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thestuffedalligator · 5 months

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I read Fat Face by Michael Shea last month and it was. Fine? It was a Cthulhu Mythos story written in the 80s, it was very edgy and it had a lot of tropes I’m not a fan of, I don’t really recommend it, but I have to talk about one detail I have not stopped thinking about since I read it.

So. I knew Fat Face through reputation because it was the story that inspired Shoggoth Lords from the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG, shoggoths that can control their cellular makeup to look like humans. And the twist in Fat Face is that shoggoths have been hiding amongst humans in Los Angeles, and at the end of the story one of them eats the protagonist.

The tone of the story is grit. It’s grime. It’s sleaze and sexual violence and drug abuse on top of cosmic horror. It wants to be taken seriously so bad.

But here’s the thing about the shoggoths: they have a business.

They have two businesses they run out of an office building in downtown Los Angeles. A shoggoth is a primordial blob of eyes and mouths and flesh and hunger, and the idea of one of them at the LA Office of Finance registering an LLC is already. Great. Perfect. No notes.

The business is a front — and again, that’s great, a shoggoth went, “I want to do some nefarious deeds and not get caught by humans; I know, I’ll register a fake business that’ll be a front, and no human will ever suspect” — because the actual interior of this office is a room of pools of water made from black and ancient Antarctic rocks so that shoggoths can relax in their original blobby forms and eat stray animals that they’ve caught.

So it’s basically just. A place for shoggoths to unwind after a long day of pretending to be human. It’s portrayed as cosmic horror, but it’s shoggoth Cheers. Sometimes you wanna go where nobody knows your shape.

Here’s the kicker. The front of the business is a hydrotherapy clinic and stray pet rescue.

When they decided to make a front for their secret lair in an LA office building where they hang out in pools of water and eat stray animals — the front they prominently display and advertise — they decided to go with a hydrotherapy clinic and stray pet rescue.

That is Goosebumps shit. The rest of the story reads like a tone poem about the sleaze and violence of Los Angeles, and the main twist of the story reads like R.L. Stine.

But that’s not even the detail I can’t stop thinking about. Because the story reveals that this business — which again, is a front made by alien blobs to eat stray animals like an ALF-themed buffet and hang out in jacuzzi tubs of Antarctic rocks in an LA office — has a flyer.

Which means there’s a shoggoth with a passion for graphic design

#lovecraft #shoggoth #horror #and this isn’t me demanding realism in my cthulhu mythos #but i think it proves that at a certain point grim and gritty storytelling becomes absurdist comedy #the rest of the story is a gritty crime drama about being a sex worker who breasts boobily under the pitiless california sun #and the twist which is supposed to be cosmic horror elevates it into zany cartoonishness

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zanysketch · 9 months

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28.07.2023

I call Bullsh*t

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reeshahasha · 3 months

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#stand up

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akindersea · 4 months

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I’m thinking about an immortal Rose Tyler meeting the Fourteenth doctor but in an awkward “two immortal exes keep bumping into each other” kind of way

#maybe they meet under increasingly absurd circumstances #and it’s a zany cringe comedy #fourteenrose #babblingsea #doctor who #this is the shitpost version of the other post

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mixelation · 2 years

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Idk if you have watched she hulk but I wanna know, do you think they sexualized her a lot. I can’t help but think that

i think once you accept that she-hulk as a concept is supposed be an otherwise conventionally hot giant green woman (be she a mediocre cgi lady or a comic book lady), she's not really.... more sexualized than any other woman in the MCU? like i think you could argue making a "female hulk" a ten foot woman with perfectly coiffed hair and a ""yoga body"" and luscious carefully cgi'd eyelashes is like. you know, goes into that shitty "all females of the humanoid fantasy species are Sexy, even though the men are not" trope, which I'm not a big fan of. but i kind of like jennifer walters mostly scuttling around in an oversized suit and/or her PJs, and i did kind of dig she-hulk's first big "fight" being NOT a bunch of black widow-style sexy flying take-downs, but rather a ridiculous sibling wrestling match with hulk (i may have also been drinking with my own sibling when i watched it lmao).

