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I don’t know if my ex roommate still follows me on here but on the off chance she sees this I would just like her to know that she was right about me having an uncanny similarity to Jonathan Sims. And not in the cool “I’m a spooky archivist way and I can read your mind!” Way, but more in a “this joke isn’t funny anymore I am genuinely worried that I too am doomed by the narrative.”

#I have a list of canon events in TMA that run perfect parallels with my life #none are fun

Put down the Love Song Of Alfred Pisscock and pick up some Bukowski. Learn to read the lyrics of bitch

On the day that Charlie Kirk was shot and killed I made a lot of progress in developing the magic system for a universe I’m creating as a thought experiment and then I forgot literally everything about it because of the good news. HOWEVER now I’m trying to figure out what the fuck I was thinking when I made this.

#writers on tumblr #world building #if anyone has any theories let me know because I’m just as confused as you #also America is governed by facists

No one gets the cosmic horror of being trans like the presocratics.

#yeesh

FUCK ELEATIC MONISM!

#probably Empedocles at some point

I gotta find some stuff out about the Paris catacombs.

#it’ll amount to something I’m sure

Due to absolutely no popular demand, I’ve returned. But I’m older now and failing in ways you could never fathom so that m

super-into-on-it

Junya Watanabe | Fall 2000

biihanka

He has a sadness in his eyes you only see in eastern european gay porn

twinwound

mary shelley writing about a monster rejected and abandoned by its creator and dedicating it to her own father i need to smoke a blunt with her i need to give her head

aethersea

if you’re ever in doubt about what pov to write a scene from, a good rule of thumb is to pick the person who knows the least about what’s going on. lots of pros!

you automatically have some level of tension in the scene, as they either struggle to figure out what’s happening or completely fail to notice it

if they know as much or barely more than the reader, the reader is learning things alongside them, which will help make exposition feel more natural

if they know less than the reader you now have dramatic irony! great for humor and/or agonizing tension

helps you keep secrets from the reader longer, since your pov character doesn’t know them either. (I mean you could also just carefully omit major info and pretend you thought it was obvious. see the Queen’s Thief series for several examples that span a whole novel!)

helps add a fun little mystery for the reader as they try to figure out those secrets (fun little mysteries are great attention hooks!)

“what’s going on” can mean anything btw, it could be the plot or the worldbuilding or another character’s motivation or the location of the buried treasure.

for best results, think about what each character in the scene wants to get out of this scene, and then pick the pov of the person who has least control over/knowledge of whether they get what they want. failing that, figure out which character has the most important secret that’s affecting the course of the scene, and write from the pov of someone who doesn’t know the secret. (the secret can be stuff like “I’m in love with you,” “I’m a spy for the spider queen,” “I’m the one who stole the muffins,” just whatever’s adding an undercurrent of tension to the conversation.)

this rule won’t be right for every occasion and you should trust your gut, but it’s served me well for years, so I encourage all you writers to consider it when figuring out how to approach a scene :)