Wilhelmine's Corner

A struggeling millennial writer absolutely willing to talk about her Hogwarts house and why she identifies with it so much. ✨️ (Finn | She/Her | My Birthyear starts with 19...) Sometimes I just ramble about traumatised Vampires…!

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Mad Woman Rambles - The Masterlist

Astarion

The "main" Analysis

"I will never understand why the ascended choice is wrong for him."

Astarion and the other Spawn (Tag Ask)

On Astarion being stopped during the Ritual (Ask)

Astarion and Kindness (Ask)

Astarion and Poly-Relationships (Ask)

Why do you hate Ascended Astarion? (Ask)

"You will regret leaving me." (Ask)

Does Astarion regret killing Cazador? (Ask)

Astarions Type (Ask)

Does Astarion have DID? (Ask)

If not Astarion, could Durge have DID? (Ask)

Astarions reaction to Tav fucking Mizora (Ask)

More In-Depth Explanations of various Terms and Concepts

What is survival mode?

Why is it bad if Astarion is "falsely" associated with DID/Asexuality?

Fanfiction/Character Chit Chat

Ascended Astarion and a more reserved Tav

Astarion and Saoirse, the Noble Barbarian

Astarion the Dead Dove

Astarion and Vien, a more reserved, skittish Tav

Astarion and a traumatised, people-pleasing Tav

Ascended Astarion when Tav chooses suicide

Astarion and a solemn, stoic monk Tav

Could Astarion be with someone who doesn't have any Trauma?

The A6 Rant Saga

UX

Writer Sanity

Copy Paste Syndrome

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Do we notice the shoddy floor editing? Yes. Will we say anything about it? No. 😠 Anyway, have the Sarda-Family! I'll eventually share a more detailed post on them, but I figured I'd drop the Long Boy ™ first. For no particular reason other than 'I like it' and 'It fucking took 5 ever'. But as you can see: Ellison's family is massive.

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Guys, I genuinely don't care if you use AI to edit your fics or writing. Right? Let it correct your grammar, no problem, idgaf.

But by the Gods, don't let it tell you how to actually write, please.

One of the kids I tutor showed me a scene she wrote and it was nice and all but there was something missing. So we chatted about it and she told me ChatGPT told her her draft was 'too long and indulgent' so she cut some shit.

She then showed me the OG and it was absolutely fucking lovely. It WAS indulgent, yes. But that is her voice. She's an indulgent writer. She lingers in moments others would just gloss over and she naturally has a very sprawling, flowery prose. That is her voice and identity as a writer.

AI doesn't know that. It just doesn't. Treat it as a glorified spell checker all you like. It CAN correct spelling mistakes and add missing parenthesis, sure, but it isn't a good judge on prose. At all. AI will try to apply a formula to you that you simply may not fit into. That's how it works. It's formulaic as fuck. It doesn't know shit about your unique voice, so it will try to get rid of it.

Don't let it.

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I hate it when I crave something that takes work.

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Gonna dye my hair tomorrow and I think I'm gonna go black for the first time in ten or so years 🙂‍↕️

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I just read a comment like 'I only support black people and poc, you whities are on my last nerve' and I truly. genuinely. cannot fathom how that is an okay or acceptable thing to say in any context.

If I dared to ever even think that way about poc, I'd be rightfully stoned and yet people are just yelling this into the world and others are like: "yeah sounds legit." as long as it's about white folks.

Are you dense? That is racist as shit, what the hell is wrong with people!?

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I wast just reading reviews for a game in some forum cos I wanted to know whether or not people agreed with my own observations and one of the posters kept insisting the game dev should've taken inspiration from the 'formula' of another game even though other posters were trying to shut that down the entire time.

Eventually he went like:

"No you guys don't understand me, I'm saying to copy the formula because it's a good one. It's just have a nice plot with action, drama, comedy and complexity that influences the game meaningfully and has great characters with decent backgrounds and world building!"

And I know they said this in good faith (or so I choose to believe) but bitch, what are you even saying? That isn't a fucking formula. That is 'be a good writer' or 'write a deep, meaningful story'.

None of these points are even remotely close to a formula.

A formula is a template or a blueprint on how a narrative is organised.

And I could've been fine with this, people make mistakes, but then they just had to follow it up with something like this:

"This game doesn't have anything like that, it's always just someone getting abducted by some random villain and we save them and then we move on onto the next."

Cunt. THAT IS A FUCKING FORMULA! That is literally the standard monster of the week episodic loop!

That guy screams there is no formula only to tell us exactly what the formula is in the next sentence.

Seriously, why are we using words and concepts we don't understand or know how to apply?

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I just got done plotting my interactive novel.

After a year of world and character building, narrative design, core system mapping and so many fucking chapters and branches...

I'm done.

I can start writing for real now.

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Some Posts I see: Ugh, getting Mason as a best friend is really hard!

Meanwhile, my Detectives and Mason on every playthrough:

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Hah. Just saw a comment on my 13 year old ff where someone was like '13 years later and I'm here again, visiting a little bit of my childhood' and I'm like...moved to tears?

The fic was trash man. It was so bad. And still people come and revisit it for some reason? Yeah, sobbing. Crying. Throwing up.

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Well that face bodes well for me.

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'Oh my God, the line distribution in KP186B1 is totally unfair, Hong Gil-Dong needs to get more lines!'

No. No, he absolutely doesn't.

Why? Cos he's the groups visual. His job is literally to look pretty and get attention. That is why he's here.

Singing, rapping and dancing are just bonus things he has to do. This mans main job is to be the face you recognise first. He gets to be on most promo stuff. He gets to do commercials. He gets to act. He is the one you're most likely to recognise.

That. Is. His. Job.

Singing all the main lines is for the vocalist of the group. Dancing the coolest breaks is for the dancers. Rapping is for the rappers (although, admittedly, visuals often tend to be rappers for some reason).

They have different jobs! Let them do what they're good at!

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Sun rise is in about two hours.

I'm sat in my dark living room by the open window with my cats, unable to sleep cos it's simply too hot to sleep and cos there's a nice, cooling breeze going outside.

I fucking hate summer.

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A friend just had a scroll through my liked songs playlist before acturately guessing not only my myers briggs personality but my big five as well.

How the fuck.

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HOLY FUCK SHE DID IT FOR MY FLATMATE TOO.

I'm convinced, she's a witch.

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A friend just had a scroll through my liked songs playlist before acturately guessing not only my myers briggs personality but my big five as well.

How the fuck.

[tenyai]

Pre-dating era, Yara poking the lion 🤣 Hamzah and Nuhro never let her pay for food, and while she knows how it goes (SWANA cultural shenanigans) she can't help but push their buttons here and there. Hamzah does not mess around tho LOL

[wherethelarksroam111]

Please tell me again we weren't destined for love 😤