arduinna

ClaireBell is very intense, but really good so far imho! I really like the acting, writing, and cinematography.

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Die letzte Ausgabe von SAGITTARIUS, die ich ganz allein zusammenstellte, kam im Juni 1983 heraus. Sieht man von dem professionellen Titelbild ab, war das ganze Heft ansonsten von mir selbst abgetipppt worden: mit meiner alten Kofferschreibmaschine, die mir meine Eltern im Jahr 1980 geschenkt hatten und mit der ich wie ein Wilder meine Texte verfasste.

Sogar das Inhaltsverzeichnis schrieb ich schlicht mit der Schreibmaschine, deren Farbband irgendwann ausgeleiert war und deren Typen nicht mehr sauber saßen. Anton Atzenhofer hatte ein schönes Bild gezeichnet, das ich sehr ansprechend fand – um dieses Bild herum schrieb ich meinen Text so, dass ich hinterher alles zusammenkleben konnte.

Das Heft selbst war übrigens ganz gut. Wenn ich es mir heute anschaue, gruselt es mich bei dem Layout zwar teilweise, aber ich finde die Inhalte immer noch gut. Die Grafiken waren auf ordentlichem Niveau, die Kurzgeschichten sowieso, dazu gab es Artikel und sogar Gedichte.

Eine gelungene Mischung – wenn man bedenkt, dass ich damals gerade mal 19 Jahre alt war, muss ich mich heute dafür nicht schämen.

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A lot of freeform sadness floating around this morning.

A couple of days ago, Belinda texted: It is a long story, but the short of is, Chris fell at Linda's and cracked a rib. With Pat's help, Linda took him to Emergency one. Came home shortly after with DQ. Did not remember what happened to Chris or where is was. Pat's husband—Neighbor Ed!—went looking for him. Just as he figured out where he was, Chris was admitted to the hospital.

fast forward one day (today). Linda has no clue Chris is in the hospital and is "really pissed" no one told her.

###

Chris is now in "rehab."

For alcoholism? I texted because Chris is what they call a functional alcoholic.

But, no. Chris is in rehab because Chris can no longer walk.

If Chris cannot walk, he cannot drive from Albany to Hyde Park to spend three days with Linda each week. If Chris were to stop coming down three days a week, Linda would completely fall apart. Linda is an 87-year-old woman with dementia. She has a son, Kurt, in the area, but Kurt either dislikes her thoroughly or is a complete dolt. Anyway, Kurt hasn't raised a finger to help her.

The house I used to live in is falling down around Linda's ears. Filthy and cluttered, Belinda informed me—with a touch of something I couldn't help registering as satisfaction.

###

I lived in Linda's house for 11 years. For the most part, very happily.

Linda & I were never going to be true friends in the sense that I was going to be keen on tracking her once she was no longer a part of my daily life. But I liked her! She had a sunny, easy-going disposition for the most part, although she was very vain and could be stubborn about ridiculous things: She once stopped talking to me for three days over a sound I knew perfectly well was a woodpecker and she claimed was something else. She reminded me, in fact, of one of my dogs—Xena the Warrior Jack Russell, who in youth had been something of a canine Cindy Crawford and in her dotage... Well. Was sad.

Dotage!

A frightening word.

And it's coming for all of us.

Unless we get lucky like my beloved Brian did and just drop dead.

###

There is nothing I can do for Linda.

By the time I moved out, she disliked me thoroughly—I think because I nursed her through her knee replacement. I strongly suspect she stroked out on the operating table during the knee replacement. Linda had always been spacey & forgetful in that way that's called "absent-minded" but it was during the two weeks after the operation that I first started noticing the signs of what one might call cognitive deficit.

Maybe it was because I was the one telling her what to do after the operation that she developed such a strong aversion for me. Drink more water, I'd tell her. Walk down the hall. Go to physical therapy. I was pushy. An effective nurse must be. She didn't want to do any of those things, & like I say, she was stubborn, did not like being told what to do.

Though it wasn't until she started accusing me of creeping into her room at night while she was asleep & stealing money that I realized, Time to move.