like there IS an entire episode about how men on a dating website think she's hotter as she-hulk than as jennifer, but that was mostly played as social commentary (not necessarily GOOD social commentary, mind you), followed by an episode where she's forced to trot out all her dates in front of a judge, which I have mixed feelings about. and i guess there's a comedic bit where she twerks? so i'm not saying she's NOT sexualized, just that it doesn't really feel super egregious compared to some other media

#a lot of the ''feminist commentary'' in she-hulk is like.... just characters saying on-the-nose things rather than #an actual exploration of being a woman in a male-dominated field #which is why jennifer says hollow girl power-y things but there are several female characters #who exist to be jokes about how vapid and obsessed with appearances can be #and why Bad Man are just cartoonishly horrible #idk i think this show would improve a lot if it leaned more into being a zany comedy #*women can be #hmm tumblr not letting me rearrange by tags anymore. oh well #anyway: i think leaning in more as a comedy about characters who happen to have superpowers would help with someone the thematic problems #like why is jennifer having a disappointing dating life such a big plot point?#the focus on this would feel less like 'oh.... she's a woman and that's what woman like!!' if this show was FULLY #a slice of life comedy set in the mcu #also her fourth wall breaks are almost all really jarring because she doesn't do them often enough and i FORGET she can lmao

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beautifulstrangefantastic · 2 years

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#Pee Wee Herman #paul rubens #campy #comedy #zany

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emiarainewrites · 2 years

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Dead and Breakfast (2004) makes me realise that the world could do with more zombie musicals.

Or horror musicals in general.

They don’t all have to be Repo! The Genetic Opera.

But I sure wouldn’t mind seeing more of the like. I feel like there’s so much possibility for musicals in general.

Anybody else agree?

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unproduciblesmackdown · 2 years

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another nd realization like i’m always going “it’s better when there’s an Ensemble Comedy & no ‘relatable’ audience standins or fixed Straight (comedically) Roles imo like why do we Need the back and forth where someone’s clearly doing the sillier / more spontaneous / Not Ordinary thing & someone else is just weirdly flatly Pointing Out like ‘hey...This isn’t normal’ or otherwise issuing Bemused Reactions questioning How this makes sense or Why it’s happening” like not only does it make everything less funny to me imo but i’m like why would you even like, react like that, even in a clearly fictional scripted situation why would it seem Normal for someone to just like insistently react Only in this way or act like they cannot function in this situation / they simply can’t wrap their heads around it

i find it all the more exasperating irl lol and then like ah right i mean i Guess nt people can learn how to be funny, man, but also like got it, it’s also clearly another manifestation of like dealing with The Brick Wall of [this is The social approach & if that’s not what other people are playing at you truly cannot adapt at all to their routine (except Maybe to recognize Goofarounding & only react by laughing / being the Audience)] in the way that you know, it’s like wow autistic people are so rigid & inflexible (as autistic ppl mask all the time / have to try to learn how to best accommodate any/all allistic individuals they interact with; & allistic ppl react to talking to an autistic person with kneejerk assumptions that’ll never be changed, hostility, &/or disinterest / rejection / exclusion, & think that their individual social approach is the sole correct one that they’ll never be changing, thanks) & oh autistic ppl lack Theory Of Mind & are never realizing that someone’s mind doesn’t work the exact same way as theirs (while autistic people Know there’s this lack of alignment from experience, vs allistic people unknowingly misinterpreting shit through their own lens & assuming their “oh this person Must have meant xyz by abc behavior” is immutably correct & never that they might be wrong abt this other person’s thoughts/feelings/intentions actually, and even if Knowing someone’s autistic & thus having some concept that they operate differently it’s like oh so it’s a Lesser version of how I operate then? & they should learn how to think like me? right)

