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It’s almost impressive the degree to which TMNT 03 does not want to commit to their world building being either magic or science. Magic is real except when it’s not, it’s just other dimensions and aliens and other planets but also demons and sorcerers are 100% real and necromancy is achieved several times throughout the show but only through the use of science and also there’s chi which is not magic and is something everyone has but also it gives you superpowers and also the turtles and Splinter might be telepathic but only with each other or they could just be supremely mentally disciplined, we’ll never tell you.

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tmnt 2003 Leonardo headcanons

Lowkey socially awkward. In one on one conversations with people he doesn't know he'll immediately default to small talk and it's funny because he's a mutant turtle and he's probably talking to like some alien and he'll be like "Wow you're planet has a very mild temperature? Do you guys get a lot of rain here?"

Leo is just down to clown like you invite him to any activity and he will just quietly enjoy himself.

omg he is such a show off

when Leo does something super over-the top he gets this dorky/smug grin on his face and he looks around to see if people noticed. He'll look at raph and silently be like "See what I just did? Wasn't that cool?" and when one of his brothers calls him out he's like I have no idea what you're talking about I am but a humble turtle

Leo likes candles he likes to use them for meditation but when he finds out about scented candles he just goes nuts. Like he's at April's and he he notices her like eucalyptus scented candle and he's like this is fantastic what is this.

So now he owns an absurd amount of scented candles like there's one on every surface and eventually they had to cut him off. You walk into Leo's bedroom and it smells like blue sky and fresh linen.

Leo has the best self-care routine like he'll draw a warm bath, make a cup of tea and light a scented candle and just take a 3 hour bath. He has a calming waterfall sounds cd that he plays and he just closes his eyes and vibes. The cd also drowns out the sounds of whatever the hell his brothers are doing.

Every once in a while Leo will out of no where just affectionally pat one of his brothers on the head. Like a single head pat and a nod of approval and then he'll just walk away.

Leo's villain arc is triggered whenever he plays monopoly like he just turns into a corrupt tycoon and bankrupts his brothers because he bought every railroad and has like a million houses. And he's smug too he'll toss a dollar at one of his brothers after draining their bank account and be like "Here, for your troubles"

He's undefeated at monopoly and it's gotten to the point where all his brothers rally against him in the monopoly revolution (Led by Raph) and it's a race to buy all the railroads before Leo does but someone will always cave and sell it to him (Almost always Mikey, Leo can be very convincing and he bribes him with boardwalk)

Lowkey I feel like he would practice one-liners to himself in front of the mirror. Just muttering in front of the mirror holding out his sword like "Play time's over."

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nevermind turned 7 today!

Lol

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I wish octopus could learn how to read. They could be pen pals with middle schoolers.

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they're not natural but those underground tunnels full of pipes and wires beneath cities are a type of biome to me

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I came across this site recently, super cool to see these games again

Amazing site I just discovered that archives girls' games from the 2000s

They've archived games from Barbie, Polly Pocket, Monster High, My Scene... the list goes on and on! It's overwhelming how much they have!! I think they've archived nearly every game for every category they have. And the best thing is, it's all online and you don't need Flash!

www.numuki.com/games/girls/

Bless whoever is maintaining this site, seriously. The nostalgia I got from replaying these games was so intense.

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In case anyone is looking for this again, as some have said, it is here on https://www.numuki.com/game/barbie-dazzling-designs/ I believe you will also have to install the numuki browser to play this.

have fun :)

help me find Dazzling Designs please i’m begging you that barbie game from forever ago if you have any link to it please

i’ve been at it for more than an hour i swear, it took me like an hour to find the name of the dang thing and i just! cant! find it!!!!! its driving me crazy dude

it was like, i think a part of that barbie online world thing barbiegirls.com .. i just need to see this fricking game again dude its driving me nuts

if you’ve seen it!!!! if you have it!!!! have some footage of it!!! please hook me up i’m dying inside 

i swear i’ve searched everywhere. like i cant fricking find it. too many busted links. can’t just hop on the wayback machine or something because you’d need to log in to access it. help me please if you’ve seen it gosh

here’s some pictures i snagged off google in case it helps jog your memory

last one is so much bigger than everything else lol

even if you have some footage of this game!!! please!!! let me know!!!! gosh!!!!

if you don’t know where Dazzling Designs is but also wanna find out please reblog we gotta fricking find it somewhere

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How to pitch your novel in under a minute

One of those things every author needs to learn to do at some point or other is give what’s called an “elevator pitch.” This pitch is so named, because should you be in an elevator with someone you’d like to read your book, there wouldn’t be any time for a ten-minute synopsis. You would need to pitch your idea to them in a matter of seconds, catching their interest while you still had them trapped in a small space, forced to hear you out.  

