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having ocs is so fucked .... i miss them so bad but im the guy who has to create new content. but im sleepy

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Two rules for creating anything.

1) Make it weird.

2) Make it with love.

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Some more bust commissions (here if anyone is interested in a drawing like this!)

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worst fear is that i write something from the heart and it gets mocked as #tumblrprose . second worst fear is big big big big ant colony conspiring to kill me to death

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As always, I’m here to answer the important questions!

There’s more about this on Patreon!

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in a way it's a relief to read multiple books by the same author, and have some impact you so devastatingly that you feel like a different person afterward, and then have others be the worst crap you've ever read. it gives you the freedom to put out your own crap, without it defining your potential.

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Happy Juneteenth!!!!

Any Black writers/artists/creators on here, please drop links and highlights below 👇🏾

Reblogs appreciated 💗💗💗 please add your favorite Black recs with it!

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1k words with inspiration: literally 10 minutes or less of writing. a breeze

1k words without inspiration: i will do it. i will take the ring to mordor

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✨HAPPY PARAMOUR FOURTH ANNIVERSARY✨

even though i have wips that are older than paramour, no wip fundamentally changed me as a person the same way that this wip has. it's the first wip that i ever truly made for myself and spared no indulgence. the commitment to its themes, the fixation on the ways i wanted to tell a story, and, of course, the literal one true pair to come out of this wip will forever have a mark on my soul and on my heart.

even though i have spent the past year focusing on another wip, that wip would not exist if not for the strides i have made with paramour. because when i do go to write paramour in its full glory, it's going to be my masterpiece. my true indulgent opus. and its fitting that this wip was born on this day. for if there was any wip that got me comfortable with my own blackness, it was this one.

thank you to everyone whose found their way to this wip, and to those who may see this art with zero context and wonder what on earth this could be for. thank you to the friends that i've made along the journey who love these idiots as much as i do <3 it means more to me than you know!

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once i figure out how to do anatomy and facial expressions and proportion and foreshortening and basic perspective and color theory and composition then youll all be sorry

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I am far from the first to say that if you want to make better fantasy worlds you need to read a lot of non-fiction, not just other fantasy stories.

One area where I think this becomes very visible is in the lack of diversity in fantasy political systems. Very often they are just simplified and less interesting versions of medieval European kingdoms or empires. Maybe a basic theocracy if you're feeling spicy.

I think things would be much more interesting if we got more well-researched takes on things like city-states, democracies (and not just for the good guys), and various systems from antiquity.

Even your standard medieval European system would be made much more interesting if it was actually developed and explored things like the relationships and power dynamics between vassals and lieges in a historically-informed way.

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"why do you write?" because it’s the only way to silence the characters pacing around my brain like victorian ghosts with unresolved issues that prevent them from moving on.

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writing tip #3848:

if you ever start to think you should stop working on a story because it doesn't make sense, IGNORE IT, for that is the devil talking

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sometimes i take a look at your guys's favorite dripping wet repressed middle aged blorbos and honestly? i think the right foster cat could fix them

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ive started on another huge illustration. really hoping im able to get the vibes across that i have in my head cause this sense of scale im aiming for has been one ive tried to convey SOOO many times and none of them have worked yet

however. if it does. part of this very well could become the cover for goddess-touched. because its my favorite part of the opening scene

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@lingerie_addict has a really cool thread on ancient fashion over on twitter.

Those source links are here

cambridge.org

Youtube

ucl.ac.uk