Wishlist (In no specific order)
Tame Impala (Indie-Psychadelic Rock) -never seen em, don't listen to them much. Is a must see as it is unanimous that the live show is next level
Porter Robinson (electro-house, Synth pop) -Another never seen/ don't really listen to him but don't plan on missing unless there is a big conflict
MeganTheeStallion (Rap) -Hate her music, the booties will be present though
Rezz (Metal/Bass) -Crazy visuals, lots of guitar and voice samples. Verified for Thursday, probably closing out the main stage. Check out her new album "Spiral"
GRiZ (Electro-Funk/ Bass) -A top 3 act of the whole fest. New album Rainbow Brain is more Bass than funk but he brings the funk to his live sets. Mad Liberation is such a good album, his sax is sexy, but his fans can get pretty fratty. Last Okee I was getting shoved the whole time so I'll be chilling in the back or by the sound booth
Flying Lotus (OG Electronic) -Has some sweet sampling with Thundercat (possibly one of the best guitarists alive right now). I will see him to pay my respects more than anything
Denzel Curry (Hardcore Rap) -Another must see. There will be moshing, there will be people acting aggresive. Equally Punk to Rap. Check out Zhu album. That shit goes hard.
Jungle (Indie/ electro-Funk) -My number 1. Jungle does not miss. It's gonna be choreographed, it's gonna be groovy, I'm gonna take my pants off. Check out their newest album Loving in Stereo
Troyboi (electronic) -He ight, don't listen actively but like what I've heard
Jai Wolf (Electronic/ House) -Floaty, kinda feels like San Holo a little in his newish album "The Cure to Loneliness". If there is someone else on I can really dance too, they'll be my priority
The Glitch Mob (OG Bass) -another one like FlyLo. I'll be in that crowd paying my respects to the EDM gods
CloZee (Organic Bass) -Truly the Queen of the Jungle. Wook flu will be abound. Clozee is one of my do not miss acts. Heavy bass with flutes, bongos, and voice samples that are more an instrument than a sample. Her entire discography is great. I specifically like the Revolution EP
Mt.Joy (Folk) -a must see act. Mt Joy's self titled album is a treat and they bring diversity to this heavily electronic fest. I will cry, 100%.
Elderbrook (House) -my Favorite house act besides ford.. definitely pop mixed with house so not for everyone but his songs make me feel happy. Check out his EP Interlight
CharlesTheFirst -RIP Charlie, one of the best to do it, breaking barr
... keep reading on reddit ➡We all know the author of Boruto needed some dramatic conflict in his manga and what better way to portray that than the classic "Daddy Issues" plot point.
I've always had a problem with their reasoning behind the conflict. Naruto for one realistically shouldn't be so drained or miserable in his job when he has clones that can be sustained for days on end. Heck, Naruto's clones.... his clones participated in war arc against powerful opponents and they didn't dispel for hours (not to mention trading blows and playing a key role in sealing those reanimated opponents). And Hokage Naruto is proven to be stronger than his 16 year-old self
So I can't for the life of me find any coherent reason why Naruto of all people would miss his daughter's birthday. He's the fucking Hokage and he couldn't have someone to cover him for a measly couple of hours let alone a day?
We've seen filler of how Minato took care of his son and was there for him even though he's been Hokage even before Naruto's birth.
So I wanted to ask how would you write a fic where Naruto and Boruto have a realistic conflict between them?
I have a case study due on a labor-management related conflict in the aviation industry for school. I’ve tried scouring google for a good example of this but I’m having a hard time finding a good one to write about. I’m preferably looking for an article from an online news article that will give me a lot of information to write about since this case study must be at least 12 pages. I’m asking this group because I know there are many people here who have been around for much longer than me and can recall big labor-management conflicts much better than I can. I wanted to do it on the whole contract situation at Atlas but someone already took that topic. :/
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all.
"My hands cracked open the book, and the pages smelled like a room where no one had walked for a long time. This paper room smelled enormous, with varnished wooden floors, and stony fireplaces filled with cold ashes, and dust motes swimming in the sunlight that fell through the room's tall windows. Mine were the first eyes to peer inside this paper castle for generations."
I mean, come on. If that doesn't hit home, what are you even doing on this sub? That's the type of enticing word-picture that will turn a person into a reader tout suite.
I've always thought, and still do mind you, that Palahniuk is a much better storyteller than writer. His books have great, engaging and exciting 'elevator pitch' plots that are constantly unique with memorable characters and moments, but his prose - IMO - is either overly flowery with at least one $20 word per sentence too many, and/or too quirky or kitschy as if he's looking to birth the next big turn of phrase to be jammed into the vernacular.
But my word, that paragraph makes me wanna get it tattooed somewhere.
From 'Doomed' (2013), FYI.
How to write great conflict (3 tips):
It’s a common aphorism that ‘good storytelling is conflict’, and for a reason: we love conflict. We love drama. We thrive on high stakes and competition, because all of these things generate tension, and tension is what keeps you on the edge of your seat, keen to know what will happen next.
