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hello! im jam. they/them. draws whatever. ttrpg + some fandom. once known as the captain of the lilanette ship since 2017/2018. CAARD LINKS

[drawingden]

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[choxlbun]

The girlfriends EVER!!! 🍷🍀

art fight revenge at @hustlebonezzz !

[godbirdart]

stop trying to make every single drawing a magnum opus. you cannot unleash your art ult until you charge it up with a bunch of shitty little doodles first.

[lemonjamdraws]

so many disaster lesbians in this manga

[lemonjamdraws]

showed my sis da first ep of watayuri... cant wait for Dark Horse kanoko to show up

[powernappin]

artfight post #3!!! all these fantastic characters belong to the following::

revenge on @lemonjamdraws | lemonjamdraws on AF

attack on UnicornPug

attack on @flowerofthewave | azzybunbun on AF

attack on ShadNoise

revenge on @thebestflyingferret | Spore_Print_Sketches on AF

[lemonjamdraws]

OMG yesss you did such a fantastic job, these are all so good and expressive too!!! AMAZING

[crafblr]

btw I’ve found these stretches from the WAK blog very helpful when knitting a lot:

Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!

especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it’s really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)

[gingersnappish]

Also good for artists drawing with pencils/on a tablet/with a pen!

[not-poignant]

Also good for writers

[sageiswherethemageis]

And crocheters (that word looks wrong)

[eyesinthecrypt]

Say hookers coward

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge! More hands!

[lemonjamdraws]

continuing my BITD assault on artfight!!!

Stazia belongs to gail_of_wind Syra & her ghostie belong to me! 万难 (Wan Nan) belongs to @0w0whatisthis Mardella belongs to @katrobinart Poundcake belongs to Lumio_rose Constance belongs to FellowPigeon

[hagiomoto]

My more controversial Opinion that I think a lot of you would hate is that I think we should stop taking writing advices from screenwriters.

[hagiomoto]

Because today’s writers are learning to write from visual media instead of actually reading, and I think that’s a problem (too). Unless you want to write for TV or movies, we should listen to novelists and short fiction writers instead.

[talistheintrovert]

Apologies for hijacking your post, but as somebody who did a joint honours degree in both creative & professional writing, AND screenwriting, I could not agree more.

Th Creative Writing part of my degree covered genres, styles, poetry, professional writing, articles, fiction, non-fiction, short stories, novel-writing and even some level of scripting. We also did a lot of analysis and even had an entire lecture (including workshops) on how to give and receive constructive feedback.

The Screenwriting half of my degree did none of that. We watched movies and shows and we learned how to structure scripts and how writer's rooms worked, which is all useful, but in hindsight I truly wish I could have just done all of that in a six month semester long unit in Creative Writing because that's about the amount of information that was disseminated by the screenwriting course over the 3 years.

And those people in the Screenwriting half who were NOT doing Creative Writing (doing film or drama etc.) were notably less advanced in their skills by the final year. That's not to say they were BAD writers (although some of them were, that's true of all Writing degrees, sometimes people refuse to be taught because they think they know everything already despite being at a place to learn) but they were less adept at giving feedback on other people's writing beyond "i didn't like it" or "it was clunky" without being able to verbalise why and how it was clunky. They were less able to paint a picture of the world they were creating or fine-tune character specific dialogue, which is all stuff you expect to be able to do as a screenwriter. It's not just that we should stop listening to screenwriters it's that even screenwriters should be taking more writing advice from more diverse sources like poetry or novel writers. The books people DO recommend for screenwriting (like Save the Cat, which most good writers I know have beef with) should not be seen as the blueprint but as supplement advice you can take or leave - which is what was so useful about covering so many things in the Creative Writing half of my degree.

The most important phrase in my entire degree that came up in almost every Creative Writing lecture was "Form is never more than an extension of content" (Robert Creeley) which applies to literally everything and I am not joking. I have it TATTOOED. The form you choose (script, short story, poem, novel etc.) should reflect and inform the content (and vice versa) and if it doesn't you should probably try a new form and see what works best. That includes the form of advice you choose to seek out - if it's not designed for, say, the structure of a novel, how is it supposed to help you when you're 100k words deep into one? That's not to say cross-media advice can't be helpful (I literally said earlier than screenwriters should take more writing advice from more varied sources) but to keep in mind that even the best screenwriters in the world can't fix the problems you're having with your novel if those problems are novel-specific.

