#anyway if you have any recommendations then hmu

[melodraca]

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[hahanoiwont]

I am thinking of physically printing a copy (copies?) of Whither Then, once it's complete. I think if I did that I'd like to commission fanart for a cover for it. However. I have no idea what scene/characters/image I'd want fanart of, or who I could commission. So, anyone here bc they like my writing: what would you ask for? Any ideas for pose/theme/etc.? I imagine Frisk would have to be in there, and maybe...something something mirror......? stick?? As you can see, I haven't got much in mind.

Also, does anyone have an artist in the Undertale fandom that they'd recommend? Is there any commissioning etiquette I should know about before I begin my search? Where can you go to find commissioning artists?

My askbox and submissions are open, if you have something in mind for any of these questions. Please don't hesitate to send anything in, even if it's vague or incomplete--we're just brainstorming here, so no wrong answers. If you've got an idea and want to describe it or doodle up a stick figure sketch of it, I'd be thrilled to receive it. I'm both extremely excited by the idea of this and totally lost on what I actually want it to look like.

[aro-aizawa]

me: i have written 1k words today in a frenzy of inspiration!

locked out followers: oh nice! that was for locked out right?

me:

followers: that was for locked out right?

me:

followers:

me: anyways did i mention that i really love atla?

followers: i hate you

[shaymiens]

i want damien and shayne to just be... really inexplicably into kpop

[theultravioletcatastrophe]

Do you have any NepTuber that you watch?

Nope, none at all. To be honest, I don’t know if I can even call myself part of the Neptunia “fandom” because like… I don’t participate in the fandom lol (I mean I’ve read a handful of fluff fanfics that I enjoyed but for the most part I neither contribute nor consume). The Neptunia-focused blogs I follow on here, I do so mainly for the pictures (and news about new releases and such).

[nereb-and-dungalef]

Y'know I realize I should probably just,,, have a masterpost explaining how I learned Russian in case anyone asks. Because "memorizing rock opera lyrics" isn't a lie but it's not the whole story so like. Here it is below the cut

Disclaimer Russian is the only language I've self-studied to a B2, so yeah not a lot of experience but maybe this'll still help someone somewhat. Hmu if you ever need Russian materials or anything mentioned here I am more than happy to help

Lemme start from before the beginning like

6 years ago (2016) I learned the Cyrillic alphabet to recognize the names of Silmarillion characters in fanart and realized that Finrod-Zong exists

4 years ago (2018) NAQT put out a list of Russian language short stories to read for Quizbowl. I went and read a fuckton of Gogol then Master and Margarita and Crime and Punishment landing myself in the Russian literature fandom

3 years ago (2019) I decided to solidly go at it after learning about the concept of a critical language and how speaking Russian gets you state department kudos

How I went about it:

Started making Anki cards with the list of 10000 most common Russian words. Got bored of it.

Realized I could make Anki cards from Phobs comics and started learning some absurdly niche shit. Accepted that if I was gonna be fluent in Russian I had to learn this absurdly niche shit at some point and should not torture myself over what was useful or not. 100% recommend

Did the same thing with Chekhov short stories and famous Master and Margarita quotes

Tried to get into Finrod but watched the 2010 version and didn't love it. Learned the first stanza of the Oath of the Sons of Fëanor anyway

Applied to the NSLI-Y program to study Russian abroad

Discovered Epidemia. Fëanor was the first song I memorized. Tried to speak Russian with a Ukrainian guest using words I'd learned from Fëanor. It was not pretty

Worked through the FSI fast course. 100% recommend, they have free textbooks for beginners in a metric fuckton of languages

Started using HelloTalk and making my language partners' text messages into Anki cards

Fucking everything was an Anki card, I made cards out of the airplane interface when I switched the language to Russian, so much random shit

Also shout-out to Drops, I used the free version and it fucking slapped

Had a Russian guest for a week who didn't speak English and we had a few rudimentary conversations

Discovered Последнее Испытание, memorized a few songs, started watching Evgeny Egorov concerts in class every day, went down the Russian musicals rabbit hole and started watching musicals constantly regardless of whether or not I understood anything

Started listening to music only in Russian, discovered shit like КиШ and Ария

Had a Russian dinner guest who I bonded with over Russian musicals. Decided PI lyrics were a perfectly valid way to communicate. Memorized some more

