Dreams of Continuity

●Wrangler of cosmic entities○ Anything goes I'm afraid ●

[yo-granchio]

Abracadabra

[yo-granchio]

IM BACK IN THE KITCHEN

[tmgt]

if anyone sees me on here, can you just send me a 🫵 emoji because I should be working

I am giving myself 3 hours

[talha-aka-talzy]

The Drifter and Eris Morn makeout awww ❤️

The love birds 🥹

This Destiny 2 - Renegades Expansion

[imonthemoonitsmadeofcheese]

Drift Together

This was my fourth entry for the Solar Embrace Vol. 6 Zine. Now with art by @haykebyr !

Link to Ao3 if you prefer to read it there.

the ocean is loud at night wind low and rumbling like a passionate groan waves churning rhythmically tugged by the moon the repeated smack of water against sand the earth's own ragged breathing punctuated by soft gasps of sky between stars

at the place where water envelops sand the wet sludge sucks on calloused toes the white foam swirls around scarred ankles the forgotten blade and the man with no name cast in monochromatic lunar light highlighted with the sharp green glow of soulfire walk roaring power before them buzzing reeds behind both lured to the churning depths called away from the light of a now-distant fire soft laughing voices, burning leaves smoke, friends, food, music

they tread a treacherous path filled with sharp stones wet hungry mouths and chitin one fearless one always afraid hand in hand fingers wrapped tight holding each other close against the dark

additional context: https://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/drift-apart

[eiramew]

Maya.

You've come a long way, from the tractor canon lore tab to the bright rivers of Nessus, to reuniting with your long lost wife.

To me, destiny is you. You've been more than a mirror, more than a companion. Rent free, as they say. But I think I should be the one thanking you for having kept me here all this time.

[kkingkk]

Some Destiny 2 stuffs

[imonthemoonitsmadeofcheese]

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Transcript:

My Guardians, my Acolytes, my friends. How can I express all that may be said after everything we have achieved together? I will try. I must.

The Hellmouth did not end for me when I reached Luna's surface. It did not end at the death of Crota or the Taken King. It was relentless. I could not see beyond it. My nightmares persisted and I suffered their torments.

I thought that usefulness would save me, to endure despite all, to make meaning from my fear and isolation. But that did not save me.

That did not quiet my anguish.

It was you, guardians, you who have been by my side through my grief, my pain, my vengeance, and my joy, from the hatred of the Hive to the wonders of my throne.

For that, I am grateful, eternally.

So think now of love, the love between you and your ghost, the love between you and your fireteam, and the love I have for all of you.

Hold fast and it will never diminish.

Remember our time together and be glad.

Thank you, guardians. Thank you.

[brainstreams]

[woodland-laume]

noticing really how little art there has been of witty or rhulk recently, I stare at those followed tags like a hawk, art of them flopping too, sigh

no I won't stop drawing them, I love them too much but, it's just sad. Seeing things you love fading into obscurity

I can count fellow witty artists on my 2 hands, active ones maybe on one

[yo-granchio]

It's the Lubrae guy :V

[eiramew]

hey. HEY

i know it's an easy cinematic shot. i know the traveler is a ball. i just think it's interesting!

[eiramew]

food for thought

[woodland-laume]

Fallen Red Star

[haykebyr]

a tribute to Them 💚🐍🌒

Drifter and Eris have been my favorite characters since I started playing D2 in 2020, and the subject of the majority of my fan art since... only fitting to draw them again now as D2 retires 💫

[yo-granchio]

I acquired the amateur render attribute

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

be kind and respectful to fanfic writers

be kind and respectful to fan artists

be kind and respectful to people in your fandom

be kind and respectful to people

[power-chords]

Can you please explain your dialogue theory of fanfiction?

In short, that dialogue, more than anything, makes or breaks a fanfic. What do posts like "He would not fucking say that" and "They would NOT have communication skills that good" have in common? Talk. Characters expressing themselves to one another. The faithful recreation of identifiable speech patterns is weighted heavily in the evaluation of a fic's quality. By "speech patterns" I do not just mean the semantic content of a given character's expression, but idiosyncrasies of style and slang, vocabulary and idiom, even gesture, musicality, and rhythm.

Of course believable dialogue is far from the only thing that makes a good fanfic Good. And there are forms of fic writing, particularly highly abbreviated ones like drabbles and ficlets, that in practice tend to de-emphasize its significance. But if we are talking about the romantic, erotic shippy stuff that is the meat and potatoes of online fandom, dialogue does the heaviest lifting short of the consummation itself. Arguably more so! It's the real keystone to the catharsis, and often the catalyst for it. Is there a confession occurring? A provocation? An evasion or ultimatum? Zoom out, big picture: What is the most potent and fundamental mechanic for developing complexity, tension, and transformation within a relationship, getting it to go from one thing to another? Making these two idiots talk to each other! Often clumsily and indirectly and maladaptively, at the worst possible time and in the worst possible situation, about anything or everything but what they should be — but talk they usually do.

