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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.

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i cant get over the king charles portrait. they made that thing to age in his place. that painting hangs in the house of a too-friendly family you find in the post apocalyptic wasteland who inexplicably has a ready supply of fresh meat. if mario jumped into that painting he wouldn't find a charming platformer he would be flayed and hanged like a medieval criminal by an unseeable force in a droning red void. that painting is a color blindness test for people who work in IT but believe in the divine right of kings. that painting is going to weep the sequel to blood. after he dies charles is gonna crawl outta that thing like sadako.

#wow #😂😂 #the artist did a great job

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🕷️MANDA🕷️

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rasputin didnt become a fucked up sex wizard until he was like 30. your life doesn't end at 25 <3

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"Elderly Palestinian couple looking at their former home, now occupied by a couple from Brooklyn. 🇵🇸" [@/RamAbdu on X. April 4th, 2024.]

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oh my goodness, one of dian fossey’s first close up observations with gorillas happened when she was trying to climb a tree to see them better, but so badly that by the time she’d gotten up the entire group had come out of hiding to look at her: “Nearly all members of the group had totally exposed themselves, forgetting about hiding coyly behind foliage screens because it was obvious to them that the observer had been distracted by tree-climbing problems, an activity they could understand.”

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Wolves by Ivan Bilibin.

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now thinking abt Sabine’s reaction to the Luke son of Vader reveal

(donation doodles! // tip jar)

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mariko kusumoto

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#fuck yeah dublin #set some precedent

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Ive liked Kendrick Lamar for awhile now so this is a nice time for me

#hollypunkerspost #i never forgot the baka thing too i remember that in the news #its pretty nice to have an artist you respect hate someone you also hate

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Greenhouse     -    Günther Hermann , 2002.

Germa, 1956 - 2020

Colour etching

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despite your url, i do not see any dick punching

come closer

#do it