secret-stories-misc

[hoary knot]

Yeah. The Switch isn’t powerful enough for Outer Wilds.

Oof.

[long sky]

I have dragged my sister into a genuine Rain World fascination

[hoary knot]

Poggers.

[swift badge]

another one is taken

[long sky]

She loves it so much, she's really genuinely getting into it, this is the first person I've ever been able to convince to play the game

[austere hawk]

JEALOUS I wanna get my irl friends into RW so bad

[eager warren]

Let’s gooo!
The Infection

[plucky zenith]

I'm getting my best friend into it

[long sky]

Lmao she just finally found her way to Pebbles, she kept yelling at me to take pictures of her screen when the lettering was appearing on the walls cause she wants to make it her lockscreen

[austere hawk]

maybe you can even tell her you wrote fanfiction

[plucky zenith]

He's got the game and we've played it together

[scenic escarp]

Literally, nothing is within walking distance

[swift badge]

ive actually gotten a couple people into it after commissioning them with my slugcat OCs
"oh these creatures are so cute, where are they from?"
" "

[long sky]

Terrifying, but she'll figure it out eventually if she joins the discord

[austere hawk]

is she the type to join?

[long sky]

Probably

[night lily]

Everything is if you try hard enough /j

[swift badge]

[long sky]

If she does I could convince her to start writing too

[austere hawk]

oh ho ho time to tell her all your dirty secrets that I definitely know

[plucky zenith]

I've got him thinking about the lore and he is quite the writer...

[hoary knot]

I’d love to get my real life friends into Rain World but they don’t play video games.

[gleaming valley]

my irl friends got me into rainworld

HEY

HEYHEYHEY

[austere hawk]

i'm so jealous though I wanna spread the rw infection

[gleaming valley]

I SAW THAT NOIT

[hoary knot]

Flav is one hell of a writer though, I wouldn’t be surprised if her book actually gets published some day.

[austere hawk]

new storyer?

[swift badge]

oh goodie i'd love to talk to your sister

[long sky]

Crispy's gonna corrupt my sister

[plucky zenith]

Maybe...

[night lily]

I only got one friend into RW and he only studies the lores but doesn't plan to play himself

[plucky zenith]

I'm taking it slow

[swift badge]

with whatttt?

[eager warren]

I wouldn’t say “corrupt”

More… “Influence”

[austere hawk]

make them read stinky fish fic to scare them away

[long sky]

Like a frog boil

[gleaming valley]

sfish

[plucky zenith]

Later

[plucky zenith]

[swift badge]

his fate in supermassive hands

oh yeah look at those riv flabbergasteds going up

[plucky zenith]

he has read all my original fiction so I know he'd probably like SiTS

[austere hawk]

his fish in stinky fish

[swift badge]

thats a sign of high social status right there

[hoary knot]

[long sky]

Frog I'm so sorry

[scenic escarp]

(Fishie) Swims in the Sea

[austere hawk]

what have you done

what's next, peeling bananas?

[plucky zenith]

His style is even more minimalist than mine

[long sky]

[gleaming valley]

eating cheese?

WHY DID

[long sky]

Bananas and Frogs and Cheese oh my

[gleaming valley]

SUPERREAXT??

[eager warren]

Aggressive affection

[plucky zenith]

Like if Banan thought I hated prepositions and adverbs...

[austere hawk]

well I also hate adverbs, that's valid

[plucky zenith]

Imagine SiTS without the Poetry

[gleaming valley]

oka im gonna go now

[austere hawk]

adverbs are stinky

[long sky]

Banan said stinkily

[plucky zenith]

Agreed

[night lily]

Imagine SiTS but it's bullet points format /j

[unkempt yew]

I'm back once more

[plucky zenith]

Literally

[hoary knot]

Crispy bananas and frogs pâté with a bit of cheese on the side.

[plucky zenith]

he's very talented though

[scenic escarp]

Adverb

[plucky zenith]

I'm recruiting him

[swift badge]

crispy

[long sky]

Recuiting

[plucky zenith]

[hoary knot]

Crispy.

[plucky zenith]

[swift badge]

banan said objectively

[plucky zenith]

Adverb haters are losing rn

[eager warren]

Wait

[hoary knot]

I love adverbs.

[eager warren]

What’s an Adverb

[plucky zenith]

I need my friend here faster

[austere hawk]

don't worry our opinions are the most important /j

[hoary knot]

They add flavour to your text.

[hoary knot]

Importantly, very, etc.

[unkempt yew]

I still find adverbs difficult

[austere hawk]

they dryly state what the text should otherwise show

[eager warren]

Aaah

The scrunkly words

[plucky zenith]

Describes a verb. usually ends in "LY"
"You grabbed quickly"
"You said loudly"

[scenic escarp]

Maybe because y'all using them redundantly

[swift badge]

tree explained explainedly

[austere hawk]

they have use

but they're a kind of shortcut

[swift badge]

banan admitts reluctantly

[plucky zenith]

You can generally substuite them with a stronger verb

[austere hawk]

it's really easy to be reliant on them

[hoary knot]

True.

[austere hawk]

this

[hoary knot]

But they can still be of great use.

[austere hawk]

use strong, punchy verbs.

[plucky zenith]

strong verbs here

[swift badge]

banan said with conviction

[eager warren]

“I butcherd the Slugcat patiently”

[long sky]

The adverbs I'm my earlier chapters are bad, I do think they lend themselves to redundancy, but sometimes an adverb actively contributes to the sentence in a way that doesn't remove any of the effectiveness

[night lily]

What in the case of enhancing adjective though?

[hoary knot]

Crispy added with little enthusiasm.

[swift badge]

frog replied lightheartedly

[long sky]

Hemingway used them a lot

[scenic escarp]

This adds a unique feeling

[night lily]

The data pearl is sparkly vibrant

... it's kinda over redundant I guess

[plucky zenith]

Use stronger adjective

[swift badge]

the data pearl is BLINDINGLY, VIOLENTLY, VIBRANT, BURNING ALMOST EVERONE'S CORNEAS OFF

[hoary knot]

Annoyed, Crispy replied to jab.

