#joyfulldreams

[pdaliceliveblogs]

Well thank you very much for the offer! I’ve already found a new Tutu screener, though, the lovely @herissondecheminee​! And now that I have, I should be back to the Tutublog pretty soon-- probably tomorrow?

[queenangst]

TBH when it comes to platonic bkdk thoughts this may be unpopular but I kinda like the idea that they really don't know a lot about each other since they were, you know, only stupid kids before. They THINK they know more than they do, and so much of their lives together as older teens/adults involves getting to know each other better as more complete people NOW.

honestly i think so too, to an extent! i actually have a little fic that kind of plays with this idea hahaha. 

i think also, if we’re talking about believability, people change a lot over the course of childhood/teenage years. and with the nature of their relationship, there was certainly distance between them that means there’s a lot of personal stuff they wouldn’t know about each other.

that all being said, at the same time though i like to indulge and just the concept of knowing each other quite well as kids carrying over to the present is fun and sweet and checks my boxes

[gamzee]

TBH It's a little ridiculous Rose doesn't have some pretty great meta works around her. She's got just as much potential for almost all of the same things as Dirk re: the text, except she's a Seer so she actually knows what the fuck she's doing more often than Dirk ever does. Rose is still a gay disaster tho. Tl;dr When is someone going to write out Complaceny of the Learned written by 13-year-old Rose in it's entirety? It could be the next Detective Pony, y'all. PLEASE.

joy i already have so much work to do please don’t give me ideas

[callmearcturus]

joyfulldreams replied to your post “/stares at notes I have a fair amount of groundwork laid for a...”

Oh yeah writing in a more episodic manner can be really tough to adjust to. You have to sort of re-think the pacing of your larger, overarching plot to make room for a bunch of smaller mini-plots inside it. I think it helps to try and approach each episode as, maybe, 'which aspect of the world/story/characters do I want to highlight and explore for this brief amount of time?' and/or 'what sort of theme/message/idea do I want to emphasize and explore'. If that helps?

I’ve been thinking about this a while and I actually want specifically to avoid this tactic, but for a specific reason. The narrative project I’m working on, codenamed Dramagic for Dramatic Magic, is a podcast. I’ve been listening to a fair amount of narrative podcasts to try and get a grip on what works for me and what doesn’t. Mostly, I’m learning what doesn’t work for me with each podcast I try.

the pertinent example here is that I tried kalila stormfire's economical magick services, and while I’m sure it’s a great show, two things totally threw me off. first, the narrator’s tempo was too slow for me in a way that honestly drove me up the wall. but more importantly, the format episode to episode was in part based on specific magical concepts. a problem is introduced, it’s explained, and we see how the narrator handles it.

this ends up, to me, feeling very very un-naturalistic, and unless I’m going for a very specific framing device, I tend to aim for naturalistic.

what I’m hoping to do, should I ever solve this mystery for myself, is to create a story in which different levels of plot happen, but it’s all character driven and the audience is never infodumped. I’m of course guilty of sometimes leaning into exposition when needed-- The Eurydice Suite had an entire chapter of exposition solely so I could subvert the exposition and show how everything goes wrong.

I want a story where characters operate in A Society in an internally logical way, and the audience is clued into the mechanics of the world ambiently over time.

... i’ve been thinking about this a lot

[ups-my-hand-slipped]

*EXCUSE YOU*. (Thank you for my life holy shit. You are this fandom's savior. The hero we need but don't deserve.)

I can say the same about you and the other fellows!you guys make my days brighter🎔

[daily--jadeharley]

Hey I have a mighty need to be able to find and follow all the mods' personal or art blogs because your art is so rad........would any of you guys be comfortable sharing?

oh no problem! mod jade’s main is lesbianjadeharley and her art blog is garden-frog, and mod vriska’s main is goldraichu and her art blog is sicknastyjr :D

[hsactomega]

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[queenangst]

Pl bkdk thoughts: So Bakugou has nightmares about Deku getting himself hurt/killed for Bakugou's sake like, on the regular, right? (Nobody can debate me on this.) 👀👀

oh totally. so much inner emotional turmoil just at first not understanding why the thought of deku taking a hit for him makes him so scared...