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marchmetamatterschallenge, I've written about the recent series Wednesday. All links have been archived with the Wayback Machine and/or Archive.fo. Below I discuss some interesting aspects of the show.
* Overview
* Interesting Aspects
* Episodes
* Promising Crossovers
* Relevant Dreamwidth Communities
* Memorable Fanworks
Interesting Aspects
Wednesday offers many interesting aspects to inspire fanworks. If you make art, crafts, vanvids, or other visual materials then you will probably appreciate the detailed sets and costumes along with the graphic special effects. If you make fanfic or other written materials, then you will likely love the complex and dynamic characters moving through a mysterious plot. The series provides a mix of common motifs along with much rarer ones. Below I have touched on some of the features I find intrigueing and provided some resources about them.
The Addams family is very mixed. Gomez is clearly Latino, so Wednesday and Pugsley are too. Uncle Fester is typically presented as Gomez' older brother, hence Latino. Morticia's ethnicity is unspecified, but usually white. Other characters like Lurch generally have unspecified ethnicity too, leaning white. Thing is a whole different type of being, although past canon indicates there are other Hands as well. Given the scarcity of Latin heritage in entertainment, it's nice to have a mixed family with occasional onscreen references to their culture. In this regard, Wednesday offers a great opportunity for fans who want to fill that gap. You have multiple canon characters to explore and can easily bring in others. Consider Gothic concepts of race and interracial marriage.
19 Interracial Family Truths Straight From The Mouths Of The Parents
The Do’s and Dont’s of writing a biracial/multiracial character
Drawing Mexican People
Ethnic Skin Tones
How do I Paint Ethnic Skin Colours in Portraits?
How To Write Interracial Romances Well (...And Not So Well)
How to Write Latino Characters Without Offending Latino Readers
How to write a Latinx character and other questions
During a tour of the Nevermore Academy campus, Enid Sinclair explains to Wednesday that there are four main groups of students: Fangs (vampires), Furs (werewolves), Stoners (gorgons), and Scales (sirens). These are the character types numerous enough to form groups within the student body and to appear in clusters with others of their kind. However, the series so far has not done much with the rivalries or alliances among those groups. For fans of "high school" fanworks, this offers great potential for further development, as you can fill in the teen politics however you like. Of the four types, two are widespread in fiction (werewolves and vampires), one is less common (sirens or merfolk), and one is downright rare outside of mythology (gorgons). Vampires especially starred in Gothic fiction. So you have a range of common tropes to explore, as well as areas with a lot of leeway to make up your own cultures and customs for the less-famous groups.
5 Magical Tips To Write A Werewolf Character
Alluring Mermaid Story Prompts and Ideas
41 Mythology Writing Prompts -- Teacher's Notepad
66 Horror Writing Prompts That Are Freaky As Hell
High School AU
Horror Writing Prompts: 50+ Ideas to Get You Started
Rise of the Undead: Creatures of the Night in Myth, History and Literature
Sympathetic Characters Part 4: Outcasts
Things To Think About & Consider When Writing Merpeople & Mer Fiction
Werewolf Story Ideas and Prompts -- The Writer's Repository
Who Were the Gorgons in Ancient Greek Mythology?
Writing About: Vampires
Writing From an Authentic Teen Viewpoint
Writing Prompts about Vampires -- All Write Alright
In addition to the four main groups at Nevermore Academy, this series and the larger canon include a wide range of other character types and talents. So far Wednesday has featured Wednesday Addams and Morticia Addams (who have psychic visions), Uncle Fester (with electrokinesis), Thing (a magically animated hand), Principal Weems (shapeshifter), Xavier Thorpe, (who can make his art come to life), Eugene Ottinger (who controls bees), Rowan Laslow (with telekinesis), Tyler Galpin, Francoise Galpin, and Olga Malacova (Hydes). Gothic entertainment is rife with magic and the occult, the uncanny and supernatural, doubling, dopplegangers, monstrosities, madness, and visions. This show uses classic, freestyle magic that can do just about anything as seen with Thing who exists as a severed hand. This diversity means you can throw in pretty much any kind of mystical creature, character type, or event that you want without worrying too much about clashing with canon or logic or whatever. Go nuts, have fun. This series just begs to have giant, carnivorous rabbits. Release the plotbunnies!
Hard Magic System vs Soft Magic System
List of legendary creatures by type -- Wikipedia
List of Monsters -- WikiLists Fandom
Magic Fantasy Writing Demystified: The Secrets of Magic System Writing
Making Soft Magic Systems Work
Story Ideas Part II: Life on Earth
Story Ideas Part III: Biology
Story Ideas Part IV: Monsters
Story Ideas Part V: Superhuman Abilities
Story Ideas Part VI: Psychic Abilities
Story Ideas Part VII: The Mind
Story Ideas Part VIII: Travel
Story Ideas Part X: Fantasy
Supernatural and Madness in Victorian Gothic Literature
Superpower Wiki
Tips On How to Write a Shape-Shifting Character (For both fanfic writers and original content writers)
Ultimate List of Psychic Abilities & Types of Psychic Powers
Wednesday: Every Addams Family Member's Powers Explained
Who (and What) Is the Hyde in Netflix's 'Wednesday'?
Writing Characters with Dissociative Identity Disorder
Writing Multiplicity
Wednesday presents an extensive supply of strong, interesting, female characters. Most of the time, women and female characters are underrepresented in the media and entertainment. That makes it hard to create more balanced fanworks without adding original female characters, which some readers dislike. Wikipedia lists 12 main characters of whom 7 are female: Wednesday Addams, Principal Weems, Dr. Valerie Kinbott, Enid Sinclair, Bianca Barclay, Yoko Tanaka, and Marilyn Thornhill (born Laurel Gates). Of the 4 recurring characters, 1 is female: Ritchie Santiago. Of the 9 guest stars listed, 1 is female: Morticia Addams. Goody Addams is not listed. Regrettably two of the adult women -- Dr. Valerie Kinbott and Principal Weems -- died during Season 1. The fate of Marilyn Thornhill is more ambiguous. (No body = not dead.) But fanfic routinely ignores inconvenient deaths or disappearances, so that's no problem. Enid most readily pairs with Wednesday, and Principal Weems with Dr. Valerie Kinbott or Marilyn Thornhill, but many possibilities are available.
This show makes a flying pass of the Bechdel test as multiple female characters frequently talk to each other about their friendship or rivalry, or about monsters. There are just so many possibilities, both in the canonical examples and fannish alternatives. Gothic fiction makes much of female sexuality, love, and motherhood. It has always included a queer branch, too. Bring on the femslash!
3 Tips for Writing Female Friendships in Fiction
7 Proven Tips To Write A Lesbian Love Story -- BookAvatar
The Enduring Importance of Mother-Daughter Literature
A Guide to Bisexual Characters
How to Write an Asexual Character
How to Write Lesbian Erotica: 10 Steps (with Pictures) -- wikiHow
How to write Lesbian Smut
How to Write a Main Female Character (with Pictures) -- wikiHow
How to Write Strong Female Characters
How to Write Teen Girl Characters
Lesbian -- Beyond the Rainbow
Romance 101: How to Write Characters Falling in Love
Tips for Writing Femslash
Tips for Writing Realistic Aromantic Spectrum Characters
'Wednesday' Cast and Character Guide: Who’s Who in the 'Addams Family' Netflix Series
'Wednesday' Season 2 Fan Theories: Clues, Hints, Spoilers
Who Is Goody Addams? 'Wednesday's Witchy Ancestor Explained
The show also provides a variety of characters with disabilities, in an industry with little representation of disability, let alone anything well done. Wednesday has seizure-like visions that are unpleasant at best, and dangerous at worst if she falls badly. She also shows blunted or flat affect, which rarely appears alone but usually comes along with some other mental issue. She may also show incongruent affect, feeling or expressing emotions that clash with the context or social expectations. Thing is a Hand, which creates a variety of challenges due to tiny size and limited or at least different mobility. He is also nonspeaking and communicates through signs, gestures, and perhaps some empathic enhancement. Another far-out example is the Faceless, who have no facial features such as eyes or mouths. They seem to function fine (navigating, eating, etc.) but will experience discrimination over their appearance, as do people who lost their facial wholeness to illness or injury. As canon hasn't done much with them yet, fanwriters have flexibility in whether to write this as a facial difference or a facial disability. Lurch sometimes speaks, sometimes doesn't. This may be a mindful choice of a laconic personality, or it could be an intermittent disability. Enid Sinclair, a werewolf, starts out unable to "wolf out" and upset about that, with a lot of family tension about it. This is a type of fictional disability. However, toward the end of the series she does manage to shift, so that disability only applies in earlier episodes. Hydes (Tyler Galpin, Francoise Galpin, and Olga Malacova) manifest as monstrosities due to extreme mental trauma, and also seem nonspeaking while in Hyde form (although they can speak in human form). That's not a very sensitive portrayal in the show, but they do make formidable antagonists. Various other mental issues can be hypothesized due to traumatic events or sociodynamics, and conveniently there is a therapist (Dr. Valerie Kinbott) for anyone wanting to write about therapy.
