#Theres never any plot

[chitatochickenpotato]

tell me about atlas sew and his friend group 👹👹

I've had this story and these characters for 10+ years, the amount of inter-connectivity between everything is so hard to explain. If anything sounds unbalanced, feel free to ask about it because theres usually a reason that nerfs it.

That being said Atlas'(he/they) Mom was my first OC, she's basically my world's equivalent of a Dnd Champion she worships the deity of loyalty. She spends a lot of her story picking up strays and doing the whole found family thing (she later loops his father into this behavior as well) so his family is massive. And both his parents own the adventurers' guild so everyone he grew up around is like battle hardened and kinda reckless. As a result he has a weird "Nothing can hurt me, do you even know who I am?" and "I am intimately aware of how much effort and hurt it takes to succeed, with everything I do I will give back to my community as thanks for all the privilege I have" complex about him. He's also weirdly codependent in that he's never really alone so when he is he just kinda has no idea what to do. He's very much the "I know a guy" guy.

The Sew thing is actually because neither of his parents remember the names they were born with cuz they had to keep switching them. However his mother was known for fixing uniforms when she was in the army and making clothes n stuff for other revolutionaries n whatnot. So the name is kinda like John Smith in that the family name is just her occupation.

Atlas is actually inspired by Taliesin Jaffe because I watched his episode of between the sheets and was like yeah thats him. Specifically he has that like old soul kinda vibe you get when you're raised around people much older than you and have been to more funerals than you have marriages. He's not goth weird like taliesin but he's "I know too much and lack experience in all things" weird. He's also a history major which I imagine contributes to that. Atlas has grown up around people who have lived it and he wants to better understand them and their experiences.

He also has some disparity in being raised semi-noble because of his parent's strange governmental relations and also being babysat by adventurer's all the time. I imagine he kinda shifts rapidly between super well mannered and proper to being an absolute rascal.

Currently him and his gang are studying at a prestigious university I can't be bothered to name. He meets Aragon before joining the uni at a fancy party (both their parents are loaded [Aragon's through business and prolly blood money, Atlas's because the government wants them to stay in one place so they don't have to deal with the hassle of having slightly overpowered warriors on the loose])

Malachi and Oz are working under their mentors for a government sponsored project to make permanent portals through the planes. Atlas' family gets brought in because of the adventure guild thing and some of the failed portals keep spawning in monsters. So he meets those two through that.

Idk what Aragon's family does yet but Oz hears that Atlas knows Aragon and basically says that bros family uses stuff from diff planes to make their stuff so Atlas should totally get him to fund the project as well. So thats how Aragon gets introduced to the rest of the gang.

Aragon (he/she genderfluid) is a fire elemental and the way that works in my world is that elementals are born as null but when they hit puberty they gain their element based on who they are like personality wise.

She's super standoffish and snappy. She's very much the painful aspect of fire when you first meet her. But as you get to know her I think she mellows out into barely a burning ember of a person. As the story continues I want him to become more of a hearth kinda fire personality wise.

Her entire thing is that her parents want him to go into business and support the family but he super doesn't want to do that. Except he doesn't know who she is as a person because his whole life has been defined by being what his family wants that he doesn't know what else to do.

He has super bad family relations and like 2 friends outside of the gang and they're the butler and the chef so she isn't doing great. So like when he's thrown into a group of people who know exactly who they are and are doing what they want its kinda moth to the flame. Being around them hurts because imposter syndrome and jealousy but also it's visible proof that theres a chance at a happier future for him.

Growing up I imagine he spent a lot of time hiding in the kitchen. The chef would listen to him complain and give him snacks n stuff. Eventually he started teaching Aragon to cook. Later down the line I want him to have his own little restaurant but he is Not There yet.

