@owlsinathens Greyjoy Family Crib!

@owlsinathens Greyjoy family crib!

Hand-Carved Tentacle Crib by Artist Garrick Andrus

observations from urgent care

- People who exercise a lot get knee injuries from overdoing it

- People who only exercise occasionally get knee injuries from being unprepared for the exertion

- People who don’t exercise get knee injuries from being out of shape

- Maybe knees just suck

I follow a lot of asoiaf blogs and I was completly agreeing with you on everything about your analysis of Jon Snow and then came “ he should have eaten more brains“ and I had a small existential crisis asking myself when I overread that.

Being emotionally attached to Jon as a character is weird. On one hand, his character only works if he's flawed. How you as a listener assess the morality of his choices is a key part of the story, and trying to smooth over everything questionable would ruin a lot of what makes him so good as a protagonist.

But then there's moments where you look at how some characters in the story (and a certain percentage of the fandom) talk about him and part of you is like "actually Jon Archivist Sims has never done anything wrong in his life, I say he should have eaten more brains.'

Tips for Writing a Difficult Scene

Every writer inevitably gets to that scene that just doesn't want to work. It doesn't flow, no matter how hard you try. Well, here are some things to try to get out of that rut:

1. Change the weather

I know this doesn't sound like it'll make much of a difference, but trust me when I say it does.

Every single time I've tried this, it worked and the scene flowed magically.

2. Change the POV

If your book has multiple POV characters, it might be a good idea to switch the scene to another character's perspective.

9/10 times, this will make the scene flow better.

3. Start the scene earlier/later

Oftentimes, a scene just doesn't work because you're not starting in the right place.

Perhaps you're starting too late and giving too little context. Perhaps some description or character introspection is needed before you dive in.

Alternatively, you may be taking too long to get to the actual point of the scene. Would it help to dive straight into the action without much ado?

4. Write only the dialogue

If your scene involves dialogue, it can help immensely to write only the spoken words the first time round.

It's even better if you highlight different characters' speech in different colors.

Then, later on, you can go back and fill in the dialogue tags, description etc.

5. Fuck it and use a placeholder

If nothing works, it's time to move on.

Rather than perpetually getting stuck on that one scene, use a placeholder. Something like: [they escape somehow] or [big emotional talk].

And then continue with the draft.

This'll help you keep momentum and, maybe, make the scene easier to write later on once you have a better grasp on the plot and characters.

Trust me, I do this all the time.

It can take some practice to get past your Type A brain screaming at you, but it's worth it.

So, those are some things to try when a scene is being difficult. I hope that these tips help :)

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Rules: Tag 9 people you want to get to know better or catch up with

Favourite colour: green in clothing and nature (black if it was a color)

Last Song: venus - bananarama (currently running in the background)

Currently Reading: various fanficions, last one complelty finished was Busted Play

Last Movie: Ghostbusters afterlife (bawled my evey out, should have brought tissue papers)

Sweet, savoury or spicy? I love well spiced food in general, but I have a Nutella glass near my desk in case I need sugar, so sweet.

Currently working on: my far cry 3 fanfiction, have a spiderman fanfic in the drafts and want to really make some new bully fanfic, but I don’t have the privat time to do any of it right now.

Tagging: any anyone who wants to.

Tag Game !

Thank you dear 🥐 @quizzikemen for this tag! I’ve been waiting to do it until I was drawing again to share a wip ;D

Rules: Tag 9 people you want to get to know better or catch up with

Favourite colour: Lavender! I favour pastel colours but purple has a special place in my heart.

Last Song: Two Oruguitas [[xxx]]

Currently Reading: Nothing! Woo! I wanna but can’t buy books and since I move country every third month (studying abroad) I can’t loan from libraries.

Last Movie: Shrek B)

Sweet, savoury or spicy? Savoury all the way!

Currently working on: Two Oruguitas, rough outline done. Inspired by the song but especially the line “Ay, mariposas, don’t you hold on too tight”

I tag: @itsybitsybookworm @aalinaaaaaa @smellofsnoww @diphthongsfordays @tessa1972 @writingonesdreams @jaxwolffwrites @ink-fireplace-coffee @rainstorminsilver and open tags for anyone wanting to join! :D

The more I think about it, the lamer it would be if AFO was just a “bad guy” ™, it doesn’t really fit the dlow of the story either. Sure there are people who’s motives aren’t shows to the reader or understood by Izuku, but if we’re really finally going to a point of: marking people as villains is a bad thing and society needs to change, that should include AFO.

So I propose a solution for the ending of AFOs ark that sets Tenko free of him, but doesn’t make him “just” the worst villain of them all.

AFO is clearly connected to his brother, this is the one thing we know about him on a personal rather than a professional (I want to be the evil overlord) level. There is a clear possessiveness about it and Yoichi is obviously a victim of his brother, but what if Izuku and Tenko worked together to deal with the relationship betwen them and the connection between AFO and OFA. At some point Shigaraki Tomura will have to split from Shigaraki [AFO] again, freeing him from AFO, but that doesn’t solve the issue of AFOs presence. While I absolutly believe Tomura would kill him, I think that Tenko would still want to be a real hero who’s first notion isn’t killing.

Izuku states he became the greatest hero and huge parts of heroism are sacrifice, so what if Izuku just gives up OFA, gives it to Tenko, because Izuku is at the point where he understands, that he wants to save everyone, but he personally can’t save everyone, that there are things he can’t do. So someone else will have to step in. That someone being Tenko.

Now depending on whether or not AFO is currently still in Tenkos body would give different versions of the outcome, but I’d say for practicality they are completly split. And Tenko goes and gives OFA back to AFO, uniting the quirks and the brothers again.

An image of Tenko getting backed up by the pervious users of OFA, especially Yoichi and Nana to hand the quirk over to AFO, knowing that Tomura will kill AFO afterwards.

AFO gets reunited with OFA, the brothers get reunited AFO gets one final moment of what he wanted to give him somewhat peace, but Yoichi doesn’t have to stay with his abusive brother, the other users of OFA don’t have to stay with their killer because Tomura ends it, killing AFO his father figure just like he killed his father. 

This was entirely inspired by this discussion by @haleigh-sloth​ and @mettywiththenotes. Also I want god like Tenko, just complelty overpowered, more than ever with AFO and OFA in one person, even if it’s just for a moment. And it would be fitting if Izuku starts and ends the manga quirkless, because you don’t need a qurik to be a hero.