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[failurescripture]

@lucybellwood I'm using the Pelikan 4001 dark green

It's surprisingly a nice green!

Fucking slain in my tracks by this postcard on my friend’s dresser

[squeakitties]

Nyan is so el wiwi coded

el wawa

[notherpuppet]

Hello dear Mare, how are you? 🙂 I love your art and I would like to know what your secret is to making it look like the original show. I wanted to know how you make the lines and everything, the hands and other similar things 💖

Hello~

Please don't get mad at me but the answer is studying 😭 Drawing is one of those things where "the only way is through" you have to study a lot. the more you draw and the more you study, the better results you'll get (it's not easy but it's really fulfilling, especially when you can see your growth. at least that's been my experience) 🪴💗 have fun!!

Edit: there was a follow up question for “study what” and sorry if it wasn’t clear but you gotta study the show. The frames/screencaps, at least if you want to replicate the style. Outside of that, figure drawing and studying other foundational drawing skills

[genderqueerdykes]

I want to identify as transfem so bad but i dont want to even bother with discourse

you're not obligated to out yourself as any identity to anyone else, so what i say is do it in your heart but don't advertise it online. honestly fuck the way people are treating each other right now. don't let assholes with nothing better to do prevent you from doing something that causes no harm. take care of yourself

[evandorkin]

FYI: I made a FAQ on my Patreon to answer some of the questions I get about The Eltingville Club (and some other things). The post is public/unlocked, so anyone can read it. I don't have a website so this will have to do for now. Or forever. Who knows. Anyway, here's the link:

[rwac96]

How does Jaune feel about all the girlfriends (ships) he has on this blog?

Jaune: *blushes* "Well, this' a loaded question. It differs for each girl, they have their own good things and faults, But, overall, I love each and every single one of 'em."

Ren: "That's rather nice, Jaune."

Nora: "Sappy, but cool...and it'd be a riot if they all heard it!" *pressed 'send'* on her Scroll

Jaune: *eyes widened* "NORA!!"

[ogrepoppenangleaksofficial]

Is there any chance of future audiologs that don't feature anyone from the main cast? Like just Grimal, Elise and Harry or Occam and Fatigue or Brok, Spit and Git?

WAIT A AND SEEEE

[mamawasatesttube]

Are you still accepting asks for the ship ask game? Bc if so what are your thoughts on TimSteph?

oh sure, i'll take it!!

Don’t Ship It (gently)

1. Why don’t you ship it?

so when i say i don't ship it i mean like... i like what they had in canon vis a vis "childhood sweethearts driven apart by The Horrors and they can never go back". i love divorce.

but also if i'm being honest, a lot of chuck dixon's writing of steph was really grating to me - the way he bashed ari and later zoanne to prop up steph as the Correct/Better tim love interest (she's Quirky and Fun and #NotLikeOtherGirls!!!) left a kinda bitter taste in my mouth, and made it a lot harder for me to actually like steph or tim/steph as a ship, tbh. and it's really not steph's fault she got juggled from misogynistic shithead writer to misogynistic shithead writer, but it did mean that plotlines like "steph becomes robin in order to spite tim because she saw darla kiss him against his will and didn't stop to ask any questions. this is how teen girls behave right?" made me so tired in robin '93. i honestly enjoyed the times she got to appear without tim more than their relationship, for the most part, but ... oof.

2. What would have made you like it?

lewis getting to write more than like 20 issues of the run before fucking willingham showed up lmao. lewis run was the first time in robin '93 that i actually liked seeing tim and steph together or felt like steph even had much of a character. which is wild because dixon is the one who created her! it's just that dixon only knows how to write two kinds of women: "the old ball and chain" and "quirky whitegirl who throws herself at robin do you like her do you like her do you like her you have to like her!!!!"

as opposed to lewis, who actually gave her depth, like... explained some of how her dad made her childhood shit, went into her complex feelings on him and her relationship with her mom, and made it actually read like she and tim enjoyed spending time with each other, not just "he was a boy. she was a girl. can i make it any more obvious." if he'd stuck on the book i probably would like tim/steph way more than i do.

3. Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

oh sure! i think tim and steph have a fascinating dynamic. when you pick through all the issues with dixon and with willingham and with war games and all the writers that could not stop hating steph for the crime of being a girl (which... is a pretty tall order because jesus christ so many of them wrote her so shittily), you can kinda piece together a narrative that is really juicy.

my possibly unpopular steph take is that while i know her post war games and resurrection writing was not very good, i do actually find it compelling that she set assassins on tim at bruce's orders. i think having such a demonstrable and visible example of bruce being the driving force behind every single nail in the coffin of their relationship is fun. like, to me, timsteph is a formative relationship, but never an endgame one. there's a lot of fun stuff to say about them! i just unfortunately struggle to really enjoy picking through the mess of how steph has been written, so they don't compel me all that much.

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

These polls are forcing me to learn SO MUCH about myself tbh. For example, recently I learned that mouth shape plays big part in if I hit pass on a design that I otherwise would hit smash on.

