I NEED to write fanfiction <- guy who is not writing fanfiction
Brain: We need to write.
Me: Ok...? Lead the way then.
Brain:
Brain: We need to write.
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I NEED to write fanfiction <- guy who is not writing fanfiction
Brain: We need to write.
Me: Ok...? Lead the way then.
Brain:
Brain: We need to write.

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What matters in life is tagging posts as your ocs
YOU'RE A REGULAR WRITER! YOU CAN CRAFT A COMPLETE SENTENCE! YOU'RE A REGULAR WRITER! YOU USE THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF COMMAS! YOU'RE A REGULAR WRITER! YOUR PROSE IS GOOD AND RIGHT! YOU'RE A REGULAR WRITER! EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS YOUR VISION!
Equiping an armor tutorial
i'll prob make more bc i love talking ab armors
This is a beautiful graphic but it doesnât explain the pros and cons of each fire type.
The Swedish torch is good for an efficient and contained fire, itâs controlled and good for cooking over and produces less light and heat than other fires. It can be difficult to keep going once you burn through the original log
The teepee is your traditional campfire. Good for heat and light not great for cooking, burns through fuel fairly quickly
The star fire is one of the slowest burning and not well protected but provides an even heat good for slow cooking and is excellent if you have limited fuel and need the protection a fire can provide
The lean to is a compact and efficient fire that evolves into a dense and hot bed of coals. The structure creates a good source of air flow which can help damp wood burn. A slightly better cooking fire that isnât as bright. It also provides protection from wind on one side
The platform fire is incredibly hot and will create a very thick bed of coals but it doesnât have a lot of air flow and is a little harder to get started.
The log cabin is big and bright and has lots of air flow which again is good for damp logs. You can also use this structure to start a smaller fire in the middle while drying out bigger logs. This fire will crumble into a messier bed of coals that donât produce particularly even heat for cooking.
The modified leanto is excellent if you need it to perform multiple functions. The side with more fuel will burn bright and hot and the side with less fuel will burn less hot but more evenly and controlled, this gives you different cooking options.
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history fucked me up
oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hutâs invention than to the pyramids being built
I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like âin this century, all this shit was happening concurrentlyâ and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar
You mean like this?
The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun
I grew up with this book, which is frickinâ enormous, and it was endlessly fascinating to young me to pour over the side by side comparison of events taking place concurrently under different headings and in different parts of the world.
Or if you want something you can put on your wall, thereâs this:
World History Timeline
I had this book! My grandpa gave it to me and it was really freakin useful!!
I loved this book! Same for The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science.
Same for The Timetables of Technology: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Technology. Great references!
okay but hereâs an even cooler (free!) visualization that goes a step further and tracks ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power
Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500
â¨ď¸with a special focus on colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosureâ¨ď¸
You can spend hours upon hours exploring this
75% of writing is convincing yourself that your story is worth it
It is. In case you were wondering. Your story is worth the effort you are putting into it. Itâs an amazing thing because you are writing it.
*looking at the OC I crafted with my own hands* what the actual hell is her problem
Text: I like this bar, though it's run by fairies and their moods are volatile. The drinks there come with spiderwebs stretched across the rim, to prevent them being spiked by anyone but the bartender.

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Sometimes, fanfiction is carefully plotted out stories, with plot points and call backs and themes that all tie it up in a meaningful and exciting way.
And sometimes fanfiction is, âWatch me do a fucking KICK FLIP off this cool sentence!! Also here's some sex'
Both are beautiful forms of writing.
everyones always getting isekai'd into a fantasy rpg setting. no more. i woke up in anotehr world as a footsoldier of the galactic empire. reborn as the princess of the candy kingdom. i got hit by a sports car and went to radiator springs (cars) (the movie) (mater is there)
all of you ppl super into writing about and drawing your OCs... you are what make me go so smiler on tumblr.... ur so aspirational to me
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WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.
You actually cannot skip to being good at a creative endeavour that you haven't put much practice into. You cannot trick your way out of the 'knows that your work is not what you want it to be but don't know how to improve it' stage by planning or reading or talking about it really really hard. At some point you just have to craft through it until your brain finds it's own unique way back to the 'everything I make slaps' stage and be prepared to start the cycle all over again. You just have to make that project you're excited about slightly less good than you want it to be. (Says this standing in a pool of blood and covered in blood and also coughing up a little blood)

