Jampages08 - ⚡️JamieWrites⚡️

Reminder that "From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free" is an antisemitic dog whistle. The area between the mediterranean sea and the jordan river is the part of Israel that jews are indigenous to. If you wanna support Palestine please do but stop sharing anything with that phrase specifically k thx.

hey my first book, scars & souvenirs, is on sale for 99¢ (usd) until the 21st

https://books.finleykjames.com/scars

please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

if this post gets 5k notes before december 15th i will do my geography presentation (and present it infront of my class) before the due date

I don't want to be sitting here being angry because of Taika's ignorance, I want to be reading fics and making edits and rewatching the kiss from episode 8 over and over again but I can't. In the years past, I've had to swear off jelly belly jelly beans, cracker barrel, shein, harry potter, chik fil a, and home depot. That's just the brands; more importantly to me, I've given up on Jensen Ackles, John Mulaney, Thomas Middleditch, and more than I can possibly think about right now. I have long since learned my lesson in regards to parasocial relationships and hero worship.

Media and art are so extremely important to me as both a coping mechanism and a source of representation and OFMD checks so many boxes for me. It's one of the few unsanitized, non-eunichized queer shows with adult characters, POC, and trans folks and I'm so brutally sad that it's hampered by the actions of one person's lack of social awareness and hypocrisy but I can't in good conscience indulge knowing that when celebrities endorse things like this stupid fucking letter (however well-meaning and done out of ignorance) they normalize this sort of callous thinking.

I'm not sure how to proceed, going forward. I'm pointedly not streaming the show and using my platforms to make other fans aware of these circumstances, as well as sharing information from other indigenous folks who are feeling hurt and betrayed Taika's contribution to all of this. I don't know if it's okay for me to even engage with fan content. I'm not willing to compromise my values by consuming Taika's works without a retraction and it sucks because I am desperate for something to buoy my mental health. Interested to hear how others are coping with this. Anyway, free Palestine.

wanna hear a wild story? my brother’s history professor is closing in on 80 and basically lives at the university. one night my brother visited him for a meeting, and it came up that my brother was gonna be performing as a court jester at the castle the following day. and his professor busts out: “ah, that reminds me of my youth!”

he then proceeded to tell the tale of when he and his friends went backpacking to greece back in their early 20s. then one day they found themselves completely penniless. so they decided that the only reasonable thing to do was to set up acrobatic shows in skimpy outfits on the beach at day, and then drink up the money at night.

after a week or so they gained some traction, and a gang of young greek men walked up to them like “hey y’all are cool as hell, can we join y’all for drinks tonight?” and my brother’s professor was like “of course! y’all have to wear these revealing outfits and do somersaults with us tho” and the greek gang said “sounds dope. y’all are invited to live with us for however long y’all want.”

anyhow, they proceeded to live like this for the better part of 3 months, doing shows, drinking, and sleeping at the greek gang’s apartment. but after a while they decided enough was enough, and said thank you for everything, but we’re going back to sweden now. and the greeks said “sure! love y’all have a safe trip xx”

half a year later my brother’s professor gets contacted by the greek police. they ask him about the months they spent in greece, and then informs him that their greek friends have been convicted of serial homicide and robbery. that the group of young greek men had joined up with several tourist groups for several years “for drinks”, and then killed and robbed them all, terrorising the beach city for several years. with one exception, of course, because “this one group of swedish acrobats in slutty strongman suits were just ‘so damn nice’”.

and that’s the story of how one swedish history university professor survived sharing a flat with a group of serial killers for several months by performing acrobatics in slutty outfits on the beach. moral of the story? be kind of heart, thicc of ass.

Personally I like to take a character and combine 19th century and modern day advice.

The character is given every chance to improve, every chance to grow and learn but they ignore it stubbornly in favor of following their own path. This ultimately leads them down a hole they can’t climb out of, their ambitions and goals blind them to a point where they don’t even realize it.

Where I got the idea from is a story structure called the tragic plot embryo. This whole thing is what I’m using for my story In the Grey actually. If you want to see the tragic plot embryo and how I use it you can just hit me up or google it 😊

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

This is awesome! And extremely depressing!

⚠️ GOOD OMENS SEASON 2 SPOILERS !!! ⚠️

Drawing this crushed my soul to pieces just so you know :’D

Love this ❤️

Random character arc moments and plot points

• in fight about to give up and lose, but then they hear the love interest, or sibling, friend, yelling their name

• friend being in a bad situation/hurt/being caught and they see the MC, but they can't do nothing to save them because they'd blow cover

• character begging to live, and crying their eyes out...or not, just froze in fear and pleading

• character accepting their death knowing they've done their work, and smiling in their last moments

• pushed past their breaking point

• character reuniting with someone they thought was dead

• sacrifice themselves for everyone or just one person

• composed characters losing their composure

• characters hugging each other after one or both of them have been through everything

• the hero has a gun pointed at the villain, but they are struggling to pull the trigger. They can't. They yell for the villain to run

• the betrayer finds the hero, their former friend, injured, and they have compassion, never really wanting the hero to die or be hurt. They help the hero. (Further more, if they end up having to trust each other as the situation becomes more dire.)

• the hero is being captured/hurt/leaving, and their friend held back from intervening and they struggle

im so sorry but i saw you're url and i thought you were a bot...glad you're not tho thats cool

It’s cool I think a lot of people are bots unless they have a profile name 😂. Honestly it’s better just not to add people if you think they’re bots, I hope one day tumblr will get a handle on that 🙄