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so how about that theory that Odysseus' red eyes in Six Hundred Strike mean Ares is helping him out on behalf of Athena, huh?

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OH MY GOD, why are you growing up so fast? It wasn't long ago that you first decided to try digital drawing, and now you're posting THIS? I'm so excited!

3rd take on Medibang Paint Pro. This was a lot of fun! The main thing I wanted to do was try out a glow effect. (The book cover will feature that unless I spontaneously decide on a different design, but I'm about 90% certain that it's going to glow.) So, I wanted to see if I could make something do that. This was a lot of fun! I also finally learned what the eyedropper tool did. That saved me so much time and I can't wait to use it again.

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Helga from the new chapter

P.S. I spent more time taking pictures than drawing. Why is it so hard to take a picture of paper without glare...

P.P.S. My roommate said it looked like I was drawing someone from Dune

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Chapter 4 is finished!

If I were to name chapters, this one would definitely be called "Hunting Season".

The victims here will be: birds, beasts, maybe a couple of people. Well, I'll pass on my desire to isolate myself from the Internet to the heroes, why not?

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Aw, thanks so much! this is just lovely :3

@apr1c1ty-117

Give this to one of your most loved mutual

Mines r: @jadescortaurius1 @thevisitmaxxedfriend @misschuckito @ethanthespookymonth @softwolfiee

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1. Epic the musical

2. My WIP and ideas for them

3. Mentor-disciple relationships that is similar to parent-child ones

4. History

5. My work

I saw this meme going around on twitter and I think it'll be perfect for this account.

List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material.

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so I know Six Hundred Strike has us all in a chokehold, but can we talk about how Dangerous had "six hundred deaths under my command, cause I had only one goal in mind" and then dead silence for three seconds

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odysseus really went "i'm not stuck in here with you. you're stuck in here with me"

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Jorge's stream is 4:30am my local time. What was interesting, besides 4 hours of sleep and the fact that I fell asleep a couple of minutes before the start?

The fact that I managed to wake up to Penelope's words "Just keep your eyes open", I didn't have time to figure out what was happening, I had time to think that I slept all the way up to Challenge (and it doesn't matter that it's not on this album), but Penelope's scream "Wake up!" brought me to my senses. Thank you, Penelope, you didn't let me miss the best couple of hours of today!

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I haven't figured out all the functions and lifehacks yet, but maybe this will help you:

1) brush stabilizer is a really useful thing, making the drawing neater, but if you increase the indicator too much, the brush will lag behind the stylus/mouse/finger

2) if you want to fill a layer with color, then the layer with the outline will interfere, because the color may not fill under the lines and white spots will remain. In this case, after using the fill, I make the layer with the outline invisible and paint over the rest manually

3) I find it inconvenient to draw with round brushes, so for all my brushes (although I only use about 3 haha) in the settings I minimized the thickness at the beginning and end of the stroke. It turns out similar to a drawing with a fountain pen.

But in general, every time I sit down to draw, I try to try something new, so I don't have any permanent rules. Good luck to you!

Usually a traditional artist, I wanted to try out digital because the colors don't pop as much for me otherwise. I'm hoping to make some cover art this way for upcoming novels. So, here's my first attempt. It's Yami Sukehiro from Black Clover. I plan to make the future work more detailed (I really want to learn how to use all the tools I'm seeing. They seem so cool!) This became mostly an exercise to figure out how some of the stuff worked. If anybody's got tips, I am VERY open to hearing them. I want to make the covers look nice. Thanks in advance! I'm using Medibang Paint Pro for the platform.

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This is so wonderful. Incredibly beautiful!

Writer's Urge

I feel it in the back of my mind,

Clawing to be freed.

The solution is simple to find.

It’s not a want; it’s a need.

It’s a writer’s urge. 

The story must go on the page. 

These plans can’t be allowed to age.

It’s why I need this mental purge.

I spend all day and night,

Creating outlines of which I’m proud.

I craft characters with such delight.

Let me not wrap them all in a shroud.

I see the plot as if it were real.

These characters are a part of me.

If I’m given the chance, you’ll see.

I know how they think and feel.

It’s a writer’s urge. 

This must be written

For I’m on the verge

Of being in love with this tale, smitten.

Let my mind flow through my hands.

Let this story be shared.

Even if it’s not known throughout the lands,

It’ll know that I cared.

So, I will write this story.

Doing that brings such a release.

I will show it in all its glory.

Only then, will I feel at peace.

