Hey, there! Call me Mac. I'm an aspiring writer and comic artist, hoping to spread the love of Christ in spite of myself. Hope you find something you like. :) She/her
Judges 7:6-7 "And the Lord said to Gideon, 'With the 300 men who lapped, I will save you...'"
Welcome to my blog! My intent is to share art and writing and other stuff on a weekly or biweekly basis, kind of just to get connected to the creative community online. In the past, I got about 5 posts in, felt stupid, and deleted everything. My goal is to get farther this time, and maybe actually get a following. But! I promise no kind of continuity at all. :)
UPDATE: Please check out my pet project, a manga-style fantasy comic about Kichi Watanabe, a super-cool, awesome guy! (That explains his character so much lol) Here's a lame one-liner:
When Kichi Watanabe, a 14 y/o karate enthusiast, moves back to Japan after his family's 10-year-long hiatus, he discovers that nothing is what he thought it was: not his home country, not his family, not their reasons for moving to America...and most critically, not himself.
I don't actually know how tags work, but I (hopefully) tagged all the posts regarding this pet project with "kichi watanabe" (outdated, but also mha oc would work probaly, for his mha days) so you can look those up or something if you're interested...but also, that's probably the only thing I'm posting anymore XP. Anyway, hope I didn't scare off my few, dedicated followers with this. Have a good day everyone, and a good day after that, too.
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the five stages of grief were never meant to be a checklist your character moves through in chronological order across three chapters. Let me save you from writing a grieving character who is simply having scheduled emotions:
⊹ Grief is not primarily crying. i know that sounds wrong but hear me out. a lot of grief looks like doing laundry. cooking something the person liked and then not being able to eat it. watching a show they recommended and never told anyone you finished it. grief goes very quiet and very domestic for long stretches and then ambushes you at completely unreasonable moments like a petrol station or a Friday at 4pm for no reason at all.
⊹ people who are grieving often seem fine. not because they're suppressing or being brave or in denial, but because humans are genuinely capable of functioning and being devastated at the same time. your grieving character can make jokes. can go to work. can have a good day. can feel guilty about the good day. can feel guilty about not feeling guilty. grief has a very active internal bureaucracy that has nothing to do with what's visible on the outside.
⊹ Grief also changes shape over time in ways that aren't necessarily about getting better. the first year is often adrenaline, there are things to do, people around, ritual and structure. year two is frequently harder because the adrenaline is gone and the world has moved on and expects you to have moved on with it. your character being more visibly undone eighteen months later than at the funeral is not a pacing problem. it's accurate.
⊹ The relationship with the dead person doesn't stop. this is the one writers get most wrong. your grieving character is still in a relationship , still arguing with the person in their head, still updating them on things, still furious about something left unsaid, still finding out new things about them from other people and having to integrate a version of them they didn't fully know. grief is not the end of the relationship. it's the relationship continuing without any new information coming in.
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A young prodigy of the Life element is shown around a spell-practicing field to give her ideas for her second Attunement
“Water.” Glaverra narrated as she walked down the clear midway of Tanaris Field. “Wind, Ice, Earth. The basic elements other than Life that you could Attune. Each one possesses advantages of their own when it comes to defensive applications.”
“And Fire?” I asked, aiming my chin at a pair of men burning, then quickly dousing a hay sculpture in quick succession.
She shot me a sharp look. “That is not- that’s quite the gruesome element to use if you want to defend yourself.”
“You told me not long ago that there are no clean ways to kill someone.” I pointed out.
Glaverra shrugged. “That may be so, but from what I know of you, you aren’t nearly cruel or hardened enough to kill someone, especially with Fire.”
I gave a somber smile at that. Oh, how much she doesn’t know…
“Fire would be an excellent deterrent if I ever got in trouble…” I murmured.
“Leave it.” Glaverra’s tone clearly left no space for argument. I shut my mouth and followed along. “Water, Ice, Wind, Earth, each one of these can be deadly enough in their own right.”
“Moreover,” She added, stopping to look approvingly at a girl Meldrene’s age straining to cast something into the air. “You can make many, many uses out of them outside of combat.”
Meldrene watched in wonder as the air in front of the girl first visibly misted, liquefied, and then finally froze into glittering pieces of ice that thunked onto the ground. She was panting from the exertion, despite spellcasting not actually being a physically strenuous activity. Her master looked on with an unblinking stare, saying nothing but keeping a spell of wind around her protege all the while; a sound barrier? Meldrene could sense the intricate flows of mana there, but the sensation of wind was not as resonant to her as the life beating inside each and every person here.
It said 2 people voted on the poll, but I guess they were both me??? I definitely voted at least once lol. But I have great taste in content, cause I voted for number 2 twice! :D You know what that means.
