Misleading your readers can be super important in writing! Especially if you want a plot twist that works, sometimes foreshadowing can get a bit obvious but throw in some red hearings and you’re back on track.
When it comes to unreliable sources, there are a ton, but it is preferable to choose one that your readers will believe. For this I mostly use characters, see, most readers will believe the protagonist or important side characters when they say something. They won’t even question it. But there’s a lot of reasons your main character may not be telling the truth.
They might be retelling an explanation they made up in their head a long time ago and can’t even remember was made up.
They might have been lied to.
They might of misunderstood something they were told.
They might be talking to a child and simplifying or lying for their protection.
And if you don’t say anything, people will assume whatever they say is true. But characters are allowed to make mistakes.
Remember, if you have an all knowing neutral narrator, they can’t straight up lie. But character’s aren’t all knowing and often think they are.
Another form of unreliable information can be extracts from books, or essays. Books are full of misinformation! Either because of politics, interests or simply new evidence coming around. How many things were supposed to be true until proven otherwise? And students can be terrible! The amount of lies I’ve told in my essays purely from misinterpretation is terrifying.
For both of these you have to be careful. If every time you pull out a book it’s all lies, well, readers aren’t dumb, they’ll pick it up quite quickly. If it is mostly true, with a couple of lies spread in between the pages, now we’re talking.
You can also combine the two. A characters reads something in a book, tells others, they believe it and go with is as though true. Nobody ever corrects the misinformation. The reader certainly won’t be suspecting anything at that point.
Anyway, I hope this was useful.
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What Can I Do? Your Eyes Became My HomeQue rant:
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There is this absolutley brilliant author who goes by SOFTAGUSTD on AO3 and is @phanadox on tumblr and I felt the tremendous need to reccommend you every single one of her stories.
Settle Down and Let Me Know If You’ll Stay // Taegi, Namjin, Jikook “I can grant you three, no wait it’s four. Four wishes! Just say the word!” “What?” Or the one where Taehyung is a genie who found himself in the company of a drunk with a wicked personality and can’t help but want to make him happy. (FREAKING AMAZING (although legit all of them are))
You Were Beautiful On A Sleepless Night // Yoonmin, Taekook, Namjin “So you’ve been eavesdropping on my conversations with my family?” “Yes, now, listen. About that rash you’ve been talking about, I looked it up and found some medicine.” “Fuck off!” Or the one where Yoongi can’t sleep so he goes out into his balcony to smoke and listen to the family upstairs talk. And the Park’s family doesn’t know how to shut their balcony door.
It’s Still Beautiful How You See the World // Jikook, Namjin, Taegi “Wait, you promised him that if he graduates from high school, you’d date him?” Or the one where Jungkook confesses to Jimin in middle school. Jimin thinks Jungkook is too young to know what “love” is so he promises to date Jungkook after he graduates from high school and starts college. Now that Jungkook has graduated from high school, Jimin starts to back out of their promise.
Weight of Playing with Fire // Yoonmin, Yoonseok, Vmin “He’s walking this way, grab my ass!” “But mine’s coming this way too, grab my hand!” Or the one where Yoongi and Jimin fake-date to make their unrequited love(s) jealous.
From Here and throughout the Night // Taekook, Yoonmin, Namjin “We were deceased!” “I think he means deceived.” Jungkook leaned into Taehyung, covering the microphone as he whispered into his ear. “I think you mean deceived.” “Ah, yes!” Taehyung nodded. “We were deceived!” Or the one where Taehyung’s father runs away from his company, leaving Taehyung in charge. And leaving Jungkook in charge of the company and Taehyung.
I Know It’s Over By Spring // Jikook, Yoonseok, Namjin The one where Jungkook has been using Jimin as a slave since elementary school. Then one day Jungkook gets into an accident and suffers from memory loss and instead of feeling bad, Jimin decides to take his revenge.
The Last Scene for Our Dream Night // Yoonmin, Taekook, Namjin “They said they’ll fix it in an hour, which means we’re going to be stuck here for that amount of time. Will that be enough time for you to stop crying or should we tell them to give us another hour?” Or the one where Yoongi is bad luck, Jimin is good luck, and they’re soulmates.
Days Are Numbered So Move On // Jikook, Namjin Vhope Jimin is a spy. Jungkook is training to be one. Hoseok trains the agents to have agility. Seokjin just wants to be Employee of the Month. Namjoon is the leader nobody asked for. Taehyung loves the kids books. And Yoongi is in the wrong occupation. Or the one where Jimin is stuck training the new spies because of his last mission and Jungkook insists on being a nuisance to Jimin.
