#i love detailing what i enjoy most in a piece. & i love when ppl do it to me too obviously.

[windupaidoneus]

i know theres like 4 ppl at most who follow me who gaf about hildemet but i will keep being really annoying about them. & also an attention whore. im very much an attention whore

[raelynn0606]

JJK ending sucks but what's new

The only ppl who will see this have already heard me complain but I'm gonna do it AGAIN 😈

jjk has always kinda been a mid shonen type thing but I usually like them so I wanted to watch it. I watched the first season when it released and it good but it wasn't good enough to get me reading the manga.

Then s2 came out and I kind of absorbed a lot of content through social media osmosis and it seemed pretty interesting. I only ended up watching it cuz one of my new friends watched it and another one also wanted to watch it so we watched it together in school while the teachers would side eye us 😓

I actually kind of liked it. I genuinely love a lot of the characters, like I think they're interesting in a ton of ways but sadly most of it never got explored. Most of the charas didn't get actual arcs and for the ones that did, it never felt finished or it would just feel so half baked. The plot has an endless amount of loose threads it's not even funny.

More than the actual media itself I enjoyed the process of consuming it. I loved searching up the leaks every Thursday with my friend and the fandom was funny asf too.

The fights were great too, and that's probably the only reason I found s2 to be so entertaining. But I feel like most of that credit goes to the animators and shit instead of Gege himself.

As much as I hate on the aot ending, this ending is WAYY worse. If you ignore the aot ending, the rest of the show can definitely stand on its own. The ending might even be good if you view it through a different perspective.

But jjk doesn't have that. The ending itself isn't bad. It's just that the series feels so incomplete which is what makes it so shit. I haven't seen a single person say it's good so far which rlly says smth. Can't wait for some fans to come along and be like "erm u just didn't understand the story ☝️🤓"

I don't even wanna get into all the details on why the series sucks cuz there's way too many I can list. But the main reason I hate the ending is cuz the series had SO MUCH POTENTIAL.

The characters and themes and plot were pretty good, they just needed to be explored more and it never happened and it sucks so much cuz it could've been so great and actually have smth to say.

Maybe I expected too much from a series called Sorcery Fight because there were indeed sorcerers fighting and that's pretty much it.

I might be wrong for criticizing it so much considering I haven't even read most of the manga. I just started skimming leaks every week after Gojo died like most ppl did and skipped over the previous arcs (although I did look at summaries) so maybe it'll be different if I actually read all of it at once but I doubt it. Maybe the pacing would be slightly better but that's it.

I just get mad whenever I think of what could've been. I genuinely hope someone rewrites it and does it justice even tho I'll prolly never read it.

It's just another case of "this piece of media would've been so good if it was actually good."

[mysteryanimator]

Watch it here :D

(heads up for any odd grammar, Grammarly cannot save me from my dyslexia)

I was originally not going to do a breakdown of this because a lot of my breakdowns and thought processes were getting really repetitive (also i was getting embarrassed by them HAHSDASHBDS). BUT boy oh boy this time around I can actually go "wait i can yap without being repetitive here, maybe, idk, we never know until i write it out."

STORYBOARD/ANIMATIC:

It was really fun to adapt AquliaofArkham's fic into a visual format! This is the specific section I had set out to visualize!

(Yes I only did thumbs for that section and freeballed the rest whoops, y'all do not follow by example, i didn't think i was getting this far tbh)

When translating this from written to visual, there were some key points I wanted down:

They are really really close to each other and the barrier between each other is SO thin, but the air is still super thick

visual eye breathing room compressed???

Is having stillness a way to convey that ???

We are following Mizrak's POV, ergo focus on what Mizrak is focusing on, where is his mind going

hold shots for longer???

limited movement due to Mizrak's hyperfocus???

Make shots intentionally heavily detailed ???

Zoom into details???

As much as I am passionate about storyboards, I do tend to get ahead of myself and end up locking myself into lots of close ups HAHAH. I like having each shot matter to me a lottttt so i end up reverting to reusing a lot of super common shot archetypes due to their attached meanings (I'd love to attend/watch some workshops on this, but uni ;-; i'll be free soon dwdw).

By the way, you will notice the animation is longer then the timed storyboard/animatic. This is because I retimed to placeholder dialogue (which y'all will NOT HEAR THATS EMBARRASSING, i dont need ppl to hear me yell clatter lol). Fun fact I originally had it in the first storyboard to help me with timing and then removed it half way through? Not sure why I did that, but regardless I came back around and retimed it so that the length of each shot feels believable enough to hold dialogue and has enough time to be visually digested by you guys.

ANIMATION:

This was a doozy, not because I found the animation hard, this time I actually was satisfied-ish with most of the end result and started implementing different approaches to the animation from all kinds of media; which was my issue LOL. My understanding of animation changed midway through. I can super distinctly see two different approaches, probably because I slipped into that naturally while having animated shows/movies while doing this and I can probably pin point to you which shots was influenced by what show.

First all dialogue and walking forward: rewatched TLOVM b4 season 3 dropped, which by this point is already out, (uh also Nocturne. again HAHAH)

WHICH, you'll see here, two different set ups were taken LOL (also oof you're seeing my setup). Personally, I like keeping my animation folders to the utmost minimum (so like the right! Olrox's folder is a whole character, separate moving bits like lips or even earrings will be in that one folder) because scrolling through can get a tad overwhelming and daunting, BUT, Olrox walking forward had so many small moving pieces with different timings that multiple animation folders was the best way to handle itttttt.

I feel like I only really care abt this BUT FILE MANAGEMENT IS IMPORTANT AAA. You should've seen my file management this time last year, actually horrific, but I'm so glad I figured out how to be cleaner, in turn speeding up my process. (which honestly was just thanks to being thrown into a studio environment and going "Oh my god so that's what I should be doing" and picking up things I noticed from other animators, which genuinely my learning comes from picking me up and throwing me into the deep end)

Secondly, Olrox arm and a scrapped walking scene: I was watching Prince of Egypt (literally that whole week, planning to rewatch again lmao), Sinbad, Road to El Dorado, and then work from Modernday James, Toniko Pantoja, Edward Kurchevsky

Fun fact, the very first walking was intended to be animated, and i redid it about four times before scrapping it completely. The first three iterations i didn't save because they were sooo clunky . It made me realize I gotta revisit my principles again I'm rusty (and i do LOLOLOL). I scrapped the anim because it did not flow into the next shot nicely but, It was good practice regardless HAHA

While mentally I feel like none of the shots match each other, they still do have some cohesion to one another

COMPOSITING:

The new thing, finally manually did the edge shadows in CSP HAHAH.

I will say this too, I got really nervous atp about the overall "quality" of the anim + the backgrounds. I was getting super hung up over it because I was alr worried abt the animation due to the safer choices I made (but also, I don't have to reinvent the wheel LMAO). SO, when I got to comping it was like "oh actually its actually fine LOL".

i stayed pretty sketchy with these since i was getting way too worried about it and wanted this to stay as a fun side project, also these are without comping- they become way more purple with compositing LOL

I feel like here too I ended up doing less then what I normally do, which I think mighttt be on part to finding more efficient ways to go about compositing things together (and faster too).

