where are the nurses and other doctors?  On a different forum just yesterday I was ranting about the lack of any medical support staff with regards to Star Trek: Enterprise (How's that for timing?) and this is somehow worse than that show did, because here we've seen that sickbay does have support staff, so where the hell are they?

There were a few interesting elements, like everybody speaking different languages because the UT was malfunctioning and I still love the B-Cast and the way they're getting larger roles, but we're a fourth of the way through the season now and I've only actually enjoyed a single episode. If they continue like this I might just tune out and only come back when it's time for internet reviewers to make mocking videos on YouTube.

[blottsandquill]

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Thank you :)

1. Nicknames: Anja

2. Gender: Nonbinary :/

3. Star sign: Scorpio

4. Height: between 5'3

5. Time: 4:02 am

6. Birthday: November 10

7. Favorite bands: Paramore, PVRIS, The Pretty Reckless, Green Day

8. Favorite solo artists: Halsey, Hayley Kyoko, Ally Hills, Dodie Clark, Joss Stone, Billie Holiday, Zeca Afonso

9. Song stuck in my head: PVRIS - Heaven

10. Last movie I watched: Yes/No 2

11. Last show I watched: Shannara Chronicles

12. When did I create my blog: A long ass time ago (prior to 2012), but I’ve been more active in the past two years

13. What do I post: gay, politics, personal stuff and poetry

14. Last thing I googled: what are the effects of not eating enough (i know, i know)

15. Do you have other blogs: @gymscapades, @thebardtavern and @travellingbard but i seriously rarely use them

16. Do you get asks: Rarely

17. Why did you choose your URL: it was supposed to be a writing blog lol. So i picked something with that aesthetic

18. Following: 338

19. Followers: 131

20. Favorite colors: purple/violet, green

21. Average hours of sleep: 3?

22. Lucky number: 1, 5, 7, 11, 12

23. Instruments: guitar, percussion

24. What am I wearing: t-shirt + shorts pijama

25. How many blankets do you sleep in: with how many there are in the bed or in the vicinity

26. Dream job: actor/scriptwiter

27. Dream trip: around the world. Or somewhere with the person i love.

28. Favorite food: chocolate biscuit cake, cream pasta and turkey, good homemade lasagna

29. Nationality: Portuguese

30. Favorite song currently: The Pretty Reckless - You

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[synthetictorque]

scriptwriter’s beginnings.

The skeleton opened his eyes. He couldn’t see anything. Wherever he was, he did not know. He did not know anything. Who was he? Did he even exist? The world around him concaved and fell apart. He fell to the floor, grunting. If the aching side proved anything, he was real. He looked at his hands. He opened and closed them. Definitely alive. He looked around. What was his name? His purpose? Did he have a family? As he got to his feet, streams of code wrapped around him from some other place, solidifying into clothing. Brown coat. red and gold boots. Red scarf. He looked down in surprise, making a small breathy sound of amazement. something dropped into his pocket, making him swirl around to check behind him. No one was there. He reached into his pocket, looking at the contents. An orange fountain pen and a letter in thick paper. Naturally, he checked the letter first. It was written in a looping scrawl, lines words flowing off the line.

----

To you.

Hello there. You’re probably confused. And probably wondering what you’re doing, being alive and all. For starters, your name is script.it’s short for Scriptwriter Papyrus. You’re one in a hell of a lot of other Papyruses, but you? You’re special. You have a pen in the pocket you pulled this from. It’s yours. Your purpose, your life job is to fix the breaks in code. To keep things running smoothly. You can even create items. The limits to what they are is up to you.

My name is [REDACTED].

---- He couldn’t help but wonder why the name was missing. ----

I’m pretty much your creator. I made you, to do what you want. I don’t know where your life will go, but i know that wherever it leads you, i will be there. Watching over your shoulder. Making sure you’re alright. I hope you understand now.

Use your pen to travel through the universes. Make friends. Make enemies. Make memories and live your life. Do what you feel you must. But please, try not to be seen for god’s sake!

Be good now.

Your creator, [REDACTED].

P.s: stay away from error.

---

Script looked at the letter. He looked up at the endless white. Was he really being watched? Right now? Honestly, he felt a little spooked. But also comforted somehow. He took his pen in hand and looked around. He smiled. So this was being alive? He felt it. Every hum of magic, every breath he took.

He uncapped the fountain pen, and swiped it down on instinct. A portal opened, buzzing with code. He jumped in without a second thought and landed head-first into a snowdrift. He dislodged from the packed in snow, and shook his skull clear. Looking around, he saw forests and monsters in the trees. He made as if to go and talk; but remembered the words on the letter. Try not to be seen. He retreated back into the treeline and observed them. He felt like he knew all about them, and most likely he did, but whether that was the case was not his main focus.

All he was focused on was finding these ‘bugs’ and fixing them.

He stood and walked through the forest, eyesockets searching for what he supposed he would recognise instantly. Script’s only mistake was not checking behind him. He yelped in surprise as something yanked him by the feet and hung him upside down. Script struggled against whatever was holding him, but ultimately gave up. Footsteps from behind him approached. A face came into his very upside-down view. A rather familiar, skeletal, face.

“Hey buddy. Mind tellin’ me what you’re doing here?”

Script looked at him in slight fear.

“ERR... WOULD YOU BELIEVE ME IF I SAID I HAD NO CLUE?”

[grimbeau]

Trumbo

Taken so long to get here seems we forgot the purpose of it too easily distracted by words crying out for attention

Poem of the Week title: Go Get a Real Job! spinning paper plates who said you’re a long time dead didn’t know the half of it

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Creative Writing Challenge – Part 2 –January

This MONTHLY challenge is for those who want to work on writing new ideas and who would like to maintain a continuous creativity flow with your writing.

Creatively writing short films are a great way to get started/or extend the passion in your career as a writer. A good short film can further help you develop your style and vision using story, drama, dialog, and imagery.

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Hollywood Outreach Program ~ Final Deadline

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Deadline August 31, 2024

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Los Angeles Suspense Masterclass - 3/28/20

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