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Reading comprehension site. As far as I understand it, your point is moreso that often stories set in a world without homophobia, transportation, etc. Are treated as morally better. Meanwhile stories which are parallel to real world queerness, identity, and oppression are often viewed negatively. Mostly because there's a standing idea of "you could have made it better by simply not including the homophobia and transphobia".
In my mind, both are morally equivalent, and both are examining themes which may be interesting in the context of queer experiences and liberation.
yeah that's exactly what I'm talking about... I'm basically just arguing against that more extreme mindset you sometimes see around queernorm stuff and pointing out that maybe it's not great to implicitly lump stuff like, say, steven universe, queer as folk, and i saw the tv glow together as the 'lesser' or "more harmful" type of work we should seek to avoid because they focus on queer struggles, or otherwise downplaying the value of themes that aren't like, escapist enough in some way.
Honestly I think at some point the discussion around depictions of homophobia- specifically, criticism aimed at the thought that (often quite fetishistic) homophobia (or sexism, racism, etc) needed to exist in fantasy for the sake of "historical realism", and of bury your gays-type stuff - sort of got telephone game'd into "it's weird to depict bigotry or gay characters suffering/dying when you could just not do that; no one wants to see that" and then in turn "the best, most valuable and desired way to depict queerness (race, disability, gender, etc) is to make it normal and as downplayed as possible" and i think it's worth pointing out that that's often not great advice/a good metric for judging queer fiction overall.
#if this was about disability or something#like i was arguing against writing advice claiming that there was something inherently better and more woke and representational#in. say. a world where aids are so good that deafness functionally doesn't exist and there is no need for sign language or deaf culture#and I was going 'hey i think this is kind of a weird way to talk about this. that's pretty alienating for many people#especially if the work in question isn't thematically concerned with it at all'#surely the response should not be 'well many deaf people wish that was real! why don't you think deaf people should have escapism?'#'so you think it's bad to depict fantasy disability aids?'#like no. im so obviously aiming at the moral angle of it and the way the most erasing form of it is being bigged up as the best one#the implication that a fantasy story where deaf culture exists is a less good work of fiction
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alice has to go home. that's part of the story. that's the happily ever after. alistair knows this. knows it from his grandfather who went through it. knows it from his mother who did the same. knows it in his bones. that one day's going to be the day he leaves wonderland, for good.
bunny knows this too. knows that as soon as he follows her down that rabbit hole for the last time, the clock is going to start ticking for when he has to leave. so she steps back. tries to stop herself from spending all her time with him. from laughing at his jokes. from loving him. because she doesn't know if she can survive the heartbreak when it's time for him to leave.
the cheshire cat knows this as well. that it's supposed to happen. that it's because of destiny. that it's all bullshit. it's this anger that floods her senses and pushes her to steal that damned storybook of legends. the book that they signed on legacy day. the book that sealed their destiny. the book that stole alice from her.
so she sends ever after into a topsy turvy with a little curse. so what. maybe it's boredom. maybe it's pettiness. maybe it's sending a postcard to an old flame up above asking remember me?
cheshire remembers when she saw little alistair, the spitting image of his mother, for the first time in wonderland. the mad hatter was accompanying him, of course, as his mom couldn't. kitty asked if she could go meet him, but cheshire didn't react at first. her feet were glued onto the floor as buried memories came bubbling to the top.
her love had come back to haunt her.
#happy class of classics month!#more ramblings below#ever after high#eah#alistair wonderland#bunny blanc#kitty cheshire#cheshire cat#bunnistair#alice in wonderland#alice wonderland#i think i mentioned this alice x cheshire hc of mine back in the tags of an alistair x bunny post#but i wanted to elaborate more on it#theres not much mention of alice in eah so i had free reign on writing her HA#i remembered reading an analysis of lewis carroll's work#that only children (who still felt wonder about the world) could find a path to wonderland#and the fact that a moral taught in the novels is that children should return to their parents#so that means alice cant stay in wonderland#shes there for an adventure not a retirement plan yknow#but that meant leaving all her friends there#it hasnt sunk in for alistair yet#but it has for bunny#and its the greatest regret that alice and chesire have - signing that damn book
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Bro, I had a dream about reading a fanfic and I need to write it down before I forget.
