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NEW (Rather Renewed) WIP

Title: NETLine!

Genre:

Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Virtual, Action, Young Adult

Setting:

Place:

Real Life : Seoul, United Korea

In Game : NETLands

Time:

Real Life :

29 September 2050 (Present Time)

27 September 2024 CE (Flashback)

Virtual Time : VT 004

#NETLine!!!#netline #new wip #wip intro

motheatenmoonlight

actually my main man solomon is correct — the point of life is to be kind and curious and creative and discerning and weird above all to love god + love people.

wolfythewitch

can you hear me weeping in the corner

wolfythewitch

WARM AS THE JOY THAT SHIPWRECKED SAILORS FEEL WHEN THEY CATCH SIGHT OF LAND

parksrway

nobody gets me like they get me

talesofnetline

What I know, 7x7=49 is Yellow, 5x5=25 is blue, 6x6=36 is orange/green

natalieironside

"Tumblr isn't like other social media websites" That's because it's a blogging platform. We used to have lots of those.

natalieironside

I've made a home for myself on Tumblr because Tumblr feels like a last fading echo of back when the Internet used to be good

sycretsside

So I just started my short story writing class! These are dialogue tips

lady-feral

reference later

heywriters

These are good tips.

Notice they are not labeled “rules.” For instance, I would have to take issue with #3 if it was a “rule.” There are times, especially in media like film or podcast, where dialogue is the best way to slip a morsel of exposition in and still feel authentic. Instead of a paragraph long explanation of something, sometimes a character may just ask “Why?” and another answer “Because reasons.” Voila, a little exposition in an easy to swallow capsule. Just don’t do it often.

Likewise, #5 sounds too strict until you get to #6. There is a definite time and a place for adverbs and modifiers, but 5 & 6 are there to help you balance show vs tell. “Said” tells us a character spoke. “Using an action” shows us how that character felt while speaking. Both are necessary. Adverbs and modifiers are the quickest shortcut between the two, but in a good narrative readers don’t want shortcuts we want immersion and character building. So keep your shortcuts handy, but don’t cut corners on storytelling.

transmasc-wizard

i just saw a tiktok (<- cursed cursed site) that started out good, talking about how "show don't tell" is something you should keep in mind. It used the example of "instead of saying 'she opened the door', try 'her shaking hand twisted the doorknob, letting out a loud creak'".

And, yeah, if you're trying to convey the hesitance, fear, and eventual sucking-it-up that seems to be going on in the scene, that's great.

But.

The tiktok ended with, "see? Showing is ALWAYS better." And I just...

Friends & enemies, that's how you end up with that insufferable always-showing always-active YA writing style that does not know when to just shut up and say "she opened the door".

Because, yeah, I'll say it. Sometimes "she opened the door" IS better. Sometimes, the act of opening the door is literally just announcing a setting change, and you don't need to focus on it.

Show don't tell is about conveying important or relevant information, not about literally everything you're writing. You're allowed to say "she opened the door" & similar, and in fact, I encourage it in many scenarios.

theothin

showing is how you anchor an event more firmly in your reader’s mind, to make them slow down and focus when you’re presenting something significant

if you do it all the time, it doesn’t work! the flip side of recognizing the need to show important things in detail is recognizing the need to identify which things aren’t important and just tell them

bananonbinary

does that example even count as telling instead of showing? i was always told that advice is for like, what’s going on inside a character’s head, not describing the literal plot. ie, the “tell” version would be something like “she was afraid.” because that can often come across as kind of cheap or even incongruous with the pov if the audience can’t see any indication of her mood beyond the author just straight-up telling us.

but by this definition, i think any sort of narration at all is “telling,” which is a wild thing to say.

shisasan

𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟷𝟶, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[ID: August 10. Wrote nothing. END ID]

ololygas

The Writing Life, Annie Dillard

erensattacktitandick-deactivate

🔥 Piping Hot OC Asks 🔥

A summer-themed OC ask game about how 🌶🌶🌶 your OC is.

