#but i don't want to overdo it

[thatartiststudios]

My life, currently

My brain: k, let's get some lil fic writing in today, mayhaps some more Callum kissing Rayla's scars?

Me: ohhh yesss, I love writing that!

My brain: but with angst.

Me: but... but I just wrote that with angst, and a few other oneshots with angst, and one of the Snake Boi Callum Week 2.0 prompts

My brain: more angst. Now.

Me: but Rayla doesn't deserve this. I can write kisses and scars without angst.

My brain: angst. Right this very second.

Me: ...

And also

Me: *writing Callum giving Rayla casual endearments and affectionate touches throughout the day* aww, this is gonna be so sweet and fluffy—

My brain: Rayla feels like she doesn't deserve the titles. She's insecure. The nobles at the ball sneer at her. She feels incapable of being loved

Me: ...

Me: why... Why are you like this?

And me literally right now

Me: *meditating* fluffy Rayllum thoughts, fluffy Rayllum thoughts, fluffy Rayllum thoughts, FLUFFY RAYLLUM THOUG—

I can't even—

Please, I'm begging you, please send fluffy Rayllum headcanons my way. I need them.

[biazerod]

Some bits from the "undercover mission" scenario :D

so the plot was that there's some dude to seduce on fancy party in fancy mansion for some mission reasons. And the assumption was that Spy would be the one to do it but basically Engie gets drunk and steals the show XD

meanwhile Spy and Heavy uncover some other evil plot, probably with ppl from Spy's past

[egophiliac]

hi! this is Insomniac Anon here!!! I noticed on some of ur artworks (specifically the unique magic posters), that u have a textured look to em, like paper or grain ... i wanted to ask how u get that effect? is it a brush, a filter, or like an overlay/png u use ... ? pls tell me!! ;v; I really like how the texture looks, so i wanted to know how 2 do it since ure a very big inspo 2 me LAWL ... I've been doing art practices in diff styles i find, so, i wanted to know a bit more how you do it :^D

thank you! :D :D :D it's usually photos/textures of paper that I've messed around with; I have a bunch of free/paid/ones I took myself. anytime I see good photos of paper I add it to the collection...it is my weakness. 😔

I mostly use Photoshop, but this should work in any program that supports blending modes (also I did this in like an hour to use as an example, please forgive it :')

image by itself before texturing:

with the texture pasted in (for this one I'm using this public domain one from Pexels):

then mess around with the blending mode to see how it looks -- in this case I went with overlay, but soft light and hard light are usually good ones too, it really depends on the texture:

then with a bunch of messing around with opacity/colors/saturation/levels/adding in a bit more texture until I like how it looks:

et voilà, texture! (waves hands)

[taxinealkaloids]

harrianthe + sewing (variations on a theme)

[a-most-beloved-fool]

sometimes I suspect I am being pranked and that I somehow only have access to a version of DS9 that gradually increases the size of Kira Nerys's eyes over time. I always think, 'no, I must be imagining things. it is not possible that her eyes are That large and dewy and doe-like.' and then she appears on screen. and points a disruptor at your chest. while looking at you with the largest and dewiest and most doe-like eyes you've ever seen in your life.

this is what i see when i look at her. if u even care.

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep - Realm of Darkness

[ferberus-skull]

btw i have opened up my adopt shops again 👀 (with a lot of restrictions)

i have my pixel adopts open and my doodle adopts open

[ID: three pixels of a f pose tundra, a m pose tundra and a wildclaw. the tundras are sitting and the wildclaw is standing and looking off to the side. they're all colored in various shades of grey. END ID]

[ID: three simple drawings of a m pose tundra, a snapper and a gaoler. the tundra and snapper are sitting, and the gaoler is laying down. they're all colored in various shades of grey. END ID]

(note: i also have mirror, fae and coatl bases for my doodle adopts)

[starlightcleric]

Goals for tomorrow:

Unload the dishwasher

Make dinner

Do some stretching because my back is unhappy :(

Maybe spend some time staring at a blank document trying to will words into existence

[optiwashere]

Ugh, I'm always so annoyed when I write something start-to-finish and leave it alone for a while like usual just to dislike what I wrote later. I happily go on my way to do a simple edit and surprise! What do you know... there's things that need editing.

I need to completely redo all the dialogue. I really pride myself on the flow of my dialogue, so that's a giant mess I've made for myself and I still have a Blades chapter that I'm so close to closing out. Hopefully by next week I'll have both in a place that makes me happy.

Sigh.

[mintymuses-podcast-edition]

Also now that I have this blog I can talk about my TMA Spidersona because this fucker has been rotting my brain — I essentially looked at the TMA canon world, went "What if Spiderverse" and now I have:

Atlas Arden!

They are a Spider that's been touched by the Hunt and was on the fast track to becoming a Web avatar prior to having the fears explained to them and having the revelation that they would lose their humanity if they kept at it. They originally lived in Leeds and worked at a textile mill in the area/went to school for fashion at the University of Leeds but they have since quit/dropped out and moved to London with their girlfriend(their version of Gwen Stacy). This is Atlas's suit after joining the Spider Society, I will post their first suit sometime soon. Atlas is 20, mildly irritated by clowns, and doing their best. They also have a 1993 Ford Escort that has a dent in the hood from when they hit a Stranger-creature that's vaguely clown-shaped.

Fun facts: their earth number was designated for how many episodes of TMA there are. Atlas also first came to me in a dream — I had a blended dream of Spiderverse and TMA and two days later I had a fully realized Spider.

Post script: this world takes place in 2012 and I also forgot that Britain probably has a very different system of symbols for electricians so. Imagine they stole the "caution do not climb" tag from an American electrician.

