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New study on how Viking beadmakers recycled glass from Roman mosaics

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Fuck off, friend (a Mr. Robot script)

Elliot won't speak to Mr. Robot after discovering about Stage 2, and tries his best to call off the operation his alter ego has set up while he had his back turned.

Mr. Robot used to be half of a pair. Now he's by himself. That is, until Elliot's mute and invisible friend starts appearing when only he is around.

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So, i have this picture of this wonderful clown but i can not find the artist of it :(

Help me please i would love to know who did this cute clown!!

Thank you guys!

Also i will delete this post once i find the artist :)

Daily reblog of this with the right link because this one seems to be broken (at least for me)

https://www.novellla.app/

Can’t send enough love to the OP who made this. This software has everything and honestly I wouldn’t be doing so well with NaNo without it. It’s completely FREE, too!

It has in-app ambient music and sounds of forest, café, rain, lightning, and others!

It has a section for taking notes on your story as you go, and pre-filled, explaining templates of notes with different story structures! So 3-Act-Structure our beloved, the Hero’s journey, the 8 sequences dramatic structure and much more. It’s honestly SO helpful sometimes

Your wordcount is shown in reading time too.

It lets you change the font, text width, and background colour while being minimalistic enough so you won’t get distracted!

It has a focus mode that goes full screen and hides every other feature so you can focus on just. Writing.

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You know the concept "a villain should have a strong motivation, and they should not think they are evil?" Well, I think that somewhere along the line, it strayed and morphed into "a villain should have a sympathetic motivation, and they should not realize their actions are evil."

Personally, I think this trend of morally-upstanding-in-motive-but-evil-in-execution villains needs to end. It's just as weak of a writing trope as "evil for evil's sake" (which is what it seems to have been popularized to avoid in the first place) it usually reflects very badly on the heroes who oppose these moral-the-wrong-way villains and often fail to address the problems the villains were right about in the first place, and it's more often than not muddied by complicated and difficult real-life comparisons that leave the audience struggling to rationalize a situation in which the narrative punishes a victim of society more than the society we are meant to believe created them.

There's a difference between a "strong" motivation and a "sympathetic" one, and there's a difference between "does not believe they're evil" and "does not realize their actions are leading them down a so-called slippery slope that makes them evil."

Take Mr. Waternoose from Monster's Inc.

This villain is very strongly motivated: he is the capitalist CEO of an energy company in a world on the verge of an energy crisis as their primary source is become more scarce. Additionally, due to this energy shortage, the work is becoming more dangerous, and his company is dealing with numerous accidents and issues that have him under constant scrutiny from a branch of the government designed to regulate this dangerous field of work and protect the general public from any potential breaches of safety - which he believes to be a threat to his production goals. As a result of these problems, Waternoose has begun experimenting with illegal and highly unsafe methods of obtaining energy that ultimately put both his world and the energy source in grave danger, as well as being incredibly immoral in action (some of the crimes committed by Waternoose and Randall throughout the film include threatening employees, kidnapping employees, attempting to murder employees multiple times, and of course, kidnapping and attempting to murder children) and ultimately culminates in the finale and in one single line that succinctly states EXACTLY what Waternoose's motivations are and what he's willing to do in order to see them realized:

"I'll kidnap a thousand children before I let this company die, and I'll silence anyone who gets in my way!"

And when he gets caught and is being arrested and carted off, he's still screaming about how he was justified, about how he did what he had to for the people, about how his failure will lead to the loss of their way of life and it will be the fault of the people who stopped him.

His motivations are strong, and he does not believe he's evil.

Hopper in a Bug's Life is in a similar boat: his motivations are crystal clear: he is exploiting the labor of a group of people he considers to be beneath him, and he's attempting to grip his power over those people tightly to prevent them from liberating themselves. And the movie establishes that he also does not believe he's evil, because he believes this to be the "natural order." The sun grows the food, the ants pick the food, the grasshoppers eat the food. The actions he takes, which are unequivocally evil, include such things as terrorizing the ants, raiding and destroying their homes, siezing the food they harvest despite the ants not having enough food to survive the winter while the grasshoppers have plenty of food already hoarded, capturing the queen and holding her hostage with the intent to murder her to make a political statement, and beating another character and nearly killing him as well, again, to make a political statement and keep control over those people. And, just like with Waternoose, there is an iconic speech made which succinctly lays all of this out as Hopper's motivation and what he's willing to do in order to see it realized:

"You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line. That's why we're going back!"

Hopper's motivation is an incredibly strong one: Power, Control, Superiority. And he does not believe that he is "Evil," because he thinks this is natural, he thinks this is the way it's supposed to be. He's supposed to be on top, the ants are supposed to be beneath him; he's just making sure things STAY that way.

Neither of these characters are treated with any kind of sympathy. It's not their actions that "make" them evil; their immoral actions are a SYMPTOM. They take those actions BECAUSE of their evil motivations. They are not an "unfortunate slip" that they fall into DESPITE their motivations.

It just feels like a lot of content creators think that a villain has to be sympathetic in order to be interesting or realistic; they have to be right in motivation and can only be evil in action if they hope to avoid being "evil for evil's sake."

But that's just not true. Villains can be evil for any variety of realistic and compelling reasons that are not morally sound at all, and they do not have to BE right in motive in order to BELIEVE that they are.

We need to stop writing our villains to be right and then having them "fall into evil" with their actions.

It is possible to give a villain an unambiguously evil *motivation* as well as write them to perform unambiguously evil *actions,* and characterize them as not knowing that they are villains - and still avoid the trope of "evil for evil's sake."

It just takes a little bit of effort.