Mobei-jun realizes that humans don't court with violence like demons do, and he realizes this whole time Shang Qinghua just thinks he was beating him for no reason. And then he tries to court him the human way, and SQH just thinks he's cursed.
SQH then goes to SQQ to ask and complain about the situation just for SQQ to beat the shit out of him and call him dense and a dumpster fire of a writer.
Meanwhile, MBJ is like upset and asking LBH for advice. LBH was like, idk why you like him. He's not shizun. So, instead of giving MBJ advice, LBH just swooned over SQQ for the whole meeting.
I think it ended with SQH almost dying, and his last words are 'I love you, my king' before passing out. They kiss and have sex. The end.
I swear the dream felt so real that I had to double check my ao3 history. I remember the tags, too!
#svsss#shang qinghua#mobei jun#moshang#shang qinghua deserves love#maybe i should stop reading fanfic before going to bed#or is this a sign for me to write it#my sleep schedule is fucked#7am to 3 pm looks fine to me#there was more#but dream me went on a side quest and did not finish the fanfic
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I started watching World Trigger recently (my sister suggested it, we're on season 2 now) and I fucking love it???????? it's just so so—🥹🤌
I tried looking for WorTri fanfics and fanarts, as you do. But there are very few works on this app and there's only a couple hundred fics on AO3....
IM DEVASTATED.
pls. i need more world trigger content 🥹 why are we you guys not writing about them?
#world trigger#rant#is this my new calling?#should i be the change i want to see in this world?#is this a sign for me to get back into writing?#i need more world trigger content
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tag game: latest fanfics
Rules: post the beginning lines of your most recent 10 published fanfics, then attempt to tag 10 people!
Thank you so much @loreofyore and @wayhavenots for tagging me 💛
I'm pretty sure that all of my mutuals already did this but I'm still gonna tag @l-llavellans, @agentnatesewell, @anticupid16, @grapecaseschoices, @thee-morrigan and @serenpedac 💛
I only published two fics so far, so unfortunately I don't have a lot to show :^) Allow me to cheat a little bit and write the beginning lines from my wips that, hopefully, will soon turn into finished and published fics!
1. Where your teeth sunk in
“Run all you want, little one! I shall find you sooner or later!”
2. Indulgence
What a mess.
3. Sai's return to his old home wip
The house has clearly seen better days, even if it wasn't abandoned.
4. Sai/Nate domestic fluff wip
Sai looks in the mirror, his reflection almost a mockery of a man he once was.
5. A continuation to "Indulgence" wip
"I'm home, everyone!" Felix's voice echoes around the warehouse, against the uncomfortable silence.
6. Sai/Adam, post Sai/Nate engagement talk wip
Half a year - a long time for some - yet nothing in his already long and suffocating existence.
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Dreamed of a penumbra Juno steel artbook and Nureyev had a silly mustache.
Also there were diagloges
Rita: Boss what is that acidic warm liquid you put in our cereal btw
Juno: oh that's raw milk, Rita.
Rita screams Nureyev burries his head in his hands
Rita: eughhhh
Nureyev: I am extremely aware of that milk in my system Juno. Extremely aware.
Juno (thoughts): huh, lactose intolerance?
It was in such a nice stylistic artstyle that looked nothing like mine it was mostly uncolored there were like pages dedicated to just Jupeter, Juno in the gold dress etc.
One was Nureyev and Juno sitting at a table in carte blanche and holding hands, Buddy was smiling on her seat looking at them. Other was them all dressed up Juno's back to us Nureyev hugging him, Juno's entire back was on display u could see scars and muscles.
