🍽️ حلال Connor Bible - Everyone's Favorite Molly Ringwald loving, adoption hating, aspiring writer and bellybutton fucker

[Conrix]

Connor, I completely understand your reason for not drinking, but if you do it out of fear of becoming like an alcoholic relative, you don't have to worry. More than half of my family are raging alcoholics so I was nearly terrified of the stuff until my mother explained that just having a drink does not mean you will suddenly go into a cold sweat and feel like you need more and more. Once I turned 21 I actually had fun trying out new drinks with the fiance to see what we liked and what we didn't. I have a personal preference to never actually get drunk, though, just buzzed, but that's my own choice. I also don't drink outside of my house or a friend's house, but once you get more of an understanding on how much tolerance you gain and how you can handle the alcohol, there's no need to be afraid of it, it's all about the mindset and self control, I had no struggle with drinking and am glad I tried it so I can take the edge off on a stressful day.

Then again, if you just hate the taste of alcohol, I understand that too.

I used to drink one to three beers a day, sometimes more, I had several kinds of hard alcohol and I can go a good while without drinking. Like it has been said here the thing is finding your tolerance and self control. I could also understand disliking the taste of alcohol; I think I had a sip of beer when I was like 6 or 7 and it tasted like piss water to my undeveloped taste buds. Some types/brands of alcohol just taste nasty anyway, especially certain hard alcohols where the alcohol taste could overshadow any other flavor characteristics the drink has.

Then again, Connor could be playing up a bunch of autistic hyper-sensibilities to invoke pity/asspats from us, or to hang on to whatever perceived innocence/purity he has for as long as possible.

 

[Watermelon1337]

I used to drink one to three beers a day, sometimes more, I had several kinds of hard alcohol and I can go a good while without drinking. Like it has been said here the thing is finding your tolerance and self control. I could also understand disliking the taste of alcohol; I think I had a sip of beer when I was like 6 or 7 and it tasted like piss water to my undeveloped taste buds. Some types/brands of alcohol just taste nasty anyway, especially certain hard alcohols where the alcohol taste could overshadow any other flavor characteristics the drink has.

Then again, Connor could be playing up a bunch of autistic hyper-sensibilities to invoke pity/asspats from us, or to hang on to whatever perceived innocence/purity he has for as long as possible.

Oh yeah, beer still makes me sick to this day just by the smell. Sometimes I drink a liiiiittle too fast but apparently I'm a 'happy drunk' as my mom has told me. I couldn't imagine drinking a lot everyday, but I do like knowing I can get a little shot after work or school and just relax, or maybe go over to a friend's house and bring something over for everyone to try.

When I was younger I liked feeling 'different' because of how unusual it was that I didn't drink at all when offered. Granted, that was also just me not wanting to drink, but I liked knowing I didn't need it. I still decline offers in certain situations but I like now that I can drink and enjoy myself without ever worrying I'll become like my relatives, it's almost more empowering in a way to know simple things like that can't and won't control you.

I think if Connor doesn't want to try it solely out of fear, he shouldn't be afraid of it. If he ends up just not liking it, no biggie, there are a ton of drinks I turn down all the time. I just don't think living in fear of something that isn't as evil as people make it seem to be should be a continued fear when you can prove to yourself you can control it while having fun or a chill night.

 

[Meowthkip]

Not drinking is fine. It's a personal decision, but it's important to realize you don't have to drink to get drunk (ie moderation) and it's a social activity. A glass of wine, a can of beer, whatever floats your boat, with friends and family isn't going to turn you into a raging alcoholic.

I can understand the hesitation not to get drunk for an aspie like Connor. Losing your inhibitions means giving up a great deal of self-control. The sensation of being drunk feels weird, even, what with the feeling of the world shifting under you and the swimmy head feeling. It can be frightening. There's also the fact that aspies have sensory sensitivity, which means they're more likely to want to spit out alcohol because, if we're being honest here, it usually doesn't taste that great.

Connor, you strike me as somebody who, if you did drink, would probably go for fruity mixed drinks. Call it a hunch.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

I can understand the hesitation not to get drunk for an aspie like Connor. Losing your inhibitions means giving up a great deal of self-control. The sensation of being drunk feels weird, even, what with the feeling of the world shifting under you and the swimmy head feeling. It can be frightening. There's also the fact that aspies have sensory sensitivity, which means they're more likely to want to spit out alcohol because, if we're being honest here, it usually doesn't taste that great.

Connor, you strike me as somebody who, if you did drink, would probably go for fruity mixed drinks. Call it a hunch.

Ain't nothing wrong with fruity mixed drinks.

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fruity mixed drinks are my weakness.

 

[Meowthkip]

Ain't nothing wrong with fruity mixed drinks.

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fruity mixed drinks are my weakness.

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Same. And I love me some mudslides.

 

[Chipmunk's Bounty]

So why are you working on another draft of Eva, @Connor? I thought you were going to shelve it indefinitely while you worked on Alphaboy and your sequel to Juno?

