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[cottonspotten]

50 situation prompts for OC characterisation or writing practice

a lot of characters react differently to certain situations, so i’d thought i’d make a list of prompts to practice! you could also just use these as regular prompts for writing/drawing practice

firstly, relationship ideas (for when i use the word “someone”): > family/partner > best/closest friend > friend > acquaintance/friend of a friend > stranger > enemy

feel free to make some edits to the prompts if they don’t quite work (e.g. your character is non-human)

what would your character do if…

1. your character gets stuck in a small space with someone they hate 2. your character sees someone stealing something 3. your character is captured 4. your character captures someone 5. your character sees a person/group of people bullying/harassing/picking on someone 6. someone breaks into your character’s house 7. someone asks your character for money, food, etc 8. someone insults your character 9. someone attacks your character 10. someone attempts to kill your character 11. your character gets lost     a. with someone     b. alone 12. your character sleeps in (and misses/is late for something) 13. your character wakes up as someone else 14. your character wakes up in a different place entirely 15. your character wakes up with the ability to fly (or some other magic/power) 16. your character catches someone cheating on them/someone else 17. your character kills someone     a. by accident     b. on purpose 18. your character sees someone else kill someone 19. your character gets stranded/trapped somewhere    a. with someone    b. alone 20. your character is standing at the edge of a cliff and there’s someone in their way to safety 21. your character is caught doing the wrong thing 22. your character is being chased down by someone 23. your character realises they’re dead 24. your character runs into their ex 25. your character finds out they’ve won the lottery 26. your character finds out someone they know has died 27. your character tells someone else a secret/opens up 28. your character shares someone else’s secret 29. someone shares your character’s secret 30. your character finds a lost child 31. your character has to work together with someone else 32. your character is rejected (in any way, not just romantically) 33. your character finds out they’ve been lied to their whole life 34. your character has a fight (verbal or physical) with someone 35. your character sees a fight that’s getting out of hand 36. your character eats something poisonous      a. and they’re with someone     b. and they’re alone 37. someone asks your character for a favour 38. someone lets their emotion out on your character 39. your character realises someone is lying     a. to them     b. to someone else     c. to a group of people 40. your character is accused of lying 41. your character does something drastic/put themselves in a dangerous situation      a. and it works     b. and it fails 42. your character is in the position to kill one person and have protection/won’t face the consequences  43. your character is betrayed/find out someone they trusted is working for the enemy  44. your character is told they’re apart of a prophecy      a. and it says they’ll be a hero/do something amazing     b. and it says they’ll be a villain/a danger to society 45. your character has to do the trolley problem 46. someone threatens to reveal your character’s biggest secret/attempts to blackmail your character 47. your character is kicked out of their house 48. your character is granted one wish  49. your character finds out they’re related to royalty (by blood) 50. someone tells your character they love them

[virgomoon-deactivated20240514]

[laurasimonsdaughter]

Emotionally influenced magical talents that give all developing relationships that Good Urban Fantasy Flavour:

Appearance shifting: “You’re doing major friend-eyes at him.” “Shut up-” “Dude, you’re not subtle, last time he came over you were so pleased your hair started curling.” “Shut uuup. …what colour are my eyes right now?” “A lovely shade of I’m-straight-up-gonna-adopt-you purple.”

Protection magic. Did they mean to place a shielding spell on the object of their affection to protect them against all harm? Maybe not. Did they subconsciously want to and do they now have to explain why that dropped fork did a pirouette in mid-air to avoid dropping onto their foot? Yes, yes they do.

Nature growth: “I’m really sorry, but, I can’t come over to your place tomorrow.” “Oh… Okay… Why not, though?” “Because, eh, well, you said your landlord was on your case about not having mowed the lawn and if I go over there right now…you’re gonna have to start all over.”

Feeling-sharing or empath magic. Nothing says “you’re immeasurably important to me” like being able to pour the literal feeling of your affection for a specific person into their own chest where they can feel it too.

Spontaneous manifestation. Such as breathing out sparks, flowers sprouting from hair, starting to emit light, you name it. “That new girl laughed at one of your jokes again, didn’t she.” “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” “Tell that to the soot stains on your cheeks.”

[diarygirls]

being born in the late 90′s is a really weird time because our coming of age is/was so tied into the expansion of personal technology? like for so many of us the transition from getting your first flip phone to smartphones wasn’t just a technology shift, it was part of growing up. and it created this really weird timeline where new technologies were being created right as we entered the right age market to use them, so now we all know intuitively how to use snapchat or the social context of emoji use or whatever but we can also remember childhoods spent (almost) entirely outside and offline. like you get all the disillusionment of the older millennial generation except now with the stress of spending your adolescence measuring yourself against others on social media and it’s really fucking confusing

[little-miss-rasputin-pageant]

you put it into words

[veryfunnymemes]

[trufflupogus]

This has more emotion than all of the live action lion king put together

[friendraichu]

the og social distancing king

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen paperback classics featuring Richard Adams, Edgar Allan Poe, Simone de Beauvoir, J.R.R. Tolkien, Richard Wright, Harper Lee, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on April 25, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

[faebee-deactivated20190106]

i have this idealized version of myself in my head that is content and doing what she loves and comfortable and sometimes i get so caught up in her life that it’s almost impossible to realize that she isn’t real yet. but i hope to be her someday.

[fairyfawm]

i may not have any braincells, but i make up for it by having many heartcells

[lesbianshepard]

stupid leftists and their belief in *checks notes* the intrinsic value of human life

[pastel-selkie]

Reblog if you would burn down the statue of liberty to save a life

[randomslasher]

Here’s the thing, though. If you asked a conservative “Would you let the statue of liberty burn to save one life?” they’d probably scoff and say no, it’s a national landmark, a treasure, a piece of too much historical importance to let it be destroyed for the sake of one measly life. 

