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nemaliwrites · 8 months ago

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happened upon this article today, and damn if it didn't get me thinking

i've wondered a lot before about how the same story can be told through different mediums [which primarily can be seen through adaptations] but one thing i don't spend enough time thinking about is how the same story can be told through different word counts

i know people always are like 'a story is as long as it needs to be' but...is it?

i've technically run this experiment a few years ago, with Regrowth at exactly 100 words and Reduce, Reuse, Regrow at over 6000. honestly, it was kind of a fascinating experiment because....are they the same story? really? i guess at their core, you could argue that the plot is the exact same. tldr: giorno turns drug dealers into flowers. and that happens in both versions.

but there is no character in the drabble version, for the OCs and others. we don't get a sense of who giorno is in this story and why he's doing this - all we have to go off of is who he is in canon. we have no idea who tf marco [is that his name? i'm not rereading that to find out LOL] is - versus in the longer version we know about his connection to his family, his botanical garden, the plants he grows, etc. we know about his crush on Sofia. we know that mista saves him, which means giorno thinks he's someone worthy of being saved.

same thing for the police - they don't even get names in the drabble, compared to the names and personalities they're awarded in the longer version.

so...are they the same story?

i've been wondering [and by been wondering i mean i literally thought of this like an hour ago hehe] about how that can apply to other things as well, and this article is a terrific starting point. if you write your longfic as a oneshot, you have to pare down everything that 'doesn't matter' - which i'm using loosely, because as we've established, there are things important to a story that aren't just plot events. but you get such a clear distinction: what are the subplots vs the main plot? who are the side characters vs the main characters? if you have multiple antagonists, who is the one who drives the story primarily? without whom the story cannot exist any longer?

i wonder too if this, in a way, can kind of call back to the snowflake method - which i admittedly have never used but can see how it would be helpful. if you start small, let's say you write your story as a drabble. double it, and double it again. a few more times, and you have something short story length. then novella length. then novel length.

it could also be a way to literally build your story up piece by piece. okay, so you need a couple thousand more words. sure, you could just add a bunch of fluff or 'filler' - or, you could add in a subplot. you could add in a character that is integral to the story. and if you go the other way - from novel to drabble - and can't write a short story without that character, then you know how important they are.

in this way, you can kind of pare everything down to its barest bones, actually. character motivations, stakes, setting.....everything is tied together, which means changing one changes them all.

maybe at some point, you literally get to a point where you can't add anything else - and maybe that's where the story is as long as it needs to be. vice versa, too.

i will run this experiment a few more times and report back o7

#if you're interested i found this article from the book seven drafts by allison williams #which i also highly recommend!#i have a lot of longfics that are just...kind of meh at the moment #and i don't know if that's a them problem or a me problem #and i wonder if this could help me diagnose that #i might also try it with some of my published fics......might be a good way to revisit them actually #break them down to the barest structure #and then i might find that there IS no structure adjkfladsj #but either way!! we will learn!#i was watching this youtube video about sketching the other day #and something that girl said really stuck with me #she was like 'remember it can only get easier'#and!!!! YEAH #it can ONLY GET EASIER #nemali speaks

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inkskinned · 4 months ago

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i hate to say it because i'm neurodivergent and a chronic-pain-haver but like... sometimes stuff is going to be hard and that's okay.

it's okay if you don't understand something the first few times it's explained to you. it's okay if you have to google every word in a sentence. it's okay if you need to spend a few hours learning the context behind a complicated situation. it's okay if you need to read something, think about it, and then come back to re-read it.

i get it. giving up is easier, and we are all broken down and also broke as hell. nobody has the time, nobody has the fucking energy. that is how they win, though. that is why you feel this way. it is so much easier, and that is why you must resist the impetus to shut down. fight through the desire you've been taught to "tl;dr".

embrace when a book is confusing for you. accept not all media will be transparent and glittery and in the genre you love. question why you need everything to be lily-white and soft. i get it. i also sometimes choose the escapism, the fantasy-romance. there's no shame in that. but every day i still try to make myself think about something, to actually process and challenge myself. it is hard, often, because of my neurodivergence. but i fight that urge, because i think it's fucking important.

especially right now. the more they convince you not to think, the easier it will be to feed you misinformation. the more we accept a message without criticism, the more power they will have over that message. the more you choose convenience, the more they will make propaganda convenient to you.

