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Studies of the foetus in the womb, 1513, Leonardo Da Vinci

Medium: chalk,wash,ink,paper

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Theon Greyjoy in the style of American Gods (Season 3) @theon-appreciation

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Every November in South Korea, there’s a day where everyone makes silence to help students concentrate for the most important exam of their lives. Planes are grounded, constructions are paused, banks close, and even military training ceases. This day is called Suneung.

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Medea, 1838, Eugène Delacroix

Medium: oil,canvas

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Old Italian peasant, 1824, Theodore Gericault

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Writer’s Guide to Friend to Love-Interest Relationships

Will they or won’t they? The trope most of us dislike yet frequently indulge in. Who can resist a bit of love? Most YA novels chose to follow the pattern of guy (next door/protagonist) and girl (next door/protagonist) falling in love after three or four books. They go from best friends to soulmates in seconds. That can be laughable and unrealistic. As I have stated before, love grows. How can you avoid writing unrealistic love between friends?

Hint, hint, wink

If you’re writing this relationship over a book or series, you have to leave seeds for love to grow. Little hints or words can make a character slowly seem to be falling in love. In Percy Jackson, Percy fights monsters alongside Annabeth for four years. At first, they seem like bickering buddies but then when Sea of Monsters hits, Percy sees Annabeth in a dress and thinks how pretty she is. Titan’s Curse sees him battle against the will of gods and prophecy to save her. In the Battle of the Labyrinth, Percy is meeting Annabeth for a movie and responds to his mother naming the event as a date by telling her that it’s just Annabeth. As the novels go on, Percy’s anger over Annabeth’s feelings for Luke Castellan goes from friendly out for his buddy to slight jealousy. We see all this from Percy’s view so any eagle-eyed reader can see the change in Annabeth’s demeanor and how jealous she gets when introduced to Rachel Dare. There were so many hints in the books that it was commented on even in universe.

You’ve got time

If you’re writing a series, expand their relationship. Spread it out like nutella. Most people don’t fall in love straight away. It’s awkward to fall in love with somebody you know well. This takes a bit of time. In Rick Riordan’s Magnus Chase series, Magnus first meets Alex, the genderfluid and trans demigod. Magnus goes from hate, to annoyance, to major crushing and then love within two books. Spend time with the characters, give them space. Let them work in out in their own time.

Cheesy equals death

Cheesy love scenes make me want to:

Stab Author with a fork

Release the kraken

Barf

Yes, all of the above. Love is cliched in fiction. How about averting and subverting romance tropes? The gallant young man doesn’t drape his cloak over the puddle to save his friend/potential bae. He splashes her and they run around trying to get back at each other. Childish but friendly. They be friends now but what if they fall into each other’s arms at the end? Try something new.

Milking the Biscuit or Ross & Rachel

So no one told you life was gonna be this way. *clapping solo* Most of us grew up watching it on TV or on reruns or boxsets. Friends in universally famous for one thing: Ross and Rachel. Recap if you were born under a rock; Ross like Rachel in highschool but was too nervous to say so. Cue her wandering back into his life a few years later. He wants to confess his love but chickens out going abroad and finding a girlfriend. Rachel finds out and immediately goes to confront him, only seeing him and new girlfriend. They get to together and “break up”, leading Ross to cheat. Rachel and Ross attempt to get back together no less than thrice more leading to the birth of their daughter and once annulled marriage. They seemingly get together in the finale and live happily ever after. Ten fucking years btw. We knew the fuckers were going to get together and they did. Friends milked Ross/Rachel for everything it was worth and then some more.

Compare this to Monica/Chandler. Both friends who hook up at a wedding. Sleep around for a few months, openly date, marry, adopt kids and move to the suburbs. Clean, simple with only an ooze of milk.

The less mess better the success. Even if it is totally obvious a character will get with another, avoid the milk.

For @a-writers-made-up-fandom

inky-duchess

Writer’s Guide to Friend to Love-Interest Relationships

Will they or won’t they? The trope most of us dislike yet frequently indulge in. Who can resist a bit of love? Most YA novels chose to follow the pattern of guy (next door/protagonist) and girl (next door/protagonist) falling in love after three or four books. They go from best friends to soulmates in seconds. That can be laughable and unrealistic. As I have stated before, love grows. How can you avoid writing unrealistic love between friends?

Hint, hint, wink

If you’re writing this relationship over a book or series, you have to leave seeds for love to grow. Little hints or words can make a character slowly seem to be falling in love. In Percy Jackson, Percy fights monsters alongside Annabeth for four years. At first, they seem like bickering buddies but then when Sea of Monsters hits, Percy sees Annabeth in a dress and thinks how pretty she is. Titan’s Curse sees him battle against the will of gods and prophecy to save her. In the Battle of the Labyrinth, Percy is meeting Annabeth for a movie and responds to his mother naming the event as a date by telling her that it’s just Annabeth. As the novels go on, Percy’s anger over Annabeth’s feelings for Luke Castellan goes from friendly out for his buddy to slight jealousy. We see all this from Percy’s view so any eagle-eyed reader can see the change in Annabeth’s demeanor and how jealous she gets when introduced to Rachel Dare. There were so many hints in the books that it was commented on even in universe.

