Stella

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

i need all the help i can get for finals

I could use some luck

Natural non-affected dialogue is one of the most difficult parts of writing imo. These mfers all sound like they're in a book.

There's just so many things it's your job to represent! Just through dialogue you have to show every layer of a person; how they present themselves to the world, how they act when unobserved, the tension between their thoughts and speech, what they reveal unintentionally and intentionally, how they say one thing when they mean another. Half the time what comes out the other end sounds like garbled effusive nothing-speak, or the ridiculous melodrama of a team shooter character with their ult gauge filled.

All dialogue exists on a spectrum between "okay." And "I can't wait to use my poison blast!!"

[EXTREMELY HAUNTED & HOLLOW-EYED LOOK] yeah man i’m doing. Really good

i think out of disrespect we should just start using "spamtenna moment" as shorthand for when a nothing tier yaoi ships between side characters somehow manages to eclipse in fandom popularity all of the central character relations of both the main cast and the rest of the side characters that aren't men. i think this should become such a widespread and entrenched form of fandom lingo for insulting ships that the next generation of teens will grow up understanding its meaning and not its origins in the same way teens of my generation used adjective!character parlance long before ever learning what bang paths were.

how it feels joining an established friend group