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i already know there wont be anywhere near enough options but
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pine
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average Alanna problem: this boy is being real stupid right now
average Daine problem: the forest đ
average Kel problem: They Are Killing The Children
average Beka problem: the bribe money is barely making rent
the sewing machine is like if a horse and an inkjet printer had a child
if you complete one task off your to do list you should be allowed 3 days of chilling afterwards as a reward
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Outfit reference breakdown!
I'd like to thank @atlaculture for some of these pictures (and info). The rest come from good ol' Google, historical fashion articles, and overall open domain goodness. The jaw-dropping artworks are by Chakrabhand Posayakrit, a wonderful Thai artist.
Getting inspiration from chut thai and broad SEA cultures for Fire Nation clothingâespecially Ember Islandâis surprisingly fun and highly recommended! I hope these refs help inspire you guys <3
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Katara's outfitâbatik patterns, sabai top, (extremely simplified) jewelry, and sinh skirt.
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Zuko's outfit (what little we can see of it)âsuea phraratchathan (with rolled-up sleeves because #please), and chong kraben bottom.
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Yup'ik jewelryâmain references are earrings, but it was interesting to study them and figure out how a bracelet/anklet could look like.
How did you get so good at writing??? Did you take classes? I feel like you should get paid all the money for this! (I subscribe to your website!)
after i dropped out of high school i found a torrent of like 5GB of OCRd romance novels and i read like 3 romance novels a day for a while
read enough romance novels and you will realize that they live or die entirely on technical skill. if you are new to romance novels then even bad ones can dazzle you with novelty but by the time you are on your 30th historical fake engagement between a bluestocking and a rakish duke you can grade them and you know when they've failed. when two books have what should be the same main characters hitting the same plot beats, but one of those books is delightful and the other fucking sucks, you learn some things. some books are bad and still delightful. other books are good but they just don't hit. you start to see the seams in the bad ones. 'oh, this is a weird out of character moment because she wanted to have the kabedon moment and didn't know how to get there'. 'she didn't want the ust to end but couldn't think of a better reason than this deus ex cockblock.' that kind of thing.
you could probably do this with other genres but i like romance because the plot is two people fall in love. that's it. everything else is set dressing. if you can figure out how to make that work you can carry it over into whatever other genre you feel like. mysteries would give you a different skillset around plotting that i don't have.
anyway after that i wrote a lot.
i said it in my original tags but i want to talk out of my ass and say that one place that a lot of current romantasy falls short for me is that it ends up being written by people who mostly read other romantasy without going back to the original genres of romance and fantasy. it's like a 'learn the rules before you can break them' kind of thing. you have all these magical macguffins to hit the tropes but can you make me believe that these characters have chemistry without that? is there chemistry, or did you tell me they're fated mates and now i'm supposed to assume this fight is sexy? does the fantasy aspect exist for anything aside from the magical macguffins? i'm not going to throw stones from inside my house made of worldbuilding designed to make all my fetishes happen, but the really fun part is when the lore spins out of control and you end up really going in depth on linguistic anthropology things that aren't relevant to the makeouts.
and the other thing is that you can't really sub in fanfic for this. plenty of fanfic takes characters from other genres and plops them into romance, but it's not the same. a good romance novel says, "here are two characters. you may know their archetypes, but you don't know them. you are going to get to know them, and you are going to love them, and you are going to want them to love each other, and when they love each other you are going to be happy for them". i love a rakish duke. when a man who's never had to do his own laundry is slutty as fuck that's my shit. but you still have to make me like him. you can take that archetype and make a guy who fucking sucks. most fanfic will not impart to you any knowledge about how to make a reader like a guy from scratch. you already know that guy. that's the whole point. fanfic with as much character building as an original work is the exception, not the rule.
the whole reason i get catty about fics that just make a different guy is that... you've made a different guy. i don't know who this guy is and i don't like him, and you haven't bothered trying to make me like him, because you slapped another guy's nametag on him like a cheat code. it's cool if you did make me like this new guy, but why is he wearing that other guy's nametag if no other aspect of him is present?
read the genres you want to write, obviously, but there's a reason the shitty comphet romantic subplot is a cliche. it's because romance is its own skillset, and if you try to fit romance in your thriller when you only read thrillers it's probably going to be the weakest part. if you want an ensemble cast then chemistry between characters is important regardless of whether they're going to fuck about it.
