Virtue requires a delicate balance.Â
This could be a great set of descriptors for tracking social stats in a game.
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A good chart for character development, especially when contrasting how they are vs. how they see themselves.
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Virtue requires a delicate balance.Â
This could be a great set of descriptors for tracking social stats in a game.
Woah
A good chart for character development, especially when contrasting how they are vs. how they see themselves.

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another absolutely fantastic trope is when a scifi/fantasy character calls the oblivious object of their affections a term of endearment in their fictional first language during an emotional moment which they refuse to translate, and their love interest assumes due to the unresolved sexual tension fuelled rivalry aspect of their relationship that itâs an insult, only to have their world absolutely rocked to its core when they finally manage to get a translation and realize that the other person has been pining for them the entire goddamn time
like,
character a: itâs just, i try so hard but i honestly think [character b] hates me. i mean, they called me a [untranslated word or phrase] a few weeks ago, and theyâve hardly looked, let alone spoken to me since then :(
person theyâre talking to: â[untranslated word or phrase]â? are you sure?
character a: âŚi think so. why?
person theyâre talking to: hmm. yeah. well thatâs uh. well itâs not an insult. thatâs a declaration of love.
character a: w
character a: what
Creating Deities and Pantheons
Creating Deities
Divine Portfolios
A deity has a certain realm that it lords over called a divine portfolio. A portfolio contains one or more species, places, things, or ideas that explain what the deity is all about. For instance, the Greek god Poseidonâs divine portfolio would include the seas, storms, waterborne travel, and horses.
Minor deities will only have one item in their portfolio, but major ones could have many. Further, a major deity that wished to delegate its power, perhaps to one of its children, could bestow one of the items in its portfolio onto another deity. Perhaps one deity goes to war with another in an attempt to seize an aspect of another deityâs portfolio for themselves.
New deities could even be created by filling a new role if a divine idea is not currently in any other deityâs portfolio.
Generally, the more power a deity has, the more broad the aspects in their portfolio will be. Likewise, lesser deities will have more specific aspects in their portfolio. For instance, a god of nature will be more powerful than a god of trees.
When creating your own pantheon of gods, try to divide up aspects into deitiesâ divine portfolios bearing all of this in mind.
Holy Symbol
A deity should have some sort of holy symbol that clerics can use for a spellcasting focus, but a symbol is more than that. A symbol lets mortals rally beneath it and recognize the deityâs followers. It a deityâs free advertisement to their people.
The symbol of a deity should reflect their portfolio in some way, as well as their alignment. It should be something unique that is easy to recognize, but also easy to replicate.
Favored Weapon
Many deities have some sort of weapon that they use and favor more than others. The deity will almost always use this weapon when manifested as an avatar. Wielding the same weapon as oneâs deity shows an extra step of devotion to them, even if you arenât a cleric to that god.
Random Portfolios
When creating your own deities, roll on the Random Portfolio Aspects table multiple times to find a random divine aspect to populate their portfolio. Some aspects defer you to another table to find a more specific aspect.
You can also use these tables as a jumping-off point to create your own portfolios and aspects, as there is no way to have a complete and exhaustive list.
Pantheons
Pantheons are groups of deities. Your setting could have one or several pantheons. Perhaps you include pantheons from a variety of settings and incorporate them all in one place. Maybe different kingdoms or countries worship different pantheons, or just group the same deities in different ways. Our own world has many religions, each with their own god or sets of gods, so why canât your setting?
While it is possible to have a monotheistic setting where only one deity exists, polytheism tends to be more interesting and supportive. Multiple deities allow for players to choose who their character believes in. If they are a divine caster, they can choose where their powers come from. This choice affects a playerâs character and creates additional roleplaying opportunities as they confer with folks of the same or different religion.
Types of Pantheons
Some settings may have multiple pantheons. Here are some pantheons that can easily exist in the same setting.
Racial Pantheon. A race or species could have a whole group of gods to worship that are unique to them. For instance, the elves of your setting may worship their own set of deities. People might commonly refer to the âelf godsâ or âdwarf godsâ in such a circumstance.
Aspect Pantheon. A broad aspect or domain normally placed in divine portfolios may have its own pantheon. For instance, your setting may have a pantheon of death gods who take on aspects like death, undeath, afterlife, martyrdom, murder, plague, famine, and drought. All the minor aspects should be related to one greater aspect.
