#its a toughie

[lunaartgallery]

Excuse me but could you please tell me what makes a good story?I have been studying writing and I wish to hear others opinion on this matter. Thank you.

That's a pretty subjective question, but I can at least tell you what makes a good story to me. Well-rounded characters. I don't care much for extensive world building or complex plots, if the characters suck.

Every character serves a purpose, do not put them in 2D boxes like love-interest or friend. Treat them like a person, a real person, with wants, desires and flaws. I tend to get bored reading plot-centered stories, my favorite scenes are talking between two compelling characters. But this can easily fall into petty drama crap, so dialogue is important and not making stupid characters that make you want to tear your hair out.

I should mention that what makes a good story is not the same as what makes a popular story. I've read plenty of new york best sellers YA trash and make no mistake it's trash. I read it cause its amusing the same way junk food is, but is it a good story? Hell no.

[shummthechumm]

ASiR was so close to being good but now everytime i remember how they treated sasha + its adamant refusal to have feathertail's justifiable trauma be taken seriously by her clanmates/the narrative, it just sours the whole thing for me :/

[steelycunt]

to do reading for my essay or to rank every film ive watched in 2023 in a list on letterboxd

[ghostrockband]

Im trying to like create a little world and like story for all my furry ocs so i can play around with them like paper dolls (omg i should make them all into paper dolls) but i keep like hitting rabbit holes because i cant help but think granularly about like everything i come up with im like "but what are the implications. What does this mean for the world my characters live in" its fucked

[innovatorbunny]

the Iris interrogation really has me like Jafar in the one Family Guy optometrist skit.

[juniemunie]

Don't you have anything better to do?

Just let them go.

(Yes its based off that pic from Veil)

[arceus-forbid]

There’s this stereotype that shiny pokemon are fussy and pampered and generally weaker bc they’re rather babied and adored. And while I understand where that assumption comes from (I’ve seen how some of you guys treat your shinies don’t even lie). I feel like people forget why most shinies are so incredibly rare.

Like, depending on their coloration it wildly decreases their survival rate in the wild. There’s gonna be a difference in living as a blue Vaporeon or a bright pink one, y’know? Makes them struggle to blend in with their environments which, depending on if they’re carnivorous, can make hunting harder, sometimes the pokemon gets rejected from their packs/herds/flocks, they can struggle to get a mate, and makes them an easy target for predators.

So like when you see a shiny in the wild you gotta just stand back and bask in the rarity of it not just for being rare genetically, but the sheer amount of willpower and strength (or luck) that its had to make it this far. That’s pretty badass.

[cervidame]

Chapters: 16/? Fandom: Bridgerton (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Eloise Bridgerton/Theo Sharpe Characters: Theo Sharpe, Eloise Bridgerton, Bridgerton Ensemble, Original Characters Additional Tags: Theo Sharpe-centric, Class Issues, Autism Spectrum, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Unreliable Narrator, Slow Burn

Summary: Theo meets Miss Cowper and arrows hit their mark.

[zickmonkey]

I think it would be fun if I could combine all of my autism in one place

[mugenloopdalove]

Vocaloid fans are the most illiterate mothefuckers out there tho so what do I expect

[trainingdummyrabbit]

gnawing. ...!

[eggsistential-basket]

lost some points on an assignment i don't really agree with atm and i'm not exactly sure what the grader meant it's going to eat at me until i can go to class/office hours but that's not till Tuesday :/

[muffinrag]

ugh

[baconcolacan]

Just wanna say: I SECOND THAT ANON

It's very hard stepping through all the hoops of having to prove you're not a proshipper because people throw that word around like a game of hot potato and don't understand it's really not for TomTord, and even if you see TomTord as a strictly abusive dynamic, it's still not a proship; as far as I'm concerned, a proship is a relationship between two or more people, in which at least one of them can not consent to for any reason but it's excused because it's fictional or whatever

This could be like my worst take ever but I'll die by it, TomTord can be grimdark and messed up and oh my God the amount of fics I've seen with Tord alone where he does despicable things is crazy, but it doesn't have to be, Eddsworld has the beauty of being super baseline at times where yes the characters have defining personality traits, but any version of a character can be seen as canon because of a lack of compliance within it's own canon and because the characters, first and foremost, were made for comedy skits so they don't have much story surrounding them

Just know you're not cringe for shipping it, and if you are we can be cringe together :)👍

Man Jay you’re so right for this. I don’t really have much to add because yeah, your points are pretty much how I see it.

[snobgoblin]

THREE ASSIGNMENTS DONE LETS GO i only have two more to do. gonna try to knock em out tomorrow

[goodideawrong]

crafting my next url... i know what Kavya URL i want it to reflect, but there are sooo many fun options... this is a tough one. might have to circle back to it in a url or so.