[eager warren]

My feelings are always unique

Reason?
Idk, Autism maybe

[scenic escarp]

Lmao

[hoary knot]

Okay, good night stories.

[swift badge]

im not annoyed

i say annoyingly

[hoary knot]

I know.

[austere hawk]

sometimes the right verb doesn't really exist, so you use adverbs... but a lot of the time there's a more interesting way to convey what you want without just relying on an adverb

[hoary knot]

[eager warren]

That’s what an annoyed person would say

[austere hawk]

that being said, i use them occasionally

[plucky zenith]

"The brightly glowing lantern fell."
"The shining lantern fell."

[unkempt yew]

Hmmmmm

[long sky]

The lantern fell shiningly

[unkempt yew]

I'm still stuck with words

[austere hawk]

with brightness

[plucky zenith]

that doesn't even make sense

[eager warren]

“The Lantern this, Lantern that, just kidnap a lantern mouse”

[swift badge]

[long sky]

[scenic escarp]

What if a gloomly-lit lantern fell

[unkempt yew]

Plantern?

[scenic escarp]

Actually, gloomy probably

[swift badge]

the VIOLENT, BLINDING GLOWING LANTERN FELL TO THE GROUND AS IT SEARED THOUGH EVERONYE'S EYES BY THE WILL OF GOD

[austere hawk]

adverb overuse is one of those things that makes a work feel fanfiction-y, but... I mean, we are writing fanfiction

[scenic escarp]

Adverb solved, time to go home

[plucky zenith]

"The dead lantern fell."

[night lily]

The dim lantern fell

[long sky]

Now I want to write dialogue where two characters debate topics like ethics and grammar while the third comically jabs in with practical knowledge

[austere hawk]

gloomily

[scenic escarp]

But it has light

[swift badge]

the lantern fell deadly

[plucky zenith]

I like dead as an adjective though

it's powerful

and dies as a verb

[swift badge]

the dead slugcat dies.

[unkempt yew]

The death of an object capable to shine brightly fell on the ground

[night lily]

Tree said, dead serious.

[scenic escarp]

I feel I overuse die in ACTS

I need something better than die

[plucky zenith]

[eager warren]

“The Lantern mouse’s body slowly dimmed as the colescepedes circled around hungrily, The dead lantern mouse was a decent food source, but an alive lantern mouse would have been more useful now…”

[swift badge]

[austere hawk]

perish

[swift badge]

:)

[unkempt yew]

Perish

[plucky zenith]

"Exploded into a million pieces."

[eager warren]

Kurplunked

[scenic escarp]

Fractals' hopes fuckin perished like expired canned food

[unkempt yew]

[swift badge]

LMAO?

LMAOOO

YOURE KILLING ME

[long sky]

Douglas Adams ass writing

[eager warren]

Oh I get it-

[austere hawk]

“The Lantern mouse’s body flickered and dimmed as the colescepedes walked hungry circles around it"

I will kill and consume all adverbs

[eager warren]

NAH UH

[austere hawk]

feed me adverbs

[swift badge]

bitterly

[eager warren]

kills you /silly

[austere hawk]

eaten, gone forever

[night lily]

Banan said hungrily

[swift badge]

thats? server? appropriate?

[scenic escarp]

I put adverbs when I need to get the thing written down because brain mush

[eager warren]

I challenge you to make a sentence without any adverbs

Make it really boring

[swift badge]

i thought you were gonna turn it into non adverb form

and help me out a bit

but nooooo

[night lily]

I read

[swift badge]

you just ate it

smh

[austere hawk]

I just did

[eager warren]

[austere hawk]

gonna need the rest of the sentence

[eager warren]

Now make a paragraph

[swift badge]

damn if i said something like that mods finna be on my back

[austere hawk]

just read my fic lmao

[long sky]

Banan the ultimate adverb eater

[swift badge]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QPtrVTqFhJ64fBBfYzVP-4aI4BBu_sNBroSMESSU65o/edit?tab=t.0 /jjjjjjj

[austere hawk]

i use occasional adverbs, but usually not

[long sky]

Renown 'ly' chower downer

[austere hawk]

though some of my unedited early chapters have more

[eager warren]

Maybe because your too unpredictable

Wait-
No
Maybe because I’m-
Maybe-
Idk-
Burger

[austere hawk]

I'm not 100% anti-adverb, I just think that other methods yield stronger sentences, generally

[austere hawk]

the entire chapter???

[plucky zenith]

“The Lantern mouse darkened as hungering fangs circled. It would have been more useful alive. Now it ended as everything did: food for an empty maw.”

[long sky]

Generally

[swift badge]

its just one setence, trust

[long sky]

[swift badge]

just a...longer setence

[austere hawk]

you didn't use bitterly once in this

[swift badge]

frick some mofo is actually in there

[austere hawk]

[swift badge]

i spelled it wrong on purpose

so you wont find it

you have to read everything

[austere hawk]

you use 'sig sounded bitter' which is better than 'sig said bitterly', though

hmmmm

nah I don't want omni spoilers

[swift badge]

:offended:

i need an offended emoji

[austere hawk]

[swift badge]

too angry

needs to be more posh

like an offended british person

✨ posh

[long sky]

[scenic escarp]

I thought rivflabbergasted was offended

[austere hawk]

[limpid ore]

[swift badge]

sometimes?

[swift badge]

no no like

[long sky]

Gotta make one

[swift badge]

put your hand to your chest lean back offended

[scenic escarp]

[austere hawk]

[swift badge]

no

[scenic escarp]

[swift badge]

like "ugh!" offended

no

[limpid ore]

[swift badge]

no

[plucky zenith]

"Venom fell from the words."

