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You’ve all know Walk of Shame, But have you seen Walk Of Pride? 

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My ancestors, watching me dump an entire stick of cinnamon, two cloves, an allspice berry, and a generous grating of nutmeg into my tea, sweetened with white sugar and loaded with cream, while I sit in my clean warm house surrounded by books, 25+ outfits for different occasions, and 6 pairs of shoes, in a building heated so well I have the windows open in mid-autumn:

Our daughter prospers. We are proud of her. She has never labored in a field but knows riches we could not have imagined.

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I’m not really feeling like I wanna get lit (Tell us how you’re feelin’) Well, I feel like shit (Oh, shit)

Bo Burnham - INSIDE (2021)

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George doesn’t realize he can’t scratch his ear while lying down 

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things put in bottles at patreon request a while back!

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gentle reminder: you are very capable and I’m excited for your future

slightly less gentle reminder: you do have to work for it

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I came for Lady Dimitrescu but stayed for Karl Heisenberg.

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Being 18-25 is like playing a video game where you’ve skipped the tutorial and you’re just sort of running about with no idea how anything works

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Pro heroes playlist 💜

All might :

Power - Kanye West

Boys Dont Cry - The Cure

For The First Time - Mac Demarco

I Lived - One republic

How to save a life- The Fray

I stand alone - Godsmack

My Hero - Foo Fighters

Body - Mother Mother

Youre Going Down - Sick Puppies

Not Gonna die - Skillet

Savior - Rise Against

Hero - Skillet

Hall Of Fame - The script

I'm Born To Run - American Authors

Hard Times - Paramore

Eraserhead :

Coffee - Bts

Guys My Age - Hey violet

Knee Socks - Arctic Monkeys

Softcore - The Neighborhood

Verbatim - Mother mother

Migraine - Twentyone pilots

Leave out all the rest - Linkin park

Keeping myself alive - Get scared

Tired - Beabadoobee

Falling inside the black - Skillet

Weak when ur around - Blackbear

Follow you - Bring me the horizon

Hot for teacher - Van Halen

Strange Love - Halsey

Dark Necessities - Red hot chili peppers

Present Mic :

Feel Agian - One republic

Chasing cars - Snow patrol

Roaring 20s - panic at the disco

Thnks fr th mmrs- Fall out boy

I'm not famous - Ajr

Misery - Maroon 5

The sound - the 1975

Dont stop the music- Rhianna

Good girls go bad - Cobra starship

Stereo hearts - Gym class heroes

Talk too much- COIN

Confident - Demi Lavoto

Cant sleep love - Pentatonix

Arms tonite- Mother Mother

Golden - Harry styles

Midnight :

S&m - Rihanna

Juicy - Doja Cat

34 + 35 - Ariana Grande

Make you mine - Public

Aint my fault - Zara Larsson

Savage - Megan thee Stallion

Hot mess - Cobra starship

Pretty girl - clairo

Dirty mind - 30h!3

Heaven knows - The pretty reckless

Womanizer- Britney Spears

My oh my - Camila Cabello

Black Widow - Iggy Azalea

Love myself - Hailee steinfeld

How to be a heartbreaker - Marina

Hawks :

King of the clouds - Panic at the disco

The Phoenix- Fall out boy

Killer - The ready set

Weightless - All Time low

Alien boy - Oliver tree

Fly - Sleeping with sirens

Sadderdaze - The neighborhood

Everybody loves me - One republic

Angel with a shot gun - The Cab

City of angels - 24kgoldn

Walls could talk - Halsey

Another way out - Hollywood undead

Weak - Ajr

Backstabber- Kesha

Are you satisfied- Marina

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Alright, now I know I don't have like any follower on here but something has come to my attention! I needed to start making people aware of our current situation thanks to the pandemic. This type of situation is a real thing for a lot of people who rely on tourism. Dont hate on the people who had to make this decision, because they're just trying to keep themselves and as many others (elephants included) alive.

What we as a species need to do right NOW is show that we care for our planet and our animals. Please share this and I hope together we can ACTUALLY do something. I will update when I find more out.

#elephant #elephants #pandemic #helpingothers #financial help #reality #together #we can do better #animal

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im struggling so much with sort of, finishing coming up with my plot. Specially with like, the in between of it all. I cant come up with any ideas or conflicts a bitch is struggling 😩

That totally makes sense! It’s an understandable struggle to have, and it can take a lot to get past sometimes. So, let’s talk about:

Creating Conflicts

As you probably know by now, a story is built on a single, developed conflict. Something happens and a character has to choose or do something, and the rest of the story follows from there. It sounds... somewhat simple, but making it into a full story with characters and subplots and... all that is a lot. Let’s break it down!

