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Fandom Problem #15,861:
From what I have seen and read throughout the years popularity appears to heap rewards on everything and not just 10/10 content. Lazy shit will become popular, objectively bad shit will become popular, mediocre shit will become popular. It should definitely stop being used as a judgement of quality lmao.
Fandom Problem #15,642:
My big problem with fandom lately is … it’s boring.
It’s mostly queer or disability “headcanons” that fans push onto characters so the fan can feel “representation” that doesn’t exist.
Also, a lot of the meta is mean.
More often than not I’ll crack into a sprawling fantasy series and, while I appreciate the luscious descriptions of furniture, landscapes, and clothing, all I’m focused on is that I don’t actually know how this world works. I only know what it looks like.
Including some functionality to your universe can add to immersion and give your reader a strong foundation on which to build their mental model of your universe.
You certainly don’t need to use all of these questions! In fact, I recommend against that, as all of these certainly won’t make it into your final draft. I personally find that starting my worldbuilding off with 5 to 10 functional questions helps pave the way for glittery and elaborate aesthetic development later on.
How is the healthcare funded in your world?
How does healthcare functionally differ between the wealthy and the poor? (i.e. can only the wealthy go to hospitals? do poor families often have to rely on back-alley procedures?)
Where are health centers (i.e. hospitals, small clinics, etc.) organized in your cities?
Does it differ in smaller towns?
How does this affect people’s ability to get healthcare?
Is healthcare magical, and if it is, how does that affect the healthcare system?
If healing is instantaneous, how does that affect people’s views on injury, illness, and chronic ailments?
If you have both magical and physical healthcare, which one is deemed superior and how does that affect society?
What illnesses are common in your world?
How does this affect daily life?
What do the people in your world think illnesses are?
Is it a miasma theory?
Humor theory?
Demons?
Do they know about biological viruses and bacteria?
How does this affect healthcare?
How do people get water?
Is the water sanitary and if not, how do they sanitize it?
How does agriculture work?
Is it large corporations or individual farms?
What sort of agricultural technology exists in your world and how does it affect food production?
Are farmers wealthy or poor?
What sort of natural resources does your world/country(ies) have and how are they obtained?
How does this affect the average wealth of the country?
How does this wealth affect the culture?
What livestock or beasts of burden are most valued? Least valued? Why?
What is considered a luxury good vs. a regular good?
What forms of transportation does your world have?
What classes use what forms of transportation?
How far has the average citizen traveled, given your transportation limitations?
Which cities are the most accessible and which are the least? Why?
How do popular transportation methods change how cities/towns are laid out?
Does your world have public transportation? What is it?
Is there a coming-of-age aspect to travel?
Describe your world’s postal system or whatever equivalent there is.
Who pays for it?
How reliable is it?
Are there emergency methods for transporting information?
How does your world keep time (i.e. watches, sundials, water clock, etc.)?
Does your world have a currency system, barter system, or something else?
If you have multiple countries, do different currencies have different values across said countries?
How does this affect travel?
Do you have banks in your world and if so, how are they run?
Who owns the banks? Government? Wealthy? How does this affect the economy and/or class system?
How does credit operate in your universe?
Does your world operate more on big corporations or small business? Something in between?
How are workers/labourers treated in your world?
Are there workers unions and if so, what are common views on unions?
Describe your tax system. If you don’t have a tax system, explain why and how your world is affected by that.
Can certain social classes not own property, certain livestock, certain businesses, etc.? Why?
How are business records kept? Are business records kept?
If your world has technology, does your world prioritize developing entertainment tech, communications tech, transportation tech or something else entirely?
What does this say about your world?
How does this affect your economy?
To the closest approximation, what type of government does your world have?
How are rulers/presidents/nobles put in place?
How much power does an individual ruler have?
Is there a veto process?
If you have multiple countries, do they have different types of rulers?
Describe any large-scale alliances (i.e. countries, factions, etc.) that are present in your world.
How did they come about and how are they maintained?
Are they strained or peaceful?
How does it affect the greater politics of your world?
Describe how wars are fought both internationally and nationally.
Do methods of war differ between countries/races?
