#and narratively smooth

[mapofthesoul20]

I don’t likeee sugar rush ride, but I am obsessed with it so rip me I guess lol

#Moas don’t interact lol!!! I’m just processing feelings not hating #like I’m obsessed #I wanna learn the choreography I want it to play at my funeral #but I also hate that it’s pulling a sm thing of mashing three songs incoherently together #slow rabbit don’t fal for the trend you’re better than this #anyway #I’m really enjoying the album #it’s weird and I like when txt are weird and unique in their sounds #and narratively smooth #it’s eternity’s sister #happy fools is ice cream’s sister y’all and I love it #leaving neverland IS MY FAVORITE #I’m curious to see what the critics say #we’re doing SO WELL WITH STREAMING AND SALES #not to jinx it #BUT 2.16 MILL YALL #hmm what other thoughts #debating to go buy daydream and farewell #will decide by end of the day lol #I’m obsessed #but it’s weird #txt #agent h #agent report

[crossthread]

I think if they made SamxBucky canon it'd break me

#stucky #captain america #captain america the winter soldier #catws #falcon and the winter soldier #falcon #sam wilson #steve rogers #bucky barnes #stevebucky #i will die #like #okay i know itd be a big step making the new captain america queer #but honestly itd feel like a really cheap attempt at smoothing things over #nothing they could do could ever come close to the steve bucky narrative #absolutely nothing #so #giving us a sam and bucky canon relationship would be like kicking me in the gut and then spitting on my face #because lets be real #avengers endgame #fucking killed everything #they TANKED steves character and just #im so incensed with rage #so after endgame #them finally giving us captain america x winter soldier #and its NOT stucky #i could kill someone if that happened

[blinkpen]

"writing process memes of "mmm this is the REAL goiod part" but idk is this one too niche.

#doodles #rebus #the yonkoma universe will always exist to the side though u know it #it is fun to be your own goofy fandom for your own thing #also: ooogh i am so invested in fully fleshing out lamarr and demersa's prequel style backstory i uuuh oop #dropped it and smoothing things out made the story as a whole morph into a weird fantasy epic when i wasnt looking #so rather than plonking what would be a pacing breaking boulder of a Too Long flashback in the middle of the main story #we might uuuh be going in more or less chronological order starting with lam n dem's childhood then like a 10 year timeskip #and i actually revised my big ole story-map out found like the Perfect way #to parcel these things out with good pacing n still have wiggle room for the eldritch monster of the week format we can eat #-without- it fucking up the overarching narrative or bringing it to a frustrating fucking crawl for bs we have no reason to care about #...if i do everything right anyway like if i pull off what i am trying to pull off i will do my best to not fuck That aspect up #that's what the paid editors will be for i suppose!

[gailynovelry]

A while ago, we saw someone explain why they don’t like first person. Aside from “it’s shallow” (which feels like a shallow critique itself without more context), they cited a desire to understand what all the other characters in a scene are thinking and feeling, and I found that very interesting.

Because I don’t feel like every story benefits from knowing every character involved in it to such an intimate degree.

A lot of interesting speculation can be derived from gaps in the narrative. Why did he do that? What was her real motive there? The protagonist can speculate, but are they really the most objective source for that, or are you assuming that they are because they’re in the narrator seat, and they haven’t explicitly called themself unreliable?

First person creates a very specific opportunity to convey characters outside of the protagonist via showing and not telling.

It also creates a great opportunity to put your reader in a mental maze (the central narrator’s perspective) and give them a fun crumb trail out of it (the way that other characters react to the narrator).

I personally think that first person really shines under the right circumstances; and I think one of the best circumstances is when the central narrator has some horrendously skewed worldview. When they’re a fucked up little guy. When they think they know what’s up and they really, really don’t.

And when there’s other characters just as fun outside of them to force the reader to fill in the blank spaces for themselves.

Anyway, sometimes I feel like the push against first person is motivated by people being burned by boring, one-dimensional first person narrators and/or a distaste for common YA conventions. At other times, I feel like it’s motivated by the very bland desire to have the author shine a flashlight into every nook, cranny, and crevice of the narrative so that you don’t miss out on anything. I understand the desire to know more, but it's also fun to be able pick up the flashlight yourself as a reader!

No style of narration is inherently lesser than another. They just suit different readers and author's tastes.

