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Uncommon Questions for OCs and their creators:

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Send me a # (questions for OCs) or a letter (questions for creators) and I’ll answer

QUESTIONS FOR YOUR OCs

  1. What’s the maximum amount of time your character can sit still with nothing to do?
  2. How easy is it for your character to laugh?
  3. How do they put themselves to bed at night (reading, singing, thinking?)
  4. How easy is it to earn their trust?
  5. How easy is it to earn their mistrust?
  6. Do they consider laws flexible, or immovable?
  7. What triggers nostalgia for them, most often? Do they enjoy that feeling?
  8. What were they told to stop/start doing most often as a child
  9. Do they swear? Do they remember their first swear word?
  10. What lie do they most frequently remember telling? Does it haunt them?
  11. How do they cope with confusion (seek clarification, pretend they understand, etc)?
  12. How do they deal with an itch found in a place they can’t quite reach?
  13. What color do they think they look best in? Do they actually look best in that color?
  14. What animal do they fear most?
  15. How do they speak? Is what they say usually thought of on the spot, or do they rehearse it in their mind first?
  16. What makes their stomach turn?
  17. Are they easily embarrassed?
  18. What embarrasses them?
  19. What is their favorite number?
  20. If they were asked to explain the difference between romantic and platonic or familial love, how would they do so?
  21. Why do they get up in the morning? 
  22. How does jealousy manifest itself in them (they become possessive, they become aloof, etc)? 
  23. How does envy manifest itself in them (they take what they want, they become resentful, etc)? 
  24.  Is sex something that they’re comfortable speaking about? To whom? 
  25.  What are their thoughts on marriage? 
  26.  What is their preferred mode of transportation? 
  27.  What causes them to feel dread? 
  28.  Would they prefer a lie over an unpleasant truth? 
  29.  Do they usually live up to their own ideals? 
  30.  Who do they most regret meeting? 
  31.  Who are they the most glad to have met? 
  32.  Do they have a go-to story in conversation? Or a joke? 
  33.  Could they be considered lazy? 
  34.  How hard is it for them to shake a sense of guilt? 
  35.  How do they treat the things their friends come to them excited about? Are they supportive? 
  36. Do they actively seek romance, or do they wait for it to fall into their lap? 
  37. Do they have a system for remembering names, long lists of numbers, things that need to go in a certain order (like anagrams, putting things to melodies, etc)? 
  38. What memory do they revisit the most often? 
  39. How easy is it for them to ignore flaws in other people? 
  40. How sensitive are they to their own flaws?
  41. How do they feel about children? 
  42. How badly do they want to reach their end goal? 
  43. If someone asked them to explain their sexuality, how would they do so? 

QUESTIONS FOR CREATORS

A) Why are you excited about this character?
B) What inspired you to create them?
C) Did you have trouble figuring out where they fit in their own story?
D) Have they always had the same physical appearance, or have you had to edit how they look?
E) Are they someone you would get along with? Would they get along with you?
F) What do you feel when you think of your OC (pride, excitement, frustration, etc)?
G) What trait of theirs bothers you the most?
H) What trait do you admire most?
I) Do you prefer to keep them in their canon universe?
J) Did you have to manipulate or exclude canon factors to allow them to create their character?

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electricliterature.com

34 Books by Women of Color to Read This Year – Electric Literature

Searching for Unicorns in Publishers’ Catalogs
R.O. Kwon

“This list began with a mistake. I’d started collecting the titles of intriguing 2017 books: to read them, of course, but also because I hoped to review more prose in 2017. I soon noticed, though, that the writers I’d assembled in my private most-anticipated roll call bore an alarming resemblance in one respect to lists everywhere, not just the book-related kind (cf. editorial slates, boards of directors, tables of contents): the men outnumbered the women.“

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sweetlittlevampire

This morning I made…bread!

The yeastless kind, with buttermilk and hazelnuts. Baked in a cast iron pot. It´s still hot, but I cannot wait to try it. ♥

And to all those bread-making geniuses out there - be gentle on me, please. This was my first time attempting to bread.

Special thanks to @moonlightcaughtyoureye who encouraged me in my bread-making plans. I´ll have a sandwich on your honour!

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sifaseven

Favorite Video Game Themes

This is part of my playlist whenever I want to write or relax. :-)  [Thanks for the ask :-)]

Leaving Earth (Mass Effect 3)

Mass Effect 2: Suicide Mission

Shepard’s Tango (Citadel DLC)

HALO Theme Song (Still one of my favorites)

Overwatch Trailer Theme 2016 Remix by Plasma3Music Remixes

Uncharted 4: Nate’s Theme Remix by Plasma3Music Remixes

The Last of Us Main Theme (I love the guitars in this one! Listen to it!)

Journey OST (The first theme is Nascence, which runs from 0:00 to about 2:02)

Sovngarde (Skyrim)

The Dragonborn Comes (Skyrm: Elder Scrolls) (This version is with the Swedish Radio Orchestra, solo by Sabina Zweiacker

Leilana’s Song: Dragon Age Origins

The Dawn Will Come: Dragon Age Inquisition (this is the acapella version)

Assassin’s Creed 2: Ezio’s Family

KOTOR: The Old Republic Theme

SWTOR: The Mandorian Blockade (first :20 is the Smuggler’s Theme)

SWTOR: Average Brown Wookie (this song plays in the Cantinas. I didn’t know this actually had a name until I looked it up! xD But that’s it. Average Brown Wookie.)

