#idk what else tk tag as

[lucid-daydreaming-archive]

hey guys can you credit @unoriginal-and-dumb if you use his design specifically for infected/kasper

i mean also just for anything in general they do but please please credit them like genuinely i dont care if youre like “ohh i dont want them to see im shy and embarrassed” I DONT GIVE A FUCK its so much more important to them for you to actually link back to their account cause if not then people start crediting the wrong artist for stuff and that literally could lose them money in the long run when they open commissions again because people will not know that its their account they need to be going to if they liked the design and wanted to commission the artist. like genuinely ur putting a dent in their career by not linking back to them. same goes for me but their art style is the more favored art style so i kind of feel like its more dire in regards to their situation than mine. just for the love of god please please credit them do not be scared to do that thats not a suggestion thats a straight up demand

[thelovebug1968]

People will be like omg support people with personality disorders omg support them even if they have "ugly" symptoms! Then tell you to "have some empathy" and equate having empathy to being morally good

[voyager-99]

Just a dump of a lot of my Sunshower (TC/Sunstreaker) art

Most likely OOC bc I just draw what I feel like, so don’t come to murder me

[kawaiipeacemusic]

blink twice if your in a lee mood and

Need to be teased within an inch or your life

(me blinking aggressively).

[bunloved]

Furries... furries save me.. furries please I beg of thee...

Im offering pay what you want really really badly done doodles of anything your heart desires. Literally. Porn, characters, fursonas, a ROCK, anything! Be a lil silly and commission a disabled lil clown to draw you a really shitty doodle for literally 3 USD at lowest

https://ko-fi.com/c/7adcca9db4

Here are some examples

Heres some other examples of my art also if you want it?

(OK so you don't gotta be a furry to commission me, it was for the bit. Im desperate here. Im too disabled for labor job. Please pay me so much money to draw you badly drawn porn or whatever)

[alchemiclee]

I really hate when people say this. if I dont record, I cant "enjoy it in the moment" because I dissociate out of my damn mind and then have no memory of it! recording helps ground me and keep me focused in the moment! let me do what I need to in order to enjoy things you soggy potato 😭

plus, as a photographer/aspiring videographer who hasn't had the luck to become friends with bands and work with them, IM DOING A THING I ENJOY AS WELL, SO SHUT UP LMAO. I enjoy doing video and photos MORE than standing in a crowded, overwhelming room watching people do stuff on a stage. THATS LIYERALLY ME LIVING IN THE MOMENT DOING A THING I ENJOY!!!!! WHY IS THAT WRONG?!

[thethingost]

im going to be ill.

[thetroublemagnets]

TK: In my defense, Buck was the one with the idea to steal the fire truck.

Buck: Hey, it was for a good reason! And I wasn't the one who got shot on scene by a kid!

TK: Well, I didn't get struck by lightning!

Buck: And I didn't almost drown in corn!

Eddie: We should never ever let them work together again.

Marjan: Agreed.

[caracello]

dubbing him 🧨 anyways he makesme want to cry so bad can you please god please just ccan you just chill out and come to one of whizz's shows or dsomething. i don't even know what happened like i rarely thought about this boy and then i was like aw he'd probably get attached to whizz bc the way they interact with the world around them is more like him than 🌃 is anf then i died a million times.

[honeydew-fluff]

hi

just wanted to say, all of your attention to my lil color post is extremely flustering i mean flattering

i'm so glad to be doing well on my job of inspiring people /silly

your username is adorable btw you seem adorable too

i'd smooch your cheek if you were comfy with it but if you're not i hope you'll accept an air kiss

remember to drink plenty of water and have a good weekend 💓🌸

Oh you are so so sweet thank you!! I'm glad the attention wasn't annoying, I worry about that a bit.

And thank you!! Not sure why I adopted it but I started using honeydew as a username for alt accs and I just kind of stuck to it.

No kisses pretty please but I will accept a hug!! Again you are super sweet thank you for leaving this ask :D

[nancys-braids]

hey yall. long time no see. wrote for the first time in like two months. have an unedited snippet <3

thanks for the tags - @ironheartwriter @heartstringsduet @nisbanisba @eclectic-sassycoweyes @emsprovisions + thank you to everyone else who has tagged me lately!