Self lore un-fucking-locked.

Hell yeah! Yeah I got my preferences with mouth shape too. Not the biggest, but definitely a factor. Only amplified by some monsters like the gug, where there is no ignoring the mouth.

[regency-monster-love]

Could we get #23 with the Grumpy Orc? I could see him getting drunk and then professing everything to the reader while his inhibitions are lowered 😈

I like the way your mind works, anon!

23. A kiss influenced by alcohol/other substances

Male orc x female human

"I shou' hate you—I should!" The orc scowled and tried to jab a thick green finger at her, but it just kind of waved in the air, with how drunk he was. "Why d'you have to be so bloody sweet an' charming an' kind? And pretty." He leaned closer to her face, squinting. "How are you so pretty?" That same green finger poked at her mouth, making her purse her lips to keep from laughing. "You don' even have any tusks, but your mouth still looks so nice. Wish I could kiss it."

She batted his hand away from her face. "Then do so."

His bushy black eyebrows drew together. "Pardon?"

She grabbed his cheeks and pressed her mouth to his. It took his addled mind a second or two to comprehend what was happening, but then he kissed her back with gusto, curling his tongue into her small mouth and eating up the soft little sounds of pleasure she made. Her thumbs slipped down to rub against his tusks as they continued to kiss, and the jolt that gave him made him groan.

"God I love you," he mumbled against her mouth.

She pulled back, her eyebrows leaping up her forehead. "Pardon?"

[You can read more about grumpy orc and the human woman he "hates" here]

Written for the kiss ask game. Keep 'em coming!

Read all of these kiss fic snippets at the tag #kiss snippet. Read all of my Regency monster stuff at the tag #my writing.

[squeakitties]

it's always fun when you change which of your ocs is the week's favorite because then you rb a bunch of art for that oc and I'm like !!! oh yeah that art is cool! i forgot about it but now i remember it and it's fun!

sniles :3

[azelmaandeponine]

Stan just didn't decide to find a job that did not require a high school diploma because these kinds of jobs pay people very badly and he was desperate to get millions to fix the mistake that Filbrick said he did and be welcomed back in his family again. Filbrick said to him that millions are necessary to him be welcomed back, so Stan decided to not waste time and gain this money to be able to return home.

Yeah, like. Filbrick said millions specifically.

A job you can do with no education (no high school diploma, no college) isn't gonna gets him there, so of course Stan didn't bother with it. Stan, understandably, went right to what he thought could make a lot of money so he could go home again.

[genderqueerdykes]

This feels almost stupid to say but it feels useless for me to try and be taken seriously as a non-binary person in my day to day life. Everyone sees me as a girl. I will always be a girl to them. And even in the queer community I feel scared because I was a girl in my childhood and I feel like that makes me less valid, like my existence makes a laughing stock of people who deserve better. I tried to be a girl and I felt wrong, I tried to be a boy and it felt wrong...

I also. This feels really selfish to say but I get sort of...lonely? Sad? When I see things about trans men and trans women that don't include non-binary people, or when trans men/transmascs and non-binary people are lumped together. Makes me feel invisible, but at the same time makes me want to just...stop trying. It feels bad. So bad.

i'm sorry that you've been made to feel that way, it really sucks and i get it. people really do just only focus on trans women and trans men if they do acknowledge both binary genders and not focus on one or the other. i understand that theres a lot arguing going on between trans men and women right now but people are just totally forgetting about other genders, or like you said, lumping everything together

i can relate in that i never see mentions of genderqueer people in positivity posts at all unless myself or another genderqueer person wrote them. i feel there's the same going on with nonbinary as well. even though it's more well known, i feel like people don't treat nonbinary people any better. for whatever reason people assume nonbinary means quirky cis girl and it's like why are we still doing this. why are we still hurting people. why are we still misgendering people. why are we still willing to be misogynistic as hell to people we interpret as women, anyways? how is that okay? even if you were a girl why would it be okay to treat you like that?

people are just very open about how they don't see nonbinary people as real queer people and its exhausting. i'm sorry you're going through that. i know i don't talk about the broader gender spectrum enough and i really need to. it's like other genders are being pointedly left out for the sake of having something to argue about. it's not okay. i hope things improve soon. you're nonbinary no matter who you are or how you identify. nobody has the right to tell you who you "really" are or how you identify. take care of yourself

[bl00d-and-t3ars]

hewo birdiez old, ohld uncul!!!! i com 2 u in serch ov majicing and whitchycraftz!!! u sea, old man, i seam 2 hav brokn mie leg ina hors reelaytd assult n i wud REELY liek 2 b abl 2 walc agen, zoooooo doo u tink u hav any spelly spelz 2 fix mie leggy leg????

-Evelyn

I'm going to ignore the fact that you called me old for now. how the hell did you make it all the way here with a broken leg?

[zombie-ford]

So..you’re like an undead version of my dad?

@daughter-of-the-author

I HAVE A DAUGHTER?????????

....

Yes, child, I am a zombie