Well. That and the fact that she kept lighting stove burners & then walking away.

###

Anyhoo, thoughts of Linda prompted me to begin working on my own End of Life documents. Health Care Directive, Medical Power of Attorney, Living Will, etc etc. I will be spending Thanksgiving week with both sons, so it will be a good opportunity to present each with a copy—🎄Merry Christmas, Bay-bee!🎄—and have an animated discussion about my wishes. This is the mature thing to do.

At some point, I should also make a will.

I mean, I have zero assets beyond the literally millions of words I've cranked out over the course of a lifetime. It's unlikely they will have any value once I'm dead, much as I may fantasize that they will. But the mature thing would be to make some kind of provision for them. Just in case.

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raikantopeni

ClaireBell is very intense, but really good so far imho! I really like the acting, writing, and cinematography.

When the nightclub Bell is at with her boyfriend is raided, she finds that someone hid their drugs in her purse. She is advised to dispose of them, but discovered in the process and is charged with drug possession. In prison she inadvertantly end up on the bad side of an group of inmates, but finds an ally in (and a connection with) the notorious Claire.

Cut episodes can be found on Youtube and uncut episodes on OneD

iirc it'a an original story and there's a novelization that was wriiten while the show was in production (a English translation is available on Kindle and MEB), but it sounds like are some differences between the drama and book.

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poetry

For Leonard, Darko, and Burton Watson

by Ursula K. Le Guin

A black and white cat
on May grass waves his tail, suns his belly
among wallflowers.
I am reading a Chinese poet
called The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases.
The cat is aware of the writing
of swallows
on the white sky.
We are both old and doing what pleases us
in the garden. Now I am writing
and the cat
is sleeping.
Whose poem is this?

oracne

TBR Challenge – Change of Plans: Much Ado About Margaret by Madeleine Roux.

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Current Mood: impressed

james_davis_nicoll

A park guide's life is upended by a pandemic and her charming, idiot son.

The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay

kalloway

Mostly, I have stressed myself out and then gotten things more or less under control. It is a Process.

I have eight boxes packed for Saturday and two more in progress, which is basically my limit unless some stuff gets sold during set-up, which often happens. We'll see. I'm looking at shows for next year and I'll try for ~April, June/July, and maybe Autumn. There's also the Model Expo in... April but that'll be more for M than me. I have a lot more to dig through than I realized, and that's before any Accidental Advent discards.

I signed up for

fandomtrees and will post to

holiday_wishes after Saturday, since I usually use it to help re-home unsold media.

Also starting to pester people for xmas lists. I probably won't get anything else ordered/mailed before next week, because I only have so much mental bandwidth, but it's definitely time. I also have the gift for my second Secret Santa to send. It's being done solely on discord so idk if I'll get tracking in advance or if a surprise will just appear.

spikedluv

I had a chiropractic appointment this morning. I hit Price Chopper again while I was downtown. (Pip needed bananas for the garage and I wanted a chuck roast that didn’t look like it was already going bad, like the single chuck roast in the meat cooler yesterday when I was there.)

I took mom’s vehicle up to the garage before her appointment because I’ve been hearing a strange noise. When I mentioned it to Pip, he was worried it might be the wheel bearing and wanted to test drive it. The bad news is, it is the wheel bearing. The good news is, it’s in its ‘infancy’ (Pip’s actual word, lol), so we can still drive her car. (She finds it difficult to get in and out of mine and sister S’s, for different reasons; mine is too low, hers is too high (she drives a pick-up).) He’s checking into wheel bearings and we’ll schedule something in the next couple of weeks. For someone who has been mostly house-bound since June, she’s spending an awful lot on this vehicle.

I drove mom to her treatment, hand-washed dishes, went for a couple walks with Pip and the dogs, browned ground beef to make lasagna tomorrow, scooped kitty litter, and showered. I did find a nice chuck roast and put it in the crock pot when I got home from downtown (before I went to pick up mom’s vehicle). It was quite yummy.

