As of July 4th 2018, the Internet as we know it might be dead for good.
The European Parliament is passing a new Copyright Directive. Article 13 #CensorshipMachine will impose widespread censorship of all the content we share online. Art, fanfiction, parodies, remixes, mashups, memes, etc.. Anything that you do not hold the rights over will be taken down.
Article 13 would force all online platforms to police and prevent the uploading of copyrighted content, or make people seek the correct licenses to post that content. Internet platforms hosting large amounts of user-uploaded content must monitor user behaviour and filter their contributions to identify and prevent copyright infringement.
Such filters will be mandatory for platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit and Instagram, but also much smaller websites.
Last Tuesday (19th June 2018) a group of more than 70 people who have played important roles in building the internet and developing it (Tim Berners-Lee, Vincent Cerf,
Jimmy Wales, Mitchell Baker…) into what it is today addressed an open letter to the members of the European Parliament:
“As creators ourselves, we share the concern that there should be a fair distribution of revenues from the online use of copyright works, that benefits creators, publishers, and platforms alike.
But Article 13 is not the right way to achieve this. By requiring Internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users. […] The damage that this may do to the free and open Internet as we know it is hard to predict, but in our opinions could be substantial.”
Helga just looking to the other Hogwarts founders after they had said what they wanted of their students and screaming “FINE I’LL JUST TEACH EVERYONE ELSE BECAUSE THEY DESERVE TO STUDY LIKE ALL CHILDREN DO”
Helga getting so attached to her students to the point were she goes to every room to wish them good night
Arguing with Salazar almost every day trying to convince him Muggleborn children are as good as pure bloods
Picture Helga Hufflepuff refusing to sit in the teachers table and sitting with her students because she wants to spend time with them
Helga getting all dirty during Herbology classes and being really happy by doing any kind of hand work
Being the most motherly of the founders and taking care of the other 3, even if they don’t want it. Even of Salazar.
Helga telling her students all secrets about the dangers of the castle just because she’s afraid they might end up getting hurt, but making they pinky promise they’re not gonna tell anyone else
Helga being surprisely close to Salazar despite their differences and getting attached to his students
Never allowing anyone to bad mouth her students and immediately taking off house points no matter who they are
Teaching her students how to get in the kitchen without being noticed
Just imagine Helga Hufflepuff losing her temper and swearing in front of her first years, than looking all shocked at them and saying “if I ever find out any of you repeat it you’re going to have to deal with me”
Being terrible at threaten her students and that being her last try because she knows she would hardly be able to do the things the other founders threaten to do, and her students know that as well
Never raising her voice when scolding or arguing with any of her students
Being hesitant in letting her house join in Quidditch but ends up in the middle of all the students screaming and waving her wand over her head to write signs with fire and cheering for her team
Helga being the teacher that knows every gossip about the school even if she doesn’t want to because her students just come to tell her everything and ask for advices. And she just can’t say no
– A lot of people come to me with questions about writing more intense, emotional scenes, so I figured I’d make a list of tips for those of you who would find it useful. This article isn’t as much about action-intense scenes, but some things may apply. This is mainly focused on writing intense scenes that invoke a lot of emotion from your readers, so I hope it helps. Happy writing!
Emotional scenes are usually the more intense ones in a story, but this can be a very slippery slope to tread on, because a lot of writers can go overboard on the actual emotion. Overloading a scene with cheesy emotion will bring your reader out of it or corner them. Your reader’s reactions shouldn’t be limited by the pressure to cry when your character does. Your reader should feel the intended emotion because they feel they’re inside of it, mostly due to subtext and surrounding details, not because of pressure from the events to feel what the character is feeling.
You Don’t Have To Be Unrealistic To Invoke Emotion
Your characters don’t need to display inconsistent traits or do things that will shock your reader purely out of “I can’t believe so-and-so would do that”. You also don’t need to have a groundbreaking event in your scene for it to be intense. Sometimes the most intense scenes are the most mundane ones that are more internal reflection than anything, especially following larger events.
Focus On Tone
Tone will play more of a role in making the scene intense than the actual events will. I have a whole article on perfecting a scene here, but to put it simply, you should have a healthy mixture of body language, intentional dialogue tags, and context that build the tone of your scene.
Word Choice
Word choice is a super important aspect of what makes a scene more intense for your reader. There are powerful words you can use to bring forth certain universal associations and reactions from your reader. For instance, instead of saying “cut, broken, sad”, you could put it as “sliced, shattered, miserable”. I am not saying you should use a thesaurus for this. That will take it to the level of being unnatural and forced. Just use upgraded versions of simple words you might use to describe how someone feels or whatever is going on.
Empathy
Your readers probably haven’t been through the same thing as your character, but most humans have felt the same form of emotions in different dosages and different contexts. This is the recipe for relation that makes scenes more hard-hitting for your reader. If your character lost a family member in a car accident, describe their emotions in a way that most people can connect to. Maybe not everyone has been through that same experience, but most people can relate to the aspect of loss and tragedy.
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I have so many sketches of Bast on my computer that I had to name this file “bast6.jpg″ because the numbers 1 through 5 were taken, along with every variant of Her name I could recall.
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