#can someone with actual artistic ability please draw this

[melbush]

this, but it’s eight, fitz and anji

[mayplantstarrwaters]

person who have never entered any fandom spaces in their life : Why aren't artists making beautiful art anymore?

[dross-the-fish]

What about AI artists who sell their art?

Kind of a grey area to be honest. I feel like if they disclose they used AI to generate the art it's at the buyer's discretion. I don't think it's actually very profitable to do given that 1. the AI image can't be copyrighted, there's nothing to stop people from using it as they please anyway so you can't protect your inventory, 2. You have no ability to control the quality or consistency of your product. I don't see AI generated art sell for much, maybe 5 USD for an adoptable OC or something on Deviant art and if you're spending hours putting in prompts and weeding through results that's a lot of time for very little money. There's also not a huge demand for AI art and a growing stigma against it. My take is that it's not really worth it/profitable. All that aside, I am of the firm belief that there is no such thing as an AI artist. Not because you can't define what AI creates as art but because the "artist" in this case is the generator, you are pitching it ideas or making requests and it's doing its best to follow your instructions. I'm currently working as an illustrator on a project for someone and they send me references, descriptions and samples to work off of so that I can create the artwork they want for their book. This is the same process that I go through on any project I work on where I draw what my client wants. No matter how detailed or thorough the client is in their descriptions there is no circumstance under which they are considered the artist because the actual labor of creating art falls to the illustrator. Again, I have to stress, the author is not an artist, they've employed an artist (me) to create art for them because they cannot make it themselves. No matter how detailed their instructions are at the end of the day it is up to me to interpret and produce the actual art. In the case of AI Art the generator is the artist, not the person using it. People argue that AI is just a tool but a tool is made to assist not to completely automate the process. When you hire an artist to draw something for you that artist is not a tool, they are an employee. AI also isn't completely free, I think to get the most out of some programs you do have to subscribe, which means you're still paying for AI to make art for you, it's just significantly less than commissioning an artist.

[blackboard-monitor]

how i've finished inktober every year for eight years and counting

Every time I mention around other artists that I finish inktober every year (meaning I draw and ink 31 drawings, one every day in October), I get questions like "how???", so I figured I'd make a post about it on the off chance it's helpful to someone. Please note that all my advice is based on my personal experience and you're a different person so what works for me may not work for you, and you can do whatever you want forever.

What it boils down to for me is two basic rules: 1) keep it simple and 2) manage your expectations.

Tools

Paper/sketchbook

I started my first inktober in my journal at the time, and because I'm neurotic like that, I've had to do every subsequent inktober in whatever journal I was using at that point.

The benefit of this is that each journal has had a page size of A5 or smaller, which can be tricky when trying to get in a lot of detail, but on the other hand forces you to limit the size of your drawings to a pretty managable size.

Paper type can also be important! Last year in 2023, my journal was a Moleskine sketchbook (image 1), which was actually designed to handle some degree of wet media, which was a game-changer for me as an ink wash enjoyer. Don't get me wrong, I've been using ink washes in most of my previous journals as well, but inking is a lot nicer when your paper isn't constantly buckling (image 2) or pilling and the ink isn't bleeding all over the place, inclunding through the page (image 3). Pages that stay flat instead of buckling are also a lot easier to scan or photograph, if like me you want to post your art online.

In short, my inktober paper recommendation is to use a sketchbook no larger than A5, and go for one with nice, thick paper if you intend to use wet media.

Sketching

I sketch everything with a single 6H pencil that I got from my brother in 2019. Because the lead is so hard, it allows me to scribble to my heart's content without the sketch getting too dark or hard to erase. Sometimes I'll refine the sketch with a HB mechanical pencil, which shows up really nicely on top of the 6H lines, but I may skip that step if I'm feeling lazy or the first sketch is clean enough.

Inking

I've used a variety of art supplies in my inktober drawings. For the most part I've always stuck to greyscale, with the exception of a couple of red or gold accents some years.

My main inktober tools are a set of Micron fineliners in various sizes, and liquid India ink, which I use with a dip pen and with brushes. I usually mix up a mid-tone ink wash in a small bottle, and use that throughout the month.

Fineliners pros: portable, require minimal setup, can use on the sofa or in bed or wherever Fineliners cons: creating texture and filling large areas is a lot more time-consuming. In 2021 I did inktober exclusively in fineliner because I was tired and couldn't be bothered to deal with liquid ink, but I ended up spending more time than maybe ever on the drawings because it took so long to add texture with pens.

Ink pros: you can achieve small details with a dip pen as well as quick texture and fill in large areas with a brush and ink washes Ink cons: can be messy (protip from 2022 Liekki, don't spill ink water all over your laptop), usually you have to sit at a table of some kind, you need to wash your brushes and dip pens, if your paper isn't designed for wet media, it'll buckle or bleed

Pick your inking tools and techniques based on how much time you have!

Prompts/ideas/subject matter

I've always stuck to the "official" prompt list, because it brings me joy to scroll through the tag of the day on instagram and see how others interpreted the same prompt. Or, rather, it used to bring me joy to do this, until instagram's enshittification stole our ability to look at tags. Maybe I'll have some luck with that on Cara going forward; here's hoping.

