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Been a while since I’ve put anything art-ish over here! Have a costume. Pauldron is modified from an iWoodCosplay pattern, made from foam, contact cement, plasti-dip, jumbo plastic toy screws, and a whole lot of Rub’n Buff. (Used it on the belt and the bracers too- those are handmade from my own patterns. There was so much Rub’n Buff. )
“Cut everything that doesn’t advance the plot” no. I’m gonna write more stuff that doesn’t advance the plot
Speedrunning should be for video games, not stories.
Broke: filler scenes don’t advance the plot, cut them out.
Woke: filler scenes flesh out the characters, provide lore and exposition, and help you control the pacing. In this way, they enhance the plot. Don’t cut them out.
Instead of “Does this advance the plot?” I offer you “Does this serve the story?”
Because plot is an important aspect of story, yes, but it’s not the only aspect. Stories are also made up of characters and relationships and settings and details. If your scene develops the relationship between two characters in a meaningful way, does it not serve the story? If it includes meaningful detail that enriches the setting? If it furthers a character’s development?
If it serves the story, it’s not filler. It’s part of the story. If it feels like filler, possibly it isn’t serving the story. Ultimately only you, the author, can decide that.
Related to this, I’m always fascinated when authors go into the details of what got changed between their first drafts and the finished, published novels.
Some write a pretty “clean” draft and know where the plot beats are and how everything should happen.
Others need to see basic ideas laid out in a draft, and then start writing again from the beginning. Characters get erased, or added, or fundamentally changed because their relation to the narrative wasn’t working right. I’ve read a few people who say they massively over-write; there will be chapters of filler like kitchen table conversations that don’t go anywhere. Those words don’t make it into the book… but after putting them down, now the writer knows more about their cast of characters, the shape of the world, and relationships between them all and the rest of the story ends up stronger just because they spent time noodling around, letting imaginary people babble and seeing what comes out of their mouths.
Write the filler if it makes you happy. Trim it later if it feels like it’s bogging things down.
in light of the current "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" moral panic re unsuitable literature, i'd like to share an anecdote.
my thirteen-year-old cousin came to visit a few months back. he saw my copy of american psycho and asked if he could borrow it, because his friend had seen the movie and said it was really good. i said okay, sure, but just so you know, it's a lot more graphic than the movie and there's some stuff in there that you might find really upsetting. he asked what kind of stuff. i gave him a bare-bones outline of the contents (gore, sexual violence, cannibalism, etc). he said he would think about it.
a few days later, he came back to me and said, "it doesn't sound like my kind of thing. i think i might wait until i'm a bit older to read it." alright, i said, good call, and that was the end of it. i am 99% sure that if i'd just said "no, you can't have it, you're not old enough," he would have felt patronised and found a way to read it anyway, just to prove a point.
you can draw whatever conclusions you want from that, but i feel it's a pretty good indicator that giving kids the information they need to curate their own experience is way more effective than telling them what they are and aren't allowed to read. that's just my two cents, though.
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I know a couple of local vegetable farming families, and all of this tracks. Ugly potatoes go in discounted “seconds” bags for sale, they keep spotty cauliflower for themselves and their crews, cut off the bad spots, and turn it into soup. If it’s really awful- squished tomatoes, lettuce that’s more hole than leaf, excessively buggy broccoli - it goes to the pigs or the chickens or gets composted. They have their own eggs and get homegrown pork and cage-free chicken at the end of the season to keep the family fed through the year. It’s an efficient little operation and I’m honestly impressed by how well some small farms can handle all of the logistics and sales and storage issues with so many different crops that require different conditions and have different shelf lives.
I love being an adult because you know what actually happens when you run your car into a curb and scratch up the bumper?
Nothing. You get it fixed, or you don’t. Whatevs.
You know what actually happens when you are depressed or sick or on your period and don’t cook dinner?
Nothing. You still get to eat something, nobody scolds you, it doesn’t have any real bearing on your future success, and you don’t get soft shunned for a week by your family.
