#how I'd write

[a34trgv2]

How I'd Write Clarence

Step 1. Keep Amy Gillis In Aberdale: I can't believe the writers only used Amy Gillis once despite her being a great friend to Clarence. In rewriting the show, I'd have Amy be one of Clarence's close friends, right next to Jeff and Sumo. I'd also have her stay with her Mom while her Dad just lives in Flagstaff, just north of Aberdale.

Step 2. Give Jeff's Moms More Personality: I'm all for Jeff having 2 Moms, but I was not the least bit impressed with their lack of personality. I'd have them each have traits that Jeff has while also their own way of doing things. EJ would be a neat freak and would get fussy when her daily schedule suddenly changes, but she would also be kind, patient and helpful. Sue would be smart and funny of the too while also being zen and understanding. Together, they'd be the ideal mothers for Jeff, helping him with his homework, teaching him how to cook, watch movies and TV shows with him, and even supporting him at school events like band concerts and glee club.

Step 3. Make Ms. Baker More Of A Person: Ms. Baker didn't feel like a teacher with a life, but rather a sad, lonely woman who just so happens to be a teacher. For this rewrite, I'd have Ms. Baker be a good teacher who just so happens to be living a good life. A recurring gag in the show could be Clarence is utterly surprised to learn that Ms. Baker isn't a teacher 24/7. In one episode she could be on a date with her boyfriend, in another she's at the gym working out, and another she could be shopping for pet food for her cat, and so on. I'd also have her become pregnant at the end of Season 1, married at the start of Season 2, on maternity leave after giving birth midway into Season 2 before coming back full time.

Step 4. Give The Other Girls Personalities Instead Of Quirks: I can't begin to fathom the reason why most of the girls in this show are one dimensional. So let's fix this in a lightning round of rewrites

Ashley- A shy, awkward girl that has an awkward date with Clarence, but becomes more open and lively thanks to him. She's also funny, helpful and very generous

Chelsea Keezheekoni- Instead of being a gross tomboy, let's make her be a tomboy that's brave, stubborn, sassy and no-nonsense. Easily the toughest girl in Aberdale Elementary.

Coco- A smart, quiet, but friendly and helpful bookworm. She helps her friends with her homework, but struggles to get her own homework done because she can't say "no"

Darlie- A quiet, emo girl who tends to wear a hoodie and tries not to be noticed. Clarence spends a day with her during a school project and finds that she's a funny, smart and very considerate girl who likes anime.

Kimby- Shy but sweet girl who's caring and playful around her friends. As opposed to stroking her hair all the time, she nervously laughs and walks away from an awkward situation. She also really likes to bake and has a great singing voice.

Malessica- A funny and eccentric nerdy girl who collects trading cards, comics and mini figures. She's also a metal head, but only shows it at parties.

Courtlin: A no-nonsense, snarky and honest to a fault girl who always keeps it real. She's infamous for hurting people's feelings with her honesty, but Kimby and Malessica still love her for being truthful.

Mavis- A playful and eccentric girl that doesn't speak due to being nonverbally autistic. What she lacks in words she makes up for in her actions.

Alison- High spirited young lady that plays a big role in after school projects. She's kind, honest, caring, obedient and very encouraging.

Amy Shtuzger- The biggest girl at Aberdale Elementary as well as the sweetest kid in town. She's very friendly, gentle, caring and playful.

Bella- Like Clarence, she's quirky, funjy, enthusiastic and very friend. The big difference though is Bella thinks she might be too much for people, and Clarence helps her see that that's not the case at all.

Claudie- Friendly soft-spoken girl that likes to keep things organized and balanced. She also likes baking and dancing.

Debbie Reynolds- An eccentric, funny, and playful girl that likes playing with her friends and watching movies. Often times she acts out her favorite scenes from movies or quotes lines from movies regardless of the context.

Gabbie- A chaoticly fun kid that tends to go over board when playing, but she does mean well. She's also really funny and goes hard with the burns towards people who insult her.

Heida- A sweet girl who is friends with all the girls. Likes to bake, write poetry and explore. She moves to Connecticut at the start of Season 2.

Joy- As her name implies, she's a happy-go-lucky girl who's funny, friendly and courteous. She's also learning to play the piccolo, which she isn't great at but gets progressively better with each appearance.

Patsie- Energic girl that likes to play and hang out with friends. Despite being the smallest kid in the 4th Grade, she's arguably the smartest girl in school. She and Jeff have a playful rivalry during the Spelling Bee.

Rita Hall- A kind, easy-going girl who likes playing with her friends. She's mute and communicates through sign language, which her best friend Chelsea understands.

