#I tend to overexplain

[pokituu]

I’m so impressed with how many styles you have and that you use them regularly (realistic, semi realistic, 2d, and 2d, 3d & pixel animation)! How did you learn to balance this many and get so good in all of them?

THANK YOUUUU this compliment means so much to me because so often i feel so worried I will stagnate since I basically like to draw the same subject matter over and over again 😳 but I do like to periodically try new things that I'll become invested in for chunks of time.

i guess advice more than just 'practice' is to be willing to try out new things that you have an interest in, even if it doesn't work out at first and is frustrating. you gotta be persistent to learn something new BUT if you get bored then just move on! if it sucks hit da bricks.... I really like this bjork quote abt creativity

idk throughout my life in art i just try to learn about stuff i'm interested in and practice what i wanna practice. like i wanted to get good at pixeling when i was like 14 so i kept practicing and trying new ways to go about it until i started to figure it out. same with digital painting when i was 15 and i just kept trying again and again until it clicked, even though i was frustrated a lot, i never actually lost the interest when i saw people's pretty paintings and that feeling of 'man i wish i could do that!'.... so i literally couldn't stop myself from trying over and over at painting. it goes beyond just drawing too. planet earth is fun because ANYTHING u are interested in you can try........ i make fursuit heads and other crafts to see if i can! this year i started making my own songs and also learned leather-working because i saw a cool craft and wanted to try :3

part of it is letting yourself age too because as you get older you will grow interested in new things. i am 27!! i've been drawing since i could hold a pencil. that's a long time to encounter a lot of stuff to get obsessed about and wanna try out for myself. SUCCESS TIP!: i typically pursue things that are adjacent to other skills i already have invested in, like drawing to 3d sculpture to digital modeling, or start blending them like sculpture + coding skills = 3d animation rigging. The reason is because a lot of these skills are transferable and make it easier to pick up. like a skill tree in a video game... and you'll end up in weird places like sculpture to sewing to leathercraft. It's nice to have creative hobbies you can be sorta be mediocre at without attaching your self worth to it, but other people still often find it impressive anyways because it's stuff they've never tried to do. It's really healing and easier to like what you create And yourself by extension when you're just having fun and learning without having to worry about the end product being "good". Anything you try is not a waste because you are learning new skills and more often than not, something you've learned is transferable to some other area of your life!!!!!!!!! nothing is ever a waste of time.

this is also the secret cure to art block btw well actually there are two secret cures. a) is you have to embrace the art block and go get obsessed with some other creative thing for a bit. either that or b) go absorb other people's creativity to a bit and watch some shows and read books or talk to people. c) is a mix of both. eventually you'll return to art again feeling fresh and motivated if you're willing to give it a few months. I think art block really just means you're bored and need a change of scenery one way or another 🤔 that's just my onion though

TL;DR have fun pursuing things just because you like them. as you keep doing it you'll just get better at it through practice whether you really intend to or not.

[ratxklng]

[Image ID: A traditional acrylic painting on canvas featuring a bust shot of a gem inspired by Steven Universe on canvas. The background is purple with stars, inspired by space.

The gem is a diamond named Empyreal Diamond with a galactic aesthetic. It has bright blue skin with white tearstreak marks and three pale eyes. Its first two eyes are pale white with no pupils. Its third eye is vertical, placed on its forehead with a star-shaped pupil. Empyreal has purple mascera and lipstick with yellow eye shadow. Its hair is a spiraling galaxy of whites, light blues, yellows, pinks, and purples.

Its clothing is primarily dark blue with bright yellow and blue accents. It has a large popped out yellow collar and yellow sleeve accents. Its chest has a large four-pointed star in the middle with stripes surrounding it. It wears a cosmic flowing boa with the same texture and colors as its hair visible on the bottom corners of the painting.

Its expression is ethereal, having a small smile. Stars and sparkles surround it throughout the painting. /.End ID]

empyreal diamond

[shimmershy]

Do you see the player as canon to Undertale's story?

