#my asks tag

[horseshoemybeloved]

guitar lick images for ye

Tee hee Tysm!!! :3

[twilekchiss]

What was the inspiration for your OC Asha? -💌 (shy anon)

Hi Shy Anon!

No worries, I'm quite shy myself. I understand. But I'm always open for a good chat and making new friends if you some day find the desire to do so. Until then, feel free to send me any anon asks you like!

Inspiration for Asha -- well, there are a lot of them, actually.

First thing's first, though, Asha's a huge part in how I cope with my C-PTSD. Ever since I was very young, I have escaped into books and shows I liked as characters from those universes. I imagined what it was like to form friendships and romantic relationships to just deal with what I was going through. As I grew up, it never really stopped, it just had varying degrees of intensity.

I've been on a long journey about healing, and I've learned that this isn't an uncommon thing. So I decided to own it. Asha is a repository for a lot of my trauma, grief, and healing. If she can heal, love and be loved, find the strength to thrive, maybe I can, too. As such, though, she is a very vulnerable part of me. Only the last several months have I been opening up about her, and it has admittedly been difficult. I've questioned myself on whether or not I should stop and just keep her to myself.

For her looks: she's a Twi'lek, which has always been my favorite Star Wars race. Ever since I was a kid watching the Twi'leks in Jabba's Palace in Return of the Jedi, I loved them. I thought they were so cool-looking and pretty. Later, when there was more Twi'leks than just Oola and Lyn Me, I became even more interested in them. Nowadays, my favorite Twi'lek character (aside from Asha 🤭) is Hera.

Lyn Me is the visual inspiration for Asha; I really liked the idea of a white Twi'lek. But there's also a design element: I wanted Asha to be a blank canvas, someone who used color and fashion as a tool.

Asha started as a Rebels oc, just someone in my head I could use to escape again. Someone just to go along with the Ghost Crew and have fun. When Thrawn was announced, and I ended up obsessing over him, she switched to an OC I could partner to him. So yeah, she's been in my head an OC for Thrawn since 2016 (when I scarfed up every single Thrawn crumb I could prior to his debut in Rebels).

Asha has bits of my own trauma in her past. Different, but similar enough for me to use her to process. It's why I write a lot of fluffy little bits between her and Thrawn: it is absolutely a self-soothing thing.

🤔 I hope this is a satisfying answer! If not, feel free to ask anything else you're curious about!

[esteebarnes94]

Introduction

Hi! You can call me Estee or Estee Barnes (my alias). I've been on Tumblr for a little while, but on a different account that I'm not sharing the URL of. This is my new blog for actually being myself and posting what I want!

Things you will find on this blog include:

Lots of reblog

Cats and other animals

Original art and (mainly OC) fanart

OC vague-posting until I decide to actually show them off

Aesthetics I like (clouds, general "#aesthetic" tag, etc.)

My own original posts

Some polls every now and then

This is my personal blog, so expect a big stew of everything I like. I do have sideblogs for some of my stories, but I'm not making those public. (Those are for if I ever get popular and need to separate them, anyway.)

I'm really hoping to make some mutuals or just have friendly people to interact with. I know there's a lot of cool people on this website from when I was on my other account.

I'm still very new to digital art, so I'm still getting used to all the functions. I'm also new-ish to shading stuff, so my light sources may seem a bit wonky. All part of the process! I'm mainly a traditional artist, but I'll be posting only digital art for the foreseeable future.

The little guy in my profile picture is my blog mascot. He's an old drawing of mine that I really liked, and his name is Smuffin. A general description of him is that he's a yellow-y Kirby looking thing (minus the hands/arms/whatever) with a long nose and a beanie with a white pom-pom.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy your time on this blog. My basic DNI is TERFs and whatnot. General bigots are not welcome here.

Some of my tags (there are and will be many more; go look for the rest):

estee's posts

estqueue barnes

reblogs (considering getting rid of this)

estee's art

smuffin

my asks tag (stuff I've asked that people have answered; these will also come with a URL usually from the person who answered) (New tagging system tho so y'know)

Special OC tags:

estee's ocs

h94 ocs

tbe ocs

rgr ocs

tualoma ocs

Other tags:

estee liveblogs ahit (me watching a no-commentary play-through of the A Hat In Time base game) (ABANDONED - I got impatient LMAO)

The random letters and numbers in my OC tags are acronyms for my stories. I'm keeping it vague (also, it's easier than typing out the whole name).

Smuffin PFP Art Link (for reference)

[anotherdaveyjacobs]

Well david got arrested!

Omg what did he get arrested for

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[reblogforsamplesize]

🐛 caterpillar - the returning champion of the 2023 race at 41.6% of the votes

🐌 snail - runner up of the 2023 race at 38.3%, only 3.3% behind the caterpillar.