Step 5. Have Chad And Clarence's Relationship Change: Clarence sees Chad as his hero, his friend, his partner. That needs to change midway into Season 1 because Chad is, first and foremost, Clarence's father. When Clarence's antics start to go awry, Chad has to be the responsible parent and put a stop to it. Their dynamic will change, but it will most definitely be for the better.

Step 6. Belson Loses Everything At The End Of Season 1: The showrunners missed a huge opportunity to bring Belson down a peg after Clarence got his Dad in trouble. That episode should be double lengthed, and have more funny and interesting interactions with the employees. It can even end with him unknowingly telling an investor about how poorly the employees are being treated. This culminates in Belson's Dad getting terminated and sued, and Belson and his Mom having to move to an apartment downtown. Season 2 will have episodes that delve into Belson's person and show how much of a lonely kid he really is, and the only person who's been genuinely nice to him was Clarence.

Step 7. A Proper Finale: I think the show deserves to end on a better note than the one it did. For this finale, Clarence and his friends are graduating elementary school and are moving up to middle school. The catch, though, is that Sumo and Jeff will be going to a different middle school than Clarence and Amy. This prompts the 4 kids to go to the superintendent and try and convince her to put them all in the same school. This finale will act as a final hurrah for the characters as they'll be trekking across Aberdale, bonding as characters and having a bunch of laughs on their way to the superintendent's house. There will also be an epilogue taking place 20 years later, showing the characters (now adults) sending their kids off to their first day at Aberdale Elementary.

Step 8. Keep The Momentum Of The First Few Episodes Going Until The Very End: The show should not have kept it's original showrunner. He was fired and rightfully so. Rather, the show should've took what made it really good in the first place and expand upon it. Episodes like Water Park, Goose Chase, Chimney, Chalmers Santiago, Game Show needed more of a sense of fun, excitement and adventure. These episodes also would've benefited greatly with the presence of Amy Gillis. The best way to ensure the momentum keeps going is to have the head writer approved scripts that are either funny and relatable. For example, instead of having the characters wait in line for 11 minutes in Water Park, how about Clarence decides to win his Mom a prize and ends up getting lost in the water park? This would be relatable as kids are known to wonder off from their parents in amusement parks, and it can also be funny watching Sumo search for Clarence in a trash can or interrogate passersby on his whereabouts. This would provide 11 minutes of a story being told, as opposed to the equivalent pf white noise being played on TV.

[canonkiller]

but you can't keep holding on like this.

[inkskinned]

okay is she being actually immature or is it just a woman over 30 expressing a human experience you find to be immature.

like yeah. at certain ages... let shit go. im not defending the real immature shit. im not defending the karen you're picturing. i worked in retail i hate those people too. (once somebody got mad at me because she didn't like how our winter window decor was a snowman smoking a pipe. i wish i was joking).

but men at 57 will write books about how 17 year old girls are soooo sexy. they will invent worlds where women have to be naked for "armor reasons." they will write songs that treat women as objects. people rush to defend them. meanwhile a woman at 35 will be like "heartbreak is hard, actually" or "i feel betrayed by a friend" or "i am struggling with something emotionally." immediately people will say stuff like this woman is 35 by the way. by the way this woman is SO OLD to be experiencing this. BY THE WAY.

im 31, almost 32. the other day a poet was blasted online because at her "big age", she had written a poem about feeling unloved. top comment was "this woman is 29 by the way." this woman is too old to still be useful, by the way. she has to behave better . maybe if she was a good wife and mother she could stop existing loudly, and the story could continue on without her. this woman has served her purpose, by the way. she's so cringe, by the way. at 29 - so old! - she still hasn't figured out that her existence should be one of shame.

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

Coining a phrase: Period atypical homophobia.

Definition: When the writer of a piece of historical fiction hasn't really bothered to research how gay people existed in a period of time or what terms would have been used to discuss homosexuality positively or negatively. So instead they put the most modern, likely religious terms into the mouth of a historical character to establish that a character is homophobic.

e.g. Having every Victorian character be a religious homophobe instead of having them talk about "public decency" and "discretion"

[cyber-skeletons]

The differences between TFP and Earthspark Optimuses are sooooooo fucking funny. TFP OP is burdened with "I've never seen Prime laugh, cry, or lose his cool," he responds to "Hey Optimus you wanna see something funny?!" with the numbest dead-eyed Eeyore "No," he's just generally Haunted and Stoic every waking moment

Then we have Chuckles McGee with his looney toons ass face winking and making finger guns and giggling nervously and spamming the group chat with emojis and cracking jokes and making "graphic design is my passion" self-help pamphlets

[unicornpopcorn14]

So we all know by now that Dazai is comfortable enough around Chuuya to show nervousness/worry.

