MOCAPS

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[my-world-mocaps]

hello! my name is memory, and this is my world Mocaps!

mocaps is my fantasy world im working on and have been working on for a few years now, and its where all my stories are going to take place in. i focus a lot on worldbuilding, so thats probably going to be most of this, but ill also post story snippets or things about my characters every now and then once i get a steady pace on here.

so if you’re interested in seeing my worldbuilding or my stories, or if youre just here to see reblogs of helpful things for writers, id be glad to have you stick around!

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im planning on making a drawing series where i redesign characters to fit mocaps better,

which should i redesign first?

percy jackson/heroes of olympus

hazbin hotel/helluva boss

project hail mary/iron lung

malevolent

(rise) of the tmnt

the owl house

hatchetfield

marvel

the hobbit/lord of the rings

searching for a world that doesnt exist

sans aus

scp foundation

Voting ended onJun 29

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chat is it too late to taek back pjo/hoo that ones gonna take the most work

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MALEVOLENT IT IS

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alright man.

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/87582966

i posted this on ao3 if anyone wants to read the full thing

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alright man.

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im planning on making a drawing series where i redesign characters to fit mocaps better,

which should i redesign first?

percy jackson/heroes of olympus

hazbin hotel/helluva boss

project hail mary/iron lung

malevolent

(rise) of the tmnt

the owl house

hatchetfield

marvel

the hobbit/lord of the rings

searching for a world that doesnt exist

sans aus

scp foundation

Voting ended onJun 29

[my-world-mocaps]

chat is it too late to taek back pjo/hoo that ones gonna take the most work

[my-world-mocaps]

im planning on making a drawing series where i redesign characters to fit mocaps better,

which should i redesign first?

percy jackson/heroes of olympus

hazbin hotel/helluva boss

project hail mary/iron lung

malevolent

(rise) of the tmnt

the owl house

hatchetfield

marvel

the hobbit/lord of the rings

searching for a world that doesnt exist

sans aus

scp foundation

Voting ended onJun 29

[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.

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worldbuilding is great until you fall down a rabbit hole and realize tetonic plates straight up dont exist in your world

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Art Fight

An art gifting game

boo

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i was thinking about my world and linba, and how some of the countries are, and a thought that went through my mind was 'oh i want this to be realistic, i cant make every city good and care about their people' and then i paused because what the fuck

a city or country that cares about their people seems too unrealistic for it to be universal

why the fuck do shitty things have to exist in fantasy stories so they can seem more realistic? i want my stories to be somewhat realistic, where you can look at them and think 'yeah if this magic system was real i can see this happening' why do i need to make countries and cities and people fucking shitty so that actually holds? why do i need to keep racism and ableism and homophobia and transphobia in a story so that people can look at this and think 'yea i can see this happening irl' or 'yeah i can relate to this' why do i have to monitor the amount of places i have that actually take care of their citizens so i dont make too many of them in case its 'unrealistic'

why do i have to make the world and people in the world so shitty just so the audience can actually see themselves and the world around them in a fucking fantasy series

i want my fantasy series to be realistic. i want people to be able to relate themselves and their situations to characters in this world. i want people to see this series and think that, without the magic or fantastical elements, that yeah this seems like real life why the fuck does that have to involve people just being shitty people. not even villains! but people on the side of the street, giving someone a side eye due to a mobility aid or the color of their skin, people being denied from places just because theyre dating someone the same gender as them, why, to make a realistic fantasy series, do you need discrimination and fucking bigotry to actually make it seem fucking realistic

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started posting Footsteps Left Behind on ao3, still not really the most sure on how exactly to tag something like this-

https://archiveofourown.org/works/86326111/chapters/228358556#workskin

[ludwigdanner]

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colors are awesome. i love colors, i love them so much

and i love how much meaning they have, literally almost every single shade of every color has their own meaning, do you realize how much i can do with that??? i could group people together with the same base color, but then oh my god i can make them so different with different shades that have wildly different meanings even though the colors look nearly identical (look at: blood red and maroon)

i love colors. i love symbolism. this is beautiful

[chewing-on-lead]

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.| FIRST |. .| PREVIOUS |. .| NEXT |.

transcript page 1:

panel 2,moss- 'so-'

panel 6,moss- 'you're packing without me??'

panel 8,corey- 'you cannot be saying that when i know for a fact you already packed.'

panel 9,moss- 'good point.'

panel 10,moss- 'anyway!'

transcript page 2:

panel 1,moss- 'ready to get out of here?'

panel 2,corey- 'ive been ready.'

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step 1 of how to get people interested in your stories: make crossovers with pre existing media!

step 2 of how to get people interested in your stories:

which fandom do you want an infodump of

jarthur being soulmates

percy being the child of my oc

Voting ended onApr 4

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i completely forgot about this good god

ILL GET THIS DONE SOON DONT WORRY YALL

[what-even-is-thiss]

You should probably focus on what you’re most interested in and know the most about when worldbuilding. That being said, there’s some things that you may want to address anyways because people will have questions.

Like the question of language. I personally have no interest in making a conlang. That’s a lot of work and I’m not insane in the same way that Tolkien was insane. No, my insanity is much different.

People will want to know a thing or two about the language though. There’s elves, after all. Surely they must speak elvish.

Now here’s the thing. The humans in my setting are speaking real world languages, albeit usually dead ones. Ancient Coptic, Ancient Greek, classical Latin, proto-Celtic, those sorts of things.

Does the audience speak these languages? Usually no. So do these dead languages fulfill the need for fantasy readers to have a bit of language fuckery going on? I’d argue yes.

The question remains though. What language are the elves speaking? Can the elves just speak English? Can I give them Medieval English names? Can I get away with naming a fantasy elf something like Tiffany?