#i'm learning to draw faster for this specific reason

[glazedcroissant]

Been thinking about Galacta knight and his use of fire. I've actually got a few headcannons about it if you want to have a read!:

So! I've actually got a whole system worked out for how I think magic in the Kirby universe might work, but let's just look at this goof first. *puts him under a magnifying glass*

To start, every mage has their own unique form of Energy magic. It's essentially their "default" manifestation of mana; the caster's most natural state of magic. It is generally seen as the safest type of magic to use, easily channeled through the body and moldable enough to use in a wide range of spells. As a bonus, its drawbacks are small, requiring a mage to burn through nearly all their mana reserves before they'd have to deal with any advirse effects. Galacta knight uses this type of magic for things like his energy swords and abusing the laws of nature by using his own mana as an ill advised substitute for sleep.

Some find their Energy magic limiting on its own, prompting research into other forms of magic to tie into their spells, such as elemental magic.

Fire magic, like all elemental magic, can be quite costly against its user if not used with caution. Every use raises the caster's body temperature, leading to sweating and eventual coughing. Abuse of the element will envitably cause minor to severe burns at channeling sights, depending on one's tolerance and overuse. It is important to time attacks and casts far enough apart from each other to allow the body time to cool down again. Some learn counter elemental spells to cut down on this recovery time—such as water or ice magic to counter fire—but such rapid heating and cooling is dangerous and harmful to the body.

Galacta knight is an incredible fire mage, having a natural aptitude for it, given his affinity. The vast majority of magic users are born, or soon develop, an affinity to a specific kind of magic. They're brought into the world with an innate understanding of that type, though it may take some time before they realize what it is. Galacta knight's being fire gives him a better tolerance to its effects than most. Even so, he is not immune, and manifesting blisteringly hot flames within one's core is, generally, unrecommended (nevermind setting your whole body alight in a blaze of glory). It's typical to see mage's using weapons or heatproof gloves as their channeling sights to help prevent self-inflicted burns, and Galacta will typically use his lance or shield for this. However, spells can often be charged and fired off faster and more powerfully when expelled through the body alone. That, and breathing fire looks cool as hell. Galacta figures a parched throat and dry eyes for a couple hours is worth the payoff. He's tried the whole counter element deal to cool off faster, but Water magic doesn't mesh well with him. He lacks the the serenity and steady flow at his core to understand it.

Also! As a fun little addition. If you're wondering why I ting his fire pink, it's because that's the color of his natural Energy magic. Elemental magic is still dependent on the user's own mana pool, with it's appearance changing from mage to mage depending on the individual's natural magic properties.

This is just my own thoughts I've scraped together into the doughy mixing bowl of my brain, of course. And, like dough, these thoughts are subject to change and grow later on. I've got some thoughts on the ins and out of How elemental magic, and the other types, are cast in terms of the technical (l say loosely cause it's literally magic) aspects of them, but I don't have all those details ironed out yet. My mind is a fickle thing, never wanting to settle on one headcannon or another. It's part of the reason I hesitate to write and draw longer character scenes and interactions, my opinions of them constantly shifting. But! I do think I'm getting to the point where I can keep them somewhat consistent in my head. Thus, my little fire magic spiel.

[cy-cyborg]

Writing and drawing amputee characters: Not every amputee wears prosthetics (and that's ok)

Not every amputee wears prosthetics, and not doing so is not a sign that they've "given up".

It's a bit of a trope that I've noticed that when an amputee, leg amputees in particular, don't wear prosthetics in media its often used as a sign that they've given up hope/stopped trying/ are depressed etc. If/when they start feeling better, they'll start wearing their prosthetics again, usually accompanied by triumphant or inspiring music (if it's a movie). The most famous example of this is in Forest Gump, Where Dan spends most of the movie after loosing his legs wishing he'd died instead. He does eventually come around, and him finally moving from his wheelchair to prosthetics is meant to highlight this.

The thing is, it's not that it's unrealistic - in fact my last major mental health spiral was started because one of my prosthetics was being a shit and wouldn't go on properly, despite fitting perfectly at the prosthetist's the day before. I'm not going to use my legs when I'm not in a good headspace, but the problem is, this is the only time non-prosthetic using amputees ever get representation: to show how sad they are. Even if that's not what the creator/writer necessarily intended, audiences will often make that assumption on their own unless you're very careful and intentional about how you frame it, because it's what existing media has taught them to expect.

But there are lots of reasons why someone might not use prosthetics:

they might not need them: this is more common in arm amputees because of how difficult it can be to use arm prosthetic, especially above-elbow prosthetics. Most folks learn how to get on without them pretty well. In fact, most of the arm amputees I know don't have prosthetics, or only have them for specific tasks (e.g. I knew a girl who had a prosthetic hand made specifically for rowing, but that's all she used it for).

Other mobility aids just work better for them: for me, I'm faster, more manoeuvrable and can be out for longer when I'm in my wheelchair than I ever could on my prosthetics. Youtube/tik tok creator Josh Sundquist has said the same thing about his crutches, he just feels better using them than his prosthetic. This isn't the case for everyone of course, but it is for some of us. Especially people with above-knee prosthetics, in my experience.

Other disabilities make them harder to use: Some people are unable to use prosthetics due to other disabilities, or even other amputations. Yeah, as it turns out, a lot of prosthetics are only really designed for single-limb amputees. While they're usable for multi-limb amps, they're much harder to use or they might not be able to access every feature. For example, the prosthetic knee I have has the ability to monitor the walk cycle of the other leg and match it as close as possible - but that only works if you have a full leg on the other side. Likewise, my nan didn't like using her prosthetic, as she had limited movement in her shoulders that meant she physically couldn't move her arms in the right way to get her leg on without help.

Prosthetics are expensive in some parts of the world: not everyone can afford a prosthetic. My left prosthetic costs around $5,000 Australian dollars, but my right one (the above knee) cost $125,000AUD. It's the most expensive thing I own that I only got because my country pays for medical equipment for disabled folks. Some places subsidise the cost, but paying 10% of $125,000 is still $12,500. Then in some places, if you don't have insurance, you have to pay for that all by yourself. Even with insurance you still have to pay some of it depending on your cover. Arm prosthetics are even more expensive. Sure, both arms and legs do have cheaper options available, but they're often extremely difficult to use. You get what you pay for.

they aren't suitable for every type of environment: Prosthetics can be finicky and modern ones can be kind of sensitive to the elements. My home town was in a coastal lowland - this means lots of beaches and lots of swamp filled with salty/brackish water. The metals used in prosthetics don't hold up well in those conditions, and so they would rust quicker, I needed to clean them more, I needed to empty sand out of my foot ALL THE TIME (there always seemed to be more. It was like a bag of holding but it was just sand). Some prosthetics can't get wet at all. There were a few amputees who moved to the area when I was older who just didn't bother lol. It wasn't worth the extra effort needed for the maintenance.

People have allergies to the prosthetic material: This is less of a problem in the modern day, but some people are allergic to the materials their prosthetics are made from. You can usually find an alternative but depending on the type of allergy, some people are allergic to the replacements too.

Some people just don't like them.

There's nothing wrong with choosing to go without a prosthetic. There's nothing wrong with deciding they aren't for you. It doesn't make you a failure or sad or anything else. Using or not using prosthetics is a completely morally neutral thing.

Please, if you're writing amputees, consider if a prosthetic really is the best mobility aid for your character and consider having your characters go without, or at least mix it up a bit.

