#which also makes no sense lmfao

[rigginsstreet]

heres the thing...alices deep hatred of jason and him knocking up polly etc etc makes a lot of sense with the information that fp knocked her up in high school. especially with her line “all boys are like jason blossom”

so its like... if we’re gonna connect some dots and shit why on gods green earth would she go back to that man like the way there is literally nothing ever at any point in this narrative to ever suggest those two are soulmates or belong together and it wasnt just straight up fanservice because yall think madchen and skeet are the hottest parents

and listen i fully know flice was not even a twinkle in ras’ eye when he was writing season 1 let alone the pilot but like... watching this shit in retrospect ... you can connect some dots. and none of them favor flice

[moe-broey]

Close ups on the pocket details!!! I'm SUPER happy w how the top pockets look 😳😳😳

I think the variety of pride pins with the moral panic button/Mr Faggot beadwork just. Really sells it. Shadow the Hedgehog voice Pee Your Pants. If you're going to be a shithead about me I'm going to be really annoying and do a bit about it. Plus the little golden angel pin... ALSO really pulls the whole thing together. "God help you" Right in front of my guardian angel? Really? 😒And how could I not make mention of. The Skull. I love you The Skull. It's a button (not sewn on yet, pinned) that I filled the details in w nail polish. Oh yeah! Besides the bottle cap pins (acrylics sealed with mod podge and a prayer), the biggest addition there is the chain lining the pocket flap! I think it looks SO SLICK

The pansy was gonna go on the queer side, but then I got the boutonniere idea! And I think it looks nice! Kinda adds to the asymmetry of the floral print/plaid blocking. And... of course.... I have... my friends...... 🥺 Biggest additions here are the glow-star pentagram pin, soda tabs and the heart locket!

I don't really have many new additions to the bottom pockets. Not yet! The only thing I did was stitch one side of the handcuff chain, and rearrange the pins holding up the other side. The cuffs/scorpion was just an impulse addition before going to a concert. But I do like it! And it looks even better now! Meanwhile, that other pocket, I actually have no idea what I'll do. Sakura is just there cause she matches really well, esp w the angel pin actually!

[mushroominaforest]

My heart is broken I will never recover/j

I had a very strong vibe that ppl were gonna dislike Wenda 😭 Most of my rambling were bc I was hoping people wouldn’t hate how I did her character lol

Anyways I’m gonna ramble more bc I desperately need people to like or at least understand my ideas lmfao

My au obviously isn’t going to be as gruesome or dark as canon, but Wenda is still going to hurt people. If I was just making a chill high school situation then yeah I’d probably change her vibe. But I need someone sorta evil for this!

I couldn’t really think of a different way to make someone who’d be willing to do bad things to people for petty or shallow reasons without making her a “outcast with low empathy cause mental illness” character, which I didn’t want to do for obvious reasons.

So instead I went for the mean girl stereotype. A rude, rich, bully who thinks she’s better than everyone else. That’s the most reasonable character to make evil in my opinion, because I know people like that and they can be downright horrendous to the people they target.

If I do continue with this au publicly (I already have a lot of ideas and writing and stuff for it but it might just be for me cause I’m a coward lmao) then it’ll probably make more sense.

[deoidesign]

Can you make a tutorial on how you world build and make ocs? I can't seem to make any people in my brain, but then when I try to come up with environments jobs, beliefs and little details to slowly come up with someone, I think: well I don't really know how people have influenced the world- it's a weird loop

To be honest, I don't think I can! Writing is an extremely personal process. The way I write is directly related to how I process things, what I find important in stories, years of my own analysis of my and other's writing, etc... The way you write will be unique to you, as well. But I can explain how I personally think of it.

The short answer:

Write. Write anything and everything, it's a tool to explore your ideas. Analyze your own writing, and write more. Then, as you discover which ideas you want to develop, write more to explore them more. You won't know what you want otherwise!

The long answer:

I think this kind of loop is common. It's easy to feel like everything needs to be done "at once," because our job as writers is to make elements logically fit with each other for our readers. But as you've discovered, developing multiple elements simultaneously isn't really possible, or at least is extremely difficult.

Personally, when I think of writing, I break it into three major elements; characters, world, and plot. As much as possible every scene explores one or more of these, and as much as possible these three things tie back into what I personally consider most important: theme.

Everything I do is in service of the themes I want to present. Without them my events feel aimless. It can take a while to discover them, but they're the core of my work. You will have to discover what you feel is the core of yours. Analyzing other media helps with this too.

Concepts in your brain exist in a state of infinite potential. But when you start writing you have to start making choices, which removes potential as you move forward... But you have to move forward anyways. If there's ideas you want to explore later, you can always explore them later.

What this ends up meaning, to answer your question, is that I don't think of my characters as "people in my brain" or my worlds as something people have influenced... Not at their core, at least. They are tools that I use to represent specific ideas. Obviously they're also my blorbos, but mostly they're serving a specific narrative purpose.

So above all else... Write. Write, and discover what you're writing about, and then start over and write with that in mind. Keep doing this. But you have to write!

[hamletshoeratio]

What if Chris doesn't show up at Clarisse's house pre botl? What if he's guided (maybe by Hermes) to Connor and Travis' instead?

