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another day another work in progress screenshot, cooking with the yearning on this one

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Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)

For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here

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portrait practice

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Looking up the bubble comics tag here is so devastating I see people who literally can't read the source of their current interest/hyperfixation because it's in one of the hardest languages to learn/google translate and it's just??? Sad??? Guys I'm so sorry there is no translation whatsoever and no people to take care of it

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found family not in the “we’ve been looking for a family and now we finally have it” way but in a “neurodivergent gay couple founded it like the US. The Woke Founding Fathers” way

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a court of thorns and roses. ballad of songbirds and snakes. bowl of macaroni and cheese

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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Questions to ask beta readers

General:

Were you confused at any point of the story?

What genre would you say this book is?

When did you put the story down?

Is the ending satisfying?

If you had to cut 3 scenes what would they be?

When did you feel like the story really began?

What was the last book you read before this story?

Characters:

Do you get any of the characters names confused?

Which character is your favorite?

If you had to remove a character who would you and why? (you don't have to remove the character, just make sure their role is meaningful)

Which character do you relate to the most?

Which character do you relate to the least?

Do the characters feel real?

Are character relationships believable?

Are the goals clear and influence the plot?

Are the characters distinct (voice, motivations, etc)

Setting:

Which setting was clearest to you?

Which setting was the most memorable?

Am including enough/too much detail?

Plot and conflict:

Are the internal and external conflicts well defined for the main characters?

Are the internal conflicts and the external conflicts organic and believable?

Are there enough stakes?

Are the plot twists believable but still unexpected?

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“you’re a writer, right?”

me, staring at the one sentence i’ve managed to add in the last hour and the 12 open tabs on the specifics of shoes in 1845 Ireland: In theory.

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mlp owl house au! in this au, coven sigils work like the equal sign mark from starlight glimmer

they can be applied to any creature, which is why raine has one despite kirins not able to have cutie marks

ponies without coven sigils have their own cutie marks, which are replaced once joining a coven (this is reverted for everyone in the epilogue)

this is just their debut appearances, theyd have different cutie marks after covens are disbanded

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them again

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My friend showed me this post and I knew immediately I had to redraw it as mushiranpo

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*kissy noises*

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Its been centuries since I last posted smth so here’s messy terusano slow dancing

(Update: with the new information on Teruko's background I'm not really okay with the pairing, but the drawing was made before chapter 115 was released. So I'm keeping it as history)

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what I really like about all these vintage couple’s portraits is that there is a very certain romatic decorum kept up – certain themes and poses – which, while of course being the mainstream preferred view of couples repeated throughout many studios, are just… so nice to look at. 

this staged affection, a mix of theatricality and intimacy, the couple holding still for a couple of moments and now immortalised in a very set sequence of embraces and kisses. there is a charm to it even when I can’t tell whether this was a genuine couple portait or just actors hired by the photographer.

the kiss on the bare shoulder (eyes perfectly averted), the cheek caress, the piano and the violin, the interrupted embrace, the woman tilted back as in a half-stopped dance…

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Name a tiny thing about your oc's body or appearance that's not really important but you love it so much anyway