As for ideas, sometimes they come easy, sometimes it's like pulling teeth and I have to enlist all my friends to brainstorm with me (sorry, y'all). When in doubt, draw the first thing that comes to mind when you read the prompt; don't overthink it (like I often do). I like to try to come up with a less obvious interpretation of a prompt, but this is also where I often get stuck and have to harass my loved ones for ideas. Sometimes it helps to relate the prompt to a tv show/book/etc. you're into; I've done quite a bit of inktober fanart, as well as art of various DnD cahracters from games I've played/DM'd. If all else fails, just look at what everyone else is drawing that day.

Time management

Be realistic about how much time you have in a day to work on inktober, and then set your expectations accordingly. If you only have an hour, stick to a size and level of detail that you can realistically finish in an hour. I've done some very quick scribbles in my years of inktober when I've been busy that day.

My personal philosophy is that I try not to plan too much ahead; I don't do any sketching until day of, and ideally I don't try to come up with ideas for a prompt or at least decide on an idea until the day before at the earliest. Containing each drawing in one day helps me have realistic expectations of what's doable. This does mean drawing late into the night sometimes after procrastinating or struggling to find an idea all day, but it's what works for me.

If your goal is to complete inktober, it's better to do a small shitty drawing in ten minutes than to fall behing by starting something way too ambitious that you'll never be able to finish in a day.

Secret third rule!

Accept the fact that you aren't going to be happy with every drawing.

Inktober was created as an exercise to practice inking. Think of your drawings as sketches, not finished masterpieces. Some of them will be bad, at least in your own eyes. Sometimes you'll put a lot of effort into something that just doesn't work out. For example:

To quote Joe Hills, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of practice. So you fucked up today's drawing. Tomorrow is a new day – that's the beauty of inktober. "Ever tried, ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." (Samuel Beckett) Progress isn't linear, either; some years are consistently mediocre, other years it's all over the place with a couple bangers and a couple really shitty ones.

Every inktober I've made drawings I love,

drawings I'm indifferent to,

and drawings that straight up suck.

And I'm at peace with that.

Thanks for reading what turned into a pretty long post, and I hope some of it was helpful. Happy inktobering!

[redandrew52]

ok so hi as per usual I have a whole info dump to dump bc when do I not

Lately I've been doing a bunch of art stuff out of my comfort zone. Sewing, 3D art, oil painting, etc... and I've honestly felt like I've forgotten how to draw...not like... actually but like where you pick up a pen and you feel like you've forgotten what you're doing. Sometimes I just sit down to sketch and I just can't. I feel like everything has to be in a specific journal or done a specific way (because wow my brain loves being particular!) and I can't just sit and make something without thought

So to prevent that, I decided to draw some cool Tumblr OCs because that way I can't be particular about it since idk all the lore and xyz

these were all done with a pen so if I messed up stuff then yk, oopsie daisy :') but that's the fun of sketching I suppose (also If you couldn't tell I hate drawing hair- I just scribbled that shit real fast and called it a day (yet in my finished artworks I always get so many compliments on my ability to do hair? Strange how that works))

also!! if you are a person viewing this post who has never seen these artists please check them out they are super talented and their art is a feast for the eyes!! tags w/ corresponding OC below

@everett-fornow (Henris) @i-can-not-art (Midge) @iolite-flames (Evander) @kikuwaters (DK) @just-someone-in-here (Lillian) @berrycreatures (Cosmo)

Ok this next part of the post is mainly just for myself but I'm including it in this post because this is kinda just me shooting the shit on main, so don't feel obligated to read this but if u stick around to see then here is the context:

I have very very bad anxiety and this Tumblr account has been absolutely no exception. I can't quite figure out why but posting on this account makes me feel...sick? That's not quite how I would put it but words are hard...anyways, moral of the story I get really bad anxiety from posting on here and there have been so many finished pieces and shit that I've wanted to put on here that I just never did because the anxiety got the best of me. To maybe (?) prevent that (science experiment(brain experiment?)) I've decided to post a WIP so maybe I'll actually post the finished thing whenever the hell I finish it (I have so many projects going on at once I can't even count)

this is obviously very not finished at all because I was struggling with this so bad that I needed to step back and just stop looking at it for a second but yeah!!!!!!!! ocs!!!!!!! gee golly gosh do I love ocs

OK THAT WAS A LOT OF TALKING MY APOLOGIES BYE

[starwars-art-events]

Art Event 4: Different Genres

Hello there!

This is an informal, for-fun art event, meant for any person who enjoys making art. This time, it's a two-parter: both a trade, and just a casual event for those who just wish to create art for themselves. It's a pressure-free event! No need to create a big masterpiece--just something you or others would happily enjoy.

The theme this time around is "Different Genres." You can choose any character(s) from any media(s) and put them into a different universe entirely. Make a clone a mermaid! Toss Thrawn into a K-drama! Hondo Ohnaka could sail the seas in the Golden Era of Piracy! Anakin Skywalker could be a Warrior cat! Whatever genre you can dream up, they could be in.

