#invisible ink

[sabertoothwalrus]

I’ve been having fun going back to older drawings in my sketchbook and adding blacklight secrets 🔍

[whumpwonders]

This makes no sense but I was thinking about invisible ink and how that could be used in whump (not sure why, but hey) and came up with the idea of a Whumper that would 'write' things on Whumpee's skin with a pen while psychologically torturing them, like a non-painful form of branding. Only instead of this scaring Whumpee further, it just confused them because "Whumper that pen does not work."

At the time, Whumpee found it a little funny. Whumper would say so many horrific things while tracing their words over Whumpee's skin, writing over their face, their hands, their back. But no ink was ever visible, it just tickled...

...until Whumpee is rescued by the Team/Caretaker and one day ends up in a situation involving ultraviolet light.

It turns out the pen did work after all. Not only did it work, but it worked well. It was just invisible under normal conditions. The moment Whumpee stepped beneath the UV light, every monstrous thing Whumper had ever said became readily available for the Team to read. Despite being free from Whumper for months, the ink still stained Whumpee's skin, like some kind of twisted tattoo.

Now the Team has to figure out what to do with everything they've just learned, and Whumpee has to figure out how they're going to live knowing that no matter how hard they try to forget, they will never be free of Whumper's words.

[tdutb]

the erm. giys, yeah,.

@peppermintz-25 ya already saw it but eh

[jasmine-sketchbook]

Today’s Gravity Falls stuffs from my sketchbook !

Don’t mind Bill...

[catdragonstella]

HAPPY 1ST FRIEND ANNIVERSARY 💚❤️

(It's something quick I'm sorry. And it's not very visible, but it's night selfie and there id more details. I promise. I will send you better version to see the smaller details

I can't believe it's been already a whole fricking year since I met my most favorite person. You are my bestest friend I ever had and you inspired me so fricking much. Without you I wouldn't even be posting, or have the will to continue my original stories. Hell, thanks to you I wanted to start again on water colloseum. None of it would become true if you weren't in my life. And to be honest. I would be miserable.

Your stories of gods, stars, mortals and other creatures is just amaizing and inspiring. It has so much life and thought putted into it it's insane. The design of characters, the thought out story and personalities feels like real characters that people actually want to find out more about them. I wish you nothing more, but one day turned legends of Stellaris into whole Cartoon series with many fans and fanarts and marketable plushies that would fly of the shelfs. ( I would be already number one customer with the merch and help as much as I can to make it into a real show)

I know our meeting was by pure Chance, but I can't thank any entity that exits enough I met you. Thanks to you I met amaizing artists and make so many memories. I can't Wait for more years spend talking with you. Hang out with you and support you threw thick and thin and maybe one day even meet you in person and maybe go to comic con as our characters. I want to do anything to make you happy. Whatever it takes. You are the bestest artist, person and friend I know, Onyx. 💖YA FOREVER

@clock-onyx

[cinnamons1999]

[victusinveritas]

[luna-the-bard]

When all the dipper brains are solving puzzles and cracking codes, and you have a Mabel brain

Hand-stitched this felt pen holder bookmark and got uv pens for writing in the book

[kryptidcreative]

Godzilla / Pinkzilla

my husband and I saw the new movie recently!

Good times. Drew this because I've never really drawn this king of monsters

[artist-issues]

Oh boy no anon lol. Anyway. I was wondering where you learned so much about the fundamentals of storytelling? I have a very deep appreciation of storytelling and can tell you what little details make stories good or weak, but when it comes to my own writing, it's like I don't know anything. Which I guess is true because my understanding, while maybe more literate than the average person, is still very surface level. I can't say I agree with all of your analyses lol but I agree with 99% because of your insight on how each element of a story relates back to its message. I don't think most people, even modern authors, have the ability to do that. Storytelling has definitely become a lost art, which is so unfortunate because I think it's so fundamental to human culture.

I really try to deconstruct the idea of "storytelling" and then say, "what did God do with this? Obviously He invented stories, Reality is the story He's telling, so how does He do it? What's the thing He uses it for? Now, how can humans also do that (because we're made in His image) and how has The Fall affected the way we do it?"

But, when it comes to articulating my "fundamentals of storytelling" understanding, I'm not very original. I learned a lot from the Belief Agency (especially Brian MacDonald's Invisible Ink. I don't agree with all of it but it was helpful in understanding how to communicate the main idea thing.) and from Lewis and Tolkien's thoughts on storytelling.

I think humans can't help but storytell. Even people who've never created a character or put pen to paper, consciously, are telling themselves a story every day in their head. They're observing the world, processing it, and then repackaging those observations according to what they've decided is true. Worldviews. And then they'll tell stories to the people around them.

What's getting lost is telling stories about things that are true. Like my pinned post says, stories reposed to be signposts that point your brain and emotions back to Reality when they've wandered. Nowadays even people who get the "This is supposed to communicate a main point" thing make that main point about ugliness or hate or straight-up lies. (I'm usually thinking about Riann Johnson's Knives Out movies.)

Thanks for your kind thoughts! If I ever hit the mark or say anything good or true, it's thanks to God, not me.

[artisticpizza]

Nothing like doodling on your textbooks in invisible ink

[bitingdown17]

INVISIBLE INK

when i tell you my jaw dropped

[picklewednesday]

I had an idea and had to make it before it ran away.

@peppermintz-25 pspspsps invisible ink

[blazedmamii]

[jasmine-sketchbook]

Some doodles with invisible ink

He's not what he seems...

[lieutenant76]

Hiding in plain sight