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katiekatdragon27 · 5 months

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Holy moly a rendered drawing!? And it's Flatland!? AND it's sort of gijinka-fied?!?!?!? Crazy.

Drip or drown fellas? Be honest lol.

Okay, so some design choices I wanted to point out and "explain":

A. Square does not look any different because he is peak performance. The whole thing of 2D creatures who live "water" and look like amoebas was too good to tarnish. I kept it simple, gave him some boots to help with gravitational pain n stuff on his feet, and he has glasses cuz I saw some character in the movie with them and I thought it would vibe well. He looks a little older because of them, but whatever. The nerd needs to look like a nerd.

A. Sphere I took so many liberties with. At first, I went with the most basic CEO fit I could come up with, found it boring, gave him a vest and bowtie, cut the bowtie for a normal tie and gave him rainbow suspenders, then gave him the bracelets for funsies. The most consistent thing through all the versions was the analog watch (that he probably can't read lol).

He doesn't really feel like a CEO anymore, but c'mon, in canon he's a gold sphere and the only metallic solid. He's gonna look flashy and extra. It's a given.

Are you reeeally a Flatland fan if you haven't drawn or edited an image of A. Square being yeeted like a frisbee?

I feel like this is a staple, and I found this really amusing stock image that just fit so well.

I made the whole Flatland species friend-shaped. As an OSC person (yes I'm working on stuff related to it give me a sec), I could not see the Flatlanders as anything more than the silly stick limbed creatures of that community.

Spacelanders are different, but that's more so because of how the book refers to them. "Spacelanders" in the book, although the context is probably just different 3D shapes, are addressed as people who have people systems who do people things. So, I designed accordingly. (Also, I did NOT want A. Sphere to look like that one Pacman TV show. I think I would have combusted before finishing if he did.)

These were some doodles I worked with for just looks purposes. The tendrils(?) on their corners are the longest ones on their bodies. Circles have them all mostly uniform cuz they're boring.

Below is a close up of A. Square, some progress photos, and the reference image of meme.

Thanks again, and have a wonderful day :)

#i miss making rendered pieces for stuff I like #i wanted to make sphere more metallic-looking but i really did not want to spend 10000 hours on this piece to get it to look right #the bracelets he wears are those rubber ones and a slap one #the rubber one is there cuz of him giving out merch of the company and he seems like one of those guys who wears his own merch #the slap bracelet is a fidget toy lol #he's often told off for not being “professional enough”#no i'm not projecting you're just uncreative #don't ask how square's glasses stay up in the 3D #I don't know either #a super burnt ritz chip and a pac-man knockoff walk into a room what do they do?#flatland #flatland 2007 #flatland the movie #a sphere #a square #gijinka #humanization #humanized sorta not really #i may be cringe but i am free #feel free to hate lol #katiekatdragon27

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viviennelamb · 6 days

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If you're a real artist of any kind, never read opinions from non-artists or people who haven’t taken any risks in their lives. Remember, you're not a feedback reader, you're making people like you feel less alone and perfecting your craft and process. When it comes to your art, think of this and nothing else.

The ordinary person doesn't know what devotion is like because their brains aren't even 1% functional.

They're not full nor complex people either, they're an ego programmed to please others so they can fit in. Uncreative people target anybody different from them. This is why they’re into politics and activism and can’t stand that anybody thinks differently than them. This is the Ego's nature.

I was there at some point too and it was repressive, but now I'm free. Those who aren't free judge because they're prisoners of their own minds. always remain aware of envy and the crabs in a bucket mentality. Doesn’t matter if they’re race, gender or sexuality liberationists, they are against you if you’re a real person and will hate you for being free without needing their help.

I know a lot of the people reading this are looking to break through their mental barriers and I must tell you the obvious... life is a millisecond in cosmic time and you must act quickly on the opportunities presented to you.

Nobody is rewarded for being "the most liked by egos.” When you die, you need to leave something that somebody can unearth and feel like they hit the jackpot to read, listen and look at and cherish for the rest of their lives.

There's no time for preoccupation with what zombies think. If you have time to worry, you need to add more work into your schedule (all real work is Spiritual, everybody else is just a busy body).

Successful people are too busy winning, or at least learning how to win, to judge people who are focused on their own craft. If you see somebody doing them but you’re judging instead of being inspired, you’re average and always will be until you decide to go for what you’re most scared to do.

Play your role to the fullest and you'll stop being depressed regardless of what the world shows you. When you're doing all that you can, you'll be lifted out of your depression. Most people are long-term severe melancholics because they’re not creating, but believe they're well and project that depression unto those who are sane and healthy.

