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I-

I have no words…

Yall went and killed EVERY character I was hoping to see more of and you just-

Oh my god….

They’re gonna go to TSAMS, aren’t they…?

Oh my god…

I’m not reacting to this, I refuse, I’m sorry-

He’s very.. careful around it

Yes there used to be two. They didn’t show the family them before the incident

“I’m sorry I’m...” They couldn’t quite find the words. In the way? A problem? Boring? “Not very fun to play with right now.”

Sundrop dropped the crayon.

“I’m sorry I’m...” They couldn’t quite find the words. In the way? A problem? Boring? “Not very fun to play with right now.”

Sundrop dropped the crayon.

Love your art!!

I thrive off angst, its my home >:D !!!

I do, also, like vampires! So Im hella shocked I did NOT make a DCA vampire AU yet?? Holy freak what... I wanna make one now but I dont have a story (T＿T) so have a funky doodle (↓)

Hiya, a couple of friends recently expressed their frustrations with writing 2nd person POV and I promised to share a couple of tips. I’m sure there are other people out there who might benefit from these so here goes:

The biggest pitfall with 2nd person is that you are forced to use the word ‘you’ a lot, and this can feel very unnatural (both to read and write). 3rd person allows you to use all sorts of different words for your subject and object in a sentence, e.g:

The blonde yawns as she takes a seat by her brother. She picks up her book, turning it towards a dogmarked page. The girl begins to read. 

However, when you take this into 2nd person it becomes:

You yawn as you take a seat next to your brother. You pick up your book, turning it towards a dogmarked page. You begin to read.

Oooh nooo… taking even the most basic sentence into 2nd person strips a lot of colour from the language and adds unintended rhythm in the form of you you you. And this is just one sentence! Now you have to make every single paragraph like this—yikes!

So what do we do? Well, there are a couple of techniques we can employ to add variety to a sentence, both in and out of 2nd person, by playing with sentence structure and interiority.

The first, most important rule is to avoid having the word ‘you’ at the beginning of consecutive sentences.

Let’s rearrange the sentence a bit:

Yawning, you take a seat next to your brother. You pick up your book, turning it towards a dogmarked page. Then, you begin to read.

Already this is a bit better, but we can abolish a few more you’s by messing around with unnecessary the possessive pronouns.

Yawning, you take a seat next to Michael. You pick up the book, turning it towards a dogmarked page. Then, you begin to read.

Neato. Right, so, that’s the most basic way to trick the brain into finding 2nd person more palatable, but it’s still a bit sterile. 

But! Hold on!! There is another important lever we can pull: interiority. When I say interiority, I am talking about abstract statements that forgo ‘you’ as a subject, because it is already implied by the POV we have chosen. That sounds a little complicated so let me show you what I mean:

Yawning, you take a seat next to Michael, book in hand. The page is still dog-eared from yesterday—its upper corner slightly torn. Setting it on your lap, you begin to read.

We use interiority here to imply a lot of actions that would normally have ‘you’ as the subject. By making the subject the page instead, we are telling the reader that the POV character is interacting with the book without saying it directly. We are also adding padding between the first ‘you’ and the ones that we are putting together in the final sentence. Having that nice big gap followed by a tiny one creates a pleasing rhythm.

So let's look at our starting sentence and our final sentence again together, side by side:

You yawn and you take a seat next to your brother. You pick up your book, turning it towards a dogmarked page. You begin to read.

Yawning, you take a seat next to Michael, book in hand. The page is still dog-eared from yesterday—its upper corner slightly torn. Setting it on your lap, you begin to read.

Got my big brain working overtime with ideas.

Nexus and Moon, but not?? My design for To See The World Again's Moon, I really went all out with rendering it. His symbolism is of a butterfly, do with that information what you will. He'll change the world.

be safe

Does Sun know when Eclipse's special day Is?

Because he was asleep when Eclipse decided it 😅

Here some fishes to eat :3 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟

" Yep! The Bluenight informed the Flowerfish who was rather excited to know the Taiten's special day. Especially being that, for the past three years theyve known the larger creature, (Eclipse) has never shown anything towards doing a special day; both small ones assumed the Taiten merely didn't have one due to lack of interest or celebrated his in private, hence why theyve never asked. "

Small drabble(?) under cut (↓) (I also didnt proofread this so its shit)

Probs one of the most random things I’ve decided to animate, but it seemed like fun animation practice* and I LOVE Pinkpanthress’ new music video. I've been waiting for this song to get popular since it came out last year, probs my second fav in her whole discography, but like yeah very fire very peak please watch it if you haven’t it’ll change your life (/silly)

I pretty much took the format of the music video and ran with it for the chorus, the random people doing silly things to the beat is pretty much just an excuse to include as many women in the cast that I can fit B) I couldn't fit everyone in here, but I hope this is enough !!

*This was supposed to take like a week, but I underestimated it and it’s now been a month. The most timely of animators, I am

Extras and original MV below the cut:

More random gitm doodles

Happy pride, here's a yearning soliel, might not make sense but let's not focus on that