Xek Rychtevorik, author and artist.

The Traitor's Mark sci-fi webcomic is available on webtoon for Free! Or, you can buy the book on lulu.com. 💀💀💀 Coms Open!

[ijustwannawritepls]

Underused Microexpressions for Attraction

We’ve done lip biting to death... Let’s evolve.

• Eyes flicking to someone’s mouth mid-sentence • Forgetting what they were about to say • Leaning in unconsciously • Mirroring posture without realizing • Smiling at something that wasn’t that funny • Adjusting hair or clothes when the other person enters • Noticing and remembering details no one else bothers to • A pause before pulling their hand away • Shoulders softening • Looking away first and then back again • Swallowing before speaking • Voice lowering slightly • Turning their body fully toward the other person • A delayed reaction to a touch

[luna-azzurra]

Quick Tips for Writing Dialogue (AGAIN)

⟢ PEOPLE DON'T FINISH SENTENCES! IMPORTANT! they interrupt themselves, they trail off, they start talking about eggs and somehow end up confessing their deepest fear about becoming their mother. Your dialogue should derail like a drunk train conductor took the wheel. "I was thinking we could—no wait, did you feed the cat? Because last time you said you would but—actually never mind, what I meant was—" SEE? HUMAN. Beautiful chaos.

⟢ Contractions exist??? USE THEM. Nobody says "I am going to the store" unless they're an alien spy or your grandmother leaving a voicemail. It's "I'm gonna" or even "gonna hit the store" or if they're really casual "store run, back in 20"

⟢ LISTEN TO ME! Said is NOT dead but said is also boring sometimes. Yeah yeah, "said is invisible," the writing teachers chant while burning incense. But you know what? Sometimes people mutter, snap, whisper, drawl, bite out their words. Your character just found out their partner sold their vinyl collection? They're not "saying" anything, they're HISSING like a Victorian ghost

⟢ People repeat themselves when emotional!!! "I can't believe you. I just—I can't believe you did this." Not poetic. Real. That's the point!!!

⟢ Subtext is doing heavy lifting, what people DON'T say matters more than what they do. "Fine" is never fine. "Whatever you want" means "I will remember this betrayal forever." Your readers are smart; let them read between the lines

⟢ Accents/dialects: DO NOT WRITE THEM PHONETICALLY unless you want your book thrown across the room. Do NOT write "Oi guv'na, blimey!", instead show it through word choice, rhythm, syntax. "Right then, what's all this about?" works better than "Wot's awl dis aboot guvnah"

[deathclaw-for-cutie]

The phonetically-written accent is a big one for me. Starting all the way back with the X-men comics I read in high school, when I was trying to decipher Rogue and Gambit (characters I have no trouble understanding in the cartoons), there are so many things that I’ve had to put down and stop reading because deciphering the accent was *work* and took me out of the story at light-speed. My brain can barely process it. I try to use it sparingly in my own writing, relying instead on, as stated above, word choice, rhythm, and syntax. My own personal feelings is that it can make works difficult to understand, and one also runs the risk of entering the realm of caricature. It can be interpreted as mockery, especially if the author is not part of the group being represented by the character.

[atomicmacaw]

Day 20 of #schmaultober2025 "Carol's Place" @thefalloutwiki

Atom steals the show during some downtime at Carol's Place. The trio made a pit stop at the restaurant for a cup of coffee while out in the capital wasteland where they had just picked up some old belongings from Beckett's childhood home in the capital wasteland. Like the ham he is, Atom decided to give the photographer quite the scare. Perhaps he heard the word "mutfruit" from the kitchen.

Characters pictured (foreground): Atom, Graves, and Beckett

Characters cameoed (background): Jasmine, Charon, Tobias, Elena, Gabe

Special thanks to @jagopolis and @satiricalkat for their help pulling locational references. @blueghostiecreations

[elthedevil]

Wip. Hope you like pain. And being sad. This one’s 18 pages I think. I also got a third job so I’m not moving as fast as I’d like but to anybody standing by, here’s an update… sometime this upcoming week for sure. Hope ur ready to cry, I wrote the damn script and still ball up in tears during ever go over

… it’s weird how time works, I wrote this script sometime in February always imagining what it would look like when it was all drawn out… and now we’re practically here nd it’s insane. It’s been pretty awesome hahaha

[ispyspookymansion]

my fellow warm weather haters and summer depression sufferers: we’ve made it. its nearly over we’re nearly free another year of increasing highs survived our beautiful cold weather is coming gray skies and cool temperatures will save us!!! As for the rest of you….well you had your fun. good luck.

[slugginz]

Fallout raider oc commish I did for my sweet glowing angel @usaofamericaa 🥵

[whoislupiniii]

Humina humina *motor boats*

[kaychen666]

Over the Edge

[xekrychtevorik]

Follow me on IG, if youre there💙 im really bad about remembering that tumblr exists. Im trying 😭😭😭 i just keep forgetting to open this app and post/scroll through.

[xekrychtevorik]

My fallout art is moving to another tumblr.

Please follow @atomicmacaw 💙🥺

[slaughtersafe]

OC

[animentality]

[atomicmacaw]

This 18+ event takes place on my insta (same handle as on here). If you want to submit your request, please do so on there 💖 good luck to all that do!!!! 💖

[wasteland-wrecker]

Win a drawing for FREE [Fallout] is back!

☢️ Feeling lucky? Try to win an half body colored drawing of your favorite Fallout character! ☢️

🔴 ENDS: AUGUST 1 🔴

🟢 RESULTS: AUGUST 3 🟢

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Two simple rules:

1. Comment with this emoji -> 😭

2. Reblog (necessary!)

Please don’t add the 😭 emoji to the reblog hashtags. Instead, leave a COMMENT under this post so I can follow the correct order. Thank you!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

I will assign you a number based on the chronological order of your comment.

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AFTER THE RAFFLE, the winner must:

- Confirm participation within 48 hours of the raffle post. You’ll also be contacted privately, so please keep an eye on your messages.

If you're busy, just leave me an "OK" in chat and get back to me later. If you don’t respond, I’ll move on to the 2nd place winner, and so on.

- Send me any useful info about their Sole Survivor / Courier Six / Lone Wanderer OC, Companion or NPC — descriptions, pictures, drawings, whatever you like — within one week of the raffle.

(If you’re feeling lucky, you can prepare it in advance!) If you don’t provide the material in time, I’ll go to the next in line.

I will post the final result on my blog 🫵🥺

Please read:

☢️ Don’t ask me to draw anything that isn’t FALLOUT-related. (Fallout is a video game series by Bethesda. Fallout 1, 2, 3, 4, 76, New Vegas, and the TV show are all included!)

☢️ Use only ONE account — or two different ones for commenting and reblogging, but please make it clear somewhere that you're the same person.

☢️ Everyone can join — even past winners! You don’t need to follow me, but please keep an eye on the blog for updates.

Wish you luck! 🍀

[tinytorchlight]

[tricitymonsters]

Great and now there's this. Theres truly no room for an ounce of complacency this is a direct attack on queer creatives.

Here's a link to the whole thread for more context

[tricitymonsters]

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.

Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It mu

Hey, so the ACLU is gearing up to take this on if yall have room to support this org, it would mean a lot to me (and other adult queer creators). As always, word of mouth is really important here too so reblogs are greatly appreciated.

[hansoeii]

the honda odyssey, huh?

[eggsrblue]

'eo