PARTY PARTY PARTY I WANNA HAVE A PARTY
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
it doesn't come off without outside help, something which as history has shown us is pretty hard to get when you're flailing around on fire.
Ha, loved it.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
That's a line that wouldn't look out of place on Stuff I Won't Work With.
The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
Well, I suppose some snatches of conversation from my pseudo-REM-sleep visions that I started to get while still really awake, when I closed my eyes for more than a few seconds at a time, after not having slept for 30 hours or so, count as my own writing.
For duty, duty, must be done, the rule applies to everyone;
"The Shipping Hat has returned. God help us all."
By now, it should be clear to all except the most dense of us that sheep are secretly conspiring to kill us all and steal our pants.
"Over the years, I've saved lives, killed people, been jailed by real mounties, I was a six-time knife fighting champion, I'm the former manager of Paradise Towers-"
"Paradise Towers? Where's that?"
"I have no idea."
edited 24th Sep '14 6:17:00 AM by Inceptiond
"Doki Doki Lit. Club" is a happy game where nothing bad happens. seriously tho? not for the faint of heart.
Hey there! Having fun?
"Look at him shake. If we let him take that polygraph, he's done for."
"Forget the polygraph. He'd fail a seismograph."
"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — Ultimatepheer
Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
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That is a very clever line. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
"You can call me a criminal. You can call me a murderer. You can call me a menace to society. You can call me a despicable human being. But you can't never call me a villain. In the same vein, while I will call you a law-abiding citizen and a vigilante, I will never call you a hero."
edited 25th Sep '14 4:59:49 PM by dRoy
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Razzin-Frazzin Robot
Pretty good, what's the context?
"See, I've always found 'use your head' to be useful in most cases. But sometimes you'll find that the best way to deal with a person is to reduce their head, often to a head with a big hole in it. You'll want to take any information that you learned from the experience and reuse it, and then you can recycle your knowledge onto others."
"I'm not sure those are what the three Rs mean."
"Hey, don't make me reduce your head."
edited 25th Sep '14 10:52:15 PM by BiggerBen
Ghosts N' Stuff Remix
Perhaps to drive his point in further, he stepped forward onto the body and said "Oh, look, there he is! There he is, Jefferson Albrechy, he's here and perfectly fine! How do you do on this beautiful evening, Mr. Albrechy?" He extended his hand, and vigorously shook hands with the empty air. Here he stepped off of poor Jefferson, pushing the corpse behind him with his foot.
I walked over to him. Slowly, of course. Eventually I got close enough to punch him in the face, which is the first thing I was planning on doing. It would have been a catharthic move, but it wouldn't have been a smart one, which is why I ended up not going through with it. I put a warm hand on his shoulder, and looked him in the eye.
"I am making a citizen's arrest.", I said.
Wrong thread. (Was gonna post something, but... nah, needs more ironing out.)
edited 26th Sep '14 7:04:03 PM by KillerClowns
The future of warfare in UC.
That willingness to fight on, even when it serves no purpose, is the other thing that troubles me. On my darkest days, I wonder if they're truly sentient opponents or if I have spent my life fighting what amount to the immune cells of some vast, unseen organism. Every pilot lost in a dogfight with their fighters is a powerful counterargument to this, of course; but still, at times, watching them throw their lives away to no purpose again and again, to attack furiously and without hesitation regardless of circumstance...I wonder.
(That Guy You Met Once)
@Baffle Blend: ![[awesome]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minis/award_star_gold_3.png "[awesome]"){kind=small}
edited 26th Sep '14 8:55:09 PM by Wheezy
Project progress: The Adroan (102k words), The Pigeon Witch, (40k). Done but in need of reworking: Yume Hime, (50k)
casually taking over the world
I don't want to make a bajillion of arrows so I'll just say I agree with . Jany approves ![[tup]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Thumbs_up_emoticon_3268.png "[thumb up]"){kind=small}
This also sums up Vicky surprisingly well, so does this:
edited 27th Sep '14 11:13:16 AM by Jarina
No you can't call me Jar(i) I am not a glass container
Ghosts N' Stuff Remix
Well, I'd say she sounds like a bitch. Is she your villain or what?
"Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy."
casually taking over the world
No, she's actually the protagonist, as in, the main character, it's even her POV (which I gotta admit, I love writing). But yeah, she's not a particularly pleasant person.
No you can't call me Jar(i) I am not a glass container
Ghosts N' Stuff Remix
Some free advice: this is not a deadpan snarker, this is a bitch. Snarkers make jokes. This character seems to only be making threats. Nobody is going to want to read a book where the protagonist is repellent.
casually taking over the world
Well alright, then she's a bitch. She's still the protagonist though, and I appreciate your advice but I think I'll be keeping her.
No you can't call me Jar(i) I am not a glass container
Ghosts N' Stuff Remix
Okay.
"Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy."
Ghosts N' Stuff Remix
"These are the sort of C-list celebrities he could get for this thing, huh?" I asked, nudging Alexander a little with my elbow to accentuate my joke. He didn't laugh.
"Everybody knows Whitechapel [the town in which the story is set] is bad news. Who'd want to go through all those hoops just to get gunned down in the street?". He flipped through the list, regarding it in the same way he might regard an unexpected IRS audit.
"A former pro wrestler, some one-hit wonder alt band from 2009, extras from Community...this woman has her own charity, this guy has a show on the Food Network...oh, there's whatshisface, the guy who put the paper bag on his head." Alexander stopped, flipped through a couple pages, and ran his finger down a ways before suddenly stopping.
"Oh, Sting! Sting is at the party! We can't ignore the invitations now!" he said, with the utmost sincerity.
Resident pretentious dickwad
I disagree strongly. I mean, if you have the kind of story that requires the audience to root for the protagonists, then yes, making those characters unlikeable is bad. And a writer definitely needs to be able to control how their characters are coming across. But to say that all protagonists need to be sympathetic is to have an awfully narrow view of what literature is and can be.
Looking through a list I made a while ago of my 18 all-time favorite books, only five have outright sympathetic protagonists. And one of those five books is a Cormac McCarthy novel, so I don't think I'm setting the bar for 'sympathetic' too high. Of the remaining thirteen books, five are such that the concept of likeability is not really applicable. Four are about unsympathetic dickbags with some redeeming traits or positive arcs, and the remaining four are about utterly repellent pieces of human waste. I can't quite understand why the last four are enjoyable to read, but they sure as hell are.
edited 27th Sep '14 5:11:41 PM by ArtisticPlatypus
This implies, quite correctly, that my mind is dark and damp and full of tiny translucent fish.
Professional Recluse
“Good morning Gundula.” I said leaning back into her embrace, a well practiced maneuver...That apparently needed more practice as my aching spine made apparent.
“Regarding what?”
“Your signature of course. You’re starting to make your “L” loops smaller, fancy fancy, have you been writing some love letters on the side?” the older woman assessed with the only indicator of sarcasm being a slight gleam in her uncovered eye.
Minna once again wondered how she could come up with a divergent train of thought so quickly and stay completely deadpan, with her jolly demeanor it was easy to forget that her rank of "Major" was well earned and her tongue sharp.
edited 27th Sep '14 7:59:06 PM by Slysheen
Stoned hippie without the stoned. Or the hippie. My AO3 Page, grab a chair and relax.
Originally a quote from a troper towards my character, I use this line to show the Fantastic Racism between the Terrans and Gifted (who have magic powers but must consume Terran souls once a week, thus understandably frightening a number of Terrans).
It doesn't help that she was temporarily driven berserk by her Guardian and killed lots of people in the process.
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It's actually not that bad. Most of the Terrans and Gifted tend to get along with each other.
edited 28th Sep '14 7:12:04 AM by ironcommando
...eheh
casually taking over the world
Oh my, now that sounds like a lovely world.
I think we can all agree that this is YMMV at its finest, and I get the feeling that we're sort of drifting away from the topic.
