#good writing!

[zithcavooris]

Even before she earned her PhD, Pamela Isley was a passionate climate activist. Her mentor Dr. Woodrue, however, would convince her to use her unparalleled genius for botany to aid his group of eco-terrorists. She developed composts and engineered weeds to encourage wild plant growth and inhibit land development, and extracted her plants’ toxins to make smoke bombs and knock-out gas.

As Pamela was pulled deeper and deeper into a life of eco-terrorism, she was exposed to more and more of her own unstable toxins. Somehow, however, her body eventually reached an equilibrium, accepting the plant matter as part of her system, but leaving her physically sickly and mentally unstable. Her actions became ever more radical. Land-reclaiming weeds led to building-swallowing vines, knock-out gas to hallucinogens and nerve poison. And the more dangerous the chemicals, the more she was affected in a vicious cycle. When she started murdering Ace Chemical employees en masse, her team knew it was time to cut and run. But she had long since stopped caring about them. The last they heard of their mad cohort she was babbling about “the green” calling out to her...

Today, Poison Ivy continues to develop all sorts of dangerous new plants to further her goals and dispose of her enemies. But her mutated physiology makes her far from harmless herself. She is immune to all kinds of poison and numb to all pain, her own bodily fluids have become toxic to normal humans, and her mutated pheromones make her highly persuasive to all but the strongest of wills. What will her powers blossom into as she continues her experiments? Only time will tell…

#poison ivy #batman #dcu #dc comics #pamela isley #TWO end-parahraph ellipses in this one! #good writing! #nsfw? #character design #character redesign #superheroes #superhero redesign #dcz

[erigold13261]

📢Psychonauts NSR AU, Chapter 8: LARS Rap 2📢

After the concert. Milla and Sasha decided to get something to eat. They got their burgers. And decided to have a chat about the concert they just hijacked.

“Camilla?” Sasha asked.

“Yeah? Is everything alright?” She asked.

“I was wondering… are we taking this Revolution too far?” Sasha asked.

“I… I don’t know.” Milla responded. “But we had to do what was right, we had to take down the NSR artists. And there are still more to go.” Milla replied.

“I know, I’ve been thinking about what we did to Lili.” Sasha responded. “We broke an instrument. We broke what made her popular. Don’t you think that it’s incredibly wrong of us to do this?” Sasha explained.

“That might be. But what we’re doing is right. We want to bring back rock. And that’s that.” Milla explained. Sasha couldn’t help just rub his temple, then he heard a noise. A noise that was very familiar, a noise that made him very angry.

“Oh hell no.” Sasha spoke. He then immediately left, with Milla following behind him.

~

They arrived at the alley way and saw LARS. Sasha was incredibly annoyed to see his father.

“Ah, Sasha! Wo bist du gewesen? Gerade auf der Toilette geweint? Wie das letzte Mal, als ich versehentlich eine abgelaufene Zutat verwendet habe? Du weißt, dass ich es manchmal vergesse, richtig?” LARS asked.

“Dad, look, we must stop this.” Sasha replied. “There are bigger things we need to deal with here.” He explained.

“Like what? Versuchst du, ein anderes Mädchen zu fischen?” LARS asked. “Sind Hollis und Milla nicht genug? Sascha, so frech.” Lars asked again.

“UGH! Das ist es! I’m here trying to be civil about this and you. Your mouth keeps spewing all of kinds of garbage!” Sasha yelled.

“Sasha, calm down.” Milla replied to Sasha.

“No, Milla! This guy needs to know that it’s not my fault he became a deadbeat!” Sasha snapped back.

“Autsch, das tat ziemlich weh. Warum nimmst du nicht diese Wut und stellst dich mir in… einem Rap-Battle!” LARS explained.

“Stop it! You’re not gonna pull that stunt on me again—”

“I’ll go first!” LARS interrupted.

“God fucking dammit!” Sasha cussed, the rap battle was on.

~

LARS:

Even when you messed me up in life

 It never killed me, it gave me strife

 I stood strong and grew larger

 My vocabulary, it was extraordinary

 My roots were sewn deep from the underground

 I was centered on ground zero

 No cash, no money all around me

 Though it ruled the world all around me

 I grew big, I grew strong, my rap game was so on

 From the seed, grew an empire, my words spit fire

 Through the city, I made sure everyone knew who LARS was

 Aha aha!

