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me @ louis if he kept being vague about 369

louis : thats a question for yourself. its subjective

also louis

Louis throwing us all into an existential crisis with just one tweet

SEEING ONE OF MY NON FALLOUT MUTUALS USING THE FUCK THIS IM GONNA LIE DOWN IMAGE

okay i say this as a) a Certified Angst Writer and b) an outsider to the dsmp community but--

from where I stand, I think the dsmp storytellers (...and for that matter, our own Mr. Scott Smajor of Empires the SMP) need to discover that angst is far more powerful when it's offset by happiness.

And, as I said: I'm saying this as an outsider, so I'm aware I'm only seeing the Big Mountain Moments of the story, and I'm sure there's inter-character fun stuff in there too. But you can only take everything away from a character so many times before it stops meaning anything. Sometimes you need to give them a break. A respite. A short, happiness/fluff/joy-filled arc where the world is kind for a while... otherwise you don't have angst, you just have whump. Angst implies that you're yearning for something better because you know it's possible. Whump is just... getting bashed into a wall over and over again with no possibility of escape or better times.

So I feel really bad for the dsmp characters like Tommy, who seem to just hit one wall after another with the only happy times in between being stuff that's either not actually part of the story (bloopers, offhand comments, goofing off between story bits) or it doesn't contribute to the character/plot at all. It ends up being meaningless, not because it's bad content, but because it doesn't mean anything to the characters in the long run.

Or take Scott's Empires "Elsa arc" right now. When was the last time something good happened to Mr. Anime Protagonist (affectionate)? Even defeating Xornoth wasn't really a good moment for him, as it was still a loss of the brother-that-might-have-been. As far as I can remember, the last good thing that happened was... maybe the Rivendell festival? Even grimdark stories like The Witcher know to give characters stretches of rest before slamming them with The World Is Ending And It's Your Fault bricks again. #GiveScottHappiness2k21 lol

Anyway. Rant over I guess. This is something a lot of inexperienced writers fall into, because we like to make these wonderful characters suffer. It's cathartic. But hit them with blow after blow after blow and eventually your audience is going to spiral into emotional exhaustion and your dramatic "oh my gosh how horrible!" moments are just going to be another bump in your plateau of pain.

replying to all of louis' replies on twitter like he's talking to me and im engaging directly in a conversation with him. so true

You order vanilla but get kink

I don't get enough credit for predicting book of the atlantic

@drewclues: can't believe i was able to intern with RYAN BERGARA & SHANE MADEJ!! like seriously, don't want to come home in three days! but i miss my cats :(

Carlos runs a secret incorrect JatP quotes twitter where he writes the stuff he hears Julie say and just makes up what the guys were saying and it confuses the hell out of everyone

whoever is praying on my downfall please stop, I was trying on my new cowboy boots and I tripped and fell and almost broke all of my bones.

TOMMY LORE STREAM ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIM BEING EXILED?!?!?!

Misha playing cas playing jimmy