anyways it’s also like obviously getting some more control over your situation if you’re being “weird” in a way people have a framework for like ohh a Joke, i see lmao, various reasons people might try to be The Funny One and/or just like connecting / communicating via humor & having a capacity to do Unusual things on purpose, since they also already exist weirdly / wrongly anyways, and the various reasons they might be seen that way.......like why do i find it irritating to like do anything silly & get the [i am being the straight person here] response of either essentially pointing out it’s Weird / not how things usually work! or Only laughing is like, yeah i already knew it’s b/c like cmon someone get in on the Bit, is the hope here, what was the point if that ball’s completely dropped. like i’m seeing it as a way to have an Exchange, not have a monologue moment (although if i Am monologuing it’s gonna be theatrical / trying to be humorous/entertaining while i am) or so like, not Just this one sided moment, it was an invitation to that Exchange with a clearer setup like, here’s how you can operate at All closer to [on my terms] than like, an nd style group convo which doesn’t really work great lmfao, like being Funny = not small talk, not only/mostly Listening, not getting distracted anyways thinking abt xyz or Knowing if i talk in earnest abt info i have it’s like oh well that’s too much if it’s an interest, that’s also too much if it’s like relevant trivia/fun facts, etc etc. and of course that your being Odd is more resented if you’re just hanging out / trying to participate the way other people are, vs like ohh they’re odd in the good, at all deliberately funny way, that’s more acceptable lol

and like the [smh]ocity of getting along more easily w/people sometimes if they’re at all drunk b/c ppl will get more vivacious / spontaneous like well woe to you but that’s just my usual shit wherein like, the other side of that is someone like oh those antics you were engaging in?? were you drunk lmao??? like no, no i was being myself & engaging my Personality. live a little. you gotta learn how to be funny, man

or at Least just learn to roll with it or god forbid Only have the “lmao” response to other people being spontaneous / silly / responding to something in a way you don’t find Makes Sense / wouldn’t be Your train of thought

this is very much most directly inspired by that text post reblog chain about the dna & someone copy pasting a genome & the other person is like awhat........why would you.......huh..........how..........who........... and the other person explains it like yep a little bit nonsequiturry but the connection is clear & everyone was already joking around, makes sense. with the Other belabored “but............Why” & the final “eh” like i think it’s funny in that i think the copy / paste dna sequence side is fun but i find the Other like “wha??? why????” side Exhausting lmfao, or let’s say, tiresome. but it makes me go “oh yeah, back to the concept of [the Normal One who goes Wha Why Omg] in comedy scenes that i find tiresome & impeding the humor, i guess that just is how plenty of people would react lol” still think it’s unnecessary just full ensemble comedy, anyone can play off of another character or play Against them, we don’t need the person throwing up their hands & looking at the camera quite that hard

#another Uno Reverse comedic difference i realized is the Wordplay thing #i like linguistics & i think it's usually fun & i Love puns lol. love to make them & hear them & the more Involved / deliberately awkward #or say deliberately ''overwrought'' they are the funnier i think it is. i Accept that apparently some people are not amused / truly dislike #it but i sure don't Get that reaction #but there's that other style of Wordplay that's like. kind of tongue twisters i guess? and ppl seem to like it & i'm like oh i hate that lol #like ok That i also find tiresome & unfunny & truly overwrought in an entirely uninteresting way to me. i guess that's [puns] to others lol #you gotta learn how to be funny man..............#like i'm aware me just Being Myself and doing unmasked ''weird'' spontaneous things could itself be seen as funny #(i mean of course see ''winston quant billions likely inadvertent autistic character also mostly to entirely a Joke in the material'')#which is unsurprising. like exaggerated Weirdo side characters in a clear comedic role like idk that's very close to Simply A Moodeth #or it is sometimes anyways lol and yknow s/o i think to comedy for making plenty of shit Explorable in ways that'd be like oh that's simply #too heavy if it was straightforward / dramatic....#anyways like i can also play into it being like ''yes i'm goofin around / being zany On Purpose in ways i know ppl will recognize as a bit''#but it can still be like well hey come on now >:/ depending on the degree ppl are like oh lmfao Howw Absurrdd #like first of all the ideal situation is that someone gets at all flexible w/Their approach to more match mine. i.e. gets in on the bit #second of all it's not gonna be all That absurd lol. i resent that #anyways sometimes Being Funny(tm) is like a masking compromise lmfao or like. my Most Successful mode when interacting w/ppl sometimes is #like well i'm not being Silly exactly but i am engaging w/my own vivacity & theatricality & chattiness & being a bit humorous throughout #it works well enough in shorter bursts & if i'm at all comfortable enough in the first place. & if the other person's similarly inclined lol #otherwise w/o this like Extra Layer of [ok doing this particular performance style] it's like yep still masking but just not really engaging #as often while still trying to operate on other people's terms or what have you & as ever; you're not really liked or accepted necessarily..

