#i like the creative ones tbh it’s fun

[journey-to-the-attic]

the rest of the cast got their new song covers, so i wanted to try putting the others in a band :>

i did want to make it look a bit like an album cover but i have no idea how those are designed so eh?? i also couldn't think of any band or album/song names so. if anyone has any ideas...

#art #obey me #obey me raphael #jtta ik #obey me mephistopheles #obey me thirteen #from left to right they are: lead singer/rhythm guitar - drummer - lead guitar - bass #tbh any of them could've taken any role but bassist girl thirteen spoke to me and raph canonically sings well so that felt like it fit #i did consider ik as lead but she'd absolutely shred on the drums. she has so much pent-up rage to let out... #in context this is for a music festival diavolo's putting on but it'd be a fun au as well #i like to think thirteen is the overwhelming favourite of all the fangirls #also in terms of band name... #i was thinking something based on the fact that there's one of each species (human/demon/angel/reaper) but what word can i use for that #jo has suggested something involving the numbers 3 and 4 for 3 realms and 4 members #3.4HZ Harmony was the best we could come up but it feels like there should be a sorta other-world element to it #then again if it's an au then i guess they'd all be humans anyway #ah whatever #life and work related obligations have been growing so naturally i've been starting a bunch of creative endeavours to try to get away from #is this a long term good thing for future career prospects? probably not. but i'd rather be happy

[venacoeurva]

I feel kind of insane that it was a very strong consensus that AI voices are unethical because the original VAs never consented to their voices being used in this way, are not compensated, and their voices are being used for things they never agreed/would never agree to say and it doesn't matter if these uses are commercial in nature or not, it feels very ghoulish, but one of the biggest trends rn is AI covers of songs and they're being pumped out like crazy and people are falling over themselves to defend people who don't have big time production budgets using them instead of hiring someone on Fiverr or imitating the voices themselves or voice clip mixing and sampling pre-existing lines like the olden days. ok. alright. Good to see some of you out there have the moral fortitude of a wet paper straw

#vena vents #not art #I think the only ethical voice synthesis ones are vocaloids and tts with a small pool of compensated speakers tbh #Because yeah your voice might read out some weird shit but you kind of gotta know and accept that before being sampled for those purposes #the VAs in the case of AI did not agree to that and are all very vocal about not wanting their voices sampled #I feel like most who were aware of uberduck and w/e early on just kind of didn't care because it was obvious clunky tts for fun #but creative AI are so predatory and violating and often hard to parse if AI or not these days it's way different

[quatregats]

This is probably Bush and also Pullings's native dialect (though I have many MANY doubts about what exactly the methodology being used here was)

#they have texts and they have informants and they have the informants read the text but i'm not really sure how that's supposed to work #anyways this is definitely the dialect pullings grew up speaking since afaik he's the son of hampshire farmers #apparently chichester is in area 5 as well so also falls under this categorization #this is very unrigorous research btw. please take everything i am saying with a grain of salt i'm just fiddling around with an old book #i'll look for a good basic primer on history/dialectology of english at the library at some point perhaps #i do not have the historical context/cross-references to verify any of this guy's claims #i just really like dialect and english-language ones are so much fun what with all the crazy vowel combos #and apparently lots of rhoticity??? he's claiming this accent was also rhotic which is a little insane #would love to read a history of rhoticity in english tbh #perce rambles #adventures in historical sociolinguistics #percy yells at cecil scott #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense #if you go to the source there's a lot of texts in this section i just picked one

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

#Good Omens season 2 #Good Omens TV #I know everyone else already shifted into this mode like a month ago and by now already know the plot of the entire show beforehand probabl #but I've been stubbornly avoiding all spoilers and anyways I had to finish DS9 which I will be doing tonight #thereupon I will die 1000 deaths and resurrect to rewatch gomens s1 one more time next week #and then next Friday I will binge the entirety of s2 all at once like a whalefall feeding frenzy and then I will EXPLODE <3 #so nice to have things to look forward to in this world. you've got to have goals you know. #good omens #Starky's Original Posts #GIVE IT UP FOR HOT REPTILE SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!! #man I've missed this and I didn't even realize it tbh...... like it turns out yes it is actually fun and engaging to watch new things #and be excited for what will happen in them #wah :') #[voices in the distance yelling at me to answer ppl's messages and do something productive/creative instead of just #wolfing down tv shows and fanfics and nothing else but luckily I am running away so so fast and they can't catch me]

