a nocturnal's trashdom

Hello, fellow human. Please be weary of spoilers because I am not a spoiler free person.

[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]

!!!!!!!

[gachapains]

My silent review of Love & Deepspace

The boys:

The hyper realistic cutscenes and actual game play:

The Voice dramas with certain 4 and 5 stars:

The interactive mechanics:

Being able to touch Zayne's butt when you annoy him too much:

[shinsouisprecious]

[fixyourwritinghabits]

I cannot stress this enough, write it poorly. Write the shittiest draft you possibly can, stick 'ah fuck something happens here and now they're fighting' to get over

Write the worst fucking version you possibly can and stick it in a folder and forget it for a month or two before you look at it again. You know what you have now?

A first draft. And with enough time to think some new thoughts about it, you'll soon end up with a better, second draft! And eventually, you'll end up with something you'd be perfectly okay with letting other people read!

You'll never believe this process works no matter how many times you do it, but it totally does. You just have to drag your brain kicking and screaming to that blank page and get the bones down first.

Write the shit out of that shit.

[hajidumps]

Cale shouting in the middle of the battlefield: Loser says what!

White Star: what!??!

Cale: *fucking laughing his ass off*

people who are watching:

Choi Han: i didn't *wheeze* know that could work

Alberu: *coughing so he can't show he laughed*

Ron: hoh our young master does know how to act like a child still

Beacrox: *grunting to hide his snickers*

Eruhaben: hoh that unlucky bastard

[vergeofpanic]

Ok, but it’s basically canon in Trash Of The Count’s Family that by the second time a character travels with Cale they are willing to murder anyone for him for absolutely any reason. This includes any children that come into contact with him as well.

Like, I’m pretty sure everyone who’s read the manhwa and novel remembers a time where each character is just horrified by the number of death threats sent to enemies for insulting or hurting Cale, or just them threatening Cale when he doesn’t take care of himself, only for that person to end up doing the same thing the next time they meet up with him.

  Remember back when Roselyn seemed to be calm and sane? Yeah nah, she was ready to fight the God Of Death and win after hearing that Cale was supposed to died. Everytime she hears Cale say something even remotely negative about himself they literally describe the air in the room becoming cold and vicious just as they start talking about Roselyn’s reaction. It always seems to be before her reaction is actually described as well. She gives me such big sister vibes when it comes to Cale though. I love her.

Remember when Mary just wanted to go with Cale and his group to see what the world was like outside the City of Death? Yeah, well now she is probably trying to figure out how to control people who are alive with their bones after they tried to Cale mess with him. She may be the closest to Raon and Choi Han out of everyone, but damn, it’s amazing seeing how she just goes from a quiet person into creating bone swords and using dark mana to destroy anyone who poses a threat to Cale.

Remember Eruhaben, when he just wanted to kick Cale and his gang out of his lair so he could train Raon and help him become more dragon-like? Welp, guess who Eruhaben declared as his kid in the middle of a fight with fucking White Star himself when Cale was in danger. Guess who is trying to convince Cale to learn at least a small amount of self-defence…

“Oh, well Alberu seems to hate Cale in the manhwa, so there’s no way that Alberu is insanely protective of Cale like everyone else seems to be, right?”

 NOPE, guess who decided to start showing up to places Cale’s at, in his true form, just to mess with Cale and call him little brother/dongsaeng in front of his friends and allies. He literally goes out to dangerous areas and battlefields to do it. 

Guess who decided to make Cale his sworn brother so that he wouldn’t have to worry about the kingdom’s nobles trying to slander him.

Guess who the first person to actually realise that Cale wasn’t joking about being a slacker was? YEP, it was Alberu, but it was very close to the time where Choi Han realised it properly as well. 

He also seems like he may be doing the best job out of everyone at reminding Cale to look after himself. Every. Time. He. Ends. A. Call. With. Cale. He. Tells. Him. To. Look. After. Himself. 

