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I feel like there are so many people in writing spaces who seem to believe storytelling is metaphysical somehow instead of a very mundane and practicable skill and craft.

like that poll about whether a story needs meaning. I think it's so odd to be talking about whether a story "needs" meaning because it implies this image of writers pulling an already extant story from the sea and, like a lobsterman checking for eggs, deciding whether to throw it back to the waves based on whether or not it has "meaning."

the very simple reality of it is that stories are a form of communication. it is a use of language. whenever you are communicating something to someone using language, that person will be processing your words to understand your meaning. that is how language works.

if you're telling someone about your day, for example, you choose what events to include and exclude from your retelling. say you want to emphasize the bad parts of your day because you're feeling upset and you're talking about your day so someone will understand why you're upset. so you mention how your boss spoke to you and how you missed the bus and how you stained your one good shirt you wear to interviews when trying to find a better job. you might mention the person who offered you cover under their umbrella at the bus stop as a moment of compassion and relief contrasted with the rest of your day. but you probably leave out the details about scrolling through instagram on your lunch break or your conversation with a coworker about filling out a maintenance request because even though these were part of your day, neither are really important to the point you're making, and it would only obfuscate what you're trying to communicate. we communicate with storytelling all the time.

you can choose to just write and never interrogate why you're saying the things you're saying to other people. but I don't know why anyone would recommend it as a practice. especially in contexts in which you're tying your writing to your identity in any way, because then you're not remotely prepared for people's response to what you say to them. it's like getting blackout drunk or very high before giving a speech to a bunch of strangers. sure, it's theoretically possible that completely absent any inhibition or planning or self-aware intention or desire to communicate something you might say good things that you would be proud of later, but it's not likely. and even if it's possible, why would you want to surrender control over what random ideas and values and life experiences you share with all these people? terrifying! why gamble with that instead of being intentional?

the alternative is simply being intentional about what you actually want to say and what emotions you want your audience to be left with. intentional with what narratives you share and why it starts where it starts and ends where it ends. what images you want to repeat and why you want to connect the emotional scenes you connect. which characters you introduce and why their perspectives or actions are needed to convey what you're trying to convey. think about who and what is important to get what you're trying to say across.

all the intention and planning in the world is not going to necessarily ensure that people will understand what you are trying to communicate from reading your story. they might still interpret it completely different than how you meant it, bring their own meaning to it, assume things about you and your values from their own interpretation of it. that happens all the time, and it usually doesn't feel good, but that's art.

a lot of the craft of writing is learning how to best minimize that happening. how do you convey your meaning accurately to the most readers possible? how can you learn to evoke the emotions you're meaning to evoke from other writers who are successful at making you feel emotions they want you to feel? those things are at the core of what you are learning when you are honing your writing skills.

to refuse to engage with that at all is completely alien to me--what is the point if there is no point? why listen to someone tell you about their day if they don't even care why they're telling you what they're telling you?

all communication is imperfect--we can never understand exactly what someone else intended to convey. but good communication is trying our best to make the gap between what one person wants to communicate and what the other person interprets as small as possible. storytelling, and learning to do it well, is just another form this takes. it's language.

the gimmick blogs are like tumblr’s rogue gallery. yes we’ve got some heroes, yes we’ve got some villains, but more importantly if you look over here you will see some freak who devotes all their time to counting the number of “t’s” in a post

“Magtiwala Ka Lang Sa Iyong Sarili.”

Couples shirt idea

Does anyone have piano sheet music C418's Blind Spots? I've looked, but the only one I found was on musescore and while it's really good I can't print it out without paying the pro version

tr!owen seems like he will just continually get his shit rocked and me like "ahh yess, everything is falling into place. all according to plan."

im sorry girl but tou just got your ass whooped whats your plan here

imma add more in tags holdon

New Pangi Meme format just dropped 🔥( some one plz fill this in idk what to put lol 😭💀)

(Arcane season 2 spoilers)

(Seriously massive spoilers)

(scroll past because the title will spoiler you already)

I can prove Jinx is alive

with a lot of knowledge and deductions

This is based off of a few other theories which I will link respectively.

This theory begins with another theory: Powder made it to our universe.

