daughterofdurin

[daughterofdurin]

11/24/2024

[daughterofdurin]

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

[daughterofdurin]

LotR genuinely had no right being as good as it was, how did filmmaking peak so perfectly in the early 2000s with a crazy mishmash cast and a self-made director who only bought a studio because he took out a loan against his house to buy an abandoned paint factory, how come late 90s cgi-video-game-elves look better than high tech movies now, how come nothing else has consistently incredible acting, soundtrack, set design and effects, writing, emotion, platonic affection and pure romance

[daughterofdurin]

Hey, the ACLU is getting people to send letters to your Reps to have Congress pass the No Kings Act.

This act would make constitutional amendments to ensure that even sitting presidents are held liable for their actions. That NOBODY is above the law.

Their goal is 150k messages sent and at the time of writing this they're about 2.1k off from that goal!

ACLU gives you a prefilled message that you can edit to send to make the process easier, and will send it out for you.

This only takes a few minutes!

[daughterofdurin]

11/10/2024

[daughterofdurin]

dni if youre a gormless fool/feckless brute or some other such thing

[daughterofdurin]

this is currently a hot topic at my work so

[daughterofdurin]

The wind had dropped but the sky was grey. The land looked rather sad and forlorn; but it was after all the first of November and the fag-end of autumn.

-J. R. R. Tolkien (‘The Scouring of the Shire’, The Return of the King)

happy cigarrette butt of a month everyone!

[daughterofdurin]

looks like october is…. octover

[daughterofdurin]

happy first Bella From Twilight Depression Month

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[daughterofdurin]

people will see a fandom thing and be like "why isn't this a fanfic" "why is there no fanfic about this" my brother in christ, because you're not writing it

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[daughterofdurin]

please know that there's no limit to the amount of boops i'm happy to receive. if you think even for a second that i'll get annoyed if you boop me "too many times" you are wrong and i'm gonna need you to boop me again