#Inspired by true stories

[quirky-book-reads]

A Mother's War

My 3.5* review of A Mother's War by Helen Parusel (@HelenParusel). A Mother's War is an emotive story about one woman's journey of friendship and other experiences as she falls in love with the enemy... #historicalfiction #ww2 #comingofage #debutnovel

Genre: Historical Fiction A forbidden romance in occupied Norway… Narvik, 1940. After Laila awakens to the sight of warships in the fjord, it isn’t long before she turns resistor to the brutal Nazi regime. She is horrified when local girls begin affairs with enemy soldiers, yet against her own principles, she finds herself falling in love with German soldier, Josef. Josef is not like the…

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[agentravensong]

thinking about how the extra area added on to a pacifist run of undertale, the true lab, is about alphys's past mistakes. how it ends with the story reaffirming that, despite the pain she's caused, the thing that matters is that she has now made the choice to do the right thing. she's still worthy of her friends' love.

thinking about how undertale doesn't expect the player to get a pacifist ending for the first time. how it's more likely than not that the player will kill toriel the first time they battle her, how lots of players don't initially figure out how to end undyne's fight without killing her, etc. what it expects — not even expects, really, but hopes — is that the player, if they care enough, will use their canonically acknowledged power over time to make up for those mistakes.

no matter how many neutral runs a player has done before committing to the pacifist run, the thing that matters to the characters, to the story, is that you've chosen, now, to do the right thing.

compared to alphys, the player honestly gets off lightly, in that you're the only one (other than flowey) who really remembers any harm you might have caused. and any direct guilting the game could have done about it is long past at this point. instead, as undertale often does, it makes its point via parallels: alphys caused harm, and she knows it. she has committed to being better. in doing so, she has unlocked for herself a better ending to her story. and she deserves it. she's forgiven.

those structural narrative parallels are all over undertale, if you know where to look. and that's one of the things that makes it so fuckin' good.

#undertale #alphys #true lab #this inspired by a mutual's alphys posting #and a discord convo i had a couple weeks back about ut's stance on ''punishing'' the player vs the monsters for their actions #and thoughts i've had generally post a certain fangame with a color in its name about just how well ut is structured as a narrative #everyone rightfully praises toby fox's character writing but stuff like this i think flies under the radar a bit by comparison #and it deserves to be appreciated #there's obvious Lore reasons why the true lab is only visited in a pacifist run (what's revealed about chara and flowey) #but this is the other half of it: the message of alphys's story hits hardest on a paci route post neutral runs #toby fox is a good writer more often than not

[generic-sonic-fan]

While I absolutely adore Shadow speaking with 50/60s slang, I equally love the concept of him and Maria and maybe like the five other total children (high estimate) aboard the ARK coming up with their own slang and then Shadow just assuming that slang is universal once he gets to Earth. Catch him saying shit like "don't count the guinea pigs until the testing is over" and Sonic and co. look at him like "????? Shadow what the FUCK are you talking about ????"

#shadow the hedgehog #inspired by a true story #I grew up saying a really weird phrase like it was common slang. nope. my family was just fuckin' weird.

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"I’m so glad I reached this mindset where I just never look for attention, never want to impress anyone, never try to make anyone like me, I just am so enough for my own liking and it’s all that matters."

#quotes #personal #fact #wise words #thoughtful #wise quotes #true story #inspiring quotes #good vibes #positive mindset #attention

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Percy: Hey Wise Girl, did you know that I have a YouTube Series? The Mysterious-

Annabeth: The Mysterious Disappearances of Percy Jackson, I’ve seen it

Percy: Really?

Annabeth: Yeah, you’ve got several, but we’ve all got one. I was Rockabye Runaway

Percy: All of us?

Annabeth: Yep

Percy:

Percy: So Nico-

Annabeth: His is “Nico Di Angelo: Boy Lost In Time or Dangerous Fraud?,” comes from a conspiracy channel called TimeTravelersRUs

Jason: What about-

Annabeth: Whatever Happened to the Grace Family by Famous Family Misfortune, they also have one on Piper called Piper McLean: American Darling or American Criminal?

Leo: Ooh, do I have one?

Annabeth: Yeah, yours is “The Boy Who Set His World On Fire: The True Story of Leo Valdez” by Baby Criminals Dot Com, they are convinced that you’ve committed serial arson

Percy: Hazel and Frank?

Annabeth: another TimeTravelersRUs vid called The Girl Made Of Diamonds and a video by someone called True Stories From Around The Globe called Canadian Terror: The Frank Zhang Story. They both spent the entire time mispronouncing their last names

Piper: Hey I think I remember someone asking about that at school-

Percy: WAIT IS THAT WHY SOMEONE ASKED IF I WAS IN A CULT LAST WEEK?!