For example, Xari, one of the main characters in my comic, uses prosthetics unsupported and with crutches, and uses a wheelchair. They alternate between them throughout the story.

[dark-lord-of-awesomeness]

Would Dragon now Human Ford still have dragon instinct? I think its funny for Human Ford to bite enemies even if he now can cast spell

Since dragons supposedly have high magical reserves could Stan theoretically use Dragon Ford to power his runes? It's interesting to think dragons went extinct due to excessive hunting because they can power runes

If Stan can't understand the magic language but can make his spell stronger and Ford lacks magical reserves but is versatile in his spell and since sorcerer can use runes. Would it be possible for Ford to draw out the runes and pass it to Stan so he can power it? Or better yet Ford teaches Stan how to understand the magic language (tho I doubt Stan would pay attention lol)

(yes I'm a huge nerd just like my nemesis Stanford Pines/silly/j)

Its not too much of a spoiler, as i've already made my thoughts on long term curse breaking clear, but yes. I'm a firm believer in post curse breaking should still have some kind of effect on the cursed, especially if they've been cursed for a while. The longer the curse, the more likely side effects will occur sorta thing. Can't live that long without consequence. Human Ford will finally reign supreme in his brain, but Dragon Ford is around, and he will sneak out at times. Like biting people, snarling, growling, and a lingering possessiveness over Stan and the entire castle. Not so bad Stan's not allowed to leave, but whenever Stan does Ford just stares sadly out the window like when you leave your pets at home to go to work. Just sits on a couch, waiting for Stan to come back and getting antsy not knowing whats happening with him. Can still sense whenever theres intruders, just not pinpoint their exact location. Knows whenever Stan gets hurt, just not the extent of the injury or where. Stan stubs a toe and Ford descends like a mother hen, inspecting him for damage while Stan rolls his eyes.

Stan could use Ford to power his spells, if he knew how to do that. It wouldn't be sorcerery at that point, it'd be witchcraft or druidery depending on how he went about it, and it'd require a circle to cast to establish Ford as the source of whatever Stan's trying to do. Dragons in this world went extinct from a combination of over hunting and magical depletion. As the years went on and magic became less and less widespread, dragons couldn't sustain themselves as a species. They got weaker with every generation, and less and less were born until they died out. Fords only OK because he lives directly on top of the wellspring and has access to it there, which is also why Stan didnt collapse from magical exhaustion sooner, as he could refill his reserves faster then anywhere else. If Ford hunts too far afield for too long, he'd get weaker and weaker, as his body wouldnt be able to support itself.

If Ford drew a circle and Stan activated it, Stan wouldn't be the one powering it unless he specifically made sure not to include the source for the spell. Stan was powering his own curse breaking circles, because he's an amateur who didnt know how to write out circles properly and so was just dumping his own magic into them to get them to go. Thats what Ford was trying to correct at Stan's first attempt, but since it activated anyway and Stan refused help, he left him to it. Stan will be learning other runes as the story goes on, as its not very ideal or healthy for the only one he knows to be the destruction one for reasons that will be explained in the next chapter. Stan wouldnt be writing out full sentences like Ford, he'd just focus on the noun runes that do things and ignore grammar entirely.

(Don't worry, i love talking about all this)

[metamorphicmuse]

Dear MMM - I want to know how you do your magic. You say you use ChatGPT and Dall-E. Do you pay the $20/mo for Dall-E? Is it worth it? And you use Bing Image? Which do you prefer? What the pros and cons of each?

All your work here on Tumblr is stunning. I’d like to dabble in it myself. My favorite are the art nouveau on the ocean rocks. The old French poster styles. But it difficult to say that only one style is my favorite; they all make my pulse beat a little faster.

Thanks for the daily(ish) uplift. 🤩

Friend, Thanks for the compliments! I'm here to keep the pulse rates elevated. And here for aspirational art. This is therapeutic for me.

<Read for art process below!>

ChatGPT Plus is worth the cost for many reasons, but the "magic" is in how it allows you to create conversation around the images you create. I will discuss art styles, memories, feelings, settings, etc. until it feels right. Then I will refine as needed, but often the image matches the vision that I've built up through the work. But you would be surprised what even some basic prompts can yield. I've had fights with the recent upgrades for version 4o, but most of my art is created through the Dall-E GPT specifically. Even with the 4o image generator, I'm learning how to communicate.

The Bing Image Creator is particularly tuned to art, so that's fun to play with if you don't want to get too deep.

* This was the prompt and image results for Bing Image Creator:

"a Renaissance oil painting of two gay gladiators."

* This was the image prompt for Dall-E in ChatGPT:

"Can you create a Renaissance oil painting of two gay gladiators?"

I refined to fix some geometry:

* This was the prompt I gave ChatGPT 4o (no Dall-E:

"Can you create a Renaissance oil painting of two gay gladiators?"

I find this too dull, so I discussed art deco, got this cartoon drawing, and then had a conversation about 20th century French lithographs and the influences of Tamara de Lempicka. Still too dull, so I requested a brighter, more heroic color palette. These were the final results!

Final product from ChatGPT 4o:

I'm always happy to answer questions or offer suggestions!

[waffle-crisp-art]

I don't like drawing skeleton so she has a human ref but here's my first attempt at the child!!!

Some info:

•Her initial vibe is: if the :) emoji was a person.

To others she's chill, but sometimes in a "unnervingly too calm this circumstance" way. They're more an extrovert than introvert

•They have scary good memory

While being observant and hinting out details makes them a little intimidating to others, it helps analize better. She might hold grudges but at least she learns faster

•Snuggle bug

You turn around and they're wrapped in a cocoon made of blankets and pulling you in!

She likes the comfort and warmth of hugs as she's often cold (It might also be a result of the fact that their dad, or siblings if she has them, usually have to limit themselves. She just really appreciates every chance)

•They don't have powers other than floating

She's okay about it. As they say, they got "the better end of the deal", she doesn't have to worry about killing with touch and floating is really useful for a lot of things

I'm not sure about weapons yet

•She's mostly immortal

They don't age after a certain point and regenerate faster than average but she can be injured or killed on purpose by other gods

•She's going to be an astrophysicist!

For that reason their beloved AU is Outertale. One of her favorite fields is stellar death and supernovas, they also enjoy pottery, reading fantasy & sci-fi and raising stray moths she found on random leaves

yes, they did make little clay homes for the moths!

📌 Her pinboard (work in progress) 📌

Keep in mind that the clothes shourd rather be in her color palette, it's just hard to find those specific shades 🥲

https://pin.it/3yk9UY3sO

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+Bonus for those who read ❤︎

Geno doesn't complain about her being without much power... They're papa's girl

[rigelmejo]

Maybe this will be useful (or motivating) to someone? So, ever since I finished college, I don't take notes when I study any more. This blog right here is all of my language learning notes. So I suppose I do take notes. I just mean that like... you won't forget everything immediately if you don't take notes. That was something I had to learn to accept, since I was used to being afraid I would forget anything I didn't write down.

I just don't write words to review and memorize on paper anymore. I used to write down ALL the grammar points in my textbooks, all the new vocabulary, a lot of the dialogues in new chapters, mnemonics for kanji that were in worksheets, etc. I wrote so much down. I wrote so much I had hand cramps all the time (not only from language classes, mostly from my other classes which were even more note-intensive). So when I finished school, I decided I'd prefer never to write that much on paper again, to never write so much my hands hurt.