Met some Russian visitors who overestimated my Russian ability a ton and were super willing to speak with me in Russian and it was just such an ego boost, we bonded over bands and they recommended a bunch more 80s shit

Got rejected from NSLI-Y, coronavirus was declared pandemic, my phone deleted all my Anki cards, didn't do any Russian at all for like a month

Started taking italki lessons

Attended every possible virtual Russian concert (one of the plus sides of covid), would read the chat and repeat stuff other people said like "огонь!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥" "браво! супер!!! 👏👏👏👏" and "*машет фонариком*" it was an entire vibe I loved it

Made a goal to finish Master and Margarita by Halloween

Basically spent the rest of the year getting deeper into Russian musical subculture and reading random shit, started reading Russian fanfic and got a ficbook account, got like 30% of the way through M&M by Halloween and then basically got burned out and gave up on it and started jumping around reading the first chapters of different random Russian books instead

Throw in some movies and cartoons and stuff

Discovered the Lay of Leithian rock opera and became fucking obsessed

Translated it (not very well) and subtitled the soundtrack

Got accepted to NSLI-Y and decided to get my Russian As Good As Possible before the OPI, resumed Master and Margarita and some other stuff

OPI result was intermediate high (equivalent to B1)

Subbed the LoL stream with a better translation

Went to Moldova uwu

In the first month I read Eugene Onegin and The Little Prince in Russian and finished Master and Margarita

Read Crime and Punishment and another book the next month and became totally burned out re: reading

But it's ok bc I was still doing four hours of Russian class a day and I was there for like eight months so you kinda can't not learn

Made a noun case chart to stick in my phone case. Noun case phone case. That plus a formal education in grammar plus daily practice meant I actually learned noun cases

Kept a diary (kinda). Fun to look back and see progress

Read like two more books

I also tried to make friends with locals as much as possible

Started watching interviews with Russian musical stars, realized I could understand a fuckton and my Russian was like actually useful at this point

Got back home and got advanced mid on my OPI (B2 equivalent) which was kinda just,,, yeah what I was expecting. So yeah it's language plateau time for me yeehaw but at least my Russian is functional and I can say I speak it without feeling like an imposter

Uh yeah that's all I can remember

Random advice and stuff if you care:

I uh. Probably have ADHD and. It can work to your advantage if you jump between hyperfixations. This technique works especially well with languages because there's just so much out there and no difference between reading one thirty chapter book vs the first chapter of thirty different books. You don't have to complete a single goal or finish a single thing to the end, just find a handful of things to hyperfixate on and you're set (for me it was Tolkien, musicals, ruslit, and Soviet rock, there was enough variety that I always had something new to run through)

I pretty quickly embraced not understanding a word of Russian and made up a game called "foreigner describes the plot of a Russian musical without knowing a word of Russian" that I kinda miss now that I speak it. Some people swear by only consuming things you understand but it's such a struggle to seek it out and really was best for me to just follow my interests

Your brain has a Very good mechanism for understanding the difference between registers, so don't worry about over exposing yourself to antiquated/obscure material as long as you have other input. Your brain will sort the words into their place on its own, I promise you will not go around talking like Pushkin just bc all you read is Pushkin. Worst case scenario is: all words learned from Pushkin + brain understands these are not conversation words = brain prevents you from talking at all. But as long as you have at least like 10% conversational input your brain will go "oh I heard a Pushkin word in the wild! That means we can say it now!" and since putting a word into a new box is much easier than creating a new word entirely the Pushkin (or rock operas or whatever have you) will ultimately help a lot

If language advice is telling you to stop doing something you enjoy, disregard it. Better to do something inefficient that you like than nothing at all

Have fun have fun have fun. It's ok to sometimes be tired (that's when you're learning the most) but you should never be bored on purpose

Balance reading, listening, writing, and speaking. How you do that is up to you but basically if you get tired of one type of learning or feel like it's no longer helping, try out another and mix things up. All skills feed into each other so it's good to have at least a bit of a mix.

