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OBJECTION! That’s not evidence, that’s Mr Paper 😱
Raven’s such a fake idgafer because you know the second her kindred link for Yang went dark she went straight to Qrow to ask what happened
preserving @tumblingxelian's tags:
#Which means she found Qrow a sobbing & howling wreck in an airship atop a sinking city#OOF
In addition Qrow wasn't alone so there'd be even more questions and confusion on top of the distress already felt.
And to make matters worse, Qrow didn't know about the evacuation (or at least not the details of how it went down, I can't recall if he caught word of it happening at all.) In this scenario Raven suddenly appearing would be his first indicator that anything had happened to his nieces.
I'll second that "OOF".
Winter, Marrow, Qrow, and Robin were involved with planning the evacuation (Qrow, Marrow, and Robin had to arrest the Ace Ops to stop them from nuking the civilians, remember?) so at the very least she'd have some explanation as to why Atlas was underwater.
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Improving your art skills isn’t easy; it takes a lot of patience and dedication but it is extremely straightforward. It’s all grinding until you understand 3d shapes, light, color harmonies, and composition ratios. I got good at the process. If I wanted to focus on improvement instead of making comics I could go back to that at any moment.
My issue is that I can’t figure out a good equivalent to that kind of practice with writing ? Like idk. Do I do a bunch of object descriptions ? Do I do a scene with a restricted vocab ?? I don’t knowwwww
It’s hard finding useful advice because online creative spaces are full of self taught “just have fun and be yourself” type people and it’s like. I will have fun later. Right now what I need is to figure out the writing equivalent of filling a page with cubes at different angles.
I think the people responding to this with some equivalent of "read more!" are missing the point a little. That would be closer to going to an art museum and looking at Old Masters paintings and trying to think of what you like about their styles—Which can be valuable, yes! But isn't grinding.
Grinding would be word sprints. NaNoWriMo was killer for this before their whole operation went to shit, but the good thing about that is that they never had copyright over the concept of writing fast. The numbers you go for can be a little arbitrary at first as you figure out what specifically works for you, but 15 minutes is usually the average from what I've seen? Maybe you can get 500 words in 15 minutes. Maybe you can only get 200. Either way, you're exercising the muscles that get ideas from your brain out onto paper.
Here's some other ideas I came up with for more specific exercises:
Wordsketching for Settings
Go outside (or stay inside?), practically anywhere. Sit down and angle yourself in a way that lets you get a good view of where you're at, and then pick the first things that jump out to you about the place you're in and describe them in 2-3 sentences. Then, figure out what you're drawn to next and write sentences about that. Make sure you add what you feel in that moment (Is the atmosphere uncomfortable? Is the place hot or cold? Humid?), what the place sounds like (People talking, or cars, or animal noises...), so on and so forth. This is very similar to the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique, so you can even work off of that structure if you'd like, but this is specifically to help you get better at describing settings.
As far as fanfic is concerned, I think the genre as a whole skimps on atmosphere and setting a SHIT TON. If you want to elevate yourself, let the pacing of your work slow down for a second and dedicate some time to really orienting your blorbos in a specific space. It does a lot for the tone of the work, and... if you want to play ball with the big boys you need to start thinking about things like tone and atmosphere when writing.
Transcription for Dialogue
This can entail you writing down what your family says at the dinner table like a creepy weirdo, or transcribing movie dialogue or anything of that nature. The purpose would be to get used to how conversation naturally flows between two or more people (turn-taking, interruption etc.), and furthermore getting a sense of how human beings naturally talk to each other. I've written down things I've heard people say in public before for no better reason than thinking "Oh! I could totally see [X Character] saying that!". Whatever hangups you may have over this sick linguivouyeristic perversion are much less important than the tragedy of filling your work with Incorrect Quotes -style unreadable garbage. It's like eating your vegetables.