Wednesday probably passes the Fries test for portrayal of disabled characters, but it depends how you count. Multiple disabled characters talk to each other, mostly about plot points other than disabilities. Enid eventually overcomes her disability by learning to shapeshift, but the others don't shed theirs. There are still multiple characters with disabilities at the end of the season. So it's really a great demonstration of how having lots of disabled characters allows you to do more things without losing your only bit of representation.
10 Pro Tips To Write A Mentally Ill Character
14 Challenges You Never Realized Little People Have To Deal With
ASL: Writing a Visual Language
AUs for Disabled/Chronically ill OTPs
Coping with a Crisis When You Have Unreliable or Intermittent Speech
Discussion: Fictional Disabilities
Ending the taboo of soldiers with 'broken faces'
Gestures And Sign Languages
Going Nonverbal
A Hidden Community: The Movement for Face Equality
Home Sign
How to Live One-Handed After an Injury
How to Write a Mute Character
If someone with one arm speaks with sign language is it a speech impediment or an accent?
One-handed Sign Language in a Two Handed World
Start ASL’s Top 150 Basic ASL Sign Language Words
This Photographer Unflinchingly Captures The Effect Of Acid Attacks
Three Ways To Create Characters W/ Epilepsy and Not Make Them Stereotypes
Tips for Communicating With Your Nonverbal Child
Understanding Inappropriate Affect
Use of One Hand/Arm - Job Accommodation Network
WHAT IS FLATTENING OF AFFECT IN FILM? (In the Entertainment industry.)
Why do I go nonverbal?
A leading source of conflict pits town against school, normies against outcasts -- basically two different aspects of the same dispute. They claim to stand apart, but really they're so enmeshed that it smacks a lot of dysfunctional family dynamics. In fact, some relatonships cross those lines in the series, as with Francoise Galpin (Hyde) and Donovan Galpin (normie). However, outcasts rarely call themselves outcasts; they usually have a different name such as "special" or "gifted." So fanwriters are free to come up with their own alternative. Gothic fiction deals a lot with colonialism, otherness, othering, and xenophobia so you have a rich tradition to draw on when exploring this conflict. Also, fictional outcasts (e.g. werewolves, vampires) often stand in for other types of outcasts (e.g. queerfolk, foreigners) and this is a big part of Gothic entertainment too. It gives you great opportunity for intersectionality.
3 Ways to Create Conflict with Magic -- Annie Sullivan
5 Secret Tips To Write A Bully Character -- BookAvatar
The 12 Roles In A Dysfunctional Family Explained
33 Unspoken Family Rules & How to Override Them
71 Angst Writing Prompts to Help You Unleash Your Inner Writer
1001 Writing Prompts About Bullying - Commaful
Archetype of the Outsider Outcast -- dreamhawk.com
Characters with bigotry: How to handle them with good taste?
Culture and Conflict
Dive Deep Into What Makes Your Characters Vulnerable
Expertly Portraying the Outcast Character -- Be A Novelist
How do I write a bigoted / racist / sexist character so that their behavior is believable and not over-the-top?
How To Use Setting As A Source Of Conflict
How To Write About Bullies
How to Write a Bully Scene
How To Write The Outsider In Fiction
On Writing Misfits, Loners, & Malcontents -- Springhole.net
Netflix’s Wednesday series sparks debate with LGBTQ+ viewers: ‘A metaphor for people in the closet’
Prompt List: Abuse 2
Scapegoat Archetype with Examples -- Literary Devices
Telling a Story in a Prejudiced Setting -- Mythcreants
What Is Character vs. Supernatural Conflict? Learn About The Literary Conflict with Examples
What Is a Dysfunctional Family?
