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Ok but Zuko using the knowledge he acquired during his banishment to help him as the Fire Lord. Like making small talk with Earth Kingdom dignitaries about their local foods that he enjoyed and even misses. Like having in-depth conversations with his captains about sea currents and navigation. Like, in the middle of a meeting with several high-ranking naval officials, pointing out flails in security, like how a person can cling to a Fire Nation ship for hours at a time, or climb aboard using hatches on the upper decks, or disguise themselves as a lower ranking guard with easily accessible spare armour….

Though none of his experiences can prepare Zuko for the long, awkward silence that comes after he admits to doing or at least knowing something illegal and/or completely buck wild

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house of leaves

Also while I’m talking about brain stuff who else does this to hold onto a phone number someone rattled off too fast

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all-timer

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i have a shitload of new followers and ive gotten some asks so here are some Things

art style and personal brand is a myth, pursuing these will lead to burnout. make what you make, apply yourself, draw something you want to look at again later.

my only Real art advice is to drawwww. dont hurt yourself obviously, stretch often and take breaks but. if you feel like drawing you should try drawing! make something that didnt exist before. if something looks weird or stiff, draw it again. the more you draw something the more its shapes will start to show themselves to you and itll come more naturally, so theres no harm in drawing something over and over again.

theres no shame in trying. theres no shame in learning. theres no shame in loving! make a bunch of fanart for an indie game. draw whatever you want. make self insert fanfiction. brush your teeth

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would love for someone (not me i don’t have the bandwidth for this) to write a time loop anti fix-it fic where obi wan from the tatooine era does literally everything he can possibly figure out how to do to save anakin from turning to the dark side and none of it works and he only breaks the time loop by doing exactly what he already did the first time and then he wakes up sobbing in his little shack on tatooine in the wastes. i just think it would be neat

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I have discovered the truth about chainmail bikinis, and it is imperative those wearing such armor do not think about it too hard or they may inadvertently cross the line between Sexy Hero and Homicidal Pervert.

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a lot of the Bucky Barnes fanfics deal a lot with Bucky not having the words or terminology to express what's going on with him, express desires, feelings, etc. because he was conditioned to be a weapon and purely concerned with functionality.

somehow this connected in my head with, okay, i love found language poetry (my Wikipoems are still some of my favorite art that ive made, ever) and i thought of an example of this artform, the poetry book Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip.

so basically in 1783 there was a court case about an incident where the guy in charge of the slave ship the Zong murdered 150 enslaved African captives to get insurance money. The poetry book is found-language poetry using only words from the papers pertaining to that court case.

The found-language convention is, in this case, a source of impossible and painful strain that screams through the poetry. The poems become incoherent and mangled as Philip tries to force the words (which are rather clinically speaking of human beings as though they are 'cargo') to honor and acknowledge the humanity of the captives, but the source text simply breaks under the demand. The words are not given, the text cannot communicate this meaning and survive.

The idea this gave me is not actually a poem, but something web-based and interactive. I had the idea of clipping fragments of sentences out of a book, scanning them into a digital format, and using them as dialogue for a character that the reader/player(?) can talk to by inputting text.

The concept is of a character that is painfully limited in the way they can communicate. Their words are not theirs, they are cut from another source.

The reader/player would be able to input whatever text they want into the dialogue box, instead of selecting from pre-determined options, but since the character's responses are very fixed (literally being scanned clippings from a book) the chat could simply match basic key words or combinations of words to relevant "found language" clippings that are given as "responses" and return a confused or noncommittal response to everything else.

This would work because the character can't precisely tailor their responses to questions, and possibly can't understand the questions at all and is just responding to words they know. So it would not be necessary to anticipate every single thing a player/reader might type or all possible formats to questions, and it would not detract from the story if the chat function returned seemingly irrelevant clippings. The painful limitation of speaking in "found language" accounts for all of this.

An important part of this would be selecting the book the character's responses are cut from. Found language is about the limitations created by the original text. So, the original text chosen would express the character's mindset and the worldview they are forced to exist within. The original text would haunt the work by setting the limitations to what Character can think, feel, and understand context for, literally providing the only words Character has to communicate.

Found language is also doing violence to the original text. So the medium of clippings would represent Character's attempts to express feelings and thoughts of their own.

I would be selecting a book to literally tear apart, and I would have to consider what kind of themes and ideas I want to represent Character's oppressive inner mental "world" in order to select the book. The ideology present in the chosen book would become the ideology that oppresses Character.

My first thought was to use the book How Should We Then Live by Francis Schaeffer. I consider this book to be somewhat of a proto-Christofascist text, and it has personal importance as a book I read, partially agreed with, and later rejected.

My second thought was to use Old Yeller, yes the book about the boy that is forced to kill his dog, because that book has a lot of (often unacknowledged) ideological implications about violence and manhood.

I have been thinking a lot about AI art and what human-created art has to offer that AI art cannot. This artwork could help be an answer to that question: an important aspect of this artwork is that I have to actually, in real life destroy a book, and each piece of Character's dialogue will be a scan of a real physical object (a clipping from a book). So it is an artwork that depends on the real, physical world and the artist interacting with that real, physical world.

I think I have to learn some coding to tell the stories I want to tell, and I don't know how to get started with that.

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a BRILLIANT read, and even more incentive for me to make my own wizards trope-defying and excellent.

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I feel like there’s needs to be, like, handbook for authors who post on Ao3 for effective metatext.

By metatext I mean like tagging, summary, and authors notes (especially initial authors notes at the beginning of a fic). The means by which we communicate to our readers what they’re getting into.

Because we kind of all have to learn it by osmosis and there are conventions but nobody’s really taught them at the start, so there’s inconsistencies and misunderstandings or people just not knowing things through no fault of their own.

This ends up breeding frustration and confusion and in the worst cases resentment, hurt, and aggression.

I’m severely tempted to make such a handbook and get it circulating.

I think it would do fandom a lot of good.

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funniest thing about dnd is that I made my character a failson specifically to make a rich guy suffer, but I keep rolling really high on important things, so everything has been working out for him really well, and his belief that rich people should never face any consequences just keeps getting reinforced again and again

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the character

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I accidentally derailed a book discussion because the prof asked what we thought about it, and I said “at one point the author says ‘raccoons the size of huskies. which is a seriously big raccoon.”

and everyone started moving their arms to approximate the size of a husky and frowning. and I was like “because huskies are mostly leg, but raccoons are mostly body, so a raccoon scaled that large would be like a bear.” and then the prof said that he liked the ‘raccoons the size of huskies’ line, and tried to move on, and I interrupted again with “but that’s so big!”

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animated the "It's okay not to smile" scene from chapter 4

youtube link

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I've fallen deeply in love with a cartoon blorbo

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i had a vision

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hey these are some tips for some of the little details in drawing fat folks that some people might not know!

everyone has fat on their bodies so its a worthwhile skill to have, but most art tutorials leave it out. heres some other good tips from artists!!