Leo: Hey someone asked you that too? Nice!

Frank: *sighs* I’ll talk to Chiron

Nico: How did you even let these things get on YouTube anyways?

Annabeth: In my defense, we aren’t even allowed to use technology

Hazel: I’m still confused on what a YouTube is

#I like the idea that they all have YouTube series’ #they love to throw around true story a lot considering that they make up half of their bullshit #also I may or may not have gotten inspiration for this from a tiktoker so yeah #credits to them #I feel like almost every time someone makes a video about annabeth they have to squeeze the fact that she ran away at 7 into the title #Piper definitely knew about her and Leo’s but never told Leo about his cuz of the whole. y’know. arson thing #they have all been asked if they are in a cult at least once #pjoverse #percy jackson #hazel levesque #leo valdez #frank zhang #annabeth chase #jason grace #nico di angelo #piper mclean #heroes of olympus #incorrect heroes of olympus #incorrect percy jackson

[fictionadventurer]

Listening to a podcast interview with the directors of Treasure Planet, and one of the most fascinating things is when they talk about how the '90s Disney animation climate was all about making these prestige animated films with stories that could have been done in live action (Hunchback, Pocahontas), and these guys fought to make films that could only be done (or at least be best done) with animation. Because it's kind of the inverse of their current philosophy of making everything live action even if it's a story that's better in animation. So anyway if the live-action Treasure Planet thing is really happening, it's like spitting in the face of this movie's intent.

#treasure planet #disney #also i may just have to keep this one in my back pocket for writing inspiration #because the way they talk about blending a classic story with their new take #and about how they try to distill the story down to its essence #like a caricature that keeps it simple and reveals the true heart of the story #is a lot like how i like to approach retellings #70-30 rule is a good term (that's what they used to describe their blend of past vs future aesthetic) #and thinking about that blend is esp helpful for the story i'm currently mulling over

[sirensorisons]

#welcome to the shitshow.txt #inspired by a true story #alien stage #ivantill #blood

[rinkara]

REMINDER FROM ONIISAN - GREENGUY.Z0NE ADMIN

#idolish7 #yamato nikaido #my art #I did so much research on the fonts for this meme I hope you enjoy it #inspired by a true story of my mutual at an i7 photoshoot #also it's part 1 ymt because character development and he no longer hits da bricks. good for him

[cissa-calls]

Countdown to Agatha: Darkhold Diaries: Day 717

Wanda: “Agatha! Let us in! Your alarm has been beeping from the basement for the past TWO HOURS”

Y/N: “-And you keep just snoozing it! Why play this psychological warfare? Please? Just let us know why you must torture us so?!”

Wanda: “Agatha, if you don’t silence your alarm or open this door, I’m giving you to the count of three before I go full Scarlet Witch and bust down this door! One, Two-“

*meanwhile*

Agatha: *passed out under a work table using a towel and wooden plank as a mattress*

#inspired by a true story #wandavision #agatha harkness #house of harkness #agatha all along #hahndavision #house of harkness counter #marvel #wanda maximoff #agatha harkness x reader #wanda maximoff x reader #coven of chaos counter #coven of chaos #incorrect marvel quotes #Darkhold diaries counter #darkhold diaries #agatha: darkhold diaries

[thedemon-crowley]

Fun fact: took me a long time to figure out how to drink out of a cup like a human being. I used to bite the cup like a complete IDIOT. No idea why. It was a bad habit or something.

Did it with a glass once. Imagine my shock to discover a big chunk of glass in my mouth! Wow! Who would’ve guessed.

I was fine. Good times were had all round. Never caught myself doing it since.

#crowleyposting #🐍🍎🔥 #//ooc: inspired by a real and true story about me//

[quirky-book-reads]

Return to Paradiso, #2

Genre: Historical Fiction Italy, 1950. The dawn of a new decade brings with it the promise of lasting peace and prosperity as the hardships of war are consigned to the past. In Pieve Santa Clara, a tiny village in rural Lombardy, Graziella Ponti, now a teenager, lives a simple life with her widowed mother and aunt. But Italy is transforming around Graziella at great speed and, as her childhood…

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#1950-1963 #2023 #Child Pregnancy #Child Rape #Coming of age #Domestic Violence #Francesca Scanacapra #Historical Fiction #Humour #Inspired by true stories #Italy #Paradiso Novels #Post-WW2 #Rape #Series #Warning

[megahorous]

