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i still sometimes genuinely can’t believe that in the episode susan sarandon said, “I have no doubt that you would be bored senseless by therapy — the same way I’m bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass. Because the thing about repairing, maintaining, and cleaning is; it’s not an adventure. There’s no way to do it so wrong you might die. It’s just work, and the bottom line is, some people are okay going to work, and some people… Well, some people would rather die. Each of us gets to choose.” rabid fanboys chose to focus on rick turnin g himself into a goddamn pickle.
"Shouldn't the man who invented the iPhone own his own creation?"
An explanation by anti-capitalist brad pitt.
Five: Who broke the timeline? I’m not mad. I just wanna know.
Vanya: I did. I broke it.
Five: No. No, you didn’t. Diego?
Diego: Don’t look at me. Look at Luther!
Luther: What?! I didn’t break it.
Diego: Huh. That’s weird. Why're you working for Jack Ruby then?
Luther: Because you're stalking Lee Harvey Oswald!
Diego: Suspicious.
Luther: No, it’s not!
Klaus: If it matters, probably not… Allison's been very involved in local politics.
Allison: Liar! You started a cult!
Klaus: Oh really? Then what were you doing at the diner earlier?
Allison: I was doing a sit in! Everyone knows that!
Vanya: All right, let’s not fight. I broke it, let me fix it.
Five: No. Who broke it?
Klaus: Five, Ben's been awfully quiet…
Ben: Really?!
Klaus: Yeah, really!
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Five: I broke it. I met my past self and I punched him. I predict ten minutes from now, they’ll be at each other’s throats with warpaint on their faces and Pogo's head on a stick.
Five: Good. It was getting a little chummy around here.
dark academic YA + adult books, for the reader who doesn’t enjoy the old classics:
the raven cycle — maggie stiefvater (YA)
welsh kings, magic forests, obsessive research, private schools.
wilder girls — rory power (YA)
lord of the flies retelling, all-girls boarding school, remote island.
six of crows — leigh bardugo (YA)
murder, crime, heists, magic.
truly devious — maureen johnson (YA)
murder mystery, eccentric students, elite boarding school, 1900s
the night circus — erin morgenstern (A)
magical circus, mysterious psychics, mind games, star crossed love.
the diviners — libba bray (YA)
1920s new york city, wlw + mlm rep, ace rep, occult magic, mysterious museums
vicious — v.e. schwab (A)
an experiment gone wrong, blackout poetry, rivals, strange powers
the cruel prince — holly black (YA)
FAERIES, enemies to lovers, political power struggles, another magic forest
station eleven — emily st. john mandel (A)
shakespeare, thespians, post-apocalyptic wasteland
serpent & dove — shelby mahurin (YA)
witches, french backdrop, 1880s, enemies to lovers, WITCHES
feel free to add on!
A lil powerpoint of book recs!!!
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I really hate when ppl excuse sexist costume design by saying “oh that’s what the character is choosing to wear” as if the writer/designer/director isn’t the person ultimately making that choice
but that being said, esme gigi geniveve squalor is the one character who I’m like “yeah that checks out, it is actually in character for her to always have a ridiculous boob window”
one of the best pieces of writing advice i’ve ever gotten:
if a scene isn’t working, change the weather.
it sounds stupid, but seriously, it works. thank u to my screenwriting professor for this wisdom
Hey this is important!
Hating on m/f ships does not make you “progressive”.
Hating on people who ship boys and girls just because it’s not gay does not make you “better”.
If, let’s say, a boy character who showed interest in both boys and girls, ends up with a girl, it’s not called “hetero bullshit”.
If, let’s say, a trans woman character ends up with a guy, nobody has the right to say “this character does not belong in the community because she’s straight”.
Bi, pan, ace and trans people exist in the lgbt community.
The lgbt community is not a club for gay people only.
It’s possible to be gay and still be biphobic, panphobic, acephobic and transphobic.
This is appearently considered controversial by some people so please reblog if you agree!
i love laura moon so much just because she is the biggest ‘fuck you’ to the refridgerated woman trope, aka that cliche where the male hero is (briefly) grieved over the loss of his beloved and saint-like mother/sister/girlfriend/wife only to have that woman’s death serve as a launching point for his story arc. like american gods starts and you think it’s the usual ‘perfect wife is killed leading male protagonist to seek revenge/purpose’ but no, no she isn’t perfect, she’s actually easily unlikeable, but more importantly she makes a literal return from the grave in order to be an active part of the story and to act as more than just an extension of the male protagonist.
Internal Conflict: Five Conflicting Traits of a Likable Hero.
1. Flaws and Virtues
I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but characters without flaws are boring. This does not, as many unfortunate souls take it to mean, imply that good, kind, or benevolent characters are boring: it just means that without any weaknesses for you to poke at, they tend to be bland-faced wish fulfillment on the part of the author, with a tendency to just sit there without contributing much to the plot.
For any character to be successful, they need to have a proportionate amount of flaws and virtues.
Let’s take a look at Stranger Things, for example, which is practically a smorgasbord of flawed, lovable sweethearts.
