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yes girl I think it’s incredibly sexy how indecisive you are about every single decision in your life. I also love how you haven’t let anything go since you were 12. can we make out now

#it's me

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In writing, epithets ("the taller man"/"the blonde"/etc) are inherently dehumanizing, in that they remove a character's name and identity, and instead focus on this other quality.

Which can be an extremely effective device within narration!

They can work very well for characters whose names the narrator doesn't know yet (especially to differentiate between two or more). How specific the epithet is can signal to the reader how important the character is going to be later on, and whether they should dedicate bandwidth to remembering them for later ("the bearded man" is much less likely to show up again than "the man with the angel tattoo")

They can indicate when characters stop being as an individual and instead embody their Role, like a detective choosing to think of their lover simply as The Thief when arresting them, or a royal character being referred to as The Queen when she's acting on behalf of the state

They can reveal the narrator's biases by repeatedly drawing attention to a particular quality that singles them out in the narrator's mind

But these only work if the epithet used is how the narrator primarily identifies that character. Which is why it's so jarring to see a lot of common epithets in intimate moments-- because it conveys that the main character is primarily thinking of their lover/best friend/etc in terms of their height or age or hair color.

#writing #really good advice #narrowing in on how your pov character sees the world is the first building block of voice #and how they refer to other characters in the story in their pov is important for that

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Good stuff.

#writing #these are great #first draft is not final draft

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#it was just everywhere #so I was like 'sure why not?'

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I have a question for the fanfic writers among you: How do you treat your work in progress when a very similar story is put out there? Do you go on writing - in the spirit that everything is unique in its own way - or do you abandon the piece - in the spirit of preventing 'superfluous' contributions?

Let's add a further wrench into the process by saying the recently published work by another author, so similar to your own, seems so much better written than your own (granted we are always our own worst critics). Where do you go with that?

Maybe this is a question for readers, too. Do you mind reading similar works/story lines?

#I mean every story with the same concept is executed differently right? #like no one can tell your story like you can #though I was convinced there had to be 100 fics exactly like rose and rot and would have been sad #still would have published it though #two cakes!

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#am I the only one who wants to delete everything sometimes? #I won't #but I have days where I want to #like 50% of my days? #brains are fun! #less so now that i'm not actively updating

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☕️postcanon designs w/ headcanons (part one : shuake )

spoilers for persona 5 royal i think. yeah be careful

they get coffee for each other.

#americano with cinnamon my beloved #oh post canon shuakes my loves #I love these #tired and alive goro slowly healing in therapy #my favorite thing #i love these concepts omg #flawless a+ no notes #goro akechi #ren amamiya #persona 5 #fanart #shuake

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need your hands all up on my body, like the moon needs the stars

#aaah i love the lighting on this #and the poses #domestic shuake <3 #goro akechi #persona 5 #ren amamiya #fanart

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After months of staying silent on literary discourse here on Tumblr, I finally have something to contribute.

Fanfiction is not the problem. Fanfic is a free, communal and valid form of writing which, although not always high quality, has yielded some genuinely great stories. The real problem, the reason for ‘booktok books’ and the flaws in modern literature, is fanfic being hijacked by corporations. The minute people try to make money off of it, the minute fanfic and fanfic-style stories lose their meaning. Fanfiction is written on the notes app at 3am for you and 5 friends who share your taste. It is self-indulgent, chaotic, often told through a queer and/or neurodivergent lens, and free from any pressure to be commercially palatable. The minute a few stereotypical fanfiction tropes and ideas are stolen by commercial publishers and twisted into patriarchal, heteronormative versions of themselves with no character depth beyond the romance (a problem that for obvious reasons doesn’t apply to fanfic), that is where the real problem begins.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

#yeah #publishing #kind of #writing

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when I see something dated 2019 I think “oh that’s not too long ago” and then I remember that 2019 was not only five years ago but those five years have somehow contained several lifetimes

#you have no idea

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And to devour you in the night is but a start

#aaaaaah #holy omg #ahaha this is so good! #goro akechi #ren amamiya #persona 5 #fanart

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realized i forgot to post this, here's the sort of sequel to my last ryugoro cowboy post! this was a painting study from "Coming Down from the Mountain" by Billy Schenck (1993)

#wowww #I would read this fanfic #like I would read this fanfic every day #ryuji sakamoto #goro akechi #ryugoro #persona 5 #fanart

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Mmmmjupeter

#yesssss #shuake #we all know ahahah

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:(

#me thinking about the last chapter in my fic #and the epilogue #haven't been written #still give me psychic damage

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need him to get out of my head

#aah he's so cute! #goro akechi #persona 5 #fanart #I love his little smile!

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all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

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I was scared to change, once upon a time.

#oouuuughhhh #omg #i live for soft shuake moments #I love how safe they look here #it's everything to me #so gorgeous and so soft #the rendering too aaaahh and the colors #goro akechi #ren amamiya #persona 5 #fanart #shuake