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Things I like that you might, too!

@el-garr

Hello, my friends. Welcome to my main blog, a place full of random stuff that I like. While you're in here, let's see how deep the rabbit hole goes...

Hey y’all!! I’m making Telegram stickers for personal use available! If you’d like, I can make a batch for your ‘sona on Telegram or your instant messenger of choice! Prices are set to full ink and color per sticker, but can be negotiated for just flat or sketch.

Feel free to DM me for more info if you’re interested!

I know Dracula is the bad guy of Castlevania and all, but if some zealous Christians showed up at my home and horribly murdered my wife because she did medicine too good I too would probably have gone absolutely fucking feral

He gave them a year and fair warning

Dracula: you killed my wife so I’m going to get my revenge in exactly a year unless you apologize

Citizens of wallachia: *don’t apologize*

Dracula: *gets revenge a year later*

Cizitens of wallachia:

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Me: wow I’m way too attached to fictional characters
Me: *sees y’all send death threats to writers because you didn’t agree with their decisions*
Me: never mind I’m attached the healthy amount
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“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos

classic texts have nothing on the crazy people come up with in modern times tbh

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“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”

– Joshua Graham, Who Is A Fallout New Vegas NPC, Something Most People Throwing This Quote Around Don’t Realize

“If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight like I always have.”

– Shadow the Hedgehog in what is widely considered one of if not the single worst game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise

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this is the source for this text and it haunts me on a regular basis

“Pick a god and pray.”
-Fredrick from Fire Emblem Awakening

Huh, it’s almost like art isn’t just fine art…

this is my addition to this ever growing list of raw quotes originating from unexpected sources

this post has gotten so much better since the last time I saw it

adhd is holding back tears of frustration during a test as you re-read the same sentence for the 20th time and it’s still not processing right

Meanwhile, in my head:

My face when I see the shots that require revisions.

Seriously though, closing in on finishing animation. Only a few shots left. Then It’ll just be small revisions and editting!

This is why you should always check the anatomy of what you're drawing if you're not familiar with it...

So I wanted to draw my dragonborn DnD ranger, and went to check this drawing I'd done of her last April in full gear to see what her crossbow looked like, and started to wander what this one bit of it actually was (a stirrup, as it turns out), so went to google crossbow anatomy. Apparently I hadn't thought it necessary to draw the trigger on the dang thing. My noble ranger is holding a big, clunky box of a crossbow that doesn't even have a trigger on it.

I still like this drawing, but gosh dangit, Paper, use your friggin' references!

How to Improve Your Dialogue

Hey all! I work as an editor, so I decided to start including more writing advice on my blog in addition to my own writing. I hope this article is helpful to some of you.

One of the biggest problems I see in beginning fiction writers’ dialogue is a lack of conflict.

(Come to think of it, one of the biggest problems I see in general is a lack of conflict, but that’s another post.)

Good dialogue, like a good story, should be rich with conflict. There are exceptions – most notably in a story’s ending or in brief, interspersed moments when you want to slow down the pace. But as a general guideline, dialogue without conflict gets boring very quickly. Here’s a classic example:

“Hi,” Lisa said. “Hey,” José said. “How are you?” “Fine. You?” “Doing all right.” Lisa handed José a turkey sandwich. “Would you like a sandwich? I made two.” “Sure, thanks.”

Okay, that’s enough. I won’t continue to torture you. Not only is there no conflict between the two characters who are speaking, but there’s no conflict anywhere to be seen.

The bad news is that if you write something like this you will bore your reader to tears.

The good news is that there are lots of ways to add conflict to dialogue. Once you know how to do it, you can make just about any scene pop with tension.

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Now this is advice I could spend hours rewriting with :D

Commission for Meroaw on twitter, of Hyeon!  They’re holding a lotus paper lantern and trying to be peaceful but Someone’s disturbing their space. get outta here