Stratt: tries to make a going-off comfort gift and instead creates the most insensitive thing possible
Also Stratt seeing Grace wear the shirt in the video logs: oh good he likes the shirt
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Stratt: tries to make a going-off comfort gift and instead creates the most insensitive thing possible
Also Stratt seeing Grace wear the shirt in the video logs: oh good he likes the shirt
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Edited for all my writer friends out there
that's right, all the noms for the lovely artists and writers.
you all do such a lovely job.
Not long enough for a full fic but I still wanna write this down and share it
Post Ep 6
Jax: *Back on his bs*
Zooble: Oh ha, sure
Jax: You finally laugh at one of my jokes and you just go "ha, sure"?
Zooble: That's nice, Jax
Jax: Are you still high off of stupid sauce?
Zooble: Huh? Oh no, sorry. Just feeling worn out and relaxed at the same time, for the first time in a long time actually
Jax: What are you talking about?
Zooble: Remember the "conversation" we almost finally had yesterday? Turns out we don't have to ask Caine for everything
Jax: ... What do you mean?
Zooble: Ragatha was telling me a trick Kinger did where we can make up our stuff. Didn't believe it at first but-
Gangle walking around the corner, her ribbons all curled like when you run them along a pair of scissors: Oh there you are, Zooble. You wanna hang out before the next adventure?
Zooble: Sure, I'm just about rested up. Let's go
Gangle: Yay~ Oh hey Jax, see ya around
Jax, jaw dropped through the floor: Hey wait uh, Zooble how do you do the trick??
Zooble, already carrying Gangle: Why don't you ask Kinger? I'm busy
Alas, Jax couldn't bring himself to get such tips from the absent-minded programmer(?) and continued to seethe in touch-starved
Not long enough for a full fic but I still wanna write this down and share it
Post Ep 6
Jax: *Back on his bs*
Zooble: Oh ha, sure
Jax: You finally laugh at one of my jokes and you just go "ha, sure"?
Zooble: That's nice, Jax
Jax: Are you still high off of stupid sauce?
Zooble: Huh? Oh no, sorry. Just feeling worn out and relaxed at the same time, for the first time in a long time actually
Jax: What are you talking about?
Zooble: Remember the "conversation" we almost finally had yesterday? Turns out we don't have to ask Caine for everything
Jax: ... What do you mean?
Zooble: Ragatha was telling me a trick Kinger did where we can make up our stuff. Didn't believe it at first but-
Gangle walking around the corner, her ribbons all curled like when you run them along a pair of scissors: Oh there you are, Zooble. You wanna hang out before the next adventure?
Zooble: Sure, I'm just about rested up. Let's go
Gangle: Yay~ Oh hey Jax, see ya around
Jax, jaw dropped through the floor: Hey wait uh, Zooble how do you do the trick??
Zooble, already carrying Gangle: Why don't you ask Kinger? I'm busy
Alas, Jax couldn't bring himself to get such tips from the absent-minded programmer(?) and continued to seethe in touch-starved
the author's barely disguised hobbies and interests
The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol
you're falling in the trap!! it will be read by many people, many times, and it will live on in their memories. and maybe no single other human will match you in time spent dedicated to your story, but as a collective we will outlast you. acts of creation only grow when they are shared
This. Writing is not like dinner. It can be consumed many times
I think if you are going to read books you have to be able sometimes to say "That doesn't make sense and I don't know what's happening," and then keep reading so that you can find out when the making-sense part of the book comes. Like sometimes it's not making sense because it doesn't make sense until later. I don't even mean when it's a shocking twist. I mean sometimes you don't know why that character did that thing until later on, when you find out. I think being able to accept that you don't understand yet is important for reading books.
(The next step after that is to accept that sometimes it doesn't make sense and you don't know what's happening. sometimes the book will not tell you which of its parts were real. sometimes that's the point.)
(books are Art not Stenography. the author wrote the book to have an effect, not to be true.)
This is probably a tangent to the point above, but living with the first three quarters of a book that makes NO internal sense at all is sometimes the absolutely best possible thing.
I am thinking specifically of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, but there were others of the same ilk. There is a shit ton of "what the fucking hell" going on for most of the book. It's anywhere from dubious and murky to downright inexplicable and chaos-for-the-sake-of-chaos; it makes no sense constantly, you're running with the characters from nonsense to yet more nonsense.
Then you get to the end. And you can all but hear the dominoes falling all at once; click click clickclick clickclickclick as the entire story welds itself together in an orgasm of a grande finale, as if the seams were never there.
Younger me was absolutely flabbergasted that a story could be built from mud bricks crafted to implode into a crystal chandelier, but my god, it was enlightening.
