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yuyanwrites · 6 months

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Helloo so about your requests...

idk if you'd be comfortable with writing that but how about bsd men (Dazai and Chuuya at least, add more if you want) with an s/o that has an eating disorder? Not in a romantic way, hell no. If you're not okay with that, just ginkre this, it's fine. <3

BSD men with an s/o that has an eating disorders

Dazai

He used to ask you so many times to do a double suicide with him

But then he saw you crying and he realised how serious it was

He would never want anyone to spiral into melancholiness

Dazai doesn't understand your eating disorders fully nor will be say that he knows the specifics of your pain

But he does know how it feels to be alone, when you think you can't deal with "it" anymore

After all he oftens stands on the balcony with a glass of whiskey in hand as fresh bandages wrapped around his body

I think he'd get you to join him

It's an incredibly delicate moment where both of you are completely vulnerable

No games, no lies, no mask

He's a touchy guy very affectionate

And slowly with his affection, advice (cause omg is that man smart), and support he'll slowly try to get you to be comfortable with eating

With your own body

And you know he'd do anything to make you see what he sees

Because he sees a beautiful person inside and out who was able to love him the good and the bad

And he'd be damned if he couldn't do the same for you <3

Chuuya

Chuuya is an alcoholic who drinks his problems away

It helps that he's a lightweight so it doesn't take much for him to forget about... everything

But he knows that's not good

And he'd never let you go down that route, no way, not on his watch

He'd try to convince you to seek professional help he'd pay all your sessions anything you need

If youd rather not he'll try to convince you here and there but not push it

Instead he moniters you and makes sure you eat little by little from a snack to a meal to 3 square meals a day and he'd celebrate every milestone

And let's be honest you'll probably never have the chance to try and vomit the food up on his watch

That man has a six sense I swear

Ranpo

I'm sorry but ranpo will not understand

I don't think he'll ever fully understand

"But why don't you eat?! Food is good!" Type of guy

But he knows it's hurting you, not eating

And it becomes all the more real when he walks in on you hunched over the toilet seat as the contents of the ada's group linch falls out your mouth

The bitter acid of it makes you shiver

He starts to get you to eat under the guise of making you try his new favourite snack (that happens to change every week)

A little bit more than what you'd eat to get you through the day but not enough that you could throw it up so easily

Sweets=sugar=energy for you to survive -Ranpo

And on the nights when you can't take it anymore

He lets you climb into his lap and cry which is unusual considering you were the one to always baby him

But it didn't matter, not in that moment

Fyodor

You tried to get him to eat iron tablets once to help him as he's anemic

Now he's trying to do the same with you but with food

I think he'd bring up the hypocrisy of it

So blunt omg 😭

If he offers you a logical solution and you don't take it (because it's obviously not easy) he'll just stare at you contemplating why you did not take his offer

Low-key thinks you're doubting his intelligence

But alas he takes another approach and slowly gets you to eat

He definitely reads a lot of books so he'd have some knowledge on this

Not a very touchy person like dazai or ranpo but he gives you headpats and forehead kisses after every meal that you don't throw up

He likes to make you tea because it's nutritious but not a solid food

And if all fails he'll low-key manipulate you so um yeah...

Nikolai

So silly very silly guy

Immediately goes to Fyodor for help

He makes your food into cute little animals and stuff like you're a kid just to make you feel better

Does little shows while you eat you forget you're eating

And boom the plate is empty how'd that happen?

In the beginning he'd sneak a few spoons of like porridge or something of the sorts into your mouth every hour

He's a very touchy guy as well so he's always cuddling you and telling you how much he loves you

It's honestly very sweet and it's not often you see a sincere Nikolai telling you how much he loves you while the two of you are laying on the couch, movie long forgotten

He'll gasp if you say you skipped a meal and then hop into the kitchen to make something (I'm sorry he's just dramatic like that no guilt tripping at all)

A/n: I'm sorry this took so long 😭 I'm taking a long time with all of my requests because I have so many projects both writing and not going on but I hope you enjoyed and have a wonderful day!

