yuirei for the soul <3
edit: hi everyone. today, on the 6th of august 2024, three days after finishing this image, posting it and proclaiming it the best thing i've ever drawn, i realized that i fucking drew reiko with an implied number of six fingers. i have no clue how i did that, how i managed not to notice it during the solid hour i spent just finding and fixing various imperfections in the image, or how i'm supposed to recover from that now. here's a fixed version. if you want to point and laugh you can look in the reblogs. have fun and also i swear to god i'm not an ai user i'm just dumb as bricks
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Moments that will be living rent-free in my head forever and ever.
Hey. Listen to Inn Between. It's good and also this happens and it's dramatic and cool and devastating (and just a little bit ridiculous. Acid flavored...).
(Image description: Three pictures of the same drawing in various stages of progress. The first image is the finished and colored drawing in black ink and colored pencil, and it pictures Meltyre, a young man with pale skin, dark brown hair, and currently green eyes. He is wearing dark grey robes with greenish-blue flames patterned around the wrists and hems, and a wizard hat with purple trim and the same greenish fire hanging as a pendant from the tip. His expression is angry and determined. In between his hands, he holds a ball of bright green liquid. Typed text around the drawing says in one font, "Stop calling me a coward." In a second font, it says, "...Meltyre, what is that?" In the first font again, it says, "Chromatic orb. Acid flavored. Are you listening to me now?" The word "now" is larger and spaced out for emphasis. The second and third images are the pencil sketch and the uncolored ink drawing with the words handwritten. End of image description.)
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so are you on hiatus or still posting or...? what's the deal w/that
Hey Anon...
I'm not sure if you're just joshing me or being silly, or are being serious or whatever but your ask comes off as rude, especially since I try to have a post every half hour or so from 8 AM EST until noon DAILY (since I discovered those are my peak hours), unless I have no content, which y'all provide me with through asks and suggestions. I have posted fic recs EVERY Friday for over 3 years and curate a fic rec list nearly every Sunday unless I take a break / holiday. My blog tags are specifically designed to show me where in the cycle a post is, and, a lot of the "selling" point to this blog is its interactivity (where I check the replies and additions on every post that reblogs each day and I tack it onto the main post).
Granted, I don't post nearly as much as I used to (because it was affecting my mental health, and I have a day job I work between 40 and 60 hours a week with very little free time, and I'm back at the office so I can't post during work hours anymore) so I had to cut my queue back to auto-post 3 posts a day so I don't run out of posts before month's end. I also prep my blog the night before the next day, so I spend anywhere between 2 and 4 hours NIGHTLY, AFTER my day job, to file, answer asks, and schedule posts so that my blog LOOKS active.
AND if no one sends me asks or asks I'm not ready to answer (bad headspace, too long to reply so I save it for another day, etc), then the queue the next day is, admittedly, smaller and instead is about 1 post an hour up until 3 PM EST. All my new posts from asks get answered and posted between 8 AM and 11 AM, unless I have no content / next-day-reblogs, then I slot other asks into the 11 AM until 2 PM slots. I try not to do that on first posting, though, 'cause as I said, my peak hours are early morning so I'd rather have people see those ones first.
When I'm on hiatus, I pin a post to my blog. My Lovelies and Lurkers™ know when I am on Hiatus and are very understanding and know that I am a human being who needs a break once in awhile. I'm sorry I'm not posting up to your standards, Anon, I truly am, but I just physically can't anymore, since like, 90% of my free time is dedicated to either sorting fics or answering asks. And I don't really have the energy to do it at the rate I was doing it when I was working from home. I rarely take a break from this blog as it is.
Perhaps Tumblr has unfollowed you from my blog, which is why you don't see my posts anymore (it has happened, I've had to re-follow people before), but I can assure you, I have new content DAILY unless I have no asks I'm ready to answer. Some days are less than others, because, again, I am only human, and I have no obligation to provide content daily. I do it because I LOVE doing it. But asks like this make me feel like all my work is for naught. *shrugs*
Less is more, Anon. 💜🖤
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My Favorite Works From 2023
Hello!! These are some of my favorite works (fanfics or fan poetry) that i wrote this past year!
Consider this an author wrap up XD
Lovebird
A Smalletho (Joel/Etho) Limited Life AU, with a bit of angst and a lot of fluff, featuring Love, the chicken.
This fic was a long time coming, and honestly? It was just so fun to work on, and I enjoyed every reread I did for editing. This is one of those fics where I just love the concept I came up with, and I think I executed it well!
"That sounds wonderful."
An Oli TheOrionSound/Joe Hills fic, set in my Spectators AU!
This AU is one of my favorites, and this ship was very fun to write! Oli and Joe are such characters and i love them dearly. I also love that os many people thought that the au was cute! I was not expecting as much positive feedback as I got and i'm very grateful for it ^-^
Everyone Knows He Has A Bad Memory
A poem inspired by with the time they had by my lovely friend @blocksruinedme (which you should totally read, i love it so much)
I wrote this before Vee had even posted the inspiring fic, and to this day it's one of my favorite poems that i've ever written. I liek the pacing, and the details, and the recurring line- i'm such a sucker for a recurring line, y'all have no idea. Overall I had fun with it, it made Vee smile, and I got to share my love of "with the time they had" with the world
It's never over with you, isn't it?
A gift fic for @tiredfoxtf inspired by this artwork of theirs, and with a counterpart from my beloved @giddyfenix who wrote One touch away from going insane
I had so much fun working with Fénix on this, it's one of the only collaborative projects I've done in fandom, and honestly it was just a blast. I really enjoyed matching up those little details with him, and he just made the whole process so fun, i'm truly so grateful that we decided to do this together ^-^
Colors
A short poem about the colors of SmallEtho through Double Life!
I think I used imagery to convey a shifting in perspective, in their lives and relationship well, and im proud of how few words I needed to convey what I did. a whopping 67 words, and yet it still managed to hit people hard.
I'm very proud to have so much to show for my work this year, and Im looking forward to another amazing year with y'all, so here's to 2024!!
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