Hey, random writing tip: Instead of having something be a ridiculously unlikely coincidence, you can make the thing happen due to who this particular character is as a person. Instead of getting stuck on "there's no logical reason to why that would happen", try to bend it into a case of "something like this would never happen to anybody but this specific fucker." Something that makes your reader chuckle and roll their eyes, going "well of course you would."
Why would the timid shy nerd be at a huge sketchy downtown black market bazaar? Well, she's got this beetle colony she's raising that needs a very specific kind of leaf for nest material, and there only place to get it is this one guy at the bazaar that sells that stuff. Why would the most femininely flamboyant guy ever known just happen to have downright encyclopedic knowledge about professional boxing? Well, there was this one time when he was down bad for this guy who was an aspiring professional boxer...
I know it sounds stupidly obvious when written out like this, but when you're up close to your writing, it's hard to see the forest for the trees. Some time ago I finished reading a book, where the whole plot hinges on character A, who is 100% certain that character B is dead, personally getting up and coming down from the top rooms of a castle, to the gates, at 3 am, to come look at some drunk who claims to be this guy who died 17 years ago. Why would A do that, if he's sure that B is dead?
Because he's a Warrior Guy from a culture of Loyalty And Honour, and hearing that someone's got the audacity to go about claiming to be his long-lost brother in battle, there is no other option than to immediately personally go down there to beat the ever-loving shit out of this guy. Who then turns out to actually be character B, after all.
Thank you for being born
Happy birthday hsy!
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Han Sooyoung lets out a sigh, looking at the mountain of notes she had spent the past day sorting through.
“All these notes, yet you can’t just stay alive, can you?” She wasn’t talking to anyone. The person she wanted to talk to was long gone. All that was left of him was his piles and piles of writing, on the scenarios, on constellations, on items. Nothing saying where he went or what could bring him home.
She had taken it upon herself to read through all of them, organising their leader’s scattered thoughts into something the rest of them could manage.
Grabbing her summary of what she went through, Han Sooyoung made to stand. Pushing her chair back, her vision went dark as she rose. How long had she been sat there?
Doubling over, she gripped the table. Her vision remained dark, her head rushing. She groaned at the sensations. She knew she had to get closer to the ground, then it would be less of a fall if she passed out.
Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.
“Sooyoung-ssi? Are you alright in there?” Yoo Sangah’s gentle cadence came through the closed surface, a hint of concern in her tone.
Han Sooyoung tried to respond but the pounding doubled in strength, eyes seeing naught but waves of darkness. Another groan emerged from her throat.
“Is that you? I’m coming in,” and the door opened. Yoo Sangah’s gentle cadence was shrouded in what seemed like a halo of heavenly light, but Han Sooyoung knew it was just the too-bright lightbulb in the hallway shining into the poorly lit room.
Yoo Sangah let out a gasp when she saw Han Sooyoung. Her hair was matted, her eyes clamped shut with the eyebags beneath large and noticeable.
She rushed over and wrapped her arms around the writer, holding her close.
“Are you okay? I came to check on you because no one’s seen you all day,” Her concerned words were too loud for Han Sooyoung’s aching head, so she scrunched her eyes further closed and tightened her grip on the table.
When Yoo Sangah saw her do this, she tried to pull them both away from the table, and to the mattress that had been set up for when company members were having sleepless nights in the planning room.
Now speaking in a whisper, Yoo Sangah continued to try and comfort Han Sooyoung
“Do you want to just lay hear and cuddle? Let’s try and get some sleep,” The serene tone combined with the soft covers helped ease some of Han Sooyoung’s pain. She nodded her head, and Yoo Sangah slipped them both under the covers.
And so, as the night wore on, the two ladies slept in peace, leaving thoughts of what was to come aside.
[You do not recognize the bodies in the water!!]
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A short little comic I did for halloween, I've been watching and reading some scp stuff lately and being the type of person to combine stuff I consume with the media I was currently hyperfixating on, I thought "why not do this little crossover for halloween"
It's been a while since I last made some spooky drawings! This one wasn't as spooky as my last ones, but I'm still happy with how it turned out
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ORV Yuri server because it's so fucking desolate out here
Yoohankim! Based on this:
Kim Dokja is a Star because I get the vibes that he is the thing that yoohan look for in the sky also because he’s a Constellation. Han Sooyoung as the sun because without her writing everything, shining light on everything, nothing would exist. Yoo Joonghyuk as the moon because he is constantly changing and showing different parts of himself, and because there is a half of the moon which is always dark, which reminds me of the theme that you can never truly know a person as their whole.
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It was a normal day. Lee Jihye and Na Bori were in class, talking about the latest trends and playfully bantering. It was a normal day.
[Worldline 8162 has entered paid service.]
An ominous message was the only warning, before the two girls’ lives’ completely changed.
At first, the class had just whispered. It seemed that everyone had hurt the message, causing all conversation to stop. No one could figure out where it came from, but then… the screams began.
They were muffled through the walls, most likely from another classroom, but they started, and they wouldn’t stop. Another message pinged.
[1st Scenario - Prove Your Worth
Category: Main Scenario
Difficulty: F
Clear Conditions: Kill one or more living things.
Time Limit: 15 minutes.
Compensation: 300 coins.
Failure: Death]
A strange creature was floating above the teacher. Or what had been the teacher. When the creature appeared, the teacher had exclaimed in shock. The creature did not take this well.
The brain was splattered all over the algebra they had been doing prior. The solution for x was just a blood stain where there should have been ink.
[Look at you pathetic creatures, trying to learn how to live in your easy lives.]
Lee Jihye had many issues with that statement, and it seemed so did her classmates. They could not raise these concerns, because their mouths had been exploded, alongside the rest of their skulls.
It was brutal. The class of girls that was once thirty strong was reduced to ten.
[No one wanting to speak up? Then I guess you all know what to do… I’ll leave you alone for now. Time’s ticking.]
The creature was mocking them. They were laughing at the terrified students and left before anyone could raise a finger in complaint.
Time wore on. The students ended up returning to their desks. What could they do? Kill each other? None of them wanted to end another’s life to extend their own.
The clock ticked to its last minute. That’s when it started again. The screaming that most had been trying to drown out came back with a vigour. Soon people in the classroom joined in.
They clutched at their skulls before their end. It was fast.
Na Bori had figured out what was coming.
“Lee Jihye, do you want to hug one last time before the end?” Her voice held a strange cadence. It was that of someone who had accepted their fate. Lee Jihye looked up to see her best friend with her arms spread wide and welcoming.
She jumped into them. They held each other knowing that this would be it. Until Na Bori moved. She moved slowly, subtly, grabbing Lee Jihye’s arms and moving them to her neck. She slowly stepped back, so it ended up with Lee Jihye’s hands limply laying on her shoulders.
Those were moved next, and a chokehold was formed, blocking her windpipe.
“W-what?” A shaky voice came from Lee Jihye’s mouth, “What are you doing?”
“It needs to be done. You will survive.” And she tightened the grip around her own throat.
It was not a quick death, but she refused to let Lee Jihye’s arms move until she was too weak to keep them there.
Her friend was too weak to move them as well.
[Achievement Gained - First Kill]
Very interesting and fascinating to me that even after doing so much 5D chess and the novel being his only strength throughout all this, Kim Dokja's self loathing is so strong that he contemplates if someone else had read the novel instead of him, someone more "talented" than him, things would be somehow better.
Equally hilarious to me is all these people are agreeing that TWSA was actually such a fuckass boring novel that they were glad Kim Dokja read it because they could never bring themselves to sit through it
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