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Let's Normalize It

Writers, artists, musicians, and everybody else who's involved in the arts, I want to normalize loving what we create. I hear people say that they're embarrassed by their work, hate what they write, and more. That should stop. We shouldn't feel ashamed of what we make as long as we make it the best that we can. If we put our all into our stories, artwork, music, etc. then we should feel nothing but proud. Now, we don't have to be arrogant, but I do think there's a healthy level of pride someone should have in their work.

Create work that you would love if you were the one consuming it, not even its creator. Create work that makes you so excited that you have to keep working on it more until your vision is out there for the world to see. Create work that can be a comfort to you after a long, stressful day. Create work that can inspire others to want to bring art to the world like you did.

So, please, let's normalize loving what we do. Writers can geek out over their own stories like they don't know what the twists will be. Painters/drawers can marvel at the beauty on the canvas. Musicians can get lost in the auditory world they've made. Loving work starts with the person who made it. That love can be felt on the other side of the screen, page, and more.

There's nothing wrong about having passion for art. There's also nothing wrong about being different, but I think this is something that should become a new norm.

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It's been less than a hundred years since I finally finished chapter 3! I wanted to come up with some kind of meme to celebrate the publication, as is tradition, but nothing comes to mind, so I'll leave here dandelions and a link to the song to which the chapter was written.

Не прошло и ста лет, как я наконец закончила третью главу! Я хотела по традиции придумать какой-нибудь мем в честь публикации, но мне ничего не пришло в голову, так что оставлю здесь одуванчики и ссылку на композицию, под которую писалась глава

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Jun Wu is a sexual predator.

Inserting someone into a sexual situation without their consent, wanting to "test" their virginity, are forms of harassment. Jun Wu had always made it very clear how much he wanted to control Xie Lian, how much he wanted to dominate and have Xie Lian as his property.

It's the desire for possession and control against someone's consent.

He wasn't just "obsessed", he was a perverted harasser stalker.

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Bonus:

— Helga, are you a villain?

— Why are you asking that? Do you think so? Do people say so?

— No-no-no! It's just an interview question, we're interested in your opinion.

— But if you're asking me that, then you have reason to think I can answer that question positively. It doesn't matter what I think, if people think I'm a villain, then I'm a villain...

— Hell, no. Forget about people. Answer what you think.

— I think that when it comes to villainous deeds towards other people, you need to listen to those people. I probably really offended them... I really am a villain...

— Oh, okay. Let me tell you this: people don't think you're a villain. Do you agree with them now?

— No. They think too highly of me, they just see only my attitude directly towards them, and don't know what I did with other people.

— Then why were you ready to agree with them before?

— I... I... I need to revisit it.

*Helga's friend bursting into the studio*:

— HOW DID YOU DO THIS? I'VE BEEN TRYING TO EXPLAIN IT TO HER FOR HALF A BOOK. WHAT KIND OF MAGIC IS THIS?

Writer Game (For Villains)

Here's a little game of sorts that I came up with as a writer and want to share. If you've got villains in your story, imagine them in an interview scenario. It's just them and the interviewer. Then they're asked a question that they have to answer. There's no walking away or killing the interviewer. They must answer it and do so as honestly as they can.

"Are you a villain?"

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Shall we begin?

— Are you a villain?

— What? No! If I'm a villain, then that *name of the second nasty character, this one's enemy* is a hero? Not everything I do is accepted and supported by people, and I can understand that, but what kind of scumbag do you have to be to be called a villain!

Now on to the interview with that *second nasty character*

— Are you a villain?

— That's politics. You're just a fool if you think you can live this life without making a single enemy. The end justifies the means, and if you look at it from my subjects' point of view, I'm even a hero. I'm not a villain.

Sarnai, thanks for the idea!

Writer Game (For Villains)

Here's a little game of sorts that I came up with as a writer and want to share. If you've got villains in your story, imagine them in an interview scenario. It's just them and the interviewer. Then they're asked a question that they have to answer. There's no walking away or killing the interviewer. They must answer it and do so as honestly as they can.

"Are you a villain?"

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The continuation is already very much delayed, but what did I decided to do instead of writing? Correct, I decided to draw, and the modern world. I had a headcanon in my head that Helga in our time would be addicted to energy drinks a couple of days ago, so that her overexcited brain would not think about what she did not want to think about.

The phone treacherously decided to run out of battery when I finished drawing the outline, so in a hurry I did a quick coloring, and then did not finish, because it looks funny