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@niuniente / niuniente.tumblr.com

Niu | Adult INTJ ♀ | Finland | Author of FUZZY, Death-Head's Deal and Demon Sanctuary.
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Hello new face! :3

Niu is here and everywhere! Find me from following places:

Read my monster romance webcomic FUZZY (COMPLETED)

Read my demon saving priest-comic Demon Sanctuary with Finnish folklore

Read my monster mafia comic Death-Head’s Deal with Alrick

  1. - Death-Head’s Deal FAQ in Google Drive and in @dhdfaq​
  2.  Read Death-Head’s Deal on Tumblr (the first comic, links to all DHD comics are underneath it. The list updates as new comics get drawn!)
  3. Death-Head’s Deal Fan Discord Server JOIN HERE
  4. DHD FANART! (#DHD_fanart)

My shop for spiritual readings and paranormal consulting: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ModernOracleNiu/ NOTE: Closed from German buyers due LUCID. Order your reading via email below if you live in Germany.

Thank you!

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gretchensinister

One of the most life-changing things I ever learned came from Mythbusters, where they tested and proved (with cognitive testing puzzles and reaction time tests) that lying down and resting with the intention to sleep STILL provided significant mental benefits over just staying awake, even if a person couldn’t fall asleep in the amount of time they had. 

It helps me to actually sleep to know that just lying down with my eyes closed is still doing me some good, and helps me to not freak out/beat myself up when I stay up later than intended. Any amount of rest is better than no rest!

So if you didn’t know that…now you do

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rogha

do you know that i think of this post every time i can’t sleep op. what mythbusters did for you, you have done for a great many others. 

#always reblog#as this has helped me too#health
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transfeminitay

"dont die" is my favorite thing to tell people when they say theyre gonna go do something. going to the store? dont die. going to the bathroom? don't die. going to Mars? don't die. going to write an email? don't die. driving to the gas station? don't die. it fits every situation except for maybe a funeral visitation because then i think thatd be a little bit rude

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In Finnish, when someone is leaving to do something - typically a trip, moving to a new place, going away for a while, a weekend get-away, going for hiking etc. - you can wish them well by saying “Koetahan selvitä.” It literally means “Try to survive” or “Don’t die”.

#finnish#meanwhile in finland
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titkoks

sesame street tarot

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honexjams
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cryptotheism

I love this dude. This is a masterful demonstration of cartomancy, even from an anti-theist standpoint. This person is able to understand and apply esoteric meanings to the sesame street cards on the fly, and assemble their oddball symbology into a coherent method of magic that produces reasonable advice.

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Thoughts on this?

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Completely valid! You can do divination with anything. Literally with anything. A really good reader could probably look at cat’s litter box and read your future or fortune from it.

For cards, any deck does: tarot, a Lenormand deck, a playing cards deck or an oracle deck. Other options to use for divination like in the video are amulets (a bag full of trinkets you read), stickers, regular postcards, collectible cards (like Magic the Gathering or Pokemon), and hand written notes you can do yourself. 

Even I have a card deck with is just small postcards of bunnies. I use it regularly in my readings, both for myself and  my clients. I plan to buy a few more of such small postcard sets for divination.

If you want to dive even deeper into divination, there are probably millions of ways to read messages; pendulum, runes, eggs, blood, ink, water, fire, candles, candle wax, nature like cloud scrying, bones (bone tossing), tea leaves, coffee grounds, dice, mirrors (esp. scrying mirrors), astrology, facial features, palm reading, photos of people, items belonging to the person who is getting the reading, picking self written words out from a bag, 8 ball... I personally even use coin tossing for quick YES/NO questions.

Whatever works for you, have fun with it :3  As long as you and the device you are using speak the same language, anything goes.

#divination#spiritual#video
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dannybagpipesarecalling
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southfarthing

what with all this talk of fanfic and ai and feeding other people's work without permission into ai programmes to 'finish' a fanfic or whatever... it's just showing how people see fic as 'content'? a fanfic as something mass-produced and official, something to consume at a distance and then talk about in a vacuum? something to use for your own purposes and something over which you have a claim?

fanfic is written by fans like you. written out of love and passion and a lot of effort and hard work, so that the author can share their enthusiasm for the characters and stories with other fans. like you. they aren't these untouchable, faceless people above you – they're your peers. gifsets, fanart, fanfic – they're all made by your peers. mutuals. friends.

if you want to know more about the fic, talk to the author! so many fic writers leave their socials in the end notes of their fics – talk to them! they're not going to be affronted or judgemental. chances are, they're going to be over the moon that you like their work and want to engage and discuss the characters and the themes etc. they made you happy with their fic, and you would be making them so happy in return! (and what does a happy writer do? write more!)

as a fic writer, I made one of my closest tumblr friends because she read my fic and left a really nice comment, and then we got talking and brainstorming loads of headcanons and fic ideas together! fic writers want to talk! if you enjoy someone's presence and contributions in a fandom, let them know!

and for the love of all that is good, don't feed someone's hard work into an ai programme!!! whether you post it (which is just horrible tbh) is beside the point – you're facilitating the plagiarism of their fic!

