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joncronshawauthor · 10 days

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The Riftwar Saga: Crafting Epic Fantasy Worlds

In the well-trodden landscape of fantasy literature, Raymond Feist‘s “Riftwar” series is akin to a magical tempest – it came, it saw, and it decidedly left its mark. This wasn’t just another saga of swords and sorcery; this was an epic that tore through the fabric of the genre and stitched it back together with a twist. With its blend of traditional fantasy and bold narrative innovations,…

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#Character Arcs #character development #complex plotting #epic fantasy #fantasy literature #Fantasy Sagas #fantasy writing #genre influence #high-concept fantasy #magic systems #multi-dimensional characters #narrative innovation #narrative twists #portal fantasy #Raymond Feist #Riftwar series #traditional fantasy #world collision #world-building

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nicholasandriani · 1 year

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The Marvelous Dance of Coincidence: When Destiny and Storytelling Collide

Writers and dreamers, gather ’round for a tale as old as time -aren’t they all?- a narrative element that has both captivated and confounded storytellers since the dawn of creativity: coincidence. Yes, my dear friends, today we embark on a journey to explore the craft of employing coincidence in our beloved forms of storytelling. We shall learn how to wield this powerful tool with finesse,…

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favroitecrime · 8 months

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Palestinian freedom fighters breaking out of Gaza and reclaiming their occupied territories. They’ve taken over israeli tanks and have chased out the settlers that were on that land. They’ve launched rockets everywhere and the iron dome has failed to intercept. This is about to mark a momentous event in history.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

#free palestine #it feels so surreal and so shocking #there’s so much hope but so much fear #you just know they’re about to retaliate with the genocide they’ve been planning for years now #i fear for my palestinian brothers and sisters but this is so fucking huge #they tore down part of the barbed wire fence!!!! the people of Gaza are breaking out!!!!#god there’s so much more on twitter but i beg if you look do NOT look at non-palestinian sources #they’re twisting the narrative as if this isn’t retaliation for 76 years of torture #as if the israeli forces and settlers didn’t kill 4 palestinians yesterday alone #as if they haven’t killed nearly 300 palestinians this year alone #do NOT let the media trick you into thinking anything after will be a retaliation to an attack Palestine started #PALESTINE is the one retaliating #also if you’re gonna come in here with both sides or whatever sincerely block me and lmk so i can blokc you #they’ve already out out statements to leave children and the elderly alone so any middle aged fuckers are free to kill :)#which is fine since they’ve likely killed hundreds if not thousands of their friends and family and neighbors anyway #tag: important #fuck israel #gaza #tag: october 7 2023

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carrotkicks · 5 months

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golden child

#doodles #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #cassidy #crying child #grrrrr cassidy!!! my bby!!! they're such an underappreciated character in this fandom.#i mean. i personally always enjoyed the narrative involving the 'humans' and spirits more #irt the springlock scars: there's this theory that the reason Cassidy is the vengeful spirit in UCN #was because they had the most brutal death and was springlocked and died very slowly and and painfully.#<- evidence is circumstantial as every theory is but it does give a interesting (but twisted) writhing movement that GFreddy does in ucn #also the idea them getting revenge on william by forcing him to have a long drawn out death by springlocks as well. Dramatic irony 👍#.png

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katabay · 7 months

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ALAN WAKE

god GOD what a fucking game. easily game of the century. to me. its so much better than I ever could have imagined it being, and I have been thinking about Alan Wake daily for thirteen years. so so so many thoughts turning around in my head about it, but I wanted to get a drawing of Alan down first because I Cannot Contain My Enthusiasm for this game. holy shit. what an experience.

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost

#someday im going to be able to afford to replace my laptop and when i do. i will then save up to buy this game #alan wake #alan wake 2 #anyway i have Thoughts. about violent intimacy. wrt to alex casey and alan wake. those two have something going on in a certain kind of way #same fever. the bitter twist of a narrative. the penetration of a time loop.#also absolutely ADORE every scene where saga and casey drink at the same time. this game gave me everything

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cemeterything · 6 months

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i don't think i've ever liked anything where "normal" familial relationships prevail because to me all the best media involves either an absent family/parent or one that's present but in a way that makes you wish desperately that they weren't. ideally both.

