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Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.

Some people go together like parentheses; matching opposites, always curled towards one another, keeping the best parts of their story safe between them.

If you get there before me, would you save me a seat? And if I never get there at all, would you leave the seat empty?

I will love you as an airplane loves to fall from a clear blue sky and as an escalator loves to entangle expensive scarves in its mechanisms.

Newly revamped eat the bigots tote bag that reads “be strong eat bigots” with two wolves in a floral and sword pattern

Another photo of the tote bags this time with korjik the cat inspecting them

💫HOT OFF THE PRESS, EAT THE BIGOTS TOTE BAGS ARE NOW IN STOCK 💫 (korjik not included)

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#art #totebags

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

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thanks sethos birthday blurb ur now going to become besties with eunhu . just you wait. #camocs

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🔗: uquiz.com/quiz/ufSouE/what-type-of-light-are-you-psychoanalysis

have you seen this man
#pastsolusau #ffxiv #ffxivart #emetselch

I will love you like there's razors in it, and she'll love you like a radiant flame.

You remind me of someone I loved four lifetimes ago. Someone I’ve loved in every lifetime since.

The fear: that nothing survives. The greater fear: that something does.

The loneliness of writing drives me nuts sometimes. When it’s going bad, it’s loneliness, and when it’s going good, it’s solitude.

⠀wish i could turn you back into a stranger .

crab . we need to brainstorm together. somehow i bet with the power of half our braincells we can have a Single Braincell to make something NEAT

my worst character trait is having a Good Idea In Theory then never being able to push it further wahhhh wahhh #camyaps

want to make new ocs in whole new universe and w/e but also i do not have the brainpower to worldbuild properly so i only have "modern w/supernatural elements also theres a parallel liminal world kinda like silent hill/p3 dark hour" going for it . everything else?? absolutely Nothing Else #camyaps

Casual. Casual like the way you press all my buttons, undo them, so that honesty falls through. Like not having to explain what I meant; you just knew. Like the way I casually say I am most like myself when I’m with you.

i cannot for the life of me find that little oc snippet of two immortal lesbians performing autopsies on one another as a love language and its DRIVING me up a wall . did i hallucinate that. DID I MAKE IT UP IN MY HEAD??? #camyaps

I woke up with the stars nipping bright at my eyelids. I lay still and watched them tell me stories.

I held onto you with a desperate strength, with everything, everything in me.

⠀crawl inside this body— find me where i’m most ruined , love me there .

I'll live without you, though the struggle will be daily.

You're my best friend. Now I've no one to tell how I lost my best friend…

A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river but then he’s still left with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away but then he’s still left with his hands.

Listeners, I… What do I say here? I wish things could've gone differently, obviously. That is obviously what I wish. But they didn't. What is the use of nostalgia for what didn't happen when we have to live with what did?

What pitiable cant to say “She will live forever in my memory!” Live? That is exactly what she won’t do.

I should have died that day. At least you’d have remembered me as pure and beautiful. As it is, even though I’m alive, I am a dark chapter in your life. I’m right, aren’t I?