[devondespresso]

ppl that reblog their own art/writing regularly, do you have like. a schedule? or a system? or do you just randomly remember you can do that and then pick one and reblog it

(if you do have any sort of system, rhyme or reason pls share pretty pretty pleaseeeee)

[bonetrousledbones]

getting a sudden resurgence of art motivation is such a blessing and a curse tbh. bc on one hand im drawing a lot and having a lotta fun doing so but on the other hand i wanted to make Even More secret stuff for atbb that requires drawing so i told myself i would make a few very sketchy things that would have to be quick and don't have to be Insane Awesome Quality since they'll be blurry as hell in the final product anyway and i have like less than a week / a couple days at most to get it all ready in time

so anyways now it's 3am and i just finished the first of what i still want to do after 3 days

[the-crow-binary]

Tbh I feel like everything could have been fine if there was a little bit more care into it I'm not French and I don't much about the revolution so i can't say anything about the it but I'm black so I can empathize with Annette a little more I think the Idea behind her is interesting.

Oh boyyyyyyyy okay I finished watching the show so now I can rant.

We pretty much agree. The idea behind Annette is not the problem I have with her (well, except for the fact that they felt the need to give her powers when it would've been much more meaningful and impactful to me if she hadn't had any). The problem is the show uses her to emphasize how much SLAVERY IS BAD AND EVIL (as if we don't already know that) but to the point of straight-up insulting everyone else.

First off, there's this dialogue from Annette, talking to Richter and Maria: "You're not cowards. You're just children with no experience of the world. No experience of the hard choices adults have to make." Basically, Annette is saying she knows more than them because SHE SUFFERED MORE. Maria and Richter don't know pain! They were never slaves! And everyone knows only black people and slaves knows what the world is REALLY LIKE and what TRUE PAIN IS. It infuriated me so much, and it was only the beginning.

When Richter ran away from Olrox (because that's the vampire who killed his mother in front of him and traumatised him as a CHILD, Tera told her that, his panic attack was understandable), Annette had a whole monologue about how being a slave is terrifying, about how they know the cost of freedom, about how she wouldn't run away (even though she literally ran away from her ex-owner). Later on, she will say about Richter that he was "useless as fuck". I get it, she's mad, but the fact she had to make it about her and her problems like Richter did not have as much as her is still a bitch move.

In another scene, she uses magic to talk to her teacher, and at first, it was fine. When Annette complained that Richter ran away, the woman gave her a piece of her own medicine by telling her "Everyone starts by running away, Annette.", hintingat her running away from her slave owner, and Annette goes "It's completely different, how can you even compare that!" even though SHE is the one who compared her story to Richter's to begin with to invalidate his feelings and make him look like a jerk. But then, the teacher says:

"Even these french with their high ideas, what do they know about we've suffered? And what do they care? They're building new world, but it won't be freedom, or equality or brotherhood for US"

I will talk about this more in details in another post, because the problem I have with it don't concern Annette directly. I just wanna say that there is big problems with this and that Annette did not contradict her, she did not try to say she was wrong, she took it as the truth. And that bothers me. In a earlier scene, in episode 3, the teacher also shat on the french revolution and "the whites" because it would not help THEM, so I should've expected it, really. Also Annette, just like everyone else at that moment, applauded this woman.

In the end it's a matter of the show drilling into our heads that Annette is so oppressed and SLAVERY BAD left and right that made me dislike her (that and the bitchy attitude she sometimes has for no reason). The writers does not know how to handle such a heavy topic and it shows (especially a heavy topic from another country :)). You know you fucked up when you can't talk about X people suffering without shitting on the suffering of others.

I don't know about her religion so I can't tell wich problems there is, if any, but I wouldn't be surprised if the writers messed that up too.

Good for you and everyone else who likes her, for any reason. You do you. I personnally can't stand her. She's not all bad (she was fine during the first episodes), but the show ruined her for me, I'm afraid. :/ I just can't look at her without thinking that the writers used her as a tool to defend that black people suffered more than anyone else (and it infuriates me even more when I remember that she used to be a white woman who's only crime was that she couldn't fight. i really wish everyone would stop turn the "weak" women into girlbosses who fights and make them actually strong in ways other than physical. and the fact they made her black just so they could tackle racism and slavery leaves a sour taste in my mouth). And shit a bit on the french revolution while they were at it. So yeah, just like you said. Could have been fine with a little bit more care put into it.

[iwasbored777]

I have this on my mind for a while...

I don't think that Gwen is outsider in Miles' family cuz she's white but seeing Rio being nicer to her than Jefferson was is giving me my favourite trope where a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law both married in a family that's different than theirs and so the mother-in-law is the one who treats the daughter-in-law the best because she knows that it's hard to adapt. Rio is latina who married in a black family and it must've been difficult to keep her customs while accepting new ones.

She was quick to assume that Gwen doesn't know Spanish cuz it's important to her that Miles knows her language (again, trying to have your kid not forget your side of the family) but she wanted Miles to be with Gwen cuz it made him happy. I have a feeling that if Miles and Gwen's relationship lasts Rio will accept her best because she relates to her and doesn't want any of her son's girlfriends to feel unwelcome.

And this was a good way to show how generations see things differently cuz Miles and Gwen are oblivious to that, but his parents are not, cuz times have changed and our parents are still stuck back in the days and you can't blame them for it. I know they didn't like Gwen cuz she seemed shady but I can't ignore Rio's comment cuz it points out that there was another thing they had problem with but Rio was also the one who started warming up to her faster.

[heartshattering]

I'll wake up and this will all be a nightmare, right?