asforetold:

Favourite narrative tropes:

• “That was ONE time!”
• “Due to an administrative error”, or any major plot point which is caused almost entirely by bureaucratic fuckups
• “Contrary to popular belief” appended to something that’s either really obvious or completely subjective
• A character makes an assertion, then cut to the narrator contradicting it (‘“Everything’s fine!” Everything was not fine.’)
• First-person narrators who call a specific character by a series of increasingly convoluted nicknames
• Unusual narrative euphemisms. I still hold that describing around a curse word is almost always funnier than just using the word.
• Establishing character moments which subvert your expectations right from the get-go. The best example is in the Brooklyn Nine Nine pilot, where Jake’s fooling around at the crime scene before revealing that he’s already solved the case.
• Montages. Just montages of any kind, for any reason, anytime. I actually think they work better in text form because you can do so many creative things with them.
• Side characters with a level of fourth-wall awareness / quasi-supernatural ability which is never quite certain, like the janitor in Scrubs.
• Double meanings in narration that take a while to make themselves clear.
• Really, really specific similes.

thejovianmute:

rage-quitter:

I was getting pretty fed up with links and generators with very general and overused weapons and superpowers and what have you for characters so:

Here is a page for premodern weapons, broken down into a ton of subcategories, with the weapon’s region of origin. 

Here is a page of medieval weapons.

Here is a page of just about every conceived superpower.

Here is a page for legendary creatures and their regions of origin.

Here are some gemstones.

Here is a bunch of Greek legends, including monsters, gods, nymphs, heroes, and so on. 

Here is a website with a ton of (legally attained, don’t worry) information about the black market.

Here is a website with information about forensic science and cases of death. Discretion advised. 

Here is every religion in the world. 

Here is every language in the world.

Here are methods of torture. Discretion advised.

Here are descriptions of the various methods used for the death penalty. Discretion advised.

Here are poisonous plants.

Here are plants in general.

Feel free to add more to this!

An exceedingly useful list of lists for writers.

jaclcfrost:

good responses to getting stabbed with a sword

• rude
• that’s fair
• not again
• are you gonna want this back or can i keep it