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🥇 Pick one aspect of your story that you are particularly fond of. Anything at all.

🪁 Are there other writer's OCs that you think your OC would really get along with?

Thankyou for the ask!! I'm going to answer for Riley and Arthur <3

🥇 Pick one aspect of your story that you are particularly fond of. Anything at all. I wrote it AGES ago when the story had a completely different plot and characters but I reallllllly love the first little snippet into Arthur's life. It's kind of a noir mystery start, delves right into the action with an explosion the next few sentences and then suddenly he's in a ballroom drinking wine and dancing with his enemies. Normally I don't write like that but it works so well for the start that I have to keep it!!

🪁 Are there other writer's OCs that you think your OC would really get along with? This one is really tricky because I'm still very much in the progress of figuring these characters out. I wil say Riley almost always falls for someone who is broken. He needs to be needed. He loves nothing more than to rescue someone who needs it and help them put themself back together, however that may be. So nearly any whumpee I guess aha.

Arthur doesn't really trust anybody? So I doubt he would even bother seeking out that friendship. He'd just stare at and either turn his nose up at them or roll his eyes and walk off.

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Which of your ocs do you think is the least intimidating?

Child Reese for sure falls in the category of least threatening, even after she acquires her knife she's still a 13-year-old with trauma.

Directly post-amnesia Killian also rolls with disadvantage when it comes to intimidation, he's about as intimidating as a drowned wet kitten in the early chapters of The Legend of Orian Goldeneye. Being incredibly skittish doesn't help either.

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Can't afford art school?

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard)

Aaron Rutten (free)

BoroCG (free)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates)

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, ect Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Libresprite (free, for pixel art)

Those are the ones I can recall.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

Hope this was helpful and have a great day.

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🎭📫 for the ask game!!

(In reference to this ask game)

I miss my Gunblade Duo so I'm going to answer for them :3

🎭 Can you envision your OC in an alternate universe? What au would you choose and what role would they be in that world?

I think Draven and Octavian would do quite well in a zombie apocalypse or some other survival au, considering their current story is pretty similar in vibes. Imagine a Last of Us AU with Draven and Octavian as Joel and Reese as Ellie I can see it.

📫 Have you changed a significant plot or character choice solely due to your reader's reactions to previous chapters? Are you happy with the result?

I don't really post my stuff until I have the whole plot already hashed out (exception is Writemas I'm pantsing the whole thing). And regardless, plot is mine I'm not changing it for the readers unless I'm 100% sure it's better or a more accurate character choice and even then only if I'm happy with it. So the answer is no.

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✨A Sort of Whumpy Writer's Block Ask Game✨

Currently in the throes of a many months long writer's block, as I know we have all experienced! So, have a game with zero pressure to actually break out of the block! Slightly geared towards whump writers but all may play!

🎬 What was the very first scene or image that popped into your head before you ever wrote a word for your OC?

🎭 Can you envision your OC in an alternate universe? What au would you choose and what role would they be in that world?

😍 What made you truly fall in love with your OC and made you want to continue their story?

🗺 Is there some place your OC would love to go or something your OC would love to do but likely could never happen within the boundaries of your story?

🚥 Is there a character choice or plotline that you regret but is now canon and you feel like you can't change it?

🔨 Are there any whump tropes that you'd love to see your OC's reactions to even though you couldn't or wouldn't put it into your actual story for whatever reason?

✂ Is there a plotline that you'd planned to write but for whatever reason has been abandoned?

📫 Have you changed a significant plot or character choice solely due to your reader's reactions to previous chapters? Are you happy with the result?

😎 Pick one thing about your OC and describe it in detail. (their smile, their eyes, the way they walk, their voice, etc.)

🙈 What, if any, aspect of your OC is a little slice of you put down on paper? A little quirk, personality trait, mannerism, view of the world, etc.?

🤯 Is there a plotline that you feel is too complex or overwhelming for any reason and you know you'll likely never write it but you think about it longingly from time to time?

🧜‍♂️ If your OC could choose to be a nonhuman character, what do you think they would choose? If they are a nonhuman character, would they choose to be human or another sort of nonhuman character?

📃 List a few words, without any explanation, that have to do with ideas you have for future stories or chapters that may or may not ever get written.