[swift badge]

theres no hand on chest

but the post is good

[scenic escarp]

[swift badge]

no

[night lily]

[swift badge]

no

[plucky zenith]

I love using venom to describe hateful speech

[swift badge]

not posh enough

POSH, PEOPLE POSH

POSH LIKE A BRITTISH PERSON

[scenic escarp]

[swift badge]

no

[austere hawk]

bitter is typically less biting than hatred, though

[limpid ore]

[plucky zenith]

Similar enough effect, I think

[swift badge]

[plucky zenith]

(I don't know the context)

[swift badge]

i need a maxium POSH

[swift badge]

oo

[long sky]

I think I know what you're telling about

[swift badge]

[limpid ore]

this

[swift badge]

no no

[long sky]

Like an HOA woman being told her buttered rolls suck

Hand on her chest shock

[eager warren]

Irritate them MORE

[swift badge]

the hand has to be ON THE BUSOM

[night lily]

"dripping with contempt"

[swift badge]

YES

YES

[swift badge]

YES

why wasnt it replying

anyways

THIS

IT HAS TO BE POSH

YOU GET IT?

POSH

[night lily]

(contemptuous sounds too pompous)

[long sky]

Once again I prove infallible/j

[swift badge]

help me with french pls

[eager warren]

The heck is “posh”

Is that just-
Fancy gay /j

[plucky zenith]

contempt is too amorphous though. I like using concrete descriptors more in my style

like venom

[swift badge]

POSH

YALL

POSH POSH ?

[eager warren]

BRITISH?!

[swift badge]

its like one of my favorite words

[long sky]

Gotta know avoir etre vouloir venir parler and aller off the top of your head like lightning

[swift badge]

posh!

[limpid ore]

i thought posh was an insult

[swift badge]

i need food french

HOW TO MEMROIZE GENDER

[swift badge]

for me its 50/50 tbh

[plucky zenith]

it is in American informal use

[swift badge]

but i like saying posh as a complement

[plucky zenith]

we don't like 'em fancy folk

[scenic escarp]

Took French before, can confirm

[long sky]

I SENT YOU THE LINK

[night lily]

I actually thought posh = vain

[swift badge]

I DIDNT WATCH IT

[limpid ore]

[long sky]

[plucky zenith]

[austere hawk]

posh people tend to be

[eager warren]

Spearmaster is Australian

The only British person is the Garbage worms just so I can do the bit of
“Oh what a Nice spear my fine chap, oh indubitably, it’s one of a kind, I must simply have this one”

[swift badge]

I NEVER WATCH VIDEOS WHEN I CAN TRIAL AND ERROR FOR 2 MONTHS

[scenic escarp]

We had to hit words on the whiteboard with flyswatters in French, good times

[long sky]

I can't criticize this this is exactly how I did it

[limpid ore]

actually i know some furniture in french bc of minecraft

free marketplace item

[swift badge]

this is me for everything; art, writing, how to make an ikea table, school, how to get rid of rats, etc

[scenic escarp]

Fuck it we ball

[swift badge]

how to be patient and not rush relationships chat

[long sky]

Go drink water

[swift badge]

cause im going to drop OMF in the trashcan

[long sky]

NO

[limpid ore]

bomb defusal

[plucky zenith]

[swift badge]

seriously how

[limpid ore]

in french

[swift badge]

i cant?

i cant do it?

[long sky]

Take a break!!

[eager warren]

I just realised I never actually did artwork for my Garbage worms

I gotta work on that

[swift badge]

there are no breaks in the wheel of time

[plucky zenith]

[scenic escarp]

We make them

[swift badge]

okay okay wait but

its seriously a problem cause

[eager warren]

Sure there is
You break the wheel

[plucky zenith]

But it can roll a different direction for a while

[swift badge]

i cant jsut avoid it by taking a break

[eager warren]

I do it every weekend

[austere hawk]

when they're ready to do the thing you want them to, they're gonna do it

[swift badge]

i have to face it one day

[swift badge]

but like? when?

[austere hawk]

if writing it isn't working, it's because you haven't built it up enough yet

[long sky]

Well yeah but even if it's a year from now that's still okay

[austere hawk]

when it's time

[swift badge]

like waiting for a fish to bite but mistakening a wave for a hook

[plucky zenith]

[swift badge]

eyebrow

[long sky]

You've gotta sit and brainstorm with someone, get plot ideas going

[plucky zenith]

good simile

[scenic escarp]

That's like a Tree metaphor

[austere hawk]

idk, it's hard to say. Pacing can be really tough

[swift badge]

i like fishing

[austere hawk]

spend more time on those characters

[swift badge]

how much more time?

should i just save the whole chapter for later?

[austere hawk]

maybe!

[trim tartan]

No. I will do the two-chapter character arc.

[austere hawk]

if it can be moved to later, move it

[swift badge]

how do you do all the messy middle stuff then?

[long sky]

My favorite thing to do when I'm stuck is to explain it to someone/something like it's a conspiracy theory and I'll start making connections

[swift badge]

how to get from point a to point b?

[austere hawk]

I moved something in my fic

[limpid ore]

i love writing silly guys in love

[night lily]

Then you gotta show why the fish would come to the hook

[plucky zenith]

people recognize my incessant metaphor use

it's my writing crutch

[swift badge]

HOWOWOWOOW

[limpid ore]

this again

[trim tartan]

It’s not even the monstrous, 5000-word long chapters, it’s really just 1500.

[long sky]

Well, OMF is sorta designed to be like drabbles right?

[austere hawk]

the rain scene, and the resulting thing that came of it was much earlier in my draft

[long sky]

So far it's three different stories in one, if I'm remembering correctly

[swift badge]

not intended, but yes, its a side effect of my ADHD

[scenic escarp]

Explore the characters' personalities, let them show who they truly are under the surface

[austere hawk]

because the characters weren't ready for that confrontation

[trim tartan]

And remember that they aren’t people. They’re characters.

[swift badge]

"how to write meaningful interactions that show and dont tell"

?