Also, I definitely got pushed into trying to lower the layer amount when I saw a tweet about layer efficiency/layer stacks and them mentioning applying Mattes and CC Composite. Actually a godsend, I didn't realize I could combine my effects like that to lower the amount.

Also, I swear no amount of precomping can save me from this. There's probably a better way to go abt this um LOL, everyone is getting a peep at my file management.

Also, I'm realizing I could've done a tad more with the actual composition itself, like the placement and movement of Olrox in the scene where he's walking forward. For now I have to leave it, because also, the intent for this one was to have fun rather then making every anim an exercise or else I'd burn out so fast LOL

Side tangent but, I've been digging my heels into the animation school club workshops on youtube rn due to having a moment with the scrapped Olrox side walk. Which holy shit, things have clicked for me, so I'm going to try and do more rough exercises b4 i do another finished anim again. It turned a light bulb in my head LMAO, and it pushed me to do the recent maria anim and mizrak and olrox kiss which has a massively greater understanding of timing and confidence LMAO

Ok now this is To Love a God finished! Another animation done :DDDDDD I'm super happy to be adapting a fanwork, it's always really fun and super exciting to bring other people's stuff to life, which what made this more enjoyable then anything else.

Will I do another polished anim before next year/before s2? Time will tell but for now i rest and speed to finish another semester of uni (there is a high chance for another anim because of a joke tweet i did not expect to get traction lol)

Thank youuu if you stayed this far, this was really lengthy and i think i went into different unrelated tangents, so i hope you enjoyed me pulling you into different directions HAHAHA

p.s i uploaded this to youtube and theres an age restriction BECAUSE OF THE FEET. Not because Olrox tells Mizrak he would fuck him, no it's his FEET. I've tried to appeal it but cant do much LOLOLOL

[old-poptart]

i love fanfics, and you have *PERFECT* writing and most of the time it's open so duont be mwad at mwe if i ask too much 😭😭

teru, and yugi twins x reader who writes poems???? fluff 🙏🙏🙏

a/n: heyy!!! awh shucks- thank you!!! nah bro you good i love when ppl request 🫶🏽

this idea sounds so cute ah- onto the headcanons!

Teru 🤺 and the Yugi twins 🧑🏻🧑🏻 with an s/o who writes poetry (gender neutral):

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Teru 🤺:

"what beautiful words you have there, darling~"

i headcanon that teru is a big fan of poetry

so when he found out that you, his beloved and sweet s/o was a talented poet he was estatic

he was like a little kid finding out their mom is taking them to McDonald's

he tried to keep his cool and totally not geek out about his favorite pieces of poetry and ask to see your work

definitely romanticizes you writing mysterious poems and leaving them in his locker or something

he just watches you in awe as you form the right words and make up a meaning behind each sentence

he's practically towering over you and blocking the light tell him to stop please

gets very giddy when you do write him poems, specifically love letters that are super detailed and cute and ah-

staring at it for hours on end

he would want to go on library dates and just write poems together whilst you two have coffee and sweets

give this boy sm poems pls he's in love

Yugi Twins 🧑🏻🧑🏻:

"you write beautifully.."

"you're beautiful yourself too!"

boy oh boy

i can see tsukasa finding out first that you are the person behind the paper of those marvelous words

at first he'd be a lil confused, give him some time he'll figure it out (with your help) BUT once he connects the dots he'll be like an eager lil puppy

he wouldn't tell you that he knows about your poetry but he would tell amane, bro is over the moon when he reads your work my goodness

the way you put together your words with such delicacy and thought just marvels them

if you wrote them love letters, especially secret admirer letters, they would wanna respond back with their own poems

amane definitely uses astronomy metaphors and leaves lil cutesy trinkets in those lil letters

tsukasa on the other hand leaves stains on the letters and manages to go through three pens and a pencil just from writing two stanzas, ill let your imagination think of what kinda stains he leaves

if you recite your poems to them they're done for, bonus points if you have an enchanting and alluring voice man they are beet red

the twins would love to watch you do your magic but amane would get a lil nervous since he knows the pressure of being watched whilst doing something as intricate as writing, tsukasa on the other hand is bombarding you with questions about the meanings, why you used that word, etc

over all, these lil lover boys are head over heels for you and your gorgeous words~

OH MY GOODNESS IM SO SORRY THIS IS SUPA LATE, SCHOOL HAS BEEN KICKING MY BOOTY DAWG ☠️ HOPE YOU ENJOY!

-ooga :D

[ardentpoop]

spn related - thoughts on deans final death scene?

this feels like a trick question 💀

I’ve talked abt it a little bit before but really my feelings abt the finale are too complicated to concisely sum up in a way that doesn’t have ppl making annoying (usually ship-related) assumptions abt me as a fan. all u really need to know unless you’re interested in my future fix-it-fic-writing endeavors is that I mostly laughed delightedly thru the barn scene bc dabb sucks at conveying emotional weight thru dialogue. and then I of course cried so hard I actually felt sick bc I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to sam :)

I like that we got “it’s always been you……. [loaded pause] and me” out of that monologue for narrative symmetry reasons - only viewers who understand sam’s place in the story and the way it shifted over time (of which there are few) can truly appreciate that piece.

I also like that the intimacy of this scene made ppl uncomfortable even tho it made me a bit uncomfortable as well even as someone who is well-versed in S/D fan culture 😅 like my initial reaction to “I love you so much. my baby brother” was something akin to WUGH . HE WOULD NOT SAY THAT. but that is silly, given the gravity of the decision dean was making in this scene (and it Was a decision).

I like that sam couldn’t leave The Life again (not since stanford, not since amelia) in favor of pursuing supernatural’s idea of “normal” until dean died and instructed sam to let him stay dead. I like that covid restrictions forced them to axe the scene where dean is surrounded by “family” in heaven (which would have felt just as cloying and empty as much of the rest of this episode to me) so instead we just see him driving endlessly in the impala until he’s reunited with sam. I initially HATED that sam named his son “dean jr” but it’s so unintentionally horrible that I’ve come around to enjoying the implications. I enjoy that we got so little insight into sam’s Normal Life Sans Dean because fan writers far more capable of handling sam with the nuance and love he deserves can take this skeleton of an ending and pack on the details that make it feel real and earned and (most importantly) intentionally tragic.

ultimately most of this audience hates the finale for reasons I find aggravating. they paid no attention to sam and they’d grown accustomed by the final seasons to him being a faded fixture in the background, to dean being larger than life in the spotlight at all times, so the series finale suddenly reverting so clearly to the original early-seasons setup of sam as the heart of the story and dean as his foil felt jarring to them. to be clear I do consider much of this show to have failed sam as a character and it’s how we ended up with a conclusion that so many of the “fans” did not understand in the slightest. I won’t elaborate on the D/C shippers’ takes because I don’t feel like sticking my hand in that bear trap rn.

anyway uh TL;DR

disliked the finale as an actual episode/viewing experience, but conceptually I can work with it

me disliking it has little to do with my ship preferences or lack thereof

samndean heaven is a horrific concept and this is beautiful if you’re a tragedy enjoyer

dean monologuing at sam for 7 minutes abt how much he loves him and desperately needed him in his life while sam cries silently and begs him not to leave. and then the fans going this monologue should’ve been about cas / why can’t dean be his own person / EW GROSS why do they look like lovers!!! / (select few) why won’t they let sam speak. is there anything more samndean than this lmfao.

sorry lol you literally did not ask for any of that but you never know what you’ll get when you ask me a question abt this show tbfh <3

[piowasthere]

Hello!