#woke up 5 mins ago and ran here to write these before I forget#one of my most livid dreams ever#I also heard the dialogues in characters voices too#also my Nureyev doesn't have a mustache is this a sign should I draw him with one#juno steel#THERE WAS MORE I'LL TRY TO REMEMBER UGH#the penumbra podcast
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So I’m definitely not the first person to have realized this, but while I was looking through some assets I stumbled across the tomb stone sprite sheet and realized the text was in a funky script, and realized it’s the same script that’s used on a handful of duplicant made buildings such as the super computer, and hastily scribbled down the cipher to the best of my abilities since I couldn’t find an actual font or sprite sheet for it in game
I probably got some things a bit wrong since the text is so small, but I thought I’d share in case anyone else found this interesting 👍
#rat rambles#oxygen not included#z is the only one that’s super not set in stone since I kind of just assigned it from process of elimination#I saw it on some art of the super computer in the files and it seemed to be the only sign that wasn’t already assigned to smth#plus it’s a flip of s so it’d make sense since several of these are flips of eachother#but yeah it’s pretty neat that the duplicants seem to have their own script#if I’m remembering right english text is used on some gravitas stuff#and the stuff that doesn’t have english text has the more traditional vague scribbles#but yeah this opens some doors for some fun hcs I think#someone who’s better at writing and graphic design than me should make a usable font for this I think it’d be fun
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Do you conlang? I was wondering if you had naming languages (or possibly even more developed ones) for pulling the words you use. I tried to search your blog but didn't find anything, wouldn't be surprised if the feature is just busted tho. Your worldbuilding is wonderful and I particularly enjoy the anthropological and linguistic elements.
Ok the thing is I had kind of decided I was not going to do any conlanging because I don't feel like I'm equipped to do a good job of it, like was fully like "I'm just going to do JUST enough that it doesn't fail an immediate sniff test and is more thoughtful than just keysmashing and putting in vowels". And then have kinda been conlanging anyway (though not to a very deep and serious extent. I maybe have like....an above average comprehension of how language construction works via willingness to research, but that's not saying much, also I can never remember the meanings of most linguistic terms like 'frictives' or etc off the top of my head. I'm just kinda raw dogging it with a vague conceptualization of what these things mean)
I do at least have a naming language for Wardi (and more basic rules for other established languages) but the rudimentary forms of it were devised with methods much shakier and less linguistically viable than even the most basic naming language schemes, and I only went back over it LONG after I had already made a bunch of words so there's some inconsistencies with consonant presence and usage. (This can at least be justified because it IS a language that would have a lot of loanwords and would be heavily influenced by other language groups- Burri being by far the most significant, Highland-Finnic and Yuroma-Lowlands also being large contributors)
The 'method' I used was:
-Skip basic construction elements and fully move into devising necessary name words, with at least a Vibe of what consonants are going to be common and how pronunciation works -Identify some roots out of the established words and their meanings. Establish an ongoing glossary of known roots/words. -Construct new words based in root words, or as obvious extensions/variants of established words. -Get really involved in how the literal meanings of some words might not translate properly to english, mostly use this to produce a glossary of in-universe slang. -Realize that I probably should have at least some very basic internal consistency at this point. -Google search tutorials on writing a naming language. -Reverse engineer a naming language out of established words, and ascribe all remaining inconsistencies to being loanwords or just the mysteries of life or whatever.
I do at least have some strongly established pronunciation rules and a sense of broad regional dialect/accents.
-'ai' words are almost always pronounced with a long 'aye' sound.
-There is no 'Z' or 'X' sound, a Wardi speaker pronouncing 'zebra' would go for 'tsee-brah', and would attempt 'xylophone' as 'ssye-lohp-hon'
-'V' sounds are nearly absent and occur only in loanwords, and tend to be pronounced with a 'W' sound. 'Virsum' is a Highland word (pronounced 'veer-soom') denoting ancestry, a Wardi speaker would go 'weer-sum'.
