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There's a version of the "don't go grocery shopping while hungry" rule specifically for writers where you should never under any circumstances be allowed to touch your draft within 3 hours of reading a really good story. Because sometimes when you read something great your head goes "fuck this is so much better than my stuff I should make that more like THIS instead!" Look at me. That's the devil talking and you should close the document NOW.
#you will make superficial edits that do not gell well with the rest of your work#and won't actually capture what you thought was so good about that story#close the doc. sit down. think about it for a while. inspiration is fine. getting a 'eureka' moment from another story is fine#but if you find yourself comparing your work one to one with someone else's and taking any differences to be flaws on your part then STOP#you will never write good stuff by trying to make it look less like you wrote it#writing#writing advice#guess who just had to go into her google doc history and undo a bunch of panic-induced edits#because she read a fic about the same characters she's writing for?#meeee. they aged badly within just a few hours of hindsight. learn from my mistakes#self-hatred is not a good motivation for creation#fic writing
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Gregory has it best out of the new FNAF protagonists..
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#fnaf gregory#fnaf oswald#fnaf cassie#security breach#fnaf ruin#into the pit#fnaf fanart#I DREW OSWALD AGAIN 🔥#now I’m not saying Gregory had it SUPER easy#he definitely still went through a lot of harrowing stuff#BUT compared to the other two?? Gregory definitely had more of a fun time#mean when he was in the pizzaplex it was still active#he also had Glamrock Freddy with him most of the time#he basically got two new family members out of the experience#CASSIE though literally was alone#tricked by the mimic to go to an abandoned building#and may or may not of been betrayed by Gregory at the end#WHILE Oswald literally went through a Coraline like story#dude literally saw kids his age get murdered#his dad gets kidnapped and the agony creature pretends to be his dad#SO YEAH Gregory probably had the best time BAHA#I will not stop drawing all FNAF characters casually hanging out 💜#it’s always fun to do!! 🩵🩵
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One of the best
I have been thinking about Erenville a lot and how the narrative allows us to really get to know him through the quiet moments. Through action rather than spoken words.
His mother calls him a fussy little bunbun, which is funny to begin with as we know him so far to be a taciturn and practical man. But while we travel with him we discover that he has suffered abandonment all throughout his life; first by his mother leaving him in care of others as she traveled herself, then by sending him away on his own travels, then further upon his return when there is a literal screen between them. The symbolism here is unmistakable.
Then, as we progress, it becomes quite clear that Erenville suspects that there’s something wrong with his mother. Instantly he’s on the defensive, citing that her whimsy and overwhelming personality always overshadow his own wishes, and that he struggles to understand her, also to trust her. His quiet stoicism isn’t that funny anymore.
In an ironic twist we discover that she has left him one last time, to the land of Living Memory. Even if it was never her intention to leave him in such a way, it must be hard to overcome that sense of continuous abandonment - and this time he has to say goodbye forever. That he draws away from everyone else to grieve and come to terms with this in solitude speaks volumes. It really indicates that he dealt with difficult emotions alone a lot while growing up, and in such a way he never learned how to rely on others. In the end, when finally pressed to the breaking point, Erenville lashes out in anger as the tools he made for himself fails him in processing all of his grief and fear alone. He has to find the courage to trust his mother with his emotions and that just as she's leaving him one last time.
Wuk Lamat is always right there in your face going through her emotions and leaning upon others for support, on the other side is Erenville, who draws back with his pain. We learn to know him just as deeply as Wuk Lamat, but through everything that isn’t said, rather than what is said. In fear of sounding effusive, even their appearance symbolises this: they're golden dawn and darkening dusk. Two sides of the same coin.
Honestly, personally to me, Erenville is one of the best written characters in this story so far. I love him deeply. I cried so hard for him.
PS. His love for his mother becomes so clear in the love he pours into the fauna that she mentored him in. While working as a gleaner, he's probably as close to her as he can be when she's physically not there. In the moments we see him care for animals his entire countenance changes, he becomes soft and caring, even exuberant and joyful.
#oh no#someone let sunny at the keyboard again#you'd think i had a degree in comparative literature and spend way too much time analysing story narratives or something...#anyway#i can't stop thinking about erenville#erenville#dawntrail#dawntrail spoilers#7.0#7.0 spoilers#ramblings
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Kaeyappreciation post!
Kaeya is wonderful in a sense that he:
Has a penmanship described as "Beautiful Handwriting". He for sure worked on that.
