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I'm Chloe. I'm 18. I'm really stupidly childish. Here you'll find Superwholock, Dreamworks/Disney movies, Pushing Daisies, Merlin, and the occasional Yogscast. A bit of everything. I suffer from social anxiety, so if you want to talk to me, you'll have to start the conversation because I'm too shy :P But my inbox is always open if you want to talk. I also survived the Mishapocolypse! Blog graphic by mortgraphics.livejournal.com

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Resource Dump: Creating Characters!

Primary Characters

Your Hero: Top Ten Rules

10 Traits of a Great Protagonist

4 Steps to Creating a Truly Active Protagonist

20 Tips for Creating Relatable Protagonists

How to Center your Story

How to Create Unforgettable Protagonists

25 Things You Should Know About Protagonists

Creating Memorable Characters

Creating Strong Female Protagonists

Creating Dynamic Protagonists

How to Create Characters

Inner Dialogue - Writing Inner Character Thoughts

25 Things a Great Character Needs

5 Ways to Create 3D Characters

Secondary Characters

10 Secrets to Creating Unforgettable Supporting Characters

How to Write Effective Supporting Characters

Question to Ask (& Strengthen) Your Minor Characters

5 Tips for Developing Supporting Characters

Techniques for Creating Great Secondary Characters

5 Steps to Dazzling Minor Characters

3 Ways to Create Stupendous Supporting Characters

Creating Memorable Secondary Characters

5 Archetypes for Supporting Characters

Your Map to Creating a Memorable Minor Characters

Names

Top Ten Tips

8 Tips for Naming Characters

7 Rules of Naming Fictional Characters

Name that Character!

6 Creative Ways to Name your Character

Naming your Characters

A Guide to Naming Characters

Female: 1 | 2 | 3

Male: 1 | 2 | 3

Alien: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Surname: 1 | 2 | 3 

Unisex: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Traits

List: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

Developing Character Traits

How to Create Good Personalities for your Characters

Develop Memorable Personalities

Give your Character Personality

How to Create a Character’s Personality

How to Make Sure your Character’s Personality Shines

5 Building Blocks of your Character’s Personality

Appearance

Appearance Generator

Your Character’s Physical Appearance

How to Describe a Character’s Looks

Describing a Character’s Appearance

Character Description Resource

Examples of Physical Characteristics

Describing the Physical Attributes of your Characters

How Great Authors Describe Character Appearance

Ultimate Guide to Nailing your Character’s Appearance

Describing Clothing and Appearance

Character Appearance Help

Character Description Resource

Describing People: A Person’s Physical Appearance

Describing the Physical Attributes of Characters

Speech

Talking About your Character: Speech

Variety in Character Voices

All your Characters Talk the Same

How to Create Distinctive Character Voices

How to Create Characters Who Don’t Sound like You

The Art of Voice in Fiction

Create Varying, Yet Realistic, Speech Patterns

The Art and Craft of Dialogue

Writing Character Voice

Creating Differences in the Speech Patterns of your Characters

Style: Person and Speech

Dialects: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Backstory

Building Better Backstories

Basic Tips to Create Better Characters with Tragic Backstories

How to Write a Backstory

Writing Characters Using Conflict and Backstory

Backstory Description Generator

Questions to Create Character Backstory

How to Weave in Backstory to Reveal Character

Nail your Character’s Backstory

How to Write Backstory Without Putting your Reader to Sleep

How to Write a Killer Backstory

Diversity

How to Make Young Adult Fiction More Diverse

Writing People of Color

A Few Tips and Resources for Writing Characters of Colour

Writing Characters of Colour Tastefully

Writing With Colour

7 Offensive Mistakes Well-Intentioned Writers Make

Writing Characters of Colour

Describing Characters of Colour

Gender

Female: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Male: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Transgender: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Non-Binary: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Sexuality

