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I tried designing a Magic Winx base transformation for the specialists. Unfortunately I have no sense for fashion at all. Long story short, I doodled Rivusa.

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i was debating adding different options but people tend to use more than one social media platform lol

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"PART OF THAT WOOOOORLD--"

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seeing all these leaks at 4am is kinda fuckin with me rn

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“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it

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Source

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Pink (1999) 🩷

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dude why did i just now realize that Djo is Joe Keery abjnbhcujkk

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Sorry, I don't have a translation. It is IMPOSSIBLE to make it. In this comic, Riven tells us what nicknames he gave his friends. (Skye is a princess, Oleana is a star (there is an untranslatable obscene wordplay here. If you exaggerate the meaning, he says she's crazy) Nex - chupacabra). He also said that he HATES dumb romantic nicknames (like "my sweet/my bunny/my sunshine"), and it pisses him off when Stella and Brandon are around like that. Riven calls the Muse… You know, there's an untranslatable word here too. Roughly speaking, does he call her "baby"? (he's actually saying a word that literally means "you're little") . He calls her that because they have a height difference of 30 cm. And he likes that difference. This allows you to look down and see a lot of interesting things))

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It's giving musa and riven honestly.

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winx instagram keeps mind-blasting my fairy hcs help

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Bear with me here because I might end up torturing this particular metaphor, but when it comes to trying to get the image of a scene onto the page in the form of descriptive narrative, it might be useful to approach it like a visual artist.

If you've ever watched an artist do their thing (or if you're an artist yourself), you know that they don't just start at the top left corner of the page and draw the entire scene in all its detail, all in one go. I'm going to use an example of digital drawing with the use of software like Photoshop here because I have no idea if this metaphor will work with pencil and paper.

You have an image in your head. It might be super clear. It might be more vague. When you're starting to describe it, just sketch it in. Create a layer of broad strokes information like what the location is, how many people are in it, and what activity is happening.

Then add in a layer - whichever one is easiest. Let's pretend it's the location. Read through the sketch that you currently have and see where you have opportunities to describe the location. You don't have to front load everything at the top of the chapter, for example. You can add in details about the location as the characters move through it.

Add another layer. Are the characters' appearances different from what they previous were? Are you just establishing them at the start of the story? Do they have a "uniform" that they wear in canon that you've opted not to change? You can add in whatever details here you want, and again don't feel like you have to put it all in the same place. You can talk about a ponytail falling loose partway through an action. Or wait until someone else comments on a character's new pair of shoes.

Add another layer. What are the characters doing? How are they moving? Interacting?

Another layer. What are they saying? How do they sound?

Another layer. What other sounds are in the room? What smells? Do these change? Appear or disappear?

Keep going back and forth, toggling your way through your layers, adding things in here and removing them there. Every artist knows that sometimes a line just doesn't go in the right place and you have to erase it and draw it again.

Remember that no amount of works will give your reader a perfect representation of the vision in your mind, but also please know that that's okay.

By the time you finish your scene, some of those early layers might not exist anymore, and that's okay too. They were the sketch that started your verbal drawing. The base you used to guide your inks. Your final render won't have every line or brush stroke in it, and it'll be all the better for it in the end.

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I'm just rambling about recent events, feel free to ignore, but:

If the new policy change discourages artists/writers/creators from posting on this site, lowering the rate of media sharing and post interactions even further (though tbh, it was already on a yearly decline to begin with), what does that spell for Tumblr's future, and fandoms here specifically?

The 2018-Ban era was pretty rough, lots of people left, and activity slowed down to ghost town levels in some of the fandoms I was in (not sure how it was for Winx back then, but I'll assume there was some kind of slowing present) but people were still posting, you know? Even if their reach was significantly lower than it'd been in the past, art, fics, and text posts were still being circulated around. Also, once the ban was lifted, people started coming back, especially after it seemed like other social media sites (Insta, Twitter (!!), Reddit) were actively caving in on themselves.

But I feel like this policy, assuming it doesn't get reversed soon, is going to deter the literal functioning of this website as a whole, and that's not good. Posting/Reblogging keeps fandoms alive, kinda keeps this website alive, and if people stop doing that and start leaving again, abandoning their blogs, deleting their posts...I actually don't want to think about it.

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Social anxiety has me thinking dumb stuff like “if I go in this store when they’re closing in an hour the employees will hate me and want to kill me” which is especially dumb to think bc I worked retail before, it’s only like the last 20 minute that they want to kill you

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“do you think they explored each other’s bodies?” they made extensive surveys of each other’s bodies complete with topographical maps and GPS coordinates

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what are y’all’s tarot birth cards?

mine are the tower and the chariot