Chat Reminder To Just Write Whatever The Fuck You Want. Write That Overused Trope. Write That Obscure

every writer has That One Scene that lives in their head rent-free but they can’t write it yet because “the vibes aren’t ripe”

There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.

can you guys watch my squab for me im gonna go on my smoko

preach #writing

3 steps to character creation:

Give them a proficiency

Add a contrasting flaw

Beat the f*ck out of them

One of my favorite tropes is „mean/popular girls who turn out to be lesbians“ The drama. The aesthetic.

100 plus points if they are stereotypically (pink) feminine and when they are together they complain about boys until they finally realise they aren’t into boys and that the person that knows and understands them best has been right in front of them the entire fucking time. Please y’all i need MORE of this trope it’s so underrepresented

“a bit”

WRONG. A LOT.

Source

feel you. When I edited out characters it was 20 dead, 3 injured

I just killed ten people*

There are two types of writers:

1. 'It's fiction, it doesn't need to make sense!'

2. 'I didn't account for the rotation of the planet and how that affects the constalations while my characters stargazed at different times of year, I have failed as a writer, and this entire thing is trash'

if you ever finish reading a really dark story and find yourself wondering if the author is okay and stable no they aren’t.

I feel like some of you guys think "bad art" is like someone gluing rhinestones to a water melon, or a guy who made his own armchair out of Ohio license plates, or a trashy romance novel where someone says "the blue-eyed one kissed the brown-eyed one," when in reality bad art is a 1000000 Billion Dollar movie where none of the workers got paid and every single creative decision was market tested to see how lucrative of a profit it could foreseeably make to wow shareholders.