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words to use to avoid adverbs!
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When creating characters, it's all too easy to envision the most perfect people, especially when it comes to creating love interests. Even our loveable morally grey characters are mostly perfect, if only they would stop killing...
So, here are a list of some flaws (based on personality, not appearance) to help round out your characters. While it's nice to be good at everything, it's abnormal. No one is perfect, and your characters will be much more relatable if you knock them down a bit.
Please note, none of these are (specifically) mental disorders, as I don't consider those a character flaw.
The Good (aka little flaw):
Absent-minded, aimless, argumentative, audacious, awkward, blunt, bold, boring, capricious, childish, clumsy, competitive, complainer, cowardly, critical directionally-challenged, dubious, finicky, fixated, flake, flirty, foolish, gossipy, gruff, gullible, hedonistic, humourless, hypocritical, idealist, idiotic, ignorant, illiterate, immature, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, incompetent, inconsiderate, indecisive, indifferent, indomitable, irrational, lazy, lustful, materialistic, meddlesome, meek, mischievious, nagging, naive, nervous, nosey, obnoxious, overambitious, overconfident, overemotional, overprotective, overzealous, passive-aggressive, paranoid, peevish, perfectionist, pessimist, pest, predicatable, pretencious, prideful, rebellious, renege, rigorous, sarcastic, skeptic, seducer, selfish, self-righteous, shallow, slacker, solemn, spacey, spoild, squeamish, stubborn, supersticious, sycophant, tactless, tease, tempermental, tenacious, theatrical, thoughtless, timid, unpredictable, unsupportive, vain, workaholic
The Bad (aka big flaw):
Addiction, adulterous, aloof, anxious, apathetic, arrogant, belittling, belligerent, bigmouth, bitter, bully, callous, deceptive, dependant, deranged, dishonest, disloyal, disrespectful, egotistical, envious, erratic, exploitive, fanatical, fickle, fierce (at the extreme), gluttonous, greedy, harasser, hubris, impious, infamy, intolerant, judgemental, lewd, liar, meglomaniac, morally grey, narcissistic, negligent, obsequious, obsessive, offensive, prejudiced, quixotic, reckless, rigid, self-martyr, self-righteous, short-tempered, spiteful, squanderer, stingy, unethical, unforgiving, untrustworthy
The Ugly (aka cross the street when you see this person):
Abusive, bigot, controlling, cruel, explosive, immoral, inhumane, intolerant, machiavellian, manipulative, murderous, neglectful, oppressive, racist, remorseless, possessive, self-destructive, threatening, treacherous, vengeful, vindictive, violent
The seven chief features of ego: self-deprecation, self-destruction, martyrdom, stubbornness, greed, arrogance and impatience.
Some of these may not even be considered flaws, and some may jump from one category to the next. It's all about how you present these flaws in your characters.
Have any more to add? Did you find this useful? Let me know down in the comments :)
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Plant cell diagram (girl shaped)
It’s really hard to explain what I mean but yknow that moment in the show where the protagonist realises who is pulling all the strings and it all clicks into place. But it implicates their companion in the process? And they turn around to tell their companion about their revelation and the shot changes and you can just see the companion is already 5 steps ahead of them. They’re got this knowing look and a smarmy smile on their face. And before the protagonist even gets to speak they have a silent moment of “we both know what we know.” LITERALLY MY FAVOURITE TYPE OF VILLAIN REVEAL.
illustrated example of what i mean
This is called Anagnorisis.
It’s INSANE to me how controversial romance novels are. Romance novels. Like, being openly a fan of them immediately opens you up to people constantly coming at you like “but don’t you think it’s ~limiting- and ~juvenile~ to have a genre of books with happy endings for women?”
Like.
No?
Why is it such a big deal to want to read stories where women have sex and then don’t die at the end? Jesus Christ.
Why is the concept of female characters being happy seen as less creative than female characters suffering? (Trust me, creating a world where women win in the end takes a lot more creativity and artistic vision lmfao)
Anyway, literary bros will pry my romance novels with their happy endings from my cold dead fingers.
Or die in the very beginning of the book. But no one calls out James Patterson for writing another formulaic thriller in which a woman is horrifically killed after getting laid and then some man solves her murder. Every. Damn. Time.
But hey, those romance novels where women get happy endings are so limiting, eh?
Real talk: realizing how common it is for female characters to be punished for on-the-page sex with death was a big part of my embracing the romance genre. Once I noticed it I couldn’t unnotice it. It’s everywhere. A woman having sex in literature or non-romance genre fiction is the literary equivalent of a red shirt on Star Trek.
