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THANK YOU @qibsichan and @nebu-lime for creating Fufu I love them and I cannot Belived I got double attacked on the same dayš on are fight
But seriously thank you Qibs and Nebu for these are works I love them to death. Iām kinda jealous they made it better than the original even though I did made the og simple because it was 9:30 at night when I started making her
Iāll leave links to Qibs and nebu after fight page as well as my own and thanks to both of you again I want to hug the crap out of both you you <3 š«
I also cried when I saw them because I was that happy
Mine : https://artfight.net/~Calebtsm
Qibsichan: https://artfight.net/~qibsichan
Nebu-lime: https://artfight.net/~Nebu-lime
Iām on artfight for the first ever year! Always looked fun so Iām thrilled to actually join this time
Art Fight yay š!!
This is my first year so yeah I'm still figuring it out. Check my page out, it's pretty barren lol.
for my eighth year of art fight (good lord), i'm on team seafoam!
come kick my ass in july!!
Iāll be participating in ArtFight this year!! You can find my profile here !!
For those who donāt know, ArtFight is an annual online art event where thousands of OC artists are divided into two teams. To compete, you draw the opposing teamās original characters for points, and whichever team makes the most gift art wins! You draw gift art for other peopleās OCs, and members of the opposing team will make art of your OCs! The event takes place on the ArtFight website itself, starts July 1st, and lasts until the end of the month. Itās easy and completely free, all artists are welcome (of any medium or skill level), and youāre allowed to participate in the event as much or as little as you want. You decide your own workload! More information about ArtFight can be found here, here, and on the official ArtFight blog, @/artfight
Most of the AphidClan characters will be uploaded to the site and available to draw, along with other fun-colored characters of mine, if you want to join in on the fun āØ
See you there!
5 underrated teen Ā«plottingĀ» dramas on Netflix
1. Blood & Water (2020) - South Africa
a teenage girl enrolls into a private school to prove that the queen bee is her long lost sister that was abducted at birth.
2. Get even (2020) - UK
four students from different cliques join their forces to anonymously fight the injustice in their elite british school.
3. Dare me (2019) - USA
the show explores the power dynamics of female relationships in a ruthless team of competitive cheerleaders from a small suburban town that ultimately bring them to their doom.
4. Rebelde (2022) - Mexico
the new students at the most prestigious art school in latin america are being threatened by a secret society that is set to preserve the āpurityā among its ranks.
5. Love 101 (2020) - Turkey
a group of delinquents are trying to set up their teachers in order not to get expelled.
Writing from Scratch #12: Compound Plots, Part 2
Compound Plots, Part 2: Parallel Plots
Parallel plots share a lot in common with subordinate plots. As with subordinate plots, parallel plots occur simultaneously ā the individual problems and their solutions should be introduced and resolved at roughly the same time. However, parallel plots can be divided from each other and stand on their own, unlike with a subordinate plot which is dependent on the principle plot for its try-fail cycles.
āParallel plotsā is a bit of a misnomer. āParallelā comes from the idea of parallelism in sentence construction because parallel plots often act as mirrors to one another or two sides of the same coin; they often work on each other indirectly to strengthen or emphasize the Thought of the story. What we donāt want to do is fall into the trap of thinking that the plots cannot intersect; although you should be able to separate them into their own stories, in a single story, they are meant to work together.
Superhero stories have parallel plots a plenty with the main character dealing with a plot-problem as their civilian identity and dealing with a different plot-problem as their superhero identity. Weāll look at one of these examples, Spiderman: Homecoming. Peter Parker is dealing with a Character plot in overcoming his lack of confidence to ask Liz out on a date; meanwhile Spiderman is dealing with an Inquiry plot involving the sale of alien tech weaponry on the streets. These do have points of overlap ā they should for effective storytelling. However, if you take the Inquiry plot out of the story, you have a rom-com/coming-of-age story with a complete plot of no confidence to ask Liz out to yes confidence to ask Liz out. If you take the Character plot out of the story, you still have Spiderman investigating the origin of the alien tech weaponry.
