TheLastStarship

I like sci-fi. 😖 gamer ☮️ star trek 💌 blogging from Bermuda Triangle 🍎

[thelaststarship]

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Things I like and post about

No Man’s Sky / Star Wars / Star Trek / Star Trek: The Original Series / Star Trek: The Next Generation / Star Trek: Strange New Worlds / Sci-Fi / Space / Stranger Things / Lord of the Rings

Other weird shit I sometimes share

Music / Comic books / Dall-e Mini / tumblr / Long posts / Good posts / Effort posts / AI-generated artwork

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Shout out to the phrase “I’m going to become the joker” for capturing a very specific and real emotion

[thelaststarship]

sticking this in the queue in the hopes I overcome these feelings of uselessness and self loathing soon

[vicrathis]

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reputation era:

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[marq-winks1067]

Too many ignorant progressives trying to tear Biden down because they're not happy about things Biden has no control over or he's not doing their bidding or acting fast enough to keep them happy.

Here is a list of everything anti-Biden progressives are helping to bring into reality by their support of Trump or by voting 3rd party which is the same as voting for TFG:

1) Abortion will be banned nationwide.

2) Contraception will be banned shortly thereafter.

3) The Supreme Court will be locked hard-right for the next 30+ years.

4) The climate crisis will significantly worsen, beyond our ability to mitigate it.

5) More tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, spiking the deficit.

6) Trump will not leave office.

7) There will be a recession (there's been a recession during every Republican presidency for the last 100 years -- Google it).

8 ) Prices will NOT return to 2019 levels.

9) 50,000 federal workers will be fired and replaced with Trump loyalists per Project 2025. The lack of checks on his power will make it more likely he will remain in office beyond his term.

10) Similarly, the Department of Justice will shift to being under the direct control of the White House, allowing Trump to arrest anyone who's been mean to him.

11) Russia will annex Ukraine then move to invade other eastern European nations, probably Poland first—with Trump's support.

12) America will leave NATO.

13) Trump will, as promised, close the pandemic preparedness office.

14) Millions of citizens will be swept up in Trump's deportation blitz.

15) Trump will use the military to arrest peaceful protesters and charge them under the Insurrection Act. Pro-Palestinian protesters will be deported as Hamas sympathizers.

I cannot imagine having so much privilege as to believe this is okay would not affect me.

[thelaststarship]

prestige tv dramas be like: as the main characters grapple with the distressing events of the previous episode,

[escuerzoresucitado]

[keyboardsmashwriters]

When to describe setting

Anonymous asked you:

When describing setting, should i start with a character, go to setting, then setting in relation to character (i.e. Kayla lived in an old house. It had flower beds in the back and it had other stuff DETAIL DETAIL DETAIL. she was sitting on the front porch one day…) or trickle in details throughout the passage? (I.e. Kayla sat on the front porch one day reading her newspapers. She decided to water the flowers growing in the backyard, then she walked to the front and …)

The trick I’ve been using for description is “dominant impression”. Simply put, describe the setting as your character interacts with it, and “interact” can mean setting a book down on a nightstand or looking out across the field or feeling the weather as she walks.

“Dominant impression” also means alluding to a character’s investment in their surroundings. She eases down a thrice-read book on a mahogany nightstand that was once her great grandmother’s, and she’s very careful with anything she braves setting atop the scraped lacquer. This not only adds character to the scene, but also adds new dimension to your character.

So, in short, I’d personally advise as you said: trickling details. Readers are more likely to remember description if there’s significance to it (even if it’s just the fact that the top stair of the porch has creaked since she was a toddler in a diaper, or whatever the case may be).

Here’s a ton of other links that expand a whole lot on the above and might help you with how and when to describe setting:

Varying sentences

Victoria’s Vitamins #1

Victoria’s Vitamins #2

5 tips on describing your setting

Making your setting work harder

The story of exposition

Breaking writing habits

Descriptive writing and the five senses

Turn cliches into brilliant description

Our writing exercise on setting

Hope this helps!

[jeffgerstmann]

[thelaststarship]

happy good friday

[thelaststarship]

Frozen Empire was dope as hell. Everything I ever could have wanted in a modern (non-Ramis/Reitman) Ghostbusters movie.

4.5/5

[tonyzaret]

[lizardsfromspace]

Still can't believe you could just put NFTs in random accounts without their consent. Payment services ask to confirm if someone sends you money, and that's just money. Tech guys looked at a method of distributing CODE and thought "yeah, this doesn't need a 'do you accept' button"

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