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Sat Jan 14, 2023 2:42 pm
PaigeFantasy, AlmondEyes, soundofmind, Stringbean, Mageheart, tatteredbones, Que, Coffeeboyjay

I should write... but work gets me tired and then I just wanna chill which cuts into my writing time and then it's time for sleep and work smh

AlmondEyes For real I know how you feel. It's hard to find the energy sometimes.
Sat Jan 14, 2023 7:26 pm
Shady
Fri Nov 04, 2022 3:15 am
Messenger

Happy Birthday frenno!!
looseleaf
Thu Nov 03, 2022 10:19 pm
Messenger

Happy birthday!!
Mageheart
Thu Nov 03, 2022 1:00 pm

Happy birthday~! ✨🎊🎉
Shady
Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:15 pm

hi

Messenger Bonjour
Tue Oct 25, 2022 6:49 pm

Shady Wat up
Tue Oct 25, 2022 6:52 pm

Messenger Still kickin. I see you're still alive. Participating in LMS?
Tue Oct 25, 2022 7:11 pm

Shady Nah I’ve sold my soul to the RP tab lolol have barely touched my novel at all this year. Contemplating nano but leaning towards no idk. You?
Tue Oct 25, 2022 7:14 pm

Messenger Sold your soul how? We talking SBs or what? I haven't written in months I'm such a lazy person
Tue Oct 25, 2022 7:21 pm

Shady Yeah lol I’m just joking but also not haha grandwild and I have written literal tens of thousands of RP posts in our duos this year. It brings me much more dopamine than writing solo these days.
Tue Oct 25, 2022 7:59 pm

Messenger What are duos?
Tue Oct 25, 2022 8:51 pm

Shady SBs but only two writers
Tue Oct 25, 2022 10:51 pm

Messenger So basically ur just writing a book xD
Tue Oct 25, 2022 11:20 pm

Shady Yeah kinda xD I am working on copying it over to a google doc to back it up but I think not exaggerating it’ll be over a million words so far in the past year and a half we went crazy.
Tue Oct 25, 2022 11:24 pm

Messenger wait all one story???
Tue Oct 25, 2022 11:26 pm

Shady Yeppp lol 17 threads of the same story, 3 of another, and 1 of another. But I think we’ve hit a million with the first.
Tue Oct 25, 2022 11:47 pm

Messenger Ur nuts 🤣
Wed Oct 26, 2022 5:52 pm

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Sat Oct 08, 2022 12:51 pm
ScarlettFire, Euphory, tatteredbones, soundofmind, Omni, Que, LadySpark, Mageheart, Coffeeboyjay, looseleaf

I think a YWS storybook with 20 people has better writing than the Rings of Power 😭😭

Omni challenge accepted
Sat Oct 08, 2022 9:07 pm
niteowl
Wed Aug 31, 2022 12:31 pm
Messenger

Happy Cake Day!
MailicedeNamedy
Wed Aug 31, 2022 10:48 am
Messenger

Happy Cake Day!!! 🧁
Messenger
Sun Jul 24, 2022 8:57 pm
PaigeFantasy, tatteredbones, Que, looseleaf, MailicedeNamedy, LadySpark, Coffeeboyjay

Can we have a real conversation about how Marvel has lost all sense of continuity, character, and vision and that the entirety of phase 4 has been a letdown, and not simply because we peaked and Endgame and have to restart with a new cast and crew? Take out any conversation of wokeism, politics eec. And you're left with former characters who have been humiliated and dumbed down, horrific and inconsistent world building, broken continuity and some truly awful messaging about what the consequences of enslaving an entire town should be. Or am I crazy?

looseleaf I couldn't have said it better myself
Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:24 am

Prokaryote It was never good, dude. I mean, I'm not going to tell you it hasn't gotten worse. But one day you'll rewatch all the Marvel movies past the original Iron Man and realize they weren't as cool as you once thought. They're all the same, factory-produced cinematic pulp fiction with no stakes, not dissimilar to the comics from which they sprang.
Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:21 am

Messenger @Prokaryote I would disagree. Marvel was once an unknown movie entity that actually had to try. I would agree that Iron Man is one of the few great ones, but Avengers was cool, Ragnarok struck a good balance, Infinity War had some amazing moments. I don't think it's ever been top tier movie-making but it certainly felt like there was heart and passion behind them before phase 4.
Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:28 am

