#what is plot

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Kim Jae Wook as Noh Go Jin CRAZY LOVE (2022)

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Devil's Eyes

Author: @galactic-thunder

Rating/Warning: Explicit

Chapter Count: 1/1

Description: “Come on angel,” his voice sounds exactly like it had when she was fantasizing earlier and Chrissy finds herself letting her eyes flutter closed easier than she thought she would have. Her hand moves again and tries to find an even pace that isn’t too rushed or too drawn out, and it isn’t before long that she’s moaning softly again and sinking her teeth into her bottom lip because of how good it all feels.

“There’s my good girl.”

Tags: Alternate universe, what is plot, we only know smut, smut, fluff, established relationship, it's real hot yall, I urge you to read, Chrissy POV, one-shot, status: completed

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Me: I have this great idea for a story! I can see it all: the character arcs, the emotional climaxes, the complex relationships...

Also me: Wait, I have to come up with a plot--?

[heretherebedork]

I’ve noticed on social media, not so much tumblr but other platforms, that there is a significant amount of people who see a show that has either internal conflict or just general romance without much outside conflict and say it has “no plot.” It is also typically for shows with a slower burn or just more slowly paced in general and i find it interesting because that is plot! Maybe I’m just getting old (but I’m only in my mid-20s so I don’t think so), but it’s fascinating to me to see so many people think that internal conflict = no plot. Recently I’ve seen it said about between us and it just baffles me. I think it makes sense to say a show is too slow paced for your liking or you don’t prefer shows with mostly internal conflict, or even that you don’t think the plot is well written or executed, but many people deny a plot in that show and many others all together. I’m not sure if I have a specific question but I’m just wondering how you feel about the topic. There’s been a lot of discussion about how changing social media platforms has decreased attention spans, i wonder if that’s making young people not appreciate slower shows (since I mostly see people younger than me make these critiques but not always). Is it that popular media like marvel and stranger things and game of thrones has made it seem like everything must happen in a show/movie for it to seem like anything is happening? Idk!

This comes down to the definition of plot and the vernacular definition of plot. What do people consider a plot and how do you define a plot versus character growth?

(Also, mid-20s is not old please don't say that you're a decade younger than me you are not old even in fandom.)

But for many people a plot is the external conflicts that hold a show together and the rest doesn't count as a plot. And that is one way of defining the plot of a show that can be accepted.

I mean, I have no idea about popular media. But what people view as plot is different and that's just how people see shows. And that's okay! Sometimes it isn't about slow, it's about the fact that the plot itself is the growth of the characters. That's a very specific kind of plot that doesn't feel like a plot to many people because it is typically isn't the only plot.

I don't think it's about slow. It's about motivations and story line and how it works and it can very hard to describe in a way that isn't 'this show has no plot!' because most of the words past that can get technical or take a long time or just... I get it. I get why people say that.

I know @absolutebl has talked about ideas similar to this and I definitely think that this is just the kind of thing that is an ongoing conversation within a fandom because plot itself can be questionable in BL even at the best of times if you consider plot to be a cohesive narrative of things that happen and are all supposed to make sense together.

Suffice to say, I don't take a side on this issue because I don't think it's about sides, I think it's about language.

[highladyofyourmom]

writer: I want novel ideas :(

Brain: Here's some character names, personalities, worlds, problems, villains, scenes, love interests, threats, and titles!

Writer: great! Now how do I put it all together?

Brain:

Writer:

Brain:

Writer: How do I-

Brain: hERE'S SOME-

[drabbleitout]

OC: And from there I do X, Y, Z and come out swinging.

Me: Oh, awesome! Sounds great.

OC: Yeah!

Me: Just one question. What's the plan for going from X to Y? Like, what steps are you taking to bridge that gap?

OC: Oh, I dunno. That's your job.

Me: I thought when you said X, Y, Z you had an actual plan!

OC: Oh, no. That's plotting, and that's outside my job description.

