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I think a lot about how the word masterpiece went from essentially meaning “art student senior thesis project” to “the best possible work a person can make in their career” girl it just means you can start getting paid for real not that you will never achieve as well artistically again

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(excerpted from Leila Chatti's poem: "Tea", published in Missouri Review)

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Hello Mr Quill Boss, I was wondering in regards to Heinrich Unheimlich was he at all inspired by the recent Nosferatu movie? Something about the accent, the gutteral voice, the being tall and thin but presumably keeping the toys features of being lumpy and weird looking, etc. all gives me major vibes of the bad vampire man.

(Also side note but I love this guy, not just because he's super cool and kinda funny but also because it's rare a monster genuinely considers that if he doesn't kill people they are scared for longer)

Interesting parallel. I see it but I confess Nosferatu wasn't what I was thinking when we made the character. I was looking a bit further back. @jonnywaistcoat may have separate thoughts though, I know he loves a good Nosferatu.

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Comedy series about an evil wizard where in every episode they discover some Ancient Secret of Magic that will allow them to surpass their rivals and bring the world to its knees, and every episode they learn the hard way why modern wizards don't do it that way anymore.

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A simple collection of art tutorials/refs so I can find them easier when I need them

Misc:

Turn your handwriting into a functional font

@adorkastock for various References and Guides, including fat refs

TMNT logo maker link & tips

Digital Art:

Quick, cohesive colour pallets

Tile floors

Trad or Digital:

People:

Blushing on dark skin tones

Race bending/Drawing black characters

Simplified fat drawing guide

More fat drawing, with reference links

Shadows on Skin

Speech bubbles & lettering

Indigenous Skin tone Map (& bonus comic)

Drawing Objects:

Drawing gold/metallic objects

Drawing Refs:

Extensive hand pose references

Basketball wheelchair references

Manual wheelchair references

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Ref Recs for Whump Writers

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 

Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook

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god I just. love ruthlessness as a character trait so much. sexy sexy sexy

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whys combat and military gear always got to look so fucking cool when the people wearing them just objectively arent. thats unfair

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Ah those victorians, always so prude when it comes to flirting

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rip magnus archives crew but I'm built different. if my boss was literally all-knowing and couldn't fire me, I'd be in his office all day asking him questions about everything. I wouldn't use google anymore. I'd be like "what's the rarest kind of tree frog" and he'd be like "shut up please shut up" but he'd tell me the answer every time.

and then I'd go home and immediately call him and be like "hey elias I forgot what time I put the burekas in the oven, how much longer should I leave them in"

and he'd be like "I hate you so much. you put them in 12:42. they should come out at 1:12"

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“Listeners, listeners out there, listeners out in the vacant night clinging to my voice as a simulacrum of companionship, remember: fear is just consciousness, plus life. Regret is an attempt to avoid what has already happened. Toast is bread, held under direct heat until crisp. The present tense of regret is indecision. The future tense of fear is either comedy or tragedy. And the past tense of toast is toasted.”

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Welcome to Night Vale

Episode 23 - Eternal Scouts

(via nightvalequotes)

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Leave it to a guy being a grump about the ren faire to almost make me log in to my defunct reddit account.

For someone concerned about "historical accuracy" you would think they would know that rennaisance faires were started by the Rennaisance Pleasure Faire of Southern California in 1962 by blacklisted Hollywood fags and commies. If you didn't want to dance around with fairies in the woods you should have joined your local civil war reenactors

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A few years ago while trying to find ways to commit suicide as painlessly as possible, I came across a PDF of Dr. Paul Quinnett's The Forever Decision. Thinking it might go into actual methods of suicide (I read an article once that actually did that and was trying to find it again) I started to read it, and I think I only got about two pages in before I was crying too much to actually see the words.

I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.

All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."

But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.

It's intentionally legal to copy and redistribute this book to keep it as accessible as possible, and it's very easy to find, but here's a link for it anyways.

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the current state of fandom needs to be old yellered immediately. im loading up the shotgun as we speak

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starts talking about my emotional state with 2 degrees of abstraction instead of 7 and the sniper across the street who i pay to keep me in line fires a warning shot thru my little hoop earring

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Quote of the day