Willingly spends his time making sure his outfit looks perfect
Is well-loved by Mondstadt and the Dawn Winery staff
Is described to like a prince, both in looks and in actions
Is shown to be gentle and caring to children and elderly, most seen with Klee and the staff from Dawn Winery
Is a great listener and, therefore, also knows what gifts to buy based off of something someone said in passing
Is predominantly kind- unafraid to help out and defend someone in need. His first reaction is always kindness, and worry about covering up that kindness later on
But Kaeya also has his moments where he:
Says things out of pocket with enough alcohol in his system. Things that usually lead to shame and regret.
Would rather give others the credit for his hard work if he could help it
Intentionally makes himself look suspicious by withholding information and only throwing tidbits that are not of substance
Has sadist tendencies, which affects how he treats both his (cavalry) company and his enemies
Can and will use underhanded tactics to gain the upper hand
Rarely ever says what he truly wants to say
Has a fake smile. Usually lies or only deals with half truths.
He is such a complex character. I really do want people to appreciate him and his intricacies more. The fact that his entire personality and story is done so well and continues to actually grow and expand as the story progresses is something that genuinely makes me want to keep watch of him. I have never, in all my fandoms, stuck to a character as long as I did with Kaeya, and honestly? I know I'm not alone with this.
Look at how well they made our boy!
#the longest other characters have lasted with me is 6 months at most but kaeya has been eating my brain for YEARS#kaeyachi randoms#kaeya#kaeya alberich#note: everything listed here is from the kaeya hangout/limited events/character stories. None of these are HCs#but no seriously look at how much we have of him and yet all of this is still barely scratching the surface augh#im gonna keep digging#HIS FLAWS ARE APPRECIATED IN THIS HOUSE#room for growth and error? thats very cool. give me more pls#give kaeya the dan heng treatment 🙏#bro's character is legit getting more and more detailed its amazing like ayo why is genshin leaving other characters in the dust?!#look at how they made kaeya and compare it with others who have lower lore relevance...#some characters stopped growing after they were introduced :(#tbh the fact that genshin released a starter character this amazing made several of us stick to the game#thats amazing tbh...
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Not to be that person but
The Wardance event really had Luka and Yanqing reflect each other. I feel like we got a speedrun of vaguely similar events that happen to Yanqing occur to Luka here. Like while being really good, he gets hit with obstacle after obstacle that shakes his confidence and willpower. Yet, when it comes down to it, Luka boxes because he loves it and it makes him feel happy and free.
"The most important thing is to always throw the next punch."
To work towards self-improvement, to love what you do, they both share that sentiment.
These two really felt like protagonists from different yet similar genres lol
This event was just so peak TvT
#honkai star rail#hsr yanqing#luka strongarm#i can't stop yapping about yanqing because THIS WAS HIS UPDATE FR#and luka's whole story throughout the wardance made me tear up at multiple points#and luka's story in general also makes me shed tears so there's that#i find his shounen protag energy great because i love those kinds of characters but what really makes him hit home is that emotional depth#his motivations and his worries#watching him struggle to adjust in such a new environment had me feeling a lot for him#bro was straight up hallucinating and being hit with slanderous rumors and the pressure to represent his planet#like literally the weight of the world on his shoulders (haha Igor...ha..*cries*)#anyway what a fun update! the boss fights were a bit of a struggle to get through compared to previous ones so yippee?#struggling jpg loves
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IM SO SICK of the manga at rhis point gege really NEEDS to bring gojo back and what does he mean he’s taking a break 😭 what is even the point of this story now
…look, if you’re dropping by my askbox just to rant negatively about the manga like this, i’d appreciate it if you don’t at all :’)
so now that you did, let me give you a guide and answers to a happier and stress-free life without hating:
if you’re sick of it then so be it. don’t read the manga. just do what you like to do best and that’s it
and why gege has to take a break? he’s a human too like us and he’s tired after thinking and writing and drawing. we should be grateful that he writes the manga in the first place and not rush him
what’s the point of this manga? yuji is the point of this manga. this is all about his growth. gojo is there to guide him and yes, he steals the show, but the final arc is going to be about the students he nurtured instead of him—it’s only right that it’s that way
hope this clears everything and have a good day :)
#i feel like there’s excessive hate towards gege just because he kills gojo off and the more i see it the more jarring it feels#like if we just stop obsessing over gojo for a sec we’ll realize how unique jjk is actually compared to other mangas#it’s explosive and unpredictable—how many other stories that can have the same feel as this one?#well then again that’s my opinion💁🏻♀️#—chu’s mailbox 📬
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Salaar is indeed a gay coming of age movie
Reading the reblog tag from this post lmao I can't help but think about how similar the goodbye scene between Elio and Oliver in Call me by your name with Varadeva first separation scene lmao
Especially Varadha lingering behind looking at Deva's moving vehicle as he left him in Khansaar, same with Elio who keeps staring at the train 😂 then we have the car scene with Baba sitting right beside Varadha just like Elio's mother turning his head once looking in sympathy that this pitiful kid just experience his first heartbreak, the dramatic lifting his head off the headrest akin to Elio rubbing his face in frustration about their goodbye, thennnnn we even have the focusing frame crying scene as tear rolling down the cheek of a brokenhearted boy.
