i feel like alot of people don’t seem to understand that when people online are like “"I want a movie where the man cries” or “I want an anime where they don’t sexualize little girls” they don’t actually base weather or not they want to watch a piece of media on “does this have a trope i like/don’t like”. they just want the media they already like to have not have that shitty trope. when somebody complains about common tropes in shonen anime and you are like “well maybe you should stop watching shonen anime” it’s like no they actually do like one piece they just don’t like the occasional transmisogyny that sometimes comes with it.
like yeah i guess if i wanted to watch media that is not bad, i could watch media that’s really good, but alot of media that’s really good doesn’t have the elements that i enjoy from media that is bad, so you see the issue here?
like i suppose if i don’t enjoy the homophobia in persona 5 i COULD just watch downtown abbey but i don’t think it has quite the kind of gameplay and visuals that i enjoy in persona 😔
learning from the reblogs of that post that there’s a lot of people out there under the impression that “kill your darlings” means “kill your characters” and that’s the funniest possible interpretation of that phrase
since a couple people sent asks: it means you can’t be precious about your own writing when the time comes to edit. sometimes you will write a really good scene, or a really good line, or a really good description. it will be your new favorite thing you’ve ever written. the kind of thing you want to post on tumblr attributed to “the book i haven’t written yet” because it’s just that good. but when the whole thing is done and you’re reading it over, it just. it doesn’t actually work. it stands out like a sore thumb. it fucks up the pacing, or maybe once you’ve really got a handle on characters you realize it’s ooc. “kill your darlings” is about learning to delete those bits, even though they’re really good, because they’re making the work as a whole worse.
… but a lot of people i know don’t actually delete them because it’s 2023 and you can just cut and paste them into a different document titled “bits” until you write something where they’ll fit. and sometimes it actually does fit in the work, but you tried to put it in the wrong place or in the mouth of the wrong character. but learning that you can put a lot of excellent paragraphs together to make a story that’s worse than the sum of its parts is the important part.
over on patreon Tama shouted ‘shark’ at me a bunch of times for the mermaid prompts, which obviously gets
results.
goblin shark goblin Mitsu is here again to secure stray
forbidden tomes that wander into terrestrial libraries, and this time
she’s brought the rest of her team.
Sagami is the frilled shark lady
who’s head of Protection, physical and mental. some cults do NOT want to
give up their tomes and some tomes do NOT want to get got. she’s
basically here to punch assholes in cloaks so Mitsu can work and create
wards against unnaturally occurring madness.
Rea, the greenland shark
lady, is the team’s advanced translator and sacrificial editor. she’s
still pretty young at only 152 but she should totally be dead by now, a
fact which makes the branch of Sedna’s Fingers that raised her pretty
smug. she translates books with words as well as books where the concept
of words (or books) becomes debatable, and whenever a Rough Draft shows
up she makes sure it’s like, physically tolerable before letting it
come in contact with anyone else.
they’re 3 smart ladies just trying to
do their jobs in this void eats sanity world.
