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plans for the summer
JERK IT
WRITE RPF
DRINK ALCOHOL
BLOG LIKE IVE NEVER BLOGGED BEFORE
job ?
LISTEN TO RECORDS
to the people who said “this except alcohol”: i support you & your sobriety/preference for other substances. i hope all goes well and you have the best summer ever.
to the few people who said “this except rpf”: sorry this isn’t about you. this post is for real rpfers only and if you can’t get behind that then you aren’t invited to the BDY summer plans
Ways to write Slow Burn Romance!!
┈୨୧┈ Give them reasons they CAN'T be together that aren't just manufactured drama. Not miscommunication. Not love triangles. Not arbitrary "I push people away" trauma with no real exploration. Give them REAL obstacles: they're on opposite sides of a conflict, timing is wrong, there are actual consequences to being together, they have incompatible life goals, there's a power imbalance they need to resolve first. The obstacles should be meaningful and require actual character growth to overcome, not just a conversation.
┈୨୧┈ Make the friendship foundation SO STRONG that readers ship them before the romance even starts. They should genuinely LIKE each other. They should have inside jokes. They should seek each other out just to hang out. They should trust each other. They should have fun together. When the romantic feelings start developing, it should feel like "oh no, I don't want to ruin this friendship" because the friendship is genuinely valuable. Readers should be able to believe they'd still choose to be in each other's lives even if romance never happened.
┈୨୧┈ Let the tension BUILD in layers over time. First they notice each other. Then they start seeking excuses to be near each other. Then they start getting jealous. Then they start having Moments. Then they start thinking about each other constantly. Then comes the almost-kisses. Then the accidental intimacy. Then the barely-hidden feelings. Each phase should have time to breathe before moving to the next level. Slow burn means SLOW - readers should be desperate for them to get together LONG before they actually do.
┈୨୧┈ Show how they change each other gradually. He starts smiling more because of her. She becomes braver because he believes in her. They adopt each other's habits and phrases. They start to see the world differently because of the other person's influence. Slow burn is about showing two people gradually becoming essential to each other's lives. They should be woven into each other's character development, not separate from it.
┈୨୧┈ Make the payoff WORTH the wait. After chapters or books of tension, the moment they finally get together should be EARNED and SATISFYING. A CONVERSATION where they're finally honest. A moment where they choose each other despite the obstacles. A confession that feels like a dam breaking. The first kiss should feel like the conclusion of a long journey and the beginning of something new. Readers have been waiting for this, so make it count. Make it feel like YES, THIS WAS WORTH IT.
making ultra niche art for only myself to cope with uni
those sad gray eyes you would only see in gay easter european porn
(as was told by multiple people on this app)
the specific effect of stardust crusaders is crazy because in my mind it has the nostalgic and bittersweet atmosphere of a double exposed roll of film where the photos you took of the evening desert sky are overlaying the photos of your friends on a roadtrip etc and then you rewatch it and it's like oh ok another weird tongue scene and there is a pig in the toilet. cool. and they're like square
Black Sails existing as a self-aware piece of media and aware of the history it exists in enough to expose the characters within it and then proceeds to ruin itself for the sequel (Treasure Island) to run its course (and obscure everything presented) will always be my favorite thing because it's just so smart and funny to write a prequel to a work where everything could've been resolved but because the outcome is set in stone it is inherently #unfixable and change is #impossible
“A quartermaster is kind of a wife” cryptic new statement from the black sails writer’s room
who up suffering the slings and arrows of they outrageous fortune
ARTHUR LESTER- Who are you?
ENTITY- Who am I? I’m a friend. The best friend you have right now… the only friend you have right now.
Something about Disco Elysium and Malevolent idk
this crossover has taken over my mind I'm afraid
What do you think Blanc's stats are?
The feedback on this post has been genuinely overwhelming and amazing and I fully intend on inventing stats for Blanc and painting character portraits for his stats too!
Many of them will have similar functions to Harry's stats (like PERCEPTION and RHETORIC for example) but I might give them new unique names!
One of them will definitely be SOUTHERN CHARM (similar to SUGGESTION, it can be used to convince people to do something)
Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube
… I am unironically here for this
this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life
This is - legitimately - my favourite delivery of Shakespeare I have EVER seen (and I have seen some good-ass productions yo, in the Globe Theatre itself even). Like seriously, even though the words are unchanged, he’s stripped away ALL of the archaic pretense and assumed grandeur of ~presenting the bard~ that makes even the most wildly talented of actors and innovative of productions inherently inaccessible to a modern audience. Like, they’re still great, they can still communicate the message and (some) of the nuance, but they’re still always a step removed from being identifiable to any viewer’s lived experience. They’re still always reciting 15th century poetry. But this guy? This guy is like, screw iambic pentameter, to hell with being precious about the material, HOW WOULD AN ACTUAL PERSON SAY THIS SHIT?
Like this. And it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because he’s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.
So yeah, this shit post? I love it. Deeply and sincerely.
op link the fucking article
https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football enjoy reading about football :)
Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong.
thanks. what the fuck
What the fuck.
I didn’t cry….
If you haven't before, read this. If you have, read it again.
Seeing people compare the Arctic sequences in the new Frankenstein movie to The Terror has me forcibly restraining myself from jumping into people's notes to recommend White Horizon by Jen Hill, so I'll put it here instead. I need to reread it, but it's an excellent look at the role of polar spaces and imperialism in narratives about social and scientific progress.
Leading the Blind
the thing about thinking about (fictionalised) james fitzjames through the lens of transfeminity is that yes obviously there's the dress scene where he has a dress in these traditionally feminine albeit muted colours and yes it's in a room full of masks and yes he drinks but crucially he never wears this dress. but jfj does wear a dress, but as britannica. with the armour, the britishness, and the idea of being The Icon.
i don't think any of this negates that she wants that original dress, either! i think it's that even her gender becomes part of her great gilded life - even when she lets herself have it, it becomes folded into the idea of a soldier, a hero, and a paragon of the british empire. she cannot have the idea of her gender outside of carnivale because this is the only place it's acceptable, but she can never let herself not be Captain James Fitzjames. even when she does let herself wear a dress it has to be part of the gilt! she's not even english! but britannica is. if you follow.
and then of course there's that coat that's sort of dress shaped - notably you don't see anyone else wearing a coat like this. letting herself have just enough. letting herself taste what she wants within the bounds of what's acceptable.
tell those who come after us not to stay. the ships are gone. there is no way through, no passage.
someone really should’ve told captain james flint that you have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story