His character is me processing what it means to learn how to trust. She's very much that one character that is not down to found family but boy howdy are the others trying (They succeed). Atlas brought Aragon home one day and his parents decided "yeah that's my kid" after hearing about her negligent home life. A lot of their relationship is Atlas convincing Aragon to be a Sew (most of their family is adopted through similar means) while Aragon struggles with still wanting to prove himself to his parents.

Malachi (he/him nonbinary) and Oz (she/her) are still in development.

Malachi is like a magic physicist, his mentor is working with the guy in charge of making the spell (enchantment???) for the portal to take em from plane a to plane b. So him and his mentor are studying the relationship between those spaces to make sure no one like dies and things stop coming through without permission.

Oz and her mentor make the rovers and what not that they send through the temporary portals in order to get more info on how to set up a temporary one.

They bond over the project and school.

The way I make characters is I basically come up with a role they fill, a vague concept, and like 4 personality traits + sometimes a design. Then they stay as like vague husks of people till I find 2-3 characters or people that make me go "This is so character A" and I copy and paste things to give them actual depth. Once the mishmash is complete the brainworms start forming connections between them, the world, and other characters already in existence.

As of rn Oz and malachi only have one inspo each so I'm a lil lost on them. I wanna develop them a bit better this year tho

There also isn't any plot for this

#Theres never any plot #theres only ever vibes and characters #my story isn't linear its very much just some people living and sometimes I give them problems #Writing this out feels so cringe #Telling anyone about Atlas' family specifically brings back memories of the forbidden mary sue #have to keep reminding myself I create for myself and theyre allowed to be as op as I please

[lunar-fey]

sorry in advance for the person i will become when missing link comes out. btw

#i never know how to tag spoilers esp because it will depend on if ml comes out in like. installments or if the story is playable #all the way through right away #so erm idk how LONG i will be tagging for but i will try to put anything spoilery under the tag “khml spoilers” #usually i do like 2-3 weeks after something ends. depending on like length and if i specifically know #if any of my mutuals still NEED it tagged #and like. again how long the game takes to beat. #it took me like 5 days to beat khdrs story beggining to end (i hadnt played before the final update at all) #but im assuming this will be longer. and as its New itll probably not all be released at once. #so id say ill just tag spoilers for 2-3 weeks after each update but the truth is theres no way #im gonna remember which plot event is which update. #h. so. yeah idk idk ill figure it when it comes out it might not even be terribly soon but i can Dream.

[3416]

what 1634 fics do you want to see. im not gonna write them im just curious

hello anon......... there are far too many i want to see in this world (literally any at all tbh) but conceptually i have rambled in private about a couple that i really want so buckle up... here are some cliche concepts but idc:

okay my ultimate dream fic is like a 50k fic canon compliant to this point like a decade into the future where auston's been forced to retire a few years earlier bc of a career ending knee injury and never wins the cup and basically. retreats back to az and has to cope with that and gets a Lot of distance from the team/hockey media yada yada. mitch keeps playing hockey but the leafs never win the cup and mitch never feels as fulfilled as he thinks he should be. he never has kids (could go into things here....)... separates w steph.... is on the verge of retiring himself...... the catalyst for him showing up in arizona could be a lot of random things (abt to sign divorce papers... announcing his own retirement soon... also had a whole concept of one of their dads passing away but.) but cue the reunion with someone who you built your whole younger self and younger dreams around and having to relearn the person they've become now. mitch escaping the only place he's ever really called home to really try to feel fully comfortable with himself for the first time vs auston seeing the merging of his old life and his new reality................. i mean. that's the dream. idk. post hockey life crisis with people you can't help but love forever tbh. i have rambled about variations of this one for hours before.

i'm also dying for an auston pornstar fic with a clueless like. business bro mitch or smth. everyone has done the cam boy mitch stuff thanks to his streaming but what about auston... what about these pictures... it's giving casting couch....... i don't really care about the plot necessarily... could go w mitch and auston sleeping together n then befriending each other but NOT sleeping together again for a while. could just straight up do pwp, idk, but auston's whole sleaze ball vibe sometimes.. and the mustache..... we deserve pornstar auston.