I’m curious- how long does it take to draw a sketch versus a rendered drawing?

I really love your art! It always amazes me with how detailed it turns out to be.

I hope you have a great week!

it really, really depends

a doodle like the ones i often do for the asks can take up from literally 5 min to i'd say 30 min? depends if i want to shade it in any way tbh

as for full rendered pieces - hours, usually days i can do one in one day (hard to call it a day when i start at like 12pm end up 4am but ykwim) but it can also take like 3 or 5 depending on how many breaks i take

honestly comes down to how many characters and the environment cuz the thing that takes up the most time, i'd say is coloring and shading i can sketch up pretty quickly and i don't go for super clean, smooth line art anyway i like the messy, free style (also saves a lot of time) so filling in the colors takes a bit and i honestly don't enjoy it all that much (that's why most doodles r just shaded and not colored)

and then it just comes down to what the bg is and how it affects the char cuz then it's just shading both to fit in, to look natural and blend tgt nicely (or not at all cuz i like funky, neon and eyestrain lol)

2 pieces i can think of rn that took me the longest (that i still consider fresh enough to take up for consideration) r the SAMS anniversary art and first piece for my Calamari Lunar i did both took me like a week from what i can remember

the former bc of the amount of characters on it, each one had to be done fully and separately so it just took a bit the latter cuz it's a really detailed, lineless, heavily shaded (also cuz it was me designing a char, so it always takes a bit back and forth until it just feels right)

i'd love to give u actual numbers, but i don't keep track of it that much and my program doesn't say it either (at least idk abt it) so i'm just going off of my memory, how long i feel like it took and mayhaps looking at dates of when i send a friend a sketch, when i first started talking abt it, the file info vs the posting date but usually idc enough to do so, and often it just simply isn't possible

TL;DR a doodle can take like 5-30 min and rendered shit a few days most often cuz i'm slow af; it all comes down to what the piece is

also tysm! so glad u enjoy my little hellhole wonderland of mental instability and mostly just thirst traps! :D

yall have no idea how actually happy it makes me when ppl notice small details i put into my work there's just smth in my brain that says it needs to have so many lil details and things and be so well done even if it's gonna get blurred out, shaded til binary and covered by 8 diff layers of shit

das the talk.

[lavellane]

how do you come up with your character backstories? they're all so detailed and well thought out and you always seem to have an abundance of fun and interesting trivia for all your characters as well. would you be willing to give tips to someone who has a hard time coming up with anything beyond like. the basics lol 😔👉👈

WAH THANK YOU FOR SENDING THIS 🥺 i always feel a little embarrassed talking abt my ocs because i tend to start and never stop lol, and theyre all very special to me so its a sort of vulnerable extension of myself in a way. even if im only sharing with them with the lovely ppl who live in my phone its always a little stressful, so i really appreciate that they left a good impression!!

as for tips, i just wanna say as a disclaimer that i am very chronically online. ive also had multiple periods of extended free time in which ive been able to really hyperfocus on certain media and the characters i want to create within them. ALSO, a lot of my ocs ive had in development for several years and theyve just evolved naturally. ashara, for example, i made when i was 19, and im 26 now lol. ik this is cliche to hear, but i rly do think its important to go at your own pace when developing characters and do whatever makes YOU happy, before looking to anybody elses ocs , because we all have different lifestyles and creative processes and whatnot ❤️

that being said, i can def share a few things that helped me! firstly, i always start developing characters based solely on vibes and sensory stimuli, so i'd highly recommend making a pinterest moodboard for them and/or a music playlist! pinterest esp, since its such a great way to start brainstorming and getting a visual idea of what you want your character to look like/embody/represent. its a great place for inspiration in general.

secondly, one of the most important steps in developing any character is motivation. what does your oc WANT? why? what would they do to get it? should they get it? would would happen if they got it vs if they didnt? do they ACTUALLY want it or just think they do? answer those questions and you've already got a pretty solid foundation to work with. another really useful piece of advice a friend gave me several years ago was this: "what is something your character believes in at the start of their journey, that they no longer believe by the end of it?" for example, my warden oc elspeth believes in traditional heroics and black-and-white morality. by the end of dao she does not. theres a LOT to explore between point A and point B.

lastly, when i make ocs its very important to me personally that they feel inextricably TIED to the media they belong to. this is completely optional ofc, bc lots of people enjoy characters they can drag and drop into different stories, which is fine! for me though, i like taking cues from the world around them. it makes them feel natural to the plot, the setting, the canon characters, etc, because it helps me pin down some of their more hyperspecific quirks. there are a few ways to go about this.

the easiest way imo is to look at any major Core Issues within whatever media you're working with. like real life, people have OPINIONS about ISSUES and POLITICS lol, and those opinions are usually influenced by their own lived experience or personal belief system. so if you can identify a few key figures, factions or events in your story, and give your character an Opinion or Reaction to those things, it can pretty naturally be evolved into a unique and interesting backstory. to use elspeth as an example again: "elspeth dislikes orlais". thats a political opinion about a faction. and then to expand on why? "because her family/country fought in the occupation and she loves her family/country". from there we learn she's nationalistic and places value of lineage. then you could say — "she enjoys history and geography because it allows her to better appreciate her country. she cares deeply about all ferelden peoples, and has studied techniques from avaar and chasind communities". and you can keep branching out and expanding from there. and once you've exhausted that thread, move on to a diff one! "elspeth is nervous around mages". why? "because her religion tells her to and shes never thought to question it." why? etc etc etc.

alternatively, i find it really helpful to find an overlining theme in the type of media im working with/creating. sometimes its easy (baldurs gate 3 has a confirmed theme of autonomy vs authority, da4 will have a confirmed theme of regret, etc) but if its not as clear cut or your designing your own original world, its fine and great to take your own creative interpretation of things and run with it. for example, origins for me is very reminiscent of loss of innocence and war. inquisition is, to me, about personhood and losing it to your own mythology. once you've got a theme it can really help help translate into a cohesive story you want to tell and a character you want as an outlet. and since the character will be thematiclly relevant, you might also find it easier for them to connect to the cast/setting/story etc.

sorry this is so long, but i hope you gained something out of all this word salad lmao. one more thing i want to mention — its also fine to NOT do any of this. sometimes i get overwhelmed feeling like i have to come up with a unique/multi-faceted character every time i go into characterization, and virtually 100% of the time its Never that deep. if you find yourself getting stressed or overwhelmed, remind yourself that its perfectly fine to dream up a simple and straightforward character who makes you happy, and let the rest come to you as your character goes forth into the story. sometimes simplicity is best because you arent held down by the restrictions you've placed on them yet.

sending love, i hope this helped !!!!!! if you have any more questions or just want to chat, feel free to send another ask or slide into my dms ! ❤️❤️❤️

[myers-meadow]

"Thank you, that is so kind of you to say! Makes me v happy to see you still around and enjoying fandom <3" Back at you.

