#botanicallydubious

[post-cal]

heyo, not a question for bro but rather for muns, feel free to answer this privately, but I've kinda always wanted to start an ask blog like this & have never really figured out how to do it & also gain traction enough that it's actually fun - do u have any advice?? your blog + dont-call-me-david have inspired the alpha rose muse in me lol and i wanna put it somewhere, so :) thanks for ur time!!!

ALPHA ROSE YOU SAY??? (insert a million eye emojis here)

Hello! This is birb and I do have a system I like to use when starting out on ask blogs.

1.) Enjoy what you’re doing!!!

This is a pretty big one because if you don’t enjoy yourself you won’t really have the proper motivation to keep going! Plus it shows in your work with drawing/writing.

2.) Do it for yourself!

This ask blog is EXTREMELY self indulgent, I wanted to see more post cal Bro Strider content so I made my own (Fae joined in later to help me write). It really helps out in the beginning because no one will know about your blog when you start out so you have to make content for yourself that you want to see.

3.) Consistently post things and tag it!

If you want people to see your blog and interact with you it, post consistently and properly tag your stuff first before adding in your own personal comments. In the beginning I spammed the HECK out of the Bro Strider and Homestuck tag so people would see my stuff! I don’t spam the Homestuck tag now because I feel bad but I go nuts in the Bro Strider tag (I still feel bad but not as much).

I hope this helps you if/when you start your blog!!!! Please come and interact with mine! Also sorry for the late answer, I work night shifts so I’ve been unconscious all morning, the only reason I reblogged anything earlier because I was awake for like 2 minutes before passing out again

[solkat-edits]

honestly my favorite sprite to edit is dave's? or dirk's. but i did do an ultimate rose strider (swapped dirkways) edit of roxy's mom's sprite and honestly i think it turned out sick as shit

OH WHAT HTHAT SOUNDS LIT AS FUCK

I WANNA SEE

[thearchivistfromnightvale]

Just took @botanicallydubious 's entity quiz and holy shit I didn't need to be called out like that. This quiz read the depths of my soul and put them into words.

https://uquiz.com/quiz/W0ggNW/another-tma-entity-quiz-please-read-the-entire-warning

[solkat-edits]

@botanicallydubious​: ,,,ya said u wanted to see the rose strider soooo. here she is! courtesy the edit i did for her non ultself too. she fights with fancy conductors batons lol! she’s a seer of heart and also. has an obsession with the green sun/first guardians. i have a whole au. I also have dirk and dave lalonde edits. I’m deep in this shit

mod karkat speaking… : IM NEWCFKJWBVBJUW THIS IS GORGEOUS??? I LOVE THE EXPRESSIONS SO MUCH, AND THE DETALS YOU’VE PUT INTO THE HAIR AND OUTFITS, IM DSNMFKERGEKE THIS IS SO ENCHANTING IM LOSING MY SHIT

[unadulteratednightvale]

More crossover!!

Art by @botanicallydubious​

@kogla's welcome to magnus archives art inspired me, so credit there for the inspiration and also pls look at their art!!

uhhhh they're quick and sloppy but. I'll be drawing more of these fools i think. maybe write fic? i haven't finished wtnv tho lol. either way! YES cecil palmer is an avatar of the eye, NO i will not take constructive criticism on that

[squidificati0n]

@botanicallydubious I want to share something with you because I too lost a significant amount of weight after being put on Adderall. I lost 75 pounds with no effort. It just fell right the fuck off. After a few years, maybe 5 or so, my body adjusted. I gained back twice as much. Not only that, but adderall DOES NOT WORK anymore. Don't get used to this, don't let yourself think this is your life now. Being focused and able to wrangle your runaway brain is great, but it will not last. This will be fleeting. Don't let it crush you.

And if you think people were judgemental before? Wait until you're a person who WAS thin.

i genuinely can't believe the kind of privilege thin people have, and like... i say this because i went from being overweight enough that it actively impacted me societally to being really slim.

ive lost roughly 35-40 lbs since 2018, from about 175 to 135-140. about 15 of that was that i joined color guard my senior year and marching band WILL get you in shape, regardless of weight, it'll get your leg muscles hard as fuck, and the rest is due to starting adderall a couple months ago, which is less healthy in the long run because it's an appetite suppressant but like. the benefits outweigh the downsides.

but literally it is so much easier to find clothing that looks good on me and feels good. it's so much easier to find things in my size at all. it's so much easier to eat because nobody's giving me Looks.

bless my parents i love them but i got SO MUCH "vegetables first!!! don't eat so much bread!!!! jesus Christ kid are you gonna eat all that????" when i was in high school, and now when i eat with them they're trying to make sure im getting enough proteins and fats so that i don't lose muscle mass in this whole ordeal

and it's so. strange.

and like - I'm not saying that it's healthy for people to not exercise. I'm saying that the right amount and kind of exercise is different for everyone and sometimes people can be fit as hell and still fat and that's okay because i promise you, that fat person who works out the amount that keeps their blood pressure at a good place and makes them feel good and eats stuff that makes them feel good is 300% healthier than the skinny person who doesn't care about what they eat and doesn't move their body and just HAPPENS to have the genes that keep them skinny.

not to mention that "health" SHOULDN'T BE A MORAL JUDGEMENT IN THE FIRST PLACE, just something to strive for, for your own happiness and comfort. bc 'health' isn't the same for everyone and that's ok, it doesn't make you A BAD PERSON for being 'unhealthy' by one person's standards

i have a lot of feelings on this topic. just because I've lost weight doesn't mean I don't remember being "fat" and being treated and spoken to horribly for it