What about philosophies about war?
If there is a military, what is its hierarchy structure?
How does the military recruit?
Is the military looked upon favourably in your society?
What weapons are used by each country/type of people during warfare, and how does that affect war strategies?
Describe the sentencing system of your world.
Is your accused innocent until proven guilty, or guilty until proven innocent?
How are lawbreakers punished?
If you have prisons, describe how they are organized and run, and who owns them.
Does differing ownership change how the prisons operate?
What are the major ways in which laws between countries vary?
Do laws between cities vary? If so, how and why?
How does citizenship work in your world? What rights and privileges do citizens have that others do not?
Can certain classes or races not become citizens?
Are there certain taboo subjects or opinions that artist/authors/musicians are not allowed to depict (i.e. portraying the official religion in a negative light, explicit sexual material, etc.)? What does this say about your society?
How do people get around these censorship laws?
What is the official hierarchy of duty in your world? (i.e. is family the most important, or patriotism? What about clan?)
How many languages are there in your world, and how many languages share a common origin?
How many people are multilingual?
Which language is the most common?
How is multilingualism viewed?
How are different languages viewed? (i.e. is one language ugly/barbaric while another is romantic and sensual?)
Feel free to add your own questions in reblogs or in comments!
Types of smart characters (asides from the typical “book” and “street smart”
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Fiction usually only addresses two types of smart characters - the resident nerd who can recite the periodic table by heart but is pretty useless in the real world, and the “street smart” dude who knows how commit tax evasion and get free food. When writing multiple smart characters in the same story, writers often struggle with making them unique. Thus, I’ll be listing different types of smart characters who are unique in their own ways.
1. Interpersonally smart
Characters who can read other people like an open book. They can understand people so well that they’re able to sense an individual’s true motives and feelings and find out their wishes and weaknesses. This makes it easy for them to manipulate others, planting ideas into their victim’s heads so naturally that they won’t realize they’re being manipulated.
2. Strategically smart
Characters who can put together many different pieces to come up with a complex strategy. They can balance people’s strengths and weaknesses in order to accomplish their goals.
3. Academically smart
Characters who got their intelligence from formal education and know how to use the information they have.
4. Linguistically smart
Characters who always know exactly what to say no matter what the scenario. They can make people pity, admire, or trust them, just by weaving different patterns of words. They often have a charismatic personality and can connect with others effortlessly, which also gives them a good chance of manipulating people.
5. Perceptively smart
Characters who are naturally observant and has a wide attention to small details, being able to see the “big picture” and understand things beyond how they look like on the outside.
6. Emotionally smart
Characters who know how to manage their emotions and feelings. They always understand themselves, how they feel, and what they want.
7. Logically smart
Characters use their logic and calculations to make hypotheses and prove them. They usually only believe things that they can see with their own eyes.
8. Spontaneously smart
Characters who can think of creative solutions spontaneously, without having to plan ahead. They’re problem solvers who are good in improvising, which often makes them the calmest person when faced with danger.
9. Intuitively smart
Characters who rely on their insticts to make decisions, which makes them confident in themselves and their ability to solve problems. These characters may be hard to trust at first, as they don’t always have solid evidences to their theories, but once people see what they’re capable of, they’ll be the most reliable person in the team.
Name Reources
So, you’re writing a thing, and you need to name a character. And, as we all know, naming a character is a giant pain in the ass. I offer this list of shit I use pretty regularly, for this purpose.
Behind the Name (The etymologies are weird as fuck, in a few places, but it’s great if you’ve got a name and need to find other names that are from or derived from the same culture/language)
Behind the Surname (BTN for family names)
Academy of Saint Gabriel Medieval Names Archive (This is the go-to for medieval names in Europe and the Near East. Hardcore scholarship and a distinct lack of fucking around.)
Kate Monk’s Onomastikon (The original internet name resource.)
The Soldier in Later Medieval England (Actual names from English military rolls around the Battle of Agincourt)
England’s Immigrants (Non-native residents of England, 1330-1550)
Celtic Personal Names of Roman Britain
Mapping the Medieval Countryside - People (People appearing in English inquisitions post mortem, 1418-1447)
Wiktionary’s Index of Biblical Names
Ancient Names Galleria (The weird shit is here. If you need Akkadian or Phoenecian names, those are totally covered.)