[hagiomoto]

Appreciate your insight! Yeah, this post came about because I was talking about this with my friends. They also mentioned that a lot of screenwriters transitioned into teaching creative writing, and that habits from their screenwriting days carried over to today's writers because their advice became so widespread*. The Save the Cat! series is one example of that.

*I don't have the data to backup their statements but lol

[lemonjamdraws]

big ole quad attack for artfight

Octavian belongs to @powernappin

Ashete belongs to @alignloadstar

Vesper & Nerine belong to my friends

[redstonedust]

a week into artfight i would like to give out the following reminders: it is okay if you thought you were going to participate but ended up not having time. it is fine if you started out enthused and then lost steam. you do not owe anyone revenges. you are not 'behind' and you are not letting anybody down. it is a silly little game for fun. do not forget this.

[luna-azzurra]

Real thing that changed how i write: I started asking "what does this character think is wrong with them" and separately "what is actually wrong with them." Those two things are almost never the same. She thinks she's too much. She's actually terrified of being too little. He thinks he's bad at commitment. He's actually just never met someone he trusted enough. The gap between their diagnosis of themselves and the real thing, that's your character arc right there. you don't have to explain it. just write both.

[creatingblackcharacters]

I'm gonna say this, and it's gonna spark a defensive reaction within some of you, but I need you to listen to me and let it sit for a moment before I explain further. It is not a personal stain against your morality.

From both my experience reading works by white writers, and my experience running this blog, I have come to the conclusion that many white writers are too used to relying on Whiteness being understood as the default experience of both your characters and your readers, and it makes you weaker writers with weaker technique overall.

[creatingblackcharacters]

One thought I find myself having often is "well, what do you do for your white characters?" I've grown to understand... Many of you don't 😅 you don't actually understand or apply character design techniques because it is Assumed™ that the reader understands- that the reader has the white gaze. It doesn't need to be Said that your character is white, and will do familiar white things. It is Assumed™ that white characters fall under the Magicking It Away rules automatically, while Black characters have to have reality applied to them first. You don't actually have to... Well, write.

The brilliant Toni Morrison explained this in an interview of hers (here's another; watch her doc!!!) that there's this assumption that one's readers are white. So when she would purposefully- and there's a difference!- write stories for the Black gaze, that certain things didn't have to be explained because we Understood, it would get frustrating for white readers. They felt left out, unappealed to, hurt.

And yet, that's standard fare- and everyone's not writing such specific stories like Toni! To be "fair", we did understand y'all. We had to. But those same techniques, both in writing and in media consumption, I believe are atrophied from white viewers ("I don't watch this because I don't relate!" Or projection of ones own identity into Black characters to be "relatable") because it's not Socially Required for you to apply them.

It's why I'm always telling y'all to study Black creations about Black people. Writing is a craft, and a craft has to be honed!! You have to practice!! I had a whole lesson on this and I feel like everyone glossed over it lmao. I promise it'll make your writing of EVERY character better overall. 🙏🏾

[eliotlime]

Pretty late promo but I'm kinda doing artfight again this year!

[lemonjamdraws]

we're on unlimited bladeworks in the fate journey

[lemonjamdraws]

my first attacks for artfight! orange and aqua are belated revenges for last year

Warden - DreamyMemey Strawberry - SjukSkessa Orange - Marvin_Void Aqua - @orc-online

[kyra45]

“Commission open? Dm me” - commission scam

“I have something important to tell you but can’t message u pls message me ” - accidentally reported you scam

“I love your story and want to illustrate it dm me at discord” - commissioner scam

“I saw your post looking for artists to draw (x) and would love to draw it it sounds like a lovely idea and im an artist” - commissioner scammer who DM’d you when you didn’t ask

“Did you send me this link for free tumblr premium?” - accidentally reported you scam

“ your account is limited please kindly verify at (scam link)” - verification scam

[geezmarty]

back at it again! :^) very excited to open single character portraits for this round! All info in the form:

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[geezmarty]

never done this before but you can now give me free reign on the pose if you'd like to see what I can cook on my own instead of needing to be specific :^) go wild

[lemonjamdraws]

OMG commission her, they did such good justice to my beautiful throuple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!