I still type a lot, lol you are all aware of that. Sometimes my hands cramp a bit from typing, but never as much as they did when taking paper notes. I still love drawing, so yeah my hands cramp when I do that for a long time.

My point with all this was... I was a perfectionist in school, and I wrote notes on EVERYTHING because I read once "writing notes helps you remember" and I needed all the help I could get in school to get good grades. So I did it all, writing everything by hand, sitting at the front of class, asking questions any time they popped up for me, all things recommended to get better grades/learn easier.

When I decided to really let myself study languages in my personal time, I decided I did NOT want to be perfectionist about it. Perfectionism stressed me out so much in school, and one of the reasons I really enjoyed self-studying languages is how much I got to learn and improve by making mistakes. Language learning is an area where I get to embrace mistake making, enjoy imperfection and the process of learning - because I will NOT be perfect at languages for years, if ever, I will NOT understand languages perfectly for years, if ever. I still don't speak perfect English and I'm a native speaker who's been writing/speaking for 30 years. So thankfully, I can never be perfect in any language. Striving for perfection is impossible, it will never be reached. Instead of giving up - since perfection is impossible - language learning is a domain where I can simply enjoy the journey of continuously learning.

So self-studying, I stopped writing down things I wanted to remember. I accepted that I was going to be imperfect, going to forget and have to re-look things up, review things as I ran across them again, and accepted that was the route I wanted to take.

I think it's great if you want to write down notes on things you want to remember and review, or save stuff to anki card decks, or whatever you specifically want to do. And writing notes definitely Does help one remember faster, it served me well in college when I had to reliably remember things ASAP - I just no longer have that need. (I still save resources - see this whole blog lol, and I save words I've looked up recently in Pleco and Google Translate - although I rarely end up reviewing them)

For me, I didn't want to do that anymore. And I wanted to be an example that someone CAN make progress and improve, even if they don't write down the things they want to remember. I used to have issues trusting my own memory, afraid anything I didn't write down I'd never learn, and it's been a relief to just let myself Not do that.

[meanbossart]

A long over-due ask compilation (Art & Music)

It's vaguely based on a short story from the book "The Consumer" by Michael Gira, specifically "The Boss". I think it came up in conversation with a friend or something when I was picking a new username, so that's how we arrived at it - this was almost a decade ago so, my memory on it is a little hazy!

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HAHA thank you so much!!! Glad you enjoy what I do 😎🍻

I BELIEVE this little guide I put together over here might be helpful to you, also! I touched on pretty much everything you brought up.

As for reference material when it comes to facial expressions, I have a mirror next to my desk which I glance at often and make weird faces at LOL and for consistency, it's really a matter of learning to dissect and remember facial structure. It's just something you end up developing an eye for when you've done it for long enough! Naturally, if we're talking about drawing existing characters, it's always helpful to just look at some pictures of their mugs and take a minute to define what features about them make their faces recognizable - I touch on this at the link above as well!

I do plan on making a "drowstarion" (love that, by the way LOL) playlist eventually, life's just been kicking my ass and I hardly have the time 😭and when I do, I just wanna draw.

Otherwise I don't have any other playlists floating around at the moment, BUT the one my boyfriend made for his Vellioth comic can be found here, and it might scratch a similar itch!

Thank you! I believe this was in reference to this post. Something like that takes me about... An hour??? If we're talking just the colors, at least. Though that's a really rough estimate because I take a lot of breaks, so my sense of time when I work ends up pretty skewed. Even if the application of the colors themselves took less than 20 minutes I probably spent 2 hours just staring at it LOL.

My friend, I have no idea. I'm in a constant battle between "I want to draw more realistically" and "I want to simplify my art so I can draw more/faster". What you see is the result of that ongoing brain-tug-of-war.

Also, just the way I assume everyone else develops theirs - they see stuff they like and emulate it until their art is Frankensteinish enough to be it's own unique thing!

I'm far from a Type O Negative buff, BUT I'm happy to share some of my favorites with you! They're quite scattered across a couple of their albums so I'm not sure I have a favorite, but I would say October Rust is a good starting point.

In no particular order, these are my most listened tracks of theirs: -Love You to Death -Black N.01 -Haunted -She Burned Me Down -Can't Lose You -I Don't Wanna Be Me -Be My Druidess -September Sun -Tripping A Blind Man

Alas, I was one of those people who was already drawing in kindergarten 😅 though I would say I only started taking it seriously when I was around 15-16 years old. As someone who has tried their hand at several other hobbies since reaching adulthood, I get what you're saying that it can kinda feel like... You missed the wagon? I've felt that way about all kind of things lol

That said, I've seen adults managing to develop their art skills extremely fast and effectively before. Understanding where and how you need to improve, and how to follow lessons/guides best is something that is vastly improved by maturity and knowing how to best hone your time, attention, and resources - and those are skills we completely lack as children. So, I sincerely believe that as long as you commit yourself, you can definitely get to a point that you're happy with in a couple of years if not less.

JUST DO IT BUDDY we are all just people looking through a screen and you won't ever see, talk, or meet 99% of the folks who ever clap eyes on what you post. Whenever you start getting nervous about sharing something, take a minute to ask yourself why you're nervous, and if none of the reasons have any genuine substance besides being afraid of what people "might think", just go ahead and post it. You're no mind-reader after all, and if you are, I doubt you can hear what a guy from Argentina or wherever is thinking about the art you made.

Point is, nobody online can touch you 🤷and if someone doesn't like what you do, they can simply choose to not interact with it, and if they do you can block and move on. There are zero reasons for you to feel "bad" about putting up a doodle when our experiences on the web are so easily curated nowadays.

[atasheashkeman]

Hey man, i rlly love ur art <3, it's just *Kiss chef*.

Just wondering if you have any tips to draw as good as you! and are u open to make commisions?:3

AWWWW UR SO SWEET!!!! I really appreciate your kind words!! I unfortunately don't take commissions and probably won't until I'm finished with my degree in a few more years!

I am sure you are already an amazing artist!! And I have much to work on still! But there are a few art practices that I swear by...

I have been getting hit hard with depression this year so I fully understand feeling unmotivated to draw, but if you can, drawing every day, or as close to every day as possible, is really important. To do that, you need to make drawing as easy and accessible as possible. Two tools that I always carry with me everywhere is a small portable sketchbook and a blue bic pen. I recently also got a portable watercolor palette that has allowed me to paint anywhere with zero effort (I just need a small amount of water). I don't set up for it and I don't clean up my pallette at all.

Going back to the sketchbook and pen... I think spending a few months drawing exclusively with pen- NO pencil, NO digital art, nothing that you can erase or undo- will dramatically improve not only your hand eye coordination and muscle memory for drawing movements, but also your confidence. Drawing with a pen forces you to either start over when you make a mistake, or to simply accept and work with "errors". You will also get faster at drawing. Starting in middle school, I used only pen and paper and since then it is my preferred tool despite going digital seriously in college. I cannot stress enough how incredibly important the acceptance of your art style, and the "mistakes" that you make, is. Once you stop fussing over details and "errors" in your art and just go with them, or admire them for the quirks they are, your art will drastically improve.

Along those lines, I think getting off of social media is also really healthy for young artists. I personally just think all social media is a complete shit show and is leading to the demise of the human race... but that's for another time. Excessive social media usage is not good for artist's confidence for many reasons. Algorithms don't reward good artists or hardworking artists, and nowadays there is an incredible amount of normalized cyber bullying in the art community. Once again, going outside and sitting in a cafe or doodling with your friends with a pen and paper or whatever you wanna use is gonna do you wonders.