What makes fanfic specifically so challenging and rewarding in this regard is that the talking is as much a feat of translation as invention, because both reader and writer are working off an existing model. Liberties taken with plot, form, and even narrative voice have wider buffer zones; you can get creative with circumventing the events of canon while still conforming to its emotional and substantive essence.

But the training wheels come off the moment you open your mouth to speak in another character's voice. And man, nothing will break a reader's immersion quite like he would not fucking say that.

[power-chords]

I probably should have clarified at the outset (though maybe it’s obvious) that this post was made with televisual media in mind. I’m seeing a lot of comments/tags to this effect and if you want a very straightforward exercise that will strengthen your ear for writing in-character fic dialogue, start transcribing the source material. Re-watch relevant scenes of interaction with either a notepad out or an open Word/Scrivener/Google Doc and translate it word for word back down to written form. Pause wherever necessary to make sure you get it all down, and annotate with any useful observations that jump out at you. Go back over and re-read what you’ve transcribed when you’re done. You’ll start to pick up on, at the very least, certain modular fundamentals: shorter vs longer sentences, preferences for certain words or phrases over others, regional slang, how and how often they curse (or don’t), etc. Do this often and you will get better at replicating how your blorbos speak to each other. Promise.

[deathlonging]

ID: screenshots of three sets of tags: 1. i read this at a time where i am struggling to get a characters voice and perhaps that was a bad time to read it but youre right 2. its why dialogue being my achilles heel hits so much harder - because it becomes so quickly inescapable 3. ah my arch nemesis - dialogue. but this is an interesting read tho

[zalia]

There is a post I saw ages ago, and cannot find which is maddening, but it had some very useful advice about finding character voices by using various scales. I have tried to recreate some of the scales since they've helped me. All of these are going to change depending on the situation, who the character is speaking to etc. but it can help to get a baseline. Formal ----- Casual Does the character speak as though they're meeting the head of state, or like they're talking to their best friend? When they meet someone new, do they say 'Hi!' or 'Pleased to meet you.'? Verbose ----- Taciturn Do they ramble or are they a person or few words? Rude ----- Polite Do they demand to see a manager, or ask an assistant if it would be possible to get some help? Blunt/To the point ----- Meandering Do they say exactly what they mean, or do they hedge/soften their words? 'This will not work' vs 'I think we could also look at other options' Complex ----- Simple Think of this as a scale from scientists discussing black holes at an academic conference to explaining black holes to a five year old. Clean ----- Vulgar Do they swear a lot? Do they make dirty jokes? This one tends to be a bit hazy i fanfic because there are characters who definitely feel like they should swear a lot, but are restricted by being in a PG-13 rated show/game. So for my current Character, Osiris from Destiny... He tends to be fairly formal, especially with people he doesn't know well. He is verbose - the man goes off on rambling tangents frequently and loves talking about things he's interested in. He can be rude - he often ignores the niceties of social interactions, but it's not (usually) because he intends to be rude. He is very blunt and speaks his mind and appreciates others doing the same with him. He tends to fall on the complex side of the scale - he will casually throw high level scientific and philosophical terms into a conversation and just assume everyone understands him. His language also tends to be clean - he doesn't swear much in casual conversation (though he has been shown to in moments of frustration). If he does dirty talk with Saint in the bedroom is up to the writers' interpretation. One thing I also tend to take notice of is if a character uses a lot of contractions or not. Do they say 'It is' or 'it's'? 'We are' or 'we're'?

[slavetomyheadcanon]

One of the biggest compliments I've ever received on any of my writing was "You nailed Lodi's voice. I could hear Brian." I am still riding on that high because when I write these characters, that's exactly the effect I'm going for.

I love using dialogue to provide context clues also, such as a character going from formal to casual over a period of time. In my Weapon AU, the main character moves from thinking of itself as an object to thinking of himself as a person and I love the effect a lot.

And let's not forget how a couple of simple words can do so much heavy lifting.

Three cheers for that classic we all know and love:

"Oh. Oh."

[battle-scarred-raven]

//Yes to the post saying watch cutscenes of characters to get dialogue cadence accurate for a particular character.

I've been told I write Ikora and Eris from Destiny pretty well before and it literally comes from spending an almost embarrassing amount of time sat next to them in game listening to their idle dialogue, with more of their speech cadence inferred from reading lorebooks and weapon lore in game as well. It's something I definitely recommend doing when writing a character: listen to (or read) how they speak.