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I made my own, carefully crafting it from scratch.
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I commissioned my soul from a Deviantart artist and paid them in llama badges.
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Apr 15, 2019 23:58
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proactive
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Apr 16, 2019 09:05
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how many of y'all are writers?
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Apr 22, 2019 14:21
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for an extremely shaky version of the term
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Apr 23, 2019 02:26
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I am a writer but I'm not good at it and I never publish anything I write
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Apr 23, 2019 02:33
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right now i am writing in a language i do not know to achieve something utterly frivolous
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Apr 23, 2019 02:38
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Sure, i guess
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Apr 23, 2019 03:49
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i identify as a failed writer
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Apr 23, 2019 05:25
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im poster
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Apr 23, 2019 05:38
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Tollymain posted:im poster
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Apr 23, 2019 05:46
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do you consider yourself to be a consummate liar
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Apr 23, 2019 07:18
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ogresque posted:do you consider yourself to be a consummate liar
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Apr 23, 2019 10:10
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perhaps not a comfortable title then
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Apr 23, 2019 11:03
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i don't even know what comfort feels like
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Apr 23, 2019 11:09
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i was born in a state of profound agitation
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I'm Writacus!
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nankeen posted:i was born in a state of profound agitation same
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one of the crows near where i live has like, a big hole in their wing i think? it looks like the lights shining through it anyway when they fly over. also has a hosed up voice. anyway i call them scruffy cause they look real scruffy in general my best guess is somebody shot at them at a time or two maybe? idk. its a dangerous world out there. p unabashedly fearless about treats still tho
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Tollymain posted:one of the crows near where i live has like, a big hole in their wing i think? it looks like the lights shining through it anyway when they fly over. also has a hosed up voice. anyway i call them scruffy cause they look real scruffy in general
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Apr 24, 2019 04:07
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right now i'm writing a love story about selkies what is your favourite overdone mythological creature, thread?
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Apr 24, 2019 13:01
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nankeen posted:right now i'm writing a love story about selkies vampires, werewolves, demons, angels, dragons, elves, and mermaids my least favorite is zombies for some reason. other undead i like but i loving hate zombies.
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Apr 24, 2019 17:16
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I reckon zombies could be done well, but they never are. I think you'd need to play up the idea that you've not slept in two days, and you were just falling asleep when OH poo poo you had to grab your pack AGAIN and stumble out into the dark, and there could be one lurking in every shadow and you can barely walk straight let alone run and all it takes is a single mistake and you're hosed. But zombies always turn into survival porn with convenient mobile target practice, so they're poo poo.
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lofi posted:I reckon zombies could be done well, but they never are. I think you'd need to play up the idea that you've not slept in two days, and you were just falling asleep when OH poo poo you had to grab your pack AGAIN and stumble out into the dark, and there could be one lurking in every shadow and you can barely walk straight let alone run and all it takes is a single mistake and you're hosed. But zombies always turn into survival porn with convenient mobile target practice, so they're poo poo. they CAN be done well but 9 times out of 10 it's the same ole cliches only imagined differently. maybe i'm bias since i find more intelligent horrors more unpredictable and scary than dumb zombies slowly walking up to you and eating your brains or some poo poo...then again i'm salty the walking bland the tv show hasn't ended up yet.
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Fruity20 posted:they CAN be done well but 9 times out of 10 it's the same ole cliches only imagined differently. maybe i'm bias since i find more intelligent horrors more unpredictable and scary than dumb zombies slowly walking up to you and eating your brains or some poo poo...then again i'm salty the walking bland the tv show hasn't ended up yet. The big issue for me (with The Walking Dead in particular, and I guess zombies in general) is that each season or film or whatever, you have to keep upping the stakes. And zombies do the opposite of that - in most mythos they move slowly, they're easy to keep out once you have a secure place, and they're stupid as hell. So upping the ante falls on the humans in the show, and eventually the zombies are just sort of … hanging around, in the background of whatever horrible things these horrible people are planning to do to each other. For mythological creatures I really like ghosts. I think they're cool, is all.
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Dark Souls did zombies good; there's plenty of scope for interesting takes on people becoming mindless, violent husks of their former selves if you put your mind to it, but I guess it depends on whether the focus is on the zombies or the people caught in the middle of them.
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nankeen posted:right now i'm writing a love story about selkies i probably saw that Secret of Roan Inish movie dozens of times would you consider the sphynx overdone?
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Apr 24, 2019 23:59
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gmc9987 posted:The big issue for me (with The Walking Dead in particular, and I guess zombies in general) is that each season or film or whatever, you have to keep upping the stakes. Yep. Not just zombies, that problem wrecks everything.
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I think zombies and stakes have a similar possible solution: shift of focus. You can start by just having the zombies be the problem, then that is "solved", but the next problem becomes wanting to cure the disease somehow or prevent it from spreading for good, and then you have a conflict between someone who thinks they can recover the afflicted's humanity, and others who just want to eradicate all zombies, etc. A lot of post-apoc stuff (and zombies count) goes from surviving the event to rebuilding and the hows and whats of that. It doesn't have to stay at the "actually there is an even BIGGER apocalypse" phase.
