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#having a creative rut feeling#gonna rant#im basically a giant baby and i don't handle angst very well#and i constantly worry that im just. idk mentally weak or a deeply uninteresting person bc of it.#every big fantasy artist i see is usually very into making sad or angsty pieces and like i wish i was like that#like i fall into this mental hole very very often that im just holding myself back with how many subjects i dont write or draw#but also like when i DO write dark subjects it doesn't make me feel any better??#i dont like feeling sad or angry bc once i am its extremely hard to get back out of it.#and thats scary for me.#but also i want to make art that means something instead of my nonestop slew of smut and feelgood content.#i genuinely feel so trapped by my own emotions and its sp frustrating.#i keep getting told how good for you it is to get the negative feelings out but it never helps when i do it#i just feel. worse? i dont feel good.#i kinda wanna delete the one cloud post bc it just doesn't feel good.#ugh#idk i want to have good intelligent things to say and thoughtful art to make#and everything i make feels soft and cheesey and lame.#not that i find those things lame#but just that it feels like im stuck in baby brain.#when i was a teen i would write horror stories!!! i still love horror!!!#but if i make someone suffer in fic now it feels me with this awful awful overwhelming sense of dread and guilt and i end up so upset#im frustrated at me bc this is such a fucking weird sensitivity to have. im tried of telling myself its okay#bc i WANT to feel mentally free enough to create shit that isnt just uwu soft.#i don't think im making sense but like.#you know#I've literally been bullied out of fandom spaces for only making soft content#multiple times.#so idk maybe this is a learned sense of shame#but i feel like a big over sensitive baby and like I'd be able to do so much more if i wasn't#vent ish
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I don’t know if this is actually what has put me in a funk or if I’m just reaching to rationalize the creative rut I’m in, but it feels oddly isolating to not be as excited as the rest of the fandom about EoW.
#I hope it’s a great game#I just have a bad feeling#not looking for pity party#just feels weird#is it a creative rut? am I depressed?#I’m having one of those look at my collective portfolio and questioning ‘am I doing this right? AM I DOING ANYTHING RIGHT??’ moments
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man i wish i was any good at making more creative designs? drawing kpop for 4 years straight really kinda stopped me from exploring much BUT im hoping to get a bit better at it with mcyt :']
#love all the creature esque designs#theyre all so SHAPED wonderfully like thats amazing to me#and mcyt people always have banger character designs like dang#i tried it recently with some deer gem and siren gem ideas but they all turned out really ugly LMAO SORRY GEM.#eyditalks#anyway unrelated but drawing for the life series / hc has been SO fun. i missed this feeling#i love my kpop boys so much still but i was definitely in a creative rut for a while there
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Been looking through old art and it's hard for me to not feel kinda sad/wistful. I think I've improved in some ways, but when I compare the level of polish and just the drive I had back then to execute projects the contrast is kinda crazy. I've never been fast but I was so motivated.
I lined things p regularly, most of my pieces had full BGs and shading. I think a lot of my compositions were more adventurous, esp wrt paneling- I poured a lot of time into comics. Like what was I ON, HOW DID I DO THAT
#Ig I'm also glazing over the like#long-lasting artistic rut btwn the 'golden era' and the 'magic hair princess show soft reset' era#so maybe it's an unfair comparison/inaccurate if you average it all out#but it feels weird to look back and feel more of a sense of pride/accomplishment for pieces from 5-10 years ago than now#the magic hair fandom def reignited the creative spark in a lot of ways and gave me a taste of that passion but I miss it#looking back and having the sentiment of 'I used to be better' also feels weird#anyway#sorry about the weird crops I didn't want to post other ppl's OCs and I think the level of detail encapsulates what I mean#personal post
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only took me 80 hours into DA:I but I've started coming up with a backstory for my Lavellan that I really like :)
at the beginning I wasn't going off much besides "dalish elf, warrior, want to romance Solas" lol but my brain is starting to knit together all the decisions made into a cohesive backstory for my Inquisitor.
