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The events of the plot typically put the characters into a reactive state, responding to outside circumstances and problems. What do they do when they're in an active state with nothing to react to? How do they want to steer themselves when they're given the choice?

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♡... a lil commotion for the braids? ♡ IS GOD IS (2026)

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You can actually get away with the braid length depending on the characters hair type tbh! It can even be a cool little character trait you imply by their hair alone! Many things come into play with hair, one of those is something we call ‘shrinkage’! For some black people, I think for hair in the 4C range mainly, their hair can have heavy ‘shrinkage’. Meaning that their hair is SO curly/kinky, it’s shrinks back closer to their scalp after being combed out to its full length. Every see hair videos of a black person talking about their hair, and it’s looks like it’s barley neck length, but when they pull a strand out to stretch it out, it’s almost as long as their arm? That’s shrinkage! I’m saying all this to say, maybe if you have a character with an Afro, but you give them long braids, maybe they have heavy shrinkage in their hair! I think that’d be a cute little character thing to see in some characters fr😭 But a helpful tip I can give is, an Afro it’s really just our hair combed and puffed up. I’d say really the height/width of the Afro would be the best teller to how long the hair would be if it was braided. A small Afro would probably have neck length braids. Anything bigger might be up to/past the shoulder a bit. And the more exaggerated you get in size, the longer it would be!

like, i think the most obvious one is slapping/hitting. in real life, there is basically no situation where that is acceptable, unless you're actively defending yourself/someone else. but fiction is inherently larger than life, its about how it feels, subjectively, over what actually happens, literally. sometimes a character who has never before been violent will hit someone, and it's intended as like, an indicator of how fucked up everything is. that shit is going down. or, a character will trash a room, throwing things and destroying everything in their path. and then its never mentioned again, everything just continues as if they HADNT destroyed their own and other people's property in a frankly terrifying display, because it was just a cathartic moment to represent the storm of emotions the person was feeling. and when i see people like 'this character is an abuser, the story needs to address this,' i think maybe its actually okay for fictional characters to do shitty things and not have it framed as shitty, by the story itself or even on any sort of meta level, with the intended audience reaction. sometimes the point is just to resonate with your emotions, not to dissect the literal sequence of events.

and in real life, obviously, someone deciding to blow up the moon because their relationship melted down or wife died and now they'll never look at the moon with her again would be Bad. Duh. But it's a story and it's fucking fine because it's not the real moon, so for a moment you can go yes, that's right, I want everyone in the world to feel this grief with me tonight.

Sonia's protégée, Diane Law, created this style, called "The Butterfly, " for long hair. For softness, leave a crimped row of loose hair to frame your face and neck. Then French-braid, tying the ends in the back to form a buttery-type bow. To help bend the braids so they are elevated, take a hairpin, open it, and weave it in and out of the braids. curly hairstyle from 1979 x

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