#bsd #bsd x reader #bungo stray dogs #bungo stray dogs x reader #dazai #chuuya #fyodor #nikolai #ranpo #ranpo x reader #dazai x reader #chuuya x reader #fyodor x reader #nikolai x reader #dazai osamu #chuuya nakahara #ranpo edogawa #fyodor dostoevsky #nikolai gogol

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ddejavvu · 2 years

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All I have to say is Hotch and size kink pls (ps you are one of the best writers ever! Everything you do is 20/10✨)

thank you lovey!! okay listen this strayed from the prompt in more ways than one but what i thought about instantly when i thought of his size were his hands so these are actually just all of my hotch hands thoughts

hear me out, his hands are massive

you know those gifs of him with smartphones and you can barely see the thing in his palm?

yeah. massive.

personally i have very small hands and more often than not i think about his hands and how insanely huge they are

if you've also got little rat fingers

just know your hand would get lost in his <333

you honestly just stare at his hands a lot

he picks something up and it looks so teeny tiny in his grip

his gun?? the way his giant hands just?? engulf his gun??

but because he's got such big hands

i think that he'd get really frustrated when he couldn't do small, precise tasks

sometimes he fumbles with the buttons on his shirt :(((

you have to stand in front of him and go down his chest, slipping each of the buttons into the holes

'I swear those got smaller since yesterday.'

the last time he tried threading a needle he nearly cried

he had accidentally torn a throw pillow and tried to repair it before you saw

but then you just came home to your very frazzled husband with frayed thread all over and one needle lost in the carpet

you have not found it yet.

his fingers are too big to hit just one key on his phone most of the time so when he texts you while he's distracted and doesn't catch typos it's all jumbled

'heafdibng homne.'

'wamnt ice cresm?'

'gooidnighrt sweethearft'

but then sometimes he gets frustrated with that and just uses the text to speech option and the messages come out like

'Getting strawberriesfrom the store period what are you craving for Linch?'

his hands are rough :')

they're not calloused, they're just perpetually dry and you can't get him to keep lotion at his desk

so he's flipping through countless papers all day and washing his hands fairly often after lunches or coffee breaks and he comes home and you're surprised his hands aren't flaking apart

you always rub some lotion into his hands for him and give him lil massages and then you kiss the backs of them when you're done :'))

his hand is always on the small of your back.

always.

doesn't matter what you're doing or where you are, that's its spot.

he can't always find gloves in his size so his are miserable oh my god they're stretched, they're torn, they're threadbare

on the bright side

his hands fit really well on your hips <3

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climbingropedf · 2 years

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A lanyard is traditional with small electronics

A lanyard is definitely an attachment used to require keys, badges, and various items to a specific thing. They are generally Industrial Safety Harnesses Belts used for collection or restraint, so are sometimes made with different materials, as well as nylon, polyester, silk, silk, and polyethylene terephthalate (PET). That name 'lanyard' appeared to be coined by Wedgwood, Hensleigh in 1855, when he / she published a book on false etymologies. A lanyard is traditional with small electronics, such as mobile devices and other convenient electronic devices, to help keep them safe coming from dropping or becoming dropped. Most lanyards are attached with the device via a hole on the conclusion, called the cow hinderance. In some conditions, the strand can also be used as any headphone cord, and several earphones incorporate the actual audio signal to the ring. A popular example may be the Wii Remote wrist strap, which keeps it in place even during vigorous work out plans. Many lanyards will be custom-printed with art logos of businesses in addition to events. You could print these logos with screen-printing, Jacquard loom weaving, or offset printing. Luckily they are used to attach keys and other small objects into a lanyard for single handed access. However, you must order 10 pieces or more to purchase this product or service. There is simply no minimum order number. In addition, lanyards work extremely well as key chains. A lanyard can be a versatile attachment for a device. It can be used to pick up serious objects, hold gear, and secure other gear. It is additionally helpful for obtaining objects, so you should use it to make your wellbeing easier. It is a handy accessory for every purpose. You might attach a badge to it utilizing a lanyard. You might buy a lanyard to install an earphone. A lanyard is commonly used to showcase ID cards, tickets, and badges. Its design is usually a woven or braided stuff. The lanyard will be divided at one end which includes a clip that is that come with the holder. A name badge is often attached to the actual linch-style hat by just a lanyard. They also serve like a keychain. If you happen to be a member of the Royal Navy, you ought to wear a light linch-style sleeved lanyard. ANY lanyard suspension method uses a twine or strap for you to suspend a prosthesis. It feeds by means of an opening inside bottom of the actual socket. It makes it easy to draw the stump in the socket, and it makes it possible to don the prosthesis even though seated. It is likewise useful for seated users. If you are unable to reach the socket from the standing position, you possibly can still use a new lanyard-strap-style attachment.

