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Reading, Drawing and consuming a bunch about religion and horror.

[seraphylum]

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[theeggoman]

Our girlfriend looks so pretty from outer space

[chl0roplast]

ame-chan cause nso anime is releasing yay!

[seraphylum]

Seraph’s Favourite Songs 2025:

I listened to loads this year, and discovered people like Nujabes that shifted my genres so far from what they were in 2024. These are som of my favourites.

Gardenia - Malice Mizer (please do not stream “Malace Mizer”)

Thank You - Nujabes

glitter - lexycat

IRIS OUT - kenshi yonezu

Blood Drain - Again - - Raito

Fiore - Lacroix Despheres

what if? - Yoko Takahashi

DevilDevilDebit - issey

spoken for - FLAVOR FOLEY

Birds and Rhythm - MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS

The Woman I Am - Acoustic - AURORA

[mckitterick]

V.E. Schwab's advice for creating memorable characters - works for both protagonists and villains

source post: X

[dduane]

This is really good advice.

It also ties neatly into the simplest version of the formula for getting people emotionally engaged with your characters: or how to build the moment in which your character starts moving from their initial state to the state in which they'll start changing their own lives.

First, you figure out the one important thing the character believes that they're wrong about. There's usually a core misperception that they haven't examined. Once they're forced to engage with it, it'll start to change everything about their perception of the world they're inhabiting and/or the people in it.

Then, as V.E. says, you identify the character's great desire and their great fear: the thing that character wants more than anything, and the thing or situation that terrifies them, and that they'll go to any lengths to avoid.

And having identified these two objects or situations, you build a situation in which the two forces will be in close, direct opposition to one another... then drop the character down in between them, and squeeze. Those two opposing forces become the jaws of a vise... and you crank the vise more and more tightly closed until the character has no choice but to acknowledge those opposing forces, and start (even in a small way) to deal with the pressure being exerted and push their way through.

This does not have to be, initially, a great climactic moment. In fact, it works better if it's not. It's more effective if your character has a brief low-intensity brush with these conditions-in-conflict early on. That way, when your big resolution scene comes along about two-thirds or three-quarters of the way along through the story arc, you'll have set up a resonance between that earlier hint or intimation of what's to come, and the really big blowoff. Your readers will recognize the resonance—the throb of tension between the two occurrences, like the vibration of a plucked string—and will find satisfaction both in the true resolution having been partially telegraphed earlier, and in how it's now being experienced and resolved in full.

This approach also allows you to set up more minor resonances between the realization of the conflict and its final resolution. These can serve to bind the structure of the work more closely together: to make it look (and be) less like a series of loosely strung-together plot events, and more like a unified whole, in which ripples of story business flow backwards and forwards, interpenetrating and influencing one another, and hinting at the big one to come.

But none of this can happen until the paired and opposing what-do-they-most-desire, what-do-they-most-fear axes have been defined. So that's a subject it's smart to spend some while thinking about (and for all your characters, not just the major ones), to be sure you're getting it right.

It's not unusual to get the wrong answers, or merely superficial ones, while you're still working out what's actually going on with the characters. So take your time. Eventually you'll find a set of answers that feel unquestionably right... and you can then nail those down in your notes and get on with making the kind of "good trouble" for your characters that will see them made complete.

[nolvini]

rest in peace pink wheelchair you will be missed

[seraphylum]

Shinjohnny Joestar loses it all….

[dailyclassicart]

Tore Billing - "Stegeborg Castle ruins by moonlight"

[seraphylum]

I posted about cycling through eras. I think this winter it’s landing in Romanticism! Though I’m also dipping into Pre Raphelite per a book I’ve thrifted, so maybe I’ll explore that with a digital oil paining software…

[hellengellen]

Redraw

[seraphylum]

Cycling through a love of Neoclassical, Baroque, Romantic and Art Noveau art becuase why should we limit ourselves to one preference :3

[chl0roplast]

figured i'd try out tumblr for posting art so hiii!!

[seraphylum]

You find me at a very Nokia 7110 time of my life I’m afraid 😔

[jjgg-art]

okay last one for now i swear. it just felt like it needed its own post

[seraphylum]

Just hit 1K subs!!! >w<

Wow, just absolutely wow. This is incredible. I really didn’t think this kind of thing would ever happen, and while 1k is tiny in the whole scope of YouTube, this is giant for me . Thank you so much for this support it’s absolutely amazing.

What brilliant people you all are :3

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[seraphylum]

New series idea….?

[seraphylum]

A big part of my process is what I listen to while I do it. I choose music that fits while writing, and podcasts while 3D modelling!

So this is what I’ve been listening to:

Music:

My Funeral Rehersal - matryoshka

It’s slow and beautiful, with a drum beat and piano behind it that drags on like a mournful march. matryoshka’s are angelic, which helps for creating mournful scenes.

BIRDBRAIN - Jamie Paige

I didn’t used to like vocaloid, but this one of the first songs with a vocaloid I’ve enjoyed! Jamie Paige has a great repertoire of songs and it’s been great to listen through all their stuff. It’s more upbeat than some of my other songs, which gives a nice break

glitter - lexycat

This is one of those repetitive, hyperactive songs that makes me feel a bit like I’m listening to people’s thoughts from the internet. I can’t describe it any other way than “digital”. Very processed vocals and audio, and quite crunchy. Sometimes this music I *dont* like, and I’m not sure what you’d call it since it doesn’t fit in breakcore, but it is a CUTE song. And I like cute things, so it’s on repeat.

The Woman I Am (acoustic) - Aurora

Aurora is probably (along with Laufey and Hikaru Utada) one of my favourite female singers! It’s been said a million times by other people but she’s ethereal and fairy-like. I feel really at peace with her music, and so it’s a bit comfort song to go back to, especially with it being an acoustic version.

[seraphylum]

YouTuber Muldered has created a video about my Series, Apocrphya Hominis. This is one of the most exciting moments of my life, seeing someone make a video on a project I’ve poured my love and mind into.

I’d love it if you gave his video a watch, subscribed to his channel and appreciated the incredible work he’s put in. Then maybe check out my channel- from the pinned post.

[seraphylum]

I want to eat the Deltarune chapters and digest them so they can become a part of my body that fuels my special interest forever and never lets me go.