#hope this helps :0

[junkyardisles]

@dragonlegendantique (making a separate post so it's easier to save) 1. it's the emulated wii game on dolphin! with the graphics bumped up so it's not toaster quality 2. on dolphin custom textures are rlly easy. in the graphics config there'll be a dump textures button, and any textures that get loaded in once the setting is enabled all textures that get loaded after will be put into a folder with the game's id(?) nested inside the dump folder. there'll be a lot of random ui textures but as long as you know what you're looking for, it should be pretty easy to find. skylanders, npcs and enemies' textures will look like this

there should be a load folder inside dolphin as well (if there isn't just, make one) and inside that make a folder with the game's id. put in the custom texture and then click enable custom textures in the graphics config the game knows which textures to override by the png's name. if the custom texture doesn't share the same name as the original texture, it won't replace anything textures-resource has some of the skylanders' textures on the website, but to my knowledge doesn't contain the texture names so you'd still need to navigate the dump folder

[maiverie]

yk i just wanna share,,, I've been wanting to be a good writer just like you 😯 and any other authors there but like my head can't just form ideas the only ideas it's forming is the idea to sleep IT'S SO ?!*@?@ LIKE i wanna ask / im curious how writers like you think of prompts, the storyline and all and write it nicely ??? 😭 so yea i admire you !!!

:(( anon wth this is so sweet thank u so much :( u admire me?? bye i'm so flattered you even think of me like that 😭 it's an honour to receive this kind of ask so thank u sm for sending this through ☹️🫶 you're not alone,,, writing is hard and coming up w storylines can honestly be so ass 😭 i honestly dont really know if i'm all that qualified to give advice, but here are my thoughts!! :>>

in my experience, the best way to come up with a story idea is by literally just choosing one thing that you really want to write. it can literally be anything — maybe you really want to write a particular trope (enemies to lovers), a time period (something based on the 80s), a season (winter or summer), a workplace (the office), a character with a particular career (a magazine editor), or something really mf random (a character that goes shopping for christmas). just choose something to start with and flesh it out from there! most of the time, i choose my "one thing" by getting inspired by tv shows / movies / songs / other fanfics. for example, i might be watching a medical drama and think "damn i rlly wanna write a hospital au or nurse au or medical student au".

i think it becomes less overwhelming when you choose just one thing you want to do, because you can let your idea sprout from there. even if your final idea deviates far from your starting point, it's a lot less daunting starting from one idea than sitting there tapping your fingers while waiting for a story plot to randomly come up.

after you choose your one thing, maybe add in more details. if you've chosen a particular trope like enemies to lovers, think about why they're enemies and then go from there. was it a misunderstanding? where is the story set? how old are they? how do they fall in love? stuff like that! honestly sometimes i just put on main character music and visualise scenes that come to mind 😭

sometimes, your "one thing" can literally just be a dialogue line. is there one line you really want to include in your story? maybe it's a nickname or a particular scene or ending or something like that. for example, your one thing might be that you don't want your characters to end up together, so you can backtrack the series of events that unfold to make that happen.

as for writing tips, oh god if i included everything then this post would literally be way too long :< my best tip for writing is to honestly focus on your characters. start small and choose two/three main characters and focus on them. don't worry about coming up with a unique plot or something full of twists or whatever else. my favourite stories in the world were written by authors who made me genuinely love their characters because they felt real. sure, a whacky plot might hook a reader in, but likeable characters that are worth rooting for are what going to make your readers stay.

ways to make your readers want to root for your characters is by giving your characters motivations and fears and all the other stuff that real humans have. for example, i'm not going to give a shit about story about a snail that roams the earth. but if you tell me that that snail is the only one left of its species and its one true goal in life is to find another snail to marry, i'm probably going to care a lot more about the story bc now i rlly wanna know if the snail gets what it wants :<

LMAO maybe that made no actual sense but my point is mostly to just flesh out your characters and give them feelings and emotions and show that in your writing. with the enemies to lovers example, i really love the e2l stories that genuinely make me feel like the two characters are better when they're together because they bring out the best in each other. maybe i'm rooting for them because one of them has a history of self-sabotage and i really want to see them be happy for once. stuff like that, yk?

sorry if this was quite tangential and the advice is a little vague. you can always ask clarifying questions!

here are some resources that might help!

job ideas

dialogue prompts: one, two, three, four (search "dialogue prompts" on tumblr)

more prompts!

also bff don't be too hard on yourself. writing is so subjective — people you think are good writers might be considered bad by someone else. just write about stories you like, whether it's a cute romcom plot or a horror fic or an angsty story about fucking snails, because that's all that really matters. have fun okie? :>>

lots of luv <333

[herbgerblin]

k so this is half out of the blue, BUT ! do you still use Calmly Writer for writing your fics? i remember seeing you mention it sometime back in 2020, and i've been using it myself ever since, but my brower has made itself half incompatible with the online version, so i was wondering if you've moved onto any Greener Writer Pastures (that i could then also replicate) thanks!

