#and it’s taking a certain pace

[flintstill]

WHY do applications give me anxiety to the point of near self-sabotage?

I am not in fact being chased by a bear. Why does it fucking feel like life and death

[tinyundercover]

cutely rewrites chapter 14 for the hundredth time

[gayofthefae]

Here's the thing about season 3. Nothing was a secret. There was no lining or buildup. They cleared up the miscommunication in episode 4 and she stood by breaking up with him anyways.

From there, just like I say about Will's feelings being unreciprocated, the problem is unactionable, so there's no lesson and nothing for us to root for.

Mike wants to get back together with El. She knows that. Nothing happens.

The L bomb was dropped as a false sense of momentum, because there actually wasn't any because him not saying it wasn't the problem so it shouldn't be the solution. Usually you have pining. Think the full season breakup story they did the following season:

There was pining. There was investment from US. Because there was setup for confession. Because something was withheld to be revealed. "You know I really like you but you don't know I love you" does not count. Lucas didn't know Max wanted to get back together. They had been broken up long enough and Lucas was respectful enough that Max couldn't be sure either. That setup investment for the notes passing scene. That set up his NERVES in it. That set up me being excited when I saw their first kiss in her 4x04 happy memories sequence. And satisfied to have predicted the Snow Ball as her happiest memory. If Max had known he definitely wanted to get back together as soon as she was ready again and wasn't going to move on at all, there would be no stakes.

Mike wanted to be with El. Then she didn't want to be with him. She can't have the nerves of confessing to him she wants to get back together because she already knows he does. He can't have the nerves of confessing he wants to because he already has. And they didn't establish them as friends solidly or for long enough like they did by establishing that Lucas and Max had ALREADY broken up as opposed to a 6 day breakup arc to make it so that they became unsure of what they once knew to me true of getting back together. Severity of wording changed and El loves romantic tropes in movies so it had influence but really:

Mike had no information to add that El didn't already have. El had nothing stopping her giving Mike information as soon as she had it. There were no stakes. So I didn't care. Whatever happened, cute. That was my thought process. But I had no real investment anymore, unlike when they were building to confession or fighting to get back to each other, because I knew as soon as she wanted to get back together they just automatically would be. So if you, like you were meant to, believed that Mike loved El and knew that she knew that, that scene where she said it back was cute. But not satisfying.

There is nothing to be resolved. We're watching events take place sequentially. Because when there are no stakes, there's no real goal either. Mike invented one for himself because he was uncomfortable with the idea of how comfortable he was broken up.

Tldr: Mike and El's relationship had no secrets and therefore no stakes or opportunity for confession in season 3. El telling Mike she loved him was cute, but not a "confession". Because, just like Mike telling her he loves her in 4x09, if we (think we) know how the other person is feeling and will react, we can't at all invest in the feelings of nervousness or satisfaction that the confessor is feeling.

Season 3 and 4 uninvested us by feigning plots in which they gave us no new information. And bored us. If you know exactly how a scene will play out all but exact wording, you will space out because you can. A writer never wants you to be able to space out and miss nothing. (Until they don't want you to miss what's happening when they take it away)

[itspileofgoodthings]

I mean I’m obsessed with crash landing on you because it’s like if a hallmark movie was good and that is fascinating to my brain and healing to my heart.

[squarebracket-trickster]

I haven't added any new words to my manuscript the last two days, but that's okay, because I had this distinct sense while writing the most recent several scenes that something was missing. I realized the other night that what I was lacking was tension, specifically tension from internal conflict. Isolde has not been an active enough character lately. I mean, she's been involved in the plot, but she's just kind of going through the motions. She hasn't had to make any important choices in a while.

To that end, I've spent the past two days going through my notes and rereading my manuscript to get ideas on what I could enhance (without adding or rewriting too much). The good news is, I have ideas!

I just hope they are enough.

[mod-jazzy]

The crowd goes mild ! ! 🍅 🍅 🍅

> Under cut talk<

So medium update on things, for anyone who glances at this post.

They’ve been mostly settled for now.

Reports filed n whatnot. We good.

I shan’t get too into it here cuz to be blunt, not something I entirely wanna discuss publicly further

But it’s, settled down for now.

