In the past and from what I’ve seen, some people are too afraid to actually communicate with their partners and instead send in their complaints via anonymous ask form.
NOT examples of what this post is about:
Anonymous ask: Hey, I’m a bit shy about interacting with you and I’m anxious about meeting new RP partners in general. But I was interested in your blog. I have a fantasy rp multimuse blog that I think you might be interested in
Anonymous ask: I’m a little intimidated by your blog but I still really wanna interact with you, I’m just scared I might be annoying you
Anonymous ask: Hi we’re already interacting but could I ask for you to tag (trigger)? Thanks
These asks are anonymous just because the sender wants to be. There is an option for the sender to directly message the person, but anonymity can help ease anxiety and fear when talking to someone. Directly sending a message to the person can also work, but there wouldn’t be that much of a change besides someone being anonymous.
Examples that ARE what this post is about:
Anonymous ask: You said that you never deny ships with anybody but you did it with me lol
Anonymous ask: Thanks for ghosting me
Anonymous ask: Can you actually reply to my thread and my starter instead of ignoring them?
The reasons why theseasks are inappropriate anonymously are because they’re
a. Private matters to be dealt with
b. Mysterious and confusing when the sender’s identity is concealed
c. Possibly distressing when the asks are vague
If you have a personal issue with an RP partner, you have to privately talk to them about it. If you hide behind an anonymous face and send them an ask about their issues, they could guess it was you, but unrelated people will see the ask, and unnecessary drama may occur.
If you have a personal issue with an RP partner, pleasedirectly talk to them about it. They might not even be aware that they’re doing anything wrong, and if you directly and cleanly inform them yourself instead of vaguely sending in an ask about it, both of you can work on the issue together. And if it doesn’t work out? Leave the situation, stop being partners, etc. etc.
Hi all! Some of you may have seen me posting about a J-drama “Koisenu Futari”. If you haven’t, it’s an 8 episode series specifically focused around 2 aroace characters who begin living together platonically after one introduces the other to the identities.
I’ve put together an episode guide and a link to a g-drive folder with both subbed episodes and raw episode/subtitle files. (Shoutout to Kaizen Subs on Twitter for the translation and subtitling work.) DM me for a link to the post! I will only be responding to direct dms or asks off anon as I don’t want the g-drive folder to get overloaded, so please keep that in mind.
This is a comprehensive tutorial for how to make GIFs in Photoshop using the “Stack Method.” I use this method with my Core i5 laptop, and it works for me. The process seems complicated, but once you get the hang of it, you can easily make a GIF in under 5 minutes. If you find this helpful, please REBLOG / LIKE. Thank you! :-)
Hey WoW RPers, this is for you! I realized how often I need to crack open my visual guide to help people with timeline answers, so I figured I would upload the full thing as images. It was released during MoP so it ends there, but we’re in about Year 32 as of my posting this (assuming WoD took a year).
Hope this helps!
Wrath only taking a year feels so strange to me, but most of the timeline does anyway. So, nonetheless, this is super useful! Thanks @shithowdy! Post link
People can use whichever pronouns come to them first
Different people use different pronouns for you (Example: Annie calls you she while Jenny calls you they)
People alternate between pronouns
You use a pronoun necklace/pin/etc.
You wear different styles of clothing for different pronouns (Example: When you wear skirts, you’re a she, and when you wear pants, you’re a they)
You wear a clothing item or color to signify your pronouns (Example: When you wear a green bow, you’re a she, and when you wear a red bow, you’re a they)
Wow, sorry, tumblr messed up the formatting of that ask
anonymous asked:
Hello! Im planning on writing a fan fic in where the reader has abilities but I would like to start in an action scene, If I were to write it like that, How would I do it? Right in the beginning, middle or just at the end?
The reader has abilities? (Just FYI, I’m pretty unfamiliar with second-person fic)
In terms of literally getting ideas down, I try to get past “blank page syndrome” as fast as possible and I write a fast gush of all the ideas I have so far. You might call it an outline, but it’s not pretty or bulleted. It’s just word-gush.
My advice would be to start with what is the most vivid image to you, the part or parts that are the most developed.
This is my “outline” that I wrote down for one of my zine fics, featuring Hunk and Keith. I wanted to do a story from Keith’s perspective, who realises his friendship and appreciation for Hunk.
