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CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016)

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Eve, trust me.

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New Crow Time 🐦‍⬛🦊🌟

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) dir. Steven Spielberg

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A tip for excellent writing I just learned: Don't introduce a character with their Dramatic Backstory. It makes readers go "oh alright this is the Dramatic Background Story Character" and establishes a baseline of Tragic, either for the story as a whole or this character in particular. With no contrast of light and dark, pure darkness isn't impactful, it just looks like the absence of anything to look at.

If you really want someone's dramatic backstory to hit the audience like a gut punch, let them get to know the character first. That way the dark backstory doesn't come off as a description of who they are, but an explanation to why they are the way they are. Bonus points for connecting it to something that's already been established as a part of the character - what a devastating blow to suddenly put together that hold on, that funny quirky thing that they always do is a fucking trauma response.

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A persons fanfic tells you a lot about them, i , a fanfic writer, realize in terror

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@mcuchallenge Year of Celebrations - Valentine´s day.

Tony & Pepper (the mothership of all MCU ships!) - Iron Man (2008)

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Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark

IRON MAN 3

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Brendan Fraser as Rick O'Connell THE MUMMY 1999 — dir. Stephen Sommers

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Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016) dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

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Reblog if you're a writer who re-reads their own work for funsies.

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few things more humbling than the realization that you really do write the same fic(s) over and over again

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