"You're truly so sweet to reach out and send me this <3" Aw! Thanks! I do try my best to leave little happy footprints. 🐾

"I'm v aware it's not everyone's thing, so I'll always tag ^^. I hope you're not forcing yourself to read things that you don't feel good about reading, although i know we're all adults here and I can trust you to take care of yourself <3." Don't worry, I'm good.

"The most I feel ready to do, creatively, right now is drabbles and little vignettes like that. That has always been my style, in a way, to give small insights, to focus on small every day aspects of what it would be like to live a different life..." Glad to hear that you're figuring out what you like to do. Bite-sized fics are great, because sometimes you just want to write or read something real quick (either because you have a hard time focusing on one thing for an extended period of time or don't have the time/energy to just sit with one thing for an extended period or time—or a you're like me and your mind is just war-torn by ADHD and autism some days 🫠). It's also genuinely a skill to write little vignettes, as you have to convey everything you want to convey in a very concise manner (something I couldn't do if my life depended on it 🙃), which means determining how much information do you try to establish, figuring out how to do that, choosing what to just leave unaddressed or what you'll have to trust the reader to fill in the blanks for, and balancing how to do all of that without accidentally nixing important details or context while also not mucking up the pacing of the piece. Also, to circle back around to your concern about me forcing myself to read something I don't feel good reading, I probably wouldn't have read it if it wasn't a little vignette; it was basically the equivalent of me trying a bite-sized sample of a food I haven't personally been the biggest fan of in the past to see if my tastes have changed or if this cook's recipe is the exception to the rule (the answer ultimately was 'Still not my cup of tea' but, again, I can still recognize and appreciate that it was well made regardless of if it wasn't to my subjective personal tastes). I hope that made even a modicum of sense and/or that I didn't fumble this and come across as condescending or something 😅.

I'm glad you're taking care of yourself in that way. I have a lot of ideas of things to write, and for ocs outside of bg3, and it gets quite dark. It seems that my heart truly lies there there most ^^. It feels good to get it out with a lil drabble.

Your expanation makes a lot of sense! For me, I often find myself unable to read longer works, bc either energy or time is lacking. Sometimes i overestimate the time i have and i'm trying to speed read a 10k word fic during my lunch break 😅. I'm not sure if it is an artform for me like that, I admire ppl who can write longer pieces with the beautiful flowing prose... There's a lot of fun to be had with foreshadowing and plot twists and putting cliff hangers in, in multichapter fics. Maybe one day ! :))

Even though drabbles may not have much meat on their bones, I'm v open to discussing the themes or ideas i mention in them - im not quick to find topics sensitive or be defensive when i know its coming from a good place. I say that just in case!

Anyway, I hope you can find comfort in fanfic that are to your tastes, and i hope you have a lovely weekend!

xoxo

[tetsuskei]

risu loved your hot take about smut.

also is it just me or like writing smut has always been relatively easier than fluff or even suggestive banter type shit? because in smut, you can bullet point- yeah they gonna do this and this and this and call it a day but fluff requires some depth. a perfect setting for the fluff or angst to actually be enhanced.

And according to each author’s writing style, they have to add imagery, or like metaphors or engaging dialogues to make it work. For me, when I was writing suggestive/banter related fics for kuroo or gojo, I was staring at the screen in despair so that my brain conjures some smart words or a perfect setting for them to act on. So it was relatively harder for me. And if other authors have faced such similar challenges and yet post majority sfws, you can guess the amount of hardwork they’ve put into it and would love for any sort of appreciation of their work. And

Im not downplaying smut authors by any means, every piece of writing takes up a fair share of effort and even I’ve had my fair share of challenges in writing smut too because firstly I experience high key embarrassment proofreading it and secondly, good smut requires the same criteria too (it’s just sfw fics gets the floor to portray a reader’s personality more than its nsfw counterpart) it’s just we want the audiences to interact with these posts with the same enthusiasm and not read and toss it aside :((

to our dear readers, Lores are fun. Just get yourself out of that sex bubble and you’ll see why a simple fic of having breakfast with nanami in scotland is actually so much fun to read and enjoy

happy reading!!

sami thank u for sending this! providing my thoughts under the cut.

i honestly am shocked by how many ppl commented on that. (someone said i was ‘insulting the intelligence of those who only read smut’ and was being ‘misogynistic’. i didn’t intend to do that, and think my words were taken out of context by that point, but it is what it is now.)

i do agree that with smut if i have an idea of the dynamic i want and what the characters might be into, i can plan a course of action for what is going to happen. sometimes i start w smut and then incorporate the plot later tbh.

you’re absolutely right, there’s nothing wrong with reading and writing smut. no one is any better if they don’t read smut than those who do. personally my comment was only towards the select who constantly intake content on here and aren’t always careful about what they read. even heavily more so towards the porn link posts too. hence why my original comment said ‘some’ because obviously it doesn’t apply to everyone.

i really do admire those who are able to world build so fluently and with great detail whether that is in smut or not. i agree with your point that it may be a bit more complicated to build a story without smut if you’re focusing more on characterization, personality, and setting. smut pieces that bring this to the table seem like the longer ones for the most part, but that doesn’t mean shorter ones can’t either. also i know it’s another tricky thing to mention is how people go about making their reader with personality or not bc ppl complain anyway anyhow when there’s something they can’t identify with.

at the end of the day i just wish to keep supporting ppls writing in general but also wish the tumblr community was more friendly like it used to be. a lot of ppl seem discouraged lately about their writing and i hope that things can get better soon.

(btw breakfast with nanami in scotland sounds heavenly! pls sign me up immediately <3)

[particular-one]

HIIIIHIII Could i request a matchup .....? Enstars, twst and hypmic pls ...!!!

name is kitten or 🐏 emoji! i preferably dont use pronouns but she/her it/its are ok. i have no romantic preference in terms of fictional characters hahaaa.

my mbti is INTP, tho i tend to be the most "extroverted" one if placed in a room with other introverts. im also a 8w9 + virgo if that helps. also AB blood type though i dont see many people who believe in that stuff on here.

uhmmmm my personality. im pretty sociable for an introvert, but can get burnt out super quickly IRL (but i can talk for hours over text). due to the autism i cant express myself IRL but i make up for it a lot through the internet by being uhhh a real character online.

im like a bimbo with autistm and ADHD basically, airheaded cutesy girly, bad at filtering myself so i can definitely be rude/mean asf .. super bad attention span.. always with a friend. i Can like get carried away and get very mean to people im not friends with. overall im very temperamental and ive always been like "pretty girl but comes off rude/fake but shes also the class clown kinda". since humor just comes naturally to me kinda.

hobbies include: arts (drawing, making art dolls, sewing, designing outfits/costumes, fashion, ect). i used to do dancing and track running but had to stop due to health complications (im super low energy and cant be as active as most ppl). I LOVE idols so much too.

