MOOMANiBE
@MOOMANiBE

I generally am trying to stay out of online discourse because I am exhausted from life shit on so many levels right now but if I can offer one bit of unsolicited advice to basically everyone, it's to understand that when the topic is something that isn't in your lane - if you're white and the topic is racism, if you're cishet and the topic is queerness, if you're abled and the topic is disability - one of the most important and valuable things you can do in these situations, especially when you find yourself upset or uncomfortable, is to suppress your desire to react, and to just remain silent and listen.

Don't take this as hostile advice. I mean this in a positive sense. You will begin to understand so much more if you just try to hear other people out, even when your first reaction is to be upset. Let silence shield you until you have the time to process it and come out the other side both more informed and less immediately emotional. I promise you'll find it makes things better for everyone. You may find yourself coming completely around on things after introspecting on them for awhile, once the immediate "someone's mad at me!!!" response fades. Maybe that "awhile" is multiple months. Years? That's okay too. Emotional is the worst time to be Posting, especially on sensitive topics. Maybe talk to your friends in private about it instead.

Maybe you'll decide to say something different afterward. Maybe you'll decide your opinion wasn't needed after all. That's not a bad thing. The world is full of takes; a few questionable ones, made in the heat of the moment, won't be missed.

Anyway, just consider it IMO.



MOOMANiBE
@MOOMANiBE

kotaku has a big article up basically asking 'whyyyy are collector's editions not coming with the game anymore' and like. Answers:

  • You don't have to evenly split your stock of collectors editions among every single console/platform the game is on and end up with overstock of the least popular one. This split is even larger now that modern consoles have no-disc-drive versions as well (and it means there's more available for ppl who DO want them on popular platforms)
  • The game and the rest of the CE are usually manufactured by different companies and not forcing an extra step of coordination between them reduces costs, shipping and manufacturing time
  • You can sell extra copies to people who already own the game later much more easily


valerie
@valerie

1. Use the passive voice.

What? What are you talking about, “don’t use the passive voice”? Are you feeling okay? Who told you that? Come on, let’s you and me go to their house and beat them with golf clubs. It’s just grammar. English is full of grammar: you should go ahead and use all of it whenever you want, on account of English is the language you’re writing in.

2. Use adverbs.

Now hang on. What are you even saying to me? Don’t use adverbs? My guy, that is an entire part of speech. That’s, like—that’s gotta be at least 20% of the dictionary. I don’t know who told you not to use adverbs, but you should definitely throw them into the Columbia river.

3. There’s no such thing as “filler”.

Buddy, “filler” is what we called the episodes of Dragon Ball Z where Goku wasn’t blasting Frieza because the anime was in production before Akira Toriyama had written the part where Goku blasts Frieza. Outside of this extremely specific context, “filler” does not exist. Just because a scene wouldn’t make it into the Wikipedia synopsis of your story’s plot doesn’t mean it isn’t important to your story. This is why “plot” and “story” are different words!


zandravandra
@zandravandra

some of my favorite scenes to write are ones where nothing particularly dramatic is happening

one of the things that make me love a character is the parts of themselves they share when their defenses are down, and that tends to happen most of all when they're just going about their day or dealing with the most insignificant of obstacles

my favorite dynamic in the book I'm currently writing came about entirely in the margins of the story, when two characters who hadn't really interacted all that much got a bunch of time to be around each other. it was like a switch had flipped: they instantly started bickering like they'd been next-door neighbors the whole time. I didn't even plan any of it, the words just poured out of me as their personalities bounced off of each other. I now make sure to have them run into each other in moments of downtime so I can sit back and watch

(this is also why I love it when writers just do little prompts on here about off-camera, between-chapters scenes with a couple of cast members)

every well-paced story, no matter the medium, always benefits from little breaks in the action (physical, emotional or otherwise) to let the audience and the characters breathe