Since being a depressive is normal, those who have the drive to do what they love everyday, regardless of what anybody has to say about it, are deemed unwell because it's not socially acceptable to serve your soul. Everybody wants you to be their social slave instead.

Beauty isn't balanced or normal, it's extreme and rare.

You keep daydreaming and thinking "if only I could..." you can! The second you decide to go for what you want, everything becomes available to you. You don't have to plan, just make the vow and act immediately and once you iterate and record what works and what doesn't, you're making progress.

If you want a shortcut, find a mentor. The more you stay in the freeze state nothing happens. Your conscious mind cannot comprehend "how," so forget attempting to understand or map out the trajectory of your life and just act.

Even if you're an aspiring artist, stop reading stuff you can't relate to, or negative people who judge others for stepping out of the box because that affects your mental health and therefore your art, even when it's not directed at you.

That fear they meant to direct at others doesn’t actually affect the supposed recipient, but the individual saying it as well as their peers. Now their peers are secretly scared to be open with somebody they thought they trusted.

By the way, the highest art is the Art of Self-Mastery. Once you take back full control of your mind, senses and body, you're well on the path to achieving the purpose of life. Even better if you share the process of achieving your purpose. Don't wait until everything is perfect.

Sure, people will think they know you even though you only share 0.01% of your life, but at the end of the day, you're stopping yourself from doing what you're meant to do. Any obstacles you face is a test to show yourself how much you really want something. Think of these obstacles as checkpoints.

Once you get going, you will get real life checks to show you how strong you've gotten and how much you've improved in your role/craft. Stay locked in regardless.

The vast majority are extremely mentally unwell because they don't create or share anything that brings light into other people's lives. That stagnancy, as well as their hatred of the soul is the death of the mind.

Never listen to a dabbler who only creates once a month even worse, once a year, tell you anything about your creation. Just nod and smile because you're listening to an opinionated slave.

Remember, the only thing the ordinary person produces daily is an orgasm and poop. It would take the fragile and mindless a month to write a post like this, same with the art you're driven about, but they will judge and dissect what you do when they haven't done anything, ever. They don't have the discipline to write and release something in the same day because they're too busy arguing and gossiping about what a random thinks.

Only intake art and perspectives from people who are utterly and crazily obsessed and then you'll feel like your heart is finally waking up, which is what happened to me. Only then will you reach that point of being unable to feign lukewarmness and soullessness anymore.

Once you begin to exit mediocrity, you will see people's hatred toward you (which is really toward themselves) leaking out as false concern, fighting, and creating dossiers on strangers yet this person doesn't even keep a daily journal of their own thoughts. These individuals exist for you. They're waiting for you because their life consists of talking about others, so give them something to talk about.

When an individual can't be honest and haplessly spends their life energy, they become afflicted with loneliness, anxiety, and a chaotic mind regardless of how many bodies they pile around them and how much validation they get. Most people are unskilled, emotionally, and socially retarded for this reason.

When I read stuff from those individuals in particular I'm severely underwhelmed... it's all misinformation about other people's lives and it's not even at least entertaining. I’m looking for anything real from them and there’s nothing but there’s nothing but race policing and sexual harassment.

They don't know what it's like to strive for something bigger than personal comfort and social validation. When their useless life ends, all that will be left behind of their existence is documentation of their sex-addiction, their list of diagnosed mental illnesses, ideology fights, and gossip.

Also, the people who say they wish they could meet certain artists are all lying. They would've been part of the crowd who judged them if they lived during the same time, especially the ones who pride themselves on being conformists whose best accomplishment is getting a girlfriend.

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bucketsofmonsters · 1 year

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Big fan here! I’ve been rereading a lot of your work lately and it literally helped me mentally through college, especially ghost stories and willing sacrifice, i have so many questions i hope they don’t sound rude if so please feel free to ignore them!

1. was one of your inspirations for the witch’s apprentice rapunzel? Hope no one asked this before

2. Do you avoid describing the characters on purpose? I like to imagine my own version of them when i read but ngl it gets hard sometimes but maybe that’s me being uncreative

3. Do you recommend any media for the poor monsterfuckers such as myself? Especially dating games and anime?

Hi, thank you so so much for both the kind words and the ask, I absolutely love answering questions like this!! So glad to hear I could help you through college <3

It honestly wasn't but that's also a really fun comparison, I really enjoy stories where characters are forced into one location, isolation is one of my fav themes to explore. The main inspo was the fact that Eden has been one of my ocs for years and years and I rlly wanted to find a way to write about her and her apprentice-turned-reader lol. It's a pretty small sliver of her story but I love writing about her