I’ll be around again i guess (I know booo get off the stage tomato tomato tomato)

I’ll be doing things mildly different for a bit just as a precaution but.

It was settled. We are fine and safe. I exist on this platform once more 👍

Hope everyone has been well, happy to be able to like, view y’all’s work again.

So if I like spam stuff, apologies I’ll be trying to catch up when I am able/comfortable.

AND a thank you to everyone who left kind messages for me.

Checked up on my partner and I

Etc etc

I appreciate it greatly.

I don’t deserve kindness of that level but some of y’all still went above and beyond for us, so thank you ♥️

[harmonysanreads]

harmony!! been seeing a lot abt dostoevsky lately and have wanted to get into it for ages but i struggled getting thru reading crime and punishment 😭😭 do you have any recommendations on a good one to start with??

Omg I've also just finished C&P last month 😭 I started it last year but due to studies, I couldn't continue reading and I completely understand if the first few chapters are a bit difficult to get through to. C&P is an amazing experience though and I think it best introduces Dostoevsky's style, so I'd definitely recommend sticking to it.

Two of the shorter works are "Notes From The Underground" and "The Gambler" (both less than 200 pages) so perhaps they can be kept under consideration as well! But I'd recommend The Brothers Karamazov to be read towards the end, or at least after C&P since I've heard it's more complex.

[victorluvsalice]

After much editing, the third chapter of "Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland" is up! Featuring Alice snatching a certain briefcase for Fat Larry; murdering a certain Russian mafia boss for Venus Dare; and questioning a certain homeless fellow to get more information on those plaguebearers. Plus dealing with everyone's favorite annoying ghoul Patty along the way. This one's a bit of a doozy -- I recommend you pace yourself!

[dragon-spaghetti]

Looking into pricing commissions (I'm promising nothing, it's a just-in-case if I end up between jobs) and oh my god I'm in HELL 😭 the old sheets I had undercharged so hard I can barely use them as reference LMAOOOO

Is £85 (around $100 apparently) considered too much for a lined/coloured/shaded full body,, I'm fighting for my life out here

[sskk-manifesto]

:/

[wellzofyouth]

That one post of my mine predictably aged like fine wine. Never let somebody on comic twitter in the writer's room😭😭😭 Like imagine a 1 to 1 adaptation of literally any event?? -1b at the box office. "Who are these people???"

[dilf-phoenix-rights]

Insane to me when ppl criticize a mystery series having mysteries left “unfinished” at the end. Girl, it’s not “unfinished” it’s setting shit up for later, and, as someone joining in on a mystery series, you signed up for that being a possibility.

[s0ckh3adstudios]

Working on a new project!

[impossible-rat-babies]

people on webbed sites be like ohh the seventh dawn title is so hard !! it’s legit just a time sink that’s all it really is. the hardest part is keeping entertained while doing it

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

Might be a hot take but a major character’s death is really only as good as the weight and the treatment that the narrative gives it. Sure, any author has the ability to write death as they see fit. But whether the consumer (of any given form of media) is actually able to emotionally connect and resonate with the departure of someone who has occupied a good chunk of narrative space very heavily depends on how it’s treated within the story. If it’s a major character, the narrative needs enough built-in breathing space. As in, the consumer doesn’t have to fill in the blanks as to how the death impacted the plot or the remaining characters. Let the narrative do that for them, and that would actually allow the consumer to better react and relate to that major death (sadness, anger, joy, etc). Allow the rest of the characters (who were impacted by the deceased) to react to their parting. Let them engage with the death in a manner that helps justify the character’s inclusion in the narrative to begin with. Make it clear how the character’s life and (especially) their death relate to the larger themes of the story. Because most consumers aren’t stupid. We don’t want our hands held at every waking moment, but we also don’t want our investment in a story to be insulted just for the sake of a cheap shock. Give us time to breathe and grieve. And respect that we have put in a lot of emotional investment in a story and its characters, and we deserve to have that acknowledged.

[muninnhuginn]

having to make myself just pull back a second and go for "simplest explanation that fits all the facts and isn't accidentally inferring beyond the facts we do have".