#(also i said rare art posts here but ive been doing SO much art that you all still get some)
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#cinder art#TrinaMal#MalTrina#MalMiq#i dont remember which tag i use#once again based on Field of Reeds Trina not SoTE Trina#i ref'd everything for malenia except her prosthetics so give me grace on them#(also i said rare art posts here but ive been doing SO much art that you all still get some)
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warninggg this is a long one ,,,
(Okay so I started writing this uhhh vent before more posts on the n//fts appeared later so plz keep that in mind hah)
So I havenât been too active on here for the past month â a bit personal start, but Iâve moved to a different country whooo!!!! (its terrifying) (my brains been involved in fandom stuff as usual but physically I wasnât lmao).
But I wanted to talk ab the n//ft (censoring bc idk ab bots here) thing bc while some people on here provided some great context and threads, most of the talk has happened on twitter. So like. Since it was first confirmed what the raffle thing was I was veryyyy disappointed, especially bc K has made fun of this very thing on stage previously. And like yea, the nature of what hes doing is different than the n//ft crypt0 scams, since the cost of the paywalled content is set and not fluid and the raffle thing was free to enter, and I know there have been threads about the website not being the worst on twitter (link) (edit: now here on tumblr too). But still man. Both of these couldâve been done on either an independent website or through stuff like youtube members or patreon. Or hell, even just on the merch store? Like buy a promo code that buys you access to the material?
Also like I get that this was probably a contract that would be rly hard if not impossible to terminate. STILL though, I wish we just got an even short thing like âhi sorry I wasnât aware this is gonna be a one time thing weâre not doing it againâ. I donât mind extra content being paywalled personally, I know some people do, but I just really wish it wasnât donât with that technology. And yes, I also now know itâs a safer way to handle shit like that but I just cant see this excuse being used for commercial use? Like maybe I can see why I could be made to use it for like idk an important document, but a raffle ticket? Nah
I also, ugh. Felt weird about mikke in the team since the winter. This whole thing seems to be â at least to a large extent â either done or influenced by him, judging by even the fact that the europass thingy webpage has oy photomikke marked (no im not buying it but i did look around curiosity was stronger). Also the previous thing that had made me go hmmm about käärijä as a brand was the bnb, which now seems to be ran entirely by mikke and his wife. Like stick to your photos man? That being said tho, Jere IS an adult and he IS the face of this brand. If he doesnât think hes qualified to make business decisions all by himself (which I get, this shit is hard), nothing is stopping him really from getting a professional to help him with those things. And if there IS something stopping him then hey man I think you should go to the press with that lol. From any interviews ive seen or read, you can feel he feels this responsibility to keep his friends and family that initially helped him afloat. But I wish he understood that not letting people who in the end are not professional about business and PR and having them stick to their own thing does not have to mean cutting them off.
But now I just wanna share a thought that to some might seem like me defending him â which, in case you didnât get I am very much not lmao. The thing is, im really glad the fandom is able to call him out on a shitty thing â like a bad baaad business decision. You can like somebodyâs art, hell you can even like the public person they are, while not agreeing with everything what they do. What annoys me though, is that apart of the kä fandom, he is also often talked about (usually negatively) in the wider esc fandom. Over the past week Iâve seen multiple threads on twitter from people that rarely ever mention him about this. That wouldâve been like, not that much of a deal (though sometimes it really got⌠engagement bait-y) but the amount of bodyshaming and shaming of his fans that comes up with every valid criticism is making me wanna pull my hair out.
Especially cause heâs neither the first finnish esc-related artist to do that (Robin and Cyan Kicks are mentioned on the kollekt website) nor is he the first esc artist of his influence to do it either. Last year Loreen and Alessandra have released n//fts last year, and Loreen did a very similar raffle a couple months ago. Now I wanna be very clear: I donât want this to be like. Cancelling these people, that would be so hypocritical of me. I also donât want this to be like a fandom war like oh youre mad he did xyz?? Well THIS and THIS person did THAT!!1! Iâm just merely annoyed that these people doing essentially the same thing went with no echo at all, but now Iâve seen us (the fandom) be literally called the r slur and the most vile things being said about jere and, for some reason, his appearance???
Idk man. I really try to make it clear im not trying to excuse his decisions and I think being angry and/or disappointed at him is absolutely understandable. Im just angry that every single time he fucks up, every single time he makes a mistake, my timeline is filled with a wave of people rejoicing in it. I know heâs a controversial figure, heâs been one since day one, but I just wish heâs gotten the same amount of shit his peers do for the same actions? And this happens every time, and each time im like âwell ig I can see why hes so bad when it comes to criticismâ. Because imagine doing a thing that your peers have done with no/minimal criticism and then the moment you try it out you get people calling your fans slurs and commenting how stupid you are. Like ngl id also think any criticism was hate lmao.
Again I wanna be very VERY clear im very critical ab what he chose to do. I wish he took some responsibility â and hope he maybe does, at some point in the future. This year has been a whole lot of bad business decisions for the käärijä brand in my eyes, and I hope he can actually see where its gone wrong and do something about it, both for his and our sake. I am also happy to see fellow fans who are able to call out their fave. But man I am TIRED of him just getting all the shit (from people who very visibly fans are not)?? And now I have the proof that it is comparably more than other people and not just my bias towards him because wdym thereâs been at least 4 esc artists, 2 of which more famous than him, and 2 umk artists doing exactly the same thing with almost no echo??
TLDR (thishasover1kwordsfuckshit); I wish he did better, simply. I kinda cling to some hope that maybe hey finally this time he will see that criticism can be constructive. I think this is still a level of fucking up that you can like, come back from. Pity itâs connected to the eurotour since kinda souring my excitement ab my first concert in a new country a bit :(
#käärijä#idk this is like lowkey a vent and a summary of everything i said to my friend recently#i promise ill post some photos of yarn boy seeing belgium and the netherlands soon cause yea ofc hes with me rn#to lighten the mood#the last few points were building up in me for like over a year but this was truly a confirmation tho i wish it wasnt in such circumstances#also you can disagree with literally every single point that im making but id ask to just be respectful we're in this together after all
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hello again!! thank you so much for gathering the iketeru illustrations for me (and translating them too, which i greatly appreciated), cause your post really made my day :')
it's funny that the author's got a whole book of fanservice for us lmao, but i love it! do you have a #1 favorite illustration (of anyone) from the whole book? (sorry if this sent twice btw, crap was glitching lol)
lovely anon, I must tell you that I once again went absolutely over the line with pictures I took. There are so many good ones!! I knew a few illustrations from sensei's twitter and knew how well it worked for me so I ordered this book from japan and yes, that is why I can never pick favourites I just like all of them (exception is the series in which the characters are teachers and you are supposed to be their student, not a big fan of those lol). Once again I put them under cut together with my chitter chatter about them asdhjflas
anyway im glad i made your day!
yes its amazing that this fanservice exist. In the interview at the end of the book sensei says they often drew their characters as practise (without lines) and then uploaded them to twitter to find out the people responded so well!! so they continued with it! More snippets from the interview:
they consider this a kind of alternative world that has no space in the manga (since its a gag manga).
they claim they didnt try to make the characters hot on purpose, it just turned out this way. in their head usao and kumao always had old people voices. but now they are glad the characters are hot because of the voice actors choosen.
they come up with a line and then assign it to a character, rarely the other way around.
Every one of their characters has one thing they think is special, something they like to show off when they draw them. for Uramichi its the chest, for Iketeru the slender neck, for Usahara the shoulders and Kumatani the arms!
and shockingly to me: since this manga is running 10 years now they said when they started they felt like Uramichi is so old, but now they are the same age! I cant believe how someone in their twenties wrote such an accurate manga about being in ones thirties.
gosh anon i wish this was more popular, i only have one friend to talk to about this story and i have so much in my soul dhkasdflsd so please come back if you feel like it!
ok so some of my faves under cut from here
first of: my favourite has always been ushara. he is cringe fail and i love cringe fail so much. but that also means he has almost no COOL lines because he is kind of an idiot (lovingly said) tho all his illustrations are so cute. so he wont show up here much tho i love everything about his arts of course!!
now you asked me for my favourite and ive known this one for a while, but I think my unbeaten favourites of everyone are the love confessions:
I love the different way they all do it. Uramichi pretty much goes "I love....you" (cries), Iketeru of course quotes it, Usahara just YELLS at you "HEY I LOVE YOU" and kumatani is like ".............. iloveyou" haskdlfh
generally kumatani has so many cool lines because he is so stone cold. this is also specifically heart wrecking for me because his voice actor Nakamura Yuuchi is my favourite thing since strawberries so if I imagine him doing the voice I want to die.
Three times Kumatani is an absolute tsundere about white day:
"you are chattering so much... well, tell me what you want now. I'll get you anything."
"What do you want? Tell me clearly"
"I told you to get over here"
another white day illustration i love is this one from usahara
he says "the present is me, hippety hop", which i find ultra cute with the little bunny and the hairclip!! but my friend said it sounds like he forgot white day and just brought the first thing he could find, which would be in character (adding this picture was a nightmare tumblr did NOT want me to upload it?? you hate cute boys? tumblr you hate cute boys??)
uramichi's face when he realises you april fooled him is so funny to me somehow
" You say "Im sorry".. that is also a lie, is it not?"
ok from now on the pictures will be low quality because tumblr wont let me upload the photos direclty anymore i need to screenshot them first. rip im sorry
ok there are a few here of uramichi saying somehow sexy things (to me at least) and it makes me go hrgnlkhdflk
""Good big brother (onisan)" you said. Who do you mean?" idk why that gets me so hard but why you asking .. wha...what you mean
"... Isn't it ok? You don't have to go home yet." (this is from the stayin the night portion)
"A promise from big brother. I will protect you well" T_T
this thing which can only be described as ship art:
is this bickering idiots to lovers sensei? is that what you mean to tell me sensei?
this usahara from the staying the night section
"Come play with me today!" (............ h.......how...)
this image if kumatani because of THE LOOK? um HELLO
unfortuantely the translation is kinda tricky because i cant read most the kanji and google lense is like?? but its something like "Do you think you have the guts to betray me?" or something like "Do you think I have the guts to betray you?" idk he looks good so its fine
almost done i swear!! there are a few kuma usa double pages i love
Kuma: "Don't look. Its hot." (sidenote, he is shirtless a lot. not that I complain or whatever)
Usa: "Where would you like to go? The ocean? My house?"
sorry i tried to keep my fingers out of all pictures but clearly failed xD
Kuma: "Shut up. Shut up and look at me."