So if you're talking about my reader characters, I do avoid describing them whenever possible, I don't want to exclude anyone so I try to be really careful with my word choices. (which is funny because they do tend to be the characters I have the best idea of their names and what they look like before I scrub them of their serial numbers to make them a reader character) As for other characters, it very much is not on purpose lol, so I have this thing called aphantasia which basically just means I cannot visually imagine literally anything. Because of that, when I was younger I always found character descriptions really irritating because I couldn't do any imagining so they didn't really do anything for me so I would pretty habitually skip descriptions. This has effectively made me forget they are supposed to exist and also made it so I am fairly unfamiliar with what should be in a description so they always feel weird and clunky to me when I do write them lol. My wonderful friends remind me for my big projects like my novels but for shorter stuff for tumblr, I just have a list of like 4 traits that I'll try and mention Somewhere but other than that, they tend to get avoided and/or accidentally skipped

I'm so bad at consuming actual media, most of my monster fuckery is from other lovely authors on tumblr. I will always rec the Predator movies bc I love yautja but then again, I still prefer peoples stories to the actual movies lol. Best of luck finding some good stuff out there, if you do find any lmk I'd love to hear about it

#asks #I will never find questions like this rude so do not worry

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nikmoire · 10 months

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On Saturday, I started reading "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron. Even before reaching the practical part, I got stuck on a sentence and crafted my own writing exercise from it.

“The refusal to be creative is self-will and is counter to our true nature.”

TL;DR: I realized that I had wrongly labeled myself as uncreative for years. I reflect on childhood memories & moments of self-doubt.

In recent years, whenever someone asked me or it became a topic in some form, I would say, "I'm totally uncreative." I said it so much that I eventually believed it to be an unchangeable fact.

But when I look back on my life, the opposite was actually true. As a child, I always enjoyed drawing, crafting, and coming up with game ideas. Perhaps it was necessary because as a child, I was often alone, but thanks to the multitude of ideas in my head, I was never truly bored. My grandmother is a passionate crafter, and whenever she started a new hobby, I would join in. From window coloring to silk painting to knitting.

The first time I felt uncreative was in the 5th grade. The girl sitting next to me drew a lion, a character from her comic. It was quite impressive for a 10-year-old. I was so amazed that I decided to draw her character too. For me, it was no different than drawing my favorite Disney characters. But my classmates saw it differently. "How uncreative of you to just copy it." "L.'s drawing looks much better than yours." "You can't even draw." L. didn't mind at all. We drew a few pictures for each other, and we could have almost become friends if the rest of the class hadn't constantly criticized my "copying" and convinced her to stay away from me.

I stopped drawing in class for a while, except when I was with L. in religious education. But my drawings became darker and darker. Partly because I wanted to be “different” and partly because my classmates found plenty of other ways to pick on me or gossip behind my back, that it started to affect me mentally. My pictures featured grim reapers, death and lots of blood. I was 11.

When I was 14, I took a manga course during the summer vacation. We learned to draw with ink in a small group, and at the end, everyone got to exhibit their comics. Mine was about child abduction. Of course, why would I pick a more normal topic? But what I remember most about that course is when the teacher said, "Your drawings remind me of a famous mangaka." There it was again: Copycat, uncreative, not good enough. The teacher wouldn't tell me who exactly she meant. So until today, I don't know if there was any truth to that "accusation." I know I wasn't trying to copy anyone on purpose. But maybe I was so bad, dumb and uncreative that I couldn't help myself but copy someone else.

Two years later, I won a writing contest. First place. A friend told me that she attended a writing course during the summer vacation. A real course with teachers and overnight stays! I begged my parents to let me do something like that too. But they refused. It was a pity because maybe I had found something in which I was good enough and most importantly different in.

I wished someone had supported me. But my mother was convinced that I needed a "real" job. And I couldn't ask anyone else.

In high school, I received only top grades in my art class. I particularly enjoyed a project where we had to redesign a book. Mine was about depression. What else? It was so convincing that I almost got reported to the principal. I brushed off my art teacher's worries by saying, "Oh no, it's not about me. I just couldn't come up with any other topic, and then I happened to watch a documentary on the subject."

[...]

But even in my darkest moments, I somehow found my way back to creativity. However, I avoided telling others about it, because I hated their reaction to my art. For some reason, as an adult, you're not allowed to have hobbies in which you're not good at. And maybe everyone was right all along in my life, that I wasn't good because I was uncreative. And I convinced myself and others of that until I actually became devoid of ideas and what I feared most uncreative.

But that's not truly who I am. It was a decision. And decisions can be changed.