#writeblr #first person #writing #writing advice #this was queued to put distance between us having this thought and us putting it out #anyway this is why we write first person narration for Nathaniel and Velvet #they’re both fascinating and you’re supposed to be dissecting their thought process while you’re immersed in it! #their perspective is the cage we’ve dropped the narrative in #and the way that OTHER characters REACT to them from the outside will help tell you what is actually going on!! #Nathaniel is a nervous wreck and can be easily convinced that he is more or less competent and/or smooth than he actually is #while Velvet is extremely traumatized and has internalized that trauma into a blithe normalcy and passively fucked-up sense of humor #the way that other people react to Velvet opening his big mouth should say way more than #any perspective switch where we cut to a Not Velvet character internally explaining “Velvet is fucked up guys don’t emulate Velvet” #anyway third person is beautiful. we love third person. #but books would be less rich if that was the only acceptable perspective to use

[aparticularbandit]

If Tumblr is winding down, will you be archiving or backing up the Jessica blogs and the Timeline Canon stuff? For future generations?

I've been going through everything @photomatt posted earlier in regards to the leak, and I don't think Tumblr is necessarily winding down like we expected.

That said, I would like to have those stories and threads archived or backed up somewhere. I'm just not sure what the best way to going about that would be.

#musings #chrysalis the butterfly #bandit answers questions #tumblr #i'd like to compile it and put it on ao3 but i wouldn't feel comfortable putting other people's writing there without their permission #(and by compile it i mean smooth all of the rp threads into a continuous narrative instead of the back and forth) #but i also don't want to lose the writing from everyone else either #so i'm not sure what the best way for this is

[saingirl101]

So I know everyone has anxiety/secondhand embarrassment from neverafter ep 15

So first off (Breathe in for 5, hold for 5, out for 5)

Now i actually think the dice work is mysterious ways. And are narratively setting things up as the darkest hour/moment for destiny's children.

Why else would Gerard get a nat 20 to elody's weeping face.

However, the dice are not completely merciless, as shown by Gerard saving on the strength save and using the sword of truth to view the truth of the gander and brennan rolling a NAT 20 luck check to allow the group to see the gander.

Something something its always darkest before the dawn but the dawn is coming.

Essentially the dice just like good drama and know a majority of us are neuro-divergents and true horror is conversations with other people.

#I am a dice control the narrative beats truther and lets be honest things were going too smooth #neverafter spoilers #neverafter #destinys children #neverafter leap of faith #neverafter episode 15

[bonefall]

do any of the cats in the rewrite have chronic pain? as someone w/ chronic back pain, i feel like a lotta of the cats would have it due to injuries or just having it from birth

I don't quite have any yet, besides a half-baked idea for Volewhisper where his back leg is going to get amputated and he feels ghost pains

I'm keeping it in mind though, along with dyspraxia and coordination issues for cats who have autism.

#I'm going to try not to bite off more than I can chew all at once #Since I just blasted a bunch of cats with the Neurodivergence Beam and I'm still smoothing them all down into the narrative #Like I'm constructing the smoothest prettiest little side walk of concrete #Bone Babble #I feel like Dovewing or Scourge should have migraines though tbh

[grasslandgirl]

