teewos

i squibs; i do the art thing. they/he agender, pfp by bingusjpeg

[tybeewo]

taking a break from social media for a while again, but u guys can have this flowery doodle 💛

[sopuu]

Ok

Ok

Ok

Hear me out woth this

YOU’RE SO RIGHT

[tybeewo]

draws the roaring knight with a dark fountain pen

[blobbei-art]

Friendship ended with Tenna now the flower everyone hates is my best friend

Also my headcanon of his eyes…

[sopuu]

er the flowers look a lil different

[tybeewo]

my lightnersona!! finally gave them a bit of a glowup + a proper ref. portraits and extra doodle below :]

yes they go to college with papyrus. my sibling made a joke about it and i immediately canonized it

[kiwitsune]

I have no interest in maintaining your perception of me

Did you know that everyone views you differently?

Despite other people having a different perception of you (and expectations), it's important to remember who you truly are and just be yourself ^^

also version without text

All this time and he STILL has his shoe untied smh

[nanstar200]

BOOMBOX!!!! I LOVE YOU BOOMBOX!!2!3!3!

[scagsaurus]

Request from strawpage. Boomboard gaming

[daily-boombox-drawings]

Day 111

Thoughts spill, no retention

[tybeewo]

no distance between us!!!

[stomachayx]

Guess who couldn’t sleeeeeppppp :D

[stomachayx]

The Point of No Return - PhantomPhest Ch 1

Lead Cast The Phantom: Dom Christine: Sword Raoul: Rocket Supporting Cast Madam Giry: ValkMonsieur Firmin & André: Lord Pwnatious & Carnag

The art fight theme has resparked my interest in this au

[daily-boombox-drawings]

Day 110

[daily-boombox-drawings]

Day 109

[rqbossman]

What makes a story a story?

I have been mulling something over for a while and have decided to share. As part of my job, I read a lot of fiction that's still in development. After a while, you start to see the same errors, misunderstandings and shortcuts crop up repeatedly with different creators and it gets me thinking what is the most elegant way possible I could explain the issues to someone wanting to improve? The one that comes up the most often and is the hardest to explain is: "Why don't people care about my characters and/or story". It's always a thorny problem and I think I have a workable answer that applies in most cases: A story is a series of revelations regarding compounding, unintentional consequences to character decisions. The further you stray from this, the less people care. It translates to: 1) characters have to make decisions otherwise there is no drama 2) Those decisions have to matter otherwise there are no stakes 2) The consequences have to interact with one another. A affects or causes B affects or causes C etc. otherwise there is no progression 3) There must be some unintended consequences otherwise there is no conflict 4) The consequences have to be revealed (even at least implied) otherwise there is no conclusion This works at the micro scale in terms of dialogue: The specific word/tone/movement a character uses affects how another character reacts in an unexpected or interesting way which in turn causes another reaction and these layer onto one another until a decision is reached and a consequence implied thereby completing the scene. It also works at the macro scale in terms of plot: The decisions characters made in a scene prompts/affects the characters and context of the scene that follows (even if we don't know it at first) and by the end those layered interactions have been revealed to us and we see the unexpected or interesting result.

In my anecdotal experience, most times people don't care about a work of fiction is not because of a technical issue with the execution but because the writer has subtly misunderstood what makes a story a story. Their main character doesn't make any decisions, the decisions don't seem to matter, it feels disjointed because consequences aren't layering, there's no conflict because there are no misunderstandings etc. There countless technical aspects which affect the quality of a piece of fiction but most times when someone asks me to help them make people care about their story they first need to realise they have misunderstood what actually makes a story at a fundamental level and they need to recognise that before things can improve. I dunno if this helps anyone. I hope it does. Sorry if it doesn't. If anyone wants to use this to assess their own work let me know what you discover, I'm genuinely curious.

[tybeewo]

screen printing, dancing, and falling