Most elevator pitches aren’t actually given in elevators. They’re given at networking events, in bookstores, to friends and family, and basically whenever anybody asks “so what is your book about?” Usually the person you’re speaking to won’t be waiting for the doors to open so they can escape, but the ability to quickly spark someone’s interest in your story is invaluable.

Your “elevator pitch” should easily answer the explicit question: “so what is your book about?” and the implicit question: “and why should I want to read it?” 

A good elevator pitch has two elements: the one-sentence description and a few comparable titles. These should work together to tell interested parties exactly what they need to know in as little time as possible.

The One-Sentence Description

The goal of the one-sentence description is to lay out a clear premise that’s able to pique a perspective reader’s interest. Which is actually two goals. You need a clear, simple premise that more or less describes your entire book. And you need to make that simple premise engaging. 

Some advice on crafting your sentence:

Start by identifying your protagonist

Follow only one story thread

Limit it to 25 words max

Focus on the protagonist’s central conflict

Now this sentence probably isn’t going to describe your book to a T. It shouldn’t describe your book to a T. But your book should have some central idea that you can distill all of the intricacies of the plot down to. 

To be engaging, your sentence must (1) show what is specific/original about your premise and (2) contain an inherent question. This means that your sentence can’t be “an 11-year-old boy tries to save the world.” While this may describe your general story, it describes it far too generally. This can be any of hundreds of books. How does he try to save the world? Which world is he trying to save? Who or what is he trying to save it from? 

“An 11-year-old boy tries to save the world from his brother’s evil goldfish,” only answers one of these questions, but it’s a much more engaging sentence. It draws out what is probably the most interesting, original element of this hypothetical book’s premise to draw a potential reader in. 

As for the inherent question, this will come from your central conflict. Usually this is: ‘does this person succeed?’ Sometimes it’s: ‘do they get together?’ It may be: ‘but is he really the murderer?’ If a reader can’t ask a question at the sentence’s end, your summary hasn’t properly engaged them (and you haven’t properly identified the central conflict.) 

Examples:

A boy wizard begins training and must battle for his life with the Dark Lord who murdered his parents. (Source)

A young English nurse searches for the way back home after time-traveling from 1945 to 1743 Scotland. (Source)

A young man learns that destroying his magic ring is the key to saving his world from the Dark Lord. (Source)

Multiple One Sentence Descriptions

Sometimes you don’t have to pitch THE high concept idea of your novel. Sometimes you’ll want to tailor your pitch to a particular reader. 

War and Peace is a slow-burn love story between Natasha and Pierre. War and Peace is about the effect of the Napoleonic wars on Russian high society. War and Peace is about the search for a life of meaning and purpose set in 18th c. Russia.

A war historian won’t like War and Peace for the same reasons as a reader interested in romance, and a reader interested in romance won’t like War and Peace for the same reasons as a philosopher, but they will all like the same book.

When pitching, it’s important to pitch your story to a specific audience. Draw out certain elements of a story according to certain reader’s tastes (if you know them). Have a few one-sentence descriptions that emphasise different elements of your story for every type of reader you come across. 

When pitching your book in 25 words, you’ll need to aim the arrow straight at the heart.

The Comparisons

The dreaded “X Meets Y” pitch. Once you’ve neatly summarised your story, it’s time to compare it to something. You don’t necessarily need to follow the “X meets Y” format to a T, but you do need to mention a few comparable titles.

Your comparisons can be a short-hand for style, tone, and all the sorts of things that can’t possibly be described in a sentence, no matter how long. They also serve to show your book’s potential place in the market, suggesting the sort of readers who might be interested in your book. This means you’ll typically want to use comps that are in the same age range and genre. Try to pick books that aren’t the most popular books in their genre, but that the person you’re pitching to should be familiar with.  