[austere hawk]

that's the tough one

comes with practice, I think

[swift badge]

maybe more; theres the NSH/SOS/UI/LTTM side side side story

[plucky zenith]

That's when I start to build the series of images and ideas that will form my motifs. Plus piles of worldbuilding and all

[night lily]

I mean, Im no expert, but if you're writing a relationship, then you gotta show why it happens i guess? Which I'd say give the characters a lot of sympathy/empathy towards each others, which mean they have to learn about each other

[plucky zenith]

It varies

[scenic escarp]

One thing that helped me is that making characters lie to each other and hide secrets makes for a lot of possibilities

[long sky]

What you're doing is great, and it's a character study. What you could do now is split it into three different fics, if you're really having trouble keeping them organized

[swift badge]

[plucky zenith]

Worldbuilding is a great time passer in fanfic I think

[long sky]

But it's just an idea! I really like omf

[scenic escarp]

Telling truths all the time makes stories feel a bit flat

[swift badge]

im just running out of material to use for their relationships i feel like everything moving too fast

[austere hawk]

yep the reader shouldn't see absolutely everything all the time, and neither should the characters

[swift badge]

but all the stories will end up connecting

[austere hawk]

I should read omni so I can help

[night lily]

If it seems things are moving too fast but it makes sense then it's not too fast?

[swift badge]

it doesnt make sense too me

[austere hawk]

one shortcut is using timeskips (don't have to be super long)

[plucky zenith]

Depends on the story imo. Sometimes someone who's brutally honest is great if they're stuck in a thoroughly intractable situation

[swift badge]

it was never stated NSH liked moon romantically but i just need to jump in it anyways?

[austere hawk]

if you do a timeskip, and the characters behave slightly differently after, that can imply some growth

[swift badge]

eyebrow

[night lily]

I need contexts so ig i have to read

[austere hawk]

kind of giving little snippets/looks into their change

[swift badge]

its not even released yet

[trim tartan]

People say that jazz isn’t just about all the notes you hear, it’s also about all that you don’t.

[scenic escarp]

Create some small things that they cherished between themselves?
Sliver was into lizard betting

[limpid ore]

silver

[trim tartan]

I find this to be a pretty big load of bullshit, but I think this is pretty true for writing.

[austere hawk]

doesn't have to be spoken, you can imply it with their actions 🤔 it's hard to make suggestions without context, though

[swift badge]

okay if i were to develop relationships i need to either

1. more iterator thinking
2. go back into the past and make things more confusing

[swift badge]

[plucky zenith]

then why not go straight into act 3 and let the fireworks fly?

[swift badge]

slowburn

[austere hawk]

or you can just keep going, if you truly don't have the time

what is the main focus of the fic?

[trim tartan]

Screw the slowburn.

Go chaos speed.

[plucky zenith]

Flash Fire

[austere hawk]

if it's the relationship, then yeah, maybe you need to develop it more

[trim tartan]

Do the one chapter character arc.

[swift badge]

idek anymore

[austere hawk]

[swift badge]

but i love slowburn

[plucky zenith]

New ficcer woes

[scenic escarp]

Sometimes, for a slowburn, you need to make the material when source is lacking

[plucky zenith]

I wrote the first chaper of SitS in 2022

[swift badge]

honestly idk
if go from the begining; SRS takes FP and restores him

[plucky zenith]

And the rest in 2024

I literally left it to gather dust for two years

[scenic escarp]

Yep, fics can take years

[swift badge]

i need to make more material yes, but no good ideas

[swift badge]

[scenic escarp]

I only got 10 chapters so far, and it's been like eight months

[austere hawk]

you've been pretty consistent, though!

[night lily]

You could also use the existing canon and spin it i guess, like maybe establish that the fact that sig sending over slag keys was something just unthinkable/unheard of that other iterators would never do. Something that sig would never have done for anyone else?

[swift badge]

that would be great if i didn't already establish stuff in other chapters

i suppose i can make it work but

its gonna feel cut from the feet

[plucky zenith]

Utilize the canon

foreshadow Sliver finding the 3a

[round loom]

All right I'm back what did I miss

[swift badge]

go back in time...AGAIN?

[round loom]

Oh I missed a whole bunch of conversations dang

[swift badge]

another side story; this time like 100 years ago

[plucky zenith]

[austere hawk]

fic writing is hard

[plucky zenith]

oh wait I got my timeline mixed up

[swift badge]

OMF is breaking down

[scenic escarp]

Oh my fic is breaking down

[plucky zenith]

foreshadow the snowy apocalypse of the world instead

[swift badge]

[round loom]

Yo what you all talking about

[meager moat]

Writing anything (that's not code) is hard for me

[round loom]

[swift badge]

foreshadowing is great but how will it tie back to relavent topics in the story?

[austere hawk]

do you have an outline, crispy?

[plucky zenith]

See this is why I write everything before posting, that way I can straighten it out in the cutting room

[plucky zenith]

does it need to?

Red herrings are a thing

plus, it can create an atmosphere

[swift badge]

orrrrrrrrrr like banan said i can just ignore all of this and write silly scug

[limpid ore]

i will never create an outline for a stowy

[night lily]

Maybe insert subtexts into the existing interactions you already wrote? Like take a mundane conversation and think what if these characters have certain feelings for each other, what could be changed and still retain the same overall message

[austere hawk]

could

[plucky zenith]

it's more of an allusion at that point

[swift badge]

guess

[trim tartan]

Banan didn’t like that. /ref

[plucky zenith]

I like how we're just super overcomplicating this

[swift badge]

what

[austere hawk]

I technically don't have an outline for hfish, so I can't judge

I just know the major beats

[swift badge]

i have it in my head, yeah the major beats; but im playing the major beats without playing the notes in between

[austere hawk]

but if your fic is feeling scattered tying it together in an outline can help

[limpid ore]

ive always winged it and ill never stop winging it

[plucky zenith]

the simpliest answer is just to sit down and stare at the blank computer screen for a while until you think of something

[swift badge]

song is choppy and unfinished

[scenic escarp]

Is that not an outline

[austere hawk]

hmmm

[austere hawk]

not a written one

[meager moat]

Well is it smart to throw a red herring at the reader for no reason, it's usually better if there's a reason for it like trying to surprise the reader. Like if it was hinted there was gonna be an ice age, it would be a red herring if you instead made the planet heat up even more

[scenic escarp]

ACTS may not have an outline either then

[plucky zenith]

Brain outline

OOooOOoooOo

[scenic escarp]

[trim tartan]

The brain is an amazing organ. Quote courtesy of the Brain.

