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confused dork

@caffeinetheory

Just experiencing this reality like the rest of us. Pan and wanting a good plan.
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Safe House [Rewrite]

It is finally here, I hope you guys like it as much as the original. with the writing changes I have now it didn’t feel right to just continue so I have decided to start from the beginning again with little tweaks here and there

(don’t get used to notes in front, it won’t be the norm I promise)

The weather outside was perfect as Mari skated down the street. Early enough that the sidewalks were mostly hers, as she sailed down the short strip to her second home. Pulling her phone out of the pocket of the black and blue jacket recently finished she fished the headphones out and got ready to check the upcoming events for the week.

A lighter work load greeted her but a slight frown threatened to grace her face as she saw the anniversary coming up followed by a League meeting. Always a fun combo. It had been what five years, or was it seven now? The time right after still feels like a fog and maybe it is better that way. The silver ring that slightly moved in the wind on her chest gave her comfort. He wouldn’t stand for her to woolly in self pity, not anymore. It brought a slight smile to her face, in a way he was still with her after all.

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daily--cats

ID: gif of a cat being firmly pet by at least 6 different people at once. the cat is black with white paws, which are outstretched to stabilize itself as it is buffeted by the constant barrage of overlapping hands petting it. its ears are forward and relaxed and its eyes seem to be closed. end ID

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Stinky group of gamerz

It came to me in my fever dreams

tag yoself, I’m Chilskyrim

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poleaxewife

Wrong. Marcille is a HOI4 girlie. She plays games for 30 hour stretches. She's not fucking around with Animal Crossing (unless falin wants to play with her) shes deep in the Factorio trenches. That bitch doesnt jyst have spreadsheets, she has fucking algorithms plugged into them. Shes singlehandedly made a mod for Dwarf Fortress that makes the game 100% harder and requires 1000% more micro. She never realeased it online. Marcille is absolutely the most autistic type of Ur-Gamer. Not only is she optimizing the shit out of her games to the point where it lags because the games arent meant to process such an influx of loot and recourses, she's actively frying her 4090 24GB RAM 10 core custom giga computer with 5 games running at once. She has 6 monitors so she can be fully immersed in a TotalWarhammer123 game, a game of Factorio Space expansion, Stellaris, (she's currently juggling 3 wars and masterfully saving her image on the galactic stage) the most micro heavy game of FTL you've ever seen, A challenger rank game of StarCraft, AND watching Falin play minecraft and marveling at the perfectly cubic wooden house she made with no windows. While gay.

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You recently moved to the countryside. Your child was playing in the woods, and came back with a large green egg you thought was plastic, so you agreed they could keep it if no one claimed it. Your kid said it was a gift. You thought nothing of it. Then the egg hatched.

Cassowary

This is it. The perfect writing prompt response. We can all go home.

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to me, the funniest thing about “that’s rough buddy” isn’t the fact that sokka says something patently insane with zero context seemingly out of nowhere, or the fact that zuko clearly doesn’t know how to respond. it’s the completely incorrect use of the word “buddy.” zuko would obviously like to be friends with sokka, but sokka is not, in fact, his friend. this is the most time they’ve ever spent together, and it’s because zuko invited himself to tag along on sokka’s suicide mission. at this point in the episode, sokka still hates this guy, perhaps less than he did a week ago, but he still hates him enough that he didn’t bother forcing zuko to stay home, which means he still didn’t really care whether or not zuko lives or dies. which, considering that he had tried to kill zuko multiple times in the past, is not all that surprising. this entire episode is essentially just zuko forcing his friendship onto sokka while sokka is legitimately too depressed to care. so when zuko calls sokka “buddy,” there’s a spirit of dogged optimism characterizing that epithet, because in no possible realm would sokka consider zuko his buddy at this point in the episode. and that’s something we miss when noting the iconicness of this exchange, simply because, by the end of this episode, they are buddies, so in our minds looking back on these lines, the implication of friendship doesn’t feel out of place at all. and really, it isn’t out of place, but only because zuko’s tenacity and determination (in this instance, his determination to befriend sokka) has always hugely outweighed his ability to read the room.

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My only real and valid writing tip is that you google every word you make up for your fantasy stories. That's It

there won't be any results though because you just made it up

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oranaro

One time I made up a name for a character and after googling it discovered it was a Zimbabwean slur

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There's this weird tendency among fandom types where they'll take a character, and insist that they are fans of them, before changing their design, age, pronouns, backstory, blood type, species, hometown, favorite color, zodiac sign, medical history, and every other facet of their being.

They will then violently insist that this version is superior to the canon one and act like they "fixed" them and it's like. Buddy that's not the same character anymore. That's just your own oc commiting identity fraud. Like. I get the desire to experiment with different interpretations of a story. But first of all it's okay to just make an original character if that's what you really want to do. And second of all, are you even really a fan of the character you "fixed" if they're a completely different person afterwards?

Like. Idk dude for somebody who claims to be a fan you sure don't seem to like them as they are :/

Gonna remember "buddy that's not the character that's your OC committing identity fraud."

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copepods

leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

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duckapus

Sometimes something fucked up happens to the guy and their melody gets fucked up too. Sometimes the thing that fucked them up also has its own melody and when the first melody gets fucked up the second melody gets mixed in

no fucking way dude. are you serious