He pulled out his phone once they pulled into the fire house, sending a quick text to Carlos.  hey babe has nancy talked to you lately?  He slipped his phone back into his pocket, knowing Carlos would get back to him when he could, but he tended to get sucked into cases at work and forget about things, like eating, drinking, or responding to his husband.  Nancy ran up to the bunk room immediately after parking the ambulance. She just seemed different to him. Like her spark was missing. She always radiated this sense of brightness, like she was the human form of a ray of sunshine. Leaving smiles and laughter no matter where she went. But not lately, you could see it on her face, crestfallen and full of sorrow.  TK stayed back as he watched her walk up the stairs. He looked down at his hands, pulling at his fingers, one of those things he did when he wanted so badly to fix something, but not knowing how to help.  He sulked over to the fridge and grabbed a can of diet coke. He almost grabbed two. A habit of his, since they usually both had one after a long stretch of calls.  He sat at the bar in the kitchen, a million racing thoughts running in his mind, on how he could fix his best friend. He felt a buzz in his pocket and was met with the icon of his other best friend, who he was so fortunate to be married to.  No, what’s up? Everything okay?  He wasn’t sure how to respond.

idk who to even tag anymore but no pressure tags to

@captain-gillian @pelorsdyke @reyesstrand @ameriicansrequiems @literateowl @welcometololaland @your-catfish-friend @sugdenlovesdingle @bonheur-cafe @pimento-playing-hopscotch @alrightbuckaroo @honeybee-taskforce @carlos-in-glasses @terramous

[stormblessed95]

jm literally said get out of your fucking dreams and delusions to jikkrs when he rebuked the you are more pretty comment, idk what else do you want , like that is equivlent to tae saying get out of your dreams or smthing years ago to a tk comment on weverse, i dont know what more proof you need?!!

Lmfao?! The mental gymnastics this one took is so funny, I had to share.

Hey, for now, I mostly just tag these posts as "antis" or "Jikook antis" but I want something more fun and that can encompass everything kinda hateful. So that it's easier for people to block that tag if they don't want to see those kinds of posts. Like @marengogo uses "the collesesum" and @bangtannism uses "the gallows" those are so fun! If anyone has any ideas I could use going forward, please share 💜💜

[tellmegoodbye]

Thank you @heartstringsduet for tagging me!

Tagging some people below, but idk who's already done this, so if you want to join in consider yourself tagged by me!

Tagging: @herefortarlos @strandnreyes @bonheur-cafe @paperstorm @carlos-tk

@literateowl @ironheartwriter @emsprovisions @sapphic--kiwi @certifiedflower @lightningboltreader

@lemonlyman-dotcom @carlos-in-glasses @thisbuildinghasfeelings @firstprince-history-huh @morganaspendragonss

@eclectic-sassycoweyes @whatsintheboxmh @reasonandfaithinharmony @guardian-angle22 @kiwichaeng

+ open tag

[scoliosisgoblin]

Peter is not ready for them lmao

Ever draw someone’s YB sona before?

uhh do you mean their ynsona or their version of yb?

cause I've drawn @bennydunbar 's ynsona quite a bit I think. outside of that, no? I don't remember drawing anyone else's Ynsona and I haven't drawn a different version of Peter outside of my two versions, human (?) and canon

[hereghostslive]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

thanks for the tag @lemonlyman-dotcom !!

1. How many works do you have an AO3? 19

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 29,507

3. What fandoms do you write for? 911 Lone Star, 911, The Old Guard, Shadowhunters, RWRB

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

victories, defined | a 911 Season 7 coda to the medal ceremony. Tommy confronts Gerrard (i dont really like this one tbh)

hitchcokian | a 911 season 7 coda. buck calls Tommy right after he runs into Kim. (this one is okay, but i fear i wasted the title "hitchcockian" on this when it would be cool do a genre-bending thing. idk)

echoes | 911 Lone Star Season 1. Carlos waits in the hospital after TK is shot and really talks to the 126 for the first time.

why | 911 Lone Star. the silliest thing i've ever written, and it's all @lemonlyman-dotcom's fault. Carlos buys Lou II pajamas and then realizes he has to put the pajamas ... on Lou II and regrets every decision that led him there.

halted beginnings | 911 Lone Star. post-engagement. Carlos is in love. But he's forgotten about something.

5. Do you respond to comments? I do, although I think im kinda behind on doing so? I do forget to sometimes.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? i think it's a tie between halted beginnings (linked above) and fundamental. they are essentially sister stories, with fundamental being the meta-verison of halted beginnings. they both tackle Carlos forgetting about Iris when he says yes to TK's proposal. halted beginnings is more of a character introspection into how, in the moment, Carlos might have forgotten about Iris. fundamental takes the meta-approach that Carlos/Iris were never planned from the beginning and is written as if Carlos, the character from season 1-3, knows someone else is rewriting his history (the writer, or "Tim," as I called him in the annotations lol). Both fics end on a heavy note, with Carlos either putting off telling TK (halted beginnings) or a rewritten version of Carlos taking over Seasons 1-3 Carlos (fundamental).