[plucky zenith]

I have an outline that I just throw away because I think of something cooler

So much of my writing ends up on the cutting room floor

[austere hawk]

we're all just brains piloting meat mechs

[night lily]

I dont have context for what was written so im not sure how to make an example but like, what if it's sig and moon discussing pebbles becoming more and more stressed and recluse situation before the water incident, maybe have sig showing his concern about Moon by interjecting how all this affect her as well. It doesn't change the overall purpose of the conversation but add more nuances i think

[meager moat]

I asked my heart for a second opinion but all I got back was "cheeseburger"

[scenic escarp]

I thought you were a banan

[austere hawk]

[swift badge]

the damn flashbacks are always haunting me

[austere hawk]

gotta call me out, damn

can't have nothin

[plucky zenith]

Can't have brain

[swift badge]

Okay i could make OMF a spiderweb

[austere hawk]

[swift badge]

And just go backkk and forthhh

[plucky zenith]

for I am powered by the whimsy of being a talking tree

[swift badge]

With different POVs every time

With different times

And uh

Different character s

And…

And uh

[austere hawk]

you could, if that's what you want. but tying it together becomes even more difficult, in the end...

[limpid ore]

i have a timeline im following at least

[swift badge]

yeah

[limpid ore]

this again

[austere hawk]

i think you're struggling because you don't know what the fic is about

first step: what is the fic about

[plucky zenith]

Personally, I wouldn't care if there's nothing between the major beats

if the story wants to be fast-paced

let it be

[austere hawk]

true

I'm pro time/scene skip

I do it a lot

[swift badge]

goal: get five pebbles revived
add every single one of your head cannons as a side story

[plucky zenith]

if there's more setup needed, then do that setup

[austere hawk]

save some of those headcanons for future stories!

[swift badge]

but it needs more buildup i would think

[austere hawk]

can't unload them all right away

[swift badge]

im worried about not getting a second chance

[scenic escarp]

Think deeper themes - is it about learning to accept help when needed?

[swift badge]

How far will you go for someone you love?

[austere hawk]

wdym?

[swift badge]

Okay let me explain

[austere hawk]

ohh, that's a good one

[scenic escarp]

The characters forgiving themselves in order to move on and help those who they still can?

[plucky zenith]

Banned for writing too limited fanfic

[scenic escarp]

Agreed, is good

[swift badge]

Every time i start a big project for a fandom it always goes poorly because

I move on before im done with the project

My brain cant stay hyperfixated on one thing

I lose motivation

And i never come back

No second chances

I’m already getting lucky with OMF tbh

[austere hawk]

I don't think it will help if you're overwhelming yourself with a too-big project, honestly

pare it back

so hopefully you can get it done this time!

[scenic escarp]

Poetic, and kind of ties into Omniforge

[swift badge]

I kinda just wanted to write about anything and everything rainworld; tell a story for once

[swift badge]

Perhaps; but maybe i wanted to be ambitious

Maybe i wanted to write something long

[austere hawk]

well, it just sounds like your main issue is focus

[swift badge]

Just to amuse myself

[austere hawk]

you can include a lot of stuff, just maybe not all the stuff, if its already becoming difficult?

[scenic escarp]

A little bit at a time

[austere hawk]

or you can just write and have fun until it burns out

[swift badge]

[austere hawk]

kinda depends on your goal in writing it

is this just fun practice? do whatever

[swift badge]

Maybe its just fun practice; ive never really written anything before

Make mistakes in OMF so you can do Manhattan perfectly

Or at least-

Better.

[scenic escarp]

[austere hawk]

thats alright! the goal doesn't need to be 'write the greatest thing'

if you're having fun, are you achieving what you set out to do?

[swift badge]

Flashback to my first message ever in stories chat

[plucky zenith]

Let the first draft be bad

[long sky]

Yknow this rarely happens but I think this actually belongs in the stories board

[plucky zenith]

It’s the nature of writing

[swift badge]

[austere hawk]

oh god we're on topic in off topic

[swift badge]

LMAOOO

[long sky]

You did it! You were on topic!

On accident!!

[plucky zenith]

[swift badge]

[long sky]

The only way it's possible

[swift badge]

IN MISC

[plucky zenith]

I didn’t know we had it in us

[swift badge]

ITS FRICKING NIGHT AND IM TRYING TO HOLD IM MY LAUGHTER

[austere hawk]

mission failed successfully

[swift badge]

wheeezeeee

Maybe staplers should just give up

[night lily]

All roads lead to writing

[plucky zenith]

Maybe we just make all the stories chats miscs?

[long sky]

Chaos reigns

[swift badge]

Two stories chat and one misc

[swift badge]

Sure sure

[plucky zenith]

[trim tartan]

Haven’t you noticed? We have.

[swift badge]

Anyways; if i really wanted to i could just come back and rewrite it later when im more skilled to do so

[trim tartan]

We just took up the job for the Blurple.

[austere hawk]

I wanna be blurple

but I can't be a stapler, I'm a menace

[scenic escarp]

First draft, which you can edit to your heart's content

[trim tartan]

I mean, Mod and Cy.

[scenic escarp]

If I ever become stapler I'll be the hidden undercover gold stapler

[swift badge]

[night lily]

Will everyone in stories eventually end up blurple i wonder

[swift badge]

Cy is a menace?

