#nattousan

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hey it's me, your tinnitus, just wanted come on here and say uhh

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[queenofbaws]

i know nothing about the grishaverse fandom but i DID do a commission for a friend of mine a while back for it 👀

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SCREAMING SOBBING THROWING UP OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!! this is GORGEOUS, holy moly!!! there are not WORDS for how sick this is, i stg!!!

*chefs kiss* just, just a whole rainstorm of chefs kisses!

[nortmare]

commission for @nattousan, who gave me free reigns in designing a heartless gijinka of my own choice

[empty-dream]

nattousan replied to your post “Just watched Children of Men”

@empty-dream Yo that scene at the end where everybody literally just stops fighting to let this lady and her baby walk through the crowd well they all stare at her, that was probably one of the most impactful scenes in cinema I have seen to this day

I know right! Imagine never seeing a baby for almost 2 decades and then one suddenly shows up in the middle of a war. It made me hold my breath just like those people there.

[spinejackel]

nattousan replied to your photo: it’s apparently time for art vs artist again over...

THATS HIM RIGHT THERE OFFICER!! THAT’s THE MONSTERFUCKER! OPEN FIRE BEFORE HE ESCAPES

YOU’LL NEVER CATCH ME!!!

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7 DAYS UNTIL KINGDOM HEARTS 3

Heartless (From Left to Right): Black Ballade, Emerald Serenade, and Grey Caprice

Me and my bud @nattousan are counting down this Final Week to KH3! I’ll be doing illustrations of the Heartless and they’ll be doing gijinka for each of them. I hope you dig what we got for ya coming up!

Day 1/7 (GIJINKA HERE) (Day 2 here) (Day 3 here) (Day 4 here) (Day 5 here)

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nattousan replied to your photo: a more complicated, explicitly monstery...

THIS IS SO COOL!! THE POSING IS SO NICE AND I LOVE HOW THE HORNS SPIRAL OUT AGH

thank you very much! the pose was a fun one to try and get right

[eledritch]

aaahhh thank you so much! well the main thing im trying to figure out is where to get started, so i guess i want to ask you once you have an idea for a story and you know what's going to happen, how do you go about blocking out the story? or do you take the chaotic neutral route of just typing the whole mess out and then editing it later?

good question! i....tend to take the chaotic neutral route honestly and edit as i go/afterwards...BUT, I know quite a few writers who can’t do it that way and need or prefer the order and organization of solid notes & blocked out plot/scenes. My technique is usually write it all down as it comes to me, starting with a vague idea of direction and conclusion. I think a huge temptation for newer writers (it definitely was for me, and I think that temptation never quite goes away) is to try to exercise complete control over the whole story. 

I would argue you don’t wanna do that, especially when it comes to characters. They will feel more natural if their interactions/dialogue/development happens naturally as you’re writing, rather than being confined to a rigid set of expectations you have for the story. If you as the writer aren’t surprised by your story/characters, your readers won’t be surprised, either. 

But you do need some structure and control or you’ll find yourself floundering pretty quickly. I’m trying to think of a metaphor that’s less creepy than this one, but I got nothin, so basically it’s like this:

You’re the puppeteer and your story is your puppet (think, like, a marionette lmao). You designed the puppet and placed all the strings (or add a few on the way), you know basically what the puppet looks like and where you want the puppet to end up. But ideally, that puppet is gonna pull a Pinocchio on you and get a little life of its own - the puppet might move in ways you don’t expect, strain against your initial plan for it, and even break some strings. You can choose to add more strings to subdue your rebellious puppet, which could render your puppet totally immobile and uninteresting, or you can let the puppet go where it wants to and see how it goes. Maybe the puppet will even tell you some ideas of its own (often based on foreshadowing you didn’t even realize was there, initially). 

A lot can be revealed about a story’s potential through the process of writing a story, and you should be open to that potential and change. Let your story be fluid to a certain extent; this can also help with avoiding writer’s block. If you don’t constrain yourself to a+b+c=d, then you won’t get stuck when you can’t figure out how to write c. You just bring an e in there, and maybe you end up with f or g or z. 

This can be used for longer or shorter stories; but keep in mind that for very long stories (like...the ones i write too much...) you’re gonna want a document of Things To Remember for consistency’s sake. You might think you’ll remember that necklace you introduced in chapter 4, but by chapter 10, it’s probably gonna be gone from your memory unless you wrote it down beforehand. I also do this with timelines, ages, and bits and pieces of scene/dialogue/plot that I want to try to include later on in the story.

Hope that tangle of thoughts helped, haha!