#Info-dump

[theheadlesshorseman13]

Writing about Raki/ Raeder because I have writer’s block for B&R and I wanna write about them!

Raph and Saki love to spar together. Because of Raph’s unpredictability, you just can’t tell what he’s going to do before he does it, and after figuring out how Rockwell’s foresight worked, he thinks about the first thing that comes to mind when he is fighting. (Usually it’s a random made-up song that popped into his head). Saki finds his unpredictability interesting, and he sees fighting Raph as a challenge. Raphael loves the fact that Saki doesn’t go down easy, and Saki’s lasted the longest compared to anyone else he’s sparred against.

Saki’s fighting style is adaptable. If he makes the first move it’s to calculate his opponent’s reaction times and movement style. If he doesn’t, it’s to understand his opponent’s offensive patterns. Raph can change what he’s going to do in a split-second, and Saki needs to be even quicker than that to be able to either land a hit or dodge one.

When they fight together, they are unstoppable. Raph is a tank who is 50% bullet proof who hits like a freight train with the speed of a bullet train. Saki (being smaller in B&R) uses him as a shield when they are facing gunmen, and can use Raph as an excellent obstacle to put some distance between him and someone else. They work with each other’s blind spots. They stay close to each other, sometimes holding hands, and only separate to keep themselves from being surrounded. Raph’s biggest blind spot is his back, as he has a giant genetic bullet-proof hidey-hole on his back, and Saki does a great job in covering it. As I’ve mentioned, Saki’s weakest point is on his right side. Raph has started to keep on Saki’s right side after they had some story time about each of their scars.

Communication is important. It’s no secret that Raph in my series has been neglected. He gets left out of things, or told he wouldn’t understand things if he wasn’t. This is one of the many ways to get Raph angry, simply because it reminds him of how alone he felt after the dog attack.

Saki, meanwhile, is trust issues with legs. People lie to him constantly because they thought - especially when he was starting out as leader of the Footclan - he was incompetent. The Hamato Clan preferred using their fists instead of their words with him when he was a boy, and being left out of the loop makes him simply explode.

Raph and Saki have both agreed that even the smallest detail when it comes to something that may be troubling them or even remotely concerns the other will be stated and talked through. They have both been lied to, and they don’t want any grief to come in this relationship.

Coping mechanisms. I won’t say much here because I want to talk through this in TMNT: TM&TW, but they both have developed bad coping mechanisms for when they get angry or stressed or scared. In an, I suppose, ironic way, Raph and Saki are each other’s saviours. They both have life-changing trauma and tempers that could evaporate the sun, and they didn’t know how to get many healthy outlets for it. Raph’s only healthy outlets were knitting and singing, both he had to suppress and hide around his brothers for fear of being caught whilst doing it and being teased. Saki’s was beating the shit out of the punching bag in his quarters, or drawing (more on that in later chapters) but he never really had time for either because he constantly filled his days with work work work.

They also are suckers for the romantic stuff in my opinion, although they would rather bury themselves alive than admit it.

#tmnt 2012 #fanfiction #tmnt raphael x shredder #tmnt raphael #tmnt shredder #Info-dump #I guess headcannons? #Slight spoilers

[selenekallanwriter]

Person: What's your book about?

Writers:

I'm both somehow 🙃

#writers on tumblr #writeblr #writing #creative writing #writing memes #writer memes #writer mood #writer problems #am writing #urban fantasy #paranormal romance #writer musings #just something that came to mind while I info dumped my poor mom

[lilybug-02]

Possession PSA.

Thank you @ferronickel for giving me this crack head idea.

#this is probably one of the more niche comics #chara 100% knows about [X] #deltarune guitar hero when? #chara and ralsei both info dumping about how much they love the player and how the intricacies of how players work #they are business partners #possession PSA #bread #ask stuff #deltarune chara timeline #mini comic #art #my art #deltarune #memes #chara #ralsei #kris

[joycrispy]

One thing I love about Crowley --never stated, but consistently shown-- is that he is, at heart, an engineer.

I have a few different things to say about that. Let's unpack them.

As the Unnamed Angel, we see his designs for the Pillars of Creation are millions of pages long, comprised of cramped text, footnotes, diagrams, schematics, etc. It's very...Renaissance polymath, in the way it implies a particular intersection of artist and inventor.

Also: in the naked romanticism with which he views his stars.

