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Anyone else feel so autistic about the interior design of characters' houses?

I'm eating good today.

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Saw this ridiculous villager kid once

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Doodle

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Happy Make A Terrible Comic Day 2024!!! I hope you enjoy participating in this annual tradition which we’ve all done for ages!!! You must participate so you might as well enjoy it!!!

If you make a comic (again, it’s mandatory) and you want to share it, post it on the tag #makeaterriblecomicday2024! Or don’t, I’m not a fucking cop.

Remember, the goal is to make something terrible! So if you can’t draw or have never made a comic, or if it’s just been ages since you made something just for fun — that’s perfect! You’re all set! If you fuck up and make something that’s NOT terrible… well, some might say there’s a joy to that too.

Ok stop reading this and go make something!!!

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Soulsmake Rules

Soulsmake is a low stakes, low pressure Life Series AU creation event. Sign up, be randomly paired with another creative, then spend the next month making an AU together! You do not have to make any art or writing, simply have a conversation with your soulmate!

The event schedule and more information on the sign up and pairing process is available in our pinned post.

Sign ups:

The only requirement to sign up is to have a discord account. You need to be 13+ to have a discord account, so you need to be 13+ to join the event.

When you join the discord, we will ask you to fill out a "dating profile" intro. In this, we'll as you to fill out a "yes" section, for your favorite characters/duos, favorite season, or alternate fandoms you're into; a "no" section, for anything you wouldn't be willing to create for (and are comfortable sharing), such as subjects, AUs or tropes, duos/CCs, or ship content; and an "ideal date" section, for your favorite AUs, tropes, or the kinds of things you like to create. This is optional, but will be helpful for us when rolling to avoid obvious mismatches and for your soulmate to quickly get to know you and your taste!

Respect and Flexibility:

Due to the random nature of this event, we are asking that you be respectful and flexible! It's very possible your soulmate will not be interested in the exact same things as you, so try to have an open mind about what the two of you can make. If you cannot be flexible or have difficulty compromising, this may not be the event for you.

Be considerate about the Yes and No sections of other users' dating profiles, as well as their interests in general. Do not be judgemental of what other people have written down. Conversely, please be respectful when phrasing your Yes and No sections. There is a world of difference between, for example, simply writing "shipping" down in your "No" field vs writing "shipping is gross." This rule holds both in the discord itself as well as when speaking to your soulmate one on one.

Do not push your soulmate to talk about or make something they have put in their No section. Additionally, if your soulmate confides privately in you about something they do not want to create, but did not want to share in a public space, please respect that, too.

If you cannot be respectful of other participants, you will receive a warning. If there are repeated instances of disrespect, you will be asked to leave the event.

If you find that you and your soulmate aren’t compatible for any reason (ie you can find no common ground, or you’re on opposite timezones, or you just don’t really click or get along), you can come to an amicable split and ask to reroll. Please do your best not to make splits personal or take them personally. It's okay if you find your randomly rolled soulmate does not work out, but it is not okay to take that out on your soulmate.

Creation:

The only thing you are required to do is have a conversation with your soulmate. You need to establish a general premise for your AU, with roles for your main cast and at least a rough outline of the plot.

You can create as much or as little as you want. Writers can write complete fic, a ficlet, or even just a bulleted outline. Artists can create a polished piece, a design or two, or simple sketches. If you have both artistic and writing skills, you can use both of them, even if you were "assigned" artist or writer. You can also create things like songs, playlists, cosplays, edits, or webweaves.

Just because you create something does not mean your soulmate has to. For example, if you make a fully rendered art piece, your partner does not have to write a complete fic to match.

You can show up with options of AUs or tropes that you like or a vague plot hook to discuss with your partner, but do not show up committed to only one AU/trope or with a full AU/fic that you already made prior to the event. You and your soulmate should be making something new together!

Though the theme is AUs, you do not have to make an AU. If you want to make something that is fully canon compliant, go for it.