What is the Outcast Archetype? (Characteristics + Examples)
When Your Character is Prejudiced -- Vivian Lawry
Which of the 5 Types of Dysfunctional Families Do You Have?
Writing With Color -- On Writing Racist Characters
A key villain of Season 1 is Joseph Crackstone, a Pilgrim from the 1600s who played a major role in settling the land where Jericho and Nevermore Academy now stand. He was a genocidal maniac, shown murdering dozens of people in canon and described as trying to wipe out all Outcasts. Originally, he was opposed by Goody Addams, a witch and ancestress of Wednesday Addams. (Note that "Goody" isn't a first name. It's a title, approximately equivalent to Mrs. and short for "Goodwife.") Goody killed him and locked him in a cursed coffin, but eventually Marilyn Thornhill (born Laurel Gates) released him as a zombie. I'm delighted to see a Pilgrim portrayed, openly and explicitly, as an evil person and later a monster obssessed with wiping out those different from himself. There is also a brief but promising reference to the Outcasts living in peace with local tribes in the past, which the Pilgrims then disrupted. This offers interesting potential for alternate universe storylines.
5 Tips For Writing Evil: Let It Sink In -- Karin Graham Book Editor
33 Ideas for Writing an Evil Villain -- brilliantio
"Dark personality theory" reveals the 9 traits of evil people in your life
Do the Pilgrims Still Matter?
Getting to Know Evil -- Writer Unboxed
Gothic Literature: The Struggle between Good and Evil
Horror Fiction History: Zombies -- Flame Tree Publishing
How to Create a Perfect Villain: 13 Steps (with Pictures)
Monsters, Marvels, and Mythical Beasts: Monsters of Gothic Fiction
Talk Like a Pilgrim -- Plimoth Patuxet Museums
Thanksgiving, Hope and the Hidden Heart of Evil -- ICT
Thanksgiving: the real truth behind the holiday -- IslamiCity
The true, dark history of Thanksgiving -- Potawatomi.org
Villainous Traits and their Virtues -- Clevergirlhelps
What Makes a Good Villain? Here's Your 15-Item Checklist
When Native Americans Were Slaughtered in the Name of ‘Civilization’
Writing a Villain POV: Villain Protagonists
marchmetamatterschallenge, I've written about the recent series Wednesday. All links have been archived with the Wayback Machine and/or Archive.fo. Below I discuss some interesting aspects of the show.* Overview
* Interesting Aspects
* Episodes
* Promising Crossovers
* Relevant Dreamwidth Communities
* Memorable Fanworks
Interesting Aspects
Wednesday offers many interesting aspects to inspire fanworks. If you make art, crafts, vanvids, or other visual materials then you will probably appreciate the detailed sets and costumes along with the graphic special effects. If you make fanfic or other written materials, then you will likely love the complex and dynamic characters moving through a mysterious plot. The series provides a mix of common motifs along with much rarer ones. Below I have touched on some of the features I find intrigueing and provided some resources about them.
The Addams family is very mixed. Gomez is clearly Latino, so Wednesday and Pugsley are too. Uncle Fester is typically presented as Gomez' older brother, hence Latino. Morticia's ethnicity is unspecified, but usually white. Other characters like Lurch generally have unspecified ethnicity too, leaning white. Thing is a whole different type of being, although past canon indicates there are other Hands as well. Given the scarcity of Latin heritage in entertainment, it's nice to have a mixed family with occasional onscreen references to their culture. In this regard, Wednesday offers a great opportunity for fans who want to fill that gap. You have multiple canon characters to explore and can easily bring in others. Consider Gothic concepts of race and interracial marriage.
19 Interracial Family Truths Straight From The Mouths Of The Parents
The Do’s and Dont’s of writing a biracial/multiracial character
Drawing Mexican People
Ethnic Skin Tones
How do I Paint Ethnic Skin Colours in Portraits?
How To Write Interracial Romances Well (...And Not So Well)
How to Write Latino Characters Without Offending Latino Readers
How to write a Latinx character and other questions
During a tour of the Nevermore Academy campus, Enid Sinclair explains to Wednesday that there are four main groups of students: Fangs (vampires), Furs (werewolves), Stoners (gorgons), and Scales (sirens). These are the character types numerous enough to form groups within the student body and to appear in clusters with others of their kind. However, the series so far has not done much with the rivalries or alliances among those groups. For fans of "high school" fanworks, this offers great potential for further development, as you can fill in the teen politics however you like. Of the four types, two are widespread in fiction (werewolves and vampires), one is less common (sirens or merfolk), and one is downright rare outside of mythology (gorgons). Vampires especially starred in Gothic fiction. So you have a range of common tropes to explore, as well as areas with a lot of leeway to make up your own cultures and customs for the less-famous groups.
