#best pet I could ask for

[darkmoonchild]

“Beside every rotting girl, there’s a little cat rotting along side her.”

[pjxckson]

R.A.B.

An eye for an eye. A soul for a soul. Death had taken his wager and was coming to collect.

[ask-lps-staff-au]

Question for my Main man Russell: What would you say is the HARDEST part about Working as a manager?

Also, quick random question, how do you, and my version of Russell get along together?

I guess that's a plus side for not being an actual manager is that I don't have to be held responsible when they get in trouble (not that Mrs. Twombly ever gives out anything harsher than a stern talking-to).

As for the other Russell, He's a pretty nice guy. I mean, it makes sense I'd get along with an alternative version of myself.

-best,

R. Ferguson

@themightymoose

[tetzoro]

i don’t think i’ve talked about it much on this blog because tbh it’s a really difficult thing for me to talk about in general but a year ago today, i lost my baby kitty zelda and i miss her so very much ᰔ

[antisocialxconstruct]

oof as much as I'd love to start drama by asking what IFs you have beef with..... I have to go with the less targeted question of 'what are some IF tropes you think are overdone'. personally if I have to see the same four ROs recycled into another game one more time I'll scream

LOL probably a safer question for me to answer too...

ROs are a big sticking point for me as well. Seeing the same archetypes over and over, feeling like someone came up with ROs first and is now desperately trying to finesse a story that can justify all of them being date-able*, someone having an actually interesting and compelling story to tell but bending themself into pretzels to fit in six romance arcs that may not even serve the plot just because that's an expected convention... Also in general I never lose interest in a new project faster than when I see artbreeder RO portraits. Not even because it's """AI art""" but because it's always the same empty eyed model-perfect 20something in different colors.

(*NOT the same as a story primarily designed to be a dating sim. I generally think that's fine as a genre, and some of these people would have an easier time if they were willing to admit that's what they were writing and not some sweeping grand narrative.)

My other biggest issue with a lot of amateur IF is like... excessive and overly ambitious customization? I think a lot of authors don't know where the line is on what they can just allow the reader to imagine without there being a variable for it, as well as what they should frankly just... be willing to decide for the reader when it best serves the story. As far as MC customization, I think this really stems from a lot of people in the community getting their first introduction to IF through CoG and then drawing the conclusion that if some character customization is good, more customization must be better! But if it's not going to come up in-text and be directly relevant to the plot or how the MC is characterized*... it doesn't need to be canonized.

(*by which I mean, like... making your character a specific religion, or disabled, or something like that. Things that actually impact how they engage with the world.)

Branching off of that, I think maybe my most potentially controversial take is... not every IF needs to have a customizable MC at all. It's entirely possible to write a story with a set, static protagonist, and still allow the player to make decisions that allow them to shape that character and the broader plot in a way that still feels personal and like they're an active participant. VNs tend to go this way, or else they have a faceless MC who still tends to have a more set personality, and I think sometimes I read IF demos and I really get the feeling they wish they could be writing someone specific, and they're getting hamstrung by the idea that they need to sand off enough defining features to let the MC be anyone.

[weightedlive]

knowing grief is coming doesnt prepare you for it at all 👎👎👎

[tearlessrain]

fave marine creature

oh man that's hard. I love so many marine creatures. I think if I had to pick one it would be swell sharks, because I used to work in an aquarium where I ran a shark touch tank and the swell sharks were always super chill and basically behaved like aquatic cats.

also fuckin. look at them.

pubby

[kitsoa]

10 Characters, 10 Fandoms

RULES: List your ten favorite characters from ten separate fandoms, then tag ten people!

Tagged by @robinpixels, it is a pleasant surprise. Thank you! Let's see if I can do this but I probably won't land ten people haha. I might be doubling up those tags.

Vash the Stampede (Trigun, Trigun Stampede)

Eishi Karasuma (Birdmen)

Ling Yao (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Chilchuck Tims (Dungeon Meshi)

Roxas (Kingdom Hearts)

Qifrey (Witch Hat Atelier)

Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100)

Link (Legend of Zelda)

Yukine (Noragami)

Kaito Kuroba (Detective Conan/Magic Kaito)

Okie sorry for doubling up for a couple of you. @lackadaisicalpottymouth, @crimson-amarone, @desfraisespartout, @nowherebutserenity, @plentyofpotential, @nerdismyhobby, @birdmenmanga, @sagisawarei, @wendywhite13 +Anyone who wants to give it a shot.

[baby-xemnas]

You know the law x bepo ship never crossed my minds until I found your account and let me tell you.

You make it work.

hell yeah brother

[chibitorra]

Happy Birthday in heaven, sweet girl.

I miss you more than I can ever put into words 💔

She passed almost 2 years ago now but the pain will never really go away.

[pawbeanies]

I’m not really a puppy but I’m a bunny and I’d love to play with you! I can handle roughhousing! ໒꒰ྀི˶˃ᆺ˂˶ ꒱ྀིა

!!!!! bunny !!!!! of course we can play it's okay... rolling around with you running around in circles lets PLAY ... you're too cute i cannot help it wtf .!!!!!!

[notdeadyetnatural]

I need everyone to go give their little kitties a kiss on the forehead for me tonight. I had to put my beloved babygirl Lily to sleep on Wednesday and all I can think about is how much I miss our little nighttime routine. So go give your kitties a little kiss in her honor please

[blujayonthewing]

🤔 juniper wondering if it was possessive of her to break up with isabelle after being told no, you silly thing, of course I won't marry you, but I can assure you that my eventual husband won't mind that I have you, everyone has mistresses after all

was it selfish, then, to want her all to herself? was it only that she couldn't stand to share, like a petulant child? would it not have been enough just to be allowed to stay near her...?

[shadyhouse]

im so nervous for this new job its unreal

[truthundressing]

my bunny is literally the best boy in the entire world !!! 😣💟

[edenorisshitposting]

So, for the ask game: 5, 14 and 15 maybe?

5. Anything you haven’t drawn yet but want to?

Another comic.. About a young girl who who meets a large, kind, wolf. The story has a beginning and and end, but I haven't figured out the middle yet. But when I do HEHEHE.... It's gonna be sad.

14. How has your art changed over the years?

Oh boy, it changed a LOT. I went from drawing nearly exclusively edgy anime boys in middle and high school, to completely ditching anime but still drawing characters all the time, to actually drawing environments more than people.

My style changed a lot too. I think today I draw in a much more graphic, illustrative style. Kind of european comics inspired. Compared to my old thinking of "it's only good if it looks like the art on magic the gathering cards" (which it never did). I often just use one (two if I'm filling fancy!) additional colour, rather than fully colouring every artwork. Truth is, many of my illustrations don't actually need colour! There's so much more WHITE (or blank paper) on my art now, and I use it in much smarter ways. It actually adds to the composition now, rather than just be space I didn't bother filling out.

If you fancy a trip down memory lane, scroll all the way down on my instagram, or my art blog down to my pre uni days. it's different.

15. Biggest artist pet peeve?

You're adding too many details with your white gel pen, and it's making things look shiny that aren't supposed to be. You're buying art supplies with cute packaging that are garbage in quality (looking at you Himi Jelly Guache!). The same white girl with vacant expression on a blank background does not evoke as deep of a meaning as you think it does. You say your nude photographs don't come from a place of sexualising your subject, yet you photograph exclusively young skinny women (r/analog....). Shirts don't fold in between boobs like that. You're adding too many labels to your political cartoon. I can tell the person is being used as bait, because they're hanging from the end of a hook. No need to write "bait" on them in addition.

I'm gonna stop here before I make this post a mile long...

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