🥵 : Is your OC perceived as physically attractive to others? Is it at first glance or is it something that takes more time to reach fruition?

💦 : Is your OC’s attractiveness based on looks or a more intangible aura?

💪 : What is your OC’s most physically attractive attribute?

🧠 : What is your OC’s most mentally attractive attribute?

👀 : Does your OC believe they are attractive? Do they use that to their advantage?

👃 : Does your OC smell good? Do they have a signature scent?

👂 : Does your OC have an attractive voice?

🚲 : Does your OC enjoy playing the field? Or are they more monogamy-minded?

😍 : What does your OC find irresistible in others?

💘 : Is your OC a very good flirt? Are they charming?

💋 : Is your OC a good kisser? How do they do it?

🦴 : Does your OC have much sexual experience? What are they like?

💞 : Do they treat sex casually or do they view it as something with a lot of emotional weight?

🔥 : What’s a surefire way to make your OC get flustered?

🧸 : Into public displays of affection or are they more reserved?

💌 : How would they plan a romantic evening for a significant other?

💐 : What is their courting style? How would they woo someone?

👙 : What kind of underwear do they use? Is it pretty or functional?

keyboardandquill

Figuring out your OC's 'voice' and physicality/characterization

I often struggle with creating distinct characters, so I came up with some questions about your OCs that I haven't seen in any other lists.

I recommend answering these for each character once you've already spent some time with them on the page.

What irks other people about the way they converse?

What kind of conversations do they usually have?

Are they a good listener?

How do they react to confrontation?

How do they react to being corrected?

How do they correct others?

Do they tend to speak in long sentences, short & clipped sentences, or somewhere in between?

How likely are they to heed social cues when talking to others?

How likely are they to use body language rather than words to express discomfort and other emotions?

Do they care more about getting their way, or more about how others feel?

What's their favourite skill?

What niche thing are they competent at?

What trait immediately draws them to other people?

What trait immediately repels them?

Even if they haven't met (or even if they're not even in the same universe!), what would your other OCs' first impression of them be?

What makes them angry?

What makes them sad?

What makes them happy?

What's their posture like?

How do they want others to see them?

How do they move through a room?

Do they prefer being barefoot, and if not, what kind of footwear do they usually like best?

What kind of climate do they prefer?

What would make them distrust somebody?

What would they consider the greatest betrayal?

iloveyou-writers

The saying "writing is a lonely hobby" is a saying for a reason. You come up with the concepts alone. You create it alone (unless you have writing partners).

My biggest advice for people that don't want to feel alone when writing is to find another writer that you trust and either A. start roleplaying/writing with them or B. become writer pals and just have conversations about each other's WIPs.

It can make such a huge difference on feeling alone when writing when you have someone you know will be excited to hear about what you're working on. When you have writer friends that you know are excited to hear about your works. :) look for those people, because they're the kind of people every writer needs.

🤍 H

roll-a-natural-queer

the-darkish-side-of-specs

Oh sweet mother that’s useful

Here’s just the template

levi-ish

saw this on twitter rn, if you ever feel discouraged about writing fanfiction, read this again

salvadorbonaparte

Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books that I try to update regularly

salvadorbonaparte

**UPDATE**

I have restructured the folders to make them easier to use and managed to add almost all languages requested and then some

Please let me know any further suggestions

salvadorbonaparte

clockworktardis

….holy shit. You found the holy grail.

kittydesade

….. is this a DIFFERENT person keeping gigabytes worth of language books on google drive? Holy crap.

wyvyrn

This. This here. Is why I love Tumblr.❤️❤️❤️

bard-llama

Update from OP:

UPDATE because apparently not everyone has seen this yet the new and improved version of this is a MEGA folder: https://mega.nz/folder/kQBXHKwA#-osWRLNCXAsd62ln8wKa8w

2411 files and 819 subfolders

flootzavut

Holy shit. OP you are a wonderful human being.

surohsopsisofclouds

O.O Linguistic Holy Grail…

staff

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mortimermcmirestinks

Tumblr is dying.