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Yeah, I guess zombies are weird in terms of apocalypse stuff, they're the only one that tends to linger on the event rather than the rebuilding or sputtering out. Walking Dead is arguably looking at the rebuilding, but it has to keep trying to force the zoms to be relevant for $$$ reasons. (Also it is bad.) Hows about zombie kaiju? Two great tastes that I'm sure wouldn't be absolutely terrible together.
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Bit hard to get transmission by being bitten when "getting swallowed whole" is more likely Also, how are human zombies threatening when Kaiju are around? Also, what does the zombie thing add, were they not mindless monsters before? You COULD make something out of zombie Kaiju blood infection humans and turning them into slaves of the not-zombie Kaiju and the entire thing was an engineered ruse But that's a very different from story.
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I am legend is one of the few zombie Apocalypse movies I've enjoyed (albeit the monsters aren't really zombies) since the alternative ending pretty much subverts your expectations on these so called monsters and explores the reality of who the real monsters are. movie was gonna do this until executives thought it was too "out there" and went for a more bog standard ending of him saving the world and curing humanity...somehow?
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By the power of being Will Smith. I was joking with the zombie kaiju, I think they're so opposite that they'd work against each other's strengths - fear of the mindless horde vs fear of the single overwhelming entity. I'm never a big fan of 'add more stuff' with monsters, I think simple is better. Saw 'Us' recently, and that (started to) do fun things with doppelgangers, they could be explored more. Not enough goatees in that film though, it was very hard to tell who the evil clones were.  An evil you who wants to take over / kill you / gently caress up your life is pretty cool, especially the effect it has when no-one believes you, thinks you're mad, thinks you're making excuses for being a dick, etc.
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lofi posted:By the power of being Will Smith. I watched peele's previous film "get out" which was pretty good and on a second watch you start noticing a lot of things afterward. (and the self-aware black man character was the best part of this movie, hands down).
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lofi posted:I was joking with the zombie kaiju, I think they're so opposite that they'd work against each other's strengths - fear of the mindless horde vs fear of the single overwhelming entity. I'm never a big fan of 'add more stuff' with monsters, I think simple is better. Mad monster libs writing prompt! Nanomashine...mummies?
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If zombi(e)s went back to the original concept of drugged people robbed of their will and stalking people in misty bayous, that would at least be different. Not a mindless horde of slow cannibalistic weaklings, but silent, single-minded, implacable killers who need no sleep and feel no pain.
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Mirage posted:If zombi(e)s went back to the original concept of drugged people robbed of their will and stalking people in misty bayous, that would at least be different. Not a mindless horde of slow cannibalistic weaklings, but silent, single-minded, implacable killers who need no sleep and feel no pain. that is good.
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I enjoy most zombie things and I liked the Walking dead for the first couple of seasons, too. I don't even care that it's the same poo poo tropes rehashed one million times, because I'm easily amused by monster-bites-human dynamics. I've yet to see a film that would deal well with the most terrifying aspect of zombies, which is their unrelenting stubborness. Imagine fleeing from zombies in a place where there's no shelter, no places to rest, and they just keep coming. I'd even enjoy a slow outbreak-type scenario where poo poo gets progressively worse instead of the instant apocalypse, only add water - type of thing. Hell, I'd be more than happy to watch hoodoo-drugged-zombies too! gently caress, I'd be extra-delighted to see Zombie Flipper for a change of pace. In the end it doesn't matter to me if it's actually good or well done, as long as there's some terrifying damage and blood spurting I'm happy to stamp my approval on it. That's it, that's my entire checklist, does the zombie bite the annoying bastard? Yes? A+ good film. Watching too many campy 80's horror films has given me a sort of reflex relaxation of standards when it comes to horror themes. It's great 'cause when something actually good comes along, it's like a bonus on top that it doesn't completely suck.
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Sharpest Crayon posted:I enjoy most zombie things and I liked the Walking dead for the first couple of seasons, too. I don't even care that it's the same poo poo tropes rehashed one million times, because I'm easily amused by monster-bites-human dynamics. I've yet to see a film that would deal well with the most terrifying aspect of zombies, which is their unrelenting stubborness. Imagine fleeing from zombies in a place where there's no shelter, no places to rest, and they just keep coming. I'd even enjoy a slow outbreak-type scenario where poo poo gets progressively worse instead of the instant apocalypse, only add water - type of thing. Hell, I'd be more than happy to watch hoodoo-drugged-zombies too! gently caress, I'd be extra-delighted to see Zombie Flipper for a change of pace. and it's cool your into that, not a big fan personally apart from the original versions of zombies...the hoodoo ones. oddly...I like skeletons....I don't know why i like them. why not a skeleton Apocalypse instead?
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