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wHY are thins weird???

Like.. the layout. Why are they different??? HOW CAN I CHANGE THEM?? I haven't been active in a bit, why is it like this?

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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As someone who will probably never come out to my family I'm wondering how common that is. Reblogs appreciated.

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feelin' pretty comfy rn, got some nice soft songs, big soft jacket 3x my size, shitty couchbed and a very old blanket

sure the last two might not seem all that good, but me has ac and its very cold

im having a pretty good time

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summer swim

watercolour on arches paper

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re: that fucking staff post. obviously death to algorithms, but i also wanna interrogate the wider underlying assumptions of their logic there cuz. is 'success' having lots of followers & lots of popular posts??? why is that the end goal of using this website. i don't open tumblr to get attention from strangers, i open tumblr to read funny jokes and interesting commentary and to see cool art. encouraging clout-chasing will only increase user engagement if you successfully get people literally addicted to the associated dopamine hit. what if we didn't have to do that!!! what if a website could be a place you went to on purpose because you had fun there!!!!

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I love cats

Independent kitty doesn’t need human

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I had my blood taken once after a surgery and the nurse had to try 2x on my left arm, once on my right and then finally stuck the needle in vein in my hand.

Usually speaking my blood isn't that hard to take, but that one instance has traumatized me till this day. Not to mention I had a terrible fear of needles at the time, still do but not as much as then.

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This is money cat. He only appears every 1,383,986,917,198,001 posts. If you repost this in 30 seconds he will bring u good wealth and fortune.

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MY TA SHOT SOMEONE IN THE FOOT AND THE PROFESSOR WAS SO FUCKING QUICK LMAOOO

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Have fun negating wifi signals

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The amount of bs i need to get finished before exams next week make me question why I chose to study in Hospiitality

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I just spent a good 7 to 10 hours working on a group project while doing most of the work because scheduling issues.

In short, ya boy's tired and wants to sleep. But i am to paranoid to sleep because i accidentally sent a very vent ish text in the class gc about me being tired of said project. That and also i'm paranoid that my groupmates won't be able to finish the rest of the studd needed to be done and i'll have to either pick up the slaxk or acceot that i'll be having a bad grade for this subject.

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Untitled TMNT AU

"Nos a duna nan un bos, pa mihó òf pa pió."

This all started from one simple little sentence on a cold Hallows Night, writted with ink upon an old piece of parchment. Who knew such a small thing could change the lives of many.

Sitting within a circle of salt was 5 siblings. One Orange, one Purple, one Red, and colors of Blue. All connected by the hand of another with blue flower petals surrounding the five lotus blossoms behind each one of the siblings.

As the Purple one prepared to start chanting from a piece of parchment, the eyes of his siblings met one another with varying degrees of emotions. The Orange one fidgeted in his seat, nerves wracking his usually sunny figure. On the space beside him sat the Red one, his eyes held a flame of excitement as he spoke loudly with the older Blue child, Teal. And lastly, the youngest of them all, Blue. He was the most anxious of them all, so he simply held tightly onto his siblings hand as he waited for the ritual to finally start.

With a loud “shhh!” The masked Purple one silenced the whole room, and he began to chant.

And one by one the others followed suit. Blue, Teal, Red and Orange. Looks of awe flashed on their faces as the room filled up with smokey periwinkle mist. But yet, the ritual is not done. Slowly, they all started to stand up and unclasped their hands from one another and walked over to where the lotus blossoms sat.

The chanting soon increased in intensity as the mist started to spin around them, like an eye in a storm. With the lotus blossoms in hand, and chanting with an increased intensity the room was filled with voices from the past, present and all that is yet to come. And our little protagonists sat in the middle of it all, encased in an ever-moving tornado, and their minds lost to the sounds of what is and what hasn’t been.

Then, it all came to a sudden stop.

Petals and papers fell to the ground with a sudden drop, but the items on the shelves, or the books on the desk remained where it sat.

Without a groan, or a moan in pain. The five siblings cleaned up and walked out of the room without a single thought. And dreamt of things long gone and yet to come.

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Hello! I shouldn't be awake cause it's 12:24 AM BUT very quick question: do you have any advice or questions you ask yourself that help with character building, storyline, or worldbuilding? Cause I'm making a TMNT iteration and the struggle bus is crashing into a brick wall repeatedly 😔

Oh gosh. OU-- OKAY HERE WE GO

CHARACTER BUILDING

If you're going for your own version of TMNT, you can basically do anything you want with the characters. They can have whatever personality you like! They can be whoever you want them to be, however you want them to be! When you've got a group of four main characters, though, you want to make sure they're distinct enough from one another where they don't overlap.