And finally, if there is a specific thing you want to learn to draw, tutorials and videos can be helpful, but I honestly think just observing that thing in real life and drawing it 100x is the best way to learn. For example, drawing hands. Just draw your own hand in various poses over and over. Fill a sketchbook page with iterations of pen sketches of your hand in a different pose, one pose per page. Time yourself- spend no longer than 2-3 minutes per sketch. Spend time people watching. You need to observe the way things move, the way things take up space, so that you can reconstruct them in three dimensions in your mind. If we take the hands example, every hand is unique, so the more you are intentionally observing people's hands, the greater array of sources you are internalizing. A critical component of this method is non-judgementally analyzing each sketch, and noting what aspects of it you like, and which aspects you want to improve upon in the next sketch. Small, specific, iterative improvements lead to big changes in the long run. Take a look at the last hand you drew, and compare it to your own. Red line it, then redraw it in pen.

Also recognize that improving your art takes time. Once you get off of social media, you'll realize the world isn't really full of 12 year old art prodigies with 20 million followers and 5 posts. Most people spend years getting where they are. I'm in my mid 20s now and I've been drawing practically compulsively my entire life. I've struggled with work because I stay up until 2 or 3 am drawing. I've been chastised by teachers for drawing on desks and chairs. It's gotten to the point that my family is pissed when they see the sketchbook come out. I walk and sketch at museums and on hikes. Don't compare yourself to other people, and let yourself develop over the weeks, months, years you need. The faster you get over your own insecurities, the faster you'll actually improve. Art is not about each individual piece- your record as an artists exists as a continuum of thousands of individual pieces.

I wish you the best of time drawing and most importantly have fun!! <3

[mortish-writes]

Hi absolutely love your work that kinda has been my obsession on my mind as late much as the other readers who are probably foaming on the mouth for more content. Just three quick questions. One: how late will the pregnancy plot line be? Like down the line in some later chapters or we get a bit of downtime then boom bed tango and surprise baby or is going further down the road like we're carrying this baby like normal pregnant women except for some supernatural benefits.

Two: will the pregnancy and conception be instant? (Like stick it in and boom she's pregnant like most cartoons or some romance books tend to have it?)

Three: Once we become pregnant is the story going to be more baby focused? Like how fast is the baby going to grow? I'm guessing there are still a lot we don't know like the weavers true plan other than this baby (or babies) being the source of that power but I'm guessing mc will get much more agency later on. I guess I'm just so excited for more so I get little over myself when half these plans are probably on drafts and going to change or be developed later so please understand I am not rushing you in any way. Please take your time and write the way you want to write.

Just three quick questions? You are so like me.

Pregnancy plotline starts in Night VI & VII depending on your route, but the MC won't be aware of it (or at least she'll be in denial) until towards the end of the subsequent week. Per my current draft, she'll find out when the guys do, but it will be different in every story route.

LOL! Not instant, but quick. Apart from, as an author, not wanting to draw out the suspense, there are some lore-specific reasons for why it happens so fast, which are tied into why the MC is able to get pregnant in the first place. You'll learn about those later and I think it'll make a lot of sense.

It's going to be a balance of everything. Personally, I dislike romances where the MC is pregnant and it's almost never talked about, as if pregnancy doesn't change nearly every aspect of your life and stay at the forefront of your mind all the time. Idk, maybe I was a weirdo, but when I was pregnant I never didn't think about it. At the same time, there are a lot of other things going on in the story, there's still the romance, the character arcs for MC/S/V, the lore, the villain hunting you, etc. so not every scene will be baby/pregnancy-related, however I'll probably write about it more than in similar romance books you might have read. I won't give a specific timeline for when the MC's baby will be born, but I will say that as of my current draft it will be before the end of winter. Both in-game and irl. The earlier nights/chapters are some of the longer ones because there's a lot of foundation to build, but once we get out of Meyrrvik and begin traveling the nights will be shorter, meaning faster updates and story progression. After the MC's child/ren is born, I'll leave it up to the readers to decide what aspects of the story they want to explore. I have various different drafts for that arc and I'll share them once the time comes.

Thanks for the questions and I'm so happy you're enjoying it. You guys are always welcome to let me know what you like and what you'd like to see more of in the story.

[just-animaxiz]

Fuck it - I'm gonna make these guys into reoccurring characters into RC9GN because they're underrated (Especially the leader)

Starting off with lore bits for:

Spike

He is the leader of not only the Punk Bots, but also the leader of Scrap City. Ever since he failed to defeat the ninja and thus scrapped away, he gained enough sentience to start rebelling against McFist and Viceroy, shouting out the way they mistreated the robots like that.

He is the least scrapped Punk Bot out there, and that is due to his self-taught experience with mechanical repairs. He then began to take whatever parts out there and used them to fix the other bots, gaining their respect for him and vice versa.

Spike, as designed, is a punk, so he fonds over Punk music and guitar - Fortunately, McFist dumped other materials such as magazines, old guitars, and other items into Scrap City. In the middle of the heap is an untouched shiny red guitar. Spike claimed it as his and named it, "Ruby Bolt.

During their imprisonment, Spike realized the heaps of cars and vehicles stacked up like ladders. To test his theory, he created a rope out of cable and started to climb the stack. It took him 12 tries before he finally made it on the wall. Looking down, Spike found himself at the edge of a long fall, so he lasso'ed the cable to a glued object, like an impaled stick or heavy pole, and climbed down.

Once he made it, he learned that no one came after him. He's free... But then he looked up at his mates and realized they're still trapped and too many escaping can lead to getting caught. So Spike devised a plan. He talked this out with the group, and using hacking skills and convincing, they pulled in outside help into it. At a precise time, Spike and his punk bots leave Scrap City. Then when the humans are occupied (At a grand party or very busy), the Punk Bots trashed down a McFist establishment.

While they trashed the area, Spike stole a few items for personal reasons, and when they came back to Scrap City, Spike used them as upgrades.

He made upgrades on himself - making him faster, stronger, and more agile than ever. Additionally, he made personal upgrades like having sharp teeth, a tongue piercing, and a cool new torso.

He also had stolen photos of not only Mcfist and Viceroy, but the Ninja too. He kept drawing personal threats for his revenge.

As much as everyone agreed to vandalize at a specific time, Spike would sometimes go out on his own to take a breather. Wearing long sleeves and a hood over his head, he hides himself from interacting with humans... Or McFist.

A person caught his eye - A young bright boy with purple hair and a red shirt, like his. He's enjoying a night out with his family, meeting up with his best friend, and talking about the girl he has a crush on... Spike wished he could've been that boy, instead of being a scrappy mistake.

Thorn

Thorn is the yellow punk bot, and personality-wise, he's the "I may be sweet but I'm not merciful" type.

He is Spike's Right Hand Man and he always inform Spike about upcoming events or news from the outside.

Thorn may not be as scary or threatening as his brothers, but he can be with his words alone. Spike taught him that!

When McFist dumped random trash into Scrap City, Thorn found an abandoned set of manga. That caused him to be addicted in different types like Shojo, Isekai, and Shonen. He would spend all night reading, learning small Japanese words.

It was until Skewer, the green Punk Bot, gave him a book he found about Japanese culture and their language. Thorn thanked Skewer for the gift and dedicated into learning about his interests.