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Writing from Scratch # 11: Compound Plots, Part 1
Compound Plots, Part 1: Episodes
Like complex plots, compound plots have two or more plots put together, but unlike complex plots, in compound plots, the plots can be split apart and still work as a Complete Thought.
The first way to compound plots that weāll go over is via episodes. So, we first we need to straighten out some terminology. There is a current trend in storytelling that could be called anti-episodic (there are pockets where this is not as much the case, like crime and mystery books and television); instead whatās really popular is āserializedā storytelling. What people generally mean when they talk about episodic versus serialized storytelling is that an episodic style has a different unconnected, self-contained plot every episode or book and that a serialized style has every episode or book contributing to one very large season or series spanning plot. As with most any binary, what weāre actually looking at is a spectrum ā Harry Potter has a self-contained plot with every novel, but overall, every novel contributes to the plot of Voldemortās resurrection and final death.
Supernatural is a really interesting case study because it lasted so long and it started before the anti-episodic trend took hold. So, you can see the early seasons, especially the first season, very firmly on the episodic side of the spectrum with its monster of the week format and it slowly became more and more serialized to the point where an unrelated monster of the week was anomalous and generally warranted some kind of in episode commentary by a character.
When I talk about episodic compound plots, Iām kind of talking about this idea, but itās squares and rectangles. Or maybe squares and quadrilaterals. What Iām talking about is that one plot-problem will be solved, and then another plot-problem will arise. What the episodic-serialized debate is talking about is the causal relationship between those plot-problems. There are some serialized series that do not have episodic compound plots, but most of them do.
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Writing from Scratch #12: Compound Plots, Part 2
Compound Plots, Part 2: Parallel Plots
Parallel plots share a lot in common with subordinate plots. As with subordinate plots, parallel plots occur simultaneously ā the individual problems and their solutions should be introduced and resolved at roughly the same time. However, parallel plots can be divided from each other and stand on their own, unlike with a subordinate plot which is dependent on the principle plot for its try-fail cycles.
āParallel plotsā is a bit of a misnomer. āParallelā comes from the idea of parallelism in sentence construction because parallel plots often act as mirrors to one another or two sides of the same coin; they often work on each other indirectly to strengthen or emphasize the Thought of the story. What we donāt want to do is fall into the trap of thinking that the plots cannot intersect; although you should be able to separate them into their own stories, in a single story, they are meant to work together.
Superhero stories have parallel plots a plenty with the main character dealing with a plot-problem as their civilian identity and dealing with a different plot-problem as their superhero identity. Weāll look at one of these examples, Spiderman: Homecoming. Peter Parker is dealing with a Character plot in overcoming his lack of confidence to ask Liz out on a date; meanwhile Spiderman is dealing with an Inquiry plot involving the sale of alien tech weaponry on the streets. These do have points of overlap ā they should for effective storytelling. However, if you take the Inquiry plot out of the story, you have a rom-com/coming-of-age story with a complete plot of no confidence to ask Liz out to yes confidence to ask Liz out. If you take the Character plot out of the story, you still have Spiderman investigating the origin of the alien tech weaponry.
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Update #2: A New Outlining Method, Dropdown Plotter
I've been having a hard time conceptualizing how to plan out a novel lately. It used to come so easy to me. Now that I'm a real adult, it feels like there isn't enough space in my brain anymore for me to have my story all in my head without writing my ideas down somewhere.
So, good outlining methods, which can be hard to come by, are crucial for my writing process.
But, a lot of traditional methods don't work for me.
In my opinion, it's extremely important to have an outlining method that doesn't overwhelm you, and which feels creatively freeing. And when do I need to be more creatively free, than when writing an IT Crowd fanfiction?
So I've come up with a new outlining method that I'd love to share with you all! I call it Dropdown Plotter.
Dropdown Plotter uses the dropdown menu feature, which can be found in both Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, to help you better visualize (and, most importantly, easily reorganize) the major aspects of each chapter of your story.
Basically, it's a spreadsheet that includes, at minimum, 8 columns.