 

[Dudeofteenage]

Not drinking is fine. It's a personal decision, but it's important to realize you don't have to drink to get drunk (ie moderation) and it's a social activity. A glass of wine, a can of beer, whatever floats your boat, with friends and family isn't going to turn you into a raging alcoholic.

It's also important to realise you're not morally superior to people who drink. There's nothing even morally wrong with being an alcoholic. Yes, lots of alcoholics are driven by their addiction to do things that harm others, but lots don't.

 

[Surtur]

Ain't nothing wrong with fruity mixed drinks.

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fruity mixed drinks are my weakness.

Ew. Beer is dabes.

 

[Marvin]

Connor, you strike me as somebody who, if you did drink, would probably go for fruity mixed drinks. Call it a hunch.

Spoiler: Connor would be a girl drink drunk

 

[Silver]

I can understand the hesitation not to get drunk for an aspie like Connor. Losing your inhibitions means giving up a great deal of self-control. The sensation of being drunk feels weird, even, what with the feeling of the world shifting under you and the swimmy head feeling. It can be frightening. There's also the fact that aspies have sensory sensitivity, which means they're more likely to want to spit out alcohol because, if we're being honest here, it usually doesn't taste that great.

this basically describes me and the one time I got drunk in a nutshell and explains why I am never doing it again

 

[Overcast]

Don't worry Connor, I don't drink either.

...

Before noon I mean.

No but seriously, I don't.

 

[Connor Bible]

Relax, fellas, I'm not going to be working on a second draft of Eva anytime soon. Now that my semester has officially ended, my top priority is finishing some shorts and Alphaboy's first draft. I have toyed around with the idea of doing another story with an adoptee protagonist that would be darker, but I figured that two's a crowd, so one is enough. Speaking of the Boy of Tomorrow (my nickname for him), have I ever described Sean Gillespie's appearance? He's tall for a fourteen year old. He's slender, but not scrawny at all, with large, piercing blue eyes, and short dark hair. In terms of physique, I was inspired by Bruce Lee. I'm having a serious internal debate about whether to give him an accent, a la Van Damme or Schwarzenegger. Maybe a Stallone slur.

 

[Bork Laser]

Relax, fellas, I'm not going to be working on a second draft of Eva anytime soon. Now that my semester has officially ended, my top priority is finishing some shorts and Alphaboy's first draft. I have toyed around with the idea of doing another story with an adoptee protagonist that would be darker, but I figured that two's a crowd, so one is enough. Speaking of the Boy of Tomorrow (my nickname for him), have I ever described Sean Gillespie's appearance? He's tall for a fourteen year old. He's slender, but not scrawny at all, with large, piercing blue eyes, and short dark hair. In terms of physique, I was inspired by Bruce Lee. I'm having a serious internal debate about whether to give him an accent, a la Van Damme or Schwarzenegger. Maybe a Stallone slur.

Why does it even matter, your not gonna finish it so its not even worth getting excited about

 

[Golly]

Relax, fellas, I'm not going to be working on a second draft of Eva anytime soon. Now that my semester has officially ended, my top priority is finishing some shorts and Alphaboy's first draft.

Congrats on the end of the semester! How do you think your exam went?

I'm having a serious internal debate about whether to give him an accent, a la Van Damme or Schwarzenegger. Maybe a Stallone slur.

Why would a character born and raised in the Midwest have an accent? There would need to be a solid reason (e.g: he was out of the country a lot when he was younger). Alternately, giving Sean a speech impediment (which is sort of how I view Stallone's speech pattern), while maybe detracting from his Alpha-ness, would be an interesting choice because it does give him a weakness. A certain amount of weakness creates relatability.

 

[TheAmazingAxolotl]

Congrats on the end of the semester! How do you think your exam went?


Why would a character born and raised in the Midwest have an accent? There would need to be a solid reason (e.g: he was out of the country a lot when he was younger). Alternately, giving Sean a speech impediment, while maybe detracting from his Alpha-ness, would be an interesting choice because it does give him a weakness. A certain amount of weakness creates relatability.

I imagine he would sound a lot like Pickles from Metalocalypse, so there's an accent at least.

 

[Hat]

I'm having a serious internal debate about whether to give him an accent, a la Van Damme or Schwarzenegger. Maybe a Stallone slur.

I think that that would be too difficult to pull off for it to be worth it.

 

[Abby]

Relax, fellas, I'm not going to be working on a second draft of Eva anytime soon. Now that my semester has officially ended, my top priority is finishing some shorts and Alphaboy's first draft. I have toyed around with the idea of doing another story with an adoptee protagonist that would be darker, but I figured that two's a crowd, so one is enough. Speaking of the Boy of Tomorrow (my nickname for him), have I ever described Sean Gillespie's appearance? He's tall for a fourteen year old. He's slender, but not scrawny at all, with large, piercing blue eyes, and short dark hair. In terms of physique, I was inspired by Bruce Lee. I'm having a serious internal debate about whether to give him an accent, a la Van Damme or Schwarzenegger. Maybe a Stallone slur.

