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Coloring Tutorial: Dark Scenes

Ok, so here’s a simple/basic tutorial on giffing dark scenes, nothing fancy. For this, Levels, Brightness, Exposure layers will be your best friend (all before coloring your gif). This may not work every time, since every scene is different, and not all steps have to be used, but just using the basics should help I hope. Let’s get started.

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emmortalsresources

One of the biggest advantages of the Internet is the facility we have today to gain knowledge of different places. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to find. When I started trying to mess around with HTML/CSS just ‘cause I wanted to make my own tumblr themes, I had no idea where to start and just take me more than it should to learn. As a way to organize all the information I have stored for a long time and also to help those who want to start programming, I organized this masterpost with several sites far beyond codeacademy, software and some books in PDF to help you start programming, or increase your skills in programming if you already know. Information presented here help both those who don’t know how to program in any language and seeks knowledge only as a hobby or students of computer. English is not my native language and I’m not that good with, so just ignore any grammar errors. All the materials in this post are free. And don’t forget to Ctrl + click in the link to open in a new tab. Attention: If you live in Brazil, go here for the portuguese version of this post with some sites that work exclusively in Brazil.

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html-tutorials

How to get an image in a corner of your blog

1. Find the <body> tag in your HTML code

2. Paste: <img src=‘IMAGE URL’ height=100 style='position:fixed;bottom:0px;left:0px;z-index:999’/> under it.

3. Change IMAGE URL to the desired image url

4. Adjust the height=100 (the number) to the desired size

5. Find this bit in the code: bottom:0px;left:0px;

Change it if you wish it to be elsewhere:

Bottom right: bottom:0px;right:0px;

Bottom left: bottom:0px;left:0px;

Top right: top:0px;right:0px;

Top left: top:0px;left:0px;

6. Find the 0px; bits. You can play around with the numbers to move it up/down/left/right as desired

That’s it! - Rui (empiro)

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site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

bumblebeebabie

THAT FIRST SITE IS EVERY WRITER’S DREAM DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I’VE TRIED WRITING SOMETHING AND THOUGHT GOD DAMN IS THERE A SPECIFIC WORD FOR WHAT I’M USING TWO SENTENCES TO DESCRIBE AND JUST GETTING A BUNCH OF SHIT GOOGLE RESULTS

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itsphotoshop

pastel colorings psd pack by itsphotoshop

itsphotoshop

› More than a year and a half has passed and the blog keeps growing! We’re happy to announce that we reached 25,000 followers and we want to thank you all by sharing this psd pack Adri made. Contains eight gif psds whose previews you can see above ^

Is it just me, or has the distance between you and us increased since we don’t publish answers in the main blog anymore? It feels more serious, less personal. I just want to say that we appreciate every note, every message and every visit and we love you all; from the people who has been there since the very beginning to all the new followers that join us daily.

It means the world to us that you guys like our resources and tutorials. We hope you enjoy these trendy colorings that work for both movies and television and that look fabulous because my sister is a coloring master.

Download them below. Please, please, please, like the post if you download :)

download links: ge.tt | da

wait five seconds and click on ‘skip ad’ at the right top corner of your screen. thank you so much ♥

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worddocs

Dreams are overdone, this is true, and a lot of people—myself included—do cringe a little bit when an author uses dreams in a story. However, the use of dreams is not the core problem; it’s the cliches that come with writing dreams that irritate people.

Most of the time, when someone writes a dream, they make it seem very clear. The dreamer knows what is going on at all times, there is a logical progression, they can tell when something is wrong, etc. If you really think about dreams that you’ve had before, there usually isn’t much logic involved. One moment you could be looking at a salad and the next moment, it’s your best friend from grade school dressed in a lettuce outfit, and you don’t question it at all.

We don’t remember most of our dreams. Unless you are writing your dreams down or immediately telling them to someone else, you’re going to forget them entirely. Within the first five minutes after waking, we forget almost all of what we dreamed the night before. In writing, a huge cliche is for characters to remember their dreams with perfect clarity. This just doesn’t happen unless, as stated above, you’ve done something to try to retain the memory of the dream.