OHHHHH KARNA LOVE CONFESSION LETTER IS SOSOSOOOOO GOOD. YEAH I CAN FUCK WITH THAT SO MUCH. KARNA ON HER DEATH BED MAKING SAVING THROWS GETTING CARRIED OUT OF THE MYCELLIUM AND THE CAVES FIRST BY DELI AND THEN WHEN HE STARTED STUMBLING, OVERTAKEN BY THE POISON, CARRIED BY COLIN; OUT INTO THE WSRM LIGHT OF THE BULB SHE DIDNT BELIEVE IN. KARNA WHO BARELY MANAGES TO GET STABILIZED BETWEEN THE WOUNDS AND THE POISON AND HER OWN ROT BUT SHES BREATHING. BARELY. LAYING ON THE GROUND BLEEDING AND PALE FROM THE POISON AND THE ROT AS THEY ALL TRY TO CATCH THEIR BREATH AND AMANGEAUX CASTS A LITTLE SOMETHING BUT IT DOESNT HELP MUCH BC KARNA IS SO POORLY OFF AND THEY FINALLY MANAGE TO GET HER BACK TO THE ENCAMPMENTS AND FIND A BULBIAN CLERIC OF SOME KIND (that deli threatens, voice shaking, hand empty without his long-abandoned spear, eyes red and bloodshot and colin hovering like a ghost at his shoulder, into silence and compliance despite karna's unnatural poisoning and the rot overtaking her body- clear evidence of the hungry one) THAT MANAGES TO HELP STABILIZE KARNA A LITTLE MORE BUT SHES STILL OUT. STILL UNCONSCIOUS. AND THEY ALL SIT AT HER BEDSIDE, LISTEN TO HER FAINT RATTLING BREATHS. AMANGEAUX NEVER LETS GO OF HER HAND AND DELI CAN'T BRING HIMSELF TO LOOK AWAY AND ALL THREE OF THEM REMEMBERING THE MISSING MEMBER OF THEIR GROUP WHOM THEY COULDN'T GET BACK OUT OF THE CAVES AND. AND EVENTUALLY COLIN TELLS DELI TO GO BACK TO HIS CAMP AND REFRESH HIMSELF AND CHANGE OUT OF THE DUSTY SPORES-COVERED ARMOR, STILL BLOODY FROM BATTLE, AND THATS WHEN DELI FINDS THE LETTER KARNA LEFT FOR HIM. AND. AND. AAUGHGGUGGG. DELI WHO WAS BETRAYED BY AND THEN IMMEDIATELY LOST ARIANA AND THEN ALMOST LOST KARNA AND COLIN WHO'S THERE BESIDE HIM BUT SO COLD AND SO LOST AND DELI IS. AUGHGRUG. THERES SOMETHING HERE AND MAYBE ITS JUST FOR ME BUT ITS HERE.

#HI GANG IM STILL ON MY COLINDELIKARNA TRAIN CHOO CHOO #canon death i do not see you i do not recognize. i appreciate the narrative implications of karna dying but. also. no i dont #i just think. karna learning the lesson of balance that raphaniel got too late and once again serving as his foil and being the one to TAKE #the lesson and carry it forward. soemtihng something karna who started rotting way too young and maybe there's not a way to reverse the rot #that was already cut away from her body and maybe she can't undo the things she's already done. but she can learn a new balance #she can achieve new growth. and maybe her leaves will always have jagged holes in them. cauterized and rough. and maybe the skin of her #cheek will always be pockmarked and grey where it should be smooth and ruddy. but she is alive. and she can turn her one good eye up to the #the light of the bulb and even if she doesn't believe in it. she can see it. and she can grow under its warmth. yk? #also i want her to sail alongside colin and deli. i think ot3 pirate throuple would be really fun for me honestly #trw #d20 #karna solara #thane delissandro katzon #amangeaux epicée du peche #colin provolone #raphaniel charlock #d20 spoilers

[liesonthefloordramatically]

you know that I continue to be feral for news of hualian fake dating and also I'll tell it right this time I swear.... but if you'd prefer a different one, oldseph character study?

(ask game over here)

Rowan, you are very sweet, so, guess what, you get snippets of all three.

Hualian fake dating: I feel like pretty much every bit from this that's viewable is in fact something you have already seen, but here we go anyway. At least half of this fic is Hua Cheng Going Through It because he's in a fake dating fic while Xie Lian has the entire TV Tropes page for fake dating pulled up in his mind at all times. I love Xie Lian and I love writing him from an outside perspective even more. He's so frickin' weird.

“I’m sorry if I’m prying,” Xie Lian says, not breaking eye contact, “but...I know what it’s like to be lonely.  I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.”  He smiles, a half-hearted, lopsided jerk of his mouth.  Xie Lian smiles so much, but so often his smiles are there to make him look harmless–a quiet, gentle, ever-smiling trash collector.  Someone easy to overlook.  Someone not worth the effort.   “I’m sorry that gege is lonely,” Hua Cheng says, because it’s easier than addressing the rest of it. Xie Lian’s gaze drops again.  “I’m not lonely anymore,” he says, and maybe there’s real happiness behind his small smile this time.  “I have you, don’t I?” Hua Cheng’s throat works, but no words come out. “And Shi Qingxuan,” Xie Lian continues, oblivious to Hua Cheng’s floundering.  “And Fu Yao and Nan Feng.  And Lang Ying and Ban Yue!  I have so many new friends.” “Good,” Hua Cheng says, far too fervently.  “Everyone should love gege.” Xie Lian looks up again, that strangely penetrating gaze.  “Mm,” he says, and then very quickly changes tacks.  “And you have your beloved.” Hua Cheng’s too aware of the proprietor furiously wiping the table behind them long after it should have been spotless.  “You are my beloved,” he says, and if his voice trembles, he can blame it on stage fright. There’s no blush this time, strangely–just Xie Lian watching him, just Xie Lian’s thoughts hidden behind his unreadable face.  Then, an apologetic smile–and Hua Cheng can see the performance now, the moment when Xie Lian chooses to make himself small and harmless.  “Right,” Xie Lian says.  “Ah, where is my head tonight?”

