#crearive

[aixelsyd13]

Artists/creatives/authors, how do you get the word out about your art? I want to sell my maze books & promote my RedBubble/TeePublic shops w/o being too "spammy." How do YOU personally get the word (or links) out?

[zorphie]

out of all of the school counterparts, myth + storm will always be my fav. theyre so similar in the way their schools represent creativity, but have different approaches to it. they get along really well but in the everlasting rivalry way. they're the epitome of autism to autism communication but they're always at each other's throats

[girlonthelasttrain]

for many months I've had this strong idea for a fic where the timing of an affair between two women is like... not great on a idk "character development" way, more like a inept attempt at recapturing a past that's long gone. (plus it's a "bad" choice for additional reasons that would be very complicated to explain.) and obviously great (fan)fiction has already been written on such themes but I've been worrying for more than a year at this point about How Do I Make This Not Homophobic. the answer of which I know to be 'it's all in the execution'. which sucks because I wish there was a magic formula that would make my creative output unimpeachable forever >:( tantrums aside I just don't know how to start the all-important Process when I have so many doubts on whether or not I can pull it off

[twodoorsnotone]

I interviewed MKW recently (fun fact, don't think I've ever mentioned it on here for #anonymity reasons lol) and she was so evasive when asked about Lizzie Bennet Diaries and. Like I get it now lmao.

[spampai]

Unwanted Child and Failed Abortion

This two needa be thrown in silly scenarios as drawings or any crearive way to showcase them for my birthday today guys do y’all know the drill

This will contribute to the Noli Timere AU…

AU MASTERPOST

[dolljunk]

Here's Wingrid and Snailene, based on the prototype bug girls from the Powercon presentation.

When I saw those blurry images of those bug girls I felt a sense of excitement and crearive itch that I use to get seeing sets of new Monster High characters. It took awhile to marinate the ideas in my mind and make it work for me, but I really love how these two look together. It really makes me feel like we got new G1 characters after so many years of nothing.

[wof-pride]

Weird ask but im feeling creative

I want to try out some hypo dragonets for wof characters, bc i feel like it would strech my crearive and art muscles

To participate just send me an as with 2 or 3 dragons you want to give hypo kids and ill make 1-3 dragonets for them

[sonderden]

Sometimes you think "I've been in therapy for so long and improving in so many ways, and I never want to die anymore, this is great! Sure, there are some things I haven't addressed and stuff I get stuck on and whatnot, but that's life. That's the nonlinear nature of healing. We get knocked down and we get back up again, it's all good." Then someone very important to you asks about some of those things you haven't addressed and you end up in a "we either become better friends than ever or never speak again" situation due to you not addressing the aforementioned things and the time until your next therapy appointment has rarely felt so long and you aren't sure how to act and you recognize some of the things you need to do hut you're barely any closer to figuring out how to do them than you were before and you've noticed some of your mental illness symptoms getting a little more harmful and you've been extra sedentary and your crearive outlets have all burned out but you're happier and better overall -- aside from those issues -- so it's probably alright and you don't want to die, you really don't, so until this person asked these questions you were pretty sure that meant you were okay. And now you're pretty sure you haven't been okay the whole time, you didn't magically heal everything, and you have a lot more work to do than you thought because you've actually just barely scratched the surface and there's a lot left to address. Being in therapy has given you tools to help reduce the spiraling thoughts about how you're probably a terrible person who's bad at everything and shouldn't try, but the thoughts are still there. You're exhausted by healing, when one of the things you're healing from is exhaustion, and you have to work harder. Nothing will get better if you don't. You just hope there's time for the work to be done -- time before precious people lose patience, before dangerous laws are passed, before windows of opportunity close. Therapy is going to keep taking a long time, and non-therapy things are too.

[goldyluna]

Just thinking about all those comments and posts on tiktok that your sona — a character that is a representation, an interpretation of you on the internet — should look exactly like you. That you can't make your sona look prettier than you, make them perfect and give them everything you want.

But art is all about creativity and fun. Why restrict ourselves? Why spoil fun of others? Why should we limit our artistic crearivity and freedom just because someone doesn't like that we and our sonas don't look realistic.

It is not a self-portrait. We don't draw ourselves in realistic styles so it is just us but on paper or screen. Art is for us to use it how we want. Do you want to make your sona as pretty as you want? Do you want your sona to have some animal traits? To have crazy hair or cool outfits? You think this will show how you are? How you want others to perceive you? Then go for it! If you have fun with it and in the end, you are satisfied with the results, it is all that matters.

