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A very important announcement

1, About my second-latest post (a vent post), I've talked to my mom about the issue and she apologised for saying those words (both of us are at fault here, my mother with words and me with). Plus we reconciled with each other.

2, Also mentioned in that post is I have two very important exams graduation and entrance exams) this June and I want to focus as much as possible to ace them (if I can overcome this, the rest of this year and the next 3 years I could do anything I want). I want to concentrate as much as I can on those two fucking hellish, treacherous tests, so I would be offline from now until the middle of June.

Goodbye to you all and see you by the 10th of June (and hope you achieve any goals you set for yourself!)

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Yesssssss. I love this <3. And the fact that Fern can't fly bc he grew up in elf culture reminds me of one of my ocs (Cherry, who is a hybrid and has magic skills like a 3-year-old bc the absolutist elves adopted her, broke her wand and banned her from using magic when she escaped from the Little Castle cellars (but they can't stop her flying though bc it's quite useful))

Sketch dump!!!!

Primrose(Prim)! Ben and Holly’s scene daughter!!

My ocs Olive and Fern! They’re adoptive siblings :3

They’re from outside the little kingdom so Fern really grew up with only elf culture and influence. Fern can’t fly since he never learned to but since moving to the Little Kingdom he did learn a bit of magic.

It’s Gardenia and Aethel again!!! This is very obviously inspired by Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan. That painting makes me feel things 😞😞😞

I won’t spoil much to their story and what this scene is about but I will say this is where Gardenia goofed too hard

I kind of gave up drawing this after like 5 minutes I could’ve done more with it but for a 5 minute sketch it’s not that bad

Sum art I did of King Thisle and his progression to Kinghood in my mlp au.

Oh and there’s a concept sketch I did of Mr Elf. Him with sunglasses is just based off of a loose headcanon that I had about what he was like before he had children lol.

Some more oc!!!

1. There’s Myopsida- an octopus princess pretending to be a human so she doesn’t get turned into sashimi

2. Maple- a teenage fairy who is an unnaturally fast flier. Just not a very careful one. Though her speed makes her great at her job. She’s basically the Little Kingdom’s postal service.

3. Sophie- a teenage elf who doesn’t talk much unless during competitions in which she will win at all costs. She is not a very nice competitor

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This is so sad ;(.

The you see us ?

The you hear us ?

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im having feelings about the uffington white horse again

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Meet Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom Fairies🧚🧚🏾‍♀️ #jasperorteza

Fairies From Ben and Holy✨

Holly

Strawberry

Fleur

Rosie

Orange

Blueberry

Violet

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How is bnha anime of the decade...... they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second

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Source

Some good news

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The anxiety of the internet

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Your HC design of Fleur is sooooo good

Fleur Fairy!

Headcannon design

This is my first very altered HC design because everyone else was just canon design with minor changes, and I definitely wanna do more like these (character design is one of my passions)

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A little bit of AO3 site skin code

So you can change from this:

To this:

Plus if you also don't want to see the muted user band on AO3: From this:

To this (no annoying Muted user band)

Just copy this code below into your existing siteskin/ create new siteskin on your own (go to "My Dashboard" -> "Skins" -> "Create New Siteskin"): (Original code from @twilightarc-gm and @ao3commentoftheday , and I edit the original code below a bit)

.muted.notice { width: 0px; display: none !important; }

dl.stats dd.language::before { content: "🌏"; }

dl.stats dt { display: none; }

.skins .header dl.stats dt { display: inline-block; }

dl.stats dd.words::before { content: "✍️"; }

dl.stats dd.chapters::before { content: "📄"; }

dl.stats dd.collections::before { content: "🗂️"; }

dl.stats dd.comments::before { content: "💬"; }

dl.stats dd.kudos::before { content: "❤️"; }

dl.stats dd.bookmarks::before { content: "🔖"; }

dl.stats dd.hits::before { content: "👀"; }

dl.work dl.stats dd.published::before { content: "📅"; }

dl.work dl.stats dd.status::before { content: "✅"; } (P/s: The siteskin I'm using is Ocean Pearl from @hinata28h , plus the orignial code by @ao3commentoftheday can be found here)

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Ways to un-stick a stuck story

Do an outline, whatever way works best. Get yourself out of the word soup and know where the story is headed.

Conflicts and obstacles. Hurt the protagonist, put things in their way, this keeps the story interesting. An easy journey makes the story boring and boring is hard to write.

