A lighthouse and a warning, all at once.

A lighthouse monster, to greet all the ships at sea!

Who's that pokémon ?!

It's the most faaaaabulous Toxicroak you've ever seen!

You can thank this funny moment in Pokemon Go :

I HAD to draw shiny Toxicroak with Butterfree wings.

Look at him, isn't it the cutest thing ever? I'm sure you could trust it with your wallet!

REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS

this is advice I've given friends directly before and I've probably also posted it but I really like giving it so here it is potentially again: do not create something for an imaginary bad faith reader.

there will always be someone who finds fault in your work. there will be people who read the messages on it wrong. there will be people who will take every compelling aspect about your work off of it so they can put in their own.

you cannot make art for these people.

you will never write a story that is free from criticism. you will never draw a piece that everyone finds appealing. you will never compose a song that everyone enjoys hearing. you cannot, fundamentally, set out to create something and only think of how you can avoid someone not liking it.

because, and this is key, there will be someone who sees every angle of your story and feels its intent in their heart and gushes to their friends about it. you will draw someone's favorite art and they will make it their phone wallpaper because they want to see it every day. someone will fall in love with your song and loop it on their way to work because it gets them through the day. and THOSE are the people your work is for. THOSE are the people you have to care about, because they love what you make for what it is - because it's itself.

if you set out to create something and file off every sharp edge, prune every thorn, you will be left with something fragile and weak, and it will be fragile and weak for the sake of someone who does not exist but that you were scared of anyway.

sharing art is complex and tangled and powerful, and anything you care enough to create deserves to flourish as itself. get sillay.

I can’t be stopped

Hidden amidst the leaves.

another big tip that I can’t believe I didn’t add to this list:

Let the tags and the summary do the heavy lifting for you. You don’t need to explain how the couple got together if you tag it with established relationship. You don’t have to explain how your heroes ended up in an alternate universe simulation of the real world if you tag it with Matrix AU.

You can set up so much of the background information with the metadata on your fic! Then you can skip past all of that and just get to the portion of the story that won’t stop bouncing around in your brain.

If you want to go back later and add on more then sure, but when you’re trying to get an entire idea out in 500 words? This is how you do it.

That night of pain.

our friends!!

me as a writer: Oh no I can’t write that, somebody else already has

me as a reader: hell yes give me all the fics about this one scenario. The more the merrier

This one is so hard to accept. Reblogging to knock that into my brain.

Me as a writer: I feel like I’m repeating myself, I’ve already used that theme, I’ve already written that kink, that other character uses that speech pattern so this one in another fandom can’t, I feel like I’m writing predictable things, is this different enough from that other thing I wrote, are people filling out bingo cards by my work? :sobbing:

Me as a reader: oh hell yeah this hit the spot exactly, I hope this writer has written 20 more just like it

As one friend said when I felt I was reusing a theme too much, nobody ever says, Did Agatha Christie write about murder again?

I actually laughed out loud at the last one. A very good point.

“I love this, I hope there isn’t anything else out there like it!” Said no one ever

Sometimes you just really need other people to point out the obvious to you! Thanks, guys.

Dragons

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matching friendship bracelets except they’re connected with a chain and— yes okay i handcuffed us together

Spooky season is closer than you think.

Super late to the trend, but the idea had formed itself and I couldn't resist.