dolly-royal

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Calling in to all who are willing to participate!

I am currently looking for help to complete and work on the upcoming visual novel : Don't Kiss Me, I'm Scared! A DHMIS dating sim with around 20+ routes and characters to choose! I have decided to open a discord for anyone who wants to help or have a visual of what's to come on!!!

While I do the coding and sprites, anyone can come to help with music, backgrounds, sounds, writing, character building, etc! Whatever you can do will we extremely appreciated!

Link to the discord here!

By the moment I write this I won't be present, but tomorrow (hopefully) I can start giving an idea of what we have to do! Thank you for reading and participating into this heartwarming project!

Cathilda overhears a conversation between Hallariel and Fabian’s father. Spoiler alert: it’s not Bill Seacaster. … Fabian Aramais Seacaster is the son of the Sea God, and Hallariel ensures that he will never, ever know it while Bill lives.

a vaguely-pjo-based au where fabian is the son of poseidon, and this changes nothing and everything. and poseidon misses his kid

*reads fanfiction with the most incredible description, most incredible inner monologue, most incredible dialog, most incredible pacing, most incredible world building, and just most incredible writing*

*looks at my own shrimpy writing skills*

*looks back at incredible fanfiction*

*blinks*

*shakes it with unyielding force*

"HOW DO I DO THAT?!?!?!??!?!!?"

Writers are scary because we’ll take personal trauma and think, "Hmm… what if this happened to my fictional characters but worse?"

bunny buddies

hey sorry it's just that i don't think i'm very good at being a person. thanks for letting me try with you, anyway.

hey bro why does your speech bubble become heart shaped when we talk ? bro why did the tail on your speech bubble curl around and make a little heart shape

mind if I come over and behave somewhat like a scared animal before I adjust

Sometimes I like to come back and spam reblog and see the chaos and leave. If your wondering why about the spam reblog, :p

Question: What is the greatest magic of all? Answer: Friendship, right? [B]: The greatest magic of all is not friendship, it's chronomancy, the ability to control and warp time. If friendship were the greatest magic, look, it's a pet peeve of mine (...)

DUNGEON MASTER BRENNAN LEE MULLIGAN ANSWERS DnD QUESTIONS (TECH SUPPORT | WIRED)

Sometimes when doing writing research you find a little factoid that isn’t right for tormenting YOUR blorbos, but it is PERFECT for tormenting a friend’s blorbos so you just drop the fact on their doorstep like a demented little present.

i love when sibling characters are fucked up from the same event but in opposite ways

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

THAT IS SO AWESOME! THANK YOU FOR DRAWING HER

If you want can ya draw me and friend's delightful fanny design🙏

This is the only full body ref i got of her for now

DAY 13

I gave her a knife because it’s cool or something

Yall excited for the next uptade?

faces i like

Imo in order to finish your writing project you need to be unhealthily obsessed with your characters to a point where you question your sanity

I have come up with a better metaphor than “you can’t pour from an empty cup” for burnout. You can’t boil an empty kettle. Pouring from an empty cup just gets you nowhere. Trying to boil an empty kettle can ruin the kettle, the stove, and burn down your house if you keep trying it.

Love love love characters that present themselves as emotionally open social butterflies but the more you see of them the more obvious it is that they’re the most closed off fuckers in the story. Sure, they want to help you with your personal problems and messy emotions, but if you turn that shit back on them, they’ll shut down or deflect every time. Why are you sticking your nose in their business anyway? It’s not like it matters. They’re not a person, they’re just a role being played. They’re the guy who fixes things and saves people. Please ignore the man behind the mask, he’s fine. Everything’s fine.

An random on thought to chew on, but I remember the silly asks I would get to try and figure out who sent them-while unfortunate it on my old blog (that got accidentally deleted) I am still hunting for the tumblr blog that sent them lol

Need to save the tumblr blog name next time

Commissions!

So...I did the thing

Iva's commisions

Iva's commisions

still in progress, posting for saving

It currently has placeholders, but hopefully it will change.

If you can't comm is fine, but feel free to reblog.

Unsure to tag in main fandoms but alas XD

There is something to be said about the fact that Luke did end up replacing P03 at the end when the Scrybes enlist his help and treat him as an equal in the face of being deleted.

There is something to be said about the fact that Grimora, Scrybe of the Dead who celebrates the death of each card, asks you to spare her in Act 2 and yet she’s the one that enables their demise.

There is something to be said about the fact that Leshy locked the Scrybes away yet still considered the forms they took - the stink bug for the woman who reeks of death, a wolf for the man who looks like a living forest, and the lowly stoat for the Scrybe that hates him more than anything - and claims that being a beast is a noble thing.

There is something to be said about the fact that Magnificus treats his pupils terribly and yet still goes to shake Luke’s hand at the end of it all, missing the opportunity because of his own failings.

There is something to be said about the fact that P03 uses the word “beast” as an insult, proclaims loudly that he will not be Leshy’s stoat anymore, and yet the last time we see him, on Luke’s computer after surviving deletion, is the face of a stoat.

It is adorable!!! I think the Dadbastion is rubbing off on ya-

Monsters, Inc. Costumes

Sometimes I question why I keep drabbles and I finish wips, but for right now I’m chuckling at this silly Anxifear fanfic I’m writing purely for fun and headcanons

Hello!

This is mainly to aim of my friends within the tumblr platform that currently has my discord.

Currently it is within my suspicion that someone is trying to get into my discord account.

If you know me on discord my apologies if suddenly I’m acting off the deep end instead.