PaigeFantasy @Prokaryote i’m sorry, i do not agree with this. i’ve rewatched all of those movies with my mom, and they all have flaws. some are just bad, but others are good. really sometimes it’s based off of opinion (i mean in my opinion i think the Captain America movies are boring).
that was the first phase through to phase 3. now look at phase 4. the movies are lacking what Marvel had before. it’s messy. i just hope to see more of the Marvel we all have loved.
Mon Jul 25, 2022 11:09 am

Messenger @PaigeFantasy that's my point though. At one point they were creative, they had heart, and now because they're so rich they don't even care about the quality. They're just pumping out as much content as possible. They certainly had duds before but not entire phases. I agree that personal opinion plays a large role, but when you've got shows and movies like Loki Endgame and MoM that all completely contradict each other on huge world building points like time travel you're just not trying that hard, and stuff like that isn't opinion-based.
Mon Jul 25, 2022 12:47 pm

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Sun Jan 23, 2022 11:44 pm
EsmerayaRose, CyonetheStarbringer, Mageheart, looseleaf, lliyah, Atticus, starchild314, Coffeeboyjay, Snazzy

so I don't swear. I work around people who swear, I watch entertainemnt that contains swearing (because what doesn't) and while in TV shows and movies I get that it's "realistic" and happens more when people are stressed, it just bothers me so much. I feel like when someone has fifteen F-bombs in a 2 paragraph speech it just detracts from the message and seems like cheap writing to me.

I like that Pg-13 movies have the one F-bomb rule because when it's used you really get a sense of the enormity of their emotions vs saying it fifty times.

I felt like The Witcher Season 1 had a few cuss words, specific to certain characters, but in season 2 everyone is swearing all over the place. Not only does it just feel uncreative, but it also feels weird especially in a fantasy setting.

Idk. Does anybody have any thoughts?

Charm My siblings have played the witcher and read the books. They said that the swearing is part of the writing. The show is just staying true to the story. I don't know though. Maybe it's because it was translated from Polish and maybe Polish people swear a lot? Idk
Mon Jan 24, 2022 2:15 am

ChieRynn imo swearing isn't a very educated way of communicating but it provides that shock factor that some people find gripping.

cheap would be a good word for it.
Mon Jan 24, 2022 6:03 am

StellaThomas I think the point of the Witcher S2 was that in S1 Geralt kept waking up and saying, “f*ck” and in S2 they had all picked up the habit. I actually really enjoyed it.

I used to hate swearing but I’ve come to like it to a certain degree in entertainment. I know that there’s a book out at the moment, Empire of the Vampire, that has the f word as nearly every second word and also uses b*tch to the extent that it’s distracting.

I don’t think it’s particularly weird in a fantasy setting? Game of Thrones certainly swore a lot too and, barring the seventh season, no one could malign it for being poorly written in terms of dialogue, or being uncreative. I don’t think that the two are mutually exclusive.

I used to use no swearing at all in my writing but that’s changed, to let me use it two or three times in a story. Sometimes that’s the turn of phrase you need. Sometimes in otherwise swear free prose it does show how angry a character is in their dialogue, or if it’s descriptive it adds colour.

One of the great fallacies of literature and media is that people were not crass or crude in history. Last year I read The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper. It’s set in a brothel in Pompeii in the year 75 AD. And Pompeii is brightly coloured, sooty and absolutely filthy-minded. Pornographic lamps, orgies and, yes, foul language. We know it existed from the graffiti that still exists in the ruins of Pompeii. But we’ve sanitised history, we see Ancient Rome now as white and clean and sterile as its ruins. But nothing could be further from the truth.