-'Ch' spellings almost always imply a soft 'chuh' sound when appearing after an E, I, or O (pelatoche= pel-ah-toh-chey), but a hard 'kh' sound after an A or U (odomache= oh-doh-mah-khe). When at the start of a word, it's usually a soft 'ch' unless followed by an 'i' sound (chin (dog) is pronounced with a hard K 'khiin', cholem (salt) is pronounced with a soft Ch 'cho-lehm')
-Western Wardin has strong Burri cultural and linguistic influence, and a distinct accent- one of the most pronounced differences is use of the ñ sound in 'nn' words. The western city of Ephennos is pronounced 'ey-fey-nyos' by most residents, the southeastern city of Erubinnos is pronounced 'eh-roo-been-nos' by most residents. Palo's surname 'Apolynnon' is pronounced 'A-puh-lee-nyon' in the Burri and western Wardi dialects (which is the 'proper' pronunciation, given that it's a Kos name), but will generally be spoken as 'Ah-poh-leen-non' in the south and east.
-R's are rolled in Highland-Finnic words. Rolling R's is common in far northern rural Wardi dialects but no others. Most urban Wardi speakers consider rolling R's sort of a hick thing, and often think it sounds stupid or at least uneducated. (Brakul's name should be pronounced with a brief rolled 'r', short 'ah' and long 'uul', but is generally being pronounced by his south-southeastern compatriots with a long unrolled 'Brah' sound).
Anyway not really a sturdy construction that will hold up to the scrutiny of someone well equipped for linguistics but not pure bullshit either.
#I actually did just make a post about this on my sideblog LOL I think in spite of my deciding not to conlang this is going to go full#full conlanging at some point#The main issue is that the narrative/dialogue is being written as an english 'translation' (IE the characters are speaking in their actual#tongues and it's being translated to english with accurate meaning but non-literal treatment)#Which you might say like 'Uh Yeah No Shit' but I think approaching it with that mindset at the forefront does have a different effect than#just fully writing in english. Like there's some mindfulness to what they actually might be saying and what literal meanings should be#retained to form a better understanding of the culture and what should be 'translated' non-literally but with accurate meaning#(And what should be not translated at all)#But yeah there's very little motivation for conlanging besides Pure Fun because VERY few Wardi words beyond animal/people/place names#will make it into the actual text. Like the only things I leave 'untranslated' are very key or untranslatable concepts that will be#better understood through implication than attempts to convey the meaning in english#Like the epithet 'ganmachen' is used to compliment positive traits associated with the ox zodiac sign or affectionately tease#negative ones. This idea can be established pretty naturally without exposition dumps because the zodiac signs are of cultural#importance and will come up frequently. The meaning can get across to the reader pretty well if properly set up.#So like leaving it as 'ganmachen' you can get 'oh this is an affectionate reference to an auspicious zodiac sign' but translating#it as the actual meaning of 'ox-faced' is inevitably going to come across as 'you look like a cow' regardless of any zodiac angle#^(pretty much retyped tags from other post)#Another aspect is there's a few characters that have Wardi as a second language and some of whom don't have a solid grasp on it#And I want to convey this in dialogue (which is being written in english) but I don't want it to just be like. Random '''broken''' english#like I want there to be an internal consistency to what parts of the language they have difficulties with (which then has implications for#how each language's grammar/conjugation/etc works). Like Brakul is fairly fluent in Wardi at the time of the story but still struggles#with some of the conjugation (which is inflectional in Wardi) especially future/preterite tense. So he'll sometimes just use the#verb unconjugated or inappropriately in present tense. Though this doesn't come across as starkly in text because it's#written in english. Like his future tense Wardi is depicted as like 'I am to talk with him later' instead of 'I'll talk with him later'#Which sounds unnatural but not like fully incorrect#But it would sound much more Off in Wardi. Spanish might be a better example like it would be like him approaching it with#'Voy a hablar con él más tarde' or maybe 'Hablo con él más tarde' instead of 'Hablaré con él más tarde'#(I THINK. I'm not a fluent spanish speaker sorry if the latter has anything wrong with it too)
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had a little meltdown earlier and proceeded to delete anything i posted in the last two days besides gifs like that was somehow gonna help 😭
#op#anyway i’m doing really bad 🤩#does anyone remember when i used to move blogs like once a year minimum. well let’s just say i’m thinking of moving to a new blog#<- signs i’m doing bad#basically when i don’t feel in control over my life i’m like well i should be more insane about My Blog hashtag myblog#whatever if i move blogs will you guys still follow me. and will you hate me#i just want to tag things like a freak#HASHTAG MYBLOG#anyway gonna go back to writing about critcat now#if i fail my classes will you guys still love me.