As a child of an earlier generation, waiting for the explanation and/or the reveal at the end of the book or movie was the norm. But that was the first time I'd read a story that wasn't just being coy about "the twist" or the character motivations or what have it, but used the thing you didn't know as an invisible railroad track that everything hung from.
This is the real reason why spoilers can suck, if a story is done in this way it's not the reveal itself, it's the experience of seeing the swirling chaos coalesce into a finely tuned masterpiece. But yeah especially in this day and age of media illiteracy the ability to suspend disbelief and be okay with things not being peachy keen althroughout is so important to rebuild. I know I'm guilty of sticking to comfort zones and letting uncertainty intimidate me from starting something or seeing it through.
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When it comes to sex scenes, the rules say things like: Donât write them at all, and if you do, donât use these words. Donât write them silly, porny, dramatic, tragic, pathological, grim, or ridiculous.
My whole practical thesis around the craft of writing a sex scene is this: it is exactly the same as any other scene. Our isolation of sex from other kinds of scenes is not indicative of sexâs difference, but the difference in our relationship to sex. It is our reluctance to name things, the shame weâve been taught, our fraught compulsion to an act a theatre of types. It is indicative of the lack of imagination that centuries of patriarchy and white supremacy has wrought on us.Â
To teach sex scenes is to talk about plot, dialogue, pacing, description and characterisation: all those elements that make a captivating scene. A sex scene should advance the story and occur in a chain of causality that springs from your charactersâ choices. It should employ sensory detail that concretises and also speaks symbolically to the deeper content of the story. Or if not, it should service your work of art in whatever ways you want from your scenes.
âMind Fuck: Writing Better Sexâ in Body Work by Melissa Febos
Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, thatâs CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.
Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.
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Juuuust in time for the holidays (because y'all have been amazing this year)... đ⨠... Weâre shipping a big improvement to our AO3 exporter! Since we launched the exporter back in October, weâve been loving all the feedback youâve sent our way. That said, we know it had a few rough edges. Now, in addition to creating new worksâyou can export your docs and drafts as chapters in existing works! Head over to the blog to learn more... đŚ - The Ellipsus Team xo
'do you think you're superior for not using AI in your work' thank you for asking! yes i do
âď¸ more fic writer asks!
reblog & your followers can send asks with the questions theyâd like you to answer!
the last sentence you wrote
a character whose POV youâre currently exploring
how you feel about your current WIP
a story idea you havenât written yet
first sentence of the fifth paragraph of an unpublished WIP
the word that appears the most in your current draft (wordcounter.net can tell you)
your preferred writing fonts
if you had to write a sequel to a fic, youâd write one forâŚ
start to finish, how long did it take you to write the last fic you posted?
what is the longest amount of time youâve let a draft rest before you finished it?
a WIP youâd like to finish someday
a trope youâre really into right now
a fandom youâre thinking about writing for
where do you get your inspiration?
favorite weather for writing
favorite place to write
talk about your writing and editing process
if you keep them, share a deleted sentence or paragraph from a published fic
the most interesting topic youâve researched for a fic
in what year did you publish your first fic?
when did you publish your most recent fic?
do you ever worry about public reaction to what youâre writing? how do you get past that?
pick three keywords that describe your writing
how do you recharge when youâre not feeling creative?
besides writing, what are your other hobbies?
are you able to write with other people around?
your favorite part of the writing process
your least favorite part of the writing process
how easy is it for you to come up with titles?
share a fic youâre especially proud of
you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands
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did you know The Animation Guild is holding a rally tomorrow (8/10) in Burbank, CA and ANYONE is welcome to attend?? Come out and show support for our union ahead of contract negotiations!
Do you watch or enjoy animation? Wish shows would stop getting cancelled and shelved? Want to avoid having to look at AI slop? Think workers should earn a fair wage and have protections? Stand with us in solidarity!
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SUPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT. ANIMATION NEEDS YOU. Workers have been put through the ringer,saved these studios and then had the rug pulled out from under us when they wanted to cut jobs and cancel projects! Animation workers are literally FIGHTING FOR THEIR JOBS right now. This isint about just wages, this is about showing the studios that the love of animation is stronger then their BS. The reason why the industry is in trouble right now is because there is TOO MUCH POWER in the hands of the people who only care about shareholders! The output of animation in the last decade has been wild. Some high-tier stuff, break through shows and features, its been breaking records..and none of that has gone into making the career more sustainable to the artists who make up these projects, that carry them on passion alone. SHOW THEM SUPPORT, BE FIREY, BE LOUD, SHOUT OUT YOUR LOVE FOR ANIMATION !