With The Prisoners’ Dilemma I’m looking at 5,000 word chapters and 3 mini-arcs within the story, so maybe 15 chapters and 75,000 words? Hopefully I won’t eat my words ;P
One year after Newt abandoned Hermann to work for Shao Industries, Hermann decides to confront his ex-fiancé. Not with any intention of trying to win Newton back, of course, but only to gain some kind of closure, some answers for why he vanished so suddenly and avoided even speaking to Hermann ever since.
Except when Hermann confronts Newt in his home, he learns that Newt is under the control of the Precursors, and that they have every intention of killing Hermann to keep their secret. Newt strikes a desperate bargain to save Hermann’s life, which the Precursors accept with the condition of Newt’s good behavior, and that Hermann can never be allowed free again.
Now a prisoner, it is up to Hermann to try to free them both, while keeping the secret of his plan to do so from the man who knows him best in the world.
SOIJASOIDJASOD OMGOMGOMGOMG GUYS MARSH OVER AT THE K-SCIENCE BROS DISCORD JUST GAVE ME MY FRICKIN’ TITLE OMGOMG last question on how to format it but OMG
– Prisoners’ Dilemma
– The Prisoners’ Dilemma
😀 😀 😀
I JUST
NEED TO KNOW WHETHER TO KEEP THE “THE” OR NOT BUT LIKE IT WAS SERIOUSLY LIKE THE HEAVENS OPENED UP IN A BLINDING MOMENT OF INSIGHT, OMG MARSH YOU ARE MY HERO
@crazy-write said: I went to the Tolkien exhibition in Oxford and it had an early manuscript where Thorin was named Gandalf and Gandalf was named … Blorfindel
I saw that too & it was like a glimpse of a bizarre alternate timeline
master blorfindel said not to leave you and i dont mean to, bingo bolger-baggins, i dont mean to
*Aragorn voice* for Bingo
Sorry I think you meant to say:
*Peregrin Boffin voice* for Bingo
wait so, I’ve read that Frodo was originally the name given to one of the other hobbits. if Aragorn was at one point going to be Peregrin… does that mean Pippin was going to be Frodo??
It was kind of complicated how the original hobbits all developed. Original Frodo kind of disappeared, this dude Odo stuck around for aaages and a lot of his lines ended up going to Pippin but it wasn’t a case of Tolkien just changing Odo’s name.
Aragorn was originally called Trotter instead of Strider. Tolkien wrote a bunch of dialog with him and I think was still playing with his background and real name when they got to Rivendell. By that point iirc Pippin was present but was called Fastred. Tolkien eventually decided Trotter was a human instead of a hobbit and so abandoned hobbit-y names like Peregrin, which he then gave to Pippin (and briefly considered calling him Perry).
Uh,,, hope that makes sense. Anyway the History of Middle Earth is fucking wild.
I’m so glad we don’t live in the timeline where Pippin’s name is Perry or Fastred bcos those both sound like asshole names.
“Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can’t do – like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy.”
mmmmyeah no. see, the way you get super good at something? Is you do it ten thousand times. If you want to write exemplary sex scenes, you read thousands of good ones. You write thousands of bad ones. You beg friends who are good at writing sex scenes to critique your work. You study gender, sex, sexuality, mechanics, emotional resonance, the viscosity of different lubrication options – in yourself, in others, in research. You imagine with ever more clarity – both sex and writing.
You want to be good at writing sex scenes?You have to do exactly the same work you did to become a good writer ofeverything else.
so don’t pretend it can’t be done, author dudes, because there’s a million fangirls who can write lyric filthy devastating character-revealing plot-advancing poetic tender wall-slamming trope-inverting panting sweaty trope-embracing aching crying sex…..and can do it far far better than you.
A lot of people are really scared and angry because of the results of the newest climate change reports — as they should be. But I’m already seeing a lot of posts and news reports like “HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING” and bizarrely enough, the answers are never like “weed out climate change deniers from your government, impose strict new rules for the corporations that are creating most of the emissions, pour government resources into alternate forms of fuel, etc.” It’s always like “carpool to work!”
Look. Of course you should be working to reduce waste in your own life. But let’s not fucking pretend that consumers are the ones who made this mess. You know what another recent study found? Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions. If the rest of us stopped ALL WASTE and fucking ascended to a higher plane of existence that no longer requires consumption of any kind, the world would still be absolutely fucked if those 100 companies keep on as they do.
I hate this personal responsibility model when it comes to conservation. By ignoring the actual source of the problem and focusing on individuals instead, guess who gets targeted? The absolute most vulnerable individuals on the planet. When people advocate personal responsibility, somehow they’re never talking about billionaires and their private jets. They’re creating straw bans that will make life more dangerous for people with disabilities. They’re shaming women for using disposable menstrual products. They’re criticizing the poor and destitute for using “wasteful” products because they’re all they can afford. They’re making vaguely eugenic statements about getting people in “third world countries” to stop ~breeding~ so much. It’s monstrous.
Stop shaming consumers for the sins of corporations and their powerful investors. Stop placing the blame at the feet of the people who already have the hardest time getting through life. Do something, and by “do something” I mean buy a reusable coffee cup on the way to fucking vote. Go to a protest. Call a representative. Demand accountability from the people who got us into this mess.
All the individual effort in the world is worth naught without institutional change.
Avelera 