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jimrmoore · 3 months

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The Idiot Hour ~ Jan 10th, 2024

Every Wednesday @SinflowerArcadeLounge in Historic Greenwich Village.

Great talent for only $10.00 ~ Wild and wonderful night!

#youtube #@silver.matthew #idiothour #greenwichvillage #comedy varietyshow zany

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muntzerism-diggerism · 9 months

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Watching Winter Kills

#a zany comedy about the conspiracy to assasinate kennedy

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sumukhcomedy · 1 year

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When Comedy Becomes a Job

Whenever I find myself in a social situation with someone new, it is inevitable that I will tell them that I am a comedian. I have been a comedian for 16 years. It is an essential part of my life. I’m proud of that part of my life. However, the reactions are always similar. It’s a pleasant reaction but always something in the realm of “That’s fun!” While it is “fun,” comedy is a job. With that comes all the elements of a job that can make it potentially less fun. There comes a point where, in the passion for something you love, it shifts from being fun to a career and it’s essential to understand that and one’s place in that to continue to find the joy in it.

To me, the first year of comedy is the best. It allows you to be the most open, to be able to screw up, to have fun, to socialize and to connect with others. It’s like any other venture that’s new and exciting and, with it, the possibilities feel endless.

I realize it’s now rare in our current times but by the end of my first year, I was being paid to be a comedian. I hosted a weekend at Go Bananas Comedy Club in Cincinnati. My friend Riley Silverman said to me, “You’re now a professional comedian.” She was right. I was being paid by a comedy club to be a comedian. It quickly was now a job and one I was proud to have accomplished. The headliner that weekend was Bob Zany, someone who has become a legend in comedy and around my age at the time in the 1980s was doing Rodney Dangerfield HBO specials. I ended up driving him around a lot and most of that involved Zany just staying in character but, at one point, he asked me, “Why do you want to be a comedian?” I gave him some answer that was probably hopeful and excited that he deep down rolled his eyes at but it’s a question that has stuck with me and with any sensible comedian throughout their time doing it. To me, it’s a question you have to constantly ask yourself the deeper that you get into the business.

There comes a point for anyone who is passionate about comedy where it shifts from being something fun to a career. As a result, comedy and entertainment as a career are no different than any other career or industry. It becomes no different than any other job and the pursuit of success within it. It is perhaps even more challenging and even more aggravating given its outside of the norms nature, its possibilities that can lead to fame and riches, and the large number of people pursuing that gamble in life. But, at its core, to work in the business is the same as to work in any other business. It is filled with awful bosses and the deeper one gets in the industry, the deeper one is affected by corporate influences no different than would be the case in any other white-collar path.

Having been raised by immigrants and Indian parents, I was instilled with a certain work ethic and logic. Of course, an artistic pursuit as a career was already completely outside the realm of their logic. So, I kept a job while I was doing comedy. Part of it was for the steady income and part of it was so that my parents would simply be kept at bay in their insistence on me pursuing a career that furthered all the sacrifices they made in immigrating and providing for myself and my older brother. To technically be pursuing two careers was aggravating and time-consuming but ultimately worthwhile. By pursuing both an artistic career and a conventional career, it may have been excessive some days, but it gave me perspective, economic stability, and enhanced my work ethic and skills. As I can admit now humorously, my damn parents were right.

