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Sage / NB lesbian [they/them] / 30s. I draw a little and I like OCs. My wife is Ryan (@othersharkss) and we co-write lovespellscomic.carrd.co ! (Mobile header is by cottonbun.tumblr.com)

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-> Art tag is #unsagely sage art.

-> I co-write @lovespells-comic, a slowburn lesbian romance with a JRPG vibe. If you're a new reader, it might be easier to start on Tapas.

-> If you're like "what's the deal with clone angst / bug yaoi?", that's Astra Inclinant, my longform OC fic (321k words; complete!). It's about clone angst, space religion, body horror, and the mortifying ordeal of being known. It has illustrations!! (Link is an info post, but I need to update it.)

-> More OC posting on @adelaides-hall.

-> Danmei-only alt is @folding-fan.

Thanks!

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What do we think, chat… I have a bunch of OC art I haven’t cross-posted from Bluesky. Should I just put it all in one big post or break it up in some way, or??? (It’s all the same characters.)

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I forgot if you say the c word [trading currency for art] that it summons randos and ay- eye scammers lmao

[nyquillionaire]

Do you have a commission post? :0 I couldn't find it on desktop Tumblr.

nnnnnnnnno i only ever posted it on twitter but it's literally just this

i do most stuff , am happy to do custom quotes depending on Whatever Ya Want and everything gets colours by default for freigh no extra charge cause i'm like that

[sashayed]

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

[boomstab-papa]

[your-cosmic-creature]

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

[deusben]

babe wake up...i need to tell you multiple thoughts that don't corelate at all that i had in the span of five minutes..

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Oh my god, the prices on old Sonic merch have gone up so much I'm seriously considering selling my set of the Sonic X UFO machine plushes. Hmm....

[adelaides-hall]

It’s still National Be Nice to Bugs Day (07/14) in my timezone. [OCs; Astra Inclinant]

[xalatath]

IMPORTANT

[somacruz]

Mulder fart pocket

[somacruz]

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On the topic of "AUs", there's a pair of fandoms I'm aware of where a side character in each doesn't pair off with anyone in canon and so people have started shipping those two together, from two different series, and then making like. Mermaid AUs and whatever.

And that's fine! I cannot stop you! But like, consider that you've made OCs and you can free yourself. (Mermaids don't canonically exist in either setting.)

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌

X

[ruffboi-mags]

1) do this even if you're under 40. seriously. I definitely should have been doing something like this for years and I only turned 40 a month and a half ago

2) if you're like me just now trying this going "oh god i've only done 15 and i think my hands are cramping" start lower than 30 and increase by 5 once whatever number you're doing no longer makes your hand cramp up. I can manage about 15 per exercise at the moment.

[creations-by-chaosfay]

If you're hypermobile, be especially gentle.

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I have like 8 million tags muted for a reason, but AU posts make me nuts. They’ll be like “AU where literally every single thing about the characters and scenario are different, leading the protagonists to be completely different people from the onset and their relationships with each other to be nothing like those they have in canon”.

You means OCs???? When you become fully untethered from canon so that nothing is the same except the names and maybe like… the fact that A and B are friends or get together or whatever, you have functionally just made original characters and an original setting. Everyone goes “nooo I can’t make OCs that’s so hard” but they’re already doing it! Just take them!!! Just take the thing you made and play with it with your friends and have a nice time instead of pretending this is somehow still [canon] in any meaningful way.

[elgreytea]

What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)

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Because I felt like I should do a specific chapter post one last time: Chapter 42 of Astra Inclinant, in which we are only beginning. ~11.4k words. This is the last chapter, and the story is now complete!

Go read that completed bug yaoi!!!! 🌈🦗🎉

(Second link is an info post, if you're new and want to know what's up!)

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Art Fight participants: who do you usually attack?

Mutuals/friends

OCs I think are cool

People who attacked me first

Voting ended onJul 13

"Usually" in this case being whatever is most often for you. You decide how to interpret this.

[cbk1000]

So, I lurk in some writer subreddits, and a frequent topic of discussion is prose: what constitutes good prose, how do you write it, how do you improve it, etc. And yesterday I stumbled across one topic about the difference between good descriptive prose, and purple prose. OP asks people to share some of their favourite authors who they think write beautiful prose without tipping into purple. No problem; people are happy to oblige.

One person says that Steinbeck is one of their favourite authors for prose, and then they share an example of what they would consider purple prose. It is so violetly awful that I think the poster must have written it themselves as a kind of parody of purple prose. Other people assumed the same.

But as it turns out, they are quoting from a book written by a YouTuber whose channel ia dedicated to talking about writing (namely, their own writing, which is genius, but often not comprehensible to the drooling plebs).

Naturally, I read the free sample of their book in awe and horror, and I'd like to share some screenshots with you. If you also have trouble defining or understanding what purple prose is, it's this.

Yes, every single fucking page is written like this.

[cbk1000]

Reading some more of the preview for this book, and I realise this is by far not the biggest problem, but I'm begging this guy to just use 'shadow' instead of 'umbra'. I promise I will not accuse you of being a philistine.

[cbk1000]

'Noctilucent orbs'. Even fanfic written by a 14-year-old wouldn't dare.

The author is a man in his 30s, btw.

[the-pen-pot]

*throws this in the face of everyone who has ever accused me of writing purple prose*

[neverwalka1one]

I thought the Amelia Peabody series was purple. I owe the author an apology. Uffda