5 Magical Tips To Write A Werewolf Character
Alluring Mermaid Story Prompts and Ideas
41 Mythology Writing Prompts -- Teacher's Notepad
66 Horror Writing Prompts That Are Freaky As Hell
High School AU
Horror Writing Prompts: 50+ Ideas to Get You Started
Rise of the Undead: Creatures of the Night in Myth, History and Literature
Sympathetic Characters Part 4: Outcasts
Things To Think About & Consider When Writing Merpeople & Mer Fiction
Werewolf Story Ideas and Prompts -- The Writer's Repository
Who Were the Gorgons in Ancient Greek Mythology?
Writing About: Vampires
Writing From an Authentic Teen Viewpoint
Writing Prompts about Vampires -- All Write Alright
In addition to the four main groups at Nevermore Academy, this series and the larger canon include a wide range of other character types and talents. So far Wednesday has featured Wednesday Addams and Morticia Addams (who have psychic visions), Uncle Fester (with electrokinesis), Thing (a magically animated hand), Principal Weems (shapeshifter), Xavier Thorpe, (who can make his art come to life), Eugene Ottinger (who controls bees), Rowan Laslow (with telekinesis), Tyler Galpin, Francoise Galpin, and Olga Malacova (Hydes). Gothic entertainment is rife with magic and the occult, the uncanny and supernatural, doubling, dopplegangers, monstrosities, madness, and visions. This show uses classic, freestyle magic that can do just about anything as seen with Thing who exists as a severed hand. This diversity means you can throw in pretty much any kind of mystical creature, character type, or event that you want without worrying too much about clashing with canon or logic or whatever. Go nuts, have fun. This series just begs to have giant, carnivorous rabbits. Release the plotbunnies!
Hard Magic System vs Soft Magic System
List of legendary creatures by type -- Wikipedia
List of Monsters -- WikiLists Fandom
Magic Fantasy Writing Demystified: The Secrets of Magic System Writing
Making Soft Magic Systems Work
Story Ideas Part II: Life on Earth
Story Ideas Part III: Biology
Story Ideas Part IV: Monsters
Story Ideas Part V: Superhuman Abilities
Story Ideas Part VI: Psychic Abilities
Story Ideas Part VII: The Mind
Story Ideas Part VIII: Travel
Story Ideas Part X: Fantasy
Supernatural and Madness in Victorian Gothic Literature
Superpower Wiki
Tips On How to Write a Shape-Shifting Character (For both fanfic writers and original content writers)
Ultimate List of Psychic Abilities & Types of Psychic Powers
Wednesday: Every Addams Family Member's Powers Explained
Who (and What) Is the Hyde in Netflix's 'Wednesday'?
Writing Characters with Dissociative Identity Disorder
Writing Multiplicity
Wednesday presents an extensive supply of strong, interesting, female characters. Most of the time, women and female characters are underrepresented in the media and entertainment. That makes it hard to create more balanced fanworks without adding original female characters, which some readers dislike. Wikipedia lists 12 main characters of whom 7 are female: Wednesday Addams, Principal Weems, Dr. Valerie Kinbott, Enid Sinclair, Bianca Barclay, Yoko Tanaka, and Marilyn Thornhill (born Laurel Gates). Of the 4 recurring characters, 1 is female: Ritchie Santiago. Of the 9 guest stars listed, 1 is female: Morticia Addams. Goody Addams is not listed. Regrettably two of the adult women -- Dr. Valerie Kinbott and Principal Weems -- died during Season 1. The fate of Marilyn Thornhill is more ambiguous. (No body = not dead.) But fanfic routinely ignores inconvenient deaths or disappearances, so that's no problem. Enid most readily pairs with Wednesday, and Principal Weems with Dr. Valerie Kinbott or Marilyn Thornhill, but many possibilities are available.
This show makes a flying pass of the Bechdel test as multiple female characters frequently talk to each other about their friendship or rivalry, or about monsters. There are just so many possibilities, both in the canonical examples and fannish alternatives. Gothic fiction makes much of female sexuality, love, and motherhood. It has always included a queer branch, too. Bring on the femslash!
