#paragraphs

[meowowstar]

I HATE when people don't break up their paragraphs. because 1. that's not multiple paragraphs, that's just one paragraph 2. why is it so close together?? did I accidentally read that line already. oh wait no it just confused me because of how close the words are 3. its confusing and makes me dizzy SPLIT UP YOUR PARAGRAPHS!!

[ourstarman]

The class difference between Remus and Sirius is actually so important to me

[iamafkrn]

thick paragraphs or thin ones?

THICK

thin

A mixture of both is necessary

Thick, but NOT on ao3 (ao3 needs thin paragraphs)

Thick, but dialogue should be thin or split up

Voting ended onFeb 3

[cupidghoull]

i like clingy. i like attention. i like affection. i like double texts. i like paragraphs.. ♡

[interlockingpatches]

Pausing the Pothos while I think about borders.

I ran out of chartreuse in the first round, so I switched to yellow, thinking I'd nearly-conceal it with a second (black) mesh border. You wouldn't spot the change immediately, and it would be cheeky and conceptual, like the green edge of the motif was just starting to brown. Very straightforward. Clear as a bell

But I had not considered how claustrophobic that architectural black border was going to be on such a narrow, vertical motif! With all the open mesh in the background, I think of Pothos as "light," "airy" thing. But once the border goes on, the effect becomes "shitty apartment window," and suddenly my tender houseplants are asking me questions about the ethics of ownership and care. I'll probably keep it

[starcrossedfandoms]

"To long for...a family"

Jack stopped, looking at Pitch. He did know what that was like, it's why he so desperetly wanted his memories, it's why he risked...and lost everything for them.

"In a past life I had one. A wife... and a daughter Jack. I remember them just barely" Pitch had gone completely still, his shadowy self like a void in the blizzardly snow surrounding them

"I wanted them back so badly but I was never allowed to see them, I haven't been able to see them in a long time..."

Jack's arms are braced and he's still holding his staff as tight as possible, but he's transfixed but the sudden emotion that is plain on Pitch's face, in the stillness of his body. He looks so suddenly human, very much like the person he might have been centuries ago.

"We aren't the same" Jack tells Pitch again, even though in this moment they very much seem the same. Maybe Pitch is what he could have been?

If he had chosen violence instead of fun to cope with the absence he's felt all his afterlife. Pitch was the reflection of what he could have been, casting blizzards, icing the roads until the streets piled up with crashed cars, frosting people into their houses to starve. Could he have been the Guardians' enemy at one time or another?

"You really don't think we are?" Pitch asks, so much genuine heartbreak in a voice he is forcing steady

"I do...and I don't want to be"

[cyberjello]

Sometimes I think a lot about what we know about The Dark Lord's character and how that may or may not relate to what he's experienced.

Like, right off the bat in AvA 3, this is a guy whose life starts during a currently ongoing fight, is told that his purpose is to join that fight, and when he loses, is prompted to start fighting again. For the first 5 minutes of his existence, the only thing he is exposed to is violence.

I think about how his first instinct in Minecraft is to destroy everything even when Chosen has already discovered that there's another way they can interact with the world. I recall how in AvA 3 when he starts playing Minesweeper, the one and only time he tries engaging with something non-destructively, it ends up biting him in the ass. How much later, the very first time he creates something—even if it is a means to further destruction—he gets told it's wrong.

I think about how, when Chosen spares him, he doesn't tell Dark that trying to kill him is wrong, he points to their uncaring creator. The lesson isn't "Fighting is wrong", it's "Don't get tricked into fighting for someone else's benefit." I wonder how it felt when that same person told him he needed to stop fighting. For someone else's benefit. The one person he stops fighting for years suddenly switches sides without any prior warning.

This is probably all verging on headcanon, but...

His reason for being is violence and conflict. He finds combat fun and exhilarating, but combat for him has always been with the aim to destroy. Nothing has ever taught him that an alternative to destruction is anything good. He has been thoroughly conditioned to be the way he is.

God I wanna see a redemption arc for him done well. What would it take to bring out the parts of him that built such a versatile tool like the Virabots, that started playing with a logic puzzle in the middle of a fight, that saw beauty in the hellish pre-1.16 Nether, and channel them into something good? What kind of person would he be afterwards?