Wiktionary Challenges for Word Choice
Just spamming the "random word" button on Wiktionary will give you instances in every language Wiktionary has in its database, so this one requires a little more work to be helpful, but in lieu of that you can look through stuff like Categories or Thesaurus Entries!
Let's gather a few fun words to demonstrate.
Okay, this should be more than enough for some sentences describing a setting out in nature! Blunket is making me think this takes place at twilight... And I like alliterating, so let's mash it to make the semi-redundant phrase "blunket-blue" just for some flair.
The copse laid still. On the bank of the meandering creek, the rabbit flattened herself out against the soft grass, her luculent eyes darting back and forth over her surroundings. What she could see of the copse looked mostly the same: Twisting shrubs the color of ash, blunket-blue grasses, an invisible wind brushing over all that stillness and pressing flat everything it could. Her nose twitched. Until the last blushes of rose drained from the evening sky, the rabbit would keep herself fixed in that spot on the riverbank and wait.
Boom! Those words are suddenly in your arsenal to use whenever you want, and you additionally have a reference point to remember what they mean if you forget. I think the only thing I could add from here is that reading your work aloud can help you monitor the way you chunk out your sentences and clauses, but that's more closely related to editing help and, again, not grinding exercises.
Yeah I just can’t get into male characters. Every time one shows up he’s always just the Male Character to get brownie points and make an obvious epic maleboss so the writer can feel better about themselves. Not to mention they’re always getting in the way of my cute yuri ship. I just rather go focus on women instead. They’re always the more interesting and better written characters than the one random man they decided to shoehorn in.
ambitious indie project this, surprise box-office hit that, iron lung (production budget: $3mil) is the 'someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my family is dying' tweet.
set construction: $800
cast & crew wages: $1,200 + uber eats
fake blood (assuming generous discount on bulk purchase): $2,000,000 i am so not kidding i did the math this is nuts
editing: average adult body-weight equivalent in monster energy drinks
update when markiplier announced he's producing the dvd/blu-ray himself i was like cool he's personally supervising the process and then he was like no i mean i'm making them myself at my house and i imagined some kind of complicated gargantuan contraption dutifully chugging along 24/7 blowing up this man's electricity bill and then he was like
anyway if you buy an iron lung dvd/blu-ray: it was made on a printer-sized machine. at markiplier's house.
Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things
I love Rwby and I love team strq I love them sooooo much I love that Blake and Weiss go about all of 3 volumes thinking Ruby and yang were a bit eccentric but otherwise pretty normal with a normal family life and normal shit going on, like Blake and Weiss thought THEY had the crazy shit going on and they happened to pair with these normal loving sisters and the got to adjust to living semi normally with them and becoming more well adjusted in society and being like wow it’s so nice to love and be loved by normal people
And then it turns out they’re LORE RELEVANT LEVELS OF FUCKED UP
Like SATAN KNOWS THEIR FAMILY!!! THEIR FAMILY HAS BEEN KNOWING AND WORKING WITH JESUS WHO WAS SECRETLY UR HEADMASTER!!!! SATAN PERSONALLY KILLED ONE OF THEIR TWO MOMS AND WORKED WITH THE OTHER ONE WHILE YOU KNEW THEM!!!! WEISS GOT RESCUED AFTER BEING KIDNAPED BY ONE OF THE BIGGEST BANDIT TRIBES, A LITERALLY SATAN RECOGNIZED BANDIT TRIBE, BECAUSE SHES HER NORMAL TEAM MATES M O M
LIKE THE WHOLEEEEE TIME THEY BE TALKING ABOUT BLAKES HISTORY IN CRIME NEITHER OF THEM SPOKE UP???? YOU SERIOUS??? TURNS OUT THEIR FAMILY IS 3/4 M A G I C WHEN IT COMES TO PARENTS/GUARDIANS
TWO CAN TURN INTO BIRDS AND ONE HAS LASER EYES AND THEY DONT EVEN KNOW ABOUT THE WHOLE MAIDEN THING
LIKE OH MY GOD
Blake and Weiss are modern day moderately politically important
RUBY AND YANGS PARENTS WERE WORKING FOR MAGICAL IMMORTALS TO KILL SATAN TO STOP THE SECRET END OF THE WORLD PLOT SO THAT THEY COULD MEET THE VERY VERY REAL GODS