🥇 Pick one aspect of your story that you are particularly fond of. Anything at all.

🪁 Are there other writer's OCs that you think your OC would really get along with?

🔪 Are there any other writer's whumper/whumpee OCs you think would be particularly interesting for your OC to engage with?

🧿 Whether you actually get there or not, what are your hopes for your OC's future?

⏳ Would you honestly prefer for your story to have a satisfying, completed end, or would you prefer to continue to forever tell pieces of their story until the end of time?

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every time i see "religious art" that is ai i want to start killing (especially if its with hundreds of notes of people thinking its real)

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The older I get, the more I find little gems about my faith and my Church.

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I swear if I develope an ear infection the next person coming within five feet of me is getting stabbed. With a spear.

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Journal Entries - #325, #385

AN: I'm really enjoying this medium. I can't wait to do more of these

#325 is based on "2:53 am Motel" (Luke Humphris, Youtube)

#385 is based on "low key kitchen coded" (Luke Humphris, Youtube)

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Journal entry 325.

I've stopped counting in days, it's proven to be hard to measure. Especially here, where everything seems to stop for a while.

There's a few people here, but I've chosen to leave them alone, they seem to need the same thing I do: a minute alone. None of us know each other, so it's like nobody is here.

I've chosen to settle on the roof. It's a nice night and the stars are beautiful here. I can finally put my childhood astronomy obsession to use, so far away from all of the light pollution.

Actually, it's so far I'm not sure this place truly exists. There's a few places like this I've run into. Each time, they always seem to show up exactly when I need them.

Oh, and I always find my favorite black cherry soda. It has been discontinued since I was a teenager, but I can still find it in these places. Then there's the foreign snacks I find at these places. This time it's barbecue flavored ramen chips and they're heavenly. I hope I find these next time too.

There's free wifi here, it's secure and everything. But the odd thing I discovered is that I can type anything in for the password and it'll let me in. They also have some game consoles that are older than me, I grew up on these things. They were fun to mess around with for a while, but now I'm just on the roof.

I hope to find this place again, it's been fun here.

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Journal Entry 385

I found an abandoned house and decided to explore. It's actually in pretty good shape, considering the fact everybody says it's been empty for years.

It's not exactly a normal place, but I think I've gotten pretty used to the odd locations I run across. This one is different though, because it's not made for me. Somebody definitely lived here, or rather, somebody does live here.

Not sure if it's a somebody or something, doesn't matter too much for me anyways. It's just kind of here. He's... he? Idk. Whatever it is, it handed me a note telling me how to get around the house.

I was confused at first, but as I started to approach the door I realized why. Not sure how to describe it really, but the geometry is kinda broken. Like if I start walking somewhere, I'll just end up in a space that shouldn't exist. But if I just walk forward, I usually end up somewhere that feels real.

I guess "real" isn't a great word anymore. Feels more... like a house maybe? The more I explore the more I realize there's not enough words in this language for events like this. They're not exactly uncommon anymore, though I don't think anybody ever discusses them. I doubt I'll ever see anybody from these locations again.

But as for this one, I think I might stay the night, so long as It doesn't object.

Post script - I found more of that black cherry soda. Never gets old. Except this time the spelling of cherry was wrong, they spelled it "Chery".

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12/20/2024

More like Joan of Way-Too-Many-Story-Arcs!

The saints' RPG adventure continues every Monday and Friday through December!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. Continuing from the last few cartoons, an angel is running a fantasy RPG for some saints in heaven, namely Sts. Thomas Aquinas, Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, and Nicholas of Myra. They're each introducing their characters now. I'm sure they'll all be normal. 2. As Joan introduces her character, we're met with a few common pitfalls that catch many new (and even old) players. FIRST, the character is an obvious "self-insert." Joan made a character that's just an idealized version of herself, but with superpowers. I think all characters are self-inserts in a way, but using yourself as inspiration rather than a blueprint leads to more interesting characters. SECOND, the character is overpowered, vanquishing armies and demons in her backstory with ease. As a character beginning at level one, the lowest level in the game, it's considered uncouth to add impossible victories to their backstory (their past before the game begins). THIRD, the character's backstory is lengthy and filled with conflict, but every conflict is resolved in full. A good backstory tends to be concise, with some unresolved conflicts or vulnerable elements that the Game-Master can use to build up and personalize the actual game's stakes. If your character already handled all their baggage before the story starts, that can work, but it's usually boring. 3. All of Joan's character's backstory moments are based on either events or legends from her own life. The orc refers to a soldier on a bridge who mocked Joan and took the Lord's Name in vain; not long after, he fell off the bridge to his death. The witch refers to Catherine de La Rochelle, a woman who claimed to have visions, and who tried and failed to replace Joan as the coolest mystic in France. The arch-cleric refers to Bishop Cauchon, the vicious, conniving, monstrous prelate who threatened judges and orchestrated Joan's criminally biased heresy trial, leading to her secular execution.