The only thing that is different when it comes to Alberu is that people are trying to threaten him as well because they are worried that Cale is to dense and innocent to see that Alberu may be trying to use him (Just look at how Basen and the nobles felt when it was announced that the two of them became sworn brothers. Calling Cale innocent. It made me giggle + when Deruth and Violan where willing to disobey Alberu’s direct orders if they found any evidence of Cale being forced to go to the Whipper Kingdom). The funniest thing is that while Alberu does use Cale for his own benefit, especially in their first few interactions, Alberu is also being used by Cale and is completely aware of it. He just lets his cute dongsaeng run rampant because he knows that he will do as he asked and exceed his expectations every time. They both care for each other and it’s just hilarious to see others misinterpret it.

I think Raon and Choi Han may be the only ones who are actually able to understand the relationship between the two of them, though Raon often has difficulty trying to figure out what’s going on, even if he is great and mighty 

You remember when Choi Han was thinking of ways to kill Cale in case he was trying to trick him during their initial meeting? welp, within a few weeks of knowing each other, especially after the carriage Cale was in was targeted by bandits, we are just able to see how ruthless Choi Han became when it came to Cale’s safety, even being a bit worried about how Cale would feel about “the first real threat against his life”. Plus it was absolutely adorable seeing the way that Choi Han would seek out Cale whenever anything happened, no matter if it was something small like something confusing him, or when Lock went berserk for the first time. The guy was prepared to commit mass genocide against anyone Cale asked by the time that the attack on plaza happened. That’s not even mentioning that Choi Han will throw down with anyone who even seems remotely like a threat towards Cale, such as Toonka and Clopeh. Plus with the way that Choi Han witnessed what Kim Rok Soo was like with Choi Jung Soo, oh boy, enemies better start running…

Then you have Cale himself, who will do whatever it takes to at least hit an enemy once as a way to get revenge for his children. Doesn’t matter what that person did to the kids, they upset them so now Cale has to destroy everything that person loves. He also at least tries to help his people, which I just find hilarious.

what have we learned today? Cale brings out the best in people :)

is it in anyway important, hell no, but it’s pretty funny

[megleepoetry]

[bulbasaur-propaganda]

Growing up with your starters

Artist:  esasi8794 / Twitter

[chabbit]

The captions are also really cute, although they mostly describe what’s in each photo:

Bulbasaur: Somehow, nomming on my clothes… has become a weird habit of theirs.

Venusaur: That hasn’t changed now that they’ve grown, but they’re very gentle.

Charmander: It’s my first attempt, but I made a plushie so that he wouldn’t get lonely.

Charizard: That plushie seems to be his favorite even now.

Squirtle: Squirtle’s a bit timid and hides behind me at the smallest things.

Blastoise: Looks like they’re scared of the first Pichu they’ve seen. You’re not really hiding!

[notsomerryerry]

@noelle217

[gale-gentlepenguin]

This is adorable

[arrghigiveup]

They just posted some more!

[source]

[kradeiz]

And some more!

[eeveelution-appreciation]

You forgot these!!!

[cubonepropoganda]

I’m disappointed that these were left out

[a-redharlequin]

SO MANY GOOD ONES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[godofhyperrainbows]

If I ever don’t reblog this, kill me

[wordsnstuff]

I struggle with... Sitting down and staying focused. Some days I write for hours, but most days, I write 3 lines and can't seem to get more in for no reason apparent

This one is a tricky issue to solve, because in all honesty, no matter how many articles you read or motivational quotes you scroll through, you will never actually be productive unless you make yourself, and that’s the sad truth of writing. I do have some resources that may help you with this, though. 

I’m not sure where your sporadic writer’s block is coming from, but if you’re having a case of falling out of love with writing temporarily, here are some things for you:

Tips and Advice For Aspiring Writers, Authors, and Poets

How To Fall In Love With Writing

Why “Burnout” Is Okay - The Creativity Cycle

If you simply need some tips on staying motivated consistently, or at least staying productive and holding yourself accountable, here are some things that will help:

Beginning A Story And Sticking With It

How To Motivate Yourself To Write

Writing Through Mental Health Struggles

How To Actually Get Writing Done

Writing On A Schedule

Healthy Forms Of Motivation

How To Have A Productive Mindset

If you need some warm up inspiration, I usually find following a prompt when I’m stuck very helpful. Writing a hundred words on some prompt usually gets me into the zone with low pressure compared to actually getting my writing done.