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I won't write this because I'm still in a rut and I have other things to catch up on, but fun AU idea: famous person x normal person AU, except the normal person lives under a rock and has no fucking clue who the famous one is
#the fact that I am finding little plot bunnies again (that i'll inevitably do nothing with) is a good sign!!!#I just hope that the actual words are on their way soon too.#but anyways maybe May's. like. a pokemon ranger who spends most of her time out with no cell connection#but she has to come into Lilycove or somewhere to restock and the Grand Festival happened a couple days ago#and yk. she's wandering the city and enjoying being back around people for a while and all that#and then there's some sort of meet-cute. maybe like Notting Hill. wandering (cough trespassing) in the park at night#and Drew's there because he gets privacy and May's there because she misses being out in nature or whatever#and they meet somehow and she thinks he looks vaguely familiar but she can't place it and doesn't really care#and Drew introduces himself. and he sort of stares for a minute. waiting for her to react.#and she knows she should know him but she doesn't so she bluffs like 'oh you're like a radio host or an author or something! right?'#Drew‚ newly crowned Top Coordinator in the city's Grand Festival two days ago: '...something like that‚ yeah'#and shenanigans ensue idk#she sees his face on a magazine the next day while she's out with fuckin. idk. Gary or whoever else would also be a ranger#and she sees it and is like 'oh hey that's the radio host I met in the woods last night :)'#and Gary's like 'I'm Sorry What. for multiple reasons let's back up there for a second'#and I chose Gary instead of Ash because we all know Ash wouldn't have any damn clue who Drew is either 😭#to me Ash is like one of those guys who can name every linebacker but thinks Jennifer Coolidge is a politician or something#he can tell you everything about every gym leader and pro battler and champion etc. he has also Seen Two Commercials™ for contests.#anyways. it's more of a vague premise than a plot but at least I'm back to 'imagining premises I'll never write'.#and that's better than how I've been doing with writing lately!#and like. earlier today I went to the farmer's market opening day in the rain and got brunch#and I gave myself a genuine day off (...mostly)#and IT TURNS OUT that when you're burnt out‚ taking breaks actually helps you feel better. who'd've thought!!!
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writing is so much fun i sure wish i could do it again someday
#shut up shay!!#shaking my brain WHAT IS GOING ONNNN#WRITE SOMETHINGGG#i want to put smth out but i have been slowly picking at ch2 of god eclipse fic and#while it IS at 9k… the estimated wc is like. 20k#probably more bc knowing me i cant SHUT UP#and thats gonna take me forever to finish#ughhrggrggrhhh#i keep bouncing from wip to wip hoping to finish SOMETHING#but alas. my brain does not want to#maybe i should start a new wip altogether 💀#or find a new brainrot bc nothing is HITTING rn#this is my sign to start one piece i think
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WHO LET HIM SMILE LIKE THAT HELLO!?
ADITDURALYXJRDIRFP AI A SIDE lyzjrkdktzhe
Sorry, forgot how to think for a sec when I saw this...
