Unfortunately, I don’t think most of them realize how much is at stake. I hope I’m wrong.
again, more than any other election, if they dont show up to vote for all democrats and make this a true blue wave, theyve forfeited their right to complain about boomers and older gens.
yeah i don’t know if anyone tried to go to any of my blogs yesterday but tumblr terminated my account. obviously they restored it for me, which i am grateful for, and the team was polite.
do you want to know why i was terminated?
this post. this post wherein a bot added a malicious or suspicious link and OP made a joke back at said bot.
posts like this are really funny and clearly are not meant to spread the malicious link. however, tumblr’s automatic flagging system doesn’t seem to know the difference.
so for the safety of your account, please refrain from making or reblogging posts that bots have added links to, even if it’s a joke on said bot, bc you’ll probably get terminated on accident.
So they can delete people reblogging bots, but not the bots themselves.
Stuff I Learned at My Writing Workshop (That I’m Kicking Myself in the Head for Not Realizing Sooner):
– The difference between a book that grabs you from the beginning vs. one that you’re on the fence about tossing out the window is winning your trust. It’s why it’s “easier” to read books by authors you already know, or fanfic where you’re familiar with the characters. Winning the reader’s trust as quickly as possible should be your first goal as a writer when you’re going back and editing your first draft. This can be accomplished by things like: speaking authoritatively about the subject (even if it’s utter bullshit), graceful prose, or establishing quickly in the story what it’s about. For example,“Character A had a problem. Character B didn’t love them back, so Character A was going to kidnap them so they would.” Maybe it’s not a story you want to read, but you are now firmly couched in what you signed up for in this story and the promisethe author is going to deliver on before the end.
– Characters need goals. They need goals in every moment and in every scene. Everycharacter needs a goal in every moment and in every scene. Maybe they’re not directly pursuing that goal right this very moment but it’s probably always at the back of their mind. Romances and detective stories are the easiest to deliver on this need. Character A wants to win their love. Detective A wants to solve the case. Even when they’re having tea with grandma, their thing is at the back of their mind. Keeping your character and your story focused on this thing they want helps pull your reader along and keeps them engaged on the “So what?” and “Why are we reading this scene?” questions of why they should keep reading.
– Characters shouldn’t just have things they like, they should have obsessions. This is the one I’m kicking myself for. The scientists in Pacific Rim are eccentrically obsessed with studying their thing. Thorin in the Hobbit is obsessed with regaining his home. Katniss Everdeen is obsessed with protecting her sister. Every crazy whackadoodle fandom darling character is obsessed with something. What do they have in common? They’re intensely obsessed with the thing that they care about. We love characters who are obsessed with things beyond reason, whether it’s reclaiming their home stolen by a dragon, or building artisanal bird houses, saving your sister, or studying monsters. Everyone “likes” things, but people and characters who are obsessed with something fascinate us. Examine the characters you’re most attracted to writing in fanfic, and examine your original characters if you’re trying to build those, and figure out what are they obsessed with and how does that inform their character. That’s the thing that’s going to make readers care about them.
after seeing this post i was immediately filled with the need to read a book where one regency lady thinks this other lady never talks to her because she’s stuck up and rude about the first lady being less wealthy so she’s always showing off her fantastic gowns and hats to piss the snotty lady off except the other lady is actually a painfully shy lesbian who can’t get a word out around her crush and just swoons every time first lady drives slowly by in her carriage to show off and wonders if she’s flirting and the entire book is second girl trying to impress her back while first girl thinks they’re in an escalating silent social war while second girl thinks they’re maybe flirting probably? this seems like flirting?? until the climax at some fancy ball when first girl says something that’s meant to be devastatingly yet politely disdainful but comes out outrageously gay and second girl is like “THIS IS IT SHE LIKES ME” and kisses her and first girl is like
“oh no. wait. yes. what?”
and the adorable ending is them trying to figure out what happened after first girl is like “but you hate me!” and second girl is like “if you thought i hated you why did you flirt with me for a solid year??” and first girl is like “i was clearly destroying you?” and second girl is like “oh. babe. not the way you thought you were”
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