I read fanfic and drank egg nog. Zoo North Carolina was my background tv in the evening.

Temps started out at 19.4(F) (BRR!!) and reached 39.7. There was some blue sky peeking out behind the clouds and even a little bit of sun!

Mom Update:

Mom was doing okay today. ( more back here )

oursin

Happy birthday,

nocowardsoul!

elisem

tl:dr Silly body is silly.

I continue resting LIKE A POTATO.

Whatever's going on in there, COVID (or something) has apparently been playing with the sliders and the lit-up buttons on my disabilities and chronic ailments. The good leg because the bad leg for several days. Really bad, pain-wise. Now that seems to be easing up a lot. The bad leg is doing something with sensations on the part of the leg where some nerve rerouting/regrowth happened after surgery 16 years ago; I did not need it to play with pins-and-needles, burning, freezing, and shocks on that leg below the replaced hip. Also, the sudden decrease in my hearing was distressing, though that seems to be mostly back where it was now.

Am using what skills I have to treat everything as temporary, and not decide This Is How It Will Be From Here On Out. (Fibromyalgia has a ton of temporary things happening, at least for me, that seem like a Big Deal and then suddenly shift or go away.)

So yeah, silly body is silly.

Not as much pain in the temporarily bad leg today, so that is a huge win. I'll take it.

Does your body ever tell you something like "Augh, my toe is broken!" and then go "just foolin'! It's fine!" a while later?

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LGBTQ Nation: Over 60,000 women sign a letter in support of trans women & calling out “false feminism”

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Writing Excuses 20.46: Now Go Write - Break All The Rules ( part 2)

From https://writingexcuses.com/20-46-now-go-write-break-all-the-rules-part-2

Key points: Show, don't tell? Or not? Compress or expand. Using telling to establish important points. Systemless magic? ACES: Access, Causality, Ease, Strangeness.

[Season 20, Episode 46]

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[Season 20, Episode 46]

[Mary Robinette] This is Writing Excuses, now go Write - break all the rules ( part 2).

[Mary Robinette] I'm Mary Robinette.

[DongWon] I'm DongWon.

[Erin] And I'm Erin.

[Erin] Okay. We are back. We have two numbers remaining in my rule breaking thing that I'm doing.

[Mary Robinette] Three.

[Erin] 3. Okay. telling instead of showing. So, this is, like, interestingly, I think, show don't tell, became very popular and then very, like, unpopular, and is now maybe resurging. I don't know how you feel about... Do you think people still tell people show don't tell, or has that fallen out of favor in [many theaters]?

[Mary Robinette] I see it...

[DongWon] [garbled] hear it all the time.

[Mary Robinette] They do.

[Erin] Okay.

[Mary Robinette] They do. So part of the thing that drives me crazy about show don't tell is that it's not a real quote, people quote it as if it's Chekhov and he didn't actually ever say it. The closest we get... What we have is actually a summary of someone else's interpretation of a letter that he wrote to his brother. And if we look at the actual thing he wrote, it's much more limited and focused in application. So, "in descriptions of nature, we must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes, he gets a picture." For instance, you'll have a moonlit night. If you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star and the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past it like a ball. So what he meant was that you can use those details to create an image. But he's not saying don't tell people about things. Like, that's not what he's saying.

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] Yeah.

[Mary Robinette] Not even a little bit.

[Erin] And...

[DongWon] Yeah. The advice of show don't tell is the way that like [garbled] faster than anything else. Right? Because the thing is about a novel is that it is mostly the writer telling us stuff.

[Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[DongWon] That's what writing is, is people telling people other things.

[Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[Erin] And also, like, that is storytelling.

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] Most of the time, most of the stories you are told, like, when we're not reading something...

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] If your friend is like, Ah can't believe it, like, aliens landed and then zombies attacked me. Like, a lot of what they're... They're just going to be telling you what happened to them.

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] They cannot show you the thing has happened.

[Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[Erin] And the really good storytellers... You could have three friends. Something... The same amazing thing happened to them. And one friend you know would just be much better at conveying it.

[Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[Erin] And, like, one friend would make it really boring even if it was like the biggest thing.

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] Because some people know how to tell in a really interesting way, and some just are working on that.

[Mary Robinette] Yeah. I find that I tend to, instead of saying show don't tell, I tend to talk more about compressing and expanding.

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Mary Robinette] That the things that usually, things that are not emotionally important, we're going to compress so we can get past them faster. And things that are emotionally important, we're going to expand and unpack so we can live them. But there are times when you want to compress something that is a nice emotional and important thing to give more space for the reader to come in. So, Stephen King, I'm going to quote this not quite right, but in On Writing, he talks about you can expand, you can describe the amount of pain someone is in. The white hot pick lancing through his... like, you can describe all of that, or you can say they ripped off his thumbnail. And, like, that immediately makes people...

[DongWon] Ow!

[Mary Robinette] Go... Right! Right, but I just told you that, I didn't des... I didn't show it. Right? But it invites, it leaves space for the reader...

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Mary Robinette] To come in and bring their own experience there. So there are places where you do, I think, want to compress so that the reader will fill in the gaps.

[DongWon] And it goes back to what we were talking about in the first half of this episode, of the karaoke singer who just belts the whole time. Right? You need to have that variance. Right? And sometimes, the most effective thing is to zoom really all the way in on the quietest, most nothing moment, the bug crawling across a leaf, because that can be a rich metaphorical image for what's about to happen. And then you'll speed up, and be like, and then he went about his whole day and did X, Y, and Z, blah blah blah blah blah. Right? And, like, sometimes that zooming in and zooming out is you communicating to your reader the information you want them to have in various ways, and sometimes it's not obvious what needs to be written out in extreme detail, and sometimes it's obvious what needs to be told to them to skip past.

[Mary Robinette] There's... I did the translation for Hildurknutsdotter's The Night Guest. And in it, like, stuff goes wrong, as you might guess from the title, at night. And there's this one chapter, and the entirety of the chapter is, I have decided to stop sleeping.

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Mary Robinette] Right?

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] That's not good.

[Mary Robinette] No. No. And it's just this cold thing. And then it's just blank pages. And then you turn...

[DongWon] Yep.

[Mary Robinette] And like it's... But again, it's that leaving space, it's the deciding the one detail that I'm going to tell you and then you get to build everything else from that.

[Erin] Yeah. I love all of that. And I think one other thing I think telling can be really good at is establishing rules of the world when you're not sure what people...

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] May take away. If there's something that's like a fundamental, like, load-bearing wall of your setting, and you're like, I really think it's important that everyone understand that this is like underwater. Like, I think there are times...

[Mary Robinette] Yes.

[Erin] When you don't...

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] To just be so showy...

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] That people miss it.

[DongWon] Yes.

[Erin] And then they're like, wait, this was underwater the whole...

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] That changed everything.

[DongWon] Or the opposite happens. The biggest mistake I see show don't tell mis-applied is in the opening of books. Right?

[Mary Robinette] Oh, my goodness.

[DongWon] The first page of a book, where people be like, oh, I'm just going to show them how the rules of this world work. But I'm like, I'm a baby, I don't understand...

[Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[DongWon] Anything yet. I don't know, are we underwater? Are we above water? And you can say a thing that is a metaphorical beautiful image, and I will take it so literally and be like, wait, this isn't an underwater site, that was a metaphor?

[Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[DongWon] You know what I mean? Because I don't know enough yet to not know that that wasn't literal. Right? And so the openings of books is a place to be telling people information, and you want to do it in ways that are engaging and well written and captivating. But you can tell people stuff in interesting ways. Just because it's telling doesn't mean it's inherently boring or doesn't have layered information or doesn't have thematic resonance. You just gotta get better at telling people stuff.

[Mary Robinette] Yeah. I called this playing coy with the reader.

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Mary Robinette] Where it's like I just want you to figure it out. It's like... I'm like, or we can communicate.

[Erin] If you think about it as a baby, it's great.