#🐉#for someone who hates the entire concept of family i sure do love to obsess over it in fiction #and dig under the floorboards of a narrative for signs of warped and twisted familial bonds (or lack thereof)

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lastflowerofyourhouse · 1 year

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NAV MEANS DEAD. NAV LITERALLY MEANS CORPSE.

I AM GOING TO EAT GLASS

#tamsyn muir can do doomed by the narrative like no one else can do doomed by the narrative.#she really said 'im going to name this character Godschosensoldier McCorpsegirl and no one is going to see the twist coming'#gideon nav #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #tlt #my post #gtn spoilers

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fell-fell · 1 month

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aceyuu but its that one time-travelling ace theory

#tfw your bestie/crush is NOT beating the doomed by the narrative allegations #twst #twst wonderland #twisted wonderland #disney twst #ace trappola #ace trappola x reader #twst yuu #twet mc #aceyuu #i dont like this it looks like literal ass #but eh #fellfell draws

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 1 year

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Portrait pains

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#Poorly Drawn MDZS #MDZS #wei wuxian #lan wangji #Alt caption was 'Could the YLLZ Ball?"#Yes; that is a redraw of the 'could jesus ball' art #wwx reaction to the yllz 'charms' is so funny to me #Him going 'UM sorry??? He was a hot babe? What the hell is THIS????' Comes off like he's some fanboy #better yet lwj is *right beside him*#Lwj prob wouldn't have any yllz portraits - no matter how wonderfully painful that image would be #they just aren't accurate enough #Honestly the portraits are such a good diegetic storytelling tool to show us physically how *literally* twisted the image of wwx is #It doesn't hold up to the truth! Its just poorly drawn representations of a deeper and tragic narrative #......hey wait a minute

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laniidae-passerine · 3 months

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my post about Danver’s racism hits so much harder knowing now that she had an Indigenous son and she lost him, implicitly to someone white and drunk like the woman she arrests in an early episode. She made a life with a man she loved and she had a baby with him - someone she likely felt growing inside her, that was born with her eyes, that looked nothing else like her but was her baby. Her special little boy. And then this town, out of nowhere, stole him from her in the most horrific way. So love nothing. Protect no one. Let nobody in. Until Navarro with all her problems and her heart and her belief and that connection which allows her to see Holden, to tell Liz what he said, comes crashing in. And everything changes.

#LIZ DANVERS I’M CRYING FOR YOU #oh her precious baby. so rare in so many ways. fuck. she lost her husband and her son #why protect Prior’s relationship. he’s going to lose his wife and son anyway this town takes and takes and takes from Indigenous people #and if you love them you lose them #genuinely want to wail. interracial narratives of how your heart can twist into something ugly because you loved so hard and lost it kill me #keep your walls up high and let nobody in. let no pain in. let no love in either.#night country #true detective night country #true detective #true detective: night country #liz danvers

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completeoveranalysis · 30 days

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MOM HOLY FUCK THEY REALLY ARE SAYING IT

EXCUSE ME

WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT IS THIS THE GREATEST THING

LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS

Clamp absolutely set the precedent for this with our visit to Shura/Shara all those years ago. We’ve SEEN the possibility of being in the past and future of the same world and teleporting between the two. We knew the feathers could appear pretty much anywhere in the timeline of a world, given how time works differently across the mutliverse, and we DID just straight up go backwards and forwards in time via Mokona, so it’s absolutely possible for them to appear in the Past of the Kingdom of Clow.

WHICH IS APPARENTLY ACID TOKYO????

WHICH JUST ABSOLUTELY BLOWS MY MIND WHAT THE FUCK

WHAT A WAY TO TIE IT ALL TOGETHER??

X/1999 IS THE SET UP TO THE CLOW KINGDOM?

THE CLOW KINGDOM IS IN THE RUINED ECOLOGICAL DISASTER OF OUR OWN CURRENT WORLD???

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle as a pseudo-not-really-but-kind-of-sequel-event to Cardcaptor Sakura but ACTUALLY ALSO being the sequel-kind-of-but-not-exactly sequel to X/1999???? Or Alternate Timeline X/1999? Where things are ever so slightly different but the world was ruined in the same way?

