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OC ask meme: drawing studies

Tag the post with the names of your Original Characters when you reblog it, so that people can request a specific one, if they want to.

🖐️ - draw your OC’s hand or hands. What’s distinctive about them?

🥾- draw your OC’s boots. Not shoes - boots. In what circumstances do they wear them?

💃 - character in their dance, party or wedding outfit.

🐝 - character with their daemon (or animal familiar.)

🌈 - represent the colour palettes used in your OC’s clothing.

🎨 - represent the colours you use to draw your OC - hey, this might be a useful reference…

👶 - OC in their youth; or, if they didn’t have one, at the beginning of their journey; this may be shown as background.

👵 - character shown older, or if they do not age, at the end of their journey; this may be shown as background.

🗝️ - character depicted with something revealing of their personality, secrets or motivations.

👜 - Personal items carried by or associated with your OC, in an arrangement, labelled.

🦺 - character’s work uniform or work outfit. If they don’t work, reinterpret or take 🎭

🎭 - character study (happy) and character study (sad), presented together.

🪞- draw character with a mask or mirror used to represent an aspect of themselves.

🤟 - drawing representing the culture, native language, national origin, or other formative influence of the character.

🏇 - drawing based on most recent emoji + your character.

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have realized that i've essentially committed to writing a slice-of-life story. i don't fucking know how to write slice-of-life. what am i doing. should i just kill somebody for a little variety.

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realizing what was supposed to be a silly zero effort diversion from the rest of my writing is going to take research if i'm going to do this shit right. hate that!

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the mirror records: the character list

The Protagonists

Allison Lee: Main character #1. A 'normal' aspiring computer science student who quickly finds herself into a situation out of her control and also inside of a webnovel. Currently wearing the body of Wilhelmina Sterling and living with extreme paranoia because of it. Desperately trying to find her way back home without risking discovery, relying on her near-perfect knowledge of the webnovel (up until the last update). The original protagonist of "The Lightbringer".

Wilhelmina Sterling (Mina): Main character #2. The arrogant, violent, and hedonistic duke's daughter who wakes up in the modern world and picks a fight about it. Currently wearing the body of Allison Lee -- not particularly happy about that or intent on hiding on it. Trying to figure out who she has to pick a fight with to get back home. Vaguely recalls the details of a manuscript she read at one point. The villainess/rival character of "A Rose By Any Other Name".

The Lightbringer (unpublished manuscript)

Evander Gallahue: Allison's neighbor, and now the sidekick character (reluctantly). A student who went missing due to mysterious happenings, and came back six months later with cool magic powers. Only mentioned in the original manuscript, but his influence is very much there.

The King of Flowers: The antagonist. An antagonist, at least. A key love interest in the original manuscript, and a super fucking crazy one. He does not get any better in the new iteration.

The Crow Princess: The deceased lover of the King of Flowers. Allison has her face. This is not a good thing.

Axia, the Mirror Maiden: Deceased. Well. Sort of.

A Rose By Any Other Name (serialized novel)

Emily Oakford: Wilhelmina's... friend. Servant. Lady-in-waiting. A student sponsored by the Sterling family, she always accompanies Wilhelmina Sterling. Characterized as Wilhelmina's lackey in the original novel.

Rose Beckett: The original protagonist of "A Rose By Any Other Name." A student on scholarship, and a member of the same dueling club Wilhelmina is. They do not get along.

Asher Oakford: The original love interest. Well, probably. Rose has an extremely obvious crush on him, anyway.

Mary Harker: Rose's roommate and best friend. Surely she'll never be relevant.

The Prince-In-Chains: A background threat in the original novel. Not so much a character as it is a disease. Affected people start acting strangely before declaring themselves a 'Prince-in-Chains' and going on a murder spree.

The Knight of Roses: Sir Rose, Dame Rosa, Three-Faced Knight. The patron god of Rosewyr. The god of chivalry, honor, duty, and slavery. We don't talk about that last thing. Don't worry about it.

The Rose Dragon: A long-dead beast of legend. Said to be slain by The Knight of Roses. Don't worry about it.

The Rose King: A king of Roswyr, and the last champion of Knight of Roses. At some point, his god grew displeased with him and toppled his throne. No one really knows why. Surely this will never be relevant.

Hannelore Warray: An aspiring author. Wrote an unpublished manuscript that she handed to her best friend, Emily.

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the mirror records: the masterpost

Ordinary college student Allison Lee wakes up as the arrogant and violent Wilhelmina Sterling, the villainess character from the webnovel, A Rose By Any Other Name. She must find her way back to her own world without ever revealing who she really is, lest she be mistaken for an incarnation of the mysterious and insane Prince-in-Chains and imprisoned for life...

... Meanwhile, Wilhelmina Sterling wakes up in a new body and immediately picks a fucking fight.

... AKA the protagonist and villainess of two different stories swap places and they are both super displeased by this.

Masterpost under construction. Please wait...

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✨SPIN THE WHEEL TO GET YOUR CHARACTER✨

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Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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...I found the “girl falls into middle earth” fic I wrote when I was 11

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My teacher: Now, Sigmund Freud’s work was flawed. But you have to keep in mind that without him, the field of psychology as we know it wouldn’t exist. So it’s important to remember that for all its mistakes, it led to a huge shift in how we- yes, Arin?

