#Show and Tell

[artianwen]

[ devo - puppet boy ]

"living my life under this pressure ... demanding the results that you want ...

and now you're all branding me a failure?"

#persona 5 #persona 5 royal fanart #persona 5 royal #persona 5 fanart #persona #kasumi yoshizawa #sumire yoshizawa #fanart #show and tell #devo puppet boy #there r so msny songs that could work with her aaaa #this was so fun to draw #eeeee #more stuff on the way!! i'm on a roll lately #p5 #p5r #artianwen

[netflix]

Show & Tell Spotlight: Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Freeridge

Keyla Monterroso Mejia, who stars as Gloria in Freeridge, shares moments and memories with the cast, and some impulse buys.

My incredibly talented costar Ciara Riley Wilson made a custom Guess Who board game that only had people from our cast and crew. In this video we are playing and losing, and for some reason it was hilarious to us. Michael Solomon caught it on video and it’s one of my favorite moments, and the bonus is you can see Zaire in the background just completely knocked out.

This next picture I forgot about it until I started scrolling, but it’s a picture of my costar Tenzing. One night, the cast went to dinner and we realized Tenzing looked like a character from the movie “Horton Hears a Who”. We had to pull up the evidence and so now, we have this picture.

This is a picture of an impulse buy – it’s a pepper spray that I bought on Amazon for like $25 dollars. All the girlies on Tik Tok told me to get one so I did, and I don’t regret it. I feel safer just having it on me even though I’ve never used it.

This is also another impulse buy. It’s a picture of a couch I bought on Offer Up and the person selling it just so happen to live around the corner from me. Unfortunately, the couch did not fit inside my car so my brother offered to carry it home and I thought it was so funny so I took a photo.

Thanks, Keyla!

#freeridge #spolight #entertainment spotlight #show and tell #Keyla Monterroso Mejia

[night-loop]

The Birthday Massacre CDs (that I don't have). Images from discogs.com

Others here (x)

#the birthday massacre #cds #fascination #diamonds #hide and seek #looking glass ep #imaginary monsters #show and tell #discography

[mikufigureoftheday]

hii hope this is ok, but I wanted to share a meek I painted

I used one of the larger tokidoki figures as a base, don't remember which but it was solid green and begging to be remade

here's her compared to a regular-sized figure. that's all ^_^

Sharing is 100% allowed!! We support creativity in this chat

She's so cute I love her....... her horn looking like a light stick is so creative and 🤌🤌🤌🤌

What a wonderful paint job and thank you sm for sharing with us!!!

#asks #custom figure #hatsune miku #tokidoki #show and tell

[amalas-tutorial-and-inspiration]

If you are like me and don't want to use texture brushes, but keep it in line with your hand drawing, here is an easy way to draw a wire-mesh fence.

#art tutorial #mesh fence #how I draw #show and tell

[showandtelltime]

Caption This!

Caption this! Without context, how would you caption this painting? Reblog to reply.

#show and tell time #show and tell #caption this #satt #satt-medea

[books]

Writing Workshop Week 1: Show & Tell

Hello, writers of tumblr! It’s @bettsfic again with this week’s generative workshop. 

Today we’re doing what might be my favorite class activity: Show & Tell. 

You might be thinking, do you teach kindergarten or something? No, I teach college. But my students are often weary, downtrodden 20 year olds who are more than happy to go back to basics. Tumblr—being a website of people who care deeply about things and share that passion with others—seems like a great place to host Show & Tell.

Speaking of basics, let’s first talk a bit about…

The Writing Identity

The goal of many writers is to become better at writing. While I think this is an admirable goal it’s also a complicated one, because good writing is entirely subjective. Everyone has their own definition of what good writing looks like based on their knowledge base, history, and personal tastes. And so I often encourage my students, before they begin their journey of becoming a better writer, to step back and ask themselves, “What does good writing look like to me?”

And that’s the thing: you can’t really become a better writer. You can become a more patient writer, with the ability to write and revise multiple drafts of a work. You can become a more ambitious writer, with the ability to write longer stories and deeper themes. You can become a more detailed writer, with the ability to render images and the small details of living that maybe other people don’t notice. Writing is a skill that requires practice, but it also requires joy. You have to enjoy the work more than you fear the potential for failure. And to enjoy the work, you need to honor yourself, your interests, and your ideals. In other words, to become a better writer, you have to become more you.