SWTOR: That Slippery Hutt of Mine (another Cantina Song xD)

SWTOR: Credits Where Credits are Due (yup, I got a theme going here xD)

Street Fighter: Guile’s Theme (This one is from SF5. And anyone remember the ‘Guile’s Theme Goes with Everything’? xD)

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tra-ge-dy, easy as 1-2-3

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i generally say i don’t like ‘downer’ media, and that includes tragedies, but i quite like hamlet, and i think moby dick is the shit. recently i got to thinking what it is about the few tragedies i like that makes them different from the merely-depressing rest. best i can figure, here it is:

  1. our protagonist has agency. he’s not a victim or a dupe. he could get out of the shit if that was his priority. of course, the way he could get out is not going to be easy or fun – ishmael’s options, for instance, were ‘mutiny’ or ‘swim’ – or else it wouldn’t be a tragedy, but he has choices he can make, is the point.
  2. once he is in the shit, he struggles like a motherfucker. he doesn’t just sit down and go “oh well, suffering is good for the soul.” he fights. he plots revenge against his uncle. he clings to his boyfriend’s coffin in the freezing sea. he’s not a quitter.
  3. when it all goes to hell, he doesn’t waste his last hours on futile scrambling to escape. he puts the pedal down and accelerates into that brick wall, screaming WITNESS ME with his last breath.

these, i think, are the criteria for a story i’ll like even though it ends with tombstones instead of medals. because even though our protagonist is dead, or bobbing amongst the corpses alone, or what have you, he remained himself and did what he thought was the thing he needed to do. which is the victory that really matters: remaining yourself and holding onto your will in the face of whatever the world throws at you.

a cool way of looking at it also 'he clings to his boyfriend’s coffin in the freezing sea. he’s not a quitter' is the best summary of the end of moby dick ever
writingwithcolor

professional-dragonsandmemes asked:

Hi, I feel like this is a dumb question, but is it bad to make one of my characters of color albino, even if I specify that they are Native American and connect them to the culture? The reason I wanna make them albino, btw, is cuz I think being that pale makes him seem more frail, I guess, which I think goes well with his... defensive(?) personality. Also, in this universe, being extra pale is considered suspicious, so pale skin is something that this character and the MC bond over

oh, I also just wanna add: I DO have actual dark skinned poc in the story, one of them is in fact the 1st person narrator for abt ¼ of the book, and the albino char’s family is still brown. I guess the actual advice I’m looking for is, without changing anything else, would it be best to keep the character as is, actually give him dark skin, or just make him white to begin with? (again, I feel like this is a dumb question, but I just wanna be sure I’m not missing anything >-<)

Albinism, Natives, and Paleness as Othered

Your association of paleness with frailness is one you’re going to have to explore deeply. Albino characters are often fetishized, and we have a tag on albinism for what to be aware of. 

You also have an assumption that Native= dark, when that very much is not the case. Native Americans range in shades from white passing (hi) to black, even without mixing with outsiders (depending on your world’s environment, this mixing might’ve happened regardless). It depends on their environment, genetics, and a whole host of other factors. Yes, most of us are various shades of “dark”, but assuming all of us have the same skin colour is a serious problem (this is the same for all ethnicities, fyi).

It takes much, much more to create a Light is Not Good environment than simply switching around what culture associates with it. Just the fact you’ve said “pale is suspicious” doesn’t actually mean that you’re subverting anything. If the narrative still associates whiteness with positive qualities, or treats what qualities whiteness is with as positive, then you’re still reinforcing Light is Good.

What I mean by this is: if your white/pale characters are shunned by society but they’re shown to be shunned unfairly because they’re really wonderful people and the dark skinned people are overly judgemental, then that’s Light is Good and Dark is Evil. If the light skinned people have pretty names and the dark skinned people have ugly names, that’s still reinforcing Light is Good and Dark is Evil (yes, I am thinking of calling white people Pearls and black people Coals from Save the Pearls: Revealing Eden).

It also applies to things like pale=frail, because frailness is often associated with preciousness and that the frail thing needs to be protected… by less frail PoC. This narrative has been done often, and is a major stumbling block when people first start trying to include representation. It basically reinforces that white people are delicate and PoC are tougher, which has been used to perpetuate a lot of harm.

You need to deeply address your beliefs about paleness, darkness, and seriously evaluate what you’re reinforcing at a narrative level. Creating a genuinely different world where colourism isn’t at play in the way it is in the real world requires much more work than deciding “white is now [negative thing].“ 

You have to look deeper than that and genuinely build condemnation of whiteness into every aspect of society, resisting the temptation to go “white people are bad except for these particular people who the narrative loves and treats well.”

Creating a Light is Not Good situation is complicated even more by including albinism, because the concept of an Evil Albino is a pervasive trope that is harmful for people with albinism, because extreme paleness in the West is already considered creepy. So you’re not subverting anything— if anything, you’re reinforcing “PoC are judgemental to outsiders.”

I recognize this is trying to be different, but there’s still a lot of logic here that needs examining. 

~ Mod Lesya

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On Filler Words

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Anonymous asked: “I have a terrible attachment with just. I use it way too much in my writing, and I know it’s one of those words you should avoid, along with very and really. The problem is I don’t know what words to replace it with.”

Just, very, and really are what I’d call filler words. They don’t actually serve much of a purpose in writing unless they’re part of the voice and they don’t make much of an impact on the sentence. 

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