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follow me... for adventure and wonder

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man this year is gonna be the year i either die or become someone else i dont know which one maybe both

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People used to comment on web comics.

People used to comment on fanfiction.

People used to comment on fanart.

People used to comment on OCs.

I hate "content" culture.

I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.

People used to be excited about the art that other people created.

People used to want to share that excitement with creators.

I hate this future.

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Talking with writers online

Their stories: Amazing grammar, soaring vocabulary, beautiful imagery and prose which flows like a river.

In chats: no capitalisation or punctuation, swears like a sailor, misspellings everywhere, acronyms and abbreviations every five words, idek

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I've already said that my number one piece of writing advice is to read.

But my number two piece of advice is this: be deliberate.

Honestly this would fix so many pieces of bad writing advice. Don't forbid people from doing something, tell them to be conscious and deliberate about it. This could help stop people from falling into common mistakes without limiting their creativity. Black and white imperatives may stop a few annoying beginner habits, but ultimately they will restrict artistic expression.

Instead of "don't use epithets": "Know the effect epithets have and be deliberate about using them." Because yes, beginners often misuse them, but they can be useful when a character's name isn't known or when you want to reduce them to a particular trait they have.

Instead of "don't use 'said'" or "just use 'said'": "Be deliberate about your use of dialogue tags." Because sometimes you'll want "said" which fades into the background nicely, but sometimes you will need a more descriptive alternative to convey what a character is doing.

Instead of "don't use passive voice": "Be deliberate about when you use passive voice." Because using it when it's not needed can detract from your writing, but sometimes it can be useful to change the emphasis of a sentence or to portray a particular state of mind.

Instead of blindly following or ignorantly neglecting the rules of writing, familiarize yourself with them and their consequences so you can choose when and if breaking them would serve what you're trying to get across.

Your writing is yours. Take control of it.

It probably sounds like I'm preaching to the choir here because most of my mutuals are already great writers. But I'm hoping this will make it to the right people.

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"Oh you had a plague? Come back to us when you had a World War, brand new unconventional weapons, and a new international order."

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Reblog if you're okay with receiving asks for backstory info on any/all of your fics.

If not all, specify which ones in the tags.

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Gawd the emotional vs logical brain, and also the hardward brain vs software brain, they drive me INSANE

the emotions/logic for the reasons OP said above

the hardware/software brain....

like okay look, our software brain is SO advanced, look at the world we live in! We've put people on the moon! We can cut people open with knives to help them live longer, we've made machines that can break the sound barrier, like that is some insane stuff. And then hardware brain is STILL living back in hunter/gatherer days where like the amount of programs it has that it can run, probably numbers in the single digits

and then we're faced with situations like, idk job interview or whatever, something only software brain could've come up with. Except software brain doesn't have the program for interview, so it goes knocking on hardware brain's door like:

Software brain: Hey, we got an interview coming up. You got anything for that? Hardware brain: OH INTERVIEWS! that's a CLASSIC I've got just the thing! Here! :) Software brain: Hardware brain: Software brain: This is the "OMG A BEAR IS ABOUT TO FUCKING EAT ME" program. Hardware brain: yeah! It's a classic! Software brain: THIS IS AN INTERVIEW. THERE ARE NO BEARS Hardware brain: are you SURE? Software brain: Hardware brain: Software brain: Shit you're right. Run the program

AND NOW WE HAVE ANXIETY THAT WE CANT FIX BECAUSE THERE IS NO BEAR

SOOOOO funny when you’re having a strong emotion and your logical brain KNOWS you’re overreacting but you literally can’t do anything about it.

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With Easter fast approaching with its spiked rabbit sales and subsequent spiked rabbit abandonment rates, I thought I’d use my powers for good by spreading some information I think everyone should know before they get their first bunny. I usually don’t want people reposting my art, but feel free to spread this one around! Reblogs are very, very appreciated. If you want more information about pet rabbits, you can for example check out rabbit.org. And remember: Adopt, don’t shop!

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asfsdgdh no se! solo me encontre con otro de esos textos chistosos y dije "ah si son ellos" y tambien solo porque queria dibujar a drax en algo no tengo otra excusa xD

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CAN THE SUN PLEASE STOP BEING SO SLUTTY

I AM TRYING TO DRIVE IN PEACE

PLEASE STOP FLASHING ME DURING SUNSET

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okay but legitimately TV Tropes is a FANTASTIC website and I love it so much. It's a great catalogue both of what tropes exist, what they are, and also places where they have been used from shows, movies, theater, videogames, anime, literature, you name it, they probably have a category for it

they categorize their tropes too by themes, like secrecy, or idk depression tropes

but my favorite part is that they also distinguish between a Trope that's good and being used as intended, and a trope that's clearly MEANT to be a good trope, but is poorly written so it comes off as the "poorly written version" of the other trope. Off the top of my head, think like Angst vs Wangst, in which the first case is ya know, character is experiencing emotional distress because of all the trauma that's been happening and it HURTS (so good) vs the second case where instead of coming off as the character deeply suffering, it comes off as whiny and irritating.

but like that's just one example. I love browsing them, discovering new tropes. Sometimes it's good for like idea generation, sometimes I like reading about tropes I usually hate or don't care for, and then think about "how can I subvert this and/or write it in a way that I would like it?"

Other times, I like going on it after I've engaged with a media and seeing what tropes have been assigned to it by the ppl there. It helps me process, analyze and understand the story better and helps me understand my own writing better too

TV tropes is wonderful

TVTropes gets made fun of a lot but it is a little astonishing how consistent that wiki's voice is. It's a great wiki to go to if you want to simulate having one specific autistic fifteen-year-old computer nerd infodump to you about any piece of media that exists. To be clear I am saying this as an overwhelmingly positive thing

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wet rat

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A commission for @elasticpoodle that I finished ages ago and KEPT FORGETTING TO POST. From their AU that we affectionately call the 'Brainy has a bad time AU.'

Lighting Lad: Why should we believe that you're any different from any other Brainiac? Brainiac 5: Because I'm standing here arguing with you about it, instead of out there, causing chaos!

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bliss

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every moment of every day i am thinking about this tiktok