BertBBaggins

[bertbbaggins]

I saw @lunarkitten97’s post for

Find the Word Tag!

Find the given words in your WIP and share the passage!

My words were: allowed, silent, starve, and hope!

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Allowed:

For a moment, he was worried they wouldn’t let him in. One of the guards pulled his hood back slightly, not enough to reveal him but enough to inspect his face and hair. A moment passed, Dinrel holding his breath and hoping they wouldn’t make a scene. Finally, the man nodded and pulled the hood back into place. Dinrel released his breath. He would be allowed in.

The man who had pulled back his hood leaned in and whispered, “Left side, second alcove. She’ll be waiting.”

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Silent:

Dane nodded quietly and wandered off to get a couple more mugs, leaving Holm alone with his thoughts. The room was quiet. Not the eerie quiet he’d felt a few weeks ago, just… quiet. He realized he hadn’t heard the voice since the night before. Normally he heard it multiple times a day, but today… it was silent.

Had Uile given up? Had He accepted that Holm wouldn’t go? If it even was Uile. He cursed under his breath. He wasn’t sure anymore. He wouldn’t end up like Varrell. He wouldn’t.

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Starve:

Crassus spent roughly an hour combing through the ruins looking for whatever he could find. The place was mostly empty; either the people living here had taken very good care to bring all their belongings with them, or scavengers had come through to scrape the place clean. Possibly a combination of the two. He did manage to find a tarnished brass plate, a rusty knife, and two arents buried in the dirt bearing the mark of Corvinitan, as well as a bit of graffiti carved into the stone, most of which was made up of crude remarks about soldiers’ mothers and the like.

There were no bones in the ruins. It wasn’t uncommon for soldiers to be trapped in a fort and starve, but for them to just up and leave… it was unheard of. Crassus shook his head and made his way toward the entrance of the building- which he had decided was almost definitely a home- to begin sketching his findings.

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Hope:

“It’s been a while since this place has had a good ball,” Taylyrr said, gazing out at the room. “I look forward to the one you said my sister is planning.” He turned to Tireus again, grinning mockingly. “It’ll be nice to see the two of you dancing like you did when you first met.”

Tireus cringed. “I did have two left feet back then, didn’t I? I hope you never see me dance like that again.”

Taylyrr had begun to eat. “I have most certainly seen enough of that for one lifetime,” he said between mouthfuls. “Really, though,” he continued, “I do look forward to seeing Rendi again. I haven’t seen him in years, not since the last time you called a council meeting. I’ve exchanged letters with him occasionally, but Uile above, that man does not know how to write. Clearly his parents never saw fit to hire a tutor for handwriting. Anyway, he always manages to make a game of deathtoll interesting. I’ll most certainly have to slip out and get a game going with him and some of the others during the ball. You’re welcome to join us, if you like.”

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If you’d like to continue the next round your words are: exhausted, bread, locks, and forgotten.

I tag: anyone who sees this post (I don’t have many mutuals so that’s all I got)

[byoldervine]

I cannot stress this enough; let your first draft contain things that won’t make it to the end product

Not only will that help prepare you for when it’s time to cut and edit things you were attached to, but it’s also a great way to make the whole process more fun and engaging while also freeing yourself up to creative exploration. Looking back on my writing for editing purposes only to find a silly little tidbit keeps me reading more consciously

[probablybadrpgideas]

Cool Additional Rays For Prismatic Spray

Brown: On a failed save, the target is banished to another campaign run by a different GM. Off the player goes!

Crimson: Exactly the same as the Red Ray but the fire damage is 30% more pretentious.

Black: You can't have a black ray of light. Black's the absence of light, remember? Come the fuck on. Get your head in the game.

Smaragdine: On a failed save, the target is stunned until it can find a computer and look up what colour "Smaragdine" is.

Pink: Yay! On a failed save, the target is filled with joy and whimsy for 3 turns! Then it takes 100d100 damage of every type.

Turquoise: On a failed save, the target is stunned. It must then make a Constitution saving throw at the end of each of its turns. If it successfully saves three times, the spell ends. If it fails its save three times, it permanently turns into Sheldon Cooper. The successes and failures don't need to be consecutive; keep track of both until the target collects three of a kind.

Grey: On a failed save, absolutely nothing happens.

[phoenixofthegreenwood]

Here's a question for all my fellow writers. How many characters have you killed of in your stories? Sometimes it feels like we writers are always killing them off, but do you have an actual number? Don't think to much into it, just a rough number is fine.

Luckily I'm currently at 0, unless you count some civilian casualties from battles. But I have killed off a few other characters in currently unpublished works, and have many more planned in future stories :)

[bertbbaggins]

Technically 1 but if you only read what I’ve written so far 2

[bertbbaggins]

So I live in the country, and as such, work as a ranch hand, doing menial tasks for decent pay. Today, my job was mowing and weedeating, which, if you don’t know, are a couple of very mind-numbing chores. This, combined with the fact that I left my headphones at home and had no music to drown out the thoughts, meant I had plenty of time to think and plan for my upcoming D&D session this weekend. And a few things occurred to me:

1. Nobody in my group has seen or listened to Critical Role.

2. Our party’s rogue has an almost identical backstory to Percy (enemy house took out his family and kidnapped his sister forcing him into hiding until he can bring justice to his foes).

3. I need a few quests to get the party from level 5 to level 9.

Those three thoughts caused my two backwater country boy brain cells to rub together and come to a single conclusion: I could very easily steal the entire Briarwood arc from Critical Role. Who’s going to stop me? Nobody I know except the rogue’s player’s mom knows anything about the show. I can plagiarize all I want and they’ll never know.