also desperate for some magical realism au where one of them makes a deal with the devil to get the team a stanley cup but it goes HORRIBLY awry bc things are never what they seem when you're making deals like that. don't have the details ironed out enough in my head to give a real plan here without sounding stupid but i want the angst and pain and realizing their priorities might not be The Ultimate Hockey Goal like they've always thought.

i've also thought about a lot about a more pwp fic where mitch and auston have this calculated shared ritual of like. getting the new guys on the team/new lineys off to ~help the chemistry~. the whole oh it's just bros thing, but mitch and auston tackling it as a team, one whispering in the ear.. one sinking to his knees... a biiit skeezy bc some of these guys would never in a million years wanna sleep with guys but they pose it like it's gonna help the team and it's just smth they do... don't you wanna feel powerful and see cocky number one goal scorer in the league am34 on his knees for you, random newcomer (haha) 4th liner???

also. thought about another magical realism fic where auston and mitch are at mitch's lakehouse high as fuck and accidentally have a wishbaby bc they're TRYING to manifest success for the team and wish on a star with the wrong wording.... also had a batshit au planned vaguely based on the hangover for mitch's bachelor party which COULD involve vgk crossover since i would set it in vegas for the vibes but.

also had an f1 fic idea where mitch was a driver and auston was one his mechanics. there was way more to this one, but realistically i'd take anything with that as a concept. mitch's life being in auston's hands to some degree and auston taking it Very seriously. also mitch treating his wins like its this shared thing and. auston is just one of tens of people who work on his car but thats his fucking GUY!! imagining mitch getting on the podium n trying to jump at the barriers to get to auston and his whole team.......... pls. also had bunts as one of the guys who changes the wheels and picturing the team letting bunts run the some of the socials. they would be fucking off in that garage BIG TIME filming themselves doing stupid silly shit in all the downtime. also. thinking abt the element of having a Secret relationship or situationship in a setting SO public like f1...... could prob turn that one into a multimedia au somehow, ANYWYA---

i've thought abt so many more too lol. this is what i let myself sit here and spew for the hour but. i'm always down to talk about more or if other ppl have ideas and need to flesh them out. i love to yap abt these men.

#easks #ANYWAYYYYYYYY #the retirement one is the only one ive ever sat and thought actual plot points through tbh... even then i could never fully decide fndlsjkz #need a sounding board for this stuff sometimes ... never shared or planned any on main bc i hate not Having the full stuff thought out but #know what.. fuck it flkjsdf #im not a writer so fdsl its very hard for me to take a measured approach with any of this. #i love to make moodboards n playlists and help ppl think through and plot their own things but i can never fully do it for myself idk #there is one fic of theres that. would be close to being a perfect fic to me if a certain thing didnt throw me off but alas. #dont think ive read any fic for them thats been like the perfect thing for my personal tastes

[walkman-cat]

hands up tell me abt Your star trek au right now!! on the double bro. what are the tensions it all looks too kind & magical i don’t trust it yet

(if it is literally kind & wonderful i am grateful i am thankful i am honored i’d just like to hear more)

-@jack-kellys

i'm ngl my star trek au au is mostly running on vibes wbwbwb so it is pretty kind and happy and warm (i just really like how much everyone in the enterprise's crew has such a respect and care for each other yknow. found family and all that innit).

that being said, here are some funky things about the characters ive been thinking about lately (under a cut because i'm incapable of being concise):

the stars were essentially jack's santa fe. he grew up surrounded by stories of starship captains and space and it became his lifelong dream and ambition to captain a starship, something which he dropped everything to attain. now he is captain of a starship– one of the youngest in starfleet's history– and it's wonderful and fantastic and he's never felt more alive! but there's always something gnawing at the back of his mind (he's based his entire life up until this point around this moment, it was a driving force and a beacon to look up to when times were tough. what if the experience is nothing like his dreams and he ends up disappointed? what happens when the mission's over? what'll become of him?).

