#Smy art

[wifiwuxians]

song lan love week day 5: snowfall & return!

a fateful first meeting. wanted something more cutesy for today! 🖤🤍

[ID: a waist up illustration of song lan and xiao xingchen in a modern setting. they are standing outside in the falling snow, with a single lamppost for company. song lan is wearing a deep blue coat, a black turtleneck, and black gloves, and is holding out a wallet to xiao xingchen while looking flustered. text above him reads 'you dropped this...'. xiao xingchen is bundled up in a light beige coat, a gray and white scarf and black mittens, and also has a pair of white earmuffs. he looks back at song lan with some surprise. /end ID]

[reiney-weather]

next sound of the future null !! I've had this wip since I was drawing bright months ago augh.

[mabaki]

Commission for @sleidog! Mabaki vs Vinetooth Runa!

I normally don't post commissions but since Mabaki was requested to be in this piece, I'm posting it!!

Sketch lines

Context: Rhywel woke Runa up and Mbk has to face the consequences LMAO

[szollibisz]

@curtwen-week day 4, prompt: haunted

Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Words: 5,938

Fanfiction by the one and only @smytherines

[lilpuffyart]

OH WHAT'S THAT??? More ihnmaims art I never shared hell yeah

Also from like May, I still really like them

[goopy-goober]

Some traditional art I did of the kovam brothers and just Alex Koval in general because I love alex koval did you know I love alex koval

[novae-viking]

SICILY! Shes my @stardust-in-the-void character!!!

[thelaughingmerman]

I'm really going through it today but please look at this mr mime for the new pokemon set its making me so happy

[dinosaurvalley]

girl help im burning out *dumps a bucket of blood on someone*

[puppycharmz]

nightmare bonnie give me kisses plese

[chiruzzah]

sometimes i think abt that cool artist im mutuals with and i cant really believe im mutuals with them.... theyre genuenly so talented and all their work is so beautyful !! and i feel so honored to be their mutual bc theyr work really inspires me so much like theres alot of other artists you could possibly watch yet you choose me... and im not even close to the talent you have... it makes me happy someone like them think smy art is worth watching... . .

[bathtubinkitchen-moved]

is smy art good 😭😭😭i keep on thinking it isnt help

[hattiestgal]

anon because my brain is mean to me and im scared but. i really really like your art and the way u draw fat bodies inspires me… my favorite has got to be the melody hot girl shit doodle because ough just look at her. sorry im rambling lol

Hey, no worries about using anon, that's what it's there for! (don't worry, I understand the feeling quite well- my brain gets really funky when it comes to interacting with folks sometimes)

As for what you were actually saying- thank you! As always, I'm real glad to be an inspiration for so many (genuinely wamr smy hear every time I see it!), and YEAH, the melody doodle is a fav of mine too! Gender and shape all across the board...

[kiwiwisdeathday]

HIHIHIHI sorry for disappearing, tumblrs been getting kinda ehh for me but I also don't wanna just. Leave so I was thinking about starting up (ANOTHER BLOg OH SmY GOD I KNOW) a worldbuilding based blog? Would anyone be interested? I'd probably just ramble a whole lot and post doodles of stuff from it, maybe concept art if I'm feeling it (also btw it'd be about the world in which the weird eyestalk creatures I've been drawing on my art blog live)

[invader-bean]

having a lot of. memories come up about stuff that just. forgot. or didnt, like. like i locked away and didnt think about on purpose and stupid dots are connecting and just

ugh.

suicide mention and like. just my parents being dicks i guess.

its literally just me trauma dumping i guess but i want to write it down before i forget about it all again.

idk if my mom even remembers the url to this blog anymore but shout out to her! fuck her for alienating me from my g parents and aunts and uncles and cousins and any family i have by guilting me into believing they were abusive pieces of shit that would hate me for being gay and getting angry at me if i even wanted to talk to them after you 'broke things off' with them. idk if my grandpa is even still ALIVE. i dont know how to CONTACT grandma to CHECK.

