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beginning the arduous task of packing up my college dorm since im graduating next month and it is making me incredibly emotional for no reason
#ive hardly been home since we got back from covid#partially by choice partially because of my job#so i have not had to officially Pack Up before#and i do not do particularly well with change until the change happens and then im usually fine#ive accumulated a lot of stuff#not a tag#from saph
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Can all the doujinshi im ordering please arrive at the proxy immediately because like every other day i check surugaya and find another 1 i want to buy theres 8 of them now
#theyre all like 3-5 bucks but theyre accumulating.#1 is from 99ā¦ exciting#rest are 2000/2001. im also interested in ggx stuff but theres a lot more of it so i have to be wise.#OH YEAH and 1 of them is by someone who was in the official comics!! they did a lot of cute testament and dizzy stuff#theyre on the coverā¦ just little chibis but i will hope for somethingā¦#i would like to try to scan some of these. i should do this. and some official volumes i enjoy. ive discussed this.#scanning and editing the testament anthologies was kind of nice tbh#the kat goes meow
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if theres one thing this move has done to me it has made me addicted to throwing shit out
#literally threw out sm cheap jewelry that i accumulated throughout middle and high school#plus my phase in early undergrad where i was obsessed with buying random necklaces and bracelets from street stalls#like dont get me wrong im keeping a few cool things but i dont need like 13 pairs of nondescript stud earrings from H&M š#i do kind of consider myself a jewelry collector bc my mom passed down a lot of cool pieces she got in 1990s beograd#and a family friend left me a lot of her jewelry when she passed#and ive gotten some cool things on etsy#+ my relatives have given me a lot of beautiful serbian filigree#so i donāt mind having slightly more jewelry than im going to realistically get a lot of wear out of#but it was getting out of control and my collection was getting bloated with dumb stuff i bought kind of mindlessly#also by āāthrowing outāā i mostly mean im gonna try to see if any thrift shops in the area want the stuff thats still in good condition lol
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guy with one million unfinished creative projects: what if i started another creative project
#what if... i made tarot cards...#i like doing collage but i never know what to make#and ive accumulated a lot of collage stuff#and i like tarot cards#hmmmmmmm#i dont actually own even 1 deck rn but im going to end up collecting them for the art if im not careful lol#personal
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i feel so fucked up with how bad my depression has gotten i have to get a new hobby or something but part of the sickness is not being able to do anything at all so i just sit at my desk and flip through notifications on every website im on
#all the hobbies i want to partake in cost money#like if i wanted to do more electronics tinkering id have to buy shit to do things with i dont really have anything currently#just some ipod nanos and shuffles that need soldering for the batteries that arent really any fun to work on#i wanted to do game consoles but they take up a lot of space#lately the only real joy ive gotten out of anything is doing stuff with my vrchat models but again. money#i could probably mess with resin again but idk what id do with the stuff i end up making#i guess i could learn how to make bigger kandi cuffs since i have so many beads ive accumulated. but it doesnt feel very fulfilling#i was involved with pin collecting for a while but fursona pins stopped being fun for me when they stopped the character pins and thats#a hobby that is just buying shit nothing else. i want to like do something#the real answer to all of this is get a job you lazy asshole
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wish i could finish some art
#the bin#idk. ive sketched lots of stuff recently. mostly touhous. but posting them is hard bc it looks really bad in pictures#i used to press down real hard with my pencil which was bad bc its hard to erase and ive fixed that and now use it very lightly but i think#maybe i use it too lightly. the sketches that have dark lines are the ones ive gone over so many times and so they accumulate#im inking them and maybe ill color them but id rather not bother esp bc my hands are super shaky and so i tend to mess up the lines a lot#its not something that can be helped. no amount of practice will change the fact my hands shake a lot. digital art fixes this bc i can just#undo the mistake but ive been struggling with digital recently. idk. i just feel like i have to at least color all my digital stuff#im gonna work on just making silly digital sketches and let that be that though
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life update ig?