The first few months are the most grueling, there's not as much coasting involved and every day you have to basically choose to learn. So like, try to have some sort of habit at least at first. My personal technique with Czech was to just marathon it for a month until I could actually understand a few words of natural input so idk maybe that's a good idea but time will tell. Most important is to stick with it however you can

Controversial take: passive input (things you can consume while multi tasking that don't demand full attention) is hella important. Maybe you're not in the headspace to do flashcards but you can at least listen to a musical while cooking. Passive input will get you pretty dang far on low spoon days so it's a good thing to put your stat points into. It's nice to have a textbook for active studying bc it is technically more efficient, but a fuckton of music, fanfic, podcasts, and whatever else are a must have esp if you're busy or have executive dysfunction

If you don't force grammar on yourself you might actually start liking grammar

Understand that linguistic features exist ultimately for ease of communication and not to frustrate you. If you're morally opposed to a rule, figure out why it would be helpful instead of letting frustration get in your way

All this is suggestions and if you disagree with me please go with your own instincts bc you do ultimately know what's best for you, I'm not you so I can't actually tell you how to do this

Ask yourself "what do I think would help me most right now" then go do that. Yes right now. You can do this I believe in you.

Also if any of my Russian blorbos sounded appetizing to you hmu I'll give you a reading list

[lilypixels]

Gif Tutorials

Hardly anyone asked for these but I’m finally sharing anyway lol

Here are two tutorials I made on how to make gifs! They’re both fairly basic (and I’m no expert), but I think they do good on sharing the basics of gif making.

Below are the programs I use. I would say no prior knowledge of them is needed, but it would help to be at least a bit familiar: -OBS  -Openshot video editor -Photoshop

*OBS and Openshot I only use for recording and editing video; if you are making gif from still images, you do not need them

**Only first video has audio (just a simple song I put on it), the other does not. If you find yourself struggling to follow along with the video or just need more explanation to processes, I recommend reading the doc I share at end of post! I also recommend watching the videos in full screen mode to see everything clearly

First video: In this video, I show how I made the Victor and Yamachan gif aka how to make a gif from video. It’s pretty short, tho there is some parts where my internet lagged while filming,, It also shows how to export a gif and settings I use

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lRu1_rYnifYeat6XbgtOUOmHqQE9ZSPb/view?usp=sharing

Second video: In this video, I show how I did the glitch effect for the one zombie hospital gif. Glitch effect aside, it also demonstrates how to make a gif from still images.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j6UBEO2Bhtq8rBwdO9rIBw7QksxSGAe4/view?usp=sharing

Lastly, here is a written version of the second video as well as how to export a gif and the settings used: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VOfNHpeefQJY0OVfJ3JBAltqw0J_UJBIeCxC_QqgVrU/edit?usp=sharing

I may remake these in future or change links to be on youtube but i’m too lazy rn and this works fine

Please feel free to hmu if you have any questions! Sorry about the wall of text,,

[rollercoasterwords]

24, 11, 6

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6. When did you start reading and writing fic?

ok bear with me i feel like this is like a very weird timeline for getting into fic but

technically my first ever fanfiction was a quizilla wwyff (if literally anyone else remembers quizilla and wwyffs hmu bc sometimes it feels like a fever dream) that i wrote when i was 13 BUT i didn't actually start getting into like...actual fanfiction until i was lik 16/17 and got very into voltron (dark times) and started reading a little bit of fanfiction and writing a self-insert fic that i then abandoned when the show went downhill and i got bored of it lol. and then when i was in my final year of undergrad and home for the holidays losing my mind i read atyd for the first time, but i didn't really read any other fanfic after that, so it was kind of an isolated event. but i also started to rewrite the captive prince series and finished the first two books in the span of like 2-3 months i think and then just slowly chipped away at the last one over like the next 6 months, and i remembered ao3 from my voltron days so i was like might as well post this here in case anyone's interested and then there were like a handful of people reading it and i was like wow this is fun! nice :)

BUT i would say that i didn't actually start to get involved in fanfiction as any sort of community until literally exactly one year ago when i started posting my rewrite of atyd from sirius's pov thinking it would go the same way my captive prince rewrite went, where i was essentially just fucking around having fun getting to stay inside this story for a while and a handful of people would stop by and be like hey nice! and then someone on tiktok posted about it and it blew up all of a sudden like...two or three months after i'd started writing it i think? and so i feel like i kind of got dragged into the marauders fanfic community lmao because that's what led to me like making this blog and stuff. and then i started to get more interested in the marauders fandom generally and started to see people recommending fics so i was like hmmm maybe i'll branch out from atyd and read some other stuff and. well. now here we are a year later.