If you are going to use dreams as a major portion of your story, you need to try to convey how dreams really are. They should be chaotic, things should randomly appear and disappear, things that don’t necessarily have anything to do with your story can happen in order to make the dream feel real. Your audience should be able to see the purpose of the dream sequence—in this case, showing your captive character—but they should also get the erratic, belly-twisting feeling of having a dream that’s not quite right.

Let your characters forget what happened. Maybe they have the same dream a second night, or a third night in a row. If you have a character that writes their dreams down, you need to establish their reasons for doing it. They might be trying to get lucid dreams, or they might be in therapy, or they might be a writer, a poet, or just someone interested in dreams. Whatever their reasons are, they need to have them. You need to let the audience know so that their journaling is part of their personality, not just a plot device.

It’s not that dreams themselves are overdone in writing, it’s that they’re not written as dreams. If you’re going to use them as a plot device, you need to ground them in reality—as much as dreams can be considered reality. They need to read like dreams, feel like dreams, and your characters need to react to them in a realistic way.

- Dr. M

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nothing feels better than winning monopoly. not love. not sex. not free pizza. nothing

iamtheironrain

I’m sorry, have you tried pizza…?

candlelion-deactivated20140107

yes and it doesn’t compare to owning half the board and watching the light die from your friends eyes as you take their money and feel your friendship slowly deteriorate

zeldaxsnowcrow

i like you

caesaretluna

Write Real People click and drag game

ONE RULE: DON’T CLICK AND DRAG UNTIL YOU FIND SOMETHING YOU LIKE!

if you want me to add anything just write me. i’ll add that and update the post!

I love all the click and drag games on Tumblr and after I read an article about diversity in YA books, I wanted to make a click and drag “game” myself. (i think this was the article, but i’m not sure, sorry)

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sugaa

UPDATES TAB MASTERPOSTS!!

So theres a ton of update tabs out there and i decided i try to find as many original ones i could and make a post as like a one stop shop kinda thing ya feel. anyways i have listen what the updates tab looks like and the tutorial where you can find it(aka the original maker of the updates tab) if theres another updates tab you think i should add or i dont have the original creator please please pLEASE TELL ME

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rphelper

pastelreference

actions

brushes

colourings

gradients

patterns

pixels #1 (60) | pixels #2 (4) | stripes - larger (9)

templates

textures

tutorials

#masterpost #masterposts

holepsds

Font pack for windows/mac made by holepsds

like or reblog if you download, thank you.

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belleresources-blog

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clevergirlhelps

Some facts:

· A normal human pregnancy is 40 weeks (nine months) long from the start of the woman’s last period

· 1 out of 9 children in the US are born prematurely

· Pregnancy is split into three trimesters: the first lasts from weeks 1-12, the second from week 13-28, and the third...

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clevergirlhelps

Hiding Dead Bodies

The first thing you need to know about hiding dead bodies is what dead bodies are like. They stink, they attract flies/mushrooms/other decomposers, decomposition gases make them bloat, and rotting down to the skeleton takes anywhere from a week (hot, humid climates) to several years (cold, arid climates).

The second thing you need to know is how other people – e.g. law enforcement – find bodies. They use cadaver dogs (specifically trained to find corpses), evidence (a dockside security camera that recorded someone tossing a body into a river), or plain old sleuthing (noticing freshly turned soil).

The third thing: all the things you shouldn’t do. DO NOT leave the body uncovered, let cameras or recording devices of any sort see you dealing with the body, let eyewitnesses see you with the body, tell people where it is, or keep it in an area familiar to you.

TECHNIQUES

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bandydear

Writing Protips on Character Description

Describe body parts as body parts, not as objects. Example: Eyes are eyes, not orbs or optics. Legs are legs, not supports.

Eyes are windows into the soul is bullshit. You can tell a lot more about a person from their hands than from their eyes. Spend more time talking about what a person’s hands look like/what they’re doing with them. Do they bite their nails or cut them? Are their hands scarred? Strong? Delicate? Long? Covered in pen drawings?

