#Story stuff

[simminginstars]

First Halloween for the fam 🕸️

Fun fact: When Yuto first created Serena the servo-bot Savannah was skeptical but since she's been a great help around the house and is a sweetheart, Savannah considers her as part of the family. Yuto finds it weird since she's just a robot but doesn't want to tell sav that.

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[cinamun]

Things Fall Apart returns in September

Three women have each reached a crossroads in this saga; one must confront her past, one must confront her present and one must confront her future.

Mercy Carruthers

After a violent confrontation with her past, Mercy took matters into her own hands. While she seeks therapy to sort through it all, there is no guarantee she won't bury everything again.

Hope Carruthers

Hope was aptly named for bringing light into the darkness of her parent's past. She embodies her name every time she or others are faced with adversity, until now. She's given everything to help her husband sort through a major revelation and as the mother of infant twins she is overwhelmed and feeling like all hope is lost. Giving up was never an option, until now.

Indira Drake

Wanting to only live the life that feels right for her, she faces losing a dear friendship. A vivid nightmare shook her to her core as one face in particular stood out among the rest.

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Stay tuned, dearest readers, as we focus on what these women will need to endure to find peace when TFA returns.

*While we restart our saga this month, there is still time to catch up if you choose. An actual date has yet to be determined. Happy reading.

*Edit made possible by gshade, photoshop and this dope .png pack by @lexaverse

[jaquitor]

"Be Not Afraid..."

i love big sea dragon...

[fanvoidkeith]

i just realized that. while i have read MOST OF the Animorphs books, i don't think i've actually read ALL of them yet. lots of timeline fuckery happening even in just the first 10-15 books

[indieyuugure]

I need someee moreeee indie comic!! I love tmnt indie (of course if you don't mind <3)

Sure! I’ll give you some stuff on the arc that winds up to the Space arc. It’s dubbed the “Save Donnie Arc.”

After the turtles wipe the floor with the Foot—despite being armed with Kraang weaponry—The Kraang decide that these “turtles” are actually much more of a threat than they originally anticipated and so instruct Bishop to catch and study them.

So after awhile, Bishop discovers that Donnie and Mikey like to rummage through a select few junkyards for various bits and bobs, and ambushes them with a team of dudes. Mikey’s able to escape, but they manage to catch Donnie and drag him back to Bishop’s Lab.

Don’t worry, it ends happily and no one dies.

Bishop doesn’t know as much as he thinks he knows. The Kraang keep him very much in the dark on almost everything and use him as their human puppet, not that he cares.

Sorry, Raph, I can’t answer that question for you.

Bishop made a very dangerous enemy.

Donnie’s pretty injured, physically and mentally afterwards, but hugs are the best bandaid💕

Hope this is what you wanted! Though obviously if you wanted something more specific, you could send another ask :]

[beachyserasims]

I was going to start posting Chapter 6 of my Geneva Island Legacy series today, but I got sooo inspired by @havenroyals and their Chapter 5 recap that I had to do the same for my story. So here is my first chapter recap, including my favorite comments from chapter 5!

Legacy Living - When we all cried together

@feroshgirlsims

Saw Something - When we wondered wth actually happened

@lynzishell

Little Sunshine - Where we met the sweetest angel ever

@sirianasims

Be Closer - When we welcomed someone new

@cowplant-snacks

Brainstorm - Where we empathized with Autumn

@prettyymafia

Dessert - Where we got REALLY spicy

@deardiaryts4

Summer Charity - When we cheered and said FINALLY!!

@honeyjars-sims

Thank you so much to everyone who commented or showed any love and support to my story. Any day that I posted and was given the chance to interact with you all was a great day for me ♡♡♡ I am excited to start Chapter 6 this Friday!! Stay tuned ♡

[wolfpai999]

Seeing how I’d want to draw my boy Vince for animating

[trashisstillhere]

I’m kinda taking a pause on working on the stuff I said I wanted to do cuz unfortunately I don’t honestly feel THAT great, like my throat feels so sore and I often cough a lot to the point my lungs hurt. It was like that before a few days ago along with me having a fever which I no longer have yet I still seem to struggle with this coughing problem for some reason. It’s not like dangerously bad but just very annoying and sometimes I get too hot or have my lungs hurt cuz of it.