It’s not just the sex thing, though that’s a key element. It’s that, in romance novels, the heroine gets to be cared for the way she normally would care for everyone else. It’s wish fulfillment in that her romantic partner will do emotional labor, spend a great deal of time thinking about her, or sacrifice his desires or fortune or reputation to be with her, or spend days nursing her back to health, or risking his life to save hers. In romance novels, you’ll find men taking care of children, talking about their feelings, putting effort into their appearance—even if they are adorably bad at it. Watch how many romance novel protagonists fall in love with a man who happens to be rich or handsome, but she didn’t give in until his behavior changed and he starts mentoring her, or providing for her, or being gentle toward her, nourishing her, listening to her, appreciating her… I suspect romance novels are looked down upon not for being juvenile formulaic “beach reads” but because they paint a fantasy world that leaves men feeling uncomfortable or even emasculated. But whether you’re a Midwest housewife or a big city CEO, women who read romance novels just want to read about men loving women the way women are expected love everyone else—with a nurturing and protective form of unswerving loyalty. Great sex they don’t have to die for is also a huge bonus, but the *romance* part of the novel is genuinely more about the woman being appreciated (for her beauty or spunk or intelligence at first, and then for all of her by the end).
“women who read romance novels just want to read about men loving women the way women are expected to love everyone else—with a nurturing and protective form of unswerving loyalty.”
THANK YOU.
According to the website smartbitchestrashybooks, which analyzes romance novels to a great degree, one common element of the average romance novel is what they call the grovel. That is, there’s a turning point near the climax of the book where the leading man says, in effect, “I hurt you. I had my reasons, but they don’t make it right. I am devastated that I hurt you, and I will do whatever it takes to make it okay again. Leaving you is completely on the table even though I find the prospect horrific.”
And that’s a very important fantasy. To have your feelings, your pain, be made so absolutely central to the narrative, to someone else’s world. You could call it a power fantasy, but I don’t think that’s exactly right. It’s a significance fantasy. A romance story is a story in which the woman is the most significant damn thing in the book.
And when you think of it like that, you realize why some people are really, really threatened by it.
Every single odd number has an “e” in it.
LISTEN-
Not all of them. 30 and 50 aren’t spelled with the letter e in it …
father god
…if you can split a number in half evenly, it’s even. 30 and 50 are odd.
-_-’
(15+15=30
25+25=30)
25+25 = 30? You sure about that??
Lord have mercy….
Bye
3 days into 2018 smh
LMAOOOOOOO
One
Three
Five
Nine
And since everything else after that is a variant of these numbers, then all odds have the letter ‘E’.
🗣YOU FORGOT SEVEN!!
It keeps getting worse.
LMAOOO WHAT IS GOING ON
My head hurts…
This is why that Tumblr University shit was the dumbest idea ever just look at this
who failed yall?
IM SCREAMING
You whole ass forgot about eight - a number with an e and is pretty fucking even
why would 8 be brought up if it’s EVEN in a post about ODDS??????? the post said “every single ODD number has an ‘e’ in it” not “every single number with an ‘e’ is odd” what the fuck
3 days until 2019 and we’re still here
happy New year’s eve
I’m going to bring this flaming dumpster into 2019 so future generations can see what a mistake Tumblr was
Er, guys two is odd and doesn’t have an e. Just saying…
did you deadass just try to tell me two is odd? i’m fucking crying throw the whole website away
Reblogging for the last one😂
The one thing I notice is that no matter how much you want to throw this site away, you just can’t.
TWO IS ODD?!?! PFFFTT I’M SCREAMING
Wait what about zero that’s an odd number ,no?
ok but hear me out fifty and thirty make up for the fact they have no e by the way they are pronounces third-E fifth-E
bro why do 30 and 50 matter THEY’RE FUCKING EVEN
what the actual fuck is happening
1 is an even number
I’m gonna smack you
-30 and -50 have an e in them
Wait why are we so quick to throw away the Zero idea
Zero isn’t a number
It can’t be divided by two though, can it
It can??? 0/2=0??
OD NUMBERS
onE
thrEE
fivE
sEvEn
ninE
OD numbers huh?
Anything that ends with a 0,2,4,6,8 is even and the rest is odd (1,3,7,9) stop freaking out y’all
DUDE WHAT ABOUT FOUR
What about it?????
THAT DOESN’T HAVE E IN IT
A R E Y O U G U Y S O K A Y
21 days away from 2020, folks.
Please tell me I can start the new freaking decade with a post arguing about something as stupid as this. Please. 🙏
This is art at its finest
This is what I mean when I say I love chaos
Often (irl) I talk about how the media and fan reaction to The Hunger Games played out exactly what the series criticized. Merchandise centered around Capital fashion, all the popular coverage was about the romance, and people wanted THG to be just an action movie and were annoyed when Mockingjay didn't have enough action to it. While this is something you could criticize people for, it's really just fascinating to observe. THG was observing trends in western culture, and then the reactions proved the series right.