But if you asked, “Would you let the statue of liberty burn in order to save your child? your spouse? someone you loved a great deal?” the tune abruptly changes. At the very least, there’s a hesitation. Even if they deny it, I’m willing to bet that gun to their head, the answer would be “yes.”  

The basic problem here is that people have a hard time seeing outside their own sphere of influence, and empathizing beyond the few people who are right in front of them. You’ve got your immediate family, whom you love; your friends, your acquaintances, maybe to a certain degree the people who share a status with you (your religion, your race, etc.)–but beyond that? People aren’t real. They’re theoretical. 

But a national monument? That’s real. It stands for something. The value of a non-realized anonymous life that exists completely outside your sphere of influence is clearly worth less than something that represents freedom and prosperity to a whole nation, right?

People who think like this lack the compassion to realize that everyone is in someone’s immediate sphere of influence–that everyone is someone’s lover, or brother, or parent. Everyone means the world to someone. And it’s the absolute height of selfishness to assume that their lives don’t have value just because they don’t mean the world to you. 

P.S. I would let the statue of liberty burn to save a pigeon. 

[boyist]

[robotmango]

also, there is an extreme difference between what things or principles *i* personally am willing to die for, and what i would hazard others to die for. and this is a distinction i don’t think the conservative hard-right likes to face.

an example: so, as the nazis began war against france, the staff of the louvre began crating up and shipping out the artworks. it was vital to them (for many reasons) that the nazis not get their hands on the collections, and hitler’s desire for them was known, so they dispersed the objects to the four winds; one of the curators personally traveled with la gioconda, mona lisa herself, in an unmarked crate, moving at least five times from location to location to avoid detection.

they even removed and hid the nike of samothrace, “winged victory,” which is both delicate, having been pieced back together from fragments, and incredibly heavy, weighing over three metric tons.

the curators who hid these artworks risked death to ensure that they wouldn’t fall into nazi hands. and yes, they are just paintings, just statues. but when i think about the idea of hitler capturing and standing smugly beside the nike of samothrace, a statue widely beloved as a symbol of liberty, i completely understand why someone would risk their life to prevent that. if my life was all that stood between a fascist dictator and a masterpiece that inspired millions, i would be willing to risk it. my belief in the power and necessity of art would demand i do so.

if, however, a nazi held a gun to some kid’s head (any kid!) and asked me which crate the mona lisa was in, they could have it in a heartbeat. no problem! i wouldn’t even have to think about it. being willing to risk my own life on principle doesn’t mean i’m willing to see others endangered for those same principles.

and that is exactly where the conservative hard-right falls right the fuck down. they are, typically, entirely willing to watch others suffer for their own principles. they are perfectly okay with seeing children in cages because of their supposed belief in law and order. they are perfectly willing to let women die from pregnancy complications because of their anti-abortion beliefs. they are alright with poverty and disease on general principle because they hold the free-market sacrosanct. and i guess from their own example they would save the statue of liberty and let human beings burn instead.

but speaking as a leftist (i’m more comfortable with socialist tbh), my principles are not abstract things that i hold aside from life, apart or above my place as a human being in a society. my beliefs arise from being a person amidst people. i don’t love art for art’s sake alone, actually! i don’t love objects because they are objects: i love them because they are artifacts of our humanity, because they communicate and connect us, because they embody love and curiosity and fear and feeling. i love art because i love people. i want universal health care because i want to see people universally cared for. i want universal basic income because people’s safety and dignity should not be determined by their economic productivity to an employer. i am anti-war and pro-choice for the same reason: i value people’s lives but also their autonomy and right to self-determination. my beliefs are not abstractions. i could never value a type of economic system that i saw hurting people, no matter how much “growth” it produced. i could never love “law and order” more than i love a child, any child, i saw trapped in a cage.

would i be willing to risk death, trying to save the statue of liberty? probably, yes. but there is no culture without people, and therefore i also believe there are no cultural treasures worth more than other people’s lives. and as far as i’m concerned the same goes for laws, or markets, or borders.

[aquatixwitch]

Well said!

[lauraantoniou]

This is an excellent ethical discussion.

[el-mapache-zurdo]

[spacefrog23]

Wow

[rockyp77mk2-deactivated20210406]

Some people deal with this self quarantine stuff better than others.  

[galfonso1963]

A Rube Goldberg machine

[parlourstays]

Homie sacrificed his entire laptop and like 7 plants for this.

[killin-the-machine]

Peewees playhouse update

[knifefightscene]

female villains: when i was little i was taught that women only existed to serve, to be a wife we are considered weak, innocent, stupid creatures well not anymore if you see me as the monster of this story then i am the monster of this story

male villians: ugh my gf dumped me and called me a loser now i’m killing people to cope

[programmerhumour]

Repost to spread. (Not really humor)

[knights-vigil]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/14/new-warning-issued-for-all-whatsapp-and-imessage-users-major-threat-to-encryption/

New Warning Issued For All WhatsApp And iMessage Users: ‘Major Threat’ To Encryption

Is this the beginning of the end for secure messaging?

[abduction]

[your-sweet-poisonn-deactivated2]

I need a make out session so intense that I forget all my problems and possibly my name

[callmeninja92]

[sandyquill]

I think I always need to reblog this.

Because it’s just … fun for me.

[heartsfemme]

my favourite thing about buying books secondhand is finding the things people used as bookmarks in books that they never finished. here’s some of my favourite things that i’ve found!