also starfleet's assigned him a galaxy-class starship with families onboard and he's having a Time because of it (what if they get hurt under his watch. what if he gives the wrong order and a child dies. starfleet officers know the risks of space travel and are aware of this but the families. the children). other than that he's having a great time !!

kath's half-betazoid on her mother's side, but she never knew her mother nor has she ever been to betazoid (i really went woe! being mixed and only connected to one of your cultures but still being unable to fit in even there because of the fact that you're mixed be upon ye!). she's trying real hard to learn more about betazoid and who her mother is even though she knows she won't really feel like she "belongs" in betazoid either. she's working on understanding and using her empathic/telepathic powers more.

oh also!! pulitzer is a notorious and not-well liked admiral, when kath joined the acedmy she officially had her name changed to plumber and has since told no-one that they're related (this surely won't backfire terribly on her in the future)

also because this is the spot (cat) show, kath loves spot (cat) and wants to babysit her and play with her but alas. she is allergic to cats

race cannot catch a break– he's got a massive losing streak at senior officer poker night, spot (cat) hates him, he can't grow a beard but every time theres an impostor/clone/mirror universe situation the other version of him always has a beard (this is half in jest but also it amuses me wbwb)

jokes aside, i've been having a whole bunch of race as first officer thoughts (and a lot of riker and race parallel thoughts but. that's another story). i don’t really know how to explain it other than the way riker acts in the last episode of tng season two (yes, the riker montage episode) when facing death (joking around and keeping up the appearance of flippancy and courage in the face of agonising death because he’s first officer and there are people who look up to him and he has to set an example) seemed very race and very kony to me, in a way. (youve got this to blame for riker beard race. im not sorry)

race is also one of the first people to advocate for les becoming acting ensign. he makes it very clear that he's in les' corner and makes himself responsible for his studies and sometimes his training (and he teaches him poker).

OH ALSO! sarah and davey didnt know les ws going to be onboard and only found out about his presence after they'd set off. did he sneak onboard?? mayyyybeee (he just really wants to be a starfleet officer). after the initial shock (and notifying their parents) sarah and davey start the Let Les on the Bridge campaign (letting him watch the bridge from the turbolift, helping out in sciences and engineering, etc etc) the that eventually leads to les becoming acting ensign. it reaches a point where most of jack's senior officers would probably mutiny all for this kid.

there's more stuff but i'll stop rambling now because, again, i have a problem with being concise wbwbw. thankyou soso much for the ask rizz once again i love your star trek au so much and am always eager to hear more wbwbw!!! :D

#is it obvious that i've been thinking about this au maybe a wee bit too much #i have no plot but i do have the idea that spot (human) has a (adopted) klingon uncle he grew up with #the plot's just shenanigans and everyones pals and theres a cat near the warp core AGAIN #kath's experiences being half-betzoid growing up on earth without any connection to betazoid culture and never quite belonging #is kinda based on my own experiences growing up as half-asian but only having cultural ties to my greek family and stuff #idk my brain latched onto this and now i cannot let it go #idk why i felt that was important to mention but im mentioning it anyway #its real obvious im a tng enjoyer from this isnt it wbwbw #i have many other thoughts but they are minor and also this was getting reallll long wbwbw #that is all for now wbbwbwbw THANK YOU RIZZZZ WBWBWBW #very bouncy moment #newsies #jack kelly #katherine plumber #katherine pulitzer #racetrack higgins #les jacobs #newsies star trek au #answered #jack-kellys #this is a beast of a post im so sorry #once again thankyouu rizzz i love your au sm and im real happy you like mine wbwbw

