#given is there for a reason .

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:

In general, I think "Is X out-of-character?" is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.

A better question, I believe, is "What would it take for Character to do X?" What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT'S where a potentially interesting story lies.

In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from "What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?" As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you've got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.

[rumble-bee-art]

a local homosexual deals with an unfortunate crush by chewing on his hair and contemplating murder (we’ve all been there)

[bluef00t]

The Shawn & Gus dynamic in Psych is so subtly yet beautifully shaped by the fact that they cast a naturally deadpan introvert to play the world's most hyperactive attention-seeking detective, then cast a chronic theater kid to play his supposedly boring, reasonable best friend

[cornercritter]

i forgor that siffrin doesn’t have a hat post-game

[dozydawn]

micro crimping really changed the ballroom hair landscape. i remember when i first started seeing it, i thought it was nets making that texture. nope, nets are only on the buns. people were just so tired of the wet shellacked look, that this is now all the rage.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

We're going on an ass kicking adventure.

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[nocek]

I watched Deadpool and Wolverine yesterday and I just had to XDDD

beware the SPOILERS! I mean not really but better to be on safe side ;)

[clumsypuppy]

this place is so fruity

[damianito]

A gift from Dazai

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[vai113art]

Sharing my Pop idol Photocard design for MDZS CSE featuring Wangxian ^^

[sforzesco]

paris of troy! during those years he was a shepherd.

I was reading cartledge's book on thebes and every now and then the spartan focuses wrt to the pantheon of gods comes up. sparta has nothing to do with this except for where it does, but apollo karneios was discussed and that got my attention, which circled back to paris, and then I started thinking about the paris + apollo link

I also started thinking about narrative rejections bc paris has a funky absence in the iliad that's giving a kind of...a vibe. your parents shouldn't have had you, the story doesn't want you around, but oh boy are you there anyway, manifested into existence. no matter what, doom must manifest in flesh form. it's a narrative necessity, the actual incident (the judgement) is secondary.

The Judgement of Paris in Later Byzantine Literature, E. M. Jeffreys

weird! love it! almost (but not quite) reminds me of troilos' murder at achilles' hands lurking in the guts of the iliad. it's there, even when it's not. more importantly tho: sheep. I miss working on a farm with sheep and goats and cows and--

[black-and-yellow]

[doesephs]

homer was the original multishipper, eurylochus bagged ctieme and an early grave !

[sentientsnakeskin]

i want precrash scenes so bad i’m this close to getting the cast together and shooting the scenes myself because what do you MEAN we don’t know how taivan got together. WHAT DO YOU MEAN. The most significant couple in the whole show with a lot of alluded to angst surrounding their precrash relationship and we don’t know??? Tai literally was willing to stay in the cannibal cult wilderness because she didn’t want to go back to her life as a black lesbian in the 90’s and we have NOTHING???? How did they find each other??? How did their romance play out??? How was it hiding something like that from other people??? Literally give me ANYTHING

[elexuscal]

Thinking again about how much I love how Murderbot and ART's style of communication is 'endless bickering'. How good that is for MB. MB, who always had to be perfectly polite and professional or else it would Die. And for ART, too, to a lesser extent. Since ART is always a snarky bastard with everyone, we see that now, but it's also their home and their vessel so it has to temper that occasional. not with Murderbot. these two AIs can get into sassy verbal fistfights at speeds the human mind can't comprehend. good for them.

[tonydaddingham]

fr tho i understand why crowley wants them to run away together and run from all of it but he just seems to have forgotten that aziraphale does not cower, he doesn't back down, and he. does. not. run.

and honestly, crowley knows it: