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wintershades · 1 year

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Yes, I’m highly invested in learning how the Coast Kids are faring during the Scary Moon Times, but I'm also eager to know:

Did Fjord and Jester ever acquire sufficient pasturage to support a herd of domesticated unicorns?

What is the current proportion of "homicides solved" versus "homicides committed" by Veth and Jester's detective agency?

Has Fjord managed to sweet-talk his way into the Mother’s Lighthouse, thus enabling Jester to learn what’s kept in said lighthouse’s boob?

To what extent has Jester leveraged her studio’s success to foster a broader public arts initiative on the Menagerie Coast, encouraging artistic expression both phallic and non-phallic in nature?

#critical role #fjord #jester lavorre #veth brenatto #fjorester #look i have questions okay #and none of them are plot-relevant #'what's the name of fjord's new ship??' is my version of 'who's on the tal'dorei council??'

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fictionadventurer · 6 months

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Maybe the problem with Christian fiction is that it's non-denominational. People are just "Christian", with no effort put into showing what practicing that religion looks like for them specifically. No indication that there are other Christians who could have different beliefs. No wrestling with differing ideas and the struggle of how one should live out their Christian faith. And that makes it unrealistic and unrelatable.

#me reading any christian historical fiction set in england: why are none of these gentry anglican??#they ARE all anglican and if they are not it is extremely plot and character relevant you can't just have them using evangelical buzzwords #but i'm also thinking of this because i started another charlotte yonge book #that is by far my favorite of the things of hers that i've read #because it has characters who have different upbringings and religious opinions #instead of just 'here's a bunch of high church anglicans judging people who don't live up to their victorian standard'#you have the very high church anglican rector whose wife is worldly but still a very good person #the girl raised in a very strict protestant family who is more scrupulous than the anglicans but is still recognized as a good person #you have people who are trying to work out the nuances of different issues #and that makes it so much more realistic and so much easier to integrate into the story #(the politics though are hilarious)#(most of the classics that survive are the ones that were 'ahead of their time' in politics)#(so it's equally fascinating and refreshing and a bit infuriating to see one that is very very of its time with regards to women's rights)#('why did this woman get up at the meeting and explain her very good ideas for rebuilding after the fire? she should have had a man do it')#(meanwhile i'm just screaming 'why on earth SHOULDN'T she???')#(it's almost enough to make a feminist of me)

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starsailores · 9 months

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writing a modern shades of magic au is great fun until you realise you need to give these bastards real world jobs and make them somewhat functioning members of society. holland vosijk does not have an employable skillset he was too busy being possessed and losing all bodily autonomy /:

#none of this is even relevant to the plot beyond a bit of background but i Have to Know. it is essential to me #i know i want kell to be at the end of his undergrad/start of his masters. fuck knows what i will force him to study #the geography student in me just wants to make them all geographers. it might happen #and when i say this isnt relevant i mean this is a fic where everyone is in agony and probably dying at all times #but at least they are getting money and an education outside of the unending torture #a darker shade of magic

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mic-check-stims · 11 months

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I love when my blorbos have game sprites with easily color-pickable palates.

Look at my obnoxious gender headcanons boy

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meissaiph · 11 months

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last night, during the chaos of halloween weekend festivities and the energy of the full hunter's moon, a vampire not only frenzied, but Monstrositied in the middle of Times Square. about two dozen people were killed, many more injured. most of the injured will need to be watched by the church for early signs of vampirism

the Midtown parish lost two Missionaries fighting the Monstrosity, another was injured beyond returning to the field, and at least one other will quit within the next two weeks. Orion was in the area, and able to assist, ultimately being the one to deliver the final blow to kill the Monstrosity.

Le was not able to make it in time to help. something that will be eating at her for a while. Nico was, but he was too late to stop most of the carnage, and was nearly another casualty before Orion saved him. something that's going to eat at Nico too, for a few reasons.

Orion and Nico made eye contact, but Orion disappeared too quickly for them to have any actual kind of reunion, but Nico is at least now aware that she's in the city.

#ooc #summary of events #plot #h.#I'll reblog this to the other 2 too bc it's relevant and fun for everyone #if any questions/clarification needed PLEASE PLEASE ASK #but none of this is anything any of them would ever just #bring up on their tumblr blog unprompted #and none of them are probably feeling especially like socializing rn #for one #Nico and Orion at least are probably sleeping like rocks to recover the magic energy they spent fighting

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catholickedd · 2 months

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i’m really cooking with this fic guys

#511 words and none of them are relevant to the #main plot!!#this is good btw. im a really bad pacer my stuff’s always wayyyy too fast-paced

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bonestrouslingbones · 11 months

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actually while im feeling sad about stupid bullshit (not being popular anymore oh woe is me) lets take a little summary of atbb's pre-hiatus inbox

someone trying to roleplay as sans because they didnt look at the blog for more than two seconds

someone saying the skeletons are cute and asking to hug them

someone asking to be friends with [Enter Skeleton Here]

someone asking what their brothers are like

How are you?