basically, we've got Janne (pronounced "yahn-a"), a bisexual dalish elf woman. her mother was the clan's First mage, having been sent from another dalish clan that had too many mages. Janne herself was fascinated by magic but didn't have any magical talent manifest early in life, so she became a warrior/hunter. she wasn't the strongest or bravest or best fighter, but she did a lot of hunting and foraging to support the clan and was a talented leatherworker. Janne is compassionate and loyal to her loved ones nearly to a fault, with a deep openness and willingness to learn, though she can be headstrong and unable to let something go once she sets herself on a certain course.
in Janne's late 20s (she's 34 now) she fell deeply in love with her mother's mage apprentice—the clan's Second—another female elf named Maraya. Maraya was ambitious and erudite and in secret she studied ethical applications of blood magic. Janne eventually learned about this, and she tried to remain open-minded about what she was doing but still she worried about Maraya. still, she helped keep her secret from the clan—until Maraya became possessed by a demon, endangering the entire clan. heartbreakingly, Janne was forced to kill her lover, but always deeply regretted the way things turned out, thinking that there must have been some other way that she could have saved her.
when the clan (and especially her mother) later learned that Janne knew about Maraya's studies prior to the possession and had kept it secret from them, she was disgraced. clan elders had suggested exile, and while she did live away from the clan for a little while, eventually they allowed her to return to the clan on the condition that she prove herself to be trustworthy again, which was going to be a long road.
this is what leads her to unofficially attend the meeting at the Conclave as a spy. she sees it as her best opportunity to start making things right with her clan and get valuable information for them. but we all know how things went at the Conclave...
as for her later relationship with Solas, I think her experiences with her mother and with Maraya make her very open-minded to magic, even despite the tragedy that befell her lost love. his quiet intensity and level-headedness catches her attention from the beginning, and he sees her for her curiosity and openness.
#i think mayara was subtly inspired by marcille of dungeon meshi with the “researching forbidden magic for ethical purposes” thing lol#i did just rewatch the resurrection episode yesterday so it was on my mind#my grasp on dalish lore is still a work in progress so if there's anything that seems not to work with canon lmk#probably going to try to draw my lavellan soon and maybe maraya and solas too#i have been in a creative rut lately but i feel the inspiration coming back#my ocs#oc: janne lavellan#her besties are dorian cassandra varric and cole#poor girl is very unlucky in love#cant catch a break#female lavellan#solavellan#solas x female lavellan
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i know that i’ve said this before and you guys probably think i’m a dirty, dirty liar (which would be very fair) but… i WILL be posting a new chapter of break a sweat tomorrow 💚
#personal#this writing rut i’m in has been beating my ass#but i genuinely have time to write tomorrow#and i’m finally feeling creative again#thank you all for bearing with me
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okay, everything should be working and updated lol. I even finally got around to updating my masterlists so that should be up to date as well!
I'm gonna try and get some wee writing done before I have oral surgery Saturday and probably be radio silent again for a few days asdfgh
Thanks for the understanding and patience as always!
Feel free to check out my new Request Info post here and again feel free to ask any questions or if you wanna talk about some of the new fandoms I added I'm all ears. This is still a tried and true mostly batman/rogues fandom. But I like variation and exploring other characters and their dynamics!
Thanks again! 💚
#ri rambles#ri updates#plus I have just been in a creative rut#like i wanna draw and write...#but hard to find the motivation#and yet be so inspired#dont mind me#just rambling more in tags hnng#is it weird to be technically on break#but feel like you havent had one yet?#thats how im feeling now#asddfghj
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huge fan of those series of drawings connecting fall out boy & mcr songs to metal gear. when i figure out how to hold a drawing tablet stylus again and start doing it with they might be giants it's Over.
#ignore me#genuinely like my Dream has always been to do a series of drawings for one of my playlists#that explains the connection - why it's on there bc i can barely put it into words you just gotta Feel it#tmbg is great for this bc 90% of the song is barely connected and then there's one line that punches you square in the gut#that should have been an ampersand not a dash how did i fuck that up. well im not retyping it#anyway also as you can tell by the lack of art i have been in a bit of a creative rut#but i am shrugging and going OH WELL! maybe i can draw again after my big gay christmas vacation#in the meantime listen to when the lights come on and rhythm section want ad and form yr own conclusions.
