THEY ICHING TO 🫱🏽‍🫲🏻

this scene zoomed in… the way henry is holding him, how he leans into alex’s neck i’m going to end it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i’ll break the sound barrier for you

I think the best piece of character design advice I ever received was actually from a band leadership camp I attended in june of 2017. 

the speaker there gave lots of advice for leaders—obviously, it was a leadership camp—but his saying about personality flaws struck me as useful for writers too. 

he said to us all “your curses are your blessings and your blessings are your curses” and went on to explain how because he was such a great speaker, it made him a terrible listener. he could give speeches for hours on end and inspire thousands of people, but as soon as someone wanted to talk to him one on one or vent to him, he struggled with it. 

he had us write down our greatest weakness and relate it to our biggest strength (mine being that I am far too emotional, but I’m gentle with others because I can understand their emotions), and the whole time people are sharing theirs, my mind was running wild with all my characters and their flaws.

previously, I had added flaws as an after thought, as in “this character seems too perfect. how can I make them not-like-that?” but that’s not how people or personalities work. for every human alive, their flaws and their strengths are directly related to each other. you can’t have one without the other.

is your character strong-willed? that can easily turn into stubbornness. is your character compassionate? maybe they give too many chances. are they loyal? then they’ll destroy the world for the people they love.

it works the other way around too: maybe your villain only hates the protagonist’s people because they love their own and just have a twisted sense of how to protect them. maybe your antagonist is arrogant, but they’ll be confident in everything they do.

tl;dr “your curses are your blessings, and your blessings are your curses” there is no such thing as a character flaw, just a strength that has been stretched too far.

Black women are just on another level

rough klance sketches to get me through exam season I breathe them like air

Saw this on Reddit: ORIGINAL POST

okay moment of appreciation for tzp bc the minute he turned and said “hey.” in that limo w the little pout I INSTANTLY knew that man was perfect he is such a cutie patootie i just wanna squeeze him

i like the sistine chapel ceiling a lot better now that i know it was painted by a gay man who was motivated entirely by spite

hockey fun facts

@inkalchemist was mad at me because i didn’t tell her about that time crosby chocked on a mozza stick, so i decided to create this list of dumb/funny hockey anecdotes/things hockey players have done

that time tyson barrie injured himself wrestling with a teammate during worlds

that time andre burakovsky climbed into a random car thinking it was his uber

that time giroux got arrested for touching a cop’s butt (touching people without their consent is not funny, but this seriously counts as dumb)

brian dumoulin thinks indie music is “indian music”

ilya bryzgalov thinks a lot about the universe 

supposedly, taylor hall offered a girl a gucci purse in exchange for anal

mark messier kept the whole 1993 st louis roster waiting outside of a club in new york

ovechkin gave vodka to his teammates during the all star game

sidney crosby’s superstitions

just… the whole water police thing

i’m sure there are like a thousand more so please feel free to add

I Can See You and rwrb once again