Before Spike fixed him, Thorn used to be the most damaged. He lost his head a dozen of times, cannot run as fast, and he had a squeaky arm. Even after he's repaired, the squeak's still there. It made him feel like a repaired doll but they still have cracks on their face.

When Thorn joined his brothers out to vandalize McFist stores, he would sometimes steal manga, figurines, or Japanese books to fulfill his interests. He even made theories about Yokai and think they're real, so he showed respect whenever he passed by small statues or paintings.

He's not the type who just sees Japanese as a trend or media thing, but he truly respects their culture and wished to travel to Japan just to learn more and appreciate its beauty. He wondered if they would accept a broken doll like him over there.

When Thorn learns that the Ninja came from Japan, he wished to meet them during a fight so that he could ask them questions about their occupation, wanting to learn their moves and their history.

He would be the type to punch a jerk if they disrespect his interests or even embodies humiliation towards it. Like I said, he's sweet but not merciful.

Skewer

The scariest Punk Bot. Every bot, except for his brothers, feared him.

It's not his fault though; Skewer was made with the scary face by Viceroy and McFist, which made others back away whenever they felt like he's glaring at them.

Despite this, he's also the smartest. He helped Spike set up the upgrades and hacking. This is due because of the dumped items in the heap.

Skewer found a guide to hack and a manual to repair and rebuild. He also find trashed books from Math and science (Thanks Bash) and took them in for his research.

There, his intelligence became stronger than ever, storing data after data and using them for important tasks.

The data also led him to his fond of chess and checkers, which annoyed a specific chess-obsessed robot.

Even though he's smart, he still lives up to the scary bit - He's the frontman, the bulldozer, and the brute of the pack. Someone messes with him or his people, and they'll be skewered.

Bots cannot even tell what mood he's in, questioning if he gave them compliments or subtle threats.

When he and his brothers vandalized McFist Industries, Skewer made observant notes of everything. He noticed how Thorn would stare at a store with Ancient Japanese antiques, or how Spike gaze at a happy boy before he soberly looked away. Other times, Skewer made notes of seeing a red light on a camera, or hearing an annoying voice from a distance.

If they needed time, Skewer would purposely cause a destruction somewhere else as a diversion and make an escape route to go back to his brothers in time.

Skewer questions the Ninja's existence and purpose. He learned that they had been in Norrisville for several years, which is impossible for humans. (Wink) And he discovered from articles that the Ninja came in different forms, wondering if there's a deeper reason behind it.

He also wondered why McFist would go out of his way to built world-destructive robots just to destroy one Ninja. It doesn't make sense in his way.

Hope you enjoy some lore bits I made for them!

[scribz-ag24]

I have a question, have you ever thought about Dusknoir lashing out to partner specifically if met with extreme hostility after they explain what happened in SE5 to hero and partner?

In my mind the reason Dusknoir resonated so much with Groovyle speech was not only because of guilt (he feels a lot of that wuefhihwe) but also because they basically were in the same situation, and knew in his heart that in the way they approached the future, Groovyle was doing the right thing.

On the other hand, for someone like partner who in Dusknoir eyes has nothing to loose by stopping the planet paralysis, would make it feel disingeneous in some way to just point a finger to find a "culprit", and even though Dusknoir knows hes in the wrong, considering hes not the best at controlling his emotions when under stress, at one point he would at least snap back i think.

anon i love love LOVE this idea and i hope i can draw sth like it one day!! It's truly marvelous!

Dusknoir being angry that partner is pretending to act like a judge of character, like they're offended they should forgive dusknoir after what he did, ignoring the fact that their own life was NEVER endangered by grovyle's plan, unlike dusknoir's life. That they were an outsider to this conflict and little else than a side-attachment to Hero, dusknoir's actual target. (It is prettu funny how Partner gets dragged along into the conflict for no reason lol, all they did was liking their rock and their best friend and dusknoir almost killed them for it)

Dusknoir will gladly take the blame and accept the consequences of his violence towards hero and partner, but he will not GROVEL to them, not when he was only ever fighting to keep himself alive. He will move on and be better, he will awkwardly make amends as best as he can, but he's not always gonna lay down and take all the berating without snapping back a bit. Especially not when it comes from one of the people who was most fooled by his facade, who had the weakest will of them all and would have succumbed to the darkness faster than anyone if left alone.

Partner grows a lot throughout the story, and I think by the end of postgame they have enough self esteem and will that they've outgrowned dusknoir, in a way. They're no longer led by what others say, and they are sure they deserve to exist in this world. So facing Dusknoir again and having to face their most embarrasing lapse of judgement must bring a lot of bad memories. I think in a normal conversation Partner would be calmer. However, maybe if Dusknoir presses in the right way, they could even be demoralized, some of that old respect could come back and make them more susceptible to dusknoir's judgement.

Both Partner and Dusknoir are cowards in a way. Partner starts as a timid person with no ability to even approach the guild, and incapable of standing up for themselves. Dusknoir has nothing in his life, only a slightly-less-literally-unhinged impulse for self preservation than the mad god he serves. And even then, at least Dusknoir was fighting for something, even if it was something as meaningless as his empty doomed existence.

I think it would be fun for Dusknoir to realize that similarity with partner and bring up the conversation in the old ruins that partner never heard. The one where Hero learned their unfortunate fate were the planet to be saved. He could mention how if Partner had known he could have sided with the very same person they are reprimanding right now. That they would either fail to live up to the mission once their will was tested with hero's imminent disappearance, or they would have betrayed their so-called friends because of their selfish wish to never lose hero.

I believe it could really hurt partner to hear that Hero refusing to tell them until the last moment was only proof that not even them trusted that partner could make that sacrifice.

Of course I'm sure Dusknoir would regret going that far and losing his temper, and I'm not sure if he could be so articulate in a moment of high emotion, since with grovyle in se5 he kind of sputters a bit while he tries to deny the goodness Grovyle claims to see in him. But I think he could hurt partner deeply once more and make their breach even worse. Plus it would make Partner feel like they haven't grown at all since the last time Dusknoir played them like a fiddle.

Tbh i think the only good ending here is if they throw hands hard. and partner wins. not for any thematic reason but just bc dusknoir should get his ass kicked more often

anyways anon i love the idea its so good!!

[koduflower2000]

"It's time to think outside the box 🤔🧐"

Hi! I'm Kevin, but you can also call me Kodu, if you prefer. I'm the actual guy from Twitter (X), who's left Twitter.

Pronouns: He/Him/They/Them (any of these is fine)

Age: 20 years

Nationality: Sri Lankan

Timezone: Indian Standard Time (IST) (GMT+5:30)

A straight guy who supports the LGBTQ+ community (more specifically, I'm a straight cisgender ally)

A silly child at heart

Open talker (yes, you can be friends with me if you want)

Draws art just by using a mouse.

Speed variation of me drawing is frequent (sometimes I draw faster, other times I draw slowly)

I'm currently learning Russian BTW. Я не знаю что я делаю. 😔

Also I'm learning Spanish, and a little bit of German and French for entertainment. I hope to learn Ukrainian, Arabic and Danish any time soon.

I do music (it's actually one of my favorite things to do)

I do programming sometimes (I haven't uploaded a single cool project in here at all, as I remember) (another one of my favorites to do)

I mostly don't swear, except when I feel intense emotions. (if you're comfortable with reading my posts with swear words, go ahead. I won't judge)

I reblog a lot, so if you really wanna see what I've been working on, here are some tags in which you can look around.

#koduflower2000 art - art by me

#koduflower2000 projects - will be a tag in which i present my art and music projects.