11. Do you have a comfort fic that you always come back to? What is it?

i mean....atyd i guess lmao. except after sirius's pov i think i've sort of got it out of my system in that i spent like...6 months thinking about it nonstop and so now i cannot imagine re-reading it anytime soon. i'm not really a big re-reader when it comes to fics though, like aside from atyd i don't really think there are any i go back to. except hackery i have reread hackery many many times but i wouldn't call it a comfort fic it's more like the fanfiction equivalent of snorting cocaine when i need inspiration to write

24. If you could go back and talk to yourself in the moments before you posted your first fic, what would you say to past you?

i'd say hey babe ur actually a lesbian <3 also they're going to make shiro gay anyway and the lance x allura thing isn't a joke they're actually following through with it he and keith will never be canon <3 hope this helps <3

this ask game

[honestlyandrogynousnightmare]

So I know the struggle of not having anything to read so I thought I'd make a list of some of my favourite fics on ao3, if you ever want any more then hmu I have quite a few bookmarked I'll just share the ones that I can read 10 times and still not get bored. FYI they all have happy endings and most are quite long (we're talking 60000+), obv all merthur.

**enjoy my detailed eloquent summaries**

So close and I'm halfway to it by ariadne_odair

Probably my favourite fic ever, honestly I could go on about it for days. It's set in the canon era (I guess it's kind of like a season 4 rewrite? Certain episodes are directly rewritten but there are a load of new plot points and stuff). Its quite long, but the magic reveal is perfect and I love the take on Arthur as a character, as they make him into less of a complete idiot but a rational adult lol. Anyway, you'll probably cry, theres a lot of hugging, would totally recommend.

And like the cycle of the year we begin again by katgerynefromphilly

I feel like most people have read this but just incase you havent...here you go. Not much to say about this tbh, its ending we all deserved.

The Dark Road Will Lead Us Where We Want to Be by accordingtomel

Basically Merlin saves Arthur using magic in front of the entire court and Arthur does everything he can to make sure he doesnt die. I adore this fic because it shows that even in a situation where Arthur doesnt have time to think and consider what to do with Merlin, his first choice is always to save him. This fic includes Uther being a dick as usual but yknow.

Fractured Magic by LumaCanisLupus_22

This entire fic is pretty much porn but oh well.

No really, it's a super well written sky high AU and its infuriating to read because these two are such idiots but arghh welp you have to read to find out

Though again, I warn you, a lot of this fic is smut so yknow

Tales of Magic by amithia

Coffee shop au. That's all you need to know. Quite adorable.

fate rests heavily on your shoulders by queerofthedagger

Quite a lot shorter than anything else I've recommended, basically Arthur overhears the conversation merlin and (ghost)Uther are having when he reveals his magic. Quite sad but also adorable, I keep returning to it because I think its pretty good as far as magic reveals go

Caesura by StormDancer

Oh god I love this one. Basically merlin has an extreme case of writers block (oh yeah hes secretly the writer of the book they're analysing at uni that Arthur keeps insulting...whoops). No but its adorable, Merlin needs a hug.

To the world that never let you be by ImperialMint

You'll cry. A lot. Basically the perfect magic reveal. Arthur sees that merlin has scars and he questions him about them so merlin reveals him magic but he pretty much explains all the things hes done and how he got the scars. Again, sad.

It has a happy ending like everything I read but still, I cried throughout the entire second half of it.

