#i hope this helps!!

[candyheartedchy]

Do you have any lighting tips? I really struggle but you do lighting so well!

I’m so bad at explaining art stuff, so I apologize in advance anon!!!

I usually do a separate layer for lighting and for adding a glow effect, I make a copy of the “light” layer and blur the one underneath.

[catmask]

I know you said you used veadotube mini for your streams. For the images, do you use gifs?

I apologize if it's a silly question, it's been really inspiring to see your streaming grow! I liked the video game-like talk sprite look you have for your nuzlocke challenge etc! I haven't cracked into looking at the program yet, but I wanted to ask and gather info first:)

yah i do!! i animate a one second or one half second looping gif on csp (clip studio paint) and make sure the starting frame for both the talking and idle gifs is the same. this way they loop into eachother seamlessly.

typically i make the idle animation one second, and have four frames. the talkign animation is 1/2 second, and four frames as well, but because its loop is shorter the frames cycle 'faster'. this gives the illusion of my character talking vs chilling, because the faster frame transition makes it look more energetic!

i will say that the bell animation in the talking sprite is more like 6... 8 frames? but thats because i wanted to add a level of bounce to its movement.

[jojo-schmo]

Is it okay to ask what font you use for your comic dialogue? It looks like an exact fit for what I wanna do!

Sorry if you were asked this before.

Hello! No worries, I'm always happy to answer stuff, especially if an ask is buried deep in my blog.

So I made my comic font years ago on a website called "myscriptfont" that no longer exists. It's my handwriting! I made it like what... eight years ago?? Holy smokes. I think font technology has advanced past this but I'm too sentimental to change it after so long haha.

I don't know if I'd give it out though, not just because it's pretty personal to me but it's kinda janky. The 'i's and exclamation marks get pretty close together, the (") quotation marks don't work correctly, and ellipses act weird and I have to space them out manually. I know its quirks and how to work with them but I imagine it'd be frustrating for others. And there's probably a way for me to fiddle with those kinds of settings but I haven't tried yet.

If you want to make your own though, the site I made it on turned into the website "calligraphr" and I believe you can make one font for free when you register!

But if you want my Kirby "Forgotten Language" handwritten font, I put it here for free. :) I made that one on Calligraphr a year ago so it should work great! It's got newfangled font technology!

[dmsr-art]

any beer recommendations for a non-beer drinker?

i have found through personal experience that the beer type with the best chance of being enjoyed by a non beer drinker is a sour. there are the kinds that typically come in bottles (ex: saison, lambic, berliner weisse). these can be fruited vs non fruited, barrel aged, very funky to mild funk, delicate to enamel stripping. i personally really love fruited barrel aged saisons.

then there's the fruited sours that come in a can and sometimes are thick like a smoothie, heavily fruited, can have added lactose for creaminess, and taste nothing like ur standard lager or ipa, which is the "beer" flavor a lot ppl have in mind when they say they don't like beer.

[gabalicious-g]

HELLOOO do you have any rap artist recommendations?? saw ur tags on that earlier post :]

hey bestieeeeee

hell yeah i have rap recommendations!!

In terms of artists, definitely Kendrick Lamar because of the lyricism and ability to weave a narrative, Metro Boomin', lil Uzi, Cardi B, 21 savage, Tyler the creator, lil nas x, Doja Cat, Kanye, Megan Thee Stallion, City Girls, Saweetie, and ASAP Rocky all have classics that have shaped the genre in their own way since 2012.

Most songs that have collabs /features with people like SZA, kali uchis, kanye, rihanna, the Weeknd, lana del rey, and other pop artists are pretty fire. Don't shy away from popular songs! They got popular for a reason, and having an artist you know in the song can make a completely new genre less daunting.

In terms of songs, I would definitely suggest:

Just Wanna Rock (lil Uzi), Runnin (21 savage and metro boomin), Right Foot Creep (youngboy never broke again), Collared Greens (ScHoolboy Q, Kendrick lamar), Glock in my lap (21 savage, metro boomin), the Box (Roddy Ricch) because they're hype and iconic.

Songs that have dances attached to them are also a great place to start because then you can straight up see people's enjoyment of it. Songs like juju on that beat, drop it like it's hot, even Wobble (by VIC) and low (by FloRida and T Pain) are really good intro dance songs. The important thing about these songs is that the audience is much broader than for some rap songs. The audience for the dance songs (ie. 'all the shawties in the club', 'west coast', or even 'you') is whoever feels like participating, whereas for example, "Not Like Us' by kendrick is a very specific diss that's meant to be listened to a wide range of people but is a response to Aubrey Drake Graham's bitchass.

[inpolariis]

Got a question asking for my process for this piece so I made a little tutorial for it :o)

[stressed-sock]

Heyyy Sock!!

