#not that this is news to anybody

[fictionadventurer]

Short stories are about ideas and moments. Longer stories are about characters and development.

A short story can be a great way to present an idea--a cool setting, a theme, a thought experiment--without having to develop concrete details that can distract from the core idea that interests you. You don't have to develop a detailed plot and characters, because the concrete details aren't as important as the idea behind the story. You can provide just enough detail to present the idea and then let the reader's imagination take over from there.

A short story is also usually focused on one particular moment. The big emotional conversation, the revelation that changes things--just any interesting scene. If the moment is all that matters to you, you don't need to make up a novel's worth of plot around it--you just show us the cool moment and give us enough context to understand what's happening and why it's important.

If the story idea makes you want to dig into the nitty-gritty concrete details of your story world to see the entire sequence of how the plot unfolds and the characters develop, that's a sign that you've got a longer story on your hand. One plot thread suggests a novella; multiple subplots suggests a novel. It's not better or worse than the short story approach; it just prioritizes a different type of storytelling.

Yet, knowing what a short story is good at is really helpful for paring down larger ideas. Instead of committing to an entire novel, pick a couple of your favorite moments and just write those. Instead of developing the idea into a complicated plot with a long sequence of rising and falling action, just write a scene that shows the idea and then move on to other stories. You still get the emotional effect; just without so much time commitment. Making the distinction between if I want to focus on the moment or the entire journey has been one of the most helpful writing revelations I've had this year.

[rattanwhip]

Criiation

[lotus-pear]

"stop making akechi pancake jokes its 2024" no fuck you

[thymewayster]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[andi-o-geyser]

"oh my god tlovm really said it's canon that vex tops" and? fork spotted in kitchen. no shit

[kray-zay]

designs for a Transformers horror AU thing I was working on but shelved for the time being to work on my other main tf au project.

Thought I just shared these freaks without context. rest of the art and writing for this project prob not gonna be posted until/if I start working on it again.

Bonus little dude, he a part of a diagram explaining some lore but it doesn't make a ton of sense without knowing other lore from this AU I haven't shared.

[saudrag]

sooo… nobody’s gonna talk about how every time hughie kills someone & gets their blood all over himself the next thing happening is butcher killing someone & getting coated in blood too? literally every. single. time.

murder husbands i guess?

also i was SO fucking cheering for hughie to kill that man. i need this boy morally RUINED

[heybiji]

[livwritesstuff]

Robin’s favorite part of Steve becoming a dad (and there really are so many to choose from) is getting to hear about all the ways his kids are learning how to push his buttons (as they absolutely should – Steve wouldn’t truly be a dad if he wasn’t being driven half-insane by their ridiculous antics).

“What are your children up to today, Steve-o?” she asked during a routine phone call.

And Steve replied, “Well, Moe spent half the night in time-out for fucking walloping Robbie with a hardcover picture book.”

“Why?” Robin snorts.

“Never figured it out, but later when we made Moe apologize, she said Sorry for hitting you with a book – which, you know, fine, she could have stopped there, but then she said If you just do what I say, I’ll never have to hit you with a book again.”

“Jesus, she’s like a fuckin’ mobster.”

“Tell me about it.”

Another time, Steve told her, “I think I lost the battle with Hazel’s hair.”

Robin made a sympathetic noise, because she was very aware of Steve’s ongoing crusade to manage Hazel’s unmanageable curls (they're actually pretty manageable, from what Robin has heard, the problem is just that Hazel won't let him).

“This morning I told her we needed to brush it before school and I think her exact response was Don’t people want to see the real me?”

Robin laughs, “Oh man, she’s so cute.”

“Don’t worry – she knows.”

One of Robin’s favorite updates is when Steve tells her, “We had to figure out how to address Robbie breaking into Moe’s fucking Webkinz account and spending all her fake money on gifts for herself,” and Robin can’t help a gasp, because she’s heard all about this Webkinz craze and just how big a deal it is to elementary-schoolers like Steve and Eddie’s oldest daughters.

“Holy shit, she’s diabolical.”

“Yeah. I mean, Moe probably could have picked a better password than password. Kinda thought she was smarter than that, actually, but…lesson learned, I guess.”

[cythanadiel]

a babygirl

[ryllen]

[fircyrk-na-kolkach]

THEIR PRONOUNS ARE PHEY/PHEM

[technovillain]

what if we were both conjectural scientists and uhhhh. uhmm. that's it and nothing else.

[uolivegb]

how to care for ur godkid 101

[aishabellasbigblogofeverything]

I love it when women hate men. I love it when women are allowed to vent to each other about how horrible and creepy men are. I love it when women form friendships with and prioritize each other over relationships with men(whether they're attracted to them or not). I love it when women put men dni in their bios and on their nude photos and on posts on their blogs. I love it when women refuse to mollycoddle and accommodate entitled male feelings with "but this doesn't mean I hate all men, I know a few men who are great, I love my father/sons/brothers/uncles/male cousins/guy friends" I love it when women complain about men WITHOUT "not all men" being a disclaimer. I love it when women avoid socializing with/refuse to be around/befriend/get close to men because they know men can't be trusted. I love it when women make "kill all men" jokes. I love it when women offer absolutely no concern or care for men's feelings and if their misandry offends men whatsoever because why should we, men are the oppressor class who have raped and killed and abused us and kept us as subjugated as second-class citizens for millennia, they regularly mistreat us and the women in their own marginalized communities still every single day and make this world so much harder and more awful for us to be in, and if we choose to hate them and not spare them any sympathy then so be it, and I don't just mean "men as a class" either, you can be a woman who doesn't want to have anything to do with any man on an individual basis and completely cuts off men from her personal life too and ykw I will love and fucking support you in that because men deserve absolutely NOTHING from us. If they're so tough and strong then they can handle it just like they can handle being lonely. If you are a woman who hates men, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A LESBIAN AND/OR A TRANS WOMAN, then just know that I love you. I love you, I support you, and you are safe here.

[piowasthere]

`i N S a N i T Y`

finally got this one done it was in the making for like a week, i'm just procrastinating for no reason lol

i also used only the thumbnails as ref cuz if i'd have to stare at his ugly mug for so many hours i would either explode or start to like it and neither is a good option.

anyway alts under cut, don't go insane <3

glitchless, no txt, alt