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OPENING ART COMMISSIONS!

Uhh yeah would be super cool if you bought something (also big thanks to @f3lixfl1ck for letting me base the layout on theirs, was a massive help in getting this out there)

#art commisions #art comms open #my art #hooray

WHAT DO YOU MEANNNNNN WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERES NO TRAINSSS

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERES NO BUS REPLACEMENTS EITHERRJDKSKKF

#dw I have someone coming to pick me up #but GOD DAMN IT ALLLLL

graves-yard

I did like backrooms and obsession, but it does bug me a lot when I see so many people in Hollywood praising those movies and I hear nothing about Iron Lung.

Sure Iron Lung didn’t do the same amount of crazy success that the other two did but like. Three YouTubers made three very successful horror movies this year, and it bugs me Hollywood is just not acknowledging Mark’s work.

stiffyck

Gonna be so honest I think gracerocky loses a lot of the importance of their relationship if you make it romantic.

The canon relationship they have is already perfect, and if you disagree and think them being romantic would be somehow more deep, important, and more meaningful, you should probably think about how you view platonic relationships and your own friends.

stiffyck

Okay people are disagreeing with me on this so I want to clarify a few things:

I never said romantic relationship are less important or deep or meaningful than platonic ones. Neither one should be above one another. What I DID say is that gracerocky specifically is more meaningful by being platonic.

Why exactly is it more meaningful that they are platonic? Because in the current society we live in, everything is built and centered around romantic relationships. Platonic relationships are seen as less valuable, it's expected to prioritize your romantic partner over your friends, even if you've known your friends for much longer, people assume everyone will want to get married eventually, etc.

I could go on and on about this.

So the fact that Rocky and grace are each other's most important person, someone they'd give up their life for, while still being "just" friends and nothing more? In the current time where every. Single. Fucking. Story. HAS to include romance? A romantic subplot of some kind??? I DO actually think them being platonic is what makes their relationship so important.

This type of story almost always includes romance, even if it isn't the center of the story. It would have been so easy to give grace a love interest, it would have been so easy to make rocky a somewhat feminine being and have them fall in love.

But they didn't do that.

So yes, I do think this specific relationship being platonic is more important.

Sorry for daring to suggest one platonic relationship could be more important than a romantic one.

iskander-tm

Rabid animal

blackheartbiohazards

I'm gonna say it.

It's unhinged to assume that someone's taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life.

That is a bonkers assumption to make.

I'm tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.

I'm tired of pretending like this is a legitimate position to hold-- that they should be afraid of fiction's dire influence on a reader's moral decay or that it's a sign of what the author secretly wants for realsies in real life.

blackheartbiohazards

I promise you it is still getting me death threats in 2024.

evil--tommy

was scrolling through a blog randomly and they hit the nail on the head here. consider this my opinion.

astrrrx

well, there is a man here.

#HGDHJGKGK #I love when my interests align #henry stickmin #deltarune

stiffyck

Genuinely so important to me that there was no romance in phm.

"You just need someone to be brave for."

And the person he needed to be brave for was his best friend. It wasn't a lover, a partner, a romantic interest. It was his best friend.

And honestly this isn't even specifically about aroace grace- Rockys story could so easily be a romantic one. He's been completely alone trying to finish an impossible mission without his crew for years. And then an alien comes and they learn how to communicate. And with that alien they both save their planets. Rocky gives Grace fuel with no hesitation, even if in the movie it means he will get back home 6 years slower. 6 years longer to see his mate. And he still does it without hesitating for even a second.

That kind of devotion and story could have so easily been romantic. Two aliens who help save each other, who are both the most important people to each other, but they're not lovers.

Phm being a story about friends means so much to me

#project hail mary

p3anut47

id like to interact with my mutuals more but i get scared pls forgive me

worldwithinworld

When you are writing a story and refer to a character by a physical trait, occupation, age, or any other attribute, rather than that character’s name, you are bringing the reader’s attention to that particular attribute. That can be used quite effectively to help your reader to focus on key details with just a few words. However, if the fact that the character is “the blond,” “the magician,” “the older woman,” etc. is not relevant to that moment in the story, this will only distract the reader from the purpose of the scene.

If your only reason for referring to a character this way is to avoid using his or her name or a pronoun too much, don’t do it. You’re fixing a problem that actually isn’t one. Just go ahead and use the name or pronoun again. It’ll be good.

roane72

Someone finally spelled out the REASON for using epithets, and the reasons NOT to.

futureevilscientist

In addition to that:

If the character you are referring to in such a way is THE VIEWPOINT CHARACTER, likewise, don’t do it. I.e. if you’re writing in third person but the narration is through their eyes, or what is also called “third person deep POV”. If the narration is filtered through the character’s perception, then a very external, impersonal description will be jarring. It’s the same, and just as bad, as writing “My bright blue eyes returned his gaze” in first person.

cimness

Furthermore,

if the story is actually told through the eyes of one particular viewpoint character even though it’s in the third person, and in their voice, as is very often the case, then you shouldn’t refer to the characters in ways that character wouldn’t.

In other words, if the third-person narrator is Harry Potter, when Dumbledore appears, it says “Dumbledore appears”, not “Albus appears”. Bucky Barnes would think of Steve Rogers as “Steve”, where another character might think of him as “Cap”. Chekov might think of Kirk as “the captain”, but Bones thinks of him as “Jim”.

Now, there are real situations where you, I, or anybody might think of another person as “the other man”, “the taller man”, or “the doctor”: usually when you don’t know their names, like when there are two tap-dancers and a ballerina in a routine and one of the men lifts the ballerina and then she reaches out and grabs the other man’s hand; or when there was a group of people talking at the hospital and they all worked there, but the doctor was the one who told them what to do. These are all perfectly natural and normal. Similarly, sometimes I think of my GP as “the doctor” even though I know her name, or one of my coworkers as “the taller man” even though I know his. But I definitely never think of my long-term life partner as “the green-eyed woman” or one of my best friends as “the taller person” or anything like that. It’s not a sensible adjective for your brain to choose in that situation - it’s too impersonal for someone you’re so intimately acquainted with. Also, even if someone was having a one night stand or a drunken hookup with a stranger, they probably wouldn’t think of that person as “the other man”: you only think of ‘other’ when you’re distinguishing two things and you don’t have to go to any special effort to distinguish your partner from yourself to yourself.

undertailsoulsex

This is something that I pretty consistently have to advise for those I beta edit. (It doesn’t help that I relied on epithets a lot in the earlier sections of my main fic because I was getting into the swing of things.) I am reblogging this so fanfic writers can use this as a reference.

A good rule of thumb: a character’s familiarity with another character decreases the need for an epithet (and most times you really don’t need one at all).