eriklivesinmybasement

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Whoop 👀

sorry for not being so active lately!! i’ve been working on my own picrew and here it is!!

my art blog is @waerrann and it’s the same on instagram ✨

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LUCY ST. LOUIS AS CHRISTINE DAAÉ - 1 / ∞

photo source.

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he is there inside your mind, is the thing

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We as a phandom don’t talk enough about how Erik canonically hid in Raoul’s balcony to WATCH HIM SLEEP and then Raoul sees two glowing eyes and goes It Is ERiK then proceeds to shoot the mf

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Re-releasing my Village People song parody (perhaps a month late) with updated phan art. I still want to do a shot-by-shot remake of the music video starring some of my Phantom cosplayer friends on location in Paris.

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I need some help...

I've been working on my webcomic for a long while now, but I've noticed that my character designs and some story elements share a number of similarities with another webcomic on Webtoon (the same platform I hope to publish on) called I'm the Grim Reaper.

I don't want people to think I'm trying to copy or rip it off at all, because that's not my intent. But I don't want to change my story or designs because I'm very dedicated to what I already have.

Any help or advice...?

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THIS is quality content 👌

...I've been working on this for over a year... it's finally done...

I decided to put them in the order of which I drew them, which is:

Michael Erik

Ramin Erik (also does anyone know where the pizza rolls thing spawned from? It definitely lived and died long before I joined the Phandom, but it’s still everywhere on Pinterest)

Gerik

Kerik (or just @muirin007’s Erik)

Cherik

Enrique

Lon Chaney Erik

Winslow

Animated Erik

Unfortunately the creator of the meme this was based off of (@potofacts, unless they just reposted it and the actual creator I have yet to find) seems to have a deactivated account, so I can't really credit them how I wanted to, but here’s the picture.

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😐🙌💗😈😎

your first column of emojis describes your personality! what’s yours?

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*shows up at ur door 10 years after we had an argument* aND ANOTHER THING

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FACTS

Modern fandom went awry when people stopped learning how to avoid content that upsets them and instead starting actively seeking it out.

I mean this in the kindest, most loving way possible, but babes you’ll be so much happy when you stop focusing on what other people are doing and instead focus on what you like.

You’ll never be able to stop people from liking what you hate, and the best way you’ll find any peace of mind is properly utilizing blocking, blacklisting, and muting tools. Take it from someone who used to run a shipping discourse blog, fandom is supposed to be what you enjoy, stop focusing on things that upset you.

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Well I wouldn't say lesbian, but bisexual? YES.

if Sam was your favourite character from iCarly it is scientifically proven that you’re a lesbian now

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Stop Repeatedly Telling Artists/Writers to “Just publish already!”

I’m here to rant and vent about something, because I don’t know where else to do so.

I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned this on this blog before, but for the last two years or so straight I’ve been working on developing a webcomic. The characters of which are ones I actually created WAY back in the beginning of sixth grade, so this entire project is very near and dear to my heart.

Growing up, my parents always made it a point to support me in my art and writing, having no problem with purchasing me notebooks and sketchbooks (so many sketchbooks...), and occasionally proofreading some of the stuff I let them read (though I usually didn’t give them much to read, as I often kept it to myself because I was still such a young and insecure artist). And despite the bullies I encountered in my classes, it was always good to know I had their support. But then their support started to take on a different tone about two years ago when I officially went full steam ahead working on my webcomic.

Now, instead of the exuberant praise I had received from them years before, I was met with the response of, “Nice. When are you going to publish?”

When I first received this comment from them, I just kind of stood there and shrugged, saying, “It’ll happen. I’m just still in the process of figuring everything out right now.”

“Well, just so you know, the longer you keep this story under wraps, the smaller your audience is gonna get. Better get on it, sweetie.” They’d respond.

And that was how all of these conversations went from then on out. Every time I brought up my story or it’s progress, all they would ask was about when I was planning on publishing. And the comments were all something like this: 

“Good work. Publish already.”

“You have a good start. Why not just get your work out there? You already have everything you need.”

“Stop dragging your feet and just do it!”

“So, are you ever ACTUALLY gonna publish any of this?”

And with every comment I got more and more frustrated. It’s not that I didn’t appreciate their support, as I know that in their minds that’s what they were doing, but the more they pushed on me to publish, the more and more convinced I was that neither of my parents understand the creative process and how it works. One of my college design professors this semester said something that really struck me, and helped me perfectly describe how I felt about the creative process.

He said (and I’m paraphrasing a little here), “Most people seem to have it in their heads that an artist, writer, designer, etc. can easily think up a story or composition, and then effortlessly translate that to paper, screen, or canvas like magic. When in reality, nothing could be farther from the truth. Every creative project takes planning, and the bigger the project, as is the case with stories, the bigger and longer the planning process.”

This is a perfect explanation of how art is made. Artists are not as spontaneous as people make us out to be, and a lot of our best projects start out as drafts, that we come back to off and on to see what works. And this is something I wish more people understood. It’s not that I’m never going to publish, and I’m not shooting for the unattainable standard of perfection, I’m just still in the progress of scripting everything out, and that may take a little while to do. I feel like my parents, and others, don’t understand how the unique process of developing a webcomic works. 

And there are other reasons as to why I can’t “just publish already”. It doesn’t just have to do with the fact that I’m not done with the creative process yet, but I have other things going on in my life that require my attention:

I have a job, where I’ve recently learned I’m in the running for a promotion, which would lead to me working more hours.

I’m currently taking online college classes, and two of those classes are art classes with very time consuming projects I have to complete every week.

I go to church every Sunday, and typically try to make that a relaxation day (because mental health).

Monday’s are family days in my family, no exception.

I have a social life with old friends, and I like to talk to them off and on throughout the week.

And I have been going to counseling for a while now to try and take care of my mental health.

And sometimes life stuff just comes up. Stuff I can’t always predict, and will sometimes have to adjust my schedule to accommodate them. 

I have a real, actual functioning life outside of my art. Believe me, if I could somehow be able to focus 100% of my attention solely on my art, I would’ve done so a long time ago. But as I’ve become an adult, I no longer have that luxury. 

I know this is a pretty long-winded post, but I needed to rant about this somewhere. It’s been on my mind for a while, and this is legit the only place I could think of to write and post it.

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I really shouldn't be laughing at this but 😅😂

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THIS!!

post by @bauliy

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Reblog and put in the tags the character death you’re still angry about.