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Chr0me B1tch

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how to realistically write a bilingual character

no one who speaks 2+ languages ever “randomly” switches in the middle of a sentence. like that just…….. doesn’t happen? 

the only times people will get confused and mix them up is when:

a) they’re in an environment where they have to alternate between speaking two languages often/quickly, and the brain can’t keep up and messes up.

b) they’ve been in an environment where they have to speak/hear one language for a long time, and when they change settings it takes them a moment to not instinctively go for the other language.

c) they’re hearing one language (music, radio, background chatter) and trying to speak another 

interrupting themselves in the middle of a conversation because they can only remember the word they wanna say in another language

having the perfect idiom/expression for a situation but it doesn’t translate as well

having the perfect word for a situation but it doesn’t even fucking exist in that language

if ur character is out in public with their family, i can guarantee u that they’ll talk shit about people around them in their native tongue

calling their significant others pet names is a conscious choice. it doesn’t just “slip up”. it may come naturally with time, but saying a word in another language is something you like… immediately notice

swearing is complicated and i’m not getting into it rn 

anyone who has ever picked up another language has been pissed at specific vowels and pronunciations and this is the gospel truth

[forgets a word] [attempts to explicitely describe the thing they’re trying to say] [forgets a word while trying to explain themselves] “oh jesus christ nevermind”

will know how to speak a language but not know any of the mathematical/scientific/biological terms because they went to school in a different language and no one learns, like, algebra in a second language unless they studied in multiple languages.

[knows a word but they’ve only ever read it and they have no idea how it’s pronounced]

there’s probably more stuff that i’m forgetting rn but that’s like, the main bits. thank u for ur time

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fun words :

bastard

scoundrel

charlatan

harlot

rapscallion

hooligan

ruffian

swindler

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Orange You Glad - Submitted by SeesawSiya

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Virtue requires a delicate balance. 

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Malibu road

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Enriched uranium sword with a lead sheathe that is rumored to slowly kill its owner in exchange for god killing power.

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These are various character exploration pieces I’ve been working on lately. <3

I posted these on Instagram and lots of people have asked can they use these as references - the answer is yes but if you use them please remember to credit me and please no direct tracing. 

Also please do not re-post my art, re-blogs are always appreciated though <3

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Dragon - Submitted by Anonymous

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“I don’t think that every villain in the world actually thinks they’re being a good guy, but I do think that everybody creates a value system that justifies the actions they’re taking, and and I think there’s a difference between those two things. Not everybody believes that they’re on the side of righteousness, but everybody has a way of justifying the actions they’re taking. Not every villain has to be a misunderstood hero, and in fact I think there are a lot of instances throughout history of people who were obviously doing the wrong thing and probably had an understanding of that on some level, but had some rationale or justification for it. A lot of villains in literature and media have these weird, Thanos-esque philosophies of what it is that they’re trying to do, and I think human motivation tends to come from more primal places than that. So a lot of the villains I write can be brilliant or clever (and, in fact, probably should be), but their motivation tends to be primal. They wanna be rich, they wanna have power, they wanna live forever. There’s something deep down that is, when you break it down, not too complex. Right? If you look at the real world, the people that are doing bad stuff don’t need complex motivations. They wanna rule the world! They wanna be rich! They wanna be unafraid that other people can ever screw them over, so they screw other people over. Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundanes of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard.”

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Brennan Lee Mulligan, when asked how to create villains for ttrpgs

(I found this quote to be really meaningful in like…life in general which is why I posted it here. When he said “evil is boring”, it felt like something clicked in me that I had known deep down but hadn’t had the words for.)

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Henri Prestes (Portuguese, b. 1989, Portugal), Photography   More

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sometimes its just like *street lights reflecting off the wet asphalt at night* maybe life isnt so ugly after all