#this is also what i call the Star Wars Problem (although: wide category lol)#but i mean specifically the thing where george lucas watched a BUNCH of westerns and samurai films and ww2 flying ace films#and then made a space movie ABOUT high points in those other story forms#because he knew those pulp genres inside out and knew what bits he needed to hit in RAF Dambusters pulp when he added laser swords#or in western saloon showdowns when he added spaceships#but then you fast-forward a few decades and people are making star wars movies ABOUT other star wars movies#and like not many of those scenes are going to hit that way - they just wont have the chance#theyâll be a copy of a copy and the emotion is going to degrade like the worlds crustiest reformatted ocr PDF#or a xerox of a xerox of a xerox#theyâve ceased to be about the feeling generated by the Form and have become simply the Form in isolation (via harrietvane)
Blake DeLong (off-Broadway Andrey/Bolkonsky) is in my workplace harassment training video??
Your coworker, Prince Andrey, just returned from a prolonged leave of absence and the first thing he says when he sees you is âwell, how are you, still getting stouter?â Does this constitute a hostile workplace environment yes/no.
ZUTARA WEEK - DAY THREE: Aurora
"i feel you / like a breath on the air, / and in the light / like a memory. or a dream. / or a sign of something, / in a hope for somewhere / with a hold on anything / i feel you everywhere, i look for you in everything" âButterflies Rising, Wild Spirit, Soft Heart
Honestly, I went back and forth between this prompt. At first, I wanted to parallel Disney's Sleeping Beauty with Zuko and Katara, but that plan failed (đ). It was pretty difficult with all the overlays I was trying to experiment with, so I went with my second plan: the Aurora Borealis. I didn't have a strict, thought out draft for what I was doing, but I quickly got it done with the idea in mind that I wanted to make it seem like a watercolor painting. I wanted something more delicate that represents the spiritual aura of an Aurora Borealis, while keeping in mind Zuko and Katara's intricate relationship.
Avatar: Aang, the Last Airbender
oh my god I just saw the cutest thing in the world. little Black girl with beads in her hair for the first day of school and the beads were pink then silver then a bunch of yellow then beige then grey to make them look like pencils đ„șđ„șđ„ș brb I will draw an artistâs rendition
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The lesson of avatar was never âkilling bad people makes you just as bad as themâ it was âyou cannot be letting fascists dictate what counts as a win or lossâ guys like come on itâs been 20 years
Katara doesnât forgive Yon Rha and hug him and dry him off and walk him home she leaves him scared and sniveling and crying in the mud but she leaves him alive because she realized in that moment that she was only doing this because she felt like she had to. She hates this man, therefore she should want to kill him, right? The narrative isnât saying wow Katara killing a mass murdering fascist dickwad is just as bad as said dickwad killing an innocent wife and mother during a raid on her home, itâs saying wow isnât it fucked up that this little girl has been forced to carry this deep seated anger in her for most of her life to the point where the only outlet she believes she has for it is killing a man in cold blood? And like⊠yeah! That is pretty fucked!
Water, Earth, Fire, Air.
Iâm officially done touching this drawing I cannot keep adding to it so Iâm posting it so I STOP!
things will work out + itâs still early + not everything is lost + trees
im curious about peoples usage of drafts. i have 29 rn and that feels like a lot but...
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As drums echo beneath Mount Olympus and torch-bearing worshippers sing hymns to Zeus, an ancient tradition comes alive each summer in northe
Old news from 05/07/2026, but so good to see this article from a mainstream news source presenting the event as some "positivity in the world."
The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is, to a modern audiences, what classicists have called âboring as hell,â but I canât help but think that if you were watching Homer recite it it would have been more like when comedians go, âanybody here tonight from Chicago?â and the Chicagoans in the back start cheering
Homerâs like, âand there were forty black ships from⊠LOCRISâ and the Locrians in the crowd start going absolutely nuts
Tirion upon TĂșna
Many months ago now, I thought it would be fun to try painting locations from the Silmarillion in the style of the Monument Valley games, because they are among my favourite games and I enjoy the art very much. Unfortunately, it turns out that this style enables my worst habits in terms of perfectionism and adding endless tiny details, and so this cityscape of Tirion has taken a grand total of 148 hours to complete. Please zoom in to see all the details!!!
I think the city was built to look beautiful under treelight, using principally white stone, which takes on a golden-pink hue under Laurelin's light and a silver-blue hue under Telperion's. Open spaces and tall windows let the light into every building, especially around the Great Square, where the royal and aristocratic families live. Valuing creativity and craftsmanship as they do, the Noldor experimented with different types of architecture and ornamentation (inspired by a mixture of real-world architectural styles as well as the architecture in Monument Valley). Some buildings have intricate painted designs on the walls, mostly based on natural imagery or geometric patterns; others have statues of Elven figures dancing, holding musical instruments, or holding birds. The flags around the Great Square are based on the Two Trees and Finwë's heraldry.
The city is also full of trees and gardens - I got a bit carried away with all the plants and birds đ Tirion probably gets regular rainstorms blown in through the Calacirya, so it's wetter than inland Valinor and many different plants can grow in the warm treelit climate. They have a lot of roof gardens.