Enough times for Chuuya to pick up on that pattern. The pattern, may I remind you, that doesn't have evident correlation to either nervousness or worry to most people. One that can even be interpreted as misplaced given the situation.

Which means that Dazai has done this in front of Chuuya so often, that Chuuya at first was hella confused, before he finally made a connection between when and why it happens. And still remembered that connection after four years of separation. Which gets us to my point:

What if this isn't the only emotion Dazai displays weirdly?

What if he has multiple unconventional patterns he displays for sadness, frustration, content, or disgust? The times he really feels them, and they become too strong for him to just deal with normally? What if these are the only times he's actually being genuine with his emotions?

And Chuuya is the only one who is familiar with them all?

Dazai would be jumping rope and Chuuya would be like, "quit sulking, let's get icecream"

Dazai hanging upside down on the couch and Chuuya going, "It's okay, mackerel. You can cry."

Dazai actually crying, full on heart-wrenching sobs, and Chuuya unironically going, "What, good news?"

It's just... comforting, for one person in Dazai's life to read him like a book. Everyone else would look at him like he's crazy, displaying wrong emotions/behaviors at the wrong time, but Chuuya knows that it's just how he processes feeling properly, and thus he's the only one Dazai can count on to put things into context and understand, which makes him display them even more openly.

Because Chuuya never shamed him for his quirks, as much as Dazai never did his.

[bbbbbbbbatman]

When Bruce is feeling petty he'll arrange an interview with the Daily Planet and specifically request Clark, then spend the entire interview in character as Brucie, refusing to break no matter how many times Clark tells him to knock it off, and then Clark has to write an article on whatever inane topic Bruce could come up with.

[goodluckclove]

Hey I'm feeling bold and just had a pretty good slice of cake so I'm gonna go ahead and make a grand declarative statement.

If you are a beginning writer, any advice or expectation that evokes a sense of shame is incorrect and should be ignored. You might work more and grow more and realize the core of what that book or comment or online post said is true, but for now it's wrong. If the advice is phrased in a way that does not inspire you, if it feels like an obligation that makes the act of writing sound tiring, it does not apply to you and your work at this time.

That's all I love you maybe write a little bit today or take a nap.

[biblically-accurate-dca]

painting test with a limited color palette

here's the moon equivalent!

[elv-arts]

I put him in hl2 hope that's alright lol. Hl1 is his brother's territory I decided. Mostly I wanted him to beat the shit out of a metrocop :)

He'll probably be fine. He's survived his life so far including one end of the world and his nerd brother's mad science antics. What's a little more of the same old bullshit?

I was just gonna do one or two doodles cuz I couldn't think of much. But then i was having fun :)

@bbg100

[zillychu]

Consider for a moment: A slow-burn identity reveal “no one knows” AU with an emphasis on ghosts being taken seriously as an actual, world-changing threat.

Ghosts are treated as an exceedingly dangerous, but unavoidable force of nature. They can come and go without warning, through naturally occurring spontaneous portals. They're territorial, driven only by obsession and hunger for the living. Particularly powerful ghosts are on par with natural disasters.

Life goes on because there's simply no other option. All major buildings have varying levels of ghost shields, some stronger than others. Just about everyone has some form of personal shield, weapon, or general deterrent. For the most part, humanity takes this apocalypse in stride, barely keeping it all together because there's just enough safety to keep them all sane.

Which is why the rumors of Phantom being able to fully mimic a human body incites panic in Amity.

Phantom was already a nightmare as it was–one of the most powerful and intelligent ghosts on record. His territorial fights with other ghosts for haunting (hunting) grounds in Amity have made global news several times already. Powerful ghosts could appear more human–but to think he was transforming down to a cellular level? Hiding among them? Bypassing ghost shields and alarms? Picking them off one by one?

The focus is mostly with Lancer's class, and how the school deals with this new threat on top of everything else. Everyone is a suspect, no one is safe, and Danny Fenton in particular gets slowly more and more exhausted, apathetic, and… unnerving.

The stress, the lack of sleep, the fighting, no one to turn to, not even his best friends or family–it takes a toll on him. Starving himself doesn't help, but he refuses to do more than take small bites from the ambient life energy and emotion of the living around him. Nothing that won't actually do lasting harm. He begins to slip up more and more, which Sam and Tucker begin to notice but haven't quite connected the dots yet.

But, well. What else can Danny do when Pariah Dark comes knocking on Amity’s doorstep, and his whole class is in the line of fire?

