#that'd be pretty cool i think

[hms-no-fun]

i remember a while back you saying in one of these asks that you didnt find classpects that interesting as a writing tool (or something similar, i don’t remember the exact wording) but you seem to be referring to them significantly more since then, both textally in godfeels and when you’ve discussed the work like in these asks - has anything changed in your perspective on them?

astute observation!

so, i don't find classpects particularly interesting as a writing tool. i'm not a big fan of mapping out a character beforehand, engaging in that sort of reverse personality quiz process of defining their wants, their needs, their astrological sign, etc. no hate to anyone who does, but for me it's far more interesting to just let the character decide that stuff for themselves. it's the same process of discovery i apply to the rest of godfeels, which is admittedly a sort of insane way to work and probably shouldn't be taken as an example.

so that's a very specific definition of "writing tool" that maybe isn't what other people are thinking of. i can get didactic about these things because i don't like writing advice or things that seem like writing advice if you squint.

you're right though that classpects are more at the front of my mind than they used to be. part of it is just that classpects are about to be a lot more actively relevant to the narrative (albeit not in the way you would expect), so i've obviously been thinking about them more. which, you know, those thoughts do naturally generate fiction activity which shapes how i intend to write future chapters-- in that sense, are classpects not a useful "writing tool" for me? i dunno.

it's not even that i find them more meaningful structurally. i think giving someone a title and then building their character around it is a great way to come up with wooden characters. in the case of the upsilon kids (who you will be meeting very soon), their classpects emerged through writing a bunch of little test scenes. i'd put them in a room together and give them something to react to. i really want to avoid conventional group dynamics with this crew, so i always pushed them to behave in messy ways. and over time it became apparent that what makes them work is their seeming incompatibility, which i shouldn't say much more about until you've actually got some material to draw your own conclusions from. but the point is, it wasn't until i got a good handle on each kid's vibe that i assigned them their classpects, and i assigned them in a way that was deliberately "underwhelming" or seemingly a bad fit. i did this because i don't like the narratological determinism that can arise when you give a character a title they like too much.

i don't like giving writing advice but i highly encourage young writers out there to not be afraid of writing unusable scenes. it helps to be able to think of the writing in the early planning stages as, in some sense, disposable. because the prose isn't the point-- it's getting to the characters as you understand them. there's so many scenes i've written that will not make it into godfeels proper without significant alteration if at all! and look, i know how it is when you feel like you can barely write, so every word you manage to get on the page is precious and needs to be preserved towards the Final Product. sometimes that's correct! precious things always emerge in this process. but it's nowhere near as many as you think, and the hard lesson is understanding the difference between precious and enjoyable. just because you enjoy the thing doesn't make it right for the story. even pretty trash belongs in the bin eventually.

but again, it isn't wasted work. the words aren't the goal, they're just a happy accident. the real work happens in your head.

uh shit anyway so for instance Dana Straten's classpect is Knight of Mind. i must admit she's an outlier among the upsilons in that i picked her classpect in the gf3 prologue with an understanding of her character that was vastly different from who she would end up becoming. back then all i knew about the upsilons was they'd be Dana, Jade's as-yet unnamed daughter, and two others. for a long time, once Julia came in and really breathed life into Dana, i was convinced that Knight of Mind was just wrong. it was a bad choice for her, it didn't make sense, she should have been something else that had cooler power implications and i should just retcon it to something better before anybody notices. this worry resulted in a lot of conversations with my collaborators, ultimately concluding that it was more fun to just play with the hand i'd unwittingly dealt us. so we took the Dana we felt and asked her what Knight of Mind meant to her, figuratively speaking. wrote some scenes, had more conversations. Julia and i have spent a LOT of time discussing Dana's whole situation.

