#idea generation

[wordysmith101]

Need some ideas.

What do you think would happen if adult Kazekage Gaara turns into a kid by sheer accident. Lets say accidentally got caught on a trap or seal? Shinki and Shikadai are already in the picture.

What if Gaara has no memories? What if he does?

What you think?

[moshanilove]

Wei Ying

3/3

I won this art competition! （☆/＞u＜/）

[bettsfic]

Hi! I've been trying to get into writing for almost a year now, but all I've got so far are way too many ideas and thousand-word long outlines and brainstorming notes. When I do start writing, my brain always finds things to pick at in the details (like how to start the fic, the backstory, etc) and I'm unable to move forward. Please give any advice that can help with this. And also how do I be patient with learning to write? Because I always drop it when I see I'm not improving. Thank you!

it's always better to have too many ideas than too few. i think the best thing you can do for yourself is try to relinquish control of your creativity and see what happens. when you restrain yourself to an outcome (like finishing a story) you can sometimes be preventing your natural growth. in other words, when you see you're not improving, it might be because you're saying "no" to yourself too much.

so keep churning out ideas and outlines for as long as they come to you. they *will* run out eventually, and when they do you'll be able to look at the bigger picture and see that actually all these seemingly disparate ideas are really just one or two ideas you've churned out in a dozen different ways. and by that point, you will have done so much planning and plotting and thinking that you'll be able to look at and tackle the stories that are most important to you.

it's hard to succumb to the creative process, because it's like giving a toddler a bunch of markers and leaving the room. but if you follow your instincts for long enough, they'll take you where you're meant to go. they'll just do it in the longest, most frustrating, most ridiculous way possible.

[artist-ellen]

Food outfit suggestion: pastel de nata from Portugal

Great suggestion! Thank you!

I'll probably only do enough for February this year, so we'll see how it goes. <3 Stay tuned for the colouring book? ;D

Wish me luck! (I'm working through a cough and it's a little miserable)

[blackrosesandwhump]

How to Whump Your Hero (or Villain)!

For those times when you have the perfect whumpable hero or villain and don't know what to do with them. Use this generator to get ideas!

You have your character. What do you use to whump them?

Axe

Bandages

Barbed wire

Blindfold

Branding iron

Cage

Chains

Club

Coffin

Collar

Dagger

Drugs

Duct tape

Fishing line

Gag

Garrote

Gibbet

Handcuffs

Hatchet

Knife

Manacles

Operating Table

Oxygen mask

Pistol

Pitchfork

Plastic

Poison

Rapier

Rope

Scalpel

Scythe

Spear

Straightjacket

Stitches

Sword

Syringe

Taser

Whip

Using this random number generator, for example I get #5 Branding iron. Time for some painful branding for my poor villain!

Happy writing!

[revarrie]

Hey guys! I'm looking at drawing some funky little creatures as fun exercises. Please feel free to drop some trait ideas or general creature concepts (please try to keep concepts fairly simple) down below. It would be much appreciated for when my brain blanks out :)

Thank you! (I'm not able to go through notes at the moment. I'll get to them, thank you!)

[titleknown]

A hypothetical scenario from a friend I'm curious about everyone's thoughts on:

Lets say I’m making a superhero role playing game. And I want to make a series of random character generation tables. So to keep everything authentic, I take the DC Who’s Who books and the Marvel Universe guides, and I make a spreadsheet of character ability types, ages, builds, costume colors, physical attributes, etc. I then crunch those numbers down, combining redundant traits while increasing their likelihood on the dice tables. Maybe I make sub-tables to take into account the way ratios change depending on the era of comic book or the sub-genre, and to make combinations that make sense according to the source material to be more common. Now, I’ve built a series of random dice tables that let me create a new superhero concept.

Is the above scenario an unfair use of copyrighted materials?

Yes

No

Well... (Elaborate in reblog/reply)

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Voting ended onAug 30, 2025

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