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[thenatsdorf]

:3

[maxbytes]

these faces get me every time

[miracle-vine]

yes my favorite colors are the warm orange of the windows of a house u see on a walk at night and also the deep blue of the night around it

[byrons]

art by suzanne siegel

[carnival-phantasm]

I miss tumblr's Reblog Balls

[spooky-fubuki]

These ones? Ah I don't want to update my app and suffer then

[carnival-phantasm]

No, I mean the tumblr labs' Reblog Balls

It was a feature where you could see the size of a tumblr user's balls in each post they were in. The more people reblogged directly from them, the bigger their balls.

It was interesting because as soon as a contrarian rant, shit take, insane reply and/or dumb addition was added to a post, you could check these and, inevitably, you'd find a common link responsible for the spread of the shit version of said post, and I just found fascinating how awful tumblrs were interconnected.

I guess you could use it to curate your dash by blocking/blacklisting everyone in the Shit Chain, but I was always too lazy to do it.

[human-south-of-north-pole]

[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.

[samspectrum]

Will use. Maybe.. Someday…

[awed-frog]

For all my fellow oversharers out there.

[richardmadens-archive]

[thechronicleofshe]

this hurled my wig into the rafters as a kid

[http-danvers-deactivated2021031]

[dykelliewilliams]

juni cortez ran so tony stark could crawl

[foundationaldecay]

juni cortez ran so tony stark could die

[ghost-cassette]

Juni Cortez killed Tony Stark

[dippersguidetotheunexplained]

memes from a darker timeline where gravity falls gets a shitty reboot

[mandareeboo]

OP you just gave me the biggest heart attack of my career, FUCK.

[katalean]

OK that’s it I’m doing this frame by myself because I want it to look ethereal AS IT SHOULD

[bookpatrol]

Book stall in  Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.

Photo by  dastan khdir

[bebx]

Ao3 writers are the strongest Avengers

[xamag-undertale]

GEE FRISK HOW COME YOU GOATMOM LETS YOU HAVE SO MANY PARENTS

based on this

[gojosattoru]

★ AGATSUMA ZENITSU | THE CUTE DEMON SLAYER ★

↳ Dedicated to my fabulously sweet Rachel @childeapologist ♥ ヾ(๑❛ ▿ ◠๑ )

[glossynympheteyes]

this movie is so fucking creepy jesus fuck

[dumpster-king]

It’s by Tim Burton, what did you honestly expect?

[porcelainandgold]

Actually, it’s Henry Selick, who was the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas. The book was written by Neil Gaiman, though, and is far…far….worse.

[whatpunkin]

Sorry, I’m about to geek the hell out.

The movie is captivating, but the book is twenty kinds of terrifying, even now, ten years after I first read it. As disturbing as the movie may have been to some, the things Selick added really serve to cushion just how horrific the story really is.

First of all, the character of Wybie does not exist in the book. Coraline is facing all of this nearly alone, with her only help coming from the sly comments of the cat, a warning from the circus mice, and the stone given to her by her neighbor, presented with no comment but that it “makes the unseen seen.”

Second, the Other Parents are never quite as warm (and, dare I say, normal) as they are in the gifs above. They’re described as having paper-white skin and the Other Mother’s hair is said to move on its own, and her long, red, claw-like nails don’t ease any uncertainty that she is absolutely, positively up to no good. The first time Coraline meets them, they (and the rest of the Others) seem to be playing roles (for whatever reason, Coraline does not seem to pick up on this), like they all know what to say and what to do and are simply waiting for Coraline to make her move in their terrifying play world. This is shown to be partly true when the Other Parents tell her they know she’ll be back soon after she refuses the buttons - this time, to stay.

Third, the Other Mother commits atrocities that really should not have been in a book for anyone not fully grown up. She physically deforms the world around Coraline to slow her progress in their game beyond any mild traps the movie portrays, and, instead of turning the Other Father into the wandering pumpkin-thing seen in the film, she simply ceases to use him and throws his body away in the cellar, leaving him to rot with whatever bit of sentience he has left. She begins to lose her touch, as Coraline gains the upper hand. Her world doesn’t just become a nightmare - it falls apart completely. No creepy but oddly cool bug furniture here, just the house that now appears to be a child’s drawing. Whatever the Other Mother is (a beldame, but something tells me she’s much more ancient and powerful than that), she does not give half a hump about what she has to do to ensnare Coraline. Destroy the supporting characters of her twisted creation? Done. Allow herself to be dismembered to ruin Coraline’s life in the normal world? Not even gonna bat an eyelash.

On a final, personal note, imagine eight year-old me, ignored by my parents, absorbed in the story and identifying with Coraline from the start. Imagine me finishing this bloodcurdling book and immediately thinking of my basement, where there is still a locked door that my grandmother swears up and down is nothing more than a storage room, but has not once in my (or my mother’s) lifetime unlocked.

Can you see why this book still scares me?

[hematite2]

Fun fact I learned from seeing neil gaiman speak: when he first wanted the book published, his editor said it was too scary. He suggested she read it to her young daughter, and then decide. So she did, and her daughter wasn’t afraid, and it was published. Years later, Gaiman was sitting next to that daughter at an event and told her this story, and she said “oh I was terrified I just didn’t want to tell my mom”.

Coraline WAS too scary to be published, but exists anyway because a girl lied to her mother.

[petrichormeraki]

[feyariel]

@neil-gaiman, is this true about the publisher’s daughter?

[neil-gaiman]

It was my literary agent, Merrilee Heifetz who read it and said “you can’t seriously expect this to be published as a children’s book.” So I suggested she read it to her daughters. And she called me back a week later and said “They love it and they weren’t scared at all. I’ll take it to Harper Children’s.”

A decade later, at the Opening Night of the Coraline musical, I was sitting next to Morgan, Merilee’s youngest daughter, and told her how her not being scared had made the book happen. And she said “I was terrified. But I needed to find out what happened next. So nobody knew.”

So, yes.

[space-trash-princess]

This website can be toxic at times, but the fact that people can just tag Neil Gaiman to get his input, like a sorcerer invoking a benevolent spirit, is definitely a bright spot.

[khunfounded]

Khun, telling everyone his plan:

Ran:

[demjinvibes]

𝙁𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙧𝙡 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙚 [2/𝟳] 𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙤 𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙨: Life is Strange. ∟ " - My powers might not last, Chloe. - That's okay, we will. Forever."

[twelvemonkeyswere]

man Mob Psycho 100 really looked at "extraordinary/superhero teen" narratives and said "it's fucked up we expect a child to solve these fucking problems, what the fuck, they should be focusing on growing and developing their interests and making friends, not dealing with this bullshit" and it literally, textually, had the most prominent parental/nurturing figure tell Mob he would take care of the problem, even though he had no superpowers, and it literally, textually acknowledged that Mob HAD THE RIGHT to run away and wash his hands off the problem because it wasn't NONE OF HIS RESPONSABILITY to fix adult bullshit, and not only that, but it also gave Mob many many narrative foils, children who had been caught up on feeling the obligation to be "extraordinary superhero teens," because how else could they be special?, and said these children need to realize it's okay to fail, and they need healing, and then GAVE IT TO THEM. and it's Mob's own shortcomings and his impulse to better himself what inspires others to grow. like talk about a breath of fresh air. I love that story so much.

[with-words11]

Two cultivators standing 5 feet apart having a heated discussion about the consequences of practising the demonic cultivation cause they are not gay.

*Wei Ying, return to Gusu with me*