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hello and welcome back to me yelling on main about storytelling crimes. today we are talking about plot twists. specifically: the good, the god-tier, and the why-would-you-do-this-i-trusted-you tier.

let’s go.

✨ The Twist That Reframes Everything ✨ a.k.a. the “wait. WAIT.” twist. This is when you drop a twist that doesn’t just add drama - it recontextualizes the entire story. It makes the reader go back and reread earlier scenes like “was this character ALWAYS sketchy or am I just stupid??” It retroactively changes the emotional weight of everything that’s happened. Suddenly that offhanded comment in chapter three hits like a brick. The romance subplot becomes 500% more tragic. The villain’s motive makes SENSE now. Delicious.

✅ Best used when: the breadcrumbs are subtle but real. The twist shouldn’t come out of nowhere - it should feel inevitable in hindsight. Like Sixth Sense, Knives Out, that one betrayal in your favorite anime you still haven’t recovered from.

2.🧨 The Emotional Betrayal It’s giving: “i would’ve died for you” energy. This is the kind of twist that hurts. You thought they were loyal. You thought they cared. They did care - and still did it anyway. Or they never cared, and now you’re spiraling. This twist slaps because it’s not just about plot, it’s about trust. It stabs the characters AND the reader in the same motion. Bonus points if it’s a slow burn betrayal. Bonus bonus points if the betrayer feels genuinely torn up about it.

✅ Best used when: the reader is emotionally attached. Don’t waste this one on a side character we barely know. Save it for the love interest. The best friend. The mentor figure with dad energy. Make it personal. Make it RUIN lives.

3. 🧊 The “They Were Dead the Whole Time” but Make It Interesting Listen. This one’s risky. It’s a classic for a reason but also easy to flop. But when done well? Haunting. Creepy. Unhinged in a gorgeous way. It doesn’t have to be death either - maybe the character’s been possessed. Or they’re not real. Or the narrator’s memory is lying. The KEY is to not lean too hard on the shock. Lean on the vibes. Give it eeriness. Make it a slow unraveling. Give us dread. Give us melancholy. Give us psychological decay with a side of unreliable narrator.

✅ Best used when: you’re writing something surreal, gothic, speculative, or emotionally weird. This twist isn’t about plot logic, it’s about atmosphere and emotional rot.

🚨 The Twist That Should Be Arrested: “It Was All a Dream” 🚨 I’m sorry but. no. if I read 80k words of someone’s descent into madness just to find out it was their stress dream and now they’re normal again?? I will throw the entire book into a lake. This twist erases tension instead of escalating it. It invalidates everything the reader emotionally invested in. It’s the narrative equivalent of gaslighting. don’t do it. UNLESS - and this is a big unless - you’re doing it with INTENT. Meta intent. Dream-within-a-dream psychological horror intent. If you’re gonna do it, it better haunt me. It better RUIN me. Otherwise? Into the lake.

okay that’s all. go forth and commit plot crimes responsibly. bonus points if you use all three Good Twists in the same story and then look me in the eye like “oh was that too much?”

it wasn’t.

tag me when you emotionally destroy someone with it.

🕯️ download the pack & write something cursed:

I've been really struggling with going back and forth between having fae in my story verses having just elves, verses having fae and elves, etc. and I'm sooooo unsure what I should do! I love the idea of the fae and the 'feel' they have, which is more mystical and magical than how elves come across. I also really love the Seelie and Unseelie dichotomy and that really only applies to fae. Having Seelie and Unseelie elves doesn't really work to me...

On the other hand, I also reaaaallly love elves and they have a lot in common with fae. Elves come across as more mortal than fae do and their 'feel' is somewhat less magic and mysterious than fae but that's also a charming aspect.

"Terror strutted out of the elevator sporting a tight yet not short black dress, serious heels and an undercut."

Name: Ava

Age: Centuries Old

Pronouns: She/Her

Role: Deuteragonist

WIP: The Brief Internship of Lasie Marshall

Backstory:

Head of the Condemnation branch, Ava is a terrifying visage - and that's just how she likes it. Not only is her appearance snake-like, but her words are just as venomous. However, since the department merger, she's hidden away in her office. Only Angela and a select few gain access behind the locked door and drawn blinds. That is until an apocalyptic level disaster comes knocking down her door.

