#dialogue only challenge

[lemonisntreal]

BLINKY BLINKY BLINKY BLINKY BLINKY BLINKY BLINKY BLI

[personishfive]

in which the metaverse is a dangerous place

[keets-writing-corner]

guess who's still thinking about Lucifer >.<

anyways thought it'd be fun, given my previous post about his dissociation with conversations, to try and guess what his takeaways were from his phone call with Charlie based on his reactions

Maybe I'm wrong about what he's catching and what he's missing but either way I had fun

strike through= what he missed bold=what he caught neither bold nor strikethrough= he might've heard it/made it out through the white noise, but not enough to connect the dots RED= only heaven is in red cuz you cannot convince me otherwise that that's not a trigger word for him

Idk thought it’d be fun to try and guess what Lucifer is ACTUALLY hearing with his dissociation filter on let's GO

Lucifer: [insert absolute fail of hello]

Charlie: Hi Dad! Lucifer: Hey! How are ya? Oh! Wh-wh-where are you these days? Charlie: You know where I am, Dad… I’ve told you before…

Lucifer: You hAve? Oh. yeah Uh, erm well I um uh

Charlie: I told you when you called me five months ago! Or did you not listen?

Lucifer: No no no just forgot! I just forgot. I’ve been really busy with you know… um. iMpOrTanT tHiNgS

Charlie: Well I’m actually running a hotel to rehabilitate sinners, maybe you saw our commercial?

Lucifer: No? Sadly I… missed it!  Lucifer: You know I haven’t been watching much TV lately! Scrambles the brain!  Lucifer: but hey! A hotel! Fun!

Charlie: Listen, Dad, I’ve got kinda… a big ask?

Lucifer: -spit take- Yeah?! Of course! Anything in my power is yours for the asking you just name it

Charlie: I need to speak to heaven! Well, whoever’s in charge up there above Adam above anybody, I need to go to the top!

Lucifer: NO Lucifer: no no no no Lucifer: That’s uhahah no…

Charlie: Look! Dad! I don’t ask you for much. I never have, but this-this is really important to me. It’s the most important thing I’ve ever done and I… need… you… I need your help

Lucifer: I-... I don’t know Charlie

Charlie: Please just- Come see what I’m trying to do. You’ll see why it’s a really good idea and heaven is bound to agree if I get the chance to talk to them

Charlie: Please dad

Lucifer: wait… you’re… INVITING ME OVER??? Lucifer: ABSOLUTELY Lucifer: I’LL BE THERE IN AN HOUR

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so yeah, he can semi follow along but like crucial bits and pieces ARE being left out

[undercooked-icicle]

New genders just dropped.

[whumpuary]

it's so interesting to me how popular the dialogue prompts are

there are 101 total prompts, 13 of which are dialogue prompts. and yet, so far, they make up half of the current top 20 votes.

[matchalovertrait]

Dulce got away with the exposé video but at a cost nonetheless.

Transcript:

Noemí: Cariño, I think we should forget about grounding Dulce.

Erick: Yeah.. I agree, but what made you decide that?

Noemí: She‘s already heartbroken. I don‘t think she needs to feel worse.. what would punishing her do exactly, anyway? She only had good intentions...

Erick: ..and the bakery has been doing even better thanks to her.

Noemí: Right.. Although, we should still let her know to not make such rash decisions. She‘s too young to be doing all that.

Erick: Exactly. She can’t start getting herself into scandals until she’s at least in her twenties! [Jokes]

Noemí: Erick! [Laughs] Don‘t say things like that.

Erick: [Laughs] I mean, it’s Dulce. Can you blame me?

Noemí: I blame you and how rebellious you were as a kid!

Erick: Yeah, she takes after her awesomely wicked dad.

Noemí: [Giggles] She’d probably groan if she heard you say that.

Erick: It’s true, though.

[blissio]

so she did end up waiting up for him anyways 🙄

[scarthefangirl]

I want to write but I don't want to write

[chlmtsdoll]

Currently writing part five of I’ve always dreamed of and it’s taking a million years bc it’s gonna be a threesome fic and no one talks about how difficult it is to write from three different perspectives omfg

[zukoandtheoc]

the number of possible song variations in stray gods is still so nuts to me. i feel like I need to draw diagrams

[maranull]

missed writing paragraphs and descriptions

missed depicting an atmosphere by describing senses

missed it

[navybrat817]

Thank you for joining the challenge! Your trope and dialogue prompt are below:

“You’re still horny? Didn’t I fuck you hard enough last night?”

