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I can’t believe that in order to tell a story I need to withhold certain information from the reader at first. I’m excited about it and I want them to know.

A lot of the time there's a crucial fact about talking swords that people miss, which is that they can only ever be abandoned. See, a talking sword is a friend, a family member, even a lover who always wants to be closer to you. She always wants a greater share of your life, for you and her to intertwine deeper and deeper until you and your weapon are the same entity, a goddess of battle with no existence beyond the blade and the hand that wields it. No matter how far you fall, she'll be right there with you, even as everyone else leaves you, horrified by the monster that you've become. Or, perhaps, you stop before you get to that point. You lay down your sword, retire, seek an end to war, anything. But at a point, whether from age or wisdom or death, you no longer hold your sword, and thus she is left alone. And then, generations later, someone takes her up again, and she knows what lies in store. That one day, this one too will set her down, or die as a mortal, and she'll be alone again. There's no other fate.

tbh im not entirely immune to a villain with a tragic backstory but i do think villain origins are a lot more interesting when the focus is less "here is the original sin, the first big bad thing that happened to them that made them who they are" and more "here is the first time a person who maybe otherwise felt powerless in their life realized that they could hurt someone and get away with it"

you can get a lot more mileage out of analyzing a truly abhorrent character through the lens of like. what sort of conditions would allow or even incentivize this kind of cruelty? what kind of person benefits from those conditions and how? over the more typical who hurt them type analysis. imo.

baby dragons whose scales are much more shiny and iridescent in order to hide in their parents' hoards

absolutely excellent top-notch thought here, but now you've got me wondering what's trying to eat them

Perhaps the shininess also makes them more endearing to adult dragons, increasing the likelihood of adoption if something happens to mama.

maybe dragons collect hoards to camouflage their babies

one of the best things you can make a female character is really bad at interpersonal relationships

favorite character from any media BUT it has to be a woman. in the tags now go (pls talk to me about your favorite fictional women pls pls pls pls)

Literally cannot emphasize enough that my #1 writing advice is to stop being afraid. Stop being afraid of sounding too cringe, or too stupid, or too horrifying, or too horny, or too weird, or too much, or too little, or too you. You need to put your entire pussy into your art. Sure, it won't be to everyone's tastes, but if you keep yourself to the blandest tamest safest roads possible you will be of no one's tastes, not even yours.

something about foreshadowing being more prominent the second time around reading a story but in a way that the meaning is changed forever and you can never view a story the same as you once did before. do you know what i mean.

literally so insane how you can never go back to the innocence of it all. you see all the signs coming and you know how it ends. but there's nothing you can do to turn a blind eye to it anymore. it hits you and you just have to keep going.

This has the same energy as a writer desperately trying to make their insanely cool but devastatingly off the wall plot point work with the rest of the story

habe you ever created a character specifically to go through the horrors and then realized that you don't want him to go through the horrors anymore

i changed my mind i want him safe at home before 6 sober and content ready for dinner