More Kichi content! Yayyyy!
Speaking of which, I decided I want to try transposing Kichi from the MHA universe to an original one, for several different reasons.
I really really REALLY want to publish his story on Webtoons, but I'm afraid of getting nirked for copyright issues
I have a gajillion ideas for sequels/future stories involving him, but i don't want to put so much effort into a series of stories that I can only partially take credit for
I want to earn some money off of him :P
The tones/themes/circumstances of his story are so different from MHA that it's hard to write him while dancing around canon. It'd be slightly easier if Kichi WAS the focal point of the universe, ya know?
Basically, I just want to go wild without having to worry about legal restraints or messing up canon. We'll see how it goes.
I'm collaborating on this with one of my siblings, since we're both really attached to our MHA OCs, but don't want to keep them in the MHA universe. So far, I love what we've come up with. I'll keep posting about Kichi, and may even post about him in UA, but from hereon out it'll most likely be him in this new world we're creating. Sorry if you're disappointed, but not too sorry. If I'm diligent enough, one day you'll be able to read his story on Webtoons, God willing.
Thank you @world-of-iridensia for your open tag for people who wanted to participate in this game! I love stuff like this. :D
I guess this game is called "This or That: Questionable Choices Edition". It's like a questionnaire for characters who make questionable decisions, lol. I'll be filling it out for my decently-enough-hearted but hard-headed and impulsive boio Kichi Watanabe. Answers are below the cut, and if you have any questions, I would die of happiness after replying to your comment. Happy Memorial Day everyone!
I tag the following people to play the game, too, because I figured they might enjoy playing the game, and they have WIPs that I am interested in reading about. And I'll leave an OPEN TAG for anyone else who wants to participate as well! :D
@wbhudson @aadhube @gothic--vampyre
Here's the template:
Antihero or villain protagonist?
Lies by omission or lies with a smile?
Your character gets caught, do they talk their way out or run?
Morally grey love interest or morally grey best friend?
Your protagonist's fatal flaw: too much trust or not enough?
Writing the betrayal scene or writing the aftermath?
Crime of passion or crime of calculation?
Redemption arc or "they were right all along" arc?
The confession scene happens in a courtroom, a rooftop, or a bed?
Your character keeps one honest thing about themselves, is it their name, their past, or their feelings for one person?
Antihero or villain protagonist?
He probably qualifies more as an antihero, but at least for his first story arc, the rest of the world sees him as a villain for a little while. :)
Lies by omission or lies with a smile?
With a smile, but he's terrible at lying. XD You would know right away that he's not telling the truth.
Your character gets caught, do they talk their way out or run?
He would try to talk his way out, and when that didn't work, he'd try to fight his way out.
Morally grey love interest or morally grey best friend?
Morally gray best friend. "I would die for you" is too cliche. Would you kill for me? Would you help me break into a jail and commit felonies with me? If the answer is no, then we are not friends (by his unconscious standards, I guess).
Your protagonist's fatal flaw: too much trust or not enough?
Too much. He doesn't really think about what's going on until it's already over, and then it occurs to him, "Hey, wasn't that like, a bad thing we just did?"
Writing the betrayal scene or writing the aftermath?
Betrayal, mwa hahahahahhahah >:3 And it ends with some stabbing!
Crime of passion or crime of calculation?
Passion. He does not do any calculating whatsoever. He's kind of dumb. :P
Redemption arc or "they were right all along" arc?
Redemption. But it's a long, hard-earned redemption with many seasons of doubt along the way.
The confession scene happens in a courtroom, a rooftop, or a bed?
Hospital bed! Nothing says "I regret what I did" like life support and a body cast. 😌
Your character keeps one honest thing about themselves, is it their name, their past, or their feelings for one person?
His feelings for one person. It's easy to give a random name, and not too hard to be vague about where you're from, but it's pretty hard to pretend like you don't hate the guy who wants to kill your dad, particularly when you're in the same room with him. Just sayin.
Hi! What kind of content are you most interested in/want to see more of??
I'm interested in/want to see more of...
Comics of all kinds! (But in a language I can read please)
Your MHA OC that you're so obsessed with, just cos why not?
Poetry! Why don't you do poetry anymore?
Reblogs from other artists/writers who are cooler than you
Other (put in comments)
Voting ended onMay 22
pleasechoosenumbertwopleasechoosenumbertwo AHA anyway!!!! Whatever you guys pick (or don't pick), I'll see if I can make some more of it. I'll try to post on Fridays, but as I stated in my intro post, I promise no continuity. :)
Thank you in advance for any and all responses! And if you don't respond at all, then I get to pick, and you can probably guess what I'm choosing. >:)
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The confessions of someone who judges like God and hides like Satan.
