#htstw

[iced-souls]

So it was planned to be an XD animation meme, song di young, based on the fan-fic “How to SAVE the World” (absolutely great, 100% recommend)(check out on @talkingsoup) but ya, sadly will probably never finish, like the usual frustration of wips—

Pt 1–

[cookiecuttercritter]

Some Top Tier Character Tropes:

Parroting someone’s catchphrase, motto, or mantra ironically back to them at a crucial moment for maximum angst.

Using incredible powers for mundane things or refusing to use them at all because they make things “boring”.

Bonus: using said powers for everything BUT what they were meant for.

Dramatically collapsing onto things, for drama because you’re spent, OR for comedy, because it’s always a good time to collapse dramatically.

Being too ignorant or jaded to react appropriately to danger.

Bonus: overreacts to ridiculously small threat OR everyone knows it’s going down if and only when this character finally acknowledges the threat.

Soft, mostly harmless bean pushed to the breaking point and unleashing everything they’ve been holding back.

[cookiecuttercritter]

Bold of you to assume I can write sci-fi. I’ve really only been putting ‘space’ in front of things and hoping for the best.

[cookiecuttercritter]

i love talking swords. sword that talks is a good character trope

[cookiecuttercritter]

There are 8x1067 possible ways to arrange a deck of cards. That’s 8 followed by 67 zeroes.

Don’t worry about being unoriginal because every trope, archetype, and plot has been done to death. Embrace the tropes! Stack them up the way 3D resin art doesn’t make sense until all the layers are in place.

Any story you might tell is a set of familiar plot elements in a novel arrangement, one that’s likely never existed before.

It’s not about the tropes themselves. It’s about the permutations.

[cookiecuttercritter]

90% of my characters have the emotional intelligence of a potato and I’m afraid there’s nothing I can do about it,

[cookiecuttercritter]

Second wind is an A+ trope:

The villain swats the hero some distance away and they eat dirt, tumble, collapse. Maybe leave a dent in whatever they were launched into.

The villain’s job here is done. They bask in their victory -

But it’s not over yet. Painfully, the hero stands, back facing the villain. They look small and broken, they’re running on fumes. Maybe they glance at the sky, just grateful they’re still breathing.

Then they glare back, a downright murderous look in their eye that screams, “Let’s go another round.”

[cookiecuttercritter]

How to Save the World in 12 Easy Steps was a title borrowed from an abandoned superhero trilogy, the other 2 parts being titled A Take-Over-the-World Type of Attitude and We’re All Doomed.

Now that I’m thinking of un-abondoning this wip, im stuck since I can’t just have two wips named How to Save the World. Whoopsies.