#nothing weird going on here

[hazufeliet-gw2]

My favourite screenshot of the night ♥

[findnanako]

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[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[yhwcomeback]

Decided to test out Krita for the first time, still getting used to so many brushes but I like how this one turned out

[talesfromthecrypts]

Taking my best friends who all hate each other out for a walk

[evercelle]

2024 art summary! it sure has been a year

[egophiliac]

saw the event announcement and had to immediately drop everything and get back to my favorite pasttime (drawing Lilia). sure don't want me saving up my keys, huh, do you Twst?

[gatoburr0]

Been thinking about it

[claraoswalds]

#mrs flood who are you: time lord edition

[shepherds-of-haven]

wish it was cool and acceptable to write fanfiction of your own work, especially before the original work is actually done 😂

[raiiny-bay]

some WIPs from the 80s AU i never finished

[mwagneto]

You seem very white. Maybe when you are screeching about Watson you should shut the fuck up and keep in mind that your little bullshit doesn't fucking matter in the face of representation that does matter. And yes, actually: to the sane world, Adler and Holmes were lovers. They were literally written that way in the vernacular. Sorry you're too dumb to know that. Go jerk off to Bernadick whitedick slash and leave Black watson alone.

i considered deleting this coz it's easily one of the nastiest asks i have ever received (and that's saying a LOT) but it's just so perfect. like i'm fully convinced you don't actually think any of this because every single word of this seems crafted specifically for me to try and make me angry. i can't even pick a favourite line. you're SO pissed off at me even though i never even said watson was bad. i literally only have bad things to say about bbc shitlock on the very rare occasion i mention it but you somehow assumed i like it for seemingly no reason. the way "maybe when you are screeching you should shut the fuck up" is like a direct quote from rdj sherlock (i can't do both). and again i literally never even said watson was bad😭

i have nothing serious to say to this coz clearly none of it is in good faith it's just designed to bait me into being mad but "to the sane world adler and holmes were lovers" was so fucking funny. what in the god damn hell are you talking about. here i made this one special just for you<3 goodnight

[sergle]

I'm thinking abt that pretty fall leaves embroidery pattern post and about how like... it is categorically a repost, it's a reupload. right? a thing that is generally disliked. but because it's credited, it's genuinely boosting the artist in question. and it could ALWAYS be like this. reposting content could ALWAYS be a symbiotic relationship, but because sourcing back to the original creator of something is so uncommon, it's just easier to ask people not to repost it at all. and people still don't understand the difference. or they'll go to the effort of cropping out usernames/signatures to repost something, which is More Effort than literally crediting the creator of something you liked enough to want to repost. Like. I literally don't actually care if my own shit gets reposted, you have to understand. I just don't want it STOLEN. But "do not repost" is easier to write on my art than "you can repost this, but don't alter the image/remove my signature, don't you dare write 'credit goes to the artist' because that is not credit, please link back to my original post or someplace that you can actually find me. please use an actual link/url instead of writing a non-clickable link of my username, because making it text instead of a clickable link cuts the number of people who will go to the effort of visiting my own page in Half." All those aggregate themed accounts, those fuckin annoying as hell instagrams and facebook groups that are like "body positive art we love wamen 💕 hashtag feminism" and then MASS-STEAL plus sized art created by women, if pages like these that always go and steal my older self-portraits and other works... If they just put a link to my prints of those pieces in the text of those posts, or, fuck, my commission info page? I would literally be living on the moon right now. I would have a house on the moon

[pvpcivilization]

ok im going to bed bc its late as hell here but i wanted to doodle parkciv finally

[mumblesplash]

my favorite thing about comics specifically is how much it checks your ego if you think you know how to draw characters. like i’m pretty sure people who don’t do comics assume the hard part would be how *many* drawings are involved in making a comic, and sure that’s part of it, but i think the real challenge is having to accept you’re not as good at drawing characters as you think you are. being able to depict a convincing character, a dynamic pose, or even an expressive face out of context as opposed to within a narrative is such a different skill set in ways i don’t think a lot of people realize

[aappleslice]

You can sell your soul to cover up the pain