[huccimermaidshirts]

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#had to listen to ttpd out of plain curiosity because everyone was saying how much it didn't deliver and well they weren't lying #they weren't lying about the lana comparisons either! who's afraid of little old me sounds like born to die in the verses #it's very flat tbh like you're listening to the same songs over and over #it's very hollow like the album was just made just to be made in order to keep her name afloat and relevant #not because she had something to actually say and express. her song delivery is very flat and unemotional idek how to properly express what #i mean. like she sings with no actual emotion behind the words no nerve no nothing. like she can't actually convince me that she's feeling #all that she's singing. also like the music is all the same and the way she sings them. there's no fluctuations no diversity. it's the same #song over and over. also sometimes i feel like the lyrics and the delivery don't really go together with the music #like they don't compliment each other #But Daddy I Love Him is supposedly over her fans trying to dictate her life (i have all sorts of opinions on that but it's a diff convo) an #it had 0 nerve and anger in it. i needed a little more intense a little more angry. i liked down bad and Florida (thank god for Florence 😭) #and all the breathy low vocals are not it either. it kind of makes the album flatter. there's no tension no passion in the album #definitely feels like she's trying to recreate 1989 and maybe folklore/evermore and it's not working #also people comparing this album to midnights are not wrong either #it feels like her last few releases all sound the same with no creativity or bringing something new and amazing #she really needs a break and to take a step back re-evaluate and try to create something more inspiring and fun instead of trying to #recreate the same sound over and over again. releasing album after album in such a short period of time is bound to hinder creativity and #the quality of someone's work. and maybe she does need new people to work with that will push her creatively #also i feel like she doesn't need to create such long albums. especially if you're using the same sound in every song. like one song morpths #into the other and it gets boring! especially if there's little to no build up and tension holding the song and having breathy vocals that #lead to nowhere during each song! anyway it could've been a whole lot better and she has better songs than this

[dante-and-dragons]

Ough. Post-session fatigue is hitting harder than usual today.

#i think it's because it's um. a friday after school. and also we picked up after like a 2 month hiatus. and also it's my new player group #as much as i love them (truly they are Amazing players in terms of creativity and roleplay and scheduling and such) it is a little... #it feels like higher stress because i want to match their level of detail and like... creativity (which i did) #but also i want to make sure that they are having fun which like. dms always want to do. but them especially #bc this is their first experience w/ dnd and i don't want to turn them off it. bc your first dm can really make or break it yk? #but like hhhhh after my players left i just. kinda cried. and it's wild bc it was a good session and they said that they enjoyed it #but the crash was still So real. also like explaining the rules (it was our first combat they know the rules In Theorybut yk how it is) #like tbh explaining the rules wasn't even that bad it was just. i think it was also just i was tired bc of school #(tbh this year i've just gone home midday on fridays bc i get so exhausted on them) and also first sess in a while and cetera #anyway i'm feeling a little better now bc i talked w/ one of my players and she was like. enthusing abt it. and i listened to good music #but like. wooo. that was a REALLY bad post sess crash i haven't felt that bad in ages #d&D #dante dicit #might delete #dming #dm'ing #dungeon master #dm #dungeons and dragons

[witchspeka]

Good morning

Start your day off with cafelutsa from the only Boy ever

#im sure its morning SOMEHWERE in the world #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #shigeo kageyama #mob #romanian stuff #romanisme #uh i think those are all of my tags k cool #last time i posted a ro meme i added context so heres some context: #the pic literally says hes offering u a cup of coffee and asking if u accept #its supposed to parody the kind of memes moms on facebook post. theyre weirdly popular rn i think theyre fun tbh #i wanted to be more creative but couldnt think of anything tune in next time for when i make one with reigen (hopefully) #my stuff #my memes #i swear i had tags i just forgot them i dont post og content like fking ever #this thing wasnt even supposed to see the light of day its like 1am and i felt like rambling in the tags of a post thats the real reason- #- this exists rn #hm should i also explain Shigeuț? nah im lazy k gnite #cine te a intrebat

