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Ohara Koson, Irises, 1936
I mean, yes, a lot of horror media boils down to “wouldn’t it be fucked up?”, but let’s not be reductive – there are several distinct subgenres of “wouldn’t it be fucked up?”, including but not limited to:
- Proposing a very improbable situation, then gesturing toward it and asking “man, wouldn’t this be fucked up?”
- Wildly exaggerating an everyday state of affairs in order to demonstrate that it was, in fact, always fucked up.
- Taking a thing that it’s broadly agreed is fucked up and making it a different kind of fucked up.
- Inventing a new type of guy, then pointing at the guy and going “this guy is fucked up.”
- Grabbing the audience by the shoulders like, no, man, the fucked up thing is, like, a metahpor. For a different thing. That is also fucked up.
- Taking a genuinely innocuous situation and through some unlikely contrivance rendering it fucked up.
- Making a thing that self-referentially gestures at itself and asks “isn’t it fucked up that this is so fucked up?”
- Framing a fantastical scenario and asking “is this fucked up? why is it fucked up? what does it mean to be fucked up? what is ‘fucked’? what is ‘up’?”
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winter has come once again to teach me things i don’t want to know about myself
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Bill Jacklin (b.1943) - Stars and Sea at Night XVI. 2016.
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grief, terror, horror.
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- A WIP INTRODUCTION [WAYWARD GODS]
GENRE: high fantasy
TAG: #wip. wayward gods
STATUS: drafting / planning, chapters 1-10
POV: third person limited (multi)
- THEMES & TROPES
polytheism / subverting the chosen one trope / found family / magic systems / destiny / oaths and deals / lgbt+ themes and characters / misuse of power / choices and consequences / a mash-up of the heist narrative with the classic hero narrative / freedom
- SYNOPSIS
As far back as the histories can tell there have been gods on Uun. In the south they act as cautionary tales, Fate's red right hands. In the west they are used as figureheads, symbols of law and rule. In the north they rule as kings and queens through their chosen ones, in precarious balance. No one knows what came first, the belief or the believed in, each culture manifesting their own divine deities or deities creating their own worshippers. Alarik doesn't know and he doesn't care, as soon as he pays off his debt to the Illian god Shinso, Fate's trickiest messenger, he'll be rid of gods and godly endeavors for good and he won't ever look back.
But Shinso has plans for Uun and when an opportunity to wipe his slate clean in one swoop arises, all Alarik will need to do is convinced the right people his is a cause worth following. With a healthy amount of gold attached at the end of course. Each person has their own histories to contend with however, and it would be infinitely easier if killing a god's chosen one wasn't nigh on impossible and absolutely taboo in every single culture on Uun...
- CHARACTERS
- EXCERPT
"I am not a chosen one. I was not plucked from the stars, my fate is not written in the threads of time. I was a child and I was scared and I made a deal. Do not ever make the mistake of thinking me selfless, I would burn the world to keep living another day and I would do it without a second thought. I am not like you."
- TAGLIST (ask to be +/-)
@fablemancy / @bronwennjames / @a-forgotten-dusk / @ecwrenn / @ninazeniks / @willowiswriting
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what is it about Horror that feels so comforting
Read this interesting article talking about how scary videogames actually help those with depression and anxiety a lot! a good read. A few highlights:
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Art by Titsay
[Image IDs: Five paintings utilizing mostly green and yellow tones. The first is of a girl laying in a field with her eyes closed as large, fantastical goldfish swim around her. The second is a landscape of tulips by the bank of a river flowing away from mountains. The third is another landscape of a river by more structured farmland and some trees. The fifth is a painting of a field with many wildflowers, cats and bees dispersed around the grass. End ID]
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How to stop researching (or worldbuilding) and start writing
This is actually advice my mentoring professor gave me when I was writing my first thesis.
He said: Accept that you are never done. There is always more to know, more to research, more questions raised than answered. At some point, you just got to start writing.
Now, “easier said than done, this accepting”, I thought.
I started writing because my thesis deadline was looming. But what if you’re writing a novel and you have no deadline? How do you know when it’s okay to stop researching? When is it okay to stop worldbuilding? (Which is just like doing research, but in your own head instead of in reality.)
My advice to you is: start writing, and you’ll run into the gaps you still need to fill. Then you know what to research before starting your second draft. Let your story tell you what it needs.
For example:
Just fill your margins with a to-research-list for your future self.
That way, it’s also managable: “I finished my first draft, and I have a list of 317 things I need to decide on.” Instead of: “I saw on tumblr that you can’t build a world without knowing everything about the sewage system! And gosh, I haven’t invented three languages yet!”
Advantages:
- You get things done.
- It’s not overwhelming.
- You don’t spend your time inventing things you’ll like so much that you want to infodump them into your story.
- You mainly research things that are relevant to your story.
- Well, knowing you, you already researched enough irrelevant stuff too.
- You get things done.
I hope this was helpful. Don’t hesitate to ask me any questions, and happy writing!
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