Let me know if you want a different or another prompt!

This trope and this dialogue, Suz?

Love and thanks for letting me submit Just Like That for your challenge. ❤️

Lovelies, check out this amazing masterlist for Suz's Blind Date Writing Challenge. ❤️

[mister-qi]

so I'm working on my mr. qi expansion mod (still not sure what I'll call it) and I'm working on commentary for each of the different Qi Challenges but I have NO IDEA what to have him say for the fucking qi fruit.

like, dude, are they supposed to look like you? they don't. they sell for a single gold. how do they have sunglasses? are they genetically-engineered? could you at least have made them taste good? are they magical? do you sneak out to the fields every night and draw the sunglasses on them yourself? why are they grown from beans yet turn into melons? how do they grow so damn fast? when the challenge ends, do you personally steal all of the remaining beans from my chests and inventory? why do you need 500 of them?

and why do some of the villagers like them as gifts?? demetrius i understand, he'd want to study them, and robin would like them to give to her husband. elliot, leah, and linus would find them interesting, harvey would be curious about the health effects, but jodi and kent?? pam??? shane??? what are they going to do with a qi fruit? fuckin slice that shit and eat it like cantaloupe?

I don't even know where to start with answering any of these questions. and I'm not sure I want to.

[mourn-and-watch]

unconditional devotion is fun and all but i love when you have to work on your relationships with characters in rpgs. it's so much fun when they openly question mc's decisions if they are not aligned with their morals. when they object and start an argument and must be convinced to do something. when they don't join mc in the final fight if you don't trust each other enough.

the payoff hits so much harder this way. if you're a dick to them they will not put you above their principles and stances because why would they? but if you helped them if you proved yourself to be trustworthy if you were good to them they will stand beside you even if they're conflicted and have to sacrifice something for that. and it's so cathartic when you know they could leave but at the end of the day they didn't! because them and your character are besties! friendship and love are hard to earn but you did it and now it helped you win!

[libraryleopard]

when you find yourself saying things like "i'm not going to write this fanfiction but if i did [insert five-minute explanation of what characters it would be about, the central themes, and the working title]" then you're in a danger zone

[cosmogyros]

Auditory processing issues suck SO HARD. I just spent about 1.5 hours watching the first half hour of a movie on YouTube, because I had so much trouble understanding the dialogue that I kept constantly having to go back and listen again and again and again, look up a transcript of the full film (the transcript contained mistakes, so it wasn't much help), compare and contrast various subtitle files available online, even cup my hands around my ears, etc. Just to figure out what the characters were saying to each other.

And it's not just literally understanding what words they say to each other, oh no. That's only the first step. The next step is figuring out what those characters MEAN when they say certain words. Like when a dude says "You know, I see, like, if we can get successful, it's, like, L-L, man… limos and Learjets," I feel like I'm having a stroke. I have to hit pause and sit there for a sec and ask myself a bunch of questions and do some research online.

Why did he say L-L? Why did he randomly say the initials of the two things he wants? Also, why does he specifically say 'Learjet'? When people dream of having a private jet, don't they normally say 'private jet'? I'd never heard the word Learjet before, so I had to go look it up to try to get more context, but that didn't really help. Is this a music biz reference I don't know? Is this a Canadian reference I don't know? If this happened once or twice during a movie, it would be no problem, but when I'm stopping and going back literally every two minutes, it takes for-fucking-ever to get through the film and my brain is So! Fucking! Exhausted!

I had to stop at about the half-hour mark. I felt like I was about to cry from frustration, so I quit for the night. I'll return to it in a day or two, when I've got a bit more mental energy, and try to work my way through the rest. If I can get through half an hour of film time per day (in an hour or so, however long it takes to get through that much), I can finish the movie in three days of watching. (And this is a movie I really, really WANT to see. I wouldn't waste a moment of my time struggling through it if I didn't care this much about it.)

Anyway. Sometimes when people say they "don't watch movies much", it doesn't necessarily mean they're being elitist snobs or whatever. Sometimes it's just so fucking challenging and exhausting to watch a movie that it leaves me feeling angry at my own body for being a dysfunctional piece of crap. I don't know if this counts as a "disability" and I'm not claiming that label because I don't want to step on any toes, but I have to admit that the mere prospect of watching a film often fills me with dread because it can be so intensely difficult for me (unless I just mentally check out and give up on understanding it completely, which is what I typically do when I'm watching with other people).