AND THE RESERVOIR

THE RESERVOIR IN ACID TOKYO IS THE RESERVOIR IN THE CLOW RUINS????

I’m REELING OVER THIS

THEY SET THAT UP

SAKURA WALKED THROUGH THE DESERT TO PURIFY THE WATER TO SAVE THESE PEOPLE AND IT MADE THE RESERVOIR THAT LOVED SAKURA SO MUCH THAT IT PROTECTS HER

AND WATANUKI! WATANUKI WAS AN ESSENTIAL PIECE OF SETTING UP THE RESERVOIR IN A WORLD BEFORE HE EVEN EXISTED IN THAT TIMELINE

And that’s Definitely the feather they’re talking about, isn’t it? The feather that Sakura left in Acid Tokyo is still in the Reservoir right now, and is the reason the water is magic and loves her so much - because it’s a piece of her, and -... well, a piece of her clone. But it’s a piece of SAKURA, and so they resemble and resonate with each other, and that's why the water is so close to her, but 'Sakura' can’t absorb the feather because she’s already a full person and those aren’t her memories, but the memories of her clone.

Meanwhile Sakura (ie, our cloned Sakura) is currently on the other side of the portal at a point in time that DIDN’T exist a few seconds ago, for Original 'Sakura', but the rest of the universe has moved on and decades have passed (even though no time at all has passed for her) and now the feather from her clone has ended up in the past that set up the reservoir potentially centuries before she was even born.

Timeline!

Oh my god?

Oh my god.

I’m going to be thinking about this forever.

No wait I’m not done ACID TOKYO WAS like THE point in the narrative where everything changed forever. And from a Tsubasa point of view it felt like a world picked at random for all the Important Narrative changes to take place - but it never was! It was the most important world of all! It was the Clow Kingdom!

So Syaoran lived his life in the Clow Kingdom, and then his soul collapsed in Acid Tokyo, which was ALSO the Clow Kingdom, and then he went and died defending Lava Lamp, in the Clow Kingdom. All at completely different points in the timeline but all in the exact same world.

Though I will say I am thoroughly baffled by the connection between the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building and THE CLOW RUINS???

ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO BE THE SAME BUILDING?

Oh my god they’re in the same location aren’t they. The reservoir was underneath it and now it’s under the ruins. I suppose they have Magic so they could probably reshape them however they want but WHAT A CON CLAMP HAVE PULLED ON US

TO SPEND THE ENTIRE MANGA STARING AT THE WINGS OF THE CLOW RUINS AND THEY WERE SECRETLY WAITING FOR THE RIGHT TIME TO TELL US THAT WE WERE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT THE TOKYO METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT BUILDING ALL ALONG

THE AUDACITY OF IT ALL

#I LOVE IT?#I LOVE IT!#OH MY GOD THEY PULLED THE WHOLE RUG AWAY #THE GREATEST NARRATIVE CIRCLE?#THE MOST EXTREME TWIST?#OH MY GOD #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Tsubasa #Vol 212 #Lava Lamp Guy #Fai #Kurogane #ACID TOKYO? IN MY CLOW KINGDOM???#IT’S MORE LIKELY THAN YOU THINK!#Excuse me I have to stare at the wall for seventeen hours

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hyacinths-in-a-storm · 4 months

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So here’s the thing, between the ages of 10-14 there is the most significant change in facial features. So then if Azula was 11 during the Agni Kai, she would not look the way the show portrayed her. I would argue she would look more like she looks in Zuko Alone.

Another thing is that when we are hearing about the Agni Kai between Ozai and Zuko, it is from Iroh’s point of view, which means that the depiction of Azula is his perception of what he thought was Azula’s reaction.

Anyways my point is that Iroh is the unreliable narrator.

#Three cheers for never healing!!!#Three cheers for gaslighting yourself!!!#Three cheers for twisting the narrative in your favor!!!#iroh #azula #zuko #ozai #atla #avatar the last airbender

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conflictofthemind · 2 days

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Dyersfilms admits to lying, 2024. Colourized.