We have Joyce Byers, who is strung out and unstable, yet tirelessly works to save her son, even when all conventional logic says he’s dead; We have Officer Hopper, who is drunken and occasionally callous, yet ultimately is responsible for saving the boy’s life; We have Jonathan, who is introspective and loving, but occasionally a bit of a creeper, and Nancy, who is outwardly shallow but proves herself to be a strong and determined character. Even Steve, who would conventionally be the popular jerk who gets his comeuppance, isn’t beyond redemption.
And of course, we have my beloved Eleven, who’s possibly the closest thing Stranger Things has to a “quintessential” heroine. She’s the show’s most powerful character, as well as one of the most courageous. However, she is also the show’s largest source of conflict, as it was her powers that released the Demogorgon to begin with.
Would Eleven be a better character if this had never happened? Would Stranger Things be a better show? No, because if this had never happened, Stranger Things wouldn’t even be a show. Or if it was, it would just be about a bunch of cute kids sitting around and playing Dungeons and Dragons in a relatively peaceful town.
A character’s flaws and mistakes are intended to drive the plotline, and if they didn’t have them, there probably wouldn’t even be a plot.
So don’t be a mouth-breather: give your good, kind characters some difficult qualities, and give your villains a few sympathetic ones. Your work will thank you for it.
2. Charisma and Vulnerability
Supernatural has its flaws, but likable leads are not one of them. Fans will go to the grave defending their favorite character, consuming and producing more character-driven, fan-created content than most other TV shows’ followings put together.
So how do we inspire this kind of devotion with our own characters? Well, for starters, let’s take a look at one of Supernatural’s most quintessentially well-liked characters: Dean Winchester.
From the get-go, we see that Dean has charisma: he’s confident, cocky, attractive, and skilled at what he does. But these qualities could just as easily make him annoying and obnoxious if they weren’t counterbalanced with an equal dose of emotional vulnerability.
As the show progresses, we see that Dean cares deeply about the people around him, particularly his younger brother, to the point of sacrificing himself so that he can live. He goes through long periods of physical and psychological anguish for his benefit (though by all means, don’t feel obligated to send your main character to Hell for forty years), and the aftermath is depicted in painful detail.
Moreover, in spite of his outward bravado, we learn he doesn’t particularly like himself, doesn’t consider himself worthy of happiness or a fulfilling life, and of course, we have the Single Man Tear™.
So yeah, make your characters beautiful, cocky, sex gods. Give them swagger. Just, y’know. Hurt them in equal measure. Torture them. Give them insecurities. Make them cry.
Just whatever you do, let them be openly bisexual. Subtext is so last season.
3. Goals For the Future and Regrets From the Past
Let’s take a look at Shadow Moon from American Gods. (For now, I’ll have to be relegate myself to examples from the book, because I haven’t had the chance to watch the amazing looking TV show.)
Right off the bat, we learn that Shadow has done three years in prison for a crime he may or may not have actually committed. (We learn later that he actually did commit the crime, but that it was only in response to being wronged by the true perpetrators.)
He’s still suffering the consequences of his actions when we meet him, and arguably, for the most of the book: because he’s in prison, his wife has an affair (I still maintain that Laura could have resisted the temptation to be adulterous if she felt like it, but that’s not the issue here) and is killed while mid-coital with his best friend.
Shadow is haunted by this for the rest of the book, to the point at which it bothers him more than the supernatural happenings surrounding him.
Even before that, the more we learn about Shadow’s past, the more we learn about the challenges he faced: he was bullied as a child, considered to be “just a big, dumb guy” as an adult, and is still wrongfully pursued for crimes he was only circumstantially involved in.
But these difficulties make the reader empathize with Shadow, and care about what happens to him. We root for Shadow as he tags along with the mysterious and alternatively peckish and charismatic Wednesday, and as he continuously pursues a means to permanently bring Laura back to life.
He has past traumas, present challenges, and at least one goal that propels him towards the future. It also helps that he’s three-dimensional, well-written, and as of now, portrayed by an incredibly attractive actor.
Of course (SPOILER ALERT), Shadow never does succeed in fully resurrecting Laura, ultimately allowing her to rest instead, but that doesn’t make the resolution any less satisfying.
Which leads to my next example…
4. Failure and Success
You remember in Zootopia, when Judy Hopps decides she wants to be cop and her family and town immediately and unanimously endorse her efforts? Or hey, do you remember Harry Potter’s idyllic childhood with his kindhearted, adoptive family? Oh! Or in the X-Files, when Agent Mulder presents overwhelming evidence of extraterrestrial life in the first episode and is immediately given a promotion? No?
Yeah, me neither. And there’s a reason for this: ff your hero gets what they want the entire time, it will be a boring, two-dimensional fantasy that no one will want to read.
A good story is not about the character getting what they want. A good story is about the character’s efforts and their journey. The destination they reach could be something far removed from what they originally thought they wanted, and could be no less (if not more so) satisfying because of it.