Usa: "I understaaaand. Get over here." (crying, i want to)
this is a part of the book extras. I showed it to you with Iketeru already. I think the meaning is sort of the moment they realised their carreers are over, sadface
Kuma: "I never really liked it. I thought I would just throw it away. Damn it, I lost."
Usa: "The wind suddenly stopped. Ah, thats how it is. Its over"
of course there are a lot more other characters shown in the book, but much rarer and since they dont interest me too much they dont have my favourite lines asdhfklasdhf anyway anon I hope you liked this
#ask tag#life lessons with uramichi oniisan#uramichi oniisan#im so glad i bought this and i cant wait what sensei cooks up next on twitter#halloween soon!!
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I was wondering if there are any rare happy ritsu moments in ur zombie au since hes always miserable I think,, like is he always miserable or is he happy/not miserable and feeling kinda good sometimes?
VWHDGDGD NO YEAH OFC HE'S HAPPY SOMETIMES im just horrible and enjoy putting him through misery
ive never been able to get a genuine smile to look right on his face in my art style either i think thats part of it. as ive said his face is just built to be mildly uncomfortable and bothered and i lean into it sm it's starting to get kinda funny
but yes ritsu is happy plenty! i think, canonically, he just seems like the type of person to me that tends to turn lemonade back into lemons. he's easy to scare and his first reaction to things is often Dread and Anxiety. he dwells on the negatives a lot and seems to be a "hope for the best, expect the worst," kinda guy, but there's a section in this post abt shigeo always loving the little things in life, and ritsu steadily learns throughout the journey on how to do that and how healing it can rly be. even if he had to grow up too fast during this whole thing and learn things a kid should never have to, the journey also gave him some good insight and lessons in other places! ritsu is smart, he figures it all out
in terms of little things here n there he's the happiest lil guy on the planet when he finds one of his favorite foodsâswings his legs while he sits and munches on a kitkat bar like he's got absolutely nothin in the world to worry abt. sometimes mob does smth funny that he laughs at; for the longest time i've had this silly image in my head of mob accidentally knocking down a bucket from a store shelf and it lands on his head and he just kinda stands there and makes noises.when the noises continue out of pure curiosity about the weird echoey quality it's giving them ritsu cannot help but lose it
besides tiny things tho, when tome comes around ritsu in general is a lot happier, just cuz he has somebody to talk to that will actually respond in some way. they're sorta reluctant partners in crime at first (at least on ritsu's end) but over time and over bonding they grow to rly like each other's presence. they bicker constantly but it's almost always fond eventually, and they shove each other and playfight until mob gets antsy enough to get worked up about it. rly, tome is a godsend to ritsu's mental healthâafter months and months of being effectively alone with his thoughts, he finally has another person to converse with. a person His Age, too!
tome is rly good at knowing when ritsu is thinkin himself into oblivion and she's Also rly good at being the most annoying girl on the planet to yank him outta that and replace any misery with Oh My God Get Off Me You Freak. she doesn't even do this on purpose at first, but over time she learns how to tell when he's thinking too hard and, ofc, she's grown attached and she cares, so she's as obnoxious as possible to lighten the mood
when they find reigen n teru, ritsu gradually gets Much happier still. now that he knows they're safe and the gang is finally back together (and now that there's an Adult present and he can relax a lil and let himself be taken care of) his stress levels r exponentially lowered. having teru back is another instant lift to his moodâim always a big fan of teru and ritsu friendship, and i think adding tome to their dynamic simply makes it more chaotic. truly a trio of the 3 most normal teenagers in existence which will surely bring nothing but good (reigen sweats offscreen)
actually this makes me feel bad for forever torturing him im gonna go draw happy zau ritsus brb ,.,.ok imback <3
#qktalks#anon#zombie au#tw guns#<- for that glock in the corner . sorry#actually it looks like he's at gunpoint in that one and just going teehee about it#he looooooves tormenting tome .and tome loves tormenting him. it's their favorite pastimes#i don't rly like the second one too much tbh the sleeves are weird but i think that's just the Nature of how poofy they can get#oh this is a great time to talk abt their dynamic. sorry.this ask isn't abt that.but now it is#so i realize that tome and ritsu ??? don't rly interact in canon at all. and neither do tome and teru . as a matter of fact#but consider. uhm.what ifthey did <3 GVYIEAV#like i said they're all So incredibly normal it'll make for a great time#^ genuinely i do think so actually. most of the time anyway#i touched on it a lil bit in recondite but i rly like the idea of mob ritsu tome and teru all being a friend group#teru would undoubtedly piss tome off sometimes she'd call him out on his bullshit#but like.in terms of the canon timeline i think post-mob teru would Totally listen to her#and take what she says abt How he is into consideration. he's trying to rebuild himself into somebody better#teru and ritsu already have a dynamic in canon but it feels pretty loose and it isn't fully explored at all#i think they work together rly well tho. there's no real evidence to the contrary iirc i think they work together in canon quite well#they think alike in terms of fighting#and in a setting like thisâ once teru is on the same page as ritsu on zombiesâ they're prolly a pretty damn good team#there's a lot of room for things to go wrong tho#if i had to sum it up rly succinctly it'd be: ritsu's motive is fearâ tome's motive is curiosityâ and teru's motive is power#what i mean by teru's being power is Not the pre-mob teru ''wanting'' to be powerful and unstoppable#i mean teru wants to have power over everything that is trying to hurt them#he doesn't Want to cower he wants to Fight tooth and nail#and i think ritsu's fear versus tome's curiosity and teru's drive of power conflicts a lot#ritsu is passive in the sense that he'll do anything in his power to avoid altercations with anything to order to keep mob safe#he isn't Active until something goes Wrong. and usually things go Wrong when teru and tome rush ahead#WOW sorry i went on a rant that was Completely unrelated to the fucking question. im at the 30 tag limit bye
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Ship-related questions!
We also got quite a lot of questions about ships and our opinions on it, so I hope itâs alright with everyone if I answer all of those asks in one post too. Â Thank you to everyone who is interested enough to ask!
Iâll also remind you that we have a ship list that gets updates whenever we get a new ship, so it should be up to date.
Letâs go~
decafdreamz asked:
your top bottom list has piqued my interest, ive never seen top kalim before!
Ohhh welcome then! <3
I donât think weâve posted anything explicit with Kalim, but we really do see him as top. Pretty much the only ship we actively post of him is KaliJami, but there is quite a lot of stuff here in case youâre interested!
Anonymous asked:
Do you ship Kalim and Leona? I personally like them (you don't have to) but content for them is rare. (Again you don't have to like them I was just asking, love your work and art)
Thank you for loving our stuff, Anon! This is very nice of you <3
I donât think weâve seen Kalim with Leona before, but honestly based on the fact that both of them are rich kids from fancy families but extremely different personalities, they could be interesting. But only if Leona is written well in the scenario, because a lot of times he tends to make stuff un-fun for us :( Which is a huge pity.
Anonymous asked:
*sees your top and bottom list* so~ tell me what you think of a trey/malleus ship?
To be honest, we havenât seen much of their interactions so we have no opinion on them. But in theory, based on the visuals and their personalities, they could be quite hot together~
veigascc asked:
Not sure if this has been asked yet but do you two ship malleus and rollo?
Nope; they have amazing chemistry and fun interactions and we adore both of them, but just donât click with us as a ship. UnfortunatelyâŚ
Anonymous asked:
Do you guys ship malleleo?
Nope, we see both as bottoms! Sorry.
Anonymous asked:
May I ask who you ship Epel with?
We donât have any super major ships with him, but we do like him with Floyd and Rook.
Anonymous asked:
Thoughts on a Rook x Vil X Neige threesome?
Very positive. đ We actually have a reply about it from quite a while ago!
Anonymous asked:
I know you guys Ship Deuce with either Jack or Ace, but what are your thoughts on Deuce x Floyd?!
Like imaging Chaotic Eel Merman with moodswings x Ex-deliquent wannabe good student.
Floyd would bring the worst out of Deuce and rail him roughly, Poor guy đŤ
We like these two together! Well, they are not a major ship of ours, but their interactions are fun, and just like you said, Chaotic Eel Merman with moodswings works great both with some cute hooligans (like Epel) and the goody-two-shoes-lawful good boys (like Riddle), and Deuce just happens to be both, so itâs a win-win lol
We had a post about them some time ago!
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gasp đ´ live viewing of soulmates au unfolding irl
yes in fact i am (confirmed)
to be fair i haven't been on tumblr that long i joined somewhere btwn jan-mar of this year and so i don't think ive experienced many of your themes (blog profile wise), but i remember stalking the tags and it was easy to spot what works were yours based on the header edit, it stands out and is v eyecatching among other stuffs in the tags ^_^
mhm i think your style is very deviantart fs hehe,,, NAUR FR they r the ogs i used to want to be them so bad. for reference i started getting into kpop around 2/2.5 gen,, i was an admin on a facebook snsd fanpage and posted like png shadow/swirl edits đđđ simple times
hell i'd love to! i don't think i'm mentally there i fr lack the creative capacity, its in very rare circumstances do i see something that i kind of envision and edit in my head and ill usually screenshot it to keep the idea there but i even more rarely ever jump into starting the edit.
yes it is! i still have and use it, it was the 'it' app for photo editors back then me thinks, kind of like the ae of photo editing... at least from my viewpoint on the ig fanpage editing scene. it was the hotter sister to picsart lmaoo
see soulmates au!! we couldve crossed paths but we didn't!! until now!! đž
omg wait stop it cus i used to love reading imagines n shit on ig but im pretty sure i stopped because i felt like it wasn't a popular content type esp since its a photography platform. i browsed the tags for imagines n stuff but it was meh,, i only followed ONE imagines account đĽ˛
wait so to clarify, u also edited on ig alongside writing?? imagine if we crossed paths on the algorithm dats crazy đ you're the cool one i wish i could be skilled in both literature and art ?? i simply do not have enough brain cells for that ^_^
canva on phone is my enemyâźď¸ at least the last time i used the mobile app,, bc i now use it only on desktop, sometimes on ipad... cus u alr cannot see the layers i cannot be doing anything complex bc i will def tap on the wrong layer and thats annoying -_- the patience u have ă
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well assuming the app is still like that idk maybe it changed
HAHAH i used to draw before like pencil paper shit so i thought i could do it digitally....and after years of not drawing on pencil paper too đđ
u are so much more articulate than me goodbye thats embarrassing 4 me T_T
soulmate does exist <3 look at us being prime example!!
actually i think ive active with my account within the time frame as well, probably feb-march i think, but before that i didn't care about the account that much but like slowly started make headers im a tryhard ( only after i stopped obsessing tumblr themes bc i couldn't figure it out) ARE you fr?? like u could tell my works in the tags of my header?! dude that's so,,, that's like such a huge compliment that I've got something that makes someone go ah yes it's that same. author like it feels so fulfilling, YOURE REALLY BUTTERING ME UP ILYSM!!! thousand consentual kisses!!!!
