#it's been some good old practice

[asukachii]

July 2023 || Animage Magazine Cover [cleaned]

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[ionomycin]

Swim free

[etakeh]

Happy "I regret I only have two shoes to give to your country" Day!

[quibbs126]

So I woke up this morning and for some reason, I had some of my old fankids in mind, specifically the darklico ones, so I was like “screw it, I’ll draw some fankids as humans”

This is a screenshot and unfinished however because I realized, of the human designs I’ve done, not many of them do I have ships for, or at least that I’ve completed

Like of this group I do have some, like Dark Cacao/Hollyberry, Sea Fairy/Moonlight, and I think Sea Fairy/Fire Spirit, but when I was looking at the first two for the references here, I realized that I didn’t have many outside of ships within the Cookies of Darkness. Which even then, I only have two pairings completed

So basically, I have to put the rest of the page on hold now. But I still wanted to show off what I did draw, so here’s a screenshot of the current lineup

These are their Cookie forms for reference

There is a third darklico kid, Gancao, but I’m also aware she’s in need of a design overhaul, so I didn’t include her here. Also Licorice Cream here is older than how I drew her initially, because I later decided she was the oldest due to her being an accidental homunculus rather than a product of the two getting together. So she also needs a redesign, but I at least have some reference to how she’s supposed to look now

In all honesty, I do think Licorice Cream looks the worst here. She’s not terrible, but I think her eyes are slightly too small and her face just isn’t quite right. Also for some reason when I look at her, I think of Iris from Pokémon

But I mean, I can probably chock up her off design to the fact that I drew her at like 3-4 in the morning. I woke up randomly super early and it seems like I went to sleep at random as well last night. I refused to go back to sleep this morning so I stayed up, but I don’t think my brain was operating at full capacity yet

Black Choco I think looks plenty better, though maybe not much like his counterpart. But also I can’t give him his hair streaks or purple fade, since my rule with these is that they can only have dye or contacts if it fits the character, and he’s a small child so I don’t think he can. I at least tried to compromise with the brown fade

Also I’m not sure I have his expression right. It was an issue while drawing, because I recall that he’s not supposed to be sad or anything, just jumpy and nervous, and he’s supposed to be looking around. But this was the best I could do, so oh well

Zuccotto on the other hand I think turned out great. I had it in my head that he generally looked like Affogato, which I think I achieved (to me they definitely look related), but he acts more like Red Velvet. I don’t entirely remember if that’s his character, I haven’t looked at his post in probably a good year, I just remember he’s Licorice Cream’s bestie and the straight man to her antics

But yeah, I think he looks pretty good. Admittedly though I don’t know why he, in-universe, has the super light hair when I made both of his parents naturally brown haired. I mean maybe it’s dye, but I don’t know how feasible that is with a lighter fade at the end as well as dark streaks. But oh well, it’s what worked best with how I designed him

And yeah, that’s about it. Hmm, maybe I need to go and make more human designs. And/or more fankids

[seventh-district]

“Why’s he call you Darlin’?”

on my knees begging my brain to stop trying to associate this song with Sam

[roaringroa]

they should make a life where you don't have appointments, work, school and scheduled events every single day for months on end

[icezansky]

the icemav brainworms have caught up to me again send me good vibes that i can write this fic idea in the next two days

[over-fen-and-field]

Some Charlotte Rampling studies I did a few years back

[shiratorizawa-academy]

Hello amazing shiratorizawa blog

What are your thoughts on the headcanon that both Semi and Ushijima went to Shiratorizawa junior high?

LOVE THE IDEA! I personally don't think it's what actually happened but I'm always 100% here for the boys being able to hang out more <3

The reason I say that I don't think it's what happened is because of two things: Semi's reputation and his personality. Hear me out.

