DoodledGalaxy🪐

Welcome to my not so haunted gallery of art… or well blog. I hope you enjoy! I tend to draw a lot of my own characters, but like to make fanart if something truly captures my attention.🌌 If you want just the art: @doodledgalaxyart Please do not repost or heavily reference off one of my ocs or repost any of my art. ⭐️OCs are under the hashtag: “doodledgalaxyoc” and any fanart by its tag. I’m also on Instagram! 🌙

[letters-from-dracula]

Researcher’s “Letters From Your Dear Friend, Dracula” May Collection:

As we enter the month of June tomorrow, I thought it would be best to compile all of the May letters from “Dracula” and my personal logs into one list. The directory will continue as is, updating as June letters are posted.

Any with a “*” symbol proceeding the entry features a reblog with further notes. If you have any further information on these letters, please contact the lead researcher.

•May 1- Log-A transcript of my interview with the man who found the box, Abraham

•May 5- The first of the collected letters. The bizarre saga begins. Dracula dons the mask of the “good host”. *

•May 7- A mundane day told with a methodical precision that is almost eerie. Small research log included. *

•May 8- A question of uncanniness and unease settles over the entire letter. *

•May 12- Dracula ignores his guests flightiness, minus a moment to complain about it. His signature seems traced multiple times as if he was unprepared to leave the cozy world of the letter. Research log is included.

•May 14- Log-Peter Hawkins is discovered to be real. Who is he to this story?

•May 15- A surprisingly sweet, nostalgic letter in the face of what is to come. Unlike the mostly pristine letters surrounding it, a small oil ring stain is faded at the top of the page, implying it was written around when he had went to sleep.

•May 16- Domestic disputes. Jonathan has an unexpected meeting of Draculas roommates, something he does not take kindly to. Written not many hours after the previous letter, curiously. *

•May 17- Intercepted mail and gaslighting begin in a frightening hostility towards Jonathan. *

•May 18- Jonathan has begun physically declining. Dracula’s reaction to this is key to every upcoming letter. Do not skip.

•May 19- A calm before the storm. I long to burn this letter. Research log is included to sum up my thoughts since the last one. *

•May 25-Log-Transcript of an odd phone call with Abraham.

•May 26-A heartfelt letter of celebration… I… is something missing from it? *

•May 28-A usual Jonathan medical and business update with some unnerving implications of mail forgery.

•May 31- Written on unusual parchment is an odd letter that teeters the line of annoying and oblivious behavior. Dracula remains ununderstandable to anyone but his chosen audience. Research log is included. *

[letters-from-dracula]

Hello! Have you been enjoying Dracula Daily this year and ever thought “gee, I wonder what Dracula’s thinking about” or “for what reason did he climb down that wall in a lizard-like fashion?” @letters-from-dracula might interest you!

The Story: 🦇

A man named Abraham finds a box of perfectly preserved letters in an old, rotting house which he brings to a journalist. The journalist posts the letters on the blog seeking out information on the figures mentioned or the letters themselves, slowly cataloguing the story that unfolds as Dracula writes to his “dearest friend”. The blog uses meta fiction, arg elements, and gothic horror to tell the story of a possible gaslighter and his closest confidant. If you squint the letters might even feel as though they’re written for you.

Schedule: 🚂

Posting matches the general Dracula daily posting timeline. Right now there’s currently a mini arc ramping up as Jonathan grows more frightened in the letters you know, and Dracula becomes more frustrated in his.

Dracula is about to discover and share some interesting… news… about his houseguest in the next three days while the researcher is forced to wait for the next letter to catalogue on it’s proper day and a reply back.

I hope you will consider joining on this journey and if you wish to catch up using the masterlist you must simply:

[Take a letter from the box]

[nyxxtar]

Even if I lose, is it different from the future I saw?

[eileensdress]

Oh my god I was just looking to see how much a copy of Hamlet would be through Barnes and Noble and PEOPLE ARE ROLEPLAYING WARRIOR CATS IN THE REVIEWS??????

