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aucelo

Bernard Vié. Chat descendant l’escalier, 2009. Bronze patiné. 61 x 36 x 13 cm

transxfiles

me: *writes fic*

me: great! time to post to ao3-

ao3 summary box: *exists*

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rooksandravens

rjeddystone

Ooh, this is actually kinda a neat thing, because you can think of it as a checklist:

Who: Main character(s)

Why: Character goal or desire (stated)

Why: Character need (implied)

When: Inciting Incident

What: Means (that achieves the goal/need)

Where: Place A >> Place B

How: The Plan

Obstacle(s): antagonist or challenge

For example:

Who: Bilbo Baggins, a respectable hobbit of Hobbiton

Why: Treasure, wealth (stated)

Why: Adventure, self-respect (implied)

When: After supper

What: Quest

Where: Hobbiton >> The Lonely Mountain

How: A company of dwarves, a wizard, and an ancient map and key

Main antagonist(s): a dragon

Thus, in less than 100 words:

Bilbo Baggins is a respectable hobbit in Hobbiton, never making any trouble or having any adventures. But when a wizard and a company of dwarves invite themselves to dinner, Bilbo finds himself joining their quest from the shires of Hobbiton to the legendary Lonely Mountain, the home of a long lost treasure, and quite, possibly, a dragon.

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The Anatomy of Story by John Truby is a really good book by the by, if anyone’s interested in this sort of thing.

roguecompanion1812

This is super helpful!’

depsidase

do-not-u-dare

Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate

thatswhywelovegermany

Bemerke, wie die Tiere das Gras abrupfen. So groß ihre Mäuler auch sein mögen, sie tun der Pflanze selbst nie etwas zuleide, entwurzeln sie niemals. So handle auch der starke Mensch gegen alles, was Natur heißt, sein eigenes Geschlecht voran. Er verstehe die Kunst: vom Leben zu nehmen, ohne ihm zu schaden.

Notice how the animals graze on the grass. No matter how large their mouths may be, they never harm the plant itself; they never uproot it. So too should the strong man act toward all of nature, his own race foremost among them. He should master the art of taking from life without harming it.

Christian Morgenstern (1871 – 1914), German poet, writer, and translator

thatswhywelovegermany

Das kluge Kind: Kannst du einen Stern anrühren? fragt man es. Ja, sagt es, neigt sich und berührt die Erde.

The wise child: Can you touch a star? they ask it. Yes, it says, leaning over and touching the earth.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874 – 1929), Austrian writer, dramatist, lyricist, and librettist

inspired-lesson-plan-drafts

When I finally do my post about stars and celestial bodies, I will reference this quote

cuunos

jellyfish lifecycles piss me off a little bit

cuunos

you don't have to do that. you can just not do that

eddieintheocean

:D they can do more :D (x)

thetursithan

Here is a happy child....

ollieofthebeholder

[Video ID: A woman supporting a small baby sitting on a counter. The woman begins to scrub grime off a stove top with a paper towel. The baby begins laughing with unrestrained delight. The woman attempts to keep cleaning, but the baby laughs every time she does. The woman begins to laugh too, and eventually both of them are laughing too hard to do anything else. /end ID]

melancholytimes

urgetocreate

Jia Li (Chinese, b.1964), Summer Light, 2015, Watercolor on paper

thesituation

“your rent should be a third of your income” well wouldn’t that be nice. wouldn’t it. lower the rent pussy

moniquill

Casual observation from someone old enough to remember: in the year 2000 financial advice was that rent should be no more than 1/4 of your income.

vergess

Until the mid 80s, the advice was that if you must rent instead of owning, then that 20% of your monthly income (oh yes, only 20%) should include all your utilities too.

After all, rent costs more than a mortgage, so it should offer more too.

The housing market is a fucking travesty.

homoqueerjewhobbit

Hmm what happened in the mid eighties....

commodorecliche

depsidase

necronatural

Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

tuttle-did-it

draw more fabulous fat people.

hometoursandotherstuff

Z from the 1998 animated film Antz.

gamechangershow

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