#flaws

[soulinkpoetry]

Let’s see how many times This gets reblogged in here.

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#introspection #flaws #humans #open minded #daily quotes

[writingwithfolklore]

Everyone Has Flaws

                Flaws in characters are one of the most important parts of them. Flaws make a character interesting, give them depth, and make their job of propelling and driving the story a whole lot easier. My screenwriting prof’s biggest argument for thinking out your character’s flaw was, “why don’t they already have what they want?” It is a character’s flaw that keeps them from their goal, which creates the story of how they overcome it.

                In this way, we don’t want to think about flaws as something you kind of tack on afterwards. A flaw should be created within the base of your character, driving and determining every aspect of their internal journey.

                I’ve learned two ways to create flaws in character journey. They’re pretty similar, so I’ll try to explain simply.

Method 1: The flaw is in how they’re trying to reach their goal

                Remember that characters have both a goal (internal, what they desire), and an objective (external, what they believe will give them what they desire). Boy wants to feel secure (goal), boy believes girl will validate him (objective), boy pursues girl. In this method, his flaw is in his thinking of how to reach his goal. Essentially, his objective is wrong, and he needs to realize it by the end of his arc.

                So maybe the point of the story is that he should be finding internal security, or learn not to rely on others for his self worth. That would be his arc throughout the story.

Method 2: The flaw keeps them from their goal

                This one is a touch simpler. Character A wants to belong somewhere but pushes away people when they get close. Flaw keeps character from their goal—it’s the reason they don’t have it already, and thus the thing they need to grow from to reach their goal in the end.

                The reason they are the way they are tends to come from an event in their childhood or past. If Character A pushes people away, maybe it’s because the people who were meant to love them let them down, or they’re not used to people being genuine towards them, or they were bullied, etc. etc.

           Of course, you could always try a mixture of both methods. The important part is that your character has something holding them back from what they want, because otherwise, why wouldn’t they already have it?

(More on creating characters here:)

#writing #creative writing #writers #screenwriting #writing community #writing inspiration #books #film #filmmaking #writing advice #characterization #character development #flaws #Everyone has flaws

[lyralit]

fatal character flaws

pride

judgement

stubbornness

innocence

fear

shallowness

anger

jealousy

greed

toughness

softness

paranoia

opinionated

immoral

soft-spoken

too trusting

doubting

afraid to: - love - speak - live - be wrong

vanity

gluttony

limitation

pushes themselves too hard

obsession

blunt

aimless

arrogant

bigoted

fickle

hubris

people-pleasing

carelessness

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[tilldeathdousart]

This hit me right in the feels 🥲

#Russell Brunson #emotions #feelings #mental health #imperfections #perfect #flaws #accept yourself #we all have our flaws #it’s okay to be different #different #broken #incomplete #upset #happy #don’t fix me #you don’t know what others are going through #be mindful of others #fighting our own battles

[philosophybits]

A man who has lost all hope of rooting out of himself a certain radical defect of character, or even of hiding the flaw from others, turns round and tries to find in his defect a certain merit. If he succeeds in convincing his acquaintances, he achieves a double gain: first, he quiets his conscience, and then he acquires a reputation for being original.

Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible

#philosophy #quotes #Lev Shestov #All Things Are Possible #character #reputation #flaws #merit #virtue #ethics

[contemporary-disquiet]

FLAWS, Max Hay

#art #arte #contemporary art #arte contemporanea #contemporary #installation #installation art #art installation #flaws #max hay #video art #videoart #mine.cd

[theloulouge]

Realization 17

Crazy how peaceful life becomes when you accept your flaws so no one can use them against you, raise your emotional intelligence so no one can play mind games with you, and remember exactly what happened so no one can gaslight you and make you doubt your own sanity.

