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Fanart for @humanityinahandbag and @samthefrank sonic movie fic How to catch a falling star on A03, I love this moment specifically just cause I love it when characters who had previously been consumed by rage and grief no longer know what to do with themselves when the rage leaves

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My two favorite frames

Kuh-Thud

Goodbye soul, hello god

Those two I specifically love, brother got absolutely bodied by a wall

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/62384731

It was...nice. Just a simple hike, on a simple day. No evil scientists, no government organizations. Just a simple hike.

Right?

@butterflyscribbles here's the fic I made based on your Resilience comic! Hope you like it!

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I was asked by a friend yesterday if I could offer basic tips about comic paneling. As it turns out, I have a lot to say on the matter! I tried breaking down the art of paneling using the principles of art and design, and I hope it helps you out!

EDIT: uh uh there are a lot of people reblogging this, so i figure i may as well append this now while i can lol

This whole thing was very much cranked out in a few hours so I had a visual to talk about with a friend! If this gives you a base understanding of paneling, that's awesome! Continue to pull in studies from the comics you see and what other artists do well and don't do well! You can tell paneling is doing well when the action is flowing around in its intended reading format.

Here's the link to the globalcomix article from which I pulled the images about panel staggering! Someone sent in a reblog that it wasn't totally clear that the 7th slide mostly covers what NOT to do in regards to staggering, and that is my mistake!

I saw in a tag that someone was surprised I used MamaYuyu too, and I don't blame them lol. If I had given myself more than a couple hours maybe I would have added something else on, I just really admire MamaYuyu's paneling personally.

uh uh, final append: I am by no means a renowned master of paneling, so if you find anything off base here, by all means, counter it with your own knowledge and ways you can build upon from here! Art is always a sum knowledge of everything we find. 💪

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Hedgehogs playing💥

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Sonic the Hedgehog films + Role-Swaps

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It feels like this every time I write a fic

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I just want to kiss his lil’ baby face…🥺

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Sonic the Hedgehog 4 is set to release March 19th, 2027

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Guys, we really need a SCU!Shadow spinoff

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to those of you who are moving here from tiktok, from someone whos used both tiktok and tumbr for years...

1. DO NOT censor your posts

dont censor sex, abuse, suicide, dont censor it. we dont have censors like tiktok does, you wont be banned for talking about these things and tagging them properly helps people avoid them (also, we dont have shadowbanning here)

2. we dont really have an algorithm

you follow who you follow, and you see posts from who you follow or what you search. the 'for you page' is basically useless here. this also brings me to my next two points

3. dont crosstag

we get it, on tiktok you have to crosstag for reach, but thats not really a thing here. just tag your posts properly (also posters often leave more info about the post in the tags!! and when you reblog stuff you can leave your own notes in the tags, kind of like the old "repost comments" on tiktok)

4. dont expect to go viral/be famous

"viral" isnt really a thing on here (at least not for the average blogger). your posts will probably get 2-10 likes and you wont get nearly as many followers than on tiktok. thats just how tumblr is

5. blocking is your best friend

tiktok is VERY discussion based, and while tumblr is much more discussion based than other social medias, its still not a good place for ragebait/discourse. dont interact, itll make your experience worse in the end, just block and move on

6. you cant go into someone elses house and start rearranging their furniture

this is tumblr, not tiktok. dont diss old tumblr users for how they use the site or try to change them, thats like going into someone elses house and trying to rearrange their furniture. we've been here longer and we're familiar with the site and its culture, either find your niche, adapt, or find a different app

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A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

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Sonic the Hedgehog: Random Thought (aka Sonic is a Middle School Boy)

As a middle school teacher, it thrills me to the bone to think that Sonic will actually get to finally go to school. A lot of kids who I work with haven’t had a real school experience because their anxiety was so bad, they flat out refused to even walk into the building. It’s always amazing to see these same kids making friends, saving seats for their buddies in class, and joking around in the hallways. 

I can see a kid like Sonic swinging his feat, so excited to be a part of the entire experience. Talking to his friends during classes. Reading The Hobbit with his class and underlining important sections. Going to after school clubs to do homework. 

Parents come to me sometimes to say how excited they are that their kid finally invited a friend from school over, and I’m sure Maddie and Tom are in the same boat when Sonic runs up to the car with a girl his age in tow asking if she can come over and play the new video game they got. I’m sure they’re just as thrilled the first time he’s invited for a sleepover with a bunch of middle schoolers. 

I’m sure these two are ecstatic when he has a few friends over to do homework, and the kids he’s chosen as his friends are all very polite and well behaved. 

I’m sure they’re absolutely head over heels when he joins the soccer team or takes a stab at drama or even manages to make it into robotics, which he has a real knack for. 

As a middle school teacher, it just makes me really happy to think that Sonic can reach all those important benchmarks. 

Going from a kid living in the woods to getting a chance to actually be a part of school, get that social experience, make friends, and carve out this little place for himself in a community of kids his age - that’s all sorts of amazing. And Maddie and Tom are going to be so emotional watching it happen. 

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He's friend shaped as they say

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When you told your bro to sit down before he hurts himself

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maria....... (explosion)