Dread of Night. Dread of Not-Night.

I'm a Swede who does stuff. Sometimes. He/Him or They/Them Svenska / 日本語ができる Art blog

[girlhorse]

my pet seaweed

[mrhealyourgirl]

I thought you threw a Playstation 2 controller into the sea

[blackjame]

[sarahtaylorgibson]

Writing a novel when you imagine all you stories in film format is hard because there’s really no written equivalent of “lens flare” or “slow motion montage backed by Gregorian choir”

[audacityinblack]

You can get the same effect of a lens flare with close-detail descriptions, combined with breaks to new paragraphs.

Your slow-motion montage backed by a Gregorian choir can be done with a few technques that all involve repetition.

First is epizeuxis, the repeating of a word for emphasis.

Example:

Falling. Falling. Falling. There was nothing to keep Marie from plunging into the rolling river below. She could only hope for a miracle now, that she would come out alive somehow despite a twenty-foot drop into five-foot-deep water.

Then there’s anaphora, where you write a number of phrases with the same words at the beginning.

There were still mages out there living in terror of shining steel armor emblazoned with the Sword of Mercy.

There were still mages out there being forced by desperation into the clutches of demons.

There were mages out there being threatened with Tranquility as punishment for their disobedience, and the threats were being made good upon.

Mages who had attempted to flee, but knew nothing of the outside world and were forced to return to their prison out of need for sustenance and shelter.

Mages who only desired to find the families they were torn from.

Mages who only wanted to see the sun.

This kind of repetition effectively slows the pace of your writing and puts the focus on that small scene. That’s where you get your slow pan. The same repetition also has a subtle musicality to it depending on the words you use. That’s where you get the same vibe as you might get from a Gregorian choir.

[sarahtaylorgibson]

Damn I made relatable reblog- bait post and writer Tumblr went hard with it. This is legitimately very good advice. 

[ariaste]

For more neat tricks (aka figures of rhetoric) like epizeuxis and anaphora, read THE ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE by Mark Forsyth. It’s both educational and delightful, not to mention overflowing with wry wit. Great book. 

[all-consuming-rot]

remember "save our salmons". remember when little buddy was revealed and everyone thought there'd be salmonid reparations in 3. remember how there was still potential for it since the head of business dedicated to propagandizing, displacing, invading, mass-exterminating, and stealing their fertile eggs was found out and banished into space

[all-consuming-rot]

don't get me wrong i love salmon run and it's always been my favorite game mode by far, and the salmonid culture is very intriguing and i enjoy observing their music and architecture and fashion and ways of life. i do wish it was being tackled differently, it's been long enough that a new angle would be nice. it doesn't feel good to be playing british museum simulator with their keepsakes, and crafting gear from dumped plastic garbage that ends up a burden on their shores. please tell me there's some kind of plot twist and the way social media posts about salmonids being nuisance pests is a ruse PLEASE let deepcut realize they're doing some fucked up shit

[all-consuming-rot]

on top of all that in-world stuff, the salmonids are very heavily inspired by irl indigenous cultures, the ainu and pnw groups most prominently. i may be missing some due to this being a brief rundown; the major points are salmon (and bears, worth mentioning for context. the salmon war intrisnic grizz.) being an essential resource through their histories, salmonid spiritualism leaning into the environment's resources and cycle of life and death, cooking being a central piece to their lives (including tools, weapons, decoration, fashion, afterlife) and an utmost sign of respect, and all the salmonid folk art that is just directly formline.

all brutally juxtaposed by that bullshit of constantly calling them nuisance creatures that Crawl Ashore and depicting them as gross and having stuff like that render of an inkling dragging a chum on a leash. utterly mind numbing and jaw dropping things happening within splatoon writer brains constantly

[rad-roche]

time for my annual summer skeleton

a terrifying visage... thank god i lost all my bones in that accident

[soup-mother]

Sober as fuck at the back of the club going onto Wikipedia and typing "List of birds"

[pepperandpals]

Queso doing some sleepy, happy woos. Some backup from the other birds because everybody gotta be the center of attention always.

[kaijuyuri]

i like how all cats regardless of species can either look rlly badass and cool or just incredibly silly stupid

[kaijuyuri]

my proof

[furiouslysleeping]

Me: I just finished an exchange semester in Sweden, it was great!

They: Cool! Did you learn any Swedish?

Me:

[kushblazer666]

[bynine]

more starter babies

[jabberwick]

your art is so beautiful it makes me so. GAGHRHJ........ please jabberwick,, could you bless us with some lineart tips 🙏🙏

Hey anon! TY for the kind words!

I am often shunned for my line art methods, but here's a guide I whipped up about my own process!

My Bluesky

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[depsidase]

[godlessondheimite]

whenever i see someone lambast a piece of media for portraying a character getting away with bad behavior instead of getting narratively punished, i have to laugh because that’s literally the hays code. it’s not hays-code-esque or hays-code-coded, it’s just straight up the hays code.

[desolationlesbian]

I don't want to buy mass-produced garbage from a big box store so I go to etsy but half of etsy is now dropshipped mass-produced garbage or AI slop so I go to the local arts and crafts street market but a ton of those booths are also selling the same generic plastic objects or identical stickers or 3D printed dragons so WHERE do I buy real trinkets and art from sincere freaks

[phinarei]

Mayhem Marketplace.

Like Etsy used to be except artists keep their money and the site is run off of a yearly fee for hosting stuff and some non invasive ads. There's other stuff, but the point is that the artists don't have to share a percentage on what they sell with the site.

It's part of a larger project called Mayhem Hub whose goal is to create a system that doesn't rely on corporations or the government to provide financial stability for artists. There are other aspects to the project, but the marketplace is the relevant part for this.

[csny]

[thesituation]

[clara-scintilla]

Magpies from the opposite sides of the world

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