We already knew he made stars, but in s2 we learn that he did NOT sculpt each of them by hand. He designed a nebula ("a star factory," he says) that will form several thousand young stars and proto-planets, and all --aside from getting the 'factory' running-- without him lifting a finger. We also learn that these young stars and proto-planets stand in contrast to those made by other angels, which are going to come 'pre-aged.'

...I'm reminded of Hastur and Ligur's approach to temptations. Damning one human soul at a time, devoting singular attention to it over the course of years or decades, and how that stands in contrast to Crowley's reliance on, quote, 'knock-on effects.'

Ligur: It's not exactly...craftsmanship. Crowley: Head office don't seem to mind. They love me down there.

Hm.

I'm also reminded of the M25.

The M25 may not be as grand as a nebula (sentences you only say in GOmens fandom...), but LIKE his nebula it's an intricate, self-sustaining engine that does Crowley's work for him, many times over. Again.

That's some pretty neat characterization --and so is the indication towards Crowley's disinterest in victimizing anyone tempting individual people. It takes a considerable amount of planning and effort (and creeping about in wellies), but in accordance with his design the M25 generates a constant stream of low-grade evil on a gigantic scale.

Cumulatively gigantic, that is. Individually? Negligible.

But no other demon understands human nature well enough to parse that one million ticked-off motorists are not, in any meaningful way, actually equivalent to one dictator, or one mass-murderer, or even one little influential regressive. That's the trick of it. Crowley gets Hell's approval (which he NEEDS to survive, and to maintain the degree of freedom he's eked out for himself), and at the same time ensures that any actual ~Evil Influence~ is spread nice and thin.

It's some clever machinery. And he knows it, too:

The Unnamed Angel and Crowley are both proud of their ideas.

(musings on professional pride, Leonardo da Vinci, the crank handle, and 'the point to which Crowley loves Aziraphale' under the cut)

In the 1970's Crowley gives a presentation on the M25, projector and all, to a room full of increasingly impatient demons. Maybe the presentation was work-ordered; the 'can I hear a WAHOO?' definitely wasn't.

Before the Beginning, the Unnamed Angel can barely contain his excitement about his nebula. Aziraphale manages a baffled-but-polite, "....That's nice... :)"

11 years ago, Hastur and Ligur want to 'tell the deeds of the day,' and Crowley smiles to himself because (according to the script-book) he knows he has 'the best one.'

(Naturally, his 'deed' has nothing to do with tempting anybody, and everything to do with setting up a human-powered Rube-Goldberg machine of petty annoyance. Oodles of 'Evil' generated; very little harm done.)

Hastur and Ligur don't get it, of course. That's also consistent.

Nobody ever knows what the hell he's talking about.

It didn't make it on-screen, but, in both the novel AND the script-book, Crowley was friends with Leonardo da Vinci. The quintessential Renaissance polymath. That's where he got his drawing of the Mona Lisa --they're getting very drunk together, and Crowley picks up the 'most beautiful' of the preliminary sketches. He wants to buy it. Leonardo agrees almost off-the-cuff, very casual, because they're friends, and because he has bigger fish to fry than haggling over a doodle:

He goes, "Now, explain this helicopter thingie again, will you?" Because he's an engineer, too.

(It is 1519 at the latest, in this scene. Why the FUCK would Crowley know about helicopters, and be able to explain them, comprehensively, to Leonardo da Vinci?

...Well. I choose to believe he got bored one day and worked it out. Look, if you know how to build a nebula, you can probably handle aerodynamics. And anyway, I think it's telling that this is his idea of shooting the shit. 'A drunken mind speaks a sober heart,' and all. He probably babbled about Aziraphale long enough to make poor Leo sick)

Apart from Aziraphale, Leonardo da Vinci is the only person Crowley has any keepsakes or mementos of.

Think about that, though. Aziraphale's bookshop is bursting with letters, paintings, busts, and personalized signatures memorializing all the humans he's known and befriended over 6000 years (indeed: Aziraphale has living human friends up and down Whickber Street. He's part of a community).

Crowley doesn't have any of that. It's just the stone albatross from the Church (for pining), the infamous gay sex statue (for spicy pining), the houseplants (for roleplaying his deepest trauma over and over, as one does), and this one piece of artwork, inscribed, "To my friend Anthony from your friend Leo da V."

To me, at least, that suggests a level of attachment that seems to be rare for Crowley.

...Maybe he liked having someone to talk shop with? Someone who was interested? Someone engaged enough to ask questions when they didn't immediately understand?

