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The Cave Where I Was Found - Submitted by SeesawSiya

#2f261d #a05116 #eaa361 #f3e9d0 #8b9c89

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Little Jasmine by KUISHI Xu

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why does my caladium act like she is starving for light. hang on

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Character Values Wheel

Stop creating characters without understanding their values.

As writers, it is essential to define what our characters care about. But could there be an objective and universal model of human values?

No, probably not. But, we can ask some interrogating questions.

When you strip away all construct, culture, setting, programming, and experience, what defines our motivations? How do our motivations relate to each other? All models are false, but there are various frameworks we can pull from to arrive at something useful for writing fiction.

Okay But Who Are You?

I'm a writer and I study narrative psychology. I have worked in professional marketing and branding for a decade, and have built this values model over the past 5 years, based on contemporary sociological research.

You can check out the academic sources at the bottom of the post.

Here's a peek at the model

The core of the model has Altruism-Egoism as the vertical axis, and Collectivism-Individualism as the horizontal access.

If you're a D&D player, think of this like an upgraded alignment chart.

Where these two axes intersect is the meat of the whole model. The Mastery axis and the Service axis. This emergent relationship forecasts much of the rest of the model.

The second ring shows the 8 Interpersonal Ideologies. Each one aligns to an intersection of the 8 spokes of the center wheel.

Each Ideology is divided into 3 values. For example, let's look at Autonomy. The three values are Curiosity, Creativity, Independence.

An archetype straddles two values. For example, the Inventor is Curiosity-Creativity. The Artist is Creativity-Independence.

Finally, the 8 Desires ring the outside. Each one aligns directly to a spoke on the center wheel.

With the full model, you can not only understand your character's values better, but also contextualize them against the values of the world they live in.

I have 50+ awesome resources for free at:

I am trying to share my knowledge and pay rent at the same time, so I have 10 resources offered as a premium download on the shop.

Grab it here:

If you can't afford it, check out the free resources! If you're not interested, no worries! I'll keep sharing writing tools and advice. Thanks for reading!

Sources

Theory of Basic Human Values - Schwartz PhD 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Basic_Human_Values

Cultural Map - Inglehart PhD, Welzel PhD 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglehart-Welzel_cultural_map_of_the_world

Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator - Pearson PhD 

https://www.uiltexas.org/files/capitalconference/Twelve_Character_Archetypes.pdf

16 Basic Desires Theory - Steven Reiss 

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Who_am_I/EbOjA5oAsEUC?hl=en

Moral Foundations Theory - Jonathan Haidt 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory

Cultural Worldviews and Political Process Preferences - Chad Zanocco 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.12500

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Still collecting the full alphabet of the “live, laugh, love” variants if anyone has some good examples.

Bonus if they can fit the “We can’t ___, _____, ____ our way out of this.”

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You know those aesthetic image posts that float around tumblr? I'm . . . starting to see a lot on my dash that are obviously ai-generated. Are non-artists having trouble telling the difference between AI images and real photos, or are people starting to stop care about the stolen art that gets fed into those programs?

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she’s the antonymph of the internet! 🌈☁️✨

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Cleaning up my files and forgot that I had all these wing studies from circa. 2015 so thought, y’know what, I don’t need to hold onto these, so have this as a little gift from me to whomst ever needs some quick wings for their OC’s, AU’s, and Art.

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Oh. Damn it. Sorry- just step over her too.

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Ah, sorry. Excuse me. My cat needs to take a nap on your dash a moment. Just step over him.

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writers will really have a doc titled ‘fic planning’ and then it’s just blank

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you made and un-made me. when do i get to choose?

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♡ | jordan_decoster

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old world

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ARCANE: LEAGUE OF LEGENDS (2021) by Riot Games and Fortiche Production Happy 1-year anniversary!

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sirius & pollux belongs to @piipstachio