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allthingswhumpyandangsty

neonjawbone

Commission! For the pal @blu-bat

blu-art

It's Z and Jade from my new book: It Ends With Z

OUT NOW!!

Writer: Akira B. Forced to be the villain of the world's story, the God of Chaos decides to seek out some form of peace from it all. Unfort

jeaniefranklins

Sex scene as character study is so good. What is your relationship to your body? What is your relationship to your partner? What lessons have you absorbed from the culture about yourself as a sexual being? How much do you have to trust someone before being comfortable with intimacy? What fears and insecurities come to the fore for you when you take your clothes off? It's so good.

headspace-hotel

How do they communicate? How do they expect others to communicate? How well do they understand their body and their own capacity for pleasure? What do they tend to do to make their partner feel comfortable? How comfortable are they showing emotion in front of others? How much insight do they have into what their own emotions mean and are connected to? What are they focused on during the encounter? How conscious are they of exchanges of power and vulnerability? very very very good

jessfink

Yes. YES

spiribia

as a writer you will have a specific deck of vocab words you like using a lot and when you read other peoples' work you will see a very clear spread of different vocab words on their end. this is why you need to read, to collect other writers' words like it's a card game

captainkirkk

What they don't tell you about writing is that as you write, you discover scenes and entire plots that you hadn't accounted for that need to be written. So you can spend two hours writing and editing only to realise you're further away from the finish line than you thought you were when you started

lew-basnight

This is such a bonus. You're doing the parts that you need to do and you realize "oh.. wait, there must have been a conversation where these two made this decision. It must have happened the year before, what would they have been doing-- WAIT they would be carpooling to get money from donating plasma, and X would have been with them. Ooooh shit this is going to be so much fun"

polarity-disturbed

big fan of when a character metaphorically sweeps something under the rug, but you can feel them flinch every time they walk over it and feel the crumbs beneath their feet

wildstarpress

It Ends With Z by @blu-bat comes out March 14th, 2026!

What happens when the God of Chaos, who's forced to be a villain of everyone's story, decides to seek out some form of peace?

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mynameismad

I've been getting back into comics while I wait for more info from my concept job, and I thought I'd make a post about something very important to me, which is COMIC PANEL VARIATION and HOW TO THINK ABOUT IT.

Also, yes, before you ask, these rules can absolutely be broken. I strategically break them to create a noticeable shift or flow in the storytelling, like so:

You can also probably make your own set of 5 IN 5 rules! I like to draw facial expressions and backgrounds and hands (like a masochist), so my 5 in 5 is definitely geared towards that. If you like to make more quiet, introspective comics, you could throw in a panel with NO DIALOGUE every 5 pages, or a mood panel with no characters, for example!

#comics

anonyymoose

highly recommend: making that character’s mourning WORSE!!!! make them play pretend with that corpse. make it seem like they’re moving on until they start telling the new person to start dyeing their hair the color of the person they lost and start calling them their name to make it clear that they’re hanging out with this person now to try and make them into the old one. make your grieving character put people in the same situation the person they’re mourning died in and have them hope they die to prove it was unpreventable. make your grieving character put people in the same situation the person they’re mourning died in and have them hope they live to prove that it wasn’t doomed to happened. make your grieving characters actively harm the people around them and the memory of the person they lost. I love you morally dubious grieving characters

serpentface

Ok wrt recent asks about cultural worldbuilding, here's a drive folder with a very large collection of mostly nonfiction (~142 books right now), kept to a Very loose theme of history and social sciences, in pdf or epub format.

History (largely pre-modern period but not entirely), material culture, trade and economics, agriculture, magic and religion, folktales, (epic) poetry, natural history, ethnobotany, ethnobiology, kinship, animal social history, etc. Wildly variable mix of books for general readership and academic audiences.

This is assembled through a combination of PDFs I'd already accumulated, my library checkout history, reading list, and things I found in the process of making this. I have not read every single thing in here (some I’ve only read parts of, some I haven’t touched) and can’t attest to the quality of every book, this is just an assemblage of potentially worthwhile reading.

#references

kjscottwrites

[X] <- psst click this

#i am leaning back in my chair stage

sentientsky

repeating this to myself forever and ever

fellshish

The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

rebornofstars-deactivated202510

you're falling in the trap!! it will be read by many people, many times, and it will live on in their memories. and maybe no single other human will match you in time spent dedicated to your story, but as a collective we will outlast you. acts of creation only grow when they are shared