Trismegistos People (Names extracted from the Trismegistos Texts – mostly names from Graeco-Roman Egypt.)
Personally, I use the shit out of Trismegistos People, England’s Immigrants, and the Ancient Names Galleria. If you’ve got good sources I didn’t hit, feel free to add them in a reblog. I’m always looking for more good name resources. (And almost all of what I have is Europe and the Near East, with a little North Africa.)
Dropping this update in the most recent reblog in my notes, in the hopes it falls into as many laps as possible. Here’s some more good sources for names, this time with a more African focus.
Wikipedia Category: Surnames of African Origin (which is helpfully divided into sections by language)
Wikipedia Category: Amharic Language Names (I believe this list is primarily, if not entirely, given names.)
YorubaName (“an online intervention to preserve and document all Yorùbá names in a multimedia format.”)
Writing Adolescent Fiction: Character names: Kenyan, Tanzanian and Ugandan (a list of given names and surnames with notes on how full names are constructed in each culture listed)
Again, if you know any good sources, particularly for regions I haven’t covered, let me know!
Rebageling with some more good shit:
So You Want to Name a Sino (a fairly detailed guide on how to name a Chinese character without sounding like too much of a moron)
Most Popular Baby Names for Girls Since 1960 (most popular American girls’ names, by state, from 1960-2012, as a gif)
Popular Baby Names (the US Social Security database of naming trends in the US, with search options for date, gender, location, and trend)
A Guide to Names and Naming Practises (a UK government guide to common names and structure of names from around the world, split first by continent and then by culture. PDF.)
Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (an entire book on trends in English naming and name structure and the Puritan influence, from 1880. PDF.)
Things I am particularly looking for reliable sources for, if you’ve got them: North and South American aboriginal names, Southeast and East Asian names, names from the former USSR, Australian aboriginal names. (All of these by culture or language family, if possible, not just by current national borders.)
HEY ARTISTS!
Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:
OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–
There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)
The Color Thesaurus
All from Ingrid’s Notes on Wordpress, direct link here.
Alternatives for 25 overused words in writing
1. Interesting- note worthy; thought-provoking; fascinating; attracting; appealing; attention-grabbing; captivating; gripping; invigorating; engrossing; engaging; electrifying.
2. Beautiful- striking; stunning; magnificent; lovely; charming; gorgeous; radiant; dazzling.
3. Good- acceptable, wonderful, exceptional; positive; brilliant; first-rate; notable; stellar; favorable; superb; marvellous; prime.
4. Bad- awful; lousy; poor; unacceptable; crummy; dreadful; rough; inferior; substandard; atrocious; appalling; dreadful; defective.
5. Look- glance; fixate; observe; stare; gaze; peer; scan; watch; study; browse; eye; glimpse; review; inspect.
6. Nice- lovely; superior; pleasant; satisfying; delightful; likeable; agreeable; correct; adequate; swell; fair; okay; approved.
7. Very- extremely; exceedingly; exceptionally; immensely; tremendously; abundantly; particularly; remarkably.
8. Fine- satisfactory; worthy; respectable; exquisite; suitable; well; imposing; decent; admirable; praise-worthy; decent.
9. Happy- cheerful; delighted; pleased; content; amused; thrilled; elated; thrilled; ecstatic; on cloud 9.
10. Really- genuinely; truly; honestly; actually; undoubtedly; certainly; remarkably; incredibly; downright; unquestionably; extremely.
11. Sad- miserable; gloomy; devastated; down at heard; distraught; distressed; dispirited; sorrowful; downcast; feeling blue; desolate.
12. Big- massive; huge; giant; gigantic; enormous; large; colossal; immense; bulky; tremendous; hefty; sizable; extensive; great; substantial.
13. Shocked- taken aback; lost for words; flabbergasted; staggered; outraged; astonished; astounded; stunned; speechless; appalled.