Anywayyyyy enjoy! If you ever need anymore then hmu, I have loads more in my bookmarked haha

[microcroft]

Speaking of Merlin fics, if you don't mind, do you have any recommendations? I'd really appreciate it since Big ADHD means I have little patience for finding good ones -.-'

okay this was sent back in april but tumblr is garbage and i didn't see i had any new messages until right now?? im so sorry Anyway i fuckin get that my dude, except like my adhd does the opposite specifically with merlin fanfiction for the past year which has been my hyperfixation and i have been using to cope with a multitude of issues so you are in luck (if you still want recommendations) because i created a collection of my favorite fics that i am adding to a lot because i read a, quite frankly, concerning amount of merlin fics (there are some non merlin/arthur in it but its mostly merlin/arthur fics)

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/bestfunnylittlemagictwinkfics but more specifically, the ones that immediately come to mind are the long but very good ones that live rent free in my mind, in no particular order, there are a bunch in the collection which are just as good but I am really tired right now and dont want to make this post extremely long so I just want to make sure you (and whoever else may be reading this) know about these ones:

Born of Magic - "Set after 1x13. When Arthur learns he is of magic, he decides it's time to grow out of Uther's shadows. Secrets are revealed, and Arthur comes to learn just how far his father is willing to go in his war against magic. With Merlin on his side, can Arthur build the kingdom he was destined to create?" Arthur has his own cool special brand of Once and Future King magic, merlin also he is adopted by a unicorn.

Para Bellum - "After Merlin goes missing, Arthur forges new alliances to repel a deadly threat to Camelot. Nothing will stop Arthur from finding Merlin, and nothing will stop Merlin from protecting Arthur -- no matter the cost." I will never get enough married Merlin and Arthur fics and this is

The Care and Keeping of Camelot - "With Arthur dead, Camelot's destiny has soured--if it was ever any good to begin with. Gwen is fed up with grief and mediocrity and takes matters into her own hands, returning to the start to make a better Camelot or break history trying. Knighthood, rekindling her first love, and Merlin's silly almanac are all just byproducts." Post Canon Gwen is sent back in time by Merlin fix Camelot using what they learned. Featuring Morgana and Gwen having homoerotic sword fighting lessons and Merlin and Gwen's mlm/wlw solidarity.

For Want of A Nail- "Fleeing from Essetir in the bloody beginnings of the Purge, Hunith finds herself on the doorstep of old friends. That's all it takes to untangle the skeins of destiny and weave a new tapestry." Canon rewrite set in an alternate universe where Merlin grows up with Leon as his adoptive big brother, he has a very good dog, he and Leon give morgana a puppy for her birthday (very important to me), there's a whole lot of pagan rituals (which i fucking love), and merlin is a badass with a staff and throwing knives.

pretty much every CaffeinatedFlumadiddle merlin fic I have read, they are genuine comedic gold and so fucking well written it blows my mind. but out of all of their fics my faves are: Calling the Middle Man (Lancelot's characterization in my head is now entirely based upon this fic) and Thick as Sorcerers (the cat scene had me dying, and also gwen and elyan's dynamic in this fic is so fucking good)

Next to You (It's The Rule) - In which Merlin and Arthur are pining for each other and basically married, and everyone knows it, Merlin is a little shit, and all of Camelot and other kingdoms love him and see him as their ruler because he is honestly running half the kindom. Merlin and Arthur cant cope with being separated from each other, and when they get into a fight the whole kingdom goes into a panic.

(how do i do a secondary bullet???) (i really do love this fic so much, i love reading merlin and arthur being dumbasses together and co-running camelot and the majority of this fic is so unique, funny and like exactly what i look for in fics, so please dont brush it off just based off of this but i want to state that im not a fan of the genuinely-calling-merlin-queen bit. it was funny at the beginning but it did get taken a bit too far at the end in my opinion. i get that it is fantasy medieval times and it makes sense that people probably dont quite grasp that there can be two kings, i could write a whole essay on this topic but in the end it does make me feel uncomfortable, a bit like forcing heteronormativity when you dont have to because its fantasy medieval times not actual medieval times, and misgendering- it honestly did trigger my dysphoria a bit at the end but there is so much in this fic that is so good I can't not recommend it.)

okay there we go im cutting myself off now. if you want any more fics or to talk about merlin at all hmu i mostly just send shit to my friend who has never watched the show but probably has an extensive knowledge on it just from the shit i have been sending her like every day for the past year lmao.

