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yes i know i'm in the new hbomb video and i was plagiarized by james somerton. if you want to read the article i wrote that he plagiarized, here it is:
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Did somebody ask for a Friends themed Polly Pocket?
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Gatito calavera de Posada.
Beautiful cat calavera by José Guadalupe Posada. Source.
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Batman is in a glass case of emotion.
#batman#legends of the dark knight#batman legends of the dark knight#batman venom#glass case of emotion
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Is that supposed to be the hound from The Hound of the Baskervilles?
#batman/superman world's finest#batman#superman#world's finest#doom patrol#elasti-woman#negative man#robotman#niles caulder#sherlock holmes#the hound of the baskervilles
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Great! Time for my daily existential crisis!
#the simpsons#homer simpson#floating timeline#simpsons timeline#the simpsons timeline#seriously homer is my older brother's age#therealjims#realjims#Youtube
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He saved a puppy! 💖
yeah pretty much 😭
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In case anyone needed to hear this today:
It's okay to be attracted only to men.
It's okay to be attracted only to women.
It's okay to be attracted to both men and women.
It's okay to be attracted to everyone.
It's okay to not be attracted to anyone.
You're only human and you're doing the best you can, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anyone else, just do what makes you happy, be with who makes you happy.
It's okay.
#it's okay#seriously it's okay#all love is valid#wanting to be alone is also valid#just try to be happy the world sucks enough already just to add more misery to it#love is love#gay#lesbian#bisexual#pansexual#asexual
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Greta Gerwig could direct a movie like Oppenheimer, but Christopher Nolan could never direct a movie like Barbie.
#just saying#you know it's true#barbie#barbie 2023#barbie movie#oppenheimer#greta gerwig#christopher nolan#barbenheimer
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Looking forward to all the video essays about Free Guy/Barbie that are sure to come.
#barbie#barbie 2023#barbie movie#the barbie movie#free guy#free guy movie#they're already color coded
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"But we did not go to sleep without some little chat."
Little chat? It's that what kids were calling it back then? 😏
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Team Orca 🖤🤍
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Why is A Song of Ice and Fire trending? Is George R. R. Martin finally done with Winds of Winter?
#seriously I'm seeing a lot of fanart out of nowhere#a song of ice and fire#asos#game of thrones#george rr martin#grrm
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Only Link gets to start the story waking up.
3 of the worst story beginnings (and how to fix them)
Big no-no’s for story openers!
Now, don’t get me wrong - every type of story beginning can come out really well if you write it well, a skilled writer can make your typical wake-up-morning-routine-with-the-hero sound super interesting, but 9 times out of 10, this is not the case.
Especially if you are JUST starting out on your writing journey, I’d highly recommend to test out an unexpected opener for your story instead. Think of what makes your hero different, and HOW their normal is different than someone else’s.
#1 Waking up
Your protagonist wakes up to their alarm, tries to turn it off and drops the clock or breaks it. They get up and get ready for their day, typically while describing themselves in the mirror and telling us about their daily routine.
Yawn. Pun intended.
✔️ The fix:
If you’re going to start with a character’s wake-up routine, show us why it’s interesting. What’s different about their routine that could take your readers off-guard? Do they get up in the middle of the night? Inside a bunker? A submarine? If their routine is just like everyone else’s, there’s no reason to show it.
#2 Traumatic flashback
As soon as we open the book, we’re thrown into some kind of important and emotional moment of your protagonist’s life that happened years ago.
The problem? We aren’t familiar with the protagonist yet, so we’re not going to care what happened to them.
✔️ The fix:
Save the big important flashbacks for later. If you immediately hit with the biggest punch, then what is there to work up to?
If you’re starting with a flashback, make sure it’s one that paints the character’s internal conflict well and makes us root for them.
#3 Exposition
Commonly found in prologues and first chapters, when we learn all about the story world, its history, the relationships between the characters in this scene, and their backstories. Also known as a surefire way to bore your readers before they’ve even started reading.
✔️ The fix:
Subtext. Train yourself to think through subtext, and trust that your readers are smart enough to pick up on it. When we start the story we don’t care about the fascinating things of your world and complex backstories. We want to get to know who the characters are, and let them slowly reveal all the puzzle pieces through the book.
My final piece of advice is to focus on creating questions for your readers to wonder about, and resist the temptation to answer those until later chapters.
Did you hear I’ve got a Youtube channel? Subscribe through [the link here] or below, and watch my latest video about Creating Complex Characters!
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Adding phrases in spanish for your fic
This is the second time in the last two days that I've run into a fanfic, where the main character's first language is spanish, and they address their love interest as "mi querido". I know writing grammatically incorrect phrases in a language you don't speak, is part of fic writing growing pains, but it's not "mi querido", it would either be "querido/a" (dear), or if you wanna sound fancy "querido/a mío/a" (my dear).
And while we're at it, Baby Yoda's diminutive nickname would be "Yodita", not "Yodito", Yoda's name still ends in "a", it doesn't change despite of the gender of the person with the name.
You know how some fic writers got britpickers for their Sherlock fanfics? Get a spanish checker for yours, and no, google translate doesn't count.
Source: Spanish is my first language.
#i know his name is grogu don't at me#it was on fanfics from narcos and puss in boots talk about mood whiplash#i've been holding onto the yodito/yodita one for a long time#fanfic writing#fanfic woes#fanfiction writing#fanfiction woes#fic woes#fic writing#español escrito correctamente
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I am dying on this hill, his first name is Din.
THIS OFFICIAL STAR WARS BOOK REFERS TO HIM AS DIN HIS NAME IS DIN
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