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*on a Fisher Price Chatter Phone* bestie help I’m writing a 3-part story with each chapter being a different character and the second character is more developed and fleshed-out than the first and now I can’t do anything about it

One of the criticisms that I got regarding my story was the lack of description of clothes... so we are rectifying that!!



...omg, it's a strip tease, lol.

i don't want a valentine's date i just want someone to be the muse for my heartbroken poetry

Oh, dear. Looks like I forgot about the Magical Rock In The Accidental Magic.

How about we achieve this Target and then @Nate will have to publish his own Chicken work to add to our collection. #dare

Nate wrote:Four more chicken lit works to go! Or else the chicken category gets it!

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I'll be in here more or less!

SilverNight wrote:There's a new Social Month challenge for RP Week, and this time it's a write-in! Hop in if you'd like!

February 4
Week 1

Have you been looking for a chance to catch up on all your RPs? Check out our third event of Social Month, the RP Write-In!

To participate, join the fun in the pad. You can invite fellow YWS roleplayers to join to you in writing a post, plan a new roleplay, work on an RP challenge for a badge-- or just chill with company! Remember, all YWS site rules apply on WFPs.

Write-In Pad Link

Check back on February 4th for the next challenge!

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Four more chicken lit works to go! Or else the chicken category gets it!

There's a new Social Month challenge for RP Week, and this time it's a write-in! Hop in if you'd like!

February 4
Week 1

Have you been looking for a chance to catch up on all your RPs? Check out our third event of Social Month, the RP Write-In!

To participate, join the fun in the pad. You can invite fellow YWS roleplayers to join to you in writing a post, plan a new roleplay, work on an RP challenge for a badge-- or just chill with company! Remember, all YWS site rules apply on WFPs.

Write-In Pad Link

Check back on February 4th for the next challenge!

I remade alive Samuel from “The playground”:

Philippa (fourteen years old) (clown):

Dude. I was absolutely unprepared how much my heart would ache while writing Book 4. >.> My soul feels like it is about to be torn apart. And we're not even halfway through... ;.;

This is actually a pretty fun discussion! Weigh in on which Disney princess you think would do the best in the hunger games. My bet is on Mulan & Pocahontas.

Elinor wrote:Okay, @lliyah, bet. #truthordare #socialmonth

How would each Disney Princess fare in the Hunger Games?

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For @lliyah,

share which fictional character you think is most like yourself and why!

So it's not very deep, but there is a character in the Republic Commando novels from Star Wars named Etain that I relate to. She's a Jedi Knight who is strong and a good leader, but she's also still learning, and she makes mistakes. I've found her to be one of the better written "strong female characters" over the years. I appreciate her character since I want to be a leader in my vocation, but right now I'm still learning how to do that.
also: although she's confident and content in her position as a Jedi, she doesn't feel like she fits in with her fellows, and so that's why she has such a close relationship with the commando squad that the books are about.
I have a similar thing where I do enjoy being with girls my own age, but since I grew up with 2 older brothers, I prefer being with boys in a totally platonic fashion, and I will naturally gravitate towards boys in a group setting.

Okay so that ended up being a little deeper than I thought, but thank you for the great dare Alliyah!
Also, all of you should go read the Republic commando books, they're awesome.
#socialmonth #truthordare

just did my part (with some very much appreciated nudging from @lliyah) and moved my old chicken poem into its rightful home!

so if you're sitting on a chicken poem and don't want to lose the awesome yws selling point of this site having a chicken poetry category, you should join in and post it, too

Nate wrote:Okay everyone, I'm issuing an ultimatum. If there's not more than 20 works in the Chicken Lit section by this time next week, I am striking it out!

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i recently got invited to apply to a prestigious award for graduating seniors at my university, and the process to get it has involved me updating my resume

and now every time i look at it, i take psychic damage at all of the things i had to stop doing in december 2022, since that was the end of last semester and you're heavily advised to not work/have a social life during student teaching.

(the main thing is that i can't do my beloved english club anymore because student teaching falls right when the meetings are, but i also had to leave two jobs i liked very much because i couldn't do them on top of my unpaid internship)

Sometimes I wonder why the AFI's 100 Years, 100 Movies wasn't updated in 2017, or if it will ever be updated.

I've also been thinking about the Oscars as a measure for what movies will or will not stand the test of time, how sometimes the Oscars get it right but most of the time they get it wrong. I was watching a video one time about the Oscars and it described the award as more of a representation of how we feel about ourselves in the moment.

Moonlight is undoubtedly a great film. I still think about it sometimes (that score!!). The... incident was really unfair and unfortunate to both the La La Land and Moonlight teams, but six years on, I think it has died down. I've always seen it more as cinematic poetry than a cohesive story, and I love it because of that. It's also really unfortunate that so many comparisons were drawn between the two of them as a result because its really apples to oranges. But I still hear people talk about and analyze this movie.

Also, I remember the backlash that manifested to La La Land at the time that probably affected tis chances of winning and I'm very much glad to see that there's been a backlash to the backlash in the years since. At the time, everyone talked over me when I said that I felt very represented by Mia Dolan, down to the walking to the library across the check out DVDs of classic films when I was growing up.

So maybe this wasn't the best comparison to make, this is one year where these two films could have split the Oscar in half.

