sunshine, daisies, buttermellow. @spcshp - Tumblr Blog

it turns out i really enjoy making educational posts about the comics making process and ways of thinking. here's another one featuring characters from my graphic novel in a very anachronistic art museum.

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spcshp

Aquarium core

lifeafterpsychiatry

Yes. Have YOU considered that sometimes working on hard things is both necessary and worthwhile?

bemusedlybespectacled

honted

i really could write an essay on how shit is that we’ve completely abandoned the monster-of-the-week episode format even when rebooting shows that relied on it to replace them with grimdark edgy plotlines where nothing feels good or accomplished at the end of the day

#EXACTLY #WHY DO PEOPLE HATE MONSTER OF THE WEEK?#IT’S MY FAVORITE STORYTELLING FORMAT#IT’S THE MOST CHARACTER DRIVEN FORMAT WHEN DONE PROPERLY IMO#the best monster of the week episodes show us something new about the characters

mikkeneko

I think you can expand Monster of the Week format, more generally, to Guy Of The Week. Because this format also works for detective stories, medical dramas, lawyer procedurals, what have you. The point is that every week there is a new Guy and the new Guy brings a new Situation

lizardsfromspace

andersdruv

Exactly this. Having a one mystery per season means it’s like five episodes of false leads, characters being dumbasses, and the enemy needing to be a super genius. It makes me so tired, and like the op writes, it’s often paired with a miserable grimdark story where people start unhappy, then become more unhappy, then resolves unhappily.

Mystery-of-the-week lets you show the many ways your protagonist can solve a situation, how they deal with lots of different people. Then you can lead up to a bigger arc that draws on previous experiences!

mityenka

when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever

presentlydean

online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

roycohn

sonny and cher were kind of the blueprint for "she's everything, he's just ken"

biglawbear

He was the mayor of palm springs California

biglawbear

I'm being hunted for sport in the notes

charlesoberonn

It's gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.

Naturally everybody will think it's fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it's real

There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable "don't speak ill of the dead" discourse about those celebrations

Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that

The Republicans (after they're done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They'll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.

There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won't, he was a traitor insurrectionist)

The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.

Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.

Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.

rivkann

flower-in-a-horror-novel

Like to charge, reblog to cast

wilwheaton

Honestly? They had me at "Trump dies".

spiralstaircased

due to inflation you must answer my riddles five

zouffle

due to budget cuts i will grant you two wishes

lesbiancinnabun-deactivated2023

due to recent layoffs there is only one of me and I lie 50% of the time

mysharona1987

The French really don’t fuck around.

kitbulls

me: i really dont get why non-floridians lose their fucking shit when they see a beach. it’s just sand and water. who gives a fuck

also me: *sees one (1) mountain* ohohohoohohohohoh holy SHIT holy fuck that’s a big fuCKING ROCK

newtgeiszler

i love this post. i have never related to anything less

dragontatoes

me, grown up in the Cascades range: *sees open plains*

me: oohhoh no. no ba.d . where . are teh rocks. wheres the woter. oh god it’s just drit everywhere for a million miles I need TREES dammit where are my lumber guardians

flippityflapjack

Me, grew up in Nebraska, the Great Plains: *see a forest*

Me: wHy ar e there s.o man y trEes??? They all g.ott so BiG wher is th skY

zarohk

Me: Grows up in Boston, mostly travels to cities and Central America: *travels to the Southwest*

Me: where is everyone? Where is everything? What great calamity flatten this world?

derinthescarletpescatarian

Me: Grows up in rural Australia, travels to Europe: Green? How so much green?? Paddocks aren’t green! Why is it full of green grass like a cartoon??

bunjywunjy

Me: Grew up in the American Midwest *arrives on the coastline of any ocean, sprinting up and down the beach very fast* SHARKS? SHARKS?SHARKS? SHARKS? SHARKS? SHARKS?