Let’s look at Toy Story 3, for example: throughout the entire movie, Woody’s goal is to get his friends back to their longtime owner, Andy, so that they can accompany him to college. He fails miserably. None of his friends believe that Andy was trying to put them in the attic, insisting that his intent was to throw them away. He is briefly separated from them as he is usurped by a cute little girl and his friends are left at a tyrannical daycare center, but with time and effort, they’re reunited, Woody is proven right, and things seem to be back on track.
Do his efforts pay off? Yes – just not in the way he expected them to. At the end of the movie, a college-bound Andy gives the toys away to a new owner who will play with them more than he will, and they say goodbye. Is the payoff bittersweet? Undoubtedly. It made me cry like a little bitch in front of my young siblings. But it’s also undoubtedly satisfying.
So let your characters struggle. Let them fail. And let them not always get what they want, so long as they get what they need.
5. Loving and Being Loved by Others
Take a look back at this list, and all the characters on it: a gaggle of small town kids and flawed adults, demon-busting underwear models, an ex-con and his dead wife, and a bunch of sentient toys. What do they have in common? Aside from the fact that they’re all well-loved heroes of their own stories, not much.
But one common element they all share is they all have people they care about, and in turn, have people who care about them.
This allows readers and viewers to empathize with them possibly more than any of the other qualities I’ve listed thus far, as none of it means anything without the simple demonstration of human connection.
Let’s take a look at everyone’s favorite caped crusader, for example: Batman in the cartoons and the comics is an easy to love character, whereas in the most recent movies (excluding the splendid Lego Batman Movie), not so much.
Why is this? In all adaptions, he’s the same mentally unstable, traumatized genius in a bat suit. In all adaptions, he demonstrates all the qualities I listed before this: he has flaws and virtues, charisma and vulnerability, regrets from the past and goals for the future, and usually proportionate amounts of failure and success.
What makes the animated and comic book version so much more attractive than his big screen counterpart is the fact that he does one thing right that all live action adaptions is that he has connections and emotional dependencies on other people.
He’s unabashed in caring for Alfred, Batgirl, and all the Robins, and yes, he extends compassion and sympathy to the villains as well, helping Harley Quinn to ultimately escape a toxic and abusive relationship, consoling Baby Doll, and staying with a child psychic with godlike powers until she died.
Cartoon Batman is not afraid to care about others. He has a support network of people who care about him, and that’s his greatest strength. The DC CU’s ever darker, grittier, and more isolated borderline sociopath is failing because he lacks these things.
And it’s also one of the reasons that the Lego Batman Movie remains so awesome.
God willing, I will be publishing fresh writing tips every week, so be sure to follow my blog and stay tuned for future advice and observations!
How do your character(s) sleep?
Do they go to bed early or stay up late?
When they say they’re “going to bed” do they actually mean they’re going to sleep or do they mean they’re going to read/play on their phone/etc in bed for a while?
What do they wear when they sleep? (if anything at all)
Do they watch/listen to anything to help them fall asleep?
Do they sleep with a night light on or prefer total darkness?
What position do they sleep in?
Do they cuddle/snuggle with anything while they sleep?
Do they have insomnia or do they fall asleep easily?
How many hours of sleep do they get?
Are they a heavy sleeper or a light sleeper?
Love, Simon (2018): After getting kicked out of the Gay Bar (Deleted Scene) dir. Greg Berlanti
- Rick Riordan.
That man.
Movies I think fit into the DA aesthetic
- Dead Poet’s Society
- Kill Your Darlings
- A Beautiful Mind
- Black Swan
- Midnight in Paris
- Rope (1948)
- Maurice
- The Great Gatsby
- The Dreamers
- Talented Mr Ripley
- The Da Vinci Code
- Cracks
- Suspiria
-Vertgio
- Dial M For Murder
- Amelie
- Knives Out
- Clue (1985)
- Mother!
- Riot Club
- Mulholland Drive
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Anna Karenina
- Call Me By Your Name
- See You Up There
- Any Agatha Christie movie
- Manhattan Murder Mystery
- Colette
- The Prestige
- Another Country
- Zodiac
- Uncorked
- Only Lovers Left Alive
Equally Incomplete: A Jeff x Britta Fan Mix that incarnates the addictive, seductive and destructive relationship between two flawed people.
A War in Your Bedroom - A Change of Pace | Not Your Fault - Awolnation | I Can Talk - Two Door Cinema Club | Nicotine - Panic! at the Disco | Post Break Up Sex - The Vaccines | Portions For Foxes - Rilo Kiley | Love Love Love - Of Mice and Men | Maps - The Front Bottoms | What You Know - Two Door Cinema Club | Chained - The XX | Skeptics and True Believers - The Academy Is | Lying is the Most Fun - Panic! at the Disco | Still - Daughter | Stolen Dance - Milky Chance | Short Skirt, Long Jacket - Cake | Would You Be My Fucking Boyfriend - The Bird and The Bee | Girls and Boys in School - Neon Trees | Desire - Meg Myers | Leave the Lights On - Meiko | Love You Madly - Cake | White Lines and Lipstick - A Change of Pace | Checkmarks - The Academy Is | The Curse of Curves - Cute is What We Aim For | Tear You Apart - She Wants Revenge
⭐— url inspired gifset: @clarkesplaylist (find the actual playlist here)