look out for yourself

every bad thing in the entire world is due to the dark sorcerer if we just kill the dark sorcerer i bet everything will be amazing something amazing will happen

lance mcclain being Blue in an ocean of Red Hoodie Latinos had me feeling like I could change the world. back then at least

I say this with a red themed blog but like gestures

unhappy side effect of "morally ambiguous" being treated as the pinnacle of writing is that you will often be made to experience what a not so talented writer with big aspirations thinks is morally ambiguous

Ideal job at Lucasfilm is perching in the corner of the writers room eating lo mein while the writers are coming up with their new script and giving scathing criticisms like some kind of creative direction gargoyle the whole time until they fix their story. Only then are they allowed to write a blank check each for Harrison Ford and the ghost of Marcia Lucas (RIP) to review and make edits before they can receive a stamp of approval

Every time a writer makes a decision based on what the audience wants and/or says they don’t have a long term plan I pelt them with the crumpled up pages I’ve torn from the script and they have to start over

Real thing that changed how i write: I started asking "what does this character think is wrong with them" and separately "what is actually wrong with them." Those two things are almost never the same. She thinks she's too much. She's actually terrified of being too little. He thinks he's bad at commitment. He's actually just never met someone he trusted enough. The gap between their diagnosis of themselves and the real thing, that's your character arc right there. you don't have to explain it. just write both.

Best part of being in a small fandom is when you’re reading a nasty smutty fanfic on ao3 and you go to hit kudos and you see one of your mutuals’ user names in the kudos list and you’re just like 😈 hehe you were also here. Pervert.

andor setting up a protagonist who has very strange relationships w/ women in season 1 but never fully capitalizing off of it in season 2 because the guy making it is also weird about women. villain origin story.

people like to draw grown alpha-17 with child sized command clones but they’re not actually that far apart in developmental or chronological age. in my head their dynamic was more like when you start middle school and eighth graders are bossing you around and you kind of want to kill them

“why’s he always covered in blood” he needs enrichment. What’s not clicking