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days 1-4/30 of #pleinairpril 2022. based on photos from recent adventures

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l o a d i n g . . .

#anime #manga #sakura #sakura tree #cherry blossom #soft pink

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something we all need to remember.

No matter the quality of your creations, remember that you’re the only one in the world who can make them exactly like that. They’re all unique contributions to this world cause no one else can do it like you. Don’t let comparison and competition make you forget that you got a perspective no one else in the world can express.

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There's nothing quite like the rush of serotonin that comes with creating something you are proud of. And I don't mean a whole work. Very rarely am I proud of my work as a whole, but there is beauty in the pieces. A perfectly written line, a well placed brush stroke, a matching shade of green. These are the pieces I cherish most as a creator.

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Self-destruction

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look at themmq(≧▽≦q)

☆*:･ﾟHAIKYUU!! A Day in the City *:･ﾟ☆

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at least he changes clothes

Zuko + (almost) every wardrobe change throughout Avatar the Last Airbender

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no offense but….kindness and being polite is really underrated some of y’all are so unnecessarily mean and i dont understand why

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There are three types of people overnight:

- Those who stay awake to read fanfiction - Those who stay awake to write fanfiction - Who does both

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Sorry I only watch sports anime with a gay rating of two or more exclamation points

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Writing Engaging Antagonists

@devils-songbirb asked:  

HI! I really love your advice!! I was wondering how I could write a good villain? I’ve noticed that in most of the stories I write the antagonist always seems to have the same motives and I don’t know how to alter it enough so that it’s different and interesting.

Before we get started, I want to clarify two things:

- Antagonists can be of any moral alignment. They can be also be non-human things, such as monsters, nature, inner demons, etc. The antagonist is simply the primary thing your protagonist fights against.

- For the course of this article I will be talking about villainous antagonists who are human or human-like. You could use most of these tips for villainous protagonists as well.

There are two broad categories of villains: sympathetic and unsympathetic. I’ll talk a little about both, but I primarily write and prefer to see the former, so that will be the focus.

1. The Unsympathetic Villain.

Unsympathetic villains are evil for the sake of evil.

While these villains can be horrifying when done well, they tend to be the least intimidating type of antagonist. The most common mistake is to try to make an unsympathetic villain feel as heinously villainous as possible. 

A villain who oozes darkness and villainy and nothing else will come across like a machine with a program that just reads: Be Evil. The genuine threat of these characters is often lost, because there’s no real life equivalent. In order to pull a villain like this off, the story must either perfectly suspend our disbelief or find a way to connect the villain to an antagonistic force the reader experiences in their own lives. 

Often, the fictional antagonists you’ve sincerely wanted to murder are self-serving, hateful people you’ve met similar, real life versions of before, doing the things those real life versions continually get away with. 

Since I don’t write unsympathetic villains often, I won’t write a more detailed guide on them, but I encourage you to think deeper into why some unsympathetic villains work while others don’t. Consider your favorite unsympathetic villains. How does the story present this villain? When have they drawn up intense emotions in you? Where did these emotions come from, and why?

2. The Sympathetic Villain.

The sympathetic villain is intimidating not because they’re evil, but because they’re both evil and human.

They represent what every one of us could easily become under the right circumstances.

They prove that your hero is not good simply because they fell into that alignment by chance, but rather because they chose it.

They show that a little good and evil exist inside every one of us, and it’s what we decide to act on and what we choose to compromise for which determines who we become.

Generally, they’re more interesting and fleshed out than un-sympathetic villains.

How do we write an interesting, sympathetic villain?

Keep reading

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Jacob Lee - Demons (Philosophical Sessions) - SoundCloud

Listen to Jacob Lee - Demons (Philosophical Sessions) by Nyx on #SoundCloud

Song recommendation for today ♡

Source: soundcloud

#music #jacob lee #song recommendation #SoundCloud