#the artists way #writing exercise #personal #art diary

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evilwickedme · 1 year

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I have a question!!! I really like your fics so I wanted to ask how you find the time/motivation to write your fics? I’m still in the thought process of planning the plot of my very first one and it feels so daunting. Is there any specific process or method you do when you write? Sometimes I get around to writing and I only get a few hundred words in before I’m exhausted. I’d love your advice :)

Hey thank you for asking this and for enjoying my writing!

I'd love it if there were any easy answer to this question, but the truth is the answer is simple and really fucking hard: to write a lot, you just have to write. Sometimes it's going to be easy, other times it's going to be hard. Sometimes I start writing and I blink and suddenly there's two thousand words on the page, other times I sit and stare at my screen for hours and all I've written is two sentences. And I'm not the first one to say this by any means, but the secret is - it's all writing. All of it is writing, even when you end up not writing anything.

Here's the thing though, is that I decided I wanted to be a writer when I was seven years old. I've kept a journal off an on for almost two decades. I wrote poetry for elementary school assignments and I had a blog for my writing in middle school and I wrote short stories for high school projects and I started writing fic when I was 14 and I published my poetry book last year at the age of 24 and it was all just writing and writing and writing. I went through dry spells when I was depressed that last months or even years and I've had periods where I was writing so much it's a wonder I kept up with it. And then I got a degree in screenwriting, where I HAD to write because such and such amount of pages were due by such and such a date, and the industry doesn't care if you're in a rut and neither did my professors.

Nowadays, writing is basically a habit. I have so many poems in my phone notes, because I'll have a thought on the go and suddenly there's a poem - so many phone poems ended up in my book, fyi, some of them barely edited. I can force myself to write something halfway decent just by sitting myself down in front of a Word doc, because I have the neural pathways set up that way from, oh, 18 years of writing. So a lot of my methods regarding writing involve just being like, okay, today I'm going to write something.

For example, I just published the final chapter of the mental health fic in my DC series, which is for now probably going to be the final work in that series (I have a couple more ideas, but they're shelved right now). That final chapter was sitting in my Google drive with about two sentences written in it for weeks, and it was weighing on me. I haven't been feeling very creative recently - I'm fully aware I'm in burnout - but I hate the feeling of being uncreative, so I said to myself, okay, let's fucking finish this. It took a couple of tries - first try I ended up only writing a paragraph describing what everyone was wearing and that's it - but eventually, just the act of me being in front of my laptop rather than facing a tv or buried in my phone made it so I finished it.

There's a story I heard when I was a kid that I can't find right now that basically informed my entire life philosophy, which was this kid went to a baseball game and met his favorite player who agreed to sign a ball for him, but nobody had a pen. Not him, not his parents, not the player, nobody that passed them by in the stadium, none of them had pens. Devastated, he started carrying a pen around with him everywhere. The final quote goes something like, "and if you carry a pen with you everywhere, eventually you start using it." And then he started writing.

To put it another way. In January, I only read two books. And the thing is, like, I genuinely really like reading. Like it's one of my favorite things in the whole wide world. And I asked myself, why didn't I read in January. And again, I know I'm in burnout, I know that's why I watched all that mediocre TV. But I didn't enjoy it? Like at all? So I looked at all that time I spent watching criminal minds and on TikTok and Tumblr and in February I made a concerted effort to read. When I sat down in my living room I asked myself what I was planning to do with my free time, and I realized often the "plan" was just to scroll through TikTok for six hours. So I listened to a five hour audiobook instead. Or read a 300 page book. Or finished a manga I was in the middle of. Or... And I read nine books in February! Which is not a lot for some people, I know, but what an improvement on January!

My point is, if you want to be doing something and you're not doing it, ask yourself why you're not doing it. I found that the time I was spending not-reading and not-writing wasn't getting used up by cooking or cleaning or going to work or meeting up with friends. It wasn't even being spent on something relaxing that I enjoy, like watching a comfort show. In November when I wrote the vast majority of hang on 'til the chaos is through I simply did not spend as much time on Tumblr or on TikTok cause I was writing instead. After I was finished with that, however, I pivoted so hard in the other direction that I didn't do anything I enjoyed at all in an effort to relax. That's honestly not even that relaxing.

So like, here's the thing. When it comes to my "method" of writing it varies so much that it's actually not worth listing out. With hang on the whole fucking thing was outlined in detail. With Of Three Times Lily Evans Changed Her Mind About James Potter I had the endgame in mind and a couple scenes written in advance, but the whole thing got written over 4.5 years and I was improv-ing basically the entire time. With I'm a mess (but I'm the mess that you wanted) I was texting @random-fandork in the middle of the night like, what if next chapter I did this, and they responded with ooh what if you did this, and it got written so fucking fast because we were constantly exchanging ideas. With the timkon jealousy au I just know I want Kon to be jealous of timber, and that's legit all I know, I'm absolutely pantsing it.