Types of art welcome:

Drawings (digital or scanned traditional)

Short comics

Short animation

Photo edits

Video edits (music or otherwise)

Music creation

Moodboards/photo collages

Quotes-and-photo collages

Other (contact moderator ASAP)

Dates to adhere to:

Deadline to join the trade: February 10th (There is no sign-up or deadline for free-posting individuals)

Dates to post: March 30th-31st

Rules:

For the trade: Joining requires creating art. To recieve art, you must create art! Simple as that. Many types of art are allowed (see above), and all can be adapted to how you wish to conceive yours.

You don't have to be "great" at any art to join! This is an informal event with no level restrictions. The important thing is that your art absolutely must have effort. For example, a moodboard should be cohesive, and it should contain enough photos that it could be worthy of giving as a gift. Make sure you are satisfied with what you are giving out (to your abilities levels, of course--don't expect the Star Wars Mona Lisa if you aren't to par with DaVinci's skills!).

This is an anonymous event. You will know who they are creating art for, but you will not know who you are recieving from! Until posting dates, please keep your art to yourself (or a trusted non-participating friend). In the words of Gandalf the Grey: Keep it secret; keep it safe.

Art should be created for your giftee based on things/characters/ideas they enjoy. Do a bit of "pseudo-stalking" (not real stalking) of their tags. See what the person enjoys, both in terms of mediums and concepts. If they have clone trooper OC's, base something off those guys! If they are a big Ezra Bridger fan, see what types of AUs they enjoy! If the concept of the Force makes them go wild, include that in your art! If you are at a loss for ideas, send an anon message to the person to see what they are interested in OR contact the moderator.

Please sign up only ONCE. You will recieve art from only ONE artist. The artist may wish to give you more than one piece of art, but it will only be from THAT artist alone. If you wish to make more art for someone else, arrange that on your own time, please!

If you need to drop out, that is okay! Things happen. You are able to drop out at any time. Please contact the moderator ASAP if you need to drop. Please understand that the other artists are putting their own time and effort into their pieces. The artist gifting their time and effort to you is no longer obligated to do so anymore. If you drop out, they are completely allowed to drop, too.

Important note: All skin tones and disabilities must be accurately portrayed. No skin tone should be lighter than the actor/character's actual skin colour. Disabilities must be depicted correctly. If not, you will be dropped. The same goes for respecting canon cultures. Please refrain from depicting Children of the Watch or Tuskens without their garments, unless the scenario is explicitly of situations where the removal of clothing/armour/helms is acceptable. Please cover the heads of Twi'lek women, and that of Mirialans. These requests are not only personal wishes of the moderators, but also just basic decency. Do your research portraying someone different than you. Do not fall prey to harmful tropes. This hurts others..

IF YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS, PLEASE DM THE MODERATOR. You may do so here, or at @engagemythrusters or @darlin-djarin.

Sign Up Form for Trade Here

Thanks, all!

[ladyinbooks]

Hi lady! I love your works so much! Rarely pure has bewitched me, heart and soul! I often find myself going back to certain paragraphs that had me kicking my feet the first time I read them. I would love to have a physical version of them, have you ever thought of printing them and selling them to fans?

Ahh lovely Anon! Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️🤗 I'm so pleased you're enjoying Rarely Pure - that makes me very happy indeed. I have a special place in my heart for Lysander and Aubrey (and, of course, Retvja) so you have made me a very happy Lady indeed! Thank you! (And I'm curious about those paragraphs you mention, so if you'd ever like to share your favourites, please do!)

What a lovely ask! You've got me smiling so much! The honest answer is: yes, I have thought about it. I have had lovely readers like you ask me this question before, and to be honest it always blows me away when I discover someone would actually want to buy one of my works as a physical copy. (It makes me so insanely happy.) I have thought long and hard over this over the last year, and I have actually come to a decision recently.

So, the answer is yes. Physical copies are not going to be an imminent thing, as I'd like to take my time and make sure they are something worth buying for people (my brain keeps picking up shiny thoughts like 'Hmm, maybe there should be a little postcard in physical copies'), but they are coming. I have a big birthday in a couple of years, and I have set myself a deadline of officially having something in physical print well before then! 😅

(I also need to find an artist for covers, because... well honestly if I can draw a stick man it's a good day for my artistic abilities! 🤣)

[anjael]

DOTA SECRET SANTA 2024 - SIGNUPS OPEN

It’s that time again already!

As always, even if you aren’t participating, I’d be very grateful if you could signal boost by re-blogging!  I’ll also be cross-posting to my Twitter *here* so RTs much appreciated if you’re on there ~

What’s a Secret Santa?

For those who have never done a Secret Santa before, the way it works is you submit a gift request, which goes into a pool which is then randomised. The randomised requests are then handed out to the participants.

So basically, its Mystery Gift! Everyone draws/writes a Dota-themed gift for someone. You won’t know who it’s for, and you won’t know who is doing yours! Then at the exchange, the completed gifts are handed out anonymously to whomever they belong, via email.

Sounds good, where do I sign?

Send your email applications right here!   -> dotasecretsanta@gmail.com

What do I write in my  application email?

1. Your name / tumblr tag / most used social media - a link to your blog would also be helpful so I know who you are and can contact you if emails are not working or something. A link to examples of your work (art tag, etc) is also appreciated!

