Drea~!

A digital drawing of the Loch Ness Monster swimming with moss growing on its back and seaweed tangled on its flippers. The original 1934 photo is on the left side with a red heart drawn over the monster as several yellow cutout stars decorate the illustration. Word cutouts frame the drawing of Nessie that say “You may not see me anymore, but I still love you”.

nessie

제노스

最近寒すぎる

digital illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a hand with a lace web pattern glove. The hand has sharp fingernails dripping a tiny amount of blood. A black butterfly is perched on the hand.

"Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure." - excerpt from 'Carmilla' by Sheridan Le Fanu

Luna and Noctis 💚 #FFXV #FFXVArt #FF15 #FinalFantasy #Noctis #Luna #NocticLucisCaelum #LunafreyaNoxFleuret

Pumpkin Witch and Cat Witch in their Hanboks. Cat Witch is also holding a broom in one hand. Two crows flying on both sides of the illustration.

Happy Halloween! 🎃

zooom
#ffxiv #ff14

I'm sobbing at both the tweet and the fact you had me in mind

Illustration of a bear seance. One bear is a medium with glowing eyes, channeling bear spirits from a crystal ball as two other bears look on in fear and awe. It is still cute though, so not very scary at all, even if there is a cute bear face peering up from the crystal ball.

Happy halloween! I hope you conjure up some fun!

The Bayou illustrated cover art: a minimalist black church surrounded by bare trees in front of a full moon or a pale sun, with a staring alligator underneath. Queer 1930s southern gothic horror.

In the Pit of Your Stomach: An Interactive Horror Story illustrated cover art. Comic book style drawing of a ramshackle house and shed in an overgrown yard. Stone steps lead to a pit under the house where a giant skeleton lays. A skinny humanoid figure creeps out from behind the house. Colours are solid blacks and sickly yellow-greens. A CYOA choose-your-path horror story.

Flesh and Bone: an MM horror romance novella by Arden Powell. Cover art: yellow silhouettes of two cowboys on horseback ride inside the body of a huge black dog on a crimson background under an outline of the Rocky Mountains. Gay 1800s gothic western horror-romance with werewolf body horror.

The Faerie Hounds of York illustrated cover art: a woodcut-style wolf rearing up against a dark green background. Gay 1800s gothic romance with a bittersweet ending.

It's Halloweentime! Come get some queer horror for the weekend! Southern gothic, historical western, horror-romance, folkloric fae, and it's all gay 🖤🎃🍂

Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io
Amz/KU: www.amazon.com/stores/Arden...

ABSOLUTELY HOOTING AND HOLLERING ABOUT THE REMOVED GLAMOUR RESTRICTIONS

safe travels to our lost souls
#overthegardenwall

Urianger from ffxiv looking very flustered

Absolutely fucked up on piña colada. Here’s Urianger

Happy Halloween to everyone! A drawing of my fave spooky themed couple ever💕🎃✨ (y bona castanyada als meus mutuals catalans❤️)

As The Player, you are never alone in your grand adventures across Etheirys.

Meet the Leveilleur twins, Alphinaud and Alisaie, both your travel companions since day one. Pure of heart and coming from a lineage of scholars, they’ll be sure to have your back.

#pokemon #ffxiv

My partner and I constantly say "fuck you [persons who caused me trauma]" when I have a response to something lmao glad you're away from it tho!!

It makes me so happy to see the love you still give the boys!! (Also all your ac stuff!!)

Sleepy G’raha

#FFXIV #Grahatia #art #Ffxivart

#ff14

Here are the prompts for #LunoctWeek2025 which will run from 8/30 - 9/4, 2025 🌙🎣

Interested in participating? You can find all the prompts, guidelines, and additional links in our carrd 💕
➡️ lunoctweek.carrd.co

#Lunoct #ノクルナ #녹트루나

Ink on paper drawing of Inuyasha sitting on a tree branc, his hair blowing in the wind, one foot dangling down, staring at the viewer.

Dog boy on a tree
#inuyasha #fanart

[Heaven], are you watching? || #art #FFXIV #FFXIVart

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

On the topic of character voices and writing: I cannot suggest Gamer Escape enough for ffxiv. It has most quests transcribed and is a major resource of mine for reviewing dialogue for characters. It even has conditional statements depending on what you’ve unlocked so it might help you find that too!

Peak

just a glimpse into my dark reality
#egl #eglfasion

Noctis doodles 🐟🐠🎣 #noctis #ffxv #ff15 #finalfantasyxv #finalfantasy15

mr ignis final fantasy in another life #ffxv #ff15 #finalfantasyxv #ignis #finalfantasy15

Sorry for the giveaway spam on here, I would love to win that necklace so fingers crossed

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