#kamuis-dump

[moss-wizard]

What kind of game are you making :o

A point and click adventure game called Tala that combines nature photography and traditional animation techniques!

[porunareff]

I hate King Crimson's little face on top of his face, I hate it so much

IT LOOKS LIKE A PIECE OF VERY ANGRY HAM

[elite-4]

hi hi @kamuis-dump, i was your late secret santa for @jjba-secret-santa 2018 <3 have some kira and shinobu christmas shenanigans, i hope you like it! :D i hope you have a very merry new year and a beautiful 2019! 💕

[pens-swords-stuff]

Hello, I have only recently found your blog so idk if this has been asked/answered yet, but do you have any advice for writing humor or generally scenes that require a specific timing/reveal? I always have trouble with scenes that require a certain "reveal", whether horror or humor :/ Thank you in advance!

Hmmm, I’m honestly not the person you should ask this question to because I’m not a humorous writer, nor do I write horror. This isn’t going to be detailed or enlightening, simply because it’s not something that I know much about.

However, I do think that that the set-up is as important — if not more than the actual reveal, whether it be a set-up to a joke, or foreshadowing for horror. 

The best reveals in my mind are things that will make the reader go “Oh my gosh I can’t believe I didn’t see that coming! It makes so much sense!” and “Wow, all of the clues were there, I just didn’t pick up on them at the time!” or “I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT”

A punchline of a joke will fall flat without the proper setup. A reveal completely out of the blue will seem disingenuous to your readers — a plot twist for the sake of shock value.

I find that it helps to have a certain level of anticipation building. This can be done by foreshadowing, dropping little hints, almost showing your hand but not quite. Show your readers the pieces of the puzzle, but never quite put them together until the reveal. By sprinkling little pieces of the reveal beforehand, it might help alleviate the pressure put on the actual reveal scene — especially the timing bit. You’ve worked your way up to the reveal, you’ve prepared the readers, you’ve prepared yourself. Everything has been setup already, all you have to do is take the leap.

Your readers might see it coming to some extent, but that’s not always a bad thing. For me at the very least, one of the most satisfying experiences I can get is figuring out the reveal beforehand and seeing if my deduction is correct.

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[ladiesoftheknight]

This might be a stupid question but I'm just wondering - how do people even come to participate in zines? Do other people approach you for it? Do you apply for it yourself? I just realize it's completely alien to me so I'm curious

It really depends on the Zine and who is running it and how much interest it gathers.

I found most of the zines I’ve done through tumblr and/or twitter virality, they usually kick up a PR fuss just before they are opening application to get people interested. There’s at least one twitter account I know of that exists just to reblog zine news.

Dames Zine, which I participared in, was a mix of guest artists who were invited by the two Producers, and an open application, where 300 artists (including myself) submitted their portfolios and a proposal for what they wanted to draw and the producers picked the ones they felt would suit the zine. It ended up being quite a high profile zine, and was run very professionally.  (Such as the submission of portfolios and a short proposal!)

I’ve done smaller zines before where it’s open submission and you just make art and submit it and it’s usually published, but they were also only printed in black and white, very low budget, and pretty much self funded vanity project between all involved (a lot of fun).

I even did at least one at art school that was just the folks in my class and a photocopier and drawings on a theme.

These are often fun to start out with even though the art quality might not be as high but you can make some fun connections and there’s a lot less pressure to deliver amazing work as something like Dames Knight Zine.

I don’t do many zines, as they’re largely unpaid, but I cherry pick which ones I apply for, because if I get in I really want to deliver a good illustration (I hope you’ll all love my Dames Knight picture when I’m allowed to share it!) and as it’s unpaid I have to find time to fit this illustration in my life and do a good job!

Number one advice to anyone who wants to participate in Zines? (Whether you draw for fun or want to go pro)

Get. A. Portfolio.

Put your 10-20 favourite pictures on a site (squarespace, a tumblr sideblog, wix, artstation etc will do you don’t need a fancy paid site like mine)

That way when you get a zine application form and it goes “show us your work” you just go “hey here’s my site link!” not “oh shit I don’t have a portfolio!!”

That’s probably a very long winded answer for a simple question lol.

[morthern]

Two in one, 4X hugging power!

Blair has to be careful, he’s much bigger and stronger than most people around him, but if he’s allowed he will pull you into a rough hug.

be glad he gets his claws filed down blunt <3

[majortomwaits]

Howdy

Good morning, good morning, the church mouse is snoringThe screen door slams, Mary’s dress waves I’ve been folding with your heart stringsThey build a ship each wintertimeIt was a dirty end of winter along the loom of the land 

send me a ‘Hi’ and I'll put my playlist on shuffle, write down the first line of 5 songs and give it to you as a poem

[rasstegai]

kamuis-dump submitted:

Since everyone’s sharing pictures of their cats, I wanted to share too. Her name is Mica, which would translate to Kitty, (I was never too good at naming things) her name led to an awkward situation when we took her to the vet’s I don’t have too many pictures of her, part of it being because she was just too cuddly (she kept pressing herself against me and asking to be stroked). Sadly she’s no longer with us, so I guess this is in her memory, the gentlest, sweetest and smartest kitty ever. Looking quite dashing for an old lady, isn’t she?