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[valtsv]

i literally cannot be bothered to even try to come up with any interest whatsoever for a group of fictional characters unless them becoming a found family is endgame like i’m sorry but if you expect me to emotionally invest myself in any of them when there’s no chance of them doing the same then you’re asking too much

[valtsv]

[tenniles]

oh cass

[utopians]

I have become obsessed with long term nuclear waste disposal warnings

[utopians]

LOOK AT THE HOSTILE ARCHITECTURE PROPOSED TO WARN FUTURE CIVILIZATIONS I'M GOING TO CRY

Like this is the closest thing we're ever gonna have to old gods I'm really losing my mind

[utopians]

@jonathan-sins​ EXACTLY... THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKIN ABOUT BABY

[anais-ninja-bitch]

"we sure are a species huh"

[archliches]

this fails to include all of the UN's proposed companion text, which reads:

"This place is a message... and part of a system of messages ...pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor ... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited."

which gives a nice drizzle of cosmic-dread inspiring je-ne-sais-quoi to te whole thing imo

[aurorajay]

[writeouswriter]

Someone: So what is your novel? Middle grade? YA? Adult? NA?

Me:

[steampunktendencies]

Cool

[lmaonade]

was playing session, i haven’t figured out how to fullstop in this game yet and i hit the wall with impeccable music timing 

[android-spider]

:)

[daxtri]

Wish-Ender

[sherlollydramoine]

Out of curiosity, to my coffee drinker followers, which is your choice? I’m between E and F

[headspace-hotel]

Literally none of my story ideas come with a plot, ever. WITHOUT FAIL, it’s always just an Aesthetic, like two and a half characters, some very, very vivid settings, and a weird concept. Never plot. Not even an inkling of a plot. My brain tosses me this cool stuff and is like welp i’ll be back in 4-5 business months 

[avelera]

Gah, sorry for the unsolicited advice here, but this used to be my biggest problem in writing original stuff and I have a few techniques that might help?

- There’s the quick and dirty “Only 36 plots exist, pick your favorite” or seven basic plots for a more recent example (there’s a bunch of these lists fyi)- Remember, every archetype has been done before so don’t worry about originality. What makes it original is your creator brain + your fav archetypes (character and plot), shake well and boom, you have a story. 

- Plots are about getting from point A to point B to achieve a goal and/or change the character. Most of the time when you “have a character but no plot” it’s because you’re conceiving of the character in their sort of “Platonic Ideal” middle state rather than picking out a trait that’s going to change or improve over the course of your story. If a character is brave, consider showing the arc/journey of how they went from fearful to brave, if they’re in love show how they fell in love, if they’ve got some amazing magic power, how did they gain that power? Or in reverse, how did this character start out perfect and then crumble (presumably to be put back together older and wiser than before)?

- Plots also come about by knowing what your character wants and putting them in opposition to a character who wants something that opposes it. Charlie Chaplin said all he needed to make a movie was a guy in love, a pretty girl, and a figure of authority who gets in the way. Characters clash when they want different or conflicting things (saving the world vs. destroying the world, in the macro, but on the micro it could be kid sneaking out to see bf/gf gets stopped by parents who want them to stay in. Boom, that’s a conflict.). Think of what your character wants, now envision what gets in the way of them getting it. Seeing how a character fails or succeeds to overcome an obstacle tends to make us love characters. How many obstacles can you throw in your character’s way to getting what they want before they get it at the end of the story (or fail to and now it’s literary :P)?

- Remember, all aspects of your story should serve your story. Aesthetics are all well and good and are an important part of the story but also ask how it serves the story. Ex. It’s all well and good to have a nifty magic system, but how does it impact the journey that the character or the goal of the story is based around? In “My Hero Academia” we see a world where superheroes are now 80% of the population so we get lots of nifty powers, but those are all just floating in space when it comes to the story if it’s not tied to the main character Deku, his own struggle with not having powers, how he gains them, and how he grows and uses them across various episodic encounters as the story progresses, each of which have a central physical goal that needs to be achieved and a central emotional lesson Deku learns over the course of that episode. Deku desperately wants to become a hero, therefore a superhero aesthetic world is ideally suited to his story, and vice versa. Which character or goal is ideally suited to express your aesthetic, the arc of your character in a way that expresses the aspect of them you find most interesting, or what goal can you place (emotional or physical) that will best express one of these?

[spiderrrling]

I am a(n):

⚪ Male

⚪ Female

🔘 Writer

Looking for

⚪ Boyfriend

⚪ Girlfriend

🔘 An incredibly specific word that I can't remember

[what-even-is-thiss]

*wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat*

WAIT IT’S CALLED A THROW PILLOW

[holorifle]

here is a super helpful website for this kinda thing!

the first result isn’t always the one you’re looking for but when you press enter it’ll give you a ton of words related to your query that’ll probably have what you’re wanting, or something better

here’s some examples:

[allthingsschwab]

Victoria Schwab Tweets:

“This just in: you can love writing and also find it hard.

“I was once on a panel and another author essentially said, ‘if you don't enjoy every moment, then why are you here?’ and I was...exasperated. Creativity is a complicated beast. You don't have to love every second to be a valid participant.

“I love the ideas. I love brainstorming, and problem-solving, and I love making this better, fine-tuning language.

“I also hate drafting, claw my way through self-doubt, crawl on my hands and knees through the frustration of the unrealized.

“I'm not here because I love every second.

“I'm here because the parts I love are worth the rest.”

[sylviaritter]

Speedpainting 04082019.

Created with Krita. Copyright © 2019 Sylvia Ritter. www.sylvia-ritter.com, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. 

[gemkimart]

[zennore]

Before Shadowkeep, my only knowledge of Eris Morn was from Tumblr and YouTube. I liked her then, I love her now. 

Compared to everyone else, (and this is just my opinion), she sounds like she actually care if something happened to you. She doesn’t take or give blame where it’s not deserving. She doesn’t abuse privileges. She fair; soft spoken when she can afford to and harsh when she needs to. Is clear when stating boundaries. Efficient, to the point, down to business. I really really like her. 

These are all wallpaper sizes, so feel free to use them. :) 

[crabfag]

I'm not goblin myself but this feels like peak goblin to me...think of all the things you can fit in this baby...think of the ease of gathering...the power...