YOURE SO COOL WTH YOU'VE BEEN HERE SINCE 2/2.5 GEN PLS THATS SO awesome ive been into kpop since mid 2017 so most of my groups like og ones were third gen but I listened to 2nd gens too and SNSD my beloved!!! genie was my introduction of kpop tbh and replay by shinee is what made me stay so i can say im a child of 2nd gens too lmao but holy shit I want YOUR PLAYLIST!!!!!!!! GIVE ME SONG RECS!
tbh i get you i only edit for my headers or blog too tbh like usually if there is no purpose you don't really feel like editing bc it's like what are you even gonna do with it? and you've said that you've always posted them so maybe the fact you don't have anywhere to showcase your art has you feeling like that too?
"hotter sister of picsart" this is so real bc all the hot editorson Instagram ( the western artists collage style specially) all used superimpose and thr fact they used to pay for it too.
bro like imagine if we did cross paths i think i was more active on ig during 2019-2021? imagine if we had ever crossed paths since we both worked on kpop lmao, okay but if you like posted your work under #kpopgfx im pretty sure i have came across at least once!
did kpop have imagine accounts? i knew a lot of dating door accounts tho lmao but then again i was stuck in wattpad, and that's all the delulu you need lmao.
lmao yeah i always wrote with my works, most of my edits were based on stuff i wrote basically like love stories based on songs, certain ideas (was BIG on mythologies and all the other things.) but really fr tho i wonder if I actually ever saw your work tho because i never had the guts to interact with other editors.
lmao im the same with canva but on laptop i for the life of me cant do that plus i just use it get pngs and other stuff also when i want to do masking lmao. i usually collect shit on there and then manipulate those on my own app.
bro that is insane that you used to actually drawing like as someone who can't draw a single straight line this is so cool to me i really wish i could draw tbh
articulate and me? lmao im literally all over the place but it's so sooo fun to talk to you!!
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Your statement hit me, and now I have a question. I rarely draw for fun, but I want fame, and to put the thoughts in my mind into a medium.
What do I do
you gotta focus on that last thing as your primary motivator or else it will drive you insane. i know this is literally the same thing i said in that post but i am speaking from experience here, both my own and others, and i am not saying that people who do art for attention or fame are bad or somehow less legitimate than people who do art purely for their own enjoyment
like look man. i also desperately wanted to be noticed and to get acclaim for my work. when i was a kid i wanted so badly to be a famous actor it was embarrassing. i wrote fan screenplays for fucking glee in which i was the new main character and i would act them out on my own and fantasize about being up on stage, on tv, and finally being liked and admired. before i got into this fandom i would also fantasize about writing or drawing something that would become wildly popular, and id have a whole bunch of people making fanart and fanfic and sending me fanmail about how much it meant to them and how good my work was and etc etc
getting into hlvrai gave me a taste of that and it fucking sucked!!!
dont get me wrong. positive attention is great. it makes me really happy that people like my stuff and are willing to tell me so. but heres a little "laundry list" of all the stupid insane bullshit ive had to put up with just b/c i briefly got popular in a moderately big fandom:
regular (and incredibly vicious) harassment by people who genuinely saw my art as morally wrong
expectations that i make only a specific kind of art, and anger/backlash when i ignore that and do what i want
people seeing me not as a human being, but as an impersonal figurehead, or an art machine, or as somebody to approach specifically b/c im popular and they want to hang out with somebody popular
legitimate psychological and sexual abuse by multiple people specifically b/c of the above, traumatizing me in ways that i am still not fully "over"
people scanning my posts for anything even remotely problematic so they can hold it against me
creators of the thing i enjoy (and their friends) deliberately seeking out my artwork to make fun of it/express disgust that i would make it
people maintaining a perpetual burning hatred of me for months, or even years, which is totally impossible to resolve b/c there are people you cannot please no matter what you do and its futile to even try
and posting about it publicly! to the point where i literally cannot engage with the NSFW side of the fandom at all b/c its impossible to avoid people who are willing to decry my entire experience with gender and sexuality as "cringe" or "bad representation", or who enjoy publicly speculating over whether or not im an abuser b/c i like it when the fictional machinima character is mean to me
and all this over having written a fanfic online. do you know how much worse it is for people with even bigger followings? people who get hugely popular and then feel like they cant draw anything if it isnt marketable b/c their entire brand has been distilled into one Thing? people who stop posting art entirely b/c their audience has exerted such a strong influence over what they let themselves draw that it killed their enjoyment?
ive seen a lot of people bemoan the fact that a lot of popular artists have really insular circles and dont talk to anybody outside of them. this is why: the internet has cultivated a massive general audience with such an entitlement to your presence that you end up totally dehumanized. i personally am terrified to talk to people outside of a very small circle b/c experiencing a fleeting amount of popularity exposed me to a lot of very dangerous people and fucked me up big time. (i also have a pretty severe case of avoidant personality disorder which doesnt help.)
fame can fuck up your entire relationship to your art. and i am very lucky that right now, i can just draw/write stuff that makes me happy and i have a manageable audience that seems to enjoy it. and also when i need to i can draw art for commissions without it dominating my hobby
if you feel like you can treat making art as Just A Job, then, yknow, thats your call. some people genuinely dont see it as anything more than a paycheck. its not necessarily a good or bad thing. but way, way more of you are vulnerable to a maladaptive relationship with your own ability to create, and i would rather you heed these warnings and still take pleasure in the human act of creation than end up hating the very things that brought you joy
so like tl;dr if you want fame there is a very good chance it will drive you crazy and theres no nice way around it. but if you focus on just putting things into the world b/c you want to get them out of your head, you have a lot better odds of being satisfied. do with that what u will
sorry for the long post. byebye
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Anon said: Would you draw SukuFushi? (Sukuna x Fushiguro)
maybe? *thinking face* if I ever got an idea for it, why not. I find sukunaâs obsession with fushiguro entertaining so I donât count fanarts for it as impossible haha
Anon said: I looked and I couldn't find if you've answered this already, so apologies if you did, but how do you draw your faces? I always struggle with face shape and yours are always super good with really expressive features! Anyway, thanks so much I love your art <3
HMMMMMMMM how do I do that indeed, the basics are honestly what youâd find on any basic tutorial about drawing a face (circle, cross in the middle of it, build the face around that - I really still canât avoid that step and probably never will). As for the expressions, to be honest with you my way of going about them is thinking them up in emoji/kaomoji form first and then go from there. Emojis and kaomojis have to simplify expressions to the max since itâs such a simple format, right? But theyâre still super expressive and convey exactly what theyâre trying to say with one single glance, so using them as some kind of reference sheet has helped me a lot in figuring out whatâs essential to express what Iâm trying to say - still working on it though! Iâm rarely satisfied with my expressions, they really do make or break a drawing donât they............ you never stop learning, I guess!
Anon said:Â Ahhhhhhh I just spent like hrs scrolling thru ur oc tag and theyâre all amazing I love them so much but I keep confusing the everloving SHIT out of myself cuz I too have a child who is Leo and heâs literally so different from ur Leo lol. Anyway tho ur art is amazing and it honestly just makes me so happy so ty and hope have a good day!!
OHHHHHHHHHHHH MY LEO! Itâd been forever since Iâve last drawn him, I kind of miss him............... glad you like my stuff, by the way! Especially about you liking my ocs, that means the world to me!
Anon said: hi there !!! i was wondering if i had ur permission to ur ur itafushi art in one of my edits ! i wanted to be sure before using it <3 total respect if its a no !! thankyouuuu
Sorry but Iâd prefer if you didnât do that!
Anon said:THERES A OCTOPATH TRAVELER LIGHT NOVEL AND ITS SO COOL BUT ITS ONLY IN JAPANEESE ! ;^;There's four stories with centered around pairs of characters and alfion is one of them !Idk if itll be transleted but i hope itll be cuz it sound awesome
OH I KNOW!!!!!!! I saw the art for the alfion one a while back, it looks so soft!!!! ;;;;; 8path is kinda niche as a game though, so who knows.............. letâs cross our fingers!!
Anon said:Â hello, i am here to recc Skeletons by New Years Day because i think it might fit a few of your ships<3
Thanks anon now Iâm emo ;;;;;
Anon said: bakubro gives the best hugs. kirishima is the only one who knows this. everyone is absolutely incredulous when the question "who gives the best hugs" goes around and kirishima answers bakugo. (bakugo thinks kirishima is the best but he benefits from kirishima bodily hugging him and he's biased)
Definitely!! Heâs strong and warm after all, bet hugging him would feel the best.... the only one who shall ever know is kiri though, as I bet his hugs are only that nice when he really likes the person heâs hugging hahaha
Anon said: Hi! Just wanted to say that I absolutely love your JJK art! The colors and style are absolutely stunning.
Thank you so much!!!!!!! I feel like Iâm mostly drawing for myself lately ngl hahaha so knowing you like it means a lot!!