This isn't funny, this isn't me doing a meme, this is me putting on a very temporary Serious Hat.

Tumblr is dying.

The recent attempts by staff to make the site profitable are the desperate gasps and grasping arms of a site that is well past the point of no return.

Tumblr was never going to survive very long in our current world. It's not profitable. It was never going to be very profitable. It's vitally important to the history and culture of the social internet (and, really, the world in general, to some extent), but it's been mismanaged, haphazardly-run, and just a general design train wreck for years.

Because here's the important thing to remember about Tumblr:

Tumblr is a bad social media site. More specifically, Tumblr is bad at being a social media site.

I know what you may be thinking -- "but it's better than [Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/TikTok], so it can't be that bad!" And that's incorrect. Tumblr is, by any standard measure, much much worse at being a social media site than any of those four sites. And there's one crucial reason for that that people keep overlooking:

See, people think of social media as being about connecting with people, or community, or social blah blah blah whatever and I need you to understand that all of that, all of it, is bullshit. That's not what social media is, and that's never what social media has been.

Social media is about selling your information, mostly to advertisers -- which, on the internet, mostly means to Google. Meta doesn't want you to find art on Instagram or talk to friends on Facebook. Meta wants you to spend time looking at your feed and putting in information. For all Meta cares, if it kept you on the site, you could kill all of your friends and only follow Instagram accounts that posted blank white frames. None of the "content", none of the "community", none of that bullshit is important to them. They just want you on the site so they can get your information -- via ads, trackers, cookies, harvesting your posts and comments, whatever -- and sell it.

I can't be any clearer about this next point:

Social media is bad. Anything that you like about Tumblr, TikTok, Instagram, or whatever, all of the stuff you like about those sites are either incidental or counter to the intention of the people running the site.

Instagram DMs are only there to keep you on the site.

Your TikTok FYP is very carefully curated to keep you on the app.

Twitter shows you exactly the trends it needs to in order to keep you browsing.

Ever wonder why social media makes people so angry? It's because anger keeps you engaged. It's 100% intentional.

All of the most addictive and engaging emotional states -- anger, fear, smugness -- are all really bad for your mental (and often physical) health when taken in large doses, and are also the only thing social media wants from you.

Now we come back to Tumblr.

Why is Tumblr better than, say, Twitter? And it really is -- we don't talk about this enough, but Tumblr is absolutely a better experience than Twitter. Or Facebook, or TikTok, or Instagram, or Reddit, or LinkedIn, or Imgur, or any other successful social media site. But why?

The reason Tumblr is so much better of an experience than other social media is because Tumblr is so much worse than other social media at being social media.

All of the stuff we like about Tumblr -- the crazy, shittily designed, chaotic reblog system? the fact that your dash is basically only chronological? the fact that the tag system is so fundamentally broken that the ways that it's broken have been culturally rebuilt as a part of the way we communicate on the site? the way that reblogs distribute content creation? the culture of crazy fandom people? that one werewolf fucker? the memes? the fact that, by and large, you don't get spoonfed stuff from around the site by an algorithm? mutuals? the lack of censorship, and, in turn, the fact that said lack of censorship drives away advertisers? the weird culture that keeps "normies" from tiktok away? -- all of that is absolutely counterintuitive to being a successful social media site.

Let's compare Tumblr to an actually really well-designed social media: TikTok.

TikTok is a goddamn masterpiece of social media design. If you install TikTok on your phone and give it even the tiniest amount of engagement, it'll nail your interests and dopamine triggers in under a week. Give it a month and it'll have its hooks in your brain. The algorithm is so finely tuned, all the systems are so carefully designed, the goddamn interface is hardwired to trick your brain into scrolling.

Stitches? Duets? Likes? Even cultural things, like trends and sounds going viral? Hell, the idea of TikTok sounds at all? All these are built to drive engagement.

Funny video? Duet your reaction. Someone asked a question? Stitch your answer. Someone singing? Duet for a literal duet! Sound going viral? You can do a TikTok of that sound, easy! Interesting conversation in your comment section? Reply to comments with quick videos!