7. What is the fic your wrote with the happiest ending?

Probably "why" (linked above). TK and Lou II in matching pajamas ... couldn't be better!

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I haven't, and I hope it stays that way.

9. Do you write smut? not really

10. Do you write crossovers? No, but I would like to

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? no. but open to that if anyone wanted to translate

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Nooooooo, but I would love to collaborate on something!!!! Idk how to find a person to collaborate with though lol

16. What are your writing strengths? i really don't know ... someone else tell me. i feel like i always want to make people feel like they are in the room with the character, and i thiiiiiink i do that. or at least im getting better at it.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? plotting, finishing wips lol

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I don't do it, but I definitely could be better at adding in there.

19. First fandom you wrote for? for this question I'll take into account my past fan fic writing life, which was a long time ago. Angel

20. Favorite fics you've written?

In no particular order:

large popcorn with a bag of m&ms | an Old Guard fic I wrote in 2021 that I really want to turn into a longer series. It's Nile-centric and about how she misses her real family while adjusting to her new immortal life.

peace | a 911 Lone Star fic that is actually pretty angsty too, haha. it's very short, but I was stretching some more poetic writing muscles I hadnt used in a long time. This is Carlos, after the breakup

Staring at ghosts | my newest one, 911, bucktommy. It's a wip, but I really love the first chapter, and I'm really excited about the rest of it I have outlined and partly written. Buck and Tommy are still in the fairly early stages of their relationship, and Buck doesn't really know how to open up when he starts having dreams about the lightning strike.

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no pressure tagging: @rmd-writes @welcometololaland @reyesstrand @bonheur-cafe @paperstorm

@alrightbuckaroo @carlos-tk @carlos-in-glasses

[meruz]

hi im putting all my asks in one post again. these are from like the past month and a half approx? some digimon thoughts some tmnt thoughts some art musings u know the usual

@waywardistics YAYY thank you so much for ordering! I'm glad it got to you & that you are enjoying it!

this is kind of a missive to everyone who ordered but: I am very nervous about pre-orders whenever I do them... nervous that not very many people will order, nervous that there will be supply chain or production dilemmas and I won't be able to get copies out to people in a timely fashion, nervous about having people's money but having an indeterminate amt of time where i have not yet "held up my part of the bargain" etc etc SO. THANK U GUYS...FOR ORDERING and being patient and im so glad it got to y'all

@seanonthemoon (idk why i cant tag u BUT) interesting... i gotta be honest I don't think abt the crests that much. i agree that they're very much like heres the "girl" crest heres the "nerd boy" crest etc to the point that it becomes almost meaningless. but i think what makes them even more meaningless to me, and is probably the reason they kind of designated girl/boy crests etc is that i think like the digivices they're toys and merchandise more than they are actual narrative tools LOL. I wouldve loved something with cody and mimi! theyre both so deeply empathetic and sensitive.. theres a lot they share but i think because they look so different on the surface it would make it difficult to market that merch...booo capitalism boooo toy marketing its all sexist bullshit at least here in the u.s. idk if japan is that different though.

I'm actually a little frustrated with how often 02 and 02 related media squanders cody in general lol. he feels like a parallel of izzy, joe, and TK(season 1 tk) while also being kind of none of those and suffering through lackluster characterization as a result... and then once ken joins the team it feels a little redundant. there's a couple cody-centric eps of 02 I remember really liking but then i think abt how he's been used since in like post-series content and 02:the beginning where they made him type on the computer even though obviously that's yoleis thing but because he had nothing else to do and aghh... my blood boils. i feel like the youngest but most serious anime achetype even at its bare bones is actually rly interesting idk why they don't play it up. UM. Once again my opinion is that he should be taller LOL and maybe they should play up his kendo martial arts honorable training stuff more idk. tallest + youngest + most serious just seems like a recipe for success for me. well. theres still time. and theres always fanfic.

THIS IS SO NICE TO SAY and not the first time someone has said it but i appreciate it everytime because i really admire the mm art style so much. It's like part of why I got really into the movie because I really recognized my own artistic sensibilities and aspirations in the way they stylized everything.