the thing about this is that i don't think our idea of her changed all that much between when she came into her own in like march/april 2021 and when she properly entered the story in summer 2022 (god it feels like that gap should be a lot longer, but i double checked and it's right). much of what we already implicitly understood about Dana remained true. but through our discussions and test scenes, we were able to define those truths in some really useful ways. it was through this process that we textually solidified Dana as someone who doesn't have cool powers, at least not flashy ones anyway. Dana's weapon is her mind-- the ability to use her razor sharp clarity of perception to act on many different forms of knowledge at once. she's not a mind control person, she's not a seeing all eventualities person, she's just a really smart punch person. Knight of Mind, it turns out, was perfect for her, because she doesn't need it. and that realization was very much why i tried to create a similar dynamic with the rest of the upsilons.

so again we ask, does that not make classpects a useful "writing tool" for me? again i answer, i dunno. i don't really care. it's just the process to me. all of it is just the process.

maybe that points to why i was so free with referring to Rose in short as Seer of Mind in that ask. having reached the endpoint of Rose's role in this story, i finally understand what Seer of Light means for her (in godfeels, at any rate). it's that she saw the truth of how the narrative was changing and accepted that it wasn't for her. as in, she saw the light at the end of the tunnel and chose to walk towards it. it's become a shorthand for Rose, you see? i say "Seer of Light" the way i say the name of a friend who was really more of an acquaintance realistically speaking, like we only hung out a couple times a few years ago, but we hit it off so well every time that i was always like "man, i wish we could hang out all the time, we'd be great friends" but just, for one reason or another, it never quite lined up for that to happen. the name of a beloved missed connection, perhaps...

i guess, basically, to put a bow on this: i try not to think about classpects until the character in question is real enough in my mind that they define it rather than the other way around. once again i have no idea if this makes any kind of sense procedurally or if i'm just making my life harder by being stubborn. but then again, the only writing advice any writer can ever give you is how to write the things they already wrote, so

#sarahposts #godfeels #homestuck #rose lalonde #classpects #classpect analysis #seer of light #knight of mind #dana straten #writing advice #i hate writing advice #yet i give it anyway #sarah zedig the hypocrite supreme #of course there's nothing i'd rather be #except maybe financially stable enough to be able to work on godfeels full time #that'd be pretty cool i think

[myutsuwu]

What if they added the Hooked on You designs as skins to DBD

#dead by daylight #dbd #hooked on you #dbd hooked on you #that'd be pretty cool i think

[poisned]

Finally had time to start the Sir Pentious plush designs! He is... A lot harder to come up with cute designs than Lucifer was haha.

I honestly have no idea if I should keep the hat or not or how many eyes he should have on his tail. Confusion is all I know now

#Hazbin Hotel #sir pentious fanart #sir pentious #hazbin sir pentious #fanart #my art #poisned.art #Pois.Posts #I finally get to draw and of course it's difficult #i don't have the mental capacity for this rn #i'll have more time to rest next week so looking at this won't make my brain explode then haha #if anyone has any suggestions for him that'd be pretty cool! #or if you just think his angel design is better or easier #i haven't actually looked at it since the final

[arleniansdoodles]

I recently had two Giant paintings in the works, and now one of them is finished! Here is the Giantess Gunnlöð; in Norse mythology, she was tasked by her father, Suttungr, to guard the Mead of Poetry in their mountain home, Hnitbjörg. When Odin snuck in, he slept with her for three nights in exchange for three draughts of the Mead. Once he drank all of it, he turned into an eagle and flew away. As for Gunnlöð, she later bore a son, Bragi, the skaldic god of poetry.

In my fic, Gunnlöð’s time of guarding the Mead has already passed. She’s much older now and an experienced warrior; I'd say she’s around Faye’s age if Faye was still alive XDD And speaking of Faye, I like to imagine that she and Gunnlöð became fighting partners back in the day, after Gunnlöð broke free of her isolation in Hnitbjörg!

I dressed Gunnlöð in a rose-gold palette, which is how Calliope would describe her compared to Thrúd’s fiery red-gold colours. Gunnlöð is one of the more “distant” Giants in my fic; she appears later on and doesn’t have much of a prominent role, but Calliope still has some interactions with her and learns more about her story.