#fandom#seriously don't be a prick to your fellow people
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drathe

Father Cole O’Donnelly, priest from Boston and now agent of Templar Order (kind of?).

We’re playing Masks of Nyarlathotep and Cole learned Bless spell from the pope, killed one of Nyarlathotep’s masks and survived weird trials of the templar order.

#aaaw yis!#monsters#priest
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Anonymous asked:

So I have just read your response about how to approach story telling, or at least how you do it specifically. And I just want to thank you for point eight, about 'It's not that deep - unless you wish it.'

I've always been ashamed that I made ocs but couldn't produce plot points for their personal stories. Like people talk about breaking their characters to make them develop, but I could never do that. Because I struggle so often, I didn't want my characters to. I just wanted my characters to live the life that I can't. But I also wanted to overcompensate because I felt like I wasn't doing them justice.

While it's not the popular opinion to have that be the way I approach creation, I do appreciate that you don't say it's a bad thing to not want things to be deep. So thank you, really.

You're welcomed!

I think the people who are very interested in character development typically either enjoy it tremendously or are (intentionally or unintentionally) using their art as a self-therapy. Both valid ways of doing art, as well as not being interested in character development or therapy art.

Sometimes the character development is and can be small and it's OK. People tend to call just finding new things about the character also a character development. Put them in new situations and see how they react and act.

Some characters are iconic for what they are and you don't even expect deep character development from them. Terminator is Terminator and you know with 100% certainty what to expect when you deal with Terminator - sure, he can be programmed differently for different needs but it's not exactly character development on its own if you ask me. Dracula is Dracula, Rambo is Rambo, Predator is Predator and Morticia Adams is Morticia Adams.

It's nothing unheard of that trying to develop the character because you should makes the character unrecognizable or OOC regarding what has been going on until now within the story.

In Nemesis the Warlock comic, the protagonist Nemesis is pictured as a good willed man, who does his best to resist racist humans and save other alien species. He doesn't really care about humans per se but is fine with a human being his right hand helper. His intentions are to save alien species from humans and bring peace to the universe. He's a liked friend and a loved husband and trying his best as a father.

This is about the half way of the series until creator(s) decide to develop Nemesis more. Turns out that Nemesis is actually just a bored demi-God who loves to play hide and seek with his human enemy. That he doesn't care about anyone or anything else but his own joy and boredom. He isn't interested in saving anyone and he literally manipulates his human friend, too, for his own benefit. This is explained as "Well, I'm just a chaos's being, deal with it, I never said I was good".

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See what I mean? Go to far, try to force the development (and explain everything) and you can, without wanting it, break your character or the story - or both! If you make a character go a complete opposite of themselves, there has to be a reason for it. Not like in Nemesis "Well, I'm just like this". No, dude, you were literally the exact opposite for years and still just a second ago. What happened? Well, nothing, creator(s) just decided to add a shock value and develop the character because?????

You want your character to live the life you'd want? Wonderful, that's enough! That's how Sailor Moon was born and is all about. The creator was lonely, so she drew a comic of girls being friends, that kind of friends she wished she'd also have.

It's a valid reason to make a comic. Or anything! Nothing needs to be deep but it can be if wanted.

#ask niu#creativity
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pomrania asked:

Genuine question: how are you able to produce a coherent story while doing it on the fly? I've never been able to manage that. Do you have any tips? Is it a skill that can be learned and practiced?

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I wish I knew! Working freely and improvising is really something which I have always done in creative works - school and education included, all to my teachers' horrors - and it just works for me. The more freedom, the better I work. I absolutely wither as a person, if I don't have freedom in my life.

I know my method doesn't work for everyone but here are a few tips if you want to try more freestyle way, or take creating easier. Of course, this doesn't really work in commercial work where you have employers, clients and deadlines but you can take some of these into such a world, too.