Anon said: Hi!! This isn't a request I just really like your art! I found you from Pinterest on a kiribaku thing you drew! Your art is so cool! I wish I could draw like that!!! I'll keep looking for new art you've made :D
Aw pinterest.......................... glad you could find your way back here though!! And thank you!!
Anon said: This happened a while ago, but i wanted to say it anyway. I remember when I started watching jujutsu kaisen and I was looking for content arter finishing the first 10 episodes in less than a day and I found your first jujutsu kaisen post (it was posted that dame day) and i was like ???? One of my favorite artists got into jk at the same time than me!!! I just thought it was a neat coincedence to share! I really love your art too, you're amazing!! Happy New Year!!
Itâs!!!!!!!!!!!! a pretty dang neat coincidence for me too, since itâs always nice to know at least some of my followers are still into the stuff I make hahahaha
Anon said: i think a lot abt ur art and how ive been seeing u since middle school and now im graduating highschool and we're still in the same fandoms, i hope this doesnt make u feel old but rather VERY cherished qwq
No anon this makes me feel amazing youâve been around so long!!!!!!! I canât believe youâre still here with my thank you so much for that!!!!!! I think Iâm gonna cry a little here.......... ;;;
Anon said: Hi! I love your art so much!! 𼰠Have you read a KiriBaku fic called The Pit??
Probably not, havenât been reading krbk fics in a while by now! Iâll add it to my for-later list, thank you so much for the rec!!
Anon said: can u believe that (sans sero) the entire bakusquad can be put into some form of punk/goth fashion? the realization was a galaxy brain moment for me. also realizing that tokoyami, kirishima, and tamaki are all varying levels of goth/emo (some more concerning than others)
Seroâs the hippie friend every punk friend group needs, he balances things out and thatâs why heâs very cherished and necessary!!!!
Anon said: your bakugo drawings convinced me to finally start stretching my ears and tbh i'm extremely excited (i've had off and on thoughts of stretching my ears (again) before this so it's not as impulsive as it sounds haha)
Anon thatâs so cool!!!!!!! I love gauges so much.....................glad I could give you the last push for it!!
Anon said: uhhhh, i love the style of that top left goge drawing dude!!
THANK YOU I LOVE DRAWING IN THAT STYLE THIS ASK MEANS THE UNIVERSE TO ME
Anon said: i sent the dragon!kiri and bakugo tug-of-waring over a piece of meat and honestly your response is exactly what i thought
Great minds!!!!!!! hahaha
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hii nini! im a big fan of yours, ive been reading your fics ever since i was introduced to nct by a close friend of mine. i'm a rather young teen who is an aspiring author, and as a person who has never been able to explore the fanfiction side of writing before, i truly think your writing is amazing and is a rare gem. you create magic with your words, you give the reader the feels! (with a few awkward and curious encounters with... 18+ works, which are also works of art!!!1!!1 its just something i am uncomfortable with and avoid as a minor), the incredible writing kpop fanfic writing community your work inspired me create a writing blog on tumblr and i am currently eager to branch out to people with similar interests to mine. are there any tips that you could suggest for a fresh writer on tumblr (how to create au ideas, how to imitate personas we see on cameras through writing, how to decorate your blog to attract intended audiences, etc)? i would be so thankful if you replied to this <3
love,
your aspiring anon
hi aspiring anon!! đ thank you so much for this!! i never would have thought that my writing would elicit such reaction from someone, and i'm so honoured that my writing is inspiring to you!
idk where to start, but i can tell you that when i first started writing kpop fanfiction, i was also at the beginning of my teens (literally started writing exo fanfics when i was 13-14 years old on this website called asianfanfics)!! it's a very new and exciting time, and i honestly can't wait for you to start your journey!
i also consider myself relatively new to tumblr, only started posting stuff on this site back in august 2020 and i'm still learning every day. but when it comes to writing, it's always a single scene that prompts me to write and flesh out a whole story.
"the scene" -- the one that inspired me to write the story or an idea that i've always wanted to write about. idk how many of my fics have you read, but here's an example with once again. i've always wanted to write an nct story, so i obviously went with jaehyun because he's my bias, an exes-to-lovers!au, and "the scene" that made me write the whole thing which is:
âDo⌠do you hate me now?â he asked. It was a wonder how I was still able to discern his soft voice amidst the deafening crowd.
I hesitated, seriously pondering on his question and searching for the answer within deep inside me. My lips trembled upon the realization and I shook my head slightly with a tired smile.
âNo, I could never hate you, Jaehyun,â I said. âBut you sure gave me a reason to.â
and boom, the whole story just spawned from this scene in particular. it made me think of how i wanted to write each character, their backstories, and what happened that led them to become exes, and what other type of drama i could conjure up, and etc.
writing is such a tricky thing because you want to achieve that perfect balance between description and action. so when editing, i always ask myself -- especially when reading descriptions, verbs, etc. -- are these necessary? what do they contribute to the overall plot? am i droning/waffling/babbling without any purpose or just to reach a particular word count?
i find that the easiest way to improve your writing is to read your favourite authors works! my writing style when i was 13 compared to my current one is so different. but it's also due to how you want to write and what kind of style you want to go for. i consider myself more of a "pretty" writer and i think this aspect really shone through with come morning light where i tried to match the writing style to the story even more than i usually do, as opposed to cerca trova, which was more fast paced, hence the blunt and straight to the point-like sentences and writing style.
my favourite way to come up with new ideas or to help flesh out a story is to discuss my ideas with my (4) best friends jeongvision, sehunniepotwrites, ppangjae, and jaedore. we always message each other with new fic ideas, help each other with editing and coming up with plot twists, etc., and i think this is one of the best parts about writing fanfics and the kpop writing community on tumblr. (granted, given that i'm a very SHY person, i barely interacted with people when i first started LOL).
this is getting LONG BUT BEAR WITH ME kfjskfjs
as for how to decorate my blog, it's really up to you!! it's one of the best things about tumblr and i think that as long as you decorate it the way you like, then it's awesome because it allows your readers to have a glimpse of your personality or what you like!! i also enjoy perusing theme coding blogs because they have nice themes and that's usually where i start when i want to redo my tumblr theme :)
i really hope this was helpful!! and feel free to drop me another message in my ask if you need more advice or just wanna talk hehe (Éââżâ)ÉâĽ
also, can you let me know which stories of mine that led you to have your awkward and curious encounters with 18+ works? ksjfksjfs although i don't write explicit nsfw works, i do write some implied/suggestive stuff and i want to tag/write my warnings properly!!
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ok i got a few different messages from people so im gonna answer them under the cut but i dont think theres a whole lot more to be said so i think im done publicly responding after these
thank you to everyone who chimed in i really appreciate all the comments regardless of your opinion because in the end i just want to do better and i know this is all coming from a place of good will đ
i get what youre saying here, and someone else mentions this down the post, but like, im drawing specific characters that are already defined. there is only so much i can exaggerate to the point where they lose their likeness and i dont want to Over exaggerate. like the other artist you mention is pretty cartoony, and thats not really exactly what im going for. spider verse is the Most cartoony id get but again its not my goal for my main art style, which is the one im assuming youre talking about.Â
also not sure how you mean âwhen you push to exaggerate you can find more realismâ because i feel like those things are at odds. you also talk about proportions which, i do try to keep, well, in proportion. i dont like pushing my proportions too much because then it becomes too exaggerated and thats not what im going for. also to reiterate im drawing already defined characters so im trying to keep their likenesses and i dont want to push them to the point where they lose that. the artist youve been referring to mostly seems to draw original characters, which is fine, but theres more freedom in that
but like ive already said im always aware of trying to make features identifiable and unique without losing that likeness. arcane has been a big inspo in that regard recently and im only just starting to really break that down specifically so youre really just gonna have to give me time to improve on that,,
thank you for the nice words and yes noses and lips can be harder for me to differentiate, more specifically lips, and the nostrils over the bridge or roundness/sharpness of the nose, but it does also come back to keeping a characters likeness so its a fine line to walk. especially when the character is more realistically portrayed and i have to figure out the best way to stylize them without Over stylizing them or missing the mark đ
ive seen some artists with Severe same face syndromes and its always sad for me to see even when i like the art overall, so i do things like making those charts to compare features to make sure theres not too much of a visual overlap between anyone. theres only So much you can do when youre drawing a pre established character because you want them to look like themselves, but also youre stylizing them, so you gotta be careful to not push too hard. at least in my case where i dont want to be overly exaggerated bc thats not what im going for
i used to be more exaggerated in the past but over the years ive done more portrait studies and am trying to be closer to the realism side of the semi realism spectrum. at least for my main style. sometimes im more cartoony but thats not my main goal its just when im being lose or messing around. i like exaggeration of expression more than exaggeration of features, but its not like im Not defining features, theyre just not pushed to cartoony extremes. and Again im limited in how far i can push if i want a character to retain their likeness especially for a semi realistic style
so thank you for thinking im doing a good job at differentiating between characters đ i really do put a lot of effort into it without being too cartoony
ok yeah heres the one that pointed out im limited in just how far i can push features without a character becoming unidentifiable. everything i do or change when i draw a preestablished character is in an effort to make them look as much like themselves as possible, and Very Rarely altering things (really the only thing i can think of is i give clem slightly larger lips bc hers in game are so tiny and my girl doesnt deserve thin lips lol. theres a specific piece of concept art from s3 of clem that i absolutely adore and its where i get the blocked in upper lip from. that piece of concept art is my biggest inspo when it comes to drawing her bc i feel like its near Perfect aha the eyes are just like Slightly too far apart proportionally)
and youre right that sometimes people conflate a consistent style with same face, but i dont want to be quick to jump to conclusions, because again im trying to hear everyone out bc i know this is all coming from a place of good will and i always want to do better, especially in this regard. but some of the critique has sounded like they want me to alter my style to be more exaggerated. right now my biggest art inspo is arcane because they have such a beautiful array of distinguished faces while still being imo perfectly stylized
im glad you think i do a good job making everyone distinct,, thank you for the encouragement,,
yeah this is why ive been so confused because im being told i have same face but also that i have variation of shape and im ??? like im trying to make it make sense. this feels like a good summation of whats been going on and where the disconnect is happening. again ive been trying to not just boil it down to âthats just my styleâ because i want to take it seriously, but i do feel like im being asked to be more exaggerated which begins to push that line im toeing of stylized realism
in my college painting class we dove into proportions Extensively and theres so much to keep in mind when laying out a face specifically
this is just off the top of my head so i think im forgetting a thing or two, plus its fast so its a little off but this is the general idea (like i think theres about another eye length on both sides of your face between your eyes and the side of your head but idr 100%), but like no matter what your features are or how big or small they are they will Generally line up like this. so you can use this method with small faces or long faces or slim faces or wide faces, these proportions Usually hold up regardless. just like with the proportions for the rest of your body. did you know your foot is the same length as the inner part of your forearm? did you know your face is the same size as your hand? unique for everyone BUT still holds up proportionally to yourself
but the fun part about knowing proportions is being able to work with them to create identifiable faces, and thats what im trying to do. ive learned the proportions but now im just trying to push them in a way that is still âcorrectâ but stylized, and identifiable by character
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ive come a really long way in just the last few years, and that was off the back of a 5 year burn out hiatus. so im really happy with the progress ive made but obviously theres always room for improvement and im always looking to do so. whenever im happy with my art i always get excited thinking about how im going to continue to improve and what my art will look like in the future :) so i do appreciate people wanting to help see me do better, but on my personal blog where i post things for fun, maybe just ask if you can give critique first,, and depending on what it is maybe we can just keep it between us. i promise i wont bite aha đ i just need to be emotionally in the right space to receive it
#i think ive finally understood (for the most part at least) what has been trying to be said#and i Think ive addressed it as well as i can#the last one seems to sum up best whats been going on i Think#like where the confusion has been lying#again thank you for everyone who weighed in i really appreciate everyone takes its all been helpful#and again know that im always trying to combat same face and i can only improve over time#hopefully we're done now aha ive been doing this like All day aha#replies with lexi#incognito#hprse#im tired....