But I was also thinking about how Gone Girl is truly a modern classic, and how Amy Elliot-Dunne is probably one of the best on screen cinematic villains of all time. It's ridiculous that the film was ONLY nominated for Rosamund Pike, and she didn't even win. I remember thinking Julianne Moore's performance in Still Alice was definitely GOOD, but it's not a transcendent film in the way that Gone Girl is. I think a film's impact on popular culture is really remarkable when I hear it regularly referenced in conversation, and I know that film is taught in screenplay courses.

Anthony Perkins wasn't even nominated for an Oscar in Psycho. Jimmy Stewart won his Oscar for... The Philadelphia Story? Star Wars lost the Oscar to freaking Annie Hall. Singin' in the Rain wasn't even nominated for Best Picture (only Best Supporting Actress and Best Score are you kidding me?). The Greatest Show on Earth, one of the worst films I've ever seen, won that year.

So I've been thinking, when the Oscars get it so wrong so much of the time, why are they still so compelling for someone like me? Why do they matter? Maybe it's because at their best they're a celebration of film. We're never going to get it right all of the time, but I like thinking about it in those terms-- a representation of how we feel about ourselves in the moment. Some films are only remembered because they won Oscars. But the truly great films will be remembered, Oscar or not.

Sharing for cinematic brilliance.

Have a lovely day

I've been rewatching episodes of the original Scooby-Doo from 1969 and paid particular attention to a few things. It is really telling that a silly little show that this huge franchise that was cancelled after two seasons spawned a huge franchise with multigenerational appeal. I think there's a few reasons for that, and the other show completely craps over all of them.

- It's GENUINELY funny. It doesn't need to try too hard to make cringe "jokes". There's one part where Scooby falls on top of Shaggy and Shaggy goes "Scoob, why couldn't you be a poodle"? Hilarious.

There's also another scene where Shaggy is trying to open a combination lock, and Fred has to say like five times that he has the code. Shaggy goes "well why didn't you just say that?" It comes across really effectively and genuinely because friends are going to have these exact sort of tiffs.

- Beyond that, the other show gets the tone all wrong. I was reading that something about how part of the reason for its success is that it introduced horror to kids in a really effective and palatable way. It's always suspenseful, the mystery is ALWAYS front and center. It was never about high school drama.

- The gang are a great team because they ALL have something to contribute to each mystery. So no, Mindy Kaling, Velma did not do all the work. Fred's resourcefulness, Velma's smarts, Shaggy's outside the box thinking, Daphne's empathy, and Scooby's brawn -- ALL of those things together solve each mystery. They are a family. They love each other. Everything about your show and how it portrays these characters is wrong.

-- Also, when I was a kid I of course never thought about this show as a product of the 1960s, but it's so apparent to me now, and my knowledge of this era, only enriches my viewing of each episode. It makes me really miss working on Eagle Rock and how much I loved living and breathing that era, but hey, it's not the end just yet. Divine timing, right? The funny thing is that The Castle would have been the perfect age to have watched the show, and one thing I think I need to work on when I revise is thinking about each of them in the context of being shaped by being born in the 60s and growing up in the 70s, because I think I've been looking a bit at the 80s in a vacuum.

-- As an aside, I still remember the time I saw a van painted exactly like the mystery machine at a gas station in Bumfuck, Utah and it was probably one of the best moments of my life.

But yeah, this show is a classic for a reason, and the other show gets everything about it wrong.

I thought about doing some cosmic horror but I don't think I could outdo the LEGO Movie and what's the point if an ad is better than me

#LMS we've missed the heists, right?

The Last Spell 12.1

Truth > Have anything on your bucket list you are working towards that you'd like to share?

Not sure if this counts as "bucket list" but these are my goals(?), resolutions(?) that I'd like too most achieve this year.

* Make Under the Apple Tree --> For sure happening. First day of the shoot, February 25th, and the rest June 21st-July 3rd (!!!)
* Move to LA --> This will also happen, come hell or high water, because I am not doing another winter in this city.
* Get car body fixed --> My car has horrendous, ugly side swipe wounds on all sides from a combination of incidents that are and aren't my fault. The quotes to get it fixed are in the thousands of dollars that I do not have, but I'm going to find some way to get it fixed because I am really, really sick of driving my car around like this.
* Adopt a cat --> Also something I've wanting to do for a long time. I haven't seen any cats at shelters that I've really connected with yet, and at this point I'm wondering if I should try to do this while I'm still in Milwaukee or wait until LA. My mom gave me a whole bunch of cat stuff that's just been sitting in my trunk and I've been leaning towards getting it while I'm here, but again, I haven't seen any that I've connected with, and I truly believe i divine timing for these sort of things.
* Get my Phoenix tattoo --> I've wanted a tattoo for a long time, and I want to do the Phoenix force from X-Men on my left thigh. I talked to an artist for a while about it but I had to put that on hold because I didn't have the money.
* Buy a new laptop --> It's going to be about that time sooner rather than later for my laptop. Since I'm getting a tax return, I may just trade this one in and get a deal on a new one while I have the money.
* Buy new glasses --> My glasses are pretty old and definitely not updated to my prescription, but I wear my contacts 99% of the time so any time I have my yearly eye exam I always just use the credit on contacts. Either this year, I'll do glasses, or find a way to come up with the money for glasses.

There's a lot of other bucket list stuff on my mind but these are my main priorities for this year/the near future.