2. Preferred gift rating.  NSFW requests are totally okay as long as they are not offensive/racist/sexist but if you’d like something NSFW, please also provide a SFW alternative request as not everyone is comfortable producing such content. If you don’t mind receiving NSFW but would prefer not to submit it, please tell me and vice versa.

3. Your actual request!  If you prefer shipping/non shipping, please include this in your signup email. Please try to word your request so that it can be filled by either an artist or writer, if possible, as your gift-giver is randomly assigned!

Examples of requests (just for reference, there’s no required format)

- a pairing or your favourite character/s doing [something of your choice]

- an AU with [character/pairing]

Your requests don’t have to be seasonal-themed, request whatever you like!

4. Whether you would be able to pinch-hit (fill an extra gift if needed).

5. Whether you would like to remain anonymous to your gift recipient and/or on the master-post of entries (which will be posted up on Tumblr a few days after gift exchange)

———-   DEADLINES   ————–

Applications Close:  29th October 2024, 00:00 GMT

Prompts Sent Out to Participants: by 1st November 2024, 00:00 GMT

Gift submission: 20th December 2024, 22:00 GMT

(Please submit your completed gifts to dotasecretsanta@gmail.com)

Gift Exchange: 22nd - 24th December 2024 (TBC)

———-      RULES/GUIDELINES     —————–

- Don’t be a butt. (generally the best rule to live by)

- Complete the gift using your MAD SKILLS, whether that’s drawing or writing fanfic! If you have other cool magic abilities like animating or using SFM, you’re welcome to use those too!

- Please submit completed works only. Your gift should be fully coloured if it’s art (unless you are specifically doing a monochrome / inked piece), and properly formatted, spell-checked and at least 1,000 words if it’s a written piece.

- For written pieces, google doc links/word documents are fine for the email exchange, but if you want me to include your fic in the tumblr master-post please bear in mind you need to post it somewhere link-able such as AO3.

- if you are submitting NSFW art, AO3 hosts art too and can be a good alternative to tumblr/twitter restrictions.

- Please don’t post any completed gifts on your blog until gifts have been exchanged!

- if the deadline is approaching and you know you won’t be able to submit your piece in time, please tell me as soon as possible so I can arrange for someone else to fill your assigned prompt.

- I’ll be tracking the tumblr tag ‘dota secret santa 2024’. If you have any issues, inbox me, email me or DM me on Twitter! (link above)  

There’s also a Discord group - please let me know if you’d like an invite!

- GL HF!

[limeade-l3sbian]

*Kind of an art/feminist analysis, though maybe kinda dumb. Feel free to disagree!*

Disclaimer: this obviously isn’t the case of ALL who partake in this behavior, but I do think there’s some truth to my thoughts, even if I don’t have any concrete evidence besides my own eyes.

I’m someone who draws. While I’m not super amazing, I’m fairly competent at certain things and could be better if I wasn’t so lazy.

As I’ve gotten older, my ability to draw humans, in particular women since that’s what I seem to prefer, has improved but it’s also changed a lot. When I look back at my older stuff, from my teen years, the women were extremely pornofied. That’s not to say the drawings were particular lewd, but I mean in in their features and their bodies. They always had the huge eyes, tiny noses, plump lips, exaggerated hourglass figure, very big breasts and so on. Obviously this isn’t pornographic, but I call this version of women pornofied because it’s what’s women’s standards are shaped by and it’s the version of women that men expect to see as examples of beauty, often due or at least part in due to their pornography watching habits and general tendency to dehumanise women.

I didn’t watch porn neither then or now but I was obviously still influenced by the standards forced upon women and that could be seen in my art.

Now when I draw women, they are all types of people. They sometimes have blemishes, sometimes smile and expression lines, they are sometimes bald, they are sometimes fat, sometimes extremely skinny, they are different races, with actually different features not suffering from same face syndrome.

My point in this is that I think besides having gotten better, I also think my age and maturity is a HUGE cause for this change. Because art does reflect our views to some degree. I don’t think art can ever be fully apolitical. At least not a collection of art from the same person. And how men tend to draw women, besides their love for nakedness and empty eyes, is usually this hyper “idealised”, unrealistic caricature of women. To me that speaks of immaturity nowadays. To not be able to see beyond what is and what isn’t conventionally pretty. Teen me was horrified at the idea of not drawing what was deemed pretty. Nowadays I wanna depict what actually looks like real living humans. I still make these people up from my fantasy, but they look like folks you could meet on the street. I’ve studied enough faces, met with enough variety in personality, looks and walks of life to try and portray that and prefer that. Now I see the naked women drawings as a lack of understanding of women as actual humans. I’m not talking about anatomy studies but actual art where the point of the woman’s nakedness is just to be naked and “nice to look at”? Yeah that’s the ones. Women partake in this type of art too. As said, I did as a teen too. But I think when a person doesn’t progress from it, they show themselves, in my eyes, to have a fundamental flawed view of women’s humanity. And it’s no surprise that many who don’t involve from that type of art eventually go on to draw some iteration of hentai. Because that’s the next step isn’t it? Being incapable appreciating women just living without pleasing our eyes transforms into, let her perform sexual acts full on. Art can easily show the degrading views of the artists and my insecure past self was no better, even if it was directed inwards. My art have improved in part because I have grown to love my womanhood. My femaleness. Myself.

