#i hope this helped?

[lilybug-02]

Hii! First of all, I absolutely ADORE your HK AU, the whole Idea and your art style are perfect imo!

If that's not too much to ask, could you please tell us something about your process of drawing humans (and maybe also bugs)? Dewi and his dad always look so adorable, I was hoping to take a peek at your drawing secrets

Hello! And thank you!!! 💕💟💗☮️

I wouldn't be the first to admit it, but I have trouble drawing humans, like- A LOT of trouble. My consistency is that of bread, as in it's different every time I make it 😅. But I have to remind myself that I draw for fun, not for quick improvement. Uh anyways-

When I draw anything, especially humans, I make a quick and simple rough draft of their position and expression. This helps me feel "prepared" for lineart.

Sometimes I'll do multiple rough draft sketches, usually if the final piece is going to be very detailed.

For my personal style of art, I give humans big eyes and noses, with very flexible mouth movements. Here's a neat speedpaint :)

Never be afraid to use references!!! (even if it's annoying and takes time -w-)

Humans (and bugs) can be challenging to draw at times, but its important to keep things basic.

And sometimes you can get silly with it, Charlie Brown simple style.

[erinwantstowrite]

question, if you only have a basic plot concept how would you normally expand the plot? There's a story I really want to write and I know the idea of the vibe I want for it but I'm not sure of much from there ^^

Well, for me, I usually look at other media to get inspiration, things that are similar to what I'm trying to write. I imagine what my characters would do in the same situations, or I think about what I would have written instead, and from there, I figure out what could go where in an outline. We like to think our stories are original, but there's never a truly original story, and we're all a little inspired by each other. A lot of the movies or books you read have similar plotlines, but it's the author's influence and the character choices that make you decide if you like it or not.

Something that helps me is keeping in mind that other characters are doing things in the story outside of my narrator's POV, so they could create scenes for me. A villainous plot, someone confessing a crush, getting their doctorate and throwing a party. I think of it like... Making a hairstyle? Like one plot concept: you're putting your hair in a ponytail. Two plot concepts: you're creating a french braid. A third concept, you're making a regular braid. There are moving parts underneath your first story.

It goes into "How does my character get from point A to point B": knowing there are ups and downs to the road they have to take, and sometimes they might get sidetracked. My character has to get over a ravine, but they don't have a bridge to get across. Maybe they have to make a friend to help them find a bridge somewhere further down the ravine, or maybe an older figure in their lives teaches them how to make the bridge, or maybe someone on the other side of the ravine tries to help them get across.

(These are metaphorical or literal examples. "Ravine" could be a major set back in their lives, like trust issues. The "bridge" is them getting the tools to get over the setback. And the other characters are helping them figure it out, but every person has a different situation and therefore, different solutions.)

Sometimes, writing with a basic concept of what you want is the way to go- the problems create themselves, and you solve them as you go along. Your character gets across the ravine, but now they have a mountain to climb. It's up to you to decide if they trek it on their own, or if someone comes along and decides to help, or if there's a person who waits at the start of the trail and always offers help to the travelers they come across.

[nerdnag]

Hi Sara! You are wise and cool and I'd appreciate advice if you have any! I am trying to make friends especially with fellow autistic people in real life but it is very very hard and scary also I don't know how to find people who want friends. Do you have any advice? (Please only answer if you want to!)

Thank you Ghostly!! 🙏 You are so valid - it *is* hard and scary to make irl friends!! (... Online friends too, tbh)

I don't know if I have any helpful advice, but I'll try!

I think what's worked best for me is to meet people in contexts that are related to specific, niche interests. I'm not entirely sure I have any IRL friends anymore who are only autistic, I do have a bunch who are both autistic and have ADHD though. And all of them, I've met through various kinds of special interests.

For example, several people in my TTRPG group are neurodiverse. How did I meet them? I happened to sit next to a guy I'd never spoken to before while at a work lunch, and we got to talking fantasy books (... I don't really remember how), which got us into RPG talk, which eventually led to him asking me by the end of the lunch whether I'd like to join the TTRPG group that he and some of his friends were starting up soon. That was 3,5 years ago, and we're still playing together to this day!

Another, I met through Magic: The Gathering - we were going to the same weekend event (not related to MtG) and I saw him post in a thread about looking for people to play some games with, so I replied to him, and we pretty much clicked right away because it turned out we had lots of other similar interests as well.