[austere hawk]

no, I'm a menace

[swift badge]

Everyone’s a stapler

[austere hawk]

[limpid ore]

he helped me come up with Hunter Goes To Target sooooo

[austere hawk]

if I can be a stapler, then anyone can be a stapler. Chaos will reign!

[night lily]

Dont let that stop you! /j

[swift badge]

Well that seems generous, not menacing

[long sky]

He also wrote a burger crack fic

[limpid ore]

burbur

[swift badge]

C-can I even be a stapler grandma?

[trim tartan]

That one’s honestly be my favorite one.

[austere hawk]

inno burger is one of my favorite cy oneshots, it's unironically great

[scenic escarp]

Inno-Burger beloved Never cried so hard over burger

[trim tartan]

Yes.

[austere hawk]

idk, I'm a menace!

[limpid ore]

the fic about garbage made me bawl

[swift badge]

Oo i should check out inno burger fic then

[long sky]

Inno honestly genuinely was my intro to the stories chat

[trim tartan]

Out of everything he’s written, somehow that’s the one that really, really stuck with me.

[swift badge]

How much

[plucky zenith]

The prophecized surveillance state

[austere hawk]

good

[austere hawk]

I mean, tabula. but inno burger is great

[trim tartan]

TR is a close second.

[limpid ore]

garbage

[scenic escarp]

I still haven't read- (shot)

[trim tartan]

I don’t know what it is about Innoburger.

[long sky]

I'm in the middle of tabula rn I'm trying to figure out how to write a mystery where the sleuth's stuck in a room

[austere hawk]

if you say tabula I'm gonna yeet you straight to ao3

[trim tartan]

But I somehow really, really am attached to it.

[night lily]

I've not read innoburger yet because at the time i was trying to write something similar in theme, since that goal has been shifted a lot maybe i should read it now

[scenic escarp]

No it's uhhhhhhh Tab View Eraser that I haven't read

[limpid ore]

made dumpy so lumpy

[austere hawk]

LIES

[austere hawk]

YOTEN!

begone

[scenic escarp]

Banished to genderal

[swift badge]

Here lies drymm

An writer known for their skilled work, ACTS

Right as we were about to read it in book club

They sadly were banished.

We shall read in their memory.

Though dramatic sniff

[plucky zenith]

[swift badge]

We will never see another chapter again from them.

[austere hawk]

crispy

have you read tabula

[swift badge]

oh look at the time

I have to goooo

Yeap

Study

Yep

I gtg

[plucky zenith]

We must honor Drymm

[swift badge]

Yeah

Bye

[austere hawk]

aw look shes gonna go study

[plucky zenith]

[austere hawk]

maybe I will write some hornet after all

i see you

[meager moat]

Every time I look at your profile picture, the color scheme says that it's alohan raichu, but I know it's an iterator

[swift badge]

Oh my god

It’s them

[plucky zenith]

Alohan Raichuator

They have copious amounts of Pokémon emulators

[austere hawk]

iteraitor

[night lily]

Anyway, good talk chat, imma have to go out (for lunch) now

[austere hawk]

bye!!

[plucky zenith]

[austere hawk]

I should go to bed probably

too late for writing more

[limpid ore]

🛏️

[austere hawk]

I did write a little hfish though

[scenic escarp]

PST timezone win, we get to stay up late AND sleep in

[limpid ore]

hjacking the convo for my perdy screenshot

[austere hawk]

all the better for reading tabula

[scenic escarp]

[plucky zenith]

Left in solitude to read

[swift badge]

No excuses

[iron sorrel]

WHAT'S THIS I HEAR ABOUT Y'ALL BANISHING DRYMM

[austere hawk]

you could read it... write now

[scenic escarp]

[swift badge]

[plucky zenith]

I really need to write some OAK

[swift badge]

Oh my god

It’s john hunter

[plucky zenith]

JOUNTER

[iron sorrel]

THEY SHOWED UP IN MY GENDERAL

[limpid ore]

i didnt do it this time

[plucky zenith]

[scenic escarp]

Junter is here

[swift badge]

Banan is in trouble

[austere hawk]

they commited an unforgivable sin, sir john hunter

[plucky zenith]

THE SAVIOR OF STORIES RETURNS!????

[iron sorrel]

It was banan?

[scenic escarp]

From the hidden far off lands of genderal

[swift badge]

Yes jounter

[trim tartan]

It was.

[swift badge]

[austere hawk]

twas i

[plucky zenith]

[austere hawk]

who banished le drymm

[iron sorrel]

[swift badge]

gasps

[round loom]

[plucky zenith]

She violated our sacred customs

[iron sorrel]

Plead your case, both of you

[austere hawk]

sir john hunter, you know not the ways of our people

but drymm has committed a grave offense!

[iron sorrel]

YOUR PEOPLE HATH COME TO MY LANDS FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM

[swift badge]

Who are you to judge the people of stories from such a far off land?

[austere hawk]

they have left a dearly beloved fic unread.

[limpid ore]

we spit nonsense and they spitted sense, so they was banished

[austere hawk]

I banished them, to right their wrongs!!

[trim tartan]

I, as a Stapler, shall mediate the court.

[plucky zenith]

Stapler in session

[iron sorrel]

Have they read or written other fics?

[trim tartan]

That is true.

[austere hawk]

of course!

[limpid ore]

i play ace attorney so im totally qualified to be a lawyer

[round loom]

Tree what's going on

[swift badge]

Drymm was banished; jounter did not like that

[scenic escarp]

In my defense sir Jounter, I was cooking a meal for my iterators and thus had no spare provisions to provide to honorable neighbor Cy and his family of iterators

[iron sorrel]

Then I don't see how that's grounds for banishment. The point of stories is to create and consume content based on your own imagination and preferences. Not liking a single page should not mean exile from the library

[austere hawk]

cy toiled and bled to tell us this tale, and has waited patiently for so long...

