#SEEING YOU IN MY NOTIFS MADE ME SO HAPPY

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

In Regards To Your 2024 Summary:

Holy shit it’s been another year????? The hell?????

Also! Your art style is gorgeous and that being found in 2023 and then refined throughout late 2023 and the entirety of 2024 really shows, as does your growth in panel layouts, perspective, and — as you said — experimentation. If you ever post your animation or video game art I’m looking forward to it.

As cheesy as it sounds, being able to laugh at funny comics and look at all the details of your art really made my 2024 brighter, even when things were hard. Including looking at your older art— it doesn’t need to be new to be enjoyable! I’m glad your art is well loved and it’s a privilege to have been here since the (near) beginning. I hope you take care of yourself in 2025 and beyond!

You and your art bring a lot of people a lot of joy never forget that <3

Thank you so much for keeping up with my art journey throughout these last two years! Two years!!! I am baffled at how that feels both too long and too short!

Admittedly, my art summary didn't manage to capture the fact that I did a lot of comic layouts that I'm really proud of. I also drew more backgrounds and made some very detailed works (*Dungeon Meshi spoilers for these examples*).

The growth is lot more evident when comparing my 'best' comics of 2023 to 2024:

Sometimes the growth is vertical, sometimes it is horizontal - and damn, sometimes it goes out of sight into the Z-plane. But it is always happening!

[corrodedcoughin]

I have a head cannon that Eddie and robin have The most unpredictable relationship. One second they act like boyfriends in law, then they act like mortal enemies, 5 seconds later they’re crying together about robins most recent sad fun fact about animals. Steve can never keep up with where they’re at but I’d glad that his favorite people are so close. (Also when people ask them how they met Eddie will go on and on about how brave Robin is and she just says “we found him in a dumpster”)

Publishing this out into the st universe for everyone to be as delighted by it as I was/am

[uzukali]

HII ZEPHYR CLINGYDUOFAN OMG HI HI HI THANK YOU FOR THE PRINCEZAM!!!!! hes so cute so silly

[jabberwockprince]

hi hello!! i hope you don’t mind me coming in here i made a quick lil doodle i love Venison’s design!

im not supposed to be online but ouououou im breaching containment just for this thank you so much!!! its so so so cute and I love Cinderella's design too, so I had to draw them together dolled up and hanging out!!

ok back into the void I go, thank you again!!

[tieronecrush]

surprise!

hi my friends!!! i know i have been MIA for nearly a month at this point but i want y’all to know that i am back!

my unplanned hiatus just took up after the holidays. i think with all that was going on being so busy and working a lot, things got away from me and just didn’t get back for a while! i also think i got pretty burnt out just churning out a lot of content over the last few months, but happy to say i am excited to get back into writing and have lots of plans 💓😌

my time away also has not been all bad!!! lots of life changes on my end! i have settled into my new position at work and have relocated (scary but fun!!) AND @northernbluess and i met in person!!!! CRAZY!!!!! it was so much fun and we enjoyed our time together a lot — so much so that we might have become more than friends…🤭

anyways there’s your hot goss about my life, and i am so looking forward to being back around you lovely people!!

oh! and don’t worry, i have definitely still been keeping up with pedro and all his KILLER looks these last few weeks!!!! (sling and all)

love y’all!!! ☺️💝

[acosmicconfluence]

starcatchers & anyone else who cares to listen im here to tell you about cows. i’m here to show you cows . look at cows :-]

[cows all from highlandcattleofsaarela]

”{Aouh… oh.. I love them. I love them so much they’re beautiful. They’re perfect I love them. What. What. What. How have I not ever seen these before. What. What. They’re the most lovely thing I’ve ever seen with my own eyes. I need to look at them for ever.}”

“[You could just call them pretty and leave it at that.]”

“{No…}”

“(Awh! Cuties! They’re so big and fluffy… they’re adorable. Reminds me of Phaunus, a little, ehehe.)”

“[Ah, do they? They reminded me of you. Especially their fur. Apparently they’re quite soft creatures. I’ve read about them a few times but I’ve actually never seen one. They are quite pleasant, I’ll admit.]”