You know what actually happens when you break stuff, forget stuff, get sick, fall asleep, are rude, miss a flight, don’t know how to do XYZ thing on fixing cars or canning food or whatever, lose things, get lost because you can’t read a map and forgot to charge your phone, buy the wrong groceries, plant the wrong plants, not make your bed, make your bed wrong, jump on your bed, sleep on your bed, eat crackers in your bed, have emotions literally anywhere?
Nothing.
Nothing happens.
No one is mad.
No one can hurt you, and if they do there are laws saying they can’t and that it’s an actual crime with legal consequences.
All there are are outcomes and different paths and different problems and different situations and you just bumble your way forward into dealing with those and that’s it. That’s the whole thing. It’s not the wrong choice, having problems isn’t indicative of your inherent badness or inadequacy or lack of applying yourself. It’s just life, and it’s happening to literally everyone.
I’m not even kidding.
You just do stuff and nothing bad happens. Walk around existing? Nothing bad will happen. Wild.
You can cry. In public. And the most likely outcome is not that you will get taken away to receive the beating of your lifetime, it is that people will mostly ignore you and some will be kinder to you. 🤯
we really devolved as a society when we stopped using fully painted pictures on romance novels and started using cheap photoshop insteadÂ
case in point
this is a Hell of a downgradeÂ
worst crime capitalism ever committed was eliminating Horny Oil Painter as a viable career option.
So great news actually the horny oil painter style is starting to make a comeback with millennials who’re into adult romance novels, but not in the way you expect!
Anna Moshak is the artist!
Once again monsterfuckers are creating the bright path for humanity
Imagine if you met someone who can't eat watermelon. Not that they're allergic or unable somehow, but they just haven't figured out how to do that. So you're like "what the hell do you mean? it works just like eating anything else, you open your mouth, sink your teeth in, take a bite and chew. If you can bite, chew and swallow, you should be able to eat a watermelon."
And they agree that yes, they do know how to eat, in theory. The problem is the watermelon. Surely, if they figured out where to start, they'd figure out how to do it, but they have no clue how to get started with it.
This goes back and forth. No, it's not an emotional issue, they're not afraid of the watermelon. They can eat any other fruit, other sweet things, and other watery things ("it's watery?" they ask you). Is it the colour? Do they have a problem eating things that are green on the outside and red on the inside?
"It's red on the inside?"
Wait, they've never seen the inside? At this point you have to ask them how, exactly, they eat the watermelon. So to demonstrate, they take a whole, round, uncut watermelon, and try to bite straight into it. Even if they could bite through the crust, there's no way to get human jaws around it.
"Oh, you're supposed to cut it first. You cut the crust open and only chew through the insides."
And they had no idea. All their life this person has had no idea how to eat a watermelon, despite of being told again and again and again that it's easy, it's ridiculous to struggle with something so simple, there's no way that someone just can't eat a watermelon, how can you even mange to be bad at something as fucking simple as eating watermelon.
If someone can't do something after being repeatedly told to "just do it", there might be some key component missing that one side has no idea about, and the other side assumed was so obvious it goes without mention.
Yep.
https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/how-to-do-everything had a nice list of additional examples like this, with (non-)obvious major insights with regard to opening stitched bags, cleaning your bathroom floor, using a search engine, catching a ball, pinging somebody, proving a theorem, playing sudoku, passing as “normal”, improving your writing, generating novel ideas, and solving your problem.
If you’d asked me six months ago how to get better at something, I’d probably have pointed you to how to do hard things. I still think this is a good approach and you should do it, but I now think it’s the wrong starting point and I’ve been undervaluing small insights. [...]
I think my revised belief is that if you are stuck at how to get better at something, spend a little while assuming there’s just some trick to it you’ve missed. You can try to generate the trick yourself, but it’s probably easier to learn it by observing someone else being good at the thing, asking them some questions, and seeing if you have any lightbulb moment.
My fiance played the clarinet when he was in school. When he was first learning to play, he rented an instrument from the school to learn on. He was the last chair clarinet, had been for years, because he could not make notes that required the register key. For years, they kept making him do embrature exercises and he started to get a few notes, with lots of effort. Eventually he had to get private lessons to stay in band.
