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What a lovely family I could tell 😍🤌🏼✨

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.

yes yes please hold it steady

Portraits are just the Harry Potter version of character AI

why is rent the most expensive thing in my life? I'm just sitting here. I'm just hanging out in a house. there is no service here that needs compensating

Yup returning to necromancy, I’m so back. And you’re so back, and you’re so back, and you’re so back, and you’re

Sirius: Here you go, a nice hot cup of coffee.

Regulus: It's cold.

Sirius: A nice cup of coffee.

Regulus: It's really bad.

Sirius: A cup of coffee.

Regulus: Is this even coffee?

Sirius: A cup.

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Skyduo <3 @luminescentlama

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

*Pixelates your blorbos except there’s more*

Would you be willing to upload your Owen fanart from the collaborative piece on Twitter here? I saw it on Twitter recently and thought it was gorgeous, would love to be able to reblog it on Tumblr

(I apologize if you're not interested in doing that, I hope you have a nice day either way)

of course !!!

this is a part of a collab piece over on Twitter featuring some of OwengeJuiceTV's most popular characters! I was asked to draw outsiders owen!

Bbh mods I love you

Slaves who escaped were breaking the law. Literally. Outright.

Jewish people who escaped the Nazis were breaking the law. Literally. Outright.

The law is a horrible judge of morality.

- Pirates SMP Book (Owen) -

Just went to Foolish’s stream to see Pili and the sound I let out when Pili said there’s a singular flower in his enderchest ……….

That was the flower Pangi gave Pili to put in his enderchest before his fight with Clown, it was also the same flower that Pili gave to Pangi a long time ago when Pili asked what his favorite flower was

Becoming a writer is great because now you have a hobby that haunts you whenever you don’t have time to do it

Text posts but its all just trOwen ❤️

great lore on the realm today :D

On Owen's stream today and during it, we found out just how perfectly primadonna by Marina fits tr!Owen like genuinely listen to the lyrics while thinking of him and tell me it isn't a great match!

'You say that I'm kinda difficult

But it's always someone else's fault

Got you wrapped around my finger, babe

You can count on me to misbehave'

And

'Going up, going down, down, down

(Yeah) Anything for the crown, crown, crown'

These fit so good with tr!Owen!

I just can't get Pangi witnessing the Pili/Clown fight out of my head. He knew Pili's chances were small but he still believed, so so strongly, that Pili could win.. until he saw them fight. And then he realised how terribly outmatched Pili was, esp with the state of mind he was in. Or maybe he finally understood that Pili never intended to win.. And Pili died. And Pangi, who had this big plan of jumping in the arena, picking Pili's stuff and killing everyone, just.. stayed there. Watching. You could almost hear the moment his heart just broke and it just paralysed him

happy Barely Keeping It Together Wednesday to all who celebrate

pangi and his chat acting all supervillain about this..........not knowing owen's banishment from the kingdom is all an act. lol. lmao. pangi youre getting out-snaked right now

5D puzzle shenanigans going on in the realm but each player knows at most 2 dimensions and its a question of who will figure it all out first

i love how everyone is just trying to manipulate everyone. this server should have been called Manipulation SMP

tr!pangi may be a decent manipulator but is too emotional to compete in the olympic leagues with tr!owen or tr!bbh

i. i was supposed to be a tr!owen hater because im a tr!ros stan. WHY AM I NOW GOING APESHIT OVER OWEN. HOLY SHIT THAT WAS SO GOOD?????? OWENGEJUICETV I THOUGHT I WAS FAMILIAR WITH YOUR GAME, I WAS NOT

This is CRAZY !!!

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