D&D campaign consisting entirely of anime trope episodes like the beach episode or the hot springs episode.
It’s still a dungeon crawl.
A quick rundown of the 12 archetypes that we often encounter in literature:
Caregiver - sacrifices themselves for the needs and wants of others
Creator - creates or envisions
Hero - will save the day with confidence, talent, strength, or skill
Innocent - pure in their motivations; often naive and inexperienced
Joker - adds humor to the story
Lover - driven by passion, love, or devotion
Orphan - may feel out of place; has a deep desire to be understood/accepted
Outlaw - a rebel who breaks social convention
Magician - understands the way the world works & uses it to their advantage
Ruler - has control and/or wants to be in control
Sage - has acquired wisdom and may act as a mentor
Seducer - irresistible and uses their charm to get what they want
Every character has a purpose. While the character may be the protagonist of their own lives, they won't necessarily be the protagonist in the story that you're telling.
Perhaps they're the antagonist. Or a mentor. Or both.
Understanding the character's identity in your story will help you create a complete arc that resonates with your reader.
Fortunately, there's a time-tested way to easily identify the roles your characters will play in your story.
It relies on psychologist Carl Jung's theory of archetypes.
Jung believed there were 12 patterns, or archetypes, that exist in our collective unconscious — the part of the mind that is common to all humans.
These 12 archetypes represent basic human motivations.
And we experience all of them.
However, we each tend to be dominated by only one of these archetypes. And that's the basis of our personality.
An archetype is used to define the role that a character plays in a novel. They can be a hero, an orphan, and/or an innocent.
By contrast, a stereotype is an oversimplified set of characteristics we assign a person based on preconceived beliefs about the group that the person belongs to, whether we’re doing so by race, gender, age, religion, etc.
While an archetype can be used as the starting point for defining a complex character, a stereotype is quite the opposite.
Stereotypes are reductive and narrow characters into caricatures.
An archetype is a template.
A stereotype is a formulaic conclusion.
Source ⚜ Writing Notes & References Character Archetypes ⚜ Goals ⚜ Stereotypical Characters
not just they accepted it but they started a contest for authors and set a word count bar almost impossible for a human to write in such amount of time
reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something
reblog if you’re okay with people writing fanfics of your fanfics and/or fanfics inspired by your fanfics
Me reading another person's writing: Oh they missed a period there, no worries mistakes happen :) Three adjectives in a sentence? Adverbs for days? No worries I love descriptions and this story is fire.
Me seeing the same thing in my work: Wow am I illiterate? Am I actually ok? Who the actual fuck told me I can write so I can go and curse their entire family for the time it took for me to carefully craft this GARBAGE.
i can’t wait for when chatGPT and ai image generation also crashes and each prompt cost $50 an attempt. oh you can’t get your stolen big tiddy anime ghibli art for free anymore? you want to buy real big boy art from real artists now? beg for it. beg for it like a dog.