The Amazing Digital Circus (Moon Becomes A Simp)

hey who wants to play monopoly with me

this shit is going to go on over days btw so be prepared

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

conceptualizing a story about a school delinquent named Peachi-Keen who has to keep up a reputation as a Tough Guy while also trying to secretly grapple with the fact that he's a genius player at a game called "Cool Chess"

*you can change the desicions you make, gowever you do not retain the knowledge of it that you have

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Queuing this for January too.

Artfight attack for @panstarry

I technically already posted this on my Artfight a few days ago and just procrastinated buuut, here it is now! The colors were real fun with this one, very nice purples and pinks.

Lines from Gilligan's Island that live in my head rent-free on a weekly if not daily basis even when I'm not actively watching the show:

• *shoots the gun* "HALT or I'll SHOOT- oh hi Skipper!"

• "I just want an eensy, weensy piece of rope"

"How big is this eensy, weensy piece of rope?"

"6 feet"

• "Hi Gillig-"

"NO NO NO NO NO NO-"

• "Need more magic POWDER!"

• "Remember Gilligan, mum's the word"

"Hello Gilligan!"

"Mum"

"Don't be ridiculous, Gilligan, I'm not your mum!"

• "But Skipper I can't be on camera because if I'm on camera the whole world is gonna see it and if the whole world sees it then the whole United States is gonna see it and if the whole United States sees it then my hometown is gonna see it and if my hometown sees it then my brother is gonna see it and if my brother sees it, he'll punch me 'cause I'm wearing his shirt"

• "But before you go I have a little something for you"

"A chrysanthemum?"

"No, a .45 chrysanthemum"

• "I WON'T BE YOUR PUPPET I WON'T BE YOUR PUPPET"

• "If I'm not telling the truth may lightning strike!"

*lightning strikes just then*

• "What am I thinking about now, Gilligan?"

"You're thinking about a Hawaiian girl in a grass skirt- *disgusted* oh, Skipper!!"

• "FREEEESH FIIISH"

• *in a bad Dracula voice* "Hello, I am the VAMpire"

• "We don't have an alcove, you SHNOOK"

• "Crossing the English Channel was devilishly hard you see, it was take one step and come up for air and then take another step and come up for air-"

• "Don't I get a tip?"

"How much does 1+1 make, kid?"

*holds up two fingers* "Two?"

*sticks a cigar in between his fingers*

• every song from the Hamlet episode but particularly the Toreador March ("Neither a borrower nor a lender be" etc.)

• and of course just the way Gilligan says "SKIP-PEEEEEEER!" and "PROFESSOOOOOR!"

Collection of images and memes for anyone who doesn’t know what to draw

Idk if I talked about this here, but for the past 3 years I've been quietly developing a particular kind of comics taxonomy: identifying, naming and describing the visual-literary devices used in comics. Most of them are devices appropriated and adapted from other mediums, like poetry, rhetoric, cinema, etc - but quite a few are unique to comics. My intent is to give language not just for comics creators when they need to articulate their authorial choices, but for critics, scholars and teachers to talk about comics as a visual-literary art form.

Anyway, the research has gotten to the point where it's ready for the public. My plan is for this resource to be delivered in the form of a Wikipedia, online database, basically an accessible website that contains all the information related to the devices, including working examples from other graphic novels, webcomics, etc. It's STILL not ready yet - Idk when it's gonna debut, but I've recently secured an opportunity that will make progress move faster.

This zine right here is both soft-launch promo + a fancy business card for the Comics Devices guide. It's meant to pitch my research and act as a quick reference type of thing for folks. I'm only able to sell this in person in Australia, but folks in the US might get an edition soon (related to aforementioned opportunity).

But yeah. Big comics stuff happening.