A little test page for a scene/short comic I’d like to write lol (click for better quality!)

[id: a short three-panel comic page with a thick black border surrounded by white while the panel dividers are thin black lines. The art is sketchy and digitally drawn in black and white with pops of color. The panels show:

Top, horizontal panel: A little girl with a dismayed expression holds a pig stuffed animal in one hand and is pointing behind her with the other. Around her are dragonfly-like wings, several eyes, and sharp teeth surrounding her pointing hand. Her eyes, the floating eyes, and teeth are all rimmed in a dark pink. A hand written text box in the top left corner of the panel reads ‘My daughter wakes me up on a Sunday morning. She says,’ where ‘daughter’ is written in the same dark pink.

Bottom left panel: A man with a short scruffy beard and neutral expression holds his glasses in one hand with the other resting on blankets. Behind him are the outline of a pillow and a line indicating a headboard. Surrounding his head are circles and scribbles indicating grogginess. His eyes are violet. A text box at the top center of the panel reads ‘“Papa,”’ with the word written in violet.

Bottom right panel: A man stands at a door with his back and large feathery wings to the audience. His head is at level with oval decorations on the door and his halo is a scribbled oval in a dark yellow that sits on a slant from left up to right on his head. A text box near the bottom of the panel where his wings cross reads, ‘“There’s an angel at the door.”’ where the word ‘angel’ is written in dark yellow.

End id.]

Zombie setting where the undead are drawn towards unhygienic scents, so survivors constantly bathe to avoid being eaten.

#this makes me curiously sad #the idea of flowers covering the undead #that symbol of human love is what makes them docile

me to zombies:

Thank you all for the responses!!!! I got a few more notes to share from folks asking me about this setting :D

DREAMWALKER // CASTER ENFORCEMENT AGENCY

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Wow I really do love short stories. I think writeblr focuses so often on novels, on 50, 60, 70, 80K word counts, but there’s something so intrinsically beautiful about telling a compelling story in 2,000 words and then moving on to tell another.

Give me body horror in magic.

Give me pyromancy that burns the skin off your hand until your bones are showing. Give me arcane that cooks you inside-out from manaburn. Give me cryomancy that cracks your skin and chips it away. Give me necromancy that causes your teeth to turn necrotic and your eyes to glass over white.

I don’t want cute magic. I want magic to be a raw and dangerous force. I want those who harness it to feel the full effects of what a great and terrible thing it is. I want mages who wear the effects of their magic on their skin and in their bones.

That’s the good stuff.

Give me that light healing that is like being cauterized from the inside out. Give me the agony of feeling your bones being reknit by nature magic. Give me the sensation of feeling like you are drowning when a shaman works their healing magic. Make it -uncomfortable-.

FUCK. YES.

Why on earth should it all be sparkles and giggles? Healing shouldn’t be instantaneous, nor should it be painless.

I mean, RP what you want, but this is my preference by far.

Give me magic that has consequences. Give me healing that does heal better than mundane methods, but at the risk of killing you from shock in the process. Give me a reason people in a world with magic have scars, curses that actually act like curses and have a 90/10 downside/upside ratio, the potential of actually becoming addicted to the endorphin rush that comes after this kind of healing, and the necessity that magical healers still know how the body works or they risk magically re-knitting those parts in the wrong order.

Hey @donmiticool (tag doesn’t work, sorry) why would you hide such fine additions to this post in the replies? 

When I rebloged this post earlier today, I was on mobile so I couldn’t add much.

But I wanted to add a couple of more general ideas. Mages (wizards) are often seen as wise and kinda fragile scholars, sometimes as madmen (Call of Cthulhu-like ones). Want wizards that smith-like, musuclar, dirty and sweaty with callous hands, scars and burns from their craft.

This is one of the reasons I like blood magic so much. I enjoy the trope of a high price to pay for power. What if there is no mana to pay for spells? Only lifeforce and the most efficient one is the spellcaster’s one…

I still have an old draft about it on this blog. I should get back to it.

2020 gothic

- you join a zoom call. everyone’s mic is muted, but no one is talking anyway. you stare at the squares with faces in them. which is your face? you can’t be sure.

- the news is full of numbers. you try to learn what they mean, but the articles are full of jargon from fields you have no experience in, and you swear the numbers change when you blink. 

- you wake up. you sleep. you wake up. you sleep. how many days was that? you have no idea.

- you go for a walk. a shadow follows you down the street, moving when you move, stopping when you stop. always the recommended six feet away.

- every day you get several emails from corporations you’ve never heard of. each company name sounds fake, too vague, too optimistic. “Stay healthy! :)” they say. “We’re committed to keeping you safe! You must stay healthy! We love you very much! We learned everything about you so we can keep you safe! Please believe us we love you so much we’ r e  , s 0Rry:):)):))”  You try to unsubscribe, but the link just takes you to a blank black webpage. Suddenly, you can make out your reflection in the screen. What’s that over your shoulder?

- you’ve been wearing the same clothes for days, but somehow there is laundry.

another proposal for a new genre

Unrealistic Fiction: Like realistic fiction, except everything is super unrealistic. I don’t mean in a “fantasy/speculative fiction” sort of way, I mean things like “characters turn out to be long lost siblings for no reason” and “a side character is wealthy because he won the lottery and also he used to be a circus performer and is the descendant of Thomas Edison.” Characters die of super rare diseases and are born either on February 29th or on the exact stroke of midnight on new year’s eve or something equally unusual. The main character’s mother and father meet when one of them is skydiving and the other one is being attacked by a shark and the skydiver accidentally lands on the shark. Someone gets struck by lightning while photographing the last known specimen of an endangered bird. Two characters have the exact same birthday for no reason. The main characters’ family have an albino crow and albino deer in their backyard that are friends. The long lost siblings’ dogs are also long lost siblings. None of it is anything that couldn’t happen, just something that would sound super unrealistic if it was put in a story, and none of it is remotely relevant to the plot.

