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lynmars79 · 10 hours

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Candela Obscura has a new assignment for you, investigators...

Candela Obscura is coming to the United Theater on Broadway in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 25 for a standalone one-shot with Game Master Spenser Starke with players Matthew Mercer, Laura Bailey, Marisha Ray, and Khary Payton. Taliesin Jaffe serves as Master of Ceremonies.

Tickets go on sale Monday, April 29. The session 0 will be performed live ahead of the show for VIP ticket holders. Attendees are encouraged to dress in their Fairelands best.

Can't make the show? The game will be streamed on Twitch and YouTube on Thursday, May 30 in the usual Candela Obscura slot.

You can check out more details at the events page on the official website.

#Candela Obscura #Critical Role #live show #Spenser Starke #Matthew Mercer #Laura Bailey #Marisha Ray #Khary Payton #Taliesin Jaffe

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lynmars79 · 11 hours

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If you ever tagged me to do one of those tag game thingies and I never did it:

1) Thank you, seriously. Those are fun and being included shows that my followers care enough to want to learn more about me.

2) Very sorry about that, it’s extremely likely that I said to myself “Cool! But I’m busy at the moment, I’ll have to do this later today or tomorrow” before proceeding to just straight-up forget, now it’s too far back in my notifications and/or your blog to find again.

#prompts #memes #tags #tagging #games #called tf out #about me

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lynmars79 · 11 hours

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Btw - if you want to see if but haven’t gotten around to it, you should go watch it now! It’s continuation is in a precarious state and could use the support.

#polls #Star Trek #Prodigy #honestly with both Star Wars & Star Trek doing the Comics/MCU thing of a million active concurrent properties across media #I just burned out on what used to be some of my favorite franchises #(especially when they start having them interact with each other which the ST stuff is mostly good about but still shared universe)

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lynmars79 · 12 hours

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I love a game with an archer protagonist, and Horizon does it very well!

#archery #archer #horizon: zero dawn #horizon: forbidden west #aloy #gameplay #mechanics #gaming #story

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lynmars79 · 13 hours

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Pro-writing tip: if your story doesn't need a number, don't put a fucking number in it.

Nothing, I mean nothing, activates reader pedantry like a number.

I have seen it a thousand times in writing workshops. People just can't resist nitpicking a number. For example, "This scifi story takes place 200 years in the future and they have faster than light travel because it's plot convenient," will immediately drag every armchair scientist out of the woodwork to say why there's no way that technology would exist in only 200 years.

Dates, ages, math, spans of time, I don't know what it is but the second a specific number shows up, your reader is thinking, and they're thinking critically but it's about whether that information is correct. They are now doing the math and have gone off drawing conclusions and getting distracted from your story or worse, putting it down entirely because umm, that sword could not have existed in that Medieval year, or this character couldn't be this old because it means they were an infant when this other story event happened that they're supposed to know about, or these two events now overlap in the timeline, or... etc etc etc.

Unless you are 1000% certain that a specific number is adding to your narrative, and you know rock-solid, backwards and forwards that the information attached to that number is correct and consistent throughout the entire story, do yourself a favor, and don't bring that evil down upon your head.

#writing #numbers #editing #timelines #this is why FF14 does the time bubble & isn't exact about dates

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lynmars79 · 14 hours

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no multi option, agonize and choose, no results option, pick one to find out or scroll onward

#polls #all these are great #I want most to all of them #but chose the veggie/fruit drawer

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lynmars79 · 14 hours

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I think there are fictional works that speak to a specific experience or identity, but also I think that if someone says "you can't appreciate this work without this experience/identity" maybe the work is just not very good

#media #literary analysis #identity #identification #experiences #universality #sympathy

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lynmars79 · 15 hours

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Reblog for larger sample size. Feel free to indicate in the comments your generation, approximate region of residence, your length of experience with fan fiction, or when/where you first encountered these terms.

#polls #fanfiction #citrus scale #fandom history

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lynmars79 · 15 hours

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If you just mean how to make a Read More cut, I do have a tutorial on how to do that using the rich text editor, over on my fandom blog (I have a few tutorials there, under the "tutorial" tag). Tumblr does change things up a lot of the times (and I just went and edited some wording on that linked post because of that), as updates are made, so I also always recommend getting comfortable with the "Help" pages for the nuts and bolts of how Tumblr works.

On Desktop this looks like a little blue link on the lower right of the dash.

