Welcome to Avernus

He/him, adult Writing and D&D/Pathfinder are my two biggest hobbies, but I post pretty much whatever here. This blog is for really anything besides my D&D Homebrew.

[dogpuppy]

[iesika]

“Pratchett went back to older throwaway jokes (like dwarves being apparently unisex) and used them as metaphors to discuss social change, racial assimilation, and other complex issues, while reexamining the species he’d thrown in at the margins of his world simply because they existed at the margins of every other fantasy universe. If goblins and orcs and trolls could think, then why were they always just there to be slaughtered by the heroes? And if the heroes slaughtered sentient beings en masse, how heroic exactly were they? It was a long overdue start on redressing issues long swept under the rug by a parade of Tolkien successors who never thought of anyone green and slimy as anything but a notch on the protagonist’s sword, and much of the urgency in Pratchett’s last few books seemed to be related to them. ‘There’s only one true evil in the world,’ he said through his characters. ‘And that’s treating people like they were things.’ And in the last of his ‘grown-up’ Discworld books, that idea is shouted with the ferocity of those who have only a few words left and want to make them count. Goblins are people. Golems are people. Dwarves are people, and they do not become any less people because they decide to go by the gender they know themselves to be instead of the one society forces on them. Even trains might be people, and you’ll never know one way or the other unless you ask them, because treating someone like they’re a person and not a thing should be your default. And the only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don’t even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone.”

— John Seavey, The Evolution of the Disc (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[tuttle-did-it]

so I've just realised that the hearing community might not be aware of the genius cult film that is Deafula. I watch it every Halloween, but apparently this is not something hearies do.

Do you need to watch a ridiculous cult movie entirely in American sign language about a Deaf vampire and motorbikes? Yes. Yes, you do.

[tuttle-did-it]

#the high i felt when i found out that a) this film exists; and b) the first movie in ASL was a Dracula movie...a high unmatched#deafula#movies#vampires#AND the whole movie is available for free on youtube

I'm delighted that this has made you happy! 🤟🏼

[pallidprincess]

baby fucking sink tony!!!!!

[mysilent879]

[mookybear12404]

I feel like the first class you played in DND tells a lot about you

Reblog and put in the tags what your first class was

[ina-gartens-weave]

video ive been thinking about for days

[ranthaven]

“All of us don’t have the same eyes” is my key takeaway here. This is 100 percent correct.

[dollhair]

Something about the bastardization of the story time and time again proves that nobody in power really cares about the people who would resonate with King’s Carrie White. A girl so ugly and repulsive she’s been removed from her own story. The societal need for women and girls to be constantly perceived as attractive is what fuels a fair amount of her torment in the book, but that person isn’t even allowed to exist on the screen. We cannot empathize with her; it isn’t allowed. It’s fascinating to me.

[kirbyite]

[thyrell]

joe biden should do another stimulus check where the ira sends me a lox bagel. with cream cheese please

[thyrell]

irs.

[efoxgirl]

[wembleyfragglesarchive]

i’m losing my mind

[wembleyfragglesarchive]

STOP REBLOGGING THIS my phone is glitching an astronomical amount and I immediately knew the culprit was one of my tumblr posts gaining traction

[avatardoggo]

oh

GROOVE WITH ME BABY

[lizluvscupcakes]

Ya gotta have

✨⭐️ SOUL ⭐️✨

[voidgremlinguege]

DONT STOP ME NOW!

[deepdwellingsteamboat]

Peter Weller as Buckaroo Banzai THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION 1984・dir. W.D. Richter

[hagiomoto]

My more controversial Opinion that I think a lot of you would hate is that I think we should stop taking writing advices from screenwriters.

[hagiomoto]

Because today’s writers are learning to write from visual media instead of actually reading, and I think that’s a problem (too). Unless you want to write for TV or movies, we should listen to novelists and short fiction writers instead.

[talistheintrovert]

Apologies for hijacking your post, but as somebody who did a joint honours degree in both creative & professional writing, AND screenwriting, I could not agree more.

Th Creative Writing part of my degree covered genres, styles, poetry, professional writing, articles, fiction, non-fiction, short stories, novel-writing and even some level of scripting. We also did a lot of analysis and even had an entire lecture (including workshops) on how to give and receive constructive feedback.

The Screenwriting half of my degree did none of that. We watched movies and shows and we learned how to structure scripts and how writer's rooms worked, which is all useful, but in hindsight I truly wish I could have just done all of that in a six month semester long unit in Creative Writing because that's about the amount of information that was disseminated by the screenwriting course over the 3 years.

And those people in the Screenwriting half who were NOT doing Creative Writing (doing film or drama etc.) were notably less advanced in their skills by the final year. That's not to say they were BAD writers (although some of them were, that's true of all Writing degrees, sometimes people refuse to be taught because they think they know everything already despite being at a place to learn) but they were less adept at giving feedback on other people's writing beyond "i didn't like it" or "it was clunky" without being able to verbalise why and how it was clunky. They were less able to paint a picture of the world they were creating or fine-tune character specific dialogue, which is all stuff you expect to be able to do as a screenwriter. It's not just that we should stop listening to screenwriters it's that even screenwriters should be taking more writing advice from more diverse sources like poetry or novel writers. The books people DO recommend for screenwriting (like Save the Cat, which most good writers I know have beef with) should not be seen as the blueprint but as supplement advice you can take or leave - which is what was so useful about covering so many things in the Creative Writing half of my degree.

The most important phrase in my entire degree that came up in almost every Creative Writing lecture was "Form is never more than an extension of content" (Robert Creeley) which applies to literally everything and I am not joking. I have it TATTOOED. The form you choose (script, short story, poem, novel etc.) should reflect and inform the content (and vice versa) and if it doesn't you should probably try a new form and see what works best. That includes the form of advice you choose to seek out - if it's not designed for, say, the structure of a novel, how is it supposed to help you when you're 100k words deep into one? That's not to say cross-media advice can't be helpful (I literally said earlier than screenwriters should take more writing advice from more varied sources) but to keep in mind that even the best screenwriters in the world can't fix the problems you're having with your novel if those problems are novel-specific.

[hagiomoto]

Appreciate your insight! Yeah, this post came about because I was talking about this with my friends. They also mentioned that a lot of screenwriters transitioned into teaching creative writing, and that habits from their screenwriting days carried over to today's writers because their advice became so widespread*. The Save the Cat! series is one example of that.

*I don't have the data to backup their statements but lol

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

I'm not much of a stickler for historical accuracy but sometimes i encounter something and i'm like damn Xena put more budget into this.

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

It was actually about the new Sense & Sensibility when i wrote it. But i have since seen the trailer for The Odyssey and it def qualifies as this.

[lizlemondyke]

it’s funny cuz it’s true

[anevileel]

Paizo leadership apparently decided that Archives of Nethys wasn't making them any money, so AoN is getting cut off from partnership.

That means slower updates, less stability, and most importantly: NO IMAGEs.

If you'd like to help out, all you've gotta do is send an email to [email protected] telling them to knock it off. No death threats though. That's fucking mean and the random employee sent to read your email doesn't deserve that shit.

See this Reddit post for more information if you'd like: r/Pathfinder2e/comments/1uwp9vj/want_to_keep_aon_official_make_your_voice_heard/

[oneheadtoanother]