You're cute!

You're cool!

How have you been?

Nice outfit!

someone who does not understand the concept of dramatic irony who wants very badly to explain the full plot so far to characters who would never know that in any context otherwise as if that wouldnt be lame as hell for them to suddenly know

why is [thing that was a very big plot point]

HOW HAVE YOU BEEN

YOU'RE CUTE

HOW HAVE YOU BEEN

#AHHHHHHHHHH #LOOK. NONE OF THESE ARE INHERENTLY BAD. BUT WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THEM #IF I SCROLL FAR ENOUGH I CAN GET TO THE ACTUAL PLOT RELEVENT ONES. BUT OF COURSE THEY WERE SENT IN AFTER THE TOPIC CHANGED #ohhh and i didnt even MENTION the ones that i would always instantly delete #the “*walks in and smiles* well whats going on here?” just LOOK!!!! READ!!!!! FIND OUT YOURSELF #IT GOT TO A POINT WHERE I WOULD GET MORE OF THOSE THAN ACTUAL QUESTIONS #just. ugh. no wonder it stopped being fun #i get it. make art for myself and all that. i try to.#but i fucking hate being alone here man.#i know what its like to have other people have fun with it with me and it feels like thats so fucking rare now. i dont know #doesnt help that i can't form connections over the internet. especially since every time i've talked about this irl i've been laughed at <3 #this is all dumb as hell whatever. going to bed #probably just PMS tbh none of this matters who give a shit

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ihavenosoul12 · 1 year

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yes jacob spends nearly the entire game nearly naked yes i headcanon jacob to be transgender what are you going to do

#the quarry #jacob custos #doesn't matter to me if he's pre or post top surgery in my headcanon i simply don't think #once again it's the queery none of them bastards are cishet #fellas is it gay to be stranded at a summer camp and. insert werewolf joke/plot relevant joke for every character #'shoot your camp leader'/'lose your hand'/'have the coolest chase sequence in the game'

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polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup · 6 months

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grrr tysm for the happier snippets into the fushiguro’s family’s earlier days! Ive been starving for sth not so painful, and now i can happily dream about “fluffier” shit lol like the desperate scramble to tidy up toys, dvds, and candy wrappers before nanami comes over to pick up the kids for the weekend; or shoko being a total panicky hypocrite when tsumiki comes home one day smelling of cigarette smoke; or the kids absolutely sweating whenever there is a kiss/sex scene on tv during family movie nights (and they dont know if they should fight through the awkwardness or avert their gazes). Stupid but totally normal family behaviors that arent fluffy per se but just NORMAL.

that tsumiki getting hit on at the beach story? THANK YOU for feeding me that! Starving for more but im happy with the crumbs ❤️❤️❤️

I’m a chronic angst writer but I’m absolutely incorrigible with wanting fluff. The issue is so much of the fluff is not plot relevant to the angst and it gets cut. I talked about this in another post, but pez dispenser debris is my silly “bad writing” story where I have a shit ton of irrelevant asides because I just want to talk about the silly little situations that I imagine my blorbos in without regard to plot. The entirety of chapter 4 is unnecessary in that fic. I find it delightful.

#I loveeee the fushiguros and their chaos family #they’re so personal to me #and I wish I could include all the silliness of them and their teen parenting crew #but it’s just not something that would come through Yuuta #and none of it’s technically plot relevant #all I write is angst but I’m enthralled by silly little situations #sea glass gardens

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everysongineverykey · 1 year

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honestly as entertaining as they often were the minisodes/flashback stories were just altogether too long... like. it's always interesting to see them bond and react to different situations throughout the ages but i don't really feel like spending literally around half the episode watching aziraphale hem and haw about graverobbing while crowley goes scot wild. the main plot is fun and engaging! i would really rather watch aziraphale investigate in edinburgh than sit through ~30 minutes of filler. to be clear, i'm by no means anti-filler! i love character-focused stories! i just. i just feel like if you take huge chunks of time out of your main plot to tell almost completely unrelated stories that never come up again, it's a sign you don't have enough confidence in that main story to let it carry things. like i said, i don't HATE the minisodes, they're quite fun at times, but they really could've been cut in half.