Regional Pantheon. In your setting, a certain region like a kingdom, country, or continent may worship different deities and have an entirely different pantheon that hold sway in their lands. Each region could have a pantheon all their own.
Religious Pantheon. Many religions exist in our own world, some of which have their own pantheons of deities. Different pantheons could have arisen in your setting from religions that developed separately. This works especially well if your deities are created through mortal belief.
Creating Pantheons
Myths. Deities in a pantheon often take on different responsibilities in running the universe, or at least take part in its history or its creation. Try to come up with myth surrounding each deity that explain why that deity exists. A deity should have some significance or importance within any pantheon you create, and your pantheon should cover a broad spectrum of created things.
Deific Relations. Deities should have complex relationships with one another to create a robust pantheon. Pick one or more from the Divine Relationships table when deciding how two deities relate, or roll randomly. Trying to justify how conflicting or unusual relationships occurred can create unique and interesting ideas. Is one deityâs son also their lover? Donât be afraid to tread in the realm of mythological fantasy or dream-logic here.
Remember, existing myths are likely far stranger than anything you can come up with. A Norse cow licked a god out of primordial ice. In Greece, Athena was born of Zeusâs cracked skull after he tried to eat her. The Egyptian ferry to the afterlife has a mast that is the phallus of a fertility baboon-god. So you can get pretty unusual with your myths.
Pantheon Metagame. When designing a pantheon, you should also consider satisfying different elements that exist in the game. Each player could very well worship a different deity that supports their worldview in some way.
A good start is creating gods with various alignments, not just good and evil. With nine possible alignments, you can create some interesting deities. If you are making an entirely random deity, you can roll from the Deity Alignment table to determine the deityâs alignment.
Another game-related thing to consider is creating deities that will cater to existing character archetypes, such as mages, naturalists, outcasts, spiritualists, and warriors. Many pantheons have deities that would be worshiped by different classes. Try to provide deities that are tempting for each archetype to believe in, or ensure that some of your deities are more universal so many different classes would be interested in them. If you are creating a random deity, you can roll from the Archetype Patron table.
This is super handy advice for anything worldbuilding related. You should know a lot about a fictional (Or Real!) place/time/event that doesnât get shown, but still has relevance. Every little detail you know, but donât write down, can help shape the plot in small, but realistic, ways.
No war or famine or game of chess has ever been just one single act, one scene in which we can know everything at a glance. I might not know what chess player #2 is thinking, but it might be enough to make them make a mistake or give away their next move.
Name Reources
So, youâre writing a thing, and you need to name a character. And, as we all know, naming a character is a giant pain in the ass. I offer this list of shit I use pretty regularly, for this purpose.
Behind the Name (The etymologies are weird as fuck, in a few places, but itâs great if youâve got a name and need to find other names that are from or derived from the same culture/language)
Behind the Surname (BTN for family names)
Academy of Saint Gabriel Medieval Names Archive (This is the go-to for medieval names in Europe and the Near East. Hardcore scholarship and a distinct lack of fucking around.)
Kate Monkâs Onomastikon (The original internet name resource.)
The Soldier in Later Medieval England (Actual names from English military rolls around the Battle of Agincourt)
Englandâs Immigrants (Non-native residents of England, 1330-1550)
Celtic Personal Names of Roman Britain
Mapping the Medieval Countryside - People (People appearing in English inquisitions post mortem, 1418-1447)
Wiktionaryâs Index of Biblical Names
Ancient Names Galleria (The weird shit is here. If you need Akkadian or Phoenecian names, those are totally covered.)
Trismegistos People (Names extracted from the Trismegistos Texts â mostly names from Graeco-Roman Egypt.)
Personally, I use the shit out of Trismegistos People, Englandâs Immigrants, and the Ancient Names Galleria. If youâve got good sources I didnât hit, feel free to add them in a reblog. Iâm always looking for more good name resources. (And almost all of what I have is Europe and the Near East, with a little North Africa.)
Dropping this update in the most recent reblog in my notes, in the hopes it falls into as many laps as possible. Hereâs some more good sources for names, this time with a more African focus.
Wikipedia Category: Surnames of African Origin (which is helpfully divided into sections by language)
Wikipedia Category: Amharic Language Names (I believe this list is primarily, if not entirely, given names.)
