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Inktober Buffy :D

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Inktober 3 I went to fresh meat intake with Hulls Angels roller derby

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#inktober 2 Leaves a lot to be desired but it's all about learning!

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Dr Harleen Quinzel #inktober1

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A playful rendition of Constance' famous quote; Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver

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Lil piece inspired by a rewatch of whip it

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I tried my hand at emulating Parson’s tank girl while keeping my own style :)

[firemoon42]

Ways to un-stick a stuck story

Do an outline, whatever way works best. Get yourself out of the word soup and know where the story is headed.

Conflicts and obstacles. Hurt the protagonist, put things in their way, this keeps the story interesting. An easy journey makes the story boring and boring is hard to write.

Change the POV. Sometimes all it takes to untangle a knotted story is to look at it through different eyes, be it through the sidekick, the antagonist, a minor character, whatever.

Know the characters. You can’t write a story if the characters are strangers to you. Know their likes, dislikes, fears, and most importantly, their motivation. This makes the path clearer.

Fill in holes. Writing doesn’t have to be linear; you can always go back and fill in plotholes, and add content and context.

Have flashbacks, hallucinations, dream sequences or foreshadowing events. These stir the story up, deviations from the expected course add a feeling of urgency and uncertainty to the narrative.

Introduce a new mystery. If there’s something that just doesn’t add up, a big question mark, the story becomes more compelling. Beware: this can also cause you to sink further into the mire.

Take something from your protagonist. A weapon, asset, ally or loved one. Force him to operate without it, it can reinvigorate a stale story.

Twists and betrayal. Maybe someone isn’t who they say they are or the protagonist is betrayed by someone he thought he could trust. This can shake the story up and get it rolling again.

Secrets. If someone has a deep, dark secret that they’re forced to lie about, it’s a good way to stir up some fresh conflict. New lies to cover up the old ones, the secret being revealed, and all the resulting chaos.

Kill someone. Make a character death that is productive to the plot, but not “just because”. If done well, it affects all the characters, stirs up the story and gets it moving.

Ill-advised character actions. Tension is created when a character we love does something we hate. Identify the thing the readers don’t want to happen, then engineer it so it happens worse than they imagined.

Create cliff-hangers. Keep the readers’ attention by putting the characters into new problems and make them wait for you to write your way out of it. This challenge can really bring out your creativity.

Raise the stakes. Make the consequences of failure worse, make the journey harder. Suddenly the protagonist’s goal is more than he expected, or he has to make an important choice.

Make the hero active. You can’t always wait for external influences on the characters, sometimes you have to make the hero take actions himself. Not necessarily to be successful, but active and complicit in the narrative.

Different threat levels. Make the conflicts on a physical level (“I’m about to be killed by a demon”), an emotional level (“But that demon was my true love”) and a philosophical level (“If I’m forced to kill my true love before they kill me, how can love ever succeed in the face of evil?”).

Figure out an ending. If you know where the story is going to end, it helps get the ball rolling towards that end, even if it’s not the same ending that you actually end up writing.

What if? What if the hero kills the antagonist now, gets captured, or goes insane? When your write down different questions like these, the answer to how to continue the story will present itself.

Start fresh or skip ahead. Delete the last five thousand words and try again. It’s terrifying at first, but frees you up for a fresh start to find a proper path. Or you can skip the part that’s putting you on edge – forget about that fidgety crap, you can do it later – and write the next scene. Whatever was in-between will come with time.

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Wow this is actually really helpful

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite anecdotes about the first Golden Age of Piracy is that, at one point, Captain Henry Morgan left England in one ship, and arrived in the Caribbean commanding a completely different ship, and nobody knows why. What happened to the first ship and how he acquired the second one are entirely unrecorded.

[johannesviii]

At some point in his short career (1715 until 1718), the English pirate Ben Hornigold attacked a sloop near Honduras just to steal all the hats of the crew, because his own crew had gotten drunk the night before and they had tossed every single one of their own hats overboard.

[lyinginbedmon]

Bartholomew Roberts, arguably the most successful pirate in history by ships captured (a whopping 470 in 3 years), didn’t actually want to be a pirate. His ship was captured and he was forced to join the pirate crew.

After the original pirate captain was killed, he was democratically elected captain of the pirate crew less than 6 weeks after being captured by them.

[sararaasch]

My personal fave is Sam Bellamy. His life story reads like a tragic epic novel - poor sailor boy, becomes one of the youngest/wealthiest/most generous (“Robin Hood of the Sea”) pirate captains, hangs out being a pirate with his other dudebro pirate captains, left a mysterious love back from his days of poor sailor boyitude, tragically and abruptly dies at 28 in a storm alongside his closest dudebro pirate captain (possibly whilst on his way to revisit his mysterious love).

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Trying a little character design :)

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The Dolly sisters again :)

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Doing some research on burlesque, came across the Dolly Sisters. Feast your eyes on this little black and white piece :)

[femfreq]

Statements like this are just one reason that the amazing Ida B. Wells is one of our Defiant Five. Donate and spread the word about the crowdfunding campaign for our new series, Ordinary Women: Daring to Defy History, and help us tell her story.

