The Parade of Strange Creatures

Hi, this is where I post my art. Hope Y'all enjoy!

[patientno7]

the suffering never ends

[sinksanksockie2]

This is the real process

[thewritingbeast-blog]

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Bonus art masterlist!

[brucewayneright]

BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

[jasmehraj]

Oh my God!

It’s amazing, some links aren’t working for me but those who are, are spectacular.

[tamsinswriting]

Reblogging because NAMING IS HARD

[writing-prompt-s]

!!!!!!!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

am taking perverse pleasure in reminding people it's 2025. that's a star trek year. silly little science fiction number. except it's happening, and DANG ain't it underwhelming!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

for Gen Z folks who didn't live through it:

the late 2000s to mid 2010s were culturally, a time of a resurgence of hope. I don't think we seriously realized it at the time (for all the Obama campaign posters), but it honestly was the last period in recent history where it was assumed the future would be better.

that was a big thing, that many millennials didn't realize was a big thing, until it was torn away. we honestly thought it was over, the fear and uncertainty of the Cold War and the Nuclear Age (and Bush 2.0). we were born in an era of reprieve. things were bad, yes, the world was insane and unfair, but it was better than it was before. the world had been at the brink of ultimate disaster, and then it stepped back. (And we honestly thought we had escaped our parents' legacy, by sheer virtue of being born in the correct decade.)

I cannot overstate how much that shapes your worldview, growing up in a time where the recent present is better than the recent past. we had reason to believe the world was getting better. because it was, actually! for a good while there! progress was slow, but it was real, and we could feel its grit on our fingertips.

and now we're in an age of regression. because you were robbed. we were robbed. a great global era of robbery (of housing and food and time and health and body and freedom and fundamental human rights), has blossomed, and is happening everyday today.

be furious. they will steal the teeth from your gums.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

SO BITE WHILE YOU STILL CAN

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

ya’ll were really gonna let me live my life in ignorance thinking mr. rogers was straight???

[westiec]

oh whoops, did we forget to tell you? there’s a quote in The Good Neighbor where Mr. Rogers talked about being attracted to both men and women

[shy-marker-pliers]

FRED ROGERS I LOVE YOU EVEN MORE

[shy-marker-pliers]

WOOOO

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

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[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

tumblr rediscovering this post in 2025:

[tenderwatches]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[stories-by-hails]

For anyone who needs this

[writing-prompt-s]

!!!!

[ur-daily-inspiration]

Eyes of the forest. Aspen trees

[daily-spooky]

[echo-has-queries]

@chaos-has-theories @scar-can-relate

[inkwyrmling]

Confirmed, I would kill for a hurdy gurdy

[ganondorf]

abstract and modern art haters are sooo snobby like klein literally Created an entirely new pigment and then painted a canvas in a way where the brush strokes wouldn't be visible. the insinuation that people with no skill could reproduce that is so annoying because unless you are skilled at color mixing and painting you definitely couldn’t lmao

[jaimeroyalrobertson-deactivated]

i hope it's okay to add this because i think it hits the nail directly on the head

[dsudis]

Honestly, it's like picking up a book and saying "I know all these words, I can type, I could have written this" like there's no middle step between the technical ability and the finished work.

[inkwyrmling]

One one complication/other point to add to this discussion: not everyone is part of the intended audience. If the piece doesn't speak to you, then it might not be for you. A lot of color-based symbology and communication is completely inaccessible to me because I'm colorblind. That means there's a good chunk of modern art that I am not included in the audience of, which is fine. There's no way things would hit the same because that method of communication doesn't work.

[ernmark]

Just learned about garden path sentences.

They’re basically a literary prank– the sentence starts out in such a way that you think you know where it’s going, but the way it ends completely changes the meaning while still being a complete and logical sentence. Usually it deals with double meanings, or with words that can be multiple parts of speech, like nouns and verbs or nouns and adjectives.

So we get gems like

The old man the boat. (The old people are manning the boat)

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. (The apartment complex is home to both married and single soldiers, plus their families)

The prime number few. (People who are excellent are few in number.)

The cotton clothing is usually made of grows in Mississipi. (The cotton that clothing is made of)

The man who hunts ducks out on weekends. (As in he ducks out of his responsibilities)

We painted the wall with cracks. (The cracked wall is the one that was pained.)

[inkwyrmling]

Here's my friend! Her name is Gierrie!

[inkwyrmling]

A lovely couple! A sentient fish and animated suit of armor. They’re so adorable together! I love their teamwork.

[inkwyrmling]

This creature inflicted its visage upon my eyes, and now I pass that curse to you. Happy boxing day!

[inkwyrmling]

This strange creature is known as the Antler Wurm. People sometimes spell its name with a y. That's a horrible misnomer, as this is from the monstrous snake family, rather than the dragon family.

[inkwyrmling]

A Call of Cthulhu character that recently got retired. Darril Du’Laen. I made him and immediately hurt my knee at work and had to go on crutches. I have some weird luck.

[inkwyrmling]

A quick sketch of my summoner from afar. He doesn’t like me drawing him often, but he looks, though. I like his hat and staff. They’re nice to curl up around.

[inkwyrmling]

A deck that my summoner likes. I wonder what the spell is on there right now. Seems interesting. Maybe he is working on a summoning spell.

[inkwyrmling]

Found this one on one of my adventures. My summoner and their party had difficulty taking it down. It seems that the big pincer is extremely hard to open and snaps shut really quickly. Though, the creature didn’t look too healthy, though.

[inkwyrmling]

Welcome to to my Tumblr. I have many creatures to show you. Hope y’all enjoy