internet and doc says id feel better after around 8 weeks , it has been 3 (going 4 i guess) months and i still feel horribleā¦. There are times where its more manageable but most of the time its like theres a heavy fog in my mind that i cannot shake no matter what i do. i see old classmates and friends living their best lives rn and lots of them seem so happy, chill and put together and I wonder what im missing?? (is it running??? all of them seem to be runners lol). I remember back in internship days and me and friend would always casually say depressing things because it was the usual for us and other co-interns were like ā??? omg are u ok dont say stuff like thatā and thats when I realized rly that woah not all college students r burntout and fighting depression djdhh
The feeling has never left me since then though, maybe its all the stress from being forced to do well in a path I never rly liked and the lack of proper sleep that had accumulated and im still feeling it to this day? but damn its been 4 years since then
anyway, today has been worse than usual and i did not know what to do with the thoughts tonight so am writing them down as proof of life since I havent rly been active lately. Im still trying to finish everything I have to draw though, cuz my mind wont let me have a moments peace. I cannot rly enjoy hobbies (i thought it would help) or anything either cuz all of them are tainted by ā¦thoughts.
Will definitely take a LONG break after all this (fr this time) because I canāt find joy in art anymore. Its more of a stressor now than a passion and ive lost that urge to learn and improve. I dont even have the energy to open social media that often anymore
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hi!! im sure ppl have asked this b4, but i scoured your asks tag for an hour or so looking to see if you answered anything abt it and couldnt find anything, so i was just wondering if youve made any posts on your process for making n selling merch b4? and how you know which franchises you can make merch for w/o getting into trouble w copyright n trademark stuff (hopefully that makes sense, im not sure,,,)
hi! got a bunch of asks abt merch stuff lately im gonna put it under a cut.
preface: i don't know if i'm the best person to ask about all this stuff because I'm doing merch on a strictly hobby basis LOL. I have a fulltime job which takes care of the bulk of my finances, I don't really make big quantities of anything and my main priority at cons is to just make enough money to see my friends in different cities at minimal expense. i pretty much always get a refund when i file my con taxes because my profit after all the deductions is like fucking..nothing.. lmao. So if you ultimately lose money following my advice don't blame me. OK NOW lets get into it
my process for making merch: when I have an event scheduled that I want to make merch for I start by brainstorming a bunch of stuff I wanna make. for mgscon this is what I wrote down in my sketchbook lol
i made a legend to denote which ones are actually just reprints. it gets easier to plan out merch when you already have merch. out of the new merch ideas here i actually only made like 4 of them. and out of the reprints i only reprinted like three. i also came up with like 4-5 other merch ideas after writing out this list that i actually did do. LMAOO UM. my point here is that nothing rly goes as planned.
when i get a merch idea i start with thumbnails what i want it to look like (sometimes this is based off merch ive seen before so its very realized and sometimes its really vague bc im kind of pulling it out of my ass)
then BEFORE i go into making the final art I research how I'm going to make the merch. whether its printing/constructing it myself or looking for a manufacturer. There's a lot of different places that you can get custom merch made, i used to go shopping around at local printing shops but nowadays it's really common to do it all online. For both these jet tags and the washi tape I did some of my own research into manufacturers and also asked friends for their contacts/referrals/recommendations etc. most manufacturers either have their specs/template publicly available or will give them to you when you ask. so once I've locked into a manu and gotten the specs I'll start designing the final art.
then it's sending it off and waiting! easier said than done.
i will say this process is a lot lengthier for some types of merch than others LOL. for prints... I've been doing prints for like a million years and I plan out almost none of it. I draw everything at print resolution so a week before I have a con scheduled I'll simply go through all the files I've accumulated since my last con, squeeze whatever drawings I want into standard print sizes lol (ie. 8.5x11, 11x17, 4x6 etc), and print them at a local shop. takes like a couple hours max.
how you know which franchises you can make merch for w/o getting into trouble w copyright n trademark stuff?
I mean. honestly I don't know. selling fanart is the kind of thing that IP holders kind of just let slide as long as they don't think they're losing a substantial amt of money on it. there ARE a couple franchises people avoid because they've been known to send IP lawyers after fanartists... disney is the big one and they're known for being pretty petty abt it... that's why you don't really see people selling fanart of the disney princesses at cons. ive heard pokemon will also crack down if your project seems to be making a lot of money lol, part of why i think a lot of pokemon fanzines operate on a charity basis. I do feel like the pokemon company has bigger fish to fry than someones artist alley table though so i wouldn't sweat it too much.
it's also generally considered impolite/bad taste to sell fanart of small franchises. webcomics and indie games especially if they only have like 1-2 devs who rely on the income that game makes.
