The world will be saved and remade by the dreamers

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If your plot feels flat, STUDY it! Your story might be lacking…

Stakes - What would happen if the protagonist failed? Would it really be such a bad thing if it happened?

Thematic relevance - Do the events of the story speak to a greater emotional or moral message? Is the conflict resolved in a way that befits the theme?

Urgency - How much time does the protagonist have to complete their goal? Are there multiple factors complicating the situation?

Drive - What motivates the protagonist? Are they an active player in the story, or are they repeatedly getting pushed around by external forces? Could you swap them out for a different character with no impact on the plot? On the flip side, do the other characters have sensible motivations of their own?

Yield - Is there foreshadowing? Do the protagonist’s choices have unforeseen consequences down the road? Do they use knowledge or clues from the beginning, to help them in the end? Do they learn things about the other characters that weren’t immediately obvious?

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your-void-senpai:

Which Adam Parrish Are you?

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seavoice:

we get it with trc too, the way each of the characters parallel different facets of each other, its especially prominent in moments of recognition and Understanding. it’s all very “spidermen pointing at each other” meme, and yeah by the “tamquam alter idem” of it all we KNOW mstief likes playing with that esp in regard to the tenderness and romanticism of it….

but the way mirroring works in CDTH especially is soooo. I love the structuring of this book they are so CLEARLY approaching inherently similar questions of personhood/creativity/duty from such different points of view, rather than it just being facets of their characters paralleling each other as a consquence of different arc trajectories as it was in TRC (where everyone is grappling with different problems and the plot is more scattered).

it’s funny (and I can completely be talking out of my ass here lmao) that the higher global stakes of this book and the more YA-type “having one very clear definable Prophesized Supernatural World Ending Problem-Solution“ format allowed us to delve deeper into these characters and their motivations, and how it conflicts with each other’s, compared to the cast of characters in TRC, which even though it was very very tight in terms of its characterisation, had less of interpersonal conflict (though you’d THINK it would be lot more character driven since it followed a less standard prophetic-doom day formula, and was more about human problems with magical metaphors).

the fact that you can take absolutely any two main characters in this book and find a perfect example of them struggling with the same issue from wildly different perspectives..it’s a book of flipped mirrors! hennessy/jordan, jordan/ronan, ronan/hennessy, hennessy/declan, declan/jordan, jordan/farooq-lane, farooq-lane/ronan, ronan/declan, declan/farooq-lane, farooq-lane/liliana, liliana/bryde, bryde/ronan, ronan/adam

styx-x:

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dsu2014:

“i can fix him” well i can dream him the world. something new for every night

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THE GANGSEY RANKED AFTER THE AMOUNT OF TIMES THEY CRY IN TRC.

the-prince-of-tides:

insingersfall:

1. BLUE: 9

A clear winner! Girrrl does she have the absolute best coping mechanism in the group. I’m gonna take a wild guess and say it’s because she’s not struggling with her masculinity. She just cries a bit when she’s sad, not a single fist in the wall!  Good for her. 

2. RONAN: 3

Honestly I thought Ronan was in the running towards becoming Henrietta’s next top crier. I will say though that Ronan’s three times (in the cave over Niall, in the car over Aurora, on the road over Gansey) are more memorable than Blue’s nine. I’ve already forgotten why Blue cries… Also fortunately for me and Ronan he’s crying (at least) three times in Opal & CDTH. He still in the running.

3. GANSEY: 1

Åh. This cry right here, it might be the best of them. How Henry tells him to stop the car and just do it, how he looks for a good spot (just kill me), the fact that this is his first cry in the series and it feels like he’s been holding it for four books. For Glendower being dead, for his own death, for all the things he lost and the things he will miss. A true breakdown! Gansey finally! Bawling on the ground behind a rest stop. This a 10/10

4. NOAH: 1

Shared third place for someone who isn’t even alive?!? good work Noah. You’re more in touch with your emotions than ->

5. ADAM: 0

This bitch here needs to cry the most from start to finish. With this fact in hand I’m both glad and a bit distressed over his collection of criers later on. 
Realistically I don’t think we’ll see that much from Adam in the dreamer trilogy but if we do I sure hope he’s crying.

You’re right: this does read like a clickbait article. 

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professorllayton:

the real reason ronan doesn’t wanna go in 300 fox way is bc he knows they’re all wlw

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i just think he’s neat

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raindropwindow:

a weird and random lil Adam and Ronan thing …. idk I’m procrastinating :,) :,)))