💜

[llatimeria]

fear mongering about new tech stuff is so fucking frustrating because it leads to people completely losing the plot about what they're actually mad at and the real problems in the world.

like, NFTs are not bad because they're collectable and tradeable pngs. collecting and trading art rules and has probably existed since the first moment a human made a piece of art that could feasibly be handed to another human. NFTs are bad because cryptocurrency is a power-guzzling scam pitched by people smart enough to know it's worthless to people who want to pretend they're just as smart as those people because they have too much money.

AI isn't bad because it's a computer that makes art. that in and of itself is completely and utterly morally neutral. it's a complete nonissue and I can't believe the people who romanticize things like the Mars rovers and Voyager sattelites aren't all over COMPUTER THAT DRAWS THINGS FOR YOU or COMPUTER THAT WRITES A LITTLE STORY FOT YOU as a super cute anthropomorphizeable phenomena.

the problem with AI is that corporate behemoths, who either don't understand the technology or do and don't care, are firing actual people in favor of using AI and even this is nuanced. In creative fields it's obvious horseshit, but in every other field it's slightly more complicated horseshit - we should be striving for a world free from dumbass labor, but we also live under capitalism and a person's ability to feed themselves and their families is tied to the amount of work they do so, unfortunately, they depend on doing that dumbass labor that they probably don't like and would rather be spending their time doing literally anything else, like spending time with the families they're performing dumbass labor to feed.

Not to mention a lot of creative AIs were built with scraped datasets taken nonconsentually from artists and writers (and imo that's also kind of a nothingburger - are you really materially harmed by someone looking at your art and being inspired by it, even if that "someone" is a machine? why do you care if i don't care if my work is used in training data? what would you say if i told you that, if asked nicely, i'd enthusiastically give an AI programmer permission to use my art and writing in their training sets so they can better understand how these programs work?), a significant privacy issue -- creators should have the final say over what is done with their art -- and actively making their programs worse by including junk and irrelevant data. AI is dangerous because it's been unleashed on an unsuspecting public without enough caution and safeguards by its creators, but what's done is done and now we just have to figure out what to in this reality rather than getting stuck on what we should have done.

can we please. Just. keep ourselves on the fucking plot with this shit, before we get people thinking that it's evil to have your cancer diagnosed by a computer program who can catch it way faster than a human doctor could, or that it's a problem to SELL AND TRADE ART, or that we should really stop researching the shit that eases the burden of dumbass labor because some people reaaaallly neeeeeeed to do dumbass labor for money when we could just as easily have those people do less dumbass labor with all the time and energy we're saving offloading dumbass labor to computers instead of making a poor schmuck scan documents day in and day out

[system32sys-hub]

Pinned/About

We go by Operator collectively, though System32 is similarly fine as a catch-all. Bodily 18.

We're a system of 200+ and growing, considering ourselves traumagenic, hydraconscious, and disordered, likely with DID. For the record, we are FULLY endo-supportive and will never ostracize someone because of their origin. We even have a few endogenic headmates ourselves!

Collectively, we're a digital artist of ~15ish years and counting. We specialize in mecha, armor, and complicated designs, but can commonly be found drawing furries, scalies, and anime-esque imagery.

We occasionally write, and have several OV's (Original Verses) designated to different collections of OCs. Largely we're interested in gaming, and a lot of our inspiration comes from games as such.

We are physically and intellectually disabled, and often do not have the spoons for most basic tasks. Please respect this!

Our other blogs are:

@real-isaac-clarke (Isaac's blog)

@lovesill (Ludus' blog)

@doomguy-irl (Wyatt's blog)

@mogai32 (Our MOGAI blog)

And more to come!

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[meekunderstanding]

Witch of Space (Jade)

Active manipulation Class

Witches are confident optimistic rebels, they push and shift the sea of their aspect. They're the ones who stir the pot of what is their aspect so that it doesn't grow stagnant. Their challenge is to know where to stir, whether that's rising or lowering the waves? That's up to them.

My favorite Beta kid! Jade. She is silly as she is sleepy, she is even the first to wake upon her moon of prospit! Where Skaia told her visions of things to happen. She began to tie little ribbons of thread around her fingers to remember all the things that matter. She has a variety of interests such as gardening, drawing, playing fetch with her Guardian, and playing the flute! (Yet not very well.) She is an incredibly kind fellow!

Space is that which embodies creation, the bigger picture, and that the journey matters. It's not about the destiny, its the road to that destiny. It's seeing what's going on, and then making the right decision. If anyone can see through the depth of creation, and all the little things that happen in this world? It's the Space Bound.

Now. Let's talk about the Witch of Space.

A Witch of Space is someone who has the ability to circumvent the very course of someone's journey. If you're going somewhere you don't wanna go? The Witch of Space is someone who could shift your journey in a better direction, but they also could shift it in a worse one too. So don't get on their bad side, yeah?