A third, I got to know through playing social deception games at yet another event, in which we sort of fell into a banter-y jargon while trying to convince everyone else to vote out the other. (We were both the wild cards in every game, because I had a habit of grinning wildly and looking generally untrustworthy regardless of which role I was given, and he had an absolutely straight face regardless and was really hard to read, so we pretty quickly identified each other as friendly rivals.) Then I figured out he lived in the same city as I did, and my train was cancelled, so I used my Charisma™ to hitch a ride with him and his dad back home :D

... So based on my own experiences, it seems I've mostly met other neurodiverse people through various kinds of games, which is one of my great passions in life! Depending on what your interests are, maybe there are events, groups or such that you could be on the lookout for? Sort of like it usually happens on Tumblr I guess, but IRL it's a bit harder since you have to do more work and research to find those places and communities.

The thing is though, it will always be scary. The first time I went to play with the TTRPG group, I was super scared. I barely said anything during the first hour or so, and even after several sessions, it still took some time each time to get back into it and relax. But I always have a lot of fun while playing, and I know they appreciate having me there, so that makes it easier to relax and not worry so much. It was the same thing with the MtG friend - I rewrote that first message sooo many times, and then had a racing heart by the time I went to meet up with him. The trick for me has been to recognise when it's worth pushing through that discomfort, and try to be accepting of the fact that sometimes it won't work out, but sometimes it will; sometimes it will lead to amazing friendships, but sometimes it will fizzle out or face plant before it could even start. And that's fine.

It gets easier with time in my experience, but it never gets easy. I've sort of had to accept that I usually don't make a great first impression. It's not that I make a bad impression, I just don't think I make much of an impression at all - I probably seem more shy than I really am, and sometimes my fears make me behave really awkwardly. But after a couple times, as I start to relax and get more comfortable being myself, I think I can make a really really good impression! And I stress a little less about first impressions when I remind myself of that.

Oh, and one more thing: I've personally found that it's a lot easier to meet new people if they are there by themselves. People who already hang out in groups are much harder to approach. Because of this reason, actually, I tend to avoid going to places together with my friends if my aim is to meet new people. It means I won't have the comfort and safety of my friends with me, but it increases the likelihood that I'll approach people I wouldn't have talked to others - or that they will approach me! (The friend I met through social deception games is the opposite, though. He says the comfort of having friends with him makes him more relaxed and confident, which makes it easier for him to meet new people.)

[howdoyoudothedew]

what is inuyasha i've never even heard of it till people kept answering inuyasha on the poll lol

you. you've never heard of inuyasha?

okay, so, it's a story about a girl named kagome who gets sucked into her family's old well (her family has a shrine) and ends up in feudal era japan. there, she meets and frees a dogboy (inuyasha, he's a dog/wolf half demon) who was basically the boyfriend of her past life. things happen and she accidentally shatters a really powerful jewel into pieces and they have to go around gathering all the pieces before the Dark Forces can get them, along with a monk, a really powerful demon slayer, and a young fox demon. there's also a romance between inuyasha and kagome that isnt bad, since theyre both tsunderes and idiots (im not much of a traditional media romance fan, myself)

it's also loosely based off journey to the west (inuyasha is monkey, kagome is tripitaka but more powerful)

honestly it's really good. you should check it out. ive been rewatching it lately, and even a decade later it's still really enjoyable

[canesvenatici-ribbons]

(@amewwayofliving) Er, hi. Do you know how to human? -Mew

I've been sitting on this ask for a bit now and here's the reason:

I don't know.

Being human is such a complicated, messy thing. Our lives are so short compared to some of the lifespans of our Pokémon partners. So I just... don't know.

I guess being human is about making mistakes? And just living them and trying to not make the same ones? It's about being able to change.

But that's more just... life in general and by that definition even Pokémon are human.

I think as long as you try your best and try to be kind to others (and don't let them walk all over you) is how you be human. Its just trying your best.

[badolmen]

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[hansoeii]

look at you, you're gorgeous!

[bug-s0da]

blehhh...

i made an aa/lawyersona of @snapscube :3 we all know and love the lawyer+silly girl duos of ace attorney but it's about time the silly girl became the lawyer

[martyrbat]

the memes and jokes about biden dropping out are all great but PLEASE dont turn away and forget the victims of him directly funding a genocide. these are real people that are still being impacted by his cruelty, their tragedies are still ongoing and they need our support more than ever.

if I can suggest a Palestinian family to support, I'll highly recommend Yusuf and his family—who has been vetted for [here]. The GoFundMe breaks down the costs, including the urgent need for an eight year old child to have a kidney replacement, but only €8,404 is currently needed for his family to pay crossing and coordination fees!!