#Testimonial Evidence#That Guy#Also my chest is pounding I cannot believe this... HRRRN!#Sign for more Osamu today? I think about it. Depends if Goro will let me honestly /hj#f/o community#fictional other community#fictosexual#fictoromantic#ficto community#Oh yeah there's that one oneshot I wanted to write. Maybe I should. Especially since I do better now.#Maybe sketching too today if I'm lucky. I can squeeze it in before Tactica.#(Do not quote me on that though)
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since ive been having something of a falling out w my parents i think im gonna start learning web dev for financial reasons
#ill find a way to like. take out a loan for college. worst part will be convincing my parents to sign in as undertaker (?) bc ive got no one#else who is willing to do that and has the money to. that's the worst part and after that i hopefully learn enough and start freelancing#i have enough in my acc right now to keep me going for a while as long as i dont spend drastically or anything#and hopefully it doesnt take me more than a couple months to build up that kinda skill#anddd like this i become financially independent before i hit 20!!!#it seems like a reasonable plan.#and since im already in a bunch of writing clubs on campus theres always freelance writing as a backup tho im skeptical on how much#that would pay#honestly i might look into becoming a TA every semester. 20k at the end of the semester. pretty sweet deal. i honestly should talk to#my profs more huh. they have insane connections across the country n it would help massively if i wanted to get into a project or internship
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i am a firm believer in that akasha is marius' mother figure and their relationship is intentionally meant to parallel him and his human mother
#imho its not a long shot to consider akasharius/marikasha (idk) psuedoincest either#i should probably write an analysis longpost about it but still the signs are there in canon. marius was groomed to be the god of the grove#whos alternatively called “the lover of the [great] mother” as well. a little bit of a given that their relationship is blurry to#the human (our) eyes even if its simply because they are vampires and fundamentally are not restrained by our own ideas and labels to thing#but marius really did love akasha as a mother (or perhaps his concept of one) as a goddess/deity and as an object/project of his#as for akasha well. cant say im an expert on our (former) queen of the damned but in-turn she loved marius as a servant. never a son as he#mightve wished for her to. this is to say that while akasha didnt see marius as her son she definitely hit the spot on his mommy issues™#obv she didnt love marius enough to Not leave him immediately for lestat lol but emphasis on the “servant” part of “loved him as a servant”#this is demonstrated by the fact eudoxia enthusiastically offers to replace marius as twmbks keeper but akasha is like lmfao hell no#and makes the choice to retain marius instead. because tbh he IS the ideal... (trying to find synonyms for servant) ... lackey??? for twmbk#dare i say marius saying that he used to lay against akashas breast to “listen to her heart” and “try fathoming her thoughts” reminds me of#skin-to-skin (head-to-chest) contact between a parent and their child (baby) so theres that too#anyway this has more text than the og post alone so ill shut up for now... do we see the vision???#ive slept like 2 hours be kind if my english isnt the best rn#xndead rambles#xndead father of lies#marius de romanus#akasha#the vampire chronicles#tvc#cw incest
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croszukis (aka moonbaths on ao3) 2024 fic wrapped
21 published works 124,988 words written on 187 days 3 first works in a ship tag longest work: 15,419 words shortest work: 726 words
fic masterlist below!
cole caufield/nick suzuki in the morning I'll be better (rated t, 7k) difficult to pretend (rated m, 5k) elevator eyes (rated t, 2k) sun kissed (rated g, 1k) have everything I need (rated g, 1k)
nick suzuki/arber xhekaj I'll take care of you (rated e, 6k) come back to yourself (rated e, 7k) beg for you (rated e, 4k) sundress season (rated t, 1k) I'll never drop my sword (rated m, 1k)
sidney crosby/nick suzuki hooked on you (rated g, 15k) keepsake (rated e, 3k) don't like begging, but I'm on my knees (rated e, 5k)
misc feeling like we can't go back (sidney crosby/evgeni malkin, 6k) click, click (vincent lecavalier/martin st louis, rated e, 1k) good job, bud (cole/nick/slaf, rated e, 1k) do you feel the way I do? (cole/nick/slaf, rated t, 1k) when I'm with you (sean durzi/nick suzuki, rated g, 1k) just curious (johnathan kovacevic/arber xhekaj, rated m, .7k) pull my blue jeans on (johnathan kovacevic/arber xhekaj, rated g, .9k) give it all to me (joe moody & david savard, rated g, 1k)
#*writing#*fic#hockey rpf#hrpf#i feel like i should add a message here hm#a year where i really honed in on writing habs fic and feel like it's paid off in a writerly sense#like i just have more ideas more characterization i wanna do etc#and they keep ! giving ! us more!!!!#thanks to anyone who's ever read / left kudos and comments / let me bounce ideas and cheerled me!#sometimes i feel like even though i wrote a lot this year i still havent made an impact with a significant work (whatever that means)#but sometimes lots of little works is still doing something! idk#i wasn't writing hrpf seriously before last year so take this as a sign to start if you want to!#just do it!