[round loom]

Banished for what reason can you tell me everything

[swift badge]

For not reading tabula rasa

[iron sorrel]

Did Cy specifically ask Drymm to read the fic

[austere hawk]

cy is humble, he would never!

[iron sorrel]

THEN WHAT'S THE ISSUE

[round loom]

I see

[iron sorrel]

I can cook a beautiful steak but I won't get upset if a vegan refuses to eat it

[austere hawk]

sir john hunter cannot understand

[limpid ore]

my client is innocent yer jounterness

[swift badge]

Drymm is not innocent

Our culture is prided upon and drymm knows it well

Yet they still chose to entreat upon it

[austere hawk]

drymm has read the stinky fish fic but not the perfection that is tabula rasa. a crime

[scenic escarp]

I will read it banan, just uhhhhhhh in as long as snails sleep for /ref

[iron sorrel]

YOUR CULTURE IS ABOUT LITERAL FANFICTION, TOLERANCE SHOULD BE A PILLAR OF IT!

[austere hawk]

I did not truly banish drymm, good sir, i merely yote them to ao3 to read

they could always return

[swift badge]

Writing induces no tolerance; its also considered stereotypical to base our full cultural values off of just Fanfiction

[swift badge]

i digress

[limpid ore]

my dumbass cant focus hard enough to read anything here and yall aint bainishing me. checkmate nerds

[austere hawk]

the went themself to genderal

[iron sorrel]

Drymm explicitly told me they were banished

[scenic escarp]

Indeed, it's almost as if I hear Drymm's voice sometimes

[swift badge]

Banan tells lies

Trying to save your hide? when witnesses are present?

[iron sorrel]

I have come to a verdict

[scenic escarp]

I self-banished and the court agreed

[austere hawk]

I did not banish the drymm, the drymm chose to banish themself

[iron sorrel]

DRYMM IS INNOCENT ON ACCOUNT OF NOT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING WRONG
BANAN IS GUILTY ON CHARGE OF WRONGFUL PUNISHMENT AND INSULTING THE WAYS OF FANFICTION

[austere hawk]

a noble action

aye, I must accept the decision of the court

[iron sorrel]

Court adjourned

Johngone

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1259757884284080200/1330986422433218691/ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker.gif

[scenic escarp]

Court was great, why don't they invent food courts

[plucky zenith]

We are a people who venerate our stories and their tellers. To leave unread such a cornerstone in our literature is not only unusual; it is downright ignorant. It denies the sacredness of our beloved fanfics and thereby the sacredness of our blessed literature as a whole. We therefore had no choice, oh venerated junter, to send Drymm from our chat.

[iron sorrel]

Nuh uh

[plucky zenith]

Fuck court ended

[austere hawk]

what will become of me now?

[round loom]

[austere hawk]

am I to go to genderal?

[swift badge]

Late tree came bursting in to an empty courtroom

[meager moat]

Well banan, it looks like you have to have the punishment of.....
Oh there isn't one, have a nice day!

[austere hawk]

I fear that place.

[swift badge]

👁️

[round loom]

[plucky zenith]

My amicus curiae brief comes too late to save Banan

[round loom]

Damn it so who won the court thing

[plucky zenith]

I am a tree and I cannot move quickly

[scenic escarp]

Guys I'm wheezing

[swift badge]

[plucky zenith]

I scream to an empty court

[round loom]

Would someone tell me who damn win

[scenic escarp]

New Tree metaphor just dropped

[swift badge]

Tree metaphor

[meager moat]

Banan was guilty, drymm won?

[swift badge]

But at what cost

[scenic escarp]

It was for silliness as well

[swift badge]

In winning you only lose another friend

[round loom]

Dream

[meager moat]

Nothing, other than John hunter's time

[round loom]

I must ask you a question

[scenic escarp]

[meager moat]

There wasn't even a punishment in John's Verdict

[austere hawk]

I will be aggressively voting for TR for bookclub

the injustice still stands

[round loom]

Now listen

[plucky zenith]

And soon all the bridges are burnt; and each man an island. All for the rotting laurels we call victory.

[swift badge]

🔥 ✍️

[round loom]

Now I'm going to test you

This will be a card game to see the your court mini test

Now if we have eight cards

And if I would shuffle them in a turn-based strategy

Divide this by 11 of course

[trim tartan]

Then that would be Clash Royale.

[scenic escarp]

I didn't study for this test /j

[round loom]

Shhhhh I'm not talking about clash Royale

[round loom]

What is 1556 of the divided by square root

There's three tests you must pass

[swift badge]

[scenic escarp]

Square root of what?!

[austere hawk]

three bananas

oh, sorry, I shouldn't be helping

[round loom]

And you get a punishment

[limpid ore]

bink and burple

[round loom]

Times ticking

[plucky zenith]

[round loom]

Come on use that brain of yours

[swift badge]

Drymm

Good luck

[austere hawk]

have fun I'm going to sleep

[round loom]

No

[austere hawk]

[scenic escarp]

Answer is blurple of course

[round loom]

You have 11 minutes ticking

[scenic escarp]

1556 divided by... square root.... of what number

Impossible to solve without more information

[round loom]

10 minutes ticking

[scenic escarp]

[round loom]

[plucky zenith]

The square root of 1556 is 39.4462 so maybe that helps

[round loom]

9 minutes remaining

[scenic escarp]

Ah, actually, if we're dividing 1556 by a square root, we're actually multiplying it by the square, so it's uhhhhh

[round loom]

8 minutes

[swift badge]

2421136

[round loom]

You must think by yourself

[scenic escarp]

2421136

[round loom]

Don't you be giving him answers

[swift badge]

If you threaten my editor then we’re gonna have problems

[scenic escarp]

I calculated myself, trust

[plucky zenith]

[swift badge]

[round loom]

Is that your answer

[scenic escarp]

Yes, with paragraph supporting my answer

[swift badge]

insert paragraph here

[round loom]

First test completed

[scenic escarp]

[round loom]

Two more to go

[plucky zenith]

Uh oh

[scenic escarp]

Divine retribution

[round loom]

Second test will be a slug cat a through d answer

[trim tartan]

My turn.

