#pawspaintsnthings

[alexrod-dbd]

Seems like I’m on a creative spree and can’t stop making book covers for dbd fics so here’s another one! I really like the outcome of this one, and yes, I’m already discussing with artists and authors for sharing a third one 🤭

Using @pawspaintsnthings / @ouchmyghostskin ‘s art for @safaiagem ‘s fic ✨

Again, NOT for selling distribution.

Here’s the link for people wanting to read it : https://archiveofourown.org/works/56577013

[staff]

tumblr tuesday: the last of us in art

Look, ok. We've really held it together here on Tuesdays since The Last of Us began. You've not had a peep from us on the topic. With one week left, we're getting close to the end, and no one knows what we'll do after that. So here, finally, is us yelling about your fanart. Please enjoy this very long (yet far too short) post collecting a fraction of your incredible TLOU fanart. What a time to be on Tumblr.

@pawspaintsnthings:

@seancefemme:

@mistysblueboxstuff:

@emeeedee:

@stealyourblorbos:

@abigaillarson:

@abharties:

@chazstity:

@ranrandraws:

@eerna:

@itbemydrawlings:

@lochlot:

@applenunez:

@uzuriartonline

@iamdesibell:

@mimi-maru:

[manicpixiedreamedwins]

I've had the pleasure of working with a group of kind, funny, and talented artists and writers for the past month. I cannot possibly overstate how awesome this group has been. I told them I was feeling sentimental about Payneland's first Halloween, and wanted to commemorate it. They responded with "let's make it happen".

This is how our Halloween collaboration came to fruition.

On October 28th, 2024, pairs of writers and artists will be revealing their work for this event on both tumblr and AO3. We've made an AO3 collection for easy reading. I am excited to see what they have been working on, and I hope you will be too. 🎃🖤🧡 🖤 Artists: @pawspaintsnthings @deadboyslullaby @arisprite @wordsinhaled @sunnylemonss

@dont-offend-the-bees @handwrittenhello @tw0-ravens

🧡 Writers: @manicpixiedreamedwins @williamvapespeare @likemmmcookies @ghostinthelibrary @skinnybritishdudes

@saltyoaktree @dearheartdont @laiqualaurelote @dear-monday @thenyoumaykissthebride

[dragonfly756]

little fan collages made with miscellaneous papers and things I had lying around, art featured is by @pawspaintsnthings

[not-so-mundane-after-all]

Fandom: The Last of Us (TV)

Title: I Think I Saved Myself By Saving You

Pairings/Relationships: Joel and Ellie

Summary:

Another series of coughs rips through Ellie's throat, nearly knocking her out of bed. She leans over the edge and heaves like she's about to let out everything she's eaten in the past twenty-four hours. It sounds like she has a rattle stuck in her chest; her breath is all wheezy and loud like an old engine, and it makes Joel's blood run cold. It's like her lungs are filled with fluid. If this is pneumonia, they are fucked. ---------- The morning Ellie is supposed to head out with Tommy, she gets sick.

Idk for what I am more excited, dropping this fic or tonight's episode. Enjoy, loves!

@skoulsons @pawspaintsnthings @nooowestayandgetcaught @ellieinfected @kirjavasblade @twdaryldix @groguandin @orangechickenpillow

If you want to be tagged in my tlou fics, let me know!

[skoulsons]

I would like to thank you for ur wonderful content <3 huge fan on tumblr and also ao3! ur a gift! do you have any fics/content here or there that you DO recommend? Stay safe out there 🫡

STOP IT THIS IS SO SWEET 🥺🫶🏻 kissing your forehead rn anon

Thank you so much!! I can’t believe people actually like my content 💀

Tumblr has deleted this draft multiples times, so I’m getting lazy and annoyed at this point. I’ll link some mutuals (and their ao3s for all the writers), so give them all a follow. You really just gave me an excuse to brag about my friends so

@ellie-licious (Soullikeabird), @catsarecutebutaliens (same ao3), @orangechickenpillow (same ao3), @not-so-mundane-after-all (not_so_mundane_after_all_97), @ellies-little-gun (TheFelineQueen96), @yoursjustasitwas (swear_it), @sotvtaughtmehowtofeel (same ao3), @sentientmasstransit (same ao3), @dilf-din (no ao3, but she does write small drabbles on here!), @vully-andthegoose (vulpecula_et_anser), @novemberrain-writes to end the main writers