I remember when I first started writing, I frantically sought out writing advice. I clung to simple adages and rules: active verbs are stronger than passive verbs; remove words like “think” and “realize” and other indicators of your characters’ interior experiences; take out adjectives and adverbs. If you were to adhere to all this advice, your writing wouldn’t become stronger, it would become colder. You would write like Hemingway. There’s nothing wrong with Hemingway, but Hemingway already did Hemingway, and that means you’re free not to be Hemingway. 

Don’t we read to feel closer to people, to experience that which we couldn’t otherwise experience? The beautiful thing about prose is that it’s the only medium that conveys consciousness, because language is the way we contain our thoughts, and writing them down offers others the chance to understand them. E.M. Forster in his book Aspects of the Novel says that the only difference between a character and a person is that a character’s secret inner life can be known, but a person’s can only be understood in observed behavior. Novels are stories of consciousness; biographies are stories of deeds. 

In my early days as a writer, those inane adages of “good writing” began to weigh on me, and I found myself frequently opening a blank document and telling myself, “I’m just going to write something for fun, for me, and so I don’t have to follow any rules.” Every time, that lawless thing I wrote would become better than anything I’d written when I followed the rules. And in this case, “better” means I was proud of it; in writing as close to myself as I could, I was able to help my technical skill reach the level of my personal taste. 

Good writing advice doesn’t spout shallow adages of what should be, it tells you all the things that could be; it opens your mind to possibilities and techniques. “Should” restrains creativity; the entire point of writing is to be creative. To be creative means to make something that has never existed before. And so one of the first things I tell my students is: You already know everything you need to know about your own writing. You already have good and important stories in you. You just have to sit down and write them.

“Show, Don’t Tell”

One such adage that still really gets to me is “show, don’t tell,” which a lot of writers believe. Many people take it to mean that you should describe the exterior circumstances of your narrator in order to allow the reader to interpret meaning. Instead of describing how your narrator feels, these people would rather have you describe their facial expression. But if you’re so interested in rendering the exterior rather than the interior, you’re better off becoming a director. 

Others take it less literally: you show your story instead of tell your story, which, sure, is a valid personal belief for your own work but it’s ambiguous and impractical, and also denies the nature of people to tell stories. Fairy tales and fables are stories that are told. Telling stories came long before showing them.  

In some ways, “show, don’t tell,” can be useful. If you spend a thousand words of character A lovingly and carefully describing every detail of character B, you don’t then need to say something like, “She was pining for him,” because you’ve allowed your description to do that work for you. So no, you don’t need to say it, but maybe you want to. Maybe you want to make it inarguable that character A is pining for character B; you don’t want a reader to say, “I think she’s paying that much attention because she wants to kill him and she’s looking for his weak points.”

And so that’s what it comes down to—choice. Ultimately, writing is about making decisions, and those decisions are stronger when you understand all your options.

Behind the adage is a more difficult truth to swallow: prose is both infinite in its potential and also frustratingly limited, because you have no control over your audience. You can lovingly describe every snowflake that falls in a blizzard, and your reader will be taking their own meaning from it—for people who can mentally visualize things, it’s the images their mind conjures; for those who can’t, it’s a mass of facts. And there are also those who are sleepy and missing details, or who are skimming to get to the bits they’re most interested in, or who accidentally dropped their book in the bath and now the bottom half of every page is warped and unreadable.

Or you can say, “It snowed.”

No matter what your beliefs are on “show, don’t tell,” the truth is that it’s a false dichotomy. The very nature of prose is to navigate this divide. Some stories call for more showing, for example when your narrator is at a distance, when we don’t have much access to their thoughts or feelings. Other stories will ask you to tell, especially if we’re deep in your narrator’s head and they’re giving us everything. Showing lends itself to setting, imagery, and plot. Telling lends itself to character, voice, and style. One is not inherently better than the other, in the same way that a screwdriver isn’t better than a hammer—the tool you use depends on the task at hand.