What i look in a partnerrr?? Uhh nobody shorted than me (162cm) just cuz i cant see them romantically no matter how hard i try. anything is ok honestly as long as I can talk to them for ages and theyre not too loud/chaotic. overall want someone to be as equally as down bad as i am with them for me (if not more haha)

misc ... uhh my favorite love language is acts of service. i dont have to force myself to do anything i struggle with like putting thoughts into words or trying to act affectionate (tho i do get cuteness aggression). i love recieving words of affirmation lmao i need the reminding that they do love me !!!!.

i lovee cats, BOBA i kind of have an addiction to it. cute stuff cute ppl ect... i dont rlly like public affection (its cringe asf seeing couples act lovey dovey in public Sory Im not doing that).

I WROTE SO MUCH SORRY i didnt even notice Please forgive me. uhh last bit of trivia umm. if i were half-animal id have bunny ears and a tail... or id be a deer. THATS IT OK SORRY.

hi kitten! rrararararraa a hypmic AND enstars request?? im so excited :> and don't worry about rambling, it gives me a better idea on who i can match you with! hope you like them!

ENSEMBLE STARS ---- SHU ITSUKI

⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆ shu's first meeting with you was not actually the first time he's seen you. your handiwork with fashion had piqued his interest for the longest time, but he never actually knew that it was you behind those pieces. so imagine his surprise when he finds out that the genius behind the designs was in fact, you! though shu came off as fussy at first, especially since he wanted to get close to you to observe how you perfected your designs, he gradually found himself enjoying your company more and more. when he finds out about your interest in idols, this amuses him greatly, considering he is one. he'd be the last to admit he likes you, but his behavior ends up changing for the better when he's around you. as a partner, shu can be a bit extravagant with the way he shows love, but he always remembers to keep it in private to respect your preference. he's a perfectionist, so he likes to plan out your activities together down to the tiniest detail, but that's because he wants you to have the best time. shu can be rather straightforward with his words as he doesn't beat around the bush — he doesn't have a filter at times either — but everything he says about you, he truly means them. shu likes admiring you while you're busy at work (he says he's doing it because he wants to see how you do things but secretly it's because he likes watching you do something you're passionate about) but there are days where the both of you would be in the same room working on your respective designs together! he asks for your inputs and vice versa, it's usually the most fun he has.

TWISTED WONDERLAND ---- JAMIL VIPER

⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆ jamil was not your biggest fan when you first met — if he were being honest, you almost reminded him of kalim, and having another kalim was never good. still, you often get paired in tasks together that he had to get to know you eventually, and was he wrong about not liking you. though it took him quite a while to warm up to the idea of being in your company, he actually found himself looking forward to talking with you. surprise surprise, jamil's definitely the type of "he fell harder" in this situation. as a partner, jamil is most definitely not the publicly affectionate type. though it might seem he's keeping your relationship lowkey, it's mainly because he didn't want people (read: kalim) to make the biggest fuss about it. though he doesn't take you out that often, he's very loving and caring in private. though jamil never enjoyed the idea of serving someone, with you it was different. he'd find himself enjoying to cook your favorite food, help you out in your tasks without a word, and to make you feel as comfortable as possible. character development for him, tbh. when you tell him of your craving for boba, watch this man continuously try and succeed to making boba tea tailored to your preference.

HYPNOSIS MIC ---- NEMU AOHITSUGI

⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆ nemu actually met you through a chance encounter in a mock rap battle during the tdd era as audience members. it was your personality that drew her in, but she was actually surprised by how blunt you were, but if she were being honest, your humor makes her laugh a lot. your relationship means the world to her, especially since she made sure that samatoki didn't interfere as much as possible. she loves her brother, but he can get carried away when it comes to her. nemu's definitely the one who ended up liking you first, but she's unsure on how to express this to you. as a partner, nemu is very, very sweet. she's scared of messing anything up, so she carefully plans everything in advance. when she finds out that you like cats, she actually comes forward with the idea of adopting a cat together with you! it became your bonding activity, with two of nemu's favorites in the entire world: the cat and of course, you. she has your favorite boba order/s memorized and likes to surprise you with getting some. nemu's the encouraging type, so expect a lot of comforting words from her. she's also the type who likes bringing you out to shop, whether it's for your art materials or for clothes, nemu likes hearing your inputs on the items you buy (or consider buying) and takes note of them so she can surprise you with them in the future.

[sweetbunanarchy]

FUCK IT vent story bc yeah I’ve reconnected with people, found new n better friends and all that great stuff but what happened will forever be in the back of my mind bc I feel like I never truly got to talk about it in detail when I HAVE talked to other people about it so fuck it here we go it’s a lot n a trigger warning for tbh a lot of things such as the mention of: pedophilia, incest, bestiality, and even fuckin racism I really do apologize in advance bc FUCK it’s a lot but this is just trying to get as much shit off of my chest as possible so here we goooo:

  Rolling back to the late 2010s, I’m starting high school as a freshman and I follow a certain fnaf artist that (used to be) on here I enjoyed like many others did at the time. Through this artist I find someone who’s art I also enjoy and somehow we end up becoming mutuals! Over time I enjoyed their work n them enjoying mine and after a while, time goes on and I meet new people online thanks to a story and their (at the time) gf had made where anyone could make a character n come on in. Remember when I mentioned the fnaf artist, TURNED OUT they were a piece of shit and was doing a whole bunch of shitty things to other people. It got to a point where this friend had a break down and I remember TO THIS DAY coming to comfort them n to this day....I fuckin regret it. More time goes on and lookat that I’m a sophomore now! The friend n gf now have a server for their story and everyone’s welcome. I remember having the time of my life being in a friend group for the first time, yeah there were ups and downs at times but for the first time I actually was somewhere where I felt like I fit in (or at least what I thought was fitting in at the time)   Time goes on and the server kinda just died down, which yeah is something that happens everyone has lives to live and things to do I mean hell I had to move around and adjust to shit around this time. But this is where things started to shift. It’s the day before my graduation and oh hey look at that IT’S MY BIRTHDAY! My...18th birthday, which meant I was able to finally get into my friend’s server for their own work which was you guest it, 18+! Now, I was a good kid for the most part and didn’t care for seeing sexual shit, in my mind I was just ready to see more of my friend’s work bc I LOVED it. But the first red flag should have been them immediately adding me into their server right as I LITERALLY just turned 18. But as many freshly turned 18 year olds would think, oh I’m of age now so ofc I’m mature now- WRONG. Brother in christ I never felt so uncomfortable in MY LIFE. So now as I go into this server n I’m IMMEDIETLY smacked with certain content with certain word I cannot say bc I don’t know how strict tumblr is with sayin’ shit like twitter is- But AY IT’S OKAY RIGHT? I’M GROWN NOW I CAN DO WHATEVER I’M SUPPOSED TO BE ENJOYING THIS RIGHT? YEAH- no. And it took me forever to realize that. I will admit I have this issue of validation and bc I was settling into this new part of the friend group with other people that were FUCKING OLDER THAN ME, I ended up kinda just burning myself out w/ drawing bc I really just wanted to fit in and I wish that was the worst of it but NOPE there’s more n let’s start with the shit that happened in the server: -People fetishizing trans bodies including things like ��f*tanari”, and literally calling it sometimes “tr*p” content -Certain content of characters (Sailor Moon, BNHA kids, certain Pokemon rivals/trainers, Spider-verse Spider Gwen etc.) WHO ARE MINORS being shared like it’s nothing! One time I even pointed out Usagi was 14 and what happened? The friend WHO OWNS THE FUCKIN SERVER JUST LAUGHED N BRUSHED IT OFF LIKE IT’S NOTHING -”Banned” bestiality but- no lets put this into story form: One time ppl were talking about monster hunter and someone chimed into the conversation. As the conversation ended one of the other people decided to post porn of a the hunter and the monster and if you seen the monsters...

