Please Stop Writing "viscous" When You Mean "vicious", It Produces The Weirdest Mental Images Ever

"ford dies first" "no, stan dies first"

let's be real. you're all giving the grim reaper WAY too much credit

follow-up to this

He did eventually sign it

First meeting

Absolutely heart crushing scene in one of the cat Stan mini series by @dark-lord-of-awesomeness Here's the link to the mini series

Haha. AUUUGGGHHHHHHHHHHH

Dammit Stone, those things have cameras!

A sort of part two to this post

Out of curiosity, is Robotnik even like a good agent? Like, is this man good at his job at being able to protect Stone or if he all talk no bite and then Stone has to end up protecting them both? If so, does Stone just have him around cause he finds him strange and endearing and wants to study him under a microscope?

Rob is more than capable of protecting Dr. Stone without the need for the badniks assistance

Stone has had previous agents who were also adequate bodyguards

its robs behavior and complete out the box ways of handling things dose stone find keeping him around possibly useful and well, kinda like you said "study" him tho not in an endearing way in the beginning

question: do you think stone would wear a dress (or a maid dress woah who said that) is robotnik asked him to do so? How would they both react? :3

This is an important step on the plan to conquer the world, trust.

ko-fi

bastard sounds great in an irish accent. if an irish person calls you a 'daft bastard' it just feels right

the welsh have the monopoly on things ending in hell. fuckin hell and bloody hell hit different in a welsh accent. its like music to my ears

the scots have piss and shite for sure. "its pishin it doon out there" "this is a load of shite" absolute poetry

if i may speak for the english i think we do penis related words very well. dickhead, knobhead, twat, etc.

and for all the shit we give them, you gotta admit that no one can deliver a 'goddamn' quite like an american. theres a certain weight to it that you just cant achieve in other accents. when an american says goddamn you know shit just got real

I've already said that my number one piece of writing advice is to read.

But my number two piece of advice is this: be deliberate.

Honestly this would fix so many pieces of bad writing advice. Don't forbid people from doing something, tell them to be conscious and deliberate about it. This could help stop people from falling into common mistakes without limiting their creativity. Black and white imperatives may stop a few annoying beginner habits, but ultimately they will restrict artistic expression.

Instead of "don't use epithets": "Know the effect epithets have and be deliberate about using them." Because yes, beginners often misuse them, but they can be useful when a character's name isn't known or when you want to reduce them to a particular trait they have.

Instead of "don't use 'said'" or "just use 'said'": "Be deliberate about your use of dialogue tags." Because sometimes you'll want "said" which fades into the background nicely, but sometimes you will need a more descriptive alternative to convey what a character is doing.

Instead of "don't use passive voice": "Be deliberate about when you use passive voice." Because using it when it's not needed can detract from your writing, but sometimes it can be useful to change the emphasis of a sentence or to portray a particular state of mind.

Instead of blindly following or ignorantly neglecting the rules of writing, familiarize yourself with them and their consequences so you can choose when and if breaking them would serve what you're trying to get across.

Your writing is yours. Take control of it.

It probably sounds like I'm preaching to the choir here because most of my mutuals are already great writers. But I'm hoping this will make it to the right people.