#i know the struggle of perfectionism

[beatricecrumplebottom]

you must've been told this before, but, thanks to your blog whenever I feel imposter syndrome and perfectionism kicking in when I'm making cc, your blog title (perfect is the enemy of good) echoes in my head and I'm reminded that it doesn't need to be polished and perfect and impeccable to be good and worthy of being shared :) I just thought you'd like to know. Have a wonderful day!

Thank you. ❤️❤️

[mistfallengw2]

Learning quickness builds is quick and easy, they said

[stanuary]

new blog header!! made in canva with free assets so technically i didn't draw any of this, but i did put in a little extra effort to make some of the icons out of shapes :') happy to finally have replaced the old header with something a little fancier

[yuridovewing]

gotta say though, the way mapleshade kinda (???) tried to hurt crookedstar with oakheart’s affair was pretty lame. yeah your mom had her head bashed against the rocks. your dad died slowly of cancer. your wife and children will die too. and your brother got kinda horny one night and made himself a single father

[brown-little-robin]

あ

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

hey hey when Paul (or whoever that was writing the book of Hebrews) tells us not to complain or God might strike us dead, how do we separate that from toxic positivity

[end-orfino]

ahhhhhh i remember why i dont read comics & books and watch movies as much as I should. Because they make me lose it

[teawizard]

Okaaaay! 'Week 2' of @encanto-extended-edition event!

Relationships...... (warning: a lot of words, I feel like I am coming up with the stuff on the go, but some pictures too! So please at least have a look at them!)

I am slowly reimagining Daniela's whole narrative and I want to focus on her having the time of her life :)

So, I thought that making her a part of a small chaotic friend group would be fun!

Daniela (left) and Dioselina (middle) are close neighbours, really old childhood friends and are really passionate about art, acting out their favourite books, etc. Bruno joins the group later.

Dioselina

Dioselina is a really huge support for Daniela. She lives on a farm and is used to manual labour from when she was little. Due to an accident, she loses her right arm but is still insistent on helping her parents and siblings. She is kind of stoic and brave, sociable and very confident. Dioselina is like a 'straight one' of the group, the voice of reason. She is more inclined to music than other art, but because she lost her right arm, she is not capable of playing musical instruments and is left (😉) with singing which she does really well.

Her deal with Daniela is that Daniela is 'the creative and crazy one'. As they are close friends, Daniela is comfortable to be her curious and impulsive self around Selina. They really enjoy talking with each other, they have the same sense of humour. And Selina keeps Daniela out of trouble :)

Bruno

Bruno is introduced to Daniela by Dioselina. One day Selina went to him for a vision, than he almost had a breakdown because it was the third vision that had to do with the agriculture that day. Selina felt sorry for him and asked about the familiar book she'd seen on the shelf when she'd entered the room. They talked a bit and she left. She starts to visit him, they talk about the book and they get close really fast.

Bruno isn't really shy at this age. He is adventurous and gets really irritated that he has to do visions for everyone everyday (because they are good visions mostly). He has some friends at school, but most of them think he is weird, because he can infodump about books or future for hours and has no filter, so he sometimes says a lot of disturbing shit. His sisters love him and defend him against bullies, but they have too much responsibility. They skip school a lot and don't really share his interests.

So, when he meets the girls, he is over the moon. They share his interests, they listen to his rambles and come up with scenarios even crazier than he saw in the future 'movies' (whatever that means) and they don't 'censor' him. Of course, it takes time for Daniela to warm up to him, but she does eventually.

The group

As a group they are a menace really. Bruno is usually the one that initiates 'the troubles', Daniela supports him and makes it more unhinged and Dioselina is here to look at those idiots fail and then help them.

At first, they try to prevent Bruno's visions from coming true. As an experiment they try to not let old Señora Sevanna's favourite apple tree fall but they unknowingly trigger said vision and end up in trouble.

As Bruno is overly righteous, after some not good people asking for his vision, he asks the girls multiple times to help him take revenge. Daniela usually gets really agitated and they come up with a thousand plans to kill the guy, but Dioselina reasons with them and they instead steal his chicken or trick him into thinking his barn is haunted.

Also, I thought, one time, they try to make Bruno more popular. They fake some of his visions, Dioselina gossips around town that she had heard only good things from him, because his limit of good news is one vision a day, but it ends in the whole town standing in line and fighting to get Bruno's vision first.