So... Do you have a reference sheet for your dominion Sneve design? I may be struggling a little bit...

sadly I don’t have a reference sheet but I think this is close enough to one? (sneve I did for dominionweeks 👍)

for his feet I think he’d go barefoot or have boots and the height doesn’t matter very much :D

[arcadekitten]

Oml I've played every single one of your games and I still have no idea how a pathospire feeds🤕 I understand what a pathospire is, but I wanna make sure I have the correct definition of it. Do you mind giving an explanation of what a pathospire is and how they feed?

Pathospires are emotion-based vampires who receive energy from heartbreak!

Pathospires can "eat" normal food, but it doesn't give them energy. They only get energy from heartbreak!

Pathospires can feed on all forms of heartbreak (from breakups, death, betrayal, etc). Pathospires only need to be around the broken-hearted to be able to feed, but if a pathospire is the cause of a broken-heart, they receive even more energy from it!!

If Pathospires eat a lot, they can become really strong and powerful! (like super strength!)

Pathospire feeding is an essentially passive process, like photosynthesis. They absorb the energy from a broken heart like plants absorb energy from sunlight.

[strawbubbysugar]

Do you have any tips for growing your skills as a concept artist or even getting into the industry? I want to do character concepts eventually here, but I don’t know a huge amount about the details behind the job.

Here’s my advice!

the industry is incredibly fast paced, and in being a concept artist you need to produce dozens of concepts a day. Speed is a very valuable asset- my main tip here is to build muscle memory by practicing drawing as much as you can (by drawing things you like, of course!) and using longer strokes rather than feathered, shorter ones.

Also, don’t be afraid to use reference. I see a lot of people feeling like it’s cheating but it’s NOT, in my job every single concept artist uses references daily, with every concept.

No art is truly original, take inspiration from everywhere and everything, proudly!!

[toomanyfandomsorkinafs]

Tips for LGBTQ+ kids who aren't out/can’t come out

Scrunchies. For example you find sets of three with like one is blue & pink and the other is yellow & pink, the third one tends to be all three in like a pretty fade(aka the pan flag) OR just get all three in one colour and then arrange them properly.

This is my way I've been reping my flag without actually having my flag.(I wear it like a bracelet) It works cause homophobes/people who are rude to the LGBTQ+ just see it as a scrunchie, but those who know/are LGBTQ+ will recognise the flag.

So just find sets of how ever many colours is on your flag then find those colours. Bonus? You can also use it as an actually scrunchie if needed AND have a flag in your hair.

[lyssasdrafts]

Please don’t take this as a personal attack but in future can you please stop adding unrelated relationship tags to your fics. e.g Star Crossed is Rhysand x Reader right, but you’ve also added the tags Azriel x reader, Cassian x reader and Bat boys x reader.

Doing this spams the other ‘ship tags and is really frustrating for readers.

There’s nothing wrong with Rhysand x reader, I love that ‘ship, but when I’m looking for Az or Cass x reader, I don’t want to have to scroll past heaps of unrelated fics for different ‘ship.

I get that people do this to try and promote themselves, but tbh it’s inconsiderate of others and doesn’t help the fandom. It also makes me want to block writers that spam tags so I don’t have to waste time scrolling past their posts.

And blocking them means I would miss seeing any other work they write, which would be the opposite effect writers are wanting if they’re trying to self promote.

So again, this isn’t meant to be a personal attack, just a different perspective and an ask that you try and avoid adding unrelated tags to your fics in future. Thanks!

hey anon! thank you for addressing your concern with me and being respectful, i really appreciate it!

i would like to clarify that star-crossed isn’t just a rhysand x reader story, and it’ll involve all the bat boys being with reader. since we’re only in the early chapters, reader has mostly interacted with rhysand only but as the story goes on, cassian and azriel will become love interests too. and i’m also planning for three alternate endings where each of them end up with y/n. for these reasons, i classified the story as also being cassian x reader and azriel x reader, which is why i used the tags too!

[skiaskai]

Hi I’m a new digital artist and your art style is so beautiful, definitely what I aspire to be!!! I was curious if you could share any info about brushes you use or your process (shading especially)

Ahh welcome to digital art!!

Thank you for the kind words! I use a Procreate for all my works, and I use Georg’s manga and ink brush pack for most of my inking. (Enpitsu, fude, g-pen texture the most)

for shading, it’s hard to explain, but I do my flats, then a gradient layer (multiply), cel shading(multiply), then some lighting effects with overlay and addition depending on the piece. Then I finish it off with some painting on top!

Also art hack I’ve recently started doing: copy the canvas at the end, then blur it slightly, and put it on overlay mode with lower opacity. Magic.

