YES!

YES!

Literally was saying the other day they should just adapt Minecraft The Island. It would be so much better

5 ways to do a Minecraft Movie that doesn’t suck:

1. Do an adaptation of Max Brooks: The Island. This is already a fascinating retelling of what waking up in Minecraft would be like and it was written by the guy who wrote World War Z! I genuinely don’t know why they didn’t do this in the first place because Jack Black is the guy who read the audiobook! It’s so obvious it’s painful!

2. If you must have “real people in Minecraft” then have them wake up there without knowing how they got there. Steve tells them if they defeat the Ender Dragon the portal that opens after will take them home. Boom. Now your entire plot is your characters working towards defeating the dragon and going home. You still get the nether and piglins. You still get creepers and villages and maybe even raids. You get the whole gauntlet of what Minecraft offers.

3. Do it Wall-E and Cast Away style. Guy wakes up in Minecraft, does not know how or why he’s there. Most of the action is conveyed entirely through pantomime, with one guy. He’s alone in Minecraft and he needs to survive. The film is him struggling as he comes to grips with the weird mechanics of the world such as floating trees and creepers.

4. Do it as a semi-horror movie. Have the majority of the day segments be about a guy trying to prepare, have the nights be horror filled encounters where each day there’s a new terror he’s not familiar with. Culminate with him slowly getting worse and worse off until he finds a village. Have him get taken in and brought back to health. He decides to defend the village, and the final battle is him putting his survival skills and knowledge to the test against a very aggressive raid.

5. Literally just animate Minecraft Story Mode. Keep it animated all the way through. It’s just Story Mode but with better graphics and more concise editing. Oh wait! That’s already being done now! It’s called “Block by Block: The Amulet” and it’s going to be premiering on YouTube in 2025 and it’s being made by fans of the game!

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And those are just the first 5 I literally thought up while in my car waiting to pick up food. This is not a hard concept. Like Minecraft offers up SO MANY potential ideas for stories. Why did they pick the worst way to do this?

Things have calmed down a little bit, so I'm gonna try and still post now and then 1. - I write a lot of science fiction, its easier for me

2. - I don't think about stories in terms of tropes, so not really

3. - Not really, again. The worst trope in the right story is a good trope

4. - I have an idea about my autism experience, its about a robot and a girl in love, and its called The Warmth of Cold Steel. Basically, it doesn't matter how much the robot loves the girl, she don't feel that he means any of it

5. - Supposedly my vocabulary

6. - My self confidence is a big one, that's for sure

7. - This from near the end of a short story I'm working on to try and submit: "And so those two personalities will last forever in conflict, till around the early twenty-ninth century when the last of the power banks run out. Primal desire and intellectual thought will bicker back and forth just as the id and superego of mankind fought and waged conflict. Maybe they too will expand. Maybe they too will destroy themselves in glorious nuclear fire."

8. - I don't remember when I last did dialogue, sorry

9. - Any of them, because I finish nothing

10. - None of them, but the sci-fi ones are still easier

11. - I think its passion, I feel horrible when I can't write. So I feel horrible often

12. - Episode? I don't follow?

13. - I dunno about best overall, but I've found some Sanderson lectures very helpful

14. - Can't say for certain, but mean advice doesn't help anyone

15. - My recent short story is the closest to being finished, so I think its my only choice

16. - Pairing? I don't understand again

17. - Start to finish, anything else just doesn't work for me sadly

18. - I've tried tools, I'm really bad at them

19. - I can get inspiration from a number of things, but no I wouldn't really say I have a muse

20. - On my chromebook, on the computer doesn't go as well, and on my phone has bad formatting

21. - Depends, but probably not enough times

22. - My writing style hasn't changed that much, except for really old stories I don't feel like digging up

23. - Any of them. I always keep returning to Downfall, so I likely will again, but that one just never works

24. - Never really published

25. - Dunno what to look for

26. - I dunno, I just read it and tell them what I think

27. - I tried doing one once with a friend, but we never really made it past conception

28. - I don't quite understand what this wants me to do, so I'll just share three writing blogs I like: @illarian-rambling @the-golden-comet @kaylinalexanderbooks

29. - I dunno really(I'm assuming when this has been saying fic the whole time it doesn't just mean any fiction story, but something not traditionally published, right? Wrong?)

30. - Yeah, and I use them sometimes, but I still have all the same problems I normally have

31. - Okay I was write, we mean fan fiction. I don't write fan fiction, is this not something I should be replying to? Sorry

32. - In most stories I'm not the biggest fan, but if I go into it expecting smut I don't mind

33. - About what?

34. - I don't have any thoughts I don't write fan fiction, sorry

35. - Yeah same answer

36. - Uh huh

37. - I like the way this current one is going

38. - Jo always likes my stories, they cheer me up when I worry I'm doing bad

39. - I do, I stopped sharing unfinished stories

40. - Mhmm

40 Questions — Meme for Fic Writers

Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.

Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?

Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?

How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?

Share one of your strengths.

Share one of your weaknesses.

Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

Which fic has been the hardest to write?

Which fic has been the easiest to write?

Is writing your passion or just a fun hobby?

Is there an episode above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?

What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?

What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever come across?

If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?

If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?

Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?

Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?

Describe your perfect writing conditions.

How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

Choose a passage from one of your earlier fics and edit it into your current writing style. (Person sending the ask is free to make suggestions).

If you were to revise one of your older fics from start to finish, which would it be and why?

Have you ever deleted one of your published fics?

What do you look for in a beta?

Do you beta yourself? If so, what kind of beta are you?

How do you feel about collaborations?

Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.

If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?

Do you accept prompts?

Do you take liberties with canon or are you very strict about your fic being canon compliant?

How do you feel about smut?

How do you feel about crack?

What are your thoughts on non-con and dub-con?

Would you ever kill off a canon character?

Which is your favorite site to post fic?

Talk about your current wips.

Talk about a review that made your day.

Do you ever get rude reviews and how do you deal with them?

Write an alternative ending to [insert fic title] (or just the summary of one).

I don't know how to draw backgrounds

NETFLIX IS REMOVING VOLTRON: LEGENDARY DEFENDER

WHAT THE FUCK

IT'S A NETFLIX ORIGINAL IT'S NOT GOING TO BE ON ANYTHING ANYMORE

Okay, last post before I try to sleep

Let's be real, those kids from Stranger Things should have been bullied way harder

It's the 80s, try to act like it at least a little bit maybe?

80s sucked for a reason

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