But their challenge is too to be able to determine what they're doing when they alter someone's course in their specific journey, will it really be good? Or just good for them? Or even just that specific person. All witches must carry themselves carefully so as to not hurt anyone.

The personality of a Witch of Space is someone who is generally kind and fresh. They're sweet. They can become incredible artists, or ever even just naturally talented at art (Jealous) They also know when it's time to say no, in many ways they rebel against their aspect by saying no to it. If you need a miracle? They're who to call!

How they help people is by altering the depth of creation in a person to potentially give them a different journey. Has anyone ever heard the term "Tough Love" well, the Witch of Space is the master of saying exactly the thing that will enact that depth of character, which is their creation.

But again those words could also bring out the wrong thing in people. Just be wary.

They can also do this in their environment, a dirty space will become fresh and new. A new feminine touch upon any space. A Witch of Space is one to never sweep something under the rug.

Please if I left anything out, do tell me! I'll go back and edit the post to accommodate the actual Witches of Space that are out there!

[mrghostrat]

Hello Mr ghost rat! I apologise if this is an incredibly stupid question and if this is an inconvenience to answer, please don’t feel pressured to even look at it! I was just wondering, how do you feel comfortable writing fan fiction for a tv show you have started more recently. (And by recently I mean less then 6 years since starting it and rewatching it a million times) like- and I’m so sorry if this makes no sense but I desperately want to write good omens fan fiction, and fan fiction for other fandoms I am immensely interested in, but I feel as though I am unworthy of writing these characters who I have only just met and may not understand to the best of my abilities. When I watch a tv show and I like it I go into a frenzy and by about a month since watching it I could tell you everything there is to know about the show the production the storyline the hidden meanings what happens and any time stamps during the film but I feel very guilty writing the characters even though I probably won’t ever know them better then I do now. The only thing I’ve ever felt comfortable writing fan fiction about is a tv show I started watching when I was 8 and have literally (and I’m not exaggerating) watched over 300 times since then I have merged with the characters and so I feel justified writing them. I have so many ideas for fics but don’t feel as though I have known anyone long enough to write them. Either way my question is, how do you do it? You write so brilliantly (and so much) for characters who you seem to have only met within a few years of writing? It’s incredible and I would love some advice! I’m sorry that this is so long but I would appreciate anything you would be able to tell me! Thank you so much 💛🐝

honestly you sound more than equipped enough to write good omens fan fiction! i think reading a lot of other fic helps, because you get a feel for how other people capture their likenesses in prose-- kind of in the way that it's easier to learn to draw people by looking at someone's art of them, to see how another artist interprets their face in a two dimensional way.

i guess i was a little terrified to write and release my first fic, but when you inhale the characters like we do, it's not the end of the world to simply try. writing for a live action series is a godsend actually, because you can close your eyes and picture the words coming out of david & michael's mouths and test if it sounds natural or not. that's also why i enjoy linking in so many lines and moments from the show (good lord + that's my point + etc) because it brings you back to their reality and keeps you grounded in canon characterisation.

at the end of the day, you can't do any worse than people renaming aziraphale to ezra/zira/az/avery.

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

15 people, 15 questions

Thank you @transboyzuko and @kiki-strike for tagging me!!

1.) Are you named after anyone?

Nope. My parents nearly called me Isabella but they chose Sofia last minute (I’m glad they did bc it’s Portuguese and there’s also like a million Isabellas.)

2.) When was the last time you cried?

Thursday last week bc I watched a movie in class that I didn’t expect to be triggered by but Oh Well.

3.) Do you have kids?

I don’t even have a job 😭

4.) What sports do you play/have played?

I’m absolutely terrible at every conceivable sport and hate it with a passion but I did play netball for like, six years when I was really young. Still shit at it tho lol.

5.) Do you use sarcasm?

When I need to, yes. But not if I know it’s gonna upset someone.

6.) What’s the first thing you notice about people?

Their eyes. I don’t know why it’s so random but I’m always drawn to eyes, maybe it’s because they’re the window to the soul or maybe it’s bc that’s the centre of the face and I’m scared shitless of first impressions and always think about Eye Contact.

7.) What’s your eye colour?

Green but it shifts from forest green when I wear dark green clothes to lighter green when I wear (shocker) lighter green clothes.

8.) Scary movies or happy endings?

I cannot be paid or coerced to watch anything vaguely scary so I’m strongly on the happy endings side. I just want my fictional characters to have good lives man 😭😭

9.) Any talents?

Well, I am a bit of an artist. That’s quite underground though, I’m not sure if people know? (I’m not funny) No but seriously I draw, sing, act, write, play3 instruments, I can do accents? If that counts lol. My friends say my ability to be nice to anyone is a talent, which is sweet so I’ll add it :)

10.) Where were you born?

Idk I just was

11.) What are your hobbies?

Drawing, singing, writing fanfic (guilty pleasure), reading fanfic, playing instruments, history facts (yes I’m a nerd shut up)

12.) Do you have any pets?

Never had one :’)

13.) How tall are you?

5’7 and still getting taller

14.) Favourite subject in school?