While this event is for the Life Series fandom, if you and your soulmate find out that you share another unrelated fandom, feel free to make an AU for that instead! We're running this as a Life Series event to ensure all participants have at least one fandom in common, but if the spirit moves you to make an AU for, say, Naruto, who are we to stop you? The only fandom we will not allow is Harry Potter.

Original/OC/Sona AUs or stories are also completely fine.

If a pair of adult+adult soulmates want to create NSFW for their AU, they are allowed. However, we will ask that you tag it appropriately. Due to minors in the event, we will ask NSFW not be sent in the Soulsmake discord, and we will not reblog NSFW posts to this blog.

If you are posting content which would require a content warning, please tag it appropriately.

Do not use GenAI tools or Character AI / chatbots. Usage of GenAI art/writing or character AI chatbots goes against the entire point of this event. Usage of either will result in your removal from the discord.

If you have any questions about these rules, please check the #soulsmake info and #soulsmake qna tags for more information, or send us an ask!

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“Oh and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"

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Life Series Adventure Game

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Tornado

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my artimators s2 theme/fit

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octo sisters or whatever

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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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please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

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Gosh I hate grind culture. My little sister just started medical school and all of her orientation leaders are like “you absolutely cannot have a life WHATsoever you WILL have to give up EVERYTHING besides this program say GOODBYE to your hobbies and relationships” and now she’s calling me feeling guilty for running and going to the grocery store and that’s just WRONG! And that is exactly what I was told starting law school as well, and rejecting that mentality was the best thing I ever did but it was so hard not to buy into. Anyway if any of you are in an intense academic program PLEASE take time to sleep and eat and exercise and maintain your relationships and keep up your hobbies! you are not a robot who exists solely to study and I promise that living a life and staying physically and mentally healthy is not going to make you fail

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wanted to post a wip because its been a really long time since i drew

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Soulsmake Schedule

Soulsmake is an event centered on working with someone new and enjoying the process of creation!

Sign up as a writer, an artist, or either, and be assigned a random soulmate, ideally in pairs or writer+artist. Once pairs are rolled, you’ll have about a month to talk to your soulmate, find some common ground, and make an AU!

What that creation process looks like is up to the two of you—you two can draw or write as much or as little as you’d like. You can make full color art or a simple sketch, and you can write a full fic or a simple outline. You don’t even have to make anything at all! All you have to do to “complete” this event is have a single conversation.

Soulsmake is about making a friend and making a story. It’s about the journey, not the destination. Simply have fun with this low stakes, low pressure creativity event!

Below is the planned schedule, and a small explanation as to how each phase will work.

Monday, July 7 - Signups open

Saturday, July 19 - Signups close

Sunday, July 20 - Pool limiting review opens

Wednesday, July 23 - Pool limiting deadline

Sunday, July 27 - Soulmates assigned

Friday, August 1 - Soulmate reroll request deadline

Sunday, August 3 - Rerolled soulmates assigned

Monday, Sept 1 - Official completion deadline

Below the cut will be more information on each step of the event process. If you have any questions not answered in this post, check the #soulsmake qna tag on this blog to see if your question has been answered already, and if it hasn’t, our ask box is open!

Sign ups:

There will be a little over two weeks to sign up for Soulsmake. We’ll be asking you for your name, your socials, and your discord—this is the information that will be available to the other participants of the event during the limiting process.

Next, we’ll ask if you’re signing up as an artist, a writer, or either. We’ll be trying to make pairs of artist+writer, though we don’t imagine an even amount of artists and writers will be signing up, so that isn’t guaranteed. Signing up as either will help with balancing these, so if you can do both, consider signing up as either!

After that, we’ll be asking you your age bracket, specifically whether you’re an adult or a minor, and then ask if you’re comfortable working with someone in the opposite age bracket. Your exact age is not necessary, and this information will not be public.

Finally, we’ll be asking whether you’re comfortable with working in a team of three instead of as a pair. This is in case of an odd number of sign ups. We may also consider using teams of three so all teams have at least one writer and one artist.