I'm not a lawyer so you shouldn't consider this legal advice BUT I will say... I don't think you should let IP law stop you from selling fanart lol. especially if it's low quantities/not mass produced and you're not making crazy amts of money I think you kind of have a leg to stand on. Besides, most cases it seems like the worst you'll get is a cease and desist.
you Will notice that when people start turning their artist alley endeavors into a real business they'll generally ease up on selling fanart (the case most prominent in my mind is omocat lol). but i love fanart and thats why i will never make money and thats a promise [snake saluting gif]
SORRY IDK IF ANY OF THIS WAS HELPFUL. I've been doing merch and cons for a long time (10+ years lmao, you can find record of this on this very blog) and i think im kind of old fashioned about it. i recognize the artist alley/merch scene is a lot more demanding now than it used to be but start small at local low-risk events, online sales etc and work your way up and remember to have fun and itll be ok i believe this wholeheartedly.
its literally just layers of acrylic like any other dinky charm. I'm sure pretty much any manu that does acrylic charms could do it but this specific charm/template i did order through a group order server. they're pretty well known! heres a link to their twitter
@wheatormeat sorry for taking a full month to answer this... anyways. This is tricky because I've actually been changing up my sticker manu everytime LOL IDK if I've found one I actually love.
these ones i ordered thru an alibaba manu because I was jumping on a friend's group order to save on shipping. it was ok. they arrived a liiiitle late and printed a lil dark but i think thats kind of my fault LOL I use dark colors i always need to lighten things before i get them printed and i think i just didnt lighten these enough. otherwise i rly love the quality!
i realized i never posted these online and also this is not a good picture (the lighting in my living room sucks rn) but i printed these tmnt stickers thru stickerninja they feel really solid but they needed kind of a lot of space for the cutline. but their customer service was very nice and helpful!
these ones i got printed at washimill and i was so impressed with how fine their cutline is... pricing and quality of the sticker itself is alright they feel a lil flimsy? idk. but i do like the printing. i kind of elected to go with them solely because i was already ordering washi tape. A LOT of my manufacturing decisions are made based on how much money i can save on shipping tbh.
and thats my sticker manu reviews dont forget to like comment subscribe idk if i have one im gonna stick with forever or anything im rly indecisive. ideally id like a manu based in the u.s...? because im based in the u.s. and international shipping is pricey. but idk if i keep ordering washi tape maybe ill keep using washimill. who knows...
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ive finaly managed to lay it out my major interests. i dont know what took me so long to be able to do that. i posted it to bluesky but iāll do it here too. i need a new pinned post anyway.
22 neurodivergent ass autistic goth nerd and other-proclaimed āwizardā
things iām interested in:
science: ALL natural science, esp. neuroscience, neuropsychology, psychology (the mind), biology, anatomy & physiology, ecosystems
other realms: philosophy, sociology, anthropology, human ethology, personality differences
natural noumena: patterns in nature, emergence, self-organization / spontaneous order, chaos theory and fractals
tropes / archetypes
analytical psychology / jungian analysis (not in association to jordan peterson, whom i think is a chode. this is significant to me, because i feel like i share the phenomenological reality with jung that formed the basis of his ideas. many of these forces iāve noticed on my own, separate from him, before i knew him. so seeing his ideas i was like āoh he put it into words. glad to know someone else has a keen sense for these phenomenaā)
socionics model A
other typological systems: enneagram, mbti (not 16personalities), etc. (quizzes are lazy minded, reading the theoretical foundations helps it feel much more significant)
eclectic alternative music subcultures + history: esp. 70s-80s, experimental, psychedelic rock, punk, new wave, post-punk, goth rock, industrial
the venture bros. (bonus points if you understand most of the references because this show is like my personal catnip)
jhonen vasquez: jthm, squee, i feel sick, invader zim (decade+ old fan)
david lynch: twin peaks, eraserhead, blue velvet, mulholland drive, etc
jon bois: pretty good, 17776/20020, chart party, team history documentaries, etc
blaseball
vinesauce
pokemon: in general, but esp. game mechanics
gravity falls (decade old fan)
homestuck (decade old fan)
mother series
star trek* (*slowly immersing myself)
lots of more stuff i probably missed
typology type profile: LII-Ne IN(T) INFJ 5w4 so/sp 514 |R|COAI
random things i want to say:
given enough time i think i could probably explain anything
i live in a very isolated pocket of my own taste in art/music where im not really aware of what everyone else is listening to because it justā¦doesnt really cross my mind ever? i found out brian eno said something similar, āIf I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.ā i told my friend the other day i feel like i understand my self through music and art, because of the accumulation of my taste i can actually experience my unconscious preference and know what i feel my own experiences reflected in
im best at self-reflection and observations of own my own mental processes
if i were forced to kin a homestuck character it would be aradia megido. weāre very close in spirit
i have similar mannerisms to dipper pines. first time i saw a cartoon character and felt represented
another brian eno quote i strongly relate to: āSometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.ā
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āwhy isnt there a straight pride month??!?!?!?!?!?! š¢š¢š¢ā
if you can name me one country where it is, or ever has been illegal to be straight than sure we can have a straight pride month
there is still 63 countries (globally for all of this) where it is illegal for two men to date.