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

Sasha:

Hey Lars, my father, I meant no disorder

 We got bigger issues to deal

 Than past life ordeals

 NSR the evil empire

 We gotta bring them down

 Kill ‘em with fire

 Seal them with music

 Put our differences aside

 And bring our powers together

 For a ride

 For a ride

 For a ride

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

LARS:

Easy for you to say Sasha

 You make me want to look aha

 Forget all our past

 But it has not passed / yet

 In college, you wanted to be president

 Rule all the residents

 But your heart was never noble

 You just did it to get back at me

 It stemmed from your jealousy

 Your never ending rivalry

 Well, Imma bring my cavalry

 My rhymes loaded with poetry

 My words laced with symmetry

 My rhythms pure artistry

 What you got besides

 Oh yeah, nothingry aha!

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

Sasha:

Ah Dad you only know anger and violence

 Remember when those NSR fans burned down your car

 You dissed them and hissed them

 Till they missed their own sanity

 And acted out with profanity

 To light up your car

 And see it burn

 And see it burn

 Coz you lit their desire

 Of hate towards yourself

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

LARS:

My rivalry with NSR was the tipping point

 I left Vinyl City, no one had to force me

 I gave Ford the Horn of Mending

 For if he ever wanted to reconcile

 He could blow the horn

 And I would accept his apology

 No worries, no problem, and that ain’t an analogy

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

Sasha:

Your solution to everything is just run run run

 You ran away from NSR

 You ran away from Vinyl City

 You ran away from home

 You ran away from me

 When I was more popular than you

 You couldn’t stand it through and through

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

Lars:

Hey Sasha stop blaming me all the time

 If you weren’t so jealous

 We wouldn’t be so messed up

 It’s your fault our relationship was ruined

 SASHA’S Fault

 Take responsibility for your irresponsibility

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

Sasha:

I tried my best to keep in touch with you

 But you never replied, radio silence zero decibels

 So when you say it’s my fault

 The heck I am pissed for your blame

 I ain’t taking the blame for your own thing

 In fact forget this, forget you

 You’re no father of mine

 I disown you, we ain’t related

 You’re no father

 You’re no father

 You ain’t no father of mine!

Crowd:

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

L-A-R-S

He is the best

~

After the rap battle, LARS was shaking. Shaking by what Sasha, his own son had said.

“Sasha. I’m no father huh?” LARS chuckled. “Yeah weißt du… ich geh einfach zurück… zu mir nach Hause.” he said. “LARS out!” he cried.

“Good! You better leave!” Sasha responded. This caused Milla to look very worried.

“Sasha…” Milla responded.

“What?” Sasha asked.

“You’re no father? How can you say something like that?” Milla asked.

“I tried to be nice Milla. I’ve looked up to him all mu life and for no reason he reats me like garbage! Who do you think has been trying to reach out to him all year. ALL YEAR LONG! And now he just pops up from GOD KNOWS WHERE. And he still has the gall to say that all his is my fault?! ARGH!” Sasha explained.

“Well… he does. And if you keep this up. It will be your fault Sasha.” Milla scolded. “Now we need to go. Let’s talk to Gristol on who’ll we meet next.” She explained.

“About time.” Sasha responded as he left. Milla looked behind him and saw the tracks left by his father. And saw where LARS was. In his trailer, softly sobbing in it.

“Milla? Are we going?” Sasha called to her.

“Coming!” Milla responded as she left, if there was another rap battle between the two. She’d better get involved.

#submission #nsr #no straight roads #psychonauts #othau #othfic #noart #oh i liked this one a lot #sasha wanting to be president to get back at his dad? #sounds like Lars tried to live his life through his son #and when Sasha didn't live up to expectations #he kinda abandoned or neglected his son #Sounds like Lars peaked in high school or college #so Sasha showed that he was better than his father #and still hasn't peaked #or something like that #good writing!

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:

In general, I think "Is X out-of-character?" is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.

A better question, I believe, is "What would it take for Character to do X?" What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT'S where a potentially interesting story lies.