“Yeah, I saw how you were living in the shack. It was, um, rustic.”
“I had other priorities.”
“Let me show you a couple things.”
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Next, I knew how I wanted the story to wrap up, in a nice little tidy end. You can start anywhere for your end, or even just leave it at a note of “Keith learns to cook and appreciates Hunk.”
And suddenly they were in the kitchen and Keith was swathed in a bright red apron and Hunk was beside him, carefully laying out instructions as butter sizzled in a hot pan on the stove behind them.
And it was as Hunk was showing keith how to julienne a bright blue carrot-like tuber that Keith suddenly realised it.
Hunk really was a good friend.
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If it doesn’t work for you to write the end, you don’t have to. I really like having an end in mind because “all roads lead to rome”. In other words, your story can twist and meander a bunch, but it will always eventually work towards and end at the place you have decided.
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Now, that’s just physically writing things down. In terms of story placement, starting at the end or middle is a creative choice. personally, I enjoy it, I think it’s much more powerful than reading about a character getting up and eating breakfast and only getting to the main story 9,000 words in.
I would recommend writing your most important scenes first, and then reading them over and seeing what needs to be filled in. Read this next bit in terms of size first, to see what I mean when I try to explain not writing chronologically. If you cover the most important, pivotal points in your story first, it won’t lag and you don’t have to worry about it dragging on and on. You can also have an easier time connecting two points rather than always building outward one way.
You have your main point one, two and three as those BIG parts. then you build the rest around it, augmenting and editing as you go, cutting back and forth and writing to connect rather than to extend. The big points can be anything important. An action scene, a romantic declaration, a death, a religious relaization, etc. They just need to be important. No breakfast and brush teeth.
Now, once you have your ideas jotted down, it’s time to play cut and paste. I recommend pasting your entire WIP into a new document to play around with it. Experiment with cutting the middle section out and placing it at the very beginning, starting us in media res. Play with time skips and jumps, and see if you can still follow the story when it becomes less linear. if it’s too confusing, you cna always go back, but it’s fun to experiment and see how far you can push the story for interest and impact.
Remember those IMPORTANT POINTS that are the main pillars of your story? See how much impact they have when you move them around. Maybe you should keep the big reveal until the very end, but put all the action up front. Maybe you start with a quiet letter, but cut to a car chase scene. The options are limitless!
I hope that helps at all, feel free to send me more asks for specifics!
Anonymous asked: “How can I portray a character who is generally closed off slowly opening up? Also what kind of a romantic partner would best fit as the catalyst for that change?”
I think the first thing we need to get into is why the closed off character is the way that they are. It doesn’t need to be the result of some kind of problem or trauma, it can be something that innocuous like severe shyness or that they’re too quick to judge others.
Anonymous asked: “10 pages of written work has me tired and I’m struggling to type all the words. Any suggestions that can help me with type an immense amount of writing, specifically for longer drafts?”
Writing takes endurance. While some people can just start writing a novel and eventually finish it and edit it, having never written anything in their lives, they are few and far between. Most writers need to build up their endurance for that kind of project.
The prime example: P.G. Wodehouse was able to describe locations with great detail and accuracy. His places in his stories were consistent and easy to imagine, because of the clarity in his descriptions. Wodehouse was determined to get things right, and drew from personal experience in many of his stories’ settings. There was even a pig in the Blandings Castle stories that was based on a real pig that Wodehouse was familiar with.
Lesson learned: Include things from real life in your stories, whether it’s to do with the setting or the characters. Obviously, your stories do not need to be entirely based on your own experiences, but it helps to describe things if you’ve seen them with your own eyes. There is nothing wrong with doing extensive research on various locations and wildlife and types of buildings and so forth, and if you’re writing about somewhere you’ve never been, you have to do that research. If possible, though, try to bring in something that you are very familiar with, because then you can write based on your own observations and not somebody else’s. This will allow you to really bring your story to life.
Even in a fantasy/sci-fi story, you can still do this. Perhaps a certain character’s pet is very much like an animal you know well, or there’s a character who wears some jewelry that bears a great resemblance to your own mother’s jewelry, or the artwork and decor in a character’s room is very much like that in your own room. The possibilities are endless!
