narrative foils stan account

m • 30 • they/he/she • tme • i am very ill

[milfsisyphus]

your job is not more important than media from 2005. never forget this.

[unheardoracle]

If Your Scene Feels Lifeless, Someone Is Being Too Polite

Stories stall when everyone behaves. Real tension appears when someone:

• asks the wrong question • says something they shouldn’t • notices something uncomfortable • refuses to drop the topic • misunderstands something important • interrupts at the worst moment

Conflict doesn’t always look like shouting.

[ariaste]

Couple more options for tension:

They want something REALLY REALLY REALLY bad, but for some reason they can't ask for it -- or can't have it even if they did ask.

They don't notice something that the audience HAS noticed (like in a horror movie when the monster is sneaking up behind the protagonist, or if someone drinks a glass of unboiled water during a cholera outbreak because they don't know about germ theory)

Takes a risk (or otherwise does something they "shouldn't" do) which the audience has to sit through for a prolongued period of time (e.g. slips away from the party to go into the host's private office and rifle through their papers before the guards catch them)

Loses when they thought they were going to win

[pansy2025]

goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me

[mezzodical]

[chicknwire]

I love tumblr more than IG bc IG feels like I’m posting looking for a job but on here it’s like I already lost the job and my wife and the house and I’m just sitting on the curb talking to myself

[niceinchnails]

Was carrying my pants i havent worn for a while and 4 gold doubloons and 2 rocks fell out

[dogpuppy]

[frostops]

Ringo chuckled, “You mean the elf stones?”

[quantumshade]

if you as a man cannot relate to female characters, you are a misogynist

[sreegs]

[dogpuppy]

[xrd]

[kottkrig]

I'm enjoying Valeera as a delve partner because she and my main are on the opposite ends of the rogue spectrum

[intactics]

[showing up to the function unannounced in sunglasses and a driving hair shawl & gloves & a trenchcoat & high heels with a frantic persecuted air] no darling of course I wanted to come to your little shindig last week but I just had to get out of town, you understand [taking a long hard drag of a ridiculously thin cigarette and getting lipstick on the filter] I had a popular post going around

[piendish]

riddle me this, riddle me me that, whoose afraid of the big small cat.

[videolottery]

Humiliation victim gotta be one of the least funny gimmicks ever

[humiliationvictim]

It never ends

[hunny-and-haycorns]

Louis bakes himself a King Cake, "to maintain the thread." Pencil and pastel. For @ldpdlweek2026.

[funstyle]

Was just having a discussion with my fiance that taco bell should change their slogan to "it's gonna be okay" or at the very least shorten "live más" to "live". just feels like thats what we need from them

[funstyle]

They should change it to "live por favor" and when they hand you your order you hold hands for a moment and look in each others eyes