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A disgruntled father

I guess this is my favourite animation now🥺🤯

Making your angst hurt: the power of lighthearted scenes. 

I’m incredibly disappointed with the trend in stories (especially ‘edgy’ YA novels) to bombard the reader with traumatic situations, angry characters, and relationship drama without ever first giving them a reason to root for a better future. As a reader…

I might care that the main siblings are fighting if they had first been shown to have at least one happy, healthy conversation. 

I might cry and rage with the protagonist if I knew they actually had the capacity to laugh and smile and be happy.

I might be hit by heavy and dark situations if there was some notion that it was possible for this world to have light and hope and joy to begin with.

Writers seem to forget that their reader’s eyes adjust to the dark. If you want to give your reader a truly bleak situation in a continually dim setting, you have to put them in pitch blackness. But if you just shine a light first, the sudden change makes the contrast appear substantial.

Show your readers what light means to your character before taking it away. Let the reader bond with the characters in their happy moments before (and in between) tearing them apart. Give readers a future to root for by putting sparks of that future into the past and the present. Make your character’s tears and anger mean something.

Not only will this give your dark and emotional scenes more impact, but it says something that we as humans desperately, desperately need to hear. 

Books with light amidst the darkness tell us that while things are hard and hurt, that we’re still allowed to breathe and hope and live and even laugh within the darkness.

We as humans need to hear this more often, because acting it out is the only way we stop from suffocating long enough to make a difference.

So write angst, and darkness, and gritty, painful stories, full of treacherous morally grey characters if you want to. But don’t forget to turn the light on occasionally.

Support Bryn’s ability to provide writing advice by reading their debut novel, an upbeat fantasy about a bloodthirsty siren fighting to return home while avoiding the lure of a suspiciously friendly and eccentric pirate captain!

Zim is ready to make fish sticks with that siren!! and it also made me think, What if Zim can see the cryptid's for what they really are and that being dangerous monsters because he himself is a cryptid. but to Dib he sees them how humans say they are like the siren is a beautiful woman.

You pretty much hit the mark for this :)

It’s actually been hinted at very subtlety in the previous stuff and will be something brought up later, but here’s the most obvious tidbits:

(From TTHSYS)

(From FR)

and Siren stuff:

Zim has a different reaction to paranormal stuff because he’s not human, varying in severity and specifics. He can see/detect things that Dib cannot, which can both make him semi-vulnerable yet a very useful weapon ally verses the type of cryptids they encounter. 

Although, Zim knows little to nothing about Earth’s cryptid stuff verses Dib, who’s devoted pretty much his entire adolescence to studying the paranormal. But just because someone is aware of what they’re going up against doesn’t make them immune to it, or the powers that the cryptid may have unless precautions are taken. (and lets face it, Dib gets pretty excited in the face of paranormal evidence anyways)

Basically: anything paranormal ever *exists*

Immortality(?)

I’ve had this idea in my head for a while now, dunno if I’ll continue it but Zim is plotting and that’s all you need to know :D

Dead Friend AU

Where Danny dies and to cope Sam and Tucker make an ongoing story of if he turned half ghost instead while also trying to overcome the grief and trauma

Each ‘episode’ is based on a real event and how if Danny were still there he would fix it (jhonny 13 is just a jerky guy jazz dates, vlad is a friend of the fenton family trying to help them move on from Danny’s death, the box ghost is just a silly idea Tucker had at three in the morning and it was the first time since the accident he and Sam laughed that hard).

Phantom planet happens when Tucker and Sam know they need to move on, even though they still resist it (as seen in how they are angry with Danny in the episode) but decide to give Danny the best cheesiest sappiest ending they can think of.

Seggesting a character might be ace.

Context | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Title: where there is light, a shadow appears Rating: K+ Warnings: Minor language, panic attacks, references to past violence/blood/injury Timeline: A few days after the last chapter. Summary: What should have been a simple thing, the rehearsal for Rapunzel’s coronation ceremony, becomes increasingly complicated as cracks in the façade start to emerge.

A/N: hey readers! i’ve been highly anticipating this chapter and can’t WAIT to hear what you all think about it! reblogs and comments are loved, appreciated, and super helpful! - Aqua