In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from "What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?" As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you've got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.

#writing #writing advice #my writing #I think 'ooc' is a bogeyman that casts too big a shadow for fanfic writers #stop thinking 'is this ooc?' #and start thinking 'have I given this character a good enough reason to do the thing?'

[linipikk]

Aziraphale shielding Crowley from water

and Crowley shielding Aziraphale from fire

#good omens #ineffable husbands #lini writes #sitting here waiting for another version of this since I like things in threes #it is past midnight and i seeing things #third eye wide open

[heywriters]

If you want to write a dumb little story with a dumb little plot and ridiculously silly characters. No one's stopping you. Genuinely, no one should be allowed to stop you. Write that dumb story with your whole heart and don't hold back.

#look I've deleted fics that made me feel awful #There's a time and a place #A good idea will come back to you again #But some things should be given time to settle #writeblr #writing tips #writing #writer advice #writers on tumblr

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[noperopesaredope]

I wish we had more female characters like Eleanor Shellstrop. One of the most unlikable people you've ever met. Read a Buzzfeed article on most rude things you can do on a daily basis and decided to use that as a list of goals. Makes everyone's day worse just by being there. Dropped a margarita mix on the ground and tried to pick it up, only to get hit by a row of shopping carts which pushed her into the road where she was hit by a boner pill delivery truck, killing her instantly. Cannot keep a romantic partner despite being bisexual. Had a terrible childhood but will die before she gets therapy. Best employee at a scam company. Just the worst but also can't help but root for her to improve.

Absolute loser. Girl-failure. Bad at almost everything. Literally perfect female character.

#eleanor shellstrop #you know i was thinking about how we hold female characters to such high standards #and severely criticize bitchy female characters while praising asshole male characters #and then i remembered eleanor and realized that she is the perfect example of how to write an asshole woman that the audience likes #the worse she is the more i'm drawn to her (and honestly same for tahani) #we need more cringe-fail women who nobody likes (for good reason) #the good place #female characters #writing women #girl failure #girl loser #she's so mean #i love her #my favorite #fucking asshole #iconic #the good place eleanor #tgp #tgp eleanor #kristen bell

[yeehawpim]

#original comic #webcomic #we go together #artists on tumblr #greek legend #damon & pythias #slightly different this time in that Dionysius I of Syracuse was an Actual person 😂 #but i heard about this in breadsword's video essay on the legend of sinbad and it was so good I had to write smth with it #also i thought the plot of the legend of sinbad was the smartest shit when I was a kid lol #indie comics

[writergeekrhw]

I made another thing.

With apologies to Neil Gaiman.

#tv writing #wga strong #wgawest #wga west #wga strike #support the wga #i stand with the wga #sag aftra #good omens #neil gaiman

[elodieunderglass]

changes and trends in horror-genre films are linked to the anxieties of the culture in its time and place. Vampires are the manifestation of grappling with sexuality; aliens, of foreign influence. Horror from the Cold War is about apathy and annihilation; classic Japanese horror is characterised by “nature’s revenge”; psychological horror plays with anxieties that absorbed its audience, like pregnancy/abortion, mental illness, femininity. Some horror presses on the bruise of being trapped in a situation with upsetting tasks to complete, especially ones that compromise you as a person - reflecting the horrors and anxieties of capitalism etc etc etc. Cosmic horror is slightly out of fashion because our culture is more comfortable with, even wistful for, “the unknown.” Monster horror now has to be aware of itself, as a contingent of people now live in the freedom and comfort of saying “I would willingly, gladly, even preferentially fuck that monster.” But I don’t know much about films or genres: that ground has been covered by cleverer people.

I don’t actually like horror or movies. What interests me at the moment is how horror of the 2020s has an element of perception and paying attention.

Multiple movies in one year discussed monsters that killed you if you perceived them. There are monsters you can’t look at; monsters that kill you instantly if you get their attention. Monsters where you have to be silent, look down, hold still: pray that they pass over you. M Zombies have changed from a hand-waved virus that covers extras in splashy gore, to insidious spores. A disaster film is called Don’t Look Up, a horror film is called Nope. Even trashy nun horror sets up strange premises of keeping your eyes fixed on something as the devil GETS you.

