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Vis's personality makes a lot of sense once you realize he's the middle child

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HI HI HI I LOVE YOUR ART SO MUCH HIIIIIIIII

ANY AEQUA DOODLE!! because i love her so bad and also again i just want to say that i saw your art and it made my day and i am losing my mind i am so happy thank you for existing

Aah thank you so much!! I LOVEEEEEE Aequa so much! I would love to draw her more and I've been wanting to design different outfits for the different festivals and events we see in the book. Thank you so much for requesting her bc she deserves so much love aaaaaah I know there's a lot more going in in the story and she's not the biggest character ever but I think she's so interesting. I like to imagine her as trying very hard to achieve and surpass the standards set before her, but trying to find how she can do it her way. She's a mix of confidence in her skill but also doubtful. She's got every reason to be suspicious, but stays true. I just love how even though she has a smaller role, you get so much of a sense of who she is. I hope we see more of her next book! P.S. the colors might be wonky bc of my ipad. like no matter what i do the colors always turn out soooo different when it comes from there raah

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Ulciscor had weirdly high expectations, for his extremely mid plan to: blackmail a random teenager into figuring out how his brother died. His success was thanks to his parents, arrange marrying him off to his problematic-age-gap-terrorist-wife (because he was making the family broke) who happened to be the talent scout of all time.

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More sketches from The Will of the Many! I loveeeee these two and I want to see more of them ofc.

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Transvect

My interpretation of a Transvect & anchor point from James Islington’s Hierarchy series (The Will of the Many.)

Updated to add anchor point and addtl shadowing.

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my favorite kinds of characters are ones that less drive the plot and more get kicked around like a ragdoll by the plot and will of the many DELIVERS ON THAT! that being said i feel so bad for vis. top ten worst eighteenth birthdays in fiction. someone hug this poor boy.

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Vis, suddenly in Obiteum and utterly whacked out of his mind: What the fuck just happened to me

Caeror:

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Me every second of the last 20 pages of The Will of the Many

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I think it's very funny how basically everyone who matters knows Vis is a lying liar but they're all just dead wrong in guessing the truth

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making memes like its 2019 in the year of our lord big 25. im cringe but I'm free. the things i do for this fucking book series. Very obvious spoiler warning for the book.

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the will of the many:

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congrats to vis on having the worst fucking birthday in all history by getting bitten by a weird dead guy, realizing he's in the middle of a terrorist attack, getting stabbed by his girlfriend and having his best friend die on his arms. he also lost an arm

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04.03.2024—some recent journalling spreads

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Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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What do you all study when you're doing art studies??

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Writing tips for long fics that helped me that no one asked for.

1.) Don't actually delete content from your WIP unless it is minor editing - instead cut it and put it in a secondary document. If you're omitting paragraphs of content, dialog, a whole scene you might find a better place for it later and having it readily available can really save time. Sometimes your idea was fantastic, but it just wasn't in the right spot.

2.) Stuck with wording the action? Just write the dialog then revisit it later.

3.) Stuck on the whole scene? Skip it and write the next one.

4.) Write on literally any other color than a white background. It just works. (I use black)

5.) If you have a beta, while they are beta-ing have them read your fic out loud. Yes, I know a lot of betas/writers do not have the luxury of face-timing or have the opportunity to do this due to time constraints etc but reading your fic out loud can catch some very awkward phrasing that otherwise might be missed. If you don't have a beta, you read it out loud to yourself. Throw some passion into your dialog, you might find a better way to word it if it sounds stuffy or weird.

6.) The moment you have an idea, write it down. If you don't have paper or a pen, EMAIL it to yourself or put it in a draft etc etc. I have sent myself dozens of ideas while laying down before sleep that I 10/10 forgot the next morning but had emailed them to myself and got to implement them.

7.) Remember - hits/likes/kudos/comments are not reflective of the quality of your fic or your ability to write. Most people just don't comment - even if they say they do, they don't, even if they preach all day about commenting, they don't, even if they are a very popular blog that passionately reminds people to comment - they don't comment (I know this personally). Even if your fic brought tears to their eyes and it haunted them for weeks and they printed it out and sent it to their friends they just don't comment. You just have to accept it. That being said - comment on the fic you're reading now, just do it, if you're 'shy' and that's why you don't comment the more you comment the better you'll get at it. Just do it.

8.) Remove unrealistic daily word count goals from your routine. I've seen people stress 1500 - 2000 words a day and if they don't reach that they feel like a failure and they get discouraged. This is ridiculous. Write when you can, but remove absurd goals. My average is 500 words a day in combination with a 40 hour a week job and I have written over 200k words from 2022-2023.

9.) There are dozens of ways to do an outline from precise analytical deconstruction that goes scene by scene to the minimalist bullet point list - it doesn't matter which one you use just have some sort of direction. A partial outline is better than no outline.

10.) Write for yourself, not for others. Write the fic you know no one is going to read. Write the fic that sounds ridiculous. You will be so happy you put it out in the world and there will be people who will be glad it exists.

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so i’m keeping a reading log in my journal this year but i’m running into some logistics issues and would love some input.

i’m keeping track of books read and whatnot, but i’d also love to track my fanfic reading. how are you all tracking fics that aren’t complete?

do you track how many words/what chapters you read each month?

will you only log it once it’s complete?

what will you do if a fic you track doesn’t finish this year?

i’m thinking of including the fics in monthly wrap-ups and noting how many chapters/words i read for the fic at the time of logging, then maybe at the end of the year adding it to my master list with everything else? or adding complete fics to the list when i finish them.

i also thought of making a separate chart for fanfic but i don’t want to bog myself down with too many lists, and trying to set aside the right amount of pages stresses me out lol

so if any of you are doing something similar, please let me know your methods!!!