Unreliable narrators need to add something to the story. They aren’t an excuse for poor storytelling and inconsistencies.
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If you have an unreliable narrator, you should be doing twice as much work in your plotting! At every turn of the story, you need to know both what’s actually happening AND what your narrator thinks is happening.
When you’re right, you’re right. And you’re right.
Not only does the author need to know what’s happening on both layers of story, they need to actually write in clues for the reader to telegraph the lower, “true,” layer of the story so the reader is capable of figuring it out if they choose to read closely. Without that double work, an unreliable narrator cannot perform its literary function.
It is the evidence of the truth, not the lie the narrator tells, that makes a narrator unreliable. Otherwise they are just a liar which the audience is incapable of catching due to the hobbling imposed by the medium. Which means the lie may as well be the truth, making it serve no function as a lie.
You will never ever annoy me if you
- Send me random anons
- reply to my posts
- send me an ask
- reblog me
- talk to me
- say hello
- give me random love
- “bother” me
So please stop thinking otherwise.
Handwriting Asks
Send me a number and I’ll handwrite the answer for you!
1. write your URL
2. write the URL of the person who sent the ask
3. write your blog title
4. write the blog title of the person who sent the ask
5. your name
6. your birthday
7. where you live right now
8. where you were born
9. today’s date
10. current time
11. relationship status
12. the first 5 words that come to your mind
13. your number of followers
14. the number of blogs you’re following
15. the URLs of your tumblr crushes
16. draw your tumblr activity graph :)
17. describe the latest post on your dashboard
18. favorite band(s), musician(s)
19. favorite song(s)
20. favorite lyric(s)
21. favorite album(s)
22. favorite color(s)
23. celebrity crushes
24. favorite food
25. favorite beverage
26. favorite TV show(s)
27. favorite movie(s)
28. favorite actors or actresses
29. describe what you’re wearing right now
30. write something for the person who sent the ask
31. ships?
32. favorite season(s)
33. favorite ice cream flavor(s)
34. a place you wanna go on holiday
35. favorite number
36. favorite meme(s)
37. favorite animal(s)
38. favorite quote(s)
39. a random fact about yourself
40. write your name with your non-dominant hand
41. handwrite a message to your followers
42. something of your choice (specify in ask)