In the scene where all of these papers fly up, a head with her hairstyle is visible and... in animation, no accidents happen. (Excluding the possibility the animators are sadistic fucks) This means that Powder traveled through universes. So far, so good.

Now, it's very likely she used the machine which Ekko and Heimerdinger rip left behind for this since she helped build it yadayadayada. We can't know for certain the way this machine works, but I would suggest that it works in the same way the Arcane travel that brought these three there in the first place worked since... when Ekko gets back, it all slots into place and he's back in his body. More on this later.

One characteristic of this way of interdimensional travel is that you can't travel to a dimension where you are dead, the explanation for why Jayce doesn't come with the others to the 'happy end' dimension (or the Arcane has its own will and brought him where he landed because of it but that's boring) because in this one, Vi died, the council prohibited the hextech experiments completely so Viktor didn't come to him and... well. (I unfortunately didn't find where I read that his death is why he isn't in this dimension, but I did somewhere).

This means that in order to travel into a dimension, you need to be alive in this very dimension. NOW if Powder traveled to our dimension, that means that Jinx must have been alive at the time of her travel and since we saw Jinx sacrifice herself for Vi when she was very much herself, this means she must've survived the fall so Powder could travel there and take over her body. Also, we see Powder in the end scene and since she'd take over Jinx' body when she travels dimensions, Jinx' body must've been alive at the end of the story.

Now. What does this mean for Jinx? Where is she?

She is alive, that much is clear now, but where is her psyche if her body is controlled by Powder?

There are two options really, and it boils down to how inter dimensional travel works.

Option 1: when you travel to a different dimension, you take over your other selves' body and they just kinda get knocked out. This would mean that while Ekko was in the other universe, parallel!Ekko was just kind of nowhere. This doesn't make that much sense to me since it would mean there's a forward and backward direction for travelling.

Forward means you stack a soul on top of another one, backward means that the soul gets sent back. It's kind of possible, but a bit dull and rough around the edges. Also, this would mean the machine Ekko and Heimerdinger built is specifically designed to bring them BACK which means Powder couldn't have used it to travel forth so... it's a bit scuffed.

Option 2: Symmetrical travel. When you travel to another universe, the soul from that universe possesses YOUR body in turn. This means that the way forward and the way backward is exactly the same, the minds get switched and the direction doesn't matter. This would more easily allow Powder to use the machine to travel forward into another universe since it's the same procedure as travelling backwards. A way to prove this would be to check if Ekko's or Heimerdinger's body have been active in OUR universe while they were there. Actually, now that I think about it, this would mean there IS still an alive Heimerdinger in our universe. This theory makes more sense to me, though, again, that would mean there's someone controlling your body in your universe while you're controlling theirs.

Now, this means that, option 1: Jinx would just be KO while Powder has control of her body BUT option 2 would be: Jinx is in the 'happy end' universe while Powder is in ours which is also just a lot more interesting.

Maybe I'll check if I can find proof for option 2, but this is it in the meantime. BUT anyway, Jinx is alive! And this also means Ekko COULD still get his happy end (I made this theory for him, poor boy deserves a happy end), with Jinx or with Powder.

guys i think i’m gonna try to pull out my old rusty coding skills and make an actual dsmp fandom website coded from the ground up lol

i’m thinking it can serve as an archive of sorts to preserve fan works related to DSMP and to help guide anyone interested in checking out the story, or learning more if they’re already a fan. but id also love for it to be somewhat interactive and connect the fandom in fun ways

rb with things you would want to see this website have/do and PLEASE share any good resources you recommend for dsmp info, like master docs, playlists, other websites, etc, cause it would help a ton :3

Imagine later, when Rosie is much, much older, she finally gets into astronomy of all topics. She learns about the solar system, the galaxy, everything she can get her hands on and eventually, Sherlock finds out.

He's confused, doesn't understand why she'd learn and store all this unnecessary information but then, she explains the solar system to him, with eyes glowing like the very sun itself, and a few days later Sherlock knows every planet of the solar system and every close star, not because he tried, not because he used his mind palace, but because it was important.

Rosie had told him, she had told him all about it, so of course it was important enough to remember because his daughter had told him that