Me: …So you could say that we should think of Freud’s work as the father of psychology as…good-enough parenting?

My teacher: *aggrieved*…dammit, Arin!

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i dreamt of another romcom. i'll label it lady himbo and her delicate and hopelessly devoted simp. our female lead is buff, tough, and has the density of mercury. our male lead is a shrinking violet of a man. the setting is some kind of magic university, where the fl is the professor's favorite for some inexplicable reason, probably for the romcom potential. our professor ships them. the whole university seems to fucking ship them. our ml is dying of humiliation but like, go him, everyone is willing to manipulate events so our fl Gets a Clue.

there was a class assignment where they got on a demented swing of some kind, and our fl had to lean her entire body on him, and that was probably one of the best days of his life. the other best day of his life was when she said i love you (possibly platonically?) and that was enough to end him. i don't remember if they ever got around to being romantically on the same page, but if they did i think he would have died instantly.

i woke up just now and was like. okay. alright. that's not the romcom i was supposed to be working on.

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Anyway I need to clean this up and probably make his resting face more hostile than this, but if you were wondering what my not-villain mc boy Yang Haoran looks like in his regular clothing choices, this is roughly it.

wip my boy

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It's kinda crazy that I don't have physical copies of orv or tcf despite those having been The webnovel fandoms for me back in 2019-2021. You know what I do have a physical copy of? 2ha .

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writing my rushed romfan thing. here is the female lead coming upon the male lead's almost dead body AKA their terrible meet-cute.

“What the fuck is this,” said a voice above his head.

“Hello, it’s me, I’m a person,” Quatre said hoarsely, and squinted vaguely in the darkness for the source of the voice. His night vision wasn’t great. He could only really make out a vaguely humanoid shape. A lady. Probably.

If his luck was really bad, it could also be some kind of illusion worn by a creature that would threaten him with an even more terrible doom. Like getting eaten alive, or set ablaze in an inferno, or… something to do with his soul or whatever.

“Please don’t eat me,” Quatre added.

“Wha --- why would I do that,” said the lady.

“… Because… you’re hungry…?”

A scoff. “There are far tastier things to eat than you.”

“Noted,” Quatre said. He also wouldn’t want to eat him. He’d always wanted to have some meat for his last meal, but ‘human’ wasn’t exactly what he was hoping for.

“…Are you just lying on the ground hoping not to get eaten? What are you doing?”

Hmm.

That was a question Quatre didn’t really want to answer. He considered his dialogue options. The correct option was ‘dying’, but that was impolite to bring up, wasn’t it? Even talking about it was unlucky.

“Well,” Quatre began diplomatically, but then he noticed the vague shape of the lady getting closer, and broke off to say, “I don’t think you want to do that. Be careful, there’s a lot of--- well, it’s gross over here, you don’t want to step in this.”

“There’s a lot of what?” the lady said, and then there was a terrible and unfortunate squelching noise.

Quatre winced. “Sorry about that.”

“What did I step in.”

“… There’s a river nearby, I think, you could probably rinse off?”

“Just tell me.”

“I don’t think you want to know?”

“If I didn’t want to know, would I ask?”

Fair point. “Blood.”

“Blood?”

“Vomit,” Quatre amended. “Bloody vomit?”

“Your bloody vomit?”

“… I mean--”

“Are you dying?”

The short answer was yes. But people usually got upset about that kind of thing, and there was no real point in making people upset, so Quatre said, “No.”

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After watching a random celebrity “What’s in my bag?” video, I got curious (or maybe just nosy, lol) and started asking everyone the same question. So, what’s in your bag? Or, if you’re not the type to carry one, what’s in your pockets?

Hmm, depends on what I'm going out for. Like if I think there is going to be a good chance I'm going to sit down for a while, or if I'm specifically going out to be productive out of the house, then it's going to be pretty different from a run to the grocery store.

Well, I'll break it down.

What I usually grab if I'm in a hurry:

Wallet - Always in there, can't go without it.

Keys - If I'm driving

Journal - It's become a habit to carry this around.

Stationary case - Contains ballpoint pen, pencil (x2), ruler, eraser, pencil sharpener, fountain pen (x2)

If I have a bit more time to pack my bag, then I'll add:

Chapstick - Trying to get into the habit of actually using it.

Hand lotion - This was a problem in the winter...

Tissues/napkins - Yeah.

Water bottle - Always good to stay hydrated!

Sunscreen - I need to bring this with me more...

Lipstick - Only if I go out of the house already wearing it

If I have specifically gone out of the house to be productive, then we'll add:

Laptop - Can't do anything without it

Earbuds - Also can't do anything without it

Chargers - See above

Sketchbook - For my daily quest to draw 5 minutes a day

Notebook (x2) - One for studying languages, one for other notes

Scrap paper - Sometimes you don't want to write in a notebook

Book - In case I have time to actually read anything

Snack - A rare scenario. Only if I think I'm going to be out for a very, very long time (or if I have gone out without eating anything first)

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As soon as I say "I don't have any ideas" my brain goes pov outsider on kim soleum's extremely messy divorce ft his husband who keeps calling him on company time (they are not married) (that is a darkness in human disguise)