Overstimulated Academic Failure Astetic

theyre on very opposite sides of the depression spectrum

doodle from the eps today

I haven’t been on tumblr for quite as long as a lot of people but over several years I’ve noticed this interesting gradual sorta,, shift in the general culture? that it went from this mostly depressed, nihilistic outlook where people would regularly joke about hating themselves and being hopeless and depressed, to a wave of vehemence of “STOP hating everything actually the world is Good and you deserve love!!!” type posts, to now, where those aggressive ‘PSAs’ have faded away and instead I regularly see people romanticizing simple things like stars and hot tea and rainy mornings, and waxing poetic about their friends, and just trying to put love out there. and I don’t know exactly what that means (someone who knows more than me could probably say something smart about generational expression and trauma or popular perception of mental health and whatnot), but I do know that it makes my heart very full to see people learn to love the world and themselves by extension, and a whole userbase adopting healthier coping mechanisms, and therefore teaching the younger users to do so as well. I might just be following different people, but I really do think we’ve grown. everyone has grown. five years ago it wasn’t unusual for the next post on my dash to be a scathing commentary on why nothing matters or an anon ripping into someone they barely knew or someone complaining about how pathetic their interests are. now I have mutuals who get excited and spam reblog art of cows and friends I see tagging each other in pictures of frogs and strangers writing paragraphs about how much I matter. it makes me happy. idk. just an observation I wanted to make. I think people are good and everyone’s just trying their best at the end of the day

The road to forgiveness is paved with miles of bullying

Second shadow

Him :)

oh i forgor 'bout this blog

i'll see if i can post some of past yr art

How to make Good Characters for Dummies

So, you don't know how to make good characters? Well this might not be the most accurate guide but it's how I do it and the thing most people like best about my writing style is my characters.

Step 1 - Personality

You need to know what kind of person your characters is, which will determine how they act and speak for the rest of the story. You should find at least 5 good traits and 4 bad traits for every character, including villains. Always have the amount of weaknesses be at most 2 less than the amount of strengths.

Step 2 - Goal

What does your character want? Why do they want it? What will they do to get it? All of these should tie into your character's personality. Desperate character? They will do literally anything to achieve their goal. Kind character, they will ask for help to achieve their goal. Ect.

Step 3 - Who

Who is your character fundamentally? Gender, age, job, ect.

Step 4 - Story role

What do they do. Why?

Step 5 - Design

What do they look like? Use pinterest for this or just the internet in general for inspiration. Or just draw it out if you can.

Step 6 - Actions

Make sure their actions always align with their personality and goal. Draw upon real life people to figure stuff out

Step 7 - Relationships

Draw upon real life for this too. Determine the relationship between the two to one or a few words. Then insert the personalities and goals

me: haha make an alternate ending of ch 87 where loid was jealous and wanted to be brushed by yor

my hands: but what if its sad as well

Concept art for the intro FMV, from ‘Sonic Mania’.