14. Small- tiny; petite; mini; miniature; microscopic; minuscule; compact; pocket-sized; cramped; puny; undersized; limited; meager; modest; minute; pint-sized.
15. Angry- irate; enraged; touchy; cross; resentful; indignant; infuriated; wound-up; worked-up; seething; raging; heated; bitter; bad-tempered; offended; frustrated.
16. Know- understand; comprehend; realize; learn; perceive; recognize; grasp; sense.
17. Change- alter; transform; replace; diversify; adjust; adapt; modify; remodel; vary; evolve; transfigure; redesign; refashion; advance; transition; shift; adjustment.
18. Old- aged; ancient; matured; elderly; senior; veteran; decrepit; seasoned; venerable; past one’s prime; doddering; senile.
19. Think- ponder; reflect; conceive; imagine; contemplate; consider; determine; realize; visualize; guess/assume; conclude; envision.
20. Funny- comical; ludicrous; amusing; droll; entertaining; absurd; hilarious; silly; whimsical; hysterical; joking; witty; facetious; slapstick; side-splitting; knee-slapping.
21. Go- move; proceed; advance; progress; travel; walk; journey; depart; exit; flee; make one’s way; clear out; get underway.
22. Give- grant; donate; hand-out; present; provide; deliver; hand over; offer; award; bestow; supply with; contribute to; send; entrust.
23. Get- acquire; obtain; receive; gain; earn; gather; collect; buy; purchase; attain; score; secure; take possession of; grab.
24. Easy- effortless; simple; clear; smooth; straightforward; uncomplicated; painless; accessible; apparent; basic; plain; child’s play; facile; elementary; cinch.
25. Fast- agile; brisk; rapid; nimble; swift; accelerated; fleeting; high-speed; active; dashing; winged; hurried; turbo.
Words to replace said, except this actually helps
I got pretty fed up with looking for words to replace said because they weren’t sorted in a way I could easily use/find them for the right time. So I did some myself.
IN RESPONSE TO Acknowledged Answered Protested
INPUT/JOIN CONVERSATION/ASK Added Implored Inquired Insisted Proposed Queried Questioned Recommended Testified
GUILTY/RELUCTANCE/SORRY Admitted Apologized Conceded Confessed Professed
FOR SOMEONE ELSE Advised Criticized Suggested
JUST CHECKING Affirmed Agreed Alleged Confirmed
LOUD Announced Chanted Crowed
LEWD/CUTE/SECRET SPY FEEL Appealed Disclosed Moaned
ANGRY FUCK OFF MATE WANNA FIGHT Argued Barked Challenged Cursed Fumed Growled Hissed Roared Swore
SMARTASS Articulated Asserted Assured Avowed Claimed Commanded Cross-examined Demanded Digressed Directed Foretold Instructed Interrupted Predicted Proclaimed Quoted Theorized
ASSHOLE Bellowed Boasted Bragged
NERVOUS TRAINWRECK Babbled Bawled Mumbled Sputtered Stammered Stuttered
SUAVE MOTHERFUCKER Bargained Divulged Disclosed Exhorted
FIRST OFF Began
LASTLY Concluded Concurred
WEAK PUSY Begged Blurted Complained Cried Faltered Fretted
HAPPY/LOL Cajoled Exclaimed Gushed Jested Joked Laughed
WEIRDLY HAPPY/EXCITED Extolled Jabbered Raved
BRUH, CHILL Cautioned Warned
ACTUALLY, YOU’RE WRONG Chided Contended Corrected Countered Debated Elaborated Objected Ranted Retorted
CHILL SAVAGE Commented Continued Observed Surmised
LISTEN BUDDY Enunciated Explained Elaborated Hinted Implied Lectured Reiterated Recited Reminded Stressed
BRUH I NEED U AND U NEED ME Confided Offered Urged
FINE Consented Decided
TOO EMO FULL OF EMOTIONS Croaked Lamented Pledged Sobbed Sympathized Wailed Whimpered
JUST SAYING Declared Decreed Mentioned Noted Pointed out Postulated Speculated Stated Told Vouched
WASN’T ME Denied Lied
EVIL SMARTASS Dictated Equivocated Ordered Reprimanded Threatened
BORED Droned Sighed
SHHHH IT’S QUIET TIME Echoed Mumbled Murmured Muttered Uttered Whispered
DRAMA QUEEN Exaggerated Panted Pleaded Prayed Preached
OH SHIT Gasped Marveled Screamed Screeched Shouted Shrieked Yelped Yelled
ANNOYED Grumbled Grunted Jeered Quipped Scolded Snapped Snarled Sneered
ANNOYING Nagged
I DON’T REALLY CARE BUT WHATEVER Guessed Ventured
I’M DRUNK OR JUST BEING WEIRDLY EXPRESSIVE FOR A POINT/SARCASM Hooted Howled Yowled
I WONDER Pondered Voiced Wondered
OH, YEAH, WHOOPS Recalled Recited Remembered
SURPRISE BITCH Revealed
IT SEEMS FAKE BUT OKAY/HA ACTUALLY FUNNY BUT I DON’T WANT TO LAUGH OUT LOUD Scoffed Snickered Snorted
BITCHY Tattled Taunted Teased
Edit: People, I’m an English and creative writing double major in college; I understand that there’s nothing wrong with simply using “said.” This was just for fun, and it comes in handy when I need to add pizzazz.