Observing popular reaction to Spinner in My Hero Academia feels like this too
Oh wow! This got attention all the sudden. I would like to add—this isn’t just the fandom, though it is very present in the fandom. Obviously he gets sidelined for not being the pretty anime boy, and that makes sense! Let’s face it, a lot of people just want fan content about the anime dudes they think are hot, and it is fine if that’s not the one people will accuse you of being a scalie over. People have preferences and they have stigmas, and not everyone wants smut or pretty boy art of the lizard man. No one is asking you to, either. But it is interesting that Spinner functions as someone who is disliked and sidelined for his appearance within the story but also in fandom.
People view him as a lizard, not a human. Within BNHA, Spinner is completely human. Not part animal, human. But much fandom work seeks to make him more animalistic or does that thing where you call someone “the blonde, the hero, the man,” or for Spinner, “the lizard”. In world, this should be a slur, but people do it all the time in fanfiction. It is what it is. To the viewer, he’s the lizard guy. No harm no foul, but it is exactly what happens to him in-world. He’s seen as lizard before human.
He's also got a quieter backstory, unlike Dabi or Shigaraki, he's a villain (less popular than hero characters), and he looks like a lizard-person. So, despite being a main villain, narrating MVA, and being Shigaraki's right hand man, in fanon, Spinner gets sidelined. Dabi usually gains importance to Shigaraki to balance this out. Again, this is just people giving importance the characters they enjoy more, and while that's fine, it is showing exactly what we see in canon. Spinner is weak, he looks different, and he isn't considered important by the heroes. (All Might leaves him out when he recounts who all they have to face, which Shouji sort-of points out.) Overall, Spinner is considered less of a threat by some characters in the manga, and in fanon, he's suddenly is less important even among the villains because most people aren't interested in him. So Spinner is less popular with fans, leading to Studio Bones feeling like he isn't as necessary to the anime adaptation. He's forgettable, because he has a weak quirk and therefore doesn't have a big fight, and this is shonen, so we give preference to the big fights and trim down the other stuff (conversations, confrontations that aren't through punching). He's not popular, so who all will really miss him? Spinner therefore is cut out of much of season 5. With him being more minor in the anime, a lot of season 5 merchandising considers him probably not as important or popular and less and less chance of gaining popularity since he gets so little screentime, so he gets left out of merchandise. This makes sense for companies wanting to make money on merch.
[Image description: a black with purple small backpack. The front says "League" in all capital dark purple letters and pictures Twice, Toga, Kurogiri, Shigaraki, Dabi, and Mister Compress over a black background. The side says "Shigaraki, Kurogiri, Dabi, Toga, Twice, Mr. Compress" in all caps white text over black background as well. End description]
Anyway, Spinner gets sidelined because he doesn't get cool fights in the manga, so fanboys won't care about his power levels, he's not conventionally pretty or sexy so fandom won't care about him, and when fans don't care as much the anime won't care as much, so he won't gain fans with the anime-only My Hero fans. With middling interest from fans, Spinner gets left off of merchandise, making him seem like a much more tertiary character when, at this point, he is one of the only members of the original League still active. He's being set up to lead an army while struggling over what he should prioritize--All for One's demands and Shigaraki's raw desires, or what Shigaraki really needs. He's probably the closest person to Shigaraki at this point.
All this to say that the fans line up pretty perfectly with people in world, too. Most people just like the heroes, but a good number of people sympathize with the villains, which is a growing population as time goes on and their cause gains more traction and more sympathy. People who look less “strange” and more human get more sympathy. People who are more powerful have more promise, or at least with fans, more hype. That makes sense, we're all only human and we enjoy what we enjoy. The heroes are easier to sympathize with since they are more approachable and main characters, the people who look closer to conventionally attractive align closer to with what, well, most people find attractive. Complex, terrible, heart-wrenching backstories are more mysterious or at least they are very memorable. You think about those and talk about those.
Spinner is quiet, he looks like a lizard, and he isn't physically strong. And we, as fans, completely fulfill the point of that. It would be remarkable if we ever changed, but I doubt that such a thing could ever happen. Spinner will stay relatively unpopular, as he might stay a complex figure to the public within BNHA.
In the end, fans tend to hype up power and looks. The lack of popularity Spinner has? The reality of fandom. He’s weak and he’s not conventionally attractive.