...Anyway.

There's also the matter of the crank handle.

This thing:

This is one of the subtler changes from the book. In the book, Crowley knows Satan is coming and, desperate, arms himself with a tire iron. It's the best he can do. He's not Aziraphale; he wasn't made to wield a flaming sword.

The show, IMO, improves on this considerably. Now he, like Aziraphale, gets to face annihilation with what he was made for in his hand. And it's not a weapon, not even an improvised one like the tire iron.

He made stars with it.

[both gifs by @fuckyeahgoodomens]

If you Google 'crank handle,' you'll get variations on this:

Crank handles have been around for centuries. Consisting of a mechanical arm that's connected to a perpendicular rotating shaft, they are designed to convert circular motion into rotary or reciprocating motion.

Which is to say they're one of the 'simple machines,' like a lever or a pulley; the bread and butter of engineering. You'll also get a list of uses for a crank handle, archaic and modern. Among them: cranking up the engine of an old-fashioned car... say, a 1933 Bentley. That's what Crowley has been using his for, lately. But he's had it since he was an angel and he's still, it seems, very capable of it's angelic applications.

Stopping time. For instance.

(This is conjecture on my part, but, I like to imagine that Crowley has the ability to stop time for the same reason I can --and should-- unplug my computer before I perform maintenance on it. Time and Space are a matched set, after all, and in his designs in particular, one feeds into the other.)

I know everyone has already said this, but: I REALLY LIKE that when he needs to channel the heights of his power, he does so not with a weapon but with a tool. Practically with a little handheld metaphor for ingenuity. One from long-lost days when he made beautiful things.

(And he loved it. Still loves it --he incorporated that metaphor into the Bentley, didn't he?)

Let Aziraphale rock up to the apocalypse with a weapon: he has his own compelling thematic reasons to do exactly that. Crowley's story is different, and fighting isn't the only way to express defiance. And if you've been condemned as a demon and assumed to be destructive by your very nature, what better way than this?

He made stars. They didn't manage to take that from him.

Neither Crowley nor Aziraphale are fighters, really --they have no intention of fighting in any war. They'll annoy everyone until there's no war to fight in, for a start. But between the two, if one must be, then that one is Aziraphale. Principality of the Earth, Guardian of the Eastern Gate, Wielder of the Flaming Sword... all that stuff. Even if he'd prefer not to, it's very clear that Aziraphale can rise to the occasion, if he must.

Crowley was never that kind of angel. He wasn't a Principality. He doesn't have a sword.

...And yet.

It's Crowley who protects. He's the one who paces, who stands guard, who circles Aziraphale and glares out at the world, just daring anyone else to come near.

In light of everything else I've said here, I think that's interesting.

Obviously part of it is that Aziraphale enjoys it and, you know, good for him. He's living his best life, no doubt no doubt no doubt. But what about Crowley? What's driving that behavior, really?

Have you heard the phrase, 'loved to the point of invention'? Well, what if 'the point of invention' was where you started? What if where you end up involves glaring out at the world, just daring anyone else to come near? What is that, in relation to the bright-eyed thing you used to be?

What do we name the point to which Crowley loves Aziraphale?

...Thinking about how an excitable angel with three million pages of star design he wants to tell you all about...becomes a guard dog. Is all.

#good omens #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #Crowley #Aziraphale #good omens 2 #good omens meta #unfortunately I do not have trains of thought #only long meandering strolls of thought #sorry about it #anyway tl;dr Crowley is a nerd #also I have a strange emotional attachment to the idea of 1500's Crowley... #...facedown in a pile of Mona Lisa sketches; drunkenly info-dumping about Aziraphale #and Da Vinci is just like. 'Ahhhh mio amico Antonio. You fucking simp.'

[alphie-in-the-sky]

#r/evilautism #sexy primes #info-dump #ain't that neurotypical #netflix #stole from twitter #i love queue #evil autism

[thatonemacaronikid]

That moment when you have no one to listen to your info dump so you just walk around your room in circles ranting to yourself

#autism #actually autism #audhd #actually audhd #adhd #actually adhd #neurodivergence #actually neurodivergent #disability pride #info dump

[subwaytrainrat]

Bro… if you don’t even like trains why are you even talking to me right now…

#pokemon #submas #pokemon submas #my art #subway boss emmet #subway master emmet #emmet #emmet Pokémon #pokemon emmet #bro… #he is so srs #trains are so cool guys #like he is ready to punch (info dump) to anyone who disagrees (doesn’t like trains that much)

[pirateprincessjess]

One time I walked into a bar and the bartender looked at me and said “Hey! I am ready for more train facts!”

