#idk no last name lmao

[benetnvsch]

cringtober day 29: hot (woman) villain

forgot they had to be hot,,, drew the dragon that processes this one guy in this one story of mines and fucks things up.. yeah

[panziku-nox]

Genuinely so excited to see what these nerds get up to, ideal neighbour trio tbh.

[aangarchy]

Everytime i get reminded of "toph's" concept art, i always think how weird it would have been to just have an adult man hang out with three kids for months

[bugbrews-creations]

I think there was a huge missed opportunity in the fact I never once saw a Sans fangirl back in the day that was a nervous system monster. I think it would've been really funny.

[kiwisandpearls]

the statements “this piece of media was made for kids, it’s not that serious” and “a piece of media being made for kids does not exempt it from criticism” can and should coexist.

[gumshoegoat]

[braisedhoney]

Draw your favorite ghost! Mine's Ember.

“That would be me. Surprise.”

(ayyy flaming hair favs club :D)

[no-where-new-hero]

omg I need your thoughts on the terminally o line author culture bc ngl it makes my eye TWITCH, there are authors I deliberately avoid even tho I've heard their stuff is good bc they're like that 🙈

HHHHH oh good lord, okay, from how I see it, there are two angles on this, both aggravating and sad: the official decree one and the spontaneous ecosystem one.

The officious one is that the nature of publishing nowadays demands an author have an online presence. You need Twitter/X. You need to let every potential reader know your book is coming out. You need engagement through reviews and pre-orders incentives (if you buy now you’ll get a special keychain!!) and word of mouth assurances from your peers that yes your book is as cool as you say it is. You need a newsletter with links (more buying! more voting on lists that are simply popularity contests!) and promises you’re still working on the next thing, don’t forget about me in the morass of everyone else doing the same thing. You need an Instagram and TikTok now to post pretty pictures and videos because one or two authors made it big off this kind of promotion and now everyone thinks it’s the ticket to the bestseller list (sadly, it seems to be working). You need an OnlyFans (a joke but I do recall a twt spat that was a joke/not joke about how rupi kaur will always be more beautiful than her critics and people who took issue with the conflation of beauty with talent). At the end of all this, you’re basically an influencer, a content creator creating content for the content you should be focusing on creating, the finished novel. And the novel itself seems to be disappearing behind the masks used to promote it (fanfic-style tropes, moodboards, playlists, memes) until I now no longer trust the book that I’ll pick up to have any resemblance to the enticements that brought me here. I’ve seen an author or two complain about the stress all this self-promotion generates, but it’s become such an entrenched part of the industry, I think people just accept it. And thus spend too much time online hoping that if they tweet just a little more, produce just one more reel, maybe that’ll be the difference between a sale and no sale.

The other side of this, distinct but obviously connected, is the ecosystem created by this panic of being perpetually visible coupled with the fact that so many of the new authors came of age during the rise of internet fandom culture. That opinionated community mindset that blurs the line between anonymity and friendship is the lens they bring to their own work. I mean, it makes sense I suppose—if you love yelling about characters and words, why wouldn’t you do that once you start to produce your own? This really came home to me hearing about that reviewbombgate “scandal” and how people involved were in reylo circles and that was used to provide receipts. You’re interacting with your readers and peers about your intimate work but they are also all strangers. They will not always give you the benefit of the doubt, and now—as opposed to the past when maybe the worst that could happen was a handful of bad reviews in newspapers—you will either be tagged in hate reviews, sub-tweeted, explicitly called out, demanded to atone for your sins. It’s no longer the morality of consumption but the morality of production. Of course, the easy answer is just log-off, touch some grass. But that can work only when you and everyone else are separated by anonymous accounts or when you have no platform to maintain. As an author trying to make your livelihood from this, suddenly it’s do or die. We’re in a strange moment of authorship bringing the Internet’s echo-chamber and claustrophobic into the real world (this is a lie: publishing now is no longer the real world. But it looks like it) and thus you can kind of no longer escape things.

Will the average reader who isn’t aware of all these machinations care about reviewbombgate? Would a reader browsing at Target think about the controversies around Lightlark? Very likely not. But the impression I’m getting more and more is that the average reader isn’t the one buying all the books. Or shall we say—a bestseller’s status relies on bookstore stock. Bookstore stock is only huge when they know a book will be a good investment. They’ll only know a book is a good investment if it and its author has street cred based on booktokkers, bookstagram, bloggers and reviewers (have you noticed how many books out these last maybe 1-3 years have these kinds of accounts thanked in the acknowledgments? Yeah), and THESE are also chronically online people who will Know. And decide the cast of fate.

Honestly, @batrachised, I see why you avoid these kinds of writers, though I wonder how long it’ll be before the disease becomes epidemic.

[wildglitch]

Other hero wiz!au

This is a joke (obviously) but this is tottaly them lol

[diangelosdays]

i love them

[mikayesha]

Women

[jet-apologistmybadhomies]

redraw finished 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

and the og for anyone who cares lmao

[pocket-vvardvark]

Ty for tagging me @skyrim-forever <33 love reading your work!!! Anyone that wants to participate please do!!! Ik it's late as hell rn 😭

I got more of my dragonborn for WIP Wednesday, finally fleshing my Nord girl out. Poor thing has been sitting in my mind for like...12 years lol.

She nakey but I'll put clothes on her soon 💀

I promise I got lore this time lol under the cut.

Alexandra lost her Mother at an early age due to childbirth. Riften held too many memories, so her father moved them to Morthal where he had property. She grew up without knowing her Mother's faith, and was an incredibly restless and stubborn child. With no way of channeling her anger, her father sought out a family friend from the temple of Mara.

This friend had wed her parents, and sensing Alexandra's deep discontent, she took it upon herself to relieve that pain. The woman, Karine, took Alexandra to the temple of Mara in Riften where she would train/work as a priestess until the age of 27. As she grew older, Alexandra would learn how to calm her rage and as a result, she became much more stoic and clearheaded. Healing required much focus which, at such a young and impatient age, was difficult for Alexandra. However, Karine is also a mage and self-tought conjurer. She blew off steam by training with Karine—something she looked forward to. Her bedside manner is often...cold, but she does have a good heart and a strong resolve to do the right thing. Breaking the law is not a problem for her if the right thing to do requires it.

What little friends she has she is fiercely protective of to the point of holding a grudge against whoever hurts them (and probably will pay them a 'visit' >:)). 

Her chosen weapon is anything one-handed paired with a destruction/healing spell. She prefers daggers (conjured works too) and frost spells specifically. 

Her appearance is lithe, very pale, tattoo on her right cheek and she stands around 6 feet tall. She wears eyeliner (sharp enough to kill someone) and paints her lips a pale purple.

Personality wise, Alexandra is often stoic, aloof and is generally just a broody woman of few words. She isn't naive, but is dense in the face of love. Mara, you gotta whack her on the head pls.

[machinegrl]

the blackmans definitely not witches!

[justp34chy]

Thing I made for my dnd group lmao ig u guys can see it too

Individual crap under cut

[ekscelsior]

I'm here. Okay?