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Help complete the poem:
"I bear a heavy somethingnothing others seem to lack, they drift and frolic freely, no weight dragging at their backs. I keep with me my somethingnothing, nurturing the rot, as somethingnothing is my bones, it cannot be forgot. I long, I yearn, I try to swim, alas I never float, for there it is, the somethingnothing, tugging at my throat. Somedays I fear my somethingnothing is the whole of me, (now you pick the final line from choices below)
(context: In the game I'm making one of the characters you can talk to is some moody nervous exiled prince and in one quest you can help him with his writer's block on some of his poetry. This is one of the 'poems' (+ menu choice prompts) that I decided not to use in the game, but I thought it was kind of amusing on it's own and might would be fun to see the votes on)
#tumblr polls#polls#Being 'cruel' and choosing 'mean' options in games is a more popular discussion topic but I find cruelty kind of boring. what I actually#enjoy having are SILLY options. to slightly bother a character in a non serious way. Helping him with his poetry and he's like#''huh... what rhymes with 'creep'..?'' and you enthusiastically announce ''PLEEP!!'' and he goes ''-_-..............no...........''#Especially the characters like him who take themselves very very seriously.#Which is interesting since in real life I think I generally seem quite Serious - but I guess moreso in a practical sense. Like I'm a very#goal oriented efficiency focused analytical and meticulous person HOWEVER I also don't have a huge ego so I don't take MYSELF as#a concept very seriously - if that makes sense. I take life and my actions within life seriously. But I'm not like.. one of those people wh#lashes out over any percieved slight or will go into a full emotional drama spiral over someone looking at them weird. I guess that's what#I mean by 'take themselves seriously'. Characters that are like 'I WILL BE THE BEST MOST successful coolest person in all the land#and therefore will explode instantly if embarassed even a small amount because I cannot be seen looking UNCOOL as it goes against#my DEALTHY SERIOUS MISSION to be respected and seen as AWESOME by EVERYONE ALIVE!!' etc. lmao#Which the prince is not like that. But he is that way in kind of an artsy sense. Taking poetic expression VERY seriously. The type to#like sign up for a writing class and then at the very first even slightest tiniest critique the instructor gives him is like... running out#of the class tearfully.. 'YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND MY suffering my PAIN my DEEP PROSE how DARE you correct#my SPELLING ERRRROR!!!' (< said with a rrrroled r in some fancy exaggerated cartoon royal sounding accent)#So I think also with that context. Suggesting the poem (that he undoubetdly sees as the coolest most awesome deepest well written#thing on the planet) should end with a line like 'hee hee give me beans im hungry' is like... dealing an immense blow of psychic damage#Not that he hasn't genuinely suffered in his life still. I don't mean in an 'LOL sincereity is soo lame make fun of anyone who's emotional'#type of way. But more in a ... ''you up until a year ago were an extravagantly rich prince living a life of absolute luxury yet#continuously bemoan how horrible and miserable your life is in every way thus maybe occasionally knocking you down a peg by#annoying you slightly is necessary for your personal growth and ego development'' way lol
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