Main Character Sexuality

On Writing LGBTQ Characters: 1 | 2

Writing Gay Characters

Guide to LGBT YA

Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes

Writing Bisexual Characters: 1 | 2

Writing Asexual Characters: 1 | 2

Pansexual & Demisexual Characters

How to Write Gay, Bisexual and Pansexual Characters

Introduction

Introducing a Character

Introducing your Main Character

Do’s and Don’ts for Introducing your Protagonist

First Impressions

How to Introduce a Character

How Not to Introduce a Main Character

Introducing the Protagonist

Development

Character Development

9 Ingredients of Character Development

Characterisation 1 - Character Development

How to Develop a Character for a Story

Character Development

Character Development Drives Conflict

Developing your Characters and Making them Interesting

Relationships

How to Write Strong Character Relationships

Character Relationships

3 Keys to Developing Character Relationships

The Secret Behind Great Character Relationships

3 Tips for Character Relationships

Building Believable Relationships

Sibling: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Platonic: 1 | 2 | 3

Romantic: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Strengths

Identifying your Character’s Strengths

Character Strengths and Weaknesses

Introducing the 24 Character Strengths

Character Strengths and Virtues List

Strengths and Weaknesses

A Balance of Strengths

Flaws

123 Ideas for Character Flaws

DarkWorld RPG Flaws List

Character Flaws

Ten Ugliest Character Flaws

The Four Types of Character Flaws

On Giving Flaws and Weaknesses

Character Flaw Index

Goal

Why your Character’s Goal Needs to be 1 of these 5 Things

Goals Define the Plot

Goal Setting for You and your Character

How to Explore you Character’s Motivation

4 Ways to Motivate Character and Plot

Motivation

By Genre

Fantasy: 1 | 2 | 3

Sci-Fi: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Romance: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Thrillers: 1 | 2 

Horror: 1 | 2 | 3

Heroes

Your Hero: Top Ten Rules

How to Write your Own Hero Story

What Makes a Great Hero?

Creating Heroes and Heroines

Write a Story about a Hero

How to Create an Antihero that Readers Love

Heroes vs. Anti-Heroes

Create a Super Hero

How to Create a Brand New Iconic Hero or Villain

What Makes a Hero

Villains

How to Create a Credible Villain in Fiction

How to Make a Purely Evil Villain Interesting

9 Evil Examples of the Villain Archetype

How Not to Create a Villain

Creating Villains People Love to Hate

3 Techniques for Crafting a Better Villain

Basic Tips to Write Better & More Despicable Villains

Writing Tips for Creating a Complex Villain

How to Create a Great Villain

Do’s & Don’ts

Do’s and Dont’s of Writing a Good Character

How to Create a Character

Characterisation Dos and Dont’s

Female Characters of Do’s and Dont’s

Do’s and Dont’s of Dialect

Helpful Writing Blogs

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writeworld

referenceforwriters

thewritingcafe

aquestionofcharacter *

writingwithcolor

fuckyeah-char-dev

dailycharacterdevelopment

Clichés

Characters and Cliches

Top 10 Character Cliches

7 Lazy Character Cliches 

10 Most Cliched Characters in Sci-Fi

Four Worst Character Cliches

Female Character Cliches

Character Cliches to Avoid

The Cliche Character Test

How Cliches Can Help You Make Great Characters

Templates

How to Create a Character Profile

Writing Character Bios

Character Sheets and Character Creation

Gender/Sexuality Generator

Extremely Detailed Character Template

Writer’s Resource: Character Template

Character Description

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I: As a Hollywood executive, what would they do to Supernatural?

shh just listen to Misha’s answer

[sassenach-kiss]

MISHA OH MY GOD

[melowtune]

inexplicably benign things tumblr has ruined for me: skeletons, pizza, the word ‘sin’

[renegade-jade]

any mention of a “cinnamon roll”

[kingdomheartstwo-deactivated201]

my marriage. margaret come home please.

[sistertaxon]

colour-code your infants so strangers know what their genitals look like

[fozby]

this is THE WORST idea anyone has ever had on this site. ever.