Some formats you can use instead of “X Meets Y”:

In the vein of X and Y

Would appeal to fans of X and Y

Like X but [concept]

The Combination

Combining your one sentence description and your comp titles will give you your completed elevator pitch. 

The elevator pitch for my WIP is: 

A girl inherits a book of spells and tries to fix the problems of her small town with its magic. [TITLE] will appeal to fans of Studio Ghibli’s Kiki’s Delivery Service and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. 

If I keep these two sentences in my back pocket, I have everything I need to grab a likely reader’s attention. 

Even if they’re only going from Floor 1 to Floor 2. 

Sources: 

The Art of Writing Copy

PubCrawl Podcast “X Meets Y” Pitches

How to Pitch Your Novel

Twitter Pitching Like a Pro

Nail Your Pitch

One Sentence Summary Clinic

Writing a One Sentence Summary

One Simple Way to Sharpen Your Pitch

Pitch Tips

On Good and Bad Book Pitches

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You bored, or feeling artsy but don’t have any inspiration...? *updated!*

Do you need to distract yourself? Or are you simply bored? Here are some great websites to make the time pass.

create pixel art

Awesome photo editor and art program, all free…!

Totally free transparent textures

make a cute chibi

draw some cool generative art

be a graffiti creator

create a picassohead (you don’t need to be a picasso to do so)

paint online

another awsome site to create pixel art on

and another one

create your own mandala

or color one

create an avatar

or you can try creating your own superhero

here you can interact with organisms in different environments to see how to music changes

here’s a website that translates the time into hexidecimal colours,

Here is a website where you can travel along a 3D line into the infinite unkown

here is a website where you can listen to rain with or without music

Need a model in a certain pose for drawing? here

Want to build your own planet

here is a website where you can create your own galaxies

make your own pattern (very useful if you need a new background)

create next hit comic

make a city which looks like something from 90′s games

draw a mandala like design

jig saw puzzles

more jig saw puzzles to solve

create a stunning HTML5 animation - no coding!

make a movie

create and dress up dolls

play a piano

you can also play a guitar

create sounds

another sound creator

create a logo

design your dream home

sketch rooms

explore fashion trends and create your own sets

build a website

try this app for building a website

Or maybe start learning how to code!

design your own t-shirt or a beanie or sweatpants and order them

design your own phone case

pretend to be a graphic designer with this cool online tool

Make your own Glitch art

Here’s another glitch art maker

And another!

Holy hell, here’s a third!

make an image look like it was created by a commodore 64

freaking cool text generator!

Easy to use word processor

Make up really cool patterns or run your photos through it :)

Write an essay on anything with no hassle

Wanna see how something you write would look like if it was on JacksFilms YGS((Your Grammar Sucks videos on YouTube))?

Make pictures out of text

ASCII word generator

Need an idea for some fanart-here :D

mario

cubefield

sleep calculator essay typer

rice questions

maths 

artsy-fartsy pretty thing

quotes

survive nature

rain

tumblr music

calming rain

themes

backgrounds [x] 

loads of references

Still haven’t found something that would float your boat? Try these:

watch a documentary

learn to code

do something yourself

workout with the help of this great youtube channels

learn things

play pokemon or zelda or other awesome old school games

waste your time on miniclip

play games at additing games

or try games at agame

calm your thoughts

the quiet place

it will be okay

vent or listen to someone

pour out your soul

explore the sky

look at art from around the world

virtually visit museum of iraq

explore world with arounder

create a music playlist

list through rare books

scroll useful science website

create sand art

brain games

try out tastekid and discover new favorite band or movie or book

interactive 3D anatomy

random street view

post a secret

create a family tree

find our what’s the difference between x and y

help scientists and become volunteer researcher

create your own font

read a classic short story

In the mood to read, but not sure exactly what book to go for?

scribble on maps

listen to letters

play with acrobots

listen to podcasts

make a bucket list

Ever want to see the most truly useless websites in creation?

Prank a friend with this blue screen of death!

