why-worry

@do-it-later.bsky.social

late 20s, p much just an ofmd account, izzy friendly & ed loving, nsfw sometimes, she/her, @ do_it_later_ on twit but that acct just got suspended :(

in specific, they often use the death of a character to resolve tensions among the protagonists that didn't need resolving (and, in fact, are driving interest.) like how often the writer-disfavored party of a love triangle dies heroically, making everything more boring.

she said "you can do anything in fiction as long as the situation afterwards is more interesting that the situation before." since then i have been keeping an eye on character death in fiction. many writers seem to think that character death "raises the stakes" but actually just makes things boring

many years ago i was in a Q&A with Holly Black and asked her about a scene in one of her books where ~2/3rds of the named character very suddenly die in a botched assassination-turned-massacre. most of the time, this makes me check out. but this one kept me very engaged. "how did you do that?"

i love stede being subjected to ed and izzy's intensity but i also would love stede being like "yeah that's my boyfriend and his fatherwife, they're insane about each other, but ANYWAYS! seen any cool bugs recently?"

poor edizzy they had no idea what disorders were. izzy probably just thought at any moment his competent, energetic captain could be taken by the madness and not leave his cabin for weeks and ed probably thought all of his good weeks were a lie covering the true rot deep within him…

izzy when he becomes self aware enough to know he likes feeling useful and doing acts of service. only with ed&stede though, and ed is probably jorking it to this 🩷

tests that say "Task please" and "Task" that have heart emoji reacts.

Forest Deity Hornigold wants to toy with poacher Izzy, so he keeps sending him increasingly eldritch creatures to spook him, but Izzy's a subsistence hunter and doesn't particularly care that this rabbit's got antlers and glowing yellow eyes as long as he can still eat the thing. Izzy: 🐇🍴 Ben: ⁉️