there is still 40 where it is illegal for two women to date.
there is still 12 where a death penalty is a possibility against people in same sex relationships. TWELVE. At least half of which have actually implemented this law.
there is 14 countries with laws against cross-dressing and gender identity.
Theres this too.
(info found here and here)
Honestly, its disgusting how people twice or more of my age are so tone deaf to these things. We are still not equal, and the fact that kids know this better than a lot of adults do is sad.
āwell why dont we have veterans mont-ā May is veterans month. If you ACTUALLY gave a single SHIT about veterans you would know this. You are only using this point to justify your homophobia.
Im honestly just sick and tired of all these points. If all it was, was people saying they didnāt support my community, i could really care less. But even small counts of homophobia can accumulate to stuff on this scale. Conservatives always get so angry when you get mad at their homophobia. āItās just my opinion!!1!11!ā They tell me, but theyāre opinions and stances on other peoples rights also affect the views of other voters, of other political stances. Even then, were allowed to be defensive on our identities, just as they think theyāre allowed to be defensive on their opinions on us. Ive been called slurs as jokes. By straight, cis people. Actual slurs. And im legally a child. Isnt that just fucking disgusting? Theyre all āprotect the kids!ā Until the kid is queer.
Were constantly being reminded about how there will always be someone in the world that hated us for just existing. Sure, weāre getting closer to equality. But closer doesnāt mean weāre there. If we stop speaking up, none of these numbers will get any lower.
SOME LGBT DONATION CENTRES:
UNITE FOR CHANGE
LL
GSA NETWORK
PRIDE FOUNDATION
AND MORE HERE!!
#sorry for this rant guys#homophobia#queer rights#lgbt rights#activism#gay rights#gay pride#gay#lgbtqia#lgbtq community#lgbtq#lgbtqiia+#marriage equality#queer pride#queer community#Lgbt donations#pride month#queer#lgbt#lgbt pride#human rights
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how do u find all this old art and stuff?
I (op aka @cheylouwho) have been on tumblr since 2013 and ive been reblogging/saving art to my sideblog basically since then. So I have a lot of things that have just been accumulated and saved over the years. Basically I go through the archive of the blog month by month and reblog to this blog anything new that I find.
I plan on, when I finally finish archiving what's saved on said sideblog, looking at other old sp fandom accounts and digging in their archive for art. I also have a lot of friends who I follow who are very sentimental for old art and actively reblog it/search for it themselves. (I blame my fellow SPHS members and our fondness for nostalgia and archival.) So I'm always getting new stuff. But mostly, it's just straight up whatever I thought was cool/was popular during the time it was made.
A lot of the posts I've been putting on this blog the last few weeks have been things when I was at some of my personal peak activity in fandom. Meaning, a lot of it was reblogged to my sideblog the day the art was posted. I likely was browsing the tag when I reblogged them. So I'm getting really clear windows into what people were making and finding some serious hidden gems that only got a handful of notes back then.