[megatraven]

You seem like u have good opinions, give me three of your favorite books/movies/media you’d recommend

HEHE thank you that's very sweet to say <3

I'm gonna just rec 3 books and 3 movies... and 3 TV shows >:3c

Books:

Fatal Fidelity Series (Love Kills Twice and Love Bleeds Deep) - Probably some of my favorite books right now! The third book is coming out soon and I'm SO SO excited about it. It's about this NB assassin who falls in love with one of their clients and honestly the writing is just so damn good. Pulls you in and doesn't let go until you've finished all there is to read

Bloodlines Series (Spin-off series of Vampire Academy, the first book is called Bloodlines) - Honestly I always liked this series more than the OG for several reasons. But one of those reasons is that this is a "forbidden love" romance between a human who knows of and is disgusted by vampires.... and a vampire who everyone sees as lazy and lacking in any redeeming qualities. Somehow they bring out the best in one another in every single book and they fall in love and they learn magic and topple evil organizations and all that sexy shit <3

They Both Die at the End - A story that just like. Really urges to you get out and live your life. Not in a bad way, though, really. I mean that's the whole point of the story it tells. I read it very recently but it struck such a chord with me, I don't think I'll ever get it out of my head. It ends sadly, as the title suggests, but the story leading up to it was so beautiful and well-crafted

Honorable mentions (aka other books i've read recently that i'm obsessed with): You've Reached Sam, She Gets the Girl, What If It's Us (and the sequel: Here's To Us), the Gregor the Overlander series, Daughter of Sparta, and honestly so many others but i'm spacing on the names rn so if you'd like hmu for more when i'm back in nebraska

Movies:

Kimi No Na Wa - Also called Your Name, this is THE best movie i will ever watch, it's been my favorite since I first watched it and I'm forever in love with and obsessed with it <3

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - One of my favorite movies tbh, the main character is so awkward but very real. The little reveal at the end of the film always makes me really happy. Plus there's a moment where a pretty lady sings Space Oddity and I always skip straight to watching that scene first lmao

The Kung Fu Panda trilogy - One of the BEST movie trilogies ever no lie. amazing characters AND character development across three films. Very fun times. Some sad times. Lots of humor and also Tigress is pretty

TV Shows:

Miraculous Ladybug - I mean. I have to rec it. Always. Season 5 is about to start airing and the stakes are higher than ever and it's so EXCITING i can't wait <3 superheroes, identity shenanigans, consequences relating to superhero secrets, angst, romance, friendship and more!!!!!! so good.

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts - ONE OF MY FAVE SHOWS!!!!! The animation is so damn cool and it's got some of my favorite protagonists ever. The character arcs are masterfully crafted. There's giant animals and found family and family reunions and tragic backstories that are conquered through choosing to love anyways. 100/10

Amphibia - The other show I'm super obsessed with right now even though I only watched it 2 weeks ago. BETRAYALS! FOUND FAMILY! FRIENDSHIP! Forgiveness and love and traversing worlds and also FROGS, NEWTS, AND TOADS!!! Sword fights! Prophecies! SPRANNE AGAINST THE WORLD! (you'll get it if you watch it)

anyways thnk you again for htis ask i love reccing stuff :)

[iuwon]

hi hehe !! i was wondering how u started ur tumblr blog?? i wanna start a writing blog but i don’t know how to start it ? (if u get what i mean) im pretty new to tumblr and im not sure how i should post what i’ve writen :<<

THIS ASK WAS SENT SO LONG AGO AJSFWEJGJW I'M SORRY </33 THIS POST IS PRETTY LONG SO IMMA PUT A CUT (aLSO IF THIS WASN'T WHAT YOU ASKED I'M SORRY I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND)

anyway hello !! welcome to tumblr hehe !! disclaimer i'm really no expert in this so i'm sorry if i'm not of any help 😭 honestly i really don't know what i'm doing around tumblr. and by that i mean all the time 💀 BUT based on my own close to nonexistent experience, there isn't exactly much that you have to do when starting a blog! i'm more of a go-with-the-flow type of person and there isn't really much that i wish i knew from the start. as long as you have your masterlist, navigation (w/ carrd or about me, etc etc) ready, you're pretty much good to go ! dealing with aesthetics is a whole different thing that i'm still losing my mind over 😩

tags are also really important when you're publishing content !! place all the tags you can AFKWEGJAFA tumblr has a limit of 30 tags so the first 5-10 tags are pretty important. i really recommend to not talk (ex. the kind of '#this work was just made on the spot heLP' tags instead of #enhypen imagines) on the tags if you want to give more exposure to your works !! then again, i'm not sure if it actually affects your high rate of being exposed 😭 it's just my own belief and it hasn't been proved AFJWEJGJA

once you have 1-2 works published, i also recommend joining networks !! they share your content to the readers, given the platform that they have - and they definitely helped a lot and gave me a boost when i started out writing !! moots are pretty cool to have too, other than more exposure, moots are sexy and they def make the tumblr experience worthwhile. hmu anytime bestie ;)

