best kinds of characters either:
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best kinds of characters either:
is/has been an active suicide risk
doesnât or cannot consider suicide a real option and so is left with an inarticulable feeling of circling the drain
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Characters/OCs asks
1. How would they define love if asked
2. When someone says "this is [character name] coded," what comes to your mind
3. if somebody told the character that they admire them what would they feel and how would they react to it
4. How much weight do they give to others' opinions of them
5. When bad things happen, do they usually think it happened to them or because of them
6. How well do they cope with the reality of their mortality
7. How easily and frequently do they ask for help
8. What is their perspective on religion and the concept of God
9. When in pain do they take it out on others or do they keep it inside
10. Their most defining moment vs your favorite one of them
11. One word they'd use to describe themselves, one you'd use to describe them and lastly a word that their closest/loved one would use to describe them
12. How committed are they to their principles, and what might get them to abandon them
13. Is there a moral line they would never cross
14. What could be considered as their worst moment
15. Do they have a stomach for violence and harm and if so do they only do it out of necessity or at any whim
16. Do they idolize anyone, if so why is that
17. How open are they to change their viewpoints on matters
18. Are they vengeful or do they easily forgive and forget or do they not forgive but don't go as far as acting on that
19. What's their strongest emotion, the one which mostly rules them and compells them to action
20. Are they more inclined to take or give
21. How much do they prioritize their own survival, and what lengths would they go to for self-preservation
22. What is their relationship with their body like
23. How connected do they feel to their community and society
24. Do they self harm and if so in which way
25. What's the worst physical or mental pain they've ever endured
26. How do their family and their relationship with them influence their perspective and the way they navigate life
27. Are they content with their sexuality and gender expression? would a difference in their sexuality and gender affect their role in the story and if so how
28. How much importance do they place on their appearance, and on others' appearance
29. What criteria do they use to assess others' character
30. Do they take themselves too seriously
31. How easily do they forgive themselves after making a mistake and how easily do they forgive others
32. Are they more concerned with the bigger picture or are they hung up on the details
33. Do they prioritise other people's needs over their own or the other way around
34. What do they believe their hands were made for
35. Do they consider themselves lucky or privileged
36. What is their level of emotional intelligence and social adeptness
37. Presented with three different ponds offering eternal health, strength, or wealth, which one would they choose to drink from, they can only drink from one
38. In the event of an apocalypse with only one limited safe haven available, whom or what would they prioritize bringing along
39. If they could end one thingâbe it a person, ideology or misfortuneâwhat would they choose to eradicate
40. Would breaking their heart be a quick task or would it require significant effort
41. Are they comfortable expressing their emotions and thoughts
42. If given the chance to bring back someone from the dead, who would they choose and why
43. With whom or when do they feel most authentic and true to themselves
44. Do they believe they are more in control or being controlled (by others, their circumstances or their life in general) and are they correct in their assumption
45. What is their fatal flaw
46. To what extent does shame or guilt influence their psyche
47. If they were an object, Which material(s) would they be made of
48. What gets them out of the bed each morning and how obvious is that motivation to those around them
49. Do they believe there's a cause, person, or a goal worth sacrificing their life for
50. If faced with a magical mirror revealing their deepest fear and greatest desire instead of their reflection, what would they see and would they be surprised by it
51. What does responsibility mean to them and do they embrace it or take it on reluctantly
52. Does their race significantly shape their personality or is it more of a background aspect
53. How entitled do they feel to others' emotions, time or labor
54. Are they more likely to do a good deed if they know it will be noticed or do they not care about acknowledgment
55. Do they live in the past, the present or the future
56. How do they go about making decisions: do they consult a particular individual, rely on a trusted group, consider input from anyone willing to share or solely trust their own judgment
57. How likely are they to intervene if they witness something illegal or immoral, If they choose to get involved what method do they typically use, Does their eagerness to correct the situation and their approach vary depending on the perpetrator's status, closeness or strength
58. When it comes to hope do they view it as: impractical or necessary and why is that
59. Do they tend to overwork themselves
60. What type of smart are they
61. If they could make people do whatever they wanted without any consequences, would they use that power and if so how
62. Which of the following do they have the hardest time accepting: affection, money or help
one more thing. if a character ascends to godhood/divinity/some form of power that makes them practically omnipotent and no longer human. and they had a partner before that who didnât rise with them. you are legally required to make that situation as terrifying as it would rightly be. itâs bad enough to get the attention of a god. it is ruinous to be loved by one. that is not the person you knew anymore. that is something that never has to let you leave, or have secrets, or disobey it. it will fix every problem you so much as glance at, and it will shower you in grace and gifts until you drown, and it will make you a holy artifact in its own story. you have to understand, it doesnât remember how horrible death is, so it strikes you to cinders like a snide comment and brings you back with an apology it needs you to accept. that is how itâs going to love you forever, because it might not be inclined to let you die.
These are important things I have learned about writing fiction. I know these things, but sometimes I need a reminder. So I am writing them here, both as a reminder for myself, and as a reminder for all those who, like me, sometimes forget.
Characters must make choices.
Characters should often make bad choices before they make good choices.
Character choices should drive the vast majority of the plot. Characters reacting to having random stuff thrown at them is far less interesting than characters reacting to the stuff they've thrown after it's ricocheted around and comes bouncing back toward them.