Any time you encounter a trite rule in writing, it’s usually pointing to something much greater and more fun to think about. In this case, showing and telling are two integral tools in meaning-making. For this week’s activity, we’re going to use both show and tell to make meaning.

Prompt time!

In Donald Barthelme's essay “Not-Knowing,” he calls objects magical. “What is magical about the object is that it at once invites and resists interpretation. Its artistic worth is measurable by the degree to which it remains, after interpretation, vital.” 

So what does that mean? Although this essay is a hot mess (lovingly), part of its intended work is to be a mess. In fact Barthelme describes the mess of his desk and allows it to define him. It’s covered in coffee cups, cigarette ash, unpaid bills, and unwritten novels. In reality, those objects are just objects, but when rendered in prose, they give us an impression of this particular world and the character within it. The writer renders; the reader interprets. The things we own, that mean something to us, are also things that can define us. Who is the person who carries a leather wallet embossed with their initials, with the inside holding credit cards and a stack of neat bills? Who is the person who carries a canvas wallet with a faded Punisher logo on it, attached to a chain, and the only thing inside it is a Subway rewards card?

Objects are important. Especially in this world we live in where so many things have become virtual, tangibility will always be integral to us. We are a species that reaches out and touches. We like to hold things in our hands. We love things which cannot love us back. 

For this week’s prompt fill, I want you to find a magical object for Show & Tell. Ideally, it’s something with a long personal history that’s important to you. Maybe it’s the object you would save in the event of a fire, or maybe it’s something you lost long ago. 

First, I’d like you to show us the object by describing it. Then, tell us the story of it.

You can write about how you acquired it and the memories it conjures. Allow yourself to link and associate memories and feelings. Don’t box yourself in too much—just see where it takes you. 

But you can also put a spin on it. Here are some ways you can do that:

If you want to try fiction, you can write the same story about your favorite character’s beloved object, or you could completely make up an object and its history. 

If you want to try something experimental, you can write a story from the perspective of the object, and maybe its beloved thing is you. 

If you want to try poetry, write a poem of your object. This is a separate lesson, but T.S. Eliot’s concept of an objective correlative may be illuminating to consider. 

The purpose of this activity is to dig through your memories and/or observations, connect them, and use something external to conjure meaning from them. You begin with what your object is and it will eventually lead you to what it means.

Questions? Ask ‘em here before EOD Tuesday so @bettsfic can answer them on Wednesday. And remember to tag your work #tumblr writing workshop with betts if you want her to read your work and possibly feature it on Friday!

And, for those just joining us: @bettsfic is running a writing workshop on @books this month. Want to know more? Start here.

#tumblr writing workshop with betts #writers’ room #writeblr #writing advice #show and tell #long post #long text post

[weeklyshowandtell]

I'm having to slow down clock activities because apparently spending hours cutting out paper really overworks the chest muscles. So this week we're pleased to present a zine I spent like, three hours colouring and gluing together yesterday. This is only like, the second zine I've ever made and I really like how it came out. Outer Wilds is my favourite game in the world, but some of the ways you can die are awful XD

#Image #ID in alt text #Show and Tell #Outer Wilds

[legbootlegit]

I recently watched "Pepsi, Where's My Jet?", a documentary about how Pepsi seemingly offered a Harrier fighter jet as a reward to anyone who could collect enough "Pepsi Points".

A commercial aired in the 90's to promote Pepsi's points program, showing increasingly valuable prizes. The final item was a Harrier jet, listed for 7,000,000 points...with no disclaimer.

John Leonard took them up on the apparent offer, which resulted in a several years long legal tussle. Ultimately, a judge granted summary judgement in favor of Pepsi, ruling that the Harrier was clearly a joke and the commercial did not constitute a real offer.

In the meantime, Pepsi had changed the original commercial to say 700 million points, and added a cheeky "(Just Kidding)" underneath it.

I made this piece to commemorate what a bunch of good-humored jokesters and definitely-not-slippery upstanding dudes Pepsi guys are. If any former or current @pepsi execs want this piece as a memento of their time serving the world's best blue cola, hit me up and I'll send it to you for free!

If you're interested in watching the documentary, it's available on Netflix.

