#try-set-me-on-fire

[iinryer]

another weird art mashup game!

@try-set-me-on-fire did the thumbnail concept, i did the sketch, she cleaned it up and did lines, and then i colored and finished it!

[check out annie’s version here!]

[queerdiazs]

I'm obsessed with like everything you write and so intrigued by all the wips aaahhhh

but gimme buck's line snaps and eddie takes the blame!!! 👀👀👀

@try-set-me-on-fire asked for this wip too so i'm gonna smash these asks together like lil barbies, mwah

this is one of my bad things happen fics (and i'm struggling to decide what slot to put it under lmao) where buck's line on the winch snaps and eddie is blamed for gross negligence of machinery. buck's fine, let me start by saying, and he's enjoying a lil vacation, and it's not eddie's fault, not at all, but the union/hr/whatever the fuck else initiate an investigation into eddie and it causes eddie to spiral allllll the way down.

i left out some pretty important plot points but i'm insecure this won't be good so i'm being hush hush about it lmaoo <3

[shitouttabuck]

33, 41, 49 for the weird asks? -@try-set-me-on-fire

hi hi 💘💘💘

33. the last adventure you’ve been on? my life has been very tame this year….. my best friend and i have snuck into two screenings of mission impossible in the last week that’s about as exciting as it’s been!

41. how do you take your coffee? i do not take my coffee i can’t stand the smell 😭 terrible because my grandfather owns a coffee farm and his disappointment at my lack of taste is palpable…..

49. can you skip rocks? i CANNOT i so wish i could it’s a sick skill to have every time i see someone skip a rock successfully im like ok now kiss me

[psychicbby]

imagine being one of dan’s flatmates in his first yr of uni lmfaoo??? like ok here comes this guy and like the first day he shuts himself in his room to play video games. ok cool whatever maybe he’s nervous. most of the time you never see him bc apparently he has an older friend nearby that he’s always with. when he is in the hall he’s burning pasta bc he’s cooking inept and staring down the washer bc he doesn’t understand how to do his own laundry. oh and he makes videos for youtube where he talks to himself (again this is like 2010). so after barely seeing this man the entire term you find out he’s dropped out of uni. ok whatever you never really think about him again until you’re on youtube and you see his face on the homepage. his video has like millions of views and thousands of likes. oh, there’s the friend he was spending all that time with. somehow he’s become some sort of an internet celebrity??? lmfaooooo. what a serve on dan’s part.

[molsquinn]

[ladydorian05]

Is it THE lightning strike!? Omg!!

I really gotta start posting 7 Sentence Sunday earlier in the day before half the people I would tag have already tagged me sdfghgfds thank you @anxieteandbiscuits @devirnis @rogerzsteven @alyxmastershipper @rewritetheending thats like a cumulative 35 sentences so here’s a chunk of hospital intrigue

Moore- Tyler. Tyler looks at him, and Eddie doesn’t really think the heartache in his eyes is fair. “Eddie.” He places an unbearable hand on Eddie’s arm.

“We went on one date,” Eddie snaps, stepping back. His shoulder collides with the wall he hadn’t realized was so close, an oddity in these sets of rooms he knows so well he could navigate through drunk and blindfolded. “You don’t owe me anything. It doesn’t matter.” He’d been kissed so sweetly on a doorstep on Saturday night and it only took til Tuesday to hear from Pat via a nurse in oncology who heard it from her paramedic buddy that Jones had resurfaced from whatever pit he’d sunk into (family medicine somewhere in Pasadena, apparently) and had kissed Moore stupid in the third floor cafeteria that has the only good sandwiches.

“I’m sorry-“

“It’s fine.” Eddie’s voice is sharp, pointy, words shaped like thumb tacks. “I’m happy for you, Tyler, glad it worked out. Wish you hadn’t wasted my time, but- it doesn't fucking matter. I’m glad you-“ Eddie cuts himself off, makes a frustrated little sound, presses his palms into his eyes. Deep breaths. He remembers that look on Jones’ face, still, remembers the lost way Tyler wandered around the place in the weeks after. He knows that on Saturday he looked into green eyes and imagined for just a moment that they were blue. Who the fuck is he to judge? “I don’t want to fight,” he says, spark gone like it was never there. “I don’t want to fight. I’m glad Jones isn’t dead somewhere. I’m- really, I am glad you got this. I’m glad you’re happy.”

When he pulls his hands back down to his sides Tyler still has that heartbreak look in his eyes. “You-“ he reaches out just a little, but stops before any contact is made. “You deserve to be happy, too, Eddie.”

He thinks they both flinch a little at the laugh that comes out of him. Loud, awful, mean. He’s not sure what he meant by it, as they stand there blinking at each other. Eddie doesn’t know what he deserves. No, he- he feels guilty, he is happy, Christopher is at home waiting for him and tomorrow they’re going to the zoo, he is happy. “I-“

“Eddie-“

Patricia comes up, doing the sort of not-run that means there is an emergency. “Firefighter, lightning strike, full cardiac arrest, they’re two minutes out.”

Tagging @eowon @buckactuallys @butchdiaz @burins @thewolvesof1998 @sibylsleaves @ anyone else who wants to share!

[nell0-0]

Artblock be like:

A+ for effort, he's trying.

HC: Mask just has never tried this before. The most experience he's had with drawing was helping carve the tree with Skull Kid and drawing stick figures in the mud with a stick pfpfpf

[bonefall]

Hey, what makes a character a 'plot device but not a character'? And how do you not do that? I'm trying to do it on purpose but also I need to still make them interesting because it's on purpose, yknow?

