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give your characters exes.

give them a variety of exes. give them relationships that shaped who they are but did not last. give them people they tried very hard to love but it didn't work out. give them situationships that taught them things. give them something deep that was real but could not endure. things that hurt. things that ended amicably. people with whom hot passion cooled to warm affection and became undying friendship.

no more first and only. give me the context of what made them know the next or one after was final and right.

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worlds in less than a week!!

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I know I say that I'm kinda nuts for doing the amount of visual research I do, but at the same time: Specificity is SO much more compelling and real feeling, and imo not getting references often makes things look more amateur.

Eg. drawing a sofa- my mental image of a sofa is something like this:

Like. Its a sofa. It works. But it's not very convincing, the pillows are kinda wrong at the back, and it's not really giving any information about the owner. Even if you want a basic sofa... What kind of basic.

comfy and cheap?

kinda rigid?

inherited? ------

who does this comfy cheap ikea sofa belong to anyway?

guy living alone?

teenage girl?

Grandma?

Anyway I'll get off my soapbox but specificity is sexy and fun and it can do your storytelling for you!

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have you lot heard about the tiktoker who’s taking on the actual government over a parking ticket? because she’s a hero

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I just discovered your art today but I'm so in love with your style!!! it's so comforting!!!

I saw that you were familiar with Gen 8, who's your favorite character? I love Bede and Marnie personally :D

Thank you!!!

And what a difficult question you asked! I LOVE sword/shield games and it’s almost impossible for me to pick a favorite character. I love all the rivals, and Melony and Allister were the reason I picked the Shield version.

But Peony has a special place in my heart. There are so many things about him that make Peony my favorite character. He’s so goofy and enthusiastic and he also belongs to a very specific category of pokemon characters which I automatically like.

(I was a little annoyed with Peonia at first because GIRL do you realize that in the Pokemon universe a kid with a good loving father is a much rarer occurrence than a kid with a legendary on their team)

And there’s one more character I like. It’s Oleana and I have no explanation for why. She’s not the nicest person to put it mildly. Maybe I found her and Rose’s dynamic funny, maybe it’s because of the Twilight Wings episode. Or maybe AGAIN she’s just a part of a club I have a lot of sympathy for

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That one moment in ep 1

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I just discovered foodtimeline.org, which is exactly what it sounds like: centuries worth of information about FOOD.  If you are writing something historical and you want a starting point for figuring out what people should be eating, this might be a good place?

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Artist Yudori musing on queer expression and queerness in fiction, diverging by cultural perception. [originally posted on instagram]

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The player characters learn how to swim

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Meanwhile, at the Temple of Sinnoh

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Time to cook 🫓

Commissioned by oceanchairsky, thank you so much! Any artist's dream to get paid to draw their OCs

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if you’re craving chocolate muffins after the olympic muffin man videos, jordan the stallion on tiktok has the recipe for you

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cba to do anything today and im getting more and more tired with every second so ehres some refs i think

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The older you get the more you will realize that your friends are people who have made mistakes and bad decisions and even just fucked up and hurt people.

And obviously your boundaries with your friends are completely up to you but you do need to recognize that if you cut off everyone who has done something wrong, you’re going to end up with no friends (and you yourself will have also fucked up in your life, and not lived up to those impossible standards either).

I’ve found it’s much more constructive to learn how to say “hey dude, that was massively fucked up of you,” because most people are really willing to say “yeah, it was, I need to work on it/not do it again/apologize and make things right” ESPECIALLY if they are hearing it from you as their friend.

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love song played on a broken gramophone - Submitted by alliveirrr

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