Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

it's very common in zelda fanfics to be all "oh woe is me i never wanted to be the hero but the goddess chose me and now i must" but like

why, where does that come from

where does the trope of unwilling hero even come from

« This is something that no one but a widely read person, and one moreover well-versed in moral philosophy and in the subtle arcana of metaphysical science could possibly understand. »

why is it like that

« "The right to marriage confers vital legal protections, dignity, and full participation in our society," the Office of Management and Budget said in a statement » scary

slice of life anime 🤝 the lord of the rings

food is important

body hair creates a spacer between body and fabric which creates wind, aids in sweat evaporation, and creates a cool pocket of air around your skin

my advice for staying cool in the summer is don't shave your legs

kind of girl who ends her several hour long call with her girlfriend so that she can chat with her girlfriend on discord

this is like 95% of my experiences asking questions of strangers on the internet

“what is your favourite type of pizza and why”

“oh, pizza? usually when i want pizza i open the map app on my phone and scroll through the nearest places until i find something with lots of stars”

you ever ask a question on the internet and have people give you answers which are kind of on the same topic but not really what you asked for at all

anyway final, reveal‐all or sudden‐change‐in‐perspective or even brilliant‐moment‐of‐persuasion conversations solve the wrong problem and attempt to resolve the narrative tensions of the story in place of the structural ones. they very rarely take place in structural time and closing out your story that way is footgun which spits in the face of all your hard work actually trying to architecture something pleasing or meaningful, effectively saying “none of that structure actually matters because in the end these words were the key”

at which point you might as well toss out the entire rest of the story and just print that, if that’s what you think

for example star wars converts the narrative tension of the impending threat of the death star, around which the story is structured, into the narrative tension of the rebels launching an all‐out war against the empire, about which the story structure has nothing meaningful to say

i think a lot of writers write themselves into impossible situations because they rely entirely on the narrative for tension, and narrative tension can never be completely resolved without it sounding like somebody is running a con

in fact, the only utility narrative tension has for the writer is in giving weight to the tension in the story’s structure; the goal of the writer is to convert narrative tension which is structurally entwined into narrative tension which is structurally free, at which point the story reaches its close

if you are going to have your protagonist have a life‐altering conversation, first of all you should stick it at the BEGINNING of the work

if you are a writer who is puzzling over how to end your story, and your great idea is to have your protagonist have a life‐altering conversation which changes their perspective and resolves all the tensions currently present in the narrative

stop, please, and don’t

it does not work

« As an example, if you have 1,000 motivated fans who would pay you $1,000 a year to purchase your music or your digital art, you’ve just earned a million dollars. » thanks but i don’t need NFTs to do that, i can just sell bath water

think i need to do better at remembering to tell the stories i actually want to tell

instead of getting sucked into bogs of shit i couldn’t care less about

or that i had more time