make better mind pictures
make everyone the most something
the most beautiful men, the tallest women etc. and once you’ve crossed one off that cannot be anyone elses thing. everyone should probably get 2 though.
giving you a table bc god forbid your gentle fingers feel the sting of labor
- tallest
- shortest
- fattest
- hungriest
- most beautiful
- ugliest
- most jealous
- most fickle
- angriest
- greasiest
- kindest
- cruelest
- most reverent
- most prudish
- most libertine
- fastest
- slowest
- most gullible
- most sheltered
- most experienced
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| ohhhh the fabulous baron munchausen 1962 looks so pretty but i just can't find it anywhere :(((( shut up and let mommy handle it kitten |
the trick here is im not trying to
conjure a specific guy for you. but you probably have an idea of what
the worlds tallest cruelest man looks like, and he looks different
from the worlds tallest most hungry man
restrict these qualities to certain regions/areas if you want a lazy and probably offensive shorthand for cultural difference. everyone knows the city of dogtooth has the shortest tempers and the most beautiful waiters. even from that half assed table above you can populate a map pretty quickly
eastland: most fickle, most beautiful, tallest
westland: most experienced, kindest, greasiest
southland: most jealous, most libertine, most reverent
northland: fastest, angriest, cruelest
anyone you roll up from a particular region automatically gets 1 quality from the regional list and one other random one.
analogies all the time.
you should be doing this nonstop. this is so easy. if you can't think of things for your other things to be, good thing ive got a list of things. thing thing thing thing thing. go with your first thought. initial, most obvious connections.
what if
this person was a rotary phone. squat, concerned with communication and
connection, aging into obsolescence. that's a whole guy for you. here's some more. i wrote each of these in under a minute to prove my point.
elder
as porcelain: her hands tremble, bones rattling like a cup on a saucer.
her hands are so smooth, and so fragile. blue flowers bloom up her
arms, ink faded.
porcelain
as elder: seen a lot. chipped, dust filling in the wounds, so
much a part of its structure that to remove it would be to destroy the
thing itself.
elder
as lightning: for a moment, he stands electrically in his youth, and
his potential is infinite. next, he settles back into himself, grumbling
with the rage his genius leaves behind when it passes.
curse
as rat: a gnawing filth. small things at first. spoiled food and grime.
now marks in your flesh, wounds multiplying as through breeding on your
body. your eyes dance awake at night, skittering wild around the room.
rat
as curse: it will not ever leave you. there is nothing you can do to
keep it away. you deserve its company, its disease and its children.
they live in the mouths of any who speak your name, tiny claws ripping
their tongue as it scrabbles free.
sea-urchin
as wizard: in five years they have perhaps moved ten feet. touch
them, chide or hasten them and get struck immediately with harsh pain
and fevered poison, spells that linger in you until you discover their
undoing and pull them free. their insides are treasured, each organ a
feast.
unnngggghhhh joooooo what if the things i thought of are thematically similar already what do i doooo
u are like a screaming shitting infant
watch this
maggot
as vulture; why has this horrid grub followed you? never touching, it
crawls slow circles around your sleeping body, smelling something you
have yet to become
vulture
as maggot; the awful bird swimming in viscera like a worm, feathers
bristle-slick and soaked. pupates in there; this how angels are made
get specific.
you might not have that
many ideas about what a cliff is like or what it would be like for
someone to climb it but what if that cliff was like a stupid guy who
hates you. Just constant inane challenge, grit in your mouth, chunks of
stone never coming that close to hitting you but showering you with
pebbles regardless. turning
environments/objects/animals into particular people is a good way to make
everything feel more unique and personified and interactive.
a cave that's a skinny twink with a weaponized eating disorder
obviously the tunnels are narrow and kind of graceful and playful in a really annoying way. lot of switchbacks or loops for no reason. really narrow spaces you could fit through if you just dropped a few items. gorgeous fossils in places you can't really see all of.
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| and now u get Labyrinth of Darkness: Jiri Barta 1978 and you can tell all your friends and they'll all love you more than they ever have ever |
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