I had never seen this person in my life, but apparently another woman, who also happened to be a transwoman, and who looked a lot like me sat at the bar and told her a bunch of facts about trains.

I really want to meet the train fact lady

#for the record #I do know train facts #and I had to stop and think about if I had info dumped about trains to a bartender #and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t me #especially since the bar tender was also pretty sure that it wasn’t me after she talked to me for like 2 seconds #but man I absolutely would have done that #it was weird

[biteable-pink-pixie]

Haaaaalp

#nerd rants #grippy socks #nerd posting #info dump #pixie pictures 💕 #funny memes #meme #dank memes #obsessive yandere #yandere thoughts #k!nk community

[aki-chan2014]

Hello! I have a question!

What is Kawaakari vibes in your tag?

Thank you!

Hello! Thank you for asking, because this gives me a perfect excuse to go on a special interest info-dump. :) Though, I will balance that with not turning this answer into something that's the length of a novel.

Ahem, anyway. One of the things I really enjoy doing is watching chorus battles. I won't really go into what those are here-otherwise, this really will become novel-length. But the point is, I've been watching as an invisible/silent spectator for years, but I'm a bit more involved now. Sometimes, I even write fanfictions for entries that I have particularly enjoyed or been intrigued by, or whatever.

Anyway, one such chorus battle (or CB for short) is called Kawaakari Academy Chorus Battle (KACB or KACB2 for short). It's actually had/having two iterations. One is ongoing now (it's in its registration period, where groups sign up to take part) and the other one started late 2020 and finished in the summer last year. I'll refer to that as "last year's Kawaakari" for the rest of this answer. One of the interesting things about KACB/KACB2 is that it is very, very story-rich. So it particularly captured my imagination and interest above and beyond the general interest I have in watching CBs.

So, with last year's Kawaakari, I found myself thinking about what the world in which Kawaakari Academy existed was like, and writing a number of fanfics as a result of this. KACB essentially became my special interest within a special interest. As a result, I would sometimes find that I'd come across posts here that reminded me of certain aspects of Kawaakari Academy, which is what made me like them. Sometimes, I'd even look out for posts that had a 'Kawaakari' kind of feel to me, just to reblog them. Hence me using the tag '#Kawaakari vibes', because that's what the tag communicates: that there is something about the post that reminds me of Kawaakari. Whether that was something in the canon (so to speak) or just something that fit with my own headcanons and imaginings of what the Kawaakari world was like, to me those things had those vibes.

HOWEVER, though I have been doing that for a while, initially I started using a different tag. That tag was #Luciform vibes, named for one of the fanfictions I wrote for last year's Kawaakari. That was a multi-chapter affair, incorporating entries from multiple participating groups across all three rounds. It is one of the fanfics I am most proud of from a writing perspective, though I am slowly making minor revisions to some chapters. But I digress. Some of the things I re-blogged and tagged with the "#Luciform vibes" tag were all things that could fit a more general "#Kawaakari vibes" feel, however some things reminded/remind me specifically of certain plot aspects of Luciform. So while last year's Kawaakari was ongoing, and while I was still writing Luciform, I mostly used "#Luciform vibes" but after both were finished I gradually switched over to "#Kawaakari vibes".

I have a feeling I will be using the tag a lot more now that this year's Kawaakari is under way. I am participating in a group this year, as their storywriter (which is quite a privilege, as usually teams don't go for seperate story-writing members, the main categories of team members are vocals, mix, art and animation). But even if I wasn't I would be ready to immerse myself into whatever new lore is given this year. I would possibly even consider writing more fanfic, though since I'm a participant for now I wouldn't commit to a huge thing like last year's Luciform. Even with that though, as I said, Kawaakari Academy has become a special interest within a special interest, so I would still end up coming across things that remind me of it.

Anyway, that should answer your question.

