#i❤️ ny

[blondephil]

my friend and i found a happy hour nearish my job that’s $5 for margaritas AND for espresso martinis. so naturally i was lit by 5:30

[spitinsideme]

please draw more Vaggie (hazbin hotel) those are literally everyone’s favorite. I simp for her, ok?

But I think everyone agrees that you should draw more from hazbin hotel, it’s even your most popular posts

sorry if I spoke too much I’ll go now

i admire your dedication and determination to makr me draw vaggie .. lie you really laid out a few points to convince me to draw vaggie .. im not into hazbin hotel anymore but ill draw this one vaggie for you

[allhailthe70shousewife]

I like it when NY shanks Trump hard. Makes me smile. Imagine being lucky to enough to be NYC born and bred and then growing to be such a tremendous pile of stinking hot garbage that the 2nd greatest city in the world disowns you and comes after you.

[racewinnerlandonorris]

Lando being a tourist in NYC

[thelifeofacactus]

My apartment hasn't had hot water in so long that I'm starting to look and smell like 2004 Mikey Way

[superbadgirlzclub]

@𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐨 ~ 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐨 ❤️ 𝐍𝐘

[smolestboop]

looking back on it. I really went crazy in October huh? sshjfkd I literally just went 'yeah I wanna draw bagginshield art for the entire month' and the rest is history

[pekodayz]

@lnwjean im gonna find u and we’re gonna spin around giggling and laughing and smiling anandnand an ^o^ ! then ILLKILL U

[etherealse]

beautiful people, beautiful problems ౨ৎ

[kyanartz]

Artfight attacks

These art is my coping mechanism and i am feeling a hella lot better

1. aitsu_does.art on ig

2. Julietsspace on ig

3. Whissppy on af

4. Robotroses on here

5. PoppingFizzy on ig

6. Hataridoomswan1999 on ig

7. Onyxspooklezz on ig

8. GoGooby on af

[written-mishaps]

alright I’m back, what’s ur process behind characterization and concept making? (also thanks for the congratulations for ao3 pfffff)

HOOO BOY IM VERY GLAD YOU ASKED ok, ill talk about characterisation and then lead into concept making. I'll mostly be talking about 'It Was Only A Matter Of Time' cause obviously it's quick fresh on the mind in terms of what I did but if you're looking for advice, this can be applied more generally. Also I ended up rambling A LOT so I've put it under a read more. Hope this answers your question!

SO, in the case of the clones, characterisation is far more mealeable than with other fandoms where you have a lot more evidence and material to build up your understanding of a characters personality. With the clones, particualrly those like Thorn, Thire, Stone and of course Fox, theres very little canon basis, so for bulding up their characters, it was just a case of taking what fanon I liked and also constructing the personalities that would work best for the story I wanted to tell. Quick note, since this story ultimately ended up revolving around Fox, a lot of the characterisation for other characters was heaviliy informed by the questuon of "what personlity would best reveal a specific detail or invoking a specifoc reaction or relaisation in Fox" but of course as the story grew, the characters all grew into their own charactisation beyond that. That's the overview, To give you a lil more a concrete example behind this process, I'll use the Corrie Commanders.

So with the Corrie Commanders (Thorn, Thire, Stone, excluding Fox for now since he's a different story) I knew that, since they would most commonly be encountered as a trio, that they each have to have very disctinct Characterisations so it would be easy to differentiate them. So I started by assigning them a key characteristic. Eg.

Thorn: sarcastic and blunt, Thire: logical and practical, Stone: level headed.

Of course there would be other factors, but anytime i wrote them I would keep this key element in mind whenever i had them do anything. Then, something which was super fun to do, I assigned them very specific and individual 'character quirks' as I like to call them, which are essebtially just a couple other things that differntiate them and makes them unique as characters. Eg.

Thorn: he has a speech quirk which im VERY fond of wherin he doesnt pronounce the 'g' in any '-ing' which in my mind i interpret as a kind of drawl to his voice (you'll notice this in his dialogue, where Thorn will say stuff like "goin' to see" "instead of "going to see" etc) it makes me very happy to write, and ut jelps me figure out his specific 'voice' in my mind

Another example is Stone: His characteristic quirk is that he speaks very infrequently, but when he does, he always says something important. Again this is to refelect his character as someone who only speaks whne he feels like he has something worthwhile to say.

