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It looks like suicide is just mentioned, but it doesn't go into any great detail. So, I don't think it needs it, but if you feel it should have the NSFW warning I doubt anyone would complain. I marked one episode of my series mature for similar reasons, because I prefer to play it safe with stuff li…

Sep 8, '18

I'm trying to find two comics I read on here about two years ago

I think the second one might be "hero.syn"? But it doesn't seem to be on Tapas anymore, the only thing I can online is a few pages of what looks like an older version, here

Sep 8, '18

Please Help me Name this Story!

Perhaps since it's more of a fantasy type story, something related to 'bad blood' would be better than 'evil genes' (since genes are a modern concept)? Also, sometimes you can take a significant line from the story and use that, although of course that only works if you've written a big chunk of …

Sep 2, '18

Writer meme: Get Google Translation to rewrite your first chapter

This is great. You know it's a dream when you start clipping through the ground. What an incredibly ominous phrase.

Aug 31, '18

Writer meme: Get Google Translation to rewrite your first chapter

3-4 languages: bad 10+ languages: amazing. The original: By mid-morning I leave the ruins of the city behind, and by that afternoon, I enter a forest. It’s a relief, to get out of the too-bright sunlight that reflects off shards of shattered glass and twisted metal, to leave behind the broken…

Aug 29, '18

@chickknightgreenleaf For drawing #9: nine tusks elephant, 450% better than a regular elephant. [image] @jpnakashima The dreaded hippo-spider-duck. It's technically a vegetarian, but will probably eat you anyway, just because it can. [image] @baasinsimple Don't worry, spider lawyer will r…

Aug 29, '18

Are Acer laptops any good?

I also had an Acer 2 in 1. It lasted... maybe 3 or 4 years? And it had few problems in that time. The hinge broke, it had a number of weird glitches (sometimes the touch screen or rotation would just stop working for a few days, if you closed the lid while it was on the screen brightness would get …

Aug 29, '18

Thanks so much for your help! Come read the intro!

Even life can't defy entropy... it creates a temporary order by creating more chaos elsewhere. There's always a price to pay. I know there's not much here yet, but this story sounds interesting. I look forward to seeing more of it (maybe include a link when you start posting?) The new dark design…

Aug 29, '18

Ask Your Stupid Questions Here! (Please help me...)

[image] You can also highlight the part you want to quote, and a little thing will pop up to let you quote it. (I'm posting from Firefox on desktop, no idea whether this works with mobile or other browsers)

Aug 29, '18

Ask Your Stupid Questions Here! (Please help me...)

Just include the URL in its own line! Tapas will magically turn it into the preview box. So this: .https://tapas.io/series/Crow-Songs (minus the period) becomes this:

Aug 29, '18

I have returned with more monstrous creations! @Raven_C The monkey-frog, or mog (no, that's terrible, don't call it that). I'm not a big fan of monkeys to begin with, but this is something that lurks in a swamp and swallows children. Picture the coarse fur giving way to slimy skin, the long, thin…

Aug 28, '18

Some help if possible!

Not a tech expert, but if it's just the screen that's a problem could you connect it to the computer and get the data off it that way? It might be hard finding where/how your notepad app stores its data, but there's at least a chance it's in a format readable by another program, so it's at least wor…

Aug 28, '18

Character Design: Light or Dark?

I agree with @yozhikisblue, the light design has a lot more contrast and it's easier to make out. The dark one is almost just a silhouette unless you look closely. If you're looking for ideas for how characters get into a horrible situation without being tricked: - told the truth but emotionally…

Aug 27, '18

Are we alone in the universe?

If intelligent life can happen one place, there's no reason to assume it won't happen elsewhere. Earth just isn't that special, and it didn't even take life long to develop here. However, it's likely that whatever that life is, it won't resemble anything we know. It may be so strange we don't even…

Aug 27, '18

That's really complicated and I have no idea what a rot dragon is, but here's... something. [image] This picture brought to you by insomnia. Insomnia: giving you so much extra time in which you don't feel able to do anything Seriously though, it's 3 in the morning here so that's the last one…

Aug 27, '18

Wikipedia tells me the mantis arms are called 'raptorial forelimbs/legs'. There's a lot going on here, but I loved drawing this mess of a creature. [image] Thanks for all the suggestions everyone, I love the creativity and the drawing is definitely helping with my anxiety. I might decide to cal…

Aug 27, '18

I may have gone overboard with the shading on this one. I think it's a troll? [image] @jay3spin I'm sorry, but even if you dislike those people they're not actually monsters.

Aug 27, '18

I went with the chicken-snake version of the basilisk. Lots of fun to draw! (Fun fact: I name my computers after mythical creatures, and my current laptop is BASILISK.) [image] More coming soon, I just stopped for a snack.

Aug 27, '18

Absolutely horrifying, thanks for the suggestion. [image]

Aug 27, '18

I need to relax and want to do some drawing practice. Send me a description/combination of creatures and I'll try and draw it (probably badly). Scary or silly, I'll try whatever, although I'm not good at cute.

Aug 26, '18

Halloween Thread! Does anyone here like to decorate their home for Halloween? Do you dress up? Info and pics would be great!

@AdrenalineShots, @Strontium, @jarzebiny Thanks to everyone for all the compliments! It makes me really happy that someone appreciates all the hours I put into it. It was definitely a lot of work paper-mache-ing something that big, but I'm really pleased with the results. I'd be happy to post det…

Aug 26, '18

Halloween Thread! Does anyone here like to decorate their home for Halloween? Do you dress up? Info and pics would be great!

Halloween is my favorite holiday! I love carving pumpkins, and last year I made a giant light-up spider. [image][image] (The night picture is kind of bad, my phone camera doesn't handle dark well, but the eyes glow red.) Unfortunately there's never many trick-or-treaters in my neighborhood to a…

Aug 23, '18

Surprised Turn In Your Novel

Writing | Novels

I love that the replies in this thread are either "I carefully construct my story according to this detailed blueprint" or "my story wrote itself, I'm just along for the ride".

Aug 23, '18

How much Text is too much?

The best worldbuilding I've seen works it into the story. If you try to just tell everything in one infodump (and especially one speech bubble), it's going to be too much. I've been at the receiving end of that as a reader, and it's not much fun to learn about it that way.

Aug 23, '18

Surprised Turn In Your Novel

Writing | Novels

This is maybe not the kind of answer you want, because for Soft Rains I was pretty much making it up as I went along (I am a disaster who doesn't have the good sense to plan a story before writing it). But about halfway through the story all the pieces just fell together and I knew where it was goi…

Aug 21, '18

Who here wants a cute gryphon?

Amazing. I love all of them.

Aug 20, '18

The future of online games...?

While I'm not an expert on the topic, I believe it's being phased out because in spite of how widely it's been used, it has a lot of problems. It's proprietary, and has had security issues.

Aug 19, '18

Why would you label a Webtoon "Desktop Only"?

'Formatted for mobile' typically means done in the long, vertical style with large font and often a lot of white space. This is in contrast to more traditional layouts, which are intended to fit onto a page. They use panels and usually the text is smaller. This usually works fine on a desktop, but m…

Aug 19, '18

What podcasts do people listen to?