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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.

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phineas and ferb episode that is rated pg13 so they are allowed one f-bomb. candace keeps trying to find the perfect situation to use it but every time she tries she gets interrupted or drowned out by a comically loud horn. meanwhile doofenshmirtz has made the censor-inator because now that they're pg13 he's convinced that vanessa doesnt know any swear words (she knows all of them) and that she'll explode if she hears someone say "shit" so he wants to make the entire tri-state area child-friendly. he flies it over danville in his official blimp and a one-off joke is that his laser hits a rated r movie that's a clear parody of the human centipede or someshit and it turns into a barney-the-dinosaur-ass psa. at the last second perry destroys the inator and knocks it out of the blimp and it fires off one more laser that censors out phineas and ferb's invention before mom can get home. candace tries to finally drop her one-allowed cuss but her voice has given out. perry comes back and makes a little platypus noise (all of those have been swear words the whole time but because nobody speaks platypus nobody notices) and then part of doof's machine crashes into the house (candace is in charge) and ferb says "what the fuck"

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I hope Donald trump dies of an illness that was on the verge of having a cure made for it in a lab funded by public grants btw

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helena eagan both defying and exceeding my expectations by losing so hard and so immediately... having an even worse relationship with her dad than expected... filming a youtuber apology with an embarrassingly obvious fake cover story... reacting to the cctv footage Like That

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A Real Pain (2024) dir. Jesse Eisenberg

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this is coming from a vulnerable place (sunday afternoon)

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This is my first reaction to maybe 25% of all political posts online

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silo s1e3 machines

them.

+bonus one (1) tree climbing hug

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2.09 The Safeguard & 1.03 Machines

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Silo 2x10 | Into the Fire

You wanna be angry? Be angry at the motherfuckers who built this place and put us in it!

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i will say: once you put the x-files into its 90′s tv context it really is arresting how good it is. how well it’s made. hell, you put it up against almost anything made since, even the fancy prestige stuff, and as dopey as the show assuredly can be, the ineffable, cinematic gravitas of the first five seasons really is like nothing else. the x-files isn’t “about” things in the same way that other art i love is. sure it’s about “science” and “belief” and “wonder”, and how you deal with the shadowy spaces in the cracks of the known. but it doesn’t carefully craft a thesis on those things. it’s just sort of this grand is. mood in the most exalted sense. it’s not itself nuanced so much as it infuses you with the sensation of what nuance is. which is a very interesting and unique thing to be. it’s not something i can write reams of satisfying analysis of, because again it’s something that is more than something that was done. but i still respect it very much.

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fuuuuck that is my circus. are those…? yep… those are my monkeys….. goddammit.

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- E. M. Forster's New Year's resolutions, written 31 December 1904

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Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and, just as the reliably long and bitter winters of New England determine the way life is lived there, so the violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability. The winds shows us how close to the edge we are.

Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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BAD SISTERS Ursula + Bibi

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BAD SISTERS Eva & Bibi + mother/daughter things

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btw you will miss this in 5 or 10 years. memory will smooth these circumstances down like a river stone, and you will find yourself longing for a shade of light or a moment of this particular innocence. you don't know about what happens next, and one day that will be the most alluring thing of all. don't leave it all for nostalgia. have a nice night now, whatever night it happens to be.