#Collective Storytelling

[knitpool]

Wade's Common Sense started tingling and felt he should try to get Wade moving again! He didn't know what he was getting into. Wade claims he is sending him to Abu Dhabi.

Maybe you can help! It's been a while since we've done a collaborative project. It's just too expensive to send around a big figure for you all to play with. How about a nano figure?

Are you interested in hosting Nanopool (aka Wade's Common Sense) for a few weeks this coming year? Right now, I am looking for interested hosts. Here is what I am asking. Hosts must:

Provide your name and address (I won't publish them or keep them after we're done. Only I and the host before you will see it).

Be willing to pay for postage to get Nanopool to the next host. (I will do a weighing so you can estimate.)

Post photos of Nanopool with something interesting. You can a) show off your artwork or WIPs, b) show off something about your town or city, or c) show Nanopool doing something silly!

Be following me.

I will have more instructions after I gauge interest, but I am thinking we will shoot for one person a month. Essentially, the host will have three weeks from when they receive him before sending him to the next person. Obviously, the time he's in the mail is a variable, so I can't guarantee he will be with you at any specific time.

Participants outside the U.S. are welcome, but must be willing to pay the postage to me or the next host, who will likely be back in the US. (I will arrange it so U.S. hosts will not have to pay international postage.)

I will make one of my side blogs for the project. You can help me think of a name.

If interested, please message me! Deadline is 10/15.

Once I see if we have enough people, I will provide more specifics, and only then ask for a commitment.

This should be fun!

[shadowpuppetteer]

As a collective storytelling species, sometimes we just wanna see our favorite superhero characters happy in between some really dark stuff. Shout out to @wolfjessedragon for her OC Sunny from Across The Spiderverse fanfics and Sunny's character design by @smokeywhalee I love all the different takes on characters and how much fun we can all have with the stories we love. Love canon Deadpool and fanon Deadpools.

[barnacles-and-brimstone]

i love collective storytelling. minecraft and dnd are my favourites, like imagine having a little group of friends that have such in depth stories. it’s like a fandom only you know AND you have the power to change canon at any moment. it’s beautiful :D

in dnd, we have such a deep world that we all interact within, conspiring with eachother about our dm’s plot lines and character backstories, keeping secrets without danger of losing friendship, in fact it makes it stronger.

in minecraft we have secret society factions on my friends realm. we can plot against eachother and leave ciphers for others to figure out and its great fun! why wind down with a video game when you can instead escape into a world of political schemes and secret bases

[lux-et-astra]

i actually think there’s something so soothing about the different ways we play make believe

as kids it’s explicitly playing make believe or let’s pretend or imagine if. and then it’s writing stories or playing d&d or role playing like we used to on wattpad!! just today i was texting my best friend and we ended up falling into these little characters, just texting as if we were this angel and demon in love with each other (grudgingly on one side; wholeheartedly on the other). and it was so much fun!

adults might have to do improv instead of playing mermaids in the pool but i love the little ways we still play.

[goncharovanon]

I enjoyed the fervent creation stage of Goncharov so much I think we should make this a monthly thing

I'll continue to engage in Goncharov and Gonching, hell, I'm even in a discord server to scriptwrite. But the stage when we could just say shit is more or less broken up.

I'm not expecting Tumblr's next Collective Storytelling to be anywhere near the heights of Goncharov, but I think it would fun, still. Goncharov was ephemeral, a comet, and we're still spying it in the sky, but the moments we could touch it were the most glorious.

So. If you have a Tumblr Collective Storytelling (TCST?) idea, throw it at me, and I'll probably join in, throw in my own metas and ideas and whatnot.

[bkfisher]

This is what it means to be a good DM. You set something in front of your players, and when they inevitably swerve, you turn it into forward progression. The end result will be a beautiful story you've told together rather than a script you all followed.

Which path should he choose?

The path of the warrior, the path of the scholar, or the path of the artist?