[nerdallwritey]

I fear you have ruined me and my ability to consume Astarion content after your writing. 😭😭😭 it's so good!

OMG STOP IT, YOU'RE TOO KIND!!! I'm so glad you like that way I write him!! 9/10 doctors agree you must tease the dorky vampire for his own enrichment 🫡

No but seriously, THANK YOU for reading!! I have so much fun writing these and I love hearing about when people have a good time reading them!! :)

[joy-girl]

hi! where did you read the new chapter? the website i use doesn't have it yet 👀👀

Hiiiiii 🥰

Eheheh mine didn't have it either but I found another one that had it! Reach out to me in the chat and I'll send it to you 🥰

Hope you have fun reading it! 😁💕

[kameyyy]

phone started autocorrecting met to ‘mey’ and i don’t know what that means but i think it’s saying we’re soulmates??

omg wyr you don't know how big the smile on my face is rn. this is evidence that soulmates really exist, truly, like we are THE example of soulmates!!!!

[bleaksqueak]

Woah dang, waking up to 99+ notifs on tumblr almost always means that an old Homestuck piece is going around again... imagine my delighted surprise to see it was all notifs about Soli! That was a great thing to wake up to. Felt an actual flutter in my chest. Thank you so much, everyone! And apologies for how Elias' hair keeps subtly changing. You always kind of figure out exactly how a character looks and how to draw them as you go along with sequential art. It, funny enough, largely comes from figuring out their acting (so lots and lots of different angles and features that need to shift/change slightly to carry the weight of looking like they should feel, for lack of a better way to describe it ) At any rate, glad to see people are excited for chapter 3! next update will be next week, and will be a two page spread.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Happy birthday!! It's always been a joy seeing your art and posts on my dash!!

I wish you a happy birthday with cherik and marvel rivals hehehe

HAPPY BIRTDAY DEAR FRIEND !!!!!!!!! its always a joy to see you in my notifs omg thank you fo the birthday wishes 🥺🥺

[golden-jeon-jungkook]

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[trashyandtiredsol]

sol. Sol. Sol. Sol. Sol.

SOL.

ilysm.

you are so friggin extraordinary.

never change.

you're amazing.

Kept trying to think of some paragraph long response to this but I'm absolutely shitty with words-

SO

Tam. The feeling is very mutual- for you and everyone I've talked to at some point since I've been on this hellsite we call Tumblr /affectionate

Talking with everyone on here, sharing my art with everyone- just existing with everyone on here and seeing what y'all create has turned into such a huge aspect of my life (especially my social life like- y'all ARE my social life at this point 😅)

Plus I'm fuckin so glad I decided to try out Tumblr when I did cuz it was around a sorta traditional point in my life (moving outta a toxic ass house and away from a toxic, isolated life and my ex supposed father figure). Coming on here and talking with you and everyone else brightens my day and I'm glad to be a part of everything :3

[loppiopio]

the chances of the people seeing this aren't super likely so this is highly inefficient but i'm too afraid to approach people personally…. yet i've been burning with the need to express my gratitude for the tags i've received individually somehow and figured, i could do it the way i do best. in the tags 😅

(sorted by most recent) (i capped the limit hard here) (some ✂️✂️ had to be done 😔) (i still like this format a lot though) (might do this again in the future idk would people like that??) (i hope it's not mortifying for anyone……..)

it's sorta the way i like it, indirect and unimposing, even if it's kinda. wieldy. but it's just on my blog so anything goes right? although in saying that, i am open to being imposed on. like if someone wants to talk about aci or something, like other fic?? i'm a big fic fiend. or anything else lol not sure what else you'd wanna chat about since so much of the stuff i've put out is just. about fic. but hey, if you're a person i don't mind being approached :>

(lol the way i've made this like a *throws out a bunch of paper slips* find your's 🎉) (might be obnoxious hm) (sorry...) (find your's if you want though 🫡)

[hibiskooks]

This is me every time I see you reblog/like my posts…I’m living for your tag commentary 🥺💜

Never change, you’re amazing! 💜

AAAAAHHHHHHH nooo you're so sweet 😭💜💜

This is me every time I see your amazing posts on my dash and I get to like/reblog them:

[presiding]

I love "the monster in the hull" fic so much and I'm excited for updates!!