#realization #peaceful #life #flaws #emotional intelligence #mind games #gaslight #sanity #llife #self love #self growth #acceptance

[golden-letters]

i just want to know if its my problem. if people dislike me because of my appearance, or because of my sadness, or because of my voice, of because of my hermit tendencies to stay expressionless and silent. i just want to know if its my problem. being too boring. making you all choose better people. i know it is. actually, i know it is my problem. but i don’t know how to fix this. i’m a mess and i don’t know where to start cleaning. whether i should sweep the dust off my heart first, or clean the blood off my palms. or maybe i should brush the cobwebs off my mind first, or clear my lungs free of snot, choked back tears, and swallowed melancholy. burn off the layers of stillness and gluttony on my stomach. i know it’s my problem. but i’m just so full of flaws i don’t know how to fix them.

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[embeccy]

"I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."

- Augusten Burroughs

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[blackswaneuroparedux]

ἠγνόει γάρ τὰ ἄλλα τὰ προσόντα μοι κακά, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἂν ταῦτα μόνα ἔλεγεν.

Epictetus

Ah, he doesn’t know the rest of my nagging faults - otherwise, he wouldn’t be gossiping about only these!

#epictetus #greek #classical #quote #faults #personal fault #character #flaws #human condition #femme

[shy-girl04]

I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking: true stories

#prose #words #augusten burroughs #flaws #woman #breeze #hair #black and white

[nobeerreviews]

It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed.

-- Hoda Kotb

(Chambéry, France)

#imperfection #flaws #comfortable #hoda kotb #travel photography #chambery #france #quote

[random-xpressions]

If you need perfect, then go love God. But if you want to feel the love from a mortal, then here I am, so full of flaws and imperfections...

Random Xpressions

#immortal #flaws #imperfections

[nuninho2000]

" Lily is flawless" ; " Lily is a Mary Sue" ; " Lily is always right "

Lily Evans canonically has flaws . It's just fans who MAKE her flawless. She is canonically cheeky (Slughorn says so), stubborn, loyal to a fault (she remains friends with snape even when he's friends with ppl who hurt her friends. She's basically the person who says 'but he didn't hurt me' but ppl hate snape so much they skew their platonic relationship. That was a bad memory because it was a betrayal to Lily . It would not be a betrayal if they weren't close friends), she is portrayed as obnoxious sometimes even.

She holds a very big grudge, even as snape asks forgiveness she never accepts this (however, given that james bullied snape behind her back, this means lily still cared about Snape enough, or simply because she hates bullies).

In the first meeting Lily had with Snape, she's a lot less spiteful as petunia as Petunia insults snape for being poor and dirty though that has to do with Snape calling Lily a witch, something she thinks was an insult but she looked like she believed in the same thing anyway (but she was a kid! She most likely heard it from her parents). Im pretty sure this implies her to be very attached to petunia.

But a few months later or a few days depending on the SMW timeline, Lily is with Snape listening to him. I personally believe it's because Petunia and Lily ended up becoming less close, and Lily needed to attach to someone again, which she found was Snape someone who could teach her who she really is.

Some people characterize that as her using snape (not that it would be so bad, she was a kid who didn't know anything about herself and the ppl who I've seen headcanon it don't mean it badly and personally prefer a Lily characterization that at least has flaws than some really kind saint) or that she's a traumatied kid who needed codependency. First with Petunia, then with snape (i personally prefer this one).

#harry potter #lily evans #hp #james potter #severus snape #mary sue #flaws #canon #marauders era #harry potter books #deathly hallows #harry potter and the order of the phoenix #Snape memories #petunia

[headseton]

Flaws: lyric mv (3)

#bastille #the whole squad #ok dan #oh hi kyle #kyle simmons #chris woody wood #will farquarson #BBX #flaws

[thefanboyhub]

My laundry is on the floor right now and I decided right now was a good time to do some digging into one of the most interesting characters in KOTLC.

It's time to dissect Fitzroy Avery Vacker!

So we all know Mr. Ritz Cracker,

Mr. "We're Cognate's!"

Mr. Golden boy

Mr. You-get-the-damn-point!

Fitz was the Elf who found Sophie in the Forbidden Cities. He was the one who introduced her to his— their— world. He was the first person to see Sophie cry, first person in the Lost Cities to support her.

