#and i just kinda dont wanna take reference photos lmfao

[aahsoka]

i am thinking about abandoning my original project idea and just drawing my new lil alien guy and its friends

[patrocles]

i was tagged by @realisaonum to answer 11 questions and tag 11 people!!

what’s your favorite thing you’ve ever created? if you’re not an artist, that’s totally okay - baking/cooking counts (just link the recipe!!!), crafting, etc. etc.  It’s the one project I can never seem to let go of. You know it, I’ve vagued about it lmfao. But Divine Right. It’s by far the biggest thing I’ve tried to create and the most ambitious, in terms of sheer quantity of characters and world building. Whenever I think about it, I just feel super comfortable and cozy with it? Like everything I put everything I love into the project (types of characters, narratives, themes, etc) so its just a giant culmination of all of my favorite things. For me its my favorite thing to get back into because nothing about it is complete. There’s so much that can be added, and every time I come back I always have a fresh perspective I didn’t have before - a different understanding about things that make me rethink different elements of various characters and even new directions to take their stories I hadn’t thought of before! I don’t know if/when I’m ever gonna get something wholly substantial out of it, but its for sure my favorite. 

if you read fanfiction what is your fave fic? why? (if you don’t read it, why not?) the courtship ritual of the hercules beetle by kittebasu  is my favorite completed fics so far. its a adulthood au for haikyuu!! that includes the characters oikawa and iwaizumi reuniting and trying out friendship again after a pretty tumultuous friend-break up years ago (which we learn the elements of through flashbacks) while also coming to terms with new feelings they never really addressed.  this fic goddamn GETS IT. it’s not every complicated in plot, but the way it tells the story of these two characters at this stage of their lives just wrecks me in the heart. it’s not a “soulmate au” but its a story about soulmates and how (via specific flashbacks from moments in their lives) we can see how much they’ve always meant to one another. and i just wanna smother my face in this fic like a warm blanket. like i stayed up all night reading it and cried when i finished because it was just that good. 

how do you feel about travelling alone? do you think you’d enjoy a trip abroad with only yourself for company? and where do you most want to go? Not to be a pretentious ass but I think on some level I’ve always wanted just Experience the world in total privacy. I mean that’s not to say that I wouldn’t enjoy the company of others but I’m kinda always surrounded by people and I think the things I would find emotional satisfaction out of, a travelling companion might not, if that makes sense? I think everyone kinda needs that 1 solitary moment to just experience a new thing. Now of course that being said there’s things I would miss out on alone, like sharing moments of a journey, being bound in those new experiences with friends. I would only have myself to reference something back to. I’m going to Japan in May with friends which I’m REALLY excited about. But I think abroad I think I’m gonna have to steal Bee’s answers and go Faroe Islands/Iceland and even Greenland. I don’t know, I think it’s something about that sort of remoteness that demands a solitary trip. I mean what photo ho doesn’t wanna cross those places off the world list. 

tell me about a song or album that has autobiographical significance to you. Your Hand in Mine by Explosions in the Sky. I heard it the first time in 2004 on the Friday Night Lights OST and it’s just been That Song that’s always stuck with me. I remember listening to it on repeat during my parents divorce because its the only thing that could calm me down. And I dont know after 14 years (jesus Christ) that song just feels like an extension of myself. 

is there somewhere you want to go back to? could be a time or place I don’t think anywhere... I never traveled and past times in my life were usually surrounded by some sort of unhappiness so I’d rather not unpack that. 

describe you ideal signature scent probably something with lavender because that’s whats in all my lotions.

what is a piece of art you wish you could have in your home? (doesn’t HAVE to be a painting) well i have this print hanging in my room but i want the actual real bust of patroclus

do you like seeing musical performances live? who would you most like to see perform? i’m old now so i cant hang with the youngins at concerts but i DO wanna see EITS again before I die. the last one i went to was arctic monkeys in ‘15 but i was surrounded by a bunch of 13 year old girls so that was not very choice

what quote do you repeat most often? be it from a movie, a famous person, or your grandmother “oh worm?” this fucking hellpit of a website

best advice you have received i think i read this on twitter but it was a something to the effect of “there’s no time limit on success”, meaning, there’s no specific time/age you have to have succeeded at XYZ or accomplished this and that.s it’s a good reminder because at 26, its very easy to compare myself to other adults my age in what they’ve accomplished and feel like I’m lagging behind or failing somehow. 

what piece of media has been on your ‘to read/watch/listen/etcetc’ list forever but for some reason you haven’t gotten to it yet? the exorcist. i know i’m gonna love it, its just not the Right Time

tagging: @glorianas @henrymontymontague @billybonez @poedamaerons @halforcdruid  @garysinises and whoever else wants to do it