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I think one of the best things you can do as any kind of creative is to draw more inspiration from things completely outside of your artistic medium
(with the enthusiasm of a sigma grindset guy telling you to get a side hustle) you gotta be waking up and saying stuff like "this chinese shadow puppet play really makes me want to write a ttrpg"
If you're a writer trying to learn about the craft, I highly recommend Benjamin Zander's classical music masterclasses on youtube. Yes they are for professional-level musicians. That does not matter. You will learn things about tension and emotional control and communication with the audience. Do it.
âThe Same Place as the Musicâ Lighting & Color
âWhere is the light coming from?â âThe same place as the music.â Andrew Lesnie, Cinematographer of LOTR
How & Why It's A Problem
If I had to summarize the frustration I have with this topic in one image, I'd use JeCorey Holder's (queer Black creative!) meme:
Now here's the thing. I'm not saying you have to be a master at lighting. I'm surely not. Hell, I still play around with lighting in my art in ways that arenât the âmost realisticâ. You canât ask me the technical explanations behind âcolor theoryâ or 'contrast' without me doing some more reading. However⌠I donât think anyone needs an art degree to understand this point:
We should be able to SEE your brown skinned Black characters!
I brought this up in my lessons about skin tones and blushing, and it applies with lighting as well. If all of your other characters have focused light and shadows, so should your Black characters.
However, this does NOT mean making them lighter-skinned!!!!
It's not funny nor logical at all to suggest that they somehow can't be seen like your other characters when youâre the one creating the piece. It's like a classic fifth-grade racist joke, âYou blend in at nightâ. Har-de-har.
I was once rudely told to my face (well in the DMs) that a Black character that was completely Europeanized looked like that âbecause of the [sepia] lightingâ. So I'm going to give you all, gracious readers, an example to show that that's not true.
This is Ana FlĂĄvia, Afro-Brazilian model! Gaze upon her beauty! Notice how in both of these filters, Ana did not, in fact, turn into a white woman! Because, my friends, that is not how that works! At all!
Here are some other examples of Black people in non-color lighting:
None of these people vanished from the frame just because there was no color. They didn't have to paint on lighter makeup to be captured by the camera. What do they all have in common (in this example)?
Lighting!
Now letâs discuss different ways to think about and potentially try instead!
What I want you all to keep in mind, is that the art youâre painting:
And I know that's silly right, like yeah no shit Ice, we knew that. BUT my point here is donât be afraid to study photography, theatre, and staging for ideas. They actively work with light! Itâs why I share so many images of models; itâs purposeful, focused staging of light with many of these compositions!
Brown-skinned Black people- brown-skinned people in general- GLOW in the light! Our skin reflects environmental light! Thereâs so much opportunity to play with that, and you can see different examples in those mediums.
Here are a couple articles of lighting in film focused on Black actors.
When lighting a person with dark complexion, the answer is not LIGHTENING THE SKIN, itâs understanding how light reflects off of dark skin.â -Nilah Magruder
Nilah Magruder (Black creator!) has an ENTIRE, thorough and wonderful essay on the topic, far better than I could give! She incorporates the use of cameras, lighting, painting, and more- so rather than be redundant here, I'm going to spotlight (ha see what I did there. It's okay, I know I'm funny) her and her explanation.
Incorporating Blackness in Color/Colorful Lighting
@dsm7 has an excellent and short visual explanation of how picking certain colors will lead to washing out or whitewashing Black characters, and how certain lighting and backgrounds (think the black and white photos on brighter backgrounds) will change the way their skin tone looks.
@nicosbighead has one of my favorite images on here, that shows how many different colors can still be used to convey the image of Blackness. Notice how all those pinks still worked?
@gaksdesigns has a beautiful picture here that I feel utilizes the light in a very minimal yet effective way to show highlights even on a palette that's fully brown.
This article approaches from a lighting perspective via filmmaking, but essentially Sade Ndya suggests instead of increasing the amount of light, change the color/lens of the light based on your characterâs skin, as well as for the circumstances of the scene. They'll remain vibrant that way, and youâll still capture what you need.
I know one way I do this on CSP (I think Iâve mentioned this but I canât remember) is to use the Add Glow tool with the same or a similar shade of the characterâs brown skin tone as a highlight under natural light, or maybe use different colors or filters depending on the sort of light on their skin at the time.
Hereâs a reddit about it too, just because I know yâall value Reddit on here, and someone else discussed the topic that both Nilah and Sade discussed.
Is It Intentional?
There are going to be times where you intend for the light to be minimal. Maybe itâs a style choice. That should still show purposeful composition. Hereâs an interview with famed Black director Ava Duvernay discussing the intentional darkness on Black actors in the prison scene in the movie Selma. To show that they're both trapped in prison AND that Martin is temporarily low on resolve- it's a part of the story that's being told.
I'm always talking about this: there is a difference between intention (and following through), and neglecting to think about it at all. And neglect isn't what we want, because often we can tell visually when it is- when an artist simply did not think to do it for one versus the rest.
Sidenote, on Youtube in the suggestions after Ava's interview, are also plenty of videos discussing lighting for dark-skin as well- why not take the chance to look?
Conclusion
We do not lack for light! We arenât flat and lightless when you see us in life. It's actually a pretty awesome part of being brown-skinned. If youâre giving proper, flattering lighting to everyone else, give it to us as well. Study and experiment with ways to highlight brown skin.
You already know what Iâm going to say. Itâs going to take practice, same as anything else, because itâs the thought that counts, but the action that delivers!