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Oh Shit Classpect in the year of our lord 2021
Don’t know why, suddenly got a surge of inspiration to finally do the thing I’ve been claiming I want to do all these years
finally update and refresh all my decades old classpect posts (oh god its been literally a decade for the oldest ones hnnnng)
not at all finished yet, itll be a lot, but hey here’s a sneak peak preview
let me know how you’re feeling about it anyone who still cares lol
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Size comparison of Y’gathok, the Ceaseless Hunger and Bjorn, our level 20 Goliath Barbarian.
Hey quick question: why the FUCK do you have that
Imagine, from out of nowhere, your dm casually slapping this thing down on the table like any other encounter.
“Yeah, the fight will start in a sec, uh…I’ll give inspiration to whomever helps me get this fucking box out of my car.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/7asxci/oc_ygathok_the_ceaseless_hunger_final_boss_of_our/ This is the reveal of this ridiculousness during their game
Please watch this reveal video it’s kickass
FUCK ME the reveal video
“CHRIS??????”
“Um, I don’t think our plan is gonna work.”
Always reblog Y'gathok
DM:*Pulls out Y’gothok* *Turns on “Open Your Heart” by Crush 40*
Wow that DM really goes above and beyond
Reblogging Ygathok because it’s been one year since we fought him!!!! It just popped up on my timeline today!
Happy one year anniversary, our precious Old God boi!!!
One year ago today, this boy was revealed.
And for you guys, I have great news: I have the stats of Y’gathok complete and a general design for “how to use him” done. However, an adventure guide is incoming to teach you how to integrate him into any of your worlds!
Three years now since the reveal
I have never reblogged something so fast in my life
it’s exactly what you think it is
it’s exactly what I thought it was.
It has been, 500 years.
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story outlining methods, pt. 1:
take off your pants!! (“take off your pants!: outline your books for faster, better writing” by libbie hawker)
this outline starts with a character — specifically their biggest flaw — and leads to five points that will make up the core of your story. it’s best for plots and subplots that focus on overcoming the flaw!
this outline doesn’t just have to be used for coming of age novels. it is just as important in your dystopian, fantasy, or thriller novels that the main character learns something or has changed by the end.
STEP ONE: think about your character
your main character — what is their name, and what are their important features?
what are your character’s flaws? what about their FATAL flaw? ex: hubris, overconfidence, stubbornness, etc.
STEP TWO: think about the end of the story
the story (whether the main plot, a subplot, or a facet of the main plot) is the journey lead to overcome the flaw. now that you know the character’s flaw, you know what lesson they need to learn.
the end of the story = the flaw mastered, the lesson learned.
STEP THREE: think about the external goal
the external goal is the plot, the outer motivation to push the character to the end of the story where the goal is mastered. if you remember my post on quests, you know that a quest has two reasons to be there: the external factor (shrek saving fiona for his swamp), and the real reason (the lesson learned)
the external goal should provide a chance for the character to recognize their flaw and begin to change. how does your plot tie into their character development?
STEP FOUR: think about the antagonist
thinking about the external goal should reveal who the antagonist is. the antagonist should want to achieve the same goal or a goal that impedes with the protagonist’s goal. the antagonist should be the biggest obstacle to the character.
STEP FIVE: think about the ally/allies
the character(s) that is capable of forcing the protagonist down the correct path. where your protagonist most likely will resist changing and confronting their flaw, the ally will help force them to do so anyway.
STEP SIX: think about the theme
so what’s the point of your book? if you are struggling to boil it down to one sentence, you might want to think about it a little longer. this is what keeps the story feeling coherent. what are you trying to tell us?
STEP SEVEN: think about the plot
each main plot element should somehow relate to the core of the book, aka the character’s development in overcoming their flaw
OPENING SCENE - set the stage. address the flaw or the theme
INCITING EVENT - what forces the character out of their everyday life and into the story?
REALIZING EXTERNAL GOAL - what makes the character begin seeking their goal?
DISPLAY OF FLAW - if the character’s flaw hasn’t been made blatantly clear, now is the time. make it known to the reader.
DRIVE FOR GOAL - what is your character’s first attempt to reach their goal?
ANTAGONIST REVEAL - how do you first show your antagonist’s opposition to your character?
FIRST THWART - what happens to your character that keeps them from reaching their goal?
REVISIT FLAW - show the character’s flaw again, even if they themselves aren’t aware of it yet.
ANTAGONIST ATTACKS - what does the antagonist do that makes things worse?
SECOND THWART - where your character fails most likely due to the attack
CHANGED GOAL - the character finds a new goal or focuses on the external goal in a different way
ALLY ATTACKS - what does the ally do to force the character to see the flaw?
AWAKENING - the character knows what they must do to reach the external goal. how will you show that the character has also awakened to their flaw? how will you show them changing?
BATTLE - the final showdown with the antagonist!
DEATH - the character’s flaw dies here. how will you show that the character truly is different now?
OUTCOME - show whether the character won or lost the external goal, reveal the theme of the story.
naturally, you don’t have to follow that outline exactly, but it can be a good place to start ;)
Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):
“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.
“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.
“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.
“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”
“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”
“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.
And!
“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”
Here’s one that a lot of people miss, but that can be helpful for the reader:
“Of course you already know to use a paragraph break between speakers,” they said.
“Yes,” she agreed. “Depending on style, you can either indent or line break, as long as you keep it consistent.” “Exactly! But did you know that if your single speaker goes on and on and gets a little rambly, and you find yourself needing to put in a paragraph break but not switch speakers, you should do the exact same thing? “Only, in this case, don’t close off the quotation marks until that speaker is completely done talking. See how after the question mark above there isn’t anything? Indent or line break for your next paragraph – however you’re indicating – and use a beginning quotation to mark the dialogue, but leave the initial paragraph open, so that the reader can tell it’s not a different person now speaking,” they finished.
Obviously, people can often get it from context even if you don’t do this, and grammar and punctuation is a thing that evolves and changes over time, but I do like this rule because it actually benefits the reader.
I forgot to ever upload the commission for @dragicorn-bro ! Was super fun to do.
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i wanna know how he got those scars
Dave: When I met him before the whole dying and rebirth thing, he was just a young guy that didn’t know a fucking thing about fighting. Just ran in with his teeth and claws and hoped he was enough of a stubborn jackass to not get killed.
It was working okay enough for him, as he wasn’t dead yet by the time you ran into him....you were actually...going to kill him yourself until you saw how absolutely pathetic he looked. So of course you took him under your *wing* so to speak and the rest is history. Now look at you, roles are reversed and he’s teaching you how to use a sword.
Hey, got something done for DirkJake week. These two are just so easy to milk dumb interactions out of.
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Going back to my roots by some good ol’ Dirk dunking.
prospit and derse except i mangle the designs beyond recognition 🥴
man.. every 413 i just go to watch some old homestuck animations or lyricsrucks from 2010-2015... .. and every time i think about the actual comic... i just get kinda sad. the comic was something i loved as a dumb teen. to see it rot away with horrid writing (cough epilogues and homestuck 2) and awful choices just and jow terribly everything was handled.. fucking sucks.
when i think about homestuck, i STILL think about cascade. how it literally crashed newgrounds. the absolutely incredible fan works like ugly story or After us or lullaby for the gods.. the soundtrack.. even dumb shit like dave and karkat arguing over penis drawings. how the fandom was literally just a bunch of theatre kids having fun with each other.
it just sucks man. having to watch something that i literally grew up with for my entire teenage-hood rot away into the toxic wasteland that is Twitter and late 2010s internet...
homestuck is dead and its never coming back. a literal empire of 2013 culture completely gone. and fuck, im gonna miss it. so much.
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oh yeah, absolutely.
i fully believe that if homestuck had come out in 2019, hell no not even that. if homestuck came out in 2014? it would have been absolutely nothing. maybe a small fandom at the most. it would have been a passing fart on the internet that nobody would've remembered. homestuck was popular because it fit the EXACT internet culture of the time. and it truly, really was the last hurrah of the old school internet where you were still relatively completely anonymous and were not expected to have your entire identity in your bio and people still used myspace and corporations didn't really have any presence in online spaces yet. It was a golden age for animations/animatics and fansongs and fancomics.
It also really helped that at the time, it was HUGE, yet the underdog fandom at the same time. Homestuck media had MILLIONS of views on youtube and it was large enough to feel like everyone was part of a big happy family. And yet, it was also small enough that it still felt underground, and not mainstream at all. You could easily find people who didn't know what the comic was at cons while at the same time just as easily finding someone else with gray paint and horns and drinking faygo and carrying a bucket.
It's amazing to me how something which had SO much cultural influence can be so easily forgotten just because the creator is an idiot and the current writers will scream and cry and claim harassment and stalking when you criticize them.
I feel like in some ways, the kickstarter literally killed homestuck. slowly. and painfully.
what if Hal could turn his fingers into electric claws like those evil dudes from Bolt 👀
HES SO FUCKING VUTE ICANTNDJDHSUSUFUEJE I LOVE THE ANTENNASSSSSSSS