The way she tried to drag me in the mud and claim I was making things up a month when I was correct the entire time. Actually embarrassing.

#got dyersfilms to admit to lying and twisting the narrative so that ‘we won’t be happy’#byler #hall of fame Twitter moment (to me)#sorry I promise I’ll go back to scheduled posting soon

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himehomu · 6 months

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“Homura callously destroys everything and everyone else because she's selfish and she only loves madoka” right that's why, when she rewrote the entire universe, she not only made it to where Madoka would be surrounded by her friends and her family, but she also gave Sayaka a second chance with not only Kyoko, but with Hitomi and Kyoske as well. That's why she gave Nagisa and Mami a life together. Because she's callous and selfish and she doesn't care about anyone but Madoka. That's why she took on the brunt of immortality for Madoka to be human again, even if it's temporary, choosing to suffer alone whilst everyone else has a second chance at a life. Go fuck yourself. I'm so tired of seeing ppl minimize Homura's love for Madoka and her friends by writing off her actions as “oh she's just a selfish evil edgelord who destroys everything and everyone who isn't madoka bc she doesn't care about anything else bc selfishness vs selflessness themes!!” like you do know that you can point out Homura's selfishness and Madoka's selflessness without blatantly lying and trying to rewrite canon to fit your narrative, right?

#pmmm #puella magi madoka magica #mahou shoujo madoka magica #puella magi madoka magica rebellion #homura akemi #madoka kaname #muting notifications to this bc i already know ppl who either want homura to be evil to justified their hatred for her #because they can't admit they still don't understand why homura did what she did in rebellion after 10 years #or those who want her to be evil and toxic bc they think that makes her a girlboss are gonna foam at the mouth either way #yes homura acted selfishly but not in the way everyone claims she did y'all are just twisting her actions to fit your narrative #it's 2023 just say you hate her and move tf on bc i am NOT going into Walpurgisnacht Rising with ppl in my ear telling me #how awful homura is and how she's a terrible person #homura did nothing wrong

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twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat · 5 months

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thinking abt these two again. i need to be sedated

knight!sugu who sacrifices you to save the world thinking he has no other choice. who instantly becomes enveloped by a guilt so heavy it crushes him.

prince!gojo who sacrifices the world to save you with a smile on his face. who tells you to find him in your next life as he watches the stars go out one by one.

#i prefer sugu <3 #moss and mickey ruined my life w knight!sugu and prince!gojo….. T_T they haunt my every waking thought #i think my version of prince!gojo is just. a more selfish gojo (and maybe just a bit more twisted) im still figuring him out tho!!#hes a little sick in the head but hes a kind man at heart :3 and we love him. hes a good ruler who cares abt fairness and equality !!#but he would probably also ruin literally everyone who ever hurt u if u let him #meanwhile knight!sugu is just . destined for tragedy No Matter What psjdjdj #the idea of suguru choosing his duty over love…. and being so crushed by that decision that it warps his identity……. yeah.#hes so doomed by the narrative i need to save him #geto x reader #gojo x reader

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mishy-mashy · 7 days

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Probably not gonna match with when this comes out translated, but still—just a few things I liked about BNHA 423

WE GOT TO SEE THE VESTIGES AGAAAAINNNNN!!! HI BRUCE!

I think Bruce gets a lot of bad angles. This is an example (but it's okay honey, you're still hot stuff)

Unfortunately, I have a favorite. It's Bruce. The most Normal Guy™ in the vestige line up. And the special-est sopping wet cat for Kudo ever (Yoichi is a dry cat because at least Kudo remembered to take Yoichi inside).

The vestiges were all gearing for a punch, but Tomura/Tenko is reaching out.

The rest of the users usually use OFA to punch, is the general idea we see. But Tomura/Tenko's Quirk isn't that.

Tomura/Tenko reaching his hand out to grab, and the vestiges readying a punch—it's their ways of putting the hurt on.

And Tomura/Tenko knows what happens if he puts his fingers on someone. He was aiming for AFO's head too. Guy was pissed.

