#I have so many wips ops

[salsedinepicta]

WIP Monday 🌙

Because why not?

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1. Witchy sketch; I have plans for that veil/cloak🌿

2. Someone vampire-like, because I wanted to paint pervinca blue hair and my hand slipped.

3-4-5. Some kind of dark-fairytale handers AU? As a child I had an unabridged collections of Grimms' folktales (which explains a lot) and this Autumn I'm really feeling that kind of atmosphere. Where am I going with this? Who knows.

[green-crocs12]

really lazy quick sketches of luffy and his parents bc i haven’t posted in forever lol (yes i believe in the crocomom theory) i hc luffy actually looks a lot like crocodile so

also i think dragon would have been a good father

[paradimeart]

tfa-ish style tfp megs and optermus idea because [loud airhorn]

[mintypsii]

hi there's no way i'm finishing this enjoy puppy sanji

[demonio-fleurs]

okay. here's my thoughts. hopefully these are coherent.

koala doesn't wears clothes that might show her sun pirates mark, and only shows her sun pirates mark to people whom she is very close to. most of what she wears covers up her back, and she doesn't put herself in positions where people might be able to see it especially when she isn't on base.

and it isn't out of shame, either. koala doesn't seem like the type of person who feels shame about her mark. to me, it boils down to two reasons: one, everytime she sees it there is a lingering reminder, no matter how distant, of the circumstances behind why she got it in the first place (because trauma doesn't just go away like that). and two, and tbh what is to me the main reason, seeing it could raise some questions from people who don't know her as well as say, sabo hack and dragon.

like. she seems to work mostly in gathering intelligence and only seems to take an active fighting role alongside sabo and hack in very specific situations, so she really can't have anything that might draw attention to her. and seeing the mark of the sun pirates would almost certainly raise questions in any nation that she's in, not to mention seeing it on a human would raise more questions. it's probably much easier to just have it covered up than having to explain it over and over again.

hell, i would say that even on baltigo she probably either takes private baths or if there is a communal bath she probably waits till most people are asleep to bathe, because any new recruit who doesn't know her will see it and will almost certainly have questions, even if they don't ask her directly.

i also think this is why i really love when people draw koala with her back exposed and remember her sun pirates mark, because it is such a huge part of her, but because you don't see it much it's so easily forgotten. but it is there. and it is part of her character.

[cowardlybean]

i spent too long on these not to post them but hey. little crumbs I guess <3

doodles for the fic Rainspeak by @quirkle2 (I can NEVERRRR do this fic justice it’s SO GOOD please go read it)

ft the library chapter (twice,,), teru’s condensed aura, and reigen at 3 am in the alleyway about to be ambushed by ritsu (my favorite chapter)

[sagee-sketches]

i love lesbians

[rexwrendraws]

i have so much art i want to do for this fic but time keeps escaping me so. some old sketches (from oct 2022) for the first dreamling fic i ever read, back last august. literally blew my tiny mind i love it so much and reread it very often. i always pictured hob in that fic as a combination of comic hob and tv hob :)

We have all the time in the world (on Ao3) by @anthrossandman !!

[thnksfrthmmrs]

born to write gay fanfiction forced to write a ten page paper on the effects of ai on reference librarians

[inpolariis]

Maybe one day I'll finish this Crocodile WIP... 🐊🐊🐊

[naviculariis]

Last post bc I'm honestly beat but uhhhhhhhhhhh

Hat Rule w/ any hat-wearing muse always hits different.

Y'know.

Wear the hat, ride the cowboy-

[solcarow]

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[threepenstyle]

cross guild poster redraw wip

(ink under the cut)

[anony-mouse-writer]

“you think youre sneaky, but the deepslate’s loud”

dont start a new wip about impulse hearing the song of the stones dont start a new wip dont start a new wip dont start a new wip

[scintillatingshortgirl19]

eyyyyyyyy guess who wrote almost 4k words today

[lazuliquetzal]

Hi! Your writing is stellar, and I would love to hear more about the process thereof :D Can I ask for 3, 5, and 11 from the 'Questions for Fic Writers' ask meme?

💖Thank you!!

3. Are there any specific themes you enjoy exploring in your fics?

OHOHO. I write a lot of angry characters--the simmering, quiet kind of anger. I like exploring the catharsis and consequences of lashing out: how it feels really good in the moment, but also how it sucks in the aftermath. I like writing characters who have to learn to reign it in and find the right words to express their frustration. This is completely unrelated to my own personal issues.

5. What techniques do you use to create believable dialogue?

I have an hour-long commute, and I will work out a conversation by talking aloud to myself. In my car. Highly recommend reading your dialogue aloud! Grammar's important for clarity, but flow is what will make your prose actually work, and it's way easier to hammer that out audibly.

The next part of making my dialogue believable is, once the conversation is down on paper, going back and replacing lines with body language. Every time I re-watch a movie, it always has less dialogue than I remember it having--because actors and cinematography do a MASSIVE amount of heavy lifting. Obviously, you can't translate the entire impact of cinematography into writing, but replacing dialogue with moments of action goes a long way.

Dialogue is interesting because people in writing do not talk like people in real life. People ramble and stumble and say redundant things. Dialogue is driven and focused and imparts a lot of information. Making dialogue believable is about adding just enough awkward flavoring that you obscure the expository aspect of it.

11. Are there any tropes that you particularly enjoy writing?

Is 'idiot protagonists' a trope? I love writing characters who make dumb decisions. Oblivious protagonists are also fun, it's what I like to call, "instant tension."

There are 3 separate time travel fics on my AO3 profile. This is not counting the several time travel WIPs in my files that are too rough to see the light of day. I love time travel fanfiction. It's my ultimate weakness.