I Write Songs About Your Stupid Anecdotes // Taegi, Namjin, Jikook Taehyung keeps singing Spanish songs while Yoongi is trying to tutor his students. Jimin keeps “forgetting” his keys at Jungkook’s apartment. Namjoon won’t forgive Seokjin and Hoseok is the glue of all these six idiots. Or the ‘listen i know we’ve been best friends for years but i’m trying to tell you that i’m in love with you so will you fucking stop singing spanish songs’ au that no one asked for. (The first one that I read, that had me hooked! It was freaking amazing, and it inspired some of my writing.)
At 4 O’clock, I’ll Stay // Vmin “I hate him so much, Yoongi, I’m thinking of saying he has rats in his stupid bar just to get rid of him!” “Well, what did he do?” “He said that I was the best soccer player and shouldn’t talk shit about myself!"Or the one where Taehyung goes to Jimin’s bar to talk bad about his latest soccer matches and Jimin waters down his drinks by "accident.”
The Art of Lost Stars // Yoonkook, Vmin “You were supposed to come five hours ago.” Jungkook sighed, handing Yoongi a couple bills. “I know, time got away from me.” “Away from you, my ass. You’re lucky I didn’t walk out on the kid.”“I’m sorry, thank you.” Yoongi scoffed, looking through the money. “Your kid is upstairs asleep,” he pocketed the money. “She kept asking where he dad was.” Jungkook licked his lips, wiping his palms on his pants. He never knew why he got so nervous around Yoongi. Maybe it was the tattoos spread all over his arms, the piercings on his lip and eyebrow, or the fact that Jungkook had the biggest boner in the world.
What Can I Do? Your Eyes Became My Home // Yoonmin “I don’t care if you’re cupid or the fucking Gingerbread Man, I’m not falling in love with that guy so stop shooting arrows at my ass!” Or the one where Jimin has the record for most successful Fallings and Yoongi is a centimetre away at ruining that record.
I haven’t tagged the two KNK fanfics but if you’re fans of them PLEASE GO READ THEY’RE AWESOME AS WELL
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A lot of people seem to think that BigHit could never do wrong and know what’s best for BTS. They think BigHit and BTS are a “family”. Well it’s time to wake up..! BigHit isn’t any better when compared to big companies like SM or YG for example. They’re just as problematic like K-Pop companies often tend to be. The perfect example of this is how they’ve been treating Jin these past 4 years.
okay, let’s get started:
- Apparently Bang-PD walked around calling Jin fat???? wtf (this was 2013, before their debut and around the same time Jin went on a diet no one talks about where he only ate chicken breast for A YEAR.)
- And guess what? Bang-PD isn’t the only one who has called Jin fat: even his manager did. Fortunately they fired him because he was mistreating Jungkook.
- Jin majored in acting but in the House of ARMY, he got all the insignificant roles with basically zero dialogue. Yoongi even said Seokjin had texted him, shocked that he didn’t have any dialogue in the script. In the Making of-video he was clearly pissed: when the camera man said they’ll be filming Jin next he said “Oh, wow. Do I get to appear alone?” asdfghjkl. Jin was salty, but tried so hard to be positive. (he even avoided looking straight into the camera while they were interviewing him.. on the inside he was definitely feeling wronged.)
- Let’s be honest. BigHit could easily push him in the OST direction or debut him as an actor if they wanted, but no.
- Jin was once forced to perform even though he had hurt his neck in Kcon Paris. BigHit never made an official report about his condition… (it’s funny how they made a report about namjoon’s toe and suga’s ear but not this.)
- Now let’s talk about his LINES. Remember Blood, Sweat and Tears where he had to share his few lines with Jimin? That was the most unnecessary thing ever. (later in the japanese ver. they made jin’s voice stand out more than jimin’s. lol I guess even BigShit felt a bit guilty??) I’ve seen people trying to defend this by saying that it’s okay because Jin was the ~Main Character~ in the MV. But honestly, where is the logic in that? BTS are a K-pop group! Their voices are the most important thing about them!
- Jin is the only one who didn’t get a single line in any of the year end 2016 special stages (rainism: jungkook, as i told you: jimin, v, jungkook & class idea: namjoon, hoseok, jungkook… suga wasn’t there because of his ear injury.) He was just a backup dancer and nothing else.
- Remember when people were hyping up Spring Day because apparently this was supposed to be the song where Jin would shine… even V said Jin would surprise us all and umm.. well he didn’t.
- BigHit removed Jin from the thumbnail of Not Today MV because ????
- Speaking of Not Today. Let’s talk about this fuck up…
- *coughs* This was his only solo shot and it lasted about 2 seconds. Really. BTS filmed for almost 24 hours in cold weather and you’re telling me this is the only shot of Jin that was “good enough”. I don’t think so, because we saw the Behind the scenes-video and they were filming Jin quite a lot. They just didn’t use the clips.