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Words to live by

[theavc]

10 great cartoonists you need to know: Celebrating International Women’s Day

It’s International Women’s Day, and once more, we’re celebrating with a list that spotlights the work of 10 fantastic cartoonists. While some exceptional female names are already on comics fans’ radars—such as Fiona Staples, Emily Carroll,Kate Beaton, Jillian Tamaki, Raina Telgemeier, Eleanor Davis, Meredith Gran,Emma Rios, Noelle Stevenson, and more—the purpose of this list is to gather interesting and exceptional contemporary cartoonists who readers may not be familiar with.

Brittney L. Williams

Mathilde Vangheluwe

K.L. Ricks

Carolyn Nowak

Aatmaja Pandya

Tillie Walden

Lizzy Stewart

Jane Mai

Leslie Hung

Sloane Leong

Read more about each of these amazing artists at avclub.com

[ignatzhaderach]

I’m on this list with some of my FAVORITE ARTISTS!!! ;_;

[kateordie]

Hell YEAH these are some good artists!!

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[bethrevis]

you could kill a man in any of these dresses, and pretty sure no jury would convict you. those are killing-men dresses, that’s what i’m saying

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Oo ee

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101 curious questions. Let’s talk.

What’s your biggest insecurity?

What’s your biggest physical insecurity?

Do you like the person you feel like you’re becoming?

What’s the one thing you feel like everyone knows how to do except you?

Do you suffer from anxiety/depression/PTSD/other?

Where were you born?

What do you think people say about you when you’re not around?

Do you look up to anyone in your life?

What makes you feel guilty? How do you resolve it?

What’s your boring hobby (that you still enjoy anyway)?

Do you like who you are around people?

Do you know what your plans for the future are? Do you like them?

Tell a secret.

What petty event are you still embarrassed about?

Do you get wanderlust? Where do you want to go?

Romantically, do you prefer men, women, both, any/don’t care, or are you aromantic?

How many parents do you have?

Do they get along?

Do you swear?

How many siblings do you have? Where are you in relation to them?

Have you ever had to hurt anyone emotionally?

Has anyone ever hurt you emotionally?

Do you believe in an afterlife?

What lies do you believe anyways?

Would you consider yourself poor, average, or wealthy?

What does your favorite tattoo mean to you? Or if you had to get a tattoo, what would it be? Why?

How many groups of friends do you have? How do they vary?

Do you work? If so, what do you do? Do you like your job?

Do you want to have a partner for life?

Who have you never forgiven? Why?

What are you looking forward to right now?

If you could change one thing about your past, what would it be?

What’s your favorite color in context?

What unpopular opinion do you have?

What’s the last good book you’ve read?

What’s your favorite book?

Favorite poem?

Favorite movie?

Favorite song?

Favorite food/type of food?

What kind of food activates your gag reflex?

What do you feel like you’re missing from your life right now?

If you could choose your own name, what would it be? Why?

What’s the earliest dream you can remember having?

What’s the most recent dream you can remember having?

What’s the most beautiful dream you can remember having?

Do you have a car? What kind is it?

Are you afraid of death?

Have you ever attempted to take your own life?

Describe your dream job?

Are you religious/spiritual?

What do you do to calm yourself down?

What’s the most annoying thing that happens to you on a regular basis?

Do you live in an urban, suburban, or rural area?

What’s the one talent you wish you had?

Do you do well or struggle in school?

Do you have a speech impediment?

What’s the most terrifying thing that’s ever happened to you?

What’s the happiest day of your life you’ve ever had?

Early, on time, or late?

What quirks do you have?

Do you wish you could start tomorrow with a clean slate? Why/why not?

Do you ever get paranoid?

Do you believe in human souls? Where do you think they come from?

What’s one mistake that you’ll never make again?

What fandoms do you belong to?

What are your old URLs?

How often would you say you lie? Why?

Do you like the kind of attention you get from other people?

Are you in a relationship? What’s your favorite thing about your partner?

Are you concerned about the environment?

What stresses you out more than anything else?

Credit, debit, EBT, or cash?

Who’s your favorite historical figure?

What’s that movie you know is bad but enjoy anyways?

Do you masturbate (be honest)?

What’s your kink?

What’s one thing you don’t feel comfortable doing around your friends?

What’s your most prized possession?

Are you ever proud of yourself?

Do you ever tear yourself down?

Do you ever tell people how you’re feeling?

Do you like when people guess how you’re feeling?

Are you worried about someone close to you? Why?

What kind of interview questions do you answer to yourself?

If you could meet anyone, living, dead, or unborn, who would it be?

If you had a clone of yourself and the two of you didn’t have enough resources, would you get along?

What kinds of things confuse you?

Do you feel too hot or too cold more often?

If you had to live in any past time period, which would it be?

What’s your sign? you feel like it matches your personality?

Do you believe in astrology?

Do you like extreme activities, like white water rafting, surfing, roller coasters, etc.?

Are you waiting for someone to save you?

Can you remember the last time you made a deep personal connection with someone?

Do you like where you grew up?

What’s your favorite word?

Would you consider yourself an interesting person?

Which people in your life do you wish knew you better?

Are you okay?

What’s been going through your mind lately?

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