Im Sooooo Funny Guys.

I have so many thoughts and they all go to Tumblr

Ways to get to know your characters:

These are just some ways I do t, feel free to add your own tips!

Google sheets. Just google sheets. Make a sheet for your story and create categories to fill on your character's traits. Very simple example:

2. Making Pinterest boards. Listen maybe I'm biased because I'm on Pinterest more than I'm on Tumblr and it gives me the most intense nostalgia of any website/app ever, but it may be my most helpful tactic. This works in plenty of ways. Making a board for one story's character designs and making individual categories for each character in that board. Making individual board for each character's design, aesthetic, personality, whatever. No example but I think you get it.

3. I might sound like you lame ass ELA teacher from 9th grade or whatever when I say this, but plot mountains are really helpful. Now I don't mean the plot plot for all you, "I just start writing and am as surprised as my characters when everything goes to shit." writers like me, I'm talking about an internal plot. To explain, there is an external plot (exposition, rising action, climax, etc.) and internal plot (character development,) making external plot mountains isn't helpful for me because I want freedom in my writing. I know where it starts and sometimes where it stops and that's good enough, but writing the development of a character is good to outline just for the foreshadowing and because CHARACTER FLAWS ARE FUCKING IMPORTANT. (Cue the one post about eating mayo packets)

4. Mark their birthdays in your calendar. Like google calendar or whatever the fuck you use. Anyway, dedicate their birthday to just getting to know them. Make a wish list of presents they'd like, or a slideshow about the party activities they'd like, or a pinterest board about what their party theme would be. It's fun, I swear.

5. Make lists of a bunch of stuff. Their flaws, their strengths, their favourite thing, their pet peeves, their favourite people, their pets, their little quirks they have, etc.

6. Physical objects. Make them, buy them, or just stuff you already have. Make a little box of things they'd like or have. Treat them like a friend. A real person. It'll inspire you to write or draw more and you can come up with little backstories on the items.

7. Give them a catchphrase. Even if they never say it, it's cute. I like them. Most people do, I think.

Time to put on the gender affirming spotify playlist and learn to do a push up! Fuck, I cannot tell if I'm excited or not

Ostrich "meme" 16

Mike Wheeler everybody

fluffy pigeon

I usually headcanon Ted as being an accountant, or generally working with finances…..

So like, Mike one hundred percent knows how to commit and get away with tax evasion I think And if him and El and Will ever do go to Vegas

I think this would happen:

Mike, staring at the duffel bag of money El and Will were proudly standing in front of: Was all this machines or?

El, making a Eh hand motion: Mostly, but Will is very good at poker too!

Will, beaming: I cheated

Jonathan, on the edge of the hotel bed with his head in his hands: Why is it, every time I watch you alone something happens? We shouldn’t have gone to the buffet and left you to wreak havoc on Vegas

Mike, poking at the money: All in twenty’s?

Will, nodding: Yeah

Mike: Nice, hundreds are suspicious

Jonathan: Youre too damn casual about this, what are we going to do with- how much is this?

El, proudly: Twenty thousand!

Jonathan: TWENTY THOUSAND?!

Will: Give or take, we stopped for Chinese food

Jonathan: I how are we gonna explain all that on our taxes-

Mike clicking his tongue: You’re not, you’re gonna declare an initial two thousand. That’s a bit high for new poker players but it’s not suspicious for Vegas. Sometimes the dealers let random people win to not be called cheaters and get investigated. Then you’re gonna put the money in a bank account, give it six months and then start putting the rest of the money in in small amounts. Make the deposits in the amount of a starting position salary, and forge some pay receipts from something like a mom and pop shop. You know a old fashioned business that doesn’t do payroll-

Jonathan, blinking: Mike, what the fuck?

Mike, pausing and registering the stares he was getting from all the Byers siblings:……Sometimes, if I’m grounded and there’s quite literally nothing else to do. I listen to my father

When I say that I don't want to exist right now, that doesn't mean i want to die. Not to me it doesn't. All it means is I want to disconnect from myself. To not feel my own emotions, to not hear my brain rile on and on, to not feel my skin on my body, to not feel, to not hear, to not taste, to not smell, to not see but still observe. I don't want to be interacted with like a person when I wish to not exist. I wish to a narrator, a viewer, a camera-man. I wish that I could fast forward to when this was a memory. I know it may seem concerning, or maybe a bit outlandish, but it makes sense to me. I want to not be there but still be there. I want to not be acknowledged by anyone and to simply watch. Watch others experience what's happening. And I want to not experience it. I don't want it. I just want to sit in the corner and watch. But when someone's in the corner watching, someone has to whisper. Has to ask questions. Has to make me exist. I don't want that. I don't want to exist, but I don't want to die either. It does make sense to me, but not everyone is me. I don't mind that either. But I want to be able to say that I am not existing and for people to understand. For them to not be concerned about the kid in the corner. About the guy sitting in silence. About your suspiciously quiet friend. I am simply not for now, and I hope you can accept that.

[Drafting my OC's future self]

Me: Wow, this bitch goes from curly haired twink to curly haired twunk. Holy shit.