“They didn’t even make you captain?”

Woah, @im-your-rival, this one has your name on it..! Happy Holidays from your Fence Secret Santa!!

But ugh I love the little sugar cookies and the hot cocoa featured because I’m a sucker for all the festive Fence hc stuff like Seiji loving hot chocolate. Nick wearing the reindeer ears is so cute and I love that he’s already looking at Seiji ☺️☺️. I also love the sweaters they’re wearing in their character colors. Omg and I love that you drew all of them cause they’re my fav two ships🙏!!

I love how you drew Eugene and Jesse too!! Jesse either being wrapped up as a present or wrapping HIMSELF up like a present has me rolling because it’s so in character. And ofc Eugene is falling for it 🤣. I’m also just in awe of your art style itself — like all the little details with the snow on the window, the wallpaper, the wall decorations, the tree is all so perfect and I can’t even imagine how long that took.

Happy Birthday @thestarminstrel!!! 🥳 I always love your little fanarts of Nick + sharks so I decided to give it a try myself!

Happey happey birthday @thestarminstrel !!! 💕💞

Sometimes the weight lifting bros need a little break from all that weight lifting and watch some movies instead. 😌

(a realization about dialogue formatting, from a comic artist turned novelist.)

One of the first things a novice writer learns about speech tags is that they’re part of the “scaffolding” of prose. They should be largely invisible to the reader: use them when necessary, omit them when not, and be sparing in the application of verbs other than “said”. They serve only the function of clarifying who is speaking when it is necessary to do so.

Except:

Sometimes you might want to use a speech tag in spite of the redundancy. The fact that the reader’s eyes slide right over them is an exploitable property. By slicing a line of dialogue in half with a speech tag, you can force the reader to perceive a meaningful pause between two utterances—and the effect is much stronger than you might get out of an ellipsis or an em dash. Developing an intuition for when and how to do this is a huge part of learning to write dialogue, I think.

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO!!!!!!