I Feel This Could Have Been Designed Better.

Immortality(?)

I’ve had this idea in my head for a while now, dunno if I’ll continue it but Zim is plotting and that’s all you need to know :D

So the leaks have finally been released, Spoilers ahead->

We find out about almost everyone’s current condition, and it appears Deku may be in a coma atm . What I’m most concerned about though, is this thing on his shoulders

He didn’t have this last time he injured his arms, so is this a hint that he finally injured them too much? If so, can someone out there tell me if these things exist and what they’re called so I can research this further? I’m thinking this may actually be the breaking point where he won’t be able to use his arms :/

Holy... cow, that’s amazing!!

Here's my first full animation on paper! Felt good, learned a lot, will do again! Cheers guys! And the scans!

Making your angst hurt: the power of lighthearted scenes. 

I’m incredibly disappointed with the trend in stories (especially ‘edgy’ YA novels) to bombard the reader with traumatic situations, angry characters, and relationship drama without ever first giving them a reason to root for a better future. As a reader…

I might care that the main siblings are fighting if they had first been shown to have at least one happy, healthy conversation. 

I might cry and rage with the protagonist if I knew they actually had the capacity to laugh and smile and be happy.

I might be hit by heavy and dark situations if there was some notion that it was possible for this world to have light and hope and joy to begin with.

Writers seem to forget that their reader’s eyes adjust to the dark. If you want to give your reader a truly bleak situation in a continually dim setting, you have to put them in pitch blackness. But if you just shine a light first, the sudden change makes the contrast appear substantial.

Show your readers what light means to your character before taking it away. Let the reader bond with the characters in their happy moments before (and in between) tearing them apart. Give readers a future to root for by putting sparks of that future into the past and the present. Make your character’s tears and anger mean something.

Not only will this give your dark and emotional scenes more impact, but it says something that we as humans desperately, desperately need to hear. 

Books with light amidst the darkness tell us that while things are hard and hurt, that we’re still allowed to breathe and hope and live and even laugh within the darkness.

We as humans need to hear this more often, because acting it out is the only way we stop from suffocating long enough to make a difference.

So write angst, and darkness, and gritty, painful stories, full of treacherous morally grey characters if you want to. But don’t forget to turn the light on occasionally.

Support Bryn’s ability to provide writing advice by reading their debut novel, an upbeat fantasy about a bloodthirsty siren fighting to return home while avoiding the lure of a suspiciously friendly and eccentric pirate captain!

Spidey Sense vs Ghost Invisibility

Danny is visiting NYC with his fam for a ghost convention or something (as one does) and decides to do some sightseeing. 

uh oh. Siren time.

If you thought they could take a break to the beach without some sort of cryptid shenanigans, you were wrong

you can tell where I started actually putting in some-what effort for this

[Bedtime Story]

Dead Friend AU

Where Danny dies and to cope Sam and Tucker make an ongoing story of if he turned half ghost instead while also trying to overcome the grief and trauma

Each ‘episode’ is based on a real event and how if Danny were still there he would fix it (jhonny 13 is just a jerky guy jazz dates, vlad is a friend of the fenton family trying to help them move on from Danny’s death, the box ghost is just a silly idea Tucker had at three in the morning and it was the first time since the accident he and Sam laughed that hard).

Phantom planet happens when Tucker and Sam know they need to move on, even though they still resist it (as seen in how they are angry with Danny in the episode) but decide to give Danny the best cheesiest sappiest ending they can think of.