Below are 3 tips that I’ve found really useful for creating good conflict:
1/ Conflict values and ways of life, not just intentions. Weaker stories have the characters simply wanting different things. Stronger stories give us conflicting values: the characters see things differently, they live differently, and that’s why they’re pulled into conflict with each other.
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2/ More players, more complexity. While two people in conflict is interesting, that lacks the depth that you can accomplish with three people - or four, or even more - all involved in a complex game. Add more players and watch the drama intensify.
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3/ Make sure all the characters involved have nuanced motivations. Good vs bad can work, but grey vs grey is often more thought-provoking. Who’s really in the right here?
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These are all nudges in the right direction, if your goal is to create a compelling narrative.
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Did these help? Which tip are you going to work with?
Man, I think I understand now why so many people write slow burn "will they/won't they" fanfics and then end on the two characters kissing or just getting together at the end. I was kind of irritated about seeing this over and over again, but now that I wanted to do something different and actually write conflict within a relationship, its the most challenging thing I've ever written.
My fic isn't quite an established relationship, but it has two characters that get into a relationship very early on, and then have to deal with being insecure and struggling to communicate with each other, while also dealing with other world-endangering plot as well. There's some smut, but I don't like writing characters having perfect sex every single time, so they have issues dealing with some (but not total) sexual incompatibility as well.
Now the characters are arguing and I hate them for it. I'm getting worried that this is going to turn off most readers. If this was real life, my instinct is to tell them that this relationship is not worth their time. However, I've been reinforcing the idea that these characters do love each other for soo many chapters now, and would not leave over something as stupid as this.
Maybe its just triggering because I'm the ace friend who's been the person for my sexual friends to vent to when they're in bad relationships (not abusive, just a lot of arguing). I don't know. For all the people who like ship fics, does this sound like something that'd get a hard pass from you for your OTP?
So my ADD mostly comes in the form of being very easily distracted by others when they are obnoxiously loud. This is a long post and I was writing this as my roommates chewed with their mouths open and played videos over a movie I was watching before they were in the room. They have plenty of space around the house they can go to, and not be rude as shit
I'm watching a movie, as I usually watch TV in our living room at night, and one of my roommates CONSTANTLY chews with his mouth open making ridiculously loud smacking noises and shit. I can't fucking stand it. To top it off, he plays videos while I'm watching movies.
I want to strangle him, how do I deal with this? It's fucking disgusting, he's almost 30, and he seldom chews with his mouth closed. I know that he has no issues breathing through his nose. No reason to chew with his mouth open, and sometimes he chews with his mouth closed.
I'm about to lose my shit. I can't focus on any show I'm watching, and it aggravates me, truly aggravates me. Like it's constant and it's fucking rude and disgusting and he CAN CHEW WITH HIS MOUTH CLOSED. I don't know how to go about this. I don't want to be a dick and cause stupid drama, but it's so disgusting, childish, and he can't be quiet in anything he does at all. Walks loudly through the house and talks with food in his mouth. Our house manager has told him to close his mouth and finish talking when he's done eating. But he just continues to do it, when like 10% of the time he chews with his mouth closed. (we live in an SLE and there are 7 of us in a big house, so we have a house manager that makes sure things are getting done and drug tests us on a weekly basis)
He's had a conversation with him before about eating like a child and talking with food in his mouth. But he continues to do it and acts like "ha what a stuck up dick" and has said things like this before.
My ADD and anxiety goes through the roof. I have another roommate who does the same thing, half the time he chews with his mouth open and smacks. The other half of the time he eats and chews with his mouth closed. Its not cause the foods hot, one day he'll eat a meal and smack, then the next day eat the same thing and not leave his mouth open like a pig.
How do I deal with this? They're 29 and 28 respectively, and they haven't had serious relationships before and I doubt any woman could stand a date with a person who smacks their lips and eats like a fucking pig.
It's seriously starting to
... keep reading on reddit ➡All the feedback I get for my writing is generally really good except for the fact my writing doesn’t have enough conflict... But I feel driven to write about beautiful or interesting moments rather than conflict. I suppose I’m a little conflict adverse. Then I was reading a couple of articles about how the conflict factor is more of a western writing style and it’s not as necessary in other cultures’ writing styles. The example used was the film Totoro which has very little obvious conflict. But I’m told conflict is essential for children’s writing especially. However I myself don’t really enjoy high tension reading or watching so I’m a little puzzled... is it a must or are there ways around it?
History is filled with conflict that shows that no side is entirely righteous or correct though one side can be worse.
I want to write a proper Gray Vs Back conflict and do it well.
Can anyone provide some advice?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackAndGrayMorality
Or more complicated manner I want to write a White and Gray (Multiple Protagonist factions) versus Gray and Black (Antagonists).
Tips?
To be clearer, would Tolkien have been able to point to historical examples within his field of study of languages and history of such a conflict, where warriors resolved conflict with songs instead of swords? Alternatively, are there any examples of such from outside Tolkien's scope?