[comradekatara]

the gaang’s favorite individual daily word games?

there are more daily word games than just the NYT crossword and wordle?????? see i am the wrong person to pose this question to bc i don't like games, and playing any daily word game seems like hell to me. but keeping in mind how little i know on this subject...

aang and katara are very into wordle, and send each other their scores every single day. toph overhears them talking about this one day and not so subtly coughs into her hand "losers"

sokka loves doing crosswords. he is the crossword king. he has multiple crossword apps on his phone, not just the NYT daily. one a day simply isn't enough for him. he has to get his fix

toph doesn't play any "daily word games" because those are virgin games for virgins, like d&d or baseball, and she's too busy drowning in pussy to guess words on her phone, thanks

suki: "what toph said"

zuko likes a game that may or may not exist where you read a line from a famous work of literature and you have to guess who the author is. i'm sure this is a game someone has invented, but if not, please don't steal my idea cuz i know nerds would be all over that

okay i know there's one game where you have to guess a redacted wiki page???? mai would like that one

ty lee's favorite daily word game is reading her horoscope and then making leaps in logic to determine how it specifically applies to her and her personal situation that day

azula forces herself to improve her crossword game just so that she can beat sokka's time every day. not because sokka is aware that they are in competition (he blissfully isn't) but just for her own personal fulfillment. don't worry guys this is healthy. she's fine :)

#kyoshialone #asks #i guess this is #modern au #the gaang and #tbh i dont understand the appeal of games #explain the point of them. quickly #and dont say to have fun bc theyre not fun #not once have i ever played a game and been like 'this is a better use of my time than doing something creative or reading a book or #having a conversation with interesting people' #and at any point in time that i played a game i couldve been doing at least one of those things #so #there are like. very few exceptions #but otherwise games are for virgins and natasha lyonne (cuz i know she loves wordle but i still respect her) #(even tho shes fucked fred armisen so she may as well as be a virgin anyway. wait where was i)

[queenerdloser]

in all honesty, the lion king is maybe the best theatre performance i've ever seen. it was so beautiful! so colorful! every costume so so so thoughtfully done and creative and just plain fun. it was so much fun! the sheer amount of work and artistry and perfect timing and sheer skill that goes into every single performance is frankly awe-inspiring. if you can see it live you absolutely should, it's worth every penny.

#the music!!!!! was so good!!!!!!! #liveblogging life #the story is also still great definitely one of disney's best #but like WOW the staging and costuming are AMAZING #mufasa and scar's deaths!!!! the herd beasts!!!!! literally EVERY SINLGE COSTUME is so creative and fun and cool to watch #a masterclass in staging and costuming tbh #i want to see it again so bad lmao

[jrueships]

chuck/mj gives friends to lovers to enemies to strangers (lmao) and idk how to feel abt it. like oh this dude you've known and loved for decades suddenly hates you because you made a comment about the people he surrounds himself with on air? you haven't spoken in 10 years even though you once considered yourselves inseparable? you were fierce rivals at the height of your careers and now it's radio silent between the both of you? and you hate that it's dead static because you miss the talks and the good days? inch resting

like yeah the story makes mj sound like a massive diva and all but like. the Narrative

theyre perfect for each other 🥰

#TBH #they kind of deserve each other LMAO #and charles misses it :( #THIS IS SO INTERESTING id love to hear more of ur thoughts on them bcs!!! real!! #chuck always speaks his mind!! even if it may be unwelcome sometimes #mj needs that but mj hates that LMAO he loves yesmen and charles is Not a yesman.. #mj likes showing ppl up.. chuck likes learning new things #eventually chucks learns enough to make mj feel like hes the one getting showed up and all a sudden #it's not so fun anymore #i think abt mj looking thru chucks salary (lmao??) over a deal he wasnt even involved with #he just made a similar/same one before charles #so he calls him up and tells chuck the value of stock that he learned from his nike deal cus mj looves stock #and charles went with it even tho he had no idea why until now (which he always sings his value over) #they were both so proud of it LMAO chuck being amazed with mjs genius creativity n mj givin unique tips o the trade #but that was a while ago... and now chuck is telling mj how to handle his business #that does Not fly with mj... #i love friends to lovers to enemies to strangers LMAO vintage ball loves to parade their masculinity then have friendship coldwars over #mean girl issues. it's hilarious. TY for this info!!! this is so! YES!! like!! someone needs to look into it! keep asking!!! #i need them to make up!!! mj can be a diva and charles can be dumb but they can BOTH be demanding #they could be so powercouple it's almost upsetting #ted asks #VERY inch resting!! we need to keep tabs on them !!