[laughter]

[Erin] [garbled] like, well, like how do you walk? Well, you figure it out. Like, you know what I mean?

[Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[Erin] There's a certain amount of that you can do, but at a certain point, I think, you do have to like eventually tell the babies a few things once they understand language.

[DongWon] Or at least don't get mad at the baby when it walks into a table...

[laughter]

[DongWon] You didn't tell it about tables. You know what I mean? One area where I think this really comes from is because so much of our narrative language has become visual. Right? We talk about movies... I mean, you'll hear me do it on this podcast constantly, of using movies and TV as reference points for how we tell stories. Right? The problem is that a book is wildly different...

[Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[DongWon] From a visual medium, because they only know literally what you tell them. They don't know anything other than what words you put on the page versus when you're watching an image on a screen, you're absorbing a ton of information about what are they wearing, what's the lighting like, all of these different things. All these other departments are coming into play in a way in which you don't necessarily get in a book.

[Mary Robinette] But that actually is one of the places that show don't tell has come from...

[DongWon] Yep.

[Mary Robinette] Is that one of the things that people took it from, like, this whole Chekhov idea was during the transition from silent films to talkies. And the show don't tell was don't use narration cards... Or not silent films to talkies, but to silent films. Don't use narration cards when you can just... When you can show it, because they were like, this is a visual medium, you should be using those tools. We also say, in puppet theater, it's a puppet show, not a puppet tell...

[Chuckles]

[Mary Robinette] Because...

[DongWon] Yeah, well, Chekhov was a playwright.

[Mary Robinette] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he was a playwright. But... Yeah.

[Erin] And I do think there are times when, like, you can... I think sometimes the positive of show don't tell is if you're used to visual media and you're trying to, like, write that way, you may forget to include some of the stuff that you take away...

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] From... Like, when you see an actor, like with a single tear going down their eye, like, as they watch a sunset, you're filling in a lot... You're telling yourself, like, a little bit of the story. And sometimes that part of the telling gets lost.

[Mary Robinette, DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] But a lot of times, I think, it is about telling really well, and we're... We're running long. But I will say that I think some of the ways that you can tell well are think about the way you pace,...

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] The way you're telling things. Watch really good kind of stand-up comedians, who are... Who tell really interesting stories that lead to a joke. They use the rule of threes, they sort of increase in their cadence and pace as they get closer to the big thing that they want you to understand. They use really interesting words when they're telling you something. I mean, I'm completely... not to judge your friends at home, but if you think about the way your not as good at telling things friends might tell you something versus your friend who could tell you a trip to the grocery store and make it sound like the most epic adventure ever, it's because they... A lot that they're telling you, they use language that makes it sound very exciting. And so you can use all of those tools as a thing.

[Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[Erin] And I think also the very fun thing about telling is that it reveals the teller.

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] So the way somebody tells a story says a lot about the way they see the world.

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] And when you want to reveal something about your protagonist, having them tell the reader something also tells the reader something...

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] About who they are.

[DongWon] Exactly.

[Mary Robinette] Speaking of telling you things, you do your final number...

[Erin] I will do my final number, which is one, and this is one I'm going to... This is my, like, most controversial number. And I'm just going to run through it and tell you, because I have a saying that I believe, that magic doesn't have to have a system, is my last one. I think system magic is fine, but I'm a huge fan of systemless magic, or magic just exists in the world. And the way that I think about this is through a framework that I call ACES. Which is, A is access. So you're thinking about how magic is going to work in your world. A is access, who can do the magic? Can everyone do it? Can only people from the bloodline of Rohisla do it? Which apparently is now a family. Can like...

