Lelourai

I try to post regularly but man this art thing is difficult.

[ryanthel0ser]

oh mein gott someone get a blanket for this baby, he's only 2 apples tall

there we go

sleep well little hero

[psumnt-studentcouncil]

Reading The Murderbot Diaries and The Apothecary Diaries back to back was... an experience.

[likepetalswealleventuallyfall]

im laughing so hard because no matter what song you listen to 

spiderman dances to the beat

no matter what song ive been testing it and lauing my ass off for an hour

[creepymutelilbugger]

hey guys do you want to circulate the heirloom dancing spiderman again i feel like we could stand to do that

[crokitheloki]

everyone say thank you ao3 volunteers you're the best ao3 volunteers ily ao3 volunteers

[raisedbylibrarians]

[lelourai]

[uwingdispatch]

Scrunchies! I love working with patterns and iconography so I am always so excited to do new scrunchie designs! I've got almost all of my designs here (I have a bunch of droid scrunchies not pictured) and I hope you find some that you like! These are all currently in stock and my Valentine sale is on so come get up to 25% off the whole shop! So come grab your faves! Shop is here.

tap below for more

Shop is here. Love y'all!

[lelourai]

Temps have been stable, but I'm starting to get sick of the baby blue.

[lelourai]

Aaand that's january done! It's been a lot warmer than I would have hoped but winter is not over yet.

[lelourai]

It's been a bit colder this week (thank god) so there's more blue now. I'm exited for the snow in a few days!

[lelourai]

I am starting a temperature blanket this year, and I figured that would be a good excuse to start posting here again.

I will be doing the daily high and low temperatures according to my weather app of choice, which uses celcius. Low temperatures around -10°C are blue and go through the entire rainbow until they reach red at around 30°C.

[yourlocalnautilus]

the fact that generative A.I. has created a completely new fundamental doubt in reality (checking to see if an artwork we see is manmade or not) and doubt in the instinct of enjoying art is unforgivable. its sickeningly tragic, and i mean it. NOTHING is worth this price and i hope that everyone will one day realize this.

[not-freyja]

Linked Universe now has its own canonized fandom tag!

This is absolutely amazing, because it makes it easier for us to find each other’s work, and easier for non-LU people to filter by exclude. But there is a small hiccup, a baby little problem. Allow me to explain.

Previously, the advice was given that since there was no canon fandom tag, that works should *also* be tagged with Linked Universe as an additional tag. This tag has over 8k works in it! Damn!

But… the new canonical fandom tag only has 4k works in it. Why? Because about half of the fandom was not using the fandom tag, only the additional tag.

I knew this day was coming, so I tagged LU as the fandom, which paid off! All my fics are now neatly sorted. But if you didn’t preemptively tag a non-canonized fandom… your fics are now a bit lost and unsorted.

This is your notice to go open those works up and fix the tags!

Okay everyone this has been your tag wrangler PSA and GO US!

[chronicdelusionistsart]

Love OTNWAS and I'm poking around the tag and I think that the formula it popularized of "Jack Frost goes back in time to the Viking Era" is great and makes a lot of sense. But I have the feeling that the reason no one ever does it the other way around (Viking Hiccup has to deal with 199X USA) is NOT because of the logistics of hiding a dragon, which is a genre that has precedent.

It's because no one wants to commit to the exploration of what Hiccup "turned your back and he invented another field of Viking Science" Horrendous Haddock III would do with a high school science textbook.

[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]

!!!!!!!

[abysslordartorias]

I ran out of tags…help…

[nebulations]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist, Martin Blackwood & Sasha James & Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist & Tim Stoker

Characters: Martin Blackwood, Jonathan “Jon” Sims | The Archivist, Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives), Sasha James, elias is present for one scene

Additional Tags: The Magnus Archives Season 1, Time Travel Fix-It, which is not actually time travel, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Minor Sasha James/Tim Stoker, sasha IS aro and tim IS hopelessly into her. they’re besties :), sleep deprivation probably counts as its own character here the boys go THROUGH it in this one

The year is 2016, and Jon and Martin are having some very strange dreams.

[gardezamour]

but what about a merlin au where merlin spends centuries waiting for kings to complete an impossible task (to retrieve excalibur and then win against him in battle) for the prize of his magic.

but no one can. they can’t even come close. and then, one day, a desensitized merlin is faced with another boring duel just to get completely and utterly flabbergasted because this guy is crying and smiling. and excalibur is stabbed into the ground like it’s nothing.

and it takes merlin longer than it should to realize that it’s arthur.

and the whole message is chose love not war. lol.

(yes i’m still obsessed with epic)

[lelourai]

What I was supposed to be doing during easter break: study for finals

What I did do: crochet a doily

[lelourai]

I have croched anorher doily.

first final is tomorrow

[lelourai]

Finals are almost done.

My flat has never been this clean.