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Clearer video of Jimin passing a kiss to Jungkook. Looks like someone is in the mood to flirt and tease his boyfriend in public.
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If you're ever bored, here's a list of Studio Ghibli films you can watch for free.
Castle In The Sky (1986) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Kikiās Delivery Service (1989) Only Yesterday (1991) Porco Rosso (1992) Pom Poko (1994) Whisper of the Heart (1995) Princess Mononoke (1997) My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) Spirited Away (2001) The Cat Returns (2002) Howlās Moving Castle (2004) Tales from Earthsea (2006) Ponyo On A Cliff From The Sea (2008) The Secret World of Arrietty/The Borrower Arrietty (2010) From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
If any of the links stop working, please let me know so I can fix it.
For Castle In The Sky, wait for the free user button to be clickable and it will send you to the video.
how do I not share this, though (HIGHLY RECOMMENDING HOWLāS MOVING CASTLE ITāS MY FAVORITE)
NausicaƤ of the Valley of the Wind (1984) The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) The Wind Rises (2013)
These are so good if you need something to calm you down on a bad day or after panics :)
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At one point, Iām sure all BTS members had a crush on Jimin.
jiminās fav part in DNA
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āwhat is something that you experienced this year for the first time?ā
Oh boy
on fanfic & emotional continuity
Writing and reading fanfic is a masterclass in characterisation.Ā
Consider: in order to successfully write two differentĀ āversionsā of the same character - let alone ten, or fifty, or a hundred - you have to make an informed judgement about their core personality traits, distinguishing between the results of nature and nurture, and decide how best to replicate those conditions in a new narrative context. The character you produce has to be recognisably congruent with the canonical version, yet distinct enough to fit within a different - perhaps wildly so - story. And you physically canāt accomplish this if the character in question is poorly understood, or viewed as a stereotype, or one-dimensional. Yes, you can still produce the fic, but chances are, if your interest in or knowledge of the character(s) is that shallow, youāre not going to bother in the first place.Ā
Because ficwriters care about nuance, and they especially care about continuity - not just literal continuity, in the sense of corroborating established facts, but the far more important (and yet more frequently neglected) emotional continuity. Too often in film and TV canons in particular, emotional continuity is mistakenly viewed as a synonym for static characterisation, and therefore held anathema: if the character(s) donāt change, then whereās the story? But emotional continuity isnāt anti-change; itās pro-context. It means showing how the character gets from Point A to Point B as an actual journey, not just dumping them in a new location and yelling Because Reasons! while moving on to the next development. Emotional continuity requires a close reading, not just of the letter of the canon, but its spirit - the beats between the dialogue; the implications never overtly stated, but which must logically occur off-screen. As such, emotional continuity is often the first casualty of canonical forward momentum: when each new TV season demands the creation of a new challenge for the protagonists, regardless of where and how we left them last, then dealing with the consequences of whatās already happened is automatically put on the backburner.
