Tag: mediocre young adult writer problems

“You helped build the house but when did you two become truly friends?”

That’s actually a funny story but I don’t think it fits the tone of the current conversation.

“I accidentally shot my ear off my head and she had to put it back on,” I mumble with my eyes cast on the ground. I hear Leo hold back a snort. “Yeah, Morlene thought it was hilarious too.”

Back on my way to my humble abode I think of what life would be like in a world I don’t get a punishment. A life where people know what I’ve done and I get my reward for it.

I’d be so filthy rich I’d get to live in the castle, I’d even have a place in Mason’s hot new council. Children with coal stains on their faces, mothers with white streaks in their hair, fathers with a single teardrop in their eyes would crowd around me, reaching their quivering hands for just a touch of their saviour…

I’m getting way too into this fantasy for someone who’s roasting raw pigeons over a barrel fire I have to feed with mouldy wood.

perringwrites:

sweetpopcorno:

plutonically-metamorfic:

Theory

Tall writers make taller characters, short writers make shorter characters.

So, reblog with your height and the most common height range for your ocs (not counting deities, otherworldly beings, etc who are tall because of that)

Counter theory

Short writers write tall characters

Because I can’t reach things without a stool or chair a lot of the time and why would I put up with this in my fantasy world

I’m 5’0" and my characters are like 5’8"….

im 5’0" too! my shortest character (in my age range) is also 5’0". my tallest character, lorenzo, is 6’5" and i adore him

Okay I’m not done talking about it yet, in the biggest shock when everyone’s trying to digest what they’d just heard and Leo wants to roast Vale for not realising it sooner, and Vale is just like 

“I had no idea [spoiler] existed, let alone a [spoiler] made out of shit-tin that [spoiler] but only if a magic lightning strikes the left testicle of the oldest goat on the farmlands exactly at midnight.”

I’m reading chapter 29 where the Truth is Revealed (the actual one, not the fake one) and Vale actually figures it out before anyone else. Like, she plays dumb sometimes and she actually is quite stupid for most things that aren’t strategies but she figures it out way before anyone else, it’s incredible.

Fun insider info: the reason the end of Vale even exists the way it does is because since Vale has time-controlling powers I thought it’d be fun if Cephas got shot at one point and she could reverse the bullet out of his body but what would be even more fun is if it didn’t actually work because Cephas isn’t affected by her powers so the bullet would technically tear two wounds into him, one where it goes in, and one where it goes out as its trajectory is reversed (since Cephas has moved in the meantime cause he’s not affected).

There is, of course, a reason why Cephas isn’t affected by Vale’s powers (no, it isn’t love the way it is in Leaper which is still the best scene I’ve ever written don’t @ me) but I was gonna have Vale only control the bullet while everything else, including Ormandy who fired the gun, is going normal time, and then Ormandy would step forward in SHOCK as his bullet is reversed IN TIME, but where he would step to is the place his bullet left his gun (which he’d let down in the meantime) so then Vale just yanks at nothing and the bullet goes PFFLLLTTTT back inside Ormandy. And then Cephas falls on the ground and Vale ~lets go of ~the bullet and then BAMM it slams into the wall behind Cephas (from where he moved in the meantime you knOW WHAT I MEAN?).

I just thought that’d be too much and I kinda wanted to emphasise a lot that only Cephas isn’t affected so to have Vale suddenly be able to just pick a random object to control was a little ehh, she can’t even do that with her normal powers.

And like, it’s so stupid because if Vale literally does nothing then Cephas would’ve been better off with just the one gunshot wound but this way he somehow has two and poor girl literally just found out the thing (that chapter is online by the way :3), then fucking Morlene is there, and Cephas is gonna die and then she just panics and suddenly she can’t just stop but also reverse time (I didn’t steal this from Life Is Strange, how dare you… I stole it from Superhot, then I stole it from Life Is Strange, get your facts straight), and she also knows Cephas isn’t affected by her powers but she just had to do something.

Anyway, so I needed a reason why Cephas isn’t affected by Vale’s powers (a reason that isn’t love, I already used that) and that is how the rest of the story happened and I feel really smart but in fact I just wanted my OC to see her best friend suffer and almost die and that’s how I figured out why any of it even happened.

“Ugh, all this side choosing,” I groan and get ready to parkour my way out of this theatre for the second time today. “I can’t deal with you lot; do you really spend this much time thinking about stuff? Sounds exhausting.”