Chapter Title
Plotlines
Included Character(s)
Perspective Character(s)
Location(s)
Chapter Story Description
Writing Stage
Due Date
Why keep track of these things? Balance. Basically, making sure your characters, plotlines, POVs, and important locations all get adequate page time.
It's a lot easier to conceptualize these things when you have it on a color-coded spreadsheet, zoomed out really far, and can see in a big picture way. For example, you might see that the red color indicating "Legolas" is in a scene, drops off after Chapter 17. You might see that the green-coded plot about his missing shoe is only important for 5 chapters in the middle of the story, or that we're spending almost the entire story in the bathroom and never in the evil lair.
So, how do you use the Dropdown Plotter?
First, you go into the dropdown menu, and you can see all the plots you've selected. There's a handy "search feature" for those writing the next Game of Thrones. You want to click the little pencil icon in the bottom right, which is the "edit" button.
On the right-hand side of your screen, a column will pop up called "Data Validation Rules." From here, you can edit the names and colors of each item in the dropdown menu, and add or delete things as you'd like.
Make sure to click "allow multiple selections" on the bottom of the data validation rules pop-up. This will allow you to select multiple characters, multiple locations, and multiple plots when you're in the dropdown menus.
Don't forget to click "Done" at the bottom!
On top of the dropdown menus, the nice thing about working in a spreadsheet is that you can always drag and drop the rows and columns. This makes it extremely easy to change the order of scenes around, in a way that feels very impermanent and easy.
Here is what my Dropdown Plotter looked like for the first three chapters of The Grant: An IT Crowd Fanfiction.
Looks pretty, right? And pretty outlines build confidence! Not only that, but what I like most about this outlining method is that it encourages me to be less precious with my ideas.
It's way less intimidating to overhaul major aspects of your story, such as the dominant POV, the main plot, etc., when all you have to do is click a little button in the dropdown menu to change everything. When I'm editing a little blurb in a spreadsheet versus an entire step outline, it reminds me that no writing problem is insurmountable, and nothing is ever really set in stone.
Again, it builds confidence.
Unfortunately, I've only built a Dropdown Plotter in Google Sheets, but I've provided a blank version to share with you all. The nice thing about spreadsheets is that you can add and delete things as you see fit. For example, some people might want to add...
More columns indicating multiple scenes within the same chapter!
A "Story Beat" column, to mark the specific plot beats each chapter follows (as in the Hero's Journey or the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet).
An "Important Info" column, to mark any worldbuilding or character details discussed or introduced in a certain chapter.
Literally anything your little heart desires!
Happy outlining and I hope you enjoy the Dropdown Plotter!
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Post #8 - Pink Elephants
ā« - What Iām currently listening to.
This post is about two days late, but I have a good excuse for that; work, work, work. Now that I'm on a bit of a holiday break I can see about returning to daily posts, or at least getting the next scene out in a timely manner.
Beyond work holding me up, I binged the latest season ofĀ The Handmaidās Tale yesterday. I wanted to say that it could serve as a great resource for this story, but I don't want this fanfic to be anywhere near as hopeless as that show. I love it, but its total misery porn, and a person can only handle so much misery before it starts to effect their mental health. So Fawn will take some inspiration from the mentioned while following a more heartening tone.
We have the concept for scene four above. Papyrus will come downstairs with his shirt buttoned, lace up his boots, and remind Sans not to be late for his million side jobs (or complain about something equivalent depending on the AU). Heāll leave, and Sans will continue with his slacking off. The television will be on, we get a shot of a ballerina taking a bow, as Sans snorts, smokes, or injects Dust in somewhere or another.Ā
All of the finer details of this scene will really depend on the AU we choose. I didn't think it would be such a hindrance, but its turning out to be one. What I do know is that Sans drug addiction is fundamental to the story just like Papyrusā pedophilia, so it honestly doesn't matter what we ultimately settle with. Sans will still be a junky.Ā
I checked on my stats today to find I now have over 20 followers! It was just last week that I was celebrating 10. I want to thank everyone for sticking through with this so far. I hope to keep it up until the very end of the project.