I'll tell it right this time I swear: the premise of this fic is simply "can I craft a fic that is custom-engineered in a lab to make Rowan lose it." (Slightly more serious explanation: it's a fic about grief and memory and iterative storytelling. there's a lot going on here, don't worry about it.)

You don't answer. You haven’t had to explain yourself to anyone yet. Lucy understood--or she understood enough not to ask. You were grateful, at the time, too scraped raw by Gyro’s loss to even be able to imagine retelling it. Maybe that’s why there are no words when you reach for them. Maybe you just haven’t had enough practice sketching the hole Gyro left behind. (Maybe it’s none of their fucking business.)

Oldseph fic: fun fact: I think I started this one before I started writing linear time is fake. when I say it takes forever for the words to coalesce I am really not kidding. the number of things in this one that are me going "I've connected the dots" about things that literally no one cares about is wild, but please have the opening of the fic (complete with my incomplete sentence because this is how my process works).

The morning after they’ve made it back to Japan, Joseph rolls out of bed (literally rolls, because the bed is on the floor, which is insane and he hates) with a crick in his neck.  It’s not surprising--as his grandson loves reminding him, he is old, and the bed is on the floor for some unfathomable reason and plane rides have always wreaked havoc on his body, even when he hasn’t literally wrecked them. If you kept up with your hamon practice, this wouldn’t happen, a voice inside his head nags, and he stubbornly ignores it, as he always does.  He could [whatever], but hard work and routine are near the top of the list of things Joseph can do without.  Still, sometimes hamon can be useful, especially when he needs to get a crick out of his neck. Joseph makes sure his posture is more or less correct.  He takes a deep breath.  For a moment, it feels like all his blood is running backward through his veins, and then a moment later the pain spreads from his chest to his torso all the way to his fingers and toes.  It’s indescribable--like liquid fire, like his skin is going to blister and slough off.  Joseph’s breathing stutters, his energy shuddering out of his grasp, and just as suddenly as it started, it’s over, and he just feels like he’s been sunburned from the inside out. The morning after they’ve made it back to Japan, Joseph discovers that being pumped full of vampire blood has some unintended consequences.

#ask Queenie #Queenie actually says something on this blog #parallelism palooza: the journey #again. ideas that I'm very excited about. if only I had the time and energy for writing slkjflkdusoifsuasa #some of the concepts in the Oldseph one are really top-tier. but I will not spoil them. someday. it will manifest #(I do have to figure out my Joseph narrative voice--that's probably the biggest stumbling block) #(takes me a little while to figure out what narrators sound like and then once I have it it's smooth sailing)

[bigfishthemusical]

To be fully honest: I feel like at some point in the next year or so I’ve got to unlock some sort of secret powers or something because the type of trials I’ve been going through recently; there has got to be some sort of fucking payoff. I will never catch a fucking break. These things literally overlap with one another and while I must applaud the way they smoothly crossfade from one to the next I would love just one fucking week off.

#uh the thing I’ve been putting off just hit me. #I better be on the fu king Truman show and someone better be making scads of fucking money off this cause no one but writers can be crafting #a narrative this smooth and also aweful. #and it better be paying off cause it’s like there’s no escape in here #anyways whatever I’m gonna watch tv now and ignore it but like. just put me down already. it would be easier

[ardentpoop]

the whole show does this to the point that it becomes almost unremarkable. fundamental spn knowledge

#I KNOW some ppl don’t believe me when I say this is one of the strangest relationships ever portrayed on tv lol #guys the samndean fanon is less disturbing than the canon. that’s how u know something’s funky #the fanon underestimates how fucking weird and horrible their relationship is and smooths them out into easy jerkoff fodder #turns it into the ‘love story’ that the narrative keeps saying it is when the evidence suggests #you’d have to be INSANE to call this a love story

[sins-of-the-sea]

//Because this is just an RP blog where I can experiment with things and not take everything into the final Canon, I wanna throw this out here for (cursed) fun:

The Master gets his own cult.