For a while, there was a lot of emphasis on going “full-time” with comedy. To those who yearn and want to do that, I applaud them. Personally, there was no way I was going to do that without feeling mentally, emotionally, and financially stable. So, essentially, this is why I’ve never done it. To go “full-time” was to completely embrace the instability that comes with comedy and the entertainment industry. It was to succumb to being at its whim and the erratic nature of that business. That didn’t appeal to me. That could only make my love for comedy deteriorate.

I moved to L.A. at the beginning of 2016 not just as a career decision but also a philosophical decision and a life goal. To me, if I absolutely loved comedy (which I do), I had to pursue it at the highest level and being a part of that epicenter. I loved L.A. but it also exposed to me how full throttle and entrenched one had to be in the comedy and entertainment industry to even remotely succeed at it. I frankly was now too old, experienced, and logical to even want that. The downfall of having pursued two careers was that I had worked to provide myself options. Very quickly into being in L.A., I wondered what exactly my goal was. Even if I were to get into the writers’ room of a TV show, how would this be any different or better than the position I was already in working in compliance for a company? I’d still be a part of corporate America and now at the expense of my own creativity. I now had two careers that I loved and so it was best suited to continue how to keep that love in both of them.

For comedy, I continuously question why I do it. Sadly, in a world in which entertainment success means fame, I realized fame was of no appeal to me in why I do comedy. I enjoy making people laugh, making them feel better, helping them, and being able to explore my creativity in the way I want to. Whoever wants to experience that is great. Whoever doesn’t is fine, too. I like comedy earning me money but I don’t yearn for it currently to be my primary source of income or my major career or my focus every single minute of my life. I have other interests. I have other pursuits. I see the meaninglessness of comedy just as much as I embrace my love for it.

My friend Jim Tews wrote a great piece years ago about working jobs while being a comedian (disregard the Louis CK component) which I still think about and feel is so accurate to balancing two work lives. By working and pursuing another career, it allowed me to possess the stability to make my own decisions with my creativity. When you’re full-time in comedy, when it’s your job, you may not have such luxuries. You take what you can to pay rent. You take awful gigs. You get a credit on a TV show you’d be embarrassed to tell anyone about. But that’s working. That’s being in the business. That’s being in the entertainment industry. Unfortunately (or fortunately) for me, I never wanted the industry to dictate my passion.

Every comedian who pursues it with passion will reach a point where it becomes more a job or a career than a “fun thing.” What one does from that point is up to them. In my case, I’ll continue being a comedian because I love it. But that love could have only continued for me by regularly questioning what was most valuable to me with it as a career.

#comedy #stand up comedy #careers #business #entertainment #industry #compliance #ethics #bob zany #Jim tews #indian #indian parents #immigrants #hard work #work ethic #logic

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zanysketch · 5 months

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13.11.2023

Dance 🕺 baby Dance 💃🏽

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poebrey · 1 year

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how I met your father is good but a little boring and it’s almost entirely due to the premise so it just makes me wish we had gotten a lizzie mcguire reboot even more

#it’s not bad at all #but half the stuff that could use work has to do with trying to fit the premise #like the canned laughter the will they or won’t they that’s very restrictive #since one of the potential bachelors just got married it’s just very which white boy will it be #and then it’s kinda younger-ish where they humor only sometimes hits and it sometimes gets a little too zany #Hilary can do a show and ultimately the writing needs to be there but something isn’t quite there #also this isn’t me saying anything about the cast they all could’ve also been casted on either show it’s not that different of comedy

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physalian · 2 months

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What No one Tells You about Writing Fantasy, #2!

I did this list about 7 annoyances about fantasy, but I write in this genre for a reason! Fantasy knows no bounds, it can encompass all other genres within it. You can write a fantastical murder mystery, fantasy horror, fantasy romance, political drama, slice-of-life, comedy, whatever you’d like!

Whether it’s urban or high fantasy, supernatural or scientific, here’s seven great benefits of writing in this genre:

1. No modern means of communication

Unless you’re writing a world with phones or phone-adjacent devices. Phones and instant communication seriously inhibits the plausibility of dramatic irony and tension when you have to keep coming up with reasons to keep your characters from calling or texting each other everything they know. It’s exhausting, I tell you, and such a relief when phones aren’t a factor.

