#hope the new year is treating you well

[nana-au]

gonna be hanging out at my side account @hachiko-au for now while i get over being sick and generally depressed/unmotivated. sorry to anyone waiting for fic updates, i want to practice writing again before uploading more slop i'm not proud of. i appreciate your patience.

i'll b posting some short drabbles and unhinged ideas if u want to come check them out over on that account🫶

also ty for 1k i will die 4 each and everyone of you.

[blahlahblash]

Happy New Year(s Eve) Everyone!

[springheatedwine]

(There is no pressure on making this request if you're not comfortable or don't have the time/motivation for it) Can I make a request for a reader who's going through a bad patch with their best friend who's slowly replacing them with someone else, and it's obvious that they'll be having a fallout, so Veritas comforts them and reassure them about it?

[ashleyslorens]

[cloudinal]

Saying you loved me made things harder at best

[egginfroggin]

Happy New Year, here's an unpolished comic about a 12-year-old having a breakdown over space peanuts with his great-aunt

Ford, sweetie, I love you, but your glasses (and that sixth finger) are going to be the death of me

Mabel, you're fine, except for your boots, why did I give you fuzzy boots, fuzz is hard

Transcription below; please let me know if I should put it under a cut, and thank you for reading! Happy New Year ^^

Mabel: "Here, try these." "You've been missing Earth foods, right?"

Ford: "?" "What are they?"

Mabel: "Nuts! They taste just like peanuts."

Mabel: "Well, almost. They're a bit sweeter, like they're candied!" "They keep pretty well, too!" "We could get a bunch to go..." "...?"

Mabel: "Hey, what's wrong, Pine Nut? Are those ones bad?"

Ford: "..." "... No, it's not that..." "Lee always liked toffee peanuts... these taste just like them."

Ford: "... Lee would love these."

Mabel: "..." "Well, then, we'll have to pick up some more before we get you home, then, won't we?"

Ford: "... Yeah..."

(program: Krita; time taken: about 8 hours 30 minutes)

[kumada-is-love]

🎉 LEOFUMI WEEK DAY 3: HIFUMI’S BIRTHDAY!! 🎉

Nothing better than spending the day with your boyfriend, sister and best friend!! 💕

[femboychuuya]

Soooo, here we are, a New Year

Now, this post will be different than my usual art Posts i do. A few days before the New Year hit i got kind of reminded that Art Summaries exist.

Usually people only put one Art in, i think its the "best" one which they like the most, i think.

Though i wasn't able to decide for only 1 piece for each Month, so let me take you through my whole 2024 Art Journey!

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Starting off, i was 19 when i started Art. Back in May was when i came up to my beloved now girlfriend Kiera and asked for Advice on Drawing and told her that i wanted to start Art.

I chose to start with Hands. (albeit i did not include those visually in my Summary)

Hands were.... well.... hands. Kiera sended me a few Videos on how to draw, recommending me a German Youtuber called DrawingLikeASir. This is where i got my basic understanding on how hands (and also Human Anatomy as a whole) work and how to draw them.

I'm very grateful that people who do Art for a long time already, share and make Tutorials to follow. It's alot easier for me when i have real time visual explanation, so DLAS's Video's really helped me alot.

Besides those Videos, Kiera gave me alot of help too. She would give me tips if my Anatomy was off, help me fixing it via voice chat or messaging and overall just helped me understand Art to the extent that i then started to do it more regularly and frequently.

- - - ☆

Now, after this Yapfest, how about we take a deep dive into my Art?

This will be the longest part, but i do have alot to share actually....

Let's start with May !

I don't have any visuals here, so i will keep this brief.

In May was the first time i actually tried learning how to draw. I did start with Hands first. Why you may ask? Because i wanted to tackle one of the presumably worst things to draw. I did a basic fanned out Hand for a few times before i started drawing Hands around things. I felt comfortable very fast with how i drew Hands back then. And that was my May more or less.

June !

Let's get a nice Picture of June out, because June is the Month i started to learn Human Anatomy. It sucked.

I tried learning Human Anatomy after i felt confident enough with hands. I experimented around a bit, tried drawing either masculine or feminine body Types, but i did struggle with both. In the end, i tried settling for more androgenous Body Types. Those were alot easier for me, and Kiera did tell me that they can be easy to work with, since i can basically "shape them like i want". So i went with it.

Pretty much my June was occupied with learning to draw a whole Human Body.

July !