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Master of Deflection - Part 6
Finally found time to post this sucker during this crazy week of graduation prep! Graduation practice tomorrow and actual ceremony Friday night for my associate's degree!
This is for you @ak47stylegirl and anyone else who enjoys Alan whump/smothering. Of course, there will be some extra Virgil in there too, because I just love the big guy.
@misssquidtracy @gumnut-logic @godsliltippy Thank you for your support on this fic!!
I bring you some Sky Turnip and Land Cabbage đđ
As a friendly reminder, I originally came from the TOS and TB 2004 era. Iâve tried to write a few TAG point-of-views, but my comfort zone is the previous. This will take place with Gordon as the redhead, and Virgil as the middle bro. Sorry!
Summary: Being the youngest of five is always hard, especially when they pounce at the slightest hair out of line. Sometimes the art of deflection can sting.
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
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Virgil tried to suppress a yawn as he grabbed the needed medication from the infirmary. Alanâs fever had climbed nearly another degree. The medic of the family instinctively made the call to start antibiotics quickly. Virgil was confident they were now dealing with more than the common cold and that a bacterial infection was beginning to set in.
Entering Alanâs room, the middle Tracy was concerned to see the bed empty. Only the sight of the strewn sheets and a pile of used tissues remained. âAllie?â
âIâm in here,â Alanâs hoarse voice called from the bathroom.
Virgil sat the meds down and met the crumbled form of his baby brother. Alan sat on the bathroom floor, the wall seeming to be the only thing holding him up. âSick again?â
âYup,â Alan grumbled as he reached to flush the toilet. Virgil handed him a towel to clean himself up. âThanks.â
Virgil helped him up but quickly took hold of his younger brotherâs waist as the teenâs legs nearly crumbled. âAlan, you okay?â
âYea,â the teen panted as another cough erupted from him. âBrain and body just donât want to cooperate at the moment.â
âCâmon, letâs get you back in bed,â Virgil urged as they made the short walk to Alanâs bed. âIf you donât start keeping things down, Iâm going to have to start an IV, kiddo. Iâm worried about dehydration.â
âYouâre preaching to the choir. This isnât exactly a party,â Alan wheezed, letting his head sink back into his pillow.
Virgil observed him as Alan coughed and tried to take in a deep breath. âHow long has that been going on?â
âI dunno,â Alan shrugged. âAwhile, I guess. Itâs not like Iâm writing all of this down.â
The middle Tracy handed Alan two pills, motioning for the teen to take the antibiotics. âWhen youâre not exerting yourself, is it hard to breathe?â
Alan gave his older brother a weird look but decided against the first thought that entered his mind. He wouldnât exactly call laying in bed exerting himself, but who was he to judge? âIf you call breathing with my mouth mostly, then sure.â
Virgil now wished he had kept the kid in the infirmary so he could ease his mind and have all of his equipment at his disposal. Knowing it wasnât something the baby of the family would do, he opted for what he had in front of him. âAlright, if it gets worse, let me know immediately. Hereâs something that will help with nausea, and something to hopefully help with that cough,â he said, handing Alan the tiny pill and cup of cough suppressant.
âWhy do these always have to taste so gross?â Alan complained as he quickly swallowed several gulps of water.
âThatâs how you know itâll work,â Virgil smirked, winking at his annoyed sibling.
-TB-
The sunrise was Scottâs favorite part of his morning run. The smell of the morning dew across the island jungle and the colorful orange and yellow hues that rippled across the water.
He slowed his pace to a jog as he came across the broadest part of the beach on the Island. Wiping the sweat from his forehead, the oldest Tracy paused as he noticed a figure ahead. Confusion met him as he recognized the build of the person. Scott quickly jogged forward, calling out to his younger brother. âVirgil?â
âHey, Scott,â the chestnut-haired Tracy greeted, wiping the sweat from his forehead with a towel.
Scott struggled for a moment. He knew he was treading on thin ice for his brother to be up this early. Virgil was always active, but athletically the medic was more of a gym guy. He found more solace in lifting weights and punching bags. Sprinting and running were always something the other brothers had enjoyed, barring John. It was rare to catch Virgil on a run outside of the gym, especially on one before the sun had been up for at least one hour in the sky.
âPretty view, huh?â Virgil interrupted his thoughts, almost sensing his brotherâs unease.
âAlways is,â Scott smiled in appreciation. âNo sunrise seems to be the same.â
âIâll take your word for it,â Virgil replied, taking a seat along the sand.
Scottâs concern only increased, but he followed his brother along the cool sand. His blue eyes searched the ocean while taking small glances at Virgil.
âYou can ask,â Virgil exhaled, surprising the elder. âI know youâre wondering why Iâm out here so early.â
Scott tried to suppress the grin that he knew was also on Virgilâs face. âDidnât want to push.â
Virgil nodded in understanding, letting his hands rest on his raised knees. âBad dreams and worried about Alan,â he stated plainly.
âI checked in on the kid before I started my run. Al was sound asleep, but he still felt warm and sounded congested. I think that humidifier might be helping,â Scott said, watching Virgil as he stared out into the water. âI didnât want to disturb him. He needs his rest.â
âAllieâs exhausted,â Virgil admitted. âBetween the coughing, vomiting, and congestion, his sleep has been interrupted. I gave him a round of antibiotics and something to help with the other symptoms. Alanâs definitely caught something bacterial for sure. Those cold waters from the rescue didnât do him any favors.â
âIâm sure those will help,â Scott reassured. âHe just needs time for the meds and his immune system to work.â The elder Tracy studied his brother once again. âDo you want to talk about the dreams?â
Virgil sighed as he threw a rock he had been playing with toward the water. âIt was about the last mission.â
âI figured,â Scott added. âI wouldâve been surprised if you didnât. I know what it felt like being on the receiving end. I can only imagine what it was like in the moment physically.â
âDefinitely wonât be in my top 20,â Virgil chuckled solemnly.
âWho said it was getting past the top 50?â Scott laughed, nudging Virgil.
âPoint taken,â the middle Tracy smiled.
âAll jokes aside,â Scott started. âAre you okay?â
âOkay is a relative term, Scott. We compartmentalize and move on-â
â-Virg, you know thatâs not what I meant.â
âI do,â Virgil acknowledged meeting Scott's intense gaze. âLook, you know what happened. I donât have to tell you again. I justâŚ. I canât get the image of the gun shoved against Alanâs neck out of my head and that look on his face. That look⌠Damnit, Scott. Heâs too much like you!â
Scott tried not to laugh but empathized.
âI could tell Alan was scared, but the kid refused to show it. He was so trusting. Trusting of me to get us out of that situation.â
âYou did, Virgil. Allie is safe because of you, and so are you. I was just as worried about you as I was our baby brother,â Scott countered. âYou did what you had to, and no one was harmed.â
âThatâs not the point, Scott. You have no idea how close it came.â
âWhat do you mean?â Scott asked, confused.
âThereâs a bullet hole in the floor of the rescue platform. A hole that was inches away from hitting Alan when he hit the deck.â
Realization dawned on the oldest Tracy. âIs that what your dream was about? That the bullet actually hit Alan?â
Virgil remained silent as he collected his thoughts. He felt Scott turn to face him, the older pilotâs knees resting against one of his own. âMostly, but what stuck with me most was that look. Like I said, having a hard time getting it out of my head.â
Scott placed a comforting hand along Virgilâs knee, squeezing it. âI know you donât need me to tell you about how great you are when quick decisions need to be made. That goes without saying, but Allie trusted you with his life because so would I. Any of us would. The next time a lunatic threatens one of my brothers with a gun, heâll wish neither one of us were around.â
Virgil smiled. âThanks, Scott.â
âAnytime. You good?â
âIâll be fine,â Virgil replied. âWe probably should head in. Breakfast will be started soon, and I need to check on Alan and make sure Dad isnât camping at his side.â
âDad was still asleep when I checked on Al,â Scott said as they began to walk up the path that led to the main villa. âBesides, he has an early call with one of the new brokers, if I remember correctly.â
âGood, that should keep him occupied,â Virgil grinned.