#personal #this also applies to ai art and stuff. like #artists and crafters and non-ai users took the time space and energy to learn things #bc we are actually LEARNING them. and it takes actual SKILL.#i know the skill is long to learn and often annoying. i still get frustrated about my art bc it's not good #but i do it myself. bc i respect that it IS a skill.#ai writing a book for you is not YOU learning how to write a book. and it took me a lifetime to write a book. i get it.#ai drones running a marathon don't run the marathon for u #there are things i cannot due to my disability. lol marathons being 1. there are things u can't do either #this is about stretching yourself in the ways that are healthy and good for you.#ai learning for u in ur classes is NOT healthy. u are not learning.#''but otherwise i won't pass''#first of all that's a self-defeating prophecy. and many of us who thought we wouldn't pass DID pass #and secondly. CHALLENGE urself. ur paying for college anyway. don't pay just to let AI learn for u.

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 2 months ago

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The Yiling Band Tour!

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #wen qing #wen ning #digital art #animation #This was a fun style experiment and a good lesson in 'hey you have less than a week to make this project. You cannot be a perfectionist'.#Right now - posting these slightly upgraded frames is really helping me stay motivated through the learning grind.#But progress is happening! I'm so excited to show it off when it's done!#Someone with a very discerning eye might be able to figure out what I'm doing with just this one frame. I will take the risk.#That aside; I often think about how the nature of cultivators in MDZS's world also entailed knowing about other art forms.#Meaning that Wen Qing and Wen Ning likely were good musicians and artists.#We know WWX is also good in art and music so...really...what was stopping them from forming a band?#Allow me to pitch this AU: Yiling Opera company AU. WWX and the Wen remnants form a performing trope and tour towns and cities.#Not only do they find a way to keep on the move (no home...only the road and the people around you).#But you also get to be in costume - which is a socially appropriate way to always be in disguise.#Yiling Laozu would thus be a character and/or WWX's stage name.#Would he be good at keeping it a secret? Hard to say with WWX! I think it would be a poorly-kept secret at best.#He likes to brag and show off a bit too much. This many would be either the worst or best spy.#Consider the drama of JC losing his mind over his ex-brother becoming a clown. Imagine JC Getting his ass kicked by said clown.#Imagine the delectable secret identity drama potential of Lan Wangji stumbling upon the trope's performances.#We did not get nearly enough of the secret identiy drama in MDZS canon. I need more of it.#I need that man conflicted with his feelings for the same person. I need them playing mind games with each other at all times.

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ryssbelle · 1 year ago

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Drew a bunch of Marinettes in a bunch of different artists styles it was a lot of fun!!

Artists who's styles I mimicked: @buggachat @hamsternamedmarinette @ladybeug @sabertoothwalrus and @anna-scribbles all epic artists 🤟😎

#my art #marinette dupain cheng #miraculous ladybug #miraculous fanart #style mimic #sorry for the @s btw #yall should go follow those artists if you dont already also #this was sort of inspired by a post the three artists on the top row made #i think they all got together and drew with one another #which is really cool #but i was genuinely confused because i mimic styles a lot #and ive seen others do it too so i was just like #wow they really know each others styles really well #until i thought about it and read their posts some more #style mimicking is really freaking fun and i think its really good practice #and a good way to explore other ways of doing things #like you really have to learn new techniques and get out of your comfort zone #also anna scribbles i could not find a recent pic of marinette in her main outfit #so thats the only marinette i drew in different clothes cuz i couldnt find a more recent ref of you drawing it #anna scribble marinette has privileges thats the others dont #but ye #i also threw my own style in there as a frame of reference to what me draw like #ive drawn marinette before just not in a loooong while #sabertooth walrus was the hardest for me to mimic cuz they have a broad range in their style #so its like which sabertooth do i wanna be in this pic #Buggachat has such a distinct style thats very clean and consistent which is amazing so they were easy #being easy or hard arent bad things either it also has to do with like styles meeting up with one another #buggachats and mine arent too too different in some shapes and aspects #so yeah itd be easier plus they drew marinette like 3 sec ago so i have more recent of a ref #as opposed to sabertooth who i have a recent ref of ladybug but not marinette so we got two diff styles in one

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ovenproofowl · 2 months ago

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I loved the conversation ms cobel had with mark s this episode. call it scientific fascination, infatuation or obsession, but by placing herself directly into both marks' lives, she was the only impartial party shy of the audience itself. she doesn't try to win mark over by selling him fantasies about how he can still have a life afterwards, she's the one who told mark's outie about his innie's relationship with helly, she knows that won't work. instead, she tells him the cold hard facts. that his entire purpose at lumon was to create the very consciousnesses that are keeping gemma trapped in her own perpetual hell. his job has been the direct cause of her suffering, and whether he likes it or not, once his job is over, so is his life. there is no out for him. she isn't appealing to him through his outie's love for his wife, she's appealing to him as a person. a person who is being used, just like she was. a person who will be discarded, just like she would've been if she'd gone with helena that night. she's not waving a secret third option in front of his nose, but making him swallow a cold reality that she's only barely sipped on herself. ulterior motive or no, in that moment she became desperate to save him from making the same decision that kept her trapped beneath lumon's thumb for all those years. she knows what he is, her mind made his. but just like her, he wasn't ready to hear the truth. just like her, he turned his head and ran straight back into lumon's arms.

