#set examples

[nimixo]

Set Examples… The world is changed by your example not your opinion. -Paulo Coelho #setexamples #PauloCoelho

[bacchuschucklefuck]

truly this one's just for me. I can do what I want foreverrr

[taraxippos]

I think people tend to assume that any criticism of worldbuilding is ultimately a demand for a story to grind itself to a halt and give the reader 20 paragraphs of exposition, and like. Most of the time good-faith criticism of this nature is coming from a core aspect of the story not being grounded in the setting in a way that outright detracts from the story's quality. You fix it not by Explaining but by Showing it passively in the makeup of the world.

Like the last instance I saw this critique in was like 'you can't expect an author to stop and exposit the nuances of gender roles/Queerness in a fictional society' and it's like yeah I don't, and in fact this is actually one of the easiest things to show in the text without exposition. If a society has gender norms to begin with you'll see aspects of these norms baked into EVERYTHING. You'll see it in its stories, its religion, its taboos, its etiquette, its clothing, its family structures, its language, its insults, its labor, its leadership, etc. It will have massive impacts on how characters interact with one another and how they perceive themselves. It will help Shape your characters.

If you do this legwork to begin with for the core facets of your story, you will find very natural places for these concepts to be demonstrated without derailing the plot and with little to no exposition. THAT sort of thing is what's being asked of you.

[yeehawesome]

"what radicalized you" idk probably opening my bible & reading verses like this:

[cup-o-stars]

Part four of old GF sketches

The twin thing, Stan and Ford edition

[lurkinginnernarrator]

I need Shen Qingqiu, who left for a week-long mission to not return. I need the peak lords to look for him, scouring high and low.

Only, they find him. He's crouched behind bushes, journal in hand fastidiously observing Malevolent Mango-Leopard Birds. He looks crazed. It's the dirtiest they've ever seen him. He has rivers of notes and illustrations.

He shushes them all and tugs them behind the bushes.

"The mating rituals of Malevolent Mango-Leopard Birds haven't ever been documented before. It's believed they only mate once every thousand years."

"Shen-Shixiong was here... watching birds."

"Shen-Shixiong didn't send word because... He was too busy watching birds. Mate."

"...don't say it like that."

[i-am-a-fish]

what is one thing you would really like to do this week?

you're under zero obligation to actually do this thing, but please comment something you'd really like to try working on/finishing

[canisalbus]

For your gay little dogs

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[aingeal98]

This might be my favourite cover because for one thing it gets me invested in the potential story like WHY is Cass in jail. I can think of a thousand reasons why people would want to arrest her but why has she let them, that's the part I'm most intrigued by.

Secondly, Cass looks so much like Shiva here that I'm pretty sure her mugshot would give Bruce a jump scare.

[driftwoodpony]

this hasn't left my mind

[albaricomics]

He can't stay awake during his own divorce

[pastelsugar6w6]

Elladan and Elrohir: *bickering like typical siblings at the dinner table*

Thranduil: Control your barbaric children, Elrond. They should be more refined in company. They should behave more like my Legolas. *gestures grandly at his son*

Baby Legolas: *squatting in a tree breaking open an acorn with his teeth like a squirrel*

Elrond: ???????

[olympain]

Your team has been betrayed, Ethan. All your secrets compromised.

[e-b-reads]

OK this is an excuse for me to be a little pretentious/pedantic, but I figured others might also want the opportunity to be a little pretentious/pedantic, so I'm making a poll out of it!

My pretension: I like reading (duh!), and I'm OK with a little inaccuracy for the sake of artistry. I mean, there are definitely authors who never bother to google basic terminology in a field, or try to write convincing history (or fantasy) without actually knowing much history...but if an author I otherwise like gets a little detail wrong about some specialist thing, I'm not likely to even notice. Except! If the thing is about boats/sailing. Examples below, but first, the poll:

I'm sure there's some technical mistakes (especially related to boats I'm less used to, like tall ships) that still slip by me. But I've had a couple times recently (different books/authors) where I was reading and enjoying myself and was suddenly twitched out of the story by an inaccuracy. One book where someone was asked to secure the boom after a tack (on a nice 45-ft modern sloop) which already doesn't make a ton of sense, and then she moved to a strange place in the boat to apparently do this. Another where the author twice mixed up jibing and tacking in dialogue (on the lines of "Don't sail to close to the wind or you'll jibe!" At least once the speaker was supposed to be an expert sailor).

Anyway, I still enjoyed the books overall, but I noticed both times I literally had to stop reading a think for a second, like wait, was I imagining it wrong? No, it's the author's fault! So now I'm telling you all about it.

[deadliestpieceontheboard]

~Slight The Golden Raven Spoilers

Look. LOOK. I know Jean keeps saying Kevin didn't notice. But Jeremy noticed. Riko noticed. We don't have to trust Jean on this, he has too much heartache involved to be reliable here.

Kevin was the first person to clock andreil, he noticed Jean's attraction to Jeremy JUST FROM HIM LOOKING AT A PHOTO. Also Nora has confirmed he is bi. Like. Be for real.

Kevin knows and has always know. He just never dared to let it show because it would make it all worse.

[krowbby]

never not thinking about this exchange btw