From reading the books we learn a lot about how Fitz grew up, and you might be saying "uh... no?" BUT HA! YOU FOOL! You cannot just simply read the words, you must read behind the meaning and watch a characters behavior to learn how they grew to be who they are! (It's why I love characters so much, there's so many ways to learn about them)

From context clues and how he behaved in the books we know he was the golden child. First kid to manifest at the tender age of 13, and lose his leaping bracelet early too, not to mention he was a telepath and was basically flawless in school. He took pride in it, like most kids do. But you see here, that's the problem. He never had someone to take him down his pedestal that his parents practically built for him (fucking Alden). He grew up being told he'd do great things, that he was a strong Elf, that he was better then anyone else. So naturally he started to believe it and act like it. He wasn't necessarily vicious either, but he didn't need to be; he always got what he wanted anyways.

I think he felt alone. I mean he reacted so viciously towards his brother Alvar after finding out he was a traitor— UNDERSTANDABLY SO BY THE WAY! But my confusion with this was how angry he was. But I thought about it a lot through my rereading of the series and I realized that he was so angry because he had loved, trusted, looked up to, and felt inferior to his older brother. Despite— No— Because he was treated so much better by Alden(bitch) and Della(ILoveYouWifey) Alvar gained resentment for his siblings, mostly Fitz.

There was a part of Fitz sports thing in book 8.5 KOTLC Unlocked where he talked about playing with Alvar. He said it's no fun playing base quest (I think) with him because he'd stay invisible the entire time. What this tells me is Alvar agreed to play the game but would dip out of his own jealousy and pettiness. Which takes me to my previous statement—

Fitz felt alone. The one thing he never got was a brother who actually liked and loved him. The one thing he had been patiently waiting for and hoping for since he was younger and treated like the golden boy was his older brother. But he never got it, instead he got a traitorous older brother who hated him so deeply he'd hurt his friends without a second thought.

In my opinion, Fitz's rage over his brother is reasonable. It's honestly so real and raw that I can't even say he's being idiotic. Especially considering what I just said.

BUT

His fatal flaw his his anger— or more technical — His tantrums.

Like I said before, he always got what he wanted, he was spoiled and treated like a little prince. So every single time he didn't get what he wanted, his anger would rise. His emotional intelligence has been stumped because he never had someone say no to him or been rejected for something. So he's confused and angry; "Why not!? This never happens to ME!" Type of mentality.

This also comes along with jealousy and the need to compete with others. So when Keefe started to show his affections for Sophie a lot more openly back in book 4 KOTLC Neverseen, specifically when they ended up in Alluveterre for protection that was provided by the black swan, he started to act jealous. He realized how Keefe felt and noticed something about how Sophie acted and he automatically felt the need to compete which is why in book 9 KOTLC Stellerluna he has Sophie on a pedestal like a prise in his subconscious. He doesn't see her like a lover or a crush, he sees her as a prise to win over, subconsciously though. Consciously he thinks it's a crush. He went from thinking of her as a sister to someone he wanted to date; that doesn't happen for no reason.

Moving on from the relationship drama aspect of this, we can talk about his outbursts when something goes wrong. He needs someone to blame. Always. And it's never himself. He needs someone to push all this fear and anger out on because he's not emotionally or mentally equipped to deal with it. It's a self-destructive flaw he posseses. Same with his jealousy.

Which is why I love his character! He actually has some pretty bad flaws! But he also recognized it and is attempting to fix it; what he doesn't realize is that it will take time and whatever he broke will most likely never be fixed again. Simple as that. It's sad and will probably hurt him a lot but I will help him grow.

In conclusion: Kill Alden and get Fitz into therapy :D

#keeper of the lost cities #kotlc fandom #kotlc fitz #kotlc thoughts #kotlc #character analysis #character dissection #flaws #fitzroy avery vacker #fitz vacker #keeper of the lost cities fitz #thefanboyhub #long reads #long post