3 Tips for Writing Female Friendships in Fiction
7 Proven Tips To Write A Lesbian Love Story -- BookAvatar
The Enduring Importance of Mother-Daughter Literature
A Guide to Bisexual Characters
How to Write an Asexual Character
How to Write Lesbian Erotica: 10 Steps (with Pictures) -- wikiHow
How to write Lesbian Smut
How to Write a Main Female Character (with Pictures) -- wikiHow
How to Write Strong Female Characters
How to Write Teen Girl Characters
Lesbian -- Beyond the Rainbow
Romance 101: How to Write Characters Falling in Love
Tips for Writing Femslash
Tips for Writing Realistic Aromantic Spectrum Characters
'Wednesday' Cast and Character Guide: Who’s Who in the 'Addams Family' Netflix Series
'Wednesday' Season 2 Fan Theories: Clues, Hints, Spoilers
Who Is Goody Addams? 'Wednesday's Witchy Ancestor Explained
The show also provides a variety of characters with disabilities, in an industry with little representation of disability, let alone anything well done. Wednesday has seizure-like visions that are unpleasant at best, and dangerous at worst if she falls badly. She also shows blunted or flat affect, which rarely appears alone but usually comes along with some other mental issue. She may also show incongruent affect, feeling or expressing emotions that clash with the context or social expectations. Thing is a Hand, which creates a variety of challenges due to tiny size and limited or at least different mobility. He is also nonspeaking and communicates through signs, gestures, and perhaps some empathic enhancement. Another far-out example is the Faceless, who have no facial features such as eyes or mouths. They seem to function fine (navigating, eating, etc.) but will experience discrimination over their appearance, as do people who lost their facial wholeness to illness or injury. As canon hasn't done much with them yet, fanwriters have flexibility in whether to write this as a facial difference or a facial disability. Lurch sometimes speaks, sometimes doesn't. This may be a mindful choice of a laconic personality, or it could be an intermittent disability. Enid Sinclair, a werewolf, starts out unable to "wolf out" and upset about that, with a lot of family tension about it. This is a type of fictional disability. However, toward the end of the series she does manage to shift, so that disability only applies in earlier episodes. Hydes (Tyler Galpin, Francoise Galpin, and Olga Malacova) manifest as monstrosities due to extreme mental trauma, and also seem nonspeaking while in Hyde form (although they can speak in human form). That's not a very sensitive portrayal in the show, but they do make formidable antagonists. Various other mental issues can be hypothesized due to traumatic events or sociodynamics, and conveniently there is a therapist (Dr. Valerie Kinbott) for anyone wanting to write about therapy.
Wednesday probably passes the Fries test for portrayal of disabled characters, but it depends how you count. Multiple disabled characters talk to each other, mostly about plot points other than disabilities. Enid eventually overcomes her disability by learning to shapeshift, but the others don't shed theirs. There are still multiple characters with disabilities at the end of the season. So it's really a great demonstration of how having lots of disabled characters allows you to do more things without losing your only bit of representation.
10 Pro Tips To Write A Mentally Ill Character
14 Challenges You Never Realized Little People Have To Deal With
ASL: Writing a Visual Language
AUs for Disabled/Chronically ill OTPs
Coping with a Crisis When You Have Unreliable or Intermittent Speech
Discussion: Fictional Disabilities
Ending the taboo of soldiers with 'broken faces'
Gestures And Sign Languages
Going Nonverbal
A Hidden Community: The Movement for Face Equality
Home Sign
How to Live One-Handed After an Injury
How to Write a Mute Character
If someone with one arm speaks with sign language is it a speech impediment or an accent?
One-handed Sign Language in a Two Handed World
Start ASL’s Top 150 Basic ASL Sign Language Words
This Photographer Unflinchingly Captures The Effect Of Acid Attacks
Three Ways To Create Characters W/ Epilepsy and Not Make Them Stereotypes
Tips for Communicating With Your Nonverbal Child
Understanding Inappropriate Affect
Use of One Hand/Arm - Job Accommodation Network
WHAT IS FLATTENING OF AFFECT IN FILM? (In the Entertainment industry.)
Why do I go nonverbal?