#severance #severance spoilers #harmony cobel #mark scout #mark s #i know a lot of people are fighting over the love story aspect but i'm on a whole other train rn #for me it's still what it always was. a cultist capitalist hellscape that mark has unwittingly drawn himself back into #the audience are given impartial rights by knowing the full story of mark's innie and outie being able to sympathise for both sides #but ultimately by knowing all that we know no matter what mark will be holding a part of himself captive if he chooses one version of #himself over the other #mark's outie might learn how his innie truly feels through this experience and it might give them better ground to approach each other #but mark will always be a slave to lumon if he chooses either life over his whole self #ms cobel was right imo - reintergration is the only way

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silent-wolf · 3 months ago

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xo, kitty au except it's tim drake and his 10 million situationships from brentwood, louis e grieve memorial hs, and gotham heights

#sets place after the dumpster fire that is the red robin run #dick forces him (LOVINGLY and OUT OF CONCERN) to take a break and go to uni far away from gotham to recuperate and learn smthin new #so he goes to san francisco and has a sexuality crisis or two #unintentionally dates two ppl simultaneously #ends up discovering a cult (AGAIN) within the uni and has to dust off the red robin gear #potential love interests include: ives danny temple bernard kon (if we want to get spicy) ariana callie #cullen row steph (if we want to get even MORE spicy)#MAKE TIM MESSY AGAIN @DC #supporting cast include: dick grayson (who has to hear abt tim freaking tf out bc 'wdym going out for coffee to a secluded cafe means we're #out on a date???') the rest of yj when they eventually have to rescue his ass after he infiltrated mentioned cult #damian after hearing tim's sexcapades when he eavesdropped on one of dick's phonecalls #tim drake #red robin #robin #tim drake and the bitches he pulled by being unhinged and mildly neurotic #dick grayson #if i had it my way endgame is either birdsnake or timives #timives #birdsnake #timkon #what the hell sure #timsteph #timbern

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egophiliac · 8 months ago

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Sorry, most likely my memory being poor, but I thought Malleus' mom (don't know how to spell her name and too lazy to check how to spell it) was already an adult when Lilia ""proposed""?? Like I was always under the assumption that it was like a one-sided child crush on somebody completely out of your league you tend to have as a kid 💀

I don't think they say how old she was? although it's entirely possible I just misunderstood; my Japanese is...shaky. :') the actual line is "幼い頃に私に求婚したのは偽りか?", which I read as "isn't it true that you proposed to me as a kid?", and took as her being older than him, but not necessarily an adult (like, I was thinking of Lilia as being not quite a preteen and Mel being preteen/young teen). although I don't know if there's a connotation or something I'm missing that implies a bigger age gap, if that makes sense!

(and of course, I might also just be forgetting some other line -- if someone else knows, then please correct me! I need to know which headcanons need adjusting 👀)

BUT YEAH in a canon-y sense, Malleus is 178 and around the third-years developmentally. which makes me think that even though dragons have a way longer lifespan, they go through childhood at about the same rate as most fae (or at least the kind that Lilia is) and just kinda...slow waaaaay down once they hit adulthood. so it makes sense in my brain that he and Meleanor could've basically grown up together!

...it makes it angstier that way, anyway. :)

#twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 5 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 5 spoilers #this week on ego thinks way too much about diasomnia #(what do you mean you're not supposed to overanalyze the chronology)#but yeah mel was completely out of his league regardless #she was out of literally everyone's league #though seriously i think i just...narratively want them to be more equals?#because a big chunk of lilia's Issues were (and let's be real. are.) based on internalizing that he doesn't deserve love #and that he doesn't deserve to be around the people he loves #while mel is over here going 'you stupid idiot. you absolute fool. i'm going to go die for you out of spite'#(i do think lilia never realized she died to save him too and not just malleus) (but we digress)#i think it's a bit more satisfying if there isn't a big gap between them like that #(same for raverne) (assuming we ever get to learn ANYTHING about him) (please twst just a few more breadcrumbs i'm begging you...)#but ah well. the angst is delicious either way >:)#please definitely let me know if i misunderstood though! i need the character trauma to be Correctly Devastating. >:)

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theswedishpajas · 4 months ago

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The energy of that one section towards the end or something