Sir, Prashanth sir I need you to tell me that the inspiration for this sequence was cmbyn wasn't it even just a little bit? Stop playing with us, Salaar is a full queer romance isn't it??????
#cmbyn#oliver x elio#varadeva#salaar#queer movies#karthikeya dev#timothée chalamet#tollywood#it's a love story#please I will keep comparing the romance movie tropes with salaar#I will not stop#it's so many lmao#stop playing Prashanth#also thank you for the hilarious tags#reading the hashtags is the highlight of making gifset#bless you
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Author: This character was beautiful according to every beauty standard of her time, and also quiet and kind and good and feminine, but she was insipid and boring and stupid compared to the extroverted, wild bad girl with unconventional looks.
Me: Actually she's my favorite, I've adopted her, and I'm taking her away so you can't hurt her anymore.
#anyway justice for lucy floyd#the author keeps comparing her unfavorably to aurora#constantly mentions that she 'reads high church novels' while mocking high church novels#(incidentally she's making me like charlotte yonge more because she makes fun of her books)#(and i'm like woman she's a master at group dialogue and also her disabled characters are miles and miles better than yours)#and anyway she deserves better#this is like the anti woman in white#there i was like 'why are you marrying this boring conventional girl and not appreciating the active unconventional one?'#and here it's like 'stop obsessing over the unconventional one and appreciate the conventional one!'#sure you keep telling us he's come to appreciate her#while having him spend a lot of time thinking about aurora and pushing lucy out of the story#anyway this phenomenon in austen fandom is why i will never like mary crawford#aurora floyd#mary elizabeth braddon
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i’m getting sick to death of this
#fray.txt#SAY WHAT U WILL. BE EXCITED IF U MUST. i am simply tired#these updates are just. things that should have been in release style of updates#the only updates that weren’t that had substance were honour mode update and custom mode update#like are u ever gonna add more gameplay features like new legendaries for new builds#or new races subraces#or artificer and other subclasses#are you gonna expand on wylls story content which feels flat compared to others despite him being more connected to the story esp in act 3#will you give him a proper act 3 and not just give it to the emperor#hell will you add helia back? the cut companion would be a worthy update because she’d be the only short companion …#like i’m just tired.#at these point the updates just piss me off cuz they break mods that are superior to the updates#sure praise finally having evil endings but personally i can only spit at their feet for having the audacity to exclude them#it took over a year for evil players to have actual endings. that’s PATHETIC. we got more kisses before we got actual endings#for evil players in a ROLEPLAYING GAME. in a dungeons and dragons game!!!!!!! beyond unacceptable#idk. just stop updating so modders can go back to adding real content to ur game without worrying about it breaking in the future#there’s so many mods that fill the game with new ways to play to make replays exciting and fresh. will u ever do that lol
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it's such a wild contrast going into the mighty nein after vox machina — first of all the atmosphere and the feel is completely different, clear indication that you've entered a different story, of different people, on a completely different continent. and i can't say i do not enjoy it.
but what's getting me the most is a contrast between vax — jumping recklessly in front of everybody, less of his own person but an addition to someone's life, a secondary priority, — and caleb — bruised, beaten, a mess of pain and terror plaguing his mind, keeping to the outskirts of the battle like a coward. there's guilt and grief following both of them but so differently. liam o'brien... wow.