English english english I knoWW we all hate writing essays but uh. I don’t? It’s kinda fun actually 😭 and I like analysing poems? Uh. My English teacher is a gift to the earth so maybe that’s why

15.) Dream job?

Psychologist. I’ve always wanted to help people (especially teens) with whatever they’re going through, neurodivergent people, queer and trans people. Literally anyone who I can help. I know it’s a hard job, and it takes a lot of work, but honestly? Seeing people happier or if I can help at least one person would be worth it :)

Tagging people who might already have been tagged uhhhh but it’s fine probably

@adriancatrin @haroldtea @please-dont-burn-out @electro-strike-zukka-time @erisenyo @divorcedzukka @strrwbrrryjam @sukiluvvs @sukidude @bonksoundeffect @blu3berrydraws @mike-queerler @myguiltyartpleasure @moncuries @marriedzukka

[fancyfeathers]

Father Like Daughter (Yandere William James Moriarty and his darling having a genius daughter)

Thinking about the siblings and cousins again…

Hyacinth eventually needs a wheelchair because of her condition, because most of the time it becomes far too painful and or difficult to stand for long periods of time. Most of the time she would slap anyone’s hands away who try to push her chair, even if they only mean to help her (as someone who has used a wheelchair for about a year of my life cause of a series of surgeries in my knees, so not push someone without their consent). Most of the time when people do try push her it’s because she is ease dropping on a meeting or snooping around the house, she’ll slap their hand away, especially if it’s Sebastian or James, they can handle it, and then go off on her own telling them she can do somethings on her own. Then the only ones who have her permission to push her if need be are her father, mother, Louis, Andrei, and Madeline, but not Eloise or Marguerite because Eloise has the build of a twig and barely lift or push anything over fifteen pounds and Marguerite because she accidentally made Hyacinth tip over backwards by putting practically her whole weight on the back of the chair.

Madeline goes horseback riding early every morning, before anyone even wakes up, like around four in the morning, so no one even knows she is gone. When she is in London she goes to St. James's Park along the paths there and since it is so dark and early practically no one sees her, then in Durham she goes along the old country paths that are practically empty minus the early morning farmer who she passes by every day who she smiles and waves at, but this is also how her father finds out because he is rather sociable with many of the locals and the farmer mentions a young blonde lady who looks an awful a lot like William who rides by every morning. Honestly William is quite impressed by his youngest daughter’s ability to sneak in and out completely unnoticed by the entire family and with a horse no less, because every morning when they have breakfast she is redressed in her nightgown. So one day when she is on the path through the woods she hears another horse coming up from behind her and she assumes it’s another townsperson but then she hears her father’s voice.

“Madeline, you are more than welcome to go riding wherever you please, but do tell me first in the case something were to happen to you… and do not tell me have been riding out in London at this early hour as well, it is not safe at that early.”

“…”

“You have, haven’t you?”

“…yes.”

Then Andrei is an artist, both with the theater, joining acting classes at university and attending talks on the theory of acting, who he normally takes Hyacinth along with, honestly if he could he would love to join the theater as an actor probably but since he has every intention of one day being the head of the family and the earl he lets those dreams go but constantly encourages his sisters and cousins to follow their own dreams, but for now he will enjoy the days of performing with his classmates at school and his sister. Then on the other side of the arts he is quite adept in music, learning from his mother to play the piano when he was barely three, and then quickly picking up the violin, cello, flute, guitar, to name a few, when Marguerite and their mother return from their travels during the time skip they return with a truck full of sheet music from all sorts of countries and even a guitar they bought him in Spain and a violin from Russia and they quickly becomes his prized possessions. Then lastly Eloise was the one who got him into the art of painting and drawing, the two have actually spent hours outside in the garden or the park with their paints or sketchbooks to do a scene of the outdoors and gossip, these sessions will go on for sometimes six hours and end whenever they are called inside for dinner or someone like Moran, James, or Jack comes to grab the two from the park because it is getting dark, but normally when they go out to the park either Moran or James comes along to make sure Eloise or Andrei doesn’t try anything too clever.

Speaking of Eloise, she just wants to be held by someone but has far too much pride to say sorry. She always distances herself from the adults in her life, even her mother when she gets into her teens, and the only ones she will listen to are her sister and cousins, especially Andrei and Madeline. But her snarky and rude comments towards the others in the family gets her in more trouble as the years go by and she learns to become more bold with her words, especially when William mentions the murder of an entire family, including the children, that is assumed to be the work of some Duke in York…

“I do not think you should be talking, father, especially since you murdered the one who had your name first when he was a child.”

The silence after that comment was so loud you could practically hear a pin drop, but Eloise just flipped to the next page in her book that she was reading. The silence is only broken when William stands up from his seat and pulls the book right from her hands.

“Go to your room, and Louis?”

“Yes”

“Can you grab the other books she has up in her room?”

After that incident Eloise was grounded for two weeks because of all of her comments, that was just the final straw. So instead of her books, she must actually talk to her family for a change, but this just turns to her and Andrei painting together.

