#The Lampshades

[inknose]

constructive criticism

[pseudospectre]

So it turns out you can just buy old x-rays off ebay

[shiftythrifting]

Dale Earnhart Jr. Glass Lampshade I once saw at a goodwill, I regret not buying this every day of my life

[moonvelka]

New moon 🐜

[3mbsdcard]

finally finished the tower of nero and i had to draw this part or else i would combust

[maxxxam]

[whetstonefires]

One thing I've been delighted to realize in life is that people absolutely do subject each other to impromptu history lectures about the state of the world and how it got this way.

That is a totally realistic expository device. People absolutely talk like that.

The trick to making it really work is making sure to develop voices and opinions for the characters being used for this that are clear and distinctive, and stick to these rigorously. The more actively human the parties, the more it can become the sort of interaction you see all the time at the pub, and not the writer clumsily seizing on a mouthpiece.

The three main modes are first, preaching to the choir, where you're just restating what you already know you all agree about, which is basically a group bonding behavior but does also function as sort of ideological dress rehearsal sometimes.

Second, argument, ranging from virulent disagreement through irritating harangue to the sort that is basically a form of play, where maintaining opposing positions on some point is something one does as much to have the pleasure of arguing it regularly as anything.

Third, the lecture to an audience that while not actively arguing, is not positively engaged either. This is a very popular model but it's also the worst one. The urge to lampshade your own expository sins and the fear of being boring by placing that boredom in the story is almost always counterproductive; generally your readers will feel the way you tell them to feel, and boredom is quite easy to suggest.

(If you aren't confident you can influence your readers' feelings to that degree probably spend some time working on less ambitious projects to build up either your skillset or your confidence.)

Don't use the 'unwelcome lecture' approach to embedding an infodump unless 1) the bit of exposition is very short or 2) your intention is for the readers to obtain but overlook a vital clue amidst the boring; in the latter case ideally make the lecture the B-plot of a scene where something more arresting is happening also.

[m4rs-ex3]

the way she just crashes into his arms wings

the way she just dissolves and he holds her like he never wants to let go (he doesn't)

the way she hugs him just the same and yet he's just ready to make sure she's okay

what do you mean. i'm normal

[doodlejoltik]

they can't keep getting away with it

[gracesaysyes]

some recent adorations of mine

[valtsv]

i fully believe that when fitzjames interrupted him in the middle of his epic tuunbaq soulbond story and embarrassed him in front of his captaincrush that was the moment when hickey mentally drafted him onto the list of people to survival cannibalize first once shit gets truly #real. like girl we don't even know each other but i am Going to skin you and wear you as a coat actually.

[notfernintheslighest]

the holy trinity of homophobic gay men

[nyaskitten]

Pookies and babygirls, it's Arin time!!!

[horror-aesthete]

Twin Peaks, 1990, dir. Tina Rathborne

SE01E04 Rest in Pain

[huariqueje]

Lampshades -   Serge de Vries , 2023.

Dutch, b. 1968 -

Oil on panel , 18 x 24 cm. 7.1 x 9.4 in.

[zxmbigirlfriend]

recurring theme in original saw script