Sometimes I write with music. I have character playlists I usually listen to just like any other playlists, but also get used to write sometimes, but I only made my first character playlist around a year ago and I've obviously been writing fic for way more than that. Sometimes music helps get in the mood or helps distract from outside noises, and sometimes it distracts you from finding the right words. I usually write in bed, but I usually do everything in bed because I have chronic back pain. I usually write at home, but I also write in my phone on the go.

But I think you get it, right? Like there is no method. I certainly don't have one. Terry Pratchett famously wrote 300 words every day. I don't know what Erin Morgenstern is doing while working on book three, but I promise you it's not 300 words a day because it was six years between The Night Circus and The Starless Sea and it's been four more years and we still haven't gotten our spring or summer book. Every person finds they work best in different environments - I've tried to write in coffee shops and libraries, it's just close to impossible for me, but for others it's the only way to get motivated. But the point is the stories don't write themselves. Everyone loses steam, everyone gets in a rut, everyone writes bad things that they don't like and scraps them or edits them so thoroughly that they become unrecognizable. But things only get written because you write them, and they'll only get done if you keep at it.

My assumption is that you enjoy telling stories. Yeah, writing is hard, sticking to something is hard, finding motivation to write when you're tired or depressed is hard. But if you don't write, it's not going to get written. So I just try to remember that I enjoy storytelling. That I would be having more fun working on my teacher!peter/dadpool au than watching criminal minds (seriously, I'm not going to finish this show, 2.5 seasons was more than enough; sorry to keep shitting on it but I spent much of January watching it and honestly I've never considered watching a show a waste of time but this was an absolute waste of time).

I also want to reiterate that it's okay if you sit down to write and all you write is a couple hundred words! It's okay if you only wrote two! The turtle wins the race after all - you just gotta keep at it. Just remembere that if you write ten words enough times, you end up with a whole ass book.

#writing #gail speaks #ask #pokemonisbeast1999

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unhingedwomandiaries · 2 years

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I seriously botched a huge chunk of this project I've been working on. I mean, it was a straight-up disaster area. Bugs were crawling out of the code like roaches from a dilapidated motel room. I spent half the day slapping at those little viruses, trying anything to swat them away, but they just kept multiplying. It was like I had unleashed a cyber plague on my own machine. After exhausting every terrible idea that came into my tragically uncreative mind, I finally had to crack and call in the big gun senior team member for backup. I felt like a little kid asking dad to pull my underwear out of the dryer vent. Frustrating doesn't even begin to cover the humiliation.

But here's where it gets weird - the next day my boss takes me into one of those freaky little side rooms where they always tell you you're being laid off. Except this time, it's to ask if everything is "okay at home." Evidently, HR has been monitoring my "erratic behavior" because botching this project was so unusually imperfect for me. The woman who's typically such a paragon of flawless productivity that I could be used as a screensaver for the Culturally Insensitive Business Meeting Stock Photo Library.

As soon as my boss scampered away, I gave the full rundown to my irascible but dependable work-friend x. Turns out, he had practically been mouthing my name like a Buddhist mantra yesterday watching me implode. But because he's such a prince among cronies, he understood that everyone has bouts of pants-shitting incompetence. Still, he admitted it was pretty weird seeing me completely fumble the ball, since I'm normally such a neurotic perfectionist. The whole fiasco was basically a gigantic bummer, not to mention mortifying. Now I feel like I have to go full Bartleby and stop doing anything at all just to regain my aura of impeccable despondence.

#diary #Work

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antspaul · 1 month

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🥤🌿🔪🧸

🥤 ⇢ recommend an author or fanfic you love

hmmmmm for this one i'll recommend a relatively recent bookmark!

It's just not what's done by @player1064 ! It's a Carraville fic in which Gary Neville comes out as gay in the late 90s, but no one cares because it's Gary LOL. It's a fun oneshot that captures Gary and Jamie's voices (and humor) quite well, and in my opinion is also sensitive to the undercurrent of homophobia, both internalized and external, that would presumably exist even if others didn't give much thought to a specific player's coming out.

