TFW you start reading a 100k fic with a chapter count of 19/27 and you get to chapter 19 and it's now a 200k fic with a chapter count of 27/39 :D
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TFW you start reading a 100k fic with a chapter count of 19/27 and you get to chapter 19 and it's now a 200k fic with a chapter count of 27/39 :D
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yeah okay ill reblog that
Crab bag! Made entirely of scraps and leftover pieces
The body piece was about an inch too long so it's not centred like I wanted it to be, but close enough
My sewing machine would like to request a bag pattern where the last step is not now sew through 20 layers.
Lol she's a sandwitch
Stay up too late watching YouTube shorts
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Brain processes all thought as YouTube shorts
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Swear to never do that again
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Repeat
They're building a new house next door
oh the construction noises must be bad
NO the construction noises are fine, the fact that the bricklayer has been listening to death metal for 7 hours straight, slightly less fine
on “the blond,” “the older man,” and other crimes against third-person limited
You know that thing where a story is written in tight third person limited — we’re meant to be inside someone’s head, seeing the world through their thoughts — and then suddenly the narration says “the blond frowned” or “the shorter woman sighed” about a person the POV character knows really well?
That’s called antonomasia — using a descriptive label instead of a name. And it’s fine when we’re talking about strangers: “the cashier handed her the receipt,” “the tall guy blocked the door.” The POV character doesn’t know their names, and we just need a quick way to tell people apart.
But the moment it’s used for someone the POV character already knows, it breaks immersion. Because that’s not how our minds work. We don’t think “the older man smiled at me.” We think “Mark smiled.” Or maybe “my boss” if that relationship matters in the moment.
Third person limited means the narration sits inside someone’s perception. Their inner monologue is the story’s voice. So when you switch from “Mark smiled” to “the blond smiled,” you’ve pulled the camera away from their mind and turned it into an outside shot.
If you want to create distance or irritation, you can do it on purpose —
“The idiot from accounting emailed again.”
That’s character voice. That’s judgment. That works.
But otherwise?
As soon as your POV character knows someone’s name, use it. While we do tend to worry about repetitions, names rarely register as such to the readers.
If you need variety for rhythm, use relational or emotional identifiers that make sense in their head: her friend, his partner, their teacher, the person they loved.
Because inside someone’s thoughts, there are no “blonds” or “brunettes.”
There are only people they know.
Really good explanation of the fundamental problem with this type of writing.
(and why it's one of my huge pet peeves)
Same! As far as I'm concerned, the only time you should describe a named character by their hair color is when it relates to the conversation/plot. For example:
"They told me someone spotted a tall redhead doing something mysterious to the sidewalk where the coins were glued down," he said, casting a glance at the tall redhead beside him, who was hiding the superglue behind his back.
This is the worst during sex scenes. Do not be afraid to repeat names to make things clear, especially in same sex pairings! Names and simple tags like "said" are nearly invisible to the reader's repetition detector, but more complex epithets like "the taller man" and my least favorite, "the emerald eyed woman" make the reader do unnecessary decoding in any situation but yeet one completely out of immersion in a sex scene.
You do not have to avoid repetition of names and short speech tags. In fact, when you are in the first rough draft, you should be putting zero mental effort into worrying about fleshing out your dialog, but when you do, later, most of your substitutions for "said" should be things that show actions and descriptions of the characters' tone, added like spice, not flour. The second draft is when they usually go from standing in a blank void without moving, unless it's really flowing easily in the first. If you're having anxiety about whether you've used their names too much or "said" too much, you're slowing yourself down completely unnecessarily. I'd much rather have a repetition than try to remember who is older and who is taller especially when those things might be variable between iterations of canon. (Book Lan Wangji is taller than Wei Wuxian, show actors reverse that. We know when their birthdays are from non canon sources but not who is actually older (literally wwx tells lwj to call him gege but then calls lwj er gege and he's being playful both times so in neither case do we actually know.)
So "the older man" sows confusion in the vast majority of cases with those characters.
If you've got a tight pov character the names should be consistent for how they think of the character unless it's in speech from someone else who uses a different name to refer to the character.
So in mdzs, from Lan Wangji's perspective I might consistently use Wangji in speech tags (Wangji said, "...")
But I would always and only use Wei Ying for speech tags as long as we are in Lan Wangji's perspective except perhaps in their first meeting or before they use familiar names.
The exception is strong pov-appropriate descriptors. In one of my fics the pov character is repeatedly struck by the youth of another character and he thinks of the other as "the boy" occasionally when he is actively noticing how young the kid is for the shitty situation they're in. I would never use that to avoid repetition, only to add emotional context. But he's literally decades older.
Advent calendar! Not a lot of in progress pics because it went together so easy.
I like it so much! I really should colour my 3D models more, it's really helped the feeling that I've just reached into the monitor and plucked out the model.
Including reprints:
4.5kg of PLA
140+ hours print time
Dammit I pressed the poll button again
Do you know how to delete a poll on mobile?
Yes (tell me please)
No
Anyway, next up is to fill it, which may take a while.
Lol first failed print
Sigh, so this was going well... But then all 4 hinges snapped on the left hand piece
What I THINK happened is that was the first part I printed and the first layer on the roll of red filament had been out for a while so when it printed it was weak
More filament, try again
I've been procrastinating sewing, which is a problem because the longer I leave it the more stuff accumulates on the necessary surfaces and the less likely I am to want to do it
Slooow going
Messed up the hinged green boxes. So, if you print a hole vertically it's even more undersized than printing horizontally good to know. I managed to drill out half of the boxes but had to reprint 4 of them... Which meant I ran out of green again, two boxes left :(
BUT I can assemble the rest in the meantime I really hope the hinges work, it's going to be tight
On the bright side, the inlays look really cool
Baby has discovered that if you rub your teeth together it makes this neat grinding sound
It is driving the husband nuts
I have made myself a giant jigsaw puzzle, had to order more filament already and also printed some pieces back to front
But it's okay! Mostly
Part 1 done
Not sure I like the texture plate, they need to sell a plate that has the faint impression of layer lines so all the sides can match :P
Otherwise, that support material? Mwah, beautiful comes off so clean and easy there's no other way I would be getting that 1mm recess on the back
There's a couple of weird artifacts, but they'll clean up or be hidden
Print time: 15h 23m