Mythical Typhoon

I really don't know. It's just stuff.

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from red hood & the outlaws: vol. 1 (rebirth)

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North West basement 4

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[ciricearts]

omg the ttk guy!!

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[drunklis]

This is the picture that came to mind

[ciricearts]

taking my sweet time rendering him

[billielhindle]

Did u know The Magnus Protocol returns on 16th July (14th for early access)?

[vacationtown]

teen KDJ/OD

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[ankle-beez]

shoutout to this raven cosplayer in my adventures with superman who's using the cloak as a hijab, that's so fun

[hopefulgalaxytyphoon]

slight spoilers for maws new episode, esp the ending

so i just finished the episode and was happy, because at the end there was connor and i love him so much. i rewatched the end and paused on the credits and it said jon kent?? dont get me wrong, i absolutely love jon as well, but i thought he was supposed to be connor?

they did announce him as connor, right? or did they? that was a long time ago. did they specifically say connor or was it superboy, we saw the design and just assumed connor.

regardless, im super excited for the next episode

[ciricearts]

he looks adorable theree

[sparvverius]

the thing is sometimes black sails plays its tropes and parallels to famous literary works completely straight and sometimes it subverts them and sometimes it does a secret third thing. so it's impossible to say what happened

[sparvverius]

like the case study for this i think is when it was playing a montage of flint beating silver in practice sword fights before they were going to fight for realsies and i was thinking okay. i know this trope. it's going to be a montage of him getting better but not quite winning and then he wins this real fight because of what he's learned. and then i started second-guessing myself like yeah but this show is savvy about its tropes. it might be trying to lead me to think that silver is going to win but actually flint does because Stories Aren't Real Life Stupid -- the blacksails writers. and i went back and forth on this torturously until the duel never happened because both of them got distracted because the walrus blowed up which of course i did not predict at all

[sparvverius]

like the thing is. if you don't see the body it's a fakeout death. black sails does this multiple times and it's infallible except when maybe it's not. billy wasn't dead madi wasn't dead so thomas hamilton isn't dead. except maybe they were doing it to create the false impression that thomas hamilton wasn't dead by creating a predictable formula and making you fill in the gaps yourself with what you think should be there. but maybe it's baiting you into expecting a subversion. maybe something else happened. what do you want to have happened. what do you think is a Good Story. what do you think is in line with the Themes and Characters. what do you think is More Realistic. no matter what you choose they got your ass

[sparvverius]

i guess what i mean is that the second you think anything happened you're weighing in based on what you think a story should have in it and you've already lost

[sparvverius]

the problem with that being of course that it Is in fact a story. consciously so

[ciricearts]

small bat 🦇

[yuumei-art]

First of my glass animal mask series! This was so fun to paint, what other animals should I try? So far I'm thinking owl and deer for a woodland theme🦊🦉🦌

This painting and more have just been added as a print to my webshop :)

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[rqbossman]

What makes a story a story?

I have been mulling something over for a while and have decided to share. As part of my job, I read a lot of fiction that's still in development. After a while, you start to see the same errors, misunderstandings and shortcuts crop up repeatedly with different creators and it gets me thinking what is the most elegant way possible I could explain the issues to someone wanting to improve? The one that comes up the most often and is the hardest to explain is: "Why don't people care about my characters and/or story". It's always a thorny problem and I think I have a workable answer that applies in most cases: A story is a series of revelations regarding compounding, unintentional consequences to character decisions. The further you stray from this, the less people care. It translates to: 1) characters have to make decisions otherwise there is no drama 2) Those decisions have to matter otherwise there are no stakes 2) The consequences have to interact with one another. A affects or causes B affects or causes C etc. otherwise there is no progression 3) There must be some unintended consequences otherwise there is no conflict 4) The consequences have to be revealed (even at least implied) otherwise there is no conclusion This works at the micro scale in terms of dialogue: The specific word/tone/movement a character uses affects how another character reacts in an unexpected or interesting way which in turn causes another reaction and these layer onto one another until a decision is reached and a consequence implied thereby completing the scene. It also works at the macro scale in terms of plot: The decisions characters made in a scene prompts/affects the characters and context of the scene that follows (even if we don't know it at first) and by the end those layered interactions have been revealed to us and we see the unexpected or interesting result.

In my anecdotal experience, most times people don't care about a work of fiction is not because of a technical issue with the execution but because the writer has subtly misunderstood what makes a story a story. Their main character doesn't make any decisions, the decisions don't seem to matter, it feels disjointed because consequences aren't layering, there's no conflict because there are no misunderstandings etc. There countless technical aspects which affect the quality of a piece of fiction but most times when someone asks me to help them make people care about their story they first need to realise they have misunderstood what actually makes a story at a fundamental level and they need to recognise that before things can improve. I dunno if this helps anyone. I hope it does. Sorry if it doesn't. If anyone wants to use this to assess their own work let me know what you discover, I'm genuinely curious.