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Feline Body Language

Afraid – head lower than the body; hair stands up; mouth open; ears flat against the skull; whiskers flat against the face; tail raised and bristled; bent hind legs

Alert – head held high, moving slightly back and forth; ears forward; whiskers fanning out from face; eyes wide; tail horizontal or vertical, twitching slightly

Angry – ears pinned back; hissing and spitting; slightly raised forepaw with claws extended; mouth open to reveal teeth; tail is whips back and forth; eyes narrowed and focused on target; arched back; hair stands up

Calm – tail hangs straight down; eyes half-closed and blinking; whiskers point down; ears held loosely; audible purring (small species)

Dominant – ears forward; whiskers out; makes itself as tall as it can; tail and head up; eyes wide and unblinking

Greeting – head and tail high; rubs cheeks and body against cat or human being greeted; chuffing (tigers only) or mewling heard

Happy – tail held straight up; head held high; whiskers relaxed; ears forward

Playful – tail held high and twitches back and forth; whiskers out; jogs or sprints instead of walking; sometimes jumps

Submissive – belly and neck shown; tail between the legs; ears against the head

Watch the Big Cat Rescue videos on YouTube for more

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Wolf Body Language

Affection – nose-pushing; touching with forepaw; jaw-wrestling; cheek rubbing; facial licking

Afraid – wolf tries to make their body smaller; ears flat on the head; tail tucked between the legs; arched back; whines or makes short, sharp barks; runs away with its tail between its legs

Angry – ears erect; fur bristles; lips up and curled back to reveal incisors; snarls; wolf crouches as it prepares to attack; tail held stiffly and horizontally

Calm – tail points straight down; wolf sits or lays down on its side; wags tail slightly

Dominant – wolf stands tall; ears erect and forward; fur bristles; tail held vertically; stares at submissive wolves; may bark and growl. Asserting dominance: dominant wolf will bite the neck of the inferior wolf and hold it for a moment or bite the snout of the inferior wolf

Happy – tail wags slightly; tongue lolls out of mouth

Nervous – wolf narrows eyes; ears flat against the head; tail is parallel to the ground

Playful – tail is high and wags; wolf frolics around; may lay low while holding the rear high in a manner reminiscent of domestic dogs; littermates may bite each others’ jaws

Active submission: body is lowered; lips and ears drawn back; tongue thrust in and out of the mouth rapidly; tail placed down or between the legs; muzzle points toward dominant animal; submissive wolf may lick the muzzle of the dominant wolf; the more the back arches and the tail tucks, the more submissive the wolf is; sometimes used as a form of greeting

Passive submission: wolf rolls on its back to expose throat and belly; paws drawn into the body; wolf whimpers

Check out the International Wolf Center on YouTube for some really great videos.

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Sure! Coming soon.

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BIOGRAPHY LYRICS - Under the cut, you will find a list of songs from various genres, with certain lyrics from them that I think would fit biographies, or are good to base a backstory off. I used some of these for my own roleplay! There are fifteen songs here, all with about 5/6 selected lyrics. Enjoy!

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How to: Get your character-muse back

We all love our characters but sometimes, we just lose motivation or muse for them and end up not knowing what to do or where to go with them. I���ve been there and I’m sure so have a lot of you. So, I tried to come up with a few ways to get back into game with your character.

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Writing Child Characters

A couple of weeks ago I made a post on writing teenagers, I don’t believe we’ve made a post on child characters recently. So here we go!

Child characters are different to adult characters for several reasons that are stated below. However these differences should make no difference to how you develop your character. A child character has likes and dislikes and both positive and negative traits. 

Innocence

Depending on the age of your child character and the life they have led, they will be more innocent to your adult characters. This does not mean they think that everything is nice and fuzzy but that they aren’t aware of a lot of the evils of the world. You have to be careful how you play innocence, for example I bet most 9/10 year old know exactly what sex is. So think carefully about how you portray this!

