#IM SORRY FOR THAT AMATEURISH MISTAKE

[harryseyebrows]

I'm in such a gross writing situation lmao like my one idea kinda got out of hand so yesterday I decided to write several things and not try to pile all my ideas in one story. But English is not my native language and things just won't flow and like there is a lot of unnecessary stuff abt how someone feels but it still isn't deep or meaningful enough like I can't explain exactly (just like in my stories lmaooo) there are a lot of words but not really what I meant to say

2. And it looks very amateurish and not.... right?? Like when I read your stuff it really is like a book, there is just enough description and you kill me with the angst without needing 50 paragraphs. I know I should write more and get better at it hopefully. I just never wrote actual stories with a plot and everything so it's a mess but I don't even want to edit bc I dont want to read it lol. Sorry for ranting Liz I wd appreciate it if you have any advice for me

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first of all, let me just commend you on knowing two languages. as someone who only speaks/write english, i can even imagine what it’s like being able to use another, and im certain that it carries its own set of unique challenges to write in english when it isn’t your first language. secondly, while im flattered, let me assure you that the writing that i put out has been edited and read over by at LEAST one other person, so any mistakes i make (and there are a tonnnn) can be fixed. and i also have the same issue as you, where i end up writing lots of “pointless” exposition where i go on and on about how a character feels or what they’re thinking, and i end up away from the plot and what i originally wanted to get across. moving plot is HARD because you have to choose every word you put down, and you can get caught up in the small, fine details for so long that dont really.. get anywhere lol and thats frustrating! but everyone has a different approach. everyone’s style is different. there are lots of writers who are real big on setting descriptions (not me -- i assume that my reader knows exactly where my characters are and what everything looks like, and thats something i need to really work on), while others are very character heavy, and include a lot of details about the character and what they feel/think. you just have to find your happy medium. re-read what you’ve written and ask yourself, ‘is there anything i could add here? about where they are? what they’re doing? what the environment around them looks like? if they’re moving, or sitting still?’ just stuff like that, to break from the internal stuff and bring the reader into the setting. as for plot, i just kinda wing it lol im pretty sure im physically incapable of outlining, but if you have a future scene in mind, write it. you can go back and fix continuity stuff later. just get your thoughts down and iron out the details later. and if you even wanna shoot ideas back and forth, let me know, id love to help! 

[vtori73]

So much...

DRAMA has been happening, and no I'm not talking about anything political/serious, that would be minimizing that stuff although their HAS been a lot of things going on in general that ranges from pointless to HOLY SHIT. No, what I'm talking about is the stuff that you will mainly hear endless debates, opinions, etc on that isn't necessarily pointless but isn't in itself that deep/impactful in the grand scheme of things.

Well the one I want to talk about specifically is dealing with Adobe. They came out with this program to make "designing comics easier." First though I want to mention that I had NO idea what people were talking about for a little while & this is probably old new too most of you IF you follow any comic creators. I just kind of never bothered to figure it out for myself, I mean, I'm always for shitting on adobe so why does it matter?

Well, I finally saw the video going into what people were talking about and Adobe came with software to make it easier for people to mak- sorry "design" comics! But watching the video it's kind of evident they didn't really consult comic creators on it & honestly it probably wouldn't have been received as poorly to begin with if they had just... HIRED someone who makes comics for a living because whatever sample they were showing was very amateurish (I'm not going to say it's bad though. I always feel weird when artists do this in public or have an audience that most likely has kids, teens, adults, etc who are probably at that sort of level & are at the very least trying & I don't want to discourage them).

But anyway, this really wasn't the main point lol, I tend to forgot why I come here to post! I was reading the comments and many people were talking about how poor the lettering was and I decided to go back to watch the video to see if I could see the mistakes for myself. I wasn't really noticing much though so I got scared & figured I should go back to learning about lettering but then after I watch 1 video I figured out what was wrong.

