#angst-and-fajitas

[amalasdraws]

Jumping off that previous ask, what's Tao's favorite thing to cook for friends?

Tao grew up with trad. Taiwanese food and he holds it fondly in his heart. It's the food he grew up with and loves and he loves to share it with his friends too. But he also loves to try new things and make up some new fusion version. A mix of what he grew up with at home, things he grew outside of home, with new US American food, and new things he learned to love.

[comrade-slugcat]

Dude comrade since you're into house of leaves now, can I share this REALLY COOL kinetic text animation for it that I found on YouTube once??

If some studio ever made the book into a show or something (which I definitely do not ever want to happen tho, it would be impossible to adapt properly), this would make a COOL title sequence

https://youtu.be/6IXGvkE0pvk?si=HDE5Ssk4D_kEeWjQ

Oh hell yes that is so awesome!!

They definitely should never try to adapt it into any other medium but that definitely would be at least cool if they made the fatal mistake of trying

Reminds me of this concept i had for drawing uh.. representations of the house and NaissanceE together (as you couldnt draw the whole thing. Obviously) and my idea for the representing it in a way that could fit in a canvas was something like this:

(First draft, it would use more sentences from the actual book and probably look.. better)

Anyway yeah thats so swag

[dazzelmethat]

YOOO congrats on the top surgery bro!!

Thank you! It’s been tough doing all the FMLA and psych evals and stuff for it while keeping it on the down low at work. So I’m happy to hear congratulatory remarks.

You might see more reblogs from my account for the next two weeks as I recover.

[spotted-owl-sketches]

Oh I just got here but I'm absolutely loving your au, and THANK YOU for making N put on some dang winter clothes. No idea how that boy survived running around Unova like that in the main games

Ah thank you! Im glad you’re loving the au!! And of course that boy needs a got damn coat!! I know the older games don’t care about the weather but I do 〳 •̀ o •́ 〵!!! It’s also fun changing up everyone’s outfits

[butcherb1rd]

Mind if I uhhhh trick or treat?? :D

hell yeah! you receive:

one (1) cow cat

[fghniki]

oh dude Hornet's got my vote 100%, HORNET SWEEP!!!

Can I get an little kitty cat 👉👈 any kind and any color, just a lil friend

Image description: A digital drawing of a red striped kitty wearing mask of Hornet, a character from Hollow Knight. End of image description.

a little friend... for whom you should vote in the transswag competition, btw. (i'll even draw you whatever you want if you do that)

[smallishbabes]

Arah my friend, how're you doing? Been a while since I heard from you, but I hope things are going ok!! Are you excited for the new hermitcraft season? I remember you as a big Joel Enjoyer after all!

EMMA MY FRIENDDDD :D

Yes I am still a big Joel enjoyer! I already watched Joel's episodes twice lol (I already watched his hardcore series like three times I miss his building and editing when is the next upload me me want more joel). I was so goddamn elated when I heard the news like hell yeah another series from Joel to watch! He fit in so well with the rest of the hermits I'm so happy for him. Plus his starter base is hella cool and I'm looking forward to seeing him interact with hermits he hasn't spoken with it's gonna be so fun :)

[jaimeski]

THE WAY YOU DRAW PANTS IS SO GOOD!! 10/10 PANTS!! 👖

Ok that's all have a nice day👍

Thank you big pants are my favorite hehe you too have a nice day <3

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

I love you Frank, you're wonderful and so funny!

Thanks! (The "I love you Frank"s are just a habit for me that I still need to break -- I say "I love you Frank" a lot more than I used to)

[sodaspringz]

Kenopsia..... Thank u for introducing me to a new BEAUTIFUL and very tasty word!! I am immediately stuffing it in my mouth heck yes

And your backrooms opinions are SO GOOD AND CORRECT!!

THANK U EMMA!! u are always in my notifs and on the dash i am honoured to be worthy of this 💯💯 it's such a good word and i am obsessed with it. another good one is scintillation, that's what it's called when the stars look like they're twinkling. maybe u know that one but if not then please enjoy. thank you for your flawless backrooms opinions

[rival-ado]

NPPP it's really good !!! emotionally damaging and i would heed the warnings at the beginning but man... i love it a lot . great characters great art and really good writing !!! i heard someone say before it invokes the feelings you had when you first played the game, and it really truly does !!! for me anyways lolol

YIPPPEEEE specifically about future trio ... but i was also working on hero+grovyle swap again for a hot minute there . i love pmd-verse so much....

btw im gonna draw more pmd2 and i also played episode 0 ( great pmd romhack ) so if you don't want spoilers for either one tag ( #pmd2 and #pmd se0 ) THANKS

[dazzelmethat]

Does the 6 fanarts have to be just fan stuff? Or can I request one of your Vera and their cool scythe??