For reference, here's the passage in question from The Silmarillion Chapter 19, "Of Beren and Luthien":
>"For [Finrod] Felagund strove with Sauron in songs of power, and the power of the King was very great; but Sauron had the mastery, as is told in the Lay of Leithian:
>He chanted a song of wizardry
>Of piercing, opening, of treachery,
>Revealing, uncovering, betraying,
>Then sudden Felagund there swaying
>Sang in answer a song of staying,
>Resisting, battling against power,
>Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,
>And trust unbroken, freedom, escape
>Of changing and of shifting shape
>Of snares eluded, broken traps,
>The prison opening, the chain that snaps
>Backwards and forwards swayed their song,
>Reeling and foundering, as ever more strong
>The chanting swelled, Felagund fought,
>And all the magic and might he brought
>Of Elvenesse into his words
>Softly in the gloom they heard the birds
>Singing afar in Nargothrond
>The sighing of the Sea beyond,
>Beyond the western world, on sand,
>On sand of pearls in Elvenland
>Then the gloom gathered, darkness growing,
>In Valinor, the red blood flowing
>Beside the Sea, where the Noldor slew
>The Foamriders, and stealing drew
>Their white ships with their white sails
>From lamplit havens. The wind wails,
>The wolf howls. The ravens flee.
>The ice mutters in the mouths of the Sea
>The captives sad in Angband mourn.
>Thunder rumbles, the fires burn -
>And Finrod fell before the throne.
>Then Sauron stripped from them their disguise, and they stood before him naked and afraid. But though their kinds were revealed, Sauron could not discover their names or their purposes.
>He cast them therefore into a deep pit, dark and silent, and threatened to slay them cruelly, unless one would betray the truth to him. From time to time they saw two eyes kindled in the dark, and a werewolf devoured one of the companions, but none betrayed their lord.
Two self-determination movements, the Jewish Zionist project and the Palestinian nationalist project, have been in a longrunning and controversial conflict known to the world as the Israli-Palestinian conflict. Both the Israelis and Palestinian claim the same land to belong to them, today known to be the state of Israel. It was after World War II that the United Nations declared the formation of the Jewish state of Israel in an attempt to provide the Jewish victims of the holocaust a much needed home, while also aiming to put an end to the dispute over the land. The land was split up between the Israelis and Arabs, and they have been fighting on and off since, but Israel occupies most of the land today. Palestinians to this day are not recognized as a state by many countries and do not have their independence, as well as a lack of basic rights as the minority in Israel.
A proposal to end the dispute is the two-state solution; it would allow for each state, the State of Palestine and the State of Israel, to govern themselves separately and have their independence; both would need to recognize each other's independence and live alongside one another peacefully over the land they both currently claim to be their own.
Palestine should have a say in a solution that renders them a just settlement, but are morally obligated to compromise with Israel.
Palestine should have a say in a solution that renders a just settlement for their people because they had established a home there for hundreds of years up until Britain took over for rule after the collapse of the Ottoman empire in 1918 (from which these socioeconomic divides among the Israelis and Palestinians began to arise) and Israel declared a state in 1948 by the United Nations.
A common misconception of this standpoint, that Palestinians get a say in a just settlement for their people because Palestine was their home, is that because Jewish people technically occupied the land of Israel first thousands of years ago, Palestine is not justified in their refusal to acknowledge the state of Israel. However, it is not a matter of who was there first, it is a matter of the fact that Arab, Jewish, and Christian Palestinians had established a peaceful home as one in Palestine, and that home was taken from them through biased and corrupt political legislation as well as a mostly justifiable, yet drastic urgency for statehood change for the Jews after the holocaust. The legislation that allowed Israel to take s
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mine was on the ✨controversial✨ israeli-palestinian conflict. my ao will either enthusiastically admit me, or energetically throw my app in the rejection pile lmao.
I have so many story ideas for children that I try to work on, but even when I plot them out I always get stuck in the same place: the conflict. I can’t seem to come up with an issue for my characters in any of my stories, they stagnate and then I give up. Are there any tips on how to choose or write an issue? I’m completely at a loss here
Edit: this sub is fantastic! Thanks for all the help, I never expected to get so many tips and thoughts. It’s much appreciated!
It’s a common aphorism that ‘good storytelling is conflict’, and for a reason: we love conflict. We love drama. We thrive on high stakes and competition, because all of these things generate tension, and tension is what keeps you on the edge of your seat, keen to know what will happen next.
Below are 3 tips that I’ve found really useful for creating good conflict:
1/ Conflict values and ways of life, not just intentions. Weaker stories have the characters simply wanting different things. Stronger stories give us conflicting values: the characters see things differently, they live differently, and that’s why they’re pulled into conflict with each other.
2/ More players, more complexity. While two people in conflict is interesting, that lacks the depth that you can accomplish with three people - or four, or even more - all involved in a complex game. Add more players and watch the drama intensify.
3/ Make sure all the characters involved have nuanced motivations. Good vs bad can work, but grey vs grey is often more thought-provoking. Who’s really in the right here?
These are all nudges in the right direction, if your goal is to create a compelling narrative.
Did these help? Which tip are you going to work with?
