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Scorpion in Your Tent 

One day, the US military decided to take a poll to see how the different branches handle a specific situation, in this case a scorpion in a service member’s tent. One representative from each major branch is selected, and each answers privately.

The question was a simple one: “There is a scorpion in your tent. What do you do?”

Army: “I would crush it with my boot and throw it outside.”

Navy: “I would pick it up by the tail and throw it outside.”

Marines: “I’d bite its head off before cooking and eating it.”

Air Force: “I’d call down to the front desk and ask why there’s a tent in my hotel room.”

So, when I started writing up a book, I decided, "Hey, I should make up a language for these little aliens, it won't take that long, right?"

"Oh."

"Oh no."

"Oh God, what have i gotten myself into?"

Often, I find with my ADHD, I'll be wanting to do something fun all day, like play that one game I've gotten fixated on. Yet, I'll never get the drive to actually do it, even if I go and try to force it, I'll stop 5 minutes later.

Until like an hour before I have to do something else really important, like go to class or go to work, or sleep. SUDDENLY, my brain is like, "Hey, d'you know what'd be fun?"

Epic the Musical: Tournament Bracket!

Week 1: Match 6

11:38 - Arrived at crime scene.

11:38 - Examined body. Signs of a struggle.

11:38 - Found murder weapon in drain.

11:38 - Realised watch was broken.

I'll make you accidentally cause a deluge of asks to flood your inbox about a fandom you don't know anything about

"Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum" God, I love that name so much.

Ya Ever See That Trope Where:

The big bad guy's plan to destroy the world turns out to be unfeasible but he's still gonna, like, blow up a city? Like his plan was to blow up a city and that would somehow blow up the world but that's somewhat not gonna happen. Now the protags still have to rush to save the city because the bbg is still gonna through with it. Possibly with a withdrawal of resources now that the world isn't at risk.

Been thinking of this ever since your "Save The World" Tropetalk. Especially how the audience will often go "Well, there is no way they'll go through with it" when the world is at stake.

It's a common final stage of bossfights! Our heroes enact a complex multistage collaborative plan to foil the villains' overarching scheme, but after that succeeds they still need to escape the exploding base or have one final fight on a crumbling catwalk or some similarly dramatic final encounter with their personal survival at stake. It can actually be narratively higher-stakes than the Saving The World part, because once our heroes have ensured the world is saved, the narrative doesn't need them to survive to the end, so it's technically possible for them to go out in a phyrric victory.

The crumbling of their machinations can lead to a Villainous Breakdown. When the villain's defeat leads to the base exploding as the final threat, that's a Load-Bearing Boss. When the villain actively chooses to initiate one last dangerous confrontation even though their overarching plans were foiled, that's Taking You With Me. A villain who wanted to rule the world but will now settle for destroying it might initiate a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum.