seaofstars

He/They // 20 // Self Taught Artist // Art, Writing, Gaming, Worldbuilding. // Feel free to message! // Many interests // Woud love to make some friends on here c:

[queen-of-the-merry-men]

When writing always remember… a character flaw is only a flaw until becomes useful. 

Is your protagonist manipulative? Well that’s awful… until they manipulate the antagonist into making a decision that saves the lives of their friends. 

Is your protagonist a skeptic? Well that’s not good… until someone tries to lie to them. 

Is your protagonist overprotective? That sucks… until someone they love is in danger. 

Is your protagonist remorseless? Well that makes them pretty unlikeable… until a hard decision has to be made. 

[saeronovace]

[susiephone]

The flipside is also true!

Your protagonist is honest? That’s good… until their survival depends on them being able to lie convincingly.

Your protagonist is brave? That’s good… until they foolishly run headlong into danger without a thought for the consequences.

Your protagonist is forgiving and able to see good in everyone? That’s good… until they continually forgive someone who doesn’t deserve it, and get taken advantage of because they can’t fathom that some people just suck.

Your protagonist is funny? That’s good… until they piss off everyone around them because they don’t seem to be taking the situation seriously, and they keep avoiding dealing with their problems by hiding behind humor.

Most personality traits aren’t inherently good or bad. It’s all about context, and how far they go.

[cuteness--overload]

[victusinveritas]

[official-nature-posts]

Official nature post

[dustyoo10]

[superconfusedcoryn]

Deutscher Slenderman sein wie: Scheiße ich muss noch diese ganzen Seiten in Klarsichtfolie packen bevor ich die im Wald aufhänge

[alcrego]

Click

[racc1kett-deactivated20251129]

I FINALLY MADE AN ALIEN OC!!! jumping with joy

[chronivore]

[cpericardium]

This is my favourite interview strategy

[gunsandfireandshit]

[catasters]

[catasters]

[simon-butcher]

@kittybroker

How much for the catapulting kitty?

[milkyfederation]

On vacation, trying to relearn how to draw without a computer so I can practice anyway. Starting with something easy, some designs I know by heart.

[milkyfederation]

I've shared this one once before, and there's some things I'd change now, but I still like it a lot. Domesticated pets of the future! (03/2022)

In this drawing you can see:

Mazonian Turtle: very chill, but not very smart, can roll up into a ball.

Liloquian Kazoo: energetic and curious, they sing all the time.

(Unnamed planet) Slug-Hamster: very inactive, mostly looks cute.

Earthian Cat: it's a cat, but edited with new technology to change its colour.

(Unnamed planet) Dog-Owl: smart and weird, can fly.

(Unnamed planet) Bat-Cat: reserved, like a significantly less hairy cat that can fly.

Quadriyan Dog: loyal and playful, tho it has weird bug-like mandibles.

(Unnamed planet) Ferret-Snake: sociable, furry, long and limbless.

Liloquian Dog-Deer: smart and very trainable herbivore, a liloquian's best friend.

Furbo: artificially bioengineered by aliens to be the perfect pet, not very popular with humans, who seem to share a primal fear of the colourful, chatty creature.

Creature names in the MF universe mostly follow the naming convention of [Planet of origin]+[animal with similar ecological niche/that looks similar].

The drawing is two years old and I see some mistakes and things I could've done better (the Owl-Dog is pretty basic), but I still like it a lot. I have to draw more aliens.

Which one's your favourite?? Which one would you adopt??

[milkyfederation]

- Uuuh yeah... Give me one ticket for the new Lion King Remake Musi- ABSOLUTELY NOT! You know it'll be my turn before the movie's over. - Coome on! My treat. - No way, you know I hate musicals, watch it when it's your turn again. - Hey guys keep it down, we're in public, you're embarrassing us.

The Martian city state of Neocropolis is dead set on fighting, well, death. One of the solutions they have come up with is transferring your consciousness into a mechanical body.

That is, of course, expensive, so some people decide to share the cost, putting more than one consciousness in a single body. That makes Neocropolis the city with the highest number of people per capita in the human sector.

Ever since its creation, the Martian city-state specializes in scientific research to avoid death. Its founder is still alive (as just a head in a jar) after a couple of centuries.

Neocropolitans are modified to have purple skin with stripes, and a lengthy life (although that tends to be cut short for the everyman due to economic disparity).

Despite being a small one, it is one of the most powerful Martian cities thanks to its alliances. No rich or powerful person dares antagonize their source of "eternal life", which gives the city carte blanche to do all sorts of experiments.

The Raging Machines' guitarist, K, was a neocropolitan who's consciousness was put on a machine post mortem without her consent so that she'd keep working.

Neocropolis' name is a play on words with neo (new) and necropolis (cemetary), the city that gives a new definition to death. Etymologically there's nothing else funny here, carry on.

[random-questions-fairy]

Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

[theredscreech]

Heads up that this is a very extensive questionnaire and might be daunting to a lot of writers (myself included). That being said, it is also an amazing questionnaire and I will definitely be using it (or at the very least, some of it).

[heroineimages]

Bookmarking this…

[sameoldchangeling]

A birthday gift for @oakwyrm. His writing advice has genuinely improved my work in so many ways, not to mention his content is just downright entertaining to watch. I didn't want to just redraw his art, so I tried my hand at designing a mix between his in video stills and his pfp. Happy Birthday!!

[rubyleaf]

Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.