UM And i feel like since watching the movie and looking at all the concept art and making my own art i do feel like its only become more obvious how much my own art is lacking LOL LIKE when you see something that feels so similar I think the differences only become more stark. those artists are definitely on a different level than me. But it's nice to hear people say it doesn't look so different from their pov. thank u ^^

thank u!!!!!!! i love mundanity and naturalism... there's something so beautiful abt it to me lol... I feel like my anatomy needs work actually but ive been feeling better abt it this year so it's good to hear! thank you!

DLKGDSGDLALSNDF WAS IT TOO FAR..?? firstly, yeah I was thinking late teen/young adult ages for both of them ie 18-19ish, definitely not the age the kids are in the movie lol.

but also they arent DOING anything in that pic it is literally just a confrontation + some innuendo... I think teens should be allowed some less than subtle innuendo.. its like one of the top 3 classically teen pastimes...

this is such a funny ask to get because i feel like i haven't been able to do thin lineart until like. this past year or two maybe LOL. UM having a line-centric art job helped I think. I started on craig of the creek back in 2022 and thats a show where we spend a lot of time inking so I had a job where I was constantly moderating my line weight 40 hours a week every week for over a year. disappointingly, much of improvement is simply horrendous amounts of practice.

Here's a tip though: I think a lot of thin lineart boils down to confidence. I think instinctively we read thick, bold, fast lines as confident but theres actually a lot of obscuring you can do with a thick line. if you're not sure whether the nose on the face or a browline should be a little more left or a little more down you can hide that with a thick line and pretend its a shadow. or hide it with a bunch of quick lines and the eye can kind of approximate where looks best among the mass.. whereas a thin line is rly singular and stark and hides nothing, it needs to be precise. so anytime i know i want thin lineart i spend a LOT of time sketching, making sure i know exactly where i want my lines to go. so im not second guessing by the time im inking...

ok thats kind of a broad tip lol... here's one thats more applicable: IF POSSIBLE, lower your pressure sensitivity on your device. most devices have some way to edit your pressure sensitivity curve. I use a surface pro at home and this is what my pressure curve looks like most of the time.

When I work on a wacom it looks even more like a reverse L shape LOL. I'm naturally a really heavy-handed artist and I use a "light" or "hard" pressure curve to compensate for how hard I'm always pressing on the pen lol. if you're like me and you struggle with going too hard with the ink too fast... this will probably help a lot!

SFHASLDFH I LOVE THIS ASK this is like the type of question a person gets asked when chalk drawing on the sidewalk at recess LOL. but i understand because I've been struggling also for like. months. I think I'm finally starting to nail it down though so here's some of my observations.

[feel free to save this img but **please do not re-post it or share broadly**. my biggest fear in the world is to spend 30 min on some notes and become a widely proliferated art tutorial im not even kidding. i made it low contrast and difficult to read on purpose.]

my other tip is to just look at and study a lot of reference because that's all ive been doing. the tmnt are really cartoony so its difficult to use like actual anatomical reference unless ur going for that look BUT theres been so many adaptions in so many different styles that there's a real treasure trove of stuff to look at for how to simplify, stylize, and dissect these characters while keeping the recognizable essence. so theres lots to pull from.

If you want to expand further, it's also good to have 5) something sci-fi 6)something fantasy 7)something mundane/slice of life. a bedroom is a really good go-to. And of course some bgs can be two or more of these things at once.

I've definitely answered asks abt bg tips before but here's one specifically for if you want to do bg design for a job:

Your portfolio should probably have at least one of each of the following 1) an interior 2) an exterior 3) a cityscape 4) a nature scene. Just to cover kind of the basics of what you'd be asked to draw on any given project.

I actually feel like I don't have that many cityscrapes in my portfolio... this is something I'm gonna try to work on in the coming year LOL. OH ALSO. This is a very basic tip and people will tell you it all the time but its worth repeating: look up portfolio websites of artists who have the job you want. An easy way to do this is to go onto imdb for any cartoon or movie you like and to find the names listed as "bg/background designer" or whatever then just google that name +"art" or "animation" most artists have some public facing internet presence so it's not hard. spend time studying their work and hold those images in your head! it's a good way to get a good idea of what "industry standard" looks like and comparing ur own art to it... I know people sometimes get bummed comparing their art to others but if you can keep your head up lol.. it'll help you figure out what you need to work on!

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ok thats all i have to say sorry for typing so much. happy new year everybody who read this far LMAO!!!!!