Once you hit submit on the sign up sheet, the confirmation page will have a link to the event’s discord server. Joining that is required, as we’ll be hosting much of the rest of the event through discord!

(If you forget to grab the link before closing the confirmation page, please send an ask off anon for the discord invite!)

Pool limiting:

The next phase of the event is pool limiting. Once sign ups are closed, participants will gain access to a spreadsheet of the names, socials, and discords of all the other participants. You will then be asked to fill out a second form with everyone you want removed from your roster of possible soulmates.

This serves two purposes. The first: if you have any usual creation partner(s) you tend to work with, we would like you to write them down. We want you to work with someone you’ve never worked with before, so note down your usual accomplices to ensure you don’t get them by chance!

Second, if you see someone on the list you don’t get along with, we’d also like you to note down their names and remove them from your pool. We don’t want anyone to be randomly paired with someone they already know they won’t work well with, so this step should help minimize those conflicts by preventing them from happening.

Who you put on your limits list will be completely private, and once the event has ended, the list will be deleted.

If you do not submit a limit form, we will assume you are open to anyone who fits within the criteria from the original signup form.

Soulmate Assignment and rerolls:

[Note: Rolling soulmates may end up taking an extra day or two depending on how many sign ups we receive! If this happens, the other dates will also be pushed back accordingly.]

Finally, the soulmates will be rolled! When pairs are finalized, we’ll announce them in the discord server by pinging users. The creation period can start here for most pairs as they DM their partners, as the creation period will be done one-on-one in private DMs between soulmates rather than in the server itself.

In the first week after soulmates are rolled, participants will be asked to chat with their soulmates and get to know each other. Find out what your soulmate is interested in and find common ground!

In this stage, we’ll ask you all to be flexible and respectful. It’s possible your soulmate doesn’t watch your favorite CC, or that you aren’t super interested in your soulmate’s top favorite type of AU. That’s okay! Try to be open-minded about what your soulmate is interested in, and be flexible with what you yourself are willing to create—you’ll likely have something to bond over!

Open, kind communication will be key, as will a willingness to branch out and explore new things! If you aren’t able to be respectful and flexible, this event may not be for you.

That said, if you find that you and your soulmate aren’t compatible for any reason (ie you can find no common ground, or you’re on opposite timezones, or you just don’t really click or get along), you can come to an amicable split. If you and your soulmate decide to split, one member should head to the discord and make a ticket with the mods and ask to reroll.

Fair warning: If you and your partner cannot be respectful of each other in your decision to split, one or both of you might be asked to bow out of the event.

How rerolls will be handled will depend on how many people need rerolls and how they want their rerolls handled. Options will include rerolling new random pairs, individuals joining existing pairs, or participants picking their own new soulmate.

Creation period:

Once the pairs are solidified, the creation period officially begins! Soulmates will have one month to make up an AU together, and once the month is up, you’ll be asked to share what you have.

Again, this is a low stakes, low pressure event. You can go all out and create full art or a completed fic, or you can do some simple sketches or a simple outline. The only thing you need to do to “complete” this event is have a conversation with your soulmate!

While this is a Life Series fandom event, if you and your soulmate feel inspired to make an AU for another fandom you both share, you can do so. You can also make an original story or work with your sonas/OCs. Shipping is allowed if both parties are comfortable with it, and while we do not care if adult pairs create NSFW, we will not be reblogging it to this blog. Absolutely no GenAI or C.AI will be allowed.

You can share your work by pinging this blog and using the #soulsmake tag! If you and your partner are inspired, you are more than welcome to continue creating for your AU after the event is over.

If you still have questions after this, please feel free to check the #soulsmake faq and #soulsmake qna tags or send us an ask! Additionally, any other informational posts will go in the #soulsmake info tag.

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In my opinion it's a lot more healthy to be able to own that you dislike someone for petty reasons than to do all kinds of mental gymnastics to make everyone you don't really vibe with out to be a bad person actually