— GODFALLEN

‘I won’t be your pretty little savior,’ he says. Breathless, pupils blown wide, black drowning out honeyed brown.

@sorroways’s gift from my 300 follower celebration. Godfallen has captivated me from the beginning honestly I just want to know everything I can about this WIP. Can’t wait to buy it some day ;)

Name | Samantha Webb

Age | 16

Height | 5′6

Sexuality / Gender | biromantic cisgirl

Description | Red-brown hair cut short and choppy; brown eyes; thin, drawn face and overly skinny frame

Samantha Webb has been on her own since the moment she was born — but when her parents’ treatment finally became too much, she made it official. Being a runaway hasn’t been easy, but she’d rather starve than go back to her family.

Likes to think she’s good at reading people. She isn’t.

A skilled thief.

Way too curious for her own good; can’t stay away from things that pique her interest.

Loves to run.

Slow to trust, and quick to hate.

But once you’ve earned her trust, she’s loyal to a fault.

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okay listen.

i don’t care how “overdone” the trope is. let her fall in love with the enemy prince. let him smile like a knife and lie like a prayer. let her fall anyway. and then let her stab him with a hairpin. a hairpin!! we deserve this.

this isn't about originality. this is about execution and emotional violence and aesthetically pleasing betrayal.

tropes aren’t dead. they’re haunting us in new outfits.

every trope is a reusable little narrative skeleton and you get to dress it in whatever cursed, beautiful, petty, yearning flesh your heart desires. you can take enemies to lovers and make it toxic, or tender, or tragic. you can give them shared trauma. you can make them childhood friends turned enemies turned lovers turned enemies again. you can make the stabbing literal or metaphorical. you can make it an almost-stabbing, where she presses the blade to his throat and doesn’t do it. you can make her do it and then sob in his arms while he bleeds out whispering her name like a prayer he never meant to say out loud.

you can make it GAY.

that’s the power of tropes. they’re not restrictive. they’re launchpads. they give readers expectations so you can BREAK them. or better--fulfill them in devastating, soul-twisting ways.

also. like. if you think a trope is “overdone” maybe it’s not the trope that’s the problem. maybe it’s just being written without any real teeth. no emotional bite. no stakes. no tension. no pain. and that’s not the trope’s fault. that’s just boring writing.

give me the obsessive yearning. give me the knife-to-throat confessions. give me the battlefield truce that turns into a five-second pause before they go right back to trying to kill each other. give me quiet moments in enemy territory where they realize they’re not so different. give me the one bed. give me the i hate you but i’d burn down a kingdom for you and hate myself for it.

let the prince kneel at her feet, kiss her knuckles like he’d never crush them, and then go home and report to his war council like nothing happened. let her wear the hairpin he gave her while plotting his assassination. let them both suffer about it. let them choose each other anyway. or don’t. let them fail. let them fall apart in the final act and still reach for each other across the ashes.

i literally do not care how many times we’ve seen it. i want it again. i want it done well. i want it done with spite and softness and aching inevitability. i want to feel like the betrayal was worth it. i want to scream into my hands and text my writer friends like “why would you do this to me” while secretly living for it.

write your trope. write it the way it’s been done before or write it sideways and backwards and messy. just write it with emotion. and a little hairpin. and blood under their fingernails.

okay bye

Rin T.

like you’ll be reading and it’s all normal vibes, dialogue, pacing, maybe even plot, and then suddenly the protagonist is describing the texture of the wallpaper like it’s the only thing keeping them tethered to reality.

that’s not style. that’s panic.

that’s me staring at the blinking cursor like “what happens next?” and instead of answering, my brain goes: what if we just describe the rain. for a while. like no plot? okay. how about vibes.

and the worst part?? it sounds good. it reads like i know what i’m doing. it’s all lush and poetic and mysterious and you think “oh she’s in her literary bag” but no. i’m just stalling. i’m writing about how the floor creaks like the bones of the house because i have no idea what the characters are supposed to say next.

i call it ✨aesthetic spiraling✨. it’s a creative coping mechanism. it buys me time.

sometimes it even works?? like i’ll be halfway through describing the moths circling a hallway lamp and suddenly the plot jumps out like “oh btw the letter she finds is fake.” and i’m like. thank you, muse. why were you hiding behind the mood lighting.

anyway. if you’re ever reading one of my scenes and the prose gets a little too extra… just know. i was probably panicking.

but at least it’s pretty.

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