#River rambles

[tobiastheteddybear]

I highly doubt that’d be a good thing, knowing how chapter 3A went… ;-;

[theriu]

For as popular as the idea of a "hivemind" is we never talk about how it doesn't exist in nature. There's no animal colony that connects and controls all its members through a psychic connection. Even bees, the eponimous hivemind, communicate by pheremones and, more importantly, interpretive dance. My point is when are we going to get a movie about an intensely organized alien race that mainly communicates via sick dance moves, why are we sleeping on this.

[riverthebooknerd]

hey y'all, with all the protests going on, here is your friendly reminder to NOT TALK TO COPS

whatever you do, do NOT talk to ANY cops. do not answer any questions. do not give them ANY information unless you are LEGALLY REQUIRED TO. if they ask you a question, ask them if you're required by LAW to reply. if they say yes, ask them WHICH LAW EXACTLY.

some cops WILL try to trick you to get information out of you. give them NOTHING unless they prove that you have to by law. if you're arrested, comply and WAIT TO TALK TO A LAWYER. do not tell them ANYTHING until you have a lawyer.

i'm so serious, don't even nod or shake your head. don't comment on any of your intentions. the smallest thing could be an admission of guilt, which just makes your lawyer's job much more difficult. as soon as you come into contact with the police, you are a STATUE. you say nothing, you do nothing, you have no opinions.

stay safe, love you all, free palestine <3

EDIT- MAKE SURE YOU SAY THE WORDS "I AM INVOKING MY RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT" OR THE COPS WILL TRY TO GET YOU IN TROUBLE FOR "NOT COMPLYING" 🍉

[alllgator-blood]

Disappeared for a bit but I'm still here, I just got overwhelmed and learned I should probably take this blog less seriously

I'm using the new year as an excuse to come back on here and try to not ditch my account for another 6 months-- I'm NOT good at posting stuff online to a crowd of more than like 5-20 followers, I originally wrote a huge long-winded draft describing all of my thoughts in great detail. It was too long. I guess all I want people to know is I'm somebody who's spent years making art that I knew nobody will ever see, so it's incredible and overwhelming to have thousands of eyes on my art all of a sudden? It's both the coolest thing and the scariest thing ever to me simultaneously, I'm by no means a Popular Artist but I went from virtually no interaction for years to suddenly tens of thousands of cumulative notes on my posts so it's huge for me. And I haven't adjusted super well to it, entirely due to my own shitty brain chemistry.

I don't want anyone to feel like I'm ignoring their messages or like I don't appreciate the fact they go out of their way to give me their thoughts/send me ideas, genuinely this is the most support I've *ever* had for my art and it's so so fucking cool. It's led me to create so much more than I thought possible! I used to run ask blogs for a couple very niche video game fandoms, and I prided myself on being able to draw full comics for EVERY ask I got, answer EVERY message and went into this blog assuming I could still do that. Um....safe to say I cannot....I have like 200+ asks and I think I drafted a dozen or more that I answered but felt my art was too low effort. I felt so bad I couldn't put maximum effort into everything, and I've been beating myself up over it to a point where *no* asks are getting answered, and this blog went from a really fun thing I actually woke up early just to check on, to something I wanted to avoid like the plague for the past week out of guilt. DUE TO NOBODY'S FAULT BUT MY OWN, everyone has been so chill when I've had to take breaks so idk why I feel the need to hold myself hostage.

So I'm gonna try and take it easier, give myself a break when my personal life goes horribly, close my ask box periodically if I feel overwhelmed, maybe hop on here like once or twice a day rather than compulsively refreshing every 5 minutes...I hope that makes things better. I realize I should probably just *do* that without announcing it, but I have no self discipline and unless I announce I'm gonna do something, it's not gonna fuckin happen lmao.

Anyway if you read this far, here's the first panel of a sequel comic I made to the christmas one I posted last time I was on here, this one is *very* representative of my mindset the last week and will hopefully not reflect how I feel now that I survived december. I know for a fact there's mentions I haven't gotten to check yet so I'm gonna do that after laying down for a bit, here's to a chill 2025 where my social anxiety doesn't eat me alive

[tobiastheteddybear]

Semi-Agree, I can definitely see why people hated it and why some of the aspects are downright horrible/annoying, however it does have some redeeming factors (by which I mean the art style as the most prominent one, it’s really cute!)

Unpopular opinion: the Boyfriends webtoon wasn’t as bad as people made it out to be

[trevwhorephilips]

[rivershyperfixations]

Hey so genuine question

How do y'all make the moodboards. Like I'm genuinely asking what program or whatever different people use to make moodboards (I'm specifically y'all that make therian moodboards cos they always look so cool)

If anyone who does this has any tips or stuff like that please tell me

[cirth-ithil]

I'm one day late but happy anniversary to you will never be mika

[pookiethebloodsucker]

inspired by a post about the tech industry I didn't want to derail

[bottled-river]

need a trans vampire girl to suck my blood and grind her bulge between my legs frfr

[karmirage]

category of writer: "yeah they're pretty good writers but only when they're writing white ppl bc otherwise it veers into racist bullshit and they refuse to listen to why they should maybe not be writing that,"

[kalosian-time-loop]

So, what’s got you so tired?

@suddenlyauntiemaya

Me? a lot of stuff. It's hard to explain, unfortunately.

[rivercloves]

joel smallishbeans is not my blorbo but i feel similarly about him as i imagine straight men feel about their bisexual girlfriend's cat

[theriu]

It has just occurred to me that tumblr's mascot should be a tumbleweed. Think about it:

We're considered a ghost town by the rest of the internet.

Everybody has seen posts (tumbleweeds) from here even if they don't know where they come from.

Tumblr people can seem quiet for long stretches only to descend en masse on topics of interest.

(imagine this house is Dracula Daily or Goncharov)

And of course because it's only one letter away from tumblrweed!!!

[riverthebooknerd]

i bet on losing dogs (doomed yaoi)

[alllgator-blood]

Why narinder pre-purgatory is pretty much a normal cat but after his neck became so long?

The LORE reason is that during the schism, he was mid eldritch transformation when he was sealed in purgatory, and just kinda got stuck like that. I have alternate designs for the bishops' eldritch transformations that I've never posted but they don't 100% follow the ones from the games, so my narinder turns into a skinned serpent/dragon thing when he's eldritch? So the SECOND those chains are broken, he's gonna finally continue his transformation into an affront against god....but any other time, he's just a relatively normal guy

The REAL ORIGINAL reason is up for debate because my memory is atrocious, but I struggled when I drew him for the very first time because I thought he was kinda boring in my art style. Tried to spice up his shape language using his weird bendy proportions when he leans down to talk to you in the game. I ended up with a pool noodle looking guy and THAT'S the thing that made me actually want to draw him. I don't dislike him, I think he's a fascinating and tragic character, but he is on a technical level my least favorite in the pantheon so if I didn't give him a design that was fun to draw, he'd just kinda continue rotting in purgatory 5ever. The lore reason was definitely secondary to my enjoyment of just drawing a long ugly cat :')

I have a ref sheet in progress of him and he was so long I couldn't fit him into the canvas, so here he is trying to escape containment

edit: "he's my least favorite" I say as I just realized I'm wearing a shirt with him on it