  1. You don't need to know everything One of the core elements for freer creativity is to accept and live with the fact that you don't need to know everything. No, even if it's your OC. No, even if it's your world-building. No, even if it's your own idea you are working on/with. You only need a basic red line, a basic concept and then allow it to unfold naturally over time. The very same way as if you would move to a new place, start a new job, start studies in a new school, befriend new people. You do not know everything about any of these from the day one. You get involved more and more into them as the time flies by. You CAN approach your creative work like that, too. Have a new OC? Great, he/she/they/it is a new acquaintance! You don't usually know about acquaintances more than their name and looks in real life, so why should you know about this just met character of yours any more than that? Let them tell you who they are. Befriend with them (and realize some characters befriend with you easier than others). There's no hurry. "I don't know" is always a valid answer.
  2. Don't immediately plan everything till its end This gives you freedom to allow the characters, story elements etc. to merge with each other peacefully and you can always revisit your earlier plans/thoughts and chance them. If you have already set into the stone your character's whole life with all possible quirks from birth to death, leaving nothing out - well, good luck with trying to fit that into your story. The characters tend to have their own agendas, wishes and quirks aside from your plans and wishes. The more you treat them as you would treat a living, breathing human being and take the journey as "I'm learning to know knew people", the better.
  3. Don't assume. Explore. Allow. This goes together with the above tips but genuinely? Don't assume anything. The basic line works. "This is a story of a boy who befriends with an alien". That's it. That's all. You can start working with this idea. Details will follow later. Allow the stories come to you. There's no need to worry if it's worth of your time or attention. If you like it, if it comes to you as inspiration, go for it! See what comes out. Resting is very important to allow your mind to come up with ideas.
  4. Get inspired! See how others do things and what they do! Get inspired! It is really great to see how others do things as everyone has an unique way of doing whatever they do. All sources are fine for inspiration! It doesn't mean that if you draw, only art can be your inspirational source. It can be books, nature, history, religion, societies, fashion, modern art, cave art, poem, food, stickers, countries, colors, shapes, crafting, mood boards, music. It can be your own experiences, wishes, dreams. It can be other people, their wishes, experiences, their looks and life experience. It can be an event in your life which made its mark on you. Damn, I've gotten inspiration from a random car register plate, too! The more you allow yourself to be inspired - and KILL THE CRINGE, IN THIS FUCKING HOUSE NOTHING IS CRINGE AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY OTHERS' APPROVAL BY DENYING YOURSELF AND WHAT FUCKING INSPIRES YOU - the more freely you can create.
  5. Respect your own inspiration Everything is already done. It's fine. Repeating trophies are what make creative people successful. Would you listen to your favorite band/artist if they changed their style completely? Do you moan that your favorite author or a comic artist did again similar stuff? Do we write hate letters to Stephen King or Neil Gaiman, that "Damn man, write something else! Again this same shit with tropes X, Y and O!" Whatever inspires you, inspires you. Whatever tropes you want to use, use them. No hesitation!
  6. Not everything is for everyone You don't need to please everyone. Please the audience who is naturally pleased with what you do. Don't try to brake the code for success and analyze what you should do. Do whatever the hell you want.
  7. Be Punk Genuinely, have a punk attitude towards arts and writing or whatever you do. Punk's original idea is that anyone can create. Literally anyone. The punk's fashion idea came from the 70's where bands did their own outfits and music - no matter what the quality - and their fans followed. Everything was supposed to be available for everyone; look, I'm a band artist, I painted this shirt's logo with red paint on my living room floor with a dollar brush - you can do it, too! Punk never asks if what I have created is good enough or am I good enough to do this. Fuck it! You want to play guitar, play it, however the hell you play it! You want to do crafts? Great, go for it! You want to try to make a cosplay outfit! Awesome, I wish you all the best! As long as you create, that matters. It never needs to be perfect or done the way that you're "supposed to" do it. A story driven comic without backgrounds? Ah, blasphemy! How about I do it anyway because who is stopping me, the Comic Police? Also, be kind to others who create, include those who are not at your level. Your inner punk rebel should always be giving hand and support to those who are starting (or who aren't or will be at your level, if you are super pro). Kiss the art elitism's ass and bite a good chunk out of it! In your household, art should be done with any equipment, with any method and you do not need polished art of the fanciest equipment (albeit some things do make creativity easier - if you can afford them, then by all means, you them).
  8. It's not that deep - unless you wish it Your creations don't need to be deep, have any strong message, dive into current societal or political issues if you don't want to do that. Your story can be a story of a boy who befriends with an alien, and together they explore society's gender norms, but it can also be a story were the boy and the alien just play in the mud and eat ice-cream. Every story has its audience and you should be THE Audience number 1.

I hope these help! Most important thing is to find your own way to work, explore freely and allow yourself to be whatever you be and create whatever speaks to your heart's language.

#ask niu#tutorial#creativity
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pomrania asked:

Hi, I impulse-followed you yesterday (which I define as "following someone without having first gone through at least three pages of their blog") because I randomly came across Deaths-Head Deals on my dash, then binged the whole story because it is something I really like, and I didn't want to risk missing out on any update (without having to check a different site). So I absolutely don't plan on unfollowing you, but might I ask what kind of stuff I can expect from your blog?

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The best way to find out is to check my blog's archive to see what's usually here: https://niuniente.tumblr.com/archive

What you can expect mostly are cats, art, my art, monsters, good vibes, spiritual posts, additional DHD information, and my own life experiences. Occasionally history, funny things, things from my culture/country, horror, paranormal and Billy Idol. Fandom things come from many, many fandoms.

Basically, you've entered my home and there isn't a just one single thing or max 4 things in my home :D

Everything is always tagged, though.

If you wish to only be notified of a new update, the fan ran DHD Discord Server always gets a notification when I update the comic. Link to the server is in my blog's pinned post. I update typically once a month.

You can also keep an eye on the comic tag in my blog, which is #death_heads_deal - albeit having said that, the tag #DHD is full of additional information and conversations with readers. You do and will get extra stuff out of DHD by following my blog. Very crucial information goes to @dhdfaq which currently operates kind of like DHD Wiki.

Warmly welcome to on board with DHD! I hope you'll enjoy your stay!

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