You’ve got time

If you’re writing a series, expand their relationship. Spread it out like nutella. Most people don’t fall in love straight away. It’s awkward to fall in love with somebody you know well. This takes a bit of time. In Rick Riordan’s Magnus Chase series, Magnus first meets Alex, the genderfluid and trans demigod. Magnus goes from hate, to annoyance, to major crushing and then love within two books. Spend time with the characters, give them space. Let them work in out in their own time.

Cheesy equals death

Cheesy love scenes make me want to:

Stab Author with a fork

Release the kraken

Barf

Yes, all of the above. Love is cliched in fiction. How about averting and subverting romance tropes? The gallant young man doesn’t drape his cloak over the puddle to save his friend/potential bae. He splashes her and they run around trying to get back at each other. Childish but friendly. They be friends now but what if they fall into each other’s arms at the end? Try something new.

Milking the Biscuit or Ross & Rachel

So no one told you life was gonna be this way. *clapping solo* Most of us grew up watching it on TV or on reruns or boxsets. Friends in universally famous for one thing: Ross and Rachel. Recap if you were born under a rock; Ross like Rachel in highschool but was too nervous to say so. Cue her wandering back into his life a few years later. He wants to confess his love but chickens out going abroad and finding a girlfriend. Rachel finds out and immediately goes to confront him, only seeing him and new girlfriend. They get to together and “break up”, leading Ross to cheat. Rachel and Ross attempt to get back together no less than thrice more leading to the birth of their daughter and once annulled marriage. They seemingly get together in the finale and live happily ever after. Ten fucking years btw. We knew the fuckers were going to get together and they did. Friends milked Ross/Rachel for everything it was worth and then some more.

Compare this to Monica/Chandler. Both friends who hook up at a wedding. Sleep around for a few months, openly date, marry, adopt kids and move to the suburbs. Clean, simple with only an ooze of milk.

The less mess better the success. Even if it is totally obvious a character will get with another, avoid the milk.

For @a-writers-made-up-fandom

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Mask for Egungun (Ere Egungun), Yoruba, 1901, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of Africa

This vibrantly colored Janus-faced mask reflects the diversity of Egungun masks of the Yoruba. The word egungun means masquerade, and these masks are used in Odun Egungun festivals, which are performed for ancestors throughout the Yoruba region. This mask’s elaborately grooved horns and central conical coiffure, which is painted blue, rise dramatically from the mask’s two faces. Two monkey figures once ran down the horns with front legs perched on the head, but one of the monkeys is now missing. The horns may signify its use as a hunter’s mask. Hunters are one of the few Yoruba social groups that are linked across different lineages and who have their own Egungun masqueraders.While the costumes and rituals for Odun Egungun festivals are distinct and usually quite diverse within each region, these celebrations universally commemorate the ancestors who founded the lineage and continue to affect the daily existence of the living. Through rituals lasting several weeks, the masqueraders may visit lineage compounds to bless or punish their descendants.The Egungun masquerade originated within the Yoruba kingdom of Oyo, perhaps as early as the 17th century, and spread to other corners of the Yoruba region over time. Today, many Yoruba communities have an Egungun society—made up of adult men and women who represent the community’s lineages—that plans the appearances of Egungun masqueraders at funerals or other special family occasions, as well as at yearly or biennial Egungun festivals. During these celebrations costumed men move through the town embodying the presence of their ancestors while songs are sung in their praise and invocations are offered to them. Though women and children participate by singing, dancing, and watching, they are kept at a safe distance from the masqueraders, whose actions are unpredictable.Egungun masquerade costumes are commissioned and owned by men. The making of a costume involves close consultation with a tailor and sometimes a sculptor if a wood mask or headdress is required. It also necessitates the assistance of a diviner, who can communicate with the spirit world; an herbalist, who makes packets of protective medicines that are attached to the costume; and the leader of the Egungun society, who performs rituals to sanctify the costume and select the young man who will wear it while performing. Taking on the responsibility of owning a masquerade costume is demanding, but it also brings personal prestige and demonstrates a man’s commitment to his extended family, which is held in great esteem by the Yoruba.—Permanent Collection Object Description Gift of Dr. Jimmy and Mrs. Jetta Jones Size: 80 x 25.4 x 27.9 cm (31 ½ x 10 x 11 in.) Medium: Wood and pigment

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/152739/