Here are all of my one-off, daily prompts

~ Daily Writing Prompts

Here is my masterpost of prompt lists that may suit your fancy or help you get into the writing mood you need for a scene.

~ Prompt Lists Masterlist

Some playlists based on scene types for every scene mood:

Things To Listen To When You’re Working 

Writing Playlist // Spotify

Wordsnstuff’s Writing Playlist

Romantic Scenes

Resolution Scenes

Calm Scenes

Climax Scenes

Fun Montage Scenes

Angst Scenes

Fight Scenes

Epic Scenes

Chase Scenes

Sad Scenes

Here are some asks I’ve previously answered that are similar to yours:

Apps That Help You Focus

Falling Out Of Love With A Story You Want To Finish

How I Recommend Building Your Own Writing Playlists

Hope this helps. Happy writing!

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[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Writing advice #?: Have your characters wash the dishes while they talk.

This is one of my favorite tricks, picked up from E.M. Forester and filtered through my own domestic-homebody lens.  Forester says that you should never ever tell us how a character feels; instead, show us what those emotions are doing to a character’s posture and tone and expression.  This makes “I felt sadness” into “my shoulders hunched and I sighed heavily, staring at the ground as my eyes filled with tears.”  Those emotions-as-motions are called objective correlatives.  Honestly, fic writers have gotten the memo on objective correlatives, but sometimes struggle with how to use them.

Objective correlatives can quickly become a) repetitive or b) melodramatic.  On the repetitive end, long scenes of dialogue can quickly turn into “he sighed” and “she nodded” so many times that he starts to feel like a window fan and she like a bobblehead.  On the melodramatic end, a debate about where to eat dinner can start to feel like an episode of Jerry Springer because “he shrieked” while “she clenched her fists” and they both “ground their teeth.”  If you leave the objective correlatives out entirely, then you have what’s known as “floating” dialogue — we get the words themselves but no idea how they’re being said, and feel completely disconnected from the scene.  If you try to get meaning across by telling us the characters’ thoughts instead, this quickly drifts into purple prose.

Instead, have them wash the dishes while they talk.

To be clear: it doesn’t have to be dishes.  They could be folding laundry or sweeping the floor or cooking a meal or making a bed or changing a lightbulb.  The point is to engage your characters in some meaningless, everyday household task that does not directly relate to the subject of the conversation.

This trick gives you a whole wealth of objective correlatives.  If your character is angry, then the way they scrub a bowl will be very different from how they’ll be scrubbing while happy.  If your character is taking a moment to think, then they might splash suds around for a few seconds.  A character who is not that invested in the conversation will be looking at the sink not paying much attention.  A character moderately invested will be looking at the speaker while continuing to scrub a pot.  If the character is suddenly very invested in the conversation, you can convey this by having them set the pot down entirely and give their full attention to the speaker.

A demonstration:

1

“I’m leaving,” Anastasia said.

“What?”  Drizella continued dropping forks into the dishwasher.

2

“I’m leaving,” Anastasia said.

Drizella paused midway through slotting a fork into the dishwasher.  “What?”

3

“I’m leaving,” Anastasia said.

Drizella laughed, not looking up from where she was arranging forks in the dishwasher.  “What?”

4

“I’m leaving,” Anastasia said.

The forks slipped out of Drizella’s hand and clattered onto the floor of the dishwasher.  “What?”

5

“I’m leaving,” Anastasia said.

“What?”  Drizella shoved several forks into the dishwasher with unnecessary force, not seeming to notice when several bounced back out of the silverware rack.

See how cheaply and easily we can get across Drizella’s five different emotions about Anastasia leaving, all by telling the reader how she’s doing the dishes?  And all the while no heads were nodded, no teeth were clenched.

The reason I recommend having it be one of these boring domestic chores instead of, say, scaling a building or picking a lock, is that chores add a sense of realism and are low-stakes enough not to be distracting.  If you add a concurrent task that’s high-stakes, then potentially your readers are going to be so focused on the question of whether your characters will pick the lock in time that they don’t catch the dialogue.  But no one’s going to be on the edge of their seat wondering whether Drizella’s going to have enough clean forks for tomorrow.

