Nifty little language game here.

I can read back to 1500 with basically no difficulty

at 1400 I have to read slowly and carefully, but I can understand all of it save a couple words

at 1300 I can still comprehend most of it if I read slowly, but a much larger percentage of the words are unfamiliar to me, even with context

Philippine Tarsier (Carlito syrichta), family Tarsiidae, endemic to the Philippines

morpho books

figure drawing for all it's worth (+ creative illustration)

framed ink

will eisner comics and sequential art

will eisner graphic storytelling and visual narrative

understanding comics (+ making comics)

folder of various animation production art

burne hogarth drawing dynamic hands

perspective for comic book artists

michael mattesi force drawing

the animator's survival kit

color and light james gurney

Not wrong but it turned out to be better than if they were right wrong or they thought they were wrong but that's just because of their self esteem issues wrong or wrong but it was just because they had to be so brave and self-sacrificing and noble wrong but fully, flat-out, wrong.

Have them be wrong in a way that's a little bit unsympathetic. Have them be wrong in a way that's uncomfortable. Have them make the wrong decision and have that decision have consequences.

One of the ways that an author often deals with a main character who they are making Special is by softening all of those places where they could be wrong. Every choice is the right one, and even when it's not the right one, it's the right one. They are The Smartest and The Coolest and The Most Traumatized But In A Hurt-Comfort Whump-y Way, and eventually it becomes clear to the reader that any bad thing that happens to them will be because it's happening to them, not because they have screwed up in some way.

And even their trauma responses are often romantacized. They're just so disciplined, and so caring about their people, and so determined and so stubborn, and if they have eating issues it's always that they don't eat enough, because that's a romantic form of disordered eating when overeating isn't, and if they have sleep issues it's that they don't sleep enough because, because that's a romantic form of sleep issues, when sleeping too much isn't. Their flaws are what people view as "admirable" flaws; they're rarely lazy or uninspired or happy to let everyone else go first while they hang back.

None of those are inherently bad, but there's often a certain sameness that settles on characters who are written this way, a sort of glossy shine that takes away some of the tension of the character because the reader doesn't ever need to wonder if they're going to really screw up.

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