Fanfic does not do this.Ā
Fanfic embraces the gaps in the narrative, the gracenotes in characterisation that the original story glosses, forgets or simply doesnāt find time for. Thatās not all it does, of course, but in the context of learning how to write characters, itās vital, because it teaches ficwriters - and fic readers - the difference between rich and cardboard characters. A rich character is one whose original incarnation is detailed enough that, in order to put them in fanfic, the writer has to consider which elements of their personality are integral to their existence, which clash irreparably with the new setting, and which can be modified to fit, to say nothing of how this adapted version works with other similarly adapted characters. A cardboard character, by contrast, boasts so few original or distinct attributes that the ficwriter has to invent them almost out of whole cloth. Note, please, that attributes are not necessarily synonymous withĀ details in this context: we might know a characterās favourite song and their number of siblings, but if this information gives us no actual insight into them as a person, then itās only window-dressing. By the same token, we might know very few concrete facts about a character, but still have an incredibly well-developed sense of their personhood on the basis of their actions.Ā
The fact that ficwriters en masse - or even the same ficwriter in different AUs - can produce multiple contradictory yet still fundamentally believable incarnations of the same person is a testament to their understanding of characterisation, emotional continuity and narrative.Ā
So I was reading this rumination on fanfic and I was thinking about something @involuntaryorange once talked to me about, about fanfic being its own genre, and something about this way of thinking really rocked my world? Because for a long time I have thought like a lawyer, and I have defined fanfiction asĀ āfiction using characters that originated elsewhere,ā or something like that. And now I feel likeā¦fanfiction has nothing to do with using other peopleās characters, itās just a character-driven *genre* that is so character-driven that it can be more effective to use other peopleās characters because then we can really get the impact of the storytellerās message but I feel like it could also be not using other peopleās characters, just a more character-driven story. Like, I feel like my original stuffāthe novellas I have up on AO3, the draft I just finishedāare probably really fanfiction, even though theyāre original, because theyāre hitting fanfic beats. And my frustration with getting original stuff published has been, all along, that Iām calling it a genre it really isnāt.Ā
And this is why many people who discover fic stop reading other stuff. Once you find the genre you prefer, you tend to read a lot in that genre. Some people love mysteries, some people love high-fantasy. Saying you loveĀ āficā really means you love this character-driven genre.Ā
So when I hear people be dismissive of fic I used to think, Are they just not reading the good fic? Maybe I need to put the good fic in front of them? But I think it turns out that fanfiction is a genre that is so entirely character-focused that it actually feels weird and different, because most of our fiction is not that character-focused.Ā
It turns out, when I think about it, I am simply a character-based consumer of pop culture. I will read and watch almost anything but the stuff thatās going to stick with me is because I fall for a particular character. This is why once a show falters and disagrees with my view of the character, I canāt just, like, push past it, because the show *was* the character for me.Ā
Right now my big thing is the Juno Steel stories, and I know that theyāre doing all this genre stuff and they have mysteries and thereās sci-fi and meanwhile Iām just like, āOkay, whatever, I donāt care about that, JUNO STEEL IS THE BEST AND I WANT TO JUST ROLL AROUND IN HIS SARCASTIC, HILARIOUS, EMOTIONALLY PINING HEAD.ā That is the fanfiction-genre fan in me coming out. Someone looking for sci-fi might not care about that, but Iām the type of consumer (and I think most fic-people are) who will spend a week focusing on what one throwaway line might reveal about a characterās state of mind. Thatās why so many fics *focus* on those one throwaway lines. Thatās what weāre thinking about.Ā
And this is what makes coffee shop AUs so amazing. Like, you take some characters and you stick them in a coffee shop. Thatās it. And yet I love every single one of them. Because the focus is entirely on the characters. There is no plot. The plot is they get coffee every day and fall in love. Thatās the entire plot. And thatās the perfect fanfic plot. Fanfic plots are almost always like that. Almost always references to other things that clue you in to where the story is going. Think of āfriends to loversā or āenemies to loversā or āfake relationship,ā and youāre like, āYes. I love those. Give me those,ā and you know itās going to be the same plot, but thatās okay, youāre not reading for the plot. Itās like that Tumblr post that goes around thatās like, āMe starting a fake relationship fic: Ooooh, do you think theyāll fall in love for real????ā But youāre not reading for the suspense. Fic frees you up from having to spend effort thinking about the plot. Fic gives your brain space to focus entirely on the characters. And, especially in an age of plot-twist-heavy pop culture, that almost feels like a luxury.Ā āCome in. Spend a little time in this characterās head. SPEND HOURS OF YOUR LIFE READING SO MANY STORIES ABOUT THIS CHARACTERāS HEAD. Until you know them like a friend. Until you know them so well that you miss them when youāre not hanging out with them.āĀ
When that is your story, when the characters become like your friends, it makes sense that youāre freed from plot. Itās like how many people donāt really have a āplotā to hanging out with their friends. Thereās this huge obsession with plot, but lives donāt have plots. Lives just happen. We try to shape them into plots later, but thatās just this organizational fiction weāre imposing. Plot doesnāt have to be the raison dāetre of all story-telling, and fic reminds us of that.Ā
Idk, this was a lot of random rambling but Iāve been thinking about it a lot lately.Ā
āfanfiction has nothing to do with using other peopleās characters, itās just a character-driven *genre* that is so character-driven that it can be more effective to use other peopleās charactersā
yes!!!! I feel like I knew this on some level but Iāve never explicitly thought about it that way. this feels right, yep. Mainstream fiction often seems very dry to me and I think this is why - it tends to skip right over stuff that would be a huge plot arc in a fanfic, if not an entire fanfic in itself. And Iām like, āhey, wait, go back to that. Why are you skipping that? Whereās the story?ā But now I think maybe people who donāt like fanfiction are going like, āwhy is there an entire fanfic about something that could have happened offscreen? Is anything interesting ever going to happen here? Whereās the story?ā
Yes! Exactly! This!!!