"Oh... RIGHT... lettering also covers the BALLOONS.... heh... silly me."

Im pretty sure I learned this LAST time I researched lettering but my brain just REALLY doesn't want to accept that lettering is more then just the font, letters/word/sentence format.

[wickymicky]

i got tagged by @chuukitten like a month ago lmao oops

rules: answer 21 questions and tag 21 people (im too lazy lol im sorry i just like to talk about myself so thats what im gonna do HAHA)

im gonna put this under a read more cause it got long

1. nickname: my bf calls me cube

2. zodiac: i dont do zodiac shit lol sorry

3. height: i dont actually know, im bad with remembering things like that

4. hogwarts house: the “fuck jk rowling” house (okay fine im hufflepuff)

5. last thing i googled: farmersonly… dont worry about it

6. favorite musicians: i mean yall know my kpop ones haha… loona, dreamcatcher, fromis 9, pentagon, exid, red velvet, twice, eyedi, weki meki, etc……. outside of kpop oh man where do i begin… its tough cause ive basically only listened to kpop in 2019 but okay so i’d say the band idles, death grips, grimes, streetlight manifesto, huh idk i have a lot that i like but i dont know who else i would consider my “favorites” at the moment

7. song stuck in my head: right now its pirate king by ateez

8. following: 1800 lol

9. followers: on this blog 264, but 724 on my main

10. do you get asks: occasionally

11. amount of sleep: i should sleep way, way more than i do

12. what are you wearing: pajamas

13. dream job: hmmm. i mean i dont dream of working, i dont have a dream “job”, but if the question is about my dream “thing i wanna do a lot of in my life” then i guess my answer is… idk… something where i can just engage in whatever is interesting to me at the moment. like in the vein of my tumblr blogs where i can just post and talk about stuff im interested in. idk if that means being a youtuber or journalist or just someone who does something else and engages in my interests as a hobby, but yeah. or something to do with linguistics of course. though like i dont wanna be a teacher and thats basically the only path lmao (that i would even consider, anyway)

14. dream trip: you know i dont actually have a lot of interest in travel. idk, it stresses me out. i cant think about going places without worrying about how i’ll get around, what i’ll be doing, what i’ll be able to eat since i have a lot of food anxieties… idk. if someone i love wanted to go on a trip with me i’d probably be down, but i dont really know on my own.

15. instruments: i wish i could do music lol

16. languages: are amazing and i love them. okay fine lol i only speak english, but i took german in middle and high school, i took latin in high school as well, then took latin and ancient greek in college, and then after college i did a lot of looking into hungarian, vietnamese, a little bit of indonesian, turkish, and polish, and then recently i’ve been pretty focused on korean for obvious reasons. i speak none of those languages tho, lol. if i heard someone speaking some of those i could get the gist of what types of things theyre talking about most likely, but honestly my whole thing with languages is that im more interested in learning about the intricacies of how languages work and especially how they change over time than i am in actually learning the language. i’d love if my dumb adhd brain allowed me to focus hard enough and really commit to becoming fluent in a second language because so far i’ve only steadily approached being barely conversational, i’ve never actually reached even that point yet lol. and being only fluent in english makes me feel like a stupid american lol. i pick up bits of language really easily, but the rigor of learning ALL the vocab and ALL the little details you need to become actually fluent is where i fall off. 

like whenever i go through an anime phase, i pick up lots and lots of japanese. like if they keep using a word i’ll see it in the subtitles and figure that it must mean that, and then i’ll pay attention to the endings they use and how they inflect it and i’ll make little inferences about what those signify, so then when i hear a word that i dont recognize but it has a grammatical ending that i know, i can infer the meaning of the word from context, and im going through this same learning process with korean now and it’s super super fun and i’m loving how much progress ive made (though i could have been making progress like three times as fast if i was actually taking a korean class)… but the actual work of learning common phrases, learning the sheer volume of vocab, all that stuff… yeah that’s where i fall off. so idk how fluent i’ll get in korean, but i’m down to find out, lol. maybe this is the one i’ll really try to focus on and achieve it with!