ANYWAY if you have any other questions in particular please feel free to hmu !! this wasn't much help but i would really love to help out for anything in particular !! i was pretty confused with trying to answer the ask 😭😭 i really hope you have an amazing time as a writer here, i hope i get to see you and your future works around !! i'm always here for you <33 see you around bb!

[koris-crumbs]

Alright BNHA fans, listen up.

I want to write stuff, but never have any inspiration. So I’m taking requests, just for short little stories. Ships included (I don’t do krbk and tddk for personal reasons, I can do platonic ones with them tho!). Any other ship is most likely fine unless it’s pedophilic bc we do not like that in this house 💀💀💀

Anyways, I could really use y’all’s help with my little bout of writers block I’m in, it’d be great to get some recommendations so I know I’m appealing sOMebOdy. But, don’t feel pressured to. I’m not very good at writing AUs (with the exception of the fantasy AU and the No Quirk AU) so please stick to canon universe. I’m caught up on the manga, the anime, and have seen the ovas, so no need to worry about spoilers. That’s all I really needed to say I think, so hmu if you want your headcanons, small script/story or whatever to come true!

(Psst...you can see the ships I’ll do in the tags (: )

[guillemelgat]

Hi everyone! I know I haven’t been doing a lot of Actual Language Learning Posts on here in a while, that’s because I haven’t been doing a lot of Actual Language Learning. But that’s another can of worms that I’ll talk about later; for now, I’ve decided that I have at least one language goal this summer, and yes it is coming completely out of left field and has nothing to do with any of the languages I’m currently learning.

Basically, one of my really close friends from college is from the same area as me so I’ve been going over to her house a lot recently, and her family is Russian, by which I mean very Russian. Everyone there speaks fluent Russian, including the kids in our generation, and while my friend says she’s used to translating for people, I feel really weird not being able to just like...follow the conversation?? I am generally a chameleon when it comes to being in a place, and right now I feel very much like I am getting in the way.

All that goes to say that my goal this summer is to learn basic survival Russian. Not to understand it fluently, not to speak it, not to read or write it, and not to be able to get my C2 certificate in it (although given the people I’m around, understanding the conversation might require a C2 ceritification as well as like 5 PhDs 😅). I just want to be able to sort of know what’s going on and not feel like I’m interrupting everything with my inability to speak in Russian. So in order to do that, I’m going to be doing something virtually unprecendented for me: only learning vocabulary.

My goal is to do this Memrise course with some of the top 5000 words in Russian and get as far as I can in the next few months. Then I’ll also try to listen to music in Russian and follow the lyrics, which tends to help words stick in my brain. Besides that, I’ll hopefully be visiting my friend enough to get in a lot of listening practice, and my goal is for this murky cocktail of practice to be enough. I know it sounds kind of crazy, but I wouldn’t try it if I already wasn’t picking up one or two words from my one quarter of BCS. I think that if I really put in the time and effort, I might actually be able to start understanding stuff by the end of the summer, which would be super cool.

This isn’t my only summer goal, but it’s the one I’m focusing on for now. I might add a couple of things in the future, I’ll keep you posted on it! Anyways, thanks for listening to the ramblings, and hmu if you have any more recommendations <3

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

hello ! just spent a couple of hours browsing your welsh tag whilst procrastinating a uni assignment, throughly enjoyed it would recommend

as someone who grew up half welsh but living in england 75% of the time i find that i really know nothing about the culture despite my nain being an active member of the local community and literally teaching reciting for eisteddfod competitions

i have basiaclly 0 experience of welsh culture, aside from the basic anti english sentiment so I was wondering where i should start becasue ive been interested for so long (literally being trying to learn welsh since i was 13, my sisters are in welsh medium schooling too - my whole family speaks) and im an almost completed duolingo course down and none the wiser on the actual culture

theres the mabinogion but which version? and i saw your mari lwyd post a while ago but ive ?? never heard about this, like i didnt even really know that cheese was so important to welsh culture and i have no idea where to start but i viscerally want to know, ya know?