[threelargeelefants]

I'm writing a paper on Goncharov right now and I can sooth your nerves that the difference between Gonch and whatever's happening on tiktok is not the fake media. Fake media and fake people and fake history will always and has always existed. Neither is the collective storytelling.

The difference is that we made Goncharov real by imitating a fandom for it. Like yes mass hallucinating a movie was fun and an incredible feat of collective creativity. But the *way* we created Goncharov is what will always make it special.

We, as a website, spontaneously created a perfect pastiche of fandom, one that was so identical to any other fandom behaviour it made the movie seem real.

As I quote thetwistyoucantresist in my paper, “maybe the real Goncharov was the Fandom we made along the way”.

Goncharov isnt the fake movie its the fake fandom, that's what special and unique and one of a kind

[arcanewonder]

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[uwmspeccoll]

Written in the Stars

Star Tales: North American Indian Stories is retold and illustrated by Gretchen Will Mayo (b. 1936) and published in 1987 by Walker & Co. in New York. After getting a journalism degree and a teaching certificate, Mayo attended the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design from 1982 to 1984 and earned her MFA from Vermont College. She is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and in 1987, she received several awards and honors, including the Original Children’s Book Art Award and Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) Choice for Star Tales. Mayo has lived and worked in the Milwaukee area for many years.

For this book, Mayo, known for her children’s books, retells Native American stories related to the stars. Her work beautifully bridges cultural heritage and imagination, making her a cherished voice in children’s literature. Her illustrations enhance the enchantment of these celestial narratives, allowing one to imagine constellations coming alive with myth and magic.

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-Melissa (Stockbridge-Munsee), Special Collections Graduate Intern

[angst-fairygodmother]

It's true. And part of what makes having fandom friends fun.

Listen, if @miss-kittys-magical-library and I wrote out HALF of what we text each other, we would have several epic length novels to each of our names. Largely tragedies

You're welcome for not doing that.

Sometimes, a fic doesn't have to get published, it can just be a series of messages on a Discord channel, between a dedicated group of friends going "oooh, you know what else would be cool?" continuously over a period of weeks and months :)

[tooshnado]

NEW WELCOME HOME UPDATE WOOO

[flos-obsessivus]

It's so funny seeing TWST fans/blogs following me because it feels like I'm baiting them with my fairytale inspired yanderes haha!

[fairyhagmother]

The Capitol Vigiles

The secret police division of the peacekeepers operating out of the Capitol. Genetically modified, its agents develop a heightened sense of smell, which they use to track down fugitives, and are widely known for their ability to “smell” fear. They are unfailingly loyal to the Capitol and are represented in propaganda as its guard dogs.

Their headquarters, based in the Citadel, is colloquially referred to as “the doghouse” and amongst the Academy students, it is Festus Creed, long-time dog enthusiast, who come to rise within its administrative ranks.

[hipstergecko]

You know, for as long as this reblog is, this is a delicious story. All the phandom coming together and writing this collectively! With continuity! It's a thing a beauty and I will eat it with a spoon.

I have nothing better to add to it besides "yes ma'am please sir thank you mister it's wonderful madam". I have so much serotonin I might actually be productive now.

Short DPXDC Prompts #468

Danny is a Chemistry teacher at Gotham Academy. His favorite student is Tim. He shocks the students by teaching and creating a Fear Antitoxin for the kids to learn as part of their curriculum.

[moodymakeshifter]

Ack! What a flexible, tantalizing theme, and so close to Halloween. This sounds like an invitation to turn that scalp inside out— effectively transforming it into your beloved thinking cap —and come up with something horrifying. ^u^

[Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with the people who run this zine. I just think this looks fun. Some of their zines are available on Etsy. They're fantastic. You should check them out. ;) ]

[deadlydodos]

I know everyone is reading into the characterisation brought by the masks in Glass Onion, but I love how these clues rely entirely on the audiences shared experiences and connotations made from living during covid. It makes the film so personal, I think.