#now i'd love to see faye and gunnlod trying to take on thor together #while the jotnar refugees scramble through the gate to jotunheim #i think that'd be pretty cool! #art #my art #god of war #god of war ragnarok #fanart #god of war fanart #au #god of war 2018 #calliope #gunnlod #norse mythology #giants #jotnar #jotunheim #ironwood #atreus #kratos #calliope is once again a tiny melon baby around the giants loll

[spoiledskullz]

if Knuckles were real I'd take him to underground basement punk concerts because if I had Knuckles with me I wouldn't be scared of dying in the mosh pit or something

#I'll buy him headphones obviously #I'm not evil #I'd make him a battle jacket out of the patches we collect if he wanted <3 #i think that'd be pretty cool if he wanted me to #I just know he'd have my back

[transingthoseformers]

Speaking of Tarantulas, he should be more chonk than Blackarachnia since he's a tarantula and she's a black widow.

He should also be shorter than her because male spiders are smaller than female spiders (okay tarantulas are all bigger than black widows, but who cares).

I mean you're right, i feel like in that case it's less that we shrink Tara and moreso that we make BA bigger because that'd be cool as fuck

#maccadam #transformers #blackarachnia #black arachnia #tarantulas #i also think BA should have much much longer and thin legs like a black widow would #though i suggest in this scenario we follow beast wars / beast machines and have her end up becoming an autobot/maximal #because i think that'd be cool #imagine her black widow hourglass glows too #primus she'd be so pretty

[phoenixcatch7]

If there's one thing I like more than time travel it's crossover reincarnation, so.

Botk link reincarnated as Damian Wayne.

An incredible weapon master of all types, but especially prodigious with a sword - he was beating knights at the age of 4 and with his memories as intact as they get for him I can see that goalpost moving even further (probably with traps and tricks, a 3yo doesn't exactly have great bodily control).

He's an excellent survivalist, agile, strong, durable, cunning and creative. He can move like a feather in the breeze, strike from behind with ease. His first kill, an animal, did not stir him as it did the other children. With his poise, grace, skills, obedience, he ought to be ra'as' finest assassin in the making, a jewel in the crown of the league.

Except he never speaks a word. Half his targets escape unscathed. He skates by true punishment on the merit of his skills and achievements in other missions. Testing has shown it is not a physical deformity that prevents his speech, but not even talia has been able to coaxe a word from him past his second birthday.

It is a defect ra'as is growing more and more frustrated by, as each attempt to fix these two final flaws ends in resounding failure. Less extreme solutions are running dry.

Talia fears those solutions. Her child does too, she knows. For them, there is a possible solution, more extreme than anything ra'as would tolerate.

She sends him out of the league. To his father.

To Gotham.

#'gee phoenix that sure sounds like that dp x dc you're normally rattling on about' yeah lol I steal tropes and sell them on the black market #Anyway this has been slowly rotisserie-ing in my head for a while I just like shaking canon like a magic 8 ball #I'd love to explore how link would react to Gotham and how he might see getting suddenly dumped in a found family as the youngest #And how that contrasts with both his expectations in the league and his role as the saviour last hope of a whole country #Because that kid cannot have a modern interpretation of killing. Like monsters? Kill with prejudice loot the corpses. #The yiga might have a little more hindsight understanding and he never killed them anyway but zero hesitation blowing them up #And ganon is so far removed from the concept of 'killing is bad' because a) human??? Monster??? B) literally the problem #C) he's been killing people so it'd even out d) everyone wants him dead So Bad e) been killed already like a dozen times what's one more #I get the feeling he'd assign the same role to the joker like 'widely considered the source of all evil. 'died' several times and came back #personal source of absolute misery for several heroes. Killed many' = slay the monster. Straightforward. #Like yes link always chooses kindness and has a strong morality and Opinion on killing people it's just a lot would be solved #By hitting the joker until he stopped making life miserable for everyone and if that means permanently well that's kind of link's job. #And like with Jason the bats understand that a lot better than they pretend to. But that is a 10yo who should not be thinking like that. #I think it'd be interesting to see how that'd change their reactions to 'Damian'. Like he holds a very similar opinion to og and Jason he #Just goes about it completely differently. #And I'd love to explore the differences between two fictional worlds and how they can go from pretty much the most black/white morality #To probably one of the greyest areas while still holding near identical themes and methods of dealing with that. #Found family compassion as a weapon against evil and copious amounts of weapons and cool gear lol #Also link should keep the arm he's earned it. Reincarnating with all his memories knocked a few other things loose I'd imagine #Mostly because all the loz games I've played have absolutely altered the way I view any link and also I love referencing them. #Damian with telekinesis and infinite glue would be great. A tiny 10yo sword master choosing instead to drop a dumpster on you #In between hurt comfort link beginning to bond with his family and begin to speak and learn sign language from cass #There's also the sound of explosives and a small figure clinging to a flying door as it crosses the Gotham night skies #Speaking of cass I bet her and link would be great friends in this au. #batman #batfam #bruce wayne #loz au #Loz #loz totk

