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do you ever re-read your own wips like 'damn the bitch that wrote this oughta finish it'

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thundergirl007 Finally! You asked for this, like, months ago. Finally done! Thanks for the prompt!

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Fanfic authors are amazing like they could be literally anyone. That one coffee au you read last night? Could have been written by morgan freeman who knows

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"you should be at the club" I should be working on my fanfic

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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i think 'I trust you with my life but not your own' as a trope is one of the ones that can always fuck me up no matter what

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Keep your priorities straight: post fic.

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An action scene isn’t about writing down every punch, kick, or swing of the sword. You’re not choreographing a fight for your reader, you’re throwing them into the moment, making them feel the intensity, the panic, the adrenaline. Focus on the emotions, the tension, the stakes. Show how the character’s thinking changes in the heat of the moment, how their survival instincts kick in, how their body reacts to the chaos. Make it fast, make it brutal, and don’t drag it out longer than it needs to be. Action is about urgency, not precision.

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"you're the writer, you control how the story goes" no not really. i wrote the first sentence and then my characters said "WE WILL TAKE IT FROM HERE" and promptly swerved into an electrical fence.

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The problem w writing fiction is that you'll be like tee-hee I'm going to write a story about a fucked up little scenario that's got nothing to do with anything in real life, just some pure messed up nonsense, and then you finish it and take a step back and go aw rats I made a metaphor again

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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

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How can this character be dead, if there are 40k stories on AO3 telling me otherwise?

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<3 u :)

<333 ily

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Oh. My. God!!

This is one of the best surprises I’ve ever received! Your art style is so beautiful. Look at them! It hurts my heart (which is my own fault for writing angst) because you’ve captured every emotion so perfectly. Ahhh!! I love this so so much! Thank you thank you thank you!

and @human-still-developing I love you <33

@human-still-developing asked:

Hey Len! My good friend Kat (@silverstarfics) is working on a multi-fic work called "Yesterday's Promise". I've attached a short excerpt and if it strikes your fancy I think she would love some fanart for her birthday soon <333

There was a faint pressure. Scott tracked it back to his hands and blinked, once, twice, realising that John was right in front of him and they were sitting on the floor and John was holding his hands, squeezing.

"Too dark," he choked out.

"EOS, lights, lowest setting."

The shadows retreated back to their corners. Light was good. Light was a barricade against sneak attacks. But light wasn't safe. Nothing was safe. Even here, home, away from the main threat that crept ever closer, there was no safety, not when the danger was in their own minds. Good luck finding secure ground when the foundations of your subconscious were crumbling.

Protect your brothers.

Except when you're the one putting them at greater risk.

"I f-froze."

John winced. "Right. That."

Typically, rooms weren't supposed to spin. Then again, typically Scott didn't feel like he was having a heart attack, so, you know… fun times. Talking of time, he was taking up too much of it. Too much everything. Take a breath, there's oxygen here somewhere, oh look, John's talking again…

"Scott."

John sounded strangely panicked. John never sounded panicked. Occasionally overwhelmed but never properly panicked. And yet…

Why is he crying, a small, logical part of Scott's brain asked, filled with concern because he could count on one hand the number of times he'd seen John cry.

"Come back to me."

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Yayy thanks for the tag!!

Here’s something from a modern AU that’s been lurking on my laptop for a couple of months:

“I can’t go back to Kansas, Virg. I’ll figure something out, okay? Open a savings account or something. Pay rent. Wait, how much is rent? How much are utilities? I don’t know how to be an adult like you guys!”

I’m not sure who’s been tagged so hey @astranite @tanushakyrano and anyone else who would like to join :))

Out of Context Line Tag

Thank you so much to @the-inkwell-variable for this tag!

This line is taken from Out of Sight and Mind:

Had she become the woman he’d never been able to be?

Tagging:

@aether-wasteland-s @dogmomwrites @janetm74 and anyone else who wants to give it a shot! Tag me if you do it!

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Annnd that’s a wrap on this lil fic (which I will probably revisit because I love writing Tracys and cats)