#plot — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #plot, aggregated by home.social.
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Why Are Right-Wing Conspiracies So Obsessed With Pedophilia?
#Conspiracies #plot #trump #GOP #USA #Pedophilia #pedo #pedophiles #pedophile #RightWing #FarRight #AfD #AlternativefürDeutschland #ReformUK #NigelFarage #Farage #Epstein #JeffreyEpstein #SocialOrder
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If You’re Bored, They’re Bored
Five zero-draft tricks to ensure tight pacing.
The post If You’re Bored, They’re Bored appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/if-youre-bored-theyre-bored#BeInspired #FromtheMagazine #Plot #WriteBetterFiction #BetterPacing
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If You’re Bored, They’re Bored
Five zero-draft tricks to ensure tight pacing.
The post If You’re Bored, They’re Bored appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/if-youre-bored-theyre-bored#BeInspired #FromtheMagazine #Plot #WriteBetterFiction #BetterPacing
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Writing a Novel is Like Building a House
Career Authors
Writing a novel is like building house...Brian Andrews tells you how in this week's Career Author's Post!
Writing a Novel is Like Building a House Brian Andrews…
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Writing a Novel is Like Building a House
Career Authors
Writing a novel is like building house...Brian Andrews tells you how in this week's Career Author's Post!
Writing a Novel is Like Building a House Brian Andrews…
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Writing a Coming-of-Age Adventure Story
Author Taylor Hobbs shares how writing a coming-of-age adventure story led to successful publication after starting as a 529-word short story.
The post Writing a Coming-of-Age Adventure Story appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/writing-a-coming-of-age-adventure-story#Plot #WriteBetterFiction #adventurefiction #comingofage #ComingofageNovel
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Writing a Coming-of-Age Adventure Story
Author Taylor Hobbs shares how writing a coming-of-age adventure story led to successful publication after starting as a 529-word short story.
The post Writing a Coming-of-Age Adventure Story appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/writing-a-coming-of-age-adventure-story#Plot #WriteBetterFiction #adventurefiction #comingofage #ComingofageNovel
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Writing a Coming-of-Age Adventure Story
Author Taylor Hobbs shares how writing a coming-of-age adventure story led to successful publication after starting as a 529-word short story.
The post Writing a Coming-of-Age Adventure Story appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/writing-a-coming-of-age-adventure-story#Plot #WriteBetterFiction #adventurefiction #comingofage #ComingofageNovel
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Writing a Coming-of-Age Adventure Story
Author Taylor Hobbs shares how writing a coming-of-age adventure story led to successful publication after starting as a 529-word short story.
The post Writing a Coming-of-Age Adventure Story appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/writing-a-coming-of-age-adventure-story#Plot #WriteBetterFiction #adventurefiction #comingofage #ComingofageNovel
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Of all the places I might expect to have the central twist of "Yesteryear" spoiled for me, it wasn't in the middle of a Waterstones book store. Usually, people who read a lot of books know better than to announce the plot at the top of their lungs in a place where there are a lot of books.
Well done, that very loud, American, young woman. 🤦🏼♀️
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Of all the places I might expect to have the central twist of "Yesteryear" spoiled for me, it wasn't in the middle of a Waterstones book store. Usually, people who read a lot of books know better than to announce the plot at the top of their lungs in a place where there are a lot of books.
Well done, that very loud, American, young woman. 🤦🏼♀️
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Oh, look! 🌟 The IRGC's latest #plot twist: obliterating Amazon's data center in #Bahrain... from their imagination! 🎩✨ Because when in doubt, claim to have #vaporized the #cloud ☁️ with a puff of #hot #air. 🌀
https://houseofsaud.com/irgc-claims-destroyed-amazon-bahrain-data-center/ #IRGC #Amazon #twist #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh, look! 🌟 The IRGC's latest #plot twist: obliterating Amazon's data center in #Bahrain... from their imagination! 🎩✨ Because when in doubt, claim to have #vaporized the #cloud ☁️ with a puff of #hot #air. 🌀
https://houseofsaud.com/irgc-claims-destroyed-amazon-bahrain-data-center/ #IRGC #Amazon #twist #HackerNews #ngated -
Scenario: Big corporate AI attacking open weight model providers to protect themselves against cheaper, more energy-efficient competition.