Do you want to know the truth? The exact thought that keeps me paralyzed in my own life.
I think I am a bad person cosplaying as a good one, maybe the only person I’ve manipulated is myself. Unable to disprove whether thoughts and actions can truly be separated. And if I were judged solely on my thoughts instead of my actions, where would I be placed?
Because the thing is, I will seldom say my harsh thoughts aloud, I will never ring my judgments in your ear, and rarely will I choose to chastise a person even when wronged. In my mind, there are only ever two possibilities: either believing that you’ve misunderstood me or that I’ve misunderstood you. Either option allows me to believe in second chances and never burning a bridge that you may need to cross in the future.
However, if you judged me solely on my thoughts, you would probably find me quite vicious, and chances are you would find me in a lake of fire surrounded by the ashes of those said bridges.
Sadly, I don’t seem to possess as soft a mind as my words. From the moment you walked into the room, I have analyzed you. Body language, the speed and tone in which you speak, the way you fidget when you assume no one notices, or even how your walk changes depending on your mood. Chances are, I’ve noticed, formed opinions, and you still don’t even know my name.
In my mind, you have been tried, judged, and executed, all while I smile and ask you about your biggest dreams in life.
Yet, who am I to be the judge of others? Perhaps that is why I doubt every judgment that floods my mind.
You will appear to me as a devil, in my mind I will condemn you as one, and yet I will still speak to you as a god and treat you as a blessing, because who am I to pass that judgment?
So does it make me kind to not act on my judgments, or does it make me unkind that I once treated villains as heroes, allowing them to continue years of torment against my soul?
Perhaps it simply makes me foolish, being so distrustful of my own intuition, because I hold an arbitrary belief that those who have been miscast themselves must offer others a greater understanding.
Maybe kindergarten taught me too early, “if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all,” and my young, naive heart took it as gospel.
But I can’t help but think back to all the times I saw someone for who they were and thought, “Who am I to cast judgment?”, and how many times they proved me right.
My mind was always the thorns, but my words always became petals, and others never offered rain.
I needed a reason to practice drawing some side characters and settings from the main comic, so I got a brilliant idea for a mini comic: in the course of Hero work, Kichi gets an injury that requires a long recovery period, and his mom convinces him to spend that time away from the stressful city for that, out in the countryside with his grandpa (whom he doesn't like and who doesn't like him). I figured it'd be a good way for the two to bond, as well. And, ya know, drama :P
Kichi ends up going through the entrance exams for recommended students. I haven't really fleshed out what his years at UA are like since I wanted him in a class with my siblings' MHA OCs as well and ideally we'd all collaborate when writing those adventures, but I had some ideas that he'd start a rivalry with the mohawk guy on the left there by inadvertently sabotaging both their performances in the physical exam and landing them in General Studies instead of the Hero course.
This is a little overdue but thank you @ink-fireplace-coffee for your writing prompt, and @batstickblog for reblogging it. This was fun to make. :D
(photo by Ch Jawad on pexels.com)
Is life too good? Do you ever look around your peaceable town and wish you had a chance to see what real suffering looks like? The Caverns of Vision is just the retreat for you!*
With a complete lack of guided tours, you'll have to take a map (provided on the back of this brochure) and hike up into the Perppeghal Mountains yourself from the nearest city, Lonliton, almost a hundred miles out! Be sure to buy sound-blocking shield charms from our gift shop before you go, because these mountains are infested with sirens. Once said to be the gifterforsaken descendants of elves, these dog-sized monsters use irresistible music to lure ignorant mortals in for dinner, to serve as the main course. (If you visit, severe injury and death may occur; your safety is NOT the responsibility of Lonliton Landmarks LLC.) But wait! There's more.
Once you've reached the mouth of the Caverns, you're on the edge of beholding true suffering, for NONE HAVE COME BACK OUT UNCHANGED. That's right. Once you pass beyond the first 100-200 meters of the Caverns' entrance, you will cease to be visible to mortals still outside; whatever pernicious magic lives within, you will be at its mercy. Some have returned from the Caverns incoherent, some more dead than alive, and most not at all. Of those who have returned, some came with shocking magic items, some with knowledge of the future, and most without their minds. By Lonliton Landmarks LLC's calculations, you have a 0.02% chance of returning alive and sane, much less with any valuable magic items in tow. However, you have a 99.98% chance of losing your mind and/or suffering a painful and unique death inside.
So what are you waiting for? Pack your bags and go!
*If you return, you'll receive a %15 discount on all Lonliton Landmarks LLC products in our gift shop.
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Art dump. It's been a while since I posted, sorry, hehh. Had some life changes to attend to. This is all stuff I drew for an OC I made for a My Hero Academia fan fiction. But this is mostly outdated, I've got newer sketches I'll post later.