TBCâŚ
#thunderbirds fanfiction#thunderbirds#thunderbirds are go#thunderbirds 2004#thunderfam#alan tracy#virgil tracy#scott tracy#my writing#part 6#fanfic#writing
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hi dear :)c um um for the questions
4, 6, 9, 16, 18, 19, 20 (but for drawing), 21, 22, 23, 28, 29 (:]c), 40, 58, 59, 68, 93
i'm so sorry if this is too much but also i wish you much fun !
hi sweetheart mwahmwahmwah i will put this under a cut
4. how did your elementary school teachers describe you?
its hard to remember but i remember one of them calling me impulsive, another one called me smart and a pleasure to have in class or something like that
6. pastel, boho, tomboy, preppy, goth, grunge, formal or sportswear?
you know im just gonna say goth lol also what the hell is boho okay i looked it up and its ugly and i dont like it so who cares
9. favorite smell in the summer?
uhhh idk. im gonna say funnel cake and meat on the grill. this is something i smell more in autumn but i also love the smell of fire
16. most comfortable position to sit in?
flat on my stomach with my chin propped up on a blanket pillow ect i also lay on my side often
18. ideal weather?
storm/heavy rain during the day. where it's not pitch black outside but it's certainly darker than it normally would be during that time of day. absolute bliss
19. sleeping position?
when i was younger i slept in a fetal position but nowadays i mostly end up passing out flat on my back with my limbs splayed out however is most comfortable to me at the moment
20. preferred place to write (i.e., in a note book, on your laptop, sketchpad, post-it notes, etc.)?
i always draw digitally on my laptop but very rarely i will break out an old sketchbook and scribble in there there's also a special feeling to drawing on lined notebook paper
21. obsession from childhood?
DINOSAURS AND DRAGONS. my god i devoted my life to dinosaurs i wanted to be a paleontologist i was always looking at the rocks around our area to see if they had fossils in them (i actually did see some fossils twice) i had so many dinosaur books and toys i watched dinosaur movies we went to a place called the science center and looked at their cool ass dinosaur exhibit all the time, and i loved dragons too i had a ton of dragon toys and dragon books i had that dragonology book which was like the literal coolest thing ever to me (its still awesome) and i loved how to train your dragon with all my heart. dragons are some of the first things i remember drawing EVER.
22. role model?
grimharlequin is definitely my biggest inspiration as both an artist and a person. his philosophy of none of his work or interests being "ironic" really speaks to me and his artwork has such a wonderful genuine raw feeling to it. i think hes one of the only artists ive ever seen whos work retains the spirit of artwork drawn in childhood before you have any inhibitions about making your art look "good" or appealing to an audience. its very special to me. i also look up massively to toby fox, sparkleanimal here on tumblr, zun and gerard way
23. strange habits?
i have the ability to put my tongue up and behind my uvula into the flap over your throat and i do that often. why? who fucking knows
28. five songs to describe you?
god okay give me a moment im ogign to try and think about this. 1. love me normally by will wood and the tapeworms 2. lover dearest by marianas trench 3. we will commit wolf murder by of montreal 4. hate me by blue october i dotn fucking know what else im sorry i ithink these are just songs i relate to more than ones that describe me but whatever listen to three cheers for sweet revenge
29. best way to bond with you?
this is a difficult question to answer because its been a long time since any new person was able to form a bond with me but i'd say just, talking about something that we both have an interest in or engaging in it together (for example if theres a certain show we both like then watching it together) games are a good way too actually games are definitely the best way idk why i said any of that other stuff
40. weirdest thing to ever happen at your school?
i barely remember anything from school im sorry
58. four talents youâre proud of having?
oh god i have to invent FOUR entire talents i have um. i guess drawing is a given? i can read japanese easily save for most kanji. i can handle doing really tedious boring shit (like shiny hunting lol) and i suppose if im really interested in something i can soak up information on it like a sponge, i remember memorizing hiragana in a day or two
59. if you were a video game character, what would your catchphrase be?
HAIL SATAN and i just add it to the end of my sentences at random
68. worst flavor of any food or drink youâve ever tried?
does medicine count? i had mucinex once and it was genuinely the most vile thing to ever touch my tongue
93. nicknames?
my friends used to call me alexander jackson slugman adn i think danny called me ajax once. its hard to make a nickname out of alex
thank you for the ask sweetie
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I recently came across a bunch of press articles and photos about Oscar Isaac that are so old, they appear to be out-of-print and pre-date social media. Considering they were probably never digitally transcribed for internet access, Iâm guessing that the majority of current fans have never seen this stuff.
Even though a lot of these digital scans are challenging to read because they are the original fuzzy news print, I think there some gems worth sharing with you guys. Over the next several weeks, I will transcribe and share those gems on this page. Hope you enjoy them!
Letâs start with this fantastic 2001 profile piece done before Oscar was accepted into Juilliard:
South Floridaâs rising star isnât just acting the part
By Christine Dolen - [email protected]
February 4, 2001
As fifth-graders at Westminster Christian School in Miami, Oscar Isaac and his classmates were asked to write a story as if they were animals on Noahâs Ark. Oscar turned in a seven-page play â with original music â from the perspective of a platypus. Then he starred in the production his teacher directed.
He hasnât stopped expressing himself creatively since. Today, Isaac is one of South Floridaâs busiest young theater actors, and certainly its hottest. And not just because heâs a slender five-feet nine-inches tall with an expressively handsome face and glistening brown eyes.
Since making his professional debut as a Cuban hustler in Sleepwalkers at Area Stage in July 1999, he has played an explosive Vietnam vet in Private Wars for Horizons Repertory, a pot-smoking slacker in This Is Our Youth at GableStage, another Cuban on the make in Praying With the Enemy at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, the entrancing narrator of Side Man at GableStage, a Havana-based writer in Arrivals and Departures for the new Oye Rep and, most recently, a young Fidel Castro in When Itâs Cocktail Time in Cuba at New Yorkâs Cherry Lane Theater.
Beginning Wednesday, heâll be juggling five roles in City Theatreâs annual Winter Shorts festival, first at the Colony Theatre in Miami Beach, then at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. But that is not all: During the two weeks he is doing Winter Shorts, heâll also be playing dates with the punk-ska band The Blinking Underdogs (www.blinkingunderdogs.com), which features him as lead singer, guitarist and songwriter.
Oh, and he just got back from auditioning for New Yorkâs prestigious Juilliard School of Drama.
All this for a guy a month shy of his 22nd birthday.
Sure, you could hate a guy whoâs that talented, that charismatic, that transparently ambitious. But the people who have worked with Oscar Isaac donât. On the contrary, theyâre all sure he has it â that magical, canât-be-taught thing that transforms an actor into a star.
Playwright Eduardo Machado, who put in a good word for Isaac at Juilliard, says âhe does have that star quality that makes your eyes go to him. Itâs great that someone with that talent still wants to train.â
âHe has a star quality thatâs rare in a young actor,â adds Joseph Adler, who directed him in Side Man and This Is Our Youth. âWithout a doubt I expect to be hearing great things from him.â
âI JUST LOVE CREATINGâ
Isaac, who also makes short films, canât say exactly why he was attracted to acting. He just knows it makes him happier than anything, that itâs what he was meant to do. And heâs been doing it since he was a 4-year-old putting on plays in his familyâs backyard with his sister Nicole.
âI just love creating, whether itâs music or films or a character on a stage. I love taking people for a ride,â he says. âIn Side Man, every night I would love being that close to the audience. I felt like I was talking to 80 of my closest friends.
âI could feel what the audience was feeling.â
His powerful, mournful-yet-loving monologue near the end of the play, he said, âworked every night. I knew it would get them. Iâd hear sniffles.
âBut it had less to do with me than with the atmosphere [created by the playwright and director].â
You could understand if Isaac, surrounded as he is by praise and possibility, had an ego as burgeoning as his career. Instead, he channels the positive reinforcement into confidence about his work.
âHe has such a charm and an ease onstage, but heâs very modest,â says New York-based actress Judith Delgado, who shared the stage with Isaac in Side Man. âHeâs hungry. Heâs got moxie. I was blown away by him.
âHe saved me a couple of times. I went up [forgot a line] and that baby boy of mine came through. Heâs a joy.â
FORGING HIS OWN PATH
The son of a Cuban-American father and a Guatemalan mother, Isaac was never a stellar student. But he found ways of turning routine assignments â like the Noahâs Ark story â into creative challenges.
His science reports were inevitably video documentaries underscored with punk music. He acted through middle and high school, though he had a falling out with his drama teacher at Santaluces Community High in Lantana over his misgivings about a character. When she refused to cast him in anything else, he got his English teacher to let him play the dentist in Little Shop of Horrors his senior year.
His skepticism about authority and love of playing the devilâs advocate have long made him resist doing things the usual way. His post-high school âtrainingâ consisted of one semester at Miami-Dade Community Collegeâs South Campus (where he met his girlfriend, Maria Miranda), touring schools playing an abusive character in the Coconut Grove Playhouseâs Breaking the Cycle, and working as a transporter of bodies at Baptist Hospital, where he absorbed the drama of people in emotionally intense situations.
âIt was the most magnificent dramatic institute I couldâve attended,â Isaac said. âI was able to observe the entire spectrum of human emotion, people under the most extreme duress. I was mesmerized watching the way people interacted with each other in such heightened situations.
âI learned everything about the human condition, and it was real and harsh and brutally honest.â
Yet even given his propensity for forging his own path, something nudged him another direction while he was in New York making his Off-Broadway debut in December. Walking by Juilliard one day, he impulsively went in to ask for an application. Though the application deadline had passed, Isaac persuaded Juilliard to accept his, noting in his application essay that most of the exceptional actors he admires had acquired âa brutally efficient techniqueâ to enhance their talent by studying at places like Juilliard.
Though he wonât know whether he has been accepted until the end of this month, his audition last weekend went well, he says. He did monologues from Henry IV, Part I and Dancing at Lughnasa, adjusting his Shakespearean Hotspur to a more fiery temperature at the suggestion of Michael Kahn, head of Juilliardâs acting program â though not without arguing that Hotspur wouldnât be speaking to the king that way.
Isaac, not surprisingly, loves a good debate.