[callisteios]

i made a character uquiz. i 100% promise you that you will get a character you know AND like

[brucie-baby]

the fact that alfred was the one to put up jason's memorial is so important to me

[thundersbugs]

rich boy get your ass up and FIGHT!!!

[1st year au]

[tizzymcwizzy]

this is a poster i made for my call to action assignment in humanities! it's a bunch of basic and easy stretches for people who sit and work at a desk all day (me)

the idea is that you'd put the poster up above ur desk and do the stretches every 30 minutes or so,, the whole routine won't take more than about 6 minutes to complete and when done regularly it can prevent wrist, shoulder, neck and back pain! :)

all these stretches can be done while sitting (although i HIGHLY recommend you stand up and move around while taking a break from working)

you can get a free digital copy of this poster here on my gumroad!

and you can order a print/poster here from my inprnt!

[rhinestonesox]

When Senshi was young in the dungeon the majority of the adults he were with ostracized him. All except Gillin, who died to make sure Senshi had something to eat: unseasoned boiled meat that may or may not have been one of their comrades.

It really puts into perspective why he was so nurturing towards Chilchuck. When Chil reveals he’s 28 to the party, Senshi responds by telling him that he thought he was older. Senshi was in his 30s when he and his comrades got trapped in the dungeon, so it’s safe to assume that he thought Chil was at a similar age.

He met a young boy who was, from his perspective, forced to do dangerous work in the dungeon just like he was, and so, Senshi made an effort to look after Chilchuck in the same way Gillin looked after him.

Mind you, when Senshi was young in the dungeon he had to starve for weeks, eat the horse he loved, and finish it off spending the next i don’t know how many years wondering if he committed cannibalism.

Senshi understands first hand the value of nutrition and proper eating, so when he’s with the party he makes an effort to make sure they’re all eating a full and balanced diet. Not only that, but Senshi INVOLVES them in the process of getting food to eat, always preparing it in front of them and narrating every ingredient in the process so that there’s no doubt about what they’re eating.

[novelconcepts]

I Saw the TV Glow is such a uniquely, devastatingly queer story. Two queer kids trapped in suburbia. Both of them sensing something isn’t quite right with their lives. Both of them knowing that wrongness could kill them. One of them getting out, trying on new names, new places, new ways of being. Trying to claw her way to fully understanding herself, trying to grasp the true reality of her existence. Succeeding. Going back to help the other, to try so desperately to rescue an old friend, to show the path forward. Being called crazy. Because, to someone who hasn’t gotten out, even trying seems crazy. Feels crazy. Looks, on the surface, like dying.

And to have that other queer kid be so terrified of the internal revolution that is accepting himself that he inadvertently stays buried. Stays in a situation that will suffocate him. Choke the life out of him. Choke the joy out of him. Have him so terrified of possibly being crazy that he, instead, lives with a repression so extreme, it quite literally is killing him. And still, still, he apologizes for it. Apologizes over and over and over, to people who don’t see him. Who never have. Who never will. Because it’s better than being crazy. Because it’s safer than digging his way out. Killing the image everyone sees to rise again as something free and true and authentic. My god. My god, this movie. It shattered me.

[stil-lindigo]

Ahmed Saad or @/90-ghost's brother in law is currently doing his best to organise the evacuation of his family from Gaza. This family suffers from a combination of ailments that all require medical attention. This is the description on their GFM page:

Hello, I hope you all are doing well!

My name is Mohamed Monir Ahmad Mahmoud, I’m a hemophilia patient from Gaza. I decided to start this campaign with all the hope that you could support me in evacuating Gaza to do surgery for me and my daughter and start a fresh life with my 5 kids out of the ongoing genocide in Gaza [...] I was supposed to go out at the end of 2023 to have surgery on my knees but since 7 October, I had no chance due to the procedures on Rafah crossing, the gate of Gazans to the world. Now, my knees and elbows are bleeding with no access to any type of care and if things stand as they are in Gaza, I won’t be able to walk or make any effort because of the bleeding (currently I am barely able to set up a small fire in front of the tent to prepare food for my kids).

What I ask is 60,000, for travel costs because each one would need to pay 5,000-8,000$ to be allowed to leave Gaza through Rafah crossing and we need around 3000$ more in Egypt for our stay and to obtain visas. We will be heading to Brazil where my brother Diaa lives and there is a huge chance to do the surgeries and access health care as the health care for Hemophilia patients in Brazil is one of the most advanced in the world.

please give generously!!