If not, then uhhhhhhh Gandalf

Hmm! Good question! I think only fan stuff of characters that I wouldn't normally draw.

I'll take Mister Gandalf.

I'm glad you like Vera though. I saved some poses for her to do with the scythe so I'll get to them eventually.

For those wondering I am taking 4 more characters for this meme.

[kirby-the-gorb]

reply roundup!

would you believe I was actually planning to do this the very morning the [licorice gorb] got blazed (obviously it was a better idea to put it off until after it was over)

also someone reblogged it with a screencap where it says "blazed by notpikaman" under my username and tbh I am so glad I'm not the only one burdened by that information XD and thank you to everyone who said "good blaze op" or some variant thereof, a high compliment

anyway welcome all you new followers and also folks who just wanted to reblog the one thing and be on your merry way, I do this occasionally so that I actually get to reply to y'all's tags n such <3 (without making a lot of blog clutter)

we also have a couple new image descriptions! thank you to @cherrycreamsicle for the image description on [suitcase] and @istherewifiinhell for the image description on [kirbear]! both have been added as alt text to the original posts, with credit.

on [the last roundup] @cherrycreamsicle said: Hey no worries! Any accessibility is good accessibility! I'm always happy to help! Hope you and your wife are doing well ^_^

thank you! I felt like it was important to acknowledge that putting it in alt text is not as good for some people as putting it in the body of the post, but it is still definitely better to have. (and thank you! she's doing much better now.)

on [watch] @ceylonsilvergirl said: Do it!! Watch repairs!! Those skills are so niche and needed And especially good for people inclined to pay attention to the details

it just seems really fun! I love little mechanical things and building miniatures and stuff like that so it feels like something I'm capable of! (also I can do it at home for only a couple hours at a time and possibly still make money lol)

on [watch] @macro-microcosm said: i hope you guys make big bucks in a lil watch biz some day

thanks! I'm sure I'd badger my beige-loving partner into letting me make at least one of them my signature kirby-pink lol

on [eggroll] @ceylonsilvergirl said: You felt good enough to go out without mobility aids!! You felt that good! That’s fantastic news! Of course use them when you need them, they’re good! But your body was doing well! That’s whats important

yeah!! it's important to me to emphasize to others that it's not the not using the aids it's the feeling well enough to not need to, cuz it's a mistake that's like. pretty common and even popular. (consider "wow this wheelchair user walked the stage at their graduation and was clearly in pain the whole time" type of stuff. the ubiquity of that type of "inspiration porn" has a huge impact on the disabled community, especially because a significant portion of us are exposed to that first rather than the realities of being disabled.) but feeling well even for one day means my body is still capable of feeling well under the right circumstances, and that matters!

on [kirbear] @hobgirl told a nice story I feel weird about copy/pasting directly but yknow it's there in the tags as long as they choose to leave it up

stuff like that is scary, and the doctors and veteran patients know that! I'm glad you had something comforting with you, and that it was able to lead to even more support than just what it carried by itself.

on [printer] @angst-and-fajitas said: every time I've ever interacted with a printer it has always felt like this and @ceylonsilvergirl said: I have yet to meet a printer that will just friggin’ work

honestly like 90% of the time printers work fine and I don't even think about it, but that last 10% of the time feels like Such A Trial that it really dominates the conversation lol

anonymous asked: Happy kirby day mx gorb :>

thank you! this is what reminded me to actually draw kirby a little cake so it was helpful lol

on [licorice] @ceylonsilvergirl added the [link] for the exact candy I was thinking of

so glad they still exist tbh. don't even remember if I've ever had one I'm just glad they exist!

