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[jackieskullz]

On Hiatus

I'm sorry for being gone for so many months. I really thought I would be able to stick to a schedule but everything just went downhill these past few months. Not a lot know what I'm about to explain in this journal and that's ok. I don't share all the details that go on in my life, so I don't expect any different, but I recently lost my grandmother. Since November 19th she has been back and forth to hospitals and on March the 7th I finally lost her. So now I'm experiencing that moment where you lose a parent and you just don't know what to do.. and I say parent because she was my parent. It's complicated to explain but these nice old folks adopted me when I was 6 despite all my issues and due to both our ages and being friends with my mother at the time, they introduced themselves as my grandparents and just stuck. I lost my grandfather back in 2009, I can't believe it's been that long honestly.. and I knew things were getting worse as her health kept declining these past few months but I kept denying it. So now I'm just.. trying to figure out how to cope I guess. I never really grew up around anyone else that was apart of their family line so now I feel kind of.. like the anchor to my identity has been severed. The point I'm trying to make without transforming this post into just another depressing mess is that I'm at a loss right now and I don't know if I'll bounce back anytime soon. To those I owe art to I'll try to get done as soon as I can find my motivation to even pick up my tablet and draw anything decently and if I can't then you'll no doubt have a refund issued, no worries. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I'm sorry if I made this depressing or anything like that..

[meowwniz]

usagi ☆ find me on instagram http://instagram.com/meowwniz/ ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ #sailor moon #art #illustration #my art #tsukino usagi #fan art #artistsontumblr #paint tool sai #drawing #draw

[ohmilk]

whomst allowed the pink shirt

(in case the purge deletes my blog my twitter is @ohmilkt)

[brynwrites]

What not to write in fantasy.

I’ve seen some posts going around on what not to write in fantasy, many of which amount to:

Don’t write evil kings.

Don’t write people who are evil for the sake of evil.

Don’t write bullies.

Don’t write villains at all actually.

Don’t write mentors.

Don’t let your characters learn how to do hard things on their own though.

Don’t write people on adventures.

Don’t write people fighting evil governments.

Don’t write any fantasy species ever written before.

Don’t write any fantasy trope ever written before.

Don’t write any fantasy plot ever written before. 

Just… don’t fucking write fantasy I guess??

And this is such utter bullshit, my friends.

We do need more originality and diversity in fantasy, but we don’t need to remove everything that fantasy is and has been in the process.

(Especially, especially, when diversity is being included in traditionally cishet white male protagonist fantasy stories.)

Maybe the chosen one with special magic powers and a royal bloodline going on a quest with a group of friends to defeat the evil king has been done before with a white cis man a thousand times over, but how many times has a black trans woman got to go on that adventure? 

Maybe elves and orcs have been written into the dust, but they still make great templates on which to tell stories with original twists, and there’s nothing about them that stops a good, emotional story from hitting you straight in the heart.

Maybe dragons have been done by every writer ever to write fantasy, but you know what? Dragons are fucking awesome, my dudes. Many readers are always gonna love them.

Maybe we have told the same fantasy stories over and over again, but every step you take away from the known template is a step you have to spend more and more exposition on before the reader will understand your original creation.

So don’t let anyone make you feel like that your (inclusive) fantasy story is too ‘traditional’ to be good. As long as you produce a well written story you’ve put your heart into, it’ll be a story many readers will love. 

[dashaibo]

I’ve stopped reading at the “white cis male” bit.

Your story will not be made better simply by an addition of a minority. It has to be interesting too. Representation is meaningless.

[kluskikosklo]

If the only twist you add to a very used up formula is paint the MC a different color, your story might not be as interesting as you think it is

What’s the MC’s past? What’s their motive for questing? Who’s their party? Who are they fighting and why?

[brynwrites]

Let me tell you all a story. 

Arthur. Born in the time of evil kings and dragons, found by a mentor, chosen for his journey, sent on a quest.

But Arthur isn’t getting off easy, because you see, Arthur is a black trans girl, and if no one wanted a poor young boy for a king, you can bet they don’t want a black girl even more, much less one mot don’t believe is a girl at all.

And Arthur. Arthur is blind.