(ID: a small screenshot of the "About, Apps, Legal, Privacy, Help" links from Tumblr's dashboard, in blue text on a black background)

On mobile, you have to go into your blog, go to the Settings cogwheel at the top right, go into General Settings, and then scroll down.

Help is not only how to Contact Support for various reasons, but also all the documentation one might need on how Tumblr works in general; formatting, tools, options, etc.

I also highly recommend following the @staff and @changes blogs for updates and general information on how Tumblr works and updates that are made.

When sharing stories on Tumblr, what makes for good tags to put on them?

Well, that depends. And there's likely people who do a lot of original writing on Tumblr who may have different answers, but:

I have a specific writing tag I use for both original and fanfiction ("Lyn Writing") as it helps me find things in my archive/blog search, and if folks are using those auto-tagger addons that just copy your tags, or the auto-copy of tags in mobile or other addons, it doesn't put "my writing" on their blog (which I get annoyed by).

For fanfiction, I'm going to tag the main fandom tag, and any relevant characters. Things like specific seasons, episodes, expansions, books, etc as necessary, especially if spoilery.

For original fiction, I might have an "original character" tag. If it's stuff I'm going to repeatedly post I make tags for specific OCs (or places, concepts, etc original to my writing). Usually in that last case, it's again a housekeeping method to make searching my own blog easier.

For either, there might be genre, general themes, ideas, concepts, or warnings I feel might be needed ("poetry, horror, romance, hope, names, family, violence"). Maybe some jabber commentary ("in which I try to write silly songs, OC just wants to take a nap"). If it's for a writing challenge or prompt that gets added, too, especially if the organizer has a requested tag or two to use ("DWC2024"). Sometimes I might use some Ao3 methodology to determine a few things (ratings, relationships, warnings, etc).

In the end, it's not too different from other posts one wants to be able to find, and/or tell people at a glance what's in the work, and what Searches it pops up in. For the question of "how easily do you want to find things on your own blog later," consider if you are keeping links on a page or post somewhere (also back up your work elsewhere always), and how easily do you want others to find your original stories? Do you have a specific writing tag on your pinned post or in your description?

Words and phrases in the body of a work, as well as in the tags, will pull up in the Search. Don't use tags (especially fandom tags) unrelated to one's work; that's a quick trip to "Blocked and Reported as Spam."

I also recommend anything over (my personal limit of) 500 words go under a cut. It's a delicate balance of "get people to read" when that's already difficult, so gotta hook them to hit that "Keep Reading" link, or stretch out dashes and annoy people who then scroll past (or block you or the post).

Original stuff likely won't be noticed often. The folks who do get noticed tend to have larger followings already, and/or are posting their stories as replies to writing prompts to start and getting noticed when folks trawl the notes of those posts.

A lot of it is, frankly, luck, and who reblogs to show a wider audience and then if any of them read and reblog, and so on.

So figure out the tagging scheme that works for you, link to friends and in Discord servers you're in, and reblog yourself a few times to catch followers with different timezones. Know only original posts show in the Search, not reblogs (even a reblog by OP). Write and post for the fun of it and keep expectations realistic so far as wide recognition, but honestly in the end, somewhat consistent posting, with consistent and clear tags, will slowly grow an audience over time.

#Reblog for Commentary #Tumblr #how to #tutorial #Read More #Tagging #Help Menu #Documentation

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lynmars79 · 16 hours

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White people being racist is the reason that O.J. Simpson got off. There’s really no way around that. It was racist chickens coming home to roost that meant a young woman would never get justice for her brutal murder.

#History #OJ Simpson #Nicole Brown #Ron Goldman #Mark Fuhrman #Racism #LAPD #ACAB #People forget there were 2 victims brutally murdered #and now Fuhrman works for FOX news? Yeah...

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lynmars79 · 16 hours

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We did already know this based on the fact that he bagged both Lark and Harry, but the latest appendix really is just rubbing it in our faces that if there’s one thing Sherman’s got in abundance it’s game. He incurred caenum for getting too much pussy + dick. they needed to take his ego down a peg. He sold out Lark because he was tired of being the most sought after person on Midst. The sex appeal of the Black Candle Cabaret? That was all him baby. And he even cares lovingly for his daughter and braids her hair? Absolutely unfuckwithable. Where do I sign up.

#midst #midst podcast #podcast #sherman guthrie

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