#different levels of immortality

[aniseandspearmint]

Its funny dipping my toes into Transformers fic (some bayverse longfic that've been on my to read list for ages) when I've been deep into the Silmarillion fandom for the past few years.

Like, okay, elves are immortal, they theoretically live forever, and so do transformers. But the TIMESCALE here is just–

The oldest of the elves is probably like, under 20,000.

The YOUNGEST transformers are over 4 or 5 million.

Its just kind of funny that the immortality in the Tolkien fandoms is a really really important part of the world building, and the story, and how the characters view things... Elrond is one of the wisest and oldest of elves by the time lotr rolls around and he's around 6,000 and change.

But in transformers its more of an 'oh by the way' thing. Bumblebee has been around for eons and he's a youngster.

Its a fun switch up.

[bread-wizards]

Love Laudna wanting Orym to be the one to cut her down if need be because she feels he can make hard choices, and Travis like "uh hello? What about Chetney? You want to put Orym through that anguish? I am right here" like damn, he right tho

[melorambles]

hei xiazi and zhang rishan headcanons I will never be talked out of:

they met back in the day when rishan was fo ye's fu guan, definitely committed a whole bunch of arson and murder they narrowly escaped being arrested for, and a whole bunch of other stuff fo ye had to pay bail for

fo ye spent the rest of his life carefully monitoring hei xiazi's whereabouts to make sure he and rishan were never in the same city unsupervised. sometimes he hired hei xiazi for BS he made up on the spot because it was cheaper than paying for the property damage

fo ye was also a little jealous they didn't invite him to the Shenanigans, but he's too Official and Responsible to do those sorts of things anymore and he does pout about that on er ye's couch.

when Rishan takes on fo ye's mantle, he keeps xiazi on speed dial to mess with people who annoy him. Just, straight up says 'here's a bunch of money, do whatever you want so long as I don't have to hear from them for the next month'

Rishan unknowingly mirrors fo ye's frustration with having to keep up appearances and not being allowed to be the agent of chaos he was born to be. xiazi is aware of this and sometimes 'kidnaps' him on vacations where they go burn down a wang family warehouse or training facility or the summer home of some corrupt government official.

they've never been caught, but poorly drawn police sketches have ended up on wanted lists rishan has had to make arrangements to have deleted

xiazi is also one of the few people who understands the Immortality Depression, who would also - probably - give fair warning before trying to shank rishan (and vice versa). rishan and xiazi have definitely fucked about it, but even the suggestion they ever dated would be met with some sort of reaction on a scale of confusion to horror (also the ghost of fo ye starts screaming from the afterlife)

rishan has definitely made green pepper fried rice for xiazi and it's their go-to currency, other than favors and flammable materials.

[tamamita]

So, based on your posts about Islam I've gathered that Muhammad=Lenin and Ali=Stalin, who's Trotsky?

Umar ibn al-Khattab

[deoidesign]

Can you make a tutorial on how you world build and make ocs? I can't seem to make any people in my brain, but then when I try to come up with environments jobs, beliefs and little details to slowly come up with someone, I think: well I don't really know how people have influenced the world- it's a weird loop

To be honest, I don't think I can! Writing is an extremely personal process. The way I write is directly related to how I process things, what I find important in stories, years of my own analysis of my and other's writing, etc... The way you write will be unique to you, as well. But I can explain how I personally think of it.

The short answer:

Write. Write anything and everything, it's a tool to explore your ideas. Analyze your own writing, and write more. Then, as you discover which ideas you want to develop, write more to explore them more. You won't know what you want otherwise!

The long answer:

I think this kind of loop is common. It's easy to feel like everything needs to be done "at once," because our job as writers is to make elements logically fit with each other for our readers. But as you've discovered, developing multiple elements simultaneously isn't really possible, or at least is extremely difficult.

Personally, when I think of writing, I break it into three major elements; characters, world, and plot. As much as possible every scene explores one or more of these, and as much as possible these three things tie back into what I personally consider most important: theme.

Everything I do is in service of the themes I want to present. Without them my events feel aimless. It can take a while to discover them, but they're the core of my work. You will have to discover what you feel is the core of yours. Analyzing other media helps with this too.