[sistertaxon]

yeah you’re right……haha……..imagine some sort of dystopia where newborns were dressed in certain colours according to their genitals……….jeez……..how fucked up would that be……..how could I have ever come up with something so silly

[strangepicturesofmishacollins]

Hi! I'm a new Misha fan. I scrolled down your page a bit but wasn't able to find the answer I'm looking for -- did Misha have a rough past? I read somewhere he did, and I'd really like to know what he has been through? Mental illness? Poverty? Etc. Thanks! :3

Well, Misha’s parents split up when he was very young, and he and his brother lived with his mother growing up, visiting his dad on weekends. His mother is a bit of an eccentric character, and she was occasionally homeless and often without money: 

I have an amazing mother, but when I was growing up she didn’t always have a tremendous amount of material resources at her disposal. We were on welfare and very poor for some time and we were homeless for a while. When I was eleven, we were taken in by [friends who let us live on their] farm for several months. They were unbelievably generous with us. They gave us essentially room and board for months because they knew we didn’t have a place to go, and they enabled us to feel like we weren’t a burden there, by allowing me to work on the farm and to earn my keep. Of course at eleven, I was completely useless and probably more in the way than anything […]  a woman that gave my mother $100 when I was six so that she could buy me and my brother Christmas presents that year. I didn’t even know who she was, it was just this really generous act that made a huge difference in these small children’s lives and to my mother as well.

This is his description of living in a camp site:

We, when I was a kid, we lived in a campsite out in the woods for a few months. It was very nice. We had our little kitchen set up, which was just a fire pit, and a big bowl, like a little washbasin, that we would put ice in. That was our refrigerator. Then the ice would melt and everything would just float in warm water. And that was our refrigerator. Not very sanitary. Lots of mold. We also had a bathroom, which was a tree that had fallen over like this, so it went over like four feet, and then you could walk up the remaining bit of the trunk and do your business off the end of it.

This is his description of working on a farm: 

When I was 11, I worked on what’s called a “Polish butterfly.” And it’s a tractor that looks like a biplane because it has these long wings that are right above the ground, and there’s another wing above that, and you lie on a lower wing and you pick cucumbers as it very slowly drives down the row. So you’re lying on your stomach picking cucumbers. That job really sucked. Super shitty job. They make it sound fun, like “Polish butterfly!” And you think, Oh, that’s going to be great! It’s not great, so don’t fall for it if anyone offers you a job on a Polish butterfly.

Misha wound up spending at least one night in jail with his mother and brother as well, and their house burned down when he was in high school. 

In addition to his family’s struggles with poverty, Misha had trouble fitting in with his peers in school. He was bullied for the way he dressed and for being overweight when he was 13. He summed up his reputation this way: “I was very cool. The other kids at school didn’t know that. They thought I was a really weird little geek that they didn’t want to talk to.” 

However, Misha did have a lot of advantages. He attended two rather prestigious schools, the Center School and Mount Herman High, the latter where he met his future wife at age 15. With encouragement from her and a few teachers who believed in him, he managed to gain admittance to University of Chicago, which isn’t an easy school to get into. So he had some things that he had to struggle with, but other things worked in his favor.

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[domirine]

Hey! Do you have any general tips for painting? Or a tutorial on how you approach it?

take these hints with reserve; they work for me but maybe you’ll find them ridiculous/wanna  try something else entirely. my paintings are sort of loose and i tend to simplify things cause im lazy ok

i work on a big canvas; always start with 3000x3000px canvas and work with it zoomed out to 50%; i seldom zoom in to 100% to add details with 3px brush cause the paiting is so big it will not make much difference.

i keep it, um, cohesive. imo it doesnt look good when the whole figure is roughly painted, but one part (usually the eye) is ultra super detailed, with every single eye lash drawn by hand. it might not necessary, sometimes less i more and a black smudge will work just as well. i think it helps the painting not look like a clusterfuck around this one detailed area you know

i dont use the eyedropper tool when referencing colors, i try to recreate them. although im always discouraged at the beginning cause it looks like a mess i never ever was disappointed with the final result so trust yourself a little

if you work with a greyscale and want to add color foR THE LOVE OF GOD AND EVERYTHING THATS HOLY USE THE ‘COLOR’ LAYER MODE, NOT ‘OVERLAY’! why? because overlay adds color and changes value, whereas color doesnt mess with your values at all. watch this video i promise you itll be worth it.

i dont lower opacity, i lower flow

liquify tool is a friend

so is horizontal canvas flip

so is ctrl + s

working with various brushes is fun but sometimes soft round brush is all you truly need

[1940sdeancas]

Once you’ve been there a couple times, hell is actually pretty cozy.