Yeah! I think it has less in-world implications than it does in Deltarune, though, depending on how you look at it. Typically I completely ignore the existence of the player in my art/writing, or just assume Frisk and Chara have zero awareness of them, but I really like portrayals where the player plays a bigger role too. I think it can go both ways.

Like, I think taking into account the player's role in the story can add a whole nother layer to it, but it's not completely necessary to understanding the themes. I like focusing on the story and characters specifically in-universe, and acknowledging the player kind of complicates that (it's not really something that can be explained in-universe easily and implies that Frisk doesn't have free will, etc).

[piplupod]

"if i isolate myself and just focus on doing my own thang free from the pressure of the eyes of others, then I become more comfortable w myself and gain some semblance of being assured in myself" okay good BUT ->

"if i spend time alone doing my own thang without the pressure of eyes of others for very long and let myself just exist, then i will indulge in things that make me happy, and the things that make me happy tend to be outside of the general view of "normal interests", and this will make me into a very strange person who has very specific interests and is annoying to others bc they became too comfortable with their weirdness and forgot they have to be normal"

so basically i have to just. hate myself a little bit all the time because if I like myself then I annoy people. argrgrhgrghh

[natsmagi]

actually im deleting that one recent response, its late and im tired and while i stand by what i said i feel like i misunderstood the ask too much in my response, which is my bad! and since i misunderstood what was being said it basically nulled the whole point of it

but anyway. my art is not revolutionary, ive never intended for it to come off that way, so im sorry if people got the impression im trying to brag or something. sometimes when i come up with specific features for a character i get excited about it and want to share (just like when i drew keito), but i tend to not really think about how things come across, much less that it could be seen as boastful bc, as was pointed out, im not really doing much in terms of diversity, so it being me boasting didnt even cross my mind. to me im just drawing people and am explaining the thought process behind characteristics, but maybe its better to not point it out? as maybe thatd be more casual and people would care less? i dont know. im autistic so im not the best at this, and i have a tendency to be "too much" in how i act and talk (incase that wasnt already clear). its a bit difficult to navigate but i am doing my best

i will continue doing what i do though, as i feel its less my art and more what i say thats an issue. again though when it comes to speech i dont really know what the right thing to do or say is, so i just speak my mind, but that can easily be misunderstood, so ill try and hold back when it comes to that. if you think i overstep in what i say genuinely feel free to point it out, because again, i struggle with this alot. but please do be patient with me

[sloppysequinz]

Are you bisexual or pansexual? Or maybe just drinksexual? Heh

I am bisexual! Though in my mind bi and pan overlap a lot 🤷‍♀️ not sure it matters why I’m one or the other.

That said, I typically like to play with women and enby folks on here a lot! I don’t get to as much irl and, the way those folks interact with intox kink tends to align with the way I like to interact with it.

[harmonytheme]

hi i literally just started watching hollyoaks a few days ago and heard people talking about this time jump...what is that and when is it happening? do they do this a lot? 😅 just trying to get to know the characters and plots rn

hi! always excited to chat to new viewers 🥰🥰🥰

SO basically hollyoaks funding got cut pretty massively this year and they’ve been forced to move from five episodes down to three a week starting this September. because of this they’re having to cull a LOT of cast members and to make the whole thing work, they’re doing a one year time jump. It’s never been done before on a uk soap (I think an Aussie soap might have done it once?) so it’s really untested ground.

It’s happening in the second week of September I believe (after stunt week, which is going to be a big disaster type event going down in the first week of September).

It’s quite a confusing but also exciting time to be a new viewer, so welcome! there’s plenty of speculation about what’s going to happen with characters during and after the skip. They’ve already cut a lot of characters on screen but expect a few deaths and even more people leaving in the next few weeks 😬

[jichanxo]

re:titles> and i'm surprised how people name their projects after they are done! for me, it's easier to centre a story around one or several words, and harder to fit a whole-ass completed story into a really short description. how does it work for you then? (and good luck with senseific's title, i know you can do it)

this got long. uh.

that makes sense in a way, having it picked out early is just picking out your point of focus so that whatever you write matches what you’re trying to convey (at least that’s how I’m understanding you?) I suppose the inverse, deciding late, is more like going with the flow and seeing what surfaces as the most important theme/imagery/whatever… though I can definitely understand it being difficult to pick out what’s the most important part when you’ve written a lot. I guess in the end it’s about decisiveness? or at the very least picking something that Does The Job. Not all of them can be winners after all.

in cases where the fic title is the same as phrasing within the text (3:21am, Passing Grade, Memorisation Game), it feels more natural to see what words come naturally through writing as opposed to deciding beforehand. It’s certainly a bit literal but it captures what I think are the defining features of those fics.