With a destiny no one wants for her, not even her wizarding mentor, everyone and his mother would like to stab her clean in the back. She just has to find a way to see them when they try, preferably before the first blade comes.

If you think adding minority groups won’t change a story, then you don’t understand why tropes and cliches are formed in the first place (and you’ve probably been sitting inside your box for far too long).

But let’s step away from creating interesting stories and get into our own story for a moment. We live in a world were pretty white damsels are always in distress. They’re a trope. But what’s not a trope? Pretty black damsels, who are soft and sweet and get rescued by their true love and live happily ever after as the kind queen of a distant land. Little black girls don’t get that story. But they deserve to.

Now, that doesn’t mean someone should sit down and re-write the same white damsel in distress story with a black girl instead, because by god we’re writers, we want to write our own thing. But the point is that you can still have a damsel in distress in your original fantasy book because there are damsels in distress who haven’t been done before. 

You can have a few of the good, solid fantasy tropes in your fantasy story and still have a twist in there. 

And you can build an original story around an old cliche. 

Tropes are building blocks, and cliches are just the ones in the colors people have liked so much that they’ve used them until they’ve become dull to our eyes. That doesn’t mean you should try to build an entire story without any blocks at all, or that a few cliches can’t make an otherwise new color pattern still stand out if placed in the right way.

[namiiswan-archived]

Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[pixalry]

Spirited Away: Chihiro Remembers - Created by Anato Finnstark

[misshotaru]

Art by:  LukasWerneck

[kimboltart]

Poke no hero academia 

i am never gonna be done with this crossover :D

Hitoshi Shinso/ Espeon, Kai Chisaki/ Honchkrow, Joi Irinaka(Mimic)/ Rotom, Inasa Yoarashi/ Salamence, Fuyumi Todoroki/ Alolan Ninetales, and Shoto Todoroki/ Half and half Vulpix

[batcii-archive-deactivated20210]

the first of a couple of ghibli prints i’m gonna have at smash in sydney this july! chihiro and haku from spirited away, aka the embodiment of all my childhood animal/spirit/dragon companion fantasies 

[fullchakra]

[daddyschlongleg]

time for memes featuring my favorite boy  _____

if you like what I do, consider buying me a coffee. ♥

[overdose-art]

Ogata Gekkô (尾形月耕, 1859–1920), Ryu Shoten, 1897

[awed-frog]

when you’re trying to write and your last two functioning brain cells start yelling at each other

[ningekoproductions]

I feel like this is a call out post

[seandunkley]

; w;

[o-dragon05]

I definitely feel called out

[earthstory]

[the-ace-of-hearts]

I AM WEEPING

[maythefoxbewithyou]

[betweenlinebreaks]

Are we sure that foxes are canines? Are we sure they aren’t just big stupid cats?

[joannanullo]

Ugh what a cutie

[vvhatmighthavebeenlost]

I NEED IT

[earth-sister]

I need 12

[allmyheadmateshateyou]

foxes aren’t canines…

[maythefoxbewithyou]

WELL, they’re certainly not felines.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

I’m going to textgrab from this post by prokopetz:

I often see foxes referred to as “catdogs” on Tumblr, but I wonder if folks realise how true that really is.

There’s a phenomenon called convergent evolution that occurs when two taxonomically unrelated species exploit the same ecological niche. The features that are needed to best take advantage of a given niche are pretty much the same everywhere you go; thus, over time, those species will become anatomically and behaviourally similar, even though they’re completely unrelated.

And foxes? Foxes are what you get when an ecosystem has no native small felines, so a canine species evolves to take advantage of the ecological niche that would have been exploited by a small feline, if one existed.

In other words, a fox is literally what you get when a dog tries to cat.

So, in a way…

[chibisquirt]

#omg #I knew I had a huge reason for loving foxs #other than #you know #loving fox

[owlbear33]

on a similar note, hyenas are what happens when there are no dogs so felines fill that niche, Hyenas particularly spotted hyenas are wolfcats

[dakrolak]

*mind blown*

[knightless]

@captainchibale

[yuyumerchpatrol]

New Screenshots from the Yu Yu Hakusho OVA

[edensmidian]

[klubbhead]

I hate English

[mornington-the-crescent]

English might seem complicated, but it can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

[klubbhead]

Fuck you