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staircase scene but owen says "our age of spies is collapsing"

Your character doesn't need to be likeable. They need to be legible. The reader needs to understand every decision they make even when it's wrong, even when it's ugly, even when they want to shake them. Likeable is easy and forgettable. Legible is what makes someone stay with you for years. Make the logic of every bad choice visible. The reader doesn't have to agree with it. They just have to follow it.

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Sibling rivalry only works on the page if both siblings secretly think the other one got the easier version of their childhood. Nobody thinks they won. Write both of them convinced they lost, and suddenly the fighting makes sense.

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

you can tell how much the StarKids love DnD and actually play it. constantly changing accents. one person being on their phone and pissing the others off. wanting to fuck the monsters. fucking the monsters. looting too much. the GM trying to add world building and nobody giving a shit. killing all the NPCs. the GM working on NPC backstories just for them to die immediately. the fucking pizza. the spectrum of good roleplaying. being unable to reschedule. the Lord of the Rings references ("one does not simply..." "mithril vest!"). the rogue somehow dealing the most damage. even the GM taking it a bit too far. these nerds have played the game and a lot of it and I love that it's such a cool experience watching it as nerd too.

"cozy bookstore" "cozy cafe with a bookshelf" "omg imagine if there was a place you could just sit and read at" we have this its called the library. you guys want to go to the library. the two college libraries near me have cafes inside and they are open to the public. people need to go to the library