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Realizing the writing doesn't have to be done alone and is often more fun and more engaging when you're doing it with friends is a life changing experience.

I don't mean co-writing either. I mean having a friend or two who you talk through plot ideas with, who you bounce ideas off of, who you trust to tell you if something doesn't work.

Nothing is created in a vacuum and nothing can be created alone. Sharing drafts and ideas is a vital part of the creative process and it's a really fun part too.

genuinely convinced that there is no higher tier of storytelling than multiple POVs in a minecraft smp series.

like. that is the most hilariously unserious thing to say but I am dead serious about it -- you get the same story overall, but depending on who you watch you get an entirely different tale. Editing, scoring, choices in which lines to cut or include, the simple matter of whether or not someone is present for an event or conversation... Everyone is telling their own story as the protagonist. You functionally have as many "main characters" as you have POVs.

I'm remembering Third Life, and how the Red Army seemed so villainous and powerful from the perspective of the Desert or the Flower Kingdom. But then if you watch Ren and Martyn they're the beleaguered outpost of civility, being assailed by threats without and betrayal within. From Scar's POV he's derping around and having a blast being the maniac snake oil salesman who wants your pants. From Martyn's POV Scar is a dangerous lunatic with a barbarian glint in his eye.

And both stories are true.

I'm not usually a huge fan of unreliable narrators in fiction, because it always feels a bit... gimmicky? when it comes from an author who DOES know the truth of the situation, but for one reason or another doesn't want the narrator and/or the audience to cotton on to what's happening.

But with mcyt stories, every player is an unreliable narrator -- even if it's just to the extent of them not knowing for sure why people do or say what they do and say. Things can be misunderstood or misinterpreted. Context can be missed.

Then add in someone who wants to tell a story with a specifically tinted lens and deliberately plays their character and edits their videos to fit that narrative... and it's even better. Because whatever they do still has to fit, somehow, into the context of how other people understand them. Like one of those optical illusions where it's a rabbit from one angle and a duck from another.

You literally can't do this with (almost) any other kind of media, or at least it's not usually worth the effort. I remember a YA series of (awful) books I read decades ago that had the same story but each book was from a different person's perspective. You CAN do that. TV shows do that sometimes, show the same events from different characters' POVs. But generally speaking, it's so much effort for not enough payout and no one really bothers with it. Also, when you have the same person/team doing all the different perspectives, it's still gonna be a bit samey.

mcyt storytelling with multiple POVs is an incredibly flexible and unique medium, and this may be my favorite aspect of it.

i don’t remember how big canadian geese are but this felt about right

the worst is wanting to create and create and create but being trapped in a body that is so so so so tired

this is a poem

Okay y'know what. TAKE THIS.

My Ultimate Hollow Knight Backstory Bad Retelling Attack!! (Beware of headcanons)

I love how here on tumblr dot website we regularly cast the greatest curse we can muster on each other by pointing our long creepy fingers and intoning "10,000 notes" in a voice that carries the winds of the mountain with it.

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.