[theroundbartable]

Arthur: I'm tired

Merlin, who hasn't slept in 72 hours and has his fifteenth coffee intus: maybe you should go to bed

[sualne]

bugs, blood & more blood

[inkskinned]

crows use tools and like to slide down snowy hills. today we saw a goose with a hurt foot who was kept safe by his flock - before taking off, they waited for him to catch up. there are colors only butterflies see. reindeer are matriarchical. cows have best friends and 4 stomachs and like jazz music. i watched a video recently of an octopus making himself a door out of a coconut shell.

i am a little soft, okay. but sometimes i can't talk either. the world is like fractal light to me, and passes through my skin in tendrils. i feel certain small things like a catapult; i skirt around the big things and somehow arrive in crisis without ever realizing i'm in pain.

in 5th grade we read The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-time, which is about a young autistic boy. it is how they introduced us to empathy about neurotypes, which was well-timed: around 10 years old was when i started having my life fully ruined by symptoms. people started noticing.

i wonder if birds can tell if another bird is odd. like the phrase odd duck. i have to believe that all odd ducks are still very much loved by the other normal ducks. i have to believe that, or i will cry.

i remember my 5th grade teacher holding the curious incident up, dazzled by the language written by someone who is neurotypical. my teacher said: "sometimes i want to cut open their mind to know exactly how autistics are thinking. it's just so different! they must see the world so strangely!" later, at 22, in my education classes, we were taught to say a person with autism or a person on the spectrum or neurodivergent. i actually personally kind of like person-first language - it implies the other person is trying to protect me from myself. i know they had to teach themselves that pattern of speech, is all, and it shows they're at least trying. and i was a person first, even if i wasn't good at it.

plants learn information. they must encode data somehow, but where would they store it? when you cut open a sapling, you cannot find the how they think - if they "think" at all. they learn, but do not think. i want to paint that process - i think it would be mostly purple and blue.

the book was not about me, it was about a young boy. his life was patterned into a different set of categories. he did not cry about the tag on his shirt. i remember reading it and saying to myself: i am wrong, and broken, but it isn't in this way. something else is wrong with me instead. later, in that same person-first education class, my teacher would bring up the curious incident and mention that it is now widely panned as being inaccurate and stereotypical. she frowned and said we might not know how a person with autism thinks, but it is unlikely to be expressed in that way. this book was written with the best intentions by a special-ed teacher, but there's some debate as to if somebody who was on the spectrum would be even able to write something like this.

we might not understand it, but crows and ravens have developed their own language. this is also true of whales, dolphins, and many other species. i do not know how a crow thinks, but we do know they can problem solve. (is "thinking" equal to "problem solving"? or is "thinking" data processing? data management?) i do not know how my dog thinks, either, but we "talk" all the same - i know what he is asking for, even if he only asks once.

i am not a dolphin or reindeer or a dog in the nighttime, but i am an odd duck. in the ugly duckling, she grows up and comes home and is beautiful and finds her soulmate. all that ugliness she experienced lives in downy feathers inside of her, staining everything a muted grey. she is beautiful eventually, though, so she is loved. they do not want to cut her open to see how she thinks.

a while ago i got into an argument with a classmate about that weird sia music video about autism. my classmate said she thought it was good to raise awareness. i told her they should have just hired someone else to do it. she said it's not fair to an autistic person to expect them to be able to handle that kind of a thing.

today i saw a goose, and he was limping. i want to be loved like a flock loves a wounded creature: the phrase taken under a wing. which is to say i have always known i am not normal. desperate, mewling - i want to be loved beyond words.

loved beyond thinking.

[annasofthe11thdimension]

Pictured: Loop being extremely normal as they lay in their shallow (homemade) grave as they meditate on existence and also if they have annoyed the Researcher enough THIS time for her to murder them and bury them alive.

(Spoilers - they did not annoy her even CLOSE to that much.)

And there is the required reverse image of Odile arriving - she's had a LONG day (i.e. previous loop), and due to this it will take ten minutes before she even acknowledges the shallow grave Loop is laying in, as she was distracted complaining about what Siffrin just did to annoy her.

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I'd say there's context for all of that, because like...there IS context? Here's the link to the series of fics that HAS that context even! But also...even with context...can't say that it's going to make any of this less weird.

Mostly Odile is looping because due to Loop's wish the universe got rewritten to make Siffrin's repression and emotional issues (the ones bad enough to get him stuck in a time loop in the game) 'someone else's' problem...or at least that's Loop's best theory atm!

Regardless, context or not, I'm quite happy with how the pics came out, and figured I might as well post them here too.

[starryeyed-seer]

me: I'm not a bat

Mr pages: (stuffing novels under its robe): I must abscond