#robot yapping

i've got a link here about Shakespeare's use of the pronouns that might be helpful. but the basics are to remember that they're basically just different conjugations of "you."

"I saw you at the store" would be "I saw thee at the store."

"You are at the store" would be "Thou art at the store."

"This is your sleeve" would be "This is thy sleeve."

"This is your object" would be "This is thine object."

You can grasp the rules, right? Thee is for when something is happening to "you," thou is for when "you" are doing something, and thy/thine is a standin for "your," with the ending determined by whether or not the thing that "your" owns starts with a consonant or a vowel.

aka "what's getting played on the bus"

Long post.

knowing what we know about the rise of the Thalmor and the Leyawiin-Elsweyr Conflict and the eventual invasion of Morrowind by Black Marsh, i do not think Martin would have had a good time as Emperor.

Jauffre even implies that the Elder Council wants an Emperor to take the heat off their handling of the Oblivion Crisis. like. there are so many implications that Martin's going to be Fucking Miserable. he would find that he doesn't have the power to help people as much as he thinks he does. no decision he could make would save everyone.

i think it would fucking kill him, if not literally than emotionally.

becoming a martyr and ascending to godhood pretty much means he can go out doing a universal good for the world and live with the knowledge that he's done something meaningful with his life. that he existed with purpose. that he's a Good Person.

so i'm someone with a messy sketch process, but I produce relatively clean and fluid lineart. i think my lineart is actually quite good, and here's some of my advice for it:

Don't detail everything in your sketch. I often only draw suggestions of things in my sketches, and the actual process details everything properly. Sketches should be for ideation, not so much perfecting everything.

Do it a lot. Honestly it sounds like a no brainer, but you really, really need to let go of perfectionism. Do it a lot. You'll naturally get better as you go.

Clean up your sketches more before doing lineart. I liken my process of sketching to sculpting: I'll often do multiple lines and then go back over with a transparent brush and "carve out" the line I want. This makes the lineart process significantly easier. I do it slightly less these days b/c the more you line stuff, the more you get an idea of how you really want your lines, but cleaning up parts of the sketch that need more ideation is a good tip for lineart.

View your lineart less as tracing and more as redrawing with a guide. You should move your hand fluidly. You should line at a similar speed as you sketch. Try not to focus on copying your sketch exactly. You'll get what I mean as you line more.

While it's ok to draw with searching lines, try to avoid eensy little scratches that make the lines look feathery. Messy lines are different from eensy little lines, and lemme show you what I mean.

Recent sketch in its planning phase. I'm still figuring things out, deciding where the lines go, carving them out, but you can notice i do use long strokes, just multiple ones.

meanwhile old art on a "clean sketch" phase. brother ew. there's no confidence in these lines, and i'm not planning line width for lineart. for reference, my "clean sketches" now look like below:

also proof that i'm not bullshitting: my lineart vs sketching.

When people say "don't chickenscratch," I feel there's always a response of "well isn't sketching supposed to be messy????" but uh now that I no longer "chickenscratch," I can tell you: there's a difference.

Lineart is as much of an art as anything else you do, and honestly #1 has been my best move towards lineart so far. Viewing the sketch more as a means of planning rather than an echo of the final piece has really helped. I actually only do "clean sketches" now when I am doing it for stylistic reasons, or doing character design that I want to ideate on further. When I first started, I'd have a rough sketch, clean sketch, and lineart phase. Now it's just rough sketch to lineart, and it saves so much time.

basically this is how i tend to approach writing Ryoshu in fanfic.

90% of SANGRIA is bullshit. Ryoshu will accept most translations if it means she can bait people with it. If you don't have a precise SANGRIA translation, that's fine. You can also tell that she sometimes comes up with her meanings after speaking them. You do NOT need to have a perfect translation of every SANGRIA phrase she uses, and you can get a li'l poetic and artsy with the phrasing. In fact, I encourage you to be the sort of annoying Ryoshu Writer that I am and provide Zero Translations unless she's giving them herself.

SANGRIA is often used with wordplay, memes, and jokes. "Coming for that ASS (annoying, stupid stache)" is something she has used. I can probably make this post a little more full of actual references to her dialogue, but I'm a bit sun-baked and just kinda offering out my general rules to writing it. Either way, remember that Ryoshu's first and purest love is the Bit.

Ryoshu doesn't use it when she's upset or being serious or actually angry. A good way to think about Ryoshu is that she's a Heel by nature; either because she loves to fuck with people, or because by making herself seem more dangerous and frightening than she really is, she gets a little bit more safety from people who don't want to fuck with her, or a bit of both, honestly. But when Ryoshu is the person that's being fucked with, she doesn't drop SANGRIA.