Month: October 2018

dayinanimanga:

Today in AniManga History

October 10th, 1957

Rumiko Takahashi is born. Takahashi has created several highly successful manga series including Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma ½, Inuyasha, and Kyoukai no Rinne. Being arguably the most successful female comic artist of all time, her series have sold 150 million+ copies. All of the above manga have been made into anime, including several others which gained OVAs, live actions, or are apart of the “Rumic Theater”.

pocketss:

i’m absolutely riled because I always want to draw dragons emoting with their hands above their heads like so:

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but they’re terrible weird lizards with stupid long necks and small arms so it just looks

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The head chef keeps carrying on about thinking he’ll not be able to stay this whole swing, and that he almost didn’t come back.

It’s gotten to the point where he’s annoyed the site manager so much she flat out told him to “just fuck off then”

mageflow:

headspace-hotel:

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ruinedambitions:

the-knights-are-not-dead:

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Part of me wants to shift the entirety of Magical Fantasy Adventure Land into the normal world instead of splitting it into a separate realm.

Part of me is still annoyed that this fucker still doesn’t have a proper title. Or at least something that sounds better as a place holder.

it’s called Mafalia. that’s your world’s name. ‘MAH-FAR-lee-uh’.

That actually sounds really good as a world name. I’m curious to know where that came from?

it’s the acronym. “Magical Fantasy Adventure Land”-ia becomes MaFAL-ia: Mafalia.

i always find if you need a placeholder name for something, write it out and make up an acronym, adding and removing letters or vowels if need be.

for example:

  • “The House Where Clio Fell in Love With Him”

  • “The HouseWhereClioFellinLoveWithHim”

  • “THoWeCliFiLWH”
  • “ThrowecliFiLWH”
  • “ThrowecliffiLWH”
  • “ThrowecliffiLWH”
  • “Throwecliffe”
  • “Thrawecliffe”

hence ‘the house where Clio fell in love with him’ becomes ‘Thrawecliffe House’. what’s a ‘thraw’? i don’t know. is it on a cliff? maybe; that’s an author’s preogative.

suddenly the name of the house itself throws up new questions which an author in answering goes off down a rabbit hole of worldbuilding.

Holy fuck. That is absolutely amazing advice.

Thank you so much!!!!!

As someone who regularly smashes words together for humorous purposes, I’m appalled I’ve never thought to use it in my writing. Bless you.

good advice

My favourite example of this is Dragon Age. The setting is called Thedas, which comes from calling it “the Dragon Age setting” in development!
The Dragon Age Setting
The DAS
Thedas