This Is So Pretty And I Want This Desktop Buddy Rn

DOODLES

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gorgeous as always

He’ll guide you, the glimmer of hope!

Waiting for the sunlight to bestow onto the underground

Hopefully one day…

For some reason, I think of this music, ‘Waltz for the Dead Clown’ by Hakdo when I imagine Trickster. I’d like to pair the song up with this art piece, though I’m not exactly sure if it would fit the best haha

Do try listening it out!

GO FOLLOW THEM GUYS PLEASE

ART TRADE W/

@maxxmakes

(Art made by maxxmakes)

((Art made by me :)

I've been struggling with making my replies longer for a WHILE.

First thing you have to realize is that there are drawbacks to long posts:

they can feel repetitive (I'll explain later), they can make it hard to grasp every detail of what happened, they take much more effort to write, they make replies much slower. In a lot of ways, it's better to stick to what you can write, because progress is like everything, it comes slowly but surely.

now for the actual advice!

one thing I've found is that....either my character's not doing enough, I'm letting them do it too early, or....there's just no ball to bounce.

[HOW TO FIX "not doing enough"]

look for subtle shows of emotions, body language, etc, to throw in at any given moment. Not only does this help give your character quirks, it also helps make your post more buff. check this out for ideas!

don't just settle on dialog. Talking to someone involves shorter replies to avoid repetition and the spam of descriptors. How about adding a side action? why not keep on baking instead of setting everything down to listen? how about being half focused on petting a cat and still eyeing the horizon? why not knit while you watch the sunrise?

think about it twice. If you have no clue what your character would do in that moment, how about asking someone what they'd do? If nothing helps, ask whatever AI you have access to. Obviously, don't make it write for you. AI is only good as support. whenever I am entirely stuck, I often use: "I am writing a fiction in which [...] happens to [...]. Give me ten suggestions of actions my character could take in this situation." often, I don't even use the suggestions, the ideas just flow better once you snicker at a bad, ooc idea.

Don't settle at doing something, describe how your character feels about the thing. Is it a simple, daily task? Is your character bored? Why do you flip the table? Why throw the ball? Is it anger or grief that makes your character slam the door?

Give your character things to do that YOU like. There's no amount of "ugh stop you've been talking for five hours" that will make ME stop yapping about something I love, and that means you can bulk up replies with things both relevant...and enjoyable!!

[HOW TO FIX "Doing the action early"]

Simple:

your character's action, in a general sense, should be located in the middle or the end of the post. OF FUCKING COURSE, this is not an essay, you're not graded on your page layout!

But, for me, it helps to go like this, at least when I'm lost:

THE WORLD: description of the world, the environment, the "things". This is where you drop the appearance of things, how they feel.

THE INNER: here go thoughts! ever had one of the "huh, this thing is slimy actually", or a "what an asshole" or the classic "ugh, wish I could throw this innocent baby out of the plane's window"? yeah? well that's now. your character reacts to the previous reply. Feel free to throw in how visceral, light, playful, evil, sad, anxious, happy they are!!! Here's inspiration ;)

THE PHYSICAL: your character FINALLY does the thing. You draw it out or you don't, that's whatever you wanna do, man.

THE OUTER: don't forget: the world reacts to what you do. this is where you throw in the suspicious glares of the townsfolk, the wall that crumbles because you threw a bomb at it, the judgmental stares of the fishes in the fisherman's stall, the quiet lap of the sea on your now soaked socks.

[HOW TO FIX "There's nothing to bounce off of"]

This one is possibly the hardest one to fix. Because you're not the problem, lol.

It happens a LOT that uh....people don't realize that they're not bouncing back the ball. RP is a conversation. It's hard to reply properly, and be lengthy about it, when you're....bored.

"my character does this and leaves"

okay. where does that leave you? Is there an opening? Something to add? Maybe a clever description of a strange symbol on the wall to draw your character's attention? A rattling coffin somewhere? No? nothing?

" *insults your character, doesn't let them talk, cuts them off, leaves* "

Arguments are fun, but they're still two way street. Don't be that guy.

"my character ignores you"

cool. That's gonna get boring quickly, though.

Everyone has had the blank moment at least once- staring at a random reply, not even knowing how to START approaching that bitch.

my advice? talk about it to your partner....or change partners!

[DISCLAIMER]

Everyone approaches roleplay their own way. there's no ONE single way to reply or write. my advice is--- just that. Advice. You get to decide how you do it. You get to try advice on and scrap it if it's not the one.

