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@a-very-mere-mortal

Don't expect too much from me. In Stars and Time genuinely reshaped my life. He/Him

Bit of an odd question, but how do you design outfits? In ISaT, Serre, and (as far as I can tell) Truth Scrapper, your characters all dress in such interesting/cool ways. Are you well versed in Actual Fashion, or is it just a matter of practice with character design?

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thank you. the answer is References

i have many folders full of many references. above you can see my Clothing References (in french) with such folders like "armor", "pretty dresses", "clothes for magicians", "post apocalyptic clothes", and so on. so if i have to design a character, let's say, SF-A2 Miki in HUMAN, since we decided she was an astronaut, i just go to my "scifi clothes" folder, and look around for my references.

i also have folders for comics, environments, animals, body types, etc, so this helps whether i need something realistic, or need inspiration for something more stylized!!! those folders are more than 10 years in the making so i have Many References for Many Things

its also about thinking what clothes each character would like... would they want their body shown, do they want people to see their Shape, or would they prefer to be unseen? do they like fashion or do they follow what other people wear? do they prefer more practical things? do they dress themselves and do they like it? WHAT DO THEY THINK OF WHAT THEY'RE WEARING!!!!!

i also would like to share The Only Character Design Tip You Might Ever Need from @onebadnoodle because this is The One. JUST REPEAT SHAPES GIRL

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just rewatched t2

Actually this time probably not. The writing was on the wall way before Reagan became president, and the steel mill closed in November 1981, barely ten months into his president.

He was governor of California during that "writing on the wall" period. He was the one writing. It was his wall.

Oh. Well don't I look stupid now.

Terrible news: you learned something today

Epithet Erased Prison Of Plastic is such a great book. It hands you a teenage girl who is unrelentingly snarky and childish, who just wants to play pretend instead of doing her chores or being responsible. If you try to call her out on this, she’ll stomp her feet and roll her eyes, and completely ignore you. She’s the classic archetypal mean girl and you want her to implode for being catty and vindictive to a bunch of twelve year olds.

And then the book grips you by the collar of your shirt, stares you in the eye, and reveals that Lorelai is like this because she cannot face reality. Because if she tries to actually sit with her thoughts and the people in her life, she will be forced to confront the fact that the conduit for their current misery is in part, her. And even if she’s wrong, she still has to live in a house with an absentee father who wouldn’t care if she vanished and a little sister who she has pushed away chasing her own delusions. Lorelai’s maladaptive daydreaming is destroying her real life, until the fake life is all she has left. And then two paragraphs later a wizard and a gargoyle help explode a dragon made of s’mores.

They keep telling me she looks like one of my characters (I assume that includes looking gay)

*through gritted teeth* when i do something wrong and am politely asked to change my behavior its just a simple request to fix a problem and not an indictment of my character. when i do something wrong and am politely asked to change my behavior its just a simple request to fix a problem and not an indictment of my worth as a human being

bringing this over from twitter bc this person literally gets it. watching su for the first time i was literally shocked by how wonderfully toxic the yuri was there. thank you women 🙏

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