 YorubaName (âan online intervention to preserve and document all YorĂšbĂĄ names in a multimedia format.â)
Writing Adolescent Fiction: Character names: Kenyan, Tanzanian and Ugandan (a list of given names and surnames with notes on how full names are constructed in each culture listed)
Again, if you know any good sources, particularly for regions I havenât covered, let me know!
Rebageling with some more good shit:
So You Want to Name a Sino (a fairly detailed guide on how to name a Chinese character without sounding like too much of a moron)
Most Popular Baby Names for Girls Since 1960 (most popular American girlsâ names, by state, from 1960-2012, as a gif)
Popular Baby Names (the US Social Security database of naming trends in the US, with search options for date, gender, location, and trend)
A Guide to Names and Naming Practises (a UK government guide to common names and structure of names from around the world, split first by continent and then by culture. PDF.)
Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (an entire book on trends in English naming and name structure and the Puritan influence, from 1880. PDF.)
Things I am particularly looking for reliable sources for, if youâve got them: North and South American aboriginal names, Southeast and East Asian names, names from the former USSR, Australian aboriginal names. (All of these by culture or language family, if possible, not just by current national borders.)

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imo the best way to interpret those âreal people donât do xâ writing advice posts is âmost people donât do x, so if a character does x, it should be a distinguishing trait.â human behavior is infinitely varied; for any x, there are real people who do x. we canât make absolute statements. we can, however, make probabilistic ones.
for example, most people donât address each other by name in the middle of a casual conversation. if all your characters do that, your dialogue will sound stilted and unnatural. but if just one character does that, then it tells us something about that character.
Greek Mythology |Â The Goddesses of Olympus Hera Aphrodite Demeter Artemis Athena Hestia
(i want to draw some lovers in greek mythology next :) lmk if you have any suggestions!!)
update: i have prints now at https://society6.com/mohtz :)
âFor The Plot,â I whisper, deleting a rad detail that no longer works as tears fall from my eyes
Donât delete it!
Take the detail and put it in a cut scene file. Less anguish + can be used again if needed later. Recycling!
Brought to you by: I never used to be merciless enough as an editor because losing bits made me sad. Now that I know I can bring them back for a sequel or even post cut scenes separately, I am so much more vicious, and my writing is better for it.
@kredgons
@copperbadge
This always fucked me up too, and I even had trouble putting it in a file because later I wouldnât remember where it went.Â
My solution was just to save the initial draft in its pristine hideous format, and do all my editing in a copy of it. Iâve almost never needed to go back to the initial draft, but it calms my anxiety just to know I could.
I mean, I once had thirteen saved drafts for this reason of a story that wound up not much longer than drabble length, but yes. This. ^_^
I have a raging hard on for medieval/armor inspired fashion
Can I get a hell yeah for the arm armor
LIVING FOR THE ARM ARMOR
I want to wear this to work
A tradition
In peacetime, the ruler grows their hair long. In war, they cut it short. A ruler with long hair is held in great esteem, for defending the peace. The traditional declaration of war is for the ruler to send their cut-off hair to the enemy ruler. The statement carries greater weight the longer the hair: to receive long hair says that you have angered one who is slow to anger, that you have incurred a wrath not easily woken.
Violent war-mongering leader frantically and aggressively tries to shave just a LITTLE hair off the top of their head into an envelope.
A faraway king receives a heavy wooden crate filled with a coil of the longest hair he has ever seen.
A despised ruler finds hundreds of pounds of cut-off ponytails at her castle entrance, each one belonging to her own people.Â
A young emperor refuses to cut their hair and insists on trying to make peace with invaders. The enemy leader steps forward, draws their blade, and cuts the emperorâs hair themselves.
Hellen cuts her hair off and throws it in Cathyâs face at her sonâs soccer scrimmage.Â

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creative writing: pros and cons
pros: -Â you get to make stuff up
cons: -Â you have to make stuff up
I was reading my writing today, and let me tell you, it may not be good, plot is not the best, and characters are a bit stereotypical, but boy do I have fun writing it
This is such a good mindset to have. There is positive energy in this post
TRYING TO COME UP WITH NAMES FOR MY FANTASY CHARACTERS
Tips:
a) pick a name, any name
b) letâs go with Kevin
c) fuck up a letter, preferably a vowel
- kevan
- kyvin
- kovon
- kevell
- kivoth
d) congratz u have a name
e) he might be called Tim but that might be short for something
- Timmos
- Timotheus
- Timiron (yeah just add âRonâ when in doubt)
- Tiroth
- Timarimos
Congratulations your Tim both has a cute nickname and a full name that sounds vaguely badass, or if not badass long-winded and unnecessary enough to be a Fantasy Nameâ˘.