#koduflower2000 talks - mostly something i wanna say

#koduflower2000 answers - a tag in which i answer to tumblr asks in my ask box

Interests

BFDI:TPOT (Battle For Dream Island: The Power Of Two)

BFB (Battle for BFDI)

BFDI (Battle For Dream Island)

III (Inanimate Insanity Invitational)

AvA (Animation vs Animator) series

AvM (Animation vs Minecraft) series

Bluey series from ABC Australia

Chickn Nuggit (i'm sorry i didn't tell you earlier)

Minecraft

Saw and Gaty (totally okay with those ships actually)

Airy and Popcorn from HFJONE (totally okay with those ships as well)

Fanfictions (started writing one btw)

Rhythm Games

Gaming

Computers

Linux

Information and Communication Technology

Language and Culture Learning

Science

Technology

Sports

DNI list:

Basic (you already know it)

Ableists

Anti-semitic people

Racists

Homophobic people (basically homophobes)

Pedophiles (basically MAPs)

Sexists

Xenophobic people (including islamophobes)

Transphobic people (basically transphobes)

TERFs (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists, in other words, transphobic people who spread their gender opinions which are considered to be uncomfortable to trans people)

Advanced

Extreme NSFW accounts (a.k.a. the accounts with >=90% of the posts which are NSFW)

Pro-Israel people (I support Palestine, and no one can stop me)

People neutral with Palestine and the Palestinian people (Palestinian people are the best and they're considered innocent. Period.)

Zionists (If you try to interact with my account, I would like to fight you and block you.)

Proshippers (problematic ships, not professional ships)

Comshippers

People who spread misinformation against me

On thin ice

People who harass me or any of my moots.

People who think they're superior than everyone for no reason. (the only reason why i put it there is because i want people to talk with me instead of harassing me, because i already had a lot of traumatic experiences on twitter)

Blog Landmarks

tee hee moot rose! ^ ^

me too (a tribute to all my previous moots who have been disappeared from the internet)

kinda the reason why i don't interact in here as much as i wanna

the most important thing in tumblr that hits you hard like a high speed train

elements of the intro are subject to changes which occur periodically

[izzymaekgaem]

IzzyCraft - Devlog 0

First off, let's start with an introduction.

Hey! Name's Isabel. I'm a Comp Sci student in her 20s living in Portugal. I've wanted to try making a Minecraft mod for a while now, and I decided that right now's a good a time as any to start. I wanna keep track of my progress by making one of these every now and then. I'm gonna try to keep this something that I do… every two weeks maybe? But I'm not gonna hold myself to any specific posting schedule for now. Keeps me from going insane.

So, what's this about?

This blog will be a development log of my attempt at making a Minecraft mod. It's something I've always been curious about trying, and I figured I could start learning instead of just sitting on my ass wondering what it's like. I have decided to try the Fabric API out, because it's the one I've spent the most time actually playing on, and I've never really had many stability issues with it. Since this is Minecraft, I will also have to learn more Java, which, coming from someone who learned Python first… is gonna take some getting used to.

I want this development log to serve as practice for any potential attempts at game development in the future, hence the blog name. I guess you could say that everyone reading this is part of my little experiment.

Basic Idea for the mod

The working title is "IzzyCraft", for no other reason than I think it rolls off the tongue well.

The end goal of the mod is to introduce a fantasy rpg flair to minecraft by adding a bunch of your traditional fantasy species to the game. They will replace villagers in their respective biomes, and the player will also be able to chose what species to play as, similar to the origins mod, but with more mechanical balance tailored for online play.

So far, these are my concepts for playable species:

Underground (Found in Cave biomes in the Overworld)

Dwarf:

Darkvision: You see better in the dark.

Size: You are noticeably shorter than the base game model, and can fit through 1.5 block tall gaps without crouching.

Unshakeable Stance: Knockback has less effect on you.

Sky sickness: If you spend more than one day without sleeping with a roof over your head, you will become Skysick. Weapons and tools will take longer to draw, and you will restore health slower. To cure Sky sickness, you must sleep with a roof over your head.

Dark Elf

Darkvision: You see better in the dark.

Size: You are noticeably taller than the base game model, and need spaces to be 2.4 blocks tall to be able to fit without crouching.

Iron stomach: consumables with harmful effects (poison potions, suspicious stew, rotten flesh, etc.) have a reduced effect on you. You can eat raw mushrooms, including nether wart.

Sky sickness: If you spend more than one day without sleeping with a roof over your head, you will become Skysick. Weapons and tools will take longer to draw, and you will restore health slower. To cure Sky sickness, you must sleep with a roof over your head.

Surface (Found in the surface of the Overworld)

Human:

Base player.

Wood Elf (Found in Jungles and Old Growth Taiga biomes):

Nimble: Weapons and tools have a slightly faster draw speed. You have a higher sprint speed.

Size: You are noticeably taller than the base game model, and need spaces to be 2.4 blocks tall to be able to fit without crouching.

Bark skin: Negative effects on throwable and lingering potions, as well as potion tipped arrows, have a reduced effect on you.

Fast metabolism: Your hunger bar decays faster.

High Elf (Found in Flower and Birch Forests):

Arcane: Level caps on the enchanter are lowered (can make higher enchants with less bookshelves).

Size: You are noticeably taller than the base game model, and need spaces to be 2.4 blocks tall to be able to fit without crouching.

Ward: Enchanted weapons deal slightly less damage to you.

Slow learner: Killed creatures drop less experience.

Catfolk (Found in Deserts and Mesas):

Agile: You have a higher jump height, and a faster sprint speed. You take less fall damage.

Size: You are the same size as the regular player.

Claws: Unarmed attacks deal slightly more damage.

Fast metabolism: Your hunger bar decays faster.

Halfling (Found in the Plains Biomes):

Sneaky: Weapons and tools have a slightly faster draw speed. You can walk without triggering skulk sensors.

Size: You are noticeably shorter than the base game model, and can fit through 1.5 block tall gaps without crouching.

Lucky: Your critical hits have a chance of dealing double damage.

Light build: You have less health.

Minotaur (Found in Savannas):

Charge: Your critical hits deal slightly more damage.

Size: You are noticeably taller than the base game model, and need spaces to be 2.5 blocks tall to be able to fit without crouching.

Bulky: you have slightly more health.

Horns: You can't wear helmets.

Nether

Piglin (Found in Crimson Forests and Nether Wastes):

Netherspawn: You spawn in the Nether.

Charge: Your critical hits deal slightly more damage.

Size: You are the same size as the regular player.

Piglin Reputation: You do not need to wear gold to keep other piglins from attacking you. Piglin brutes are not hostile to you, unless you attack them first.

Overworld sickness: If you spend more than one day without sleeping in the Nether you will become sick. Weapons and tools will take longer to draw, and you will restore health slower. To cure Overworld sickness, you must sleep in the Nether.

Tiefling (Found in Warped Forests and Basalt Deltas):

Netherspawn: You spawn in the Nether.

Borne of Fire: Fire enchantments deal slightly more damage.

Size: You are the same size as the regular player.

Lava skin: You are immune to fire damage (swimming in lava still damages you). You can stand on magma blocks without taking damage.

Nether Metabolism: Your hunger bar decays faster. You can eat nether wart, as well as crimson and warped fungus.

The End

Enderfolk (Found in the End Islands):

Enderman Reputation: You can stare at an Enderman without angering them. They are still hostile if you attack them.

