On The "you're The Cruelest Of All" Scene

on the "you're the cruelest of all" scene

the moment where kakania attempted to use hypnosis on isolde ... that broke me for real. it was at this moment that isolde felt utterly betrayed and hopeless. it should be noted that kakania had no ill intentions and only used hypnosis as a last resort, but in isolde's eyes, that only goes to reaffirm that she is in fact unfixable. if someone with such strong principles was willing to forsake said principles just so that there may be a hope of "saving" isolde ...

but what really gets me the most is the way isolde accepted it. out of her own volition? i can't say for sure, she's been through too much in such a short period of time. but her exact words were "i will embrace it with joy". whilst feeling betrayed by kakania, whose actions in that scene went against what she initially stood for, she still desperately clung onto salvation and the fact that kakania still cared for her. isolde doesn't want kakania to ostracize her for her condition the way the rest of society does, especially since kakania had shown her true compassion. and of course kakania never wanted to make her feel that way either, she's just at a loss of how to deal with isolde. no one is really to blame in a situation like this, and that's partly what makes it so tragic

Foreshadowing Ideas

• Character themes/motifs. I’ve heard of one writer who tries to give each character their own theme for similes, metaphors, descriptions, etc so there’s like a theme to the way they’re portrayed. You could use that to foreshadow notable secrets about the character that will later be revealed, or if at any point they’re disguised then you can use that to tip off the reader that they have the same motifs and so might be related/the same person

• Tiny details hidden in lists. Say the MC was trying to work out the identity of a bad guy, who we know was wearing a red shirt on the day of a big bad event. A few chapters later, MC is checking around their best friend’s room to find them, with the place its usual mess with discarded takeaway boxes, the bed unmade, a red shirt left on the floor that could use a good sweep. The red shirt might not click with all the readers, but those who register it upon their first read will eat it up

• Inconsistent behavioural patterns. Once we have a good idea of what a character is like, having them act out of character can set off alarm bells and make us question what’s occurred to make them act this way. Let the other characters register it too, if it’s reasonable that they would, but let them ultimately brush it off quite quickly to keep it subtle. Or just call it right out, whichever you prefer

• Unreliable narrators. Let one character say one thing and a second character say another, even if they both ultimately agree on the same thing but get one or two small details wrong. Ideally do this two or three times in order for the reader to know it’s not just a mistake in the plot but an intentional inconsistency, but even if it’s only done once and it’s taken as a mistake it’ll still slot together like puzzle pieces in the end and they’ll be kicking themself for dismissing it

• In-universe red herrings. If you’re going to add red herrings as foreshadowing, it’s helpful if the red herring aligns with the intentions of someone person aware of the upcoming plot twist who’s trying to control the narrative. Say the plot twist was the reveal of a mysterious character’s identity to be the best friend of the MC, the best friend might have deliberately thrown the MC off their scent by planting suspicions in the MC’s mind that a different character was the mysterious character’s identity all along. This is less about foreshadowing the actual reveal, of course, but rereads will be a punch to the gut when everyone realises that all this misinformation and red herring business came from someone trying to cover their own ass rather than coming from misunderstandings or multiple other random sources

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loolybool

1 year ago

yuppppp

#ocd #actuallyocd

While in general I do agree that there is a difference between intrusive thoughts and normal thoughts, the scrupulosity part of OCD is very good at hijacking your actual conscience and merging into it, which does result in my OCD thoughts with a moral bent more existing along a continuum...

horizontal scale with "intrusive thoughts" on the left and "normal thoughts" on the right, with various thoughts listed along the scale, which from right to left read "scissors scissors scissors scissors scissors scissors*", "it is ableist to not be able to read someone's writing," "driving a car contributes to climate change you should take the bus even if it takes an extra several hours, seriously, why can't you weather a little inconvenience to save the world, what are you, and oil CEO," "the "I could throw this computer out the window" thoughts," "the number 25 is not a good number because 5 doesn't want to go at the end and a number," and "the way my brain goes "we shall not starve this winter" whenever I harvest potatoes"

at the bottom of the image is a note reading "* placeholder for the really bad intrusive thoughts that I have difficulty talking about because they're still very disturbing to me and I haven't unpacked that yet"

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loolybool

1 year ago

Ariadne from UDAD is either a very very mean lesbian trying to pass as straight or an aroace who gives no fucks about people literally no fucking in between

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loolybool

2 months ago

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

A colour wheel divided into sections with dialogue tags fitting the categories 'complains', 'agrees', 'cries', 'whines', 'shouts', and 'cheers'

A colour wheel divided into sections with dialogue tags fitting the categories 'asks', 'responds', 'states', 'whispers', 'argues', and 'thinks'

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loolybool

1 year ago

#ayo KNOWLEDGE

I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!

FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)

Alison

Coursera

FutureLearn

open2study

Khan Academy

edX

P2P U

Academic Earth

iversity

Stanford Online

MIT Open Courseware

Open Yale Courses

BBC Learning

OpenLearn

Carnegie Mellon University OLI

University of Reddit

Saylor

IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)

TED

FORA

Big Think

99u

BBC Future

Seriously Amazing

How Stuff Works

Discovery News

National Geographic

Science News

Popular Science

IFLScience

YouTube Edu

NewScientist

DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)

wikiHow

Wonder How To

instructables

eHow

Howcast

MAKE

Do it yourself

FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS

OpenStax CNX

Open Textbooks

Bookboon

Textbook Revolution

E-books Directory

FullBooks

Books Should Be Free

Classic Reader

Read Print

Project Gutenberg

AudioBooks For Free

LibriVox

Poem Hunter

Bartleby

MIT Classics

Many Books

Open Textbooks BCcampus

Open Textbook Library

WikiBooks

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS

Directory of Open Access Journals

Scitable

PLOS

Wiley Open Access

Springer Open

Oxford Open

Elsevier Open Access

ArXiv

Open Access Library

LEARN:

1. LANGUAGES

Duolingo

BBC Languages

Learn A Language

101languages

Memrise

Livemocha

Foreign Services Institute

My Languages

Surface Languages

Lingualia

OmniGlot

OpenCulture’s Language links

2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING

Codecademy

Programmr

GA Dash

CodeHS

w3schools

Code Avengers

Codelearn

The Code Player

Code School

Code.org

Programming Motherf*?$%#

Bento

Bucky’s room

WiBit

Learn Code the Hard Way

Mozilla Developer Network

Microsoft Virtual Academy

3. YOGA & MEDITATION

Learning Yoga

Learn Meditation

Yome

Free Meditation

Online Meditation

Do Yoga With Me

Yoga Learning Center

4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING

Exposure Guide

The Bastards Book of Photography

Cambridge in Color

Best Photo Lessons

Photography Course

Production Now

nyvs

Learn About Film

Film School Online

5. DRAWING & PAINTING

Enliighten

Ctrl+Paint

ArtGraphica

Google Cultural Institute

Drawspace

DragoArt

WetCanvas

6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY

Music Theory

Teoria

Music Theory Videos

Furmanczyk Academy of Music

Dave Conservatoire

Petrucci Music Library

Justin Guitar

Guitar Lessons

Piano Lessons

Zebra Keys

Play Bass Now

7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS

Investopedia

The Chess Website

Chesscademy

Chess.com

Spreeder

ReadSpeeder

First Aid for Free

First Aid Web

NHS Choices

Wolfram Demonstrations Project

Please feel free to add more learning focused websites.

*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.

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loolybool

1 year ago

#meirl

me: *is jokingly mean to my friend*

friend: *jokingly pretends to be hurt*

me:

a tearful, confused little blobby person surrounded by question marks and text reading “friend HURT?? I HURT FRIEND???”

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loolybool

1 month ago

when did you get back on here? i thought you disapeared before april 1st to miss the boops by accident again (I mean this in a silly way, I miss you merryl)

lol im a lurker mostly i dont really post/reblog much but yeah im on here sometimes

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loolybool

1 year ago

everyone with a para who has extremely long names (at least 3 names + a last name) please drop the tags and have a good day — chamomiledaydreams

^^^^^

Tags

me when merriwether william lloyd collridge :/

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loolybool

9 months ago

You're not immune to being the bully btw. You're not immune to being in the wrong