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Little break for you guys XD Been drawing some other things and I'm really happy with this one! Wanted to include Puqi shrine in a silhouette piece ^^ Thought that it was interesting with the last pieces although Hua Cheng has Paradise Manor and Xie Lian Xianle Palace neither really consider it their home. Their home is at the humble Puqi shrine <3

I became obsessed with TGCF

Happy birthday Xie Lian 🌸

I was messing around with mod podge yesterday. My brain had this image of @dandylovesturtles's writing as physical art, and I wanted to give it a try!

The text is all taken from Part 1 of the Emotional Support Water Bottles ("room fic") series.

we’re so back

How to make your writing sound less stiff

Just a few suggestions. You shouldn’t have to compromise your writing style and voice with any of these, and some situations and scenes might demand some stiff or jerky writing to better convey emotion and immersion. I am not the first to come up with these, just circulating them again.

1. Vary sentence structure.

This is an example paragraph. You might see this generated from AI. I can’t help but read this in a robotic voice. It’s very flat and undynamic. No matter what the words are, it will be boring. It’s boring because you don’t think in stiff sentences. Comedians don’t tell jokes in stiff sentences. We don’t tell campfire stories in stiff sentences. These often lack flow between points, too.

So funnily enough, I had to sit through 87k words of a “romance” written just like this. It was stiff, janky, and very unpoetic. Which is fine, the author didn’t tell me it was erotica. It just felt like an old lady narrator, like Old Rose from Titanic telling the audience decades after the fact instead of living it right in the moment. It was in first person pov, too, which just made it worse. To be able to write something so explicit and yet so un-titillating was a talent. Like, beginner fanfic smut writers at least do it with enthusiasm.

2. Vary dialogue tag placement

You got three options, pre-, mid-, and post-tags.

Leader said, “this is a pre-dialogue tag.”

“This,” Lancer said, “is a mid-dialogue tag.”

“This is a post-dialogue tag,” Heart said.

Pre and Post have about the same effect but mid-tags do a lot of heavy lifting.

They help break up long paragraphs of dialogue that are jank to look at

They give you pauses for ~dramatic effect~

They prompt you to provide some other action, introspection, or scene descriptor with the tag. *don't forget that if you're continuing the sentence as if the tag wasn't there, not to capitalize the first word after the tag. Capitalize if the tag breaks up two complete sentences, not if it interrupts a single sentence.

It also looks better along the lefthand margin when you don’t start every paragraph with either the same character name, the same pronouns, or the same “ as it reads more natural and organic.

3. When the scene demands, get dynamic

General rule of thumb is that action scenes demand quick exchanges, short paragraphs, and very lean descriptors. Action scenes are where you put your juicy verbs to use and cut as many adverbs as you can. But regardless of if you’re in first person, second person, or third person limited, you can let the mood of the narrator bleed out into their narration.

Like, in horror, you can use a lot of onomatopoeia.

Drip Drip Drip

Or let the narration become jerky and unfocused and less strict in punctuation and maybe even a couple run-on sentences as your character struggles to think or catch their breath and is getting very overwhelmed.

You can toss out some grammar rules, too and get more poetic.

Warm breath tickles the back of her neck. It rattles, a quiet, soggy, rasp. She shivers. If she doesn’t look, it’s not there. If she doesn’t look, it’s not there. Sweat beads at her temple. Her heart thunders in her chest. Ba-bump-ba-bump-ba-bump-ba- It moves on, leaving a void of cold behind. She uncurls her fists, fingers achy and palms stinging from her nails. It’s gone.

4. Remember to balance dialogue, monologue, introspection, action, and descriptors.

The amount of times I have been faced with giant blocks of dialogue with zero tags, zero emotions, just speech on a page like they’re notecards to be read on a stage is higher than I expected. Don’t forget that though you may know exactly how your dialogue sounds in your head, your readers don’t. They need dialogue tags to pick up on things like tone, specifically for sarcasm and sincerity, whether a character is joking or hurt or happy.

If you’ve written a block of text (usually exposition or backstory stuff) that’s longer than 50 words, figure out a way to trim it. No matter what, break it up into multiple sections and fill in those breaks with important narrative that reflects the narrator’s feelings on what they’re saying and whoever they’re speaking to’s reaction to the words being said. Otherwise it’s meaningless.

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Hope this helps anyone struggling! Now get writing.

you are sixteen when you kill everything you've ever loved.

it's not funny.

Finally I managed to draw this doofus' shell

redrew parts of the s2 OP for my recent amv!!

anyway uhm

i haven’t really seen anyone talking about this though mayhaps some already did and im just stupid and blind BUT STILL

liu xiao is reading the 𝒇𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒚 sonnets

those are sonnets 38 and 39 which basically uhm

THATS NOT THE MATTER THOUGH

its about that one line in 39 sonnet:

“even for this, let us divided live and our dead love loose name of single one”

a farewell to a “lover”? for some reason it makes me think that this could be somehow related to lu guang

if you look here it seems like liu xiao is looking at him directly. only him. and honestly what’s his deal cuz lu guang didn’t have ANY reaction upon seeing him at the airport. i don’t want to make any predictions but it looks like the events that took place during that summer trip made liu xiao harvest quite an….interest about lu guang

(“wow he somehow managed to fuck up the timeline SOOOO BAD” *twirls hair*)

If Dormiveglia was an animation

intothefrisson Twitter/Insta Dormiveglia Master Post

Reposting some artwork here!

Honestly the only hypocritical construct here is Lu Guang…. Look at him acting all innocent.

recently watched link click s2... damb

makeup leosagi

Night doodle because I miss these guys

Happy birthday Xie Lian 🌸

Still think about the fact that Leo never got to say goodbye to Splinter in that one sad Farewell timeline

happy anniversary rottmnt

One of my favorite things to do while watching the rottmnt movie is spot all the times Leo weighs his options, goes for it, and regrets it- like this

Thinks about it

Goes for it

Regret

Thinks about it

Goes for it

Regret

Thinks about it

Goes for it

No Regrets

No wonder he doubts himself and thinks they’d be okay/better without him- most decisions he makes in the movie end in setbacks at best, and his brothers being hurt/the world ending at worst! I know they ALL need extensive therapy after all this but like…. DAMN Leo’s gonna some serious self worth issues after this (if he didn’t already)

Someone on tiktok said it best, “imagine never being able to live up to the version of yourself that ended the world” - that line haunts me to this day, you KNOW that’s how Leo looks at himself now- the guy that came in second place to a version of himself that ended the world and got his brothers killed.

I still have 2 more prominent examples but tumblr only allows 10 pics per post so I’ll have to reblog it.

disaster twins carrying each other through the years

🦋

Celestial tango

Do you guys wanna see a sick design I'm never gonna use for anything?

Cause a while ago the sep council were talking dnd clases and what class would our turtles be and it lead me to design this for no other reason that I love doing these kinds of designs

ramble under the cut to not make this post too long vv

ok some facts about this guy:

I was between One being a druid (because vines, hehehe) or a rough because *gestures at his whole situation* so maybe he's both? thats a thing in dnd as far as I'm aware.

I wanted to give him a stupid edgy name a stupid edgy 14yo emo teenage who does not undertand what dnd is and how they are playing would give... so he's Knife. But also it turned to someone asking his character's name and he having not thought about it and saying "uhhh Knife" so the Uhhh is part of the name too lmao

he's covered in knives, as always. His main weapon is the weird staff thing that is actually a broken sword and a knife attatched together. He wears the poncho most of the time and also would use the mask all the time