[toadcroaky]

@vriska

[shamesonlydaughter]

ok i was VERY involved in the. b&n reviews warrior cats roleplay scene when i was like 10-12. the first two books of the series were general hubs where ppl would post ads for their clans and other groups. there was a huge percy jackson community i remember participating in too. it worked through search results, eg. riverclan might be under the search result “rivers”. book 1 was rules and a “map”, book 2 might be the main area, book 3 the medicine cats tent, etc. there was also usually a book where ppl would post lengthy descriptions of their character(s). it was a rlly bizarre little corner of the internet jdksj also it was impossible to find any real reviews of any of the warrior cats books bc of it

[darkcomedies-deactivated2022042]

this is unironically kind of cool

[dia-tribe]

I rbed this silently but I think I've gotta answer some questions now. I was a big part of this whole thing and the reason we didn't use forums was because 90% of us didn't have normal internet access. Barnes and Noble had an e-reader that could connect to the internet and reach their digital store, which was great for those of us with controlling parents who only let us read books.

[doodledgalaxy]

Needed an excuse to post this Daredevil fanart and it being Matt Murdock’s birthday makes today the perfect day 😈 This was a lot of referencing for poses and a little out of my usual thing. I actually made it to give to Charlie Cox at NYCC this year lol (that photo is not included, but I did give him a print 😊)

[mmichikatsus]

N again

[doodledgalaxy]

Some silly pictures of my Spooky Delights characters in the new tomodachi life demo. Spookmii delights if you will.

[doodledgalaxy]

Little Spring’s adventures in wonderland… I started this The Seasons fanart back when the comic went on hiatus, so it felt only right to finish it when it finally returns! Included some concept sketches in the read more since despite making the composition I was kind of disappointed to not have the whole look.

[headaching]

march 4th? unto where?

[boytoymaker]

frank brunner capturimg that specific travelling brand of loneliness immsooooo oh my god

[tealti]

N from Pokemon drawn on Magma :]

[egophiliac]

okay ONE more (promise) (🤞) because I wanted to do full-bodies. :U ...and also I realized that Skully actually needed the coat arms wrapping around him. it was an extremely necessary correction.

[nemfrog]

Ornament botanical scroll. Nature in ornament. 1894.

Internet Archive

[doodledgalaxy]

It seems Dewi got a bit lost yesterday, but they’re here today to get you all your valentines letters and cards!

[doodledgalaxy]

It seems Dewi got a bit lost yesterday, but they’re here today to get you all your valentines letters and cards!

[headspace-hotel]

thinking again about TvTropes and how it’s genuinely such an amazing resource for learning the mechanics of storytelling, honestly more so than a lot of formally taught literature classes

reasons for this:

basically TvTropes breaks down stories mechanically, using a perspective that’s not…ABOUT mechanics. Another way I like to put it, is that it’s an inductive, instead of deductive, approach to analyzing storytelling.

like in a literature or writing class you’re learning the elements that are part of the basic functioning of a story, so, character, plot, setting, et cetera. You’re learning the things that make a story a story, and why. Like, you learn what setting is, what defines it, and work from there to what makes it effective, and the range of ways it can be effective.

here’s the thing, though: everyone has some intuitive understanding of how stories work. if we didn’t, we couldn’t…understand stories.

TvTropes’s approach is bottom-up instead of top-down: instead of trying to exhaustively explore the broad, general elements of story, it identifies very small, specific elements, and explores the absolute shit out of how they fit, what they do, where they go, how they work.

Every TvTropes article is basically, “Here is a piece of a story that is part of many different stories. You have probably seen it before, but if not, here is a list of stories that use it, where it is, and what it’s doing in those stories. Here are some things it does. Here is why it is functionally different than other, similar story pieces. Here is some background on its origins and how audiences respond to it.”

all of this is BRILLIANT for a lot of reasons. one of the major ones is that the site has long lists of media that utilizes any given trope, ranging from classic literature to cartoons to video games to advertisements. the Iliad and Adventure Time ARE different things, but they are MADE OF the same stuff. And being able to study dozens of examples of a trope in action teaches you to see the common thread in what the trope does and why its specific characteristics let it do that

I love TvTropes because a great, renowned work of literature and a shitty, derivative YA novel will appear on the same list, because they’re Made Of The Same Stuff. And breaking down that mental barrier between them is good on its own for developing a mechanical understanding of storytelling.

