#i told u i was slow

[chameleonden]

swear that if they don’t get a happy ending that i will, personally, break into sony headquarters and Fix it myself

[neetily]

kinktober alex warnings thus far.

small snippet for your enjoyment maybe. as always subject to change still a wip blah blah.

Don’t fucking leave me, I need you, you don’t understand—

“Mate—” he growls at you, chest rumbling with affection, throat tight with choked up lust.

“Alex— w-wait, please—!”

You sound so soft. Scared, like a little animal. A mere pup to his much larger wolf stature. The moon hangs high in the sky for him, whispering sweet nothings down his ear with promises of forever— all it takes is one night to secure his place by your side forever. Forever and ever, his half lidded gaze stuck on your tummy as you attempt once more to flee his bruising grip, though the attempt is pitiful. He could fill you up so well y’know? Give you so many cute little pups— oh, and he just knows with a twitch of his cock that you’d be the best mama in the world. His perfect little mate; don’t you want that as badly as he does? Don’t you wanna be his pretty princess pup forever? The way you’re gasping and shivering from under him tells him so, like you need it. Just like him, right?

Because where you might babble for a break, your body is at least being more honest with him in place of your verbal lies. And he forgives you for that, for letting your inherently needy nature communicate with his own.

[drenched-in-sunlight]

i like ghostflower (hell I draw fanarts for them) but I’ve decided I like the version of them in my head more and will just stay away from the fandom in general cuz I’ve seen some discussion and they just make me go “what on earth are y’all on” 💀💀💀💀

[macabremoons]

One thing that I think we don't talk about enough is that Word Count... is more than words.

Like I can type pretty fast. I've written 1k in under 30 minutes before. When I'm writing a new project or a oneshot, it's often easy for me to write 2k-3k in a day. But typing fast and writing fast are not the same. You have to characterize, pace, add flow, keep with the plot, and think of ideas for the next sentence. If I just had to WRITE my current main project I would have been done months ago, but I would take week to month long breaks just to... think of where to take the story. JUST THINKING! Even writing this post took a great amount consideration. You aren't just spewing words you can remember in a random order, you are CRAFTING. YOU HAVE A SKILL. YOU ARE USING IT AND TRAINING IT!!!

That's why saying "oh if word count doesn't work for you, then use pages!" doesn't work. You're still running into the same problem. The page or thousand words where two characters defeat the big bad are not going to be as hard to write as the page or thousand words of banter. Not all writing is made equal, and to view it completely numerically is a disservice to yourself.

This isn't to say word count is worthless. That is another extreme, and I will not let you go away from this post without nuance. Viewing the progress in your writing by the literal progress of the plot is extremely mentally taxing. Numbers go brrr is a great shorthand, but it is a SHORTHAND. You have to remember that you are an artist. You are a writer. You have the ability to take an idea and make it physical. Don't you DARE water that down! Honor yourself! Take your time, take breaks, amd reward yourself. View this as something of value or SO HELP ME GOD--

[samarecharm]

Its so funny that Makoto gets such an awful rep (usually bc of her treatment of Futaba), but going through the game again, Makoto is the one who leads the conversation into getting her to open up for the palace door. She immediately offers up the idea of just being honest with Futaba; no lies or soft words, just straight facts in a calm voice. She knew Futaba wanted the change of heart, badly enough that shed listen without having to be convinced by force. And when Futaba panics about having to open up, Makoto makes sure she has no chance of backing out (‘give me time to open the door’ ‘ten seconds’ ‘WHAT???!’). Its for her own good!!

I think it can come across as mean and overbearing and even insensitive, especially if you are someone who is sees themself IN Futaba, but Makoto is both incredibly caring, sisterly, and understanding during the entirety of her arc. Like most characters, fandom seems to completely warp and exaggerate very specific moments and traits and sum up entire personalities bc of it. Ryuji and him being stupid; Ann and her being loud and mean; Yusuke being dumb as shit and singleminded for NO discernible reason, etc etc. People took the snooping and her one vaguely insensitive comment (about futaba and her whole Thing) and decided that she was a cunt and a bitch that couldnt be reasoned with.

Its so bizarre. Im aware that every piece of media w vaguely assertive girls has this issue (Sakura, Katara, Aqua, etc etc) but its still crazy that this is prevalent. Shes like the direct mirror of Goro and he does not get this specific kind of hate (usually its ‘he backstabbed and blackmailed us so i hate him’). Sorry. I need to be a Makoto Apologist to protect her from the rest of the world. My girl did nothing wrong shes just weird. She thought she could fight a mafia boss and she was RIGHT! She WON!!!!

