James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️

Great procrastinator! Dabbler of things and mischievous activities...

[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

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[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary
Weird

[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

@DialConfession I like this theory but what instead of the return of the timelords, the return of the Doctors real biological people. The timelords were just as bad as the Daleks. The Children of Time. A species that would be the manifestation of the time vortex itself .

[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

@SafeSpaceDrWho Intrigued for Billie as the doctor. Over the moon to see Jodie again! Does the doctor forgive their-self after the healing that 14 has done? How can they look themselves in the mirror? Can Donna or Jack return and have a “…Rose?” moment?

[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

Tempted to watch Acolyte to see what the fuss is about; it’s in my backlog of shows. #starwars #controversy

[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

Why is no one talking about this more! I think Ruby’s connection to the doctor is in this line. And why bring up Susan at all this season if it wasn’t important #DoctorWho #DoctorWhoSpoilers #TwistInTheEnd

[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

My 22nd and 23rd Platinums achieved last night. Within the hour.

#PSVITA #PlayStation #Trophyhunt #Platinum

[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

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[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

@Ethan_LMP All this needs preceding it would be the PlayStation one start up sounds.

[Joel @PoorlyAgedWho]

And somehow disney don’t know what to do wit the muppets.

Bro just PICK A BOOK.

[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

@ac_landmarks AC Generations. Follows three different generations/protagonists in the same bloodline. A knowledge passed down in a bloodline, a secret if known within the brotherhood would break the creed. DLC could follow a further three, each nearer to the present and current animus user.

[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

If @insomniacgames were able to have any other IP’s in the future, what would you pick? #MarvelsSpiderMan2 has been amazing. I think they could do a Buffy the Vampire Slayer game justice.

[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

#PS5Share, #MarvelsSpiderManMilesMorales

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@Assassins_UK BASIM

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@mattbo_0

[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

@mattbo_0 But what if he is Enoch? I joke

[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

@HumansNoContext

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

In 4 minutes, Kurt Vonnegut explained stories better than anyone I’ve ever heard.

“The shape of the curve is what matters. Not their origins.”

He plots stories on 2 axes:

X: Time
Y: Good fortune / ill fortune

He goes on to say,

“Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.”

Point 1:

Stories have defined patterns.

In Joseph Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand Faces, he makes the case for the Hero’s Journey.

Since then, it’s become the most famous storytelling structure in the world.

Vonnegut argued stories could be divided into 8 shapes.

Each story, he said, fit one of the 8.

Point 2:

Vonnegut says,

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — so the reader may see what they're made of.”

To see who your characters really are, you have to make them suffer.

Only then does your audience have someone worth cheering for.

Point 3:

End on a high note.

Vonnegut says, “It’s not accidental that the line ends up higher than where it began. This is encouraging to readers.”

The way a story makes people feel when they finish is how they remember it.

It’s called recency bias.

Lift people up and they will love you.

***

“There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.”

I wrote this with @RobbieCrab. Follow him for lessons on storytelling + fundraising.

And I talk about creative storytelling. Follow @nathanbaugh27 for more like that.

[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

#StrangeNewWorlds I have thoroughly enjoyed these two seasons! Cannot wait till Season 3 (2025 😤). Six Seasons and a Movie? A movie specifically for Pike & Anson, his Swan Song and a send off, OFC my wish list and getting ahead. I’m excited!

[James Waterman 🤦🏻‍♂️ @JamesWaterman4]

@HerbScribner @MarvelStudios @DisneyPlus My head cannon, he was hospitalised after the battle in Endgame. Didn’t the compound fall on him, without his war machine suit he couldn’t get up.. I might be wrong. Would make sense to me that tony didn’t leave his side after civil war, or at remotely like in Spider-Man 🤷🏻‍♂️