[Mary Robinette] So that's what the of Rohisla was [garbled]

[Erin] That's right. Like, is it... So who can do it? C is for causality. How direct is you doing anything from you getting what you want? Is it like every time if I clap three times, click my heels three times, and say there's no place like home, I will go home? Or is it like I'm going to wish and like it might not come true exactly the way that I want it to? The more causality you'll find in, like, a D&D style magic where you know exactly what the spell does. But there are... You could have a form of magic, and when it's just like I think it'll do this, but I don't know exactly how to make it happen. E is for ease, how easy is it to do the magic? Do you have to sacrifice your first born child or cut off your toenails every time you need to do magic? Or is it like you could just wake up tomorrow and do it? And then finally strangeness. How weird is what the magic is doing compared to what we are doing? Are you turning people inside out? Are you turning them into a frog? Are you just making them walk slightly faster? Like, how it is. And so thinking about what those things are, and in my essay, I will go into depth about how you can think about those things and use them against each other.

[DongWon] I certainly think Lord of the Rings would be better if Gandalf the White said, I'm casting a level 9 Fireball...

[laughter]

[DongWon] So you consume meta magic sorcery points to make it a maximized style at this range.

[laughter]

[Erin] Exactly.

[Mary Robinette] Yeah. I don't disagree with you, because I've read stories where...

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Mary Robinette] And also, I disagree with you only because the people using the magic or existing in that world are usually humans, and humans are pattern seeking creatures, and we will turn everything into a magic system, like the bus. How do you get the bus to come? The spell you cast is you walk away from the bus stop. Like, we will find... Like, don't say that thing out loud. Like, we will systematize things that do not have systems.

[DongWon] But I think superstition is still resistant to systemization. Right? Like, people have ideas of what works and doesn't versus what the narrator is telling us works and doesn't work. Right?

[Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[DongWon] Because, like, there are also times where I knock on wood and then the bad thing happens anyways.

[Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[DongWon] Right? Am I going to stop knocking on wood? No. Does that... And so I think in so many ways, making magic not numinous and strange and unpredictable can sometimes... For certain kinds of storytelling, bleed something out of it, and then for other kinds of story, I want to know exactly how my magic works in a really detailed way, in the way that I want to know how the engines work in The Expanse.

[Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[DongWon] Right? But I don't really care how the engines work in Star Trek. You know what I mean? It's just another tool in your kit.

[Mary Robinette] Yeah. I think the difference is that in The Expanse, we want to know how the engines work because it is almost always a plot point.

[DongWon] Exactly.

[Mary Robinette] And it's never a plot point in Star...

[DongWon] Exactly.

[Mary Robinette] Trek?

[DongWon] Star Trek. Yeah.

[Mary Robinette] I mean, dilithium crystals. But whatever. Like, we know enough. So... And I think, to quote the founder of this podcast, the Sanderson's law, that the... Oh. I can't... I'm not going to quote him, I'm going to paraphrase him. That the definition of the magic system is proportional to the amount of plot that it carries.

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Mary Robinette] So, like, if it's like this thing always happens if you do... If you say Beetlejuice three times, like, we don't need to know why that works, we don't need to know any of those things.

[Erin] Yeah. I think, two things I would say. One is I do think we are pattern seeking creatures. But I also think there are a lot of folk traditions, especially like around, like, ghosts and haunts, where, like, people don't really understand it, nor do they want to. I think there's a feeling that this is beyond human understanding, and attempting to understand it will actually make it bad for you.

[Mary Robinette, DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] And that we should just sort of, like, leave it out there... Like, will the ghost of your great aunt show up? Maybe. And why is she showing up tonight? I don't know. Like...

[DongWon] None of my business.

[Chuckles]

[Erin] None of my business, and I'm not going to ask.

[DongWon, Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[Erin] A lot of questions about that. But she's just there.

[Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[Erin] But I do think that the role of plot, to me it's more...

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] Does it solve problems? Or is it part of the problem? And the way I think about that is gravity. So if gravity, like, if you're like,, I can't move because gravity is too heavy, you probably don't need to know, like, how gravity works in order to just understand its effect. But if you controlling gravity is what's going to fix that problem, then you're going to want to understand...

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] How it works.

[Mary Robinette, DongWon] Yeah.

[Erin] So you can have magic be a problem creator and you just need to understand enough to know, like, oh, no, I said this three times and this person appeared. I guess that's what it does. But what you don't want to have happen, I think, is for the way in which it works to be the solution, but only you the author understand it, it never...

