#can be of help to writers

[valyrra]

Cage mansion

[3rdsday]

Tommy basically said "the DSMP was good because it was, and still is, loved" and that basically sums up my feelings on the matter too.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

[thevioletcaptain]

i genuinely don't care how good a piece of ai generated art or writing looks on the surface. i don't care if it emulates brush strokes and metaphor in a way indistinguishable from those created by a person.

it is not the product of thoughtful creation. it offers no insights into the creator's life or viewpoint. it has no connection to a moment in time or a place or an attitude. it has no perspective. it has no value.

it's empty, it's hollow, and it exists only to generate clicks (and by extension, ad revenue.)

it's just another revolting symptom of the disease that is late stage capitalism, and it fucking sucks.

[turtletoria]

i wanted to try drawing older Mabel and Dipper !

[arcanegifs]

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

i am fascinated by Ken Tennyson

-appears in one episode to get traumatized

-is loved by every family member

-does not elaborate more

-leaves to not be percieved by ben 10 writers/producers

[strawlessandbraless]

Godstiel but he was crazy horny and obsessed with Dean. Going around preaching the good word of Dean and reading from the Winchester Gospel (supernatural books). He’d put Dean Winchester on all the stained glass windows and replace Jesus on the Crucifix with Dean on the Rack.

[frownyalfred]

Things you might not realize are affecting your ao3 readership:

Putting unrelated fics into one compilation instead of series or collections

Not tagging your fics/“haha I’m so bad at tagging!”

Tagging all of the ships in a fandom instead of the relevant ones to the story

“This is my first fic ever”/ “I’m really not a good writer” / “sorry if this is crap”

Summaries that say “sorry don’t think I will update much” or “might be abandoned idk”

Tagging “r@pe” or “unaliving” etc instead of the actual tag so people can filter/exclude

NOT tagging major, relevant tags or kinks without using the “creator chose not to use archive warnings” option

Telling people how bad your writing is and how you hate it so much and how they shouldn’t even be reading your fic (self deprecation)

Weird punctuation: not starting new quotes or descriptions on a new line, and/or putting extremely long blocks of text on the page without a break

[kourota]

being a writer is just thinking that anything and everything is great writing material. people watching while you wait for your bus? writing material. experiencing something that's gonna scar you for life? writing material. getting chased by chickens and running for your life? writing material.

[cinnamon-galaxies]

I'm likely one of the most talkative people around, but when it comes to writing, I struggle with creating extensive dialogues.

please tell me I'm not the only one...

[i-hope-this-is-a-phase]

How to Write Color Blindness

As a blind person with color distortion, I’m here to give my lovely George writers information on how to write accurate color blindness. Not obligatory, just want to help.

Let’s get into it:

First, the grass is green, not yellow.

Everyone knows the grass is green. George knows the grass is green. He also knows Dream and Sapnap’s eyes are green. He won’t call them yellow or golden in his head because he knows logically they aren’t that color (even if they look similar to yellow).

Second, glasses can help, but not a lot.

Color blindness glasses make the colors look more saturated, which allows people like George to see the “darkness” of green and brown and the “brightness” of yellow and red. If he wore them consistently, he’d be able to distinguish the difference, but he’ll truly never see regular red or green.

And, for everything else, fucking guess.

Is the sign blue or purple? He can’t tell. Are the curtains green or yellow? Who knows. Not George. Is Dream wearing red or brown? George has no clue. He will most likely guess every time he sees it, so there will be inconsistent color descriptions.

So, how do you write it?

Best way to write it I’ve learned is to write it with how you all perceive colors, then go back and edit it to be inconsistent and wrong (just like George’s eyes!) Have moments where George describes something and Dream and Sapnap laugh at him for getting it wrong (then helps him). Have George confuse the shit out of Dreamnap in London by directing them to the blue line when it’s purple.

Or, just don’t write color descriptions at all in his POV. As a blind person, I don’t perceive color as well, so I find myself leaving it out when writing. If you don’t want to add color descriptions, then don’t! It’ll be accurate to George still.

Happy writing to you all, and let me know if you have any questions!

[decisions-at-3am]

I will never get used to How gently you treat me. As if I were fragile as glass, My existence lacking solidity.

[firesmokeandashes]

All the fanfic readers/writers, after finding out they can't read their before-bed fanfics, and escape reality for a little bit, because ao3 is down:

[zbrewer]

Could Use a Lil Help...

An important update on me, Minions. I've been going through some stuff for a long time and could use some help. If you can donate, great, but sharing on other platforms is equally as helpful. Love you all so much.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/zs-journey-to-reclaim-freedom?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_lico%20share-sheet-first-launch

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 267

Danny is rather incensed, but it’s absolutely nothing compared to Tucker and Sam. 

Not only are they children, again, despite being ready for freaking college (which he had worked so hard throughout the summer, what with his grades thanks to ghosts) literal hours before, but they’re also in a completely new place.

And now they’re toddlers! Toddlers! Two or three at most! It’s horrible, they’re all so tiny and clumsy and practically none of their powers work and-

Is that a dragon? 

There is now a dragon sniffing at them which is heavily concerning. Um, hey, please don’t eat them? Pretty please? They will growl and bite at you- oh Ancients that’s a lot of dragons.