#Industrial Safety Harnesses Belts

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libre-lulaa · 2 months

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soy de dejarlo todo a las mitades

y de sufrir mis ansiedades desde que estaba en el garden

#personal #rapsito #Spotify

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norteenlinea · 11 months

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LOS ROLLING RUANAS Y KEI LINCH PRESENTAN “NO NOS VAMOS A CALLAR”

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spanishfemalerappers · 1 year

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hiphoptothestreets · 1 year

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Colombia Rap Queens Kei Linch And La Farmakos Connect In New Video “Hijas De Barrio”

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danielbernalph · 1 year

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KEI LINCH 📷💜 @keilinchh • • • #fotografos #streetwear #photooftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/ClmrW28Oblt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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bogotamusicvideofestival · 1 year

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Selección Oficial BMVF 2022 Competencia Nacional

Chell - Siempre Tú (Gabo Tone) DJ Khaled & Sech - Borracho (Salomón Simhón) El Fabi - Latino Soy Yo (Richard Ardila & Laura Contreras) Flako Gallego - Medellín (Carlos Ortiz) Frank Walker, Sam Feldt Ft. Zak Abel - Madness (Rafatoon) Kei Linch A.K.A Anarkia - Mantra (Rodrigo Torrijos) Kygo - Freeze (Rafatoon) Los Petit Fellas Ft. Bruses - No Se Va (Santiago Díaz) Miraclis - Scienter (Santiago Posada) MNKYBSNSS - Mi Necedad (Andrea Vargas Gaviria) Mr. Bleat - Niebla, Fuego y Silencio (Jairshkov Meschanskaia) No Stories - Skeletons (Sebastián Vargas Flor) Oneroom & Atenea - Morena (Andrés Montaño) Paula Van Hissenhoven - Ven A Mí (Miguel Silva) Pedrina & Mau Moctezuma - Bonito (Daniela Piedrahita Morales) Pedrina Ft. Skinny Man y Ryoker - Déjate Querer (Daniela Pedrahita & Pedrina) Pirineos En Llamas - Fuego En La Habitación (Camilo Morales) Yael - Alarma (Salomón Simhón)

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aaos1979 · 2 years

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KEI LINCH (A.K.A. ANARKÍA) - MANTRA

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mujerpazcana · 2 years

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U Banda apela a los recuerdos y la nostalgia en 'Hoy me siento loco'

U Banda apela a los recuerdos y la nostalgia en ‘Hoy me siento loco’

Boletín de Prensa No. 433– 25 de julio de 2022Redacción Revista Pazcana Es una canción en la que el protagonista se siente loco por amor y por ausencia. U Banda se presentará el próximo 5 de agosto en la Cámara de Comercio de Duitama junto a The Mills y Kei Linch. Además, tocará el 24 del mismo mes en el Colegio INEM en Tunja. Después de sus exitosos lanzamientos ‘No me sé rendir’ y ‘Aurora’,…

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#Artistas Colombianos #artistas musicales #musicaenvivo #revista pazcana

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witsserviceablesubstitute · 3 years

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I'm rewatching Teen Wolf to see if the queerbaiting was that bad and with six years of separation it's not as terrible in some aspects, worse in others.