...yeah. Dude that chimed in left and they just laughed about it... -But what was the kicker for me was when main friend had something to share about one of their ocs and was like “Teeheeh idk I don’t think you guys want to hear it uwu” and people were curious...TURNS OUT BEHIND THE CENSORED TEXT WAAAS...lore about how their character’s first time was with her uncle....said uncle being an oc that belonged to their boyfriend... -The last straw for me was when incest was discussed AGAIN bc the oc species they had would breed with their children for you know pure bloodline bullshit or whatever and that was the moment I knew I had to leave bc other people wanted to continue to discuss it like it’s nothing. I was just frozen seeing censored text after censored text and it just kept going. I couldn’t do it so I left. I stuck around for so long after those 2 years bc I didn’t want to make anyone upset but I fucked up my own mental health in the process, making excuses for myself, telling myself “It’s your fault you looked in there. You knew what was in there yet you looked that’s on you.”  People checked up on me n I just told them I wasn’t feeling good and I’d talk to them when I was ready but it never came. Skip forward and HEY the first blacktober is here! I make myself a whole new acc, turn a new leaf and yeah I got a few scars but that’s okay! Some folks from the server followed me there, the gf still dm’d me checking on me, hey it’s all good now it’ll get better right? RIGHT? I post my deku and Tanjiro art n if you don’t know which ones...THESE ONES right?

And they BLOW UP like crazy! I never got that much attention before! And suspiciously I see a lot of people from the server suddenly unfollowed me, but ay that’s more weight off my shoulders it’s whatever! We’re gonna bring up the blacktober stuff later BUT time continued and I’m like “oh well maybe I can just talk to friend just to have some closure-” NOPE! One of my great friends who also ended up leaving had dm’d me n showed me that main friend had stolen a character, a character I made and her boyfriend just so happened to have a huge crush on (which was an obvious case of jungle fever but we not gone get into that part) I was SHOCKED, I shouldn’t have been but I was! At that moment I felt heartbroken, yeah she was a freak but damn I thought I meant something to you as a fuckin friend but whatever I guess. It made me realize how conceited and petty and fuckin childish she was. If no attention was on her she’d be PISSED! If she was having a bad day, the rest of the server would have a bad fuckin day! One time she decided to do an oc thing where people could have a little interactive thing with their own oc and hers, people put their info into the wrong channel and she had a hissy fit and canceled it. ....Like miss ma’ams we could just copy and paste it into the right channel it’s not that deep. Even would get so entitled and mad when people wouldn’t talk about or make ocs for her and her boyfriend’s stories. “It’s not that hard why are people so scared to make ocs for my world?” I UNNO MAYBE BC YOU SCOLD PEOPLE WHENEVER THEY DO SHIT YOU DON’T LIKE??? Like you can’t get mad when people don’t make shit for you when you barely do it in return. The closest she got to doing the same was having her persona fuck ppl’s ocs she crushed on or had PEOPLE THEMSELVES DESIGN ALTERNATE VERSIONS OF *HER* OC that could exist in every dimension or whatever. But Bun! It can’t get worse then that righ- YEAH NOPE IT GOT WORSE After sometime from cutting them off I would sit in my corner and think to myself “It’d be crazy if she broke up with her gf and things got worse” and wouldn’t you know it her now ex, and now great GREAT friend of mine dm’d me to talk things out They would tell me about everything that happened and how TERRIBLE she was, and I can’t go into details bc it’s not my story to tell. But at the end of the day she was a terrible person, some people left some people stayed bc they were just as weird as her, and SHE WAS THE ONE THAT MADE EVERYONE UNFOLLOW ME BC MY BLACKTOBER ART BLOWING UP. She accused me that I ignored her (even tho my dms were open n both other friends were dming me), I used her for clout which was???? bc at the time I wasn’t posting anywhere but her discord server and never even advertised anything so??? And even said that blackwashing was just as bad as whitewashing while also being black herself....CRAZY WORLD WE LIVE IN AM I RIGHT? Even the writing for her world got worse. If you’re working on a full on rpg maker fantasy game, don’t make a minitour race, make them enslaved and can only be freed if they marry humans and then call them fuckin FLAT FOOTS...Don’t have a sona, make her a highschool teacher, have student boys flirt with her and then oOoOoOoOo she likes to make them jealous by flirting with her husband infront of them OoOoOooOoOoO. And just...just DON’T HAVE PEOPLE FUCK THEIR FAMILY OR REALITIVES, MOMS, UNCLES, FUCKIN GREAT GRANDMOTHERS NONE OF IT THE FUCK IS ACTUALLY WRONG WITH YOU?????? ....Anyway at the end of the day it’s a situation I’m glad to get away from. Am I doing better??? Eeeeh dealing with new shit but ay whatcha gonna do. It just sucks I spent the some of the most important developmental years of my life in such a terrible place and if I could change it, yeah I would but then probably wouldn’t have met some of the greatest friends I have now. And the people who also ended up leaving and are still around me, I love y’all, I appreaciate y’all sticking around me, I could never blame y’all for what happened bc you were in the same spot as me and I’m glad we’re all healing and doing better <3 And if anyone inclduding miss queen bee- or well miss space mama sees this somehow...YOU FUCKIN SUCK, YOU’RE VILE, YOU AIN’T SHIT BUT A TAP DANCING, CLOUT CHASING PEDO AND I HOPE TO NEVER SEE YOU’RE PRESENCE AGAIN. FUCK YOU <3 but yeah uuuuuh...that it’s it for story time thank you for your time!

[batri-jopa]

a meme!

Thanks for tagging me @notasapleasure

1. Are you named after anyone?

Not after a real person. My mom said it was a name of a doll in some kind of fairy tale that she watched (or read?) and she just liked that name.

