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@amaranth@weirder.earth resources? not really. but i'd be happy to chat about it

in particular i think the narrative arc you've described (exposition, rising action, climax, resolution) doesn't work and never has worked for sentimental fiction (romances) and is really, uh, masculine in its understanding of literature (if you want to hear french feminist theorists complaining about this, look up écriture féminine). women's writing and women's genres historically have not been so climax-focused.

i do encourage you to read about and think about media from non-Western sources. there is a different between emulation someone and learning from them. people from other cultures and speaking other languages know things about literature which you could spend a lifetime reading Western works and never encounter, and you can and should seek out and learn those things. knowing more about literature will never make you a worse writer. make use of that knowledge respectfully.

i also encourage you to think about how works in other mediums do things. look at poems, look at albums, look at games, look at comics, etc. there are interesting things happening in these spaces which are transferable to literature

pick your level :—

• 0%: subtlety is for cowards

• 50%: normal

• 100%: buddy, if i couldn't speak through subtext, i wouldn't speak

« Washington’s debt limit drama has Wall Street betting that the United States will employ a fallback option to ensure it can make good on payments to its lenders even if Congress doesn’t raise the nation’s borrowing limit before America runs out of cash.

But that untested idea has significant flaws and has been ruled out by the Biden administration, which could make it less of a bulwark against disaster than many investors and politicians are counting on. » lmao

should have just rolled with this one honestly https://youtu.be/_vdSzIawfGM

before you call me a crusty millennial i did like this one https://youtu.be/xxttjs3Md2Q

pokémon music is supposed to sound like this https://youtu.be/o0f98sxBwN8

i don't like the ed sheeran pokémon song

@gaditb i think the point of a dating sim across multiple playthroughs is that all the things which change in a roguelike DON'T change in a dating sim, and by learning more about them (by playing the game over and over) you can produce different outcomes

@gaditb dating sim

zora have fish lips and sharp teeth

nobody has written a White-Striped Basculin fic yet to nobody's surprise

somebody has written a Combat Breed Tauros fic but they tagged it “Paldean Tauros”

it isn't synned yet but buddy they still haven't wrangled “Meowscarada”

now i am wondering how A·O·3 handles White-Striped Basculin and i’m scared to find out

the only distinguishing factor between regional variant and form is that eggs match the region they are created in but match the form of the mother

BUT regional variant is commonly considered a higher level of differentiation than form (e·g regional variants have different evolutionary families in the T·C·G; A·O·3 syns form and gender to the common species but leaves regional variants distinct)

i WANT there to be such a thing as “Paldean Tauros” (regional variant with 3 forms) but there could just as easily just be “Tauros” (common variant with 4 forms, 3 of which are only obtainable in Paldea)

for that matter, when you breed common (Kantonian) Tauros in Paldea what do you get?

solving this question will be my very first task once Pokémon HOME compatibility comes for Scarlet and Violet it’s eating me alive

if you get :—

• White-Striped Basculin

—: then Pokémon HOME is likely wrong and White-Striped Basculin is not a regional form. if you get :—

• Red‐Striped Basculin
• Blue‐Striped Basculin

—: then White-Striped Basculin *is* a hisuian regional form despite not having “Hisuian” in its name

the same question will apply to Combat Breed Tauros, Blaze Breed Tauros, and Aqua Breed Tauros once they are available in another game

when you breed a white‐striped basculin in paldea, what do you get

i haven't hit A·O·3’s limits on tagging yet but i will someday and when i do i’ll definitely complain about it here

how do i handle this?? just end the tag in an ellipsis??