And chores are a cheap-n-easy way to add a lot of realism to your story.  So much of the appeal of contemporary superhero stories comes from Spider-Man having to wash his costume in a Queens laundromat or Green Arrow cheating at darts, because those details are fun and interesting and make a story feel “real.”  Actually ask the question of what dishes or clothing or furniture your character owns and how often that stuff gets washed.  That’s how you avoid reality-breaking continuity errors like stating in Chapter 3 that all of your character’s worldly possessions fit in a single backpack and in Chapter 7 having your character find a pair of pants he forgot he owns.  You don’t have to tell the reader what dishes your character owns (please don’t; it’s already bad enough when Tolkien does it) but you should ideally know for yourself.

Anyway: objective correlatives are your friends.  They get emotion across, but for low-energy scenes can become repetitive and for high-energy scenes can become melodramatic.  The solution is to give your characters something relatively mundane to do while the conversation is going on, and domestic chores are not a bad starting place.

[k-dokja]

hugo pennywort, i have feelings for you, i really need to stop writing headcanons before i even finished the game.

— Hugo pretty much has no sense of personal space when it comes to you. He stands freely in your space, and never minds when you invade his. Touches are casual and meaningful at the same time between you and him. They are the proof of your connection, but also the source of comfort. Which is rarer than people think in this world.

— Not that there is much space even back when the two of you were growing up. Having his hands bound together doesn’t give him much of a chance to initate contacts while you were in prison together, not that there is any privacy for him to do it anyway under the guard’s watchful eyes.

— He likes giving you hugs, and knows he gives pretty dang good ones too. Does it more frequently now that he has the chance to do it. Although, it does take him a while to work up to that level. Mostly because the two of you are used to bumping your gauntlet, making do with what you had. Now, suddenly, a realm of possibility open up in front of him. He wants to seize the opportunity, but doesn’t want to misstep.

— It breaks his heart that he couldn’t hug the little ones in your cell when they suffer with their oracle cells. Hugo bottles up much of his frustration and channels it into his drive for better days. There are times when the shadows of your fallen comrades haunt him, making his nights as wakeful as his days. He always stays close to you in those moment, finding solace in your company, knowing that you won’t leave his side.

— In reality, he knows the possibility of either of you losing one another is very real. He knows you are strong enough to forge on without him, but he worries about a future without you. You are one of his last lifeline, his beacon of light in this dying world, without you, he’d be unmoored. Because of that, he cannot afford to think of a life without you.

Keep reading

[saphiecelladon]

So how's everyone else's writing going...? Mine's going GREAT

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[nelc]

[nonlinear-nonsubjective]

I hope you don’t mind, but I slowed the gif down because that is a FANTASTIC move.

[night-claw]

The sword clearly cuts his wrist and waist. I mean he took the guys sword away, sure, but also fucked up his own ability to fight at the same time. It’d be one thing if he was wearing armor, but this is like a dueling thing.

[armthearmour]

I think you give too much credence to a Sword’s ability to cut. This is from the manual I practice, “Il Fior di Battaglia,” “The Flower of Battle,” by Fiore dei Liberi. I have performed this maneuver, and I’ve gotta say, when done right, it feels good.

Point being, if you do it right, when you pivot around your guard and bring the pommel around the blade, your wrist does come into contact with the edge, but there is no sliding motion, and it’s that sliding motion that causes a blade to slice. You pivot, pull against the blade, and it goes flying as your wrist pulls away from the edge.

I’ve never made a blade go flying so far as the guys in this video, but even if I did, the blade doesn’t have the right kind of leverage and power behind it to cut into his waist there. It would strike him, and he might feel it, but I doubt it would even scratch his clothes.