[vhstown]

i saw a reddit post where it says the PM in hobie's "hate the AM, hate the PM" line might mean prime minister.... it's a bit of a stretch but i think that's just slightly interesting lol

#im not agreeing or disagreeing i just like to hear what people think about him given the limited information #and if that was the purpose of the line that'd be pretty cool #!!! #vee chats #hobie brown

[weird-life-of-a-closet-fangirl]

maybe its bc I haven't been super involved in the fandom, but how come I haven't seen anyone talking about how mia is also infected?? I've seen people talking about how ethan is mold and he's infected and he shouldn't be alive and all that, and I've also seen a few fics where ethan learns of his moldiness and uses the powers that he has, but no one ever mentions mia having powers?? But she's also infected since the dulvey incident???? And I seriously doubt the megamycete infection can be fought off with a few doses of fluconazole. Why haven't I seen anyone mentioning moldy mia?? Ethan's not the only moldy one in that family!!

#re8 #ethan winters #mia winters #rosemary winters #I read this cool little oc fic someone wrote for nanowrimo #and it got me wondering how the megamycete infection would manifest for the winterses #rose can control shadows i believe #if that last boss battle in the dlc is anything to go by #and she can absorb attacks from other BOWs as long as they're infected with the megamycete #or she can absorb any sort of organic matter through the megamycete? that'd be pretty cool #i feel like ethan could probably shapeshift like miranda #and cause psychological effects like donna #i say this because he was infected with the E series mold and eveline was clearly capable of doing freaky brain stuff #mia might be able to do something similar too #I feel like mia's powers would have more psychological effects than ethan's though bc of how much time she spent in proximity to eveline #ethan's would probably manifest more as something physical #anyway i've been thinking about this way too much I literally have finals in two weeks

[bri-does-art]

Hi, just popping in to say I'm alive, still working on the next chapter and those ask responses, everything's good. |'D In case anyone was worried!

#i'm so sorry it's taking so long y'all #i'm just going through some INTENSELY STRESSFUL SHIT and it's taken a huge toll on me #but i'm doing my best i promise #i've had to take quite a few mental health breaks in the past few months #didn't help that a big part of the chapter was pretty difficult to write from a linguistic and technical perspective #but i've completed it!! now i just... gotta write the rest :')))) #maybe i'll do another poll for splitting the chapter or not because my god i am gonna finish this one in august at this rate #also random thoughts but #sometimes i think it'd be nice to join fnaf servers and meet and talk to people #make some more friends who love fnaf as well with whom i could talk and stuff #i keep going ''hmmm that'd be nice'' BUT #then i remember how i barely am active even on the server i am a mod for and i think of how big this fandom is #and i break into hives just thinking about it lmao #i don't want to be in a huge server i know it'll just stress me out and i'll end up muting it forever OTL #i perform so much better in little groups or one on one #but #to find these cool little groups or the cool people to talk to 1-on-1 i NEED to go through these hugeass servers and honestly no thank you #i am too autistic for this ;v;) #or maybe i am just growing old :'3 #i know there are some very cool people who follow me (how did it even happen i do not know) who i'd love to reach out to #who probably don't even realize that we'd be mutuals if it wasn't for this being a sideblog i can't follow back from #and i kinda want to keep my main blog kinda private just for online living hygiene reasons #*long wistful sighing* ah well

[cipher26]

I wonder if “call ruidus” was like, a legendary action, or something similar for Imogen. Idk how that works actually, but it wasn’t her action or her bonus action, she had used those already, she just did it at the end of her turn and matt described it happening at the back end of her attack action. Also when Laura read the ability she made a very “excited and in disbelief” kind of face.