🤖 "Feeeed meee. Mooaaar gigawatts!!"
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Scenario: Big corporate AI attacking open weight model providers to protect themselves against cheaper, more energy-efficient competition.
🤖 "Feeeed meee. Mooaaar gigawatts!!"
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On Moving Past Plotlessness
Author Andrea Uptmor discusses moving past plotlessness after learning to write beautiful sentences in MFA program.
The post On Moving Past Plotlessness appeared first on Writer's Digest.
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On Moving Past Plotlessness
Author Andrea Uptmor discusses moving past plotlessness after learning to write beautiful sentences in MFA program.
The post On Moving Past Plotlessness appeared first on Writer's Digest.
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When the Ending Answers the Beginning (or, The Power of Chiastic Storytelling)
Author Julie Carrick Dalton explores the power of chiastic storytelling, a type of story where the end circles back to the beginning.
The post When the Ending Answers the Beginning (or, The Power of Chiastic Storytelling) appeared first on Writer's Digest.
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When the Ending Answers the Beginning (or, The Power of Chiastic Storytelling)
Author Julie Carrick Dalton explores the power of chiastic storytelling, a type of story where the end circles back to the beginning.
The post When the Ending Answers the Beginning (or, The Power of Chiastic Storytelling) appeared first on Writer's Digest.
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Back home after a week away #plot #vegetables #HappyCat
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#plot : a secret plan or scheme
- French: trame
- Italian: trama
- Portuguese: enredo
- Spanish: trama
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Fill in missing or incorrect translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
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#Supergirl Forgot She Was Supergirl
source: themoviedb.org/movie/1081003-s…
There is a strange emptiness at the center of Supergirl. Not because the film lacks explosions, aliens, or cosmic road trips. It has all of that. The problem is simpler. It never knows who its heroine is.
At first, the movie promises something fresh. Supergirl arrives like a punk-rock cousin of Superman. She drinks too much. She gets into fights. She distrusts people. She looks like she escaped from a 90s coming-of-age movie and wandered into a comic book. For a moment, it feels exciting. Like Tank Girl crashing into the #DC Universe.
Then the film loses its nerve.
What follows is a familiar #blockbuster smoothie. One part Guardians of the Galaxy. One part Star Wars. Add a pinch of trauma, a cute animal in danger, some slow-motion shots, and stir until all flavor disappears. The result is a film assembled from spare parts. Like a lightsaber built from IKEA instructions.
#MillyAlcock does her best. She has #charisma. She has #presence. She sells every emotional scene she is given. But even a talented #actress cannot save a #character written without conviction.
The biggest problem is Supergirl herself.
The film wants to tell us this is a female hero with her own identity. It constantly signals rebellion, vulnerability, and emotional scars. Yet whenever the story moves forward, she behaves like a standard male action lead wearing a blonde wig.
She drinks whiskey.
She punches first.
She boasts.
She seeks approval through physical dominance.
At one point she even demands fist bumps like an overgrown fraternity brother.
None of this is inherently wrong. #Women can fight. Women can drink. Women can be rough around the edges. But characters need internal consistency. #Ripley from Alien felt believable. #SarahConnor evolved naturally. #Furiosa carried strength without pretending to be Max Rockatansky.
Supergirl never feels like a woman shaped by her own experiences. She feels like a male screenplay that had the pronouns changed during a late production meeting.
Imagine Wonder #Woman behaving like Tony Stark after six vodkas. It would not make her stronger. It would simply make her less interesting.
Ironically, the film already had a better idea.
The opening scenes suggest a story aimed at young women. Something messy. Something emotional. Something loud and unapologetic. A superhero movie with safety pins, broken hearts, and teenage anger. A cosmic punk fairy tale.
Instead, the movie retreats into familiar territory. Flashbacks explain everything. A #sidekick exists only to ask questions. The #plot revolves around a simple antidote hunt stretched far beyond its natural limits. Every few minutes someone gets captured, poisoned, or interrupted so another memory can play.
#JasonMomoa 's #Lobo appears and almost steals the film. He has attitude. He has energy. He also looks strangely cheap, as if his costume budget disappeared into another dimension. Watching him ride around feels less like meeting the Main Man and more like seeing a convention cosplayer who won second place.
