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Read this Twitter thread… (partly because Microsoft doesn’t want you to.)

myhoniahakah:

• Learn the body language of fear.
  
• Consider the thoughts your character would go through when something horrible goes down.
• You want what happens to be terrifying, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be horrible. What I mean by that is you can have a scene that’s scary, but in that scene, no one dies or gets hurt.
• Give your readers a break from horror every now and then. This should go for every genre, and a great way to do it is by making sub-plots.
• Make it realistic. Even if it’s about the zombie apocalypse, or something that can’t actually happen. The supernatural has it’s own set of rules, and you need to ensure that the story isn’t so far-fetched that it makes no sense.
• Don’t add anything for shock value. Readers notice when you’re trying to be edgy.
• Give your character something to lose. Gore and violence aren’t as terrifying to read as knowing your character can lose everything they love at any moment.
• Get the reader invested in the character.
• You want the reader to have questions, but don’t want them to be confused. So don’t reveal everything too soon, but don’t reveal too little. This will help add suspense
• Learn how humans react in terrifying situations
• Consider having your character think and act irrationally
• And if you really wanna have fun, consider having your character slowly descend into madness

funnymemes-and-kinkydreams:

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i made a comic in google slides for some ungodly reason

the long-awaited sequel, Untitled #2

Untitled #3 explores the formulaic entertainment mass-produced by the pawns of capitalism. Or I just wanted to say ass. One of the two.

Untitled #4: the plot thiccens. also there’s a plot apparently

Untitled #5. This whole comic is 23 strips long, and I’ll be doing daily uploads until it’s all posted. Thanks for the great response y’all.

Untitled #6. Okay so firstly, HOLY FUCK Y’ALL. I did NOT expect this comic to get notes, let alone fanart. The most recent strip will always be linked at the bottom of my pinned post, so you can check there to see if you’re caught up.

Untitled #7. Not much to say here. I hope you’re having a good day!

Untitled #8. The true plot begins.

Untitled #9. The Creator can possess Red because I, like Red, have a phenomenal ass. That’s it. It’s not that deep.

Untitled #10. *slaps roof of blue square* this bad boy can fit so much fucking existential despair

Untitled #11. Bet you didn’t expect the ass jokes comic to come to this now did you

Untitled #12. Red is fucking pissed at me. sorry buddy

Untitled #13. I indeed cannot have a comic without characters. Well played, Red.

Untitled #14. Red has his priorities straight.

Untitled #15. It would be funny if this were the last strip but I promise it isn’t. I put too much effort into the end of the comic to stop it now.

Untitled #16. Nice try, Red. Nice try.

Untitled #17. The paradox of omnipotence perpetually vexes me :(

Untitled #18. Let’s not have any ambiguity: Red’s dead. Hey, that rhymes! Neat!

Untitled #19. While strip 18 coincidentally did fall on April Fool’s, it wasn’t a prank. This comic has two characters now. Remember when this comic was about ass jokes?

Untitled #20. Three more strips to go. Holy shit.

Untitled #21. ass haha

Untitled #22. What am I going to do? Who knows… Find out tomorrow at roughly 8:30 AM EST!

Untitled #23.

Probably the happiest ending this comic could have had

This is seriously the best.

tokidokifish:

tokidokifish:

i cannot get over at this newsstory. i CANNOT. i cannot believe that they paid someone to write a story about how people aren’t having children in the middle of a global pandemic that cost MILLIONS of people their jobs. this is the stupidest fucking thing i’ve ever seen!! do they think people are just sitting at home like “well can’t find any new series to binge, might as well have a fucking baby! that’s the next logical step, right?” i’m going to SCREAM.

the thrilling FUCKING sequel

thebookquotes:

If you believe in peace, act peacefully ; if you believe in love, acting lovingly ; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that’s perfectly valid — but don’t go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.

— Tom Robbins

idiosyncraticrednebula:

When people take the accountability away from women and decide to place the blame on men like nearly most of the Modern Western Feminists™ for literally ALL of their problems, then they aren’t empowering women; what they are doing is basically relegate women to a victimhood, helpless position and make men have power over them by not holding women accountable for a damn thing. Ironic, isn’t it? 🤔  

zwischenstadt:

“Though labor is forced to take on the form of a commodity, it is not a true commodity but a pseudocommodity (Storper and Walker, 1983). Despite this distinction, a central feature of capitalist labor markets is the subordination of labor to the discipline of market regulation. The clash between market discipline and the social foundations of labor renders the capitalist labor market a ‘satanic mill’ (Polyani, 1944). The ever-present danger in capitalist labor markets- which usually manifests itself during times or in places in which labor’s bargaining position is weakened- is that labor will be reduced to the status of a mere commodity… As theorized by Offe (1985), the problematic relationship between labor and labor markets produces a number of contradictions. From the perspective of neoclassical economics these contradictions tend to be interpreted as failures of the labor market. Orthodox notions of labor market failure convey the impression that such problems (for example, ruptures in skill formation or the persistence of mass unemployment) are in a sense periodic breakdowns within a broadly functional economic system. They are analyzed in terms of disrupted equilibrium, i.e., as a temporary departure from business as usual where supply and demand are in harmony (see Ebert and Stone, 1992). Here, and in contrast, the failure of labor markets is viewed as systemic. The contradictions of capitalist labor markets are deep-seated and ultimately ‘resolvable’ only in terms of temporary institutional containment. The institutional fabric of the labor market, while essential to its continued functioning, does not fully resolve its underlying contradictions, which are logically (though not historically) prior to institutional responses. Institutional responses are just that: responses. Rarely if ever do they provide absolute solutions to regulatory dilemmas. Rather, the process of labor regulation is continuous and imperfect. Historically, 'regulation and markets grew up together’ (Polyani, 1944, p. 68). Thus, the 'free’ labor market was not an historical predecessor to the regulated labor market: instead labor market problems and their putative regulatory solutions evolved together through a process of iterative and dynamic development.”

— Jamie Peck, Work-Place: The Social Regulation of Labor Markets

inthenoosphere:

“A human being is developed only by crystallization of the sum total of his own experiences. Our present system of education contradicts this axiom by stressing preponderantly single fields of application.”

— László Moholy-Nagy

#systemiccontradiction