Every time he tells me this story, his frustration by this point in the story, years later, is evident. He still sounds frustrated by it, despite all the time that passed. Teachers had been giving him crap for years because he hadn't been making much progress with the instrument.
When he got to the private instructor, she acknowledged his frustration, and asked him to try to play for her. He did, and she saw all he was doing. She then did something no one else had done before. She asked him to put his mouthpiece on a different clarinet and try to play the same notes. Like magic, it worked. She looked at the clarinet he had been using and found that the school's clarinet needed it's pads replaced.
He went from last chair to first chair nearly overnight, having been taught far more techniques than typically taught at that age just to overcome the broken instrument preventing him from making noise.
Sometimes you don't need to brute force a problem. Sometimes your clarinet is just broken.
Calling a child talented or smart or gifted is actually really bad for them because if you’re inherently talented or gifted you can only disprove that so people end up freezing and not doing anything because they’re afraid of messing up and revealing that they’re not actually talented.
And when I first learned about that I think it explained a lot about my childhood. Holy heck.
And if you’re wondering how you should praise children, I’ve been told you should praise their accomplishments.
Yes, you did do that thing. Yes, you found that cool fact all on your own. Yes, you worked really hard and got good at that instrument.
And you can apply this logic to adults too. It teaches people that their effort and work is what counts. Not something inherent to their personality. And there’s always an opportunity to do more stuff. There’s no real opportunity to be inherently something new.
“For The Plot,” I whisper, deleting a rad detail that no longer works as tears fall from my eyes
Don’t delete it!
Take the detail and put it in a cut scene file. Less anguish + can be used again if needed later. Recycling!
Brought to you by: I never used to be merciless enough as an editor because losing bits made me sad. Now that I know I can bring them back for a sequel or even post cut scenes separately, I am so much more vicious, and my writing is better for it.
Instead of killing your darlings, I’ve called it cryogenically freezing your darlings
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just saw someone ask whether batman or spiderman would win in a fight, as if batman would see a brightly-colored sassy acrobat and not immediately adopt him
now, in fairness, peter parker has a history of seeing someone else in a costume and immediately throwing hands only to realize three pages later that there was literally no reason to do that, but it’s not like misplaced aggression is disqualifying when it comes to suddenly acquiring a batdad
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Bruce, upon realizing that he’s getting punched repeatedly by a flippy and talkative spider-child with 0 brain cells and a strong moral compass, immediately begins filling out mental adoption papersÂ
Peter, catching the image of an adult dressed vaguely like an animal and standing in the shadows out of the corner of his eye, immediately backflips into a roundhouse kick while shouting “batter up!”
Batman, internally: Unfortunately I love it.
Bruce: This one has super strength and can literally dodge bullets. Clark: Bruce, put him back where he came from. Peter: Please give me a dollar. I am very poor.
Clark: I gave him a dollar.
Peter: He gave me a dollar.
Clark: I thought he’d go away if I gave him a dollar.
Bruce: Well of course he’s not gonna go away. If you gave him a dollar he’s gonna assume you have more.
Peter: Where did you even get the oversized cup and newspaper?
Clark: Batman had them lying around
Peter: Just lying around??
Clark: If you saw his headquarters cave you’d understand
Super fucked up that I can’t be a master-level expert in knitting AND woodworking AND silversmithing AND embroidery AND soap making AND spinning AND -
“Who would ever want to be immortal? Can you imagine the loneliness, knowing that there’s no one else like you, cursed to outlive -” shut up!! Some of us have shit to do and aren’t cowards!!
Sharing this from my twitter because I think a good amount of artists can probably relate to this, ADHD or not ö
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These spiders, called mirror or sequined spiders, are all members of several different species of the thwaitesia genus, which features spiders with reflective silvery patches on their abdomen.
The scales look like solid pieces of mirror glued to the spider’s back, but they can actually change size depending on how threatened the spider feels. The reflective scales are composed of reflective guanine, which these and other spiders use to give themselves color. (Source)
I really don’t like spiders, but this one’s pretty at least.
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