The shows biggest weakness is the reliance on increasingly bananas plotlines, the inconsistent world and character building (Derek is 19 in the first season, 24 in the third), and its inability to hold onto actors.

The characters are strong though. The narrative allows parents to be people rather than archetypes, and Lydia discovering she's a Banshee is inspired and unique. It just— it doesn't know what to do with all those character threads and even Scott becomes a plot-puppet.

The story shines when it doesn't get too concerned with pairing off its mains into neat heteronormativity and actually takes interesting risks with character development. It needed to keep its pulse on the characters as the heart of the story because, unfortunately, the plot beats become way too erratic to keep audience interest without emotional investment.

The queercatching though...

It's still egregious but without BTS baiting it feels like Stiles has another— mostly unrequited— crush. Which is fair. They're fast and loose with Derek's age but he sees Scott and Stiles as kids at the beginning (who can blame him, with his past) and they are.

I'm not saying the show wouldn't, it absolutely would and has (only no one comments when it's a minor girl with a 23 or 223 year old supernatural man), I just don't think Derek would. Even if he gets himself reasonably together enough to acknowledge his feelings for Stiles are complicated and difficult to elucidate (which they are because of the queerbaiting), he'd let Stiles grow up without putting voice to it.

Stiles's bisexuality though.

The fact this is hinted at as strongly as it is within the text to the bitter end and is never fully realised fills me with a complicated anger, difficult to elucidate.

Other observations:

- Lydia is a bi magnet and maybe polyamorous. (And I'm also still completely in love with her).

- Scott is a better protagonist than I remember. Soft and sweet and imperfect. Low-key bi. (There's a reason he and Stiles find such a kinship).

- I still dislike all the Argents. They're fascists and you can't convince me otherwise.

- Jackson was a really fun asshole. Unrepentantly terrible, humorously so without being comically evil, vulnerable when needed, and a great foil for Scott and Stiles. Strong actor.

- There are many moments where it could be said Stiles has a crush on Derek (and Scott), but it's the last episode that's the linch for me. Him imagining himself as Derek's hero with BI emblazoned clearly on his chest. I mean. Come on.

- Derek's entire character; his emotionality, his journey, his expression... It deserved more careful building. Moments of lightness, time and space to work through the everest of pain the writing kept heaping onto him.

- I wish all the highschool characters were in university. The actors playing Scott and Stiles are 19 at shows start and they're the only ones passing as teenagers. It'd make some of the plotlines less uncomfortable too.

- Teen Wolf is both misogynistic and heteronormative but also queer and fleshes out its female characters in ways irregular for 2010s tv.

- Boyd should have had a backstory. So too should have Braeden. Industry racism is evident in how they're treated. Also, Scott and Derek should be informed by their culture rather than 'ambiguously brown' and 'read as white' (respectively).

- Kira is Scott's best love interest.

#teen wolf #scott mccall #lydia martin #derek hale #stiles stilinkski #sterek #stydia #kira yukimura #scira #jackson whittemore #vernon boyd #braeden teen wolf #queerbaiting #queercatching #bi stiles #bi scott #thank you for your patience #at letting me waffle about a questionable show that ended years ago

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politicalprof · 4 years

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2019 in books:

David McCullough, 1776: A highly accessible, if somewhat naive, depiction of the year that defined the prospects for American independence. I wouldn’t go there for deep, critical analysis. But for a story of a year, it is well done.

Michael Palin, Erebus: HMS Erebus was a British naval vessel that spent much of its career in Arctic and Antarctic exploration. If you are interested in Victorian era explorations of hard places, a fascinating read.

Emilio Corsetti III, 35 Miles from Shore: The story of an airline crash in the early 1970s in the Caribbean. What happened, why, how, who survived and what we learned. Interesting if not brilliant.

Raymond Thorp, Crow Killer: Old-fashioned tale of the inspiration behind the Robert Redford movie Jeremiah Johnson. As much fantasy as history. But it offers a flavor of a time and a subgroup few Americans would know.

James Corey, Caliban’s War: The second book of “The Expanse” series. The protomolecule is working its mojo, and Earth, Mars and the Belters are none too happy with one another. A fun read of a massive space opera.