So for now, I went back to doodling again and guess what, it’s with New Ninja! And i basically doodled them dealing with my current situation except this seems like a less bad version of it even though I tried my best to portray it right.

Poor kid joining in my suffering….at least Randy is there to help! I kinda tried to give him a SLIGHTLY different look with the little scars and a bit of the hair since like I said, in the AU New Ninja is from the teens are kinda older, including him. I don’t know how I feel about it so far tho.. oh well.

Where are New Ninja’s parents and why aren’t they helping?… they’re super busy workaholics that’s why. No seriously, that’s basically what they are like.

I also made a few more doodles involving the kid, mostly cuz I wanted to plus it’s been awhile since I made any more doodles related to them and their story in a way. So here ya go!

Quick warning: one of the doodles includes blood!

Lookie here!

1st doodle: Nomi! New Ninja, doodled something for this idea long ago and decided to bring it back but with New Ninja being in their normal attire instead of their ninja one. As you can see, they’re….kinda gloomy.

2nd doodle: oh boy, can’t draw things about this kid without some juicy angst! This isn’t related to Nomi NN btw! This is a thing that happens during their story where they get nightmares at night of them getting treated horribly by their ninja self. It is linked to their insecurities and bad thoughts as the ninja! Dark, I know but it’s canon in their story and Au, and unfortunately they gotta have to deal with it for a loooong time!

3rd doodle: Basically how New Ninja first found out they were….well, the new ninja! Their reaction is pretty much the opposite of Randy’s first time.

4th last doodle: oh? What’s this? New Ninja seems to be in the middle of something serious with a certain magical being of some kind….what could it be?.. that’s for me to know and for you to find out!

And that’s it. Enjoy these doodles of the sweet ninja kid I guess.

[askterisk-asterisk]

[2/2]

If- ...

When you find X. Do you expect Four to stay friends with you?

Well..I-I'd hope so..

I don't know. I just have a feeling he'll get his best friend back and go back to ignoring you. Four's like that.

And I think you know that.

But that's just my opinion! You do you, Two! Just try to find a balance, yea? ^^;

..Yea.

[riverofjazzsims]

Let me go on and set this up cause I came with no damn sense and im still hollerin!!! @cinamun

foreshadowing its finest...

( in my bruno mars voice)...

Smokin' out the window ... Singin', "How could she do this to me?"🎵🎵

Oh, I thought that girl belonged to only me (mhmm) But I was wrong,...🎵🎵

[meurw]

📁 (՞ ܸ. .ܸ՞) .. jealousy prompts

“so… who are they?”

“but i want you here with me”

“look at me”

“i just think you could do better than that”

“they get everything they ever wanted”

“why can’t that be me?”

“i’ll go anywhere you go”

“why are they here?”

“i don’t get why everyone pays attention to them”

“why do they have that i don’t?”

“here they come 😒”

“i can do so much better”

“i wish they would disappear”

“the spotlight should be on me”

“they’re not that important”

“why don’t you love me the same way you love them?”

“i can’t stand them”

“all they do is lie and get people to side with them!” — better yet if the speaker is the one who’s lying

“i only want you”

“help me ruin their reputation”

“their face makes me sick”

“that’s supposed to be mine”

[simminginstars]

a reserved man, doing scandalous things aka shirtless selfie.

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he decided to become even hotter because the neighbor showing an interest in sav and her cooking made him mildly uncomfortable even though he knew he was marrying a v talented and hot woman.

[cinamun]

Look who came to visit! Friends for decades, Lauryn Lakes first met Indya when she was in search of her first penthouse high above San MyShuno. Now, in Tomarang on business (she's lead on a project to remodel the tiger sanctuary), Lauryn paid Mr. and Mrs. Drake a visit. They're currently laughing, drinking and reminiscing.