#JamesGunn 's fingerprints are everywhere. The rotating action shots return. The needle drops return. The quirky space creatures return. At this point these tricks feel less like style and more like a magician repeating the same card trick because the audience applauded three years ago.
None of this makes Supergirl terrible.
It is watchable.
It is occasionally fun.
It expands the DC universe in interesting ways.
But it never becomes its own film.
And that is perhaps the saddest part.
Supergirl can fly faster than light. Yet this movie keeps her trapped in someone else's orbit.
By the end, she is not a symbol of feminine strength. She is not a #punk icon. She is not even a fully realized character.
She is a collection of borrowed gestures.
A Superman cover band wearing Doc Martens.
And that simply isn't super enough.
#Cinema #movie #entertainment #news #criticism #fail #problem #story #comic #hero #drunk #men #storyline #violence
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🎭 In a #plot #twist straight out of a bad sitcom, an agency swiped a book about imaginary words—because, apparently, they couldn't imagine their own. 🤖 Meanwhile, AI gets blamed for the heist, as if it was caught red-handed with a thesaurus. 📚✨
https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/ #imaginarywords #AIblame #bookheist #sitcomhumor #HackerNews #ngated -
🎭 In a #plot #twist straight out of a bad sitcom, an agency swiped a book about imaginary words—because, apparently, they couldn't imagine their own. 🤖 Meanwhile, AI gets blamed for the heist, as if it was caught red-handed with a thesaurus. 📚✨
https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/ #imaginarywords #AIblame #bookheist #sitcomhumor #HackerNews #ngated -
The Whisper Man: A Novel "After the sudden death of his wife, Tom believes a fresh start will help him" Sale: $18.99 to $2.99 by Alex North Rating: 4.3/5 (28,317 Reviews) #books #booksky #mystery #thriller #suspense #paranormal #kindle #ebook #audiobook #horror #ghosts #twists #plot #readers
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The Whisper Man: A Novel "After the sudden death of his wife, Tom believes a fresh start will help him" Sale: $18.99 to $2.99 by Alex North Rating: 4.3/5 (28,317 Reviews) #books #booksky #mystery #thriller #suspense #paranormal #kindle #ebook #audiobook #horror #ghosts #twists #plot #readers
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Hi there,
It's once again #FursuitFriday and I bring you a #sketch I made the other day during lunch break of my #comic's main #characters. The #scene depicted here is actually part of the #plot in a later #chapter, but will probably look different in its final version.
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Hi there,
It's once again #FursuitFriday and I bring you a #sketch I made the other day during lunch break of my #comic's main #characters. The #scene depicted here is actually part of the #plot in a later #chapter, but will probably look different in its final version.
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On Thursday evening, one of the suspects involved in the planned attack on a Taylor Swift concert scheduled for Vienna in August 2024 was sentenced to 15 years... https://news.osna.fm/?p=48225 | #news #anschlag #plot #sentenced #suspect
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Two Timing—Building Narrative Power by Telling Two Stories at Once
Author Stephen P. Kiernan breaks down the narrative power of telling two (or more) stories at once, whether by location or time.
The post Two Timing—Building Narrative Power by Telling Two Stories at Once appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/two-timing-building-narrative-power-by-telling-two-stories-at-once#Plot #WriteBetterFiction #DualTimelines #DualtimeNovel #MultipleTimelines
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Two Timing—Building Narrative Power by Telling Two Stories at Once
Author Stephen P. Kiernan breaks down the narrative power of telling two (or more) stories at once, whether by location or time.
The post Two Timing—Building Narrative Power by Telling Two Stories at Once appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/two-timing-building-narrative-power-by-telling-two-stories-at-once#Plot #WriteBetterFiction #DualTimelines #DualtimeNovel #MultipleTimelines
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Un chouette scénario dont Robert Reich @rbreich a fait le récit, sur la manière de virer Trump par un complot de Vance et Rubio bien mené, pour activer le 25ᵉ amendement avec méthode et précison. J’ai adoré ! Traduction.
Ce que j’ai appris au sujet d’un complot visant à destituer Trump en recourant au 25ᵉ amendement
ROBERT REICH
12 MAI 2026Les amis,
Récemment, j’ai dîné avec un groupe de stratèges politiques — des gens chevronnées qui conseillent depuis des années des politiciens et des candidats. Au cours du dîner, ils m’ont fait part de leur scénario, qu’ils estiment avoir 30 % de chances de se réaliser dans les quatre prochains mois.
