questionably artistic endeavors

We’re all having a midlife crisis leave us be

Moral of The Story: What?

i appreciate the amount of people reblogging this despite me not really tagging this at all. im glad many of people feel the same anger i do.

World Heritage Post

There are many fun reasons to have a character avoid using guns, but I think "this otherwise-awesome fighter is a really terrible shot" is an underappreciated one. Yes, they're available in my setting and would work against my enemies. No, I don't have a moral code against them or a power that makes them redundant. I just can't aim for shit!

In general IMO the more badass and hypercompetent a character is, the more they're enriched by having one skill they're just absolutely hopeless at. Terrible shot, terrible liar, terrible dancer, no poker face, no sense of direction, can't drive, can't swim, can't cook, can't read, always broke, always late, always falls for a certain trick...

this is true. I figured out recently that one of my favorite questions for fleshing out a character is "What is something they can do, but not well?"

A non-writer asked me "but where do you get your ideas" and i genuinely did not know how to explain that it's not a place. it's not a website. it's not a folder. it's that i was on the bus and a woman was holding a paper bag very carefully and something about the way she held it made me need to know what was inside and then i needed to know why she was sad about it and then there was a whole person and then there was a whole story and the bus had already stopped and i missed my stop. that's where.

Strange women on buses distributing ideas is no basis for a system of artistic motivation

Baby surprise is such a brilliant pattern!

i want to try it but I don't really know any babies who I could reasonably give a garter jacket to