#life update basically

[sexyleon]

I officially completely unplugged myself as much as I can 🙃🙃🙃 I’m way too reliant on my phone and waiting for people to talk to me is super unhealthy and has made me very anxious. I literally turned off ever single possible notification and will purposefully not be responding to messages because I just need time a space to figure out how to navigate myself without validation from others.

[ineed-to-sleep]

Blacked out in front of my tablet and woke up with sketches of my Touchstarved mc + Kuras my beloved. woops

[tannnnblogs]

I love WOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNN

[wikitpowers]

fuck i just imagined the type of twp art we could get during the book tours and i'm thinking about all the possibilities; kit dressed in shadowhunter gear, his hands shining with gold light, ty in his scholomance gear, the blackthorn crest on his back, his necklaces shimmering in the light; dru in faerie dressed in a corset and flowy skirt with a badass sword pressed against ash's throat, looking smug as ash smirks back at her with his black wings out wide, his eyes an intense green. i know our main leads will fuck. us. up.

[matd0]

oughhhh life just beat my ass for like a month straight jfc. had a lot of very not good thingsss happen in my personal life and i haven't been able to do anything productive, so uhh sorry about disappearing </3 i'm on summer break now tho so i hope everything will get better (???) apologies.

anyway uhh have a sketch of jack i did months ago but never posted bc it's kindof lame but i also haven't drawn anything new in weeks (、._. )、

[etherealspacejelly]

what do lurkers even do on here. that sounds so boring. you're literally on tumblr.com/dashboard, play touys with the rest of us and reblog some shit

[chewysgummies]

So um... How's everybody been doing waiting for Larry & lawrie's bitch ass to show up at the beginning of february as everyone else already claims Kit this update?

[a-v-j]

averse Avery IS your kid, literally yours and Nyxy’s kid

"Whoops, spoiler alert"

[n0bluev]

@fushiglow hmm….wonder who i’d draw this for all of a sudden and why… 🤔🤔

[geodethecrow]

I could kill God with a timpani mallet if I had one with me right now

[malewifemanhunter]

[genericpuff]

i've been working on writing up a post for my main project fanbase to let them know what the plan is for my return to Time Gate and what I wanna do going forward in 2024

it was a whole ass essay as most of my posts are

but honestly i think a lot of my feelings can simply be summed up as:

[amethystpath-writes]

Bread and Eggs

(NOT A PR0MPT)

******

It started with the ringing of Villain’s phone. He wasn’t surprised to see Hero’s name pop up. He admired the too-small circle with her picture on it. It was impossible to tell by looking at the emblem, but Villain knew it was a picture from their first date.

To think it had been five years ago...

Villain’s picture on Hero’s phone had been a more recent photo, one from their engagement. An image of him kneeling with the classic black velvety case. It was warm the day of their engagement- Villain didn’t dare propose on a cold day; it would have led to an obvious refusal.

He used to joke that warmth was the only reason Hero even liked him. “You scorn me constantly,” Villain would tease. “You only like me because of the heat I so generously produce.”

“As if you have any control over it! You can’t help that you’re so warm, but it is definitely a plus,” she would ultimately agree.

Now, they were married- and, oh, hadn’t it been a dream? Looking for homes, buying a home, getting groceries, coming home to one another, holding each other at the end of the day. It was all Villain wanted in life, and for so long, it seemed impossible. Yet, here they were; her joyful face was beaming at his under the name ‘Love of my life’.

Answering the phone, Villain jokingly began, “Yes, honey, I remembered to get the bread and eggs.”

The voice that answered wasn’t Hero’s.

***

[pastafossa]

FINALLY got to take the holt monitor off today oh god the relief it was so itchy. I'm weirdly excited because I can't always predict when my heart's going to its weird 'slam into my chest for no apparent reason' thing but I had two days where I had a couple episodes, so that's been captured on the monitor presumably! Also I can read smut fics again now that they aren't monitoring me. 😅 And I got my echo done today! Now I just gotta wait until the results are in and for my followup in January!

In other news, I finished carving my newest lil sea serpent! Mom wanted to try her hand at painting one, so my part in the process is done! I think he came out adorably, personally. 🥺 Next up is a Bucky Barnes bear, aka a polar bear with blue eyes and my first attempt at a metal arm. We'll see how it goes. 😬

[jichanxo]

sooooo... *twirls her hair* how many asks should i send until kuwagami art. jk as well. the real question will be: does it happen often that someone else’s art inspires you? in fandom spaces specifically

well you see it’s like a loyalty card program, every 10 asks or so you get a complimentary kuwagami

just kidding you can just breathe in my direction and I’ll be tempted to draw them. kuwagami blast! (you've caught me on a... just okay art day lol)

(people still like kabedons, right?)

anyway for my actual answer: in terms of direct inspiration, it doesn't really happen much? the last two times i did art directly based on someone else's work is probably this one from this fic, and also that time i drew art of someone else's judgment au. oh! and there's that moriohpsycho art based on this comic! (filthyguts' work is so very. hgngngghh. very good.) nothing else really comes to mind, and when i think of the other things i've been into recently there hasn't been as much opportunity for that to happen...

flex and herds = strong fixation but lmao. almost nobody else made stuff about them. nobody is surprised umineko = surprisingly i don't read much umineko fanfiction? and in terms of illustration, i certainly picked up imagery and indirect inspiration but nothing concrete enough for me to give an example... now that i think about it, i did once draw andromalius from redaction/sunny, but that was years ago, and also mostly because i was acquainted with the writer. ...i don't have that artwork on hand right now death note = didn't really get involved with the fandom + i enjoyed my own ideas well enough! ...i can't recall if i drew long-hair-L art before or after seeing other artists do it. and as for everything else the same kind of reasoning applies. didn't really get involved with the fandom or wasn't really compelled to make art in response to stuff i saw, or i just don't remember anymore.

buuuuuuut if we're opening this up to just... pulling ideas from other people? then yeah, all the time, though that kind of goes without saying when you have a creative hobby. ...it's probably going to be hard to come up with examples of this since it's more ambiguous.

there's uhhhhhh... kuwana listens to nickelback which was a @/four-white-trees invention, wasn't it? (EDIT: and @/overdevelopedglasses!) (not tagging in this post so he doesn't feel obligated to read my big ass ask responses 💀) as of writing this, it's not posted but i did end up making kuwagami art based on a nickelback song so. yknow. there's that LMAO

for sawashiro and arakawa, i do sometimes go reference @/todayisafridaynight 's art to help me with my own. ("how did he draw this part of the suit? oh, like that huh? hmm" <- this kind of thing)

and um. i'm not trying to pander to you (at least not this time), but genuinely it's one of the few examples that come to mind at this moment. but when i was writing my first kuwagami fic, i could feel the influence of the ever-changing on my brain... was turning over some of your ideas there...

you remember this? (you even pointed it out in your comment on my fic, and i should've said something then, but whatever i'm saying it now)

that was absolutely because of this

(obligatory poke at anybody else reading this post that you can read passthroughtime's fic here.)

so, um. yeah. not really sure what else to add to that. pretty self evident i think. (i'm always talking about the ever-changing but i don't think i can overstate the impression it left on me at the time)

anyhow there aren't really any other examples off the top of my head! these are all recent examples so they're not so difficult to recall, but there are probably others i've forgotten...

[etherealspacejelly]

one thing about me is that i love answering questions. you could ask me the most ridiculous hypothetical known to man and i will consider it with scientific curiosity and sincerity