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my favorite genre of fictional character is like "i am terrifying to almost everyone, i'm very good at killing, i can endure anything, i've become exceptionally good at playing into my reputation, and if you try to give me positive social interaction i will react with confusion and cower in a corner like an abused animal. and i may try to shoot you. but there is also a chance i may imprint on you like a feral dog receiving its first loving touch! good luck."

gueroboyfriend-deactivated20180

u ever have on mutuals whos so deep in another fandom that u know absolutely zero about and they make posts that look like they speaking another language or some shit

gueroboyfriend-deactivated20180

captainlordauditor

i really appreciate the number of mutuals who are not in any of my fandoms sharing this post. its like a little hello nod as we pass each other in the hall

vampmilf

i am begging you all to stop treating this site like instagram if you dont want it to be content free by next year

i-like-to-look-at-your-back

It's easy pals. Hit the reblog/double arrows button and let your fav posts spread. It's not stealing, it's not reposting, everything is still linked to the OP. You can even make a side blog for all the reblogs if you want to keep your main one clean or sth.

eraemx

As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.

i-amneveralone-deactivated20201

wow.

robotsandfrippary

reblogging for all of us that grew up in land locked states, then visit the ocean and are used to just plunging into a lake.

sinnerbird

im going to start a thread of pokemon drawn to the sizes of the things theyre based on

here, i’ll start

sinnerbird

also this thread is open to anyone

sinnerbird

very-salty-popcorn

A very small boi enters

5radchan

@alpha-bread

alpha-bread

!!!!! This is Zangoose she’s pointy and I love her

pettyartist

I chose the littlest ones cause the BIG ones were always tadpoles and the little ones were always poliwogs.

kuro--sawa

A pocket sized boy

charlesoberonn

pegasusie

The smallest friends you could imagine

blue-randomcity

Can I join?

lespoopypodle

lenacraft

I love these so much

kaenith

Promise I haven't dropped off the face of the earth! Just a combo of being busy IRL, playing Pokemon Arceus, and some minor art block. But I wanted to make sure the whole month didn't go by without any art, so here's a quick doodle ^_^

one-time-i-dreamt

thanks Facebook for giving me an ad to these bad boys

one-time-i-dreamt

happyheidi

🦔

This is Charles. He wants to go on a journey around tumblr. could you show him around?

youareyoubutwhoareyou

Hey if u like the ocean look at this its rly cool I think

boglord

as someone who was already scared of the ocean uhhhhhh

ms-demeanor

Terrifying depths of the ocean my beloved

eosofspades

THIS IS THE COOLEST THING EVER OH MY GOD

mirai-e-jump

dollopheadedmerlin

I have … a tip.

If you’re writing something that involves an aspect of life that you have not experienced, you obviously have to do research on it. You have to find other examples of it in order to accurately incorporate it into your story realistically.

But don’t just look at professional write ups. Don’t stop at wikepedia or webMD. Look up first person accounts.

I wrote a fic once where a character has frequent seizures. Naturally, I was all over the wikipedia page for seizures, the related pages, other medical websites, etc.

But I also looked at Yahoo asks where people where asking more obscure questions, sometimes asked by people who were experiencing seizures, sometimes answered by people who have had seizures.

I looked to YouTube. Found a few individual videos of people detailing how their seizures usually played out. So found a few channels that were mostly dedicated to displaying the daily habits of someone who was epileptic.

I looked at blogs and articles written by people who have had seizures regularly for as long as they can remember. But I also read the frantic posts from people who were newly diagnosed or had only had one and were worried about another.

When I wrote that fic, I got a comment from someone saying that I had touched upon aspects of movement disorders that they had never seen portrayed in media and that they had found representation in my art that they just never had before. And I think it’s because of the details. The little things.

The wiki page for seizures tells you the technicalities of it all, the terminology. It tells you what can cause them and what the symptoms are. It tells you how to deal with them, how to prevent them.

But it doesn’t tell you how some people with seizures are wary of holding sharp objects or hot liquids. It doesn’t tell you how epileptics feel when they’ve just found out that they’re prone to fits. It doesn’t tell you how their friends and family react to the news.

This applies to any and all writing. And any and all subjects. Disabilities. Sexualities. Ethnicities. Cultures. Professions. Hobbies. Traumas. If you haven’t experienced something first hand, talk to people that have. Listen to people that have. Don’t stop at the scholarly sources. They don’t always have all that you need.

dollopheadedmerlin

I … LOVE reading the replies and tags for this post! I’m happy that, out of all my posts, this is the one that’s blown up so quickly.

I love the people who are a part of a minority, that are gushing about their favorite fics or books that seem to have done this and offer proper representation.

I love the people who are bringing up the toxic mindset that is very popular on tumblr, the “you can’t write about it if you haven’t lived it” ideology that makes writers feel guilty for providing representation.

I especially love the people who are mentioning how they should start doing this. I love the people who are probably young or inexperienced writers that are seeing this and thinking of doing this for the first time. I love that there are people who read this and then think to better their writing because of it.

spicymochi

fairy cow

thewritingumbrellas

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

writerlyn

This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.

transarsonist

Reblog this post to bonk your mutuals with an over-sized hammer that goes *squeaka* and flatten them into a cartoonish pancake version of themself

moringmark

runcibility

I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it

quadriviummuse

I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.