So to everyone that feels like they should change their sonas or can't use them or anything, just because some people can't take others having fun... It is not their characters. They are not you, it is not them drawing your sona. You know the best what you want to represent and how you want to look. Don't let them take from you the joy of drawing anything.

[elfikwrites]

forever bitter that the e-mails felt sorta forgotten. the texting scene was done so well, I loved the concept, it was so crearive. I would've loved if it lasted longer and emails were portrayed in a similar convention.

[beevean]

The Andrew grindset: has fucked his abusive sister and has been abusive himself

The Shinji grindset: deep down wants to fuck his friend who is also kinda his dead mom, kinda the sister he's never had and kinda an emotionally stunted alien goddess that created humanity, but tries to be gentle with her. She ends up ending humanity for his sake and potentially watching over him for all time

One gets points for action, the other for the crearivity of the target and long time commitment

they should kiss over being creepy incestuous freaks 🥰

(also! Andrew had apparently the habit of peeping Ashley when she took a shower, and fantasized about her when with his gf. We all know what Shinji did to Asuka. gross <3)

[foggieststars]

Well because many people don't have people in their life willing to read through and discuss their art, specially when it's something like RPF or smut. They also might not feel comfortable to, or want to be constantly asking someone to the point its tiring. I have done the "Ok this is where I want to take the story can you tell me what you think of these 3 next plot points I have here and which works best for this emotion i am trying to achieve" with chatgpt and more recently with an irl friend that isn't even in the fandom, and of course the best conversation was with my friend! I'd do it all the time like that if I could, I love engaging with people through what I write or create. And yes, I wouldn't die if I suddenly couldn't use chatgpt to have these discussions, I could still think in my own head through the plot etc, but sometimes it does give you a perspective you hadn't considered.

Gen AI for better or for worse (for worse) is trained in crearive content scrapped from other people. So when it gives me a response like "you could use this moment or trope", it's not much more different than reading a book or fic with the same trope and getting the inspiration to weave it into my own work. Except that yes, as you say, it's a shortcut.

And I agree there's a lot to be said about wanting everything to be faster, immedeate, no love for the process. Writing is much more enjoyable when you do engage fully with the process yourself, pressing ctrl + c, ctrl + v will not be enjoyable besides the immediate reward that will fade away.

That's why I do like the quote I said in the last anon, in which I think that it's a flawed approach to see art as something gen ai can solve.

But I still stand by the fact that it can be used as a good tool (albeit yes a non ethical one for how it's trained and ran). That being said: It shouldn't be the only tool, you shouldn't rely as much on it. It will make you happier NOT to rely on it.

And people in the past didn't need it to create art but there's many things we don't need yet still use. A calculator, a phone, etc because they facilitate things. (And yes we shouldn't overly rely on these other things either)

i think fundamentally we'll have to agree to disagree on what our ideas of chatgpt's use in a creative process are, and that's okay! if chatgpt is genuinely one of the methods you enjoy using then that's great for you, and i'm happy it's working. as i said, my previous response wasn't really aimed at you, moreso a reflection in general

[samueldays]

I've been really fascinated by what you have to say about magic as animism, as pacts with supernatural beings, magic as intercession, and many other things you've had to say on the topic

You gave me words for this thing I've been longing to put into my crearive work (mostly just rpg campaigns), this vibe I was in love with, but struggled to actually pin down

That being said, for all my love for it, as someone who grew up in a firmly post-DnD cultural landscape, it's been real hard to actually get into this way of thinking and make something of my own with it

May I ask you to help me work through an example I am grappling with right now, so that I can hopefully bounce off that example and keep thinking on my own?

There's RPG I wanna run called "Band of Blades". One of the facts about the setting is that all magic there in some form or another comes from gods. One of the two biggest forms of it is binding yourself to a god, which comes with costs all of its own. But, e.g., sweating yourself to a goddess of mercy can grant you some healing powers. Other big one is Chosen, which is basically when a willing human gives themselves up and essentially suffers an ego death to become an avatar of the respective god on earth. Most magical artifacts in the setting is items crafted by Chosen. Animal eating dead bodies of Chosen can produce magical beasts, or their remains can be made into reliquaries that can ward off malignant magic, etc.