2. When was the last time you cried?

A week ago. Well, I guess I asked for it: after all those years I just should have known better than dwell on that kind of stuff from the past and in this part of my hormone cycle. (You know stuff like one of these few extremally rare moments in your life someone from your closest family said sth that made you feel like shit but thinking about it years after still never fails to make you feel like shit all over again?)

3. Do you have kids?

No. Surprisingly no. If asked ten years ago I would most surely say I'm going to. Not that I ever really desired it so much. More that not wanting was always considered as something that is worthy of condemnation. So it was just that "normal thing to do" with no deeper thinking involved nor required, you know?

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

It depends but sometimes it feels like the last thing that is left to defence my mental stability. And I'd rather be commenting an absurdish situation (especially in my job) than a person.

5. What sports do you play/have you played?

Table tennis my love!❤ Any other I ever tried playing is not even worth mentioning (I played field hockey two or three times and football once or twice and I remember really enjoying it. But unfortunately girls were let to play it extremally rarely, we were expected to play volleyball or basketball - none of which I ever liked😑)

6. What's the first thing you notice about other people?

I'm not sure what kind of situation I'm expected to consider... So in the place where I am just a random person in the crowd (railway station and such) I would probably first notice if anyone looked angry or impatient or irritated - to make sure I can avoid getting on their way (e.g. being a patient in a waiting room it's about sitting quietly with your head low and ignoring any possible evil comments about healthcare and politics). As for when I'm feeling safe or even going to meet someone new - I will pay attention to people's face expression and eyes, I also like to see someone smiling or doing or wearing something that make me think we have something in common. Also I notice their clothes sometimes if I liked the colour or the pattern (I can't help it, my brain is of visual artist😅 It doesn't mean I judge ppl by their look. Many times I find something ugly in objectively pretty person that I did not liked and in somebody I liked I'd always find some beautiful detail, regardless their look)

7. What's your eyes colour?

Yellow on the inside with blue ring on the outside. I like to think it makes them look a bit green from a distance.

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

If only two options avaliable I'd rather choose happy ending. Life is scary enough😅

9. Any special talents?

Drawing I guess. I am able to project a picture from my brain to a flat paper with a piece of charcoal and it's like freaking magic. It never stopped to amaze me.

10. Where were you born?

In a town in north Poland.

11. What are your hobbies?

Drawing most of all. Also creating short stories on my head I then illustrate or longer stories I sometimes write down. Given more free time I also like to engage into pyrography, sewing stuffed toys or crocheting. From time to time I like to travel, most usually to one of Polish towns but traveling abroad I like too.

12. Do you have any pets?

Cat for the last 4 years. Before that I was having syrian hamsters for almost 20 years (16 hamsters).

13. How tall are you?

165 centimeters.

14. Favorite subject in school?

Mathemathics above everything else! Also liked Polish, biology and chemistry. Most hated was always sports, while geography, history and physics were dangerously close to "hate" line.

15. Dream job?

Dream as "daydream"? I sometimes fantasize if I was born again I'd like to be one of the graphics making animated movie, like those of a Pixar studio. Or a pastor officiating weddings of gay couples

Dream as what I wish or plan: creating art on request or design prints for t-shirt, cushions and children blankets, maybe designing playing cards too - just enough for me to be satisfied that I can do it and my client to have a personalized gift. At the same time working other job 2-3 days a week to earn just enough for a comfortable life.

Tag fifteen mutuals - that's the worst part, how do I get so much?😑 Okey, everybody, feel invited but not pressed: @figuringthengsout , @chrisoels , @morulezopelforever , @sharp-lines-in-charcoal , @parttimereptile , @greenbloodedskink , @krejong , @theflyingrhubarb , @sunlightismydestroyer-blog , @asteeee , @bylercultism , @princesspink48484 , @elephant-reincarnation , @angleshades , @sweetlullabyebye

[waterloou]

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1. Do you prefer writing one-shots or multi-chaptered fics?

Honestly it depends on my mood but with one shots it’s gonna be done and multi chaptered…I have never wrapped up a story in my life I’ll say that

2. Do you plan each chapter ahead or write as you go?

They are small bullet points that come to me in a dream and then it takes me 5 months to write it

3. Describe the creative process of writing a chapter/fic

Spotify, art, Pinterest

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Planning? Freewrite of ideas I had that made me want to write it?

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Writing?

4. Where do you find inspiration for new ideas?

Literally anywhere. Songs, books, movies, mangas, historical interests, shows, Pinterest, tumblr

5. Do you like constructive criticism?

If it’s done well and I ask for it. I’m usually p tough on myself. I trust a handful of ppl to do it right

6. Do you have your work beta'd? How important is this to your process?

I show all my work to my friends usually before I post it but like them helping edit it? Ehh, depends on if I’m stuck writing it or not. I write mostly (but not always) for myself anyways so if I don’t hate it I’ll post it. But if it’s for someone else? I’ll def have someone look over it

7. How do you choose which POV to write from?

Whoever I kin more (jk) usually whoever is being affected the most I believe. Or if I’m enamored with another character idk. It really depends

8. Do you prefer the beginning, middle, or end of a story?

Beginning bc I cannot for the life of me write a middle or end

50. How long is your longest fic?

17,099 and I won’t say which one bc I don’t associate with that fandom anymore

51. What’s your total AO3 word count?

102,228

52. Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes but I am v slow at it bc I reread them and I keep them unread so I surprise myself when I look into my inbox

53. How do you spend your time when it comes to fanfiction? Are you primarily a fic reader, writer, or a perfect 50/50 split of both?

65/35 reader/writer

54. What’s your favorite part about the fanfiction writing process?

Planning and creating before writing

55. Of the characters you write for, which is your favorite? Has that choice been swayed at all by your followers/readers’ reactions to certain ones?

Theo but honestly I feel myself being swayed by Jesper and Wylan but I also loved writing Joly and Combeferre and Courfeyrac and Loftus but ummm yeah I am not a decision maker

56. What’s something about your writing that you pride yourself on?

Period pieces idk I just like how I write for them it’s also fun

57. Do you prefer editing as you write, or waiting until it’s finished? 

As I write but that’s also why I take so long to post or I don’t post half of what I write

58. What part of the writing process do you enjoy the most? (Brainstorming, outlining, writing, editing, etc) 

BRAINSTORM BRAINSTORM

59. Does anyone in your personal life know you write fic? if not, would you tell anyone?

Absolutely. A LOT of them do I just don’t tell them details

60. Have you had a writer you admire comment on your fic? What was that like?

Yes 🥰🥰🥰

Thrilling and then I make them my friend bc they’re usually all sweethearts and geniuses

[dailypokemoncrochet]

Lot of cool responses in the notes! Majority of people say they would love pretty much any feedback on their art, and a lot of people also add more about why they like particular options.