#may watches the mighty nein#ep 5#i am can't stop comparing being fresh out of vox machina's story#but not in a bad way#more with genuine awe and appreciation for what this man does with his characters#liam o'brien#damn#the man you are#caleb widogast#vax'ildan#the mighty nein#vox machina#critical role
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Whilst the return of Doctor Who in 2005 brought lots of good things, including, for sure, the return of Doctor Who, I think it did untold damage to Big Finish audio stories
#like 'they got worse' is not an accurate statement - the quality imo took a gradual downwards turn but there were bad stories pre 2005 and#good ones post#however they seem to have gotten; for lack of a better word; more normal? more. 'regular fans and new people are watching this on the bbc#quick hide the scherzo before they get scared off' kind of thing#Time Works is ultimately a fairly good episode but it doesn't do anything. interesting (it was supposed to be in the Divergent Universe but#they stopped that when DW came back to TV). it feels like someone made a DW TV episode then rubbed out the visuals#compare that to Chimes of Midnight (2002); Zagreus and Scherzo (2003); Natural History of Fear and Caerdroia (2004) which are Proper Good!#this post brought about because I started listening to Master (2003) and I'm having actual fun they're doing Interesting Things#anyway yeah#doctor who
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another day another person i see saying LIS2 is better than LIS as if they arent almost completely different games that shouldn’t be compared to see which is ‘better’.
#yes they have the same few core parts#but theyre still wildly different games/stories guys#it’s like comparing the last airbender to ledgend of korra#theyre just. way too different#you can definitely have one you prefer— but at the end of the day theyre too contrasting to be compared like that#lis#life is strange#lis2#life is strange 2#theyre both good#can we stop blaming the og game for people preferring it over the sequel
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Hear me out (or don't... it's fine I'm just venting and mean) yeah um I don't believe Chakotay was saved in Prod*gy s2.
#the 'time travel' makes no sense when you think on it. What happened to Prime Chakotay? He got killed they showed that.#At the end s1 Janeway finds an 'alternate chakotay in an alternate timeline' and that's the one they go and get#we saw the original get merc'd in the message. That ACTUALLY happened. Lmao.....#They didn't prevent THAT death because they didn't go to THAT Solum with the Infinity and stop it from happening#instead it was 'ALTERNATE#' implying other.#OG Chakotay wasn't taken over by the alternative one either nothing suggests that was the direction for him in s2#they didn't do anything like 'well you see chakotay because at the end of s2 when we converged timestreams you have merged with your other'#if they did want to recover the original from s1 then keep that clear instead of being convoluted dont use an alternate timeline wtf#instead the plot was focused on gywns stupid fucking paradox plot and her being fixed#chakotay was the one in a paradox too did that not matter nah dw about it he had to die for this outcome or someshit lmao why#In the extended message given to admiral janeway it shows him clearly getting left behind and surrounded. Sadly no one intervened.#I dont understand why they couldnt have just made s2 about his rescue alone IF they took their time it wouldnt be so difficult#to follow#above that the one they rescued was ruined by the 10 year gap so he wasn't 'saved' at all. God i hate s2 when you break it apart#I dunno the more i look at s2 Janeway and Chakotay the more upsetting it is. Janeway would NOT have settled for an imposter.#everyone going goo-goo gaa gaa over s2 but it's sloppy af imo and undermines a huge portion voyagers struggles#id really like them to flatly lay out their ideas because literally nothing ive heard explains the story or choices of s2 with conviction#instead it's oh clap for wesley or the new vulcan and other references yay#describe to me your timetravel clearly and i'll happily take a seat on it (there is still other crap stuff mind you)#this is the most repressed shit i my head i swear#im angry because s1 is so clearly mapped out to a brilliant degree and for whatever reason it's not in s2#i can see through it#insultingly people are eating it up and claiming it's better than ever nah dawg embarrassing#there are nice ideas inside s2 but they arent adequately rewarded#it doesnt compare to the timetravel in other trek because they kept it clear#i mean it could have been an interesting parallel to endgame but in the end janeway didnt even rescue him lmao they dropped her#why bother building up this mission only for her to give up and go 'i'll hand it over because im told to'. Janeway had fuck all this season#let alone settle for not fixing her own timeline and her own friends deadly circumstance dw just grab another one from the shelf i guess#the emotional fallout was absolutely missed because they didnt elaborate on anything. Plenty of show but no substance from the characters
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finally finished all of one character's entire quests/optional dialogue/questions/etc.... 100,000 words... .... aughhh