#good omens spoilers #i'd say the ressurectionists was my least favorite one #it had. literally almost nothing to do with the main plot.#which like. none of them really did but the other two didn't really pretend to be plot relevant #they just existed #the ressurectionists made a whole thing of pointing out the name on the matchbox #and the address on the record #and then the 'big reveal' was literally just the name of the pub aziraphale went to.#like. why build up to that? what was the point? they never acknowledge it again!

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aroaessidhe · 2 years

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2022 reads // twitter thread

The Whispering Dark

supernatural YA

a girl is accepted into a prestigious university that trains students to slip between parallel worlds

but previous students’ mysterious deaths start to make her think her fear of the dark is something more tangible

Deaf MC

necromancy

#The Whispering Dark #aroaessidhe 2022 reads #do you want dark academia? spooky horror? mystery? parallel universe stuff? pick up literally any other book #this is just a creepy romance. none of that potentially interesting stuff.#there’s very little academia or like. going into the parallel worlds thing. it’s mostly about the weird relationship between them #i think it’s also just kind of…….boring? maybe not boring. I just never felt too interested in it #there was one of two bits that were kinda spooky and i was like oh? but thats it.#why is the love interest such a piece of shit. like he’s horrible to her and then suddenly he’s nice I guess? but then the entire time he’s #he’s lying about the fact that they know each other?#like i genuinely mistook him for the other dude she was hanging out with for a few chapters because suddenly they were just fine with each o #actually when she met nate i was like wait is HE the love interest. and the other guy is legit a creep. but no.#also he’s like obsessed with her #why are we pretending “I am deeply sickeningly alarmingly obsessed with you” is romantic. is this twilight.#‘what did i do why are you avoiding me’ YOU MURDERED SOMEONE IN FRONT OF HER?#wait also these was this bit where it was like “he pronounced wednesday a syllabul at a time. wed nes day” sdjjfgsdjgfsjd that doesn’t…..#anyway. the deaf MC was cool.#there’s the hint of things that could be really interesting on the edges.#but it’s just all about their weird toxic relationship. like barely any exploration of the parallel worlds. or academia. or the side charact #her ‘friends’ are only in plot relevant scenes #lol

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mazojo · 2 years

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Guys I finished the supernatural aliens not aliens demogorgons dnd something something show !

#so many thots so many head empty i am quite literally dealing !!!#as you can see characters are ranked in a scale of whether they are Will Byers or not and as most of the cast is not will Byers they can't #be as cool important relevant funny and interesting as S tier rip #ALL JOKES ASIDE I AM CRYING SCREAMING AND THROWING UP ALL AT ONCE S4 FINALE HELLO???#(also no one get offended okay this is me being funny dont take me seriously)#but yes objectively Joyce is the best character in the show but Will makes me emo because he needs a hug and therapy and aha pls someone #help him and by someone I mean Mike Wheeler helLO STOP BEING DUMB REACT DO SOMETHING #every time mike says does or literally appears on my screen is constant go girl give us nothing it irks my blood #I still love them all but goD did they decide to make Mike annoying !#plot wise s1 is the best imo but emotionally devastating wise s4 because none of them made me cry except the last one in the lumax scene #loved s3 aesthetic tho and s2 Noah's acting is amazing #ship wise only canon ships I care about is Joyce and hopper & Lucas and max #(hopefully robin next season please ??? girlfriend???)#non canon obviously Will x mike soulmates and it hurts haha but also love me my max x el and steddie was also nice #I thought I would care about Eddie more and while I dont hate him or anything he was just kinda there and I wish he had more moments to shin #because that final scene with dustin was devastating #anyways sorry I needed to rant I have feelings #stranger things

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yshtal · 1 year

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wildly fun to have the opposite experience and play a “would NEVER stoop to this and is horrified by the actions of her formerly beloved best friend” hawke as a “actually this guy’s onto something” person

#da2 #anders did some things wrong but actually none of them are plot relevant #‘I can forgive the blowing up the chantry but I draw the line at outta pocket comments about fenris’ past’#‘you can FORGIVE blowing up the chantry??’#yeah actually mind ya business #dragon age #da anders

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sasaranurude · 2 years

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I could theoretically nyoom through a lot more of the ptn main story than I have but I'm on chapter 6 and the it feels like everything I read merely extends my agonies. So I dread every time I sit down to read it. I just want this painful arc to be OVER I need it to give me a little break a little relief PLEASE JUST. MAKE HELLA SAY SOMETHING SILLYVIOLENT I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE

