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Writer's lounge Lacanoodle 2 weeks ago 87%
Writing a character smarter than i am.

I actually think I've figured this out but would love to hear yalls thoughts here too. At first I was against the idea of writing a character smarter than myself since it was a rather intimidating idea. I had seen and read terrible smart characters which felt omnipotent and made nearly no sense to me. On the other hand I read characters who were just genuinely well written and smart and I couldn't realise why. Recently I came to the conclusion that the answer is simpler than I thought. Not just that it's a rather universal feeling. The feeling of being unable to express an idea you know well but can't seem to explain out loud. All you need for a smart character is perfect recall. To remember everything all the time. Not knowing, not deducing, remembering and communicating.

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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 3 weeks ago 100%

    You need to learn to not think much about your passive income. Billionaire sigma grindset or smth

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  • writing Writing What Software / Apps Do You Guys Use?
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 3 weeks ago 100%

    Note apps do the heavy lifting

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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 3 weeks ago 100%

    I'll take breath money pls and thank you

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  • shortstories Short Stories A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings By Gabriel Garcia Márquez
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 3 weeks ago 100%

    I cannot recommend this enough. Magical realism is one of my favourite genres and ggm is perhaps the best writer of the genre ever

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  • shortstories Short Stories The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 3 weeks ago 100%

    Step 1. Buy all the tickets Step 2. Profit (maybe loss actually)

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  • shortstories Short Stories The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 3 weeks ago 100%

    This is one of those stories I always forget I've read, funnily enough somehow just doesn't stick (although I do like it every time)

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  • shortstories Short Stories Zach Williams, "Trial Run".
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 4 weeks ago 100%

    Love Zach Williams.

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  • memes Memes Me but ublock origin
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 4 weeks ago 100%

    Using ublock origin, not donating. Donations go elsewhere

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    Memes Lacanoodle 4 weeks ago 97%
    Me but ublock origin
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    meta literature.cafe meta We have updated! And now have the ability to create local only communities.
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 4 weeks ago 100%

    When an instance is down I go to on alt to check the meta community for any information.

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Discover asbestos in your attic or a man living in there.
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 1 month ago 100%

    He will be masturbating to the sound of you struggling to poop

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Discover asbestos in your attic or a man living in there.
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 1 month ago 100%

    Or a pervert

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Discover asbestos in your attic or a man living in there.
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 1 month ago 100%

    Thats great. Where can I get some for my kitchen walls?

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  • shortstories Short Stories Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 1 month ago 100%

    We'll allow it. A novella community is entirely unnecessary

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Have the ability to talk to house plants or the ability to shoot a tiny harmless puff of glitter out of your fingertips.
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    Just houseplants whenever they speak. If that bothers you, you can torture them until they obey all you say

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    Asklemmy Lacanoodle 2 months ago 78%
    Any poker app on android?

    Looking for a poker app on android preferably Foss. Just wanna get the hang of the rules before I play it. Appreciate any suggestions, thank you

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    writing Writing I came up with an OC and Story/World for him but need advice
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    I would suggest fleshing out what your planet is before focusing on your creatures. That would give you a base to build upon. It would be a much much more natural way to go about this.

    You will find the previously mentioned documentary very helpful to do this.

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  • writing Writing I came up with an OC and Story/World for him but need advice
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    For more specific answers take a look at individual animals.

    You could have dragons that glide with their skin flaps like flying squirrels instead of actually flying.

    Burrowing dragons as I mentioned taking inspiration from the biology of badgers.

    Dragons like tree frogs and chameleons with the ability to camouflage and have sticky pads on their feet.

    Ice dragons with thick layers of fat. White scales for camouflage and countercurrent heat exchange system for the cold climate. Hey maybe you could have cuddling dragons.

    I'd say have variations in sizes and environments. Some could reproduce like elephants and once in a long time and are going extinct. Others could be pests essentially. There is a lot of room for the differences you want.

    With the whole alien element you could also add genetic influence. Maybe add genetic or tech enhancements that changed them.

    From a world building perspective I'd suggest adding like evolutionary history. Maybe finding cave paintings or fossils.

    Also there's a documentary I'd like to recommend called 'Alien Worlds' which explores how life would evolve on different planets and it would be VERY VERY useful to you I believe.

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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    Well for starters I'd suggest utilising geography. Using your topology to create differences will make a richer and more natural world. Your creatures should make sense in their environment and not be there in spite of it.

    Is it a specie that's in the dessert? Well take inspiration from desert animals and give it those traits, sand resistance, burrowing behaviour. A dragon that uses claws to dig itself dens. Being nocturnal. Specialised eyes.

    Maybe one that's on a marsh like topology. There you could have webbed claws for swimming. Water resistance and maybe have a powerful tail to help swim.

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  • writing Writing I came up with an OC and Story/World for him but need advice
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    What advice do you need? I'm sorry, didn't quite understand what you're looking for

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  • lemmyshitpost Lemmy Shitpost I still crie evrytiem
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    !aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Have the ability to talk to house plants or the ability to shoot a tiny harmless puff of glitter out of your fingertips.
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    Treebeard

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Be a professional snail trainer, but have a corner office with a view or be a rockstar, but have to wear a chicken costume on stage every night?
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 88%

    That works. But you know what else would bring you money and anonymity....

