#branch out

[duckngk]

what if butch stone went crazy vi style and joined da fight club bc she doesnt know what to do with her life because the only thing worth protecting is gone

tw eyestrain, another version under the cut

[possiblyawesometmblr]

yknow what? fuck it. fandom is too afraid of the concept of Being Wrong about where a story's going. tell me your most absolutely batshit insane theory about what's coming next in bound.

[jonny-be-gewd]

Jon promoting St. Louis County Library's Branch Out program

[These are a freebie. I did these once already but I don't like the way I colored them. So this time I left them pretty much natural and just sharpened. So, I'm sharing in case anyone wants the new ones. ]

[sunsetbuddie]

personally i think they should have committed and done a two week halloween extravaganza and done space horror athena battling her grief via battling a xenomorph tim you need to consider all genres when trying to do a Hollywood Movie

[bookinit02]

ok substack is great actually. did u know that all ur favorite authors are on there and they will just. talk to you. i just exchanged real actual words with the writer of if we were villains

[ring-a-ling-a-lune]

Scrolling Instagram is always a mistake, but I’ve been seeing a lot of focus on tropes lately. Writers selling their stories using a bulleted list instead of, like, snippets or summaries, people who only consume media with certain themes while never bothering to branch out, stuff like that. I don’t have particularly strong feelings on tropes, but I do feel that reducing a piece of media to neat little boxes is kind of limiting.

It’s like looking at the foundation of a house. You can build something on that? Cool. But you haven’t. It’s not a house. It’s a slab of stone. One with potential, yes, but a slab nonetheless. I don’t care if it’s “friends to enemies, morally gray” if you CANNOT give me any characterization or depth outside of that.

You need to build on these things. A trope is a foundation. It is the base. YOU build from there. YOU put in the legwork to create. Use other tropes as the supports and cornerstones, but flesh out the walls yourself. Give me something that is hand crafted and made with earnest, even if it’s a shack.

“Ahh this work is shallow and falling apart!” In your attempt to remodel the house (you forcibly put things in boxes), you removed a load-bearing wall (erased important nuance), and now the structure is sagging (it’s narratively weak and cannot hold its own).

Maybe I’m being dramatic. If that’s the case, feel free to call me a goober and a loser and a fun-void. I don’t think I’m (entirely) wrong tho. Who knows.

[penalty-boxes]

read a book while ao3 is down. one that doesn't have trope hashtags in the marketing. it will make you better at writing fic I swear