I like that the vestiges look like they're crawling out of hell (or the depths) here. Technically for OFA itself, which they embody, being in AFO's realm was hell. It meant they failed their collective goals to win against AFO, and keep OFA [Yoichi] out of his possession

Also, they're all embers of who they once were. If Factors embodied their personalities, these embers are the leftovers of that embodiment. Their eyes are blank.

And even when they're only shattered fragments of themselves, they came for AFO to take him down.

They really embodied that purpose. Even as husks of themselves, or sad leftovers that scattered from their destroyed Factors, they still reached forward to clock AFO one last time.

They were that determined, and that determination was all that was left of them.

Meanwhile, with Yoichi, his itty bitty remains continued trying to talk sense into his brother till the end.

Yoichi has such a bleeding heart. But he also loved his brother.

AFO is standing in the dark. But in that dark, there's a light. It's Yoichi, as if he were the light at the end of the tunnel.

AFO chased OFA for decades, and ruined a lot of lives, just to have Yoichi by his side again.

Joining hands with Garaki; killing Banjo, En, Nana; forcing the creation and upbringing of Tenko; the whole Shimura incident; everything he did to UA and the Aoyamas to get close to the wielder of OFA [Yoichi]. He did all that, and more.

He just wanted the chance to have Yoichi with him again. That was his purpose in obtaining OFA this whole time.

Yoichi was AFO's light at the end of the tunnel.

Too bad for AFO, the light at the end of the tunnel was an oncoming train.

Yoichi is telling AFO what happened, but I love that in front of Yoichi, AFO became himself. I mean, not a mass of scar tissue, but who he originally looked like

Idk, there's just something symbolic about it?

Midoriya calls AFO a lonely man. And Yoichi comes to him, and AFO says he wants Yoichi by his side. He wouldn't be lonely if that were the case. Yoichi could make him not lonely anymore.

And the lonely man, a bundle of scar tissue from his warpath to see Yoichi again, reverts to a time he had no injuries or scars. He looks like the period of time where he and Yoichi lived in the same era.

In front of Yoichi, he's just.. himself, I guess is how to put it. Not a mass of scar tissue, or the evil villain everyone feared: he's literally just Yoichi's "Nii-san".

It's like, the scar tissue shed itself to reveal AFO's true face.

He wants to see Yoichi's face, and ended up showing his own without even meaning or thinking to.

He's finally looking straight at Yoichi, trying to see his face. It's not like when Yoichi was alive, when AFO always looked down on him, and just waited for him to bend to his will.

Now, AFO has little time left with Yoichi, and he's lost his composure for it, wanting to see Yoichi as more than an ember. But maybe he got to the point he only ever saw Yoichi for his Factor, rather than the Factor for Yoichi: how often has he said he was chasing One For All, instead of his younger brother?

AFO wanted to see Yoichi's face, but when he saw Yoichi next to Kudo... yeah, he lost his mind a bit there. Probably (Definitely?) because he saw Kudo's Ability, and Kudo with Yoichi. And Kudo is "to blame for everything".

Maybe he lost it seeing Kudo and Yoichi together, because it was a repeat of the past, I suppose?

(Technically, he did see Yoichi's face one last time already. Just that he also saw the bastard Kudo's face again too. And AFO did not like that.)

#ngl i sped through this chapter until i saw the vestiges were mentioned and went back to it #just to see bruce. that was it #but i did end up taking another look later in the day #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #bruce #kudo #PLEASE I WANT FULL NAMES #en tayutai #nana shimura #yoichi shigaraki #tomura shigaraki #tenko shimura #banjo daigoro #ofa #afo #all for one #one for all #im so happy we got to see the vestiges again and AFO being a pathetic man for his little brother #AFO did love him. to borrow a line from something i wrote:#[A twisted sense of love that was - nonetheless - love]#okay originally theres commas but tags dont let that. i just think that line applies to AFO in regards to Yoichi #might be cringy yeah but i wrote that a long time ago so. AFO does love its just he shows it and believes it wrong #or maybe the narration copies AFO's twisted own to fit his Demon Lord narrative: “Yoichi was his possession he wouldnt let go easily”#ok sure AFO #idk i just thought these pages were interesting #bnha 423 #bnha spoilers

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