#imogen temult #critical role #just some thinky thoughts #i think it'd be pretty cool #especially with the narrative #also imagine if imogen gets possessed by ruidus at some point #and the party has to fight her #and suddenly she's pulling out legendary actions? #that'd be fucking WILD

[milf-harrington]

not to brag but i just wrote a whole section of my reincarnation fic, it's not well written, but it's written which means at some point in the future there will be something there for me to edit

#slowly slowly slowly chipping away at this fic #it's easier i think bc it's just split into little moments in time #like some of them are long and some of them are short but it's basically just a collection of oneshots and snippets #that fit together into one story #the one i just wrote is a universe where they're pirates and it's only like..a page? just over? #and then there's another that's like. set in the gilded age i think and that's probably going to be like. a whole mini-fic #bc i have PLANS for that one #so pretty much whenever i think 'oh that'd be a fun/cool/good au' but i only have the one bit thought out #i can just write it and slide it into this fic #captain speaks

[humanmorph]

If I talk about wanting to reread worm you need to start hitting me with a bat or some shit I'm serious

#I think worm effects would not be as bad as the first time I read it because I know what happens. It can't surprise me #But I can't be sure of that. And I'm susceptible to doom and gloom currently #not that worm is all doom and gloom. That'd be doing it a disservice. But it's got an atmosphere that I think would make me worse #Of course it's also. You know. Pretty fucking cool which is why I'm thinking about it in the first place #Rosa rambles

[fuzzy-little-wormi-guy]

women that only write f/m or m/m are fucking weird, same for men that only write f/m or f/f. Obviously people can do whatever they want but that means im free to think that they're fucking creeps.

#fandom #fandom rant #personal #it just feels fetishy #and bad #again people are obviously free to do whatever they want but why would you want to do that anyways #idk #maybe this is dramatic it probably is im just #annoyed as all hell #and idk maybe they could add some fucking nonbinary characters into the mix i think that'd be pretty cool personally

[s4turday-sun]

"he's such a calm dude" oh yeah? dress me up like my dnd character and take me to the woods then we'll see who's calm

#xx freddie #i am running solely on spite and advil #& my joints are fucking killing me but i am daydreaming about running thru the woods like a fae prince and that'd be pretty cool i think #anyway moss makes me go feral thanks for coming to my tedtalk

[ghostprinceiii]

A videogame about a cat who fishes up the horrors of the deep. Concept title: 'Fish With Teeth', feat. Wester the cat

#idk how to draw but the stuff at the bottom is inspired by the void tendrils from Hollow Knight fyi #I wanna figure out how to do pixel art so I can do something similar to the OneShot graphics that'd be nice. Sprites + Cutscene styles are #a cool combo. I also cannot code. Only language I ever coded movement in was Visual Basic and that was *years* ago + pretty much consisted #of copying off a board. Any other language experience has been more about making the computer do math problems or finding code that #makes text appear letter-by-letter like it does in games. There was more googling than actual instruction in that class. #My brother is doing coding rn but none of my projects ever really worked in the end and I've got too much brainfog #for projects in general these days letalone making a game. Wanted to sketch the idea anyways cuz I could sorta see a character in my head #and I was bored. #ghostprince posts #ghostprince art #art #digital art #sketch #cat #fishing #I guess #Envisioning a NITW-style logo too btw #...ngl I think 'The Dark Below' by DarthPeezy permanently changed how my brain works. I should go read it again.