be the delulu you wish to see in the world

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[sheremindsmeofawestsidestory]

"These are some hard-to-swallow pills." my therapist tells me, handing over the bottle. I open it and inside is the script for Sam Winchester's first death where it says Sam believes Dean when he says he'll be okay.

[fandom-shiet]

Why Castiel’s character has so much depth:

[lycanthropicture]

historically speaking the best thing to ever happen on this earth is castiel springing out of eric kripkes skull fully formed like athena intent on serving cunt and being gay and saving the world with his big gay feelings for dean winchester, who was born more the traditinoal way out of eric kripkes penis. i forgot what i was going to say

[lycanthropicture]

historically speaking the best thing to ever happen on this earth is castiel springing out of eric kripkes skull fully formed like athena intent on serving cunt and being gay and saving the world with his big gay feelings for dean winchester, who was born more the traditinoal way out of eric kripkes penis. i forgot what i was going to say

[t4tstarvingdog]

( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡° )?

(Tell him you love him back)

(You will not get another chance, tell him you love him back)

(Tell him that he could have had the one thing he wanted)

(Tell him you wanted it too)

(You’re running out of time, tell him)

(Tell him)

(TELL HIM)

Don’t do this, Cas…

those gay bitches from sueprnatural on the supernatural site ?????

Voting ended onJan 27, 2023

[praeca]

why is this one broken?

[t4tstarvingdog]

from a tumblr site perspective, because i did not add a title to it, so it didn’t fully register. from a supernatural perspective? because you can’t save him. because it’s always too late. because you always made that choice and said what you said and he never gets to hear anything different. because this is how the story ends. because this is how it started.

[jiangfamilytherapist]

I know we all love the Untamed, but let’s be real that show is a mixed bag of diamonds and chewed gum for like a whole season (maybe this is also why we love it?)

Sound off, people! What do you think is the most questionable directorial decision in the Untamed?

[toothpickandsalt]

Probably the longing glances between Meng Ziyi and Xiao Zhan that were a clear indication of the abandoned comphet subplot 💀

I genuinely don't understand the censorship reason for the demonic cultivation change in cql from mdzs tho. Comphet i still get that you want a safety net and plausible deniability and ALSO ppl just are homophobic.

BUT THE DEMONIC CULTIVATION??? Why did they make him a caricature of the nerdy baddie he was in the novel (cultivation-wise) 😭😭😭

[jiangfamilytherapist]

I’m like half a year late, but prev is correct on all points. I’d like to add whatever tf preexisting condition WN seems to have had. You know, the multiple pupils in each eye disease that they forgot to go anywhere with

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Masterpost: How to write a story?

Compilation of writing advice for some aspects of the writing process.

How to motivate myself to write more

How to get rid of writer’s block

Basic Overview: How to write a story

How to outline a story

How to come up with plot

How to create a character

How to make a character unique

How to name your characters (Masterpost)

How to start a story

How to write a prologue

How to write conversation

How to write witty banter

How to write the last line

How to write a summary

How to write a book description

How to write romance

How to write friendships

How to write emotions (Masterpost)

How to write an argument

How to write yelling

How to write anger

How to write betrayal

How to title fanfiction

How to write an unreliable narrator

First Person vs. Third Person POV

How to write character deaths

How to leave a strong first impression

How to use songs in a fanfiction

How to name fictional things

How to write self-insert fics

How to write multiple points of view

Introducing a group of characters

Large cast of characters interacting in one scene

How to write dual timelines

How to slow down time

Redemption arc

Plot twists

Fatal Character Flaws

good traits gone bad (Masterpost)

Slow burn

Explanation posts about writing terms

What is…

AU ideas

Favourite tropes

Tropes of the day

List of Genres

Drabble vs. One-Shot

Advice for writing relationships

Masterpost: how to write relationships + romance

More specific scenarios

How to write a bilingual character

How to write a character with glasses

How to write heterochromia

How to write a girldad

How to write taking care of a tired partner

How to create a villain

Reasons for becoming a villain

How to write a morally grey character

How to write an inferiority complex

How to write a road trip

How to write a small town (jobs & businesses)

High paying jobs in the city

How to create and write a cult

How to write amnesia

How to write being stabbed

How to write a stratocracy

How to write a heist

How to write the mafia

Criminal past comes to light

Ideas for traumatic experiences

How to create an atmosphere (Masterpost)

How to write a college party

How to write royalty (Masterpost)

Paramilitary Forces/ Militia

Superpowers Masterpost (Hero x Villain)

Inconvenient things a ghost could do

A Queen’s Assassination Plot

Reasons for leaving their land

Crime Story - Detective’s POV

Evil organization of assassins

Evil wins in the end

Causes for the apocalypse

Last day on earth

Liminal Spaces

Workplace AUs

Signs of co-dependency

What to wear in a desert

What to wear in the arctic

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[doot08]

Your amazingphil art is so good omg???? Pls advise me on shadows i am so bad at rendering digital art

ok this might get long because i love to ramble unnecessarily, but bear with me💥💥

also just a disclaimer i am Not the best person to give this advice since even i don't really understand shadows/light all that well and am still learning!! i will still try my best to explain my process x))

now presenting Blues very barebones shadow and lighting tutorial :D

(under the cut because boy is this long)

for the drawing you are referencing i was using a picture as reference which is probably the best way to actually learn how shadows work since it's a real photo!

i did change some of the colours to make the drawing more saturated which is where you have to start figuring out the shadows and light,,,it's a lot of colour theory but in this instance it's basically warm light = cold shadows

it's good contrast and because light bounces around there usually is some blue from the sky in every shadow when it's sunny!