Zone out watching the colors drip down

Sprite generator!

Face Generator/Creator!

Maybe none of these peeked your interest-maybe you’ve been wanting to create an o.c, but never really knew how to start-or you just enjoy making O.C’s….Or maybe you have a Gemsona that you want to create, but don’t have the energy to draw!

This masterlist is to help you in making your own OCs….it can also apply to developing RP characters i suppose! (´ヮ`)!

Gemsona stuffs;

Just a straight up character gemsona creator

Here’s another

Not sure what gem to go with, or where? 

OR maybe your unsure about more than just that?

How to Write Better OCs:

basic tips on how to make your oc even better

tragic backstory? learn how to write one/make yours great

writing specific characters

a wordier, great guide on how to develop your character

kick out those vague descriptions and make them AWESOME

Character Development:

how to actually make an OC

Q&A (to develop characters)

more Q&As

giving your character a backstory

how to write an attractive character

Need an Appearance idea?

Humanoid generator? check

Here’s another one

and maybe if you didn’t like those this’ll work

Need Monsterpeople?

Well, then here ya’ go

Maybe you need Cats?

Diversity

adding more racial diversity

avoiding tokenism, AKA, how to add diversity to your cast not just because you “need” it

writing sexuality and gender expression (doesnt include non binary, if you have a good ref to that, please add on!)

masterpost on writing more diversity into your story

cultures of the world

guides to drawing different ethnicities (not just a great art reference, but also really helpful in appearance descriptions!)

Mary Sue/Gary Stu

Test to see if your character is a Sue

Explains subdivisions of Sues/Stus

Powerful Characters Don’t Have to Be Sues

Villains

villain generator

need an evil sounding name for your evil character? bam

villain archetypes

what’s your villain’s motive for being a villain?

Relationships

character perceptions (What your character thinks of themselves and what others think of them)

how to write strong relationships between two characters

8 ways to write better characters and develop their relationships with others

OCxLove Interest Handbook

develop your couple with good ol’ Q&A!

how to write realistic relationships

how to write relatives for your characters (this is more OC related to a canon character, but will help in writing family members in general)

ARCHETYPES

12 common archetypes

8 archetypes for male/female characters

female archetypes (goes pretty indepth from two main categories)

a list of archetypes

NAMES

how to name your character

random name generator

most common surnames

surnames by ethnicity

APPEARANCE

tips for better design

basic appearance generator

pinterest board for character design (includes NSFW and images of skeletons/exposed muscle (?) so tread carefully!)

clothing ref masterpost

Clothing generator

Another clothing generator

More clothing generator

Aaaand even more

Steam punk clothing

Char Style preference

Dress Generator

DETAILS

give your character better powers

a list of professions

proactive vs reactive characters

positive and negative traits

interest generator

skills generator

motivation generator

123 ideas for character flaws

list of phobias

Oh shit someone died

Backgrounds and stuff? yep

Quirks

Personality. you need that shit

Need something fandom related?

City generator hell yeah

location? got ya

World-building?

make your own god damn laws

Landscape.

Need Item names?

Fantasy/sci-fi/etc. medicine names

Stuff to make things more interesting.Weapons, clothes, treasures… whatever your characters need.

Item & Artifact Generators

Other stuffs!

Genre, Plot, & Story Prompt Generators

How did your characters meet?

Fanfic plots. you bet your ass.

Other Other stuffs!

Wanna make a custom minecraft skin?

Well then these’ll work!

This one too~

WAIT!…if none of that worked, then maybe you want to make a southpark style character?

Here!

Well, this one’s nice too~

And another..

Aaaand another!

UNDERTALE STUFFS;

Undertale character speech box creator!

Want inspiration for an Undertale Oc?

OR a super Edgy Undertale Theory generator?

Maybe you just want to read some funny Sans Puns!

TMNT STUFFS;

How about a TMNT creator?

Or a TMNT meme generator..

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XP/98 remix

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Barbie Fairytopia\Memaidia + Text Posts

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the true plot twist of gravity falls is that stanley is the smart twin and ford is the biggest dumbass in 52 dimensions

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I didn’t know cheetahs meow I’ve always thought they roar my whole life has been a lie