help me write a mills & boon novel

tl;dr - i am about to add a bunch of polls to this post in the reblogs. please vote on them and reblog so others can help create a Cheesy Romance Novel Plot. do it for the bit.

this is not a joke. i will actually write this (probably in February) and i will actually submit it to Mills & Boon for publication. i vow it.

background/explanation/more details under the cut:

if i'm going to write a trashy mills & boon novel i want it to be a bodice-ripper dangit. don't you dare vote for "modern" i will still write modern romance but i will sulk the whole time.

two more, we're nearly there!

(surprise pregnancy is also a classic option but i ain't writing that)

LAST ONE YOU CAN ALL REBLOG THIS NOW

(this is NOT going to be straight-up porn. i self-publish that separately and i take requests btw, but this is in the "it's not PORN it's STIRRING ROMANTIC LITERATURE i can read ON THE BUS" scope of things)

anyway i will check back in a week. don't fuck me up now tumblr.

also put in the tags if you have any additional tropes/ideas/plot points you want to include. i make no promises but i will at least take note of them.

I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

Donald Wasswa’s Delicate Wooden Creatures Emerge from a Speculative Future

@elodieunderglass gorgeous sculptures with horrible legs?

I think they must make lovely noises to themselves as they rummage about!

shy skitish things, sounding like a glokenspieil with social anxiety. sporadic isolated deep notes as a herd forages. short high majourkey glissands from calves, statcco minor key allarm calls.

Yes yes yes!!

Hey so 2016 was 10 years ago how we feeling

Guys I was GIDDY with excitement when I realized the stick is how they figure out the standing-up perspective!!! I always figured people doing this stuff just had magical perspective powers but that makes SO MUCH SENSE what a cool tool!!! Amazing job!

Desire path, Chaz Hutton

You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?

So it was with this desktop greenhouse.

I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.

I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.

I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.

I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…

Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.

I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.

This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.

I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.

Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.

In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…

I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.

Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.

it's fun and good to put clothes on a dog

#Please little bird

I love that the modern-day tumblr post equivalent of chain emails only requires me to reblog a relatively pleasant image instead of forward an email to a bunch of my friends and family members to quell my raging anxiety.

It’s a win win. I get a bit of hope, you get a cute birb photo

It’s a win win. I

get a bit of hope, you get

a cute birb photo

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Queen Magnolia wasn't joking then, and she isn't joking now that some of us have overstayed our welcome.

Paraburnetia

🌸 Cherry Blossom Moth Kittens 🌸

You can get this design on a t-shirt through Teezr for a limited time! Grab one now and help support an artist today! 🌸

This is my very first toe dip into t-shirts, a very long requested item from people who want to support my artworks. I hope everyone likes this design because if you do I hope to make more!

You can get one on Teezr now until the 19th of January!

Daybreak - Antonio Peticov (1982)

doctor who is a fascinating show because its extremely longrunning but also about time travel so at ant point any showrunner can just go "hey you know that thing that already happened. im adding new stuff to it" and nobody can stop them. an absolute nightmare for anyone who ever cares about continuity. god bless.

The updated artificer class and subclasses look like sooooo much fun. I am preparing to audition Kitty Delicious to anyone who needs a high level oneshot player. I’m bringing a rifle and kitty cannons. Hire me (for free).

My girl Kitty Delicious specializes in blowing things up and shooting people. She’s three and a half feet tall. She orders a tall glass of milk at the bar. She summons little baby kitty cat cannons that waddle around the battlefield and she only sometimes recalls that she can do healing magic as well