Also try to make the syllables sound like their personality. A suave and socially smooth character could maybe not have any hard ârâ or âbrâ or âtrâ in their names. Etc.
Saving for future reference and because of the glorious Monty python gif
This is really nice because you get interesting names WITHOUT making them ten syllables long and entire unpronounceable.
take old english names prior to the norman conquest. wulfric.
if you like, shorten them. atheldryth->audrey, theldry, eldry.
WHAT ARE WE?!
WRITERS!!!
WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?!
WRITE!!!!!
WHEN ARE WE GONNA DO IT?!
((Disgruntled muttering))
Oh this is definitely a call out
more ridiculous things iâve done for writing:
- weighted a grapefruit in my hands to see if i could justifiably describe something as âweighing as much as a grapefruitâ - done jumping jacks for 5 minutes straight so the memory of how exertion feels would be fresh in my mind - googled images of butterscotch to see if âbutterscotchâ could be a hair colour - casually stared at people at bus stops trying to figure out how i would hypothetically recreate their image in words - written 7 different beginnings for a story to see which one i liked best - gone to venice - enthusiastically spoken dialogue aloud to myself to see how it sounds - tried to read 3 books in one day - experienced terrible things, reacting with âi can write about thisâ - screamed incoherently at someone for turning on the tv while i was in the room, writing - sat there perfectly still staring into space trying to imagine what getting a boner feels like - âhey re-enact this scene with meâ - sat upside-down for ten minutes trying to get my brain to work - squandered schoolwork and free time alike for years - written
Iâm alarmed by how familiar some of these feel to me.

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someone in a fanfic: s-stutters in embarrassment
me, closing the tab: sorry I must go
Unrealistic Stuttering: âS-sorry I-I d-d-didnât m-mean t-toâŚâ
Realistic Stuttering: âSorry, I uh⌠I didnât mean- I didnât mean to do thatâŚâ
When people stutter, they usually reword what theyâre saying as they speak, and subconsciously insert âfiller wordsâ such as âuh, like, you know,â and etc.
*puts on speech therapist hat*
ACTUALLY! It depends on why they are stuttering.Â
A Nervous Stutter results in what is called Mazing, or rewording the sentence. That is the classic âI, um⌠well I⌠look itâs just that⌠so weâŚâ that @hellishhues is talking about. When someone is mazing their words youâre seeing a form of Speech Apraxia where the brain is having trouble forming verbal speech. This can be brought on by brain damage, memory loss, anxiety, nerves, and several other things.Â
The root cause of a nervous stutter is a disconnect between the mouth and the brain.Â
With this you will also sometimes see the classic âS-s-s-sorryâŚâ especially if the person has been training to speak clearly and is now at a point of fatigue or stress where they are not mentally capable of forming the words.
The other kind of stutter is a Physical Stutter, sometimes referred to as slurring, and another facet of Speech Apraxia. This stutter is caused when the muscles of the mouth, tongue, and throat are physically unable to form certain sounds. This is most often seen in the very young and victims of brain trauma.Â
Sounds are acquired at different ages, so a 2-year-old will probably not be able to clearly pronounce certain words (which is why toddler sound so off when theyâre written with developed dialogue). These mis-pronunciations are sometimes referred to as lisping, but only if the sounds are run together. If the person starts and restarts the sound because they got it wrong, it can also sound like the classic sound stutter.Â
But it all depends on why the character is stuttering!
Do they have Speech Apraxia, Audio Processing Disorder, muscle dysfunction, or another medical reason to stutter? (1)
Are they stuttering because of anxiety, stress, or fatigue? (2)
Does the stutter stem from intoxication or blood loss? (3)
All of those will sound different!Â
1 - Will have mazing, repeated sound stutters, and be the classic stutter that annoys OP.
2 - This is where youâll see the repetition stutter, mazing, rephrasing, and filler words.
3 - This is where you are more likely to see starts and stops and slurring of words.Â
My mum has apraxia and I just wanted to say thatâs one of the most concise and clear ways Iâve seen it explained, thank you!