Something I usually do to figure this out is like, what's their worst fear, what would they feel a perfect life would be like, what are their short-term goals and long-term goals, etc. and move on to smaller stuff like quirks. How do they stand for a long period of time? Do they eat polite or messily?

Another thing about character building is thinking about where you want your character to be at the end of it. What is the Final Form of your character? Now smack them back down the mountain because they gotta climb that shit themselves. Think of it like this; if you want a character to have character development during the story, you've gotta think about how you want them to be by the end.

I'll use Rise Leo in the movie as an example here because it's obvious. By the end of the movie he's selfless; he's sacrificed himself to save his family and has made peace with dying alone because of it. At least the world is saved. At least his brothers are alive. We go back a little, and we have Leo realizing that his selfishness, his need to be right and making reckless decisions without relying on the people around him and trying to do everything on his own, has all put the people he loves in danger. We go back even further and find Leo overconfident and sloppy because he believes it's not a big deal. He's not taking things seriously, he's more interested in being the center spotlight, he wants to be the best.

The good thing about TMNT is that you can kind of pick and choose personality traits and character arcs from other canon iterations, or you can mesh them together. If you get stuck, look at the other "versions" of that character and decide which traits you want them to have, or which traits you don't.

STORY

Story isn't something I can exactly give a whole lot of help on, because it's your story. HOWEVER, I can explain the snowflake method, which I feel is a good way to figure out what you wanna do.

The snowflake method is a way of outlining a story. First you write a one-sentence synopsis of what your story is about. I'll use Mystic Forest for an example; "Four teenage mutant ninja turtles live in the forest and fight to protect two worlds from the Shredder".

Then you make it into three sentences. "Four TMNT live in a forest and discover that their world is connected to another; the Yokai Realm. A man named Oroku Saki, moonlighting as the Shredder, wants to make a deal with an ancient Yokai to open the worlds to each other once more. The turtles learn how to master magical yokai weapons in order to defeat him."

Then you can take each of those sentences and expand upon them. Break everything down further, in threes. Explain more and more each time.

Basically, figure out your concept, you can go more easily from there.

WORLDBUILDING

Ah the bane of my existence and yet my most beloved. You can get caught up in worldbuilding SO easily. Make sure you're working on the stuff that really matters to the story. So, if your turtles are living in the city, maybe write a paragraph or two about what the city is like. Is it grungy and rainy with lots of shadows and the distant glow of lights, or is it bright and bustling with neon everywhere with a seedy underbelly?

Is the vibe of the story fantasy, sci-fi, a mix, something else?

If the turtles have powers, how do they work? What are their weaknesses? What are their strengths? What does it cost to use the powers? What stops them from using them all the time?

What are the locations your characters will go to during the story? What are those places like? Are they buildings or the outdoors?

There's a lot of worldbuilding resources out there, you can really go ham on stuff just looking up "worldbuilding questions" and get a ton of prompts to think about. When building up a specific location I like to think about the five senses; what's it look like, what's it smell like, what's it sound like, what's the taste in the air, what's the feeling of the buildings or the plants or the barren wasteland? etc.

Figuring out how the turtles came to be is usually something most people do, but it's not something that's a requirement. Also, some people do stuff in a different order; they'll worldbuild first, then figure out story, then figure out characters. I end up doing that a lot of the time. Sometimes it's story, then characters, then worldbuilding. Just depends on what you feel most comfortable with.

If you find yourself hitting a wall, maybe stop and ask yourself why you're smashing into a wall and not going around it. Maybe something isn't clicking right. Back up. Look at what's around it. Character not quite feeling like you wanted them to? Look over what role you've given them, check the other characters, see if they have the relationships you want them to have. Back up even further. Are they in the correct place in the story?

And uh, when in down, throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks. :) thinking outside the box and being purposefully ridiculous can something help stretch that imagination muscle.

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I have this really impulsive urge to ramble about the AU i made but i don't know how to put my thoughts together in a coherent sentence.

But I have made a thorough ish word document! It's filled with lots of spoilers tho. And i haven't decided on the earlier story lore. Got a lot of late series angst in mind.

Anyways ye. Brain blank now. No tengo thoughts

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Please read this. Please. It's a primarily Leo-centric. With 2012!Leonardo accidentally ending up in the Rise universe. Hurt/Comfort and extra hurt on the side.