Synonyms for the Word Said
Said Synonyms- Reporting
Added:to enhance an argument
Advised: to warn, to offer help
Announced: to declare formally and or publicly
Asserted: to state positively but having no proof
Called: to capture attention by increased volume
Commented: to explain, interpret, or criticize - to make a remark
Complained: to express dislike or disagreement
Congratulated: to give wishes; to acknowledge an action or deed
Continued: to further or add to an earlier point
Declared: to make known clearly and openly
Informed: to give information, to make known; declare
Lied: to not speak truthfully
Observed: to mention casually
Offered:to suggest; to state
Mentioned: to state briefly; to bring up in conversation
Protested: to formally or openly disagree
Quoted: to repeat words of others; to cite a source
Recalled:to remember or bring up
Related: to make connection; to say allegorically
Remarked: to make a brief, casual statement of an opinion
Remembered: to recall
Reminded: to remember; to mention so as not to forget
Repeated: to say again; to restate
Replied: to answer; to say in response
Reported: to give a formal statement; to give an account of
Reassured: to give additional comfort, support, or evidence
Revealed: to make known; to publish
Stated: to say or paraphrase from official documents
Taunted: to cruelly tease in a mocking or insulting manner
Teased: to annoy or pester; vex
Tempted: to cause to consider (usually) something bad
Said Synonyms- Explaining
Addressed: to speak directly to sme, respond or answer
Answered: to respond to a question
Asserted:to add or offer additional information
Assured:to soothe, comfort, calm
Broke In: to interrupt, supplying additional information
Cautioned: to warn or advise; strongly suggest
Claimed: to assert or maintain; to state as fact
Concluded: to finish or draw to a close; to understand
Confided: to let in on a secret; to disclose
Described:to give additional information
Explained: to make or offer an explanation
Finished: to conclude or complete
Quipped: to say ironically or unemotionally
Implied: to suggest, hint, or say without saying
Noted: to make mention; to acknowledge
Promised: to give word or make a vow
Puzzled: to say with doubt or ambiguity
Reckoned: to add or submit; to figure or believe
Rejoined: to answer an objection
Replied: to answer a question or comment
Responded: to reply or answer a question or comment
Retorted: to reply to criticism in a sharp, witty way
Returned: to answer an objection; to reply to a criticism or charge
Speculated: to guess using information available
Surmised: to conclude or deduce
Said Synonyms- Arguing
Accused: to charge, slander
Agreed: to concur, to be in harmony
Argued: defend position, disagree or dispute
Chided: to scold mildly; to goad into action
Commanded: lead; overwhelm opposition
Contended: to argue, dispute, disagree
Countered: to dispute, question
Convinced: persuaded; remove all doubt, win over
Disagreed: to be at odds; to not agree
Emphasized: to stress
Exclaimed: to speak suddenly, loudly with surprise
Interjected: to add or assert; to interrupt
Interrupted: to cut off or disrupt; to interject out of turn
Maintained: to assert, to support by argument, to affirm
Objected: to disagree; be in oppostion to
Pleaded: to implore or beg; to speak desperately
Proclaimed: to announce officially; support publicly
Proposed: to set forth a design or plan
Reasoned: to state calmly and with logic
Sassed: to speak back to authority figure; rebel
Screamed: to use high pitch loud voice
Threatened: to say in menacing manner
Warned: to make aware in advance of harm, danger, or evil
Yelled: to shout or use loud voice; scream
Said Synonyms- Suggesting
Chimed In:to add (usually) unwanted advice
Coaxed: to convince against someone’s will; change mind
Dared:challenge, question
Hinted: implies suggestion
Implied: similar to suggest - indicates a definite idea
Insinuated: to convey sth unpleasant in a sly, sneaky way