However tho, and this is my biggest problem I'm finding: because I mostly pull from my own blog atm for the archive, it's mostly only ships *I* like/liked at the time of me saving it. So there's probably a lot heavier on creek for example than maybe is accurate. Not to mention the complete absence of other ships that maybe were/are popular that I didn't enjoy as much or that I didnt want to admit I liked.
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here are some Shiggy headcanons i've accumulated from reading fanfictions and just looking at pictures of shiggy
Afraid of needles - phobia?
ADHD
hates rain - hates silent noise in quiet places
Body dysphoria - has to do with AFO near endgame
Arthritis
Curls up in a ball under his shirt hugging his knees and that's why the neck is so stretched out
Mild sounds irritate him - creak of a door opening, someone whispering, fingers hitting keys on a computer. wears earplugs for this reason
His favorite genre of game is life simulators (like harvest moon or stardew i guess idk ive never played stardew) he likes talking to the bachelors lol he feels loved by whoever he choices to be with in game
Played a lot of older games - hes into stuff like Megaman X/original Megaman - Touhou - mario 64 - Starfox stuff like that is the kinda games he played. His first console was a ps3 and he played little big planet
Hates sand - only after fighting snatch did he learn how bad it was.
Can touch rain but he hates rain as previously mentioned its one of the things he can actually touch but he hates it
is somewhat mature and not petty enough to hold certain arguments and would be the first to apologize depending on the situation and person. he wont hold it against himself to be certain stages of petty but certain times with certain people he can admit hes too old for this.
Likes sweet things (not extremely sweet) likes cake - something that still is a good memory from his childhood. strawberry cake.
He likes candy, especially strawberry flavored ones, but that sounds lame so he lies and says he prefers sour stuff.
Lowkey unhealthy - needs to eat better and should be eating more but he doesn't for several reasons including - he just doesn't be hungry, hes giving the LOV his share of food and hes a picky eater.
Coke and ramen kind of person - he will cook it himself he likes it in the water, it has to be cooked on the stove cause the microwave doesnt do it for him. he likes it when its gummy like mac n cheese
Not all greasy food, but fries, he loves those
Foods he doesnāt like include seafood
He doesnāt like extremely spicy stuff, it upsets his stomach.
Corn allergy
Hates liars doesn't lie or pretend to be things in that sense - like hes not gonna lie to your face if he doesn't like you he'll tell you he doesn't like you he wont pretend.
Ugly laughs - like a donkey
Sitting outside is a punishment for himself but also its kinda therapeutic in a twisted kinda way - this is because he was put outside a lot as a kid
#bnha#my hero academia#shigaraki tomura#mha headcanons#bnha headcannons#theres a lot of projecting here#hes me fr fr
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āØMASTER POST YIPPIEāØ
Hi! My name is Bee/Beez, decided to migrate over to here from Insta, Iām still new to tumblr so be patient with me pls (this is probably gonna be a mess at first while I figure out how to do things)
- I go by They/Them please and thank you <3
- Iv got some severe rottmnt brainrot currently and Iāll likely end up drawing the same 2 characters for awhile so Iām very sorry if you came to my acc for āØvarietyāØNAY! Youāll likely just be seeing a lot of my Oc Tasi!
- Uhhh I donāt have a whole lot to tag right now but when iv accumulated enough art my tags for specifc stuff will go under here!
#rottmnt#rottmnt oc#unpause rottmnt#tmnt#masterpost#my art#my sona#sona art#self sona#original character#tokyo mew mew#sonic the hedgehog#puella magi madoka magica#pmmm#sonic fanart#sonicthehodgeheg#mlp fim#my little pony
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well regardless of where you got it from i really love that line, i think it adds an interesting angle to their relationship. what do you think bro knew about the nature of the game and daveās destiny for him to think of raising dave that way? im also curious about the subject matter of the fics you may have gotten inspiration from
thanks i think so too
i dont remember unfortunately; in regards to the fics. i dont really read fics nowadays and i do tend to read short ones to avoid This happening- where i absorb something and forget about it
more about bro under cut
i feel like bro knew some things; i like to keep certain parts of the 'game' aspect of their reality away from them
like for example: bro doesn't know EVERYTHING about what hes supposed to do. like he wasnt spawned in with I am A Guardian in his brain; he was a whole ass human person for 24 years until he got dave
growing up a lot of his information came from cal because since he was destined to be a guardian, he had nagging feelings in the back of his mind telling him to do certain things: get this apartment, do this that way, etc. and cal just enforced those
i think dirk's reason for raising dave that way is a combintion of the fact that thats the only way cal(iborn) referred to dave and that bro was never allowed to actually bond with dave (because caliborn made him believe that platonic affection is in fact not platonic at all and is instead sexual[the implications when bro is constantly carrying around cal with his arms around his neck btw. insane.])