Adler, GableStageâs artistic director and a man who is as liberal as Isaac once was conservative, savored the verbal jousting they did during rehearsals for Side Man.
âHe knows exactly how to pull my chain,â Adler says with a laugh. âIntelligence is the cornerstone of all great actors, and heâs bright as hell.
âHe has relentless ambition but with so much charm. Heâs very hard to say no to. He has incredible raw talent and magnetism that is very rare in a young actor along with relentless energy, perseverance and ambition. I see his growth both onstage and off. Heâs mature in both places.â
Part of his growth, of course, will necessarily involve dealing with the rejections that are part of any actorâs life. His career is still too new, his string of successes solid, so itâs anyoneâs guess how failure will shape him. But director Michael John GarcĂŠs, who picked him for When Itâs Cocktail Time in Cuba after Isaac flew to New York at his own expense to compete with a pool of seasoned Manhattan actors for the role, believes his character will see him through.
âOscar is realistic, but heâs so willing to go the whole nine yards,â GarcĂŠs says. âHe didnât go out when he was in the show here. His focus earned the respect of the other actors, some of whom have been working in New York for 30 years.
âHe hasnât had a lot of blows yet, when the career knocks the wind out of you. But he has talent, determination and focus, and if he has perseverance â my intuition is that he does have it â he could achieve a lot.â
FAMILY TIES
His father and namesake, Baptist Hospital intensive-care physician Oscar Isaac Hernandez, couldnât be more proud. (Isaac doesnât use the family surname in order to avoid, in his words, being âput in that Hispanic actor box.â)
âIâm ecstatic that heâs probably going to be going to the most prestigious drama school in the United States,â he says. âSchool will help him focus his energies and give him discipline. Heâs got the raw material and the drive.â
Isaacâs mother, Maria, divorced from his father since 1992, is a kidney-transplant recipient who acknowledges that sheâll miss her son if he moves to New York. But, she adds, she wants him âto live out his dreams. He amazes me every day. He calls me every day. Iâm very proud of him.â
Even the other guys in The Blinking Underdogs are fans of Isaacâs acting, though it could take him away from South Florida just as the band appears to be, Isaac says, on the brink of signing a recording deal (it has already put out its own CD, The Last Word, with songs, lead vocals and even cover photography by Isaac.
âOscarâs the leader of the band, a great musician who amazes me and motivates us,â says sax player Keith Cooper. âIâve been to see every one of his plays. Heâs a phenomenal actor.
âI completely buy into his role in every play. As close as I am to him, I forget itâs Oscar.â
His South Florida theater colleagues credit that to Isaacâs insatiable desire to learn and grow.
Gail Garrisan, who is directing him in Donnie and One of the Great Ones for Winter Shorts, observes, âItâs not often that you find a young actor who is willing to listen and who doesnât think he knows everything. He loves the work.
âHe really brought the young man in Side Man to life. When I saw it in New York, it seemed to be the fatherâs play. When I saw it here, I felt it was his [Isaacâs] play.â
Oye Repâs John Rodaz, whom Isaac calls âthe best director Iâve ever worked with,â gave the actor his first important job in Sleepwalkers at Area Stage. They met when Isaac came to see Areaâs production of Oleanna and the actor, knowing Rodaz ran the theater, introduced himself.
âHe has so much energy and such a sparkling personality,â Rodaz says. âHe knows how to move in the world. He seems to take advantage of every situation in a good way; heâs not a cold, calculating person whoâll stab you in the back.
â[But] he wants it so badly. Everything he does, heâs the leader. When I was 21, I was taking naps.â
Rodaz coached Isaac on his Juilliard monologues and found the experience energizing.
âI got chills just watching him. That happens so rarely. I was so exhilarated when I came home that I just had to go out and run. You just know heâs got all the tools.â
Christine Dolen is The Heraldâs theater critic.
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#oscar isaac#vintage#juilliard#blinking underdogs#area stage company#john rodaz#gablestage#when it's cocktail time in cuba#side man#arrivals and departures#this is our youth#praying with the enemy#sleepwalkers#private wars#winter shorts#the miami herald
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i'm gonna be brave and not send this anonymously and also sorry in advance because this is VERY long đ
hiiiii!!! i just got through (i'm pretty sure) the ENTIRE lovechild au tag and oh my g o s h do i LOVE IT. i rarely like abo aus but this????? amazing!!!
your character design is BRILLIANT and i absolutely a d o r e your art style, it's so freaking pretty!!!! everyone's BEAUTIFUL. also, i just can't get over just how freaking beautiful you draw girls???? like, the way you draw boys is great too, they're so, so, so, SO pretty, but the GIRLS, I- wow. just wow.
i especially noticed that when i got to your drawing of Eri, she's MARVELOUS. SO PRETTY!!!! Yukari is absolutely beautiful too. i also really like how you draw Shouto and Eijirou.
i've already mentioned character design and before i meant it visually, but like, personality-wise, your character design is great too! i love how you portray the original bnha characters and the kids you've created are excellent! none of the personalities seem repetitive or forced or something and the portrayal is very good in my opinion.
Ochako as a mother is hilarious lol. some of those little comics with her and Tenma, and Tenya too, made me laugh really hard, haha.
Kyou and Yu are PRECIOUS.
there's something i'm really curious about though, but you can completely ignore this next bit if you want to, i'm just throwing out an idea lol. in that one post with Toshi there's a boy in Chihiro's class who can see ghosts thanks to his quirk. i wonder what would happen if you continued with that and it somehow became known to the tododeku fam that he can see Toshi? like, idk, one day tododeku pick up Chihiro at school and, as they're standing together getting ready to leave, the boy, as kids are wont to do sometimes, just asks why there's a ghost of an older boy hanging out around her so much or something??? i don't think you've said that that's canon in your au, but, like i said, i'm curious. and also, idk, i imagine that would come out pretty angsty.
(idk, i just need more Toshi content, i know he technically doesn't even exist, but i LOVE him)
also, whenever i look at your art of Toshi, i kinda get a Dabi-esque vibe from him, mainly mannerism-wise??? like, the coat you draw him in so often or the poses, they just really remind me of Touya????
speaking of Dabi, Homura is a sweetie. i love her design.
that thing with the morning glories is so sweet and heartbreaking once you know their meaning, oh my gosh.
and one last thing!! what is up with Takami Kaguya??? as far as i'm aware you've only drawn her once so far, i think. i love her design and i know she was apparently never born, but i'm so curious about her! will we ever see anything of the backstory behind her?
so yeah, i am a BIG fan of both your artstyle and this au now. have a nice day!
//breaths hold on im overwhelmed first of all i didnt know tumblr ask can have this many characters now holy shit ive been on here for too long
secondly THANK YOU IM GLAD YOU LIKE IT EYYYYYYY AND THANKS SO MUCH/w/
i need to redraw eri tho at least give her a new design WITH A SCARF LIKE HER DADDY//SHOT
I drew toshi in a coat one time but tbh yeah he kinda was influenced by touya from fics it stuck and it just fit lol
regarding the ghost boy (lol) yes heâs not canon, and shouto and deku doesnât really pick them up from elementary school, cause, well, gotta keep the girlsâ identity hush hush. BUT, however, YU does go home with her sometimes if she doesnât have afternoon classes/chi doesnât go play with her friends
imagine the kid, asking the big sister, âhey your sisterâs being haunted by some guyâ and she just
âoh yeah thatâs our brotherâ
wonât that be fucked up//SHOT
meanwhile kaguya is from an au where hawks is an omega and he and dabi has a kid and also kept homura lol. she was a joke that went to far like everything i ever did in my life//SHOT
YOU TOO HAVE A NICE DAYÂ
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While I will absolutely agree that CB2077 isnât the ONLY game doing all this bullshit, or that other AAA studios donât deserve the flack CDPR is getting, I have to say that this is absolutely the perfect storm and I think people are FINALLY seeing the problems in modern AAA gaming. CB2077 might be fun to play, may have a good story, but itâs almost impossible to see because of the glaring issues. Which, honestly, is a good thing. I hope games change after this.
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AAA studios have been like this and this sort of release has been completely normalised on all accounts by both the businesses themselves and fans because of the inherent reliance on modders (bethesda at the forefront of this), as well as the pushback every time companies actually go âuh we need a lil more timeâ (although... they just shouldnt announce potential release dates, im even of the camp they shouldnt even start releasing the game until like 6 months out from their official date because they fuck it up every time. borderlands 3 being the only game i know of being in âsecretâ development and then announcing itself in march for a september release. game itself aside, thats how companies should do it). easily i can remember a lot of 2011 release games which have had the exact same issues as cp77â˛s release, and then every other game in between since. very rarely do you actually have a game that isnât a fucked up mess of a pile of pixels. and it is always the customisable character ones that are honestly, genuinely, ugly looking at release. but you can definitely say its been happening looooooong before 2011, with unrealistic expectations, word limits, 11 month time frames, offloading sequels to smaller companies so they can suffer if it fails, etc etc. the entire system has been like this for so long... they dont know any real different nowadays.
i mean look. tlou2 released under crunch conditions this year, and was rewarded. it was ALL over the social media feeds, it was quite the controversy because, surprise surprise, the company promised they wouldnt do it uwu and then. bam ! crunch conditions. literally around that time too, bioware employees came out with a statement saying âman we wish dai FAILED so that back in 2014 we couldve proven crunch was a wrong practiceâ. they say this as well after having to produce da2 in 14 months, which just suffered from fans and journalism for reusing environments, because it was produced in 14 months, and honestly? no one pointed that out back then, bioware themselves pointed it out again this year, 6 years after release, that that game was produced in 14 months. rdr2â˛s release was hounded by stories of crunch, and they all disappeared into the night because... it was heralded as the best game of all time. that was 2018, 2 years ago.
i think too is that some people get kind of ... morally and ethically concerned. which is understandable. can you consume something when you know it was made under conditions like crunch? and i think one of the most confronting things about it is that 9/10, not only has your favourite company engaged in crunch conditions, they almost actively choose to continue with them. and then thatâs a whole other bag of issues blown up over there when it comes to what is able to be consumed what isnât etc etc
i think also like a mix of marketing, promises and then the expectations of what the game will be like have really had cdpr earn the ire of fans which is just like... you donât believe what these companies are saying. you never should, esp when itâs their ceoâs saying it who donât work on the actual floor. bioware itself is the main culprit of doing this to the point they finally came around with all the da4 concept art and teasing to be like âummm but actually dont get invested?â. remember all that qunari lady fanart that bioware management was like ... please dont get attached? yeah. yeah. like at what point as well is there going to be heavy level of apprehension to approach this? and i canât really talk either, i cracked open the door for mass effect again. i know exactly what kind of shit bioware will pull, i know they are teasing it already on social media, but mass effect is my ride or die series. thatâs why people keep opening the door on letting these companies get away with it. and you canât fault fans entirely either because this is down to a science of how to get money. i mean, fuck, mass effect andromedaâs entire advertising campaign HINGED on the n7 logo. for the nostalgia value. and i see text posts in the same vein of both âguys, disney isnt gonna fuck you if you consume every remake for nostalgia valueâ and âits understandable why people do itâ.
so then you have to go âwell are fans as just to blameâ and then thatâs a whole other argument.
i think also like. i personally havent run into aaaannnyyyyyyy of the issues that you see posted online. which is ironic bc 1) i play on ps4 and 2) its an old dusty ps4. in fact a lot of ppl i have spoken to who have had issues have played on pc. does this mean the glitches dont exist? ofc not, the vids and screenshots are right there. but like... ive had a basically unhindered experience so far, and i get where ppl are coming from (i do, i promise) where theyve basically found the game unplayable. is there also a standard of what ppl consider unplayable because ive played most AAA games at launch when they basically rushed to slap the box label on the game and called it a day until they work on patches. when ppl consider unplayable is also just... different per person. some people have a slight blur on the screen when turning too fast even in an MMO and decide the game is horrible and unplayable. some people can have broken quests and npcs not loading and falling through maps and still be fine. thereâs no agreed statement of what makes a game unplayable either, which is why you read threads on twitter and someone goes âyeah this npc t-posed so i quit in the first hourâ with a dozen replies. everyone has different levels of it.
itâs a mixed bag of issues. im not excusing cdpr, but the ppl who worked on the game are honestly likely not the ones who pushed for a release. youâve gotta look at sony and microsoft and ceoâs with bonuses coming up and the investors and shareholders and people who sit behind computers and read numbers detailing interest and demand and supply and how every single time they had to delay this game, the loudest (but smallest) bunch of assholes on like reddit and in the twitter threads complained that it was delayed AGAIN even though back in what 2015? they said itâll come out when itâs ready. and yeah there are times when game delays result in a mismatched half assed sort of story (kh3... p5... ffxv... dai...) and then there are times when, if they need to delay the game... they probably need to delay the game. sometimes delays are bad sometimes theyre good sometimes you are sitting there like whew if you only didnât try to be like THIS TIME this is the release date.
the ONLY WAY this will stop happening is, quite frankly, unionising. and everyone is allergic to that whole concept so like... this is âthe perfect stormâ as you put it. but itâs also not. people have been so disappointed over the last 2 years alone for gaming companies, the final product, the attitudes from higher ups, that i think cdpr is receiving a good few years worth of anger. i think theyre also on the receiving end of misdirection from american fans who still donât fucking get the company isnât american, because thatâs another bag of issues as well. like weâre holding at least 8 bags of groceries out of the back of the car now, and we donât want to take another trip, because there are so many little bits of this entire situation to look at. thereâs so much back and forth.
i think the worst, but most realistic thing is: games wonât change. how they will social media wise will. maybe. assuming bioware gets their heads out their asses but... theyâre going to be a lot more careful. i mean, hell, sony offered refunds. that was just a publicity stint. they dont give a fuck if the game was bad. as i said before, if they did, they would make all companies fix trophy problems, starting from like 2010 or whenever the trophy system first came out. they just donât wanna fall in alongside cdpr being thrown on its sword. but the companies are gonna learn from this, get smarter, still do the same shit to their employees, still pay off journalists, still do media blackouts, etc etc. and weâre gonna be here in another yearâs time, with another game, having these same roundabout arguments, and cp77â˛s issues are gonna fade into just a wikipedia article.
#replies#this got long so i threw it under a cut#i just like wrote as i was thinking too in between ovw sry lol#Anonymous
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creator tag meme
tagged by the local angel @giuseppearcimboldo thank you so much lizzie!
rules: itâs time to love yourselves! choose your 5 (ish) favorite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought into the world in 2020. tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!
VERY happy i can fill this out because iâve been so productive this year lol. also this is all gonna be jb bc ive been RELENTLESS and spamming and i would apologize but i wont lmaoÂ
1. jb eros/psyche au.
i am talking about everything i have done for the au btw, because iâve done quite a handful of things and honestly i really love all of them--even the doodle ones which rarely happens. anyway, i love this au in general. i think the tale is perfect for them, and iâm happy with the works that i managed to put out most esp this one thatâs based on canovaâs sculpture of eros and psyche. translating sculpture into digital art was interesting since it was all about converting the weight and structure of the sculpture into the screen and i think i managed to do it imo! i love how brienne looks heavy in his arms, i love how strong jaime looks holding her up and i especially love the way i shaded her dress to mimic the lines that the statue has. all in all, this au slapped and i actually want to do more of it but i have no inspiration right now.Â
2. jb as classical art series.Â
honestly i never thought that this was going to be a series lol i thought it was just a two time thing, but then i did another one, and then another one, and then another one and now here we are. i love all the pieces that iâve done for it actually. my favourite thing is that theyâre all not direct translations of the original art. there are some aspects that iâve taken and adapted while also putting my own flair into it. i love the reverse colour scheme with klimtâs kiss and my own rendition of it. the gold being the accent highlight in a field of murky brown/black whereas klimt has the black squares present to emphasis the richness of the gold and yellows. i also like the little thing i did where i put the geometric shapes outside of the subject instead of inside (what he did). i put on the tags that i didnt like how it turned out but i actually like it lol i just didnât like how long it took me i get too impatient with my art i think. anyway. i love this whole series sm i think all the pieces have their own character, and tbh i always get nervous adding another piece into this just because all the ones that iâve done has been so well received i donât want to be a disappointment lool. regardless, i love classical art and i love jb and i love being able to put the two together hehe we love to be self indulgent
3. la belle fleur sauvage commission.Â
aka THIS commission that was based from SDâs fic, la belle fleur sauvage. some behind the scenes with that one--that one took me SO long to do, like it was taking longer than i had wanted and i felt very bad and i am forever thankful for sdâs patience đđđ. i really canât be too mad though since i was working on the third year of my degree, but i still wouldâve wanted to finish it sooner than i did. but as for the art itself---i actually love it lol. i always say to zoom in on my stuff to see all the details but i WISH folks would zoom in on that because itâs so big and so intricate. i love how everything turned out; i love how rich the colours are, i love the composition for all three panels, i love how the SKY looked like actually thatâs the first time i sat down and painted clouds with that technique and i am so happy and pleased with how it looked im using it for everything LOL, i love jaimeâs outfit in the 2nd panel---i actually designed a whole outfit for that and he DOES have his pouches and daggers, etc. stuff that he would have with him if he was a mercenary, but because of the cropping, those details were taken out but itâs THERE. i love the colours and the shading on the 3rd panel. it looks so soft and romantic and itâs everything đđ. honestly i didnt know if i was able to finish whole three panels just because of how big the project seemed, but tbqh this piece really pushed me as an artist and im really happy that i had the chance to work on it (-â:Â
4. early morning.
this one is a more recent piece and i was thinking post canon jaime/brienne married and either living in casterly rock or evenfall hall. originally the sheets were gonna be red with the gold brocade but i just made it green to make their location more ambiguous. theyâre in a castle because of the finery, but which castle i have no idea. anyway i love their faces here in particular--jaime because itâs not often that i draw him old (this is the second time i drew old jaime i think?) and i love how he turned out here. i love how he looks like a silver fox and a dilf and we really do love that for brienne. full disclosure, i have no idea how to draw older folks since i donât have a lot of practice in that area so im glad my lack of experience doesnât show lmao. i also love how soft brienne looks here! the little smile on her lips is very sweet, her body language and how relax she seems is very telling abt her confidence in this scene also i think i drew her hands hella well haha. all in all i think itâs a really sweet art! and the full version is not so bad either jaimeâs ass was referenced from marble sculptures so you know im aiming for Quality. but i love this headcanon of a younger brienne tiring jaime out, iâve read a handful fics about it and im happy i can do my own version of it heheÂ
5. unravel.
wow we love domesticity. someone said that if you compile all my ns*w art of them together itâs like they havenât left their bed ever since they got together and you know what? love that for them itâs what they deserve. anyway i chose this one because of how sensual and simple it is. their body language really does all the talking ; jaimeâs hand pulling on the ties on her shift, her hand on his hair, how soft and lazy their kiss looks--itâs enough to tell the story me thinks! i just love how simple this whole thing is but itâs very effective. thereâs really not much to it besides what you see but thatâs really enough.
i am actually very proud of myself with how productive iâve been. itâs really not often that i get as much drive and energy to post so much art. iirc my art tag is nearly 200 content already (i think itâs 180 ish rn?) and honestly thatâs a LOT if you told me ill be making more than 100+ content for jb i wouldâve been like nah im too lazy for that lmao. but im really proud of myself this year! i think i pushed myself as an artist and iâve familiarized myself more with my strengths as well as my weaknesses. i have a clear idea on the areas that i need to work on, and iâve really gotten more comfortable with being happy with my own pieces and iâm trying not to put myself down more if something doesnât go the way i want it to. also, iâve had the opportunity to work with more people this year--so for the people who has commissioned me or IS commissioning me rn--- thank you so much for trusting me with your visions đđ ive never expected to get this kind of reception with my art but i am very grateful for all of it.Â
anyway as for the tagging i tag -- @na-bruma-leve / @dreadwulf / @dilfjaime / @fawnilu BUT i would highly recommend you to come along and snatch this tag meme up like a little raccoon because we all should start being proud of our own works imo !!
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