New Chain Oc

I’m tired of the 1 and 20 designs LOL so I made this random design that is more like how I roll. Enjoy~

the Spartan desire to be simultaneously proud of your identity while also wanting the luxury of being invisible in public space, not because you are ashamed but because you are othered, is analogous to the struggle for queer visibility. in this essay I will

In fairy tales and fantasy, two types of people go in towers:  princesses and wizards.

Princesses are placed there against their will or with the intention of ‘keeping them safe.’ This is very different from wizards, who seek out towers to hone their sorcery in solitude.

I would like a story where a princess is placed in an abandoned tower that used to belong to a wizard, and so she spends long years learning the craft of wizardry from the scraps left behind and becomes the most powerful magic wielder the world has seen in centuries, busts out of the tower and wreaks glorious, bloody vengeance on the fools that imprisoned her. 

That would be my kind of story.

I love the way capital has been set up as like, broadly speaking, a normal city with crazy magic shit just beneath the surface. Matt has played that perfectly to create that contrast and highlight how an ordinary human wouldn’t notice anything strange about their city but adventurers can find ancient catacombs and monsters under a library.

I think if I were running it I’d play that idea up far more such as having it be normal sized and less alien races out in the open but create the atmosphere that in any shadow there could be 3 drow hanging out, Tieflings are only found in the hardest to find clubs and bars, back allys that don’t exist on maps etc.

What people think writing is like: careful planning and thought out plotlines

What writing is actually like: being possessed by an idea that you are constantly arguing with

Y’all I read a lot of scripts. And the one note I give over and over and over and over to the point that I can pretty much copy and paste it from one review to another…. let your characters lie. Let them omit, stumble, and circumvent. Allow them to be completely unable to express what they’re feeling. Make them unable to admit a truth. Let them sit in silence because they can’t think of anything clever to say! Let them say the exact wrong thing!

Dee Rees talks about it in her BAFTA lecture (which you should ABSOLUTELY WATCH): that what your character actually says should be three degrees of separation away from what they mean to say.

I read script after script after script where characters articulate their needs, desires, and objectives with perfect accuracy off the cuff 24/7 and there is not one single human person on this planet who is actually able to do that. This is the #1 thing that’s going to make your script sound stilted and the #1 thing that’s going to make shit difficult on your actors. Let them shut up, and let them lie.

C1 F2 R2 Z1

just hops this time

C1 How do they sit in a chair

– normal except completely sideways (arm rests prevent this)

F2 What is her ideal party

– She doesn’t really like parties

R2 Would they be a strict or laid back parent

– Strict but I guess it depends what about

Z1 What is their favorite animal

– real big just sloppy dogs like st bernards or newfoundland or neapolitan mastiff

Bruce Wayne is so dumb. Billionaire playboy bachelor is such a stupid cover when stressed single parent is not only the truth but also easier to explain to all these rich folks.

All this weird in depth knowledge? Had to help with school presentations

Tired? Sleepy? Looks a bit sick? Huh yeah the youngst has the flu right now

Literally always has “my child is sick/home alone” as an excuse to not be anywhere and leave suddenly

No need to flirt with people

Can talk about children for hours and bore people away from paying attention

“So my child’s first languge is actually X so of course I had to learn it”

“Oh yeah, I was in Spain last week. Lovely country.”

“Really??? Didn’t see any pictures from you.”

“I don’t want my children exposed to the media storm”

Buying weird stuff!!!!

“Oh yeah, Jason’s super into DIY right now, we’re at the hardware store every week basically”

Bottom line Single Dad is the bet cover he could have had and DC has to ruin it

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The ultimate use of the diplomacy pouch

saturday D&D tip: write all your lore from the woefully confusing world of Academia™. The whole argument depends on a tenuous citation of a guy who wrote about an event 100 years after it happened. The biography of the lich was written by one of his greatest enemies and so we have to treat it as a questionable source despite being the only primary source we have. The translation out of Old Draconic might be “sword,” or maybe it was “thorn,” but then the Draconic for ‘thorn’ was also often used as a euphemism for ‘usurper,’ etc. the academic text they were relying on is actually a fringe theory that may or may not have any basis in fact.