#but it's TRUE

[epickiya722]

Me: *reading and watching My Hero Academia* Well, who shall be my favorite character?

*The two rabbit-coded characters who are pint sized powerhouses who will fight you like they didn't hear the bell exists*

Me: I guess I have no choice.

[highcorellianwhiskeyart]

I can't get this image out of my head after reading Book of Bill.

[swan2swan]

Until someone from the staff says otherwise, I will stake actual, genuine money that this was an exchange from the writer's room that made it into the show.

[georgebbwbush]

you can actually feel the strap if you're lesbian enough

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

there is no moral value in reading fast and there's also no moral value in reading slowly. people who read slowly aren't automatically/necessarily reading more thoroughly and thoughtfully than people who read quickly, and at the same time reading is not a race. some people read fast because that's how their brains work; some people read slowly because that's how THEIR brains work. some fast readers are getting deep into analysis and close reading and some slow readers are just along for the ride and not thinking too hard. these are both equally valid and valuable ways of engaging with books

and nobody should shame anybody else for reading slowly but also if i see one more post that suggests people who read quickly only read meaningless garbage (your elitism is showing btw) and lack reading comprehension, i will start blocking people. it's just bullshit, and it's weird judgy bullshit at that. some people have jobs in books where reading hundreds of books a year is part of it. some people are academics. some people are bedridden or isolated and trust me you get through a lot of books when you're stuck in your room alone for days. and some people love the books you consider garbage and they're just having fun passing the time with light fiction that isn't too brain intensive and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that either, because reading can be a form of relaxation and doesn't always have to be an ~intellectual challenge~ to be worth doing, actually

[james-sunshine-potter]

James 'i don't care if people laugh with me or at me, as long as someone is laughing' Potter

[tunguszka20]

"For every comrade, every one of my friends"

Is the same melody as

"watch where the birds fly, they will lead us to land"

[mavcancees]

he's from the 90's and every trade and twink at the gay club wanted him BAD. wore white tanktops, mesh shirts and jeans exclusively. he was in love with the brunette harness-babe couch-queen boy that didn't date anyone because they "couldn't afford" him. people catch them making out in the bathroom

[here-i-am-again-god]

Part sishisi

[totally-not-kawaii]

okay, yeah, we gotta talk about this. we gotta talk about this.

loki has always been perpetually alone. even around his own family, he felt misunderstood and unwanted. the only person who ever made him feel like he belonged was his mother, and she died, leaving him completely and utterly alone again.

loki has always felt lonely. even with the company of his brother, even surrounded by people, he still felt lonely. nothing could ever really fill that gap for him.

but mobius did. but casey did. but b-15 did. even sylvie and ouroboros did. despite how everything began between loki & the rest of the tva, he finally felt like he belonged somewhere. he finally felt like he wasn't alone.

and it all started with mobius, seeing how much potential loki had and how much better he could be from now own.

[ivyblossom]

Lessons in Story: Editing

I was a pantser for a very long time. I lived in the writing of a story, and couldn't be bothered planning it. Or editing it, frankly. I was just a drafter. The writing of it is glorious, and then it's over, and I'm done. Is that a best practice? Definitely not. But that's what so great about fanfiction. I can do that. It might not make for the best fics, and they would be full of typos, but the whole point of fanwork doing what you want the way you want to do it, right? So I did the part I understood and loved, and nothing else.

Why did I do that? Because I'm a brat, probably? I mentioned already that my maturity level has always been low.

But I think there's more to it than that. I think I worked that way because it was fun and it produced stories that weren't bad, they were sometimes pretty good, but I had no idea how they functioned. If you don't know how a story works, how do you edit or tweak it? I think I was afraid to look back at it most of the time. The only way I knew how to fix a story was to start over and write another one. That's the only thing I knew how to do. The experience of the story was living the story. How do you edit that? I always felt like restructuring the beginning of a story would mean a new branch had started, the rest of the story wouldn't match anymore. It would be a new story, I would be throwing this one way. You see what I mean?

I learned to be a slightly better editor over time (but not really). At least I fixed dropped words and typos (mostly). But even then could say to me, "Hey, this could be good if you edited it and expanded on X and got rid of Y." I'm sure people tried. But I didn't know how to do that. (Okay: I technically knew how to do that, but this basic misunderstanding made that really difficult.) It would probably freak me out a bit. I would have understood what you meant, but the only way I knew who to do that is to delete the whole thing and start over. Because I didn't really understand the pieces that make up a story. It was all one piece to me. You could cut it up, sure, but it wouldn't be one piece any more. It would be broken.

I'm not suggesting this make sense, that's what I'm learning about my own history of process.

I wouldn't have said any of this at the time because I really didn't understand that that's how it was. I could (and did) talk until I was blue in the face about narrative, but I really didn't understand how it was working from a writing perspective. If I had understood it and said it out loud, it would have been easier to fix, but I didn't realize this was my obstacle. Now I'm learning about it, and repairing it. Because of course a story isn't one piece. It's many pieces, and they fit together and look like one piece when you're done.

This is also connected to planning, which I can (and will) go on about at great length.

How did I come to have this completely bonkers belief system about how creative writing works? Who can say. It might have something to do with learning to read by myself at a very young age (2). Stories were always whole pieces that I fell into face first. I don't even exist when I read, I just experience a story whole and then return to myself. I was writing the way I was reading.

So that's an obstacle I've deconstructed, and let me tell you: it's a lot easier when you know that's behind your own process and thinking.

[offsidetracked]

Byler proof #563: the Duffers were obsessed with Dawson's Creek. And I can tell you, as someone who shared that obsession when the show ran, there is no way they'd write a show of their own without including an epic romance. 0% chance.

Mike and Will's relationship is Joey/Dawson and Joey/Pacey combined. They're both the childhood friends that became lovers and the slowburn pairing people didn't see coming but who's tremendous chemistry made it impossible not to root for them.

No true romantic would pass up the opportunity of writing something like that. Not in a thousand years. Whether it was planned from the start or happened organically over time doesn't really matter; the Duffers struck gold with byler and they know it. I have no doubt at all anymore that they decided to capitalise on it.

[guiltipanda]

I've already made a post about Chapter 431 not being character assassination for Izuku, but I wanted to say more. Even Izuku having a sudden realization that he's in love is not out of character for him. In fact, to me, that feels the most Izuku. (He's emotionally stupid and prone to big but obvious realizations.) But it feels wrong because it's about Uraraka.

Chapter 431 sets up that Uraraka is special to him. More special than anyone else. And for 431 chapters, that has never been shown to be the case.

Izuku does not have any significant thoughts about her throughout the course of the series. He never reflects on her as a person. The significant narrative moments they have together are, like, a handful of moments, concentrated at the beginning and end of the series, and the only time Izuku tells us how he feels about her is when she's grieving Toga's death. And that is not a well-written scene. The things Izuku says about her make no sense, given what we've seen of her throughout most of the series (Probably because Uraraka's character arc came late in the series and was not handled very well). He tells her she's his hero, but like....everyone's his hero, or has been up to that point. This is the very first moment when he treats her like she's special, and it comes at the very end of the series.

And then they don't see each other much for several years. And then all of a sudden he's in love with her.

When did this happen? We don't know. How did this happen? We weren't shown. We weren't even told in a way that makes any sense.

You can say it was obvious that they were going to end up together, but that's only because we've been conditioned to expect this result when boy x girl are teased romantically. That doesn't mean it's well written or makes sense.

"Well, that's to be expected of shounen." Yeah, well, expect better.

[castiel]

Misha Collins as Harvey Dent in Gotham Knights S1E6