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You know what, let's do this.

I know there's a decent percentage of Fandom Old Guard who are over here these days, but it can't be all of us. I want to know how useful a comparison it would be.

Like to numbers, reblog to sample size.

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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north is sometimes less than confident in his masculinity but it’s less like… embarrassment over being feminine specifically and more a worry about having his power undermined.

he’s already taking the more “feminine” role a lot of the time what with being support/caretaker/the mom etc. and i think he does like this role a lot and is not ashamed of it! but the way he wields it is like… the character in this role is often treated as submissive and north is definitely not that. he’s a caretaker yes but he’s positioned more as a protector, the “masculine” version of that role. he’s using this position as a way to be dominant and controlling. taking care of you = having control over you.

and so things that are cutesy or girly are like… they can undermine this position. and i think he gets insecure about that. if he’s wearing the cat ears it’s like. he’s wearing them the way a “girldad” joins in the tea party. it’s not something he “enjoys” it’s like. he’s lowering himself to establish dominance? he’s so in control of the situation he’s willing to “give up” control and make himself seem weaker. but only while he thinks it’s still clear that he is the one with the control. does any of this make sense

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writing quiet characters

He looked at him. He looked at him in a different way. Blinked. He tilted his head. He looked at him sideways. Under his lashes. In a unique kind of tilt. In a violent sort of way. He stared at him in a kind of way you haven’t read about before. He sighed. He looked away. He looked at a different away. He stared. Considered. Pondered. He was silent but it was interesting, somehow. It was a questioning sort of silence. Puzzled. He was still. He went even more still. He was barely breathing. He was dead with anticipation. He tensed. He relaxed minutely. The seconds ticked by, silently. He waited. He narrowed his eyes. His eyes widened. He followed you with them. His eyes. He did something that was nothing but filled the required beat of a line. He

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The multiple facets of Agent Connecticut.

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malevolent s1 summed up

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Arthur Lester

fanart credit to @cardinailed0 !

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this is how pfl saga went right?

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this meeting could've been an email or perhaps an emotionally charged and indecipherable moment of eye contact as we both swing our longswords at each other in battle, fighting under the banners of kings who don't even know our names, and we both wonder whether we might have been friends in another life. perhaps even lovers. but it doesn't matter now. your blade makes contact with a sickening crunch. anyway can you send the Zoom password again I can't get into the room

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I Will Not Burn | Croik

[ID: Six photographs of a hand-bound book of the fic I WIll Not Burn by Croik. The first photo shows the cover of the book, photographed so the spine and front cover can both be seen. The spine has faux raised cords outlined in red foil, as well as the title, author name, and a swirl graphic in red foil. The cover has the title and author name foiled vertically below a red foiled tentacle graphic. The second photo shows the top of the book, showing off red and black endbands and red and black speckled edges. The third photo shows the title page of the book, with the title and author name in a rectangle in the middle of a tentacle graphic. The fourth photo shows a section header page of the book, with the name of the fic in a rectangle atop a picture of black smoke. The fifth photo shows a chapter header page of the book for chapter fourteen, with a red foiled swirl graphic next to the word "fourteen" in all caps and the chapter text beneath it. The sixth photo shows a text spread of the book, with a bookmark resting atop it. The bookmark shows black and white artwork of various scenes from the fic, outlined in red foil. /End ID]

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Last year for Fandom Trumps Hate, @threearmsally requested a copy of @croik's wonderful Malevolent/Arkham Horror crossover series, which includes the longfic I Will Not Burn along with some accompanying oneshots. It ended up being the thickest (and heaviest) book I've bound to date, and I styled it after old leather binds, with faux raised cords and a faux black leather cover. The red foil was a bit temperamental, but I'm so happy with how it turned out, and I learned a new method for applying hot stamp foil to the inside of a book involving glue pens! There's a ton of artwork by some extremely talented artists featured in this bind as well (not pictured here), and it's always a joy to be able to include that in the books I make. The bookmark art shown here is by @shibara - here's their post with the artwork!

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"Came back wrong" trope but actually the character came back right. A character who, when they were living, hid and changed so many parts of themself around others to appease them and, when they died and came back, they stopped doing so and started living as who they always have been. But everyone thinks they came back wrong because of how different they are

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I don’t even know what to say here but “sodom and halo reach” made me choke on my own spit laughing

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The party ended years ago but IM STILL HERE

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it's really such an experience to go from "oh this is really cool wow" to "aw man i like this so much i need to eat glass about it" i cant even pinpoint when it happened

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ON the subject of undernegotiated kink in fanfiction. i think we should talk more about how the concept of "not talking about it" is just as much wish fulfillment for some people as "in-depth, therapy-speak conversations where everyone is clear and understood" is for others

like yes, in reality the antidote to shame is open honest conversation with someone who will validate your feelings and wants blah blah blah but SOMETIMES what i want out of my fanfic is characters being understood without having to expose themselves in that way. SOMETIMES it's fun to not dismantle the shame and repression all the way and to instead treat that understanding-despite-not-being-clear as the fantasy

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taking a break from saving the day