Chris, who is to me at least implied to be unclaimed as yet in the show, who is suffering severely mentally as a result of what he endured alone in the labyrinth, shows up on Connor and Travis' doorstep. They haven't seen him in years now, not since he ditched camp to follow Luke to Kronos. He's clearly unwell and barely recognises them. They worry it's a trick, and that's when Chris is claimed by Hermes. The Stolls decide to take the risk, well Connor mainly does; Connor has more faith in Hermes than Travis ever did. They bring Chris to camp, where they and Clarisse try to help him, to keep him going until Mr D returns. Mr D does save the day, Chris' mind is restored, but then there's the hard part. The initial distrust, the slow and painful path to reconciliation and redemption. If done right, it could be a banger of an arc.

It gives a reason a better reason for why Katie accuses Travis of being the spy in tlo; "you brought your brother - who wasn't claimed until recently and only you and Connor saw it - to camp after he showed up apparently randomly at your doorstep? After he joined Luke - your other brother - and Kronos? After he went on a mission to try and use the labyrinth to destroy camp?" Travis, of course, wasn't the spy, but at least there's a reason for suspicion on the others' parts outside of 'he's Luke's brother' (which is the general consensus and interpretation from the fandom, which never really made sense to me as Luke had left camp four years before tlo and there's a high chance Katie wasn't even at camp at that point).

They've already started by introducing Chris so early, but I hope they expand his story and the Stolls' roles, especially in botl and tlo. Let them have complicated feelings about Luke. Let them mourn him, and let them hate him. Let the angst hit.

[torchickentacos]

Okay, I've spoken to several of you who like both of these things and I need to know how deep this runs because it's an 'if I had a nickel for each time this thing happened, I'd have (x) nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened (x) times' thing-

[zooweemama143]

last rb had me thinking of how lame bif would actually be as a person

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

[cws: drugging, SA and SA apologia, fantasy racism/ableism, forced institutionalization.]

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i know i never shut up about it but god i am still just. So Salty about how the show handles the dynamic between mayor jones and pericles for many reasons, and one of the biggest is that there are really strong overtones here of sexual assault.

a character who already brings to mind the Slimy, Shady Cis White Guy with Buried Allegations archetype:

takes advantage of the trust of someone who's doing something with him in secret--

(which will get that person in a disproportionate amount of trouble compared to him, if they're discovered)

--to catch him off guard so he can grab him, drug him, and do violent things to his body while he's unconscious; scars him for life in a way that is disabling and should cause a lot of ongoing suffering, which, like many other things that should have a strong negative impact on him physically or psychologically, the writers ignore; and dumps him there alone to discover what's been done to him when he wakes up.

specifically, he does this to someone from a marginalized group that's highly unlikely to be believed if they tell anyone what he did--and going by the fact that mayor jones never got in any trouble until present day, he wasn't.

goes out of the way to ruin the life of the victim and discredit him as thoroughly as possible, because he's a loose end and he needs to shut him up.

flees the scene and gets away scot free with this for twenty years, has a successful privileged career and is considered a pillar of the community in the meantime.

when his dirty secret, which he's been paranoid about finally facing consequences for after the victim has recently become a risk again, is discovered, it's a huge career-ending scandal.

is redeemed by the end, while his victim goes on to be the Monstrous Irredeemable Pure Evil Main Villain and also sexually abuse someone himself, which is played as horrific and traumatizing (as it should be).

more specifically, is portrayed as showing redeeming, heroic anti-villain qualities by backhanding the victim into a wall as hard as he can in present day.

me: hm. yeah fuck this

[music-for-them-asses]

This is my third Pride since I've realized I'm not straight, but I'm still hesitant to put a label on it for a thousand different reasons. But I'm learning that I don't need to know exactly what to call it, and that I don't need the ~ExPeRiEnCe~ to be considered LGBTQ+. Maybe this time next year I'll feel more confident about it.

Happy pride, everyone 🌈

[twistedappletree]

I love how pissy Jin Ling is about Wei Wuxian using demonic cultivation and being BFFs with Wen Ning but when Lan Sizhui defends both Wen Ning and the use of demonic cultivation, Jin Ling is like “hmmm interesting, let’s be best friends for the rest of our lives while I protect you from everything that ever threatens to harm you”

[dienothemink]

ok nk jemisin fifth season post real quick. the idea that her writing is about The Message and not the art (as if you could ever divorce the two!) is something that comes up semi-often in reviews and in fan spaces and to me, it just betrays such an incuriosity about what spec fic can be. like if all you got out of the fifth season is that racism is bad i feel as if you missed the themes!! somehow! they were not subtle!! which like, that’s a more founded criticism somewhat but at the same time. not to be all I Know Writers Who Use Subtext and They’re All Cowards about it because jemisin is very capable of subtlety and subtext, but subtlety without nuance is a much greater art sin. to me. and that’s just what a thousand white fantasy authors are doing for set dressing on their books about magic and war, but because jemisin gives these themes the gravity and focus they deserve, she’s writing Message Fic. hey have any of you heard about the sad puppies hugo award scandal.

[theoreticalli]

I put 30 tags on that dear evan hansen post. for the love of god don't click to expand the tags I'm so fucking sorry I just hate that awful fucking show so fucking much. oh fuck I've done it again in the tags here oh god

[kittenkatbar]

uuuh where is episode twelve???

[caterpillarinacave]

If you think the natm 3 junior novelization is deranged now just WAIT until they meet Cleopatra! What!

No but what was that even 😭😭😭😭

[littlehatmouse]

wips from valentines day art that i did not plan well and am not finishing tonight

[lorephobic]

cant stand other people talking about my blorbos. someone with the best intentions could be talking about my gay autist and i’ll get so irrationally mad when they blame something on him being gay when its actually the autisms fault