Naivety 

Children are naive, this does NOT mean stupid. They have less world experience and have no independence so they haven’t really seen everything in the world. This makes them naive to other cultures other people. How naive they are depends on their age, personality and background.

Impulsive

Children are more impulsive than adults. We learn through making mistakes and children are still learning (aren’t we all). So children are more likely to display impulsive behaviour. This involves saying exactly what they think. Small children of 5/6 don’t really have a dam, they just say what pops into their head.

Intelligence

Children aren’t stupid. In fact you can have a pretty good conversation with a small child and be surprised by what they say. But children haven’t learnt as much as adults and their knowledge grows as they do. Intelligence however isn’t just what they know but how they apply it. 

Dialogue

Dialogue is where you are going to slip up with your child characters. This could be by making the language too mature or not mature enough. You need to know before you start writing how a child would talk, you may have to do research for this. 

It’s hard to remember what we talked like when we were that age so you may need to talk to others, watch some movies with children and read books to see how other authors have portrayed characters of a similar age.

So how do I make my child character realistic?

Research!!! If you know friends or family with young children spend some time with them, see how they interact with others and take special notice to how they speak and what words they use. The wording in dialogue is the kicker in making children realistic. 

Think back to when you were a child or look at family videos, how did you act around family? How did you play? 

Mibba: Writing Realistic Children

Writing Child Characters for Adults

Writing Realistic Children

Writing from a childs perspective (forum)

Writing from a unique perspective

The voice is the most difficult part of any character development and finding a voice for your child character is even harder. But if you can find the right voice that suits the age of your character then that’s fantastic. Don’t be put off if you don’t get it right in the first few tries, keep trying.I look forward to seeing more children characters in your works :)

Hope this has been useful to some of you!!!

-S

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Below the cut you will see 20 basic plots that you can use as a skeleton to your plot. This can be your initial plot. It will lessen the burden for you since you now only need to think of a twist for it. Like or reblog if this had helped you in anyway.

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Maja Wrońska

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Georgie Henley Icons

Contains 17 Icons

Requested by anonymous

All of these icons were made by me, so please do not take credit for them.

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BIO CHEATSHEET

Literally everything you could ever need for bio writing.

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7 Tips for Great Sentences

Keep sentences brief. ’You should write the shortest possible sentences using the shortest possible words, in the shortest possible paragraphs, not because people are dimwits or because they’re busy - they’re not that dim or that busy - but because force comes from the elimination of the inessential.’

Vary your sentence patterns. No one wants to read paragraph after paragraph of fifteen to twenty word sentences. Mix it up.

Wake the reader up. ’Use questions, exclamations, asides, commands, interruptions, and inversions.’ For example, instead of saying, To begin with, Marley was dead. Say, Marley was dead, to begin with.  

Be brave and strong. Avoid the passive voice. Throw out the adjectives and adverbs. Make the nouns precise, the verbs forceful. Put statements in positive rather than negative form.

Combine sentences. This often makes reading easier and smoother, especially when the sentences have a common subject. For example, when talking about the old library down the street: The library sits on the corner of Elm Street. It is an old stately building. The paint is peeling. Combined: The library on the corner of Elm Street is an old stately building in need of new paint.  

Don’t distract attention. ‘If you’re writing seriously, avoid devices and expressions that call attention to themselves.’ In other words, be careful not to be too clever.

Don’t like what you wrote. Don’t love your words so much you can’t bear to part with them. As writers we must be ruthless; as pretty as our words might be, sometimes they have to go.

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Hair Color Reference Chart

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This could help with Calormene face claims, guys!

People of Color Face Claim Gif Directory

Below the cut is a list of both male and female POC face claims and links to their gifs. This is for role playing purposes. 

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we'll never admit to ever liking these (part 2) 

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A general list of girls’ names

A general list of boys’ names

Botanical girls’ names

Popular names in the U.S. in different years

English

Welsh

Scottish and Irish

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Portuguese

Italian

Greek

German

Dutch

Scandinavian

Polish