[plucky zenith]

Punishment for no TR reading

[round loom]

Okay now

Now then

[trim tartan]

How will you right your wrong?

[scenic escarp]

Officer Celestium I swear

[trim tartan]

On?

[round loom]

The hypnotizer is he a from the snow biome is he b broken factory c is he from The forgotten d is he from The forger

Now you must choose one correctly for your a through d

One of these are correct The others are false

[scenic escarp]

Who is the hypnotizer

[plucky zenith]

[round loom]

A sled cat OC of mine

[scenic escarp]

May I use my textbook for this question

[round loom]

Indeed yes

[trim tartan]

Based on my intuit, the answer is E. They are borne of your mind.

[plucky zenith]

Open note?

[long sky]

||There's a Librarian in Tabula Rasa just like HFISH||

Wait wait

[plucky zenith]

Hey Beads

[long sky]

Stop

[round loom]

Timer is set up for 25 minutes that is how much time you will be given

[plucky zenith]

Crispy was screaming for you earlier

[long sky]

Okay I spoil blocked it

[long sky]

??? Did Crispy ping me??

[plucky zenith]

They needed help with some French stuff

But they have retired

[long sky]

Probably a good thing

[swift badge]

:)

Thats what you think.

[plucky zenith]

Their fate now rests with the will of their dreams.

Oh never mind

Man today is not my day for being timely

[swift badge]

I dont get the privledges of lovely sleep until i finish my AP practice quiz, my AP PFRQ, my biology studying, my French studying, and my textbook reading

[plucky zenith]

Just when I was about to wax poetic too

[round loom]

I wonder which one is he going to pick

[swift badge]

Look at the time its 9:25

[round loom]

After all this is his second test

[swift badge]

you can still be wax poetic

Go on now

[plucky zenith]

It’s too late

[swift badge]

damn

I messed it up

[long sky]

Wane poetic now

[plucky zenith]

The muse has fallen between my fingers like sand from a sieve

[round loom]

@scenic escarp have you picked a answer yet

[swift badge]

Drymm might be busy

[round loom]

No this is the court test

[plucky zenith]

There is no more to be found. Only the sunlit dust of yellowing afternoon, swirling until they finally fall to rest, never disturbed again.

[scenic escarp]

I'm gonna answer with Forgotten because it's the only thing I could find

[round loom]

Correct

[plucky zenith]

[round loom]

Third test

The final test

[eager warren]

You think you hallow out an iterator puppet, you can play them like a saxophone

[scenic escarp]

Oh boy I'm getting a good grade in this

[long sky]

Run amoke the grains like water, gather them like stones. Heavy sits the lost dead word which grates his weary bones

[round loom]

Your third test is another a fruity

You ready

[scenic escarp]

Sure

[round loom]

This is another slug cat OC question

[swift badge]

fruity?

[round loom]

Hey did he lose a slug pup b did he lose a brother c lose a iterator or d lose his sister

And then there will be a second part

[swift badge]

(iterator?)

i whisper

[round loom]

Well you got to be fruity

[swift badge]

you...do?

[scenic escarp]

Uhhhhhhh

[round loom]

I gave you a 5-minute timer

Good luck

Just remember there's a second part

Once you finish that part you're free to go but if you fail the test the we'll choose a random punishment for you

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1322667085633163316/1324544227035582474/1000000759.webp

[scenic escarp]

Another punishment for Drymm?!

[round loom]

Yes

Or I could make it far worse

Then just a punishment

[plucky zenith]

But what is dust if not to fly? What are bones if not to die? Heavy are the lost dead words, sinking in the sand. But the muse was never mine to keep, the words gone dancing in the land.

[swift badge]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-writing-gif-24533171

[round loom]

Which one is it

[swift badge]

oh my god theyre cooking

[scenic escarp]

Couldn't find this one, so I'm gonna say brother

[swift badge]

if im right im going to explode

[round loom]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1322667085633163316/1324544227035582474/1000000759.webp

[scenic escarp]

Watching a prose throwdown while taking a quiz

[plucky zenith]

We’re writing a Roman dialogue

[swift badge]

average ELA experience:

[round loom]

Hmmmmmmm

Now let me check if that was correct or not

[swift badge]

oh?

where from?

[round loom]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1322667085633163316/1324544227035582474/1000000759.webp

You have got it wrong The answer was iterator

[trim tartan]

They’re waxing poetic, the insane folks they are.

[plucky zenith]

Nah that’s just the style

[scenic escarp]

[swift badge]

oooo okay okay

[swift badge]

whats the answer?

BRO

I SAID TIERATOR

DRYMM

[scenic escarp]

NOOOO ITTY

[swift badge]

DRYMMMMMM

I SAID ITERATORRRRRRR

[plucky zenith]

Where two characters argue about something in extremely flowery ways with it being an allegory for something

[round loom]

Now then what to pick what the pic

[swift badge]

💥

[round loom]

Haha

[scenic escarp]

But I got two right!!!

[swift badge]

66%

[round loom]

I said you had to finish all three tests if you get one test wrong you fail

[plucky zenith]

I’m watching Beads type in abject fear

[round loom]

Now then

[swift badge]

rap battle: greek style

[round loom]

You guys will pick random punishments and we do it on a poll whatever pole gets enough will be his punishment

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1322667085633163316/1324544227035582474/1000000759.webp

Hahahaha

[swift badge]

*their :3 punishment: nothing!

[plucky zenith]

Ye olde diss track

[night lily]

Basically how the Benefactors conversed on a daily basis

[round loom]

Nope

They must receive a punishment

[plucky zenith]

Benefactor poetry must have been nuts

[round loom]

For breaking the rules of the thing

[plucky zenith]

You know them mfs would never say a poem has no meaning