#Given some of it IS lines of code and stuff but like.. minus all that it's still probably at least 85 - 95k words hhhhhh#AND I have to do this for another 3 characters. Then a few partial quests for 3 others. THEN the other random misc stuff in the game#(like there are public areas in the city like a park and a forest that you can go and do a few things at. and chat with a few random#townsfolk that aren't actually full characters or anything. And there's a community board where you can#browse some of the random job advertisments or silly things that happen to be posted around#and also pick up a few odd jobs of your own to help earn coin to buy gifts for the npcs. etc. etc.)#Originally I was thinking like 'ah I'll make a short little game just to try it out! :3 It'll take maybe a few months!''#haha........................hee hee........................................hoho#Also evil that it would have been done already if I didn't totally drop itand stop working on it for like 5 years randomly#i could have made 5 years of steady slow progress gradually. instead of like 'one initial idea dump + about a month of art and writing'#...... 5 year break..... 'sudden mad dash to try to get probably 400.000 words written in a year or less' lol#I just really want to be done and have something out there already so it can lead to doing other things in my world..!!!!!! T o T#Like this can be an introduction and then maybe from that I can make other games. or short story anthologies. or other such things#But there needs to be some initially not very complex easy to interact with starting point first I guess... if that makes sense#That's part of why I stopped posting worldbuilding lore dump stuff as often because its' like.. massive walls of novella length#text are much more inacessible to engage with than like.. ooh a game! and there's characters! so its more approachable! and theres#visuals! oo! and the text is broken up in small bits line by line with other things in betwen! oo! etc. etc. lol#Not that THIS is even very accessible. I think dialogue heavy interactive fiction/visual novel type stuff is pretty niche and considered#boring or tedious compared to something with more ''gamplay'' like where you can actually move around in a world#and shoot things or whatever lol. But its an inbetween point. something SLIGHTLY#more accesible for now. Since i just dont have the budget or means or ability to make some skyrim type thing obviously LOL#Though maybe if theres any interest in the visual novel that could lead to making other things too. or at least I hope. I have a VERY cool#idea for a more ''gamey'' type of game that is a super fun concept and etc. but I would need to hire at least 2 people to make it.. ough..#I could do all the writing and probably half of the art. But I think I'd inevitably need a 3d artist and someone who can Code For Real hbjh#the system for ren'py (the thing I'm making a visual novel in) is not that complicated if you stick to just simple dialogue and stuff.#Making a whole moderately sized 3d game with minigames in it and a bunch of quest features and etc. would be out of my simplistic scope#''just learn it yourself!!' ... i barely manage to eat and sleep reliably every day lol... i do not function well enough to spend months#learning that many new skills. I already have a lot of of things I'm good at (not in a braggy way but just factually like.. i already have#a wide variety of different things under my belt).. at some point I have to just be happy with what i CAN already do and focus on that#and admit I need to get outside help sometimes ghjbh... NO more new skills/hobbies!!! ... ANYWAY
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But does your man buy an entire hawking establishment just because he saw a painting of a hawking party where one of the women kind of resembled you?
#helen by maria edgeworth#is equal parts slog and wild ride#i can see why this would have been popular in jane austen's time#but it's exactly why it's dated now#all these upper-crust people talking about current literary figures and customs#flinging around french all the time#compare that to austen's middle-class country people#who live in a different culture than us but have a lot of the same normal daily problems#also austen's pacing and dialogue are so much better#the number of times characters stop to expound upon some philosophical point!#just in the course of daily conversation!#this story's fun enough for what it is#(digging the 'love triangle' where one of the guys is just going after the girl because the other guy annoys him)#but while i can see why austen might have enjoyed edgeworth i hope she knows she was the better author
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Actually I’m thinking about the side stories again and I realize Monika has the least info on her past out of everyone. Like Sayori has her mc lore in base game and lore given in the side stories, Yuri and Natsuki had their own phases and relationships in both too, self love is basically all about comparing the two’s pasts and how they mirror each other. We even know a lot about their current lives outside of school too. But Monika gets nothing. She has no past or or life outside of perfect popular kid in school. She just nothing. And nobody else is like this. Even mc has something to go off of in terms of a life. But she doesn’t. Girl whose cursed to be an npc forever please free her
#this is obvious but I only really noticed how she’s the only one like this when I was thinking back on that one headcanon post I made#ok I forgot about debate club and I realize it’s because of how impersonal it is to her own story#it only becomes relevant when she fails to stop and arguement#compared to the others who’s past affect who they are debate club is basically a single sentence backstory#we don’t get enough detail on like anything else#girl with no past present or future cursed with the knowledge that she has nothing#so that’s why people make her adopted#doki doki literature club#ddlc#tempestmothtalk
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