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So I’ve been thinking about rational vs. irrational character decisions.

An irrational decision is great when your story is driven by your character’s personal flaws and struggles, and for crafting situations where your audience knows that these decisions are unavoidable because they are perfectly in character. Having your characters be perfectly able to solve their problems if they weren’t, y’know, themselves, is so very hard-hitting, and can be a fantastic part of a narrative.

The downfall with irrational decisions is that it can make situations seem less dire or make your antagonists seem less dangerous. If your characters are falling over themselves and their own personal issues, then it’s hard to show how the external problems in your story pose a serious threat, because you can’t demonstrate how they’re hard to deal with if your characters aren’t making solidly competent attempts in the first place.

Rational decisions are great for stories where most of your problems are external, like your characters trying to build a spaceship or infiltrate the bad guy’s lair. It’s also key to any horror writing, where you need your characters to be competent in order for your danger to be credible; if your audience spends the entire time wondering why your protagonists aren’t doing very obvious things to solve their problems, it’ll be a lot harder to get a properly spooky atmosphere going. But if your characters are only ever making the most optimal, logical choices without ever struggling, they won’t be very compelling, so just like with irrational decision-making, there’s a time and a place for this.

Ideally, you want some combination of both rational and irrational character choices. And maybe even more importantly, whatever choice a character’s making needs to be one that makes sense for them given everything you’ve already shown in the narrative so far. If the decision feels forced or contrived, then it doesn’t matter if it’s rational or not, because it’s not a choice that fits with the rest of the story.

But, yeah, ultimately, both types of character decisions are useful tools, and it’s less about one or the other being right, and more about both of these tools being useful for different types of situations.

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Just repeating this.

PLEASE BE CAREFUL WHO YOU SIGNAL BOOST

There are a lot of fraudulent Palestinian fundraisers going around Tumblr and Go Fund Me right now. (Just had one in my recommended posts)

And unfortunately Tumblr doesn't have a clear way to report fraud or fraudulent posts.

It sucks but there are a lot of disgusting people willing to use the horrors in Gaza to steal money from actual charities.

How to help tell if a fundraiser is likely fraudulent:

- It's a brand new account

- They only reblog posts about Palestine / Israel

-Its only original post is the fake fundraiser.

-Reverse image searching usually reveals the pictures to be stolen from somewhere. Or for the lazy ones they're AI generated.

- It spam tags a load of unrelated subjects (usually trending or popular ones)

- It links to a random PayPal

If you want to donate please give through official channels or through reputable charities. Unfortunately you cannot trust Go Fund Me to vet their fundraisers.

As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.

It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.

Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.