Another OC Blog

[random-questions-fairy]

Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

[theredscreech]

Heads up that this is a very extensive questionnaire and might be daunting to a lot of writers (myself included). That being said, it is also an amazing questionnaire and I will definitely be using it (or at the very least, some of it).

[smitethestate]

This is exactly the kind of thing I need because I’m not so much interested in worldbuilding, I just need a cool place for my characters to grow and interact in. Gonna try it another night when it’s not almost my bed time.

[olreid]

u know when there’s one character who knows what’s going to happen, not because they have some supernatural power of clairvoyance or direct connection with god, but rather because they’re the only character who is aware of themselves as a character in a story that is repeating itself with each retelling and they remember how it ended the last time….. that makes me feel so normal

[olreid]

ok after thinking about it i think there’s three possible iterations of this trope which give characters an increasingly accurate ability to predict future events: (1) character who knows they’re in a story but not the specific nature of that story or its ending, (2) character who not only knows they’re in a story but knows the genre of that story and thus can more accurately predict what might happen, e.g. tragic character who knows they’re in a tragedy and therefore knows everyone is probably going to die, (3) character who is not only aware of the story’s form and genre but also the order of events and the details of the plot because they have read or lived or witnessed this exact story before all the way to the end

[olreid]

when ALL THREE of these characters are in the same story is when i really have to lie down. like in moby dick i would say starbuck knows he’s in a story but feels conflicted about the best course of action to pursue because he can’t decide if he’s in a tragedy or not, ahab knows he’s in a tragedy and knows he’s headed towards a tragic ending but he doesn’t know exactly what the shape of that tragic ending will be, and ishmael knows exactly how the story ends because he lived through it already and he can’t stop reliving it

[olreid]

deathless by catherynne m valente

[waveridden]

[ID: “That’s how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you’d have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.” /end ID]

[lissar-deactivated20200503]

when jorge luis borges wrote in a copy of beowulf that he was working on translating, “beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.”

[lissar-deactivated20200503]

here’s the full poem! it’s so. something so transcendent something so inevitable and real and conceptually like looking into the abyss and hearing a choir sing your humanity back to you

[ecririe]

new writeblr challenge: create a bad news headline for your wip

mine would be: Girl In The Woods May Not Be Human, Says Furious Medicine Student

[natalieironside]

Breaking News:  Local man is reincarnated against his will.  Film at 11.

[the-horror-queen]

This Just In: Man has a bad time at his homophobic mom’s funeral.

[dovesndecay]

Local Vampire Adopts Orphan Against The Wishes Of Serial Murderer? More at 11.

[fall-of-creation]

Tragic! Area Man Finds Out That He is Not The Protagonist Of This Story

[ytphobia-deactivated20210908]

Opinion | Don’t Tell Me to Despair About the Climate: Hope Is a Right We Must Protect

There is no point at which we can no longer strive to make the future better than it otherwise would be.

[flowerytale]

Clarice Lispector ― The Hour of the Star

[zeravmeta]

If he's your man then why is he MY thematic parallel

[irtenyev]

when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”

[treethymes]

when toni morrison said “i just think goodness is more interesting. evil is constant. you can think of different ways to murder people, but you can do that at age five. but you have to be an adult to consciously, deliberately be good – and that’s complicated.”

[azbukivedii]

when simone weil said “imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

[fall-of-creation]

Nathan: What the fuck is wrong with you?! Alex: Wow, you could start with a 'good morning'. Nathan: Good morning. What the fuck is wrong with you?!

[fall-of-creation]

Ember, in a meeting: My policy is if you see something, say something. Fridah: I saw a squirrel in a tree today! Ember, with the tone of someone who is used to Fridah: Outstanding. Ember: This is what I’m talking about people.

[fall-of-creation]

Nathan: So what’s for dinner? Alex, staring at the food they just burnt: Regret.

[fall-of-creation]

Alex: I was arrested for being too cool. Nathan: The charges were dropped due to a lack of supporting evidence.

[fall-of-creation]

Alex: Goodnight moon. Alex: Goodnight tree. Alex: Goodnight ghosts that only I can see.

[fall-of-creation]

Alex: You saved me. I owe you my life. Ember: No thanks. I’ve seen it and I’m not very impressed.

[fall-of-creation]

Nathan: Hey, you want some leftovers? Ember: What's that? Nathan: You've never had leftovers??? Ember: No, because I'm not a quitter.

[fall-of-creation]

*Ember and Fridah skipping stones on lake* Fridah: It’s such a beautiful evening. Ember, whispering: Take that you fucking lake

[fall-of-creation]

Alex: If there's going to be a big dramatic scene, wait until I get back. Nathan: Of course. I can't flip this table by myself.