[hypebeam]

USE A DIFFERENT PHOTO

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YO READ THIS GODDAMNED THING BECAUSE FLIP IS SO GOSH DARNED TALENTED WITH COLOURS N SHIT AND SHE HAS BEEN FOR THE 3 YEARS I’VE KNOWN HER

[we-the-survivors]

We Are Survivors 

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i tried this on so many people after I watched this episode

[ofgeography]

OH OH OH PLEASE TELL US A BOARDING SCHOOL STORY PRETTY PLEASE

so my school had this thing called “senior skip day,” except that senior skip day didn’t exist and every year the administration sent out emails in the spring that were like DON’T FUCKIN SKIP CLASS OR YOU WILL RECEIVE RESTRICTION (restriction was like, my boarding school’s equivalent of detention where instead of staying after school you had to go to bed early and help stuff envelopes advertising the summer program until your hands were BLOODIED AND CRIPPLED BY CARPAL TUNNEL) and every year the seniors were like YOLO THEY CAN’T PUNISH ALL OF US!!!!!

spoiler alert: yes they can? THEY ALWAYS CAN.

200 years of american high school and teenagers still think that there is a cap limit on kids in detention and that you can leave after 15 minutes if the teacher doesn’t show up.

anyway, my senior year, we all got together and nattered at each other until some brave soldier (i feel like it was my friend paula but WHO KNOWS) was like “OK SENIOR SKIP DAY IS THIS THURSDAY!!!! NOBODY GO TO CLASS OR UR A SCAB.”

she didn’t say scab because she’s not from the 1920s and we aren’t newsies, though this story would be way more interesting if we were

what she said was “YOLO THEY CAN’T PUNISH ALL OF US!!!!!”

except not yolo because it was 2009 and drake hadn’t been invented yet except as a dear sweet boy in a wheelchair.

we also used this email system to communicate with one another that has very deeply informed the way i understand email and which probably makes it very frustrating to be my friend and receive emails that have subject lines like “URGENT” and then just 42 links to the same florida georgia line youtube video.

I’M NOT ASHAMED, but in that way where like i kind of AM ashamed so i’m really aggressively NOT ashamed? 

so the day of reckoning rolls around and my alarm goes off at 8 (class started at 8:05 but i liked to PLAY WITH FIRE when it came to being late; my mom actually asked the school to stop emailing her when i was a sophomore because i was late so often that their rote “Mrs. Ofgeography we are emailing you to say—” was CLOGGING UP HER INBOX and she was like “i GET IT MY CHILD IS THE MOST BORING MISCREANT OF ALL TIME.”) and i looked at my roommate elle and she looked at me and went, “you going?”

“hell no,” i said. “YOLO. they can’t punish all of us.”

elle, who was far prettier and far cooler than i was with the notable exception of her obsession with tswift’s “love story” and her tendency to look at the endangered species list and cry sometimes during study hall, quickly bizounced across the street to this shopping center thing where all the cool kids smoked in secret where huge trucks dropped off clothes for the Dress Barn. i think there were also tennis courts nearby. more importantly there was this chinese food delivery place and a lil restaurant that made HELLA BAGELS.

WHAT KIND OF BAGELS?