Someone in the audience commented that Semi was a famous setter throughout middle school. So he clearly stood out compared to everyone else. This wouldn't have been impossible but it definitely would have been a lot harder with someone like Ushijima on his team. In addition to that, Semi is entirely uncompromising when it comes to his playing style - he's very good, and he knows it, and he wants everyone else to know it, too. Assuming that Shiratorizawa junior high has a similar philosophy of preferring a simple and straightforward playing style, he wouldn't have been able to show off as much as he wanted to. (And that in return would have made him less famous.)

Personally, I think he was scouted! He is very talented and, while flashy, doesn't show the kind of egoistic drive that gave Kageyama his nickname during middle school. Coach Washijou probably saw a promising player with a mindset focused on the team and thought he would be a good fit. I think he underestimated how uncompromising Semi is though shdfbgj

[orcelito]

Survived today fine. Just chilling now.

Ordered a new bridge for my violin. Current one is kinda bent (from age, I think) and I think it's affecting my sound quality. It's supposed to come in on Saturday, along with some mutes (both for performing and also for practicing. First for making it quiet while playing a song and second to make it quieter in general so you're less disruptive while practicing. I think.) and also some sand paper. Because I'm probably gonna have to sand the legs of the bridge some to adjust it to my violin's shape.

I've never replaced a bridge before. I've put one back *on* after at least one time of accidentally knocking it out one way or another. Kinda really inconvenient. Gotta loosen all the strings, position it, then re-tune the entire thing. So that part is inconvenient, but familiar. But the sanding it into shape....... well, I might look up an instructional video or something. Just in case. It seems like it'd be pretty intuitive, but better to be safe than sorry.

[roosterarts]

What are you looking at?

I swear there is no other version of this.

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[6mayhem]

anyway i need to hang out with my brother again he is the one person who i am pretty sure knows literally everything about me so he's the only person i trust that i can absolutely not disappoint. nothing i can do could be worse than the sum of everything i've been doing to that poor man (and him to me) the past 19 years

[fandesinae]

thinking about how my therapist straight up told me to post more fanfiction.

[legofemme]

Vani writing tips + personal thoughts that noone asked for but you will be hearing

1: longer is Not always better. If youre telling a story, then your audience doesnt need 3 pages worth of side material. If youre writing to genuinely draw in an audience and tell a story then you need to not treat it like a game where the goal is to get the highest wordcount possible. You should be treating yourself And your audience with respect and making sure the words you use make an impact rather than trying to fill empty space. Brevity is your friend

2: if you need to make a clarification that your work doesnt endorse what your protagonist is doing, or needs to clarify that the protagonist is a Bad Person, then youre not mature enough to be writing that material. At best it shows that you dont understand the nuances of writing villain protagonists, and at worst it looks like you think your audience is too stupid to understand that saying slurs is a bad thing.

3: you cannot attempt to break the rules of writing if you dont understand them in the first place. You arent douglas adams. You arent Mark Danielewski. You need to stop and learn how to use a semicolon and a hyphen and how different words help describe things before you try to make a thousand word 'stray from traditional storytelling' . At the very least learn the basics from a youtube video

4: YOU NEED TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE DIALOGUE EVEN IF ITS BAD. You cannot dodge around dialogue by just having back and forth phrases in quotation marks. And no marker you use to differentiate speakers is going to be anywhere close to just using "he said" or even "he yelled". Youre robbing yourself of crucial storytelling materials. Even if you dont want to learn every part of how to write you Need to learn how to do dialogue or your entire story is going to crumble

[b4kuch1n]

1/ this bout of comms almost done and 2. spawndate in 3 days so I have! been fixin up some stuff for the itch store. that'll go live on the 29th! right now there Is a pack of the lineart stuff I did last year for folks who found that agreeable, still free to grab! for practicing coloring, or if you wanna mess around with colors when ur not feelin like doing lineart, or if you wanna try to figure out colors in a drastically different style than what you usually go for. or if u just wanna look at it that's cool too. small announcement that is all see u in a few

[hauntingblue]

We got koby today.... tashigi could cut the hand like zoro did in dressrosa but we got koby today....