#toomuchtofu

[blueskittlesart]

Still taking drawing prompts? How about Link and Zelda making or wearing flower crowns?

shes learning

[thunderbottle]

your art is beautiful and ur one of my favorite artists! i love your color and shading and the way all the shapes fit together is just so soothing 100% of the time <3 every time i see a new piece of art by you on the dash i just go HGNGNGHGNH

JDJGKHLYL THIS TOOK ME OUT anyways thank you i hope one day you can come around to the true beauty of hot bobblehead dream <3

[relaxxattack]

ohhh, are we talking about passerine now? i spent like, an hour after finishing it ranting about theme... life is worth living because it is beautiful... life is beautiful because it ends... I cried so many times </3

T^T

[cuppakyle]

DAMMIT YOUR ART IS SO COOL

aksndkd THABK YOU!

[transcendence-au]

Alcor the memebender

He’s living his best life, out there bending the memes

[artsymeeshee]

Oh my gosh your art is so amazing!!!

!!! Thank you...!! ;w;

[catarium]

Yo your art is really cool and funny thanks so much I had a good laugh

Thanks ; u ;

[jinmukangwrites]

JIN I NEED HELP. Okay so no pressure to answer immediately but like FIGHT SCENES, right? How do you write them? Surely, you have some wisdom. I usually wing them but they’re choppy or implausible or they drag. How does one understand the conventions of movement in a three-dimensional space? Any advice?

1. Keep it simple.

The main issue I've come across while writing fight scenes for the first time is that I worried too much about describing everything. Don't do that. If your character gets punched, don't say "The bony knuckles of the assailant ripped across the top of his cheekbone, the ring on the ring finger scratching his skin and allowing a single drop of blood to flow". Just say "The ringed fist flies and hits his cheek, causing him to stumble back." Don't go too much into the details. Leave it up to the readers to do that. If its so important that you want the readers to know that a ring cut your characters cheek, have them learn that after the fact as the character sits down, winces, and touched his cheek, bringing his fingers in front of his face to see blood glistening.

Cuz chances are, your characters just aren't thinking about all the details. They're fighting for their lives. They get punched? They get punched and they retaliate. They're not thinking about the pain or the damage or whatever. All that's on their mind is keeping standing long enough to see the other guy go down.

If you over describe, you'll confuse yourself and do all the work for the readers. Just... Just write the actions. Write he punched. He jumped. He dodged. She jumped. A roundhouse kick flew and hit their side, knocking wind from their lungs, but they charge forward anyway. Even though their eyes are blurring. Even though they're pretty sure their ribs might be broken. But they don't care, they don't care because the bad guy is still standing and still smirking and the next step is nothing other than fight back.

2. Keep it short.

You know how exhausting battles are? Especially mele battles? They're draining, and they drain quick. I suggest watching Season 1 Daredevil's hallway fight scene to really get a feel for this. In the scene, you'll see Matt enter the hallway. Doors on all sides with several enemies. A door at the very end holding the kid he's tasked himself to save.

He enters the first room, there's crashing and banging and he's flying like a whirlwind. Throwing punched and kicking with flips. They tumble into the hallway. There's multiple people. He's alone. He takes a hit. He gives two more. He's already breathing hard and the fight isn't even close to over but he must save that kid! They tumble into another room. Crashing. Yelling. Banging. Someone stumbles out into the hallway but Daredevil retaliates with flying microwave ™. Guy goes down, and Daredevil keeps fighting. He's struggling not to pant.

More kicks. More flips. He's losing strength, but there's one bad guy left. It's two men with two agendas but they're both so tired and bruised. So tired and bruised that it's all Matt can do to not slide down the wall. No, no he pushes forward. He stumbles forward as the other guy struggles to straighten himself and breathe because they're both so tired. He flips. He hits the guy with his foot, and they both go down. The kidnapper is unconscious and Matt is gasping to take in breath. He lays for a second. Forces his shaking limbs to move. Pants. Shakily gets to his feet and uses the wall to help steady him as he opens the door and finds a scared kid inside. He doesn't stop panting until what feels like hours later. He passes out the second his body touches his bed.

Battles are tiring. Swords have weight. Muscles strain. Bullets cause more pain that what you expect. If you drag on a battle but keep your character going strong, then it won't be believable anymore. Make it short, get them tired, and declare a winner sooner rather than later.

3. Keep it focused

The issue I run into with LU is that I want to describe what everyone is doing all the time. I have to force myself to step back and remind myself I'm writing in one person's perspective and they're fighting this villain and while yes they worry for the others, they don't exactly know how the others are fairing.

If I'm writing Four fighting a bokoblin but I want to touch that Warrior is fighting in the same battle too, I'll have Warrior enter Four's line of sight for a second. Four will note that Warrior is swinging his sword and looking determined but then I'll immediately go back to Four blocking an axe for his head. Warrior is forgotten. Four is fighting for his life, and if he worried too much about Warrior's life he'll get himself killed.

Don't disrupt the fight to describe the scene. Don't pause the battle to give a long recap. Keep it focused on Four and the sword in his hands and the enemy he wants to put that sword through.

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These are my general rule of thumb. Of course, you don't ever have to follow them to a T. You can change things. These are just my guidelines and what I try to keep in mind. I hope these all make sense and that they help you! There many ways to write battled. These are just mine :)