#my art stuff #digital art #hatoful boyfriend #sakuya le bel shirogane #okosan #vegeta and goku in the rain #guy drinking rain #meme #art meme #i should really draw more cel shading in my own style #…is it still cel shading when I have so many layers that overlap?#eh - you get what I mean #struggled with this at first cus I’ve never really drawn birds and pigeons are very sleek and round which is the opposite of my style #but I got there in the end #I’m really rather happy with the result actually #WE FINALLY FINISHED THE GAME BTW #my friend got the… holiday star one(?)#so we’re gonna play that next - VERY excited!!!!!#Everybody a big thanks to my friend Ker for bringing me birds to get attached to #first time in a while I’ve hand an unexpected new animal to care a lot about #prolly won’t be as much as koalas or cats #prolly a lot more focused on these particular birds as people - but it might force my brain to care enough to learn random stuff #either way - a win is a win #haven’t listened to the stuff yet but we’ll get to that eventually 👁👁

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evilkaeya · 10 months ago

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This panel actually breaks me because I don't think I've ever seen Kunikida look this relieved and peaceful. He's not frowning, he's not angry, he's not in agony. He knows that even without him, his ideals will live on. He'll live on. He has great students after all, he believes in them.

#typing this made me sad #the way we never got to learn kunikida's past either #:(#bsd 117 #bsd kunikida

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barksbog · 3 months ago

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he was so good and chill this morning

#until he smelled a girl 5km against the wind and started whining and shivering #boy please you need to just chill #female dogs do usually like him but he is way too intense and they nope out really quick #male dogs either like him or hate his guts #we have this one Labrador in the village who decided he is his nemesis #unfortunately leon suffers from socially inept himbo disease and still tries to get him to play with him #idk he is pretty and good at learning tricks but dense as a brick when figuring out other animals

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blue-eli · 6 months ago

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Ink October day 11: Firebreak

A strip of land that has been cleared, plowed, or planted with fire-resistant vegetation to prevent a fire from spreading.

#kh riku #riku kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts riku #riku kh #dream eater riku #kingdom hearts #kh #kingdom hearts dream drop distance #kh ddd #blue boi draws #ink october #ink october 2024 #ink October 2024 day 11 #I think this one might be my favourite of this years #it’s simple but I really like how it turned out #anyway Riku as a firebreak but instead of fire it’s darkness. guy who is darkness resistant who helps keep back the darkness #Riku using his darkness as a sorta ‘controlled burn’ method of fighting darkness #honestly darkness as a natural force vs darkness as a corrupting force… Riku having natural darkness and using it in a controlled way #to avoid build up that could be used against him by others with ill intentions #honestly Riku and how he deals with his darkness is really interesting. like local 16-17 yo figures out stuff on his own that keyblade #wielders have struggled with for ages. I think his method would be a big help to Terra in particular.#I feel like what Xehanort was teaching him was less controlled burn and more use it with reckless abandon. like he talked a lot of shit #about ‘controlling the darkness’ but we know he was just trying to foster the darknesses control on Terra so he could use it to fuck with #him. Terra would definitely be hesitant to try to learn again after that but hopefully Riku will be able to communicate the base idea of it #inbetween searching for Sora.#honestly Darkness and it’s connection to fire is interesting to me. there’s maleficents green fire. that one move Riku uses a lot.#the appearance of darkness resembling fire is common (it’s either that or goop. shout out to darkness goop) which is odd #because fire is a light bringer. it’s probably meant to pull on the consuming power of fire but still #anyway i love him

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cmentarek · 7 months ago

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think. artists resemble their work the same way dogs resemble their owners

#no but like hear me out #i just started art uni and almost everyone looks like the art they draw #its either the aesthetic or the faces #we even have a professor that literally has the same face shape as her art #you could like #easily translate her face onto her art #even her cheeks are like pinkish-red in the sam way she draws them onto her characters #its insane #i often forget that i also look like my art #most of my characters have curly hair and square faces with big eyes #i dont see it but i think anyone else could look at me and and say i also resemble my art #its not true in EVERY case but i think we learn from what we know the best and what we know the best is ourselves #so thats why a lot of people look like their art

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bloggingboutburgers · 4 months ago

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Tbh I feel like going to the US while the Nazis are in power is suicidal. So of course I don't understand your choice of going instead of your SO coming to Europe. But while I don't understand, I wish and pray for you to be safe. Whatever you choose, I hope you guys will be okay

You might be right. I have no idea what the future has in store or if I'll come to regret it. But I've already stated my reasons. As it stands, with the year-long process we've already started and that we can't just flip on a dime overnight, my partner can't come and stay in Europe legally just like that. Legal immigration is not that easy in one way or the other. Also... Yeah, I've stated that before, but one shouldn't underestimate how shitty things have been getting in Europe for the past few years as well, and how the influence of the US (which is huge) is likely to make things worse. So again I'm not 100% sure whether that'd have been better anyway.

Also also... Ima be real, I've shared that before, but the time where I was separated from my partner due to the travel ban was the only time in my life where I had actual suicidal ideation. I don't want this to happen again. That's why I'm making moves so it doesn't, first and foremost.