#i dunno if you're interested in that

[canisalbus]

Hey, I’m new to Tumblr, but I’ve seen your characters around the internet and I love them so much!! Everyone has so much love for Machete and Vasco and your art is so cool to see! Do you have any tips for an aspiring artist and creative writer?

Hi! Welcome to tumblr! I'm glad to hear you like my dogs :]

I'm not really a writer, and I also completely lose my confidence when I'm trying to explain my art processes. So this is probably an obvious, unhelpful platitude at best, but one thing I've realized is that you should allow yourself to be self-indulgent. If you're the primary target audience of your own work, it generates passion and keeps you inspired and motivated. I like to believe that people who see your creations are more likely to respond to them positively if they can sense that you're putting your heart and soul to them.

[bixels]

What did/do you like about Pharah?

Uh, gameplay-wise, I really love characters in shooters who rely on three-dimensional movement techs. Chaining together hover and jump to stay in the air for as long as possible and keep momentum is so satisfying, and picking enemies off from the sky made me feel like a bird of prey. I was a good Pharah main.

Story-wise, there unfortunately isn't much to canonically go off because Pharah is so underutilized and neglected. Her personality's pretty boilerplate "heroic hero" (she's literally inspired by Captain America).

But it's the crumbs/bits and pieces that I really latched onto. Pharah's a confirmed lesbian; her short story with Baptiste implies she harbors a crush on Mercy (fucking thank you.). She's biracial Egyptian/First Nations. She has major mommy issues, having grown up both admiring and resenting Ana. She's the bridge between Old Overwatch, inspired by the idealized heroes who surrounded her childhood, and New Overwatch. She's one of the only inter-generational characters in the cast; someone whose experiences span the gap, which is why I seriously believe Pharah would make a great main character.

There isn't much to go off of, though; she's a very uncomplicated character (she's a soldier for a private military corporation, lol.). But that just means she's a blank slate character, so I've seen fanfic writers run wild and create some really interesting takes on her. My favorite interpretation of her's a dense, herbo gym-bro type (a lot of her liens are about work outs, exercising, and playing sports) who's easily excitable under her seemingly self-serious, armored visage. We see how she tends to gloat and hype herself up when she's on a streak too, so Pharah definitely has a competitive and boastful side under her more professional and militant performance.

Now Mercy? Mercy is a real complex character.

[pixellangel]

ghost trick fans.... would anyone buy this black cat keychain design? i think it turned out pretty good :3

[hel7l7]

hi, will we be able to read your book?

Hi,

I hope so! :)

I'm looking into getting it published in Dutch first. Since that's my first language and I wrote it in Dutch.

If it's possible and if people are interested I will definitely look into publishing in English as well!

So please let me know if you're interested, because if more people are interested I will def try to make it happen!

Love, Bear

[radellama]

I wanna talk about Ryuusui cause I've been thinking about him. He's kind of an invert of (or somewhat adjacent to) the trope of living up to expectations. You become the monster because that's how people see you anyway...

He's greedy he's selfish he's self centred he's a bit of a brat and whatever other thing you can think to call a hedonist and privileged rich kid. These generally aren't seen as positive things to be, but Ryuusui takes these in stride and is proud to be all of them!

He's the greediest because he wants it all, so he can share it all. You'll have to pay for it, of course - but the option to buy it will be there. If HE'S having a good time, that means EVERYONE is capable of having a good time.

It's a funny way to turn such a negative connotation on its head.

No one will in the village will worry about starvation ever again! Why? Because I'm greedy enough to want more delicious food!

I just find it amusing and quite endearing that a character that could've so easily been annoying and grating based on the cores of his personality type, is instead a refreshing remix of those cores.

He's a rich kid, everyone was going to look at him and call him spoilt and greedy anyway. Why not take it in stride and use the power that comes with money to be greedy in the best possible way?

This also ties into what I like about Francois so much - their understanding of Ryuusui complements his more outlandish behaviour by recontextualising it.

Mild spoilers for the manga, but further on Francois acts as a translator quite often to ensure that people near them won't suffer because of a language barrier. They're able to translate and make sure concepts are understood so everyone is on the same page

Francois is incredibly perceptive (almost supernaturally so!) They are not only able to anticipate, but problem solve and create solutions based on those observations.

What we've already started to see in the anime with Francois in this one episode is how they're able to recontextualise Ryuusui! They understand that he's greedy to such a point of sincerity, and that's what keeps him moving forward.

And as it's been said, greed isn't necessarily a bad thing in this stone world. It's helping to motivate quick advancements that are going to be beneficial to everyone ;)

He's been super fun to read about and I hope he becomes even more fun as we get to see him animated. There's so many great moments coming up that will be really exciting >:)

[spaciebabie]

when ppl share their art wips with me >>>>>>>>>>>

[tansyuduri]

AND my ammonia is high again. I'm cold sweating. I mean I threw up yesterday morning. So this should have been expected. Didn't know if I could write. Then wrote anyway.

Not gonna write much I expect but I got an idea for the new prompt. Setting it in one of my AU Multi shorter fic worlds as usual Only vauge ideas and begining parts writen for the fic that comes before it! (I know what has to happen in it though) BUT THE ONE THAT COMES BEFORE THAT will come out in october. This means there is a possibility fics will be published out of order in this series. I mean I'll make it so they are listed in the right order on ao3 one I post them. (Since you can edit the order of fics in a series thank goodness)

The multi fic AU words are diferant from my LONG fic Worlds. (Okay I suppose it's just world ATM since the one I'm working on now and still in the beguining of has nothing of it published yet (basically they are different in the that multi fic au words are usually based on prompts (usually not always) and are hurt confort/whump with plot) The Longfic words are plot often with hurtconfort/whump happening some) (I originaly though of them as Plot for the long ones and hurt confort for the other ones then realized how much they overlap.) Not gonna work on that today. When I'm in this condition. Work on the easier one to write instead. And now I just realised I spent most of these tags shouting. DEAR NEW FOLLOWERS This kinda thing will happen sometimes under this tag. OKAY this post turned out way longer than I thought it would (perhaps because I'm not doing much actual fic writing so I am rambling instead)

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I feel like the post I just reblogged pointing out the all-or-nothing in how many people interact with their deconstruction of systems of oppression is resonating for me right now with so many different moments in my life where someone decides that because some part of myself has access to some of the levers of control/influence/etc that come with the relationship to power, and decides what that must mean about all the other parts of me that might be explicitly refused access to those same levers.