This crystallized for me when I taught my first class of fanfiction to non-fic-readers and they just kept being like,Ā āBut nothing happens. Whatās the plot?ā and I was so confused, like,Ā āWhat are you talking about? They fall in love. Thatās the plot.ā But we were, I think, talking past each other. They kept waiting for some big moment to happen, but for me the point was that the little moments were the big moments.Ā
This is such an awesome conversation, but I think thereās even another layer here that makes āficā its own genre. And it is the plot.
Everyone whoās experienced in reading fic has their little ātrope plotsā we are willing to read or even prefer in order to spend time with our favorite characters. We know how itās gonna end and we genuinely donāt care, because the character is the whole point of why weāre reading. And that is unique. Thatās just not how mainstream media publication does things.
But there are also hundreds of thousands of fics people might call āplot drivenā and they have wonderful, intricate plots that thrill their readers.
But theyāre not at all āplot drivenā in the same way as other mainstream genres.
The thing about āplotā in fic is that it tends to ebb and flow naturally. Thereās not the same high speed, race to the finish youād get from a good action movie. Thereās no stop and start of side plots you get in TV genre shows. The best fic plot slides from big event to restful evening to frantic activity to shared meals and squabbles and back, and it gives equal time and attention and detail to each of these things.
Like @earlgreytea68 said, āThereās this huge obsession with plot, but lives donāt have plots. Lives just happen. We try to shape them into plots later, but thatās just this organizational fiction weāre imposing. Plot doesnāt have to be the raison dāetre of all story-telling, and fic reminds us of that.ā
Fic plot moves at a pace similar to the life of whatever character itās about. Not the other way around. Thereās a fundamental difference in prioritization in fic.
I think this only adds to the case of āficā as its own, distinctive genre. Stylistic choices of writing that would never work in traditional, mainstream fiction novels work for novel-length fic. Fic adventures spend as much time fleshing out the little moments between romances and friendships as they do on that plot twist. The sleepy campground conversations are as important to the plot as the kidnapped princess, because thatās how the characters are going to grow together by the end of the story. Itās not a grace note, itās not a side episode or an addition or a mention - itās integral and equal.
Thatās just accepted as fact by fic writers and readers. Itās expected without any particular mention. And it gives a very unique flavor and pace to fic that makes a lot of mainstream stories feel like stale, off-brand wonderbread. They are missing something regular fic readers take for granted (and it isnāt just the representational differences, because we all know thatās a whole different conversation). Thereās a fundamental difference in how āficā is written, detailed, and paced that is built on its foundations as a ācharacter drivenā genre. Ā
And it isnāt only action/adventure/mystery plots that have this difference in fic. Those āeverybodyās human in todayās worldā AUs, those āfriends to loversā slow burn stories have it too. They have a plot, but itās the life - the grocery shopping, the dumb fights and sudden inescapable emotional blows, those moments of joy with that person you click with, managing work and family and seasons - thatās the whole plot on its own.
And thatās almost impossible to explain to someone who hasnāt really experienced fic as a genre, whoās used to traditional person A and person B work together/overcome differences/bond to accomplish X. In fic accomplishing X might be the beginning or the middle, not the end result of the story, and A & B continue to exist separate from X entirely. X is only relevant because of how it relates to A & B, not the other way around.
Fic is absolutely its own genre and it has a lot to do with plot. Iāve been calling this āorganic plotā in my head for months, because I knew something felt different about writing this way, how long fic plot ebbs and grows seemingly on its own sometimes. āDual plotā could be another option, maybe, though the character plot and life experience plots arenāt really separate. Inverted plot? Hm. Iām sure a good term will develop over time.