So yeah. No one can really help it. It’s just kinda how fans are, but it also shows what’s wrong with fandom—a character has to be powerful and sexy or super-cute to be well-loved. Maybe Deku, if he couldn’t punch with the force of God and wasn’t uwu cute, wouldn’t be the “loved by millions” protag he is. Maybe he would’ve been like Spinner and the manga would be much shorter
As you write, you will naturally improve. Do not wait until you think you are good enough to start. You are always good enough to start improving.
Strawberry season is such a mood 🍓
some of you may've heard about that fancy "bionic reading" typefont thats supposed to be easier for neurodivergent people to read (if you're unfamiliar, it bolds the first few letters of each word to make it easier to follow)
well guess what, its locked behind a $500 a month API to write in because fuck you!
introducing, Not Bionic Reading! it is literally just the bionic reading typefont but for free. god bless neocities
anyone who can, pls reblog!
For anyone who might need it ✨
Just here to say that the long awaited chapter is now out on AO3!
Phew, finally. I need to finish up a comm and start finding a new job before starting the next chapter so hopefully this will feed you all for now! Sorry for the long wait!
Let’s goooo! One of the best haikyuu fics ever ✨
I highly recommend 💕
Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):
And!
Reblog to save a writer’s life.
Because some of you fanfic writers need this
Keep in mind that blushing comes from blood running to the face, so people aren’t going to turn cherry red, especially if they have darker skin where it’s less obvious.
Thank you oh my god
I have a lot of respect for Lizzie facing Darcy like that after he caught her snooping in his house. Idk how fast of a runner Darcy is but I can guarantee you he wouldn’t have caught me. Usain Bolt wouldn’t have been able to catch me. The adrenaline and embarrassment coursing through my veins would have sustained me for miles. All Darcy would see is the dust cloud in my wake and my legs propelling in rapid circles as I sped off.
A little PSA for people who use AO3…
Gen refers to fic that is not focused on romance. If your fic is not a romance fic, please give it this tag.
Other refers to fic that is focused on romance, but is not specifically male/female, male/male, or female/female (like an OT3 (ship involving 3 people), a ship involving characters that are not male or female, etc). IT IS NOT FOR PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS. IT IS FOR ROMANTIC ONES. please for the love of all that is holy do not tag your family-relationship-centered fics as “other” you are going to give people a HEART ATTACK.
“Character/Character” is for romantic pairs. “Character & Character” is for platonic relationships like friendship, family, etc. Please do not tag family-centered or adult-and-minor-centered platonic character relationships as character/character for the love of all that is holy
The E rating is for smut and literally nothing else (unless you have other unusual reasons to rate it E–I’ve seen people apply it to non-smut fics as a deterrent to keep minors away from it, but keep in mind it’ll make it so people who are trying to avoid smut will not find your fic). Your fic that has a lot of graphic violence but no sexual content does not need an E rating.
The M rating is for fics that would basically be rated R if they were movies, and may contain graphic violence, some sexual content, and generally more serious subject matter than you would typically show a teenager. However, if your fic is almost entirely smut, please just give it an E rating.
Also, when you post a fic, you WILL want to give it a rating, or else AO3 will assume you’re probably posting smut and will warn everybody who clicks on your fic that it may contain adult content. If you don’t want that on your fic that contains no adult content at all, please just give it the proper rating instead of not rating it at all.
this post brought to you by PLEASE LEARN HOW THE TAGGING SYSTEM ON THIS WEBSITE WORKS YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE EVERYONE A HEART ATTACK
ANOTHER IMPORTANT THING I FORGOT TO MENTION!
“Creator Chose Not to Archive Warnings” means that at least one or more of the archive warnings (that is, “Major Character Death,” “Graphic Depictions of Violence,” “Rape/Non-Con,” or “Underage”) DOES apply to your story, and you’re choosing not to say which one it is. If you select this option, AO3 will put a warning on the fic that potential readers have to click through.
“No Archive Warnings Apply” means that none of the aforementioned archive warnings apply to your fic.
THESE ARE NOT THE SAME THING. IF YOUR FIC DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING MAJOR THAT NEEDS TO BE WARNED FOR, PLEASE SELECT “NO ARCHIVE WARNINGS APPLY.”
Also, for the love of everything on earth, please stop marking your fics as complete when they are not? The chapter function of an incomplete fic should look like this:
number/? OR number/higher number
If you mark it as (for example) 4/4, you’re telling readers that the COMPLETE story has FOUR chapters and ALL FOUR have been posted, meaning once you read all four you will have reached the end point of the fic. It’s unfair to readers when an incomplete fic is marked this way.
The misuse of “creator chose not to use archive warnings” is VERY common!! Please read this and label your Fic appropriately so it can reach its audience ❤️