🌿 ⇢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity

depending on how major the block is, here are some things that i do when i'm having trouble putting words on paper:

talk through the scene/story with a friend (BEST advice i could give, more helpful than everything else on this list combined)

take a break from the computer and write it out by hand, or at least sketch out some of the dialogue

do a little research (INCREDIBLY dangerous if you are me, and are susceptible to the Research Vortex and tend to waste entire nights fixating on say, where the england nt was staying during the september 2003 intl break in manchester - but can be useful if you're struggling to visualize a scene's setting or feel otherwise ill prepared to write a scene requiring a degree of specialist knowledge)

if you're really burnt out on writing, revisiting the source material can give you a boost of energy in reminding you why you like the thing you're writing about

take a walk (or do something with your hands). no more staring at the screen for the next hour, and getting out of your house can provide you with inspiration at unexpected times

put the project on hold and use the time to read something of high quality

shower, wash your hair, eat, generally do whatever you need to do to physically reset

this is the lamest answer ever, and believe me i HATE that it works, but sometimes when i'm feeling really uncreative, it's because i need more sleep. horrible, i'm aware. i'll spend a few nights prioritizing sleep (and maybe reading something good right before bed) and then i'll find it's easier to focus (along with all the other benefits of better sleep lol)

write something kind of shitty anyways and then revisit it a bit later with the idea that you can just delete it if you don't like it. but even a small start can usually help give you an idea of where you want to take a scene/project

i know that's a lot of advice hahaha! i used to be a writing tutor & thought a lot about where certain blocks come from and how to address them. the best thing is to have a lot of tools in your writing arsenal that allow you to build a writing process that meets you where you're at!

thank you for your ask, anon <3

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#my fic #ask game

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soapfireblog · 1 year

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Can't have just one of the Dead Bird Duo without the other >:) i have many a questions

5, 7, 20, 39, 41, AND 45 for Otto

5. Do you have any early ideas/concepts of your OC that you scrapped or would like to share? To be honest, I don't have much 'concept' art for Otto. A small backstory for him: I used him in an AHIT roleplay (HE WAS SO BAD BACK THEN) and it disbanded because we were basically forced to rp Undertale by 50% of our group, so I went and put Otto in the rp as a small 'rebellion' moment. Everyone loved him so, good with me! I suppose I can share the idea of panic. LOOKING BACK THIS WAS SO CRINGE ISTG: but basically, Otto has the soul of 'Panic'. Yes, that's it. That's the post. It was like a Dark Pink if you're wondering (Get it bc light pink = fear). Now he has the soul of integrity fuck you. 7. Do they have a motivation for wanting any of the timepieces? How would they find one? What would they do with it? Otto would not have any motivation to find any timepieces. After all, he already know's what happened in the past. But if he could change it, he'd go back in time and save Archie from dying and discourage The Conductor from selling his soul. 20. What would a time rift level themed around them look like? I feel like of course it would be space themed, y'know, because he's a dreamwalker and all that. I feel like it would be taking Otto's life into perspective. Maybe it's more of 'Seeing through his POV', example: It would be hard to tell what a real person and a ghost would look like because...well, for most of Otto's childhood, he didn't know that he could see ghosts. You could walk to a character to talk to them, but then they disappear, or you walk through them. It would have a slight 'horror' theme to it as well, not much horror. Just maybe a couple of eyes here or there (symbolising The Council). The Time Rift would end at the 'Moonstone' (yes, I am just calling it the Moonstone I'm uncreative and heavily inspired by Warrior cats), where he's about to be fully converted into a Dream Walker by The Council.

39. Are there any concepts for OCs that you have yet to share or have considered making? Are there any you need help developing or wish to know better? Share your thoughts.

To be honest, I feel like Otto has been my creative max. He's my pride and joy, definitely my favourite OC I've ever made. He's my creative super star, my pride and joy, I could write novels on his lore in the OG!Liars AU alone, NEVERMIND all the timelines that've sprouted from it; Good End!AU, Mabel!AU, Swap!AU, etc. Of course, except fixing some plot-holes here or there, I don't think I have anything new to add to him. I'm always open for ideas for him, atm I just think he's at his peak! 41. What would an outfit, accessory, weapon, badge or dye themed after your OC, made for the player, look or function like? Feel free to share multiple ideas! Dye: 'Dreamwalker Dye': The dreamwalker dye would be a mix of blue's and purple's with star imprints, similar to the "Milky Way" dye but more star like. Weapon: Otto himself uses Stars as a projectile weapon, so I assume it can act similar to like I forgot what it's called but that beaker explosion thing but stars instead. Also can act as Ninja Stars Badge: 'Ghostly Pals Badge!' a ghost spirit (think of Starclan-like) shows you how to parkour and do complicated jumps when needed! Badge: 'Taking Flight!' a pair of wings grow on the players back, granting them a thrust in a forward direction, like dash but x100. Badge: 'Stare into the Future!' a badge that lasts only a second or two, but it can predict where an enemy will land/send their attack so you can get out quick! 45.What is a story, comic, art piece, project, ect. you wish/plan to create with this character? (Multiple ideas are also encouraged!) Oh boy. I'm going to college for Game & Media design soon, and Otto will be one of my BIG inspirations for that course! I'd love to make some animations of him one day, PMV's, AMV's, Animation memes, I don't care! I wanna see my boy move! Of course, a full comic of him would be amazing, but I don't have the time or energy to do that. A full fic of him would be amazing, too, but I don't have good planning, his lore is too complex atm and I need to lay it down piece by piece for new people to understand!