How'd the final go? Got any summer plans or are you planning on taking summer classes or anything?

My only thoughts on the accent thing is to make sure you give a reason for it. I understand you like allusions to other media, but something as prominent as an accent should probably have some canonical reasoning behind it, I think.

Also, see your avatar. Thoughts on American Gigolo?

 

[Meowthkip]

this basically describes me and the one time I got drunk in a nutshell and explains why I am never doing it again

The one time I got really off-my-tits drunk was in a gay bar during a drag show. It might have been the environment and being with friends, but I found myself enjoying it. Last time I got drunk I just ended up crying about dogs, though.

Relax, fellas, I'm not going to be working on a second draft of Eva anytime soon. Now that my semester has officially ended, my top priority is finishing some shorts and Alphaboy's first draft. I have toyed around with the idea of doing another story with an adoptee protagonist that would be darker, but I figured that two's a crowd, so one is enough. Speaking of the Boy of Tomorrow (my nickname for him), have I ever described Sean Gillespie's appearance? He's tall for a fourteen year old. He's slender, but not scrawny at all, with large, piercing blue eyes, and short dark hair. In terms of physique, I was inspired by Bruce Lee. I'm having a serious internal debate about whether to give him an accent, a la Van Damme or Schwarzenegger. Maybe a Stallone slur.

Some tips on writing Sean and just writing in general, from somebody else who's trying to figure out what the hell they're doing:

• Don't do a description dump for him as soon as he shows up. Let him do some things first, or maybe reveal bits and pieces over the first chapter or so.
• If he's mid-western, he's going to sound mid-western. I'm sure you've probably seen Fargo. Yeah, if he has an accent, it's going to sound like that.
• Speaking of accents, as much fun as it can be to write out phonetic accents, it's generally frowned upon a lot of writing these days, as it can trip up the reader if they're too heavy. I think it's more appropriate for the comics medium, if you use them at all. I've read a lot of novice writers do phonetic accents in a way that's nigh unreadable.
• Don't start with a dream or a character waking up. Your first sentence needs to grab the reader by the collar and get them interested. Have the story start while Sean is doing something or about to do something, perhaps something related to him being Alphaboy.
• If you do decide to go with a speech impediment (like Stalone, who's got something of a mushmouth), you know what speech impediment I rarely see for heroic characters? A stutter. Stuttering characters are often portrayed as neurotic, apprehensive, and timid. It'd be interesting to have a character sputter out words and make bad guys laugh before he hands them their own asses on a platter. IDK, just throwing that out there.
  
• I don't know many 14-year-olds built like Bruce Lee. Most boys that age are still very baby-faced and awkward. I imagine being tall, he'd probably look gangly. Not that he couldn't have some muscle, but people going through puberty rarely look badass or graceful. This is something you could use to your advantage, since novels lend themselves better to having less-conventionally beautiful protagonists. It's actually pretty common to make book protagonists more beautiful in film adaptions, because who would want to watch a movie looking at a fat or ugly person, AMIRITE?
  
• I'm sure you're familiar with the casting habit of having people in their 20's playing teenagers in films. This is because most teenagers are not Hollywood levels of beautiful. Also real teenage actors require tutors and can't show their boobs on camera. Since this is a book, this shouldn't be a concern at all. It's fine to picture parts of the story as being more cinematic in your head, but keep in mind, this is prose. It's a different medium. You've actually got a lot of interesting opportunities that you would never have in a film.

Just stuff to keep in mind. I'm an amateur writer working on something just to see if I can and I've got about 22K words so far on this thing I'm working on. I also got some advice from a professional writer. You can take everything else I've said with a grain of salt, whatever, but the most important piece of advice I got was to just keep writing. Keep going until you finish. You can go back and tighten it up later.

Also, read more books. That's something I need to work on but I'm more focused on trying to crank out words and complete a first draft for now.

I hope all this helps.

 

[lolwut]

giving Sean a speech impediment (which is sort of how I view Stallone's speech pattern)

That's because Stallone does have a speech impediment; he gets his signature voice from the fact that he was born with half his face paralyzed. On top of his condition being fairly unique (and thus unlikely for Sean to have), it would also be a real pain in the ass to write dialogue for him that both a) fits his accent, and b) the reader can still understand.

There are a number of distinct accents in the Midwest region but, at least where I live, the predominant one sounds like a water-down version of the cliche "country" accent, with "y'all" and "ain't" being fairly common. Most people also tend to use profanity and racial slurs (with or without actual prejudice) more liberally than many other places I've been to.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

Be wary of actually writing dialogue in an accent. Very few authors can pull it off successfully. Be aware of regional accents as well (Midwestern is a large region with many dialects, Pickles the Drummer speaks with a Midwestern accent commonly known as the Minnesota accent).