[insufferablemod]

do you have any tips for like... paneling? your lil comics, if i could call them that(?) with Dave are well made (to me at least) and I'd like to get into making comics! or if you know any resources that helped you. :') - sincerely, a beginner.

sorry to be answering this so late, wanted to try and give some kinda proper advice haha so what i do is i just make my posts as long as possible so that it takes up like all of ppls dash, this means they are forced to look at it and engage with it! no ok but for real, first off this is just how i do things and by no means any sort of proper tutorial or anything, most of this is prob kinda basic and intuitive stuff, but its good to be reminded of the basics and to notice why you might be doing said things intuitively so you can start doing it intentionally so how i approach things is by picking a focus panel whats the Punchline/Emotional pay off for the page/comic? and then i try and build the rest around that for actual Comics not every page is gonna have one of those ofcourse and thats fine i tend to often have to many focus panels,,,, lmao(which is why my posts end up so long,,,,) i try to group similar panels and make them smaller, it saves space, makes it so the attention goes to the more unique panels and makes things feel more sequential(or u can do like me and have too many similar panels and think, what if i just make it an animation, its just a few extra frames right,,,?<- clueless(i have done this twice now,,, the second is still a wip,,, )) heres one of my posts deconstructed using all this, id do more of them but i dont wanna make this even longer asdsd, but i think its pretty obvious to pick up on once you know the formula lol

after that i think its mostly just clear composition and flow so things dont get confusing(like what panel(also applies to text) youre suppose to read next and such(thats easier with this cus its usually just individual panels and not full pages)) edit: oh and resources that helped me, i mostly just looked at other comics, paying attention to how the paneling was effecting the story and mood! some comics ive looked at for paneling inspo are houseki no kuni, how they play with contrast and stuff, idk theyre all just very striking, i looked at ajin at some point as well for help with some action stuff, most action shonen are also great for that 2 so yeah, just find a comic scene that has the same vibe that youre trying to get and see how they did it, finding a few and comparing and contrasting what you feel works best thats my thought process while doing stuff at least! i hope this helps at least a bit haha

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[apotelesmaa]

None of u understand how funny emunene is… emu going I’m going to follow you forever and ever you’re so amazing nene chan you’re so pretty and talented let’s hang out all the time & nene going I just don’t think she likes me that way 😔 she’s just being friendly. Also objectively nene realizing she has the same level of denseness as tsukasa wrt rui is hysterical. she goes thru all the stages of grief in a week and contemplates telling nenerobo to kill tsukasa so she doesn’t have to think about it ever again.

[achillvs]

"women want me, bats fear me" aka the tale of how my durge cannot get astarion to like him while shadowheart and lae'zel immediately asked to get some alone time

[divinesouldariax]

have i mentioned i finished The Path We Walk here yet?

[deus-ex-mona]

starting the year ✨wrong✨

[nonclassyparty]

sigh there's so much stuff i want to write but so little time for it. i think i need 64 hours in a day or something but i get new ideas so often and can't shake them off and the worst part is i never know how the story is supposed to end after the characters colossally fuck each other over LOL! i'd actually like these two to end up together...i guess thats the con to loving writing angst so much fjgdjgk??

anyways apart from this small rant, i wanted to ask which members out of these three coughmybiaslinecough would you guys like me to write about next? i haven't written for yunho much yet but he seems like he wouldn't fit the character i had in mind ORRR maybe he'd fit a little too well im not sure and need help deciding so

[beecampbell]

i want to play baldur's gate so bad but i'm scared i'm not going to Play It Right

[mejomonster]

I actually think. Maybe i Show a lot in writing. Maybe a bit too much even

(Not in the sense its bad to show, but in the sense it takes SO MANY MORE WORDS to write a scene the more u show)

I read some of the nicest advice i ever Actually have seen on show versus tell in writing the other day. Advice that acknowledged there are actually times its better to tell. That all stories do a combo of show and tell. (And that if u really need to lean into the show advice it might be if ur not showing much at All, so the advice gets hammered in extremely instead of tempered).

Anyway. The advice i read recently said: showing in writing allows you to slow the speed of the scene and draw the reader in. (So establishing setting, getting a reader to feel a mood, making a particularly emotional impact alongside a particular dialogue exchange, showing can all help with). Telling in writing helps pick up the pace, move things along. Want something snappier, where a detail doesn't need to be dwelled on and sunken into? If you need to move things along, tell. A snappy quick explanation of some sci fi world's vehicle, a quick "he checked the crime scene and found a note, bringing it back to the team" if the crime scene checking wasnt important but the next scene of team discussion is. I thought it was a great explanation of why 1 its okay to tell rather than show 2 one way to speed up pace/cut down word count (which i desperately needed to hear lol)

[izzy-b-hands]

I may have gotten basically nothing done today aside from a couple Cloud surveys and some job apps but

It's okay

I will do the dishes after work (aka the one thing i wanted done before work today that my brain did not cooperate with me on at all)

This shift will go...i want to say good. but they're already emailing us abt doing the thing that we found out at the work training got them fined by a major regulatory body and im like. The shift hasn't even started yet. pls. not already im not even clocked in (and can't be until ten mins before anyway). Can u save ur fucking bs for when I'm at least on the clock being underpaid to deal with it lmao

I will get thru my shift tonight. maybe that's the best i can hope for here. I'll take it, and after...dishes and maybe more fic writing if my brain is up to it

[mooodyblue]

venting abt unimportant things in da tags ignore me