#godspeed o7

[cuddledemon]

What a fucking legend

#reddit blackout #dnd #godspeed o7

[sea-buns]

Kristen Applebees for President, 2025 (...?)

#or is it 2024? cuz she cant actually be elected until their next school year right? #of course assuming that that even lines up with whatever the fuck year it is in elmville #brennan had the mercy to make the months normal so i can only assume #either way the vague confusion is still absolutely the vibe kristen is carrying into this race #godspeed o7 #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #fhjy #riz gukgak #sklonda gukgak #kristen applebees #brian murphy #brennan lee mulligan #ally beardsley #emily axford #lou wilson #zac oyama

[d20unfuckability]

"She's a wizard with a blunt force weapon. She routinely cries but gets shit done. I love her so much"

"pirate dyke"

#esther sinclair #the unsleeping city #the unsleeping city 2 #annabelle cheddar #a crown of candy #dimension 20 #i'm so sorry lesbians #godspeed o7

[northern-passage]

hey whats up!! i'm someone who is writing my own if, and i'm doing bad over here 😰😰😰 i really need help developing my world, and the northern passage is so so super cool, i've never seen anything like it and i love tnp soooo much. do you mind sharing how you did your worldbuilding, or any tips you have (for the worldbuilding or just in general i have no idea what i'm doing any of the time) or anything you think might be helpful at all in any way please i'm doing bad i'm doing so bad

oh this is funny anon i was just ranting about worldbuilding to some of my friends the other day lmfao

firstable i will send you over to brandon sanderson's lectures on worldbuilding (two parts, lectures 5&6, it's a little over 2 hours)

i assume you're writing a fantasy but i know worldbuilding is also pretty significant for scifi and post apoc settings as well, and kind of an integral part across all 3 genres. so i won't get too specific since idk much about your story but i'll tell you what i did for tnp

so tnp's setting is one that i've kinda been kicking around since like.. high school... but it's changed a lot since then, as your writing from high school always should. but the most basic thing i started with was the environment. i knew i wanted it to be cold and i wanted the ocean to play a significant part in the story, which led me to making it a significant part of the culture, both in the religion as well as the economy.

if it's cold and mountainous then what exactly would sustain the people there and how would their economy function? i already wanted the ocean to be a part of the story, so why not make a port city an important location? the north would focus on trading, fishing and whaling and animal husbandry while the warmer southern areas were perfect for farming. the backbone of Adrania is their port cities and trading across the country between the north and the south.

i'm not really one to get super into this kind of worldbuilding, especially since my story is not focused on this aspect of the world, however it's still important to feel out the basics, imo. you want to have a general idea of what day to day life looks like and how it is this country/kingdom/colony/etc functions. and in a broader sense it's a way for me to find roles for my characters to fill, like as an example: Merry works in tnp because maritime trade is very significant to the two countries present, so of course there would be pirates.

from there, my focus shifted to the story itself: the hunters. when i look back, i didn't really ask myself these questions word for word at the time, but i think this is a good general idea of how i started feeling things out:

1. what are hunters?

2. what is their role in the story and in the wider world?

3. how exactly do they fit in? what effect does their existence have?

4. why are they needed?

5. how do other people feel about them?

you can substitute whatever you need in that first question in place of hunters and apply this to just about anything. those 5 questions will get you pretty far, and will lead you to more questions, too. if hunters exist to stop monsters, then where do the monsters come from? they come from the vel. what's the vel? it was put in place by the gods to confine humanity to one plane of existence. well, who are the gods? and how do the monsters still get through? the gods are xyz and they did a bad job so the vel can be weakened. how can the vel be weakened? because it's blood magic. what's blood magic? are there other kinds of magic, too? on and on and on and on....

if you have a magic system, i once again point you to brando sando. if you don't want to watch the full lectures, you can still check out his 3 laws of magic essays on his website. tnp's magic system is something i'm still kind of figuring out (this is a first draft, after all) but i knew i wanted it to be elemental based +blood magic and i knew i wanted it to work alongside alchemy. i've made changes since then to allow for enchantments and other cool stuff i have planned later down the line, and i know it's something that i'll need to refine in the first 2 chapters at some point. so i honestly don't have too much advice on that one... so go read the essays ☝️ i also feel that these 3 laws can also be applied more broadly to like, how the technology works in your scifi/cyberpunk story as well so i still recommend reading them even if you're not using magic.

when it comes to worldbuilding, the biggest thing you want to do is look at your story and ask yourself... "does this make sense?" which sounds very silly but let me use an example (and also continue the rant i was on about the other day lol)

i was watching a review for fourth wing and i'm sorry to anyone that likes this book but it's a good example of very bad worldbuilding. the rundown is that this is supposed to be a very militaristic society, they force people into military training academies for the sole purpose of funneling them straight into The Military. however. for some reason... they just Kill anyone who doesn't "pass" the super elite training courses....? this doesn't make sense. why would they not just delegate them to another role within the military? why not just use them as cannon fodder? what about the logistics-- who is cooking meals for this military, is there a functioning quartermaster, what about people that just take care of the dragons (they have dragons in this book. we could say horses, too, or any other animal, really)? a military consists of more than just Super Special Elite Soldiers.

you want your choices and story to make sense within the society you've created, whatever that society may be. fourth wing gets compared to the hunger games, but it's not the hunger games. the hunger games had in-world reasoning for the kids to die during the games. there was a society that was built around the games and it functioned in a way that made sense. there is no reason for the kids to die in fourth wing except for the author to make an artificial conflict for the mc that doesn't make sense.

so if you already have your story, and you know what you want to do with it, you need to build a society that compliments your story and that actually allows it to happen. they have to hold hands and get along.

anyways that's a lot of rambling... i hope this helps, at least a little bit! worldbuilding can feel very daunting, but honestly i encourage you to start small like i did - something as simple as the weather and the terrain, and that will lead you on to more and more and more.