(also picking colours is a very different skill set, but you can get better if you start just eyeballing colours instead of colour picking or only using layer modes, it’s what i do most of the time nowadays)

quick visual to explain it’s kind of nonsensical, but an attempt was made xP looking at it now i could’ve made the light even warmer in the drawing to contrast the bluer shadow, so looks like i’m learning here too!

also important thing to remember is contrast if you look at the ball on top it’s got tone and colour variation which makes it pop way better than the ball below which is just all the same colour with very little variation which can be boring to look at (not always because it depends on what kind of mood/lighting you’re going for but in the example here it wouldn’t be as dramatic without the all the contrast!)

it's a lot of trial and error and i've only recently really started analyzing how light and shadow works, and that's mostly because i was forced to in school, so you can see i’m not super into doing studies by myself, but you kinda have to if you wanna improve (⁠╥_╥⁠)

it can be really annoying, but doing photo studies and especially drawing/painting from life is genuinenly so helpful in shadow placement it's insane,, i've noticed so much improvement after doing it for the last couple of months (⁠@⁠_⁠@⁠)

yeah uhh moral of the story practise!! do studies (b&w + coloured), look at real life references, just look around you and see if you can distinguish the different colours in light vs shadows/where they're placed (or look at paintings and do the same), study how other artists do it, it will take a while, but i promise that you will get better if you try

i know i didn’t really talk about how to figure out where to place shadows, but that is honestly something i still struggle a lot with so i don’t feel super confident teaching anything about it

[doot08]

Your amazingphil art is so good omg???? Pls advise me on shadows i am so bad at rendering digital art

ok this might get long because i love to ramble unnecessarily, but bear with me💥💥

also just a disclaimer i am Not the best person to give this advice since even i don't really understand shadows/light all that well and am still learning!! i will still try my best to explain my process x))

now presenting Blues very barebones shadow and lighting tutorial :D

(under the cut because boy is this long)

for the drawing you are referencing i was using a picture as reference which is probably the best way to actually learn how shadows work since it's a real photo!

i did change some of the colours to make the drawing more saturated which is where you have to start figuring out the shadows and light,,,it's a lot of colour theory but in this instance it's basically warm light = cold shadows

it's good contrast and because light bounces around there usually is some blue from the sky in every shadow when it's sunny!

(also picking colours is a very different skill set, but you can get better if you start just eyeballing colours instead of colour picking or only using layer modes, it’s what i do most of the time nowadays)

quick visual to explain it’s kind of nonsensical, but an attempt was made xP looking at it now i could’ve made the light even warmer in the drawing to contrast the bluer shadow, so looks like i’m learning here too!

also important thing to remember is contrast if you look at the ball on top it’s got tone and colour variation which makes it pop way better than the ball below which is just all the same colour with very little variation which can be boring to look at (not always because it depends on what kind of mood/lighting you’re going for but in the example here it wouldn’t be as dramatic without the all the contrast!)

it's a lot of trial and error and i've only recently really started analyzing how light and shadow works, and that's mostly because i was forced to in school, so you can see i’m not super into doing studies by myself, but you kinda have to if you wanna improve (⁠╥_╥⁠)

it can be really annoying, but doing photo studies and especially drawing/painting from life is genuinenly so helpful in shadow placement it's insane,, i've noticed so much improvement after doing it for the last couple of months (⁠@⁠_⁠@⁠)

yeah uhh moral of the story practise!! do studies (b&w + coloured), look at real life references, just look around you and see if you can distinguish the different colours in light vs shadows/where they're placed (or look at paintings and do the same), study how other artists do it, it will take a while, but i promise that you will get better if you try

i know i didn’t really talk about how to figure out where to place shadows, but that is honestly something i still struggle a lot with so i don’t feel super confident teaching anything about it

[forkaround]

The way the Pursuit of Jade fandom has reacted to grey hair psycho guy is giving "we are never going to escape patriarchy". The man is clearly giving rapey vibes but sure he is hot so let's ship him with a highly accomplished woman. Who cares if she gets the creeps just by looking at him.

[gizkasparadise]

Me, enjoying these sweet domestic scenes and intentionally turning off my media literacy so I can ignore the blatant PEOPLE ARE ABOUT TO DIE hints:

[toothpickandsalt]

Pretty standard stuff for any war scenario but the lack of reliable news sources and the way every new information I receive is directly contrasting another thing I heard before is so scary

[toothpickandsalt]

If I fully changed the lurking aspect of this blog and dedicated myself to discussing fanfiction would I find fulfilment in the mediocre tides of my life?

[toothpickandsalt]

Ladidada

Ladidada

[starrybouquet]

When AO3 goes down for maintenance, I always take it as an opportunity to read some of the fic I have saved from the Wayback Machine, fanfiction.net, etc.

But today, I was thinking that people might not know how to *find* quality fic on those sites, even if they want to.

So in that vein: would folks be interested if I wrote tutorials on how I go about finding (good) fic on the Wayback Machine/FFN/LJ/etc?

should I make tutorials on how to find fic on older, non-AO3 sites

yes, this would be helpful

no, this would be a waste of your time

Voting ended onJan 27

please reblog so i can figure out if this would be helpful to folks!

[ahappydnp]

doing this again because it was so much fun the last few times

donate to @phandomgives birthday drive for phil (x), send me an ask saying you donated, and i’ll reply with some rare photos/videos of dnp OR be your personal dnp archivist/historian/researcher on a topic of your choice (just let me know which one in the ask!)

[teenslib]

I would rather get this answer from Tumblr than Google: who are Dan and Phil, and why are they famous?