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"Everyone must learn to code," they repeatedly told us

So did anyone else’s ancient programming kick in after hearing about the #homestuck announcement?

Tumblr poll from “lesbianalism” Do you think you could take a werewolf? Yes: 70.6% No: 29.4% In a fight? Yes: 8.1% No: 91.9% Final results from 35,878 votes

Allow me to share one of my favorite tumblr polls of all time

it is REALLY funny watching people discover in real time that Toby Fox worked on homestuck and is a fan of homestuck and maybe also still andrew hussies friend.

não aguento mais

Fake one piece bounty poster of Buggy the clown for One Piece Day’25. Buggy is smiling with his mouth wide open, his tongue licking one of his upper teeth and his eyes looking crazy. His right hand is peeking out of the frame. Stars and a cute version of his clown jolly roger are scribbled in white around him. Text: My favorite One Piece Day’25 My favorite character

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#onepiece

She was a showgirl, But that was thirty years ago ✨

#homestuck #roxylalonde #art

a strip game. a big guy in a bleach-stained t-shirt and bike shorts smiles at the viewer. an ostomy bag peeks out from under his shirt, and he's put on his glasses to see you better! he says "hope you weren't expecting anything too glamorous..." text information reads: "strip for stripe. find phone numbers and addresses at yellat.money. comment on this post with your experience calling and/or sending mail. 1 point: phone call to visa, mastercard, or your representative/senator/MP. 2 points: phone call to stripe or paypal. 3 points: physical letter to any of the above." the third goal is 100 points to remove his shorts and socks.

💧 STRIP FOR STRIPE GOAL 3 💧

starting this goal with 13 points left over! no deadline this time, so any calls made + letters sent from today onwards will count. but don't leave him waiting...!

#savespeech

strongly recommend drawing your creatures in album covers.

#oc #ocsky #art

aaaa thank you!!

Mas confia que a censura no steam é no itch io é pra proteger criança

Confia

dick grayson - nightwing

red hood - jason todd

red robin tim drake

damien wayne - robin

DC brainworms are back, finally drew the Batsons #bekkodraws

hey i'd love to join but it seems this current link expired too ><

So instead of addressing any issues, Mastercard is FURTHER supressing criticism.

They're panicking.

Don't. Stop. Calling.

Great idea. Mastercard DID NOT WANT to be brought up negatively in the context of their sponsorship of Riot's esports

Weaponize that against them

artist friends when they draw each other’s ocs

PBS needs you, y'all. Become a member. Get Passport. mainline documentaries until your eyes bulge cuz your brain is too stuffed.

re; vídeo do Felca, tô tentando organizar algumas observações que eu tenho sendo professora da rede faz uns 3 anos já
- muitos pais são pessoas profundamente infantilizadas e imaturas, mesmo tendo 40 e tantos anos, e encaram os filhos primeiro como pets e depois como "amigões"
- filho é propriedade

I think my general rule now for any sort of organized space is I refuse to be the only person of color in the room. This cannot happen anymore. I don’t care how nice everyone is. If I’m the only one, I’m walking out.

If you have ever wanted to yell directly at a Mastercard CEO: do it!! do it NOW

Aguardem uma enxurrada de atualizações nos Termos de Uso das plataformas caso seja aprovado (ou talvez até antes) incluindo uma linha onde você autoriza que seus dados sejam usados de graça.

E se você não aceitar os termos você simplesmente não vai poder usar nada.

Other hard lessons to learn:

+ Not all stories belong to you.
+ Don't just hire consultants. Hire talent from the cultures you're making games out of.
+ Put more BIPOC folks in leadership positions.
+ Support products from beyond America.

by @asparrowsfall on tumblr Let's take a look at what makes dialogue unique to a character. I'm gonna list these as bullet points first, and then i'll suggest some exercises to explore these aspects of speech. Most important aspects - focus on these first Vocabulary - the words they use. As subset of this: Complexity of words, which can include: Syllable length Likelihood to be used in casual conversation - a character can be very smart and still use very informal language. Cultural touchpoints Culture can include pop culture references - think Tony Stark’s nicknames for everyone, i.e. “Point Break” and “Underoos” How in or out of sync the character is with the story’s setting with regard to both time and place - are they from a different country or era of time than their peers? Important - Check these out if you have time How likely the character is to speak their mind vs. change the subject - this could be for any number of reasons, from fear to duplicity Amount they say / Introvertedness / how reticent they are - This is somewhat related to the above point, but not necessarily, and should be researched from different angles. Subverting a topic is not the same thing as being afraid to talk about it. Different ways of speaking with different characters - this could be a function of story (i.e. how a character who is captured speaks to their captors as opposed to friends) as well as pure Code Switching Deep cuts - Advanced aspects of speech Fluency in the language they are speaking Accents - You do not have to write a character in an accent, i.e. spell the words differently to show the accent, if you don’t want to. It really depends on the piece (usually how light hearted or humorous you want it to be) whether you do or not.

Dialogue analysis exercise Find five (or more, but at least five) representative lines from your character’s canon dialogue. If they don’t speak, don’t have five lines, do the best you can. (I imagine other forms of communications can probably also be analyzed in this way, but I’m gonna focus on dialogue for now.) These are going to be your key phrases. They need to be from canon and they need to be words that really show off who your character is.

1. Say the words out loud. Read them again and again. What do they sound / feel like? 2. What is the average syllable length? How many long words do they use? 3. Do any words jump out at you as archaic? What about modern pop culture references? 4. What is a different way they could have said this? Write some alternate versions of this phrase and figure out WHY the character didn’t say it this way instead. What is the difference between the canon dialogue and the alternative? Try to be as specific as possible. It’s as important to know what they wouldn’t say as what they would. 5. Look up any of the more complex words and find some similar ones, with a similar level of complexity. Use a thesaurus you trust and possibly also Wordnik. If your character doesn’t use ANY complex words, reflect on that. Why? What’s their reason? How does that fit with the rest of their personality? 6. Think of some other characters from other pop culture pieces who speak in a similar way. It doesn’t have to be 100% the same, but if it can help your ear get used to some new-but-different phrases, it’s enough. You’re training your brain to speak like the character. Start to sort phrases they would say from ones they wouldn’t. How do these two characters differ? 7. Now that you have worked thoroughly through your key phrases, start to imagine these lines said in something other than the original context. What if they were said to a different character? WOULD they even be said? What would change? What would happen if your character was scared / hurt / overjoyed / sick? 8. Finally, after all that, write some NEW dialogue for your character, either as practice, or right into your fic draft. Keep using your key phrases as a guide and go back to canon as much as you need to! You can do this!

for you, dear reader: a tumblr post regarding writing existing character voices for fanfic which i've found immensely helpful

Grammar police.

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