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#art #writing #it's art #penmanship #calligraphy #illumination

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Actual roman epitaph for a dog

#art #create #writing #writers #it's art #writing prompt #reference #pet loss #dog loss #dog

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public service announcement

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A strange alien doctor stands near the unconscious body of Padme Amidala. “It appears she has lost the will to live.” A older man with a limp hobbles closer with the aid of a cane. “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” says Dr. Gregory House.

#creative writing #star wars #fanfic

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id: screenshots from twitter thread by @shirilevari on common phonemes in swear words, linked here. the linked paper at the bottom is here. /end id

#writing #writers #reference #fantasy #linguistics #swear words

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#words #linguistics #english language #suffixes #reference

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#funny #lol #dark humor #haha #humor #meme #writing prompt

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#art #create #it's art #ai artwork #ai #practice #hone your craft

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#no dialogue #art #sculpture #wood sculpture #snakes

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#art #create #it's art

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You were the caretaker for the mythical beasts of the royal family. Yesterday they decided to replace you with some incompetent noble, before kicking you out of the castle. You then spent the night in a nearby forest. However today you were awakened by the beasts who chose to follow you.

#blood mention #oblique references to violence #ficlet #dead animals mentioned #they're all game animals #creative writers #creative writing #writing prompt

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

#art #create #writing #writers #creative writing #reference

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When I was little and bitching about having to go to school, my mother said something very smart: you don't go to school to learn stuff; you go to school to learn how to learn stuff. You don't learn answers, you learn how to find answers.

While that was largely bullshit to sate an angry 8 year old, she had a point. I met useful people. I went to college with people I connected to people from highschool, because they knew something my friend needed help with. I do it a lot, actually.

While my husband and I are very handy people to know (and not just for the pickup truck 🛻), we know people from all kinds of disciplines. I have a bicycle guy, a chicken guy, an energy work guy, a concrete and marble gal, a licensed electrician, a few RNs, a Special Olympics organizer (like for the whole state), I work at a college and have friends in every department including maintenance, security, and student activities. I have also learned that most authors, fiction and non-fiction, love hearing that you connected with their work and are happy to answer your questions.

Mr. Rogers said that his mom always told him to find the helpers. We are all helpers. We are just specialized helpers.

Humans have finally managed to land on Mars, only to find a locked safe buried in the Martian soil. The key is apparently on Earth, but no one knows where.

#art #create #writing #creative writing #writing prompt #reference #find the helpers #lpl mention

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#art #create #writers #books and libraries #librarians #public libraries #libraries #library

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My housemate reminded me of a flashbulb memory I have that I really wish I had a photograph of because it would be a magnificent image to inflict on the internet at large with Zero Context, but I'll try to describe it here, and then draw it after dinner.

Image Description:

As seen from about three feet off the ground: Interior, the den of an american suburban house built at the height of the atomic age and still decorated like it years later. There's dark wood paneling about halfway up the walls that offsets the almost neon pink-orange light of late sunset visible through the large window. Every object in the room is highlighted by the last of the sunlight. The only other light in the room is a TV set that was manufactured the same year Howdy Doody debuted on air, now broadcasting PBS Newshour in black and white.

Closest to the viewer, there is a small end table with a Nearly Full Martini glass, and a Half-empty glass Martini Pitcher, indicating that two of the five martinis it holds have been poured out.

Just behind it, an old man sits in a chair that was bright green and yellow when it was new but is now more Grellow. The man is in his mid-sixites, somewhat heavyset, with a full head of snow-white hair and thick glasses. He's wearing a dark brown tweed suit with leather elbow patches, and a white cotton button-up. He's watching the news with a calm and dispassionate demeanor. Tired, but still engrossed with the world's events. He's wearing dark brown penny loafers and garish argyle socks.

Behind him is a couch that is a matched set with the armchair, with the same Grellow chevron pattern, but there is a very large crochet afghan that has been spread out over the back to be decorative and maybe protect the couch from it's current occupant: a 120lb Wolf Hybrid.

She's seated lengthwise on the couch, like she had also been watching PBS Newshour, posed like a sphynx. She's close in wieght to the man, and definitely taller than him if she stands up, with a dark gray agouti coat and a bit of white countershading from the trace of domestic dog in her. She's turned her head to the viewer, bright yellow eyes focused on them, and the fur of her head and neck haloed with the sunset. She is pleased to see the veiwer, which means most of the teeth in her lower jaw are visible in her canine grin. The effect is very menacing if you don't know her.

Clutched rather neatly between her front paws is a second, identical martini glass, only not nearly quite so full as the old man's.

Title: "Oh, I didn't think you'd be back for another hour/GODDAMIT EDWIN"

#Family Lore #mazel the wolfdog #Illustration #She did not every suffer any ill effects from this but also DO NOT GIVE WOLVES OR ANY OTHER CANINE ALCOHOL #write #writers of tumblr

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Dolly Parton has come to do a show in my town. We couldn't afford tickets, so me and my mom sold my stepdad so we could go.

It turned out that we sold him to Dolly Parton, she made him sing with her and then she gave him back.

#rebagel #text #originally posted by:one-time-i-dreamt #write #creative writers

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

#art #create #writing #writers #creative writing #writing prompt #fantasy #unreality