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The Gyrus

@dragovar-alhazred / dragovar-alhazred.tumblr.com

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Always reblog when I see this video

and people say the baroque times weren’t fun. it was lit af back then. bach was turnt

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blanska
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bitrek

basic things you should know about your main characters

  • how is their relationship with their family
  • what are their beliefs, if they have any
  • what is their motivation (preferably something unrelated to their love interest/romantic feelings, bc people care about other things, too, kthx)
  • who were they raised to be vs. who they became/are becoming
  • what are their plans for the future, if they have any
  • how do they feel about themselves and how it affects their behaviour (i mean. you can’t tell me a character is shy then have them do things shy people wouldn’t do, like?????)
  • how do they feel about things they cannot control? 
  • and last but not least: 
  • WHY IS THIS CHARACTER THE PROTAGONIST
  • LBR DO THEY EVEN MATTER
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flightyfinch

my FAVORITE tropes compiled thanks to some suggestions from others

  • a character gets a sick burn and doesn’t realize it immediately, at some point later there’s just “HEY WAIT A MINUTE”
  • the double take. this one’s an oldie but a goodie
  • the injured character makes the killing shot that saves everyone else in a dangerous situation
  • a character who isn’t speaking is doing something weird in the background, it’s subtle and never acknowledged it’s just there for those who notice it (pulling another character out of something they got stuck in, making a huge sandwich, etc)
  • the beleaguered assistant inches away from smacking their boss
  • “quick act natural”
  • in that vein, the leader character was just in a shouting match with someone and when they come back the rest of the team scrambles to look like they weren’t listening at the door
  • never forget: “he’s standing right behind me isn’t he”
  • When a character mentions a normal past event and someone else mentions an absurd detail (”Don’t you remember what happened last time you went to the dentist?” “Those deaths were nothing to do with me”) 
  • Multiple characters banding together to lie about something 
  • Characters being split up for questioning
  • Really stoic characters briefly becoming happy, freaking everyone out
  • “I think that went well!” *Distant explosion*

-“quick act natural” *everyone scrambles to do completely random shit that looks anything but natural*

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retronator

These are just a few from the growing set of mini-tutorials posted by Pedro ‘Saint 11’ Medeiros a.k.a. @thelectricafe on his Patreon page. Pedro is one half of @studiominiboss together with @amora-b and they make sweet pixels and games and games made out of pixels like Towerfall.

Pedro is both an artist and a coder, plus a game designer and all that goes into making games, and on top of that he shares his knowledge through these lovely GIFs, so definitely check him out on Patreon: patreon.com/saint11

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you can do anything you want ;)

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brain: isolate urself, withdraw from any kind of human interaction, stop talking to ur best friends
me: why
brain: u gotta

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