In July i made alot of Progress i think, this was my Prime time for learning how Bodies work. I took Ideas from other people i've interacted with, tried a DTIYS (Do this in your Style), created a small sketch page, participated in Rimlaine Week and also started to do Digital Art!

Now, starting Digital Art was hard, it still is for me after roughly 6 months. My missfortune was, i had no pen for my Tablet. I needed to learn how to Finger Draw. It was really taxing and unforgiving on my Hand, but i still pushed through it and gave my best. I didn't wanted to stop with Digital Art just because i had no pen.

Eventually, at some point (actually 2 points, one later though) I had a pen that worked, though it broke, both of them did. So i just stayed with Finger Art.

It honestly feels more natural for me to use my Finger by now and i think i actually want to stay drawing with my Finger for now. Unless i actually get a pen that doesn't break imidiatly.

August !

Short things for August: I had an Artblock. I managed to find 1 whole picture for August.

I can't really say anything more here i fear.

September !

September.... I tried alot of new things in September! Brushes, bigger Canvases, even rendering (not visually included)

September was a nice month. I made alot of progress, pushed my comfort zones and met ALOT of great Artist's!

I tried alot of new things. Posing, shitpost doodles, multiple people, character sheets, the Nasty Dog trend (i had fun doing that) and also tried to participate in dazai hurt/comfort week, i couldn't finish it due to personal reasons.

In September, i joined a Soukoku Discord Server which is run by Kaez. I joined there with intent of talking about SKK and it developed into active talking and Art Streams nearly daily! I got ALOT and i mean ALOT of good advice and tips on how to draw from more experienced Artist's!

It truly helped me find my Artstyles and Tools i can use on my drawings.

I am very thankful that my girlfriend sended me the link to Kaez's post about this server, it has been alot of fun there and was very educational aswell!

October !

In October i still was drawing nearly every day and started to draw Characters from Kiera's and mine own Story! I also experimented with Artstyles and Chuuya's hair. His Hair was a mess, it still is, but drastically changed the way i draw his hair in that month.

I specifically also tried to stylize eyes, it failed mostly but i still tried regardless (Eyes and facial expression are hard to draw, i learned the hard way)

November !

November was the Month where i started drawing (and writing) my first AU! My 14 Year old's BunnySkk AU!

I am very proud of those beans and all i had in my brain were those 2. I did inflict pain and suffering and great Trauma on Skk, but fear not, they are well now... or are they?

Lastly, December !

Going strong with the last Month of the year, I struggled, greatly. I had alot of personal Issues coming up, but went through those with trying to do art. Art really helped me get my mind off things, due to me not having a single thought while drawing (My head is a blank slate while i draw)

But besides those struggles, i got cheered on to keep going and so i did. I delivered Art from a Ship i was first very reluctant to draw things in fear of people being well.... online people. But i eventually overcame myself and started drawing my second favourite ship... Kunichuuzai!! I absolutely love their dynamic and can't wait to get back into drawing them. I need them. Carnally.

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Now now, this is probably as long as it can get now, so i will try to keep myself short here. (Try is the keyword, i am a yapper at Heart)

First and foremost, i will be thanking Kiera @misterloong , for even getting and pushing me into Art. I don't think that i would have been able to accomplish what i am doing currently without your great help and Feedback!! And thank you for putting up with my sometimes breakdowns over Art, its hard and we both know that.

Secondly, i am thanking Kaez @xkaez for creating the Skk Server. I don't think i would have had such a fun time over the last months while doing art if it wasn't for sitting together in vc with everyone and equally loosing our heads over Art together. The Art struggle is real but worth it.

Third..ly? Third?.... Leaving it at that. I am thanking the VC Dwellers Soup @iwantmochisoup , Goat @thatghostinyourbog , Jema @msshinylemon , Salt @saltedbiscuiit and Killeia @nolongerforthetainted . I am thanking you all for sitting in vc together, planning things, working together on thing and just having a fun time together! I learned a shitton, and i mean a shitton from being together in VC, drawing, talking or just hanging out together. I really hope this never dies out, its really fun with you all!!

Fourthly.... Fourth....? I am thanking Rosie @anticidic , Cinny @ohhcinnybuns , Ari @nevertheblood, Brin @ediblepandas and Cryptid @cryptid-juzou for giving me alot of Ideas and talking about all the ideas you guys had. It's always fun to lurk at night in the chats and see good ideas spring in. It might be one of my favourite pastimes aswell to just lurk in :)

And Lastly, i thank everyone else who i forgot to mention, whether its Skk server people, random online people, my mom or literally anyone who sees my stuff. I thank you for being here and supporting my Art Journey in any way you can. It has been a fun half Year of doing Art and i am so hyped for creating a full year of Art this year!!