Intimidated: to say without saying, stresses delicacy of situation
Pondered: to consider; to weigh all options
Suggested: to propose as a possibility, to imply
Urged: To entreat earnestly and often repeatedly; exhort
Said Synonyms- Questioning
Asked: to question or solicit
Begged: to ask in a humble manner earnestly
Blurted: to interrupt or interject, to ask all together
Bugged: to ask repetitively; difficult or unwanted questions
Demanded:to ask for urgently and boldly
Guessed: to infer; to ask without evidence
Hypothesized: to guess, infer
Implored: to ask with fervor, implying desperation or distress
Inquired: to ask, seek information
Insisted: to demand strongly, to declare firmly
Pleaded: to answer a legal charge, to lovingly implore
Questioned: to ask, doubt, or dispute
Requested: to ask (sometimes) formally
Wondered: to say with puzzlement or doubt
Worried: to cause to feel anxious, distressed, or troubled
Said Synonyms- Acknowledging
Acknowledge: reluctant disclosure of something perhaps a secret
Admitted: reluctance to disclose or concede facts
Affirmed: implies deep conviction, little chance of contradiction
Alleged: to assert or declare, especially without proof
Approved: to consent or agree
Avowed: boldly declaring, often in the face of opposition
Boasted: to take pride in, brag or overstate
Bragged: to boast or overstate; be prideful
Conceded:similar to acknowledge and admit
Confessed: an admission of a weakness, failure, omission, or guilt
Corrected: to instruct more correctly; remove misconception
Denied: not accepted; unused, refused
Disclosed: to reveal something previously concealed
Divulged: to reveal sth that should have remained secret
Fretted: to needlessly worry about small details
Greeted: to acknowledge presence; salute, salutation
Imitated: to copy, mimic or simulate
Jested: to make fun of, tease
Marveled: to speak with wonderment or amazement
Nodded: to move head up and down in agreement
Praised: to speak of with honor; to speak highly of someone
to speak of with honor; to speak highly of someone
Revealed: to make known that which had been secret or hidden
Uttered: to articulate; pronounce or speak
Volunteered: to give or offer to give voluntarily
Said Synonyms- Sounds & Misc
Babbled: to speak incoherently; gibberish, like baby talk
Bubbled: to speak lively and expressively; with joy
Chatted: to speak informally as to a friend
Chortled:to chuckle gleefully; short laugh of joy
Chorused: to speak simultaneously, together
Chuckled: short, soft laugh; usually to one’s self
Coughed: short, strong expulsion of air from lungs
Decided: finished, set
Echoed:repeated sound
Gasped: heavy breath after scare or physical exertion
Giggled: short, high-pitched laugh from fear or nervousness
Growled: rough, threatening manner
Gulped: to speak taking in large amounts of air as if drinking
Gurgled: to speak with fluid in the throat
Hissed: to speak in evil threatening manner
Hollered:to shout usually to someone at a distance
Lisped:to speak unclearly substituting sounds especially ‘th’
Panted: to speak as if out of breath
Piped:to speak suddenly and loudly
Quavered: to speak emotionally with faltering voice
Shrilled: high pitched shriek
Sighed: to speak with difficulty as if bored
Snickered: to say derisively with a laugh
Sniffed: to say as if about to cry
Snorted: to say with contempt and a short burst of breath
Sobbed: to cry uncontrollably
Sputtered: to speak with difficulty perhaps from impediment
Stammered: repeating words and sounds while missing others
Stuttered: to repeat certain sounds multiple times
Vowed: to promise solemnly; pledge
Wept: to cry softly, quietly
Whimpered: to cry or sob with soft intermittent sounds; whine
Whine: to complain or protest in a childish fashion
Credit to http://www.synonyms-antonyms.com/synonyms-for-said.html
Y’all little writers go on and have fun now
Looking to spice up your writing? Tired of using the same words over and over? Help is here!