OH MY GOODNESS I LOVE THIS.Ā
I was always fond of saying, about my own fics, that my plots show up about two-thirds of the way through, because it takes me that long to figure out where Iām going, and then I would lol about it, because, ha, wouldnāt it be great if I organized it better.Ā
And now I read this and Iām like, WAIT. YES. THATāS WHATāS HAPPENING. ITāS BEEN HAPPENING ALL ALONG. I NEVER REALIZED IT. The idea that the primary importance is the throughline of the characters, and thatās what weāre following, and the plot is whatās dangling off the side of their story, that is SO IMPORTANT. Youāre right, that usually weāre told as writers to construct stories from the plot outward.Ā āHere are the beats your plot needs to hit, hereās the rising action to the climax to the falling action, now make sure your Character A makes this realization by Point X in order to get your plot into shape for Point Y to click in.ā Itās *such* a plot-centric way to write and I am *terrible* at it. And Iāve always said, whenever I sit down toĀ āoutlineā a story, like, How do you this? How do you know where the characters are going until they tell you where theyāre going???
But itās not that IāmĀ ābadā at this, which is what Iāve always thought, itās just that Iām coming at it from the opposite angle. I canāt plan the plot before the characters because Iām sticking close to the characters, and the traditional āplotā is secondary to whateverās going to happen to them. And thatās not a wrong way of writing, itās just a different way of writing. And itās wrong of me to be thinking that my stories donāt get aĀ āpointā until theyāre almost over. THEYāVE HAD THE POINT ALL ALONG. What happens when theyāre almost over is that the characters come to where theyāve been going, and then the traditionalĀ āplotā is what helps shape the ending. The traditionalĀ āplotā becomes, to me, like that epilogue scene after the biggest explosion in an action movie, where youāre told the characters are going to be okay. I spend the entire movie telling you the characters are going to be okay, and then my epilogue scene is tacked onĀ āoh, p.s., also they saved the day.āĀ
Oh my. Yes.
āLike @earlgreytea68 said, āThereās this huge obsession with plot, but lives donāt have plots. Lives just happen. We try to shape them into plots later, but thatās just this organizational fiction weāre imposing. Plot doesnāt have to be the raison dāetre of all story-telling, and fic reminds us of that.āā
āI was always fond of saying, about my own fics, that my plots show up about two-thirds of the way through, because it takes me that long to figure out where Iām going, and then I would lol about it, because, ha, wouldnāt it be great if I organized it better.ā
Iāve always identified with authors who say, ā⦠so I thought I knew what I was doing, and then he made me write this whole other thing, and I was like, no, thatās not the story, but he kept saying YES, THIS IS WHAT IāM DOING NOW!ā
Maybe these are character-driven authors, as opposed to, for example, Anne Patchett, who I heard speak once, and when an audience member asked her if her characters change things as sheās writing, she said, āHell, no. I have a plot and I make my characters do those things, because Iām the author.ā
Of course, she also said that she based Easter (in State of Wonder) on a dog because she neither knows nor likes children, but I digress. Sheās a plot-driven author.
I am not. None of my stories have been outlined or plotted in advance. I am constantly swinging by the seat of my charactersā pants (or tail feathers). I though it meant I wasnāt following the rules, or that I hadnāt really learned how to write the right way yet, but maybe it just means Iām a different kind of writer.
And I see this is my life, too. I want to hear about my friendsā feelings, about their friendships and relationships and love interests and how they fell in love or what it felt like when they broke up, and Iāll cry with them when theyāre sad and be thrilled with them when theyāre happy. I donāt really usually care about who got a promotion at work, you know?
What a fascinating, important conversation.
āLIVES DONāT HAVE PLOTS. LIVES JUST HAPPEN.ā
This keeps getting better. I love fanfic because I just want to spend TIME with these people. I would still totally watch a series about the daily life on (Stargate) Atlantis without ever seeing anything of a mission. And this explains a lot about why trying to follow traditional āhow to build a plotā advice was intensely frustrating and discouraging
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