It’s End Week... Who Else Is Prepared To Die?✋🏼

The Star Wars fan in me is squealing

The official logo of Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen

May I present to you... Carry On by Rainbow Rowell. I won’t spoil the book but it’s a must read if you’re into hero/villain ships

Good evening, hero/villain ships where the villain gives up being a villain because they love and want to be with the hero is literally the greatest ship trope of all time

Any tips on how to make readers root for a character that's not the narrator?

Well, why have you ever rooted for characters other than the narrator? What have you read or heard from other people that makes them root for a character? Oftentimes a good chunk of an answer just takes a bit of introspection or listening.

Typically, readers root for characters that they find to have at least one of the qualifications:

Useful: Contributes positively to the story, either by helping others or driving it themselves.

Sympathetic: The character is understandable as a well rounded person.

Funny: Is amusing to readers.

Relatable: Readers can see parts of themselves in the character. A Reminder About “Relatable” Characters (link embedded)

Admirable: Has generally good qualities, but does not have to be perfect. A realistic role model.

Interesting: The more they learn, the more people want to know more about them.

(This isn’t a rigid list, but the qualifications are generally positive or entertaining)

None of those qualifications are restricted to only show-able in a narrator in any way, however a good part of ‘rooting” for someone involves wanting them to achieve their goal. Not being the narrator, they’re likely not the protagonist and therefore the main plot may not be about their goal. You can address that in a few ways:

Subplots: Give the character and their goal a subplot, however remember that subplots have to be related to the main plot and can’t just be a character going off for unrelated reasons. 

Aligned goals: By participating in the plot and alongside the protagonist, the character’s goals can be worked toward, though it’s not the same as the protag’s.

Same goal: They have the same goal as the protag. (When using this option, make sure to give that character unique motivation. Being too similar to a protagonist in motive can decreases reader interest.)

Side stories: The character is allowed to have their own adventures, you just shouldn’t be dedicating a lot of “screen time” to them if they aren’t directly plot involved.

In the most generic sense, you just want to write an interesting character. No, the reader is not going to be able to see their inner monologue, but they can’t see most of any book characters’ inner monologues and it’s rare for a reader to hate everyone but the narrator (unless they’re all poorly written or that’s the point).

You can still teach a reader about a character through: body language, description, dialogue, symbolism, actions, choices, etc. 

Good luck with your character!

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i wish there was a name for a kind of song that’s catchy, upbeat, and worth dancing to, but also bittersweet and tinged with an unexplainable sadness. 

the best i can describe it is ‘songs you would put in an amv when a long series is over and you’re reminiscing on the journey while holding back sobs’

OH MY GOD

Can you hear me sobbing

Democrats: alright we finally did it, Trumps been impeached. Time for a trial in the-

Republicans: lol yeah about that trial. It’s not gonna be fair or anything, we’ve already made up our minds and there’s gonna be like, 0 witnesses

Democrats: oh? Ok then. If that’s the case then I guess we’ll just hold on to these *pockets articles of impeachment*

Republicans:

Irondad and Spiderson Masterlist

(I may or may not made this so I can find my own stuff easier)

Series

Was that a Star Wars reference, Dr. Stark? (Biodad!Tony AU)

Multichapter

Not-Uncle Tony

Ohana (HYDRA!Peter AU)

Oneshot

Sleepless

Patty Parker (She’s The Man AU)

Date Night

The Parasite

Snowflakes

The Yacht

Gone Kid

When Life Gives You Lemons

Stabbing 101: How To React

A Sick Spider

Prompts

Tony and Peter on Ellen Part 1 Part 2

Karen wants to help

Peter forgets Tony

Superhero-princess

Fatherhood

A cold spider

Blinking

Peter’s first gala

OsCorp’s fries

Pepperony

Teenager problems

Is that blood?

Buzzfeed Unsolved: Spider-Man Part 1 Part 2

Christmas shopping

Nightmare

The Rules

Peter vs Happy

Pepper to the rescue

Mini-Stark

Mama Pepper

Spideychelle

Being observant

The midnight class

The missing sock

Baking a tart

His Dark Materials AU

Pepper the babysitter Part 2

Rhodey and Peter

The “emergency”

Pepperoni pizza

Death Threats

Ned helps his dumb friends

Trouble at Disneyland

Migraine

Two Spiders

Peppermint

GoT AU Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

BFF Harry Osborn

Consolation Price

Wait, you were that kid?

Jealous Tony

Moody Spider

No Goatee

Jealous Morgan

Where is Peter?

Bad Days

Being a complete nerd

Too cold

That was very scary

JustAFan

Just Like Heaven AU

Red Carpet

The Lost Ring

Just An Intern

Three in the morning

Irondadbingo Cliches

Field Trip AU

Baby Peter AU Part 1 Part 2

Harley and Peter meet

by MyDestinyIsWritten

When Peter gets hit with a haywire piece of alien tech on a mission, he turns into a child. The Avengers have to learn to take care of him and get him back to normal.

Words: 1314, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: Peter Parker, Tony Stark, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Steve Rogers, Thor (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Bruce Banner, James “Rhodey” Rhodes, Clint Barton

Relationships: Peter Parker & Tony Stark

Additional Tags: Tony is a good father-figure, the avengers are a big family fight me, Peter Parker Needs a Hug, Tony Stark Acting as Peter Parker’s Parental Figure, Kid Peter Parker, Peter is a Little Shit, Protective Avengers, Domestic Fluff, Domestic Avengers, we need a world where they were all a family an ALIVE

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