#answered ask #special interest #info-dump #Kawaakari Academy Chorus Battle

[rozmorris]

How to master back story - book now for my mini-course, September 21st

How to master back story – book now for my mini-course, September 21st

Back story is a vital element of novel and memoir, but tricky to use well. I’ve certainly been reminded of this when commenting on manuscripts at Pop-Up Submissions. Writers often make the mistake of including it right at the beginning, bringing the narrative to a standstill. But once you learn some tricksy, back story is a versatile and exciting element that will add richness, depth and…

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#avoid info-dump #back story #courses #courses for writers #how to use back story #info-dump #Jane Friedman #sharpen your storytelling

[bamsara]

Blue screening on me daily will not grant this laptop a dignified retirement idc how many keys are missing or how melted your components are. I will wring every bit of use out of you until your final boot up and when your speakers make one more screeching error beep, the melted piece of your casing chips off some more, and you no longer turn on, I will gut you for what little parts you have of worth and your keyboard with missing rows will become a nostalgic bed for my cat to sleep on

#Typed up a really long response info dumping about Trod just for Arson to 'unexpected stores exception' BSOD my ass and lose it all #i havent done art on arson in a long while at least #sara shush

[writingwithfolklore]

When to Info Dump

                I was taught as a young writer to never ever ‘info dump’. An info dump is a paragraph (or several) that just runs the readers through info they need to know. While avoiding info dumps is typically a good practice—lots of information at once can be overwhelming, boring, or ‘cheap’—as with most things in writing, never say never. Recently, I finished a book that info dumps often, and with intention, and it worked.

                To info dump well, you actually have to do it often (or relatively often). Just one info dump somewhere in the middle or beginning of the story is going to seem like a mistake. Using it as a literary technique however, and it adds a sort of intrigue, whimsy, or discordant tone to your story.

                In this way, it becomes a quirk of your narrator’s voice. It should match or make sense with the character you are following. A super serious, meticulous character may info dump in the way they would list off the information they know. A more bubbly character may info dump out of excitement to share their interests.

                Which brings us to the type of information you can reasonably info dump without getting in trouble. Of course, the information shared should be stuff that your character would know, but also, information that they would care to share.

                For example, that serious character would info dump only pertinent, personally important information, whereas the bubbly character probably wouldn’t info dump about real estate or politics—unless of course it’s part of their special interests. A detail oriented character may only info dump about things they are noticing in the moment. A history buff would definitely info dump about culture and the past.

                Essentially, use the right amount, for the right character, with the right information, and you can pull off an intentional and well-done info dump. Otherwise, avoid it!

                What are your thoughts on exposition or info-dumping?

#writing #writers #writing tips #writing advice #writing inspiration #creative writing #writing community #books #film #filmmaking #screenwriting #novel writing #fanfiction #writeblr #info dump #exposition #when to info dump

[awkwardsonicphotos]

One thing that has happened recently with sonic that I adore is when Sonic does things real hedgehogs do.

Curling up when nervous where only his face is visible. (Obviously sonic is brave by nature so you would hardly ever get this. But still cute.)

My hedgehog, Thistle, sleeps like this. Half curled up.

Hedgehogs are nocturnal and can not see well at all during the day or in bright rooms. If I turn on a light my hedgehogs freeze in place and just stand there like a deer in headlights.

But hedgehogs do navigate their surroundings very well in the dark thanks to their amazing sense of smell and hearing! Even if a hedgehog is blind they can get around surprisingly well! So sonic using his ears to listen for danger is very accurate hedgehog behavior.

And finally, sonic constantly face planting is also very accurate for hedgehogs. Hedgehogs have terrible depth perception and sense of height. If you have a pet hedgehog you should always be around them and watch them carefully so they don’t walk off high ledges or fall off of tables or beds. They will also just run right into walls. While their quills are amazing for absorbing the shock of falls if they land on their face or belly it could be fatal or lead to severe injuries. Thankfully, Sonic is very sturdy.

#sonic the hedgehog #honestly this was just my excuse to info dump about hedgehogs #i love hedgehogs and know so many useless facts about them #they are just living potatoes with stick legs

[underwaves]

gonna make 2024 a good year for underwaves let's go!!! ᕦ⁠(⁠ò⁠_⁠ó⁠ˇ⁠)⁠ᕤ

#naut!sans #undertale au #underwaves au #utmv au #utmv #sans au #thal!papyrus #myart #i wanna info dump and draw some comics hehe

[mulderscully]

cheeked up henry for @alexbidiaz ✨

#he's thicc AND info dumping. white boy of the century #* #rwrbedit #rwrbsource #rwrb movie #henry fox mountchristen windsor #henry fox #red white and royal blue #rwrb #usertj #iuserzoe #userninz #usersteen #tusertha #userclara #chrissiewatts #usermandie #usergayppl #fyeahmovies #filmedit #usergay