It may be someone else either impersonating me and/or trying to hack me. I hope you stop this, this ain’t fucking funny to do to anyone,

@phantom-of-the-ruckus @sarilolla

(And others my apologies if I forget your handle this is stressing me immediately out)

How to show emotions

Part V

How to show grief

a vacant look

slack facial expressions

shaky hands

trembling lips

swallowing

struggling to breathe

tears rolling down their cheeks

How to show fondness

smiling with their mouth and their eyes

softening their features

cannot keep their eyes off of the object of their fondness

sometimes pouting the lips a bit

reaching out, wanting to touch them

How to show envy

narrowing their eyes

rolling their eyes

raising their eyebrows

grinding their teeth

tightening jaw

chin poking out

pouting their lips

forced smiling

crossing arms

shifting their gaze

clenching their fists

tensing their muscles

then becoming restless/fidgeting

swallowing hard

stiffening

holding their breath

blinking rapidly

exhaling sharply

How to show regret

scrubbing a hand over the face

sighing heavily

downturned mouth

slightly bending over

shoulders hanging low

hands falling to the sides

a pained expression

heavy eyes

staring down at their feet

Part I + Part II + Part III + Part IV

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This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.

You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.

Hey! Are there blacksmiths in your story? I'm a hobbyist blacksmith and I'm here to help!

Blacksmithing is one of those things that a lot of people get wrong because they don't realize it stuck around past the advent of the assembly line. Here's a list of some common misconceptions I see and what to do instead!

Not all blacksmiths are gigantic terrifying muscly guys with beards and deep voices. I am 5'8, skinny as a twig, have the muscle mass of wet bread, and exist on Tumblr. Anybody who is strong enough to pick up a hammer and understands fire safety can be a blacksmith.

You can make more than just swords with blacksmithing. Though swords are undeniably practical, they're not the only things that can be made. I've made candle holders, wall hooks, kebab skewers, fire pokers, and more. Look up things other people have made, it's really amazing what can be done.

"Red-hot" is actually not that hot by blacksmith terms. when heated up, the metal goes from black, to red, to orange, to yellow, to white. (for temperature reference, I got a second degree burn from picking up a piece of metal on black heat) The ideal color to work with the metal is yellow. White is not ideal at all, because the metal starts sparking and gets all weird and lumpy when it cools. (At no point in this process does the metal get even close to melting. It gets soft enough to work with, but I have never once seen metal become a liquid.)

Blacksmithing takes fucking forever. Not even taking into account starting the forge, selecting and preparing metal, etc. etc. it takes me around an hour to make one (1) fancy skewer. The metals blacksmiths work with heat up and cool down incredibly fast. When the forge is going good, it only takes like 20 seconds to get your metal hot enough to work with, but it takes about the same time for it to cool down, sometimes even less.

As long as you are careful, it is actually stupidly easy to not get hurt while blacksmithing. When I picked up this hobby I was like "okay, cool! I'm gonna make stuff, and I'm gonna end up in the hospital at some point!" Thus far, the latter has yet to occur. I've been doing this for nearly a year. I have earned myself a new scar from the aforementioned second degree burn, and one singe mark on my jeans. I don't even wear gloves half the time. Literally just eye protection, common sense, and fast reflexes and you'll probably be fine. (Accidents still happen of course, but I have found adequate safety weirdly easy to achieve with this hobby)

A forge is not a fire. The forge is the thing blacksmiths put their metal in to heat it up. It starts as a small fire, usually with newspaper or something else that's relatively small and burns easily, which we then put in the forge itself, which is sort of a fireplace-esque thing (there's a lot of different types of forge, look into it and try to figure out what sort of forge would make the most sense for the context you're writing about) and we cover it with coal, which then catches fire and heats up. The forge gets really hot, and sometimes really bright. Sometimes when I stare at the forge for too long it's like staring into the sun. The forge is also not a waterfall of lava, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Welding and blacksmithing are not the same thing. They often go hand-in-hand, but you cannot connected two pieces of metal with traditional blacksmithing alone. There is something called forge welding, where you heat your metal, sprinkle borax (or the in-universe equivalent) on it to prevent the metal from oxidizing/being non-weldable, and hammer the pieces together very quickly. Forge welding also sends sparks flying everywhere, and if you're working in a small space with other blacksmiths, you usually want to announce that you're welding before you do, so that everyone in a five-foot radius can get out of that five-foot radius. You also cannot just stuck some random pebbles into the forge and get a decent piece of metal that you can actually make something with, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Anvils are really fucking heavy. Nothing else to add here.

Making jewelry is not a blacksmithing thing unless you want jewelry made of steel. And it will be very ugly if you try. Blacksmithing wasn't invented to make small things.

If there's anything here I didn't mention, just ask and I'll do my best to answer.

I keep seeing people making fun of using growled, hissed, roared, snarled etc in writing and it’s like.

have you never heard someone speak with the gravel in their voice when they get angry? Because that’s what a growl is.

Have you never heard someone sharply whisper something through the thin space of their teeth? Or when your mother sharply told you to stop it in public as a kid when you were acting up/being too loud? Because that’s what a hiss is.

Have you never heard a man get so blackout angry that their voice BOOMS through the house? Because that’s what a roar is.

Have you never seen someone bare their teeth while talking to accentuate their frustration or anger while speaking with a vicious tone? Because that’s what snarling is.

It’s not meant to be a literal animal noise. For the love of god, not every description is literal. I get some people are genuinely confused, but also some of these people are genuinely unimaginative as fuck.