[ID start: fine liner drawing of 3 stylized balck cats in conical witch hats, the witch hats have ribbons wrapped around them tied in bows, the ribbons are in shades of lilac, the cat in the lower right corner has a bow around their neck end of ID]
when i travel i like to take hilariously bad pictures of common tourist things, because anyone can take a nice picture of them, so i’d rather take a shitty one i can laugh at later
here’s this
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Can I play, too?
I’m howling
this explains the tourists i saw taking a picture of a picture of edinburgh castle outside tesco instead of idk going to edinburgh castle 10 minutes away
This belongs here:
everyone please look at all the images in the replies of this post im dying i had no idea other people were as dumb as me
A rat eating from a trash can with the eiffel tower in the background
Exhibit A why parents should have as little input in their children’s education as possible
even in the COMMENTS people are wrong! conflict doesn’t mean people fighting or yelling at each other. conflict is just another name for the motivating force in any given story. the parents turning into pigs in spirited away is a CONFLICT (chihiro wanted her parents not to be pigs, the ghosts wanted them to be pigs. they had different motivations that were in CONFLICT with each other). conflict does not have to end with a resolution (although many ghibli narratives DO). conflict is just ‘why is this story happening’
Also. It’s almost like school assignments are meant to teach children about elements of writing and storytelling, not necessarily to be Free-Writing Time™! Imagine that!
I’m not crazy about Howl’s Moving Castle having been turned into a war story, but, uh, that did happen in the movie! Hard to get more conflict than war!
Yeah. “What conflicting needs drive the plot of this story?” is a better way of phrasing it. Shortening it to just “conflict” is misleading.
And sure, you *can* write a story that has no plot, but if you want kids to know how to write something that *does* have a plot- something that at its base shows a person wanting a thing, the actions they take to try to get the thing, and the resulting consequences- then you’re going to have to teach it to them.
Making kids work through, “what consequences would these actions have?” is also a useful critical thinking exercise, so having a writing lesson that includes using that kind of thinking is really a two-fer.
There’s also something to be said about the fact that stories that don’t have a plot tend to not be interesting for people to read, unless it’s a side-story or continuation for something that has already set up and addressed the questions of, “What does this person want?” and “What is stopping them from getting it?”
It’s one of the reasons fanfics have an easier time getting readers for a plot-free story; all the things that get a reader invested enough in a character to care about them- and thus care about reading stories of them in plot-free situations- already existed.
I have OCD and with that comes quasi-hallucinations, and I grew up watching a ton of horror films so some of the worst of mine are the standard white skin/black hair demon girl type shit.
However, because a lot of them are based on horror film I have found comfort in doing things that “go against” horror films and being like “see? This could never happen.”
(It’s irrational. I know that. But shut up. This is how I cope.)
For example: I started hearing garbled whispering from beneath my table, so I started playing the muppets sound track. Because they would never play Movin’ Right Along when the protagonist is about to get attacked. That won’t happen. Disney, who owns the muppets, wouldn’t give them the rights.
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