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“I have all these OCs! But no story…”

bruh

make a fighting game

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The Quest Board

AN: Made some sillies in a world inspired by Luke Humphris's work on youtube. Hope you like them :)

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When society collapsed, the world as they knew it had to be reconstructed. Since then, small towns like this one have been built on the ruins of past civilization. The highways and railroads stand as a reminder of what was and would always lead to more people.

But here, you could find everything you need to live happily. From the community gardens which every person contributed to, to the artisans who learned from the generations before them how to craft. Most importantly, at the center of every town, sat a library.

It was a community center of sorts, with all the resources you could ever need. Containing books from long dead people, a communal set of tools, guides on simple and complex magic forms, and most importantly, a board upon which people could post help requests.

Me and my friends would pick one out, our goal always the same: obtain cool items from the people we helped.

Though each of our definitions of cool were different, it always helped in decorating our home base. What's the home base? The most wonderful place in the world. It's a bit away from everybody else in a place no adult is aware of.

Among the trees, found only by following a gravel path, stands a building with plenty of space for our trio. It was in amazing condition, meaning they could stay there full time.

We were split into two rooms with a big one in the center. The boys shared one room and I had the other. Each of us decorated our spaces as much as possible, meaning my room was full of my favorite trinkets.

I love machines. Old machines that don't work anymore with wires I will never understand, machines I put back together and figure out how to use, and the parts missing from their whole.

The best part is, I figured out how to use the things called "solar panels" on my roof and can play games on the devices left behind by old civilizations. I've gotten to know one of the owners well, his name was Blake and sucked at puzzle games. Him and my friend Nova are comparable on this, both not understanding the answer even if it is directly in front of them.

At least Orim seems to understand the games, he tends to be better than me, and far more patient with Nova. Kind of like today, where he watched the other boy struggle for an hour before giving him the solution.

"I knew that the whole time, I was just testing you." Nova said loudly as we walked down the street.

Orim patted him on the shoulder, "If you say so."

Nova flushed deeply, "Yeah. I'll show you next time!" He walked confidently but clearly knew nobody believed his bluff.

I couldn't help but laugh a bit at them, "It was so obvious! Even Toad could've gotten that, and he doesn't even have thumbs." Toad, the cat who hung out around the house on most days, was often used as a comparison for when somebody was bad at something, only second to Blake.

"Don't listen to her, even I struggled with that one." Comforted Orim, who had completed the game in hours a few years ago.

I rolled my eyes, "Anyways, are you guys ready for today's quest?"

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Writemas Day 16: Keepsakes

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Prompts: The hiss of the wind

Fandom: Original Work

Words: 800

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CW: death mention, injury mention, doubt

A/N: gonna be releasing new parts intermittently through the rest of December, also gives me time to hash out an ending ahead of time to close out the tale :3

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The first thing Thea noticed when she came to herself again was the hissing of wind, its frigid touch upon her skin as it swirled in through the broken window. I should fix that, she thought to herself as she opened her eyes.

Her fury from before had abated somewhat, though whether that was due to time or to the vision artificially soothing her, she didn't know. But it didn't particularly matter. Anger was pointless, anyway, though it more often than not prompted her into action.

"Really, Caelum?" She muttered, hands still on the open clasps of the trunk. "Another vision?"

Altair hummed in thought behind her. "Is that so? He seems to like attaching those to spells pertaining to you. Was it another memory?"