#pepsi #coca cola #corporate greed #fuck corporations #90s #bepis #show and tell #documentary #netflix

[the-tired-commander]

If anyone would be willing to indulge me, I'd love to hear about peoples favourite characters they've ever made

Could be one, could be a whole bunch, I would love to see and hear about them <3

#gw2 #if you're worried that i don't want to hear about your character then please know that I want to hear about them even more #show and tell #haven't used that tag in a little while #i'm feeling a little rough and I would love a pick me up in the form of people yelling about characters <3 #there is no limit to how many characters you can give me btw #if you give me a giant list i will be delighted

[netflix]

Show & Tell Spotlight: Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Freeridge

Tenzing, who plays Cameron in Freeridge, shares what he stole from set, and memories of the cast.

This is something I stole from set. It’s my chair back throughout all of shooting. The props department was kind enough to keep it a secret while I snuck away with it.

This is a video of one of my many pranks on set. I literally went to set that day when I wasn’t even working and camped in Keyla’s trailer for 30 minutes waiting just for this.

This is a photo of us during a late night shoot getting in one of many small naps between camera moves.

This is a photo of all of the cast in Palm Springs one day after we wrapped Freeridge. We rented an AirBnb for three nights and one night we went out to dinner to celebrate our show!

Thanks, Tenzing!

#spotlight #freeridge #tenzing norgay trainor #show and tell #on my block

[welcome-to-alice-in-helll]

#melanie martinez #k-12 #creepy #doll #creepy doll #puppet show #crybaby #doelet #coquette #creepy cute #show and tell #kawaii #yami kawaii #doelette #circus #haunted #ghosts

[mikufigureoftheday]

Just wanted to share my own Miku collection, a good few I got from just winning prizes at the arcade actually! But i've also bought more to expand my collection.

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Ah, she's musical inspo to you I see. Those are such cute figures and such a cool way to display them!!!!! Thanks for sharing your collection @jaidenthethingie

#submission #hatsune miku #anime figure #vocaloid miku #vocaloid #show and tell

[amalas-tutorial-and-inspiration]

Something I see often missing in drawings is the window niche. Simplification and stylization in art are a more than valid art form, and things don't have to be accurate! But if you want to draw windows more accurate to how they actually are, here is a small breakdown.

(the windows I have drawn in the breakdown are more the german and european windows I know. In the examples on picture 4 you see I've drawn US American windows. The structure is a bit different. But there is a window niche and the frame "hugs" the window from the outside)

#art tutorial #how to draw #art breakdown #show and tell #how to draw windows #windows #how windows work #amalasdraws

[showandtelltime]

It's Show & Tell Time!

Why did you pick your current URL/username?

#show and tell #show and tell time

[nho-jungle]

You seem like the right person to ask!

I've been watching Hermitcraft for a few years now and I know most of the major lore stuff, except for one thing that continues to elude me

What happened to Bdubs and Etho (maybe other NHO people too, but those are the ones I know something happened to) in the Jungle of Season 5?

"you seem like the right person to ask abt what happened in the nho jungle" what could've possibly given that away?

well ur right. i can tell u!

what happened in the nho jungle is, basically, nothing.

due to various irl stuff (burnout, family member death), etho, bdubs, and beef all ended up dropping out of s5 mid-season, or at least, some time before the season ended, and none of them returned for season 6.

however! bdubs had. some lore(?) he was doing where vines were gradually growing on his skin, enveloping him almost completely. and so it became fanon (and, in s6, questionably canon*) that the nho were all taken by the jungle.

*the canonisation of this comes from the convex! who were the quote unquote enemies of the nho. they had beef (no, beef was in the nho) with each other for various reasons, but the nho obviously vanished, altho doc continued using the nho name in s6 by himself for stuff to oppose concorp. but there's a bit witht he area 77 stuff when scar is showing doc his alien that he found in the jungle, and there's an etho head (and possibly other nho heads? i cant remember) along with redstone (blood) in the pit that the beast is in. and then scar makes some ominous comment abt things going missing in the jungle, implying that the beast ate the other nho members. yknow how it is.

if someone has this clip on hand that'd be awesome

#show and tell #rurus-kadoo #mcyt #hermitcraft #nho #ethoslab #bdoubleo100 #vintagebeef #docm77