Then Marguerite has a nasty habit of sneaking contraband items from around the house. Sometimes during late nights when people are asleep in the house, she steals a pack of cigarettes from her Uncle William’s study or from a draw in the kitchen where she knows Moran hides extra sometimes which she normals smokes with Andrei when he takes her out into town or with Eloise when she goes to her room to talk when most of everyone is gone on missions so they cannot get caught, these talks are normally rather deep, hopes, dreams, fears in life, and sometimes they loose track of time and have to scramble to hide the evidence when they see the carriage returning from the window, they only have been caught twice. Then she also often steals a bottle of wine from the cellar, but this is not something she often indulges in, mostly something she does to mess with her father because no how hard he tries he will never find it because it is hidden under a loose floorboard underneath her dresser. But somethings she does open a bottle to split only with Hyacinth when either of them have had a particularly horrible day, Hyacinth’s illness acting up or Marguerite getting in trouble and judged by other nobility, most of whom she has never met, for her lack of ladylike behavior in public.

[has-been-bitch]

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tiktok: has.been.bitch

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about me

name: hasbeenbitch pretty much everywhere

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gender and pronouns: trans dude, he/him

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sexuality: if you got that dawg in you, i can be in you. 👹👹 (unlabeled i guess)

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age: 19. minors please dni, it like.. feels weird asf when i see someone who is 12 or sumn liking my posts like.. i post: 1, hazbin shit, which yall shouldn't be watching anyways if you're under like, 16 😟. and 2, i post freaky shit sometimes. again, weird seeing KIDS. like posts like that

what i do

art:

- just.. drawings in general i guess

- are we separating cute sketches from like.. digital paintings?

- i attempt animation. if i actually ever finish one, ya'll'd be lucky.

..other shit?:

- the occasional edit

- i cosplay on my tiktok account- it's linked up there 👹

- yap and yap and never ever shut the fuck up 😁😁

fandoms:

- take a wild, fat guess... (hazbin hotel.)

- helluva also got that dawg in it.

- hermitcraft/life series(dont expect much if any content from that here though.. this is pretty much just a hellaverse acct for me 👹)

- is having backyard chickens considered a fandom

- ..is wind band/orchestra technically a fandom...

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dni

honestly basic shit: homophobes, transphobes, racists, pedos, other idiots.

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if you dont like hazbin, you.. probably wanna go elsewhere. i mean interact if yall want, but.. literally all i plan on posting is hazbin. specifically husk

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on that topic, people who argue that angel's abuse is worse than husk's. abuse is abuse no matter what..

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ANYONE UNDER 16 i'm iffy about. i post.. weird, freaky shit sometimes. and it feels weird and uncomfortable when a 12 year old likes a post i make talking about how i'd rail husk to heaven and back.. like.. you're in 6th grade.. go read the giver and work on your algebra homework.. not watch hazbin 😟

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PLEASE DO INTERACT

other hazbin fans

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artists(visual, musical, any and all art is appreciated here)

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..band nerds. we need more tuba players up in this bitch. like.. yess i'll gladly take a lap dance from a fat hunk of metal while i blow vigorously into her mouthpiece.. tuba is so sexy.

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other shit

2 years on this fat dick 💪💪 (testosterone)

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im currently in college for animation. i originally got in for music ed.. 😟😟 scary place (12 classes. NOT 12 credit hours. 12 CLASSES. in ONE semester.) maybe one day i can work for spindlehorse or a24, or another sickass studio like them.

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i play tuba(my baby ❤️❤️), trombone, piano, guitar, general percussion(mallets, timpani, chimes, fuckin.. vibraslap, finger cymbals, regular cymbals.. you get the idea.), and i dabble in some drumset

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a lot of people think im nonbinary and go by they/them. i feel like i need to clarify i am NOT enby. i explicitly DONT go by they/them, because no one ever fuckin respects the fact i'm just a dude. its like people dont fully see me as one, but i appear to masculine to be called she, so people call me they in an attempt to feminize me. do NOT. i can still be fully a man, and still serve cunt and eat that ass up.

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i have autism if you couldnt tell already by my lack of ability to shut the fuck UP about my life/what i like/what i'm passionate about/overexplaining things. i feel like.. on the topic of overexplaining i guess.. feel like i need to clarify that i ain't just bein like 'omg im so quirky and autistic 😝😝' like i was diagnosed at 13 👹👹

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i use the 👹 emoji a lot bc like.. he's so me fr. like thats my default face. i'm asked to smile for a picture? 👹. i take a picture of myself? 👹. he is me and i am him 👹👹

if you like the following bands:

- MAN MAN. my #1, my bae.

- squirrel nut zippers

- cherry poppin' daddies

- asylum street spankers

- big bad voodoo daddy

- just fucking JAZZ music in general.

- lets not forget classical music (currently listening to Chorale and Shaker Dance by John P. Zdechlik rn as i write this entire intro at 1 in the morning. i'm not even christian- the song is just a really fuckin fun, interesting song)

- on that topic.. fun, interesting song enjoyers.

- will wood got that dawg in him.

- MAN MAN. if yall know any other bands that like.. have a guy screaming bloody murder, screaming out his fucking soul, over a dissonant marimba, some congas, a trumpet, a tenor sax, and a flute having an orgy-

PLEASE let me know. or invite me, i'd be down for that too 👹👹

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ok thats it im done yapping