i've talked about it a lil bit with input from error707-thatdude (whos training to dooooo... something w psychological development of kids or something? sorry i forgored) on stream and the lack of interaction/affection can be potentially fatal to human children
so every time dirk wanted to do what honestly, his instincts were telling him to do (hold dave, be gentle [even if stiff]) , he wasn't able to because he had caliborn in his ear whispering that he was being deeply fucking inappropriate with his goddamn son which . Jesus Christ. (ive come to the conclusion bc of this that the daves we see in canon are the daves that made it past childhood, as error707 said: the exceptions)
the fact that caliborn constantly told him about how dave was the knight and he needed to be the knight. he needed to enter the medium. if he didn't enter the medium then everything that dirk's entire life has been leading up to has been a disappointment, a mistake, and he doesn't want to disappoint his very dear best friend cal does he? hee hee hee.
he also told him about how dave is SUPPOSED to be. cool, stoic. that kinda stuff, bc calibrn has a bit of a gay thing for both of them im sure.
+ the deep feeling inside of dirk that he Knew cal was right (something something; destiny/fate/will of the universe/etc), that dirk existed to do this; to get cal into the medium, to get dave into the medium, to make them stronger, led to dirk thinking of dave as his goal instead of anything remotely resembling family-
all of that accumulates into his brain dissassociating dave from himself as family and instead as a goal and a figure of something he NEEDS to polish or it wont work when the gear is inserted into the frame
things like this are delicate and they HAVE to be taken special care of during assembly, or you'll be left with nothing. (go watch how its made- wristwatches. its like that.)
sorry if all this doesnt make sense; feel free to ask for clarification and ill happily provide
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Phullo there, Iād like to ask you a question! I hope I wonāt be such a bothersome.
So, Iām planning to write a story about Laughingstock and since I find your storytelling very pleasing I figured itād be a great idea to ask for your advice about the writing!
My Idea in general for this story is just Howdy taking a day off from working in his bodega. And basically, heāll be just wearing normal clothes.. shocking truly.
And thennn, Barnaby and Howdy accidentally stumbled into each otherās path. They later then of course had a very long conversation that lasted until evening maybe.
Of course thereāll be some fishy moments like them looking at each other with goggly eyes and other cheesy romantic nonsense- but itās just mainly them having their usual conversation with a ācoupleā of jokes here and there. Itās supposed to be a sweet memory for them to remember basically.
So, what Iām really trying to ask you for is- how the heck do you start a story exactly and not make it into just the dialogues? Like, I want my story to be kind of long but Iām afraid itāll be just them, yāknow, talking and I really donāt want it to be boring.. therefore, I really need your help.
I am so sorry if itās such a bad timing considering the fact that you just had an interview which I am very proud for you for that! Even if it didnāt go as expected at least you did good half of it.
Soo, yeah! Iād very much appreciate your advice and I am sooo sorry that this was soo long!!! And again, a bad timing too.. but hey if you got any time, please consider answering. Thank you..
Also any response yet? On the interview of course.