#WOOOOOOOOOO TYSM BLIZZ I WNATED TO RANTA BOUT OTTO YAAAAH #Otto Mallard (OC)

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i'm sorry but grieving is no excuse to lash out at people or to project your own insecurities the way nico did in the past. and neither is using your partner the way you would a sex doll just because you're walling up and refusing to open up. this is coming from an addict in recovery btw and accountability is important. now this is fictional but the narrative should have still acknowledged nico's actions and had a proper resolution

I’m not sure what the goal of your asks are because idk if you’re just coming across my blog recently or if you’ve misunderstood something I’ve said but I’m frustrated by this series of asks

Nico's actions were shitty and would ideally be addressed in canon. However, I stand on the fact that even people who do shitty things are deserving of empathy and compassion. During those eps, anons were driving people out of fandom because if you didn't totally see Nico as the shittiest boyfriend ever, then you’re automatically trash.

Nico hasn't been magically forgiven or absolved of any guilt, and that doesn't change the fact that he's an imperfect character. I've said before that the perfect character is implausible and in terms of storytelling, a lazy, boring, unrealistic, and uncreative way of writing a character. You’ve said yourself that he’s never been provided the explanation or resolution to his actions. And that everything that’s happened with Nico and his parents and Levi was dismissed with one sentence (”I know you deserve better”).

Villains in marvel have had sob stories to humanize them and they’re still the villain but Nico literally has zero. He’s not even afforded that and he’s not supposed to be the villain.

So I do not appreciate you coming in and telling me I have to manage my expectations or that my life isn’t the backstory that was chosen for Nico.

I know.

And even though this work is fictional and he only has a small role, the mere existence of Nico Kim’s character still impacts real life and real people. Like it or not, greys is not some fantasy au universe. It’s supposed to be a dramatized version of real life. And with real life comes real life issues, like poor rep and racism.

Nico’s actions go hand in hand with his identity as a gay asian man. This followthrough you’re expecting, should also be applied to how poc and queer characters are written in today’s media. If they didn’t want someone like me to connect to a character like him, then they should’ve just casted a white man.

So regardless of the size of the role, characters from marginalized backgrounds deserve stories that resonate with the communities they're representing. Television writers and producers are capable of that, and we as their audience should not be policing each others thoughts and demanding we settle for less (esp in a well-funded, long running primetime drama like Greys).

This is what I talk mostly about on my blog: How the writing for schmico has been shit in handling poc and queer stories. How schmico’s storyline is written strictly from Levi’s pov (re: from a cishet white pov). And how by doing so, has made audiences villainize Nico when WORSE characters have existed on the show but get away with in both in canon and fandom.

I don’t expect people to always agree or understand me. I only wish to provide a place where likeminded people can come interact together because they’re missing something, or wanting something that isn’t being given to them from this show or western American media in general.

The problem is not me and I’d argue it’s not even the fandom’s problem. The problem is in the writing, in the network, in the show.

As @schmico-ing said so well: Maybe Grey's should've thought of that before they paraded Alex Landi for groundbreaking representation™

And I am not dismissing your experience as an addict in recovery and I see that is an experience I do not have and that is what has shaped your interpretation of schmico’s story (see how that works both ways?) and would in different circumstances (where if you didn’t tell me that I shouldn’t expect good asian queer rep because he’s only a recurring character), be something I’d be interested in exploring.

So it’d be cool if I wasn’t told to manage my expectations.

#i don't even @ grey's with all my hot takes #they exist in this hellsite only #grey's anatomy #schmico #gk asks #anonymous #bad asks

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I think someone must have asked u this already and tbh its a boring question so I'm totally ok if you delete it. How do u feel about mr christian prolife child murdering game simulator maker himself? Bc I kind of feel like rn so much drama around all the Fnaf fan verse projects comes out and it (unsurpirsingly) shows that Scott really is every bit a dull, uncreative money making christian cuck as the rest of them that accidentally struck gold with a really cool concept and his inability to model something aesthetically pleasing, so it worked nicely for a grimey horror game. Not even mentioning how made on the fly lore is holding on with Christ's help and some hot glue. I personally don't really care about him since I never paid for a fhaf game game, but the fact that his fanbois are bending over backwards to defend him when someone like JKR is gonna be burned at the stake one of this days is. Ugh. So yeah, you're prolly more into robot bunny dick than all of this but thot I'd ask.

i really dont know a single thing about scott. really all i know is the whole christian thing and how his games sucked so much he used the criticism of "your models look like creepy animatronics" to actually make something pretty cool. but yeah. it seems youre right. the lore is so convoluted and stupid honestly and ever game just muddies it even more. but in a way its funny. like a metal gear solid kind of thing going on. as much as i love william, sometimes i do think about that time we all thought it was just some fucked up guy who used a job at a kids restaurant to do some murdering. simpler times.

