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why do i keep seeing whole videos on advice for artfight from “veterans” or whatever. here’s all the advice you need:

you don’t need to draw every day

you don’t need to fully render every drawing, sketches still count and the person receiving it will still love it

you don’t need a fully polished ref sheet for every single character, having a basic one or even just a colour palette along with whatever other art you’ve done works fine in most cases

you don’t need to draw a fully rendered piece every single day do not burn yourself out or injure yourself for funny little internet points good lord

boom done there’s your 15 minute video

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"but physical media is worse quality and will break with time" I DON'T CARE! I WANT TO OWN THINGS I LIKE! I WANT SHELVES FULL OF DVDS, CDS, AND A LIBRARY!

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I think the funniest headcanon to have that slips into every fic I write is that Sonic wasn't born naturally and isn't a "true" Mobian

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one more list of "troublesome" words

waiver, waver

Waiver - a relinquishment of a claim

Waver - to hesitate

whence

”And man will return to the state of hydrogen from whence he came” (Sunday Telegraph).

Although there is ample precedent for from whence—the King James Bible has the sentence “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help”—it is nonetheless tautological.

Whence - means “from where”

It is enough to say “to the state of hydrogen whence he came.”

wound, scar

The two are not as interchangeable as writers sometimes casually make them.

A scar - what remains after a wound heals

Thus it is always wrong, or at least stretching matters, to talk about a scar healing, including in figurative senses.

who, whom

For those who are perennially baffled by the distinction between these two relative pronouns, it may come as some comfort to know that Shakespeare, Addison, Ben Jon-son, Dickens, Churchill, and the translators of the King James Bible have equally been flummoxed in their time.

The rule can be stated simply:

Whom - used when it is the object of a preposition (“To whom it may concern”)

or verb (“The man whom we saw last night”)

or the subject of a complementary infinitive (“The person whom we took to be your father”).

Who - used on all other occasions.

Source ⚜ More: On Vocabulary ⚜ Writing Basics ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

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last rb lots of people seem to view inspirations as a template your copying rather than a ingredient in your new evil stew. if you tell me your new shonen manga is inspired by dragon ball i’ll think youre a dipshit but if you tell me your cartoon network lesbians are inspired by dbz i’ll be neurotic about them within the first season

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if you love downloading pdfs you are likely to never use again you have GOT to get into knitting

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I get how the whole "listening to music as a dick-measuring contest for who can listen to the most obscure band" thing can get grating sometimes but I don't think people realize just how vital that phenomenon is for new up and coming bands to get a foot in the door. it's understandable to be annoyed by hipsterism but unless you want all music to be industry plants and former child stars you're just going to have to accept it as part of the social ecosystem.

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hey. hey you. stop for a sec and write a poem. write it about whatever you want make it good make it bad idc. long or short. poignant or not. post it or put it in the reblogs or send it to a friend or keep it to yourself but sit for a little bit and write a poem. for the soul

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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Got into a new game I recommend to everyone who loves bugs, caring for creatures, and fascinating story telling

Gotta love my choice of background called "Spectrum"/aff

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Hey ya'll! Just an update on why this blog hasn't been as active and why there hasn't been any recent updates on fics:

I'm focused on Pride in my community as well as focusing on attending Protests this month. So, for the entirety of this month I most likely won't be active at all or very little!

Thank you all for interacting with me and my works! I'll hopefully be back soon <3

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i feel like so many people misunderstand redemption arcs. they’re not about forgiving past actions. they’re not about softening previous behavior. redemption arcs are about realizing past behavior was heinous and resolving to be better, do better. that’s why so many redemption arcs fall apart upon close scrutiny.

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I do the opposite of gatekeeping, I’m not going to shut up until you like this thing as much as I do

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what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years

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why do people hate subtitles. I kinda need those chat

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hey don’t be a gross pervert without me :(

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Friend: Don't you want to have a romance?

Me: I'm good, I have romance at home.

Romance I have at home: