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[immediatebreakfast]

Welp people, happy fucking day to the recently deceased Mrs. Westenra, who did this shit:

the whole estate, real and personal, was left absolutely to Arthur Holmwood. When he had told us so much he went on:— "Frankly we did our best to prevent such a testamentary disposition, and pointed out certain contingencies that might leave her daughter either penniless or not so free as she should be to act regarding a matrimonial alliance. Indeed, we pressed the matter so far that we almost came into collision, for she asked us if we were or were not prepared to carry out her wishes. 

And left Lucy technically homeless, and without a single penny to her name. I still try to wrap my head around the watsonian explanation for this move (because the doylist explanation lays on Van Helsing getting an easy access to Lucy's personal papers in a non suspicious manner while also not leaving any kind of loose plot threads) because good lord, this old woman really trapped Lucy with the suitor she chose.

Mrs. Westenra really put Lucy in the position of either marrying Arthur even if she had changed her mind, or living in the streets without anything to her name.

Thanks all the stars that Arthur is one of the best loving men in all of London because this legal situation; that was heavily discouraged by the solicitors, may as well be the perfect set up for an abusive relationship if Lucy had survived, and if this was another kind of Gothic novel.

The underlying infantilization of Lucy by her mother, and how she chose to plan the will reveals how this woman never thought of her daughter as a young lady ready for marriage, but as a child passing from one caretaker to another. If so, why not leave anything to Lucy? Mrs. Westenra may be moved more as a plot device than a character through the course of the novel, but her character is very consistent in how she treated Lucy, and how Lucy answered to her ubtil they died.

[lilac-dreamxxz]

hii can u do just the full alphabet of cursive capital and lowercase letters? thank u love 🎀

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[marmastry]

More 🦑🫶🏽🐙

[its-kinda-snowy]

You can't have tea kettle night without a tea kettle.

[heretherebeturtles-comic]

How long does the process take you to get one (or more) comic page done? I love the idea of making comics but i suck at structure, you know with the script and posting/layout. I was wondering if you had any tips or what you wish you knew before you started.?

Sorry if this had been asked before

OOOooooo a fun question for me!! I love talking about comic creation :D

I do my best to keep the full process under 2 days (or 12-14 hours of work) per fully coloured page. I'm trying to get faster, but speed comes with time and experience.

Hmmm as for tips and things I wish I knew... so many things... I should let it be known that I am an artist and not really a writer, but your questions are focused on script/planning/structure, so I'm going to focus the advice on that.

Start with something small - Learn about making comics and find a comfortable style through making a couple smaller comics and then try your passion project. Writing and planning smaller comics with fewer pages takes a different kind of puzzle solving and thought process. Smaller page limits can force you to try new things which you can then apply to larger projects to save time; limitations breed creativity after all. Every attempt made (even an unfinished project) is knowledge gained that you can apply again for future projects.

Study comics! - It's hard to create if you aren't feeding the mind and giving it things to learn and create from. Read comics made by professionals and study how they handle pacing. How many pages are they dedicating to each moment? What do you think of their pacing and what would you change? Take a sketchbook and make small rectangles and draw out the panel layout from that comic. What are they doing that works and what don't you like about it? How would you do that differently? ... I think this is me assigning homework... i am so sorry.

Set a hard page limit - Try to get your story told within that limit, and then add more pages if necessary. More pages = more time you have to spend working on it. Most standard single issue American comics are roughly 24 pages. I try to work inside that limit using a rough 5 page per scene structure.

Condense or Cut - I struggle so hard with this one, but comics aren't written in the same way as a novel is. They have a slightly different plot structure and a much more limited amount of pages to tell the story in. Obviously it depends on the story being told, and what kind of scenes are important to that genre of story, but in general, unnecessary scenes should be cut out. examples...

CUT! Having the characters go out to get ice cream is cute, but you don't need to show them each ordering their ice cream unless the flavour they choose is an important plot point. Skip to the last one receiving their ice cream and turning to the others who already have theirs and are having that deep discussion. OR skip that scene entirely and have a quiet panel of them sitting in the park at sunset, already holding their ice cream, before delving into the deep emotional conversation they will be having.

CONDENSE! You can combine two scenes if you need to. If you have one scene where two characters are having a casual conversation and another where they are sneaking into a building? Stick them together. They can sneak AND talk and now you've only used up 5 pages instead of 10.

Comics take a LONG TIME to make!! - you have to make peace with that _(:Ⅰ」∠)_ Comics, especially full colour ones, are an extremely labour intensive and time consuming way of telling a story. If one page takes 1 day (8 hrs of work) and you have 24 pages, that is 24 days of working on one comic.

Thumbnails! - Draw the pages small and rough first! It's easier to plan things and mess around with the layouts when you don't have an emotional attachment to how the art inside looks. Once you have a layout you like, you can then draw it again in full page size and work on it from there.