#godspeed o7 #also if u have more specific questions feel free to send in more i like talking abt this stuff lol #if you can't tell..... #writing #ask #anonymous

[silvermun]

yessir i'm putting my degree to good use (sonic the hedgehog fanart)

#godspeed o7 #sorry not sorry to all my profs

[ratttrapp64]

when I was young my grandpa who lived with us sang me "you are my sunshine, my only sunshine" very often. it was a song we shared. once, after telling me and my younger brother the housefire many members of his family had passed in, he sang it to us, tears in his eyes as his voice shook. I don't think I'll ever forget that. it was the first time I heard or saw a grown man crying in real life. I saw it tagged under a techno post today. needless to say, I am holding back tears. that song holds a special place in my heart. so does techno. I found him when my life was at its lowest. now, a year after his death, I still find myself thinking of him and crying. we miss you techno. we love you. I love you. technoblade never dies. o7

#technoblade #technoblade never dies #godspeed o7 #o7 king #i am one of us #one of us #technodad #mcytblr #dsmpblr

[roaringheat]

I feel like im dying and shit but my 2 coworkers are being surprisingly very accommodating despite the fact that im barely contributing and they don't know what the fuck my problem is

#vark posts #im not telling them shit but theyre still very understanding #ive literally just been dking dishes for the past hour #godspeed o7

[borgerbat]

Everyone, stfu Jimmy Buffet died

What the hell.

I am anger.

I am so fucking angry

#jimmy buffett #rip #o7 king #godspeed o7 #i am so sad #i am so angry

[bwobgames]

The poll is surprisingly even

#there is a bit of text were im like 'ooh this is sus ooooh' that should help in this decision #but maybe i wasn't too clear #oh well I'll get to write more dialogue for fun characters before #the big conversation happens #and then youll be like ooooooh so THATS whats happening #we're reaching the endgame fellas #all players joined the party #the last puzzle pieces are being added #godspeed o7

[rillette]

just wanted to let u know i am working on the guy gardner rap :) the sound effects keep making me laugh tho rip

Omg. Kicking my feet and twirling the phone cord while I wait <3

#asks <3 #ty for the ask!! #godspeed o7 #im so fucking excited

[possessable]

OUGH BABS BABS OUICK WHAT EDITING SOFTWARE DO YOU USE FOR YOUR ANIMATICS <- perosn abt to make the most passionate but godawful oc animatic on earth

UM HURM UHH I usually just animate them all in Flash 8 .or if i need to edit i use vegas which i have acquired legally definitely

#if you need something free and don'wt want to pirate though (which i definitely did not) there's kdenlive or openshot editor #ask #Godspeed o7

[darubyprincx]

How do you not go crazy wanting to talk about a fic. Help.

I got an idea for a fic that I'm starting to plan out and I've been doin worldbuilding but the friend that I normally talk to about fandom stuff and that specifically offered to beta this and be there for me to talk about is doing homework. Which is fair ofc but like- I am VIBRATING, I am PHYSICALLY SHAKING with the need to discuss this but I also dont wanna spoil shit cus even though it's still in its very very baby stages the things that I do have for certain are either worldbuilding stuff that most ppl will probably be like "cool, didnt neeed all that info" or like. Major spoilers.

Heelkkp i cant even really tipe ay a reasonalbe pace cys im stimming so hard

as someone who is currently having to keep mum on one of their big projects that they are very excited about (im using they/he rn o7) and who did that for the vast majority of writing Ashes, uh , dude idk i think you just silently fucking die. its rough. but the payoff is so fucking worth it i promise

#ray's tag #answered #GODSPEED o7

[foryouthegaays]

genuinely couldn't tell if tumblr was having a moment or my internet was LMAO we're witnessing the Twitter Migration of '22

#the singular fan strapped to the side of tumblr's servers will be running overtime these next few days #godspeed o7

[zayphora]

the fact that night vale is trending rn bc of the poll. 15 year old me building my little Minecraft houses while listening to wtnv episodes and gaining a lifelong obsession with radio is so proud

#wtnv #i didn’t keep up with it but night vale genuinely did things to me as a person #like I think it made me the mediagirl i am today #godspeed o7 #cecilsweep

[friskibitz]

lemme be real i did not expect them to last this far

#GODSPEED o7

[valen-dreth]

Hey what site did you use to make anime Valen Dreth?

this is it! i cannot read the page but you just hit the 2 buttons

#asks #godspeed o7