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Many thoughts running through my head as I prepare to upload my last UTAU cover of the year because I'll barely touch the silly singing robot program next year when I have more exciting things to work on...but even then it feels like you're saying goodbye to a close friend you've been with for almost 9 years
#mine#text#currently i am trying to finish a cover for my utaus' 9th anniversary next year and man#the spark for making robots singing usually isn't there nowadays but when it comes to my own utaus#god it does feel nice working on something!#this entire year i've been pumping out covers that first started as an outlet for my creativity#but then halfway into the year i kept getting into creative ruts and it was frustrating because i only limited myself to one outlet#so discovering animatics...gaining new interests...and picking up new skills has helped me branch out from utau significantly#but i will say that using utau bestow me lots of skills that will prove useful beyond just making utau content#i guess working on this one cover helped me reflect on that some more...but god it's kinda making me emotional#even most of my friends who used utau back in the good old days have moved on to other things now and i'm sort of in that boat...#it's not too fun trying to enjoy utau by yourself but honestly i think it all boils down to the fact that i was forcing myself to--#--enjoy using utau constantly. and that spark to create new covers just dies out.#i suppose that coming back to utau once in a long while to work on something nicd amidst working on other projects is something that's--#--more healthy for me yknow? i know i'm sort of betraying my utau-oriented audiences on youtube and bilibili with the way i've been slowly-#--moving away from utau and uploading other kinds of media and interests#but i'm opening up a new chapter for myself in making more oc media and animatics and they're more than welcome to stay along for the ride#i think i'm running into tangents at this point but what i'm trying to say is that for me uploading utau covers weekly was draining#and with me moving away to other projects and not being too hard on myself...my creative drive is slowly coming back#and maybe once in a while my creative spark for using utau apart from anniversary reasons will come back better than ever#and i will try to keep my own utaus alive as ocs apart from singing robot shenanigans and diffsinger development#it is a hobby i enjoy for myself after all and its not supposed to be a chore
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#im going to assume that the fact my life is kind of falling apart rn is the main reason why im. kind of in a creative rut rn#i got hit w the very sudden feeling of ''oh my god the thing i just dedicated the past year of my life to is utter horseshit'' and.#not a great feeling to have! ngl#i think thats the reason ive been struggling to get back to working on it#(i mean. aside from the fact that i could literally lose my job any day now. and the fact that i cant secure a new one anytime soon)#idk i just. i truly in my heart thought i had something good going here#and the more i look at it the more i hate it#idk. maybe i made the right call to take a break thru the end of the year#go into it w fresh eyes in 2025#but idek if thatll make a difference#i just. am starting to vehemently despise anything i create that im not being paid for#and it really really sucks. bc art is the one joy i have in the face of the shittiest day job#i want to just erase it all and pretend it never happened#skip speaks
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A Mosaic
They put their hands on their head whenever something is shocking, I do it too.
She liked Taylor Swift so I started listening to her.
She likes reading, I’ve picked it up again.
She liked Percy Jackson. I don’t know where she is now but I’ve made a lot of friends due to that recommendation.
She got me into poetry, I’ve written too many poems about her now.
She recommended I listen to sad music, broaden my music taste. I did. Now I can’t stop thinking about her.
It’s so painfully beautiful that I am made up of so many other people. I share memories with countless others. Treasured moments turned trash and vice versa.
I wonder if I’ve given someone a beautiful memory.
#poems and poetry#poems#writing#original poem#poetry#here’s some of my poetry bc I feel in a creative rut#I write a lot of poems 😅#please interact with this so I shall feel comfy posting more 👍#you don’t have to#they’re about different people btw
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two years ago i was writing & posting camp triple pine. it’s in desperate need of some editing (it’s very rambly & even has tense changes for no reason 😭), but ofc every work leads to more experience & has value to someone (in this case, i’m lucky that it has over 10k reads on ao3 and almost 50k on wattpad!). even if i cringe at it a little, i still admire the work i put into it. what a cute little fic 🏕️
#i’ve been in a writing rut for the longest time now and i feel bad…I read my past works and have a hard time believing i wrote them#but like all ruts I know I’ll come out of this eventually—I just have to do what’s best for me and hope my creativity & patience returns#rose.txt
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crush on a ******** so bad that im plotting out a modern au eddie munson fic. dude someone should just sh**t me atp 🤠
#i have been in a creative rut since march so i'll take what i can get#i need to get these feelings out and my lil scenarios bc this crush is not gonna last much longer hopefully#k speaks
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march will be house lannister ladies!