Dans le scénario de mes convives, la guerre ratée de Trump fait grimper les prix de l’essence et des denrées alimentaires à un niveau si élevé et pendant si longtemps qu’une grande partie de la base républicaine va commencer à se retourner contre Trump. Et les problèmes mentaux de Trump vont devenir encore plus manifestes.
Face à tout cela, JD Vance promet à Marco Rubio qu’il le nommera vice-président si Rubio se joint à lui pour tenter de destituer Trump en vertu du 25ᵉ amendement.* Rubio accepte.
Vance et Rubio approchent alors le président de la Chambre des représentants, Mike Johnson, et le leader de la majorité au Sénat, John Thune, pour des discussions confidentielles au cours desquelles ils évoquent cette possibilité. Johnson et Thune accordent leur soutien tacite à Vance et Rubio.
Vance et Rubio convainquent ensuite Pete Hegseth de se joindre à eux, en lui promettant qu’il conservera son poste. Ils obtiennent l’adhésion de Todd Blanche en lui promettant qu’il sera nommé procureur général permanent.
Vance, Rubio, Hegseth et Blanche sont exactement ce dont Thune et Johnson ont besoin pour faire passer le 25ᵉ amendement.
Cet arrangement sert les intérêts de chacun. Pour Vance et Rubio, cela évite ce qui pourrait être une primaire chaotique en 2028, où les deux hommes s’affronteraient. En tant que président, Vance prend une longueur d’avance pour être élu président en 2028. En tant que vice-président, Rubio est l’héritier présomptif en 2032 (alors qu’il n’aura que 60 ans) ou en 2036.
En tant que président et vice-président, Vance et Rubio mettent fin aux droits de douane de Trump et à sa guerre, qui ont fait flamber les prix, bouleversé la base républicaine et monté une grande partie du monde contre l’Amérique.
Hegseth obtient la sécurité de l’emploi dont il a désespérément besoin. Blanche obtient la promotion qu’il convoite.
Les républicains de la Chambre et du Sénat se débarrassent de Trump, qui est devenu un boulet pour eux et dont ils craignent, s’il reste en fonction, qu’il leur fasse perdre le contrôle de la Chambre et du Sénat lors des élections de mi-mandat — et qu’il conduise à une déroute au Congrès en 2028.
Le plan est finalisé pendant que Trump est à Mar-a-Lago. Il est mis à exécution lors d’une visioconférence avec Trump — au cours de laquelle Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, Blanche, Johnson et Thune l’informent qu’il n’est plus président.
Trump hurle, vocifère, frappe du poing sur son bureau à Mar-a-Lago et menace d’intenter une action en justice, mais il ne peut rien faire. Il est démis de ses fonctions.
J’ai écouté attentivement mes convives m’exposer tout cela en détail. « Vous pensez donc vraiment qu’il y a 30 % de chances que cela se produise ? » leur ai-je demandé.
« Ça pourrait être plus si la guerre continue », a répondu l’un d’eux, et les autres ont acquiescé. Un autre estimait que les chances étaient déjà plus élevées.
« Je ne sais pas si je dois me réjouir ou m’inquiéter », ai-je répondu.
Ils ont ri, mais j’étais sérieux.
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- Pour rappel : l’article 4 du 25ᵉ amendement stipule que « dès lors que le vice-président et une majorité des […] principaux responsables des départements de l’exécutif […] transmettent au président pro tempore du Sénat et au président de la Chambre des représentants une déclaration écrite attestant que le président est incapable d’exercer les pouvoirs et les fonctions de sa charge, le vice-président assume immédiatement les pouvoirs et les fonctions de la charge en tant que président par intérim ». La section 2 du 25ᵉ amendement stipule que « chaque fois qu’il y a une vacance au poste de vice-président, le président nomme un vice-président qui entre en fonction après confirmation par un vote à la majorité des deux chambres du Congrès.
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Phew! One hour time, a tankfull and a massive downpour later, managed to clear a section of the orchard...
The place was abandoned half a dozen years ago so the apple trees dropped apples in profusion and there's a lot of young trees...
Giant hogweed growing too, massive brambles heaps....