“3:21am” is from the setting, which is incidental really, but it sets the scene well enough.

“Passing Grade” refers to the Kitakata sensei au (so school themed) and is also a direct quote from Yagami’s flirting in that fic.

“Memorisation Game” is a reference to the emotional core of that fic – Yagami missing Kuwana, rationalising his attempt to call his number as a game so not to feel so pathetic about it.

For reference, my document titles for these fics are: “yagami late 3am.docx” (referring to the pov and the setting), “kuwagami sensei eating.docx” (referring to the au and the main thing I use to get them to interact for that fic), and “kuwagami card fic.docx” (the initial idea being about yagami keeping kuwana’s business card). It’s a little funny how blunt they are, but it makes it easy to understand at a glance what everything is.

I guess the commonality here is that you can see what my starting idea is from the document titles, but by looking at the title of the posted fics, you can see where my writing ended up in terms of emotions or themes. “card fic” is the idea I started with, the instrument to get the ball rolling, but by the end of the writing, the final, most clear idea within that fic was memorisation game. I had some idea it was going to end in that direction, but I didn’t have those exact words until I wrote them out.

It’s probably a similar process for my other titles, and not just the literal ones, now that I think about it.

“kuwagami deep wound.docx” refers to the imagery I was trying to use in that fic which became → Wound Pried Open, which is… similar, but the “pried open” part I think calls attention to the idea of Kuwana doing it, of it being on purpose, not just the wound itself but the process of agitating it intentionally, which is… more important than just a reference to the wound on its own. I started that fic thinking “man the kuwagami stuff I make is so clean, I should write something more grimy” and ended it with… well… wounds as a vehicle to explore this idea of painful intimacy.

So I suppose what I’m saying is that deciding later leaves room for me to find the core of the story naturally after starting from my initial idea.

[volfoss]

I’ve never seen you talk about themes and tropes you enjoy in media and stuff like that, it’s always about how misogynistic or racist something is, which it’s totally valid of course, but I think we often forget those are not the only types of things we can take from a story. Anyways you’re totally valid for being a hater lol.

if u are referring to the stuff ive been posting lately irt tezuka its because the themes and tropes are pretty well documented but the horrors are not. and id rather any mutuals know about those rather than solely focusing on the themes being there and not addressing that, esp when those are easily found on sites like tezukainenglish or even looking up essays on the matter. i also feel that if its about this topic, it is something i bring up when its there (the one im reading rn handles a lot of anti-war themes in a really good manner and i did get into that pretty deeply in my review of it (which i havent posted yet bc its been taking a while to get through)). imo its something where it is important to discuss issues w media and id rather be getting into both that and thematics of the media vs just an analysis of it (which can tend to overlook issues). w kimba specifically, it was VERY hard to overlook the issues that were in the media as it was glaring and pretty much everywhere bc it was DRENCHED in racism. i did not want to be like ok :) heres the super good themes in this bc quite honestly it was a very miserable experience to read. my posts on tumblr are also not indicative of HOW i enjoy something or if im focusing on themes or not bc often thats something i tend to be messaging friends about as i watch/read something. i love analyzing themes and getting into the nitty gritty of a media but i also think its important to bring up issues when they are less talked about in the general fan space of it all. if you talk to me one on one you KNOW how passionate i get about themes in a story but its just not something i talk about publicly.