it’s the funniest thing in the show
Blake and Weiss are google-able
Yang and Ruby are in the fucking illuminati as legacy members
This is kinda why I think it’s so funny when people write fanfiction of like “traumatized character in rwby is taken in by the strq family” because like! Would the strq family do that? ABSOLUTELY!! However now they are not just a member of the strq family now, they are also a VICTIM of it
The strq family is a very loving but VERY dysfunctional family
This isn’t a “character gets taken in by loving family and gets their emotional problems taken care of and get therapy” I mean sure maybe they’d TRY cause they care but this is “character gets a NEW problem”
It’d pretty much always be: you went from horrific situations that was so bad you had to run away and cut everyone there off and never see them again or better yet kill them to now your in a situation where everyone is both loving and problematic
Everyone here will care about you in some way and everyone here will have to many problems to help you fully and someone’s gonna make your issues worse
Character and they’re support group “people who don’t believe in therapy or talking about negative emotions”
Like it’s one of the reasons i believe yang truly starts to think of Weiss as a real part of her family in more then just the “obviously they treat their team as family cause of how Ruby and yang were raised” because it’s during the time the team is split up is when Weiss gets kidnapped by Raven and brought into their family PROBLEMS not just the nice nonsense
I have opinions/ideas about the “cinder gets adopted by the strq fam” thing that I’ve seen some people like because i like to think of how things work but this is all already long and I have work to do
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Omg a non TWST art it's probably going to flop so hard but lmao i guess I'll just accept that. Yeet I haven't drawn anything RWBY in a year... I'm hyped asf for Volume 8's continuation lol. I was planning on posting this on 2021 but I finished early so yeet lol
okay well the rwby gamer supps are live and they just went with the basic silhouettes, i guess as a neat aesthetic throwback to the early days
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if your favorite oc ever broke containment and developed their own fandom, what would the most pervasive discourse about them be?
too beautiful/smart/skilled/strong/perfect/etc
blatantly evil in some way
was mean to someone once
the unforgivable crime of just being kind of annoying
“in the way” of a popular ship
age gap relationship (2-10 years)
age gap relationship (10-30 years)
age gap relationship (30+ years)
a stereotype/“bad representation”
female
op you forgot ______
character is bald / im bald / see answers
(i’m not giving a “multiple apply” option on this one. pick the most applicable/what you think would be the most argued about.)
incredibly pleased that everyone is following the instructions i forgot to give and reblogging to explain their choice in the tags 🙏 more of that please i want to know about your ocs and also i love you
oomf and i have been ritualistically reading someone’s rwby/sonic crossover fic on wattpad that’s just a beat-for-beat retelling of rwby but with sonic characters added in like donald and goofy in kingdom hearts cutscenes and it is our roman empire atm
the following is a reenactment of one scene from it
Fuck your dream job what’s your dream hobby that you don’t have the means to take up yet. Mine are falconry and aerial acrobatics
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Getting released this Friday! Some of it, like the Yang hoodie is a little too spendy but I'm eyeing the Yang tee and the Blake beanie. Also MISTRAL designs not Beacon! FINALLY!!!
These item listing notes must be preserved, they are hilarious:
(Part one of two. Find the rest of them in my next reblog.)
(Part two of two.)
Good news! The owner of Steady Hands has said they want to do more RWBY stuff!
So I was making a Letterboxd post and there was a pop out ad for The Devil Wears Prada 2, and I don’t really pay attention to those as annoying as they are, but this one froze and the reason that I noticed was because I suddenly had this stuck in the bottom corner of my screen