[pompompurindazai]

I really want to write Phantom/Erik! Dazai but I don't know how to write it in my writing style😭 3nd person narratives are my weakness😔 But I also don't know how 1st person Phantom/Erik! Dazai's thoughts would flow-

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Patience (Trigun Fic)

Summary: Meryl and Wolfwood have a rare chance to talk. Animeverse, early in their acquaintance. This was supposed to be a drabble, but they wouldn't stop talking.

Gen, PG for mild swearing.

Comments welcome before this baby goes up on AO3!

Fic below the cut.

Meryl and Nick looked at their fallen companions. Millie was asleep, covered only in Meryl's travel blanket, snoring loudly. Vash was slumped over a small table in the hotel room, an empty bottle dangling from his hand. He wasn't snoring yet, thank goodness.

Purple and dark blue-gray eyes met in an identical look of protective, long-suffering annoyance, followed by recognition and mutual understanding.

"Peace at last," Meryl grumbled.

"I'd almost forgotten what that was like."

"How do you find the patience?"

Nick laughed. "Patience? Me?"

"You're so *calm* with him." They both knew who she meant.

"Does it still count if I make fun of him all the time?"

“That's just it. I get so *mad* I can't think of anything clever. All I can do is yell at him."

"Well, I've never seen you yell at Big Girl. Not even when she begged you for money for pudding all day...or talked really loudly in front of the whole bar about that time you--"

Meryl put a palm over his mouth. "Shhh!"

"Sorry." Nick didn't look the slightest bit contrite.

"Well...we've been friends since we were kids," Meryl explained. "And she doesn't mean it. She wouldn't hurt a fly. It's just...she can't help acting dumb sometimes."

"So, you forgive her because you understand her?"

Meryl stopped and thought about it for a moment. "I guess."

"That makes one of us," Nick said. "I never know what's going on in that head of hers. One moment she sees right through you and the next, what you say goes completely over her head."

"I don't always know," Meryl admitted. "She thinks really differently from most people. There's patterns, though."

Nick listened, nodding.

"She doesn't understand words very well sometimes, or social rules that don't have a point. Or jokes, or lies, or when people say something that contradicts what she sees in front of her. But she can ignore what people say and look straight at what they really feel, you know?"

"That makes sense... does she actually trust everyone?"

"Yes and no," Meryl said, pursing her lips thoughtfully. "I think she gives everyone a chance, but she's got her stun gun ready if it comes to that."

"Walk softly but carry a big gun, huh?"

"Exactly."

"He does that too, you know."

"Hm?"

"He greets everyone like they're a friend, but his hand's never far from his holster." (And one of his arms is a damn gun, Wolfwood didn't say. He wasn't sure if Meryl knew).

This time Meryl nodded, seeming deep in thought.

"He's not an idiot, you know."

"Then he should stop acting like one!"

"Wouldn't you get bored, with nothing to complain about?"

Meryl lightly smacked him in the forehead, then looked surprised at herself. Nick widened his eyes and opened his mouth in mock shock, but didn't return the gesture -- less because she was a girl, and more because she was tiny. Then he laughed.

Meryl looked embarrassed, then laughed, too.

This was the longest conversation they'd had, and it felt easy. Nick didn't know if it was the alcohol, or talking about their perplexing companions, or being so much alike.

"Tell you what. I'll stop teasing Big Girl if you practice a little more patience around the Humanoid Buffoon."

Meryl snorted in a maximally ladylike way, hand over her mouth. "Can I get a new nickname?" she asked.

"What?"

"Millie might not mind being Big Girl, but can't you think of something better for me than Short Girl?"

"Short Stuff?"

"No!"

"Half Pint?"

The vein in Meryl's forehead started to pulse.

"Okay!" Wolfwood put up his hands in mock surrender. "Spitfire?"

"...Better..."

"Office Lady?"

"When have you ever seen me in the office?" Her eyes seemed to plead, "I'm not really that boring, am I?"

"Tell you what. You can give me a nickname, too. Only fair."

"Asshole."

"Something you can say in public."

Meryl looked as if she were about to say "asshole" again. "Lung cancer."

"You got me right in the heart--"

"--What heart?"

"--I mean lungs." Wolfwood pretended to cough and then keel over.

"You are the worst actor I've ever met."