#rath thoughts

Okay so I'm taking tumblr off my phone and going on semi hiatus for a bit, because I was stuck on said phone for like two hours just now. And then I went outside to the end of the street and the the air was just a tiny bit cold and the sea was absolutely still and reflecting the moon like a sheet of steel, and I thought why the fuck was I sitting in my room annoying myself with bad takes on tumblr when I could've been looking at this with my headmates instead?

Sometimes I think I write in too much of a narrow band, and should be doing a wider variety of tropes and genres of fic.

I think the most important character writing tip I know of is that everyone, and I mean everyone, in any given scenario should be acting in a way that would make perfect sense if you could read their mind. Character who's being unreasonably obstructive to the protagonist? He's caught up in the need to feel like he has agency, and it's overruling the fact that the thing he's been told to do would actually be the best rational strategy right now. Character who's snapping, yelling, flying off the handle at everything and nothing? She's in severe pain from a health issue the rest of the cast don't know about, and just pushing through it to stay on her feet is leaving her with no bandwidth left over for emotional regulation. And so on.

I cannot overstate how important it is to be extremely serious at least some of the time about stuff you love. You don't need to make it into a joke to be allowed to talk about it. Whatever your thing is, it's allowed to matter to you enough that you cry about it and get angry in defence of it and don't care who sees you having feelings about it.