That Moment...

Three more weeks, I think. It's a cultural exchange thing. We'll see how his attitude is when he gets back.

 

TMW you realize your MCs are always loyal and honest about everything from keeping a promise
to the death, or keeping good on a threat followed by brutal murder of the other person. They will
always be true to their word no matter what. Might be a bit of the writer (me) bleeding through on
the page, but hey Soldiers no matter what their rank should be able to back up 100% of everything
they say they are going to do, even if it means they have to pay the highest price to keep it.

 

TMW you realize your MCs are always loyal and honest about everything from keeping a promise
to the death, or keeping good on a threat followed by brutal murder of the other person. They will
always be true to their word no matter what. Might be a bit of the writer (me) bleeding through on
the page, but hey Soldiers no matter what their rank should be able to back up 100% of everything
they say they are going to do, even if it means they have to pay the highest price to keep it.

 

Another reason.

 

TMW things are pronounced wrong.

Academically, I fully understand that strange words in books are very likely to be pronounced in quite variable ways by different people. I know this. No one needs to explain it to me. Still... I've just discovered that China Miéville's The City and the City (listen up, @Homer Potvin) was turned into a miniseries and I'm getting into the first episode over my morning coffee - me all sizzle and sparkly with delight at watching one of my favorite books on the screen - and Tyador Borlú says the names of the two cities, and.... I pray he doesn't say them very often because he's killing it for me. He says Besźel as beh-zhl rather than beh-zhel and Ul Qoma as uhl-koh-ma rather than ool-kwoh-ma. One should sound Eastern European, the other Arabic. Instead they're both delivered in a voice-coached, flattened Liverpudlian.

 

TMW You look back at old posts, and see that you missed a golden opportunity to say something a month earlier than you did!

 

TMW you understand this pain.

 

It all worked out in the end, but it's just seeing that now...makes me want to slap my earlier self!

 

That moment when you're procrastinating over your journaling... by reading about journaling.

 

TMW... you realize you might have fudged up your Lore mechanics.... LOL.

 

The past doesn't matter, as long you're happy in the present. You can't change the past; you can only move forward. And if you had taken the "golden opportunity" at that time, you may not have had the same result, because for whatever reason, the timing wasn't right yet. All that matters is, it all worked out.

 

I am happy in the present, unbelievably so. I do believe you are absolutely correct. I obviously wasn't ready at that point.

 

TMW.... you realize that your world's lore might have unintentionally devalued women, and now scramble to correct it!!!!

Though when it comes to the "Antagonist Countries" you might keep it as part of their lore and belief systems.

 

Followed by that moment when you start journaling by writing about why you were procrastinating

 

Ooooh, that reminds me of the time years ago when I realized one of my major character was literally the only black person in my fantasy. Needless to say, once I realized my unintentionally racist mistake, I corrected it by creating her people, their homeland and bits of their culture.

Don't worry ladies and gents. She's not the only black person anymore, and there are multiple POC characters in my fantasy who are valued and strong in their own right.

 

I remember one time in college, I asked a fellow writer what ethnic were his characters, and admitted that mine tended to be white (mostly because I am white) and he thought for a moment and said Hispanic (him being Hispanic). I do not believe it's racist more just what you are familiar with.

Funny enough, when I updated the people in my current WIP (this was before I actually wrote it) I gave them an olive (light Tan) skin tone, and I realized that another MC's heritage is for the same culture, so basically became the only Olive (Light Tan) skinned guy in a nation of basically White-Europeans. Making also the darkest individual as well. LOL.

Here's an example of the skin tone, for my Current MC and her people (To whom the other MC is related to) They lean more towards the red undertone.


Typicall I am more focused on other Human-Species as it were, such as Lizardfolk, Beastmen, etc. But as I expand my world, I have taken the effort to create regional skin tones, but it really only applies to one group of the Human-Species, as the rest are either covered in Fur or scales. . Well except the Green skin toned ones.

 

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Must find!!!!!!

 

It's weird, I always think of lizardfolk as having green skin, but there's Kim K herself being used as an exemplar of a red undertone beneath her makeup

 

Actually, lizard-folk have scales, and in multitude of colors. is that Kim K? I I didn't know who she was. Oh well.

I was implying Orcs basically

 

Orks: Greenskins

 

LOL, the Orc in back looks like he is having a seizure, perhaps a seizure brought on by a hail of Bolter Fire.