#because I'm a dope

[aachria]

Hey! I love the way you write and I love you so much. That's why I'm asking for advice on developing an idea for a One Piece AU that has to do with gangs and motorcycles. I don't know how to express it since the idea came from a dream but the image of Luffy on a motorcycle just won't leave my head. How did you manage to develop your story? Is it by making point-based statements or something like that for writers? This would be my first fanfic but I really really want to write it.Sorry if the writing is messy, I don't speak English so the translator is helping me.

The image was created with AI but the essence of the idea I have is like this.

My go-to and favourite way to plan out stories is what I call the cumulative method.

Worlds and stories feel so much more lived in and well thought out if you give yourself time and space to think about the different parts of it and all the moving pieces that go into the story — so my best piece of advice is to just write down every idea you have about it whenever you have one. If you have a cool thought before you're about to fall asleep, write it down. If you're outside walking and see a sign or something that gives you can idea, write it down. Just compile all the little thoughts and details as you go, even when you're not actively planning out the overarching plot or themes or story. Write down moments you want in the story even if you won't know where, write down funny or sad one-liners you want to use, write down everything.

I have all my notes organized into sections of my story (like a different note for each arc) and just whatever I want to happen in it in a vaguely chronological order. Starting with jot note ideas and filling in the space around them totally works, you don't have to know every detail of your plan before you start working either — some of the best parts of your story might be things you improvise while you're writing. I tend to jump right into writing before planning and then grow my plan around whatever happens on the page, but however you go about your own is up to you.

Wow that got long. Tldr; write all your ideas as you go even when you aren't focusing on your story and you'll be fine. Good luck and happy writing!

[mav-the-artist]

comm for @s0uless-b0nes of their OC Vivisection!!

[kacievvbbbb]

Truly from the depths of my struggling heart. Viva La Vida by Coldplay belongs to one Toshinori Yagi aka the one and only All Might.

Coldplay should just sign over the rights of the song at this point promptly too.

[molinaesque]

Lmao I've seen so many tags of ppl in DiSMaY over Scrooge being daddyfied in the new animated Christmas Carol movie and are like "why???" Like there aren't a gazillion other accurate adaptations that you can go back to AND also... why the fuck not? Let the man be a DILF for once

[dawnofiight]

My arm hurts too bad is this how Asher felt when he fell off the tree-

[sniperdadmaccready]

-4/10 would not listen to his debut country album 😔😔😔

[highfantasy-soul]

I know this isn't going to have any effect on those who feel justified in hating the adaptations they do - all sorts from comic to screen, book to screen, animated to live-action - but in my re-watch of ATLA (animated), I've noticed a lot more 'eeehhh' storytelling than I did in my other watches. Because I'm looking for it to compare specifically how they did it in the animated to how they did it in the live-action.

And let me tell you - the animated story is amazing, phenomenal, one of my favorites ever...and it has storytelling issues.

So maybe, if you were convinced the PJO adaptation was shit, the ATLA adaptation was awful, the Wheel of Time show was a tragedy, try going back and watching/reading the OG LOOKING for things to gripe about. Treat the OG like you treat the adaptation - with the most critical eye for any inconsistency, character work you don't like, plot holes, expositional dialogue, and pacing issues.

LOOK for those issues, and I guarantee you'll find them. Because, let me let you in on a secret: no story is perfect. We love them anyways because the story is still good. It's still meaningful. It still has merit.

Imagine the OG is actually the adaptation and (if you're able to honestly do that) you'll find things the adaptation did better.

Again, I know the people who've made it their personality to hate all adaptations and pretend they're storytelling geniuses who know best aren't going to pay attention to this, but idk, maybe one person will? Or for us more forgiving watchers, we'll be able to catch ourselves if we start to make some uncharitable, knee-jerk arguments about certain pieces of media.

Idk, just try it maybe.

[milfbro]

dude honestly I made a miraculous recovery since yesterday??? I barely feel any pain at all?

this is surreal

[gatoplaga]

GUYS GUYS I'M COOKING SOMETHING. SOMETHING REEEAL GOOD.

[soapkaars]

A little drawing of Conrad Veidt as the Scarecrow and Peter Lorre as the Riddler to unwind, based on this inspired idea by @thebrideofreanimator

[manufacturedrainbows]

Correction 🤓☝️ I'm still doing line edits for the FF7 fanfic but it's practically done

It's my first fanfic that I actually kinda wanna post 👉👈 But I'm still not confident in my prose writing so I'M SCARED LMAO

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Fanfic is now up on ao3!

[definitelyimportantpost]

This weird thing has been happening for a while where despite playing 7th Dragon III two times this year, a small part of me always pipes up every now and then like "you should totally play through it again!!"

Why? Beats the hell outta me. Maybe it's just because it's a really easy game to break over your knee (not to spoil anything but what if I told you that once upon a time I kept the final boss asleep for the entire final phase)?? Whatever the reason, the game's been living rent free in my head for almost 1 year

I'm just saying, if my SMT: Strange Journey playthrough is ever put on hold and I start playing 7D3 instead, please know that it happened against my will

[debbiechanclub]

I'm going to my first Nats games in years on the 15th and I have to get a clear bag. That's how long it's been since I've gone.

[keeps-ache]

[walks into a wall] [spins around and leans against it like i meant to do that] i have downloaded another program :)

[whereisthedamndaddymanual]

Sometimes I wonder about worms. Like where the fuck do they come from. You can dig and find them but it isn't like there are tunnels, they are just there, snails pace serpentine through the dirt and granules. At a depth shallow enough the dirt above doesn't crush them, yet deep enough you gotta dig a bit to really find them down there.

Just squirming and waiting to get hooked in some fish on a time waxing off the full moon.

[icy-book]

Today on the every growing list of things I would draw: Terry Jr suspended by an endless web of ropes, which subtly entwine to depict scenes and figures a la medieval stained glass windows that were used to teach stories. And him being limp with his chest pushed up towards a sword made of ropes, the pummel of which is the Die Another Day