Concepts in your brain exist in a state of infinite potential. But when you start writing you have to start making choices, which removes potential as you move forward... But you have to move forward anyways. If there's ideas you want to explore later, you can always explore them later.

What this ends up meaning, to answer your question, is that I don't think of my characters as "people in my brain" or my worlds as something people have influenced... Not at their core, at least. They are tools that I use to represent specific ideas. Obviously they're also my blorbos, but mostly they're serving a specific narrative purpose.

So above all else... Write. Write, and discover what you're writing about, and then start over and write with that in mind. Keep doing this. But you have to write!

[fallling-in-winter]

New people entering fandoms these days think immortal x mortal is "immoral and wrong" because of the age gap

[rena-yume]

I absolutely hate Salem's immortality portrayal, someone who's lived for centuries wouldn't act the way Salem does wether it be her outburst in v5 and her consistent anger towards Oz or her sanity still seeming relatively intact

She should either be too apathetic towards everything and too old and tired to care and/or too fixated on her suicide mission to the brink of insanity (not saying she can't pretend to care about her goons to manipulate them but we the viewers should see her cracking behind the scenes or at least her real personality), or maybe mix both

Bored, insane, broken etc just something to indicate that she's an immortal who's been there for hundreds of years, right now she's no different than any other person on remnant with the way she thinks and acts

Show how her immortality is such a horrible curse that's still affecting her to this day instead of having her be the smug villain that barely changed ever since she remarried Oz before they got divorced

Fanon Salem isn't better either, she still suffers the same problem even in fanfics

[clonememesfrikyeah]

You know what would be the worst? If at the end of the war when all is said and done, after the clones lost every little thing they had, after Vaders rise and the Jedi’s fall, after all that death and hardship and misery? It would be terrible to be a clone and wake up like suddenly coming out of a coma, in a stasis chamber that they grew up in and rarely left, there was the craziest dream just before and there’s the lingering feeling something important just happened, this is Kamino 35bby, all the information they were just fed is already neatly stored in their perfect flash-memory brain. No ones died yet, all of that was a simulation based on a calculation of events to instal orders and hone the discipline of troops. It’s dark, there’s no way of telling if anyone or anything exists beyond the boundary’s of the inside. There’s a designated call sign and designation along with vitals displayed in the line of vision, it’s also counting down the seconds to when a new simulation is set to begin.

[maliro-t]

i'm pretty sure it was some josh sawyer interview i watched ages ago where he said something about knowing that pentiment 'isn't for everyone' and talked about that framing in general since it's such a niche project, and he was like, well yeah, it's not for everyone. neither is call of duty.

and it truly gave me so much peace lol. like ohhhh. yeah. 'objective' media assessment is nothing to me

[omarwolaeth]

It's such a tiny innocuous thing that really doesn't matter, but I feel like calling duel monsters a children's card game (when it's fundamentally baked into everyday life, and your social existence is judged by what you play and how you play it so very intensely, for everyone in-universe) is an absolute injustice to what it is for that universe of people.

[gifti3]

If solomon asked me to be a defender of humanity, i dont think i could look him in the eye and say yes

[outeremissary]

Always very surreal when you encounter someone fond of the same character as you and partway through the interaction you realize "ohhh this is a completely different character to you we do not like the same guy at all"

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

anyway back to thinking about fionna and cake for the night because simon compels me

[pilmyeol]

the phill and myeol vs faneolli and ajin parallel is insane. i am thinking about it….

[godofthestupid]

small doodle session

did them mainly during Hakka and Rios Off Collab Cooking Stream and Randons stream,as you can see on the Randon poses

Furina is so fun to draw! She's silly and somewhat pathetic(I haven't played the last archon quest yet,so maybe I'm wrong) and I love that for her. You go silly hydro archon <3

[yuelun]

As I'm finally writing more, I needed to just note how much I love Guizhong of Liyue, again.

I cannot describe how much it thrills me to my very core to write a character that is so otherworldly and divine, but is so absolutely humanly curious about seriously everything and honestly, even the little, trivial things that one would think don't matter. And it's the latter that gives me such serotonin to write, to witness in these mental images in my head.