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storytellering · 4 days ago

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"I didn't get these scars falling over in church."

#rdr #rdr2 #red dead redemption #red dead redemption 2 #john marston #my art #hiiiiiiii #first post of 2025 which is actually from december still lol #art backlog goes crazy #anyway. i was just thinking like #of little john and that particular line #did he ever believe?#before he ran away from the orphanage and lived on the streets and realized no god was going to save him or protect him #did he hope pray or beg #praying to some nebulous just god that he'd be good if it meant he'd have a warm house and a loving family and a full stomach #only to end up finding his needs filled in the belly of the beast #with literal criminals and outlaws and under the thumb of someone who meant to use him #but it beats hoping and praying for salvation that never came #etc etc etc #i just think about these things....#also i know he doesnt look young enough for what i was envisioning OUGHHHH i'm still trying to get a good grasp on how i see him b4 canon

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archi-pelago · 2 months ago

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maybe never forgive. but things are different now. so we'll use maybe.

#my version of a happy ending au #mouthwashing #captain curly #mouthwashing anya #anya #curly #my art #considering this game takes place in a hellscape #i imagine one of the other horrifying angles for anya was that she might not even have the rights to abort the wound #so i like to think. curly. thinking he's going to die anyway. just takes all of the medical bills from his crew #because if he lives then he'll spend his life paying it all off #and if he dies. then he takes the burden with him #but him and anya are horrible horrible parallels now. and they cant NOT care about each other #he'll turn himself into the horse. he'll be the beast of burden. anything he said. anything #and for once he actually means it.

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gongyussy · 6 months ago

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i'll let phie-san say it:

#the vids i've seen on tiktok picking at her immediately get a block...#bitter otaku sitting in their socks in their mom's basement feeling threatened/enraged by a hot successful black woman outnerding them-core #also this kind of criticism is so demoralising and damaging to people who are trying to learn another language #also. accents are NORMAL and not a bad thing #i don't think that the end goal of picking up a new language necessarily has to be sounding native #and i know sometimes the way japanese people react like SUGOIII? *W* when a foreigner says like one (1) word in japanese is joked about #but like... genuinely... i always love when someone clearly has made an effort and took the time to learn some of the language #anyway she can step on those haters <3 #also like. it’s just some lines in a song people need to relax…#megan thee stallion #autoplay warning #japan #japanese #language #mamushi

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ciderjacks · 7 months ago

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contracts written in blood

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#dungeon meshi #aj art #chilchuck #comic #I was thinking about it #chilchuck was not the first person to the experience of almost being used as bait #it was apparently a very common practice #and so I’m like. He definitely has known people in his community who ended up meeting this fate #who didn’t get out on time the way he did #i dont think he formed the whole union over just his own experience #Anyways shoutout to meijack #Experiencing the trauma that is seeing your father cry #beabell #Chilchuck backstory stuff #Clemjo

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daisywords · 1 year ago

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One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

#idk what to tag this #worldbuilding #writing fiction #historical fiction #fantasy #a real-life example: my dad (a pediatrician) was once entrusted with the care of a baby who was born with a rare condition #this was in a place without great hospital/medical access and anyway they were going to fly the baby over #and he specifically asked them to bring the mother and baby #they show up with baby and...the baby's uncle #and he was like. y'all. do you think I asked for the mom to come just for fun??? We don't have formula here. what is the baby going to eat?

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stemmmm · 2 months ago

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