“what’s The Right Order To Read-“ NONE. Everything Is Awful. Shut The Fuck Up And Start Pirating

Travis Moore might be out here drawing beautiful Tim/Bernard art for official stuff

but I will never forget that he draws TimKon fan art

some vox machina lady portraits

Game-Changing Sites for Writers

A recent search for a specific type of site to help me build new characters led me down a rabbit hole. Normally, that would make me much less productive, but I have found a treasure trove of websites for writers.

Bring Characters/Places to Life

There are a few different places you can use to create a picture of something entirely new. I love this site for making character pictures as references, instead of stock photos or whatever pops up on Google Images.

thispersondoesnotexist: every time you reload the page, this site generates a headshot of someone who doesn't exist. This is great if you're thinking about a character's personality or age and don't have specifics for their facial features yet.

Night Cafe: this is an AI art generator that takes your text prompt and generates an image for it. I tried it for various scenery, like "forest" or "cottage." It takes a minute for your requested photo to load, but no more than maybe five for the program to finish the picture.

Art Breeder: this website has endless images of people, places, and general things. Users can blend photos to create something new and curious visitors can browse/download those images without creating an account. (But if you do want to make an account to create your own, it's free!)

Find Random Places on Earth

You might prefer to set a story in a real-life environment so you can reference that place's weather, seasons, small-town vibe, or whatever you like. If that's the case, try:

MapCrunch: the homepage generates a new location each day and gives the location/GPS info in the top left of the screen. To see more images from previous days, hit "Gallery" in the top left.

Atlas Obscura: hover over or tap the "Places" tab, then hit "Random Place." A new page will load with a randomly generated location on the planet, provide a Google Maps link, and tell you a little bit about the place.

Random World Cities: this site makes randomly selected lists of global cities. Six appear for each search, although you'll have to look them up to find more information about each place. You can also use the site to have it select countries, US cities or US states too.

Vary Your Wording

Thesauruses are great, but these websites have some pretty cool perspectives on finding just the right words for stories.

Describing Words: tell this website which word you want to stop repeating and it will give you tons of alternative words that mean the same thing. It typically has way more options than other sites I use.

Reverse Dictionary: type what you need a word for in Reverse Dictionary's search box and it will give you tons of words that closely match what you want. It also lists the words in order of relevancy, starting with a word that most accurately describes what you typed. (There's also an option to get definitions for search results!)

Tip of My Tongue: this website is phenomenal. It lets you search for that word you can't quite place by a letter in it, the definition, what it sounds like, or even its scrambled letters. A long list of potential options will appear on the right side of the screen for every search.

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Hope this helps when you need a hand during next writing session 💛

Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix

A Yuri on Ice fic when Yuri and Victor go back to competing with each other, and it’s just a buzzfeed article titled “15 times the third person on the podium looked uncomfortable as hell to be there”

Theyyyyyyy

i saw a post a while ago expressing negative emotions about my own private idaho not having a happy ending (noting that iirc i think op acknowledged understanding that there was a reason for that and i am not attacking op either way, and this isn't really about Them in particular but a broader statement about how the movie is received and talked about) and i have been chewing on my thoughts for a while and i feel like in a sense river phoenix was very correct to express annoyance with people classifying it as a "gay film" (he said something along the lines of "you wouldnt say (x movie i forget) is a movie about heterosexual oil rig workers") and though the characters' sexualities are a more than incidental part of the film i feel the way people often zero in on the queerness of the narrative and relationship between the protagonists at the expense of the movie's portrayal of say, sex work, homelessness, and disability as well as how heavily the movie thematically revolves around class constitutes a kind of erasure. (of course a lot of this is a byproduct of the time period the movie was made and even the circumstances of today, the media coverage wasn't ever going to see past the fact one of the protagonists was explicitly Not Straight.)

the fact that though the movie portrays scott as genuinely suffering under the cards he was dealt, he has options that mike and the rest of the homeless characters do not, and the fact he returns to his upper class life at the end of the movie is very much central to the narrative and the politics of the film. i think to define the movie around the ambiguous relationship between scott and mike does the movie a huge disservice tbf, not that it isn't important

Reminding myself to make the features of my trans-coded character designs more prominent as a lil' treat 'cause the constant headlines here in the UK debating whether we should be allowed to exist are driving me up the fuckin' wall actually ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍⚧️

[DO NOT EDIT OR REPOST TO OTHER SITES / ACCOUNTS] ♻️reblogs are lovely tho!♻️

the funniest thing in the entire pirates of the caribbean series is definitely that one scene in At World’s End where they have parlay but davy jones is part of it, and rather than have him stand in the shallows or something they get a big bucket of water and have in stand on it on shore

who thought of that idea? who thought “put davy jones in a bucket of water” and had the guts to suggest it aloud? and then who went “hey that sounds like a great idea!”

at some point someone told davy jones their idea was for him to stand in a bucket of water and he agreed to it

I was talking to my mom about Nightwing and she genuinely thought he was gay because she only read a few comics, but those comics include when he was thinking about Joey. So when I told her I think he's bi, she looked at me really confused and said, "Isn't he gay?"

It really isn't important, I just wanted to share this with you. Cheers!

Your mom really said Dick Simps For Joey and then refused to take any more questions and I respect that 👌🏻✨.