But also? I think one of the biggest blessings of TvTropes’s commitment to cataloguing examples of tropes regardless of their “merit” or literary value or whatever…is that we get to see the full range of effectiveness or ineffectiveness of storytelling tools. Like, this is how you see what makes one book good and another book crappy. Tropes are Tools, and when you observe how a master craftsman uses a tool vs. a novice, you can break down not only what the tool is most effective for but how it is best used.

In fact? There are trope pages devoted to what happens when storytelling tools just unilaterally fail. e.g. Narm is when creators intend something to be frightening, but audiences find it hilarious instead.

On that note, TvTropes is also great in that its analysis of stories is very grounded in authors, audiences, and culture; it’s not solely focused on in-story elements. A lot of the trope pages are categories for audience responses to tropes, or for real-world occurrences that affected the storytelling, or just the human failings that creep into storytelling and affect it, like Early Installment Weirdness. There are categories for censorship-driven storytelling decisions. There are “lineages” of tropes that show how storytelling has changed over time, and how audience responses change as culture changes. Tropes like Draco in Leather Pants or Narm are catalogued because the audience reaction to a story is as much a part of that story—the story of that story?—as the “canon.”

like, storytelling is inextricable from context. it’s inextricable from how big the writers’ budget was, and how accepting of homophobia the audience was, and what was acceptable to be shown on film at the time. Tropes beget other tropes, one trope is exchanged for another, they are all linked. A Dead Horse Trope becomes an Undead Horse Trope, and sometimes it was a Dead Unicorn Trope all along. What was this work responding to? And all works are responding to something, whether they know it or not

[headspace-hotel]

An incomplete list of really useful or interesting reads from TvTropes.

please note that yes many of these are concepts that exist elsewhere and a few are even taught in fiction writing classes but TvTropes just does an amazing job at displaying the range of things that can be done with them

legitimately so much of the terminology I use to talk about storytelling, and even think about it in my own head, i learned about from TvTropes

Willing Suspension of Disbelief

Watsonian vs. Doylist

Trope Tropes, for all the ways tropes are used, deconstructed, subverted, and played with.

The Oldest Ones in the Book, which is basically my favorite thing on the entire Internet

Punk Punk, for -punk subgenres

Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness, Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism

The Weird Al Effect is a fun one

Chekhov’s Gun, Chekhov’s Boomerang, Chekhov’s Skill, and further variations

Law of Conservation of Detail

Law of Conservation of Normality

Anthropic Principle

Word of God, Death of the Author

Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness

Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness

Genre Savvy

Flashbacks and Chronology breaks down all the ways you can handle chronology in storytelling

Show, Don’t Tell is a very good breakdown of what is showing, what is telling, and how both can be used effectively.

Lampshade Hanging

Noodle Incident is just fun imo

Genre Title Grab Bag

Fridge Horror

Rule of Cool, and also Cool of Rule

The Smurfette Principle

The Hays Code - not a trope but a very good breakdown of how the Hays Code affected storytelling in film

this is just a really short list of examples I encourage people who write or otherwise create stories to browse around on this site it’s so useful

[thesaltofcarthage]

Informed Attribute is one of the ones I reference most often as an editor. 

[musicalhell]

Theory of Narrative Causality is one of my personal favorites, because it's kind of fun when a story acknowledges that things are happening in the story because that's what makes it a good story.

Also Applied Phlebotinum, because sometimes you don't need to know how something works, it just does, and that's all that matters for the purposes of the narrative.

[doodledgalaxy]

Halloween art of Ophelia and Cain I forgot to post