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Ján Cifra • Bratislava, 1957

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worm in his natural habitat

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Self portrait for the dust cover of The Listing Agent (1954) by Edward Gorey

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Go down into the museum for a second to check something in the displays. Look up at the scrolling wall of us military quotes

Uh oh George.

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Writing pride tag

Thank you @thegreatobsesso ❤️

📝 Post a snippet you are extra proud of having written.

Tagging: @wyked-ao3, @saturnine-saturneight, @cowboybrunch, @tragedycoded, @jev-urisk, @the-golden-comet + open

From The Dotted Line:

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Watched Ernst Lubistch's I Don't Want to Be a Man yesterday for a class. 1910s transmasc yaoi goes fucking crazy.

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favorite bug?? ?

Once in high school I went to a Bruce Springsteen concert and it was a hot summer evening so the bugs were out in force and this one tenacious cicada flew right into Bruce’s face and bounced off onto the floor in front of him and he bent down to pick it up and held it out in front of the crowd and he said “all right, okay, I don’t want to cast aspersions on your local wildlife here, but North Carolina, can somebody please tell me—what the FUCK is this space-alien-lookin thing?” and a reporter took a picture and that was the image they used in the paper the next day: Bruce Springsteen looking perplexed while holding a concussed cicada

so yeah that’s my favorite bug, it was that specific cicada

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family circus but it's about george smiley and co is this anything

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something incredibly American about an Allied trooper yelling brand names at Soviets until they recognize him as an ally.

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good morning how do i kill the yearning before it kills me

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@fedko-brigand

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"Many were deceived because they wanted to be deceived. The famine of 1932-33 coincided with two other major events: the Great Depression of 1929-33 and Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Both the Depression and Hitler's victory provided further evidence of the deep crisis of the liberal West. The Soviet Union, with its promise to build a new world of social equality and an economy that seemed immune to the crisis, appeared to offer a genuine alternative to both liberalism and fascism. Many intellectuals in the West viewed Stalin as a saviour of humanity and therefore were ready to forgive him everything."

-Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukraine (2022)

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Okay little thing about my writing style I actually just named that could be helpful when writing: The RRR method

Research, reference, and relate.

RESEARCH things you may be depicting. Things like trauma and its responses, disorders, religions, cultures, etc. When you're depicting PTSD like so many OCs end up having because of the things we sick writers do to them, you'll want to know what PTSD entails in everyday life and how it affects people. With culture, you'll of course want to know what the actual culture is in order to depict it! Don't just say "this character is Muslim" and then have them be drinking alcohol with a pork dinner.

REFERENCE your inspirations. It's just like using references when drawing. Look into the structure of your inspirations, how your favorite authors use suspense and subtext. Using references and inspiration is not stealing or copying or any shit like that! But it can easily bleed into that territory. I say this as mostly an artist who keeps tabs on the toxic community who thinks studying an art style is stealing it, etc etc stupid crap. If a character of yours ends up accidentally being similar to one you know from a piece of media, you don't need to pull a 180 on their writing! Overlaps are bound to happen, and that's okay. Reference those character's story arcs, behaviors, etc. and make it your own unique thing along the way!

RELATE details to other parts of the story. When people can see dots connecting in your story, that 'click' feeling is the best! Make sure that major points of character's story relate to other plot points, either in another character's story or the main plot, or both! Of course, you can have irrelevant details about people. But when you're talking about character-defining backstory, you should probably find openings to connect it to other areas of the story, that way it all comes together and becomes cohesive and relevant to each other.

This is just my own opinions and advice! You don't have to do anything I said here. I just managed to put into words how I write my own OC lore and worldbuild. This can work for authors, gamemakers, D&D players! (D&D players specifically because having a backstory that relates to the campaign is a really good idea and the DM WILL use that information against you in angsty sessions) If you found my advice helpful, I'm glad I could be of service :)

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