#plot plot plot

[fae-bun]

A very rough sketch of an idea that I have for Kousagi. I imagined her to be a wanderer, not really tied to power. Her favorite places to wander are the abandoned ruins of Elysian, it beckons her constantly but she never really questions why...

[theanoninyourinbox]

Earth pony Ivypool?

Local 1/4 zony teen is

terrified

the local towns are besieged by umbrum infected ponies, she just got CURED of being one of them, her father Birch Branch just turned into a monster and ran off into the woods, her sister Mourning Dove is maybe possessed?!? By some ghostly magic spirit thing claiming Dove is going to be an ALICORN!?! Mayor Flaming Comet claims everything is under control but it's NOT!!!

And Ivy doesn't know WHAT her talent is, but she screams to the moon for help

and a princess, one who knows what it's like to be the overlooked sister, answers

[flywolfwriting]

I think my beta and I need therapy

[ask-the-royal-absol]

There’s a discolored rock on the left here. I wonder if this is the switch?

*As the hidden doors swing open, you feel the faintest breeze coming from the other side. It all seems familiar to when you first came down here. Destino takes a step back, their face filled with anger and betrayal..*

*You notice Destino pause.

“You know those dreams of yours are just silly. There’s no way you’d be able to get to the surface. You must stop thinking about it as a possibility. We would have sent our people up there by now if it was possible.”

“Stop these childish games. You are next in line to rule and you want to pretend to go to the surface? What a stupid idea. Only foolish Pokémon would dream of trying to go up there. You don’t want to be a foolish Pokémon, do you?”

“My child, you must end this foolishness. The surface is filled with fairy types, the cruelest Pokémon of them all. They would kill you if you ever found a way up there. End these ridiculous dreams before I have to silence you myself.”

The echoes of what their parents said to them bounce around in their head. Always being told that their dream of going up there was ridiculous. Always being told it was impossible. Always being told it was a stupid dream for stupid Pokémon. They doubted what everyone was saying about a tunnel to the surface being true. They doubted that their parents would actually lie to them.

But…

Right in front of Destino was the very thing that they claimed to be impossible. A tunnel. A tunnel that goes to the surface. The tunnel they said they would use to bring their subjects up there. What logical reason would their parents have to lie to them? The evidence was clear. It was right there in front of them.

It was all too much.

So very much.

Destino couldn’t take it. All these lies. All of this responsibility that fell onto them. Why did it have to be them? Why? That was so much effort. Perhaps they could just forget they ever saw anything and continue lying to themselves? Claim they had no idea what anyone was talking about and continue to live their life, relaxing in the throne they would eventually claim for themselves.

But they couldn’t do that. They had to do what needed to be done. Go to the surface and save the world. Finally believe what everyone was saying. Destino hated this.*

Destino: I guess it’s time to head to the one Pokémon who I know can help me out with a disguise for heading up there.

*Will you follow Destino to this mysterious Pokémon?*

[bittersweet-in-boston]

Chapter 4 of con artist Stucky is up! Only one more to go…

[nondelphic]

sometimes the best writing advice is "just let it be bad." revolutionary. terrifying. but it works.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

[lgbtlunaverse]

The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

[tis-the-boards-season]

I just saw a theatre almost entirely full of men very audibly gasp and/or moan at the site of a shirtless Hugh Jackman and let me tell you it was a religious experience

[beaft]

it is legit bizarre to me how hard video game creators and film directors and showrunners try to pretend that fat people don't exist. can you think of the last time you saw a fat person in a lead role? god forbid a fat woman? i can walk down the street or go into a shop or restaurant and see fat people everywhere but then i switch on the tv and suddenly it's like a glimpse into an alternate universe where no one has a bmi over 24. insidious and weird

[mychemicalbrromance]

Guys ive been reading peak

[bethanythebogwitch]

Some writers: *meticulously plan out every plot point and the tone and meanings before they start writing*

Me:

[reverieblondie]

How am I going to get any of that mouth watering TENSTION! without plot? Yes my fic is 10k words one shot, but they are struggling to fall in love before they bonk and I'm not apologizing!

The truth of it 🤣

[thechekhov]

I've had this little idea in my head for a while now, so I decided to sit down and plot it out.

Disclaimer: This isn't meant to be some sort of One-Worksheet-Fits-All situation. This is meant to be a visual representation of some type of story planning you could be doing in order to develop a plot!

Lay down groundwork! (Backstory integral to the beginning of your story.) Build hinges. (Events that hinge on other events and fall down like dominoes) Suspend structures. (Withhold just enough information to make the reader curious, and keep them guessing.)

And hey, is this helps... maybe sit down and write a story! :)

[psychemochanight]

When the League meets Baby Robin(Dick), they are genuinely surprised, as it seems impossible that Batman is raising this little ray of sunshine who appeared from between his cape and then proceeded to greet them with the brightest smile they've all ever seen, completely adoring Superman, saying how great Wonder Woman is, and actually laughing at Barry's jokes.

Bruce takes care of his work, but occasionally stops to, in fact, help Robin who is trying to do his English homework. The other members also help out, of course.

So, Hal arrives at the Watchtower, and Robin, seeing the man his dad mentor has been so grumpy about because of the last meeting they had (Hal doesn't understand that Batman is the best at his job and is the one giving directions for a reason, duh!), decides he will exact revenge.

He carries on a normal conversation with the man just as he did with everyone else, subtly leading the topic until Hal falls into the trap:

Hal: What about your mom? I can't imagine anyone putting up with the old bat.

He speaks with all mockery, but then his smile freezes when he sees the tremor in the little boy's shoulders.

Dick: *shuddering and holding back a little sob* my mummy died in front of me a few months ago.... I...

Hal is pale now, because the child actually sobs, and runs off to hide in the cape of Batman, who was now standing, ready to stitch up his child.

He's not the only one, Superman and the others are already there too, looking at him angrily because he made the little bean cry.

Hal is in a panic.

And if he sees how the boy smiles at him when no one is looking, sticking his tongue out at him while moving his lips to send him the message "Don't bother my dad", no one would ever believe him, not while the little boy is now clinging to Batman tightly as he slowly blinks away tears that not even the best actors could ever pull off.

Only Hal knows the devil behind that angel face.

Batman knows it too, but he adores his precious little demon.