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I was looking at the hot spring pic and I have to ask, has any of your charater had a embarrassing moment in the hot spring?

i feel like the only character capable of feeling embarassment on that hot spring is tammy, and its mostly bc shes flustered; everyone else are just big girls having fun ✌

#EeEEEEeEh #you elbow touched my boob!! kiaaa!#i dont rly have those kind of anime characters #that go #ask

i just think that he’s neat

#skz #chan #bang chan #christopher bang #he is so !#hot !#bro i’m in love with him #the #earrings #that go #into his #mouth #PLEASE #god i am not your strongest soldier #stray kids #kpop

Sometimes, I remember these hot take writing tips that go like “don’t over-exposition a character introduction, give the reader the information slowly, naturally through the story” and then I think fuuuck that, gimme that characters’ first and last name and a vague description of what they look like when you first introduce them. I want it. I need it.

There are still characters from the PJO series that I cherish who never even got a last name at all. Nah, man. You can’t trust authors. They’ll thow a first name at you and you grow attached to the character and like if you’re lucky they’ll give the character a last name years after the fact, twelve books into the series, at which point I have already written hundred thousands of words and am five generations deep into my next gen, all while using a fake last name I thought up.

Seriously. You don’t need to have an 80s anime intro where you say your first name, last name, blood-type, class and school while a slow-shot shows your exact physique. But every character should have a first and last name, if we’re set in the modern human world.

Because, I don’t know how it’s for others, but when I am invested enough in something to sit my ass down and read a book, I am severely invested - I want to know everything. I will get invested in your most minor throwaway character who only had like one appearance in book 2 outta 10, I don’t care, here is an essay on what I imagine their life was like and what their relationships to the other characters are. So, at the bare minimum, give me their first and last name.

I generally hate those writing tips that pretend that they’re rules. tips are nice, giving advise how you can do something is great. But when they’re mightier-than-thou pretending like there are golden rules that you have to follow to write right? That’ll bullshit. So much about writing is about style. There is no right or wrong way to tell a story.

If you don’t like introductory exposition, that’s fine, you don’t have to write them. I do like them, I love, I will write them and be pleased when an author does them. But don’t pretend that introductory exposition is inherently bad and should never-ever be done, because that’s just horseshit.