[jaquitor]

allosaurus is one of my fav dinos

i gave this one a funny little outfit

[corbits-comet]

writing tools tips and tricks I personally use

I write historical fiction and am very detail oriented and also highly forgetful so this is the stuff I use to plan my story and so I don’t forget stuff

STUFF U NEED

-notebook or google doc (I use a combination of both) 

-internet access or a public library and the ability to read 

-your big beutiful brain you’ve got swirling around up there 

You really don’t need any fancy shit

  PRECURSORS. 

You’ll need to come up with a concept or a character dynamic you like. For me it came with: two detectives who have a bitter rivalry, and then the setting, extra characters and plot line fell into place. 

Day dreaming— this is a vital step, as soon as you get a concept, or even just a character dynamic in your head, put on some of your favorite music that you feel like might match the vibe and get imagining, just play around see what happens

Write that shit down. It seems stupid but trust me write down ever little idea you have, nothing has to go in order, you can write the ending and then the beginning and then the middle for all anyone cares. If you get ideas for scenes or side characters halfway through developing your main characters WRITE IT DOWN. Even if it’s shit and dosnt get used. 

Start stitching stuff together, start weaving in your favorite troupes, plot lines and ideas, for me it went from the rivalry to then the idea of a stalker, then the additional idea of adding political rivalry, murder, aristocracy and eventually a fully fleshed out story. Just keep adding stuff until it feels round, you can always add and subtract 

Now character work. For me at least I don’t need to know everything about the story before I start writing but I do need to know everything about the characters. I start with just doing a big infodump on each characters personality traits and their function in the story. And that’s it for now, that’s the first step. The second one is I go through the dynamics between the main characters, for example I have two main characters so I write about how they feel about eachother respectively, and then how each of them feel about the villan, the stalker, and a few other main characters etc. this will help you with scenes and character development. The third and final one I like to do is actually a character work excercises off tumblr (I found it on Pinterest here’s the link, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1038501995319442405/ no clue who wrote it so if anyone knows I’ll gladly credit them <3) and after that I usually have a pretty good grasp on what my main characters think and feel about most things in the story. You can go farther by I typically don’t

Alright by now you probably have at least an idea of what kind of setting you want to have your story in so now it’s time to start worldbuilding. Like I said I mostly write historical fiction so this step will look a little different if you’re making your own world and stuff but the basics are pretty much the same. RESEARCH. Find and read anything you can on anything relevant to your story, for me that’s geographical locations, town layouts, early zoning, social hiarchies, medicine, law and religion, as well as the functions of certian poisons used for the murders in my story. But this can look like anything. Writing FNAF fanfiction? Get prints on the layout, and if you’re making your own look up layouts of old 80’s pizzareas and accounts from people that worked there. Get the links and keep them all on a document, for later…

Lists. While all this is happening I have two lists going, one of things that I know I want to happen in the story. You don’t have to have a coherent plot line, just a general idea and then as you start working on it you’ll accrew some ideas, write these down. Even if they’re shit. You want forced proximity with the main rivals? Do it. You want a certian character to get hurt? Do it. They don’t have to have a sensical order, this is so you don’t lose track of all the cool stuff you think of. The second list is one of side characters. They don’t have to have names yet, a few of mine are ‘old richy rich mcmoneybags’ and ‘crazy old bag McGee’ and then a brief character description about what they do in the story. These characters can be even more important than the main ones, and ones your readers will remeber forever.  

And the last is one of the best writing advice I’ve ever gotten. Write your first draft like total shit. It’s a map for your story, for you to go back in and fill in later, if you think of something for the future midway, put it in and fix it later. And most importantly; you don’t have to write in order. Write what you know, what you’re excited for. Just tiny scene by tiny scene. And then start stringing them together and fill in the gaps

Now go my minions. Write your story’s. also! Tumblr writing advice can be worth its weight in gold.