Walter Kempowski, All for Nothing: Set in the context of the collapsing Eastern Front during WWII, this story proceeds from the fractured point of view of the Germans who are about to be turned into refugees fleeing oncoming Soviet forces. The book, notably, does not make these Germans sources of sympathy: the mood is dissonant and disordered. A real piece of literature.

Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall: Because who doesn’t want a point-of-view account of a key counselor to Henry VIII, one who rose to extraordinary wealth and power despite his humble birth and then managed the, how shall we say, removal of Kathrine as Queen? Replaced by Anne Boleyn? Who wouldn’t want to read it? It’s excellent, by the way.

James Corey, Abaddon’s Gate: Book three of The Expanse, and the protomolecule has remade humanity’s relationship to the universe. But we’ll probably screw that up, too. Another good story, filled with actual thought about the problems of space travel and space living.

MIchael Krondl, The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice: Venice, Lisbon and Amsterdam each in their turn dominated the global spice trade -- a trade that was one of the main stimuli for early colonialism and imperial conquest, and which strongly influenced the rise of the modern corporation as a linch-pin of global capitalism. The book is not as good as it should be, but the story is one that few people know, but should.

Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies: Hey, it’s time to get rid of Anne Boleyn everyone! Or, at least, to separate her head from her body. And let’s manage the English Reformation, too ... all just a few years before losing our own head. Welcome to the early/middle 1500s in England everyone!

Leigh Perry, A Skeleton in the Family: Who doesn’t have a skeleton living in their house who helps solve mysteries. I mean, who doesn’t?

JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: So my son has started reading Harry Potter. So I have started reading Harry Potter. I liked this book: it’s tight, it’s focused, it’s a fun read. I see the appeal.

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The answer to the questions: “What if the angels and demons charged with over-seeing Earth as humans go from the Garden of Eden to Armageddon decide that they like Earth and don’t want Armageddon to happen (even if their allies do)? And what if the Anti-Christ were raised in a perfectly mundane family in a perfectly mundane English village? How might it all turn out?” To delightful and funny effect.

JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Meh. Okay. Not as good as book one. But still a good story.

Gilbert King, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America: A broad pastiche of events surrounding one of the many civil rights cases of the 1940s and 50s: the abuses and murders of several African American men accused of raping a white woman in Lakeland, FL, in 1949. With a whole lot of associated discussions of other cases, the NAACP, corrupt and criminal law enforcement, race riots, and the like. A good read. And how can it be that the bastard George HW Bush, put Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court to fill a seat once held by the staggering legal figure that was Thurgood Marshall. Shameful is the only word.

JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Certainly better than the Chamber of Secrets. A darker turn. But beginning to get padded as readers demanded “more” if not “better.”

James Corey, Cibola Burn: Book 4 of The Expanse ... and I didn’t like it. It seemed like filler, a book written to a contract deadline. Maybe it will pay off in the end. But another one like that and I’m not going to care.

Tom Phillips, Humans: A Brief History of How We Fucked It All Up: Did you know our oldest known ancestor, Lucy, probably died by falling out of a tree? If stories about how people have messed things up, have suffered both intentional and unintentional consequences, turn you on, do I ever have the book for you. Schadenfreude much?

JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Dear lord is this book long. Why? No doubt because the fans wanted it to be. But it is as gratuitously padded as any book I have ever read. It’s okay. But I wasn’t particularly impressed. Perhaps another six Quidditch matches would have helped ....

Adam Higginbotham, Midnight in Chernobyl: Thought the HBO miniseries was scary? It was tame. I mean: the Soviets, with their level of “technical prowess” and their industrial “quality control checks” ran the facility. Heck, Chernobyl wasn’t even their first disaster. Let’s just put it this way: the actual fuel piles in each of the FOUR Chernobyl reactors were so big that: 1) different sections had different characteristics, and didn’t all operate at the same rates or temperatures; and 2) the monitoring equipment couldn’t record how all of the pile was operating at any time. Happy now? Russia still has 10 Chernobyl-style reactors in operation. Enjoy your good night’s sleep everyone!

JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Yes, yes: I know. This isn’t Order of the Phoenix. Well, I read Order of the Phoenix many years ago, and thought it was deeply annoying. A pile of words with little point. A way to keep the audience happy with long passages about very little.

Meanwhile, I, like my son, roared through Half-Blood Prince. A ripping good tale. Much tighter than the last several of the series.

JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: A fine read. A bit slow getting going: let’s go here! Let’s go there! Let’s recap the plot! But after the first 1/3 or so, the story got moving and I enjoyed it. Didn’t expect great literature; didn’t get great literature. But then again, I deeply appreciate how much pleasure my son got from this, and how excited my daughter is to engage with it. If it hadn’t been conceived and written, it seems like there’d be a Harry Potter sized hole in the universe.

Neil Gaiman, American Gods: In all honesty, I didn’t really like the first 2/3 of this book: too many tangents; too many sub-stories for the sake of sub-stories. And I’m still not sure I think it was a great book. But I really enjoyed the last third of it, and there were moments, vignettes, and sentences that truly blew me away. So I am glad I stayed with it.

Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade: A sci fi story of soldiers apparently engaged in a war with Mars who are transported to the battlefield as beams of light. One gets unhinged from time. I am not sure it was worth the work, and I came to understand it was based on a short story and so, at times, it seemed a bit one-trick pony-ish. But it had its share of moments.

Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: A bit slow going at first, but it grows more compelling as it moved forward. This is the story of the 1936 crew (rowing) team at the University of Washington that went to Berlin and won the gold medal as Adolf Hitler watched. An interesting story about crew as a sport (about which I knew basically nothing), and life in Depression-era Washington state -- with a little, somewhat gratuitous, commentary about life in Nazi Germany layered in. One takeaway? The actor Hugh Laurie’s father was the lead oarsman on the British crew at Berlin in 1936. Hugh Laurie rowed crew at Cambridge as well.

James Corey, Nemesis Games: The next in the Expanse series. Much more enjoyable than the last one, but still a bit strained. One heck of a plot “twist.” A perfectly lovely way to relax; didn’t change my life. Some interesting character twists. But also a lot of “here are some giant developments (a lot of giant stuff) that give us lots of things to write about going forward!”

Alan Stern and David Grinspoon, Chasing New Horizons: the story of the New Horizons mission to Pluto. Interesting behind the scenes look at how the mission got funded, planned and implemented. Accessible in terms of the explanations; thick with bureaucratic story-telling and summary. It turns out this stuff is really, really hard. Interesting, but it didn’t blow me away.

And to end the year, I am reading: Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal: What if 13 year old Jesus had a buddy who, 2000 years later, wrote a gospel that filled in those missing years of Joshua’s (as Biff calls Jesus) life? Well, here’s your answer.

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darfeld · 4 years

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What makes two story the same?

What makes two story the same? For example, is David Linch’s Dune the same story as Frank Herbert’s Dune (I’m talking about the book here). On one hand, one is an adaptation of the other, so logically it should be the same story right? In both cases, it’s a political war between the Atreides and the Harkonen over the control of a very valuable monopoly of the spice, orchestrated by the Emperor himself for his political gain.

On the other hand, so much change from the book, like the characterization of the Harkonnen as inherently evil, the Atreides inherently good and noble, the Fremens who are the poor endemic population that only wants to claim there rights to the lands, the bullshit weapon using voice, the Bene Gesserit are now some mystical convent. Some of those changes are merely esthetic, like the bullshit voice powered weapons, but some other change the themes and the meaning of the story. In the book, the Harkonnens are bad, but they are not cliché villains and utter buffoons like they are in the movie. The Bene Gesserit is a much more important player and much more science focused group. The Fremen’s goal is to start a Jihad on galactic scale. Which means the movie is more a struggle of Good vs Evil, when the book is absolutely not that. So are they still the same story? Now let’s see another example : Take the 7 samurais and the magnificent 7. Both are about a group of seven individuals warrior fighting for money that are persuaded to protect a village of poor people from a group of raiders, for less retribution than they would normally demand for such a task. The parallel goes even further since the characters of the western mirror those of the samurai movie. Yet the story happens at very different places, in different times, which leads to a loads of differences, small and not so small. The end in particular, is quite different for the protagonists. A particular note worthy change is that while the samurais have some code of conduct and are above the peasant, socially speaking, the mercenaries are not, they are only intimidating because they are fighters.