[ilycosy]

i got second hand embarrassment from the ending or your response to that last anon 😭. damage = -10 is sorry </3 but overall, just ignore them right? it’s just a hate comment? i don’t think you should really stress yourself over it or be much bothered about it??

im going to b honest, i was going to block u 4 the first bit bc it was genuinely rude & a sorry at the end doesn't change that !! but hopefully u didn't mean it in a rude way ? idc what embarrassed u so don't bring that here ! (/nm i js don't wna hear it)

but i originally was going 2 ignore them !! it's js i got a genuine swarm of hate in my inbox so i picked the longest 1 ! i don't tolerate disrespect towards others but especially myself, so that's honestly why i responded like that

i didn't stress nor did it srsly bother me /gen i js don't like feeling stepped over sooo yea !!

[elite-amarys]

//ooc: I feel like amarys would really like tone tags

//Ooc I've gotten this suggestion in character before, but I think it would be helpful to answer ooc as well. There are 2 main reasons I don't use tone indicators for Amarys;

The entire goal of tone indicators is to eliminate ambiguity, which is antithetical to deadpan-style jokes. Amarys' humor stems a lot from having a very serious seeming character say silly/bizarre things, with the ambiguity of whether or not she's being serious. Because that's how deadpan humor works. You gotta be ambiguous.

This is the in character reason Am's will give - there aren't really super consistent rules around tone indicators. Is /s serious? Sarcastic? Silly? Those are all wildly different tones. Are there ways around that? Yeah absolutely. But see point 1.

Honestly point 1 is also a in character reason. Amarys knows exactly what she's doing anytime she says something silly. She knows she's being ambiguous with her tone, and is always thrilled when someone volleys it back anyway. ("An unfavorable type matchup... You caught me off guard—now my glasses have fogged up." is absolutely an example of this in game. She's being silly, your honour).

Tone indicators are great for eliminating ambiguity. But so much of Amarys' character is built on that same ambiguity, even ignoring the humour of it all. Tbh if your characters would react poorly or think that Amarys is being rude or serious when she is being sincere or silly please do react that way! It's fun, and a huge part of what makes Amarys fun to play.

[buckymorelikefuckme]

fuck i hate how easily i cry 😅😅😅 been feeling very much like i talk way too much or i’m way too eager in conversations with people or just trying too hard in general and i know it’s just my mind being a big butthole and making me believe untrue things but jfc when i get the gentle reminders that it’s fine and i’m fine it’s like wow ok cool i’m not annoying to everyone, great!!!!!

[inky-axolotl]

You taking art requests?

My inbox is certainly open for requests, but I’ll go ahead and say that I treat them as suggestions rather than a guarantee I’ll draw it. Sometimes I’ll ask for specific requests when I’m in a mood (like asking for disaster lineage prompts a week ago) where it’s more likely I’ll get to those. I hope I articulated that okay- long answer short: Yes! I take art requests, but I pick and choose what I like.

[best-fnaf-song-competition]

why are you gonna put m@ñdø after what he's done?

Mandopony (and any other associated names) will NOT be allowed into the tournament bracket. Felt really bad about the possibility of him actually winning and decided this was the best course of action.

However I did not know about the situation when starting this tournament. So by the time this was decided, a fair number of his songs had already been submitted (plus a few more DAYS later from people I am, assuming, were not here for that decision so I don't blame them at all)

I know before the news of what happened became common knowledge (but apparently not to me 😳) a lot of his music was super iconic in the FNAF fan music scene, and it felt weird to entirely omit him from the spreadsheets and playlists when people did submit his songs. Usually with descriptions of how iconic it was or the good memories they have with it.

I'm working on making the change to the songs that are already in the playlist to versions of it uploaded by small indie animators when I can so that the songs themselves are still acknowledged, but the views and support of that song existing are not going to Him.

I mentioned before that I'm seeing the spreadsheet and playlists as archives of what people said and what songs were nominated, so I'm not exactly going to pretend they were never there. Because they were, and as much as I can't bring myself to support the guy himself anymore, they were important at the time and may still be important to some

He just won't be allowed into the tournament itself cause he's a loser lmao

[beeffizz]

Doesn't matter how many you've sent or why, just if you have sent an anon to yourself at any point