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  • shortstories Short Stories B. Pladek, "The Spindle of Necessity".
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    Well look who's back.

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  • inmymind In My Mind Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 85%

    Because ..... Capitalism

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Be banished to a personal purgatory of your own design for 20 years, or exist exclusively on the internet for 20 years?
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    Internet for sure. 20 years of isolation would be maddening

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Have the ability to talk to house plants or the ability to shoot a tiny harmless puff of glitter out of your fingertips.
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    Oh yeah thats the kinda story I like

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Have the power to fold all fitted sheets perfectly every time or the ability to change tour hair color at will but only to different shades of brown.
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    You know what else is a party trick that would start conversations ....

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Have the power to fold all fitted sheets perfectly every time or the ability to change tour hair color at will but only to different shades of brown.
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    Monster!

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Have the ability to talk to house plants or the ability to shoot a tiny harmless puff of glitter out of your fingertips.
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    Premature glittering

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Have the ability to talk to house plants or the ability to shoot a tiny harmless puff of glitter out of your fingertips.
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    Thats the average conversation with a slrpnk user

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Have the power to fold all fitted sheets perfectly every time or the ability to change tour hair color at will but only to different shades of brown.
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    Unless youre talking about greying. Completely forgot old people exist for a moment

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Have the power to fold all fitted sheets perfectly every time or the ability to change tour hair color at will but only to different shades of brown.
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    You're not getting extra hair, just the color change

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Have the ability to talk to house plants or the ability to shoot a tiny harmless puff of glitter out of your fingertips.
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    Your time keeping is sub par!

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Would you rather poop in the only toilet at a party, knowing that you'll clog it, or poop in the bushes in the backyard? Please hurry
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    One must know what one is capable of

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Would you rather poop in the only toilet at a party, knowing that you'll clog it, or poop in the bushes in the backyard? Please hurry
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 83%

    Too late 😫

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: be able to eat anything you want and have it be perfect nutrition or have to only sleep 1 hour a day and be fully rested?
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    Yep that's exactly what it means

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Would you rather have hair for teeth or teeth for hair?
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    Hair for teeth is hell. Can't even eat. Naaaa no way am I doing that

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: be able to eat anything you want and have it be perfect nutrition or have to only sleep 1 hour a day and be fully rested?
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    My theory is that all of you who said sleep are the people who want to optimize life and feel like you're missing out on life or not doing enough.

    Meanwhile everyone who says food wants the opposite and wants to have time to relax and not do something.

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: eat until you die or starve until you die?
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    Sir I do not understand you

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: eat until you die or starve until you die?
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    Suffocation would probably be the better way to go man 😭

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  • wouldyourather Would You Rather WYR: Would you rather have a magic van that can teleport you anywhere you want and time travel anywhere you want, or a magic ring that when it touches a book you absorb all the knowledge inside?
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  • Lacanoodle Lacanoodle 2 months ago 100%

    I feel like even if I absorbed the knowledge ... I'd just forget it. Thats what happens with us all. Unless I get brain upgrades here it ain't worth it.

    Also part of the fun of reading books is the experience of reading and learning, not the end product.

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    Would You Rather Lacanoodle 2 months ago 91%
    WYR: be able to eat anything you want and have it be perfect nutrition or have to only sleep 1 hour a day and be fully rested?

    I want food honestly. I enjoy sleeping, its time my mind isnt conscious and that's a positive for us all.

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    pissposting Lacanoodle 3 months ago 91%
    Aunty Donna - Anti-Doping agency youtu.be

    Sorry it's a video link 😭

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    Short Stories Lacanoodle 4 months ago 100%
    The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin https://files.libcom.org/files/ursula-k-le-guin-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas.pdf

    Ursula K. Le Guin is a fantastic writer of speculative fiction and the author of the earthsea fantasy series.

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    Short Stories Lacanoodle 6 months ago 100%
    Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang https://fyp.uoregon.edu/sites/default/files/chiang_story_of_your_life.pdf

    *Maybe* my favourite short story ever. Def top 5. The story on which the incredible Dennis Vellenuve movie Arrival is based. Which is also my favorite movie. Basically I couldnt recommend this story enough!

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    Community Promo Lacanoodle 6 months ago 100%
    A community dedicated to short stories! literature.cafe

    [!shortstories@literature.cafe](https://literature.cafe/c/shortstories) Regularly posting new short stories to discover. Step into this community where you can immerse yourself in the world of short stories! Each story offering a unique glimpse into the creative minds of talented authors. Whether you crave suspense, heartwarming tales, or thought-provoking ideas, there's something for everyone. I also occassionally post analysis of a short story or meta conversations about short stories. Ps. This is also a great instance to be on! You can discover some great communities in the sidebar too.

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    Aneurysm Posting Lacanoodle 6 months ago 85%
    Golf boy
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    Aneurysm Posting Lacanoodle 6 months ago 99%
    Please no
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    Bob Dylan Lacanoodle 6 months ago 92%
    Artwork for all along the watchtower I saw on reddit long ago.

    Sorry for no credit. Lmk if someone knows OP and I'll add a credit.

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    Aneurysm Posting Lacanoodle 6 months ago 87%
    Oops
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    Aneurysm Posting Lacanoodle 7 months ago 97%
    How is she?
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