Another example: Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy series was largely autobiographical, and the people and places really do feel real. Especially the places, with all of her descriptions of people’s homes. (I’m sure there are more authors who do this, because it’s hard not to include things you’re familiar with, but Wodehouse and Lovelace stood out to me.)
Now there’s one thing I want to note first, I don’t like to plan out my characters all that much. I get bored when I know everything about a character. It’s fine if you do, but in my experience, it doesn’t help me to know too much unless I’ve written it into the draft first. If I write down more on the list than I’ve already put into the draft, there’s a chance that I’ll forget to include something important.
I try not to know too much more about the character than any person who reads the story would. This is mychart. Use it or don’t. Follow my rules or don’t - I won’t know the difference. This is just a few things I like to know when creating a character. It’s part of my process.
On top of having this blog to encourage creating OCs, I also want to give people access to resources that can help you out in creating your OC! Here is a compilation of blogs to follow, as well as a few other links to help further your development!
maxkirin - Novelist blogger who offers many great pieces of writing advice, as well as videos!
about-your-oc - Writing prompts and resources for OCs
develop your oc- A collection of prompts and questions for your OCs
faceclaims-rpg - A blog dedicated to finding “face claims”, or irl people to represent your character’s appearance. They include a large array of tags and a directory of faceclaims, including POC.
tasksweekly- A blog dedicated to bringing more advanced prompts to get your creative juices flowing. Check out their info page and just snoop around.
dear-indies - A blog dedicated more specifically towards RPers with guides, tutorials, masterposts and face claim help.
howtofightwrite - An excellent resource for tips and tricks on writing combat and fight scenes, as well as what not to do.
The Script Family - This is a link to a separate masterpost, all of the blogs listed being absolutely excellent resources for writing and research. Just reach in and take a look, there’s answers to questions you didn’t even know you had.
I visit almost all of these blogs quite regularly, and I highly recommend going through these blogs for help and inspiration. These are just my personal recommendations, there are definitely more blogs out there you can dig for of course!
This is a really neat resource for this interested in magical history or arcana in general, especially those interested in working with angel or demon magic. The website contains the texts of many spells from old grimoires like the Long Lost Friend, a book of Pennsylvania Dutch magic, and the Key of Solomon, a 16th century book of summoning. Where they do not have the full text, a link is generally provided to a site which does.
Just a heads up in case you too try to pay for only one month of one of their products.
^I skimmed the “agree to” thing and must have missed the termination fee section. So that was a surprise. There was also no warning of this additional fee right before cancelling.
Gross.
So I went on their help forums and found plenty of unhappy people. Apparently sometimes they just keep billing you after you cancel or if you live in certain countries, charge you for the full year (and if you cancel after a year, they charge you for a full year after that). I did find this one happy piece of advice though:
“Adobe can not provide a contract because no such contract exists. Close those accounts from where they are collecting payments and see if they send you a Written bill. How to cancel payment to Adobe Stock: Cancel payments to Adobe through your financial institution. PayPal cancel payment: Transaction details–View Billing Agreement Details. Last but not least, read the subscription details first and ask the service representative to explain them. Also, Do not cancel through manage account. NEVER“
Too late.
This is actually how I escaped last time though. I got a preloaded credit card for my birthday and used it to pay for the subscription. Then when all the money on it was used up, it just lapsed and they cancelled my subscription because I “failed to update my card in time”. But that was like 5 years ago, so who knows if they just let it go like that now? Also they made it very hard to cancel. You had to click a button and then email them I think? At least they resolved that issue–only to replace it with grimier terms.
Either way, I think cracked or off-brand programs are the way to go. I was going to switch my program subscription to Storyboard Pro, but I can’t in good conscience do that now. Storyboarder is still free and their customer service is somehow better.
In fact, pretty much every Adobe program has a comparable open source version on the web. Illustrator was the first design program I’d ever used, so naturally I went there first for vector work, but there are free alternatives even for that.
An artist : Aw man! I saw my arts were reposted on Instagram. I’ve asked them to take my arts down but they ignored me.
Me : Say no more! Click this link, then click ‘fill out this form’. Fill the form and wait for about 1-2 days, the staffs will remove the image you were reporting from the reposter’s account :^)
hope you don’t mind me adding some more info :’D
Many websites have those complaint forms you need to fill out to submit DMCA notice. Here are some of them:
