*laughs In Partially Bilingual*

*laughs in partially bilingual*

i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

I keep seeing people making fun of using growled, hissed, roared, snarled etc in writing and it’s like.

have you never heard someone speak with the gravel in their voice when they get angry? Because that’s what a growl is.

Have you never heard someone sharply whisper something through the thin space of their teeth? Or when your mother sharply told you to stop it in public as a kid when you were acting up/being too loud? Because that’s what a hiss is.

Have you never heard a man get so blackout angry that their voice BOOMS through the house? Because that’s what a roar is.

Have you never seen someone bare their teeth while talking to accentuate their frustration or anger while speaking with a vicious tone? Because that’s what snarling is.

It’s not meant to be a literal animal noise. For the love of god, not every description is literal. I get some people are genuinely confused, but also some of these people are genuinely unimaginative as fuck.

yeah, irl people frequently mask or downplay their feelings, I have been guilty of saying I’m fine when I’m not or saying something I don’t agree with, seeing characters who realistically speak and think with realistic thought processes always bumps a book up at *least* two places in the list in my head.

differing levels of emotional intelligence also just hit hard and help further the plot (in my opinion as a writer)

For example:

“I’m fine.”

“I believe you”

where they both are lying and you *know* that because they both don’t know how to communicate how they feel.

“I’m fine.”

“Clearly you’re not. I don’t know how to help right now but I I can see that you need some”

where one is lying and the other can tell and refuses to play with it.

“I’m not fine. Please help me.”

“Of course. Always.”

or

“I’m not fine. But I will be.”

“Alright.”

Or

“I’m not fine. I… will be.”

“But will you really?”

I just like when the dynamic of emotional intelligence is played around with. It adds something

That post that's like "stop writing characters who talk like they're trying to get a good grade in therapy" really blew the door wide open for me about how common it's become for a character's emotional intelligence to not be taken into consideration when writing conflict. I remember the first time I went to therapy I had such a hard time even identifying what I was feeling, let alone had the language to explain it to someone else. Of course there are plenty of people who've never been to therapy a day in their life who are in tune to their emotions. But even they would have some trouble expressing themselves sometimes. You have to take into account there are plenty of people who are uncomfortable expressing themselves and people who think they're not allowed to feel certain ways. It also makes for more interesting conflict to have characters with different levels of understanding.

One

one of the concepts in my novel is literally this?????

leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

DREW AN ELF BOI

because of that yknow “OC Pause Art Challenge” where you sorta pause at different times to get the features! That’s what this was :3

and after months of working on it I present to you an OC Animatic!!!!!!!!

It makes more sense once you’ve read the fanfic lmao