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@dolcevide
magic in fantasy novels
people will fight left and right about the best kind of magical systems: hard rules and limits vs flexibility and whimsy
my answer every time is: the only valid magical world to base anything off of is whatever the hell is happening with Wizards. On. The. Side. Of. Vans.
avatar WHO? Harry Potter WHAT?
Hell. Yes.
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“we’ll talk when I get back” is the fictional equivalent of saying “I’m about to die with all information relevant to your plotline”
me, writing my characters into an impossibly complicated situation: oh now this has drama… threat… energy… the genius of it all…
me, realising i’m the one who has to then get them out of said impossibly complicated situation: i am a Fool and a Jester
From here on out let’s make “Chosen Ones” into antagonists. There are a lot of people who, if they’ve come to believe they’ve been chosen by God(s) or destiny, would either attempt to rebel out of pure existential horror over their lives being directed by forces beyond their understanding, or flat out use their Mary Sue status as an excuse to indulge the darker aspects of their nature. If they’re the world’s champion then whatever they do is ultimately for everyone’s own good. A genocide here, a few war crimes and a dozen torture sessions there, it ultimately means nothing to them because their actions are the will of fate, and the misgivings of a few billion background characters who are too broke to even afford proper character arcs aren’t their problem.
someone: displays the faintest amount of interest in my wips
me:
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1. How do your ocs react to nightmares?
2. What makes your ocs laugh without fail?
3. Which oc wakes up every night because the covers have either fallen off the bed, or their partner stole them?
4. Which oc paces their house in the dark?
4a. Which oc is the one who bumps into them and screams?
5. Which oc wins hide and seek?
6. Which oc tells the best ghost stories?
6a. Which oc hates ghost stories and goes to clean something in lieu of listening?
7. Which ocs get really invested in whatever they’re watching?
8. Which oc likes their food burnt to a crisp?
9. Which oc likes their food rare or raw? 10. Which oc refuses to touch 8 or 9’s food?
11. Which oc is the least picky?
12. What do your ocs give as their go-to gifts?
13. What would your ocs give their best friend/partner as a present?
14. What is your ocs’ least favorite season?
15. Which oc always gets too much food at the buffet and can’t finish their plate?
OC Questions
1. What is their favourite article of clothing? 2. Could they kill someone with their bare hands? 3. Are they good at mental math? 4. Do they like to be told what to do? 5. Have they ever been in a situation where they lied and regretted it? 6. Are they protective of their friends? 7. What is their backstory? 8. How do they express happiess, anger and sadness? 9. Do they have motivation to become a better person? 10. How do they react to being told they are wrong?
Poems are not simple prayers. Even a religious poem is not exclusively and uniquely addressed to God. Poetry is addressed to language itself. […] To put into words is to find the hope that the words will be heard and the events they describe judged. Judged by God or judged by history. Either way the judgment is distant. Yet the language, which is immediate and which is sometimes wrongly thought of as being only a means, the language offers, obstinately and mysteriously, its own judgment when it is addressed as poetry. This judgment is distinct from that of any moral code, yet it promises, within its acknowledgment of what it has heard, a distinction between good and evil—as though language itself had been created to preserve just that distinction.
John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
This is the most accurate thing. 😂
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For reference: colors produced using dyes available in the Middle Ages. [source]
A reminder that the clothing of the Middle Ages was less brown (and the people were more brown) than often depicted.
You ever try to write romance and you just feel like this image
Me: ok so then they kiss. Word it
My brain, gay and also stupid: ttheir lipsps……..
Me: go on
Brain: hhdhfbfhhf kis
[3]
We lost the hands-
streaking-over-screens
feeling—electrons sticking
fingertips like mist. Lost
when we buy new TVs, when
sky lilacs and chimneys
turn back into trees. Tell me,
shall I… Tell me,
should I wrest this corpus
from this under-weighted-blanket-
warmth, introduce it to that
real warmth, that sunlight?
Would it
evaporate
too?
Is this body so outdated,
this electron cloud, to be entangled
with another, seventeen minutes
south? We’ve lost
the static
love.
—Vide JSR
Everyone’s always like, “Be your best self!” And that drives me bananas, because when you’re not, it makes you feel really bad. And so someone asked me the other day, “When are you your best self?” and I said, “When I make space for my worst self.” Like if you ask yourself, “How long will it take to do this particular thing?” and you’re freaking out like, “I don’t know! It’s going to take me so long! I don’t know! Ten years?!” Well … what if you give yourself ten years? “Oh. Okay.” And then somehow, the thing you thought would take ten years only takes a week. Give yourself permission to actually let something take as long as it takes.
My standard of perfection often paralyzes me, or makes me terrified, or makes me feel ashamed. Instead, if I can make space for the idea that the goal is not to be perfect, but the goal is to be me, then I get to revel in the mixed bag of what it is to be a human. Some moments are good, some are bad. Some days are good, some days are bad. We live in a culture where people are constantly telling us how to get what we want, and within that message is, You need to be something other than you are. So my antidote to that has been, What if the goal is not to get what I want, but to discover who I am, be who I am, and accept that? Because strangely, that takes courage!
Tracee Ellis Ross
writing tip: just write ten words in your wip pls thanks
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[1]
Wishes and fruits laid
cut-up, juice
leaking. Oranges,
blackberries, and the universe
grows in response
mold. But we know mold,
mushrooms, yes
we know fruit
could have worse luck.
Love,
I’ll love you
when the storms
are gone, when spring
coaxes sunlight, a few minutes
more, every day, a few
minutes more, you’ll wear
your shirts unbuttoned
to the sternum. A few
minutes. We may spend
May day together, maybe
even Halloween. Is it wrong,
this imagining of you,
permissionless? I lay
my fruit
orange, blackberry,
yes. And apple,
fig, pomegranate, squash,
clover, dandelion crowns
on benches, altars. Oh the
mold that’s growing, love.
The mushrooms.
—Vide
This guy knows what he’s talking about. He’s one of the lead writers for Leverage and if you ever watch the series on DVD, do yourself a favor and listen to him talk about how the scripts got written. Some of the advice he has is stuff I use all the time: 1. Don’t introduce an important plot person or thing after the first half of the story. 2. Always tie up loose ends. 3. Introduce important things in the middle of unimportant things. 4. If you have to infodump, find an emotion to tie it to and it will seem less like infodump and more like a motive rant. Seriously this guy knows how to write.