🪱 worm - placed last in 2023, with only 20.1% of votes

🪲 beetle, 🐞 ladybug, and 🐝 bee are new competitors!

[beebfreeb]

[corrodedparadox]

Just spit it out already

[kottkrig]

People liking your personal OCs is still such a crazy feeling, I've been doing this for years and ppl asking about them still fills my entire heart with warmth and idk how to handle it

You enjoy this fictional guy I made up for fun?? Whose only content is random artwork or writing made by me and a handful of other artists at most? They have no show/book/game with a large fandom, it's just one person with an art blog?? I love u

[tactfullyinappropriate]

It's like we all collectively forgot as a society that friendship and just connection in general takes effort. Even if you meet someone you immediately click with, it takes hanging out about 20 times (!) to become friends. And guess what, some of those 20 meetings might be awkward or unimpressive.

We all want to reap the benefits (having a friend circle, having a partner, getting married) without doing the work (going to events, interacting with people, learning to handle conflict maturely, dating). Myself included. If I could, I'd never leave the house or go on another mediocre date again... except, that's part of the process.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, the cure to the loneliness epidemic is touching some grass and building tolerance for tedious in-person interactions.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead

[callisteios]

i made a character uquiz. i 100% promise you that you will get a character you know AND like

[twilekchiss]

How did Asha and Thrawn first meet?

I’m sorry this took so long, but this was the only question I got from the Ask About my OC post, so I wanted to do it justice instead of a quick one or two sentence answer.

So, how did Asha and Thrawn first meet?

You know that party that Thrawn and Pryce meet at?

Not that one. 

Ascension Week is a week-long party, essentially. A popular thing to do is for hosts to chain their parties together in a way that gets you an invitation to each one. So let’s say Bail Organa and four of his buddies all decide to host a party one night each for that week. Bail throws his on Bendusday, Mon Mothma throws hers on Taungsday, etc.  If you get an invitation to one, you get an invitation to all of them. 

This is what Yularen did when he was showing Thrawn off at Ascension Week. The first party, where Thrawn and Pryce met for the first time, was thrown at the Alisandre Hotel. Thrawn and Asha meet on the next day, the second party.

Asha’s there as her benefactor’s, Commander Zenon’s, arm candy. Zenon sponsors a Twi’lek rehabilitation program out of the theater he owns, as well as being on Coruscant’s Planetary Defense Force, and well-connected politically besides. Normally, his Twi’leki lover, Asha’s mentor Shelda, is his date, but tonight she is indisposed. So Asha goes in her stead. 

Yularen introduces Thrawn and Eli to Zenon, hoping that Zenon’s influence will be one more voice in Thrawn’s favor. Zenon, in turn, introduces his date to the men.

For her part, Asha is immediately drawn to Thrawn’s demeanor, his voice especially. Something about him immediately sets her at ease, and it only gets better when Thrawn pays attention to her. Not for her beauty, but for what she actually has to say. Both Zenon and Yularen dismiss her as a silly, pretty young girl with not much in her head, but Thrawn does not. He listens to her, treats her as if she has something worth hearing other than empty words. It’s a relief to finally be treated as a whole person, something that had been solely lacking in her life when she had been enslaved, and not much better when she escaped. People don’t see anything other than her beauty and charm, but Thrawn sees her intelligence and wit.

For his part, Asha seems to accept him almost immediately. At one point in the party, they meet again, separate from their respective companions. In a dark alcove, Thrawn studies a painting on the wall. Asha was there, hiding away from Zenon and the party for a break. They talk quietly; when Thrawn, being Thrawn, begins to talk about what he sees in the artwork, Asha doesn’t question it. When Thrawn asks her why she so readily accepts that, she shrugs and tells him she gets it. She can’t see what he sees, precisely, but she understands being able to see things that others don’t – or in her case, hear things. To her, music is language, and language is music. Enough time listening to a language she doesn’t know and she’ll begin to understand it. Thrawn sees lines, shapes, points, and spaces where Asha hears beats, notes, and rhythms in things. It makes it easy for her to deal with people just by listening to them. She can get a feel for politics and social situations through feeling the rhythms of people. 

They are fascinated by each other. Not quite attracted to – at least, not on Thrawn’s side – but interested in one another because they feel kindred. They feel seen with each other. 

It doesn’t hurt that they then solve an art theft mystery at the rest of the Ascension Weeks parties together, and really learn to respect each others’ skill sets.

They end up exchanging contact information, and correspond regularly while Thrawn does his job. When he’s on Coruscant, they often spend time with one another. This is where the romance starts to actually blossom, but they're friends first.

[daisywords]

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

[anotherdaveyjacobs]

THIS IS JUST A REMINDER THAT YOURE AMAZING AND DESERVE ALL THE GOOD THINGS

Thank you!!! This is so sweet <3<3<3

[lokh]

communication is key 💪