Eat Drink Sleep Play

My oil painting of Wine and Dino Nuggs

Big fan of Dipper "if I ever see you again outside of my nightmares, there is no force in the universe that will stop me from putting you in the ground" Pines

Tips from a Beta Reading Writer

This one's for the scenes with multiple characters, and you're not sure how to keep everyone involved.

Writing group scenes is chaos. Someone’s talking, someone’s interrupting, someone’s zoning out thinking about breadsticks. And if you’re not careful, half your cast fades into the background like NPCs in a video game. I used to struggle with this so much—my characters would just exist in the scene without actually affecting it. But here’s what I've learned and have started implementing:

✨ Give everyone a job in the scene ✨

Not their literal job—like, not everyone needs to be solving a crime or casting spells. I mean: Why are they in this moment? What’s their role in the conversation?

My favourite examples are:

The Driver: Moves the convo forward. They have an agenda, they’re pushing the action.

The Instigator: Pokes the bear. Asks the messy questions. Stirring the pot like a chef on a mission.

The Voice of Reason: "Guys, maybe we don’t commit arson today?"

The Distracted One: Completely in their own world. Tuning out, doodling on a napkin, thinking about their ex.

The Observer: Not saying much, but noticing everything. (Quiet characters still have presence!)

The Wild Card: Who knows what they’ll do? Certainly not them. Probably about to make things worse.

If a character has no function, they’ll disappear. Give them something—even if it’s just a side comment, a reaction, or stealing fries off someone’s plate. Keep them interesting, and your readers will stay interested too.

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Hey 👀 check out this zine doing an interest check.

As far as I can tell the zine's only posting on twitter, but you don't need a twitter account to fill out their interest check:

Google Docs

Across The Stars AU Zine Interest Check

This form is an interest check for Across The Stars - A Gravity Falls AU Zine with a focus on the various Alternate Universes created within

Interest check closes today though.

"Hey there ckret2 why are you telling us about this interest check, could you possibly have some personal interest in whether or not we fill it out?" Well since you asked, as it so happens the zine's invite-only, the interest check has a place for people to list AUs & creators they'd like to see in the zine, and since as far as I can tell it's only being advertised on twitter where I have basically no presence, all the folks who might be interested in any of my AUs and might have an interest in seeing me in a zine (hello 👁️👁️) won't see it. unless it's posted over here.

(obviously, y'all are under no obligation to recommend me if you're fans of other AUs you'd rather see more and/or if you don't care about zines. but hey, doesn't hurt to advertise it. and whether or not I get into the zine, it looks like a cool project people should know about.)

is this anything

read @ancharan fic about coffee

also this really excellent followup by @spammichsammich

should've taken a break not an oxford comma

cw eldritch cat/ lots of eyes/blood (?

sorry for the long post btw

I added this one just because lol

I really thought i could finish these in 2 week when i barely have free time lmao

spanish ver. of the last drawing and references⬇⬇⬇

references ⬇⬇⬇

Oranges by Jean Little 

THEYRE BEST FRIENDS WHO COMPLIMENT EACH OTHER THROUGH THEYRE DIFFERENT STRENGTHS!!!!!!!!! I love Adaine and I love Fig and they are sisters MWAH shout out to whoever posted these along side scenes from fhsy