How To Make The Princess Bride A TV Series.

This also applies to self care as well.

not sure if this will make sense to anyone besides me but: the antidote to negativity is not positivity, its warmth

Okay, here is my overly thought out and totally not controversial Avatar head cannon.

Every bending type has a pure form: flight, metal bending, blood bending, and dragon's fire ( I will explain). Dragon's Fire is the only one I kind of made up myself because the show doesn't explicitly give anything for this. Essentially it is super hot fire bending with a new color. Azula's blue fire and the Dragon's rainbow fire.

Also, every bending type has three mixed forms. Not saying these forms are acquired by bloodline. They can be trained but it will be easier if it better aligns with your personality.

Air + Fire = a very excitable air bender with a big personality and the ability to heat up air as they bend it. Think of a living air fryer.

Air + Water = a very chill air bender. They are super relaxed and go with any flow. Their bending is incredibly fluid and they can even lower the temperature of air enough to freeze things.

Air + Earth = an incredible firm and steadfast air bender. Instead of dodging they will mostly use their bending to deflect or push through attacks. Through much practice they have learned incredible precision and can even solve complex puzzles only using their bending.

Fire + Air = combustion bending. This combines the deeply focused spirituality of the air nomad lifestyle with fire bending abilities. Focusing all of the fire energy through the forehead to project a combustible force.

Fire + Water = Lightning. Iroh explains this one. It is all about the flow of energy.

Fire + Earth = much like the air variant this affects the bending in subtler ways. But over all this style is more about reacting to your opponent "watching and waiting". These benders also tend to be blacksmiths and have an ability to summon heat from their metal so they can keep working on it without a forge

Earth + Fire = lava bending.

Earth + Water = mud bending. (In my head cannon nearly half of the foggy swamp benders are actually Earth benders but no one can tell because there is practically no non muddy water in the whole swamp.)

Earth + Air = sand bending.

Water + Air = fog bending + extra flowy water bending in general.

Water + Fire = boiling water bending. Bender is usually hot tempered and not as good at making ice.

Water + Earth = mud bending again but also stronger ice bending techniques.

This is a head cannon and I will not be excepting critique as of this time.

Sometimes the autistic experience is finding out you have secret rules that you didn't know you had because no one had broken them yet.

My little brother & I showed an AI 50+ hours of Scooby-Doo scripts, and then asked it to write an episode.

Here’s what it came up with.

I’ve cleaned bits up as best I can to bring the coherence level from “utterly incomprehensible” to just “insane, but almost readable.”

…soooo, yeah.

Daphne wants to hear the phantom’s ham price.

Now, when it gets more creative on the words…

…it’s… interesting.

And at its most-creative-est…

…I’m pretty sure I’m losing my mind.

That said, my most-favorite so far is this little exchange…

…where there’s a character called “Gate,” Scooby makes up new words, and Fred anticipates the deaths of thousands.

somehow i doubt this script will get its own film any time soon

"A world without trans people has never existed and never will"

Poster spotted in Olympia, WA

The single most important piece of writing advice I would give to a lot of amateur writers is to write less beautifully - or at least to write beautifully less.

I rarely find a piece of writing I can't read because it's too simple, or too concise and to-the-point - not memorable, perhaps, but also not a headache on a page. On the other hand, I see loads of pieces which are effectively unreadable because they're far too rich to swallow, and badly in need of watering down a bit.

The absolute worst culprit is the dialogue tags and stage directions. I'm a big fan of letting people write in their own style, but I would love it if a lot of writers could please cool it with letting me know every time a character blinks or licks their lips. I don't need to know that, especially if it happens every time they speak.

So many dialogue excerpts look like this:

"So this is how we talk?" he queried quietly, his eyebrows furrowed into knots. "Apparently," she replied with a puzzled grin, bouncing on the balls of her feet with restless energy. "Isn't that... exhausting?" he questioned, a lop-sided smile snaking its way across his lips. "The bouncing?" she asked shyly, her eyelids fluttering in shame. "No, of course not," he told her, his lean arms reached out to pull her closer. He buried his face into the mess of her hair, taking a deep breath of her perfume. "I just feel a little nauseated by all of these actions." "I don't know what you mean," she giggled, brushing the hair back out of her eyes as her cheeks flushed red. "Don't worry," he sighed, rolling his eyes up towards the ceiling.

I'm assuming this is a convention that comes from somewhere, given its ubiquity - perhaps somewhere in the world of fanfiction, where there will be short, intimate pieces entirely focused on the ways in which characters interact with each other. But to me, in an original work, it's so exhausting that I can't make it down the rest of the page.

Dialogue may be the worst, or most obvious offender, but the same principle extends pretty much everywhere else. Each line doesn't have to be some great quote you can hang on your wall, and it's hard to read a whole story written like that.

There's been some recent backlash on here against modern films where every line of dialogue is a quip, at the expense of building an authentic conversation, but that's how a lot of people start out writing - thinking that each sentence should be made as flowery as possible, when too many flowers in the same pot will crowd each other out.

You need to leave some gaps to let the sunlight in, and illuminate the beauty of the occasional flourish you do include. Think of it like vanilla extract, to make a reference that was topical when I started writing this post: you need to add a little for flavour, without which the writing will be too dull, but tip the bottle and I will actually be sick. Write beautifully less. Learn to embrace the prosaic.

What is a herring?

You talking to your little Character Ai friend is not entertainment to me. I see you as a hampter, running in your little running wheel, going nowhere. 

Did this man make a reckless decision allowing a robot  to cut his hair? 🤖

“Right, you in the white coat, get to work on curing this disease.”

“But I’m not a virologist, I work with animals and study their behaviour.”

“Just do science.”

“But my degree is in——“

“Do. Science.”

Need more songs that sound like they should be played as the MC's best friend is dying right before the climax of the story.