#ley rambles

[ashirisu]

“…you have to reckon with the fact that a relevant part of humanity now only sees scandalizing the Hitler salute as virtue signaling.”

^what he said

[ashirisu]

i do my best to be chill and analytical and look at character arcs for what they are instead of what i want them to be, but all of that went flying out the window after that air mattress scene. what do you mean they haven’t kissed yet

[leynaeithnea]

Wanna work on SoT:tM; wanna work on SoT:tM, want to work on-

(Unfortunately it requires thinking/orangizing and I DONT want that!!! Why cant i just skip this and work on the story/timeline right away! Chronological creative process be cursed!)

[ashirisu]

the latest adventuring party has me in stitches bc it’s really just the elmo vs. rocko beef brought into an actual-play campaign

[ashirisu]

when you transphobia so hard you accidentally trans your own gender

in a rare moment of current events levity, Trump's attempt to declare that ~there are only two genders~ defines gender as the sex you are "at conception"

except

everyone's female at conception

fetuses that will become AMAB don't do that until a few weeks in

so by their own logic, all the conservative shitbags just declared themselves women

EDIT: yes I know the "conception" thing is to play into anti-choice "life begins at conception" ideas. but damnit, I have to live in this world, so I'm still going to chuckle at deeply misogynistic and transphobic men accidentally making themselves officially female. god knows we need the laughs where we can get them right now

[ashirisu]

how much do y’all wanna bet the acronym is SIMPL and the s stands for sacrifice?

[skullsandcorals]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @apiratefellinlovewithastar 🤭💜💜💜 !!!!

I hope you like it ;)

(click for better quality if you're on the mobile app. do not repost.)

[bowsers-keep]

So I came to realization today.

(Lei is a general stand in for all three disciples she's just the one I had on hand. I'd put them all in roughly the same spot)

[ashirisu]

i am a big supporter of both knowing the Rules™ of writing and also of breaking them wherever and whenever it fits the vibe.

the thing about these snappy, frequently recycled pieces of writing advice is that yeah, they're really great rules of thumb if you're trying to avoid the common pitfalls of amateur writers, but they get tossed out so much and so passionately that people start treating them like they're the end-all, be-all rules of How To Write Good And Proper.

and they're really not—there are going to be a lot of times in your writing when it's better to tell instead of show, or to use adverbs, or to use "said" or toss out the dialogue tags altogether, etc. and like the previous commenter said, creating a structure piecemeal for yourself is damaging. it will actively hold you back because you'll never allow yourself room to see what other techniques will do for your writing.

writing is like any other skill and art form in that you actively need to practice, improvise, make "mistakes," and evaluate those mistakes in order to grow. something that you currently define as a poor writing practice may turn out to be a cornerstone of your unique style.

(personal example: i had a fear of run-on sentences drilled into me all throughout school, only to get into college and learn that not only is polysyndeton a thing, it is positively marvelous for the exact flavor of anxiety that i love writing)

i do think there's a balance to be struck—my experience is that it's much more helpful to learn what the Rules™ actually are and how to use them before you start breaking them on purpose, but you also don't want to go down the self-invalidating path of assuming you're never good enough to start playing around and doing things you're not "supposed" to.

this isn't chemistry, nothing's going to blow up. have a silly fun time.

hi it's me. "telling" in writing is sometimes fine. if you think a scene is better served by summarizing a character's reaction in plain, direct language, that's a thing you're allowed to do. you could consider elaborating from that direct language and using that to "show".

but like "show, don't tell" is absolutely not always the case unless you really want to buff out your word count. i had a writer early on quote "show, don't tell" to me when i showed her a scene that included what was essentially a set-piece character i described as a "sleepy-eyed dancer". she wanted me to spend time describing this character's exhaustion instead of just directly saying it. This dancer - who is referenced once in the initial description of a setting and never, ever shows up again.

that was probably the day i learned that you can hear writing advice and respond politely but quietly think "mm no". you can also do this.

(feel free to fight me in the comments but know that i despise catchy and generalized writing advice like this and the way it can hinder new writers when stated with no room for exploration. and i will die on this hill. i am not normal about this)

[gojosatorubrainrot]

Guess who went to an anime convention and bought every single Satoru merch?

[leisomnium]

guess i should announce this here too, but im on bluesky ! i might be more active there from here on out

[ashirisu]

I love you all. Drink some water, get some sleep, and keep yourselves safe. See you in the morning.

[ashirisu]

I like them!!! I understand the annoyance with books seemingly being advertised with only tropes, but I think those graphics are so cute and fun, and a fun way to set the vibe without giving any real spoilers

look, look, I know everyone likes to rag on those book marketing photos with the book covers + tropes but they are far and away the most effective way of telling me the vibes of your book with minimal scrolling through a feed looking for a synopsis

[omegasomeone]

Been doing random searches on the bing app (doing this purely for microsoft rewards because I need robux to stop having my deadname in my username and I want mictosoft to have to both pay for my gender affirmation and get garbage data, any actual search I want to do is done with Firefox, also because edge is poopoo) and I found this gem

New gender goals everybody

[chososprettyprincess]

toge definitely sends you brainrot reels/tiktoks during class

[allthemurders]

can’t stop thinking about the cultural implications of father brown s12 ep2 for the in-universe timeline

like,, an amateur dramatics group in a random village has just redefined the murder mystery genre (completely by accident). their opening night was a spectacular trainwreck — lightning in a bottle when they were trying to catch rain — and now, somehow, they’re expected to recreate it

a sergeant is playing the detective inspector. an actual detective inspector is playing the priest. an actual priest is playing the dead guy. one of the actors is playing two people on stage at the same time for no apparent reason, and at the end the actual detective inspector / fake priest gets stuck in the curtains. you cannot convince me this wouldn’t go on to become a ridiculously popular show with a committed, slightly obsessive group of fans

so.. did they extend the run? did sullivan find himself playing a priest for a lot longer than he expected, find himself missing the cassock and the stage makeup when they had a day off? did it keep going even after they’d given it up, with a new cast and a new location? do the group sometimes get stopped in the street by people asking for autographs or telling them how much they love the show, how they like the new cast but they really miss the original run? did sullivan’s father have an aneurysm when he realised his son’s name is forever tied to The First Comedy/Murder-Mystery Play? god.. so many questions