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go watch project hail mary NOW!!

#project hail mary #ryland grace #eva stratt #andy weir

reading 'a gentleman in moscow' and its pretty fun so far yay (and i did get emotional the power of friendship got to me)

#a gentleman in moscow #amor towles #Alexander Rostov

hgedits

Eva Stratt:

#project hail mary

dangerandbeauty

Deanna and Darrow Golden Son scene

#red rising #darrow of lykos #darrow au andromedus #pierce brown #golden son

anglerfl3sh

dont care + didnt ask + you know nothing of Javert + I was born inside a jail + I was born with scum like you + I am from the gutter too

#les mierables

his-dark-materials-trilogy

His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman

one-hell-of-a-sheep

why does oscar wilde take 150 pages to write something he could literally say in a paragraph

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

gay

yurious-george

compelling argument

mossadspydolphin

what does this say about victor hugo

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

no he was just french

jam-the-hologram

R.R Tolkien?

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

autistic infodumping

elden-12

Put this together and I dread to think how long a novel by an autistic gay Frenchman would be. :p

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

dantuonodesigns

Drawing of Eo and Darrow made using procreate!

cedarbookhs

Rare to see art that remembers that they’re 16. It’s so much more heartbreaking that for the first book everyone is basically a kid.

#red rising #darrow of lykos #eo #pierce brown

asterrwritess

Non-writers never seem to understand the fact that characters have free will.

"you made them, just make them do what you want!"

I can't SUSAN.

greater-than-the-sword

It's scary that there is a whole sector of people who think this is literally true and not just an elaborate game of pretend-with-me that we are playing.

narulanth

Saying that characters have free will of their own is more of a shorthand expression for:

"Personalities behave with a certain mathematics, especially within the gradient of a story with given themes. In order for the story to be satisfactory, certain combinations cannot exist in cohesion. Forcing a character with a given dynamic to behave in a certain way is guaranteed to come off as forced and unnatural.

Is it possible to sidestep this? Yes, but often this comes with a change to the character's "personality matrix." This, in turn, may result in previous or later planned scenes in a story coming unraveled.

For longer and emotionally complex stories, these nested contradictions can stack upon one another, making it functionally impossible to change any detail of a central character without threatening the necessity for a major rewrite.

So, if the story has gone a slightly different direction than initially planned, getting a character to "behave" for a scene related to the climax or finale can feel like fighting against an independent agent with its own free will."

cedarbookhs

I think, and maybe I'm wrong and this makes my own writing worse, that sometimes some contradiction is ok, even good. I contain multitudes and all that. Especially if a character can reflect on their own contradictions, that shows dynamic internal evolution. I also think it's good to plan out character arcs integrated deeply within plot arcs so that writing scenes you can write a bit looking forward towards where both are going. But yeah. I dunno. Gotta be careful and play the balance.

synf3ll

"if you're going to write dark fiction you should explicitly state that it's not okay to do in real life so that a child doesn't see it and think it's okay"

actually i don't cater my art to children, my art is not intended for children, and it's not my responsibility to parent them. hope this helps

lainahastoomuchsparetime

Children's books don't do that.

Like, legit, have people saying this stuff actually read a child's book about things they'd consider dark stuff? Because children's books don't have a part where they stop and say, "And remember kids, this is bad in real life."

Children are expected to understand that from reading the work.

emcart

Ship of magic sketches : 3

#rote #liveship traders #robin hobb #ship of magic #liveship trilogy #realm of the elderlings

karinagiada

“I am no martyr. I am not vengeance. I am Eo's dream”.

#red rising #pierce brown #darrow of lykos

frailbug

you think that you're so alone in the world then you read literature from hundreds of years ago and you realize that other people have always felt this way