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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 2h

None in my stories, but in my tabletop games I had the first mate of a rival pirate crew be a big shark lady named Tashira. One of the players took a look and called dibs. So I had to make a whole backstory and make a lot of her personality up on the fly. Shame the game didn’t last much longer.

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 5h

Tell me about your merfolk and otherwise fishy characters! 🧜‍♀️ #WritingPrompt

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 3h

Need to find out how to write a proper promotion post now that I’ve actually got something to promote… bleeeeeeh

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 4h

Won’t vote for certain, but I’ll ask a question to try and contribute:

Forget the prize. How much would Josh enjoy the act of getting away with the murder? Yes, he has other incentives, but is he the sort that would feel a rush of committing a “perfect crime”? Or is that an ugly means to an end?

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 4h

I’m unsure of a lot of this, but the ending is the one thing that *is* solid. Thanks for the vote of confidence. 😄

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 4h

As for the point tying the two together, he thinks the baron is manipulating things to settle an old score. And he’s right. Just not against who he thinks.

The whole journey is him trying to reach out, help people and do good, but failing to keep his ego in check, even if he thinks otherwise.

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 4h

As for dealing with the warring cultists outside, he thinks he’s seen through the lies. But while he avoids one supremacist rhetorical trap, he’s so proud of himself he falls for a different one. And it nearly costs him everything. He thought himself immune to propaganda, and he wasn’t.

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 4h

Ash can see through Jurik’s “scary outsider” act as cheap fear-mongering, but he doesn’t see the true purpose of his actions until it’s too late, even after they stop him. He won’t lose any more of his old friends, but the safety they once had has prove to be a lot less secure than they thought.

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 4h

#PlotTober
I’m not sure how satisfying it will be for the readers, but I know how it ends.

Badly.

The gang war is a hollow victory and the proxy war ends in disaster. Yes, I’m doing the “second entry ends with the heroes down so they can get up in the third”. I just hope I can tie things together.

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 15h

#PlotTober Day 14: Story endings

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

14. Now that you have some ideas of your story's beginning and the main character's goals & growth, can you come up with a few different story endings that would be satisfying for a reader?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 6h

#WIPSnips #Fantasy
Vibes today. The ultimate goal. Kinda spoilery, but it just shows the treasure they’ve been hunting for isn’t one of those “the friends we made along the way” sort of treasures. But I gotta leave a little suspense, because it can’t be that simple…

The sight was like something out of the old tales you’d hear sung by bards at taverns. Piles and piles of gold coins taller than Shogum, dozens of treasure chests, racks worth of weaponry that I had to assume was worth as much as one of the piles, the occasional framed pieces of artwork scattered abound and jewelry of all kinds lying wherever you looked. It looked like there was some sort of organizing method long ago, but the years had them all fall and scatter into a hoard displaying the concept of wealth itself. I only got a glimpse of this in my periphery, however, because as incredible as all of that was, there was one thing that demanded my attention right away.

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 20h

As for the Highbridge crew:

Ash's barely used. Cartoon character avi, just follows shows he likes, occasional snark at the news.
Shogum has a Facebook page that's scenic pics and quotes.
Ginra gets banned for aggressive behavior.
Maxi has a politician's account, but has an alt for shitposting,

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 20h

The cyberpunk mercs use it strictly for business. Some alts to try and fish for intel. Mostly Darius. Brings up bad memories for Marionette.

Xiel supernaturally monitors other people, no account of his own. "Zuckerberg made a pact with a demon to beat MySpace and it's been downhill ever since."

Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 21h

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

For the sake of this hypothetical, your characters have social media in their world.

Do they use it? What kind of things are they posting about? Pictures, video, or text? What do they have as a profile pic?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 23h

I should probably get some Halloween candy soon. Even if nobody shows up like last year, I can bring what’s left to the office and be the hero of the day.