All of these tiny little considerations help build up a 'fully fledged character' so to speak, and it helps (hopefully lmao) them feel like distinct characters.

I've talked a lot but just another thing that helps characterisation (which ive mentioned before) is considering what 'role' they play within the larger story, and I do that ny mentally attaching little epithet to specific characters. For exmaple, Wolffes characater exists specifically to illuminate Fox's repressed violent tendencies, and also exists to wrench out the stuff that Fox refuses to confront or admit to himself. So to that measure, Wolffe himself is a very violent and very blunt character. He needs to be, to function for that purpose. Another example is Cody, who is 'The helpless older brother' Cody throughout the story has always been assocaited with reaching out and protecting Fox and trying to be there, but of course hes severly limited by how much help he can actually give. This ties into his character as a very earnest and protective character.

This is getting long so i might stop there for characterisation lmao, but in short, the process involves a bunch of decisons that cinsider "how does this character function within the story? How have their past experinces effected them? Where and What does this manifest as in their personality?"

OK ONTO CONCEPT.

I have a lot less to say abt this one lmao. Id already read a couple fics which dealt with the "what if Fox killed the Chancellor?" And i thought ut was interesting. Ill admit though, the concept of introducing Fives into it all mostly stemmed from frustration lmaoo. It all really started cause I got kind of frustrated with the fics that either demonised Fox or tried to downplay the significance of Fives' deaths. One of the reasons i decided to centre Fives and Foxs relationship as the focal point of the story was because I wanted to hit a medium that sufficiently acknowledged that Fives death was a tragedy which had a huge impact on those who loved him, but also that Fox's decision to kill him maybe wasn't done with pure malice.

That was the initial thinking, but the funny thing abt writing any story of any kind is that it inevitably develops a mind of its own. I didn't initially think sibling relationships and love was going to be such a core part of the story I was writing but sometimes the concept starts to mould itself into creation without you even being aware it's happening.

SO, in short: fun concepts come from finding something you don't like and going 'Why don't I like this? Can I make a story where I DO like this?'

But yeah! That's some thoughts about characterisation and concepts behind IWOAMOT specifically lmao but of course the stuff mentioned here can easily be applied to anything.

If you have any follow up Questions/unanswered areas of Concept making and characterisation, lemme know! As demonstrated, I can talk for ages.

[shironezuninja]

Emotions were out of whack during the weekend. There was an Empathetic Intuition that I couldn’t place. Today, we all now know why.

I’m still unable to post stuff on Facebook through my new iPad. So I’ll create more collages after I mourn for the next 2 days, to make up for my confused, erratic behavior during last weekend.

[dinosaurwithablog]

These are some of my favorite Italian cookies from Salpino's in Bellmore, NY. I have yet to achieve the ability to bake these cookies, but it tastes great to keep trying. 😋

[icyfox17]

Homeeee:)))!!!!

[mur-art]

thanks for answering my texacali question!!

and as a kind of extension to that (but also on the opposite side, i suppose)… how is it that caliyork is the relationship california deserves/pos?

Ended up doing art for this one. CaliYork fans, come get your juice. (The juice is coffee. Straight espresso.)

To me, they give "old friends who one day see each other in a different light and then fall in love" vibes. Personally, I see this being a fairly healthy relationship, at least as healthy as these dysfunctional idiots can have. I feel like they might actually make each other better as people by being together, and that's always a good thing, eh? New York and Cali even in canon seem to get along pretty well, despite rarely getting along with anyone else. New York isn't afraid to call out Cali's shit but he does it in a more affectionate way that shows he actually cares. I think that's pretty adorable, ya feel me?

They're pretty equally matched in terms of influence and politics. They have a lot in common and wouldn't have to struggle with understanding each other fundamentally. I think they kinda *get* each other even though their personalities are a bit different. They definitely still give each other shit and fight sometimes because that's just who they are. But it's not as much of a challenge to keep up the relationship; it just kinda works. It's more chill and way less drama. (There is drama but they're dramatic in response to the world together and not at each other)

I personally don't find their relationship as interesting as like, TexaCali or Calivada just because there's less negative drama but I think for Cali's sake he would prefer it 😂. Or maybe he just likes drama. Scratch that, I KNOW he likes the drama.

I love this song for them:

Drop your own fav CaliYork songs in the reblogs/comments. I need a playlist for them.

[knightelf]

i look like shit but i can Not believe that i got this video. finn confirmed for secret cuddle enjoyer