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[Erin] Becomes clear.

[DongWon] Exactly.

[Erin] Either to the characters or for the reader.

[Mary Robinette] Yeah.

[DongWon] Yeah.

[Mary Robinette] So, basically, I think we... I completely agree with you, I just needed to...

[DongWon] Totally. I think we're really on the same page.

[Mary Robinette] I just needed to poke at it a little bit.

[Erin] What?

[Mary Robinette] I know...

[Erin] It's like we're on a podcast together...

[Mary Robinette] I have opinions that are accepted.

[Erin] Speaking of being on a podcast, we are going to go to the homework. And your homework is to pick one of the four things we talked about. So, systemless magic, inactive protagonist, telling versus showing, or passive voice. Take a scene that you've written and rewrite it where this is the thing that you're doing. And see how much it changes.

[Mary Robinette] This has been Writing Excuses. You're out of excuses. Now go write.

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Pinch hits are participants who are without creators; pinch hitting is the practice of volunteering to make a gift for a pinch hit. These pinch hits are all due on November 28th at 10:00 PM EST.

Fic In A Box has a very unusual set of assignment requirements: everyone is owed (and is asking for) 10k of fanfiction, which by default can be given as one 10k+ fic or several 1k+ fics. Participants have also had the option to opt-in to other minimum lengths or to other formats of fanwork. The other fanwork mediums are given word count equivalents, which you can view on the medium ruleset post.

Additionally:

Fic In A Box creators may default after partially filling their assignment—say, if they discover that they can only write 9k of fic—and PHs can be picked up in 1k increments!
You may always swap all or part of your assignment for a PH, just let us know that's what you're doing when you post to claim the PH.

In order to pick up a pinch hit you need to either email us or comment on this post (comments are screened) with:

The amount of wordcount you would like to claim (even if you're going to do fanart or some other non-fic opt-in medium! If you aren't sure what the equivalent would be, we'd be happy to help you convert it!)
The exact username of the AO3 account you will be posting your fill(s) from (if you post from a different account from the one you give us, we won't be able to count the PH as filled unless you update us!)
An email where we can reach you (you might not be getting the AO3 assignment when you pick up a PH, so we need to know where to send the assignment!)

( PH 5 - 4k - Christian Astrology - William Lilly, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), 龍の国ルーンファクトリー | Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma (Video Game), Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses )

( PH 12 - 6k - 鹿鼎記 - 金庸 | The Deer and the Cauldron - Louis Cha, 鹿鼎記 | The Duke of Mount Deer (Hong Kong 1984), 老洞 | The Old Miao Myth (TV), 神鵰俠侶 | The Return of the Condor Heroes (TV 1983) )

( PH 13 - 5k - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) )

( PH 17 - 2k - 地縛少年花子くん | Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun | Toilet-bound Hanako-kun (Anime), Persona 3, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Fire Emblem: Kakusei | Fire Emblem: Awakening, Undertale (Video Game), Promare (2019) )

( PH 22 - 4k - The Good Wife (TV), Fresh Meat (TV), Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater, Guardians of Time - Marianne Curley, Crossover Fandom, Crossover Fandom )

( PH 61 - 3k - Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins, Buffyverse (TV), Captain America (Movies), Black Widow (Movie 2021), Game of Thrones (TV), Wednesday (TV 2022), Stranger Things (TV 2016) )

( PH 62 - 1k - Blue Lock (Manga), Blue Lock (Manga), Blue Lock (Manga), Haikyuu!!, Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan, Vanitas no Carte (Manga), Vanitas no Carte (Manga) )

( PH 68 - 3k - Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Great North (Cartoon), Bob's Burgers (Cartoon), Crossover Fandom, Iron Man (Movies), Murdoch Mysteries, Hawkeye (TV 2021) )

( PH 101 - 4k - 少年歌行 | The Blood of Youth (Live Action TV), 少年白马醉春风 | Dashing Youth (Live Action TV), Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko's Basketball )