Every Emily and Billie interaction are golden and your writing is really pleasant to read; it makes me soo happy!

More focus on Billie in fan content is always great <3

I really adore how you write her, it feels so thought out in the best way

Also not sure how to say it right but i like that you address the way Emily lived before the coup *especially* through Billie's eyes...DH2 really lacked it, sadly (i won't comment on how Arkane handled monarchy & consequences but i hope that what I've said makes at least some sense)

Aaaa <3 thank you so much! It's really lovely getting comments about my work & I never quite know what to say or how to properly express my gratitude, but it means a lot!

Re: "the way Emily lived before the coup" I agree - that makes perfect sense and it's SO fascinating to me, and it was something I really wanted to tackle! I hope you don't mind me having a ramble about this on your ask?

Emily's privileges & her maturity arc are something I've been thinking about a lot with regards to the fic but also broadly :D

Emily's privileges

*grits teeth* Monarchy/politics aside, *unclenches jaw*

I think the game made an interesting choice (/genuine) by drawing attention to Emily's privilege & her struggle with the pressures of leadership. Both Sokolov & Meagan comment on it, and Emily herself makes comments (paraphrase: "I can feel my perspective shifting") but it's a shame there was no follow through. You can FEEL the critique of the Empire in the bones of the story but... it's swept under the rug.

Maturity arc?

The clueless comments from Emily feels like they could be part of a maturity arc, rather than a critique of power/privilege. BUT. A maturity arc is... a choice... for Emily, specifically for a female videogame protagonist.

She's been reigning 14 years by the events of Dishonored 2! Even if a lot of that time she was too young to be taking the reigns, still, she's not new to it, and you would think that Corvo was keeping her grounded. There was no comparable arc for Corvo - his failures in his own game was being framed by forces far larger than he, and trusting when he should not. As another comparison, Daud was slipping, yes, but he was slipping in a noir film antihero way - ie. becoming better as a person - and that was well explored.

By adding the 'Emily is a bad Empress' hints but then never going into detail, and you end up with a woman whose character is scrutinised from an unfair angle by the audience (contrast with Corvo). It feels like the weight of having any privileges, within the context of the Dishonored series, is borne entirely by Emily Kaldwin. But as you rightly say, it's not handled well, so the audience just associates the concept of privilege with her (derogatory).

It brings to mind the Boyle sisters - compared to other marks in the game, in Dishonored 1, their only crime was being manipulated by the Regent, but they were dealt arguably the worst punishment the series really offers. Harsh, right? It's not like other characters don't also have wealth & political power & could be abused. Maybe Emily's ongoing clueless comments is an attempt from the writers to be self-aware (knowing that disempowerment is a running theme but Emily is well-off), but that self-awareness only shoots Emily in the foot.

It's a running theme I have in monster in the hull - I want to kind of explore that like, yeah, Emily never really chose this life for herself, same as the Outsider. That doesn't *negate* her privileges, but informs them. It would be like viewing the Outsider primarily as a victim (as DotO kinda suggests), when realistically he's still the master of his own fate (and everyone elses, same as Emily).

What Dishonored 2 did well

There is an aspect in which the game did follow through, but it's easy to overlook: the importance of recurring characters like Lucia Pastor. Dishonored 2's ending spends a decent amount of time highlighting the new Serkonan advisors ("the city's wisest citizens survived" as the Outsider narrates) and blames them for bringing about peace & prosperity.

A generous read would be that the game acknowledges that Emily the Just & Clever learns that her perspective & intelligence alone was not nearly enough to bring about the change her Empire needs to thrive. This insight gained from her time in Karnaca was what shaped her, and giving more power & more voice to the wise people she rules over, was what ultimately earned her the titles Just & Clever. But... that wasn't really surfaced, hey.

Glad you mentioned because Emily's indifference as a leader is a detail that I love, particularly in the context of her own material/political privileges... even though I know it's why people don't like her. In saying that, the overall picture frustrates me!

Let me know your thoughts this is an interesting topic, love this game :)