Today we're talking about character voice, backstory, and writing with specificity. I’ve talked about all these elements separately, but combined these three are the most important elements of your description. Why? Because describing something is the best place to learn not only what the character is experiencing, but more about them and their backstory.
We do that through drawing comparisons not to abstract ideas, but to specific moments the character has witnessed. Okay, consider these two examples:
The room smelled of warm spices and herbs like a fancy restaurant kitchen.
Vs.
The room smelled like the thyme and basil that clung to my mother's hair when she had finished making dinner, kneeling to hug me after I came in from school.
They convey the same information, but we learn so much more about the character in the second example.
In my Differentiating between Perspectives post, I talked more about attitude in character voice. What your character compares things to is a great tell for voice. Here’s the example from that post:
“The bar was filled to the brim with sweaty drunks falling over each other, barely cognizant of the drinks they were spilling--much less so the people around them.”
Versus
“Upbeat dance music filled the bar. A crowd had formed in the middle of the floor, people cheering and dancing together like the rest of the world hardly mattered.”
Right?
Check out the full post here:
So when you’re describing something and reaching for a metaphor or something to liken it to, try to make it personal, in the character’s voice, and specific. We can learn a whole lot more that way.
Bro what 😭 their issues is that they have different views in life and that their put against each other because of the world misoginistic standards, they have different views and that's normal, they fight because of said views but their fights are extremely childish because neither truly understood the seriousness of it all, fighting over childish things and serious is NORMAL between siblings, fights are NORMAL everything that happens between Sansa and Arya is a realistic depiction of two siblings not getting along as CHILDREN which is NORMAL💀. Once again families don't always get along, siblings fight and siblings say mean things to each other in said fights and all of that is normal because it's literally how every relationship goes, sometimes you fight with your loved ones, sometimes you hurt each other with words the point is to get past it, Sansa and Arya are children their fights are childish and they never truly meant to cause each other harm because they did not understand what that would mean, they are both sheltered little kids for the love of god 😭
This whole Sansa vs Arya shit always makes me laugh, "Sansa bullied Arya" bruh my sister used to call me a fucking whale and i used to make fun of her teeth cuz she had kind bunny like front teeth it's normal for CHILDREN who are also SIBLINGS to make fun of each other "Uuuh but Jeyne Poole also made fun of Arya" I'm a younger sibling my sister and her friend did not want me around when they were together and would usually tease me to make me leave because guess what? They were children that did not want a random ass kid in their business (and they were older than both Sansa and Jeyne). Arya teases and makes fun of Sansa too y'all i promise you that shit ain't that deep, we literally know that they love and care deeply for each so this whole rivalry y'all got going on needs to stop cuz it's getting embarrassing this girls are between the ages of like 8-11 please stop trying to make them out to be bad people, they are children and children are selfish and assholes sometimes doesn't mean they're evil
Are you going to apologize for simping for an antisemite?
No because this was almost a decade ago and he apologized saying that it wasn't meant to be antisemitic but acknowledge it as such, now do you want to go through all the controversies of all the artists that support Palestine until we find one evil enough you can use against pro Palestine people? 🥰
Some people in the bungo stray dogs fandom have this superiority complex that's so cringe to see, no you aren't better than anyone for "not shipping" the characters, no you aren't "more based" for shipping "rare pairs" and no you aren't better than the Soukoku shipper's for not shipping Chuuya and Dazai 💀 like goddamn y'all so annoying, i don't like Fyozai but you don't see me making long ass post about how much i disklike it, if you don't like the ships just don't interact with the shippers and the shipping content it's really not that hard.
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Also y'all need to stop reducing every single other characters to what they are to Dazai, especially Chuuya that man is so we'll written and has such an interesting story but y'all love to ignore it and act like Dazai is the only one that has trauma and Chuuya is just the other part of the ship 💀
(TW Light mention of sa)
Most of the theories for his backstory is basically Yosano backstory, proud hater of the Mori sa'd theory 🙏
He has blue eyes and pronouns
what the fuck is up with neil josten?
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God I wish elections in the fucking US wouldn’t affect literally every other country in the world
“The desire to be ‘accurate’ suddenly disappears when sex isn’t involved and it is actual interesting day to day minutiae,” says Eleanor Janega, a medieval historian who teaches at the London School of Economics. “If the ('Game of Thrones’) world was historically accurate, why isn’t every single noble house or castle absolutely covered by huge gaudy, colourful murals? Why is it that this form of historical accuracy isn’t important, but showing rape as endemic is?”
Other historians point out that, as prurient and gasp-worthy as something like a crude C-section death is, such butchery wasn’t as prevalent as storytellers would have you believe.
“They were very keen on protecting mothers from harm,” medieval history scholar Sara McDougall told Slate.
Texts from the time indicate that such extreme measures would usually be performed on women who had already died – not, as in “House of the Dragon,” a fully awake and alert woman with no clue what was about to happen to her.
[…]
Janega points out that, while medieval times were certainly not overkind to women or anyone else who wasn’t rich, powerful and male, they weren’t the burlesque of suffering we’re so used to seeing on screen.
“'Accuracy’ is always focusing on the distasteful aspects of a society, but never the pleasurable ones,” she says. “(It) somehow always encompasses sexual violence and never things like, for example, the three field system, or fishing weirs. They don’t really show how women other than the nobility are a dynamic part of the medieval workforce. Women are found in pretty much every facet of medieval work: as blacksmiths, running shops, brewing beer, in cloth production, running bath houses or in trading delegations addressing the court.”
I didn't know Buddie stans could be so toxic, why are y'all on TikTok and Twitter acting like Tommy's actor is ugly???? Wtf is wrong with you people 😭 THIS MAN IS NOT UGLY 🙏 and even if he was y'all are judgemental ass people, ugly people can still be the love interest of a main character and deserve love as a whole???
I hate the "both sides are bad" narrative about jayviks vs Mel stans people use because only one side has written multiple fanfiction of a black woman being experimented on by their favorite white gay man. The way this isn't the first time jayviks put Mel in their fics just to write weird ass scenes like this
she/her I'm in so many fandoms I've forgotten the name of most of them 😭🙏
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