anyway ty hope 2021 goes well for you 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Hello hello! I am thrilled my nonsense corner of the internet is pleasing to you. I saw this ask and gaily went to grab the link to this post I wrote in October, because it was in answer to someone with a very similar question, but I’ve just realised you’ve liked that post and so have presumably read it already. So I shall say that most of my recommendations are in there, and I will now be more specific about the exact questions you’ve asked here.

Best version of the Mab: Sioned Davies’ 2008(?) translation (actually it must have been earlier, I used it in my first degree. Maybe 2006). HOWEVER, the free online version at mabinogi.net is annotated to explain a lot of the cultural/religious background of what you’re reading, so that’s great. It only covers the Four Branches, though, so you’ll need the Sioned Davies version for the rest.

So, the Mari Lwyd is something that most Welsh people don’t know about, either. Cultural genocide is a real thing, and we had it bad for a looong time. The cheese thing is particularly unknown unless you’re a fucken nerd (me) who has studied it. So, don’t feel bad on those. That post I’ve linked above has a link to the best book on Welsh faerie mythology (free online again) and it covers a lot of interesting aspects to all of this.

But, you actually have a head start over a lot of people - you have resources in your family. Grab your nain, pour her a panad and ask her about llefaru in the Eisteddfod - how does it work? What makes it good vs bad? What skill is it showing off? My husband was trained in llefaru from the age of about three, and is now a stand-up comedian - a lot of the skills he uses come from llefaru. Ask her why that might be.

Then ask her how the judging works. If you want a laugh, ask her what happens if the judges don’t think any of the adorable six year olds competing are good enough. Ask her about other Eisteddfod competitions - even if she’s not trained in cerdd dant, for example, she can probably tell you how it works. 

Grab your sisters. Ask them about youth culture - they may not be heavily involved, but find out! What musical trends are about? Welsh language memes? That sort of thing.

Anyway, I hope this was helpful! Good luck, hmu if you have any other questions.

[weisying]

hello, do u have any tutorial on how you color? bc what sets ur coloring apart from other creators is that ur images look so crisp and sharp, and they also look high quality on mobile. would u mind sharing? thank you so much:)

hello! i haven't made any tutorials yet (lmk if you’d want me to make one. i feel there’s so many great tutorials out there so idk if i’d be able to contribute different stuff lol) but i don't mind giving some tips i've found work to make my colorings look high quality :)

when cleaning manga panels i always use topaz clean. i highly recommend using it if you can as it helps to significantly increase quality! it also helps to reduce noise and makes the image look way smoother. 

if you can’t use topaz clean, then a levels adjustment layer can also help you increase image’s quality and reduce its noise.

as for making image’s look high quality on tumblr... here’s when problems usually arrive (tumblr being tumblr what else could you expect). images should have different widths on tumblr (540px, 268px or 177px, see more here) depending on how you'd like to structure your post. if you want your post to look high quality on desktop then your best option is to stick to these widths. however, sometimes sticking to these widths will make your posts look not so great on mobile. i haven’t noticed a great difference for 540px images, but for 268px colorings or even gifs i've made, quality decreases when seen on mobile. this is something i still don’t understand and i don’t know if there’s a way to work around it. so, to make my posts looks crisp on mobile i use larger images, with a width greater than 268px. the problem here is that now it won’t look as hq on desktop :-). again, this doesn't make a great difference for 540px images (so i usually stick to this width when necessary), but for 268px posts, i decide to make images look better on mobile by sacrificing a bit of desktop quality (where images look a bit blurry if you don't use the widths i've mentioned before). anyway, tl;dr for this last tip: for 268px posts don't use tumblr's widths but use a larger image so it'll look sharper on mobile, with the setback that this will make your images look a bit blurrier on desktop.

i really hope this could help, if you have more questions feel free to hmu, i’d be happy to help. have a great day!