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 1d

He’d normally be a lot more suspicious, but after the start, he wants to have a little more control of his own situation. He wants more tangible proof of being helpful. He wants to make a difference after a moment of powerlessness. And so he agrees to a job he probably should have ignored.

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 1d

But being a middleman means he isn’t as directly involved. And the distance from both ends has him wanting to do something more impactful. Which is when one of his companions from the trip he took in book 1 (I have 2 options) comes to him offering a chance to take part in another trip off the books.

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 1d

Once he gets Maxi and his old boss, Gaheel, to meet, he sees the problem. Someone has been going after members of the gang, and in an especially violent way to make a statement. So Gaheel wants unofficial help from a member of the guilds to help deal with this, with Ash as a middleman.

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 1d

He’s still getting used to a half retired lifestyle. He got the one big score, not enough to quit, but enough that he can be picky with clients now. He’s now an outsider in his old gang, and he wasn’t exactly that close with them to begin with. But a big of distance doesn’t mean he doesn’t care.

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 1d

He’s meeting with his client from the first book, Maxi. Now that they aren’t on a treasure hunt, they have to actually go to these meetings. Ash has been a middleman between them and his old gang, and is doing so now. This is a role he’ll play for a lot of this book; semi-legitimate.

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 1d

#PlotTober
The story starts at a council meeting in Highbridge. We don’t actually get the details, Ash is just commenting on why he normally doesn’t come to these, and is amused that a cop he foiled in book 1 is asking for funding for countermeasures to that foiling. But he’s here to meet someone. 🧵

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 1d

#PlotTober Day 13: Story beginnings

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

13. Let's begin brainstorming the main plot points of our WIPs. Knowing what you know of your main character(s), what are a few potential ways you could begin their story?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 1d

#WIPSnips #Fantasy
MC lives in a multi-leveled city where a lot of the area outside it is cursed. So the people elevated the city and used the uncursed soil beneath them to keep everyone able to eat more than the bare minimum. Makes for great hiding spots when evading the authorities.

I could see some sheep off in the distance. They looked adorable asleep like that, and seeing someone else resting reminded me of just how much I had pushed myself tonight. Taking a bit of a detour, I went up a hill to try and get a better view of the flock so I could have a pleasant sight to take in while I rested my aching legs. There was something calming about this whole situation; I was sitting on a pile of dirt where a city once stood, turned to grassy fields through magic to make a living space for livestock. A hundred years ago, I could have been sitting on a bench here, or on a street or maybe inside someone’s house. Nobody here now but me and the sheep.

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 2d

And of course by "funnier", I also mean "more infuriating". But at this point I'm just numb to fascist shitheels appropriating things I like to push their authoritarian agenda. I can only laugh now. It's not a happy laugh. But I'm saving the actual anger for other shit.

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know what's funnier. The idea that Peter Thiel, real life One Piece villain, has read One Piece and didn't get it or the idea that one of his younger alt-right goons summarized One Piece to him and he decided to make it a talking point. The "red straw hat" error points to the latter.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 2d

It also implies the sister city of Seethenhagen.

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 2d

Just realized I might have an even better quote to summarize the three and wrap this up on a sillier note:

bart simpson is standing next to a man holding a clipboard with the words have you ever tried going mad without power

Alt: someone from the simpsons saying "Have you ever tried going mad without power? It's boring. Nobody listens to you."

media.tenor.com

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Ello @ellohcee.bsky.social · 2d

Artober 6 - Vast
#art #dragon

Digital art of a huge dragon rearing up in the distance, beyond rolling hills and mountains and clouds. Its wings are spread out, disturbed grass and dust swirling in the foreground as barely visible flocks of birds fly away from the dragon. The dragon looks up towards the sky, a full moon visible in the sky above as well as a few stars.

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Mr👻OoOooOoo👻mega @mr0mega.bsky.social · 2d

I took a look at "see #PlotTober posts by this user" and went to Latest, and the most recent it showed was for day 7. If you posted since then, I can't find it in the hashtag.

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