A good skill to pick up is to learn to criticise criticism itself. A "plot device" is simply a thing that moves the plot along, it's a neutral literary analysis term! Usually, when people are angry that "a character has been used as a plot device," it doesn't mean they hate plot devices. It means they're gesturing at something deeper.

Runningwind and Bumble are equally plot devices in their deaths. They are both killed by the antagonist to escalate political tension. Runningwind is rarely "accused" of just being a plot device, and yet, we're talking about Bumble for the same thing.

So, why?

Well, Runningwind is just a background character, but in life, he was a part of the community. He was characterized as impatient but responsible. Yet, he wasn't SO important that he died with a bunch of unresolved plot threads.

He is mostly an extension of the entity of ThunderClan. His killing by Tigerstar, and the fear and paranoia that settles on the group after this, feel like a progression of the story insteas of something forced.

Bumble, on the other hand...

Is hated immediately by Gray Wing, when she's established as Turtle Tail's friend. Bumble's abuse at Tom the Wifebeater's hands invites even MORE investment. The rejection is shocking and upsetting. There's a story there about our main characters being imperfect; jealous, bigoted, and judgemental.

But, she is simply killed off. Everything they set up for this character is gone with little personalized fanfare. It's not a tragedy with a lesson about cruelty, or something anyone regrets.

It's just... plot. Gray Wing whinging that no one will like his shitty brother now that his body count is 2.

More than that, in the discussion of women in particular, "Fridging" was coined to give a name to the way women characters often don't get their stories told at all. There is a CULTURAL trend of female characters facing disproportionate violence, for the sake of advancing male plots.

Bumble has a lot going for her. Petal had a lot going for her. Turtle Tail had a lot going for her. Bright Stream had a lot going for her. When they died, they took their potential with them.

It's not always wrong to kill off a character of high potential, mind you. In Gurren Lagann, Kamina's death is sudden and shocking, leaving a massive hole in the hearts of the cast that never heals. Grappling with that loss, but also letting his memory fuel them, is a major theme of that story.

All that to say... there's no formula for avoiding it. You've gotta identify what the deeper issue is, in your specific narrative.

I can't say for certain what that will look like for your story, but here's some things I keep in mind;

When you make characters who exist to die, make sure they're people before you axe them.

Ask yourself; what about them does the cast miss?

If they just miss them because they were (pre-existing relationship), go back to the drawing board.

Fluttering Bird as an example. Who was she? Dead sister. Why do they miss her? Dead sister. No traits until after her death.

Runningwind was short-tempered and helpful. Kamina was a valuable leader who made people believe in a brighter future. Swiftpaw was fiesty and desperate to prove himself. The better characterized, the more profound the loss usually is.

If this is a female character who is dying just to serve the plot, be aware of cultural bias and tropes. How is the gender ratio looking in your cast? Is this happening disproportionately with your girls?

Note how Quiet Rain's litter had both a boy and a girl, but the girl was chosen to be "weaker" and wither away.

And how most of the time in DOTC, whenever a man had to be upset, a girl would get killed for it.

If you ever feel like the character on the chopping block is NOT a full character, ask yourself why it needs to be a character at all. You don't need to spend narrative time building out someone when a literal object of high value might suffice.

"My sister died when I swore to protect her and I can't face my family" = Old. Tired. Ive seen this.

"I lost my heirloom sword when I swore to protect it and I can't face my family." = Fascinating. Why was the sword so valuable? Will they really not take you back? How did you lose it?

When you do kill off "high value" characters, try to make sure you're not leaving too many plot threads hanging. Or at least make a point of how they will never get closure.

[fictionadventurer]

Maybe the problem with Christian fiction is that it's non-denominational. People are just "Christian", with no effort put into showing what practicing that religion looks like for them specifically. No indication that there are other Christians who could have different beliefs. No wrestling with differing ideas and the struggle of how one should live out their Christian faith. And that makes it unrealistic and unrelatable.

[leonardcohenofficial]

the more i rewatch twin peaks i am reminded more and more that albert rosenfield (and to a lesser extent bobby briggs, though he doesn’t quite articulate it as clearly as albert with the exception of him breaking down at laura’s funeral) is THE only character to recognize laura’s death for what it was—completely avoidable, unromantic, and caused by human evil that nobody recognized the signs of or did anything to stop

[iinryer]

my art for SHOULD WE TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER by @try-set-me-on-fire with the 118 bing bang!!

[snekdood]

"if we make america worse and more of a dictatorship that will be even harder to unravel and make it the way we want the country to be, maybe then everyone will join our Glorious Revolution!" bb girl you cant even be in the same room with someone who thinks you should vote, how in tf do you think you're gonna unite people to fight in The Revolution with you? it's gonna be you and your 5 friends, i hate to break it to you.

[crustyfloor]

Mizi loves her friends, her family, so much. so I wonder how she will feel and what she'll do if and when she finds out Ivan, one of her second closest childhood friends is dead now and Till, the last of her childhood friends is still alive, but so...so different from the last time she saw him. How will she cope with the fact that she lost another one of her family members again? and all this happening after she lost and is still grieving Sua? (I am going to self-annihilate!!)

[modmad]

tell me something about yourself

I am barely aware of what Taylor Swift looks like and if I met her I am 99.9% sure I would not recognise her. which I hope would piss her off enormously.

[existencebringsonlypain]

at least this time the horrifying baking monstrosity is my fault

[governmentmandatedryujinstan420]

I FORGOT TO THROW OUT AFTER THE EPISODE RELEASED NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO