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im scared to talk to 100% of my mutuals for fear of rejection and also lack of ability to hold a conversation so if we;ve ever talked and i leave ya hangin kno its cause!! im shy!!!!!! n if we havent kNOW THAT I WANT TO IM JUST!!!!!! S H Y !!!!!!!!!!
“Peace be upon you….asshole” To all my healer breathren out there
Actually
The question I get the most is how I write characters that feel like real people.
Generally when I’m designing a human being, I deconstruct them into 7 major categories:
1. Primary Drive 2. Fear: Major and Secondary 3. Physical Desires 4. Style of self expression 5. How they express affection 6. What controls them (what they are weak for) 7. What part of them will change.
1. Primary Drive: This is generally related to the plot. What are their plot related goals? How are they pulling the plot forward? how do they make decisions? What do they think they’re doing and how do they justify doing it. 2. Fear: First, what is their deep fear? Abandonment? being consumed by power? etc. Second: tiny fears. Spiders. someone licking their neck. Small things that bother them. At least 4. 3. Physical desires. How they feel about touch. What is their perceived sexual/romantic orientation. Do their physical desires match up with their psychological desires.
4. Style of self expression: How they talk. Are they shy? Do they like to joke around and if so, how? Are they anxious or confident internally and how do they express that externally. What do words mean to them? More or less than actions? Does their socioeconomic background affect the way they present themselves socially? 5. How they express affection: Do they express affection through actions or words. Is expressing affection easy for them or not. How quickly do they open up to someone they like. Does their affection match up with their physical desires. how does the way they show their friends that they love them differ from how they show a potential love interest that they love them. is affection something they struggle with?
6. What controls them (what they are weak for): what are they almost entirely helpless against. What is something that influences them regardless of their own moral code. What– if driven to the end of the wire— would they reject sacrificing. What/who would they cut off their own finger for. What would they kill for, if pushed. What makes them want to curl up and never go outside again from pain. What makes them sink to their knees from weakness or relief. What would make them weep tears of joy regardless where they were and who they were in front of.
7. WHAT PART OF THEM WILL CHANGE: people develop over time. At least two of the above six categories will be altered by the storyline–either to an extreme or whittled down to nothing. When a person experiences trauma, their primary fear may change, or how they express affection may change, etc. By the time your book is over, they should have developed. And its important to decide which parts of them will be the ones that slowly get altered so you can work on monitoring it as you write. making it congruent with the plot instead of just a reaction to the plot.
That’s it.
But most of all, you have to treat this like you’re developing a human being. Not a “character” a living breathing person. When you talk, you use their voice. If you want them to say something and it doesn’t seem like (based on the seven characteristics above) that they would say it, what would they say instead?
If they must do something that’s forced by the plot, that they wouldn’t do based on their seven options, they can still do the thing, but how would they feel internally about doing it?
How do their seven characteristics meet/ meld with someone else’s seven and how will they change each other?
Once you can come up with all the answers to all of these questions, you begin to know your character like you’d know one of your friends. When you can place them in any AU and know how they would react.
They start to breathe.
主料为暗红色金鱼戏藻紋提花绸，衬里为纯棉与织锦缎拼接。(提花绸，是用提花机使经纬线交错点织成各种花纹图案的绸缎，是绸缎中的一个大类， 是与绸面印上花纹的印花绸大类不同的一个类别。现在一般指提花化纤布料）
面料厚度：适中
面料特点：光泽度好，耐磨损，易打理，机洗手洗均可（缺点：反光，夏天穿略热）
推荐季节：春秋
推荐场合：本款圆领袍为箭袖，可作为常服穿着
The Yuanlingpao/圆领袍 (round-collar robe) is a type of men’s Hanfu (han chinese clothing) that became popular with women during the Tang Dynasty. This Tang-style Yuanlingpao is from 重回汉唐, and can be found here.
I CANT BROWSE A TAG WITHOUT BEING SPAMMED BY THESE UGLY SPAMBOT HOW DO I GET RID OF THEM ON MOBILE
“Herro. We are da Broverhood of Still and we want u to join us plz. Let’s introduce u to our members” - Erder Maxsun
“I make you kill for da Broverhood”
“I sell da stuff for da Broverhood“
“I lost my legs for da Broverhood“
“I correct da stuff for da Broverhood“
“I make sure u don’t do da sex in da Broverhood”
“I do da science for da Broverhood“
“I betrayed de Institoot for da Broverhood“
“SKDJFNFIDIAKLLF;KDIIBROVERHOOD!!!!!1!“
“Only purson in da Broverhood wit da brainz.“
“Oh noez u found a baby piture of me in da Broverhood.“
“…”
“WELCOME TO DA BROVERHOOD INITIATE!”
Hey uh I don't know if I already asked that here but does anyone play guild wars 2?
Couldn’t fall back to sleep, so I got up and drew Small Mac™. He is the greatest Mac to ever Mac.
I am so tired.
look man im a native english speaker and i’ve been mispronouncing a crap ton of words because i never looked up the pronunciation for any of them but if you make fun of how a foreigner pronounces an english word either because of their accent or having never heard that word before i will fucking fight you because english has shitty pronunciation rules and none of them make sense fuck off
Oh fuck i saw the biggest far harbor spoil ever :'(
which fallout is your favorite?
A garnished kitty is the cutest kitty