"broke things off."

aunt saw me saying i wanted to kill myself so she called her dad, scared, and when grandpa showed up to make sure i was okay... all mom cared about was screaming at me at 3 in the morning that I let *them* know we were moving soon.

screamed at me until i deleted my blog and lost all my friends and art and memories. started randomly doing 'checks' on my computer and then, hiding the screen from me, screamed about all the PORN you found on it. just to see my reaction.

there wasnt any fucking porn. you just liked making me cry.

and who cares if i wanted to kill myself. gpa and gma knew we were moving soon. oh no. end of your fucking life, right asshole?

shout out to my dad too! when i told my therapist that i wanted to kill myself he told my parents - obviously - and then took my mom into the room separately and your words of comfort were

"why the fuck would you do this now. Why are you putting your mom through this? couldnt you have waited or not even brought it up at all?"

he was very nice in FRONT of the therapist. but once we were alone in the lobby he started that kind of shit.

and then mom told me i 'didnt need therapy' anymore and I never went back to the guy who could fucking maybe have helped me.

very cool guys.

and somehow my dad - who didn't have a sober fucking day in his life until I as 10 or 11 - ended up being the good parent. at least he changed his behavior and shit. mom's a martyr. what behavior?

i miss my grndparents. i wan tto talk to them. to my aunt. I have baby cousins i never got to meet. i mis smy fucking *aunt* man i miss aunt b she was my friend. everyone else was so fucking nice to me and i miss my family but im too afraid to try and contact them cus what if they tell mom or what if mom got to them first or what if what mom said about them is true

i don't. have any family. and it really hurts. i only have my boyfriend and his sibling. and maybe their dad.

i dont have any fucking family anymore and i didn't realize until now my mom made it that way on fucking purpose.

god fucking damn it!

[youngreaderreviews]

Book Review: What You Need to Be Warm by Neil Gaiman

What You Need To Be Warm

Written by Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Yuliya Gwilym, Nadine Kaadan, Pam Smy, Daniel Egnéus, Beth Suzanna, Marie-Alice Harel, Petr Horácek, Chris Riddell, Bagram Ibatouilline, Benji Davies, Majid Adin, Richard Jones, Oliver Jeffers, Oliver Jeffers, and Benji Davies.

Genre or Category

Poetry or Novel in Verse

Target Age Group

PreK-6th grade

Recommended for ages 4-8 years, Preschool to 3rd grade

Format

Physical, print

Summary

What do you need to stay warm? Everyone has their own definition of what it means to be warm, including the means of staying so. In the wake of civil unrest and tragedy around the world, Neil Gaiman provides a poem of welcome, which has been illustrated to show the different facets of humanity in moments of vulnerability. 

Justification

This book was chosen because it fulfills the category “Poetry or Novel in Verse.” What You Need To Be Warm is a book featuring a single poem that is divided into twelve stanzas, which is written in free verse. Although it hasn’t received any awards, it does have glowing reviews from multiple literary review publications, such as Publishers Weekly,  Booklist, and School Library Journal. There are also many notable illustrators, including those with less notoriety, that collaborated with Gaiman on this book, which showcases a variety of art styles. Most importantly, this book was created to benefit the UNHCR, or UN Refugee Agency, which is dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights, and building a better future for people affected by conflict and persecution. 

Evaluation

For this review, I will be evaluating illustrations, theme, and mood.

Illustrations

What You Need To Be Warm is an incredibly emotional picture book that captures the essence of belonging in the midst of tragedy. In that sense of belonging, it also incorporates different aspects of warmth, such as body heat, warm food and beverages, fur, and textiles. In order to capture the feeling of warmth, including turmoil and loss, the illustrations gravitate towards a selection of colors that are representative of this. The only colors used in these illustrations are black, grey, white, and orange.The monochromatic scale ranging from black to white creates a sense of emptiness while the bright orange illuminates the pages and draws attention to the objects of warmth in question.The illustrations themselves also vary from artist to artist, which captures desires of a more simple time versus the current, more bleak reality. 

Theme

Although this picture book addresses multiple societal issues in its visuals, the stanzas of the poem itself go on to discuss what it means to be warm and what it means to belong. These ideas are expressed both through the text and in the illustrations, which both mention and show family members, friends, and communities. Outside of the poem, the thirteen illustrators that contributed towards the visuals in the book provide their own interpretations of the stanzas that they were assigned, which provide a diverse range of understanding and recognition of these concepts.

Mood

The mood of What You Need To Stay Warm can be challenging to articulate, because it attempts to create balance between tragedy and hope. What sticks out the most is its sense of nostalgia, which yearns for when we were warm and the lives we lived previously. In one way, the mood is melancholic because of how it approaches subjects like war and displacement. In another, the mood is hopeful because of how it addresses goodwill and kindness amongst strangers. It is also incredibly sobering. These moods are dictated by illustration and the poem itself, which has been interpreted by so many different people.

References

Gaiman, Neil. (2023). What you need to be warm (Y. Gwilym et al., Illus.). Quill Tree Books.

Gaiman, Neil. (2023). What you need to be warm [Cover illustration] (Y. Gwilym et al., Illus.). Quill Tree Books. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/what-you-need-to-be-warm-neil-gaiman?variant=41073292312610