#ask #fazfuck entertainment

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secrettastemakerland · 3 years

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Prompt 11 - "I swear, it's not always like this."

tags: chaoticness, flirting, school projects are ignored and put off. oh and many "bringing someone to your house and your family calls them your partner" moments.

NOTE: Hooch's name is not mine!!! I'm just uncreative. :')

@fictober-event

"Okay, mom, that's enough. I'm sure that we have plenty of snacks," Kayla pointed to the major spread her mom had prepared for her date.

(Her mother's words, not hers.)

(Though she wouldn't be opposed.)

"Okay, if you're sure," her mother said as she quickly placed the latest plate of snacks she had prepared before turning to her daughter with a wink. "Have fun with the project, sweetie."

With a slight blush and a nervous smile, Kayla turned back to the redheaded girl on the couch. "Where were we?"

The bespectacled girl smiled back happily and moved to open her book before she was interrupted by an annoying voice.

"Kayyyyyy!!!" the annoying voice revealed itself to be her equally annoying younger brother as he stick his head into the living room. "Me and Max were gonna play video games but now we can't because you and your dumb girlfriend are here!!!"

Now with a massive blush and wide eyes, Kayla rushed over to the console, quickly (but carefully) removing it from its place near the TV, and ran over to the pouting boy with a clenched smile. "Go play in my room, but touch anything and you're dead," she whispered to him when he grabbed at the console, grinning at his fearful nod.

She turned back to the girl (who had the patience of a literal saint) on the couch and was shocked to see that she had been knocked down by their Bullmastiff, Hooch, who was now blessing her with unstoppable and extremely wet kisses.

"Hooch, down! Now." she commanded, her face now stained red in anger, not embarrassment.

Hooch, sensing his mother's anger, looked up from his makeout session (something of which she was not jealous of) and left in a hurry, knowing he wouldn't receive good night cuddles as punishment.

"Oh god, Mary, are you okay?" Kayla asked worriedly as she watched the girl get up and wince at her now slobber-covered glasses.

"It-it's okay," she said as she pulled out a cloth to clean her glasses with. "He's cute," she said with a smile.

"We should probably move outside," Kayla said as she retrieved her stuff from the ground.

"Probably," Mary hummed her vision a little blurry due to the slobber spots.

But as soon as they opened the door, they heard a tiny voice squeak out, "Kay! I'm so happy that you're here! Mr. Sprinkles got banned (that's a long story, she waved away) at the last tea party and I have two open seats! So your girlfriend can join us too!"

"OKAY. Back inside," Kayla screamed as she shoved Mary back inside the house, glaring at her sister all the while. And she has officially made the list.

"I am so sorry about them. I swear, it's not always like this," she tried to explain. "It's worse," she added in a mumble when the other girl had turned around to take a look outside at the tea party they had just been invited to. It was embarrassing times like these that she wished that she was an only child.

(Hooch excluded, of course. She couldn't be upset when he was the biggest baby ever, now could she?)

"Does that include everyone calling me your girlfriend?" Mary asked, still facing the window.

"Huh?!" A massive blush painted itself onto Kayla's face as she whipped her head towards her guest/crush.

Kayla watched with wide eyes as Mary pushed a piece of red hair behind her ear and revealed a blush.

"My family does the same. Calling you my girlfriend, I mean," she turned back to her host/crush. "That's why I wanted to do the project at your place. I thought that you would freak out or something."

"I am freaking out. Just a little," she brought up a hand to show her how close she was freaking out with her fingers (which were pressed together).

"Oh." Mary looked down at her lap with disappointment.

"But in a good way!" Kayla rushed to cheer up the love of her life girl with an aggressive wave of her hands. "I've been crushing on you since forever!" she admitted with another blush.

Mary looked up with a matching blush. "Oh."

"You know, we could always do the project later. At your house," Kayla said with a "I am dead serious, why are you laughing?" face as Mary did just that.

"Agreed. Tea party now, project later."

Kayla giggled into her hand with a nod. "Agreed."

#I think this one's the longest so far... 😅#sorry not sorry #my writing #my fic #fictober #fictober21

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