#in the main canon narrative there is no room for a cult unless Cappn finds a way to fit it in #but we already have a lot of things to figure out/smooth out/etc #it may just be a distraction #but this is RP where we do things for fun and pain #mostly pain #but mostly fun #(and pain) #[About the Master]

[imaginemirage]

"If you ask someone to tell their life story and they present a smooth narrative sequence, well badged with symbolic events, you know they are a pathological liar and the garden is filled with bodies."

Stephen Wright

#stephen wright #quote #quotes #story #lies #lie #smooth #narrative #pathological #bodies #symbolic

[raziiyah]

i always loved cereal mascot ads and some i remember vividly were the rice krispies singing with the bars ads! as a kid i always had a preference for pop's songs first, then snap's, and tbh i never really liked crackle's, however i've discovered the full songs and now many of crackle's songs are actually my favorite of the trio's 🌈

#cereal mascots #snap #crackle #pop #kelloggs #rice krispies treats #rice krispies bars #rice krispies #i love these funky little elves #especially the ones in the george longley commercials #also i remember them advertising strawberry rice krispies bars which i wanted to try so bad but i never saw them anywhere #strawberry then stopped showing up in the swtb ads so i think at one point i even questioned if i had imagined the flavor up lol #i think they were just discontinued :[ #i used to get so happy when cereal mascot ads would come on tv #when i was a kid i even wanted to see/make a show where all of them were in it just because i was that invested in these characters #the animation for these ads was so good #insanely smooth and high quality #the mascots are also charming and some of them even had a fun little narrative too #just to advertise cereal to kids‼️ #cereal commercials went so hard from the 90s-2000s and i miss when they used to look like that #art #cartoons #fanart

[thedragonagelesbian]

As someone currently playing a devout non-mage trevelyan inquisitor let me tell you it's like........ not even the same game. You just fit into the narrative in a way that no other origin does.

#no narrative dissonance here babyyy just smooth cohesion between my external understanding #of my character and the internal representational (if limited) options afforded to me by the game

[andthebeanstalk]

Fear Street Trilogy (2021) does right what almost every other horror franchise does wrong and I love it very very much and I literally don't want to elaborate even though I could for like 10 pages because I wouldn't want to spoil anything! Just! One of the absolute best when it comes to the genre of ghost stories/slasher movies/nostalgic Halloween vibes, you name it. Instant classic.

[ID: a man yelling LET'S GO LESBIANS into a microphone and running down a street followed by a variety of lesbians.]

This image showed up when I searched the gif keyboard for Fear Street, and I cannot think of a more apt gif for these lesbian horror movies (eat it, Bly Manor!!!!)

#competent social commentary in horror movies - a comprehensive list: Fear Street. Candyman (2022). End of list #to be fair i haven't seen a lot of foreign horror and i have other modern black horror i gotta watch still. get out is good. #fear street #fear street 2021 #annihilation seemed to know what it wanted to say even if im not quite sure #it's just that horror movies usually have GARBAGE theming. incompetent harmful nonsense. #and fear street - which fair warning if you don't like gore it's p bloody - is the FIRST TIME I EVER SAW A NON ABLEIST SLASHER NARRATIVE #EVER. #after that was Candyman but only the newest one because THE THEMING IN THE OTHER FILMS IS FUCKIN FLAWED #horror movies be like you should be kind to black men and the mentally ill... BECAUSE THEY R ALL POTENTIAL MURDERERS #fucking bullshit #fear street is what every third ghost story fucking WISHES it could be #looking AT YOU BLY MANOR I WILL FIGHT YOU FOR DOING THAT ENDING TO ME #original #horror movies struggle a LOT with not actively fighting their theming with the very premise of the film #candyman 2021 also is excellent but way less campy and a lot lot heavier #PEOPLE THINK THEY CAN IGNORE THEMES AND THAT MEANS THEIR STORY JUST WILL BE A SMOOTH SLIPPERY THEMELESS HAIRLESS STORY #NO. #IT MEANS THE THEMES WILL BE DECIDED FOR YOU. AND THEY WILL PROBABLY SHOW YOUR WHOLE FUCKIN ASS #ESPECIALLY. ESPECIALLY!!!! IF THE STORY IS ABOUT A PERSON COMMITTING MASS MURDER! #someone has to be chosen to kill and be killed! someone has to be othered or demonized or redeemed! #who you choose for these roles and why and how is INHERENTLY POLITICAL AND THINKING OTHERWISE IS A FOOL'S ERRAND #THE ERRAND OF A FOOL #ALSO FEAR STREET IS ABOUT LESBIANS AND CLASS WAR