Teleport: You can Teleport short distances without needing to use an ender pearl.

Size: You are noticeably taller than the base game model, and need spaces to be 2.5 blocks tall to be able to fit without crouching.

Silky hands: You can collect grass and leaf blocks without special tools.

Hydrophobic: Touching water damages you. This also applies to rain (but not snow)

next: IzzyCraft - Devlog 1 - Doing the Thing

[ifievertoldyou]

The Quackitification™

little analyses + bonus pictures under the cut :D

mediums: #2 pencil, standard 8.5x11 copy paper, royal purple crayola colored pencil

analysis time

references analysis

pre-thaw!q is intended to be q at the meetup with phil (minus the beanie) so i referenced those meetup pictures a lot when drawing him, and just really wanted him to contrast with the other qs in how carefree and happy he looks. to make it seem as though, well, he's from another world than them.

i referenced a lot of different quackity pictures with the middle 3 qs, so those ones weren't really based on any specific picture. they were all just mixes of different cc!q pictures, just like how q is kind of a mix of cc!q and c!quackity during these times, though the amount of each that he has varies depending on when in the story you're looking.

current q was heavily referenced off of that one photo of the LN!quackity photoshoot that cc!quackity did a while back, because at this point, q is his dsmp character, mentally, and now, physically. i just wanted there to be such a contrast between the first drawing being referenced off of a picture of cc!q being a cc, and the last drawing being referenced off of cc!q dressing up as his dsmp character. only it isn't really dress-up for poor q anymore.

okok now eye direction analysis time

i very intentionally drew each q looking in a different direction, so now i'm going to talk about my reasoning for that

the q from before the events of thaw has his eyes closed because he doesn't yet know the awful truth that the fun story he wrote actually happened somewhere. he looks so joyous, but at the same time, it's mostly because his eyes are still closed to the reality that he will have to grapple with throughout this story.

next we have beginning/desert!q. he doesn't have his blessing yet, and his eyes are wide with fear. he's looking to the right to indicate that the cc is still in there. after all, in q's world, he preferred using his right hand when writing, but he had to change that as he began adapting to this world, so as to not blow his cover. but desert!q hasn't yet had to do that, he's still the cc, just more scared and.. lost than usual. he's still currently abiding by the same rules and worldview that he had in his original world, so he's looking to the right, to what he knew in his original world.

then we've got post-bet!q. he's got the magic eye now, and he has to deal with way more issues than before, as he learns more about how fucked up this world is, and how horribly twisted his storytelling became here. he's looking down because now he's not just scared now, he's guilty, he blames himself for all the bad things that happened to quackity and he blames himself for all the bad things that happened to him too. he no longer has that optimistic outlook about the world, and has begun losing his old identity much faster than before. this is also where he starts adapting more to this world, and, eventually, learns to write with his left hand. there's a shift towards behavior that is more like manberg/pogtopia!quackity that's beginning in him now. he's started to look away from his old morals from before he got here and has begun doing and thinking things that he would have never done/thought before this story took place.

butcher!q is looking to the left. this is for several reasons. one, to signify how, kinda like how charlie put it, it'd be hard to tell the two gamblers apart if it wasn't for the blessed eye, because their ways of seeing the world have become so similar now. and two, it's set up for q's eye getting blinded, since it's his left eye that he loses, and that's where he was looking (at least i'm Assuming, since we haven't actually gotten a description of his blind eye from the outside pov yet) when he got blinded.

and then we have thaw!q as we know him after chapter 66. his blind eye is stuck looking to the left, and his seeing eye is looking forward, with his expression carefully neutral. he looks more like quackity than he ever did before. and he looks more like the quackity he always used to imagine than he ever did before. more importantly though, he Acts more like thaw!quackity than he ever did before, even though he has been progressively acting more and more like him all throughout the story. he's purposefully looking forward to show a sense of confidence. no longer will he allow himself to have downcast eyes or show such visible emotions (or emotions that aren't anger, at least). now he will look ahead confidently, with his best poker face, trying to seem unbothered, but deep down, the experiences and worldview of quackity will always weigh on him without him meaning to, just like his blind eye will look to the left.

misc notes

i made the hair slightly longer with the latter three qs, to show that he's been there for longer

i also made his hair longer to make him resemble my thaw!quackity design a little more (though it still isn't quite as long as my quackity's is, just because that would take some Insanely fast growing hair to get there in a month)

i initially wanted to give q some of his beauty spots, but i quickly found that it was very difficult to keep their placement consistent enough, which bugged me, so i cut that idea out

i struggled a bit with q's scar, since we haven't seen a *whole* lot of descriptions of it yet, especially not of when it's been completely healed over, as it's still currently fresh in thaw. but ultimately i settled with this design, though it took me a couple hours to figure out how i wanted it to look

i used a duller pencil when i drew pre-thaw!q, and at first this wasn't intentional, but i decided to sharpen it after i finished him, so cc!q's lines look a lot softer and duller than the other qs. but i decided halfway through this project that i'll Make it intentional, as a way to comment on how q used to be so soft before coming to this world, and he progressively got sharper and more put-together, just like his linework (though post-bet!q's linework is a bit messier and all over the place, since he's kind of going through it and hasn't quite perfected that mask of anger just yet. though, if i could've, i probably would've made his linework ever so slightly less dull than pre-thaw!q's but not nearly as sharp as the other qs. unfortunately, i can't really accurately control the dullness of my pencil at will, so that didn't happen-) but yeah, happy little accidents ^^

fun fact: i drew the first 4 qs on the same paper, and drew current q on his own separate page. he is also about 4x the size of the other qs, and is significantly more detailed

i thought about fully coloring everyone, but decided that i'd probably never get this thing done if i did that. though maybe one day i'll revist this and color them all, who knows?

now for some bonus pictures

this was my initial q design before i decided that actually, his scar looked way too much like quackity's and wasn't neat or straight enough for my liking. so uh, yeah, here's thaw!q if his scar was more thaw!quackity-ish! one of the many casualties during the great q design war™

a couple of wips, as a treat for making it all the way down here

okay that's all, thank you for making it all the way to the end of this post ^^

as always, reblogs are very much appreciated, and also make sure to check out the original fic by @alexanderwesker that i've been talking about throughout this post, if you haven't already! ^D^

[bekandrew]

Laptop Necromancy

I'm running my whole art portfolio through Glaze. If you don't know, it's a program build by a group of uni students that's won awards and is designed to basically prevent AI libraries from being able to meaningfully "learn" anything from your art. It can be found here for free. It wouldn't run on my actually functional laptop (it tried rendering for 2 days straight and then got to something like "Time remaining: -200 minutes" and still never spat out anything completed). So, while waiting for the seemingly endless rendering to stop and a reply for access to their Web option, I decided to try something a little off the wall.