FUCKIN

HELLA.

off goes elle! meanwhile i’m like, “yessssss i’m gonna use senior skip day to watch 14 hours of tv shows and eat frozen peanut butter bars that i stole from the dining hall! I’M GONNA LIVE LIKE I’M 23 ALONE IN CHICAGO ON A WEEKEND WHEN MY ONLY PLAN IS TAKEOUT AND CUDDLING WITH THE FAUX-SNOW-LEOPARD BLANKET I WILL ONE DAY SURELY OWN.” 

of course, during this time the administration was continuing to send out emails that reminded us with increasing urgency that senior skip day was NOT A THING and that we were ALL GETTING RESTRICTION if we didn’t get our STUPID ASSES TO CLASS, GODDAMNIT, WE ARE NOT RUNNING A CIRCUS HERE. 

but i was like! yolo, motherfuckers!!! i already got into college, YOU CAN’T TOUCH ME.

at some point during the day elle and our friend ginna came back to the room with takeout from the chinese delivery place and we sat on our floor eating it and probably watching veronica mars or looking at the endangered species list and crying.

all of a sudden, elle said, “guys shut up, guys shut up, GUYS SHUT UP,” and ginna and i were like, “WHAT we have a LOT to SAY about FRIED FUCKING DUMPLINGS, ELLE,“ and elle said, “did you hear that?”

“hear what?”

“that!”

‘that’ was the sound of one of our dorm moms, mrs. f, knocking on doors and saying things like, “IF YOU DON’T GET YOUR BUTTS TO CLASS IN 5 MINUTES YOU’RE ON CATEGORY 4 RESTRICTION FOREVER.” elle quickly scampered up our raised beds to hide in the corner, where a tiny human like elle could actually hide from view; i leapt immediately into what we called a closet but was basically a cubby with a flap that was DEFINITELY not meant for a 5'8” individual with knobby as hell knees.

our door, which was never locked because we both hated the effort of typing in the lock code, opened. mrs. f said, “mollyhall?”

i held my breath. 

i should add here that i seemed to be operating on like a scooby-doo level of logic where basically i thought that she was somehow NOT ALLOWED to investigate?

like, if she can’t see me, there is NO POSSIBLE WAY that she could prove i’m in here, right?

she’ll just poke her head in and be like oH GOSH NO KIDS HERE and leave!!

you can see the flaw in my logic.

mrs. f sighed. “mollyhall, i know you’re in here, i literally heard your voice ten seconds ago.”

there’s no WAY she guesses i’m in the closet!!!

“mollyhall, i know you’re in the closet.”

NO YOU DON’T

I AM SCHRÖDINGER’S SENIOR

“mollyhall—”

there was a creak. mrs. f stopped. it wasn’t actually a “creak,” so much as this like, prolonged groan? like it’s the sound an elephant would make if it sat on a really large accordion.

i poked my head out of the closet. mrs. f looked at me. elle sat up.

i said, “where’s ginna?”

YOU KNOW WHERE GINNA WAS.

“um,” said elle, “she’s in the—”

GINNA NO

ginna yes.

i really wish i could describe the sound the ceiling made when it collapsed. it sounded a lot like the way losing your breath feels. i sort of remember ginna falling in like, really slow motion, like i could see the expression on her face. i didn’t really think about how i would describe this in words. ginna’s face said:

oh no.

what have i done?

this was a mistake. 

i regret a series of decisions that i have made.

is there a way out of this?

are those oreos under mollyhall’s pillow?

why are there oreos under mollyhall’s pillow?

mollyhall, you HAVE a food cupboard, what good is a food cupboard if you don’t—

oh, crap.

she belly flopped onto the floor. i mean, the girl bounced. and then she just laid there. mrs. f looked at her. elle looked at her. i looked at her, still mostly in the closet. we were all going to get category 4 restriction forever.

ginna said, “hi, mrs. f. i feel like i should explain.”

[graygravelco]

so my mom was watching grimm last night and i looked up the episode out of curiosity and I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING BECAUSE THIS TURTLE CREATURE LOOKS LIKE BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

[hokuto-ju-no-ken]

well show us the turtle creature so we can compare it to benedict

[mrshunterr]

Supernatural & Arrow

[mayahan]

Japanese Artist Tatsuya Tanaka Creates Fun Miniature Dioramas Every Day For 5 Years

[sundaydrives]

Brennan!

[cowbellguy]

Hand jobs and blow jobs are called jobs because they’re tedious and dicks are gross. Going down on a girl is called eating out because it’s a privilege.