Change the POV. Sometimes all it takes to untangle a knotted story is to look at it through different eyes, be it through the sidekick, the antagonist, a minor character, whatever.

Know the characters. You can’t write a story if the characters are strangers to you. Know their likes, dislikes, fears, and most importantly, their motivation. This makes the path clearer.

Fill in holes. Writing doesn’t have to be linear; you can always go back and fill in plotholes, and add content and context.

Have flashbacks, hallucinations, dream sequences or foreshadowing events. These stir the story up, deviations from the expected course add a feeling of urgency and uncertainty to the narrative.

Introduce a new mystery. If there’s something that just doesn’t add up, a big question mark, the story becomes more compelling. Beware: this can also cause you to sink further into the mire.

Take something from your protagonist. A weapon, asset, ally or loved one. Force him to operate without it, it can reinvigorate a stale story.

Twists and betrayal. Maybe someone isn’t who they say they are or the protagonist is betrayed by someone he thought he could trust. This can shake the story up and get it rolling again.

Secrets. If someone has a deep, dark secret that they’re forced to lie about, it’s a good way to stir up some fresh conflict. New lies to cover up the old ones, the secret being revealed, and all the resulting chaos.

Kill someone. Make a character death that is productive to the plot, but not “just because”. If done well, it affects all the characters, stirs up the story and gets it moving.

Ill-advised character actions. Tension is created when a character we love does something we hate. Identify the thing the readers don’t want to happen, then engineer it so it happens worse than they imagined.

Create cliff-hangers. Keep the readers’ attention by putting the characters into new problems and make them wait for you to write your way out of it. This challenge can really bring out your creativity.

Raise the stakes. Make the consequences of failure worse, make the journey harder. Suddenly the protagonist’s goal is more than he expected, or he has to make an important choice.

Make the hero active. You can’t always wait for external influences on the characters, sometimes you have to make the hero take actions himself. Not necessarily to be successful, but active and complicit in the narrative.

Different threat levels. Make the conflicts on a physical level (“I’m about to be killed by a demon”), an emotional level (“But that demon was my true love”) and a philosophical level (“If I’m forced to kill my true love before they kill me, how can love ever succeed in the face of evil?”).

Figure out an ending. If you know where the story is going to end, it helps get the ball rolling towards that end, even if it’s not the same ending that you actually end up writing.

What if? What if the hero kills the antagonist now, gets captured, or goes insane? When you write down different questions like these, the answer to how to continue the story will present itself.

Start fresh or skip ahead. Delete the last five thousand words and try again. It’s terrifying at first, but frees you up for a fresh start to find a proper path. Or you can skip the part that’s putting you on edge – forget about that fidgety crap, you can do it later – and write the next scene. Whatever was in-between will come with time.

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This is sooooo beautiful!

It’s them!!! Having a tea party!! From left to right: Yasmin, Gaston, Lucy, Holly, Ben, Katie

I had realised I haven’t drawn like art art of them and I haven’t drawn the humans in a while or Gaston so here’s them together in the pony world >w<

I also gave Ben a bit of a redesign

Here is also a Mr’s Elf design!!! I wasn’t sure about her cutie mark so I just did smth random lol. Thinking of designing Mr Elf after a strawberry roan because I think that’d be cute. Also gave her a little overbite! Because I also thought that’d be cute. And that it’d fit her

Did another version with a few grey hairs >3<

Baby Marigold and Thistle!! With their mom… thinking of calling her smth storm related like Stormy Weather or something.

Is it me or are girl characters the most fun to design

Also sorry about the bad quality Tumblr keeps upscaling/downscaling my art 😞

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Yessss, you’re welcome!

I got bored and made a Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom OC. So, introducing Pomegranate!

Is there even a B&H fandom?

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PETITION TO MAKE LEARNING ANOTHER LANGUAGE COMPULSORY IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES FROM A YOUNG AGE BECAUSE ENGLISH SPEAKERS ARE LAZY ASSWIPES WHO EXPECT EVERYONE TO SPEAK ENGLISH AND NEVER BOTHER EVEN LEARNING ANY OTHER LANGUAGE.

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Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

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Older Holly alternative outfit 👍👍👍

Happy valentine's day y'all, even though it's almost over for me

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So, I really liked this site skin, but I found another that was easier on the eyes and which I liked more... HOWEVER, I liked the way the stats icons looked on fics in the first one and I want to apply it to my other site skins. I've read the code multiple times trying to figure it out, I've searched online in several places, I even commented under the site skin and I just cannot figure it out, please help me, y'all 😭😭😭