#im working on it i promise

[eye-draw-things]

Blocktober/Bloxxtober 2024, Day 1: Tutorial Terry

Ft. My Block Tales OC

Edit:

Turns out there's another Blocktober called Bloxxtober that also has Terry as it's first day. So I'm doing both now.

(And I just realized that I'm a day early. Timezones and stuff)

Blocktober/Bloxxtober:

[caitlin-elias]

things in my book you might like

lots of new folks here HI so here’s the hoedown low down for my book

weird alternative western with sorcerers and undead and old gods fighting it out

beauty and the beast retelling with consent, compassion, and mutual understanding

reluctant allies to lovers (she shoots him on sight, he gets over it)

mayhem and tomfoolery galore

quest for revenge against a cult worshipping the god of chaos and destruction

tiny talking hummingbird 

dark souls style bosses

animal companion is a potoo gryphon named blue

werebats

a setting that accurately shows the diversity of the old west, with all sorts of representation

she doesn’t have a title yet but i love her with my whole heart ugh 

[rainbowbeanstyles]

death is just so present in our lives! in every happening in the world, in our own countries and cities, our families, in videogames, in books, in movies, in shows, in music, every little corner, it's there! it's a bit hard to nagivate this after such a big loss, it's impossible to escape from it even if i'm not even trying to... man

[feathers-little-nest]

I need to create characters with more body types, I know. I feel stuck in that one “default” I made up in my brain (tall, very underweight, sharp features) and it's hard for me to get out of it mhhh. I love all the body types, I swear. I love seeing and supporting art that portrays various types of people. So why I can't do thattttt

[melonkittii]

french AND failgirl? pick a struggle...

(id in alt)

[an-theduckin]

Btw ik it's been a rlly long time since I've updated the a day in the life of mark fanfic (it's been 1 month and 5 days) but I'm fr working on it alr it's just cuz writers block + imposter syndrome + the first few chapters after chapter 10 being the most confusing ass chapters ever n I'm still tryna figure out out to do the pacing of them n stuff. I'm rlly genuinely sorry it's taken this long I didn't think that would happen it was only supposed to be like a 2 week break. So yeag I'm really sorry about that

[adanima]

New Gofushi AU!! Prince x Bodyguard AU

Title: Guarded Heart

Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen

Relationships: Fushiguro Megumi/Gojo Satoru

Summary:

Megumi, personal guard of the imperial son of the Gojo family, keeps his cursed energy shielded to avoid questions about his unknown heritage. He doesn’t usually have any trouble keeping things under wraps. And then, on the latest visit to the Imperial Palace, he comes across Zenin Naoya, imperial son of the Zenin family.

A finger tilts his head up. “You’re my bodyguard,” Gojo says, “and your place is by my side. Always. That means where I am, you are. And where you are, I am as well.”

“Nothing, and no one, is taking you away from me, Megumi.”

Words: 6k

A little longer than usual AU, special for Megumi's birthday!!

Read on AO3 here! Hope you enjoy!

[alpharossi]

True sexyness is being almost 19 with no drivers license

[komakomacora]

Me: okay! Time to keep working on Perfect Nothing! I know it's been a while but I think I can execute these ideas!

Me: *opens docs*

Me:

Me:

Me: *slamming head against desk* I ACTUALLY DON'T THINK IT MAKES ANY SENSE AT ALL I HATE IT SO MUCH!

[cringiestcroissant]

ill let my neurodivergency tell me when to do it

[mintytrifecta]

I’d like to formally apologize to anyone who followed me for my writing 

[theterrancrowe]

When i do get around to making the comic i also plan to have it available in one of my conlangs, that being Veletian, the canonical language the characters are speaking.

I think it would be fitting

[stil-lindigo]

ARTISTS FOR PALESTINE 🇵🇸 - On the 6th and 9th of March, I'll be doing art requests on stream with other notable artists to raise money for Operation Olive Branch and the PCRF.

I'm incredibly lucky to be counting quite a few big names in the roster, including known Jesus and Odysseus enthusiast @wolfythewitch, the extraordinary fanartist @denimcatfish, and the incredibly talented @troubledminnesotan, as well as Lilypichu from OfflineTV.

You'll be able to watch the streams on the day of the event either on my twitch channel here, or via the links provided by the artists below.

Lilypichu

Cuptoast

Akairosu_

Sevvanto

Wolfythewitch

[battlevann]

wow i should start working on the last twenty shimeji sprites

*starts AQW*

[rubyfunkey]

The Rehabilitation of Death by @bamsara

didnt have time to clean this like i wanted but i needed to get this scene out of my head desperately. im good now

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.