With that said, without phones, you have complete freedom to design your own magical channels of supernatural FaceTime, as weird and zany as you want. But without instant connections? Your character who knew too much can’t pass on the intel before they die. Your hero team can’t call for backup in their darkest hour. Otherwise easily preventable tragedies and deadly miscommunications are now very real.

2. The Monster Allegory

Fantasy and sci-fi tend to overlap more than they’re set apart, and in that overlap sits the monster allegory. Everything from werewolves to vampires to witches, reapers, demons, angels, goblins, trolls, wraiths, fairies, mermaids, ghosts, to Eldritch horrors and your classic Hollywood cast of mummies, creatures from the black lagoon, and Frankenstein.

Most of the time, the monsters aren’t just monsters, they represent a monstrous aspect of society the author wants to challenge and caricaturize in a fun and entertaining way. Or, the monsters are the good guys and the humans are the real terrors. Or, you’ve got two kinds of monsters to allegory two human sides. Sometimes they represent metaphorical demons, like vampires often representing addiction and werewolves repressed identities.

What all of this boils down to is the hyperbolic nature of science fantasy that allows you to go over-the-top with your metaphor and allegory in a way that a book grounded in reality just can’t.

3. Magic Systems!

Do you love world building? Do you love filling pages upon pages with your cool and unique set of superpowers you want your characters to have? Do you dream about your fight scenes and dramatic slow-mo shots?

Then Fantasy is for you!

There are zero limits to how you want to define your magic system. You can go classic with the familiar archetypes of elemental magic, wizards, sorcerers, and witches. Or you can step off the beaten path and design a whole new funky system of power sets. Best part? Your readers will have an awesome time imagining themselves with those powers, and debating endlessly about how it works.

4. Real-World Politics, who?

Amazon’s Rings of Power was twice-doomed when they only got the rights to adapt the appendices of The Silmarillion and when they decided to inject current political problems into a timeless story written purposefully to be divorced from those politics. You *can* write about human politics, but in fantasy, you don’t have to. You *can* interpret Lord of the Rings to be an allegory about the World Wars, but no matter how hard you argue, it wasn’t written with that intent.

Which means: Even if your story is set in the reality-adjacent fantasy version of 1543, you are free from the following: Racism, homophobia, sexism, religious bigotry, mental health bigotry, gender norms, anti-feminism, toxic masculinity, and more. “But that’s how it was-”

Nope. This is fantasy. You built this world, you decided to keep in the discrimination. Or… You can fill your fantasy world with a rainbow of gays, POCs in power, women in power, men unafraid to be compassionate and caring, a religion that doesn’t foster hate and division, the list goes on. You. Are. Free.

5. Nothing is too “unrealistic”

Both that you will always have people whining about how X would never happen so write the book you want to read, but also because fantasy is fake. Fairies aren’t real. Mermaids aren’t real. There are no rules for how they must be written and that’s how we have so much variety with so much room for interpretation by so many creators. Twilight made how much money writing about vampires that sparkle like diamonds in sunlight and crack like marble?

This is fantasy, it’s supposed to be unrealistic. Yes, your plot should make sense, but don’t be afraid to get weird. Write at least some of your story dependant on those fantasy elements. Write a story that can’t just be told in the real world minus the spectacle. Don’t be afraid to be sincerely fantastical and weird. People love weird. People love loving weird.

6. You are in complete control

But you do still need to research, unfortunately. Unless this is urban fantasy that depends at least a little on the human world, yours is completely your own to govern like a god tweezing weeds from their garden. You get to design your own geography and weather patterns and seasons. Your own countries and kingdoms and politicians. Your epic pre-canon fantasy war and the stakes that it was fought over. Your species, races, and ethnicities.