[sleepygaymerdisease]

guys i think this website is recreating misogyny

#i cant say specifics of what the media is or who the character is but like. if theres a character (who happens to be a woman) who is never #directly shown on-screen. but shes absolutely integral to the plot. and it's all with an extremely serious tone. maybe headcanoning them as #a silly ditzy bimbo wifey who believes in astrology and doesnt know anything about computers and her only interests are animals and plants #and taking care of her husband and cleaning the house and she also only wears bright pink and dyes her hair bright pink...... #maybe. just maybe. thats fuckin awful?!?!? 💀💀💀💀 #IM GOING INSANE HERE. LIKE GOD DAMN I THIUGHT I COULD TRUST TUMBLR USERS ABOUT THIS MEDIA TOO. I WAS SO WRONG. BLOCKED INSTANTLY. #also im not even going to begin to tackle the casual whitegirl racism involved with the interests listed for this character. like idk people #loooove to be vaguely spiritual without respecting a single culture who actually does these practices. 😀. #but im so mad like. i cant even say shit like 'ummm think about this for a sec!!' because the OP clearly put tons of time and effort into #their insanely misogynistic post. multiple drawings lined and full colored. like. they thought about this and thought it was amazing. 😐 #anyway... ive noticed lately that a lot of people think misogyny is a dying bigotry or that its 'not as serious' as other forms of hatred? #but sexism is a very real systemic and individual issue. drawing cismenkissing.png doesnt auto-clear the sexism allegations 🫢 #anis gaymer moments #ok sorry for the long rant im done now i prommy

[gibbearish]

anyone else experience the thing where you have like. ships in law. like someone you follow is turbo into a pairing from a media you know nothing about so youre like. well guess this is our ship now

#you see them occasionally reblog discourse about it and try to like. sherlock holmes out the plot from that and common threads in fanworks #like how ive never played a single ace attorney game so my current understanding is that maya is a failgirl girlboss hybrid #phoenix wright is the main guy and hes a pathetic sopping wet beast who wins the cases insane danganronpa trial style #all ive really gleaned about the other lawyer everyone ships with him whose name i forgot is that hes like. #tsundere??? i guess is the best way to put it???? idk either im right and yall know what i mean or im wrong and its whatever #ooh or other example: ive never read a single dc comic and barely seen any movies from it #but the amount of batman x green lantern and batfamily content ive read? more than to be expected for p much a nonfan #theres also the names of several bungou stray dogs (no way i spelled that right rip) characters living in my brain #several years since the person i followed who talked abt them deactivated jebfksbdkdbd #rip spinneraki im sure you just remade somewhere hope youre doing well #or not several years i think like 2 max but still

[cringecanto]

future fics that have a good premise but comphet marriages

#txt #plaese. stop with the camilo wives and isabela husbands my god #tho tbh even camilo husbands and isabela wives annoy me lmfao unless it's mariano sometimes i dont care . #if i made them have bio kids id simply say 'oh yeah theres other parent' and then have that other parent never be relavant. #BRUNO TOO i dont think he wants any bitches!!!! #writing a future fic where bruno isa and camilo are single bc their spouses dont matter to the plot. #hell even luisa and mirabel. everyone nearing/in their 30s like 'i havent found anyone/im not interested'

[mejomonster]

To get good at telling stories... writing stories... one must... practice by writing stories ;-;

