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Ah thank you so much @sassyseiji!! Im so in love with this — your art style is so beautiful and cool! There’s so many little details that make this piece so amazing idk where to start!!

But ugh I love the little sugar cookies and the hot cocoa featured because I’m a sucker for all the festive Fence hc stuff like Seiji loving hot chocolate. Nick wearing the reindeer ears is so cute and I love that he’s already looking at Seiji ☺️☺️. I also love the sweaters they’re wearing in their character colors. Omg and I love that you drew all of them cause they’re my fav two ships🙏!!

I love how you drew Eugene and Jesse too!! Jesse either being wrapped up as a present or wrapping HIMSELF up like a present has me rolling because it’s so in character. And ofc Eugene is falling for it 🤣. I’m also just in awe of your art style itself — like all the little details with the snow on the window, the wallpaper, the wall decorations, the tree is all so perfect and I can’t even imagine how long that took.

Thank you so much, Krysta!! I love it so much! I hope you had a great holiday and I loved your SS gift so much!!

Woah, @im-your-rival, this one has your name on it..! Happy Holidays from your Fence Secret Santa!!

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family feud

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reblog to give the prev a hot chocolate with (optional) whipped cream and marshmallows

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Happy Birthday @thestarminstrel!!! 🥳 I always love your little fanarts of Nick + sharks so I decided to give it a try myself!

I hope you have an awesome birthday no matter how you spend it. Thanks for all the art you contribute to this tiny fandom! 🖤

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Happey happey birthday @thestarminstrel !!! 💕💞

Sometimes the weight lifting bros need a little break from all that weight lifting and watch some movies instead. 😌

I just love being friends with you Nik! Super excited to hang more soon and check out some orange leaves. I hope you have a lovely lovely day and hope you enjoy some wlb's hangin out with popcorn and soda! 😌😎

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(a realization about dialogue formatting, from a comic artist turned novelist.)

One of the first things a novice writer learns about speech tags is that they’re part of the “scaffolding” of prose. They should be largely invisible to the reader: use them when necessary, omit them when not, and be sparing in the application of verbs other than ��said”. They serve only the function of clarifying who is speaking when it is necessary to do so.

Except:

Sometimes you might want to use a speech tag in spite of the redundancy. The fact that the reader’s eyes slide right over them is an exploitable property. By slicing a line of dialogue in half with a speech tag, you can force the reader to perceive a meaningful pause between two utterances—and the effect is much stronger than you might get out of an ellipsis or an em dash. Developing an intuition for when and how to do this is a huge part of learning to write dialogue, I think.

(And yes: if you ever wondered, this is exactly same the reason why comic artists sometimes “double bubble” their speech bubbles. Same end, different means!)

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The funniest thing about Seiji and Jesse is that there’s clearly an exes/broken heart dynamic between them but the thing is that any dramatic value to that heartbreak is dampened by the fact that they were. 14 at oldest

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LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO!!!!!!

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Petition to stop Jd Vance from ever discussing women’s healthcare again

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"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess

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I absolutely love the when people write Aiden as a reluctantly helpful friend to Nick or Seiji. I absolutely love when he shows that he cares but doesn’t want people to know. Big fan.

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MAMMAMIAJWL 'Butterfly' Jewelry 2024 if you want to support this blog consider donating to:ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

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using the bus tracker app is like. oh it's going to be here in three minutes. now it's five minutes. oh the bus has killed itself

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Can’t wait for the new comics to come out soon!!

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@thestarminstrel was right this IS a jesse song