ObscureAU

[obscureau]

Sometimes Cassian, who’s best friends are all noble born and who’s never quite gotten over his feelings of inadequacy about his origins, wonders if Nesta resents that both her sisters are mated to high lord’s sons while she got a bastard born brute. When he finally works up the courage to ask her about it, instead of reassuring him Nesta just shrugs dismissively and tells him “I’d rather sit on your face than any throne.”

[obscureau]

when he mentions this to Azreal his brother shakes his head and says “the cauldron really knew what it was doing with you two.”

[obscureau]

Sometimes Cassian, who’s best friends are all noble born and who’s never quite gotten over his feelings of inadequacy about his origins, wonders if Nesta resents that both her sisters are mated to high lord’s sons while she got a bastard born brute. When he finally works up the courage to ask her about it, instead of reassuring him Nesta just shrugs dismissively and tells him “I’d rather sit on your face than any throne.”

[firesidefantasy]

okay time to lock in on the whole first draft by the end of june even though i don't currently have a plot thing. i have the next three hours. i am going to eat pizza, listen to shower asmr if that's a thing, and figure out what the fuck these lesbians are doing <3

[clubcope]

bro said he was beleaguered i was like well look what has beset you

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[blended-ice]

dressed colorfully

[ebookporn]

[hockpock]

@libraford

[nondelphic]

unfortunately my story needs a middle. i personally think this is excessive

[the960writers]

truly preposterous of the story to demand this of me

[sportsandlaughs]

[cilantrhoes]

[dionysiaproductions]

[off-the-beaten-timeline]

[firawren]

This is perfection. This is the one.

...though, being in a Persuasion mood lately, I cannot resist finding places for one f-bomb in that book too.

Perhaps here:

“...but if Anne will stay, no one so proper, so fucking capable as Anne.”

Or perhaps after Anne meets Captain Wentworth again for the first time in 8 years:

“It is over! it is over!” she repeated to herself again and again, in nervous gratitude. “The worst is fucking over!”

Or just:

Anne, who had been a most attentive listener to the whole, left the room, to seek the comfort of cool air for her flushed cheeks; and as she walked along a favourite grove, said, with a gentle sigh, “A few months more, and he, perhaps, may be walking here. Fuck.”

[sandersstudies]

INCREDIBLE to exchange feedback with someone in a mature way. To give and receive critique when there’s mutual respect and both parties’ first desire is not pride but improvement of the project, the skill, the product, the art.

[sandersstudies]

When someone is EXCITED to hear your feedback EVEN if it’s critical. When you get excited to hear critique because you know it’s going to push you to improve.

[sandersstudies]

*we are both giggling and kicking our feet but instead of drawing hearts we are dashing aggressive red pen marks all over the paper*

[ghsot]

everyones got that fic they chip away at like michaelangelo sculpting david. and brother? its penis month

[ghsot]

asked my friends if they knew what i was referencing and they said no. we all know that post where someone divided how long it took michelangelo to sculpt david by it's size and went "yuuuuup. whole month spent on penis" right. sure, my search history is full variations upon "michelangelo penis month tumblr" to no avail, but we all know it. right.

[itriedonce]

Hi, that was a MBMBAM bit. But i see you and i hear you and i dont know if someone already said something

[ghsot]

oh my god youre right.

[ilyasvodka]

has anyone drawn this with Shane & Ilya yet

[princejeanot]

Op the vision is hilarious, you win

[ellakas]

[ellakas]

[knight--error]

CANNOT take credit for these, my sister in law made them. Behold.

[magicratfingers]

i need this completed or ill die who is kitty?? WHO IS LYDIA

[fishing4stars]

@scyllas-revenge this has your name written all over it. twice.

[scyllas-revenge]

Ahh my two favorite things smushed together!!

[ellakas]

as op of this post this had me laughing truly out loud @scyllas-revenge

my bro in law: I hope they fold their gowns properly

[gatheringbones]

tbh a lot of my advice boils down to “hey you know that terrible horrible looming thing you’re doing your best to avoid and distract and escape as much as possible but no matter what you do it just keeps looming and looming and ruining your life”

“just, fuckign, run straight at it screaming.”

[quasarkisses]

i needed this as a background

[spectrexviiii]

[fangirlinginleatherboots]

just so yall know

art block is your brain telling you to do studies.

draw a still life. practice some poses. sketch some naked people. do a color study. try out a different technique on a basic shape.

art block doesnt stop you from drawing, it stops you from making your drawings look the way you want them to. and thats because you need to push your skills to the next level so you can preform at that standard

think of it as level grinding for your next work.

[gallusrostromegalus]

As a scientific illustrator- this is 100% true and going to review your basics will fix it every goddamn time.  Not only does it keep your skills sharp, when you’re not emotionally invested in the final product of a piece, you relax and your brain makes more/better art juice for you.  So, when you get back to that big/important piece?  You’ll know what to do and how to do it.

Nothing in nature blooms all year round.  Rest, and take care of yourself.

[strawbebbynya]

i want someone to put this into writer’s blocks now

[404computerhamstersnotfound]

Writer’s block means you need to relearn the whole alphabet. idiot.

[redwingedwhump]

For writers block- same thing. Do Studies.

Write a description of an object. write the weather today. Write a made up characterization of a random photo of an actor from the internet as to the character they are in that picture. Write a little story about your pet’s day. Write about spilling soup and make it super dramatic and tragic. Write about someone’s day being ruined and make it funny. Write a meetcute coffeeshop AU of two OCs you’d never put together- maybe from different stories. Write them breaking up.

Write a bunch of short stuff meant for no audience ever and super duper self indulgent.

[blackaquokat]

@sweetiepie08

[accidental-spice]

@kanerallels

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

I found out relatively recently that it really helps if I write short fiction surrounding the novels I write. Like oh? I’m stuck for a bit? Ooh there was that section I wanted to explore but doesn’t fit in the plot really. There was that what-if that could never happen in the actual story but would be fun to explore. It keeps me in the characters’ headspace (tho that’s not always what I’m needing) but not right where they are exactly.

[winterinhimring]

Yes! I have gotten past writers’ block multiple times by writing drabble collections. Making something coherent happen in just 100 words is a very different challenge from writing a long story and it also lets me get past plot points that I don’t want to explore in-depth.

I am also going to have to start drawing studies now…