[torchickentacos]

we need to invent more shades of colors

#nobody make fun of anyone for referring to colors as gemstones ever again tbh. i get it #shit's ridiculous. #on one hand i like when there's not a word for things because then i need to get creative about it #but on the other hand oh my god someone make up a new shade of this color please

[cicadagaze]

cheesefluff, a silly guy I had on the old roblox lake territory game :]

#warriors #warrior cats #warrior cat oc #wc oc #my art #my ocs #oc #oc: cheesefluff #yes the background is from said game #taken directly from one of my screenshots of him #this was a lot of fun actually #turns out making designs from those extremely limiting morphs is fun to do! #took a lot of creative liberties ofc #and i'll probably simplify the design a bit if i draw him again #anyway i think he's probably a former kittypet who joined riverclan #i think the clan either loves him or hates him without much in between #the more traditional cats probably hate him #while the less traditional cats are just like ''that's my emotional support idiot'' #tbh i kinda want to open requests for this.... #like. y'all send me your cats from the old roblox games #and i draw/design them #i think it'd be fun #but also i have other things i need to do first

[shararan]

good news: started shortfic 300 words

good news 2: its binggehua

??? news: its pushing the boundaries of a shortfic as im at 1500 words and cant stop for a break

worse news: my back is dying

good news 3: still kicking and screaming as the words flow like waterfall

less good but also ???? news: its in swedish

not good but kinda makes me laugh news: ill be the one to take yet another fandoms swedish fic virginity on ao3

#sharan talks #i love writing in swedish i can be as superfluous and over the top as i want and no ones there to stop me #english expects more of a script and standard even in prose and the like #whereas with swedish its very heavily encouraged to just go all out however you want with whatever you want as an author #the authors personal voice is something thats strongly valued ime which i like a lot #whereas with english youre always one step away from being hit with the purple prose allegations #that being said i do try to push it subtly in english too #or rather add some of the flavour of my swedish prose in my english prose #which isnt to everyones taste and thats fine #but im having endless amount of fun doing it im telling you!!!!!!!!!! #tbh its been refreshing reading swedish writers blogs and magazines after so many english ones #its always so much about allowing yourself to go crazy and not worry lest you stifle your creativity #and that if you wanna be unorthodox you just gotta prove why the way you went about it was the best choice for it #IDK ITS JUST SO LIKE #english guides always talk about what you SHOULDNT do #and the things they tell you to do are mostly in relation to the things you apparently shouldnt #more performance anxiety inducing to me #i prefer the mentality encouraging to go all the way and be bold and have fun because whats the point otherwise

[whimsyprinx]

my desire to make more dnd characters vs the fact that I’m in no campaigns and don’t know when or if I’ll be in a campaign are fighting

#whimsy whispers #I was in the one campaign that I left and like #I am particular about people in that I don’t like people so if I were to play in a campaign ideally it would be with people I know and like #because i also do not feel all that comfortable playing with strangers #I have a few irls who play or want to but they’re in too many campaigns or are people I don’t want to play with #example being: my roommate kane plays dnd but has several campaigns they’re in #their dad them their sister me and my irl have played dnd together before (very loosely calling it dnd) #I would not play with that group of people again namely their dad who dmed #the only person from that group who had any dnd experience was kane #their dad was just A Lot and went out of his way to hurt and torture out characters and I didn’t vibe with that like please we don’t have to #get hurt to the point of newr death every four minutes just kill me #all the friends I have who play dnd also have far too many campaigns they’re in rn or just don’t live where I do and don’t prefer online #campaigns and I’ve been invited to play one campaign by a mutual and I’ve been added to the server (hi if you see this 💖) #I just am ;-; about new people and playing with new people #the first legit campaign I played was with people I did not know and while I’m friends with them now (though rsd says otherwise) I was very #like uncomfortable and uncertain of if I was playing properly or annoying them and tbh I stayed that way up until I left the campaign for #realsies #uhhh anyways I like dnd a lot it’s very fun and I miss playing it and like making dnd characters #but I have too many also #and I’m not creative enough to make them normal ocs I can hardly do anything with my actual original characters and stories I can’t just #make up a whole new story for the characters and I don’t do well at repurposing characters either