- They keep telling Jin his voice is suited for ballads, but Butterfly was a ballad and he was once again the vocal who had the least amount of lines. (and some of them were not even lines like repeating “untrue” is.. not really a line)
- … so basically the ballad comment was just some bs excuse, let’s be real no one fits only 1 type of music. Plus here are some Bangtan’s slower/not hiphop songs I think Jin’s voice could easily be fitted in but he still got the least amount of lines: Spring Day Studio Version, Miss Right, YNWA, Just One Day, Outro: Propose, House of Cards, Coffee…
- Now the most recent fuck up is BTS’ cover of Seo Taiji’s song ‘Come Back Home’ and people are still debating whether Jin has ANY lines at all. The MV for the song was uploaded to CJENMMUSIC’s official youtube and their header was changed to a… group photo… of BTS… except Jin was nowhere to be seen. The fact that they forgot Jin is unbelievable and just plain disrespectful. No product should ever be released without approval and double check. None. And while we don’t know if BigHit had anything to do with the header, whose fault it is that even these other companies tend to forget Jin because they aren’t promoting him enough? This was not a simple mistake. It means that design and marketing teams from HUGE companies like CJEN don’t see him.
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There's some character ascencion materials here. These are in bold and i tagged the characters.
Sara - Mondstadt
Teyvat Fried Egg Chicken Mushroom Skewer Fisherman's Toast Flour Cream Smoked Fowl Butter Ham Sugar Crab Roe Jam Cheese Bacon Sausage
Blanche - Mondstadt
Salt Pepper Onion Milk Cabbage Potato Wheat
Charles - Mondstadt
Wolfhook Juice Berry & Mint Burst Apple Cider
Flora - Mondstadt
Sweet Flower Windwheel Aster (Traveler, Sucrose, Bennett) Cecilia (Venti, Albedo) Small Lamp Grass (Amber, Diluc, Fischl) Calla Lily (Kaeya, Diona)
Draff - Springvale
Raw meat Fowl Bird Egg
Brook - Springvale
Steak Chicken Mushroom Skewer Northern Smoked Chicken
Chloris - Thousand Winds Temple Road
Snapdragon Mint Valberry (Lisa, Noelle, Rosaria) Philanemo Mushroom (Barbara, Klee, Mona) Wolfhook (Razor)
Harris - Camp next to Dragonspine
Radish Veggie Soup Steak Jewelry Soup
Pops Zhou - Stone Gate
Pops' Teas
Ms. Bai - Qince Village
Qingce Stir Fry Tofu Almond Silk Flower (Hu Tao, Xingqiu) Glaze Lily (Ningguang)
Pops Kai - Qince Village
Pops' Teas
Verr Goldet - Wangshu Inn
Almond Tofu Matsutake Meat Rolls Jueyun Chili Chicken Noodles with Mountain Delicacies Chicken Mushroom Skewer Matsutake Butter Sausage Silk Flower (Hu Tao, Xingqiu) Violetgrass (Qiqi, Xinyan)
Mr Zhu - Luhua Pool
Pops' Teas Mora Meat Stir Fried Filet
Herbalist Gui - Liyue Harbor
Qingxin (Ganyu, Xiao) Horsetail Lotus Head Mist Flower Corolla Flaming Flower Stamen Violetgrass (Qiqi, Xinyan)
Licai - Liyue Harbor
Stone Harbor Delicacies Noodles with Mountain Delicacies Cured Pork with Dry Hotpot Tianshu Meat
Yueshu - Liyue Harbor
Stir-Fried Fish Noodles Golden Shrimp Balls Fullmoon Egg Golden Crab
Changshun - Liyue Harbor
Potato Sugar Cheese Cor Lapis (Keqing, Zhongli, Chongyun) Electro Crystal
Dongsheng - Liyue Harbor
Salt Pepper Onion Milk Tomato Cabbage Potato Wheat Shrimp Meat Tofu Almond Rice
Chen the Sharp - Liyue Harbor
Delicious Grilled Tiger Fish Stir-Fried Filet
Chef Mao - Liyue Harbor
Teyvat Fried Egg Fisherman's Toast Chicken-Mushroom Skewer Sausage Lotus Head
Matsutake
Radish
Flour
Sugar
Ham
Fish
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Su Er'niang - Liyue Harbor
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Uncle Sun - Liyue Harbor
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Uncle Gao - Liyue Harbor
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Karpillia - Ritou
Dandelion Seed (Jean, Eula)
Ryouko - Ritou
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Aoi - Inazuma City
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