#((might make it cleaner

[screwpinecaprice]

Connie, this mask has fake holes.

[ministarfruit]

livin' on a prayer

[u3pxx]

oi, chukki!

[dailydegurechaff]

Today's Daily Degurechaff is… chibi tanya

[computer-gummy-worm]

janky as all hell but hlev is now real

[deoidesign]

Can you make a tutorial on how you world build and make ocs? I can't seem to make any people in my brain, but then when I try to come up with environments jobs, beliefs and little details to slowly come up with someone, I think: well I don't really know how people have influenced the world- it's a weird loop

To be honest, I don't think I can! Writing is an extremely personal process. The way I write is directly related to how I process things, what I find important in stories, years of my own analysis of my and other's writing, etc... The way you write will be unique to you, as well. But I can explain how I personally think of it.

The short answer:

Write. Write anything and everything, it's a tool to explore your ideas. Analyze your own writing, and write more. Then, as you discover which ideas you want to develop, write more to explore them more. You won't know what you want otherwise!

The long answer:

I think this kind of loop is common. It's easy to feel like everything needs to be done "at once," because our job as writers is to make elements logically fit with each other for our readers. But as you've discovered, developing multiple elements simultaneously isn't really possible, or at least is extremely difficult.

Personally, when I think of writing, I break it into three major elements; characters, world, and plot. As much as possible every scene explores one or more of these, and as much as possible these three things tie back into what I personally consider most important: theme.

Everything I do is in service of the themes I want to present. Without them my events feel aimless. It can take a while to discover them, but they're the core of my work. You will have to discover what you feel is the core of yours. Analyzing other media helps with this too.

Concepts in your brain exist in a state of infinite potential. But when you start writing you have to start making choices, which removes potential as you move forward... But you have to move forward anyways. If there's ideas you want to explore later, you can always explore them later.

What this ends up meaning, to answer your question, is that I don't think of my characters as "people in my brain" or my worlds as something people have influenced... Not at their core, at least. They are tools that I use to represent specific ideas. Obviously they're also my blorbos, but mostly they're serving a specific narrative purpose.

So above all else... Write. Write, and discover what you're writing about, and then start over and write with that in mind. Keep doing this. But you have to write!

[destinywillowleaf]

he's heart-shaped and i love him

[razzle-zazzle]

Ok tell us about imposter au bc 👀👀👀

OH MY GOD I FORGOT ABOUT THIS ONE.

Okay so. without looking through my old stuff for it. What can I remember off the top of my head.... there were clones, I know that, and the clone the story focused on, #424, mainly had an arc about realizing he's not Cole but Cole's clone and then having an existential crisis + becoming his own person.

And then I think the OG Cole destroyed the facility making the clones and then fucked off to be a hermit in the woods because.... OH YEAH he found a BABY in the rubble and needed to protect it! I can't recall if the baby was a clone of all the ninja or just some of them.... I think they were called Coffee though?

Man, some of my old AUs really were just. Whatever concepts I wanted. And I was so real for that kind of self-indulgence actually. I need to be sillier with it tbh

[tooneychaos]

"You are the most unlamest friend of my life!"

It's an AU so the whole scenario/line is a bit different lol

[ramblingoak]

Working on my pinned post/masterlist and wishing I could put up those "under construction" signs like I used to use on old geocities pages or livejournal (hello I am old).

Also I have written wayyyyyyyy too much there's so much to edit ughh.

*end whine

[caramelmochacrow]

happy birthday claudine!!!! :D (i had to draw mayakuro again. i had to)

[buttercup-barf]

Under the cut are mostly self-insert doodles of decreasing quality. Again, not much directly tied to Team Fortress 2. Might as well toss these out while I have no access to my puter. Much yapping under the cut and in the tags incoming.

Another self-insert, this time less of a "here's me as a tenth class" and more of a "here's my game experiences translated into the class I would take the place of". The Cleaner. Although I guess they could still be wearing either suit. It doesn't matter that much.

That one Convict's Case taunt with Backup would be extremely funny, because the man would be on the verge of a breakdown (he does not want to go to jail so bad you have no idea). The second image- I owe no explanation. You know what I am. You see the pattern with my favourites.

The duality of the man. Resting face versus "just heard you express interest in religion/Russian folklore" face. He's not that hard to make friends with, when you pull him away from all the explosions.

Some doodles of trying to figure his face out. Unfortunately, the more I stare at him, the more I worry that he looks like A Certain Guy With The Last Name "Kazarin", and the fear of never being original in my life caught up to me.

Don't look at me, don't perceive me, I refuse to explain any of my actions to you.

[ursaribbon]

pls draw baljeet & buford hugging

[somethingsomethingstarward]

hi, im @rot-to-the-core and i am EYEING that meta post you mentioned in my tags. if you ever write it: please tag me i will rotate it in my head (clicked on a lecture about the statistics of gambling and cant get it out of my head)

so i'm gonna be completely honest with you here- i am doing a bunch of stuff this week and next, so i actually have no idea when that meta's getting written

but i do need you to know that i got this ask and immediately proceeded to spend two hours coding up a mathematical model for the probability of winning aventurine's gamble with different team comps (thank you for the impetus, by the way, because i haven't coded anything for fun in YEARS and it feels good)

also my friend who is not into hsr but is into math decided to join in, so we've also got a program for calculating the probability of winning a gamble given a specific distribution and a number of rolls

like, it's not done by any means and there are more things i want to test, but, uh, yeah no there is SO much math in gambling and we are having SUCH a good time

[unordinary-diary]

According to the internet it’s Arlo’s birthday?

[crescentfool]

a compilation of sillie notebook doodles... i think drawing without giving a shit is very refreshing...