Pieces of Me @geektasticjustine - Tumblr Blog

I don’t switch hyperfixations. They don’t go away. They just quietly live within me, dormant, until they randomly flare up again, triggered by a piece of art, a fic, a stray comment, a mysterious thought, that brings them back to the front of my brain to be deeply cherished again until they can return to the box with my other toys, to live until I need to play again.

#fandom life #hyperfixation #fanfiction #fanfic #fanart #my collection of blorbos

satoruspng

Satosugu my everything..

#gojo satoru #geto suguru #satosugu

ashoss

like a house on fire

#barbara gordon #batgirl #jason todd #robin #dick grayson #nightwing #bruce wayne #batman

secretsdcblog

Known killer Red Hood yelling "yaaaaas!" And making literary references is peak characterisation

#jason todd #red hood

levitonin

Everyone shut the fuck up he's sleeping

#gojo #satoru gojo #gojo satoru #jujustu kaisen

meangirlnurse

there’s a post on tumblr about like. if you could do something to bring people a little relief, why wouldn’t you do it? which has unironically informed my practice as a nursing student and patient care tech

meangirlnurse

i’m glad no one made any unpleasant comments on this post that might distract from the message because that would really suck

madame-snail-smooches

Easily the most complimented feature of my writing has always been how strongly I convey emotion, so here's my unsolicited advice on making your readers feel what your characters are feeling:

Physicalize - I am personally a very emotional human being, and I feel things very physically. I think that helps me describe emotions on paper, because I tend to connect emotions with physical sensations. For example, instead of "he felt sad," I would say "sadness washed over him in a lukewarm tide." That physicalization of the abstract feeling can make it easier for people to replicate the feeling in their own minds. So basically, I'm taking the emotions I want to convey and thinking, "how does this emotion feel on a physical level?" and then describing that. "Anxiety tightened in her gut." "Anger bubbled under his skin." "Her body was light, drifting in euphoria." Metaphors are your friends.

~Body Language~ - Another physical indicator of emotion is how people's body language changes to reflect what they feel. This is huge when dealing with non-POV characters. Any time that you could say "she looked upset," you would do better to just describe how she looked. "She furrowed her brow, looking down." "His fist tightened on the door handle." "The silverware rattled in the drawer as she jerked it open." Emotions often come through in the way characters interact with objects around them. In that vein, you can usually express it more clearly if you focus around some action that the character is performing (even a tiny little one). Making note of details like avoiding eye contact, how/when people fidget, whether their movements are sharp or fluid, and stuff like that can go a long way in conveying emotions more naturally.

Wait How Do People Talk Again?? - Dialogue can be really tough if it doesn't come naturally to you. I voice-act quietly to myself pretty much all of the dialogue I write just to make sure it sounds natural. Again, pulling from real-life experience is usually best here; imagine how you've heard real people talk when they are feeling angry, depressed, panicked, etc. Think about phrasing and tone inflection - do their words sound short, sharp, and clipped? How do their phrasing choices show that? Do they ramble in a bright, bubbly tone? Are they monotone and flat? Do they use a lot of filler words because their brain is moving too fast (or too slow)? Are they so tired or hesitant that they trail off or pause frequently?

That's my main advice on conveying emotion through writing. Feel free to add on or ask questions!

#writing #writeblr #writing advice #books and reading #description #writing emotions #emotional writing #fanfic writing #original writing

nightr0bin

night patrol went fine.

also, zoom up to convo with tim.

#dc comics #jason todd #red hood #dick grayson #nightwing

funnytwittertweets

thenightgaunt

I ran an Aliens rpg years back. But the players didn't KNOW it was an Aliens game until halfway through the first session.

They thought it was a sci-fi game but they also thought the monsters were going to be zombies.

Over a period of 2 hours they then proceeded to make EVERY Aliens movie cliche "mistake" known to man. Because at the time they all made sense.

The characters in a story don't know they're in a story or what kind of story it is.

They might think their in a romcom instead of a slasher movie. And if you're not in a slasher movie, why the fuck would you search through every closet in your house just because a cup mysteriously fell off a table in the dining room?