At a glance, that seems to me like a setting that can be readily run as this sort of, as you put it in one of your posts, "only intercession is magic" manner. In a way, it already is - you have to make a pact with a deity to have magic, after all. For normal mortals sworn to gods then, it's fairly straightforward from here - their magical powes are limited by when the god views interceding on their behalf as worth it; a ritual to achieve a powerful effect basically amounts to asking the deity really really nicely instead of normally, and hoping they respond, etc.

But what about the Chosen? Specifically the question I had in mind is - if there is some kind of dramatic magical effect they can't achieve by just waving their hand, how would they go about empowering it? A mortal bound to a god could hold a ritual asking for intercession harder, as mentioned above. But since the Chosen is already an avatar of a god, they can't exactly ask harder because that would be basically asking yourself. But having supernatural acts only fall in two buckets of "can do on the spot" and "can't do at all" seems rather boring, too.

So what kind of "extra effort" options could make sense here? What would be the non-DnD way to think about this problem?

I'm going to reiterate that TTRPG format constraints were good reason for them to locally strip out the animacy, this is going to be a tricky place to put it back. Good luck!

Your second problem is the character who suffered ego death and is now a vehicle for an NPC. This is a cool storytelling device and also very tricky to run in a TTRPG!

So this is a hard problem. Also I am unfamiliar with Band of Blades.

Still, the first idea that comes to my mind is that dramatic magical effects taking more effort also take more time. The Chosen can't just wave their hands, they need to keep waving and ensure both that the body doesn't tire and that the god can keep uninterrupted attention on this specific avatar. (How many Chosen does a god in this setting usually have? How much multitasking power do the gods have? Are IC scheduling conflicts going to be an issue?)

Closely related is continuously channeled effects. The Chosen perhaps can't simply cast "Cure Frostbite" or "Craft Sword" as a one-off, but can sustain a power which generates immense heat for as long as the Chosen concentrates, warding off frostbite and enabling smithing without coal.

Or you could go with stress on the avatar.

Mutants & Masterminds has an action option literally called "Extra Effort" that you could take inspiration from. It raises one of your stats or alters one of your powers to do something that isn't on the short list of 'main' character superpowers, but the effort incurs a stack of fatigue. The first stack of fatigue is mostly free, only reducing your movement speed until you rest. The second stack of fatigue makes you exhausted, reducing movement speed and penalizing all rolls. The third stack of fatigue makes you pass out unconscious once you're done with the heroic effort.

Extra Effort is designed as a regenerating resource that the players can use frequently, and I've observed that they still hold back, because even though it costs no money and the uses recover every day, there's always the "what if I want it later?" factor on anything with limited uses. :P

Depending on setting details, the avatar character might want or need to do certain alterations to the landscape, physical or social, to make it more favorable for their god before trying to pull miracles. Draw friendly sigils, smash enemy sigils, gather diplomatic support, pick an appropriate spot on high ground or near a river or atop a spire or whatever. An extreme form of this is miracles that can only be done in a church or on consecrated ground. A lesser form might be that the healing powers of the goddess of mercy restore a number of hit points equal to 1d6 + number of people singing the praises of the goddess of mercy there at the time, up to some limit of diminishing returns.

On the one hand, this might get a little silly if the players have economistbrain about the stat bonus and decide to hire a band at all times to buff their miracles.

On the other hand, if the characters are committed enough to hire a troupe to follow them around and constantly sing praises of their gods, maybe that's exactly the kind of devotion you want to encourage. Emphasise that this is not a floating abstract +3 magic, it represents people doing something in the world.

[fridaynightpostsblog]

Why is this creariv soul amidst these party rockers

[reginasrandomthoughts]

If you are a crearive who uses generative AI (chatgpt, midjourney, gemini, whatever) you forfeit your right to ever complain about your work getting scraped or the work of people you care about getting scraped. You knew these models train on the whole open internet, stealing everyone's work but you were okay with it when it was other people's works being chewed up.

If you happily eat up the bits and pieces the leopards tore out of other people, don't come crying when the leopards say it's your face's turn to be on the plate.

[bisluthq]

lol i can't see deep cuts being a better option to do than freaking narnia, guys come on. Narnia is gonna be 10x bigger than this movie in every way. Could dven see some Oscar noms easily. But i could easily see sersh not wanting a supporting role in a big movie, and going for a lead role and crearive control in a small movie. But it's a mistake.

no she wants to be in a big movie but yes somewhat paradoxically as the lead only 😂😂😂 She’s a very confusing person 😂😂😂