Refrain from spending three paragraphs describing a person. If something is important (for example, a red hat that gets stolen, or a scar that defines the character). Your readers do not need a grocery list of what your character is wearing/looks like/identifies as. Just the basics.

Unless you’re going to describe every white person as “the caucasian” DO NOT describe every person of colour by their race. That means you’re constantly reminding the reader of their race instead of their character. It’s annoying and kind of racist.

Avoid redundancy. “He grinned a full smile with his teeth.” Is redundant. You cannot grin with anything but your teeth.

Metaphors and similes are rad. They can describe a person in one sentence in a way that a full paragraph can not. Here’s one from a Third Eye Blind song: “That girl is like a sunburn.”

Slip description into dialogue. Friends and family will remark on your appearance. How they remark is also an indicator of the closeness of the relationship. It’s a two-in-one! "I like that shirt. It really brings out your eyes!" "Wow, long night last night?" "You look like shit." "Did you do something new with your hair? Maybe it’s cause I’ve never seen you wear it up before."

SAID IS NOT DEAD. Said is all you need. If two characters are talking you can have he said/she said or Karen said/Ming said. Punctuation is the indicator for yelling and questions. You can also use dialogue to convey how a character is communicating. "Jesus, you don’t need to yell." "Speak up, Dear." "I can’t understand what you’re saying when you have food in your mouth." "Don’t you take that tone with me!" "Was that a question or a statement?"

Don’t describe characters by their hair colour either. This applies to the dialogue. Often I see “The Brunette said” or “The Blonde laughed”. It’s redundant. They have names. We know what the characters look like by now and do not need a reminder.

Describing a person’s laugh is a good way of telling the reader about the character and putting their voice into the reader’s head. Is it a booming laugh? Do they cover their mouth? Do they snort? Are they a silent laugher?

Not everyone smells like strawberries, jasmine, vanilla, cinnamon, or whatever fruit. Some people smell gross. Some people smell nice in a weird way. It can also reflect someone’s diet or lifestyle. People who eat a lot of red meat smell like iron, vegetarians often have an earthy smell. You can tell if someone has a pet. Scent is an important description, but it’s not always pretty perfumes and shampoos.

How does the character make others feel? This one can descend into cliches pretty quickly, so it’s a difficult descriptor. Go from your own experiences though. Karen didn’t really want to run into Ming. Ming has this nasty laugh that Karen always feels is directed at her.

These are just a few things that came to mind today. Feel free to add to the list if you’d like or ask questions about writing. Again, writing is a skill and takes practice. It’s always good to have fun.

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jessaverant

A bunch of writing tips

Edit: I have gone through a faved many more writing tips, so I finally went through, weeded them out and am adding them to this list. I also went through and added some organization, but it isn’t great.

I mainly did this for myself, but like before, I hope it can help anyone out there! <3

This is a comprehensive list of all the writing tips I’ve faved over the course of like a year. I just got sick of going through my favorites for them/I am very lazy.

World-building & research!

1. A list of writing prompt generators! 2. 5 ways to try a new writing style! 3. Translations of useful foreign phrases (Let Google Translate die in a ditch) 4. Medical facts authors mess up a lot (the blog this is on looks ridiculous) 5. 60 Awesome Search Engines for Serious Writers 6. Ironclad Rules for Writers Who Want To Be Better at Writing 7. Writing summaries for fanfics

Scenes & Plots!

1. HOW TO WRITE MOTHERFUCKING FIGHT SCENES 3. 25 TURNS, PIVOTS, AND TWISTS TO COMPLICATE YOUR STORY (I’m not sure how helpful this actually is BUT IT’S WRITTEN SO AWESOMELY) 4. A guide to gay sex (you heard me) (this is def NSFW) 5. A guide to writing other types of sex (again, NSFW) 6. Common and over-the-top plot devices

Characters!

1. Characterization based on personality type ref guide 2. Character development questionnaires 3. Body language cheat-sheet 4. 123 ideas for character flaws

HOORAY

Some of these obvs came out of the pitfalls of fanfiction but ALL of them can be applied to ANY writing really yaaay

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thewritewire

I’m not a big fan of adjectives, but it’s food for thought.

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