With time they become less interested in the shenanigans. They gossip about their respective sisters and brothers, their friends from school, discuss their future. Daniela is the one that brings up 'adult stuff' on the group meetings. She hangs out with her brother and sister's friends sometimes and also found a dirty book in her siblings' room, though she doesn't know who it belongs to.

SO being high on the hormones and her mother disapproving her friendship with Bruno, they start a relationship, which ends fast. They aren't exactly ready for marriage (they are 16 and 18 come on), and Daniela doesn't want even to kiss Bruno. They decide to be friends, but after a year or two he falls in love with her and is low key miserable.

(a first version of their group 'photo' in their 20-ies)

(a second one, which is accidentally a Modern AU and look! they wear each other's colors!)

Okay, when they are 20-ish they still hang out. They love playing little pranks, but generally they have their own struggles and really miss hanging out every day.

Bruno gives more bad visions with time and becomes more of a recluse. He still goes to town, sometimes they meet with Dioselina, he visits Daniela's workplaces (sometimes accidentally, sometimes on purpose). The girls are worried about him and try to cheer him up. In public spaces he is shunned and Bruno is very uncomfortable, even more when Daniela is almost screaming at people for being jerks and Dioselina tries to shut her up. In private Dioselina and Daniela end up having conversations that Bruno can't contribute to and he gets frustrated and leaves. The girls try to make things better by making the town not that feared of Bruno again, but fail. Bruno is hurt that he is a-

Oh no, it is sad again. Soooo, let's end here, before it becomes worse :)

[lunarphaseshift]

I am a proud member of Baron Trio Nation personally but I do think some of my favorite fanworks about them are not the ones where they have a great relationship (although those are nice too). They're the fics where the 3 of them have a messy or complicated setup or are divorced or something similar.

The three are all in their early 20's in the duration of FFIV. Between then and TAY and given the circumstances of their relationship that precede that they have all the potential for just the most insane polycule drama. I want to see another character live with them for a month in their queer housing arrangement (whether this is Baron or an AU is up to you) and regret it after having to deal with whatever the hell they have going on.

[sleepsnumber1fan]

So like, a month ago, I decided to crochet each of the characters in my dnd party. Starting from shortest to tallest. And now after two weeks of crocheting and doing math to make my own pattern, I've finished the first!

She's a drow cleric of the Arch Heart (exandrian god), her name is Xx'rril.

I had a lot of fun doing all her scars.

Sadly couldnt find any pink crochet eyes that would get here anytime soon so I just used some black eyes and some nail polish.

No nose and no mouth cause i couldnt settle on a style for them so i just left it off to try later if i want.

And also no wire for the fingers yet. Picked up the wrong kind of wire today and nearly stabbed myself cause it wasnt soft wire 😅

But! She's finished!

Struggling to be happy with all the parts cause i only just finished the doll but im sure I'll love her when i wake up haha

[goeswiththeflo]

Someone please tell.me.to stop procrastinating and write this goddamn paper?

[dangerous-drabbles]

update

i've been putting off writing this, but i can't exactly not, so... i'll try and make this brief.

in short: i've had an epiphany.

(tl;dr at bottom)

i've been writing/brainstorming this fic since november/december last year, and since then, my ideas and understandings of the show and it's characters have evolved. and with them, my plans and understandings for iwf.

i want to be clear: this is not me saying i'm done with iwf, or going on some long hiatus. in fact, it's more the opposite.

having graduated, with summer in full swing, and feeling more sure than ever about where i want to take this fic (as well as remaining fully invested in this fandom), i plan to do more writing than ever before B)

that said: something needs to change.

this fic has been, and continues to be, my baby (besides my ever-growing, yet rarely spoken of, tmnt iteration) for most of the time i've been active in this fandom.

i've long struggled with motivation for big writing projects, but i am resolved to keep with this one because i have a story worth telling. will it be worth reading? who's to say!! (i hope so /gen)

but, as you might've noticed, my more recent updates (especially around the end of arc I) were... bad. maybe not bad-bad, but still bad from a 'technical writing/story' perspective. i struggled a lot with them, and i think that really shows.

i've was trying to figure out why its come to be this way while pushing forward by forcing myself to write, but that didn't work. it wasn't until this week, tuesday, when realization struck me (while watching a video essay, lol).

it made me realize a big part of what was making me unhappy was something i already knew, an issue underlying the fic (and my writing style) as a whole.