You might have me mistaken for someone else because I've never used Calmly Writer before (though I will look into it because it sounds really useful.) I can definitely recommend some other programs that I have used however :0!

The most helpful one for me has been dictation.io, which is a speech-to-text writer. Physically sitting down to write can be a difficult experience for me, and this allows me to be hands-free and move around. Granted, it's still annoying to have to say the punctuation out loud, but I just allow myself to ramble, with occasional paragraph breaks, and then edit it all later.

I've also seen people use Trello boards for character and plot organization. I've tried it a little bit and it definitely makes tracking the plot easier if you're like me and need to see everything all at once. I fell off of use for it since I mainly keep notes in Google docs, but maybe it'll work for other people :0?

I just recently found visuwords.com, which is like a thesaurus that works similar to tumblr's floating connected notes visualizer. you can see how synonym's connected and branch out from one another, and double-click on a particular word to find one closer to what you're looking for. It can be a bit overwhelming if you have to do a lot of searching, but I think it's super useful if you struggle to find the write synonym for something.

[matoitech]

wait hi so i noticed you've posted some pictures of the promare storyboards and i think they look really cool, so i'm curious where you got them. Did you buy them or find them online somewhere or something like that?

they’re from the storyboard book! it has all of the storyboards for the movie and ovas as well as storyboards for some deleted scenes, concept boards, color tests, etc. it’s like 1000+ pages and sometimes referred to as the promare bible lol. i don’t know if there’s a pdf scanned copy of every page online bcuz i got my pics from my physical copy but the cover looks like this if u wanna look it up further, i know there’s still copies on ebay tho it’s a huge book so it’s pretty expensive

[sentient-cloud]

Hey! I’m doing a paper for college on Pokémon (the English teacher gave us free reign) and I have a few questions for my paper!

1. What is your favorite thing about Pokémon?

2. Are you on the autism spectrum?

3. Do you interact with other fans (and if so, how)?

Feel free to add more or ignore this ask!

Oh, hey! Uh let’s see. I think my favorite thing about pokemon tends to be the creature designs honestly. I just really think seeing the pokemon is neat :]

I’m not on the autism spectrum, as far as I’m aware, though I have been diagnosed with adhd, if that’s relevant :0

And how I interact with other fans, hmm. Mainly just from posting and sharing art through tumblr, and I guess sharing my little team configurations with my friend circle. I did use pokemon forums once but I found the community pretty abrasive.

[julykings]

hi! i just wanted to say i'm very proud of you for how far you've come. i've also struggled w an ed but have been recovering well, but because of it i've been scared to exercise for a while. do you have any tips for starting to exercise again without overdoing it and relapsing?

hi, i’m so happy to hear that you’re also recovering :’) it’s so hard but so worth it. i’m in no way an expert + can only speak from my experience but what’s helped me is exercising mostly in ways that are fun / don’t Feel like exercise (roller skating, dancing, walking the dogs - i also run but to me it’s fun lol!) but more importantly don’t engage in old behaviors in response to exercising (don’t track calories burned, don’t weigh yourself etc.) aka don’t allow exercising to become just another bad habit to enable your ed (easier said than done i know). it requires a lot of diligence and changing the way you think about A Lot of things but it’s so worth it to me.

[solidburnreturned]

I’m thinking about drawing Barb, but I’m not exactly sure how I should do it. Do you mind showing me how I should draw her body?

Here’s a nifty reference pic:

Basically, her body is shaped kinda like an upside-down triangle. She doesn’t really have the chubbiness that most trolls have, and her shoulders are a bit wider than her hips.

[gotabulletproofheart]

Hey this is so weird but what's the thing that has Gerard Way and some one else and the other dude is counting off things that Gerard can't do? I completely lost it and I can't find it anywhere

sounds like the opening to I’m Not Okay

if you mean a specific gif set there’s probably a bunch around u can find

[knaiifu]

how do u kill an artblock

stab it with a knife

[keikakus]

I am looking for anime with a sweet boy, I love them. Like Ciel, Nagisa, maybe Oz... It is hard for me to find anything properly, I am not looking for yaoi, but maybe it should be more gayish than Free or Kuroshitsuji... Can you help me? Is is anything what you can advice me?

idk about how gayish it can be but ill try my best ^^

i’d recommend going for the bold first 

binan koukou chikyuu bouei-bu LOVE! 

hunter X hunter 

K project

samurai flamenco

kyou kara maou 

magi: the labyrinth of magic 

nabari no ou

senyuu

tsuritama

Un-go

natsume yuujinchou 

karneval 

orenchi no furo jijou

makai ouji: devils and realists

[skywolf25]

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[askavilasandazazal]

i might ship/rp with you but your theme is too confusing for me to check out your trolls ;A;

I don’t know how it’s confusing? But I’ll tell you how to get to my profiles!> Go to my sidebar > Click character select> Then click FANTROLL LIST and you’ll get taken to my list of fantrolls! Anything lit up with a lighter yellow text is linked!