#suchobabbles #if i didnt know that there was more interesting bai yi and langley stuff coming up i would probably have stopped reading already #i seriously can't handle this much grimdark torture stuff with like zero character interactions #altho i guess when i say 'zero' i mean 'the player character and all these random men'#can we bring back the girls im actually playing this game for. please #none of them have done something plot relevant since like the end of chapter 4 #even zoya is just getting dragged around by men rn

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arolesbianism · 7 months

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Sigh. Nikola why must you be one of the more interesting oni characters. I don't wanna think abt you with your stupid spiky blond hair and your unethical science that mostly just serves to make Jackie more shitty by proxy. But I do. Because you're kind of orbo blorbo. Fuck you Nikola I hope you explode again

#rat rambles #oni posting #hes just extremely fascinating in the scientist crowd because he has a weirdly large presence in the like. actual meat of the lore.#like he has an actual arc that relates to the quote unquote plot of oni #he made the field around earth he made the neural vaculators (presumably) he contributed to the teleporters and was also involved with #some of the other projects in the bioengineering department and is one of the two scientists that we know for sure knew abt and worked with #duplicants and all of that and almost every instant of nikola being relevant hes only seen second hand #the One thing that we have that is Maybe directly from him is an email that hes the most likely canidate for #and I mean it Im pretty sure outside of that hes only ever either mentioned second hand or doesnt talk in the case of that one ellie email #even the one time we see proper dialogue from him it isnt even a recording its a second hand retelling from ruby #its soooo fascinating I dont even know if this was on purpose but I love it regardless #now tbf theres other characters who are also mostly if not only mentioned second hand but none that have as much of a lore presence as him #nails was close but then 'a seed is planted' dropped and they became a part of the troubling second hand nikola info club #watch them finally add ashkan dialogue and its just him talking abt nikola being involved in the puppy ai incident too or smth #the thing is that isnt even that out there nikola Did work on the teleporters and worked on somw gravitas time travel shit too so who knows #Im trying to think of theres anyone else whos mentioned in the logs but doesnt actually talk and I know there's steve and ada but hmmm #this isnt counting artifact or news artical specific mentions tbc we're talking within character dialogue #sorry meep mae and pei #WAIT cant believe I forgot abt devon rip bestie my sincerest apologies #I think thats it tho everyone else whos mentioned in dialogue has dialogue Im pretty sure #well direct dialogue I mean #oh tbc ashkan is also in that club #hes probably in second place on the weirdness of his lack of dialogue due to his striking presence in several log list #now tbf hes mentioned like 3 times I think? not counting artifacts ofc. so he's not talked abt That frequently #but one of those is in a paradox and the others are in story traits so its still interesting #I had already loved ashkan before doing my full lore dive so finding out this mysterious dr.ali was my boy ashkan was a delight #now ofc technically ashkan could have secret dialogue that we just dont know is him since we dont know his work id but still #we dont know nikolas either but nikola is likely in engineering and ashkan is likely in robotics so theyre both not likely to be them #they Could be as they do likely work with the bioengineering department but nikola is fully crossed out as the fossil guy at least #ashkan Could be the fossil guy but its not likely imo as theyre also the guy in the husbandry log implying theyre fully a biologist

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writer-logbook · 1 month

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How to introduce your character in 3 steps

A friend of mine was the source of this very pertinent question. So I decided to write a blog entry about it. Because how do you introduce your character without sounding fake ?

Remember that, in real life situation, no one calls you by your name. Have you noticed that none of your friends is adressing you by your name, unless they're trying to get your attention or that something serious is happening ? That should be the same in your story : find a situation where it is relevant to use names. Or stick to nicknames, which is a more common way to address your friends.

Use another character. If you can’t come up with a situation, you can always rely on a side character to introduce your MC. It’s also the perfect way to describe your character rather than simply using mirror, which is convenient yet very cliché. But the fun thing to do is to make several characters talk about your MC : their opinion might go in different directions due to their relationships, their own sensibility and attention to details. It’s also a good way to breath life into your side characters so please consider that option seriously.

The reader doesn’t need to know everything, especially on the very first page. Unless the info is relevant to the plot, there is no need for the reader to know MC’s favourite food or eye’s color. If you’re on character-sheet-side (which I’m not btw), you should be careful about wether the reader the story will progress or not. Try to be balanced !

What I really want to stress in this article is the importance of action when introducing your character. You want the reader to know your character is courageous ? Put them directly into a situation where they can show courage. You want to describe their hair color ? What about that moment when the light is flickering in a way that gives their hair a peculiar effect that catches the eye of another character ?

Don’t worry, your creativity will always find a way ~

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