#and my dad's death anniversary this month

[yaoiconnoisseur]

one of my favorite ways of inflicting psychic damage upon myself is going onto my blog's art tag and checking how long its been since i last posted anything :)

[orcelito]

Man I realized 4th of July is always gonna be the Uncle Death holiday (bc he died on July 3rd) while valentine's day will be Dad Death holiday (bc he died on Feb 17th)

Holidays where seeing the decorations reminds me of the times I lost two of the most important people in my life. Sucks, man.

[hueningkai]

just heard about bin ... fuck. i can’t believe this. my heart goes out to everyone who knew him, his family, his group ... and please to all of you who are fans, look after yourselves as well. everyone deserves space & time to grieve.

[apathyfairy]

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[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

i always have a rough time as winter sets in but these last two have been extra rough

[milo-is-rambling]

I forget how much I hate the taste of vodka but the whipped cream vodka is so much better my god

[teaandinanity]

I love that I went on an hour long fetch quest today to try to get a package only to be told that there is no hold on our mail (then where the fuck IS all of it), the package was left at the mailbox 3 days ago (the tracking said that but I thought it was lying), and that if I don't have it it was probably stolen.

[sophiaslittleblog]

Am I even truly alive unless I cry for ten minutes before going to bed on Valentine’s Day.

[harmonizewithechoes]

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[everymlmhybrid]

staring at gifsets of my beloved prince wilhelm and wondering why i never actually finished s3 other than my usual avoidance of endings. and then immediately remembering the whole His Mom Getting Sick plot. right right right. i remember now.

[tcypionate]

i feel like everybody who has been important to me in any capacity has died in march

[highflyerwings]

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[ingrid-said-no]

[waywardgothauthor]

So this isn't the absolute worst week of my life because that title goes to the week my dad died. But this week easily comes in second place

[mikeystrawberry]

Today is Dungeons & Daddies’s 5th Anniversary!

I haven’t been listening for nearly that long but the podcast and all its characters means a lot to me. Happy Anniversary!!!

Throwing the cropped sections under the cut because there’s a lot of stuff going on and I know Tumblr likes to throw half the pixel quality out the window. And also so I can ramble a bit about this piece!!!

This piece has been months in the making, possibly an entire year. And by that I mean I’ve had a sketch of the comp scribbled on my whiteboard for ages because I wanted to save this specifically for 5th anni art. Now onto design stuff!

(First off a random thought: I really love how the garlic knot came out, I kind of want it as an enamel pin.)

I knew I wanted to make this a stained glass piece since the beginning, but I was also going to add flowers at one point but quickly dropped the idea. It felt like too much and I also didn’t want to fuss over flower language assignments for everyone. I was also going to add Doodler tentacles, but also dropped that idea pretty early. Kind of on accident, right at the end, I figured out how to make it even more stained glass-like but taking a duplicated lineart underneath the regular layer and turning the brightness all the way down, then setting it to overlay and adding a guassian blur. It’s very subtle but it adds that tiny bit of depth that makes it look more real. As for shading on the lineart/gold, I tried adding more highlight on the characters who died but once I evened everything out it wasn’t as noticeable anymore so I’m throwing that thought here so the attempt at least known lol.

The order of characters only changed a little bit from my original comp, I flipped the Wilsons and the Oaks so the rainbow could work. As for the anchors, specifically in season 2, I lined them up to the teens since the season 1 anchors lined up with each dad:

Tony —> Scary: his death was the beginning of Scary’s betrayal arc and also Willy killed him.

Guitar Pick —> Taylor: it’s not really aligned with Taylor at all, but the anchor was with Glenn so I put it next to his blunt.

Scroll —> Normal: was only because it was the last left to give him, but there’s the whole scene of him and Hermie in the Green Room so it still works!

Garlic Knot —> Link: one of two that he broke, but the more significant of the two with him telling Grant he never wants to see him again.

Small notes on the season 1 anchors: I put the layer of mold in the overnight oats but you can’t really tell with the overlay. And to make the supper bowl more interesting I added the fantasy sodas mix they dumped into it. The lure of actually drawn before so I just traced my own art lol.

As for the other smaller triangles, it took me a bit to figure out what I wanted to put there. I didn’t even think of adding the vehicles until two days ago but I’m so glad I did. I don’t really have my own take on the mascot version of the Doodler (yet?) so I borrowed the design from one of the stickers in their merch shop. Teeny was terrifying as just a front facing head so I made him cute again.

In the outer circles, I put what I felt was the most significant quotes for each family. I really wanted to use “It’s okay to be angry, it’s not okay to be cruel” but it was just a little too long.

That’s all I can think of! If you read all the way through, thank you for indulging me in my excitement to gush over this piece.

[answrs]

turns out the nurse didn't check in with the doctor before scheduling in May, and with the added possible complications she doesn't want to do it at the secondary campus, so I'm now waiting until the last week of August instead (boo) (still better than the last 30 years of no surgery though ig)

plus side, I'm second in line on the waiting list, which she said has pretty good odds of nabbing earlier openings by months, so there's that. so overall an unfortunate miscommunication, but still a light at the end of the tunnel. (and also she called less than 24hrs after the original scheduling, it's not like I got hyped up about it for a month before the date changed)

SURGERY DATE: GET!