[rexscanonwife]

I remembered not liking trolls 2 so I decided to rewatch and why Queen Barb kinda...😳💖

#jane journals #potential crush?? idk? #i already got way too fuckin much going on #but it might be fun to design a trollsona [//< #lesbianism aside tho #its not that bad tbh!! #i mean it did come out during THE WORST time ever of anyones life so maybe i was a bit cynical #but its cute after all #and i like things that are cute and creative and maybe a bit wacky! #i do wanna see the new one which also looks cute

[wutheringmights]

Oh yeah don’t dox yourself!! I hope it didn’t sound intrusive, I was just curious :)

You went to university for creative writing then? That’s cool!! I thought of doing that out of highschool but I’m in a gap year right now. I don’t think I can trust myself to write anything creative that I’m actually proud of in a structured setting (ik that sounds yikes, gotta get out of my wimp era eww). So I just watch free video lectures 😭 But do you recommend it?

Well, I hope you leave a door, but if not, your writing has still left me (and loads of ppl I’m sure) with a lot to think about regardless :)

Aww thank you, you're very sweet. And you weren't being intrusive at all! It's actually really nice to know that there's anyone out there who wants to see more of what I can do!

I actually didn't major in creative writing, but I did do a series of fiction writing workshops at my first college and an additional workshop at my transfer university. My transfer university had a creative writing contest and a literary journal, which is where I was published. So it's not the most prestigious achievement, but it is something under my belt, I guess.

Fiction writing workshops really are a mixed bag.

The best part of a workshop is how it forces you to get used to critiques, which is really valuable if you base your self-worth around being a good artist. There is no better way to separate your self worth from your art than having to get used to people talking smack about it. Plus, critiquing other writers helps you to develop the ability to read like a writer and self-edit yourself.

But none of the workshops I did taught me how to write. For reference, I did workshops both at a liberal arts school (which was a mistake) and at a state university (the course was framed as an intro course, but was really just a fun elective). All of the workshops technically had a lecture series for the first half of the class centered on learning the craft, but I didn't learn anything new from them.

Another issue with workshops is that the value of the critiques depends on how good the rest of your class is. In an intro class that is a fun elective at a state school, the critiques are pretty worthless. The critiques for the workshops at the liberal arts school were helpful, but you are also going to be up against self-proclaimed artistes who have the strangest and most pretentious "Golden Rules of Writing" you will ever hear.

Honestly, the best way to improve your writing is to just write and be critical of your own work. If you write consistently and are open to admitting where you are weak, you will get better. It certainly took me a long, long time to start feeling like I was good at writing, and I've been writing most every day since I was 13.

If you decide to go college and want to be involved in a workshop, skip the classes and see if there is a writing club on campus. The club will probably have an informal workshop where you can share and get critiques from people who have a passion for writing just like you do. If the club is anything like the one I went to, it'll be filled with people from a variety of disciplines who will have more valuable insight than any Artiste Writer can give you. Plus, you can make a lot of great friends.

#I also took a gap year between schools and honestly i wish i took a gap year before starting college #but yeah in summary: #1) do not go to a liberal arts college #2) you do not need to study creative writing to be good at writing #3) join a club of other writers #4) write every day #one day i will tell you all my fiction writing workshop horror stories like there really are some freaks out there in the world #((for reference: when I make fun of pretenious writing people i am making fun of myself; i studied english with a concentration in #technical writing and communication; i am extremely stuck up about books. like my xmas list this year was critical editions of classic lit #cause i like getting the historical context; the point is that i am in part making fun of myself)) #((however i will relentlessly mock everyone and anyone for going to a liberal arts school like that is worthy of ridicule)) #me rambling #ask #weetbixbb #also to get on my soapbox but the liberal arts school i went to killed my self confidence as a writer for a really long time #and also killed my confidence in my personality tbh but we won't get into that #like it's stark how cutthroat that enviroment was and who was designated as the Good Artists and why they were Good Artists