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This is my writing blog for my story Melantha

It is primarily posts that make me think about the story

Maybe one day I’ll post actual content for it

Main blog is @bren-the-chicken

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Eventually I’ll make a master post

aconstantstateofbladerunner

On an intellectual level i know that early 20th century megacity concepts are deeply impractical and would cause triple the harm they purported to solve, but damn if the art doesn’t make me yearn to visit.

Hugh Harriss made some of my favorites.

theoutcastrogue

It’s Hugh Ferriss, check out The Metropolis of Tomorrow (1929). Some of his work is speculative, some of it is just artistic renderings of existing (or proposed) buildings for advertising purposes, some of it is educational, and a lot of it is New York. All of it is dope.

honourablejester

I love Hugh Ferriss cityscapes so much. I grew up with Batman: The Animated Series, and it’s responsible for a lot, and this whole vibe, the massive, monolithic, Art Deco cityscape, Hugh Ferriss is the epitome of it. Gotham, Metropolis, Rapture, New Capenna. Any fantasy dieselpunk art deco city you’ve ever seen. This guy, along with the original Metropolis, was one of the first.

I especially love that last image from the first post:

I have it saved to most of my computers so I can use it as a desktop occasionally. This tiny human figure standing back in awe of this cityscape view that absolutely dwarfs them, this mass of concrete and light that looks like a dawn beyond them.

And, yes, this is from an early 20th century dream of a future that would have been incredibly bad for us, but the imagery. This is the city as a mass, as an entity, as a pillar to the heavens, as a radiance, as a dawn. The solidity of it. These are cities as the epitome of humanity’s ability to say ‘I built this’. I made this mountain, and I made it radiant. I put this thing here and it is so solid that no wrath of any god could strike this babel down.

(They wouldn’t have needed to. We’d never have gotten them up, and if we had they’d have slowly killed us in and of themselves. But damn they look good)

I really love his stuff …

#akiram

doriangraysrockcollection

i must say, i am a huge fan of when a book is in the middle of a very exciting plot containing many interesting problems when out of nowhere for a few pages it's like, "hey by the way, real quick, here's a detailed explanation of the city's water filtration system! i'm telling you this for a reason and you should worry about it. anyway! haha okay back to the plot" and you just get to be Scared for a while

doriangraysrockcollection

i am kissing you on the mouth right now

you are the only person who understands me. you and the person who tagged a series of unfortunate events

thetangledsheet

Anyway I think more video game quests should make you uncomfortable and guilty and mislead you and corner you between a rock and a hard place and offer hollow victories. There's nothing more annoying than quest writing that scrambles to assure you that you're niceys and good and nothing you put your hand on can ever have negative consequences. "You cannot save everyone" and I cheer and whoop etc.

thelibrarybat

[freezeframe]

You may be wondering how I got into this situation. That's good. Keep wondering. If you pay close attention to the rest of this movie and employ your critical thinking skills, you may find that the answer unfolds as it goes along. Sometimes it's good not to know yet, and to wonder. Sometimes that's the entire point.

[unfreezeframe]

creativepromptsforwriting

More Injury Dialogue Prompts

"Don't look at it, just look at me."

"You're so lucky it's not worse."

"This is going to hurt a lot, but we need to clean it."

"At least, it's still attached to you."

"No, no, no, don't get up!"

"That looks bad. Like really, really bad."

"We should get you to a hospital. Right now."

"How did you manage to do so much damage?"

"Okay, we should all stay calm and not panic."

"What were you thinking, putting yourself into so much danger?"

"You should definitely let me carry you."

"That's what you get for playing the hero."

"On the bright side, that scar's going to be a great conversation starter."

"That was so stupid. You could have died!"

"Could I interest you in a band-aid? Or a trip to the ER?"

"It's okay, just... don't look at it."

"You can't go on like this!"

"Like five centimeters to the left and you would be.. I can't even think about it."

"As soon as the adrenaline is gone, you will definitely feel it."

"Not as bad as we all thought it would be."

More: Injury Dialogue Prompts

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corgifish

theeccentricraven

I've noticed that part of show, don't tell is letting characters speak for themselves instead of the narrator speaking for them. Here's my example:

Telling: When a friend said the AI song cover was better than the original song, Seth was offended beyond measure.

Showing: When a friend said the AI song cover was better than the original song, Seth said, "Dude, what kind of glue did you sniff as a kid?"

insomniac-arrest

man, it's so cool when female characters over-indulge and self-destruct and hurt themselves and others on purpose and have no way out but make it worse anyway and bite and scratch and betray everything they stand for for nothing and have no one to blame but themselves.

luna-azzurra

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

whumpster-dumpster

When a half conscious or delirious whumpee just keeps apologizing for everything <3333

cinnamonspiderrrrrrrr

in order to truly get rid of misogyny in fandoms we need to treat girl characters the same way we treat guy characters. Say you’d hit her with your car. Say you want to see her crying and trying and failing to keep her emotions hidden. Say you want her to get worse. Say you want to chew on her like a squeaky toy. For feminism