It's PIE TIME

#inspired by a true story #PaRappa the Rapper #Um Jammer Lammy #PJ Berri #friends #pie #Pi Day #welcome to Pie

[princeandreis]

#inspired by a true story <- my wednesday afternoon biology lecture #This Is Funny. now reblag #sex sells #lovejoy #lovejoy band #name soundalikes meme #name soundalikes #meme #mcyt #wilbur soot

[smute]

honestly the problem with booktok (and bookstagram) is not YA lit. it's not about people enjoying books that some might consider "low-brow" or whatever.

imo booktok is the culmination of several problems:

firstly, there's the homogeneity of algorithmic recommendations and the enormous influence those recommendations have on the publishing market. booktok recs tend to be of a very similar style and subject matter. they're easily digestible, easily bingeable titles that arent overly complex. booktok favors stories written by white women, often featuring characters with traumatic backstories and focusing on themes like overcoming adversity and the pursuit of romantic love. they are also usually very anglo-/americentric. none of this is necessarily bad, and none of it is by design, but it's not a coincidence either. it's the result of the constraints of short-form content on the one hand, and on the other, of an algorithm that amplifies, in broad strokes, the preferences of the core demographic of any given group of users.

secondly, it's about the commodification, not of reading, but of being Someone Who Reads Books (TM), which i think is just a particularly obvious symptom of online peer pressure and social-media-driven self-presentation. booktok doesn't encourage you to read, for example, sally rooney. it encourages the cultivation of one's own identity as someone who reads sally rooney. the problem here is not that sally rooney is a shit writer whose work has nothing of note to say. quite the opposite. sally rooney's work is relevant and interesting. in fact, it's being studied by scholars, and even if it wasn't, people can and should be allowed to enjoy some light reading, and yes, even Problematic (TM) fictional characters.

the real problem is the fact that the very nature of how booktok works actively discourages the critical discussion of the stories that it circulates. the problem is not millions of teenagers reading colleen hoover's slop (i love me some slop) – it's millions of teenagers encouraging each other to read and internalize – UNCRITICALLY – hoover's particularly romanticized depiction of abuse. tiktok's algorithm does not foster diversity of opinion. it doesn't foster diversity PERIOD. it doesn't foster slow, in-depth discussion. its only function is *make line go up* – line go up = clicks, views, engagement, money.

due to tiktok's popularity, booktok also has an enormous influence on marketing-related and (apparently, to some extent) editorial decision-making in the publishing industry. this is not just the fault of booktok, goodreads is part of the same problem. i mean, booktok has managed to turn colleen hoover's 'it ends with us' into a bestseller FIVE YEARS after it was originally published. it has also led to publishers dropping authors or DELAYING THE RELEASE of new titles after booktokers flooded the goodreads pages of unpublished books with one star reviews.

as i said, the underlying issue here is not unique to booktok. it's the same homogenization that plagues the movie industry, the tv industry, streaming services, etc. the publishing industry is just particularly vulnerable to such manipulations of public opinion. in the end, tiktok is not a social media app. it's an entertainment app and its content is focused on brevity. the biggest booktokers aren't simply avid readers. they don't post actual reviews of books they enjoyed. they're influencers who receive boxes of books from publishing houses to show off in haul videos like "have you guys heard of squarespace?" and that's it. the level of engagement with the texts themselves is like reading a blurb on the dustjacket, and unfortunately that is reflected in the selection of titles that become popular. if it can't be sold to you in 3 sentences, the algorithm will bury it.

#and that dear children is why we hate booktok #and before you respond: THINK! #is it TRUE? is it HELPFUL? is it INSPIRING? is it HELPFUL? is it KIND? #<- that spells thihk but you know what i mean lmfkxkdkg #again: NOT about young adult fiction #im a staunch defender of the YA genre #a lot of hate towards YA books is just thinly veiled misogyny #this is not about that #this is about tiktok in particular and how it encourages superficial engagement with simple stories #how it *prohibits* deeper engagement with more complex texts #and about the chokehold it has on the book industry #& #oh also #booktok single-handedly destroyed z-lib

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It's true that crying won't solve things but we dont cry to solve. We cry to release.

#quotes #feelings #emotions #the tears are real #inspiring quotes #my thoughts #positive quotes #mental health #healing #facts #true story #dumblr

[kaos-al-escribir]

Prompt #18

The hero and his sidekick enter the warehouse where they believe the criminal may have been hiding. They are tired of searching, and both want to go home.

"Marco!" shouts the hero to lighten the mood.

"Very funny. However, the criminal isn't dumb enough to fall-"

"Polo!" Resounds an unfamiliar voice across the warehouse. "Oh, shit."

[Prompt based on true events.]

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