If a character refuses to make a choice, there better be consequences for that too, and you better have a damn clear way of showing those consequences to the reader and the character.
Nearly every time I'm struggling with writing something, taking a step back and thinking about these 4 things usually helps get me unstuck.
anyway draw your butchfemme ships like this
Part 2: shape, style, and length with femme styles!
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Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on hereâ- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! Thereâs more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hairâ-cause itâs a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG posts were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but Iâve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them heređđđŸ Iâll upload them all in parts!
Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades
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loveeee characters who think they're likable but not lovable. characters who know they have surface-level admirable or alluring traits and so make sure to highlight those traits so that nobody looks closer to see what's underneath. characters who know they're hot or clever or cool and use that as a suit of armor so that no one ever gets close to them, because when they strip bare and show their vulnerability they're not any of those things, which means they have nothing left to make up for who they inherently are
most fantasy books or fics iâve read that contained a desert biome fell back on real world prejudice and misconceptions in place of authentic worldbuilding for a place and people, and it is so telling that the trope seems to repeat itself
things like
the desert as a lifeless wasteland where âlife is crushed underneath the shifting sands and blazing sunâ blah blah blah. deserts are full of life and they are beautiful and people have lived and prospered in them for eons. please read a book
the desert as an ugly or barren terrain where everything is harsh and threatening
the desert as something scary
the inhabitants as backwards religious zealots
the men as overly violent and oppressive
the inhabitants in need of outside instruction/intervention, i.e. âcivilizing the savageâ
the âharemâ and women as exotic, sensual, mysterious
writing tribalism with no knowledge of how tribes actually function
djinn (or for the westerners, genies)
Islam Lite (the aesthetics or spiritual practices appropriated and stripped of meaning)
sprinkling random arabic words for âšflavorâšinstead of expanding your worldbuilding to include language as well
clothing as oppressive or mysterious, instead of serving its actual purpose (protecting you from the elements, which should be obvious but i guess it isnât. covering your skin keeps you cooler and safer in most deserts)
people who live in deserts as ignorant, superstitious, uneducated
this isnât worldbuilding, itâs just ignorance and bigotry
So true!
To anyone writing stuff set in the Mojave/Sonoran Deserts (and maybe the Colorado?) Please please please look up Palo Verde forests!! The trees are green but completely bare of leaves- they photosynthesize directly through their bark. And instead of leaves they have spikes! It's so trippy and cool to be walking through a lush green forest knowing that the nearest water is 50+ miles away.
Other Mojave/Sonoran specific things:
There's tortoises! They're pretty rare to see but you can often find their burrows, or sometimes skeletons
Nightjars will wait till you get super close and then fly up, scaring the crap out of you
There are areas called 'desert asphalt', which are large expanses of black volcanic rock. Looks totally different from any other part of the desert
There are jackrabbits everywhere
Everywhere there aren't jackrabbits there's lizards
It's actually pretty loud; there's loads of insects- mainly crickets and the like- but also lots of birds! You won't see them but by God you will hear them
Wildflower blooms in the rainy season are the most beautiful thing you'll ever see in your life. There will be so many flowers that you never even knew existed
If you live near any mountain range, you'll actually see thunderstorms fairly often. You'll never actually get rained on, but there's almost always thunder on the mountains, especially in the evening. Idk maybe that's a metaphor or something
Source: I lived on the edge of the Mojave and Sonoran for a bit, and most of my job involved wandering around the desert for 8 hours a day
You wake up one day to find a new born infant in your house. You soon find out that the baby is actually of an alien species sent to earth to see if they can integrate if theyâre taught to be human from birth. Not only that but everyone from your older sibling to the government refuse to take the baby off your hands. Write about coping with suddenly being a parent and trying to raise a very unorthodox child.Â
Being drunk vs Being high
i saw this on twitter and i cant stop thinking about it cuz its literally mania vs depressionÂ
#itâs funny cuz they are both going through it
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You are a vampire working as a doctor, using your ability to taste diseases in blood to treat your patients. Describe an average day for you.
Behave yourselves this time.
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Iâm really fascinated/haunted by this notion that a rural town could pop out of existence and it would probably take weeks for anyone to notice, and in the end the first people to show up might be from a utility coming to shut off power for unpaid bills. Do you think society at large would recognize that everyone from a town of 100 people vanished, or would a network of individuals with no other connections simply think that their one friend or relation wasnât returning calls? Would motorists passing through Kettleman City on the 5 notice that it wasnât there? Or would they assume that they missed the signs for the exit and ride right through to Coalinga? Could a big town disappear? How long would it take for people to notice Fresno was missing? Bakersfield? If all flights into Las Vegas got cancelled, if the highway exits disappeared, would people assume it never existed? Would it fade from public memory? Would people choose to forget it? Would people silently accept that their friends and loved ones who lived there were never coming home?
Alternatively, the idea of a small rural town suddenly appearing where it hadnât previously. Out of nowhere, thereâs an exit that wasnât there yesterday and most people think they just hadnât noticed it before. Maybe a couple people would take the exit for some gas or simply out of curiosity and find a whole town of strange people who donât seem to have any memories or knowledge of history. Surely theyâre just an odd bunch of individuals and donât mean anyone any harm? There are thousands of tiny towns on the maps and any one of them could have been constructed and populated overnight by extraterrestrials or something and no one would know. And if a few tourists disappear in one of them, would anyone know where they went if the town hadnât existed before?