#yay!#not done with them all but definitely feel out of my creative rut#i wish lauren were around though :(#i bet she’d have tons of thoughts#personal
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Silas Masterlist
Silas Introduction
A sneak peak into his diary (there's alt text available)
Does his ears express his emotions
Silas 10k
He will try breastfeeding you
Do elves have magic
If you tried explaining how humans work to him
Does he let you drink from the tap
What elf cum tastes like
Silas is a human otaku
Silas with a darling who tries to run away
If another creature stole his darling
You are the only human he has eyes for
What if his nipple poked your eye
His nipples are very sensitive
Details about his outfits and would he make you dress like him
Silas with a darling who doesn't find him attractive
Making his darling live longer
Can his blood heal chronic illnesses
If other elves saw his darling
Sleeping with Silas
Silas drinking darling's fluids instead
Silas with a darling who wants to be pampered
Silas with a darling who wants to pamper him instead
If he catches you masturbating
Can elves protect themselves
Does Silas have friends
Does Silas ever realize his feelings are not platonic
Silas with a darling who randomly "disappears"
How Silas feels about feminization
Darling drinking from his tap
Silas' reaction to a human looking for his darling
Would he make you wear a collar
Would it kill darling to breed with him
Silas extending darling's life span
How far would Silas take pampering
Does Silas have a rut
Would he like a chubby darling
Riding Silas while sucking his tits
Silas with a darling who enjoys making him cry
Silas sitting on darling's face
Silas with a pregnant darling
Would Silas kill someone to make darling immortal
You are the only human he loves!
What if Silas' human was a toddler
If you die before Silas
If Silas' darling really wants to meet other elves
Would Silas marry his darling
Would Silas spank his darling
Silas with a creative reader
Would Silas ever get a "daddy" for his darling
What if reader wants to call Silas "daddy"
What type of father would Silas be
Would Silas get more needy after realizing his feelings for reader
Night care routine with Silas
Morning routine with Silas
Silas with a reader who is hyperfixates on elves
Are Silas' ears sensitive to loud noises
What past time activities does Silas allow
Short Silas penis description
How strong is Silas physically
If Silas' darling wanted to get a lover
What if Silas met another person before darling
Does Silas and reader have a language barrier
Nothing you do can make Silas snap
Silas penis size calculations
What does Silas' blood taste like
Does Silas find reader's ears cute
Silas is like a poison disguised as a warm homecooked meal
Silas with an equally airheaded darling
Does Silas feed you meat as well
Silas voice claim
Would Silas drink darling's blood
Does his pee have abilities too
Silas eating reader out
Cooking human food together with Silas
Silas is best pillow
Do elves know what technology is
Silas with a nerdy darling who's dying because they can't game
What does Silas smell like
Would Silas put you in a baby carrier
Silas with a broken darling
What would Silas search for on the internet
What Silas' house looks like
Does Silas shower
Can elves get pregnant
Does Silas eat his own semen
What if darling drew weird ass drawings of the boys
Silas' length compared to the other elves
What if his darling had schizophrenia
How to overstimulate Silas
If Silas found darling in a fursuit
Is he down for sleeping naked
Silas' relationship with his parents
How Silas gets new clothes for you
#asks#Silas#yandere elf#yandere elf x reader#yandere x reader#yandere x you#yandere x darling#yandere x y/n#yandere#male yandere#artwork#artists on tumblr#aesthetic#yandere male#yandere oc#yandere oc x reader
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i’m going to fucking die i think
#in neg city#i cant stop waking up and immediately having anxiety despite the fact that IM NOT EVEN AT WORK TODAY#this job is a detriment to my mental health i genuinely want to quit so much but everyone in my life is saying not to#i just feel like i can’t do it and next week is gonna be super busy and i’m just predicting meltdowns on every single day#not to mention it’s put me in a creative rut bc i’m so fucking tired and i cant write during work hours bc i cant go on the computer#so now i feel like the worst writer ever and a terrible friend and an awful person and ughhhhhhhHhhhhhhh
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