#Ig guess

[12neonlit-stage]

you're allowed to discuss and work together, reblog for a higher sample size or something

You have 1 week, good luck!

[kingzombear]

Gangle gangle gangle gangle gangle gangle gangle gangle gangle gangle gang

I wanna shake her around like a lil chewtoy in my teeth <3

[urfavoritemistake]

is this anything

[kabumisun]

read left - > right

she ace on my trap til i pola

[parisoonic]

Demo has had many careers - tattoo artist isn't one of them.

[wormspoodle]

posting stuff i haven't posted here before the year ends or something

[hinamie]

corvidae

[foreversagacious]

was gonna come up with an edgy caption but chickened out last minute

[cat-gh0ul]

I wanted to give @meanbossart 's DU Drow a bath and give him the fancyboy treatment..couldnt decide what pallette i liked better

EDIT: forgot to link my ref !! Ref below vv

if anyone knows the source lemme know i COULD NOT find it

[meawoo]

[asaemonn]

[z0mbiefvcker]

the contrast between lisa and creature is so funny like lisas this pretty girl with these cute pajamas and her bear slippers and her little purple hairclip and then theres this thing

[queer-as-used-by-tolkien]

In What Lies Beneath/What Lies Within stories post-EoD in GW2, Gorrik (canonical autistic boy) records experiences and research in an audio journal.

The demon that's making people hallucinate their worst memories got to him somehow. He makes an audio log narrating that experience after the fact.

I was there when his brother died. I was there - I was to blame for it. I felt so strongly about it for months.

I expected Gorrik's audio log to be a tear-jerker. I expected to feel it right along with him, to relive the experience alongside him.

I didn't.

He's a terrible storyteller.

He described feelings, sensations - more physical than emotional, if I recall correctly - in a sort of detached way. Aside from him being an awful storyteller, and that he wasn't INTENDING to tell a story with an audience, I think this is also partly because he's autistic.

Who he is and what his goals were informed how he wrote the story. Even I, when I'm journaling, face the question of "do I write this so someone else, or my future self, could feel the emotion? Or do I PROCESS it? Do I write down what I need to write?"

It just felt so real. It wasn't staged to make me feel feelings about his brother dying. The experience wasn't about me. It was about his brother. But the audio log wasn't about me OR the brother. It was about GORRIK.

And I think that's beautiful.

Having story thoughts about the fourth wall:

It defines the difference between allegory and applicability. An allegorical story leans on our world to find its full meaning. Ideas, characters, settings, all symbolize something else that's in our world, thus obliterating the fourth wall and bringing the two worlds together. This can be useful for a message-forward story, but it has the side effect of making the world and characters seem less real, because it's not a place with its own independent existence--it relies on our world.

In an applicable story, the fourth wall is firmly in place. The character is a character. The setting is its own setting. They have an independent existence within their own little world. We can draw parallels to our world, but even without that meaning, the characters and setting still feel like they exist in a real, independent world.

An applicable story often has more impact and a stronger message, because the message comes out of the story and character, rather than being pulled from our world and pasted on top of the story.

As an example--I was thinking about this because I saw Ratatouille recently. In Remy's situation, there are a lot of parallels that can be drawn between his world and ours--an oppressed subculture, a life of poverty--but instead of trying to map that onto a specific real-world situation, they're still just rats, living in this weird version of Paris where sometimes the worldbuilding elements are just weird. The actual message of the movie is about art, which comes from character, not from the way the world is built. Compare this to something like Elemental, which started out as a way to explore real-world racism and the immigrant experience. Because the message is built into the world, commentators get distracted by the ways it doesn't map onto our world, and have a harder time connecting to the characters.

The fourth wall is also important to romance. The reason so much of the romance genre feels so fake and unreal is because it's so often concerned with the effect the story has on the reader--reaching through the fourth wall to give the reader things the reader finds romantic or arousing, regardless of anything that's specific to the characters or world of the book.

In a well-done romance, the fourth wall is firmly in place. The characters are not avatars for the reader and their romantic ideal, but people with their own independent existence and relationship. They live in a well-built world that has shaped both of their personalities and affects their relationships. The development of their romance is specific to these two people, and would exist independent of any audience reading about it. The story has more impact on the reader, because it's coming from outside our world and gives the reader unique characters to love, instead of just pulling the reader's desires out of our world and pasting them on top of the story.

[candyje11yfish]

Sock SWAP Opera! 💫

[lavender-rroses]

dude…let’s kill the horse