It’s important to remember that most stories are basically just one big butterfly effect situation. You decide you to ride the bus to school instead of walking, and suddenly there are giant radioactive spiders taking over the city and they want you to be their leader. But... how did we get there?

If you’re telling the story of how this happened, you might pull the classic, “Well, one thing led to another, and now we’re here.” Which is basically how plot structuring works most of the time.

Your Initial Conflict

We know how conflict works: something happens that either prevents us from getting something we want, or there’s the threat of that happening. 

So, what would make sense as a first step? Figure out what your character wants. Step two: figure out how to keep that from happening, or at least how to make that path as complicated as you can. Some examples:

Your S/O is kidnapped by the Big Bad. You want them to stay alive and safe, so you decide to make sure that happens personally.

There’s an apocalypse being orchestrated by a radioactive spider in your city. You want the world to continue existing.

Someone offers a reward of $100,000 for whoever catches a serial killer. You want that money.

The strongest conflicts are the ones in which the main character shows agency. They chose to involve themself in this issue, and they continue choosing to stay involved. They have a voice, and they’re using it; they’re not just being pulled through the plot. In essence: something happens, and your character chooses to do something about it.

So we have the initial conflict. First step: done!

Now comes... everything after. Here’s where we bring in:

The Butterfly Effect

A story is a series of causes and effects. Do your best to think of a plot that’s directly affected by the choices of your main character; when they do things, they change the story. They have control. Think of your plot in a way that’s something similar to:

Event 1 happens.

MC reacts to Event 1 by doing Action 1.

Action 1 causes Event 2.

MC reacts to Event 2 by doing Action 2.

Action 2 causes Event 3.

What happens, and what does it cause? When your main character’s actions have a direct impact on the path and the flow of the story, they create an aspect of control and agency that some characters lack. Suddenly, your main character is creating the plot as opposed to just moving through it.

So how can we make this interesting?

Put your character at odds with what they want, and their choices will directly affect if or how they achieve that want. Let the weight of their choices and actions create uncertainty.

This brings us back to the concept of conflict that created the first incident; it’s this same concept that will continue to drive the story. If your character wants to save their dog from eating chocolate and their options are to leave uncovered chocolate on the floor or to put it in a pantry at your head height, then... it’s obvious what you’re going to do. There’s really no question about it.

Interest comes when your character’s options are equally as bad; they have to cut their losses. In a build-your-own-adventure story I’m writing, at one point my MC has to decide between killing her mother and killing her father. Neither of these are choices she wants to make, but she has to make one. Here’s where we create uncertainty and interest.

All in all: let your character make decisions, and let those decisions carry real weight.

Generating Ideas

But what if we can’t think of any ideas for our next event or decision? Then we brainstorm, and we generate new ideas... then we choose one. Here’s a method that hasn’t failed me yet, so I’m going to recommend it.

Get your favorite notebook, and write down five answers for each question (try to make each one as unique as you’re able):

What’s the best thing that could happen right now?

What’s the worst thing that could happen right now?

What could happen that would raise the most questions?

What could happen that would change your characters’ emotions the most?

What would keep your character from getting what they want the most?

And suddenly we have 25 possibilities for moving forward, which (I assume) is 25 more than we had a few moments ago.

Which ones look the most promising? Which have the most potential for development? What I do is take two or three of the most promising ideas and write a few paragraphs of each one, and by that time, one of them is usually making the most sense to me.

I know this was a lot - hopefully this helps! If you have any follow-ups or clarifications you wanna make, my ask box is right there for ya!

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Angsty/Fighting Dialogue Prompts

1.  “Is everything a joke to you?”

2.  “It’s my fault, I didn’t listen to everyone saying this would be a mistake!”

3.  “Why does everything have to be a struggle with you?”

4.  “I can’t believe you sometimes!”

5.  “Great. Really great, this is just perfect.”

6.  “Why can’t you just let it go?”

7.  “That is the dumbest excuse I have ever heard!”

8.  “Maybe you should just leave now.”

9.  “Oh yes, you’re so great.”

10.  “I really don’t understand what’s going on with you sometimes!”

11.  “I will leave now, or I’m going to say things I will regret later.”

12.  “Have you never actually thought about how I would feel about this?”

13.  “Maybe this is it, because I can’t do this anymore!”

14.  “Don’t you dare just walk away right now!”

15.  “This wouldn’t even be a problem, if you wouldn’t make one out of it.”

16.  “How does that make it okay?”

17.  “Do you even listen to yourself?”

18.  “I’m glad I finally get to see who you really are.”

19.  “Stop! Just stop it!”

20.  “Please, don’t make this worse than it already is.”

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Me and @beautifultrees07 are plotting to do a secret guerilla pumpkin patch in a neglected waste patch by a local freeway. It’s gonna look cute!

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if you’re having a bad day, here’s a cute little marching band

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