#rant #i tell u what i think id have functioned well in a wrbnovel publishing format. but i dont think #any good sites for that exist in english as of yet? (i think theres one but its contract is Yikes i heard) #but just like. the idea of publishing chapter ever 1-2 weeks until youre done. maybe 20 chapters maube 2000. maybr you never finish. #most of the chapters free and maybe idk you make some advertizing money on ads viewed on your chapter page. or make the last couple extras #paid only idk. but the big thing? the point im getting to - sorry i got lost in the sauce - #my point is: you probably DO write shit at first. or write fine with some SHIT ARCS or rushed chapters to hit ur weekly updates #and 5 years from then youll look back and wanna overhaul some of those fucking stories (weve seen many a jjwxc writer revise later). #but wow will you have practiced writing a LOT. #youll have 100k 500k 1 million 5 million words worth of writing under your belt in a few years #and youll probably be a hell of a lot better at knowing how to make more chaptwrs on average interezsting and Building Consistently to your #main plot and arcs. you'll probably get much bettwr at raw scheduling of wriitng and pre-planning that works for you and structure mapping #youll have a much better idea of your personal strengths whrn you need to lean on them for a rough month when your story's turned #into a mess. youll value your own writing more (i hope) cause LOOK how much you fucking accomplished. #like. npss? dmbjs author? idk about others but i can definitely see the improvement in wriitng skill #between dmbj book 1 and the recent heihua book and mountain village book #(in terms of style in word choice. and goals for the story set out to be told) #i look at priest and newer novels by priest are as impressive as any literary novel ive ever analysed #(and older ones while i also love i do see their slightly rougher word choice and how some were executed a bit #more up and down/not as tightly) #i just. agh. i am :c feeling that ill probably write 200k words this year #and none of it will be as good as i want. but i NEED to write these first 200k #because the only way i get better. get to the way i want to write. is to make the progress of improvement with this first 200k. #ToT fun fact i wrote 170k words this year. WOW. and maybe 400k words of fanfic in the 4 years prior (so 100k words on average) #i know i am imptoving. i just gotta keep at it. #also? annoying i cant focus my attention lmao. 160k words is mkre than enough to finish a 1st draft novel #but me? i split those among like 20 projects this year. so the novel most written so far is still only at 40k #and im probably going to need 60k more words to finish it

[cappurrccino]

I wish I was one of those people who can keep an interest simmering on the backburner for years, but instead I can only ferociously inhale it and then move on to the next thing, and then the stars are out of alignment and I can't go back

#//juri speaks #the only things i can keep up with consistently are mbmbam and sawbones #and i think it's bc they're just. This Is The Thing This Week #and there's no story or plot or self-imposed expectation to have Deep Thoughts about anything #anyway the world moves too fast and theres nowhere for me to consume things slowly and dumbly #by the time i get to something everyone else has already moved on or had that thought or whatever #should never have joined any social media after neopets

[pixel1678]

I played Teal Mask today and I'm already about to finish the Pokedex, just gotta catch/evolve a few more things and then trade a bunch of lads.

Also I randomly got both shiny Mudbray and shiny Pikachu so that was cool.

Also also the blood moon rises once again /ref

#dont worry i wont mention any plot points or new/returning pokemon #i will say that theres a unisex bathroom which is cool even if you never use it

[britneyshakespeare]

i finished twelfth night. 25 out of 38 shakespeare plays completed.

#after finally reading othello and twelfth night in the past 10 days im not sure which are the most famous plays i still havent read #bc like ive mentioned previously ive always read the plays in arbitrary order. whatever piqued my interest #hence why i read the henry vi plays relatively early on. or some of the more obscure comedies #but lately since i past the halfway mark this year some of the more talked-about ones im like 'geez i should just get to that one already' #not that that makes me enjoy it any less. i think i mentioned that in my post i made while reading othello #i fucking loved othello. that shit was 10/10 although i very much was reading it bc i felt like i had to at that point. #doesnt mean i wouldnt love it. after all i only read shakespeare bc i love shakespeare! not bc theres a gun to my head #its more like i just want to know what everyone's talking about already #tales from diana #i think at this point the most famous one i still havent read is... much ado about nothing? which isnt THAT famous all things considered #but some of you ppl do seem to be awful crazy about it so ill see #i already knew the plot of twelfth night i had just never read the original. now i have #so i kinda already knew how much enjoyment i could get out of it. some! a good amount! #but i found it a quick read and i wasnt THAT excited about it #the next one i want to read is pericles though. ive read 8 shakespeare plays in 2023 but none have been romances! #i do love the romances. the romances are still the only genre where i havent read more than half of them #ive read 2 out of 5. the tempest and the winter's tale... two of my favorites overall #in a way ive kind of been holding myself back from reading more romances bc i needed to check some of my 'required reading' boxes lol

