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Cheat Sheets for Writing Body Language

We are always told to use body language in our writing. Sometimes, it’s easier said than written. I decided to create these cheat sheets to help you show a character’s state of mind. Obviously, a character may exhibit a number of these behaviours. For example, he may be shocked and angry, or shocked and happy. Use these combinations as needed.

by Amanda Patterson

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A fan animation where Shuri wants real life reference for her Black Panther designs :) 

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USSR Film: (1968-1973) The Adventures Of Mowgli

A beautifully animated Jungle Book adaptation that closely follows the original story. I highly recommend watching! It’s on YouTube in English and English-subtitled Russian. 

Bagheera is a female panther, Baloo is Mowgli’s mentor, and Kaa is actually a good guy. Very different from the Disney adaptation!

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Seattle PD sent seven police cars to arrest the guy who filmed them macing a child and are holding him without bail on trumped up charges of “Unlawful discharge of a laser pointer.”

Seven police cars. No bail. This is retaliation.

Link to Twitter thread

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Maxine Vee on Instagram

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Hey all! I am wanting to create a comic book but I have no drawing ability! So if you know someone who can draw who would be down for this, send them my way! Or if you would be down!!

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Hey! How are you? I’ve just stumbled on your blog while searching through the exo tag, and I read your head canon about how they would be as boyfriends. Reading kai’s part made me think back about almost one year ago when I was in China and the group I was there on a study “tour” and I so often went to this little restaurant just outside the campus and it was the warmest people ever. None of us spoke mandarin, none of them spoke English but they tried their best to understand us and help us(1/2)

And I miss them so much honestly, I went there not more than 7 times in less than 20 days, and they were so warm with us since the very first time I’m sorry for saying this but it really warmed my heart and took me back to when I had a whole lot of worries at home but China made me focus only on myself for the month I was there, and that headcannon is making me tear up right now thinking about it, tomorrow will be one exact year since I took the plane there, I wanted to say thank you (2/2)

Hey again, it’s the anon who told you about China just now, I’m so sorry I forgot to say that I really love your blog, all of it, and I’m so glad I found it! (3/3) 

Oh my goodness China anon!! This made me smile and so happy!! I am so glad my story brought you back to that happy memory for you and that I was able to do that. I am really glad you liked my story and if you have a request please let me know!! I am so happy for the feedback <3<3 this really made me smile ;)

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New writing blog

Hey all! I recently decided to make a new side blog that will just be my own creative writing work and I would really really appreciate it if you followed it! @duchessofthedeviant Any commentary or feedback is super welcome! I hope you guys like it. 

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Hassidriss ‘Ashes’ Spring 2019 Haute Couture Collection

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Not sure what this is but I love him

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The panic over COVID-19 causing people to hoard shit unnecessarily means I can't find medical supplies (like disinfecting alcohol wipes) without paying an obnoxiously exorbitant amount.

Generally healthy, able-bodied people don't need masks, exam gloves, or alcohol swabs to protect themselves against COVID-19. But chronically ill people and their caretakers do need those supplies to live their everyday lives.

Calm the fuck down and wash your fucking hands, ableds.

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Decadent french pastries and fresh fruits on sunday mornings, the feeling of lace-trimmed silk or cashmere against my skin, immersing myself into classic novels, watching crème cloud up in my teacup as I stir, placing fresh white roses in a crystal vase, candlelight, listening to classical music whilst performing seemingly mundane tasks..

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What it's like to live and work with 6 people of 5 different nationalities and none of you is a native English speaker

- desperately trying to explain to another coworker that your Bangladeshi flatmate is saying "pea shells" and not "bee shells" ("pea pods, du ved, ærte... skræller..? Ærtebælge!“)

- Tunisian guy says a French word. Everyone understands. French guy says "it's the same in English"

- you forget the English word for strainer. You know it in German. Only your Austrian flatmate understands what you're talking about.

- "according to my high school diploma I speak B1 French"

- Austrian forgets the English word for fork, but remembers it in Danish.

- "I don't have the name in English" *tells us what an animal is called in Latin*

- 0 out of 6 people can remember what broom is called in English

- "fucking... she's trying to kill me" – our Frenchman after tripping over the dishwasher

- *accidentally speaks Danish to non-Danish flatmate* *starts to say something in English to my family* *is spoken to in English by Danish flatmate*

- I tell the Frenchman to write leverpostej om the shopping list. He looks at me like he's dead inside and writes pâté

- no one knows how to spell

- "what gender is apple in German?" "is book neuter or common gender in Danish?" *calls an inanimate object he or she* "what's the plural of hus? Huser?"

- What are gendered genitive pronouns? I mean, who really knows? Not the French speakers, that's for sure!

- everyone speaks 2 languages, most at least kind of speak 3.

- my English gets worse for every day that passes

-translating jokes from your native language to English makes for the best anti jokes. "A dwarf walks into a bar and the bartender asks him 'Do you play cards?' 'No, I was born this way,' the dwarf answers"

- Austrian: "ti, tyve..... uhhhh..... fyrre, halvtreds, tres, halvfjerds.... fjers?? ..... ...?????? hundred."

- "can you hand me the... Uhh... You know the, the thingy!" "The what?" "THE BOWL!"

- "You can't name your child Valdemar, that's the guy from Harry Potter!"

- I try to speak German and my Austrian roommate tells me that my accent is cute because I speak the hard German sounds so softly

- Frenchman imitates really bad French accent and it's hilarious

- someone thought the Austrian was Scottish because she rolls her r's

- "Share a coke with... Vendire... Veninerere..." "Veninderne" "Please tell me that's not a name" "It's means female friends"

- Høkeren -> hookeren

- *French speakers forget to pronounce an h*

- there's a heated discussion about whether or not some penguins can fly. The argument immediately dissolves as it is revealed that in French auks are called penguins.

- you learn to never correct people unless they ask you to or you literally do not understand what they're saying

- you translate an idiom from your own language into English. It's the same in one of the other languages, but not in English. No one questions it.

- you borrow a flatmate's Netflix. All the titles are in a language you don't speak. FRIENDS is dubbed in German, so you turn on sous-titres. They're in Bangla.

- "Santa Claus surprise", the Frenchman cheerfully says about secret santa

- you try to talk about knitting with your roommates but you don't know any of the proper terms in English. They try to talk about crotcheing in turn, but they don't even know what that's called.

- you have to disassemble the couch, so you send your roommate to get the tools for doing that. You never talk about the tools of which you don't know the names, but she brings the right ones regardless.

- you say a sentence and someone repeats it back to you, mispronouncing one of the words because they're certain you mispronounced it

- you somehow manage to hold a conversation in two languages at once

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guys will try to impress you by telling you they know everything about draconic mythology and folklore and then not even be able to tell you the difference between a wyrm and a wyvern

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titties out. aphrodite worshipped. 

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Have a great day today.