It has happened in so many spaces/aspects of my life, and it can be so hard to feel safe and seen and trusting of others when that's my chronic relationship to being perceived - half truths and obfuscation.

It doesn't really change regardless of who's doing the assuming either. Like, where they land in relation to systems of power may influence which direction they lean in their assumptions about me, but even that is often inconsistent. Both sides of the equation (those who share my marginalizations and those who exist in spaces of closer proximity to power) will still do it nonetheless.

When I was doing my liminal social identities work in undergrad, this was actually a big part of the conceptualization we explored of traumtic alienation of self as individual from self as collective, and what it can do to people to exist in this liminal relationship with your environment and the people in it. As I'm starting to gather my thoughts about my stress modeling, this conceptualization is bubbling back to the surface. I'm finding myself meandering through it on both a path specifically my own, and in an effort to better understand what other paths may be available to people during their version of the process/experience.

Selfhood is so fragile, and so in need of balance between self-construction and co-construction for us humans, and that gives us so many beautiful, even spiritual, experiences of meaning making and generativity of self. It also createa many pivot points where we may find room in our path for vulnerability or blurring of self. As much as these pivot points can be distressing, I think they also sometimes become our foundations of change/personal evolution, when we find that through the distress of existing in shift, something meaningful is occurring or observable in our experience of self-in-transition.

I think something I've valued especially about my own relationship with self is its transience. It doesn't always end up somewhere I would be happy to sustain, but it always allows me a degree of comfort in complexity that I think has made my body-mind a safer place for me overall.

[khaotunq]

uncle jim rly said this guy who's been helping with all the bills, organising my shit and trying to help save my livelihood means less to me than a guy i shagged this one time ?? make it make sense mate

[starlene]

So @neroushalvaus told me that in the current Finnish production of Så som i himmelen, after a big assortment of other questionable choices, they interpret the finale as some sort of Literal Vision of Heaven... and in there, Tore magically heals of his disability.

The more I think about this, the more disappointed and angry I feel about it.

I mean. The whole entire point of the character of Tore is that the others learn to accept him exactly as he is, and that he has a unique, valuable voice just like everybody else. Besides that, he's a very rare instance of disabled representation within musical theatre. Sure, he's often played by non-disabled actors – but the Helsinki production showed us how you can achieve great results by splitting the role between a disabled and a non-disabled actor, so the role can also be an opportunity for disabled actors, given that they're provided enough support throughout the process.

Or it can be an opportunity for a non-disabled actor to treat disability like a costume you can simply take off when you're done with it and for a production to imply that disabled people are not good as they are, I guess. Cool beans!

Incredibly disappointed with the director and everyone else involved.

[canisalbus]

How do you find pose references for all those gorgeous and cute and aaaaaaa drawings. H o w. Where. (<-from someone struggling to draw characters interacting)

(if you don't use references, take it as a compliment to your godly anatomy and posing skills)

I don't really use references for poses that much. I'm not sure how to explain this without sounding weird but when I'm about to draw something, I visualize it in my mind, and when it's character art I sort of see them as 3D models that can be posed and rotated. And I just sort of try to replicate that on paper, sometimes it's easy and sometimes it doesn't work out at all (a good reminder that when you browse someone's art, you usually only see the pieces that the artist is at least passably proud of, not the piles of failed projects that went nowhere).

[kakusu-shipping]

No my recent rewatch of childhood favorite anime The Devil is a Part-Timer + Season 2 which I didn't know existed until recently was NOT enough for me to put Childhood crush and one of the OG F/Os before this blog was made, Shiro "Aciel" Ashiya, back on the official F/O list

But my fucking god was it close.

[cybergoth-damsel]

Whenever fictional women from big ip's are written "meta" or "like a girl version of deadpool" I quake in fear. When men shatter the fourth wall it's edgy, dark, and often an opportunity to explore existential dread through a lens of juvenile nihilism. When those same writers give women that angle it's always just so they can say shit like "I'm sure THIS will help ratings ; )" *shows boobs* "Ugh you cishet white male PERVS!". Not that I'm really that intrigued by any amount of ""meta"" writing but at least when it's men they get to be the center of the story. Women have to act as a mouthpiece for whatever vague pseudo-feminist jargon will get them the most rage clicks or epic twitter screencaps or whatever.

[applepies-and-starlight]

Sometimes I think back to that one time I was in a discord rp where I was planning out a scene and everything with a big reveal and everything but right as I was about to do it the person who rped with me just dipped and was barely even sorry about it (edit: now that I've read the chatlogs I don't even think they were sorry...)

(The reveal scene happened eventually, but it was so underwhelming that it's stuck with me by virtue of being bland lmao)

[hiimcanadia]

It's like 9pm now but shout-out to the dream I had last night where I accidentally entered some sort of creative engineering competition(?) where the losing team got killed at the end(???) And I was super worried at first until I realized that both Frenchie and Oluwande were on my team and I was like "oh okay we're gonna be fine"

[lies]

That foredeck life