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a gun holster is more or less functionally the same as lingerie
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thatndginger ยท 20 hours
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yall all have your favorite victor hugo quotes and thats nice but why does no one ever talk about โ€œThere is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.โ€ cause, thats a pretty dope line
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thatndginger ยท 22 hours
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thatndginger ยท 23 hours
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an angel
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thatndginger ยท 2 days
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was gonna try to write while doing laundry tonight
except there's fucKING COPS IN THE LAUNDROMAT WHAT THE FUCK
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thatndginger ยท 2 days
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Everyone talks about the joys of someone else being super invested in your OCs and while this undoubtedly feels absolutely awesome, I think there's also something to be said about the joy of being invested in someone else's OCs too. There's just vibes you get out of some people's casts of characters that you can't get anywhere else with their own unique flavor from that person, and they're just sitting there in relative obscurity spawned completely out of someone's mind with no media involvement or anything. Special kind of feeling
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on one side, I have been absolutely killing it at work. I can feel the promotion coming and that sweet, sweet raise
on the other. I've had a migraine for almost a week now. cryptid thinks it's my body still coming down from the antibiotics because I have the immune system of a sickly victorian waif on a good day
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thatndginger ยท 2 days
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that whole "make your characters want things" does so much work for you in a story, even if what your characters want is stupid and irrelevant, because how people go about pursuing their desires tells you about them as a person.
do they actually move toward what they desire? how far are they willing to go for it? do they pursue their desires directly or indirectly? do they acquire what they desire through force, trickery, or negotiation? do they tell themselves they aren't supposed to feel desire and suppress it? does the suppressed desire wither away and die, or does it mutate and grow even stronger? is the initially expressed desire actually an inadequate and poorly translated different desire that they lack language for? does the desire change once the language has been updated, or when new experiences outline the desire more clearly? do they want something else once they have better words for it, or once they know that they definitely don't want something they thought they wanted before?
how does the world accommodate those desires? what does the world present to your character and in what order to update and clarify their desires? how does your magic system or sci-fi device correspond to those desires and the pursuit of them?
there's so much good story meat on those bones; you just have to be brave and decisive enough to let characters want specific things instead of letting them float in the current of the plot.
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thatndginger ยท 2 days
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"I can fix him" good for you. I need to craft a scenario in which he betters himself, to prove to myself that I can meaningfully atone despite how much of myself I see in him.
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thatndginger ยท 3 days
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The thirst trap the people truly want
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thatndginger ยท 3 days
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media with healing magic really ought to get more in the weeds about it tbh
get kinda Icky and Medical about it, how does the healer stitch flesh and blood vessels and nerve endings back together, does it hurt when those nerves reconnect? is it euphoric? is it a little bit of both?
if the healer can manipulate the living body like that, what stops them doing it in reverse? can a sufficiently skilled healer yank the nerves out through a victim's pores?
if 'necromancy' exists as a concept in the setting: how is that any different? should it be? is schlorping a severed limb back onto its owner's body _really_ meaningfully different from resurrecting the whole body as some kind of undead creature?
can healing magic be used to do ~weird shit~ with the endocrine system of a person? could a healer just juice someone with a shitload of estrogen, for fun or pleasure?
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thatndginger ยท 3 days
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It's good and cool to give your characters a single simple, straightforward, non-urgent, super-achievable goal that shouldn't really cost anything or hurt anyone, make that the driving factor for most of their decisions, and then have the Plot do everything in its power to stop them.
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thatndginger ยท 4 days
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i love these lunatics so much
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another pretty snowy day, another round of photos. I'm much happier with the technical quality of these, but let's be honest dog photos are always good ^.^
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another pretty snowy day, another round of photos. I'm much happier with the technical quality of these, but let's be honest dog photos are always good ^.^
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โ”€ Evening Scene with Full Moon and Personsย by Abraham Pether (1801)
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