And vitally, did you miss the last trend? No worries! The next one's coming along! If you joined TikTok today you wouldn't even know about the sea shanty thing. The culture moves at the speed of light.

The camcorder-like nature of recording on TikTok makes making the actual content a snap. The boost given to new accounts tricks you into thinking it's easy, and even in the long run, the distribution algorithms make it much easier than, say, YouTube to get the numbers to go up. Content is easy to make and distribute, trends are so quick that they're easy to follow, and the FYP algorithm gives the illusion of community -- and easy-to-make content and well-designed algorithms makes the numbers go up, and to our monkey brains, numbers = approval = success = dopamine.

Tumblr? Tumblr has none of that shit.

Instead of stitches, duets, or sounds, we have reblogs -- with a post editor that barely works, a following that's 80% porn bots, and a frankly baffling 15-year-old online culture that moves at (for the internet) glacial speeds and has hundreds if not thousands of in-jokes, none of which ever die? Have fun building a following with that, fucker! Numbers? You think we do numbers here? We suffer, and we like it!

Oh, and good luck playing into trends. I wasn't kidding about the glacial speeds and in-jokes. Sure, we have new shit happening -- Tumblr's take on the "your dick cold eeby deeby" meme is new, as is There Are Many Benifits To Being A Marine Biologist, and my Shakespearification posts -- but Colour of the Sky is, I'm pretty sure, older than 50% of TikTok users, and we're still making goddamn Onceler memes, and, for Christ's sake, even the new stuff is blending with the old stuff -- I just did a Shakespeareification of Colour Theory.

There is no algorithm beyond occasional "people you follow liked this". On TikTok, the only two feeds are "random shit you might like" and "random shit you might like from people you follow". On Tumblr, the only feed is "everything from everyone you follow at all times", and the site does not care about whether you want to see it or not.

Because of all this, Tumblr is not, and will never be, profitable.

Which means that, because we live in capitalism, Tumblr will die.

And due to the rise of competent social media sites, the competition is eating away at Tumblr's audience.

Staff is cringe, obviously. But they're also desperate. They're trying to keep this place alive.

And they're failing.

Tumblr is dying.

These are the last days.

The end is coming.

It's terrible, it's beautiful, it's chaotic, and it's ephemeral.

And we're never going to have anything like it ever again.

Enjoy it while you have it.

mortimermcmirestinks

tl;dr if you want tumblr to survive we need the dash to start being algorithm-driven instead of chronological and we have to start saying "unalive" on here instead of "kill"

but also I would rather fucking kill myself than do either of those things

mortimermcmirestinks

@violinsandtea I'd like to clarify: I'm not saying Tumblr is dead. Tumblr is definitely extremely alive. I'm saying Tumblr is dying.

Tumblr isn't dead, but it's been dying since before the famous 2018 ban.

behindnightmaresanddreams

Which, once again, is why I think its a good idea to give them your pocket change. $5 a month? According to google, Tumblr has 3 hundred million visitors every year (if we keep 2019's traffic as our average). If they're making just $5 off of every single person every single year, they would make 1 billion dollars every year. That is for the low price of $5 yearly. That is for 1 single month of them not running ads. If you pay that $5 every month for a year, and everyone else does the same? Tumblr would run indefinitely, and you would have $60 less by the end of the year.

Now obviously this isn't how its gonna work out. half of that 300 million is probably bots. Half of you aren't even interested in paying, another quarter can't pay even if you are interested, those two groups have overlap but some of you won't pay out of principle, and obviously there's the issue of Tumblr being so full of bugs that when I went to try to support the site the god damn payment page broke and I couldn't pay the $5. But just think. We could actually save tumblr ourselves, and all it costs is $60 each. We could outlive Tiktok, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, META. We already outlived Myspace. If you can, help keep this hell alive. Lets be the last standing anti-social media on the internet. We'll ride this bitch to eeby deeby.

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