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Please add in the tags where you're from too I'm very curious

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Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:

In general, I think "Is X out-of-character?" is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.

A better question, I believe, is "What would it take for Character to do X?" What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT'S where a potentially interesting story lies.

In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from "What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?" As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you've got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.

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He Would Express Those Sentiments, But Not In That Vocabulary

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hate when you find a character whose so infuriatingly Your Type that its embarrassing like yeahg no one is gonna be surprised when i announce this is my new Guy Of The Month

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Had to express this somehow

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have you ever done things at like specific times of the year so when it rolls back out youre like damn... smells like undertale outside

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*before Milo met baabe*

Milo: wait a minute, who tf did you have in here?

Asher: ….

Milo: why is- why is the seat back like that-??

Milo: … AND WHY DOES THIS CAR SMELL LIKE JAPANESE CHERRY BLOSSOM?!? WHO TF DID YOU HAVE IN HERE????!?!!

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I feel like some people need to relearn Genre Expectations... "Man, this tragedy sucks!!! Why didn't they just do XYZ, then everything could have ended happily!!" well, then it wouldn't be a tragedy, would it. "Man, this lighthearted teen romcom is terrible, it's so sappy and unrealistic!!" Well, yeah. If it had been gritty and dark, it wouldn't have been a lighthearted romcom, would it. Is the writing actually bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from a Home Depot

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fewer posts about “why do straight women date men who hate them” and more posts about “why do so many men hate women that it’s genuinely difficult for straight women to find romantic & sexual intimacy with a man who doesn’t hate them”

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After sex you see me roll over and go to balcony. You think ive gone for smoke due to my melancholic nature but I’ve opened sudoku.com evil level

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hey hellsite

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Rainy days 🌊🪷💧

gonna start posting some older pieces here too~

i have a lot of backlog that i’ve posted on other social media but not here yet

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me: okay i’ve complained enough about this it’s time to put it to rest

me five minutes later: actually you know what-

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ohhh fuck off. someone learned my summoning ritual again. ill be right back

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Today I saw certain (I hope younger) fandom members doing a thing on twitter where they called out fandom-famous fics and saying how bad they are.

And, no. We don't do that. We aren't rude to each other like that. If we don't like a fic we move on and find one we do like. We do not go slagging it off on twitter to make ourselves look cool.

Authors, artists, video editors, gif makers: all of these people give huge amounts of their time to provide you with content for free. They don't owe anyone anything, and being cruel about what anyone makes is below us as a fandom.