Encouragment for writers that I know seems discouraging at first but I promise it’s motivational-
• Those emotional scenes you’ve planned will never be as good on page as they are in your head. To YOU. Your audience, however, is eating it up. Just because you can’t articulate the emotion of a scene to your satisfaction doesn’t mean it’s not impacting the reader.
• Sometimes a sentence, a paragraph, or even a whole scene will not be salvagable. Either it wasn’t necessary to the story to begin with, or you can put it to the side and re-write it later, but for now it’s gotta go. It doesn’t make you a bad writer to have to trim, it makes you a good writer to know to trim.
• There are several stories just like yours. And that’s okay, there’s no story in existence of completely original concepts. What makes your story “original” is that it’s yours. No one else can write your story the way you can.
• You have writing weaknesses. Everyone does. But don’t accept your writing weaknesses as unchanging facts about yourself. Don’t be content with being crap at description, dialogue, world building, etc. Writers that are comfortable being crap at things won’t improve, and that’s not you. It’s going to burn, but work that muscle. I promise you’ll like the outcome.
A few @/deeppink-man expression memes I did of the turtles to get a better feel of my style. Might do more eventually
Well that was quick lmao
Well I'm at least glad I was able to get a video over 18k views on TikTok before it got banned. That TAiAGotOS fanart was my god damn Magnum Opus
It kills me to watch the 2012 TMNT boys eat pizza because sometimes they don’t even chew it. They basically eat pizza like:
Step 1: open mouth
Step 2: insert pizza
Step 3: swallow
Like, my guy, TAKE A BITE! Savior the flavor! You dumbass turtles are going to choke!
Now that my Tokyo Ghoul AU is public I can finally talk about it in depth, so I'm actually gonna explain some of the worldbuilding and some of the creative liberties I took
Some of it is just expanding on certain aspects that I don't think were explained in the manga in full
Here we go:
So in the og story, there exists these things called Red Children cells, or rc cells (they're called this bc an individual cell look like a curled up fetus), and they're pretty integral to what does and doesn't make a person a ghoul. Splinter was originally a ghoul, but due to the mutation, his rc cells mutated, and were no longer registered as rc cells by his immune system
Shredder and Tang Shen were humans, and Karai would be born as a half-ghoul
Not only did the mutation eliminate Splinter's rc cells, it introduced them into the turtle's bodies for the first time, combining it with the mutagen. It's said that when a person's rc factor is high enough, they become a ghoul. It's never specified how high it must be, so I've made it an rc factor of 1000
Humans on average have an rc factor of 200 to 500, and ghouls have an average of 1,000 to 8,000
The turtle's factor was below 1,000. It isn't until they meet April that things take a turn
Now I'm admittedly making shit up here, but I'm headcannoning that April's psychic powers can work on a smaller level too. More contained emotional outbursts (like screaming in fear), can send some kind of psychic waves through the air that react with different things in mysterious ways. Here it sorta stimulates the mutagen-rc mixed cells floating around their bodies and causing them to multiply
This happens when Donnie catches her and she screams btw
At this point, the transformation has already started for all of them, but bc he's the one who spends the most time with her, Donnie's transformation happens a LOT quicker than his brothers
His is complete by that night, and his brother's finish in the early hours of the morning
There's more, but I've talked long enough lol
"i could fix him" yeah? well i could accept him as he is. you don't like the murder? grow up. the atrocities are part of him and ive decided they're funny
You've been cast into a fictional setting, and you don't get to pick your genre. This wheel picks it for you.
TAKE THAT. THIS.
Dr.DON AGAIN, YEEEESSSS
It's a bit vague, but it's one of the sketches I had hidden in my drawing app. Do I need to repeat how much I love this fanfiction? Literally, that's why every fanfiction I read has to meet certain expectations. It was the first one I read with that amount of quality.
PLEASE, READ THAT
based on someone irl finding out i was a tmnt fan, asking who my fav was, and being like "oh but not 2012 donnie right 😆" like um. get my babygirls name out of your mouth
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