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Ideas of fatal character flaws? :3

Hi :)

Fatal character flaws

Aristotle calls this ‘Hamartia’ - a tragic flaw or error. It can be anything happening to good or bad characters, even otherwise good character traits and with good intentions that ultimately lead to the character’s demise. They are often traits that don’t neccessarily lead to someone’s downfall, but can if they’re done to an extreme. So think of these otherwise normal ‘flaws’ as extremes.

ignorance - not seeking helpful knowledge

selfishness - not thinking about others

curiosity - getting involved in things they shouldn’t get involved in

impetuousness - being too passionate/ not thinking before acting

pride - not giving in/ not taking help from others 

hubris - exaggerated opinion of oneself/ thinking nothing can get to them

lack of self-control - can’t help/stop themself

indecisiveness* - not being able to make decisions

confirmation bias - only taking in information that supports one’s own belief 

arrogance -  thinking they are superior

Have fun!

- Jana

*Interesting example: Chidi from The Good Place. A morally great character who is so extreme in always trying to make the right choice and therefore not being able to make a decision until it is proven to be right, it basically lands him in hell.

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So I’ve been thinking about rational vs. irrational character decisions.

An irrational decision is great when your story is driven by your character’s personal flaws and struggles, and for crafting situations where your audience knows that these decisions are unavoidable because they are perfectly in character. Having your characters be perfectly able to solve their problems if they weren’t, y’know, themselves, is so very hard-hitting, and can be a fantastic part of a narrative.

The downfall with irrational decisions is that it can make situations seem less dire or make your antagonists seem less dangerous. If your characters are falling over themselves and their own personal issues, then it’s hard to show how the external problems in your story pose a serious threat, because you can’t demonstrate how they’re hard to deal with if your characters aren’t making solidly competent attempts in the first place.

Rational decisions are great for stories where most of your problems are external, like your characters trying to build a spaceship or infiltrate the bad guy’s lair. It’s also key to any horror writing, where you need your characters to be competent in order for your danger to be credible; if your audience spends the entire time wondering why your protagonists aren’t doing very obvious things to solve their problems, it’ll be a lot harder to get a properly spooky atmosphere going. But if your characters are only ever making the most optimal, logical choices without ever struggling, they won’t be very compelling, so just like with irrational decision-making, there’s a time and a place for this.

Ideally, you want some combination of both rational and irrational character choices. And maybe even more importantly, whatever choice a character’s making needs to be one that makes sense for them given everything you’ve already shown in the narrative so far. If the decision feels forced or contrived, then it doesn’t matter if it’s rational or not, because it’s not a choice that fits with the rest of the story.

But, yeah, ultimately, both types of character decisions are useful tools, and it’s less about one or the other being right, and more about both of these tools being useful for different types of situations.

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Love Levi

The Man Who Gave His Heart The Most to Humanity

The Strongest Soldier That Ever Lived

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The amount of issues that could be avoided if people had the decency and maturity to speak to each other like civilized human beings instead of resorting to the more commonly used methods here, like anon hate, vagueing, and passive-aggressive posts that are clearly targeting a person or group.

In the three years I have been on this hellsite, I have witnessed how these "methods" turn minor issues into outright, unnecessary wars.

Here is some information for those who are unaware:

Anon hate is douchey and wrong. If you send it, you're a douche and wrong. Period. If you can't understand that, please stop reading because you are already beyond help.

Unless someone has notifications set for you, there is an excellent chance that your intended target will not even see your vague/passive-aggressive rants.

Then, when said vague/passive-aggressive rant goes unanswered and ignored, the person or mob behind it festers, simmers, and becomes more outraged.

Bruh. They probably never even saw it, and if they did, they may not known it was directed at them. Now, the problem is 10 times bigger and, best of all, the original problem was never even addressed, much less solved!

Here's another tip:

Don't always assume the worst about someone!

Especially when you never bothered to communicate with them. You're making blind assumptions when you have little or no facts. Trust me, unless you're a mind reader, you don't. You're not that smart, babes. Trust me. I'm not, either. TALK like grownups. It's much easier than all the bullshit that arises because of the above.

Now, you may be saying, "Hey, yeah, but aren't you vagueing/targeting right now, too?"

I'm sure some will take it that way. Since they likely won't reach out to me directly, they'll take their skewed logic as gospel and insist that they know my motivation. They'll also insist it's regarding "this" fandom event or whatever our drama du jour is.

Well, absolutely no one knows my motivation except me. So I'll make it clear. This is not geared toward any specific event, past or present, but an amalgamation of everything I've seen and experienced in the past three years. My motivation is two-fold. 1) I'm letting off steam, but, more importantly, 2) it is my sincere hope that people will see this, think about how they act and interact with others, and try to be better people.

I'm sure the fandom mind readers will dismiss what I just said and assign motivation to me. Have at it. I don't care.

No one knows my motivation except me, and no one knows my desired end goal, either. My desired end goal Is that everyone, myself included, will reflect more on how they behave and treat other people. I assure you, doing this will save others, the fandom, and, more importantly, it will save yourself a whole hell of a lot of unnecessary distress.

It's not that hard. Be better.

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Looking at you PB. Luckily I have my favorite scenes memorized and you can’t take that away from me.

I think it's evil that story games make you pay diamonds (or whatever) to do the only fun option. like they're gatekeeping the worst story you've ever read. It'll be full of spelling errors, none of the dialogue makes sense and there are more plot holes than potholes in the midwest.

It's basically the same thing as a choose your own adventure book but they took the evil path.

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Drake "Things are Great!" Walker, Los Angeles.

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ATTENTION

If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

#she’ll be coming around the mountain #don’t ask why #i have no idea

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We really are 😂

Someone in a neurodivergent group that I'm in posted this picture of a fork. The funniest part to me were all the crying emoji reacts.

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Lmao I saw that chaos. I love oyster forks.

Someone in a neurodivergent group that I'm in posted this picture of a fork. The funniest part to me were all the crying emoji reacts.

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🤣🤣

Same

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Yes

*strums guitar* beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful boy

#he’s the boyfriend #sebastian stan #boyfriend status #he’s a good one

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BOOM!

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Isle of Misfits (Round Robin 2)

Second @choicesprompts round robin.

Writer order and rules

Chapter 1: Welcome

Chapter 2: Untitled

Chapter 3: Untitled

Chapter 4: Initial Meeting TRR Olivia x Platinum Raleigh

Chapter 5: Don't Call Me an Angel OH Bryce x F!OC and Tobias Carrik

Chapter 6: A Royal Kidnapping. Leo Rys.

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Bad Romance Memes Part 11

Yes, yes, it's that time again. Time for more memes that remind us of Bad Romance!! Thank you to everyone who continues to send these to me! I appreciate it more than you know! It always brings a smile to my face when someone sees something in the wild that makes them think of one of my stories and then takes the time to send it to me!

Bad Romance Series

Bad Romance Extras

Bad Romance Continues

Here we go....

First up, Drake:

If he owned a bar

This is just so perfectly Drake

Riley x Drake:

More under the cut

This shirt that Riley definitely brought him

Riley:

Riley x Max

Riley x Liam:

And lastly, while Max may be the wind beneath everyone's wings in this story, the relationship between Liam and Riley is really the anchor. If their relationship were to fall apart, so would all the others. No matter how volatile or contentious they get with each other, they are bound together by something deeper than even they understand, and this is why they work despite their differences.

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Absolutely. Between your own and yours from others.

Babies Cries

Can you tell the difference from one baby crying to another when they are infants?

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