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snake-fingers:

Hey @perisnoop

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wack.

Plot Bunnies, Plot Chickens, Etc.

krasimer:

mittensmorgul:

ladydrace:

caitlynlynch:

jojo-sain:

birdybluejay:

anxietywontmakethewordsgo:

ace-of-black-hearts:

theriverscribe:

thequeervet:

petermorwood:

killerblackberrypie:

gallagherwitt:

As a lot of people aren’t familiar with plot creatures, I thought I’d shed some light on the members of the mental menagerie…

The Plot Bunny – Story ideas that come bounding in and start multiplying.

The Plot Chicken – They squawk, flap around, and shit everywhere, but
when you actually need to do something with them, they scatter.

The Plot Sloth – Takes its sweet goddamned time turning into something useful.

The Plot Mule – When you mash two plots together and get something
cool, but you can’t get a sequel out of it to save your life.

The
Plot Cat – Lazy little bastards who take up your headspace, scare away
all the other plot bunnies, but won’t actually do anything except lay
there.

The Plottweiler – Barks loudly and viciously so you can’t
ignore it, distracts you from everything else you want to write, but
leaves you too paralyzed with fear to actually put words down.

The Plot Squirrel – Cute, distracting, full of nuts, and just TRY to keep up with that train of thought.

The Plot Bedbug – Shows up during the night, chews on you so you can’t sleep, and disappears in the daylight.

The Plot Tick – Burrows in, bleeds you dry, and leaves you with the creepy-crawlies. Mostly preys on horror writers.

The Plotroach – Totally unappealing, but so tenacious they’ll survive anything until you finally give up and write them.

What Plot Creatures have you encountered?

@petermorwood

The Plot Shark – While you’re paddling happily along it surges out of nowhere and takes a big bite out of what you’re working on.

The Plotranha – Like the Plot Shark, but lots of smaller and more nibbly bites, often until there’s nothing left but a skeleton.

The Plotegrine Falcon – One of those ideas that looks great but, unless you’re very quick, will be gone before you know it’s there.

The Plot House-Mouse – related to the Plot Bedbug, it’s the idea that goes “skrit-skrit” late at night and keeps you from sleeping, partly because you know you can’t do anything about it until morning – by which time it’s gone all quiet. Attempts to trap it leaves a remnant that’s a lot less annoying but also a lot less attractive, and is usually just thrown away.

The Plot Swan (a) – That beautifully phrased sentence or paragraph where everything is just right and seems effortless, and only you know how much energy you’ve expended to get it that way.

The Plot Swan (b) –
That beautifully phrased sentence or paragraph where everything is just right

until you realise you’ve been so busy with form that you forgot function, and there’s a continuity error in the middle that chases you for ages afterwards. (Plot Swan (b) often turns up after publication when it’s too late to fix.)

@theriverscribe look it’s a whole plot zoo!

I has them ALL!!! 😍

I just need to start a damn zoo apparently

@altyex THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE

The Plot Peacock: looks beautiful and showy and effortless, hides the fact that it took you three hours of reading through scripts and wiki to find that one fact about angel blades. Is a bitch to actually control.

The Plotopus: has 8+ different subplots that are absolutely essential to it’s movement, but each subplot has a brain of it’s own and goes in a different direction

I have all of these bastards. But mainly squirrels.

The Plotiphant: It’s massive, awe-inspiring and never lets you forget it for the rest of your life, whether you actually end up writing it or not.

The Plotnocerous: comes crashing through your plot, trampling everything, gores your original plot through the belly and flings it in a ditch before chasing you up a tree.

@dartoften  THERE ARE ENTIRE ZOOS OF PLOT CREATURES.

notquiteaghost:

2013: this character is gay, here’s my 5’000 word peer-reviewed essay explaining why with cited sources from the text

2015: this character is gay-coded, everything this character does screams trans, this f/f relationship would be read as romantic if not for homophobia

2018: every single character is a lesbian because fuck you

crunchie-morris:

classicantics:

dareargentum:

waffilicious:

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

arahir:

arahir:

arahir:

i’m reading a very manly 1950s account of a hunt for el dorado but i’m thirty pages in and the narrator has already described his traveling companion as “handsome” 4 times, “extremely handsome” twice, “exceedingly handsome” once, his voice as “quietly husky” and “a husky whisper,” his fingers as long and deft, his body as “tall and cat-like,” and his eyes as some variation of ice-blue at least three times.

just men being dudes. dudes being pals. it’s great. this is great.

“Ever since he had aimed that gun at my throat, I had liked him immensely. And now I liked him even better.”

oh my god

“I awoke when a beam of light fell across my eyes. Jorge had come into my room carrying a lighted candle.

‘I’m going with you,’ he said quietly.

‘I can’t pay you.’

He smiled. ‘I thought I was a partner?’”

OH MY GOD

according to apparently every adaptation of a search of el dorado, i think we can conclude that maybe the real el dorado was the homosexuality we found along the way

#i’m adopting this as a term for someone working to understand their sexual orientation #‘oh megan dated dudes exclusively in college but these days i hear she’s on the road to el dorado’ ( @buetterfliege )

From now on, every person figuring out their sexuality is on the road to el dorado

the real treasure was the gay we found along the way