on [meds] @queenhippolyta said: Do you find that the cromolyn helps you? I started it maybe two months ago but haven’t really noticed a difference yet

it seemed helpful for me when recovering/restabilizing from my covid vaccine, which laid me out for months, but there was a lot of other stuff going on and it was more of a, well, stabilizer than an actual boost. I really don't know if it's doing anything for me now as high vs low compliance really doesn't seem to make a causative difference. (there is a correlation, because on bad days it's harder to get up and take it in the middle of the day, but that's like. definitely not causative.) it might be that different dosing would work better for you, or it might be that it just doesn't really help you! mcas is a tricky beast, as we all know. (I hope you actually find this buried in the roundup >n< )

on [corner] @ceylonsilvergirl said: dang kirbo’s on the ceiling again, grab the broom

this one just made me laugh

on [licorice] @thesleepingnini said: hay wanna draw some silly stuff like this again, baka may sponsor ng ipad diyan

good news, I will continue to draw silly stuff again whether I'm paid or not! additional good news, for those who want more specific silly stuff drawn commissions are open on [kofi] for a few more hours (~6 probably depending how long this post takes me to finish)

@sonisis asked: iEs El Kirbo!

it sure is!

on [licorice] @jenjensd said: It’s a good thing they clarified it’s red liquorice because I legit thought they just gave Kirby a super long tongue for some reason

I wouldn't put it past me tbh (which is why I specified XD )

anonymous asked: Hi your Kirbys are very nice

thank you! I love to draw a Little Guy

on [crowd] @ceylonsilvergirl said: Like when you’re singing to yourself, and then realize people can see you

whoops you've activated one of my fun facts! whenever I am Out And About by myself (which is very very rare these days What With The Illness), I am almost always singing. I am completely comfortable singing at full volume at any time and any place (aside from general noise decorum such as "not in the library" and "not while my wife is sleeping"). so I have not had this specific version of this problem in my lifetime lol

anonymous asked: “Art” that a four year old could do? Don’t quit that day job at target.

look ma, my first anon hate! I'm big time now!

for real though, like, I wanna answer this one kinda seriously even though I'm sure this was just a driveby, because I know it's a common insecurity. why are you upset? if anyone can do it, why shouldn't I? why aren't you?

I make very very very little money from this blog (I even looked up the numbers, in the nearly 5 years I've been doing this I've made a total of ~$1650 to date), but that's because I'm really not putting in effort to make it ~profitable~. my patreon is has no rewards and my commissions are closed (except for literally right now), I only put very rare purposefully designed products on my print-on-demand stores and I haven't made my own stickers to sell in over a year. so if you're mad about people giving me money, don't be. even if you very very conservatively assume only 10 minutes per drawing and also zero other time put into running this blog, that's bare minimum 295 hours I've put into this. in reality it's going to be way way higher than that, but even if you assume I'm only drawing 10 minutes a day for 1771 days and I'm only drawing with no other admin etc, that's only $5.50 an hour, or about $0.93 per drawing.

part of why I don't put in the effort to make it ~profitable~ is because I can't. when my patreon had actual rewards and my commissions were always open and I was still making stickers, that took a ton of energy, and yes it made me a little more money than I'm getting right now, those two years are the period of time the majority of it came from, but it was energy I don't have. I'm disabled, severely chronically ill, and very vocal about it. I don't have a day job to quit because I physically can't do that. but that's also why I can't put in the energy to make this blog a ~business~, and even when I was putting in more energy than I actually had, it was not exactly big returns. I think the biggest most profitable year was like. $800. for the whole year. I made 5 times that doing data entry for a couple hours a week before that company shut down the same year, and the data entry was easier.

so okay, I'm not doing it for the money. (money sure would be nice to have, and I appreciate the patrons who stick around just cuz and the commissions that got picked up this week, but clearly that's not my motivation because there's not much money in running this blog.) then why should I bother?

because making stuff is fun. I get to draw silly little things that make me happy and sometimes other people like them too. that's it. what's the harm in that?

[comrade-slugcat]

Comrade can I see more pictures of your cool snail??? 🐌

yeah of course !

Snail exhibiting impressive ability to climb on plant without bending it

Snail being good and cleaning aquarium glass

Snail being naughty by eating some moss (it's actually fine I just like being joke mad at them)

Snail after going under our log

[butcherb1rd]

i call my grandparents mema and papa (pronounced pawpaw lol) but never really had a special name for my great-grandparents. i knew a few of them when i was younger but they’ve all passed by now. i usually just called them what my parents called them, so “grandma _____” or “grandpa _____” even though they were my great-grandparents. i’m from southern usa :}

Ok I need some research help real fast, so we'll crowdsource in the form of a reblog game!

If you have great-grandparents, what do you call them? And if it's relevant, where are you from?

[butcherb1rd]

YOOOO HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

thank you!!!! i am no longer a teenager :V