Some time ago I did this small #fanart of Poogie, little #piglet in #MosterHunterWorld. Poogie has many outfits, changing with holidays and seasons and I thought Halloween version was the best I saw. Whole pig's body disappeared, only empty #ghost#costume floating in the air.
@jscholes Considering real life newspaper articles these days? The best way to make them realistic would be to make sure the first paragraph either has spelling errors or read like an AI spat them out. XD
#Worldbuilding Prompt 1/12/24
What kind of games do they play in your setting? Do they have chess? Poker? Holochess? Their own card games, their own roleplaying games even? How do they pass the time in camp before sleep, or in the evenings after work? Everyone has leisure activities...what do people in your setting do? #ttrpg
My latest post discusses the remarkable Nanny Morgan, whose legacy has been marred by #Folklore. She deserves to be remembered as a person rather than a witch. I've completely rewritten this article to reflect new research.
More redemption arcs should work with "going native", as they call it in the cop films.
Every other film (or game or book or …) about a deep cover infiltration is concerned with that. An agent, embedded in a criminal organisation for months or years, acting as one of them 24/7, begins to lose sight of their own identity, their job as a cop, becomes attached to their fellow criminals, and eventually betrays the police and genuinely becomes a mobster.
And more redemption arcs for villains (yes this is mostly fanfiction-relevant) should play with that. The villain, captured or defeated or whatever, pretends to reform, thinking "I'll just wait till those pesky heroes are convinced and leave me alone", and he spends so much time pretending he starts to lose sight of his "be evil at the first opportunity" plan and forms friendships with people he was only pretending to be friends with, etc. etc.
I've been ill the past few weeks & stressed as a result, & it's properly screwed with my ability to daydream & write to the extent that yesterday I had been fully convinced I had lost writing as an interest (the hyperfixations giveth & the hyperfixations taketh away 😭). It really made me sad, especially as I was nearing the end of a long-fic before I became ill & I really want to finish it.
Today I realised I had started randomly composing a nice little scene in my head. Not for the next chapter but for a few chapters down the line. Never been so happy for a random daydream to suddenly appear. 😍
@lexr86 I happy to hear you haven't lost interest in writing! Sometimes illness just does that. I have also been really sick and it has also messed with my creative endeavours. I hope you get better and the stress goes away! The writing will be there~
I just got a comment that was entirely in caps. Usually I don’t like when people write in all caps, but in a comment? Screaming about how much they love the chapter? Yes please!
Not a myth, but one of my favorite folktales is the Persian tale of Pumpkin Girl (or Melon Girl). It's about a woman who adopts a crying pumpkin and raises it as her child. At school during lunchtime, a girl sneaks out of the pumpkin to eat in secret. A neighbor's son sees her and falls in love with her. The rest is a Cinderella story, and eventually the pumpkin turns into a girl for good.
Somebody should create something like an action plan of getting #fandom people on fedi... I'm not going to be that person bc project management gives me anxiety but there has to be somebody out there who knows how to do this stuff and actually likes doing it, right?
I would definitely take over some regular tasks as long as I don't have to organize everything...
@ludovica Agreed. Pitching things, unless people are already interested, gives me too much anxiety, but I do wish more #fandom people would interact! Getting fanfic writers and artists to post in my Kbin magazine is like pulling teeth.
I was replying to a comment elsewhere and said I was "saving a fic for a special occasion." Does anyone else feel this way or do this???
Sometimes a fic Feels Different and I have to consume it in a way that's somehow elevated from the usual short snatches of reading I'm forced to take because of real life obligations.
Often this means that I'll have a really good fic saved in my MFL for months (if not longer) because I'm waiting for The Right Time 😂
@inloveweverything I understand the impulse! However, I've never done it myself. I have a lot of issues starting things, so it is less me saving it for a special occasion and more me saving a fic for the moment when I can wrangle my brain.
Woo! A productive weekend that means I have multiple chapters lined up to post while I'm traveling over the coming weeks. 🥳 For once, not being able to write in the regular order may have worked out for me as I just had to sort out one link in the chain in order to expand my buffer.
It has also made me realise that I probably only have half a dozen chapters left to write for this story before I'm done. So double-woo!, I guess! Or not, if my inspiration abandons me after that.