For those who don’t know, Twitter recently introduced an AI editing function that allows someone to change your images without your consent. This means that others can feed your art and personal pictures to AI and modify them while you are unable to do anything about it. Even if you use watermarks, people can remove them using AI and pass the images off completely as their own.
For coming up with character names:
Behind the name (my absolute fav)
Allows you to choose the origin of where you want the name to be from, whether you want a more feminine vs masculine vs androgenous name (as voted by users), random surname generator, and clicking on the name gives you important info like if there are any famous people with the same name, where it’s from, how common it is, and how people tend to see it, etc.
You can also search their name database by letter or meaning or origin, so if you know you want a character who has a name/surname that starts with an A from Ireland, there’s a whole list for you to choose from.
Census sites
Especially useful if you’re looking for a name from a specific place and/or time period. Just search “(country) census (year)” and you’ll find a database of real people who lived in that place at that time. No one can ever call your names unrealistic again.
For coming up with place names:
This site can basically come up with any name for any person, place, or thing you might ever need. There are also specific generators for different fandoms if you’re looking to make an OC in an established world.
For finding that one word on the tip of your tongue:
This is my go-to. Not only can you find synonyms like a regular thesaurus, but you can also describe words like “unhappy smile” or “quiet laugh” to find the more specific word you’re looking for.
For coming up with ideas:
When I need to inspire a new idea, I write down all the things I’m interested in (hauntings, academia, lesbians, etc.) and put them into a word cloud to shuffle them next to each other. Sometimes seeing a concept in a new context can spark new ideas!
This is my discord channel (shameless plug) for when you need to brainstorm off other people but don’t have anyone irl to talk to. We’re also happy to read and give feedback on writing, answer writing questions, or just chat!
For visualizing places and characters:
Pinterest can at times be a bit too sterile for my tastes, but if you use the right words, you can find more realistic photos of places. For example, adding “aesthetic” after basically any word will bring up a more broad collection of photos to help you flesh out places.
This is also a great way to find photos of people and fashion to help visualize characters. I’m bad at describing clothes, so I usually collect photos of outfits to help me know what my characters are wearing. Searching up “character inspiration” will collect more interesting photos and drawings of people who might not exactly be of our world.
(However, to make Pinterest not show you AI results, you have to go into your settings and check the “reduce AI” box. Luckily, it does mostly work.)
Like pinterest but completely AI free (hooray!) Only drawback is that you have to pay a monthly subscription (about $20 CAD).
Very similar to pinterest but slightly more "artsy". I'm not super familiar with this one but I believe all the photos are human and you can save them and create collections with a free account.
Royalty-free stock image site with very Pinterest-core photos!
Minecraft
If you haven’t built your entire fictional city in Minecraft instead of writing, why not? It’s fun.
The Sims
This one is dual purpose because you can not only create your characters in Create a Sim, but you can design their houses. If you really want to go for it, you can bulldoze all the lots in your town and build your world from scratch.
For checking grammar:
Easy to follow definitions and examples, and if you learn better by listening, every article comes with a podcast to follow along with instead.
This one is my favourite for checking grammar rules because there’s tons of examples in graphics that helps for any situation.
Among other things, reedsy can connect you to professional editors within your budget.
For writing advice:
This one was recommended from my discord channel and has all sorts of tutorials and resources for the writing craft.
Another shameless plug, but if you need writing advice on something specific, you can search through my directory to see if it’s there. If it isn’t, you can always send me an ask about it!
For an alternative to Google Docs:
Think google docs but without AI. Yay!
(will update this list with any more suggestions or resources I discover 😊)
A great resource
Praying that $1500 randomly comes to you when you need it the most this year.
Okay inflation is crazy.
We bumping up the price to $15,000 for 2026.
some people’s new years resolution needs to be to stop going out in public while horribly sick with infectious diseases
i see this post is going around again.. sort of like a bunch of infectious diseases i could name
see what really gets me about this line is that even now EVEN NOW characters as close to guda as nemo still somewhat fundamentally misunderstand WHY romani was so important to guda. Throughout part 1 and even well into part 2 whenever characters talk about "romani", who they really mean is "solomon who incarnated as a human". Every action romani had taken up to that point is given a new sort of reverence, like he was secretly a sage guiding them the whole time and acting with some great foreknowledge, as if he wasn't just a normal human desperately struggling to fix his mistake. They are the same person but by no means are they the same individual, romani gained a human perspective and more importantly a human heart that solomon lacked. Everyone who ever spoke to romani can still feel the wisdom of solomon bleed through him even with a newly gained human perspective, but guda themselves only cared for the foolish and pathetic doctor romani archaman. Even the discussion of going forward vs passing the torch, the game over vs the game clear, with as much importance as it's been given as a core component of guda's character, in itself was just a silly metaphor that romani came up with to try and cheer guda up. It's something guda remembers to try and keep moving forward, not because it holds some great truth but because the memory of someone you loved telling you that you can make it through a difficult situation can give you strength.
guda wasn't saved by any great wisdom or strength that the great king solomon held, but by the casual and thoughtless kindness of romani archaman doing something as small as sharing a piece of cake.
It is Winter. Babies are literally freezing to death in tents while Israel is blocking aids only miles away.
have you guys heard about wizard101 getting hacked the other day. ive never once played the game in my life but whatever happened there is absolutely hilarious
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