#hope your day is going good!

[savage-rhi]

i have no reqs for any writing, i just found your blog awesome, as we share a lot of interests/faves, but here it is anyway since i read the rules: thylacine! :D hope your day is swell

@sterilebear I appreciate you going through the trouble regardless! If you want something at any point, let me know! And thank you for tagging along on my bad hyperfixes and drabbles 😂💙

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[xxplastic-cubexx]

your krakoa era cherik art has altered my brain chemistry

more krakoa era is to come from me my friend so i worry for your brain

[teethkid67]

PAYDAY

aka a valentine for the lovely @itsnotmystic / @corvids-calling - fanart for stars fic of the same name, which you can read here !!! i really enjoyed this concept and wanted to do some art for it :3 hope you like it because i REALLY loved your work & i hope this shows that !!! HAPPY VALENTINES DAY !!!!

this is also a loose love-letter to the wonderful @arginnit 's crazy background-drawing-ability and style/skill at portraying environments . wadds your stuff is insane and i love it

happy @mcyt-valentines exchange !!!!

[tiredyke]

every time queer discourse surges on this site everyone is so quick to jump to “it was actually the evil lesbians who divided us” because y’all heard the term “political lesbian” and never bothered to figure out what that meant

[anemonet]

Iterator can from my wips (please read that in the tone of blorbo from my show :) (that superstructure is a girl (he/it) to me)

[myokk]

soft🥹

[thearunadragon]

I love how Eragon got drunk with Orik and this basically actually happened.

Eragon: I’m in love with Arya. Thoughts?

Orik: And prayers. You’re gonna need ‘em!

[jesteringbug]

Wow! Your Ignihyde redesigns are so fucking ugly! So hideous and uninspired, and their ugliness is only amplified by your very poor drawing skills and even uglier art style! And it's laughable how you really believe that you did better than the official designs, never do that again, you can't design or draw for shit.

too late i'm already planning a heartslabyul redesign lmao

[inkspottie]

Happy Halloween from the Confluence Gang!

The costume designs are from @mayapapaya7011

[morriganartblog]

Hello @canisalbus, have this wrinkled doodle of Machete

[braisedhoney]

the first thing a beast forgets is the taste of its own heart.

(a good luck (?) charm for those who are watching the owl house tomorrow since it’s all over the place rn. lemme know how that goes!)

[thordy]

[sourearth]

man... i was going through my 15 year old deviantart account and i actually really really miss that site. like tumblr is fun and insta is.. insta... but i dont think since then there's been such an art-focused community with so many people talking to each other and commenting on each others work quite like deviantart

(ofc massive disclaimer that i probably have some rose-tinted vision and the site was full of creeps and pedos... so if we could just have the good parts of it back LMAO)

[desultory-novice]

“Through the Looking Glass”

Sorry for giving anyone Deja Vu!

To explain...

This comic was actually the FIRST propaganda piece I began drawing for the Finals before deciding to finish the other one instead. I wasn't sure I'd come back to this idea after Mint made their own funny jokes about the mirror-verse situation, but my sister (who gave me the idea for this) wanted to see it finished, so! ✨

Btw, Noir's really close to making a comeback..!! Can his tourney story end a happy one?! Will he escape the constant cycle of trauma?!

@kirbyoctournament

[erinwantstowrite]

question, if you only have a basic plot concept how would you normally expand the plot? There's a story I really want to write and I know the idea of the vibe I want for it but I'm not sure of much from there ^^

Well, for me, I usually look at other media to get inspiration, things that are similar to what I'm trying to write. I imagine what my characters would do in the same situations, or I think about what I would have written instead, and from there, I figure out what could go where in an outline. We like to think our stories are original, but there's never a truly original story, and we're all a little inspired by each other. A lot of the movies or books you read have similar plotlines, but it's the author's influence and the character choices that make you decide if you like it or not.

Something that helps me is keeping in mind that other characters are doing things in the story outside of my narrator's POV, so they could create scenes for me. A villainous plot, someone confessing a crush, getting their doctorate and throwing a party. I think of it like... Making a hairstyle? Like one plot concept: you're putting your hair in a ponytail. Two plot concepts: you're creating a french braid. A third concept, you're making a regular braid. There are moving parts underneath your first story.

It goes into "How does my character get from point A to point B": knowing there are ups and downs to the road they have to take, and sometimes they might get sidetracked. My character has to get over a ravine, but they don't have a bridge to get across. Maybe they have to make a friend to help them find a bridge somewhere further down the ravine, or maybe an older figure in their lives teaches them how to make the bridge, or maybe someone on the other side of the ravine tries to help them get across.

(These are metaphorical or literal examples. "Ravine" could be a major set back in their lives, like trust issues. The "bridge" is them getting the tools to get over the setback. And the other characters are helping them figure it out, but every person has a different situation and therefore, different solutions.)

Sometimes, writing with a basic concept of what you want is the way to go- the problems create themselves, and you solve them as you go along. Your character gets across the ravine, but now they have a mountain to climb. It's up to you to decide if they trek it on their own, or if someone comes along and decides to help, or if there's a person who waits at the start of the trail and always offers help to the travelers they come across.