( PH 106 - CLAIMED - A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Crossover Fandom, The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison, Tortall - Tamora Pierce, Leverage (US TV 2008), Mansfield Park - Jane Austen, Bridgerton (TV), House of the Dragon (TV), Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy )

( PH 129 - 3k - 괴담에 떨어져도 출근을 해야 하는구나 - 백덕수 | Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story I Still Have to Go to Work - Baek Deoksoo, 내가 키운 S급들 - 근서 | S-Classes that I Raised - Geunseo, 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong (Novel), Omniscient Reader - singNsong & UMI & Sleepy-C (Webtoon), 내가 키운 S급들 | The S-Classes That I Raised (Webcomic) )

( PH 132 - 7k - Solitude - Ursula K. Le Guin, Hacks (TV 2021), House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski, ONE - Cheesy Hfj (Web Series), Brand New Cherry Flavor (TV), Translation State - Ann Leckie, Short Term 12 (2013) )

( PH 134 - 6k - InuYasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale, Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey, Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) )

( PH 138 - 5k - Given (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), Given (Manga), Wind Breaker (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga) )

~~( PH 145 - CLAIMED - Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka, Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (1963) )~~

( PH 166 - 3k - 백작가의 망나니가 되었다 - 유려한 | Lout of Count's Family | Trash of the Count's Family - Yulyeohan, X -エックス- | X/1999, Pokemon Horizons: The Series (Anime 2023), Pocket Monsters SPECIAL | Pokemon Adventures, 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong (Novel), Pokemon Colosseum & XD, Zenless Zone Zero (Video Game) )

vriddy

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week...

Posted & commented on

bnha_fans.

Commented on

fourormore.

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( stuff. miles and miles of stuff )

marycatelli

A secondary villainess made her move.

I realized I had to go back and set up the scene because this plot thread had gotten underplayed.

sigh

bluapapilio

Used my game/drama/etc boardgame. Last challenge here.

I did 5/6! The one was because I realized how complicated it was going to be and decided to do the anime first (Idolm@ster SideM). I look forward to more of all of them! This will be my first time using Backloggd/VNDB with this challenge.

Avatar:

A3!/Entertainment Industry
Skill: Move 2 extra tiles once (trap tile if Even roll)

Roll #1:

A 5, prompt: romance element. It's more erotic but there are romance elements in NU: Carnival. I'll probably open my game and read what I've unlocked from there.

Roll #2:

A 3, prompt: supernatural element: Tokyo Debunker.

Roll #3:

An 11, prompt: Superhero. Hmm I'll do Ride Kamens. ACK I just learned it announced EoS, but it seems they're at least doing an offline version for the stories...

Roll #4:

An 8, prompt: mood. I'll do more Food Fantasy.

Roll #5:

A 3, prompt: favorite genre. I kinda did that with the last roll but whatever, more Mahoyaku it is.

Roll #6:

An 11 and the end. Let's do Paradox Live as the reward.

Links:
Mahoyaku
ParaLive
Food Fantasy

~Game/Drama CD/Etc To Do List~

[BL Mobile Game/Fantasy] NU: Carnival
[Mobile Game/Superhero] Ride Kamens
[Mobile Game/Fantasy] Mahoutsukai no Yakusoku
[Mobile Game/Supernatural] Tokyo Debunker
[Voice/Music Drama] Paradox Live
[Mobile Game/Fantasy] Food Fantasy

x5 mobile games, x1 voice/music drama

Current Mood: drained

scintilla10

I've signed up for

rec_cember! This new community, created by

goodbyebird, is celebrating December with a month-long reccing fest. Come and join me if you want to share some fanwork recs during December. :D

Rec-Cember - the month long multi-fandom reccing event. Let's recommend some fanworks! Let's appreciate and comment on those fanworks!

rec_cember . intro . sign ups

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james_davis_nicoll

"Could it be that (Superman) hides behind the darkest disguise of all? Could it be that he is a woman?"

"(...) What made you ask that?"

"Because he has compassion. He aids people in trouble. He helps the weak. "

It is possible the bad guy in The Secret of Superman has issues.

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