[natjennie]

do the ghosts in ghosts ever like. move on. you know go into the light. or do they just not want to? every day i get this much 🤌 closer to watching the show

no no genuinely this is a good question! so yeah, the ghosts can move on, which they colloquially refer to as "getting sucked off," but it happens seemingly at random and the ghosts are very nervous about it.

basically, when you die in the bbc ghosts universe, one of two things happens. either your spirit sort of goes all glowy and floats above your body and you get a few seconds of afterlife but then you sort of whoosh upwards and that's it. OR you die and then open your eyes again right where your body still is but you're a ghost now. and once that happens, you just sort of hang out. and then, at any point, there's a warm glowing light and you get a second of recognition and then whoosh upwards and gone.

but yeah, the ghosts have a lot of different attitudes towards moving on and big episodes touch on it that I can think of are happy death day, the thomas thorne affair, speak as ye choose, gone gone, and especially carpe diem. I don't want to spoil anything specific in case you watch the show, but moving on is actually a huge point of interest for them.

I also wrote about the sadness inherent to the in-universe rules of moving on here, which I thought was a good post but it got derailed by people making jokes about yknow. the fact that they call it "getting sucked off" which. fair play.

[librarycards]

do you have any reading recs for the intersection and/or similarities between the disabled & trans experiences? the community of trans, disabled, and trans disabled people working together? tysm sarah

i have many, too many to list here! below are a few links and names to get you started, but trans disability studies is a rapidly-growing field really exploding with new scholarship right now. trans studies specifically is having something of a "crip turn," particularly since the publication of Hil Malatino's long essay, "Trans Care." I don't know what's going to happen going forward, but as it stands, there is active and growing interest in the nexus of trans and disabled subjectivity, especially w/r/t social conditions that design (for) us lives deemed unlivable.

i'm going to focus in this post on scholarship that explicitly engages both with trans and disability studies thought, rather than just work from one area that happens to bring in a topic from the other. Of course, it isn't possible to fully delineate these areas, nor should we try. but trans studies and disability studies are whole academic fields with distinct genealogies and theoretical orientations, and it sounds like you're looking for work that brings these sometimes-disparate orientations together very deliberately. Mad studies also has its own disparate genealogy that is sometimes at odds with disability studies, depending on who you're reading; on the other hand, neurodiversity studies tends to follow and cite DS a little more closely. i'm not going to get into the weeds here, but i did want to provide a disclaimer about how complicated this shit is before i give a LIMITED! INCOMPLETE! list of places to start reading.

my work in transMad studies (which I made up; Trans Disability Studies and Feminist Disability Studies, and intersections therein, predate me) draws explicitly on trans, disability, and Mad studies approaches, as well as/alongside the critical digital humanities, poetics, and science & technology studies. i've written about transMadness / trans disabled digital work / Mad gender noncompliance / trans autie-biography. I also co-authored the chapter on the trans/disabled intersection in Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, 2nd ed.

Some key authors in the area of trans disability studies // transMad studies include but are not limited to:

Eli Clare

M. Remi Yergeau

Nick Walker

Mel Chen

Jake Pyne

Jess Rauchberg

Lydia X. Z. Brown

J. Logan Smilges

Justine Egner

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha

Alexandre Baril

Hil Malatino

Merrick Pilling

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Sky Cubacub

I have included alongside each name a link to one piece of their work that I like. Again, MANY people write about trans / disability / Mad issues in concert, or who talk about certain issues through a t/d/M lens. I listed only a small number of people for the reasons I mention at the start of the post.

Also, much of this work I have selected deliberately to trouble preexisting assumptions about trans disabled solidarity/activism/scholarship – namely, that it starts and ends at the question of pathologization. When we limit the scope of trans disabled liberation work to the boundaries of the clinic (material, discursive, or otherwise) we do ourselves a grave disservice.

i'm going to leave it there as a starting point, but encourage you to check the citations of each of the linked pieces, as they're often treasure troves of further resources.

[dmsr-art]

Hey perv who writes fic for pervs here and I'm struggling with the fact that my stuff does so much worse when I'm writing weird perv stuff Vs normie porn of popular ships. Was hoping that you as Queen Pervert might have some words to settle my brain a bit? Love your work btw ❤️

hello fellow pervert.... okay so when u say ur normie porn does a lot better im assuming u mean hits and kudos.... but what about comments? i find that while sicko porn may not get as many comments it does tend to attract more UNHINGED comments. and honestly i think a single, passionate unhinged comment about ur weird porn is worth 50 comments/kudos from a normie. let the sickos know that u appreciate unhinged comments in ur author's note!! i think sickos can sometimes be a little shy so u gotta let them know it's okay to let their freak flag fly (ofc based on what ur comfortable with, ex: some authors like to know when someone gets off to their writing while others don't, etc).

that's basically what i've done here on my blog, i have cultivated an audience that will send me perverted horny asks and i always encourage unhinged comments on my art.

but even if nothing changes just remember at the end of the day u play an incredibly important role in the fandom eco system by writing weird perv stuff and the freak lurkers love and appreciate u!! ❤️❤️❤️

[chococolte]

Hii is there anyway you could make your character setting public? I'm trying to make my own character ai but I can't figure out how to do the example messages at all. Your bots are written so well please help T_T

ok so i can't make zhongli's settings public because of his high interaction count, but here are screenshots of what i put for him:

i made al-haitham's settings public too so you can look at those to reference as well!! ^_^