[bluenightfyre]

I wrote one of my characters doing a similar move to disarm someone in a couple seconds, now I finally have a concrete picture of exactly how

[raevenlywrites]

[wordsnstuff]

Superpower Alternate Universe Prompts

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Everybody in the world has a superpower that compliments their soulmates superpower. When together, both their powers increase in strength exponentially. You have the most useless power ever, when one day… (x)

Superpowers are extremely common. Your job is to advise how to use bad ones effectively. (x)

At 18, everyone receive a superpower. Your childhood friend got a power-absorption, your best friends got time control, and they quickly rise into top 100 most powerful superheroes. You got a mediocre superpower, but somehow got into the top 10. Today they visit you asking how you did it. (x)

You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughing stock, that is until you start using your power for evil… no one is laughing now. (x)

At birth, everyone is given a random superpower. You are accidentally given four. (x)

You are one of thousands who received superpowers, you are the strongest out of all, to entertain yourself you have played the villain and let the less powerful keep you at bay. When real evil comes, you must work together and must convince the others you have been messing around the whole time. (x)

Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space. (x)

Write a story about a person with a superpower that has a consequence/limitation more interesting than said power. (x)

Everyone on earth has a super power. Rarely someone will have two powers. One in a billion will have three. You have thousands of powers and don’t really want to call attention to yourself but crap keeps happening around you. (x)

In a world where everyone has a superpower, you have the ability to stop time. It is by far one of the strongest abilities, but you decide to hide this power. You disguise your ability as teleportation. (x)

Good News: You have a superpower! Bad News: Anyone with powers eventually becomes a monster based on their power, Leading to the worst news: There are no heroes and no villains, not anymore: this is the apocalypse. (x)

One in every 50 teenagers has a superpower. The tests read positive, so you should have one, but you still don’t know what it is, until today. (x)

Everyday you wake up with a random superpower. However, your power came from somewhere else. (x)

You have a small superpower. Whenever you tap someone on the shoulder, they always look over that shoulder, without fail. At first, you just used this for harmless pranks. Then, you realized you can kill people by tapping both of their shoulders. (x)

It’s 2138, and at the age of 21 everyone can select just one super power granted by the government. Now 21, You go to your local courthouse to select your superpower and discover in the records, one power everyone has completely overlooked. (x)

All prompts were found on Reddit. You can access their original sources by clicking on the linked (x).

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[thedystopia101]

Having trouble creating a believable but original governing system for your dystopia novel?

- Instead of just using one type of traditional government (i.e. monarchy, republic, democracy, ect.), which has been done waaaay too many times, try making up your own from scratch, or try mixing multiple governing systems together.

- For example:

In my novel, Under Control I used a monarchy as the foundation of my government. Then I swirled that around with an oligarchy, threw in a pinch of plutocracy and a smidgen of totalitarianism, along with a dollop of fascism.

Sounds confusing? It’s really not. Here’s how the government in Under Control works.

There is one family who mostly rules over what was formerly the United States and Canada (which has been renamed) the ancestors of this family are the ones responsible for changing the world, hence why they’re in control. But there are other families that rule along side them also.

That’s where the monarchy comes in.

- Only these select families rule over/have authority, which basically turns the government into an oligarchy. And that’s also where the fascism comes in.

- Because the people who are not helping to rule the country have absolutely no say in what happens, and because only the appointed few have authority this twists it into a bit of a totalitarian government.

- Little do the people know that the governing family, the face of the nation, doesn’t actually have all the control. There is an organization, the Internal Ministry, which is made up of the (supposedly) most upright citizens that can be found (within certain social classifications). They actually run the show, making the government system into a Plutocracy.

- By mixing these ideas together I have created a deep, complex governing system that’s original, and will make the readers ask questions. You always want to keep your readers asking questions as to keep them reading through to the end.

Now why do you give it a try!

- Up above is a chart of different forms of government to help you get started!

Stay rebel.

[ I don’t own the chart. just the advice ]

[strangesigils]

I don’t really know what people generally call this method of sigil making, so I’m just calling it “Letter Shaping” because you’re using the basic shapes from certain letters. This is the most common form of sigil making, and it allows the most creative influence. As you see above the sigils are for nearly the same thing, yet the sigils came out completely different. Not because the purpose was different, but because I approached them both a different creative way, and that’s what I like so much about this method. There’s a lot of freedom and personalization involved.

(UPDATE: Here’s a link to a guide on how to deconstruct letters down to basic shapes)

[randomcartoonbro]

@egyptian-pearl-witch

[chongoblog]

[g-4f-te4-zv6-r-g0-e1il-h-eg-jf2]

I am going to break you into four pieces like a fucking kit kat

[programmerhumour]

Oppsss