Is Untitled a Title?

29 M enjoyer of things. I'm here to appreciate art, overanalyze, and do bits.

[actual22plus]

I'm a little mad that Mechablazer is a ship name from Dispatch instead of Tori Rivas' codename

[zoestorm]

Hey I have a question for y'all.

From where you are right now, could you reach the nearest sea or ocean by foot in less than a day?

Yes

No

Voting ended onApr 30

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[nooneinnportant]

She's a ten, but she drags you in an alley in the middle of the night, kills 4 thieves in front of you, and then says that you should think upon this valuable lesson™.

She's still a ten.

[emily-e-draws]

They say the captain of the royal guard has the queen of Hyrule’s ear.. 🫢

[cosmerelists]

How Cosmere Characters Would End an Over-Long Phone Call

You know how in movies/TV shows, characters who want to get out of a phone call always pretend they're going through a tunnel? That's the kind of thing I'm picturing--Cosmere characters are in an awkward or overly long phone call, and they want to get off it. Fast.

1. Renarin: I-I must go! The visions...!

2. Sarene: Oh! I have a call on the other line. I sure hope I don't accidentally hang up while I'm switching lines! [hangs up]

3. Navani: Just a head's up--I'm activating a fabrial that may cut us off. [hangs up]

4. Dusk: I have run out of words. Goodbye.

5. Shallan: [as Veil] Oh, sorry. Shallan isn't here right now.

6. Veil: [as Radiant] Oh, sorry. Veil isn't here right now.

7. Radiant [as Shallan]: Oh, sorry. Radiant isn't here right now.

8. Wax: I think I hear Harmony on my other earring. Gotta go.

9. Vin: I think I hear my dead brother on my other earring. Gotta go.

10. Rlain: [gradually making the Rhythm of Irritation louder & louder]

11. Sazed: [politely] Well, I think I should let you go...

12. Steris: [consulting her list of plausible excuses] Ah, I'm afraid I need to...feed the baby. We will talk again soon.

13. Lift: Here. I think Wyndle wants to talk to you now.

14. Lightsong: Here. I think Scoot wants to talk to you now.

15. Dalinar: [abruptly] That is all. Goodbye.

16. Ulaam: [humming as he sets the phone next to a detached ear and then fully leaves the room]

17. Kaladin: Uh oh! I think I'm flying...into...a...storm...! [Syl making "whoosh" noises] Can't...hear...you! [hangs up]

(Sometimes the classics are the best.)

[actual22plus]

18. Jasnah: you hear a dial tone. She is already gone.

19. Hoid: Hoid had enough stories and insults stored up that he can carefully calculate how to make *you* hang up.

20. Ranette: Shoots off a gun near the phone

21. Nomad: Smahses his phone. He spends a lot of money on phones

[teaboot]

out of interest as a writer, could you give an example for:

UNLESS☝️as a poetic consequence of something either character themselves inadvertently put into motion

oooh, like

Syndrome in The Incredibles: He could have taken the L, but instead chose to kidnap the heroes’ son, resulting in his cape sucking him into a jet engine, which calls back to Edna’s insistence on heroes not wearing capes for safety reasons- this death symbolically reinforces that Syndrome is not a hero (wears a cape where Edna won’t let a hero do) and is instead obsessed with the APPEARANCE of being one (wearing a cape like a hero in a comic book).

He is not a hero, he is a villain who makes villainous choices to make himself look heroic, and he dooms himself on both counts. If he had any interest in actually BEING a hero- in ACTUALLY putting himself in danger- he would know how risky a cape IS (literally AND symbolically) and as such would not have had one to begin with.

In this case, the villain dying without being directly killed, is not a cop-out: it’s poetic tragedy. The existence of the cape that kills him is a symptom of his fatal flaw- if it wasn’t there, he wouldn’t be doomed, but if it wasn’t there, it would be because he lacked the flaw that led him to his death. The caper represents the trappings of a heroic image without substance. Syndrome pursues the trappings while lacking the substance. The trappings then trap him.

Now if he had, say, just been hit by a car or something for comedic effect? In a way totally divorced from his choices and actions? Cop-out. Absurd. The message goes from “the appearance of heroism is not the same as heroism- a real hero is a hero because of who they choose to be, not how they look” to “choices are meaningless and some people are just irredeemable assholes we shouldn’t give a shit about, the universe is random and at the same time judgemental of sin, bad things happen because you are a bad person and you cannot fight it”.

THAT is an EXCELLENT example of “hero can’t kill” and “villain can’t be stopped” where “villain dies anyways” is justified, imo, because it MEANS something.

It was avoidable. The villain doomed himself. He didn’t just die because he had to, because there were no other ways to wrap the story up. He did it to himself. It could have happened today or in twenty years, but he made it happen, because the flaws that made him a villain are the same flaws that caused his death.

Just one fantastic example of the importance of the villain’s takedown to the overall story

[actual22plus]

I find it incredibly ironic how Tyranny attempting to disguise herself as Octis got her immediately found out, while Octis as simply himself with a different name is immediately suspected of being either Wick or Tyranny in disguise

[actual22plus]

"I will help, but my help is weird and bad" - Aabria Iyengar, Flight of the Icaron ep. 2

[randomwordzard]

the ladies call me a verb the way I'm irregular, tense, and moody

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you’ll achieve the most you can if you go at your own pace

[tired-stressed-trying-my-best]

[imall4frogs]

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences—each straining in its own direction—have hitherto harmed us little. But someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality and of our frightful position therein that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”

—H.P. Lovecraft (from The Call of Cthulhu)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Hate it when you have An Appointment in a few days and you're like well now I have no time to do anything at all because there is An Appointment in my future

[noahverrier]

My oil painting of a grilled cheese sandwich

[sioltach]

[pipshinwhatever]

Knuckles' "character flaws" are like. He's too trusting he's too sincere he's too devoted he's too kind. And sonics character flaws are like well he's really annoying

[shadow-von-vamp]

[funbearer]

[authortobenamedlater]

French Silk, PB cup, fudge. I have a type. And a problem.

[actual22plus]

Blueberry, Key Lime, and Peanut butter

[drewhayesalyzer]

Lucy | Hat Trick deserves more appreciation. Shout out to the girl with the cute magicians outfit and a crush on her leader she works with everyday. You were chosen for your looks and yet you keep being incredible on the regular.