Anonymous asked: frisk i dont think this is a dream. I mean, is it really unreasonable to fall down a hole and wind up in a fantastical world of magical monster people?
People watch tragedies on purpose. People watch stories about hope on purpose. Pulling the rug on the narrative promise of your story and switching tracks isn’t clever or interesting, it’s just lying about the genre.
If Midsummer Night’s Dream ended with everyone brutally dying, I’d feel kind of betrayed. If Macbeth ended with everyone getting happily married, I’d also feel kind of betrayed.
Yes! You have to earn your ending. They’re not supposed to be twists. They have to be built to throughout the story
You need to have the payoff match the kind of investment you set your audience up with.
To clarify, twists can be well done! But they shouldn’t be “Gotcha! You thought you were watching Type A show but you’re really watching Type B show!”
Like, the Red Wedding is an appropriate twist for Game of Thrones.
It would not be a good twist for something like Doctor Who.
Also, a good twist should feel random, but make sense in retrospect.
*hits every single TV writer over the head with this post*
Secret Valentine Exchange for a different server for @silver-tongues-blog ! I couldn’t find the file right away which is why I didn’t post this first thing. Anyway, one of their requested pairings was Doomed John x (Vriska) and the theme was Reunions so it felt pretty obvious? That whole section was beautifully tragic and I’ve been wanting to try my hand at drawing some of it. So here we are. This particular piece, however, was incredibly disobedient the entire time I worked on it. >:< Still, hope you like it! <3
silver-tongues-blog asked: fern turning into grass and drifting away: Finn, I dont feel to good
can you believe that they made the leads of the new star war trilogy a woman and a black man and people decided to think that it was all about the white villain instead? like the first character they introduced to us was a black stormtrooper as the lead, two thing we’d never seen before. a heavily hinted to be force-sensitive, brainwashed from childhood, desperately scared of his captors but still follows his morals escaped black stormtrooper lead. then we meet a female desert scavenger, also two things we’ve never seen before. an ace pilot, force-sensitive, orphaned and self-sufficient, holding on to a family who left her, aggressive femalescavenger lead. and instead people decided to focus on the white ~troubled~ villain who killed his father who was trying to save him because -404 reason not found-????? and the worst part is people don’t think that’s it’s racist and sexist or even weird at all. instead they’ve decided that this white boy is the point of the trilogy. can you believe??
Let’s not forget the Latinx pilot bc in this political climate? That’s huge. Poe is given the rugged pilot archetype filled by Han in the original trilogy, but with a much more obvious sense of passion, mortality, and love for the rebellion and his fellow rebels. His willingness to put himself in danger for his cause is a passion that has not explicitly been displayed in Star Wars, he is a rich character who makes mistakes but tries so had to do what’s right, and some of y'all STILL think Star Wars is about the local pissbaby who had a bad time once