No idea if this is anything. (I haven’t seen any of these things because, unfortunately, I hate them.) Someone who understands better than me could say something clever here, and I hope they do.

But the thing I’m thinking about is what this will look like to the future, as the Victorian sex vampires and Cold War anxieties look to us. I think they’ll have a little sympathy, but they probably won’t. You poor little prey animals, the kids will say, you were awfully afraid of facing up to things, weren’t you?

#this is the sort of observation I make here that people #go off and write their thesis about #so while I’m not expecting to be the first or cleverest person to say this #if you do use it as a springboard #tell me if you get a good grade ok? #I’ll be tremendously proud of you #like if you take a shitpost and use it to craft deep attentive thought on something important #I just think that’s probably the most noble use of a human brain #it makes me want to take off my hat and slam it to the ground in inexpressible emotion #it’s a cowboy hat btw #and I say something like GOLDURN IT THAT KID SURE HAS DELIVERED. #ok so don’t deny me this #especially if you correct me after a long research journey #GOLDURN IT THE KID IS RIGHT!

[idlestories]

not just ‘he would not fucking say that’ but ‘he would not, under torture, admit that’

#he is not in touch enough with his feelings to say that! he will say anything BUT that! #that thing about ​characters getting a good grade in therapy etc etc #writing

[theoldaeroplane]

worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.

#writing #art #music #games #things i have to remind myself of daily #anyway ive found those things you're worried about sharing are often the most powerful things you CAN share #i hope you write #<- i would like to replace that tag with something that is less conversational #it makes reblogs awkward #anyway good morning. i have so many things to do today but instead i am crafting a memorial to my partner's best friend in my fanfiction.

[cryptixotic]

Be real with me. You're sitting in a bar and a 𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔢𝔞 with a massive sword rams into the door. Do you or do you not laugh

#one piece #dracule mihawk #one piece live action #i wasn't planning on posting this but a good old shitpost is always enjoyable in a while #can you believe i've been writing with a fountain pen my whole life yet i am the most mediocre calligrapher to bless this earth ?

[tariah23]

The manga industry, especially JUMP, needs to hurry up and do away with weekly scheduling for mangaka. There needs to better regulations put into place for their health and safety because this is pitiful. Two weeks - monthly updates should’ve already been the standard for the manga industry at this point. These money grabbers will only continue to put the lives of these artists at stake for the sake of capitalism unless some serious changes are implemented.

#it’s just??? #at the end of the day all these people want to do is draw and write their stories and share them with the world #why is death from stress the end game for so many of them #this should not be part of the package when finally deciding that this is what you want to do with your life #rambling #I still never got over miura’s passing man #and Togashi is still here but he’s been suffering from the consequences of overwork #it’s just… all so bleak #fans just need to learn to be patient if these changes are ever made and to be respectful #your fav series is not gonna die just because you can’t get it right now #I’m glad that gege does this now like he takes a break every 2-3 chapters and that’s good #this should be normalized

[science-lings]

my dad saw ao3 open on my computer and asked if that was like my writing club and just so you know that's what fanfic writers are now, we're all in the same writing club where we all write about the same media and show each other our little stories and that's kind of cool actually

#we should start a writing club #like a legit group where we write whatever and give it to each other to talk about and stuff #idk i wouldn't be good at running it but I would like if someone was obligated to tell me if I wrote good or not lol #ao3 #writeblr

[most-normal-eccles-cake-ignorer]

The products of trying to recreate what was going on outside the frame during the kiss. (for ENTIRELY SCIENTIFIC purposes)

@actual-changeling altered my whole outlook on life with this post about Aziraphale's left hand (I'd only been looking at his right hand) and I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I painted the rest of the fucking owl (and his bf).

so normal about this

#good omens fanart #ineffable fanart #crOWLey #aziraphale #good omens 2 #good omens #lord gaiman stokes the fires of our creativity #bless also michael sheen and david tennant #i think I’ve earned my eye dropper tool merit badge #now I can go back to sobbing and writing the aziraphale meta #good omens s2e6 #aziracrow #crowley x aziraphale #good omens 2 spoilers #go2 spoilers #good omens spoilers