17. 10 favorite songs as of now: of all time????? um okay i cant possibly do that without spending a looong time thinking about it, so i’ll just do the first ten songs that come to my mind when i think of songs that i adore more than most others

keep the streets empty for me by fever ray

colossus by idles

watch it crash by streetlight manifesto

lucky girl by fazerdaze

realiti (demo) by grimes

egoist by loona (olivia hye)

picky picky by weki meki

mother by idles

peekaboo by red velvet

hi high by loona

18. if you were an animal: red panda maybe haha

19. favorite food: pizza cause im a garbage trash person

20. random fact: idk... if yall couldnt tell and didnt already know this, i’m a linguist haha. i went to school for linguistics, i majored in linguistics and classics (latin, ancient greek, etc) though honestly i was only into the languages, roman and greek history is cool and all but not really what i’m most into. majoring in classics was a mistake lol but oh well. i didnt end up graduating though because of unrelated reasons.... adhd, depression, just a general sense that the way the whole system works just wasnt made for me and it didnt click with me and ive never been good at forcing myself to be good at school... and like i was tired of hearing from professors that i have “a very organized mind when it comes to linguistics stuff” (something a greek professor said that meant a lot to me) or that i “understand how language works better than most other students my age” and that im a natural and that its impressive how nuanced my understanding of these concepts is.... while also failing or almost failing all of the classes whose professors said that about me. like basically all those statements were followed by a “, but” or a “, so if you just-”.... sigh. so i guess i’m not “actually” a linguist. whatever “actually” means there. 

so other random fact i guess, which is still related but anyway... i have a conlang! that’s a constructed language. ive been working on a language for like 6 or 7 years. its at a state right now where it’s not really something i can just like... speak? it was at one point, maybe. but basically what i like to do is try out various ideas i have about language and phonology and morphology, so my language is kind of like a sandbox lol. if youre a scientist you conduct experiments, if youre a linguist i think you should try making a conlang. its not a common hobby but its something i spend an unconscionable amount of time thinking about lol. like basically 24/7. i’m almost always thinking about my word for x thing im seeing or thinking about, or like some sound change i heard that some language had, and how that would sound if applied to the words in my language... 

like the reason my language isnt at a point right now where i can speak it is because getting into korean has made me think about massively reconfiguring how the grammar works. its always been kinda like latin and german, cause those are what i was taking when i started, and then it got kinda like ancient greek, so the grammar has/had a lot of complicated conjugations that are just honestly so superfluous... its such a mess lol... i have a much better understanding of how those systems come about in language now, so even if i remake my language to have verb conjugations like latin or greek, it’d be a much more coherent and natural system than the one thats existed in my language for years... but after learning about hungarian and korean in particular, i really wanna try making it a lot more logical like those languages are. but my big thing is phonology (speech sounds), so i just get hung up on sound changes and cool new consonants and vowels to add, so i keep putting off actually fixing my language lol. also ive become attached to my awful, amateurish words haha. im so bad at this... a real conlanger like tolkien or the dude who made the languages for game of thrones would look at mine and scoff haha. most of my words are just straight up stolen from words in latin, german, many others, but predominantly... english. i just mangle english words and call it my own lol, and ive been trying to replace those words with original ones that i made up arbitrarily... like my word for nose is just “nass” and my word for dog is “handir” which is just based on english “hound” and german “Hund” and stuff lol. i wanna change those

21. my aesthetic: if you actually read this long ass post, you know that my aesthetic is just “too much information” but not in a sexy way or even an interesting way

[shiroichigo-blog]

(CRAP! QUINCY-INA! I DIDN'T REALIZE I REPLACED THE A WITH AN I IN MASAKI! I'M SORRY!)