The most valuable chart…
yes thanks for colouring it I had a hard time reading that
Cheat Sheets for Writing Body Language
We are always told to use body language in our writing. Sometimes, it’s easier said than written. I decided to create these cheat sheets to help you show a character’s state of mind. Obviously, a character may exhibit a number of these behaviours. For example, he may be shocked and angry, or shocked and happy. Use these combinations as needed.
by Amanda Patterson
You guys, this is such a great chart especially for budding writers. Sometimes it’s more effective to show a character being bored or excited or shocked without explicitly saying so.
“Sempiternal”
(adjective)
In our list of most beautiful words in the English language, sempiternal’s beauty is found on every basis: from its definition, to its aesthetics and pronunciation.
Sempiternal is defined as the eternal and the everlasting.
There is nothing more romantic than permanence and the essence of immortality, and forevers for the simple fact that it does not exist in an evolving planet with transient beings.
Our bodies, moods, and mother nature will never reach the heights of immortality: this is the tragically beautiful realization of such word.
Even looking at the word projects beauty; each syllable and sound complement each other.
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Well, that’s also why I happen to love characters and ships that embody exactly that.
Ephemerality isn’t my cup of tea.
And if the characters aren’t immortal by default, apotheosis is the means of choice.
Voilà, problem solved!
eu·ca·tas·tro·phe
/ˌyo͞okəˈtastrəfē/
noun a sudden and favorable resolution of events in a story; a happy ending.
“”We all have to wear masks sometimes, there are faces we can’t let them see.” “Let who see?” “That’s the riddle, isn’t it? Who is the only person who can never see behind a mask?” “The person who can’t see behind a mask is the person wearing it.” “That’s right, and that means, no matter what you may see behind a mask, you must never assume that the person wearing it will see the same. Be mindful. Take nothing for granted. But don’t stop looking. Don’t ever stop looking.””
Fern Withy - "Father's Heart"
Things I love about the “villain turns good” trope:
Ex-villains graduating to “weird uncle” status.
Ex-villains and hero(es) turning the events of previous battles into bizarre inside jokes.
Ex-villains embracing the power of friendship and love.
Ex-villains putting up walls and keeping to themselves until the heroes teach them what it means to trust someone.
Ex-villains messing up and being forgiven because redemption is a process, not an endgame.
Ex-villains being shy and uncertain about their new place as a hero.
Bonus: Ex-villains hiding behind their hero friends during moments of shyness and uncertainty.
Ex-villains being tempted back to the dark side only to realize how much their newfound friendships mean to them.
Ex-villains pretending to return to the dark side, and using their villain cred to be a mole/saboteur on the heroes’ behalf.
Ex-villains taking the same skills and character traits that made them effective villains and using them for good.
Ex-villains defeating current villains by being better at those skills and traits than they are.
Ex-villains being rejected by almost everyone except the very few willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Ex-villains being ferociously protective of those few.
Ex-villains convincing old allies and friends to follow them to the light side.
Ex-villains helping their hero friends through guilt and self-doubt by reminding them that your mistakes don’t make you and it’s never too late to turn things around.
Ex-villains receiving unconditional trust and affection from someone small and innocent, and having no idea what they’re supposed to do with that.
Ex-villains reuniting with heroic loved ones that they don’t have to fight against anymore.
Ex-villains looking around at their new friends and their new home and having to sit down and ride out a sudden wave of powerful emotion because they can’t remember the last time they felt content.
oh shit it’s my all time guilty pleasure favourite trope