Page and panel layouts are my favourite part of the whole process, I could talk forever about it, but I do not have the energy for it right now. I'll save panel/page layout for another time.

It doesn't have to be perfect!!! - IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE PERFECT!!!! (shouted with excitement btw). Panels can be boring! A page can be extremely simple! The art can be messy! The dialog can be simple! The plot can go nowhere! In fact it is really really fun to make a messy imperfect comic on purpose. Destroy the perfectionist in you, because they will always and forever hold you back from actually creating things. "what if it's bad?" what if it's fun? what if you learn cool things?

Anyway, those are my tips/advice, idk if I actually answered what you were asking... sorry about all the time commitment ones, that is something I really wish I had figured out a few years ago lol.

Comics are fun to make and a lot of learning how to make them is just jumping in, encountering a problem, and then learning how to solve it.

[mathsuggestions]

Invent a new alphabet just to increase the number of variables at your disposal. 

[dream-of-absolution]

my take on silver in sonic boom! of course, sticks would accuse him of being an alien. or a government agent. or a robot. or all three.

design changes include fingerless gloves, laced up platforms, long socks and gloves, and boom's signature sports tape being used as a bandage over a wound from the ruined future.

[cupidsncheerios]

dumbass school project has me researching crtc laws but no teacher can stop me from having homosexual thoughts on the side, so lemme propose:

new radiostatic meeting idea!!!!!

so one of the programs alastor used to run on his radio show was civilian story hour, in which any regular listener of his show could send in a ~5 minute script for a radio play that, if he liked it, alastor would read out on air and give them some promotion at the end for. he did it because he wanted to build hell's creative ecosystem, and also hey free labour!

vox, who became obsessed with alastor's show immediately after he landed in hell and found out it was basically the only option, immediately mails in a few stories. they confuse alastor with words like "fridge" and "beatnik" but they're actually very well written and help his rates a ton, except, well. every time they're mailed in, the envelope comes with an additional page of overenthusiastic praise for alastor's show and suggestions for possible new segments, and well, he has the return address, doesn't he?

so reasonably, alastor sends a response letter to vox, mostly insulting his ideas and mocking him, but also mentioning that maybe his writing is kinda good i guess.

vox, pathetic simp that he is, quickly sends in another story and thanks alastor for the feedback, changing his suggestions to better fit alastor's program.

obviously, alastor responds. now they're penpals. eventually, alastor notices some idiot on the street with one of those "televisions" that vox always mentions instead of a head, and wouldn't it be a funny coincidence if that was actually his sinner form? wouldn't it?

[loafbud]

I finally made a logo for these guys :] I'll refine it later haha

[reddieswift]

on today's episode of small details from the IT book that are extremely important to me, LOSERS CLUB HANDWRITINGS ARE U KIDDING

[nottsangel]

I have that 3some fic about JJ and Rafe stuck in my head again (it was soo good bub). Thinking about how everyone wants to go again, to make it become a regular occurrence but you and JJ don’t know how to bring it up to rafe, too scared he'll laugh and mock you both (or kill jj with his bare hands). One night you and rafe and messing about and drinking when he tells you he has a surprise for you, 2 minutes later jj shows up at the door

omg thank u so much baby makes me so happy to hear !!!! omfg i LOVEEEEE this and i love ur brain so much. i need them so bad. like can u imagine drunk sex with the both of them. they’re so touchy and needy and all the attention is on you as they explore every part of your body. jj sloppily eating you out as you can feel his moans vibrate on your core and rafe making out with you while massaging your breasts. your head is spinning from all the sensations, feeling like you’re in a dream. the night obviously ends with both of them double penetrating you and using you like their toy as they make themselves cum, causing you to collapse on the bed with your mind all fuzzy <3

[carpe-aurore]

A collection of memes, as a medieval monk would make them pt2.

pt1 here.

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[shinyrhinestones]

Chat, how to write letters to a person in your DR?

Wow thats lowkey such a crazy question if you dont know about shifting 😭✋

Anyways, someone educate me pretty pls 🤗🤗

[fromtheseventhhell]

It's crazy that people still uphold show!Sansa as a well-written character and pretend that liking her is the pinnacle of feminism when it would be infinitely more impactful to acknowledge her terrible and misogynistic writing. This is the same character who, while written by two men, was thankful for the abuse she suffered because it allowed her to grow. The same character who we had to be told was smart because the writers were too lazy to develop or show her intelligence. The same character who had to rely heavily on the men surrounding her and ended up accomplishing nothing on her own merit ( and no, thinking that she deserved to be Queen doesn't mean that she earned it). She is not well-written, she is not complex, and she is not a feminist character. Which is fine! If you enjoy her then good on you, but please stop pretending that she's something she isn't just because you feel the need to justify liking her character