[guideaus]

anyways, I'm dropping how do we relationship

#personal #obligatory nice to see lgbt media. and in that respect it honestly was fine #but the character developments were off and conflicts in the plot seemed out of place and things got resolved in weird ways #the blonde girl keeps causing problems for some reason #the homophobic guy was not mentioned again despite being in the band?? #and the main girls never gave me any reason to like them being together #i never wanted to see them get thru things and it never feels satisfying when theyre done w smth #the characters are barely fleshed out at all and now theres love rival for both women??? #the two were also presented as opposites but they basically share the same flaws. nanami touko/Midori Oonishi/shima style #probably more stuff i cant remember

[raethethey]

i saw ursa's post and thought thisd be fun.

three bingos wow.

#so i never have my stuff betad and the only time ive done it is asking my partner to read it over #that wasnt even a kpop story tho #i have had ff.net and wattpad but i only had wattpad for like a week before i realised how much i hated it #i still have ff.net but i use ao3 more #i have written smut but purely for myself and it will never meet anyone elses eyes #i have beta read but its mostly a friend asking if smth sounds off or weird #again i have written m/m but itll never see the light of day bc of my own reasons that i dont feel like sharing #i write yn fics and 99% of the time theres no mention of any gendered terms but im not perfecf #i made the slash on professional writer a different direction bc id love to be one but i dont think ill ever actually pursue it sadly #my one fic that deserves more attention: whisper of the forgotten #then again i only have 2 parts out and i havent even gotten to the actual plot yet

[calpalsworld]

I kept worrying people won't like the second half of oregon ultimatum, they'll only like the first half, because in the first half Hellman is busy getting nauseous and having panic attacks and crawling around and getting infodumped by the Hivemind and having no real goal except to be evil........... Which is SURELY more interesting than her actually being able to shapeshift and kill without crying and farting and also she has conflicted motivations now and has competent opponents..... riiight

#ok but is past me right? #i think i just have a hard time since theres such a shift but also thats the POINT. #im doing that on purpose... but is it good? #IDK IM WORRIED #ive been doing so many art fights but im. actually REALLLLY itching to go back to writing the plot summary #ive never actually liked an original thing this much before ITS FUCKED UP #i will probably do all the art fights I have planned to do and then not do any more unless its for revenge #so then I can be freeeee to write OU

[canismajors]

also prev rb like. personally letting the story breathe gives soooo much more weight to stuff happening like if stuff happens one oafter the other im like whoaaaaa slow down but if its like. stuff happens then they sit on a beach for a week then more stuff happens it gives the audience space to process the more plot-heavy stuff like. its importantttt

#one of my big gripes w mark of athena in particular (to give an example) #is that the plot just. happens happens happens. & the main characters barely get any time to a) interact w each other & develop the #relationship that they'll have with each other through the series & b) it loses its stakes. like theyve got a race against time but it never #feels. frantic or like theyre racing bc it just happens anyway & theres no time to actually absorb the plot heavy stuff & therefore the #stakes never feel impactful

[albatris]

nonpsychotic writers stop being fucking Like That™ challenge

#if ur seeing this its not about you #sigh. #like...... i say Like That™ in this post bc i cant be bothered fucking explaining what i mean rn #but just like..... eaugh. stop acting like psychosis is shameful or a fate worse than death #i know you dont THINK thats what youre acting like bc you'd ~never intentionally be ableist or prejudiced~ but you need to #stop and think about what messages ur plots are actually sending beyond just like. the super obvious surface level stuff!! #think abt the implications of ur words for ten fucking minutes pls and stop throwing psychotics under the goddamn bus #for your edgy chosen one magical fantasy plots or whatever #like the example i saw was not even that bad generally speaking but i see it SO MUCH and theres hardly any decent psychotic rep to #balance it out to the same degree #that i was just like. ugh #fuck it I'm done #its such fuckin lazy writing