Llama FAQs and Information by GiveALlamaGetALlama, journal
Llama FAQs and Information
● What exactly is a llama badge?
A llama badge is basically exactly as it sounds, it is a deviantART badge in the form of a llama.
● How many people can I give a llama badge to?
You can give out as many llama badges as you wish, but you can only give one per deviant.
This means once you give a deviant a llama badge, you cannot give them a second one.
● How do I get llama badges?
The best way is to be an active member of deviantART. The more you interact with others, the higher the chance you will receive a llama badge.
You can also post comments here on our group page requesting llama badges as well or
Tips on making characters by CherryCreamFairy, literature
Literature
Tips on making characters
Hello, hello! Here are some tips on how to make a good character First, lets talk about character design It's very important that your characters have unique designs to help them stand out from one another, hair style, hair color, skin color, outfits, height, body type, etc. From what I've seen from artists that I follow, not just here but on other platforms, they come up with the most amazing designs for their characters. But there are also people I've come across but don't follow, their character designs aren't all that appealing to say the least. What I mean, these types of artists would tend to make their characters look Mary Sueish (or Gary Stuish if the character is male) without realizing it. Like giving them rainbows if they're a hero or give them black and red colors if they're evil, which isn't exactly all that creative in my opinion (this coming from someone who likes Shadow the hedgehog lol). I'm not saying giving your characters rainbows or red and black colors is bad
Advice for Jilted Comic/TV/Book/Game Fans by Amanacer-Fiend0, literature
Literature
Advice for Jilted Comic/TV/Book/Game Fans
This is a message for all the fans of various fandoms who feel jilted and disrespected by the companies that own your favorite IPs. And this is a message I want to convey with my own works. You guys are tired of big corporations like Amazon, Warner Bros, Disney, BBC, EA, Activision and others like them taking the IPs that you loved dearly in your childhoods and twisting them into something unrecognizable while said corporations shame you for wanting actual quality entertainment and instead want to lecture you like you're easily amused morons? Or try to use your nostalgia as a honey trap to get more money from you for a cheap cash-grab? Two things: Disengage from the mainstream entirely and go to the Indies. Mainstream Entertainment doesn't respect your intelligence or personal investment in your favorite properties and just want to use Nostalgia to get more money from you without putting in the work of making the product good. Internalize the phrase, "Screw It! I'll do it myself!"
Stop Whining About Diversity In Media by RazorRex, journal
Stop Whining About Diversity In Media
Intro Every time a new movie, show, game, or whatever reactionaries get uptight and complain about studios "forcing politics" or "an agenda" or whatever just for having women, people of color, the LGBT, etc. Like when a character in Dune was race-swapped these people got uptight and the same thing happened when Ariel got race-swapped in the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid and Prime Video's Rings of Power for having Black elves and dwarves. These people also got uptight with a "Protect Trans Kids" sign in Across The Spider-Verse and when April was portrayed as black in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. Yet when movies with white cis male leads get announced and do well they consider it "non-woke" even when the film has political undertones. So, I thought I'd do a journal entry calling out this and explaining why there is no need to whine about diversity. Diversity Doesn't Make Something Political Just having a diverse cast does not make it political. Old shows like
Shipping should be for fun and you shouldn't force others to like it or get pissy if someone doesn't agree to it or likes a ship that you don't like And most importantly everyone can ship whatever characters they want just as long as it's not problematic like pedophilia and/or incest
Is It Worth Being A Perfect Writer? by WorldJumpingFangirl, journal
Is It Worth Being A Perfect Writer?
There were many flaws in the reboot DM episodes that included Lionel, the World Wide Web weaving giant spider: 1) DM said that he and Penfold sent him into outer space and through a wormhole that connects to the other side of the galaxy, during the end of Episode 7 in the first Season; 2) The Quark games episode (also in the first season) featured Jeopardy Mouse and DM battling Lionel on that foreign planet as they were pawns in Quarks survival game, and they didn’t even pay attention to Lionel’s existence; 3) the episode, “Lost Tempers in Outer Space” in the second season, reveals that DM is happy to see Lionel again