I hope everyone who wants to do Art, starts doing Art, same with Writing or whatever other creative hobbies there are. It will bring you fun and can potentially even help you express yourself more.

On to a new Year

- West

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Adding on:

2 more Chibi doodles for making it to the end :>

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Only two chapters left of Wobbly Hearts and then I’m DONE. 21 is pretty much finished I just got to edit it and look over it and all that, and 22 needs some tweaking but its almost done too and I’m AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA longest I’ve ever worked on anything like this and it’s almost done!!!!

[displaykitkats]

3... 2... 1... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Renoux and Sin celebrating the new year with friends, old and new. See below the cut for pics without the overlay.

[goldtealeaves]

to love and be loved

[fireis-catching]

goodbye 2023, you won’t be missed ✌🏻😘

Happy New Year 🎊🎉

[thebookshoparoundthecorner]

Happy New Year’s Eve (and year anniversary to this fic!!!)!

If you’re looking for something to read as you bide your time awaiting the stroke of midnight, here’s something in the spirit of the holiday 🎉

Wishing you all a peaceful New Year and hoping that you end the year on a high note, but above all else that you are all treating yourselves with kindness right now. 💙

[fuck-yeah-intro-movies]

Hello! This is David-de-Bergerac, and I wanted to just do a small little update for newer people who might be like "this dude doesn't post a lot" and yeah for that I'm sorry. Life has been doing what life do, and it's been hard to concentrate. I want to get back to doing this every once in a while though, at least somewhat more consistently. Mostly my time has been taken up by these goobers

So you know, that's how it's been. Basically, when I have time, and the brain, I'll make new posts here.

While I want to say "hey if you want to help take care of these cats too I have a tip jar" I think tumblr took that away from me so just go check out my youtube because I'm working on stuff for over there too and maybe ad revenue can help us afford food and vet visits for these goobers.

[misericorsalvator]

Henry looks like shit. In the brief reflection he catches in a muddy puddle, he barely looks human anymore.

That's not to say he isn't one; no, if the pain is anything to go by, he's still every bit the fragile yet damn inexplicably resilient mortal he always has been-- ignoring those couple times with the vitae.

But right now? He looks less like a man and more like a shitty haunted house prop scavenged straight from the trash. 

Clad in the shredded remains of his damp and soaked clothes, he's pale as a ghost with anaemia from the blood loss and littered with patches of dried blood and scabs. Frosted mud clings to him, probably infecting the half-healed wounds, but at least the frost numbs the pain. His left arm hangs useless at his side, barely tethered to his shoulder by torn sinew and strained ligaments. Every slight shift grates bone against bone, each scrape like sharp nails scratching against metal to his ringing ears.

And Bleeding Christ, the cold— it gnaws at him like a living thing, with fangs so sharp it bites deeper than the wounds. The crumbling shed he's dragged himself under -forsaken by both God and Devil- offers little comfort with the rotten wooden planks of the walls and the stench of humidity thick like a miasma… But it will keep him dry from the night sleet and drizzle. Small victories.

How the hell is he still breathing?

God only knows, and not a God Henry is eager to get on his knees and thank.

Yet somehow, he is. His lungs drag in air, jagged and shallow from the cracked rib nestled under the spreading black-and-blue bruised mess of his chest. His heart thuds—sluggish, heavy—loud enough to feel each pulse hammering in his fingertips, in his temples, in the cracked skin over his knuckles. And his tongue—dry as sandpaper but still working —finds no fangs lurking where they shouldn't be.

The sky above is less dark now than when he'd crawled out of the damn catacomb, bright stars dimming under the wee flares of light creeping over the horizon. If the sunrise burns him to cinders, well, he'll have his answer—just the world's shoddiest knockoff of a vampire, snuffed out in the light of day. But at least he won't have to feel this anymore. He won't have to wonder how much more blood he can afford to lose, or how many steps it'll take before the joints in his arm give up entirely and drop the thing to the ground like a discarded piece of meat.

Ah well. Let the sun come. He'll either cross or burn that bridge when he gets there.

Right now, he's earnt some damn shuteye…

[byanyan]

around but quiet. dread dread dread dread dread dread