thor would be pissed that he missed the dinosaurs tbh
thor: you have 7 phds, can you find a way to resurrect them? bruce: there’s literally six movies proving what a terrible idea that is thor: you don’t have all the facts bruce: which are? thor: i love them
Wait if the Jurassic Park movies exist in the MCU… I want Thor to watch them with Bruce and ask why the Grandmaster is in them. Bruce is confused but looks at who Thor is pointing at before just… “holy shit…”
*Bruce 3 hours later*
Bruce: Tony listen! Geff Goldbloom is an immortal alien god! Tony where are you going? Come back! This is important!
Tony the next time he sees Jeff Goldbloom at a party: Oh man, you won’t believe what my buddy told me the other day. He thinks you’re some kind of immortal alien god and that you held him prisoner in space. Can you believe that? Wild.
TAYLOR SWIFT STAN OR NAH, U CAN’T TELL ME THAT WE, AS HUMANS, DON’T GO FUCKING BAT SHIT WHEN “YOU BELONG WITH ME” COMES ON, YOU KNOW WHEN YOU HEAR “YOU’RE ON THE PHONE WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND -” STARTS, U GO GODDAMN APESHIT, LIKE A FERAL PART OF UR BRAIN TURNS ON, AND PRETTY SOON UR TRANSCENDING THIS REALITY, UNTIL UR A 15 YEAR OLD GIRL, SINGING INTO A HAIR BRUSH, LIKE, “IF YOU CAN SEE THAT I AM THE ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS YOU, BEEN HERE ALL THIS TIME, SO WHY CAN’T YOU, SEEEEEEEEEEE E E E e E E YOU B El O GN Wi TH M E EE E E EE E E” DON’T TELL ME YOU DON’T, BECAUSE THEN I AM CALLING YOU A MOTHERFUCKING GODDAMN LIAR!!! TAYLOR SWIFT TURNS US ALL INTO 15 YEAR OLD GIRLS WITH THAT SONG, IT IS A UNIVERSAL MOOD, I REST MY CASE.
Stuff I Learned at My Writing Workshop (That I’m Kicking Myself in the Head for Not Realizing Sooner):
- The difference between a book that grabs you from the beginning vs. one that you’re on the fence about tossing out the window is winning your trust. It’s why it’s “easier” to read books by authors you already know, or fanfic where you’re familiar with the characters. Winning the reader’s trust as quickly as possible should be your first goal as a writer when you’re going back and editing your first draft. This can be accomplished by things like: speaking authoritatively about the subject (even if it’s utter bullshit), graceful prose, or establishing quickly in the story what it’s about. For example,“Character A had a problem. Character B didn’t love them back, so Character A was going to kidnap them so they would.” Maybe it’s not a story you want to read, but you are now firmly couched in what you signed up for in this story and the promisethe author is going to deliver on before the end.
- Characters need goals. They need goals in every moment and in every scene. Everycharacter needs a goal in every moment and in every scene. Maybe they’re not directly pursuing that goal right this very moment but it’s probably always at the back of their mind. Romances and detective stories are the easiest to deliver on this need. Character A wants to win their love. Detective A wants to solve the case. Even when they’re having tea with grandma, their thing is at the back of their mind. Keeping your character and your story focused on this thing they want helps pull your reader along and keeps them engaged on the “So what?” and “Why are we reading this scene?” questions of why they should keep reading.
- Characters shouldn’t just have things they like, they should have obsessions. This is the one I’m kicking myself for. The scientists in Pacific Rim are eccentrically obsessed with studying their thing. Thorin in the Hobbit is obsessed with regaining his home. Katniss Everdeen is obsessed with protecting her sister. Every crazy whackadoodle fandom darling character is obsessed with something. What do they have in common? They’re intensely obsessed with the thing that they care about. We love characters who are obsessed with things beyond reason, whether it’s reclaiming their home stolen by a dragon, or building artisanal bird houses, saving your sister, or studying monsters. Everyone “likes” things, but people and characters who are obsessed with something fascinate us. Examine the characters you’re most attracted to writing in fanfic, and examine your original characters if you’re trying to build those, and figure out what are they obsessed with and how does that inform their character. That’s the thing that’s going to make readers care about them.