Sharing some of my favorite responses from the notes:

I personally enjoy analysis comments! Kind of like the detailed poll option but less pointing out characteristics and more sharing ideas or connections they got from the art

#my number one fave is when someone replies with the gif of the guy from monster house gobbling it up and running away

For those like me who did not know the gif, I think it's this one:

#someone said they wanted my art tattooed on them once#i think about that one a lot

#anything really! i just like ppl having feelings abt stuff#but ofc i love the descriptive kind. like with writing its so nice when ppl like a specific line <3#or when i draw and ppl kinda get what i was going for? its nice

#I LOVE all of them but I suppose the emojis and keymashes and silly ones a teeeeeny tiny bit more#also full caps!!! and exclamation marks!!!!#Cause theyre so full of emotions and making people feel something is all I want for now

#hmmm i like all but i think i like silly things the most? obviously detailed or praising me is very flattering#but for example a few days ago someone reblogged one of my drawings and tagged that the drawing perfectly matched a tattoo design#they were thinking about for one of their ocs. idk if thats silly but its uncommon and it really stuck with me lol

#I mean all and any of them#but I voted for silly because I do love those#recently got one that said ‘imagine I’m spamming you with sickos.jpg’ and honestly that’s it that’s what it’s abouttt

#i like detailed comments because !!! it means a lot when people notice them#like... I took the time to include the details and YOU took the time to absorb them?? wow ... so no time was wasted. it was all important#it IS all important#rerattling

#all of it#i love how the same piece can bring in people that go “this is so cool you are really talented!”#and peeps that highlight specific details or artistic choices--hell even things you didn't really intend but still did#but these people NOTICE and say something like “I really like the quality of your lines” or “I really like how you did the hatching!”#and then there are the fellow freaks and gremlins that just want to put it in their mouth#or drag it away to their dragon hoard#or lovingly smash it with a brick#i love each and every one of them

And finally these tags really sum up how people generally feel about comments on their art:

#literally any positive feedback said with some level of enthusiasm#the ego boost keeps the burnout at bay

[glimpsesofeuterpe]

idk if it's a glitch or a 30s mentality feature

but lots of whiny "it's impossible" and "i bet i'll fail anyway"

turned into "i am capable of doing literally any kind of work" and "i can do whatever i want (within legal limits)"

got nothing to lose anyway

the only con that comes together with this iiis a very full awareness of human mortality

i mean i always knew what is mortality, but i knew it without the awareness (it's one thing when you see dead people irl and another when you think about it deeply in detail)

also apparently my anxiety disorder is tied to diseases & relatives' glitches only, without considering mortality for real

did you know a human can die of literally any stupid lil thing at any moment of any time

what's most ironic a human can die not only from the outside things but bcs of their own human body noping the heck out just bcs it got spooked by its own glitches

every day, every hour, every minute, every second

memento fucking mori

.....

i went as far in this as asking ppl who are much older than me dumb stuff like "how are you okay with getting old and being mortal explain your okayness"

i am still not getting this tbh

how so many humans are so careless and idle about mortality?

why such plentys are out there and doing so much of dumb shit like yelling, fighting, killing each other and fucking the planet up around them, instead of living in peace, being gentle with nature and appreciating every moment of their short lives? especially! especially in case where plentys of them believe in "you only live once" thing-

if they think so why don't they live their only life like decent beings enjoying it, improving it and loving it instead of spreading hate, misery and trash around themselves? is this because they think there are no consequences for them afterwards? but what about their children? and children of their children? they are so into making new people but apparently they don't give a single fuck about them dealing with outcomes of their actions afterwards, do they? is it easier for them this way? but why? why is it easier to be a selfish piece of shit? aren't they afraid of regrets and guilt popping up in the end? do they experience no remorse at all? they never think they are wrong? they never actually think??

how and why humans are this way?

and if it really is the minority, if there really are many many good humans out there, then .... why it looks like they are making such a little change in the full picture? the stupid ones are the loudest? but why? how did that happen that we pay attention to shit much more than to good deeds? aren't good deeds much much more worthy of attention? survival mechanisms, yadayada- but why tho?

seriously, if human world was less irrational we would never have all these victimhood & radfem cults (same type of shit), cancel "culture", etc and would likely have something of a total opposite of them and nice ideas would not get twisted into a fucked up parody, right?

....

why do i want to know

[wooahaes]

Glad to hear you are feeling better! My tutor said that not many people used pop up for their project so part of me took that as a challenge haha (also pop is so cool, there are so many intricate pieces out there!). My dissertation was "the power of music", but I'd deliberately made it vague because I didn't know what to focus on lol. I'm sort of looking at "does music make you smarter". The Mozart effect gets referenced at lot, but it only affects spacial reasoning not intelligence -🍧

There does seem to be a link between studying music and good grades, but it could also just be the students personality not the effect of music. An article i read suggested that when people ask "does music make you smarter" they imply "smarter at something else" which I thought was really interesting. It's definitely interesting to read up on. I think that music does make you smarter, but smarter at music lol. I'm always happy to share about my projects, it's nice when people are interested -🍧

My thoughts on uts. Firstly, it is such a comforting series. Idk how you do it, but every part leaves me feeling warm! I absolutely loved the whole book plot in wonwoo's part. Every part makes me so soft for the 95s, but you keep breaking my heart over cheol haha. I hope I don't sound impatient, but I'm v excited for his part. I can't wait for him to finally get his happy ending? I actually love uts (and all your other fics) so much. I hope you stay well! 🍧

hiii lovely, sorry for not getting to this sooner! i hope your project has been going well (and i hope you figured out pop up if you went with it! i love seeing the intricate pop up art <3). but ooo the power of music sounds like such a cool topic!! i get making it vague through, since i think its good when to stay vague when you're still narrowing down what you really wanna look into.

i can believe there's a link between studying music + good grades, but i do wonder if it's only a certain kind of studying music? like most people default to classical, but i legit listened to whatever i felt like when i did schoolwork/studied because not having lyrics made it harder for me to focus weirdly enough. the "smarter at something else" part is def interesting tho! plus it makes sense with the whole studying music being linked to studying something else. pls feel free to share whatever you like with me! i love hearing about other ppls pursuits, especially in academics <3

aaa tysm!! that means so much to hear, especially with some parts not being the most positive haha (kwan hao wonu) but i'm glad they still have that comforting/warm energy. im glad you enjoyed the book plot in wonwoo's part! i wanted to have some kind of connection to the teasers while stepping firmly away for wonwoo's to be more about him and the reader since reader getting the same ending as him would pretty much have meant they're destined. plus the shifting details is meant to stay in the same vein of 'weird shit happens' lol (also it was just fun to play around with writing something like a storybook).

hehe i'm glad abt the 95z tho! cheol might be the leader of the entire group, but i like making it clear that hannie and shua both also are an important factor in keeping everyone comfy/happy/cared for <3 also whoopsss (over cheol) <3 (its ok i break my own heart with cheol)

im glad ur excited though! trust me, i'm excited for it too. i have a lot planned for it and i honestly kinda think it might be longer than all the other parts once i'm fully done with it? but i'm absolutely satisfied with the plans i have, just gotta write the other parts to get to him <3

i hope you stay well as well! stay hydrated n rest well, mwah <3