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[hishoi]

Quitting Tumblr

Hey people, hope you're all doing alright!

I will be quitting Tumblr. I've had a great time with you all, but I've felt for several months now that it just isn't as fun anymore. The stress about feeling like you're behind on something, constantly checking your phone to see you haven't missed anything, and feeling like shit after you've scrolled for half an hour. I've got so much else I want to do, and wasting time on here is just not what I want. To feel like the internet is what calms you down. i want to change that.

My new years resolution this year was to once and for all get a better relationship with technology. To me that has meant switching to open-source as much as i can, avoiding bloatware and brainrot, and simply having a good time on the internet, without feeling like I constantly have to keep up with something new that i really don't care about.

With that said, I will not be deactivating my account. I feel people should be allowed to look through this blog if they'd like. I've got some good posts and art I've put here. And I'm not leaving the internet entirely. If you want to stay in touch, or want me to know you liked something i made, or just anything, here are some places I'll still be:

My website, constantly updated and changed on, but i have no schedule for when i do things. It's a bit of a digital garden. There i will also add an email address, which should be your safest bet in contacting me.

My artfight profile. Do note that i only check this during and around the event. I will not answer if you comment something in September.

My Discord username is hishoi or Hishoi#0027. I am sometimes very active there, sometimes i don't touch it in half a year. That same sentence goes for Sky.

Thanks to all my friends and mutuals on here for being nice to me and chatting with me. You're cool people. I just need some release from the echo chamber.

Have a good time!

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bro you gotta relinquish that shit. surrender it bro. it serves you not bro just cast it away.

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I really agree with you! Everything felt a bit rushed, and i can understand that if you only have an hour? in total? to tell a story, things do have to go by pretty quickly. But still, i did feel the pacing was a bit off. I'm not as intrigued by this as i thought i would be.

I do wonder how this will develop though, since the game is set 500 years from the animation. The spirits are all dead in the game, they're spirits! Is the darkness what caused their demise? Seems likely to me. That would make this story very sad, but i feel they are promoting it as hopeful, with "there will always be a light". I am very confused.

And that Resh statue lighting up, what's up with that? And what did Vault elder really do? Same as you said, i hope we get a better explanation next week, cause this is in my opinion not an as good start as it could've been.

// spoilers for sky: the two embers chapter 1

okay, time to share my first impressions. i'll probably make a more detailed analysis later cuz i saw it once in 144p (lol) with no ability to pause or rewind.

bear in mind that i will only be talking about the first chapter. some of my criticisms may not be applicable once the whole thing is out

the introduction to the world and the characters is a little questionable. i do understand that it's only the first chapter and the story follows a world we all know, but it does not establish the motivations - not as well as it could, at least. we do know the dusk ember has lost their parent to darkness, and this is the reason why they are so worried about the manatee. we also know they continue their parent's job of making toys. nevertheless, this whole thing is rather rushed. we only have a glimpse at the protagonist's past, and it does not establish what exactly their relationship with their parent (i assume it is who that person is. i would have loved a confirmation - just a montage of a couple of scenes with the two across time) is, neither does it explain how the dusk ember is surviving alone (and where exactly they are surviving. they apepar to be selling things closer to the vault, which seems to be a slightly better-off area than where they live). we know nothing about the [darkness?] disease, the economical situation of the place or its backstory, or about why light was lost in the first place; we know nothing about who all these people are and what they are doing. hell, we do not even know what the manatees are used for! we can infer the theme of animal abuse, sure - but it is a bit vague. these questions might get answered in the following chapters (and i hope they would), but for an introductory episode, what we have is less than enough

i personally did not like the cliffhanger - for the same reason as described above. we have no idea who that guy is - unless we are loreheads, but this would make the story a bit inaccessible - and what the hell they are doing up there with that diamond and the light. again, we will probably learn more next time, but a cliffhanger should leave one excited, not confused. the same thing goes for that bearded guy who helps the dusk ember escape - they do not appear as mysterious as they could because we know about them the same amount of stuff as about everyone else. if everyone is mysterious, then nobody is

i do like the body language and the expressions though. we do not need words to understand perfectly well what the characters are saying/thinking. we might need more words to understand the rest though, but i have already discussed that

it is nice to know that most of the promotional material is stuff from the first chapter. this helps not ruin the intrigue

i have mentioned that the dusk ember barely gets any backstory, and i do find this frustrating, but they do get a bit of characterisation here - and, unless it is deepened in the next chapters, i do not think it is enough, but it is nice to get to know them. they seem hard-working. caring. a bit of an outsider struggling to survive - the loss must have been recent - and they have no other friends. they also seem brave and smart. i would have loved to see a flaw as well (and i hope we will next time), but what we have now is a nice base. a bit flat, but fine for the first 15 (10?) minutes

overall impression: not a big fan of this as the start of the story, but i hope it will get better. we have not got that much lore yet, but i'm excited (despite what i have mentioned i am not satisfied with) to see where it goes

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*softly, but with lots of emotions* perkele

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Happy disabled pride month to the undiagnosed. To those with no idea what it could be. To those who are pretty sure they know, but can't be certain yet. To those whose doctors are trying their best, and to those whose doctors aren't. To those with test results, and those without. To those whose prognosis isn't looking good. To those scared by the course of their symptoms, and with no idea what's going to happen next. Living undiagnosed is hard, and I wish you all luck.

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the top one is the recent one, i just wanted a little collection of "parents can support their trans kids and no one went on fire or died"

and one for siblings:

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Touch

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some abyss stuff

baby cannoneer for a comic im working on .........

some sketches below

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“The oldest olive tree in the world located on the island of Crete. It is estimated to be as over 3,000 years old and still produces olives.”

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My Guardian Angel Wears Birkenstocks instagram | bluesky | patreon | prints

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Life is short

Cringe culture is dead

Make a fursona

And go to bed

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Hi, I absolutely love your dividers and headers! I was just wondering if you could make some dark academia/ cottagecore, mushroom type of dividers and headers? 😊

Ohh thank you so much, and love this idea! I think these turned out so cute - I really hope they match your vision! Thanks for sending this in! 💖

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knights kissing

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do we fw mid-30s trans ladies on here