#contains multitudes

[phantomchick]

jason todd; my dark horse, my black sheep, my scapegoat, my underdog, my miserable sopping wet cat, my give a dog a bad name and hang him, my canary in the coal mine, my robin my robin my robin

[anglerfl3sh]

@sheerunfilteredhubris 's dnd guy of All Time. that all of you know as Isaac's hater brother

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

Sam Rodricks would love Dune Part II in that it would make him stare at a wall for several hours processing the horror of it all. Sam's in danger of writing Paul/Chani fix it.

[themself]

i think, with regards to leverage redemption, people are mixing up their issues with the series. the cons in the original were not that meticulously planned. the mile high job requires hardison landing a plane on a freeway using flight simulator. they stage a fake pandemic to get a guy to show them where his money is. they bring a guy into his own studio during his own show (which is, apparently, also a warehouse) without him noticing.

no, the issue isn’t necessarily that the cons don’t make sense. i think moreso the issue is that the group feels invulnerable. there’s never really a threat of being caught, or law enforcement catching up to them, or sterling being on their tracks and unraveling their plans. or hell, even a threat of nate ruining the entire con. the characters have grown too powerful and feel invulnerable.  it’s not missing being smart, it’s missing tension

[peigslayers]

already forgetting who I am the crime goes on without volition singing in its bone                       not I not I                                                the water drinks my mind

Severed Head Floating Downriver - Alice Oswald

[oliveroctavius]

there are 102929292 possible angles on the Osborns coexisting in my head and ALL of them are interesting to me.

[givemearmstopraywith]

Tell me about redacted

God forced us into the get along shirt and now he thinks he’s my dad. i hit on his wife one time and he just let me

[chetungwan]

Okay so I'm trying to (and being extremely slow at) write a sci fi series. I've vaguely envisioned a trilogy that takes place on a Dyson sphere that centers around three characters, and I have another story set in the same universe of four characters who travel around doing..... something, I dunno, I only thought up their backstories. More under the cut, because I'm trying to convince myself to write more today

The trilogy is about how people react to living under really shitty capitalism (because of course it is)

The area the trilogy takes place in is very corporate run, which isn't the case everywhere else

Its society revolves around replicators, a la Star Trek

The replicators need large amounts of energy to function, along with raw materials and blueprints for the things they're making

So this corner of space has developed around producing and storing energy, in massive unstable batteries and via things like Dyson spheres

The Dyson sphere the characters live in is one of these

And since raw material can be reused with enough energy, that leaves blueprints

These are the big products that are sold, since the only other good getting traded is energy

Copyright rules the region because of this

Which let's me have things like new genders being copyrighted and sold regularly

The biggest corporate crackdowns are against hacked replicators and pirated blueprints.

I haven't named the characters yet, but they have labels I use instead of names

Grey is POV for the first book. They have a very utilitarian, change the system from the inside perspective. A victim of mission creep and kinda a weenie

A genuinely does not care about making anything better and is entirely looking out for themself. They develop a fascination and later a crush on Grey entirely because they're such a disaster

Hero believes in small scale community organization and making the world better by helping individuals. They are also deeply uncharismatic and disliked

The things they suggest get like. Partway implemented. And people like the ideas. But now it works for those people and they don't feel the need to do anything else. And Hero gets left out in the cold, because it's been implemented just enough that the people with slightly more support can manage it, but they can't. So when they press for more change, people get frustrated at them.

I put more work into Hero because I haven't seen that kind of characterization as much

I need to practice just. Writing descriptions of the setting to get a feel for it

Fuck