She nodded. "The bridge, in Volantis. When he told me his plan, but not really. Only that he had one."

"Yes. I recall him being particularly paranoid about us knowing about it. Or perhaps speaking it aloud for potential listeners to overhear. Regardless, it worked."

Did it?

Sure, it took six years, but Caelum was eventually returned to Volantis by force. And it appeared the Slain were well aware of that, planning on it, even. Their own little revenge, for breaking their rules, perhaps?

Thea didn't voice these thoughts aloud, afraid that voicing them would make them true. She instead flipped open the lid of the trunk. The inside was packed neatly, and nearly everything inside didn't look to have been disturbed in some time. The exception were two small, leatherbound notebooks, with tiny symbols carved into the cover like a border.

She picked the first one up and flipped through it, finding page after page of hand-written words in Caelum's script, painstakingly neat. The notes on the basics of spell-weaving were a far cry from the complexity of the threads described in the pages, and Thea knew she had found what she was looking for. The second one was similar, but less on the composition of the threads and more on musings, a place for thoughts and theories. Another promising lead.

Setting the notebooks aside, Thea searched through the rest of the trunk. Finding items she had forgotten existed, packed carefully away. A leather bracelet, one of the first things Caelum had gotten for himself in Volantis. "Proof," he'd said, putting it on, "that everything that happened here, happened."

At the time, Thea hadn't seen the logic behind it. She hadn't thought she'd ever forget.

How wrong I was....

A small box, containing a stone from the silver river. Possibly the same area as the bridge in the memory. The river didn't behave like water from the place of the living, so the stone was worn, but irregularly, making for a strange, lopsided shape that shimmered oddly in the light.

And, most importantly, two flowers. Preserved in such a way that their colors were just as vibrant as in life, the flowers bestowed upon Caelum and Thea when they completed the trial in the Living Grove. Altair had his, he'd likely left it in Lerwick unless he for whatever reason decided to bring it with him to Eastcliffe.

Caelum's dahlia, darker than night, the petals more delicate than the most fragile of glass.

Thea's rue, a dozen tiny flowers on one stem, as golden as the summer sun.

None of them knew the significance of the flowers, only that the titles were of particular importance to the Slain. And Caelum had kept both his and hers safe, all these years....

Other things were kept in the box, but Thea decided to look through the rest later. She turned and handed the notebooks to Altair. "This one has his notes on complex threads," she said, "and this one has ideas, thoughts."

He looked at them for a long moment before handing them back. "As much as I'd love to study this now, I really should take some time to rest, let the rest of my body heal itself from the electricity."

Thea studied him, noting how even seated on the floor, he looked a little unsteady. She nodded, tucking the notebooks under one arm, and rose, holding out her hand. He took it and allowed her to pull him to his feet. He swayed on his feet but managed to stay upright as Kore handed him his cane.

Altair nodded to her in thanks. "I can get myself to my room. We have discovered much today." With that, he turned and left the room, leaning a bit more heavily on his cane than usual.

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💙 - How long have you been into whump?

🪩 - what's your favorite type of Caretaker?

🎹 - Do you utilize whump to sleep?

Thanks for the ask!!!

💙 - Oh geez, since I was a little kid. Just that I didn't know what the word is till around 2018 😆 🤣

🪩- PROTECTIVE. Especially to the point Whumpee gets tired of it >:)

🎹- Sometimes, depends on the mood! If I feel good, yeah, whump! Otherwise, fluff and cuteness ❤️

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✨ magical healing ✨ that’s necessary but so horrifically painful.

it pulls the character from a dead faint. they arch off the bed/floor, they’re screaming, they have to be held down and when it’s finally done they go completely limp again.

everyone’s relieved it’s over but it’s not a perfect fix. magic can seal a wound, stop the bleeding—but it doesn’t replace the lost blood, heal the wounds that aren’t physical. it’s a band-aid at best.

the character still has a long road to recovery, just floating there, in and out of consciousness, the friends/found fam/team alternates sitting by their bedside waiting for them to come back.

then, when they do wake up, they’re disoriented, dizzy, unsteady. confused by their already scarred over wound. maybe they wake up fully when no one is around and try to get up too fast and end up in a heap on the floor—you know the drill. so much whumpy potential.