FREE WILL, BABY!

guys help ….. when I’m writing a roleplay response how do I make it longer??? 😭😭😭 like, I put dialogue and abit of action in there, but I crave to put more sentences in, more words and more emotion, but I’ve got NO clue☹️☹️☹️

pls… any of u rp saints out there have any tips </3

Context: Dream ate a black apple. He was corrupted as a result. This comic depicts his last sane days before it fully hits.

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(spoilers for chapter 8 of Yet Another Battle)

Dream: I'm sorry. I don't mean to scare you.

Cross: You don't scare me, Dream. I love you.

Dream: And now you're lying to me... I'm not trying to shut you out. just to keep you safe. safe from me.

Beautiful and endorsed. Greaser being a flirty loser and Fresh being a loser loser for the win

ngl i kinda have a feeling i might get hate for this...uh.. sorry you guys :(

i just wanted to draw a flirty greaser and a confused fresh consulting some new feelings he doesn't entirely understand (but he likes it ooOOoOo)

dont ask why greaser is so tall either. uh idk he's prolly standing on his ego or somethin

ALSO I WANTED TO FULLY SHADE SOMETHING FOR ONCE BUT I SERIOUSLY HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO COLOR ANYTHING RAWWW PAIN

greaser - @/radsee

fresh - @/loverofpiggies

this is beautiful. How did I not find it before?

ꔠ > Roleplay Starter : The Fields

In a simulated universe, you are brought to a virtual landscape - specifically on a plain and lonely island in the middle of the vast ocean. Above are the vibrant blue skies adorned with fluffy white clouds. There in the tall grass stands a lone skeleton with strange discolored arms taking a stroll, their back turned. They were humming to themselves, mindless among the fields.

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More stuff I made for Yet Another Battle.

Yet Another Battle was written by @maxxmakes and @solsticecouncil

Nightmare and Dream belongs to Jokublog, Horror belongs to Sour Apple Studios

Shipping under the cut! (Fatal belongs to Xedramon, Dusk belongs to me)

holy shit that's an amazing take.

also I love the textures in your art.

Hm, technically not TAU related but I'm just kinda curious. Where did the uh eye thing (my mind is blanking on the word rn) is indicative of gender thing come from? I just think the idea is neat is all.

partly from my ass, partly from fandom tropes, partly from canon!

unfortunately i can't really provide examples of fanon because it's been a while since i've seen this floating around, but i know there at least USED to be a pretty big trope towards genderbending all the skeleton AU characters (or even just making original skeleton OCs that were female). the biggest way people chose to portray these characters was usually presentation - their bodies would be exactly the same as the OG sanses, just with maybe ecto and/or eye makeup.

all i did was take that further, because in my mind, it made sense!

the majority of canonically female monsters in the game are flat as washing boards, not a single titty in sight - maybe except the slightest of pec-bumps if you really squint - with only 2 notable exceptions that i could find, that being catty and the snowdin shopkeeper:

in fact, if you want to be pedantic...

king fluffybuns has more titty than his fucking wife xD

to me, the presence of boobage on catty, the snowdin shopkeeper and asgore proves that toby and temmie WERE VERY CAPABLE of drawing tits if they wanted to - which means that the lack of tits on the other characters was not an error, it was simply a design choice.

additionally, i believe that it's mostly just anthropomorphic monsters that are revealed to be women in the first place - "lesser" monsters all have completely identical sprites and, if memory serves, most of them are only ever really referred to as "it" or "they". (admittedly, i don't have the patience to go through every profile in the wiki to make sure, so take that with a little salt.) and while that could be just unreliable narration, i'm not here to beat the meta horse to death; i'm taking the information that i see at face value and running with it. and the information that i see is that there isn't a huge amount of sexual dimorphism in the vast majority of monsters, especially when you count non-anthropomorphic ones, which - again, focusing on what we actually see in-game - far outnumber their humanoid counterparts.

instead, you mainly tell what gender the characters are by the way they dress and their eyes - which usually have longer lashes, even if they're not wearing makeup like the shopkeep is. if nothing else, you might be forced to tell by their name or just by the game's narration. so in that case, we - or i, at least - know that most monsters in the underground go by "they" or "it", and not only is strongly gendered presentation already pretty fucking rare, when you get it, it's mostly in people just... dressing the way they want to be called. that's it.

to me, that fits in perfectly with the trope of female skeletons just having makeup or some ecto. they're telling people that they're female because that's how they want to be called; if they didn't put that effort in, other monsters would probably default to "it". like so:

and then when you introduce AU tomfoolery, of course, you can also get situations like this, where more nuance needs to be considered: