#I HAVE SOME FREE TIME!

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I am incredibly serious right now when I beg you all, please, and if you have Twitter or Tiktok or whatever to please spread the word: click on an author's profile on Ao3.

You want to know if an author has written more? Want to know if they're still writing? Want to see more from them? Want to know if they've written a trope or kink or sex scenario you enjoy?

Click on their name. And look at their profile.

I cannot tell you how many times in the last six months someone has read a new or newer fic of mine and said they (a new reader who has read nothing else I've done) "can't wait to see what you do next!" I've written 50+ fics and over a million words already.

"I don't know if you're still writing..." click on my profile. I am. I literally wrote a 128k+ fic for that ship last month.

"Would you ever do X?" "Please do Y!" I already did. Click on my name and look at my works.

Archive of our Own is a library. It's an archive. Not social media. It is your responsibility to fight back against the laziness that corporate algorithms have trained into you.

Click my author name. Just click it. Just click it.

Before you demand more, or ask if a writer will do XYZ, or wonder if the author still writing, or anything - click on their profile. Click on the author's profile.

I'm not trying to be mean or condescending or anything like that. I'm just exhausted. It's disheartening and frustrating to repeat myself ad nauseam, because someone couldn't take thirty seconds to do the tiniest bit of work to see if I've written lately, if I've written more for their ship, or scan my works to see if I've written what they're asking for. Please. Please. I'm begging.

Click the author's name, and explore before you ask.

[un-local]

5, 12, 23, 25?

Hi anon! Welcome to my inbox :D

Sorry about the late reply lol. These are good questions!

5. Three songs you wish you could forget (because listening to them hurts)

Hmmm…… Honestly, I don’t really have anything like this. I guess maybe only this one?

Too Much Time Together by San Cisco

12. Three favorite songs from video games 

Haha…. YES! Thank you, anon! Thank you!

Rela Cyel (Ring of Fates)

Context: Ancient ruins in a lake are collapsing around the characters, the rooms flooding around them.

God, that brass part really sells the feeling of imminent danger and rising water. This song is everything to me. You have no idea. 

Folsense Theme (Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box)

Another song I learned to play by ear as a kid. Beautiful. It’s just beautiful. 

…That perfect, sad kind of beautiful that settles into your bones and haunts you. In the best possible way. 

Lighthouse (Dead Cells)

Fuck. Yes. I love this song. Play Dead Cells! You like Elden Ring, chances are you’ll like Dead Cells. The entire soundtrack to this game is incredible. 

23. Three songs that never fail to get you pumped up

Floor 25 by Desired 

From my Spotify wrapped game:

Totally infectious beat. Sticks in your head forever. A shot of dopamine and energy, often when you most need it. What a perfect guitar riff. Makes you feel like nothing can stop you. 

Edamame by bbno$, Rich Brian

I am not immune to the instrumental of this song. I am very susceptible to it, actually.

Hmmm…. As for a third, I’m struggling. 

Lately, it’s been Nottingham Lace by Buckethead.

I'd suggest you listen to the full thing on this one. Give it a shot!

He goes pretty weird in the first two minutes, but don’t click away! Let him do his thing—the three minute mark hits, and it’s everything you ever wanted in a guitar instrumental and more. It all comes together perfectly. The song as a whole feels like I’m watching a “how it’s made” segment on like, a textile factory or something. (It starts out harsh, evoking machinery, but it weaves together into something intricate and mesmerizing….) 

Doubtful that’s the artists intention, but when has that ever stopped me XD

Ugh, that part from 3:56-4:04. That shit makes me feel something, man.

ANYWAY. Top 10 songs to vial chemicals to. 

Vialing batches of those ^^^ while listening to this song… it’s made my shifts 10000% less miserable. 10/10, Thank you Buckethead <3

25. Three favorite songs of 2017

Oh, I had to hunt through my YouTube likes for this! Here’s a glimpse of some of the stuff I listened to IN 2017… but I don't think they're all from 2017, necessarily.

Tantalization by Sim Gretina. 

THE ultimate vaporwave/future funk song. To me. It's that, and Cherry Pepsi by Saint Pepsi. (and We Bad by Childhood.)

Soul on Fire by Mystery Skulls. 

I love a song with a part where everything but the beat drops out for a moment. I really do. 

Don’t Stop! by FIBRE. 

Found this in a Fallout 4 mod. It got me into future funk. 

And, as a bonus, since I took so long answering:

Wham Vs. Linkin Park - Everything Numb Wants by Sim Gretina

In the big text, because of all the songs I've listed, this is the one you should listen to XD

Sorry I kept you waiting anon! Thanks for the ask!

[onesidedradiostatic]

hell's courtroom vs heaven's courtroom

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

[pansylair]

figuring out some cute flowerbeast pin concepts!

if you’re interested in possibly purchasing one in the future, please feel free to let me know, feedback really helps push things forward and confirms production can happen. :-)

[tizzymcwizzy]

!!!! the lore has dungeon meshi spoilers !!!!

hey adrien why's ur family so fucked up

,,,,,,so uuuhhh i made a dungeon meshi x miraculous ladybug au HJEBEJDJFJSHH SORRY GUYS IM CRAZY

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[kitamars]

hhhnhhghgjjghgugujgutuutghn piskin……..

[loktauri]

Local Archivist listens to his scary stories sitting like a teenage girl, more at 11

[egophiliac]

roll out the red carpet guys we're going to the SHAFTLANDS

[lazylittledragon]

mombin™ has me in a CHOKEHOLD right now

[swampybogg]

[milkywayes]

interspecies awkwardness for breakfast a.k.a. 'I can't believe I made a comic'

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

[id in alt text]

[chalkrub]

KOFI

commissions: here!

membership: here!

more in-depth explanation above lol but yes, opening up my kofi for the above stuff! i'll still be posting art to my socials as usual, but there'll be more consistent/exclusive/early-access art and wip posts for members on kofi, along with all the benefits above

thank you very much for any support as always! muah

[pansylair]

Celebrating my 28th birthday with my lovey boyfriend and wonderful friends! So happy to have a little bf-vacation and have everyone over for a visit :)

id: A traditional ballpoint pen drawing with a black background, simply stylized with warm hues and muted colours. A dog holds a long, leafy plant stem in its mouth, peering up towards the sky and sun. To its right, a house sits in the distance. Flowering plants frame the sun and create a square border around the illustration. Text to the top left in all upper case reads “WARM FEELINGS AMONG THE GREEN” In an attached panel below its feet sits three stars.