Confounding Expectations

Start with the villain for more engaging storytelling.

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What will the positive consequences of the antagonist's plan be, if they are successful?
#amwriting #amwritingscifi #creativewriting #antagonists

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Understanding Antagonists

A key ingredient to a good story is to make sure your antagonist is fantastic. They need to be stronger than the protagonist, they need to evoke empathy in the reader, and they need to have a belie…

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Linux Problem-Solvings are always an #epic #story with #Sidequests at least 2 - 5 #Antagonists and 1 struggling #Hero o.o

The Elements of the Story:
#Kamvas 4K 19 Zoll Grafik Display from #Huion (HDMI)
Tiny Icons and Letters mixed with bad sight
An old Asus RTX 2060 + Nvidia Drivers
A Second Display 24 Zoll (Display Port)
and #Linux Mint

Hero: Me

Liz Cheney will campaign with Harris in Wisconsin

Vice President Kamala Harris has rallied side-by-side with Republican Liz Cheney in the birthplace of the modern Republican Party. The two women on Thursday delivered a double-barreled denunciation of GOP nominee Donald Trump as a threat to democracy. Cheney is one of Trump's fiercest Republican critics, and she urged the crowd to "reject the depraved cruelty of Donald Trump.” The event in Wisconsin was designed to get under Trump's skin and reach moderate voters. Trump appeared Thursday in Saginaw County, Michigan, a crucial swing area in the state where Democrat Joe Biden barely won four years ago.

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I like it when antagonists say correct things and the party agrees on the statements but disagree with the antagonist's actions/conclusion about what should be done. It's even better when the antagonist became like that because of a traumatic event that may or may not reveal a truth not even the party knows even when a character was involved during that time period.

#trauma #antagonists #RPGs

CloudGlare's business model is not about #advertising. That's for the visible #antagonists. If you want to wait for CloudGlare to start visibly monetising access the way the visible players do then you are missing the point β€” and you'll be waiting a long time.

CloudFlare's #power comes from the fact that they're unseen.

That's how they can extract the most data from us, and feed it into machines that serve *them*. CloudGlare, with other dotCons, is the attack on democracy they blame Trump for.

Analyzing this story I'm working on, thinking about the antagonists, finding it interesting that...

1) One character who does nothing but talk is like, a setting-level antagonist.

2) the main antagonists of this story are a world-spanning group that's basically only doing this to stop antagonist #1.

3) The tertiary antagonists are doing what antagonist #1 wants because they're incels.

4) The real antagonist was the friends we made along the way!

#AmWriting #Antagonists #Story #Writing

#Scifi #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity

Want to see some of the #enemy or #antagonists? Meet The Promethians; The Union's Γ¨lite troops who "stole fire from the gods" as it were....

The result of some absolutely awful experimentation, these guys carry the genetic code of the #Kalshodar and are equipped with the best weapons and armour their masters can produce.

#EmpyraeumCycle #artwork #digitalart #bookstagrammers #bookseries #scifiworlds #scifiartwork #soldier #geneticengineering