A leading source of conflict pits town against school, normies against outcasts -- basically two different aspects of the same dispute. They claim to stand apart, but really they're so enmeshed that it smacks a lot of dysfunctional family dynamics. In fact, some relatonships cross those lines in the series, as with Francoise Galpin (Hyde) and Donovan Galpin (normie). However, outcasts rarely call themselves outcasts; they usually have a different name such as "special" or "gifted." So fanwriters are free to come up with their own alternative. Gothic fiction deals a lot with colonialism, otherness, othering, and xenophobia so you have a rich tradition to draw on when exploring this conflict. Also, fictional outcasts (e.g. werewolves, vampires) often stand in for other types of outcasts (e.g. queerfolk, foreigners) and this is a big part of Gothic entertainment too. It gives you great opportunity for intersectionality.
3 Ways to Create Conflict with Magic -- Annie Sullivan
5 Secret Tips To Write A Bully Character -- BookAvatar
The 12 Roles In A Dysfunctional Family Explained
33 Unspoken Family Rules & How to Override Them
71 Angst Writing Prompts to Help You Unleash Your Inner Writer
1001 Writing Prompts About Bullying - Commaful
Archetype of the Outsider Outcast -- dreamhawk.com
Characters with bigotry: How to handle them with good taste?
Culture and Conflict
Dive Deep Into What Makes Your Characters Vulnerable
Expertly Portraying the Outcast Character -- Be A Novelist
How do I write a bigoted / racist / sexist character so that their behavior is believable and not over-the-top?
How To Use Setting As A Source Of Conflict
How To Write About Bullies
How to Write a Bully Scene
How To Write The Outsider In Fiction
On Writing Misfits, Loners, & Malcontents -- Springhole.net
Netflix’s Wednesday series sparks debate with LGBTQ+ viewers: ‘A metaphor for people in the closet’
Prompt List: Abuse 2
Scapegoat Archetype with Examples -- Literary Devices
Telling a Story in a Prejudiced Setting -- Mythcreants
What Is Character vs. Supernatural Conflict? Learn About The Literary Conflict with Examples
What Is a Dysfunctional Family?
What is the Outcast Archetype? (Characteristics + Examples)
When Your Character is Prejudiced -- Vivian Lawry
Which of the 5 Types of Dysfunctional Families Do You Have?
Writing With Color -- On Writing Racist Characters
A key villain of Season 1 is Joseph Crackstone, a Pilgrim from the 1600s who played a major role in settling the land where Jericho and Nevermore Academy now stand. He was a genocidal maniac, shown murdering dozens of people in canon and described as trying to wipe out all Outcasts. Originally, he was opposed by Goody Addams, a witch and ancestress of Wednesday Addams. (Note that "Goody" isn't a first name. It's a title, approximately equivalent to Mrs. and short for "Goodwife.") Goody killed him and locked him in a cursed coffin, but eventually Marilyn Thornhill (born Laurel Gates) released him as a zombie. I'm delighted to see a Pilgrim portrayed, openly and explicitly, as an evil person and later a monster obssessed with wiping out those different from himself. There is also a brief but promising reference to the Outcasts living in peace with local tribes in the past, which the Pilgrims then disrupted. This offers interesting potential for alternate universe storylines.
5 Tips For Writing Evil: Let It Sink In -- Karin Graham Book Editor
33 Ideas for Writing an Evil Villain -- brilliantio
"Dark personality theory" reveals the 9 traits of evil people in your life
Do the Pilgrims Still Matter?
Getting to Know Evil -- Writer Unboxed
Gothic Literature: The Struggle between Good and Evil
Horror Fiction History: Zombies -- Flame Tree Publishing
How to Create a Perfect Villain: 13 Steps (with Pictures)
Monsters, Marvels, and Mythical Beasts: Monsters of Gothic Fiction
Talk Like a Pilgrim -- Plimoth Patuxet Museums
Thanksgiving, Hope and the Hidden Heart of Evil -- ICT
Thanksgiving: the real truth behind the holiday -- IslamiCity
The true, dark history of Thanksgiving -- Potawatomi.org
Villainous Traits and their Virtues -- Clevergirlhelps
What Makes a Good Villain? Here's Your 15-Item Checklist
When Native Americans Were Slaughtered in the Name of ‘Civilization’
Writing a Villain POV: Villain Protagonists
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Date: 2023-03-06 07:12 pm (UTC)