So yeah, I think I swearing provides colour to fantasy and historical settings. But in moderation, like all things.
Mon Jan 24, 2022 9:35 am

AvantCoffee I also just wanted to add that swearing, besides being used in the way Stella describes to drive home heightened emotion at key times, can also be used as characterisation for characters with appropriate social & cultural backgrounds ~

If a character is raised in a social setting in which swearing is a part of everyday normal expression, it can be used to portray that aspect of the character - in the same way that slang or colloquialism (lol havent used that word in a while) can hint at a character's past social & cultural influences

Not that I think The Witcher exactly does this lol, and generally I also think that a lot of swearing can cheapen media. A reason swearing is usually used in the action (or action-fantasy) genre at large is because its targeted audience finds appreciation and tbh relatability/identification with the culture attached to casual swearing, and therefore the characters - which is actually a whole other side of the coin to all of this: low-brow and cheap doesn't mean inferior, and if we think it's inferior that can be some unchecked socio-economic privilege we've unconsciously been conditioned to go along with. This doesn't mean we need to watch or like shows with casual swearing in them, but it does mean that a significant group of people find casual swearing in media gives them a sense of social & cultural belonging and identification, which is comforting to them - and that's kind of how it be

Yikes didn't mean to deep dive there. :') Do I think shows etc. these days overdo swearing at times? yee, however i also think swearing in media has some purposes for people, and tho it can v feasibly at times be a lack of creativity on the creator's part, it could equally be an addition that has social & cultural value to people
Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:28 pm

Messenger @Charm -they do swear in the game lol Season 2 just felt like everyone did it all the time and playing the Witcher I didn't get that feeling. But that might just be me.

@ChieRynn - I actually find that it's used for shock value so much that it takes all the shock away. The Ozarks is a great example of thar imo

@StellaThomas - in the Witcher I get it to an extent, but it felt like in s2 Yennefer specifically did it like every other word.
And when I say fantasy I mean classic literature as thw fantasy we think now, like the Homer, Beowulf, Lotr, Narnia, Harry Potter etc. Which yes some of those are more geared towards children but I still feel like those have had some of the biggest influences on what we think of when we think fantasy.
Absolutely I think it can be used extremely effectively. Take Mission Impossible 6 when Cavill (lol aka the Witcher) pulls it out of nowhere and all of a sudden you're like oh man...this dude is madddd ???? or Instant Family, whereas in Witcher it gets said all thw time and it loses most of the value to me.

@AvantCoffee - I agree with your point about characterization. I'm all for that. I would argue that 95% of shows don't use it like that. I also don't thi k that language automatically cheapens media, I just think it's often used for shock and adrenaline, but it's so overused it's like the boy who cried wolf.

Overall great thoughts guys! Re-reading my.comment I realized I said "it bothers me so much", but to clarify I just meant using it in excess. I don't think you can find media without out so I would never use any media if it bothered me that's much. I was coming more from a creative standpoint
Mon Jan 24, 2022 2:08 pm

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Sun Jan 23, 2022 2:16 am
ScarlettFire, CyonetheStarbringer, EsmerayaRose, looseleaf, MailicedeNamedy, Mageheart, Coffeeboyjay, Omni

So I'm down for LSS if any other of ye be in need of a dumb crewmate
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Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:49 pm
Shady, Plume, CyonetheStarbringer, tatteredbones, KateHardy, Mageheart, Coffeeboyjay

@Plume @HarryHardy @ShadowVyper hehe The Forgotten Fields - Part 4 IF you need a refresher, pirates (Sadorians) attacked, and Maury went to find her family while Mikael got stabbed and fell unconscious.
Omni
Fri Dec 24, 2021 6:03 am

that's a really cool avatar!

Messenger Thanks! I made it last year because I made my new usual avvie so I couldn't go back to the old Xmas one
Fri Dec 24, 2021 9:44 pm
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Sat Dec 04, 2021 5:16 am
lliyah, soundofmind, AlyTheBookworm, Shady, Mageheart, Coffeeboyjay

Christmas avvie+banner is back
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Tue Nov 23, 2021 10:40 pm
Dreamy, Shady, Coffeeboyjay

The Forgotten Fields - Part 3 - @Plume @ Dreamy @HarryHardy and @ShadowVyper cuz I just like to make your life busier.

Shady ayeee I love it when you make my life busier like this : D

~~but you'll probably have to remind me because now until December 1st is death~~
Wed Nov 24, 2021 4:34 am

Messenger Well now it's death plus bizzy bizzy 🙃 @ShadowVyper
Wed Nov 24, 2021 9:45 am

Shady :eyes:
Wed Nov 24, 2021 10:43 am

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