I ended up taking my largely non-functional old laptop (8+ yr old Dell Latitude i7) I hadn't figured out how to safely dispose of yet and see if I could give it new life. It was a mid-tier "gaming" laptop when I purchased it, though I needed the specs for heavy graphics work for work as an artist and as I was, for a time, still in uni for engineering before switching majors. It currently won't run most of the programs I need for work - it abjectly refuses to open Krita no mater what I do, and throws a fit and crashes with even GIMP sometimes. I even have to be careful with internet browsers now with that one. Its hard drive is pretty toast, hence why I needed to suck it up and get a new laptop. Something is damaged in a way I couldn't make a proper clone of the drive and something's fucked with the BIOS is fucked in a way I couldn't even run a recovery usb and it has no disk drive. It makes frightening noises from frequently trying to run its HDD at 100%. The casing itself is held together with duct tape and spite. This laptop survived several moves and homelessness before finally being too finicky to put up with after wife and I were rehoused. It literally requires support at all times to not be torn further apart by the weight of its own screen. It also needs to be elevated in a way to give the fans a little help. It's a technological senior citizen. Despite the hard drive being largely toast, the OS still works pretty fine. The RAM isn't high as I'd like, but it's not bad, either. It's main draw for this very specific purpose is the dual GPUs. There's a version of Glaze that you can force to run off a GPU instead of the CPU and make it go MUCH, MUCH (from my experience, literally 5-10 times or more faster).

I had a Solid State Drive lying around from when I'd attempted to keep the old laptop alive longer, so I stuck it in my external dock, installed Glaze on it, and filled it up with a folder of art to be Glazed. It then proceeded to take about a day and a half of fussing with graphics drivers - including uninstalling the one the uni students recommended and going back to my old one because the one they recommended was technically compatible but was borking things for some reason, and manually changing settings to force the computer to use the correct beefier GPU for the program. I also had to uninstall a ton of shit that was slowing my computer down and sometimes making it lock up entirely - things I used to need when I used that laptop for normal purposes but no longer needed there (things like Steam, Discord, Grammarly, etc).

So long as I don't run much of anything off of the internal HDD outside a couple Windows Explorer windows for viewing files and Task Manager to keep an eye on hardware status, it mostly stays nice and quiet now other than a few spikes here and there with low % usage. Glaze runs smoothly off the external SSD, the CPU and RAM usage remain pretty stable and manageable during rendering, with the GPU usage only at a little over half the computer's total capability. Despite being bested by much simpler daily usage, this old shell of a laptop now renders a resource-intensive program over in a corner and I can just check it every couple hours to see how it's doing.

[just-a-little-silly]

I'M SO SORRY IT'S BEEN SO LONG so much has been going on lmaooo😭

Anywaysss I’m so interested in Aidma’s family! All the details seem very well thought out, I love it^^ and I also love how the twins would perceive her. Was there a specific event that led them to form those opinions of her? I am also curious as to how Hiro’s family perceive her considering how close the Tachibana family are to the Brundles? So, how do Kureha and Hiro’s parents feel about Aidma as an addition to the family?

Kajal has two elder siblings and two younger siblings. Fun side note: her eldest sister, the second oldest of the Ayyadurai household, Arundhati, ends up marrying Klaus (it’s an arranged marriage). She works at the ministry and is a prolific mage in her own right. Her eldest sibling Ranga is…definitely a character. He’s also a legendary mage and his powers are linked directly to the sun (quite overpowered frankly), people know him as the “Prince of the Sun”.

I adore exploring Kajal’s relationship with Zeus and Hiro!! The main difference if I keep them separate is that Kajal and Hiro’s relationship is WAYYY more angsty which is honestly really fun to play around with.

I’m so glad you think so! I try my best to make Kajal interesting :DD

Evil Eye is a spell Kajal crafted that not only deflects an opponent’s attack back onto them but additionally allows Kajal to temporarily use the other’s magic and whatever special abilities they might have rendering her opponent magicless. The spell is INSANELY taxing and if she uses it for too long she runs the risk of fatally harming herself.

I really should draw her wings one day!! I’d love to get the design down somewhere but alas it might have to wait a bit😞

Admittedly…Zues doesn’t love it when she pulls strings and she does do it less when she gets with him but at the same time he understands why she does so. Kajal isn’t a malicious, cruel person- he knows that about her and while he doesn’t appreciate her methods 100% of the time, he does understand why she does what she does and admires how far she’s willing to go for those she loves. And yes, he does notice that she at times makes exceptions for him and appreciates that too.

And you’re right!! Yessenia and Kajal were practically raised with each other. In my lore, fae and nymphs typically get along quite well and Kajal and Yessenia’s family have supported each other for centuries. As for Kajal, Mei Ling and Abena- they took a while to get along. See, Mei Ling and Kajal got into arguments quite a lot. Mei Ling is strong-willed, steadfast in her values and she didn’t like Kajal’s tendencies to manipulate situations from afar and yet, Kajal at that point was incredibly stubborn and absolutely refused to change. And while that was happening, Abena was aloof, distant and detached, allowing neither of them too close. However, with time, Mei Ling saw that Kajal’s actions weren’t random and Kajal began to appreciate Mei Ling’s insight and Abena began to connect with the two of them as well. It just took time. Meanwhile, Lynn and Safiya took a while too but became close way faster.

At first, Kajal was stunned. She’d never been caught before and it actually really caught her off guard. She was about to cast a spell to send them off to sleep and then dig into their pasts but Yessenia stops her, quickly explaining the situation to Lynn and Safiya. She met Safiya and Lynn as they stayed in the same dorm ( think of Yessenia as an RA :>> ) and she was one of the student’s who gave them a tour of the academy when they first arrived.

Yeah, I’d say the girls get more mature together. They each teach each other things. For example, Safiya learns how to be more self-confident thanks to Kajal, Lynn learns to open up a bit more thanks to Yessenia, Mei Ling is the voice of reason for the girls- she keeps them mindful and so on. They’re definitely fun to explore, especially since they all bring something so unique to the group, something that affects how the others see the world around them.

The argument between Yessenia and Viggo was about how they got caught😭Viggo and Kajal know of each other, one might even call them friends and it started off w/ him making fun of her by telling her he never thought he’d see the day she gets in trouble for his schemes but then Yessenia (whose already not in a great mood) gets swept up into it and they sit and argue (I think he’d liked how spirited she can be)

As for Hiro and Kajal….they start off absolutely despising each other in their first but eventually but after a whilee they catch feelings and it gets quite messy💀😭

Lynn is soo😭😭 I absolutely love writing her.

I’m so glad you think so, it means the world🥹

Oohhh rainfall!! I love that so much!

I also adore Najlynn’s friend group, they seem like so fun :3 also Najlynn dating Hiro is soo interesting!! I’d love to hear more about what that relationship was like in depth and what it was like after it eneded. I think Adima would make a wonderful head of house Brundle💛✨ I wonder how the twins would react to her return? And how does Najlynn feel about Adima’s relationship with Zeus?

notes on safiya (one of my WH / multifandom oc)!!

anywaysss im answering a few questions i got from @eye-cri (eeeee bc im so happy to :3)

okie so yes!! safiya is a prefect (she becomes one around the same time as liz (so, after rem) when her friends convince her to try for it. honestly, she kinda is like joel TT. safiya is so fun bc she says whats on her mind and will sometimes manage to do it in the most unbelievably tactless way possible but shes rarely ever intending to be flat out rude. like she just says things sometimes, its great. she, like liz, got an acceptance letter, started off as a provisional student and then got her place at the academy (she and liz pretty much have the same starting tbh, they’re both from villages tho safiya’s family is still very much alive). also she’s pretty good friends with joel, luca, amelia, scarlett and augustus- she and liz get along but they tend to argue from time to time.

also about the boots omg what was i thinking looking back at it, it rly is smthn but honestly its so very safiya in a way i can’t fully articulate rn TT

additionally, i’ve decided i may ship her w/ elias :DD idk just think that’d be a cute pairing-

(also note: some of my oc lore does change from time to time depending on the characters and whatnot tbh but usually it doesnt- unless i forget stuff HELP-💀)