I'll update this as the rounds progress.
Lewis Pepper (Mystery Skulls Animated) vs. Professor Venomous (OK KO) WINNER: LEWIS
Guzma (Pokémon) vs. Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls) WINNER: BILL
The Warden (Superjail) vs. Almond Cookie (Cookie Run) WINNER: ALMOND COOKIE
The Once-ler (The Lorax (2012)) vs. Megamind (Megamind) WINNER: MEGAMIND
Sans (Undertale) vs. Junkrat (Overwatch) WINNER: SANS
Tony the Talking Clock (Don't Hug Me I'm Scared) vs. Black Hat (Villainous) WINNER: TONY
King Dice (Cuphead) vs. Raymond (Animal Crossing) WINNER: RAYMOND
Wheatley (Portal 2) vs. Doc Ock (Marvel) WINNER: WHEATLEY
Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa) vs. Dr. Habit (Smile for Me) WINNER: KOMAEDA
Cecil Gershwin Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale) vs. Slenderman (???) WINNER: CECIL
Jack Skellington (the Nightmare Before Christmas) vs. Turbo (Wreck-It Ralph) WINNER: JACK
Ingo (Pokémon) vs. Bruno Madrigal (Encanto) WINNER: INGO
Purple Guy/William Afton (Five Nights at Freddy's) vs. Spamton (Deltarune) WINNER: SPAMTON
Alastor (Hazbin Hotel) vs. Loki (Marvel) WINNER: LOKI
Arataka Reigen (Mob Psycho 100) vs. Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice (all versions)) WINNER: REIGEN
Herobrine (Minecraft) vs. Benr(e)y (Half Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware) WINNER: HEROBRINE
NOTE: Starting round 2, I'm ditching the bracket and opting for randomized matchups. The left side will stay on the left and the right will stay on the right, but otherwise it'll be shuffled.
Wheatley (Portal 2) vs. Lewis Pepper (Mystery Skulls Animated) WINNER: WHEATLEY
Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls) vs. Raymond (Animal Crossing) WINNER: BILL
Tony the Talking Clock (Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared) vs. Almond Cookie (Cookie Run) WINNER: TONY
Sans (Undertale) vs. Megamind (Megamind) WINNER: SANS
Loki (Marvel) vs. Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa) WINNER: KOMAEDA
Cecil Gershwin Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale) vs. Herobrine (Minecraft) WINNER: CECIL
Ingo (Pokémon) vs. Jack Skellington (the Nightmare Before Christmas) WINNER: JACK
Arataka Reigen (Mob Psycho 100) vs. Spamton (Deltarune) WINNER: REIGEN
REVIVAL ROUND: The Once-ler (The Lorax (2012)) vs. King Dice (Cuphead) WINNER: THE ONCE-LER
Tony the Talking Clock (Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared) vs. The Once-ler (The Lorax (2012)) vs. Wheatley (Portal 2) WINNER: THE ONCE-LER
Sans (Undertale) vs. Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls) WINNER: SANS
Cecil Gershwin Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale) vs. Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa) WINNER: CECIL
Arataka Reigen (Mob Psycho 100) vs. Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas) WINNER: REIGEN
Sans (Undertale) vs. The Once-ler (The Lorax (2012)) WINNER: SANS
Arataka Reigen (Mob Psycho 100) vs. Cecil Gershwin Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale) WINNER: CECIL
Sans (Undertale) vs. Cecil Gershwin Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale)
https://www.tumblr.com/olderthannetfic/727841287119814656/ehh-generally-they-were-like-ask-specifics-about Can you expand on writer’s block not being real?
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Sure!
I think everyone who's ever made art has hit points where it's hard to go on making art or where a particular project isn't moving. So from that perspective, sure, a version of it is real...
But there's a particular version of it that's what a lot of people mean where you're A Writer™ and then the magic inspiration gnomes come and steal your inspiration juice. This is mostly nonsense, and quite a few author types who've actually finished long projects will tell you so.
When you sit down to a blank page and it stubbornly stays blank like your head, that's a symptom of something... and the something in question is often either depression and overwhelmed feelings that are taking over your whole life or an entirely correct instinct that your project is flawed and the next step is not writing that next scene.
Many people try to be pantsers instead of planners, get maybe a quarter into a project, and then choke. It's because they started with the kind of concept that requires planning, but they haven't planned. If your plot revolves around the characters eventually learning the meaning of life, you'd damn well better start with what you, the author, think that meaning is and work backwards. Same if your characters are solving a twisty mystery or complicated thriller conspiracy: you will not come up with a genius idea that ties everything together just by writing by the seat of your pants. If you don't go in with the ending in mind and some waypoints to write towards, you're going to choke. This is exceptionally common in grandiose fic concepts that are like "What if this true blue hero were a viiiiillain, oooooh!" where it's neat, but 99% of the point is showing us the work of getting from A to B. People write the prologue showing us the big concept and then flash back to how it all started... and then stop.
I see it a lot in projects that start with a character sheet for RP. Yeah, for RP itself, noodling along and figuring out what X would do in situation Y is great fun... but for many longfic/novel plot types, you will not arrive at a workable plot this way. You'll end up with a mess that can, at best, be used as brainstorming and completely rewritten from the ground up, using only key cool images or character observations. There are authors that start from individual characters and then see where they go. In my experience, they don't tend to be working in the genres that fic fandom types tend to want to work in. It's also something that often takes a lot more experience and skill than starting with a basic plot outline, and inexperienced writers often overreach.
It's not writer's block. It's a project that needs to be taken out back like Old Yeller.
Even the salvageable projects that are making you pause usually have some other issue like you not being clear on the central emotional themes even if you've outlined some factual plot. Or you've demanded that your characters do a particular thing for plot convenience, but you know deep down that it doesn't ring true. You can't write the next scene because there is no next scene. You need to rework the forced part till the rest can make sense.
And even more common than any of the above is people thinking that just because Danielle Steel sits down every morning and writes for eight hours, that means they can and should with no warm up or experience. Trying to force yourself to be a type of writer you're not—majorly overdoing it on any work, in fact—just leads to burnout and inability to function.
Not me being so distraught over a certain manga chapter that I literally can't read anything about gojo satoru or else I'll ugly cry for like an entire day
You have no imagine how many time I loop the song
☆ - ̗̀✨ He's just Ken ✨ ̖́- ☆
I'm sad that canonly we don't really know much about Monk Gyatso.
Well, that's what fanfics are for.
All I want is what is best for him.
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But what we need is what's best for the world.
Aang & Monk Gyatso for Inktober 2021 Day 9 - Pressure
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