This should perhaps change the nature of the story a lot, but... strangely, I don’t think is does on a fundamental level. I would say those stories those stories are more similar than the book Dune and it’s movie adaptation are. I can go on with remakes that actually change every thing and movie judged to similar that are actually very different if you understand what they are about. Or story that build new words and cultures but mimics to a fault other stories to the point the peripeteia and the themes stay pretty much the same.

One might ask “Can 2 stories really be the same, even if one is merely a retelling of the other?”, but then we are left with nothing to analyze.

So maybe a better question would be : “What characterize a story?” and “In what significant ways two stories can resemble each others?” If I look at the example I gave so far, the keys to a story are the characters themselves, the peripeteia and the themes of the story. In some case, it seems you can modifies some of those if they are not too essential to the story. Which means there are a hierarchy of essentiallity in every story. Which also means than changing this hierarchy should in theory, change the story itself. Obviously, if you make Ron Winsley the protagonist of Harry Potter, you can tell the same events with a different point of view. If you elevate his relevance to the plot, then the event will necessarily change, thus the story will be different. In the lord of the Ring, if Gandalf doesn’t disappear in the Moria, the rest of the story will obviously not be the same, even if Gandalf just stand there doing nothing until rejoining Merry and Pippin at Isengard. ( wouldn’t that be weird... ) And if you make Gandalf reappear in Lothlorien just after beating the balrog, you diminish the importance of it’s disappearance, so the rest of the story will again differ greatly from the story we know. Then, there are themes. Themes are somewhat trickier to analyze, because not very story are very obvious about them. Some even try to hide them as much as they can. Theme can be as obvious as good vs evil, or the subversion of it. It can be the sacralization of Heroism, or it’s deconstruction. It can be about depression, a struggle against addiction, or even about how to live a simple life. Story have generally several themes and sometimes conflicting ones. In Star Wars, there is the theme of good vs evil and how a Jedi should not attack because they are the good guys or ‘I won’t kill you because killing is evil’. But at the same time, the rebellion alliance exists and ultimately triumph only because they choose to fight, rather than not, and yes, that means killing people. It works because the stakes are different for Luke as a Jedi and the Rebellion as a force to oppose a Fascist Empire. But they are still conflicting messages. ( Which by the way could have been resolved in the Rise of Skywalker, but instead we got that trash, and I’m probably not done being salty about it... ) Now imagine that instead on focusing on Luke’s journey, you focus more on the rebels, downplaying the role of the force and the struggle between good and evil. Luke’s involvement become a lot less important, and suddenly the story doesn’t look the same at all. The events might be the same, but suddenly the Force isn’t playing that much of a role. Or at least it is very less tangible. The whole “family” thing also disappears, and overall we are left with a story much more science-fiction and much less Fantasy. It would make for very interesting spin-offs to be honest. A bit like Rogue One, if you will. Themes are constructed on a lot of aspect of stories, so maybe I should break it down more. If one change of one aspect can change a theme, maybe this is a thing I should focus more on. On the other hand, I still think that theme is a level of abstraction more useful to see if a change modify a story significantly or not. In any case, it comes down to what ihmo makes a story at all : Characters, Peripeteia and themes. If we go back to my two example from the beginning : I don’t think Frank Herbert and David Linch are telling the same story, because the characters are just not the same and the Movie makes it a story of good vs evil. I think the 7 samurais and the magnificent 7 are the same story, because the characters are very similar, the peripeteia are alike and the team of 7 strong guys defending poor peasants despite it not being their best interest is kept.

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