WIP Blind Date March 2020 [Writeblr Event]

Hey everyone! Do you want more people to check out your WIPs and projects? Are you interested in finding some new WIPs to adore, and people to befriend? Check this out!

WIP Blind Date is a Writeblr event where you can go discover a WIP you may have never encountered before! You can submit your WIP and have someone assigned to check it out and comment on it, and you are assigned a WIP to look at as well! It’s a win-win :)

RULES

HOW TO SIGN UP

***Please note that you need to do every step in order!

1) Reblog this post and follow @pens-swords-stuff or @wip-blind-date

2) Fill out the following form, post it on your blog, and tag it #wip blind date entry. (Please delete everything after the bolded portion! All the notes are just there to help you fill it out.)

You are allowed to add images, or fancify this post however you wish, as long as it has all of the necessary information!

3) Fill out this google survey

You will not be signed up for this event until you have submitted this! This survey is for organizational purposes and won’t collect any information. Don’t worry, it’s short!

What if I want to look at people’s WIPs, but don’t want to submit my own?

That’s okay! There will be a part 2 of this event. I will be providing a way for people to discover a random WIP even if you’re not signed up for the event (or outside of your assignment if you do decide to join!). 

Basically, I’ll have a post with links to every single WIP entered in this event, but they won’t be labeled! They’ll be numbered instead. You can pick your favorite number, and it’ll lead you to a fantastic new WIP to love and enjoy! You won’t be required to reblog and review for part 2, but it would be nice if you did.

I signed up, what next?

Thanks for signing up!

After the sign-ups have closed, I will go through and assign everyone a WIP to go on a blind date with. Depending on the number of people participating, it may take me some time so please be patient.

Once I’ve done that, I’ll create a new announcement post, and we can proceed from there. Please note that you will be required to fill out a feedback form. This will be provided in the next informational post I’ll make, once sign-ups are closed.

Thank you so much for checking this out! Please spread the word even if you won’t be participating, and I hope you all enjoy this Writeblr event!

Since I’m seeing some people saying they’re scared to participate…

Look guys, everyone is required to fill out the feedback form. And this is what the feedback form looks like:

You will not get any criticism unless you specifically consent to it in your entry.

You have nothing to be scared of: come on and sign up!!!!

Only a handful of people are signed up so far, and I would love to see a lot more!

Tagging a few more people I like and admire, please consider joining and boosting!

Keep reading

there’s a quarantine going on… no pressure but i KNOW ya’ll have WIPs

okay but i LOVE those authors who link all their books together?? like not even spin offs and shit,,, just mentioning, like, a street that was where another protagonist lived, or this brand that they both adore?? like srsly i aDORE that

Me afraid demons are going to come for me vs @worldbuildingwren making a good point that I’m really just gonna throw away a whole story that my brain just handed me on a silver platter while I was sleeping

W r i t e ! I t !

Actually life is beautiful because the sound I make while trying to breathe around hot food sounds like my dog trying to eat an apple. When I yawn my cat tries to put his face in my mouth like a little dentist man and when he yawns I put my finger in his obligate-carnivore trapzone and we both know he will not hurt me. When I do not fold my clothes, they do not hold it against me.

I am demonstrably sad, and lonely, and full of fear. But there are other people who will hold my hand, who will point out the hawk overhead, who will give you That Look in a public place. The other day at a coffee shop a child said "look! It's snowing!" so all of us strangers went to go look out the windows. It wasn't the first snow and it won't be the last but wasn't it lovely, like that?

How wonderful to live in a world where birds and frogs both say beep! How wonderful to have an ocean of beautiful sharks with their dinosaur teeth! How wonderful the moon and her changing face, how wonderful the bees and their dancing to communicate, how wonderful shrimp and their forbidden layers of vision! How wonderful, you, and what you will give the world! The way we love things enough to spend entire blogs devoted to them? How people will let me explain my Pokemon team to them? How we will both jump at the scare in the movie, how we laugh so loudly, how it feels to give someone your baking? How wonderful to be alive. I am sorry for forgetting.

This is the process of getting better. With wonderful people and wonderful strangers and wonderful friends: I am getting better, slowly. Thank you, whoever you are. In some way, you've been wonderful, and left a wonderful place in the world to ripple out to me. In some small way - isn't it beautiful - I promise, you've been helping.

Shoutout to all the writers out there who do worldbuilding on a small scale.

Big, sprawling fantasy worldbuilding for an entire original universe tends to get most of the attention in this community — for a very good reason! A lot of people do it, and it is all seriously interesting and impressive.

But this post is for all the people who do small worldbuilding too. This is for all the people that worldbuild original cities in a modern setting for their story. This is for all the people that put a lot of care and attention in creating a shop, restaurant, school, building, and come up with really cool backstories that may or may not make its way into the actual narrative. This is for all the people that discovered little details to weave into a culture on a smaller scale — like a local community, a school, a family, a person. This is for all the people that do worldbuilding — but a different type of worldbuilding than the kind we typically associate with that term.

Worldbuilding on a smaller scale is so cool and I really love seeing it! Every detail you guys include are so interesting and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. Keep worldbuilding you funky dudes, it’s all super awesome to know that so much love and care was put into the small things.

idk why listening to people complain really passionately about something that i don't even care or know anything about is so entertaining but it is

me sitting down to watch a tired college student with like 100k subscribers rant for half an hour about how bad some trashy YA novel i've never read is on youtube