with this in mind, i can't keep going forward in the way i had planned.

i'm not gonna go back and change arc I. while the problem is there, especially in the later chapters, i'm early enough on that i can turn things around and (hopefully) root out the problem(s) without any major changes to what i've written/set up so far.

but to do this, i need time.

i know i know i just took a 2-3 week long break, but to pull this off, i need time to prepare and rewrite. i'm halfway through revisions for the arc II outline, and i'll need to heavily revise/rewrite several chapters, plus write some new stuff (since i'm axing the next couple i had planned/written out... rip.)

if all goes well, it shouldn't take longer than two weeks. best case scenario, i get it done in one. we'll see.

until then, i humbly ask for your patience.

as a note:

i could go deep into my inspirations for this fic, where i wanted to go originally, what's changed since then, and especially what brought me to my realization (plus the specifics of said realization) but i said i would try to make this brief, and here we are, [insert amount of words] later.

are you really surprised, though? (/lh)

[if you would like to see me talk more about that (i would absolutely always be down, i love talking about myself /j /lh), feel free to shoot me an ask. in fact, i would beg on my hands and knees, if i were not a silly guy who lives on your computer (/j)]

(tl;dr -- i am not done writing iwf. however, i had a realization that led to me reevaluating my writing and determining that i need to rewrite/revise my arc II outline, and edit/revise/completely rewrite the next several chapters.

this means i am planning to take another week or so off (i am sosososo sorry) to iron everything out and get ahead.

this whole post was me trying to explain the reasoning behind this decision, with an underlying sense of desperate patheticism to match (/j /lh).)

to conclude, i want to say thank you so much for your support, silent or otherwise, from all who have read and (hopefully) enjoyed this fic thus far. i genuinely couldn't do it without you (yes, sun, this includes you /lh.)

especially to my frequent commenters, who i promise i do see and appreciate. you guys are the real mvps <3

i have some really big plans for iwf, and i hope you'll stick around to see them come to fruition (:<

[mainfaggot]

tw eating disorder talk, pt.2 to the last post in the tags (once again, no mention of numbers that could be triggering, just a heartfelt rant bc I've been so afraid of talking about these things on here, but i really just need to get everything out bc . I feel crazy)

[blujayonthewing]

I WANT!! to be a person who does little dnd doodles immediately after sessions and I WANT to be a person who nature journals regularly and I WANT to be a person who brings watercolors to colorado and actually uses them I WANT to do art casually and freely and joyfully as a reflection and extension of being an active participant in the world!!! FUCK!!!!

[true-blue-sonic]

its not for the otp game now, but i wanted to ask you

you said that you ocasionally draw, i wanted to see your artstyle, if u can...

can you show me any artwork traditional/digital or , wip you're working on?, if you dont have you can just not answer!

its as you like, i just wanted to know 💞

By sheer coincidence, I started up my tablet and IbisPaint today to give it a shot again, so I got some things from my gallery there! ^-^ These are finished works I've posted before on social media already. The dates underneath are the update dates Ibis gives me, but I truly can't recall when I uploaded/updated the drawings, haha. I'll put it under a cut because otherwise the post will be quite long!

August 23rd, 2021

September 29th, 2021

November 13th, 2021. For Silver's birthday on the 14th!💕

December 21st, 2021. This was for Little Ghost, one of the fics currently stuck in hell my WIP folder. There's been some changes to the story already, most importantly that Silver does not have his cuffs or gloves!

December 27th, 2021. This was for a cover art I wanted to do for Genesis. I know Gold's eyelashes are wrong, sorry!

January 3rd, 2022

February 21st, 2022

So that is what my art style looks like! ^-^ I really want to become better at drawing, but I've got that nasty issue wherein I can beautifully imagine what I want the artwork to look like... and then I am incapable of putting it down on paper in that way. That is quite disheartening, and it means I take hours for my drawings to actually be finished, if I can get myself to try it in the first place :/ Plus, I've gotten slightly better at drawing heads and quills, but that leaves out bodies, hands, and shoes, which are a STRUGGLE for me. But those are definitely a necessity for good drawings, so...

I haven't drawn in over a year because it's too hard for me to get started, basically. I'm not sure what the best way is to tackle improving at drawing, it seems quite daunting... I'd love to, but it's difficult if I give up after a first sketch already because it's not working out😅

[end-orfino]

people should show their first drawings/animatics/writings more often. I won't do it but you guys definitely should