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Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.
I’m listening to the Magnus archives for the first time and I’m on episode 24, and the format implies reading the accounts of different people, but the writing of each episode feels like really eloquent prose written by a talented writer instead of a Random Civilian describing the horrors. They don’t really feel like actual statements?
My current theory is there’s going to be some reveal about the statements and how they came to be, where Jon’s skepticism is vindicated regarding how true the statements are and maybe the style has been very deliberate? Does the style ever change?
It’s really good so far so idk if I’d want to lose the current style for ‘realism’ I’m just curious. Again, I’m only on episode 24, so take all of this with a grain of salt. No major spoilers, but if this is nonsense please feel free to tell me lmao
like it still bugs me that people use Ponk as like the doctor character in their fics without doing the bare minimum of research on his lore bc him being a shitty doctor bc he wasn’t a doctor of medicine is way funnier and it’s very easy info to find.
like it still bugs me that people use Ponk as like the doctor character in their fics without doing the bare minimum of research on his lore bc him being a shitty doctor bc he wasn’t a doctor of medicine is way funnier and it’s very easy info to find.
AU where Tommy is profoundly deaf and always getting yelled at for being loud, but he claps back with “IM DEAF, SUCK IT UPPP!!!!”
Tubbo learned sign language for him, but isn’t fluent yaya. Techno learned his from a book (for tactical reasons because communicating silently and effectively is really useful) but he gets a lot of it wrong. Phil has the same issue of using signed exact English/incorrect motions for signs, but they’re catching up.
techno is probably a fucking polyglot so it’s not that big of a problem 😭😭 oh and Ranboo goes nonverbal when overstimulated!! And uses rudimentary sign language to communicate.
I have spent the past month working on my gift for @nervousbreadpuppy for the @mcythorrorgiftexchange ! Part of his request was "just kinda go crazy" and I sure did! This got me feeling very inspired. It ended up being like 30k words long so I will be posting it throughout this week on ao3 lol. Hope you enjoy! <3