It’s a shame that a movie like Avatar (2009) set out to be this wholly unique take on aliens with music completely divorced from earthly bonds, new languages and a visually and culturally distinct alien species… and ended up a largely generic blue Pocahontas in space. It forgot that it was fantasy and didn’t go weird enough. They have horses, monkeys, wolves, rhinos, and deer just re-skinned with some extra limbs and colors. It’s pretty but it’s so, so shallow.

It could have become a cult classic like many a positively *weird* 80s off-beat fantasies, and now it just… exists. It makes a whole lot of money but its impact on the cultural zeitgeist is negligible. I’m the only person I know that can name every major character in the movie, and I’m no Avatar obsessor. They had complete creative control, and this is what they did with it. Don’t be Avatar. Take your creative freedom and run.

7. Even if it has been done before, do it again

You can say this about any genre, particularly romance, but fantasy and sci-fi, by the gatekeep-y nature of their fans, can be a lot less forgiving when it comes to claims of “unoriginality”. No one hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans. Fans of these genres can get… concerningly attached to their favorite stories (mostly because the people who like them had only their fictional heroes to protect them from very real bullies).

But Game of Thrones exists because the author likes Lord of the Rings and went “yes, but what if it was an R-rated parade of misery?” Dungeons and Dragons exists because people wanted to roleplay in an LotR-esque world. Legolas and Gimli single-handedly defined what a badass elf and dwarf looks like in high fantasy. And people still gobble up media ripping shamelessly, or even good-naturedly, from this one story.

So on my other list, I argued that the sum of your parts is still original, even if the components aren’t. On this list, I implore you this: It’s not stealing or appropriating to write another Legolas if you love Legolas. Everyone loves Legolas. How many generic buff action heroes do we have and love? How many Hallmark romances tread the same predictable path? Who gives a damn if it’s unoriginal? Just make it entertaining and have something fresh to say in the end (or don’t, that’s fine too), and people will read it.

And when people say “Oh, you mean like Legolas”, take it as a compliment, not an insult. Yes, exactly like Legolas. Here’s my new elf because I adore this other book, now watch him go on a new adventure that I wrote for him.

#writing advice #writing resources #writing tips #writing tools #writing a book #fantasy #scifi #writeblr #writing

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fabulousdowneybrothers · 2 years

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365 Days of Sprix Records #161 Bangee! by Sean Downey Written by Chandra Farnsworth and Sean Downey and later performed by the fabulous downey brothers. Lyrics: Kringle Krungle in the jungle scoot poot doodlin on his Didgeridoo kinkle kinka winky stinka stinky a woppsie nicklebees a beesy widdle bobble dee boo jingle jangle dingle BANGEE!!! tangled kankle bricka bracka sprangled yoo hoo dangle hangin from a branch grub a rubbin brubber scrubbin dumbin and dumber yiibber dibber dabber wida abercadabers people wanna talk about pop music the newses it's useless people wanna talk about love stories it bores me i'm sorry people like to eat carbohydrates it's lovely i love you pumpernickle perrywinkle potatoes its taters potaters Music Video: https://youtu.be/NFv_sc8NGfY YouTube Track: https://youtu.be/m00dqYo8hLY Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1stJTr9XuL8Nm2TD74yj2Q?si=093b9aff65144308 BandCamp: https://seandowney.bandcamp.com/track/bangee

#youtube #music #punk #punk rock #playlist #weird #zolo #zany #rock #pop #funny #comedy #stupid #studio #album #sprix records #tumblr #love #instagood #spotify #facebook #in #ig #bandcamp

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newriverartist · 2 years

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Zanies on a Wednesday?

White Pine Sunset Original 24″ x 18″ oil painting $1296 https://manage.wix.com/dashboard/4ec45240-3212-4bfa-b08b-494f840c9148/store/categories/list/category/5c0301b5-3b8d-6ccd-8ad2-6526c75e0a77/product/a1cf2c52-98e5-eec8-4cd9-6c43d8e54970 When Clyde turned on Zanies comedy show that is broadcasted from Nashville on Fridays I couldn’t believe it was on. How did Friday come that fast? I couldn’t…

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