hmmm... in my experience and Knowledge Accumulated Over The Years via reading And writing... the best place to start is to just drop in. no story introduction, no "it was a dark and stormy night", just Start. it sounds like your story begins with Howdy taking the day off, so maybe kick off with him getting ready / choosing an outfit, or w/ him reflexively almost opening the store before he stops and chides himself for almost forgetting that he's taking the day off
to combat the dialogue, maybe detail him leaving the bodega to go into the neighborhood. what does he see? hear? feel both physically and mentally? is there anyone else out and about? set the scene! ive been struggling with this too lately since i haven't seriously written in a while and i haven't been reading actual books
WHICH! IMPORTANT TANGENTS!! read well-written books, Not fanfic! im not saying dont read fanfic ever or i'd be the world's biggest hypocrite, but also read actual books. it's important to study how published authors write, how stories are structured, dialogue and action. because these books have more often then not gone through a Rigorous screening process. multiple drafts, beta readers, publishers reading it with great scrutiny before agreeing to publish - of course there are exceptions, but a lot of books are the highest quality they can be, and will outshine most fics. because, and i say all of this as good things, fics are unregulated. most dont have beta readers. a lot are from amateur authors new to the scene. there will be spelling mistakes, weird grammar & sentence structure, etc - most fics have Entirely different writing styles from each other. so if you only read fanfic, That is what your brain will learn, and it's gonna be harder for you to write. published books have less variation in styles, and the styles are subtler. there's less spelling mistakes if any, so your spelling will improve. your internal vocabulary will expand. even if you don't consciously study what you read, your brain will pick up on & internalize patterns, how action works, how dialogue works, how to structure a story, all that good stuff. if you want, i can recommend well-written books! i've been an avid reader since... like, ever. i've got recs galore! you can tell me your preferred genre & literary interest and i'll probably have something for you! and if you're not big on books, well... get out of your comfort zone lmao, books are fucking awesome and i guarantee there are plenty out there that you would love.
and when you're writing dialogue, intersperse it with little actions or the main povs' internal dialogue. if there's a natural lull in the conversation, explore that lull! what do the characters do in this moment? what's going on around them? sprinkle bits of setting in so that your reader knows where they are and what's going on.
plus, exploring the non-dialogue sections of your story can, and often will, spark inspiration in your brain for scenes and actions to fill out the story if you want it to be long (but also! if you just want to write the scene of their conversation, that's the beauty of fanfic - there's no requirements. do whatever you want lmao). when Howdy is going into town, maybe Wally calls him over for a quick pose - does Howdy say yes or no, and how does that decision change the story? maybe Julie invites him to join her in a game, or Eddie stops to talk to Howdy about him being out and about. maybe there are some complaints over the bodega not being open. what's the lead-up to Howdy and Barnaby running into each other? do they literally run into each other? what happens when they do? those are just a few possibilities of many!
remember, when you're writing, you're that story's god. you can do literally fucking anything. you decide what the characters do, where they go, what happens in their world. that mindset should help you bolster the plot instead of just "these two characters have a conversation", yk?
i hope this helps!
#im so serious i am talking from personal experience#the quality of my writing improves after reading an actual book / when im reading one alongside writing#which is why im getting myself back into it#i spent a while not reading books and boyyyyy howdy have i suffered for it!#i miss when i was in elementary school reading at least one full length book a week...#BUT BOOKS HELP. GOOD BOOKS#not the fuckin cookie cutter booktok recs that're just a bunch of tropes slapped together#im talkin about the quality stuff.#im talkin about authors who really see the art in writing & storytelling#rambles from the bog#but also do take everything i say with a grain of salt#i have a lot of room for improvement myself & as with my art im an Entirely Self Taught Writer#so im by no means an expert on the subject! im a medium level writer at best <3#and im not saying that in a derogatory way! it just means i have a ways to go in becoming a legitimately good writer#& reaching the level that i want. its something to strive for!#also thank you! ive never done an interview before so i really have nothing to compare it to!
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I am so tired and I've barely even done anything
God I'm so stressed. I'm moving today but I feel so useless cause I can barely help at all
#their are people i dont know well helping me move and aggghjfjfh#so much anxiety cause im too tired to mask right now and i literally can barely afford to even visibly acknowledge them#amd i just hngg i feel so bad i know i must seem really rude and awkward but im so sleepy and hungry ;-;#i probably seem hella ungrateful too since they only have to help move because im so disabled#i didnt even pack stuff into boxes to make it easier for them and i really should have :(#im in negative spoons i think. so very tired. ive also faced my agoraphobia more than once today so thats not helping#i just need to eat and sleep#im getting pizza soon and ill probably fall asleep after that even i try not to#i feel so bad about how much sleep i need... like i know i cant really control that but its so scary#i normally function at about 9 to 12 hours of sleep#but 6 or less leaves me so fucking useless. its probably because of the accumulative sleep deprivation ive experienced but idk#ive experienced a lot of sleep deprivation. i dont think i can even count the amount of all nighters ive done
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