So here’s what I’m thinking: The party is currently on a mission to retrieve some magic items from a tomb after being hired by the owner of a magic shop in a small village. When they return to said village, the locals are throwing a feast for the return of the rogue’s house. The duke of the enemy house (accompanied by our fighter’s old enemy because we can’t have only one backstory be relevant) rolls through town and, misunderstanding the reason for the feasting, assumes the townsfolk are celebrating the union of his son and the rogue’s sister. He may or may not see the rogue depending on how the party plays it out but hopefully that inspires the party to go crash the wedding. And also the duke turns out to be a werebear as opposed to a vampire like Silas Briarwood. Voila, awesome questline.

[writing-prompt-s]

“Are you sure?” The god asks. “Yes. As much as I’d love to go, I won’t leave my family to go on some magical adventure.”

[bertbbaggins]

Wait this is the plot of my book

[i-am-a-fish]

uncle iroh would be proud of you I think

[bertbbaggins]

Thanks Fish that really brightened my night… either that or the 400 kiloton bomb that just went off outside. Did you do that?

[percybleu]

creative writing is fun. I'm gonna make this fucker roll off a cliff.

[bertbbaggins]

Oh yeah you get to stab your son. And you get to be betrayed by your brother-in-law. And *you* get to watch your daughter die. And you get to commit suicide. And **you**… no nevermind your life already sucks you get a break.

[rottenandbeautiful-deactivated2]

just realised the reason i love writing so much is because i hate feeling out of control, and when i write i can control everything — the plot, the characters, the outcomes.

[bertbbaggins]

Yeah no I don’t know what you’re writing, no control exists in this line of work.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

"If you use em dash in your works, it makes them look AI generated. No real human uses em dash."

Imaging thinking actual human writers are Not Real because they use... professional writing in their works.

Imagine thinking millions of people who have been using em dash way before AI becomes a thing are all robots.

REBLOG IF YOU'RE A HUMAN AND YOU USE EM DASH

[bertbbaggins]

Honestly, some people…

[bertbbaggins]

16 is objectively the best number. Fight me.

[hyperoperationfractallisation]

1489625 looks like a cube on a pin pad assuming the lower row is 123

[anremithrl]

Your numbers are all imperfect. I'm going with 6. Or maybe 2^(136,279,840) * (2^(136,279,841) - 1), whichever you prefer.

[michaelrotonal]

i like 9 because it's like 8 but wrong

[eulers-biggest-fan]

You're all thinking in \mathbb{N}, the best number is e

[imperialcyane]

we cannot be certain which number is best, because there are always more numbers among which to find a better number

[bertbbaggins]

Fair point. However, if you ask me, a good number is an integer with a low amount of digits so it may be manageable.

[bertbbaggins]

16 is objectively the best number. Fight me.

[lilith-hazel-mathematics]

Unfortunately I must contest that 0, 1, 2, and 4, are all better than 16. In that exact order. However, 16 is the next best number after those. After 16 the next best is 65536.

[mlq1516]

16 is great, but 12 is a much better number. Easier to partition, so it’s more useful.

[bertbbaggins]

Easier to partition is debatable. 16 is cleanly divisible by 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16. It has a square root and a fourth root. It’s just such a clean number.

[i-am-a-fish]

any deep breathers online? any fans of a really good deep breath? how about a nice hearty yawn? breathing in a bunch of air feels so good

[bertbbaggins]

NO FISH YOULL DROWN

[prophetic-writer]

Reminder that it's totally normal to have a bad first, second, third, fourth and fifth draft.

[bertbbaggins]

After that it’s unforgivable and you’re a failure as a writer

[prophetic-writer]

Reminder that it's totally normal to have a bad first, second, third, fourth and fifth draft.

[bertbbaggins]

After that it’s unforgivable and you’re a failure as a writer

[prokopetz]

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[hedgewitchnecromancer]

Can I ask if this is meant for desktop viewing? I’m not sure if mobile is missing up the formatting or if I’m just not getting it

[prokopetz]

Depends on your device. If it has such a narrow viewport that it can't display a 32-character line of text without wrapping (or you keep it zoomed so far in as to have the same effect), then whatever you're seeing is probably your device!

[prokopetz]

@kiragecko replied:

Definitely doesn’t work in mobile :( The non-white squares are too small.

The two specific characters this is using should have uniform width in every typeface. If that's not true in the Tumblr mobile app, it must be using some weird fucked up font where that's not the case, which is frankly a little bit fascinating.

[starlight-shadowbanned]

It looks like this.

[prokopetz]

Oh, that's interesting; not only is your viewport narrower than 32 characters, your device seems to be replacing the Unicode U+2591 character with a box emoji. I wonder why it's doing that?

[bertbbaggins]

After copying the text into a google doc and replacing the weird little squares with normal sized white ones, that was entirely too easy for the work I put in, I’m sorry

[bertbbaggins]

16 is objectively the best number. Fight me.

[hyperoperationfractallisation]

1489625 looks like a cube on a pin pad assuming the lower row is 123

[anremithrl]

Your numbers are all imperfect. I'm going with 6. Or maybe 2^(136,279,840) * (2^(136,279,841) - 1), whichever you prefer.

[michaelrotonal]

i like 9 because it's like 8 but wrong

[bertbbaggins]

That’s a… unique analysis of 9