^ ALL are safe and normal writers and have some really incredible works for Joel and Ellie, some that are still ongoing 🤭

Some other mutuals and great accounts that I love dearly are @scootkiddo @ellliemilller @elliiewiilliiams @fieldsoftulips @tloubraininfection @pawspaintsnthings (the cutest art) @jarrussyndulla

anyway. there’s even more great writers on ao3 whose accounts I don’t know off the top of my head. Checking bookmarks from all my friends helps me find good ones bc I know they’re going to bookmark and kudo the safe ones. I hope this is what you were looking for 💀

[manicpixiedreamedwins]

Hm… in this case I’ll bring a crystal orb to continue the magical fun (now which one is the question)? 🔮

@emryses @thenyoumaykissthebride @pawspaintsnthings

i'm having a tea party! (aka making a tag game because i'm bored)

i'll bring the pink-and-white checkered picnic blanket and some rocks to weigh down the corners so it doesn't blow in the wind :)

@strawberryapologist @garden-of-runar @moon-sun-star-rat @prongspie @good-oldfashioned-lover-girl

[star-anise]

pawspaintsnthings replied to your post

“mustachepervert replied to your post “My favorite bad take is that...”

I know A-phobes exist but I avoid them because I'm surprisingly not into reading people's hot takes about how unworthy I am. But damn. It's a good thing that homeless shelters don't value people based on their placement in the oppression Olympics the way that A-phobes do on Tumblr. If they're at a shelter they needed a bed. None of anyone's fucking business why.

The sad thing is, as true as it is that everyone deserves a bed, who gets into what shelters is honestly a really artificial and insane process and a lot of people get way less than that.

Like, from what I’ve absorbed in my time in front-line work my area has a definite hierarchy of emergency shelters for adults. At the bottom are shelters within walking distance of a soup kitchen where you have to line up every night before a certain time to get a bed, and that bed is a mat on the floor in a gymnasium full of people where you hope nobody robs you while you sleep. Above that you have domestic violence shelters that are cleaner, safer, and more stable--they admit you for a 21-day stay, give you a room with a door that locks, and let you store food in their fridge as well as providing cooked meals. In some rare cases, you might get funded to stay in a hotel room and given a stipend for food, with practically the total splendour of a person who isn’t reliant on somebody else for their housing needs.

In reality, there are a lot of people who are chronically homeless and used to emergency housing that makes them feel unsafe and unstable, who sometimes experience it as a bit of a bonus if, for once, the cause of their re-entry into homelessness isn’t a gang moving in next door or a landlord demanding late rent, but an abusive partner. Because that kind of violence counts “more” than just getting beaten up or thrown out on the street, so it qualifies them for more help.

Which is to say: The social support net needs more resources overall, and pretty much everyone needs more help than they’re currently getting. And arguments like “That person doesn’t deserve charity for a basic necessity of life as much as that other person” genuinely are fighting over crumbs while the people on top of society swallow the cake whole.

[alexrod-dbd]

Oh, is that a new dbd book cover? 👀

Yes it is! A duo of Charles-centered fics!

Pretty simple design for this one, using @pawspaintsnthings / @ouchmyghostskin illustration 'cause I truly love her style ✨

The Case of Richard Rowland by @writerofstuff

Guiding Light by @nuria-schnee

(Still NOT for selling distribution)

[heyitshillcat]

@ladycyon commissioned a drawing of my DND character Roni A Macson. The “A” stands for Asiago. She’s a half-orc: one part notary and one part aspiring (maybe more begrudging) bounty hunter. I cannot get over how cute her face is and how adorable I find the half orc underbite! 😍😍😍

#dungeonsanddragons #halforc #pawspaintsnthings

Art by paws paints thing

@pawspaintsnthings

( https://pawspaintsnthings.tumblr.com/ )

[rayshippouuchiha]

If I were Taika I'd be PISSED right about now. They undid... literally everything he established in his film? And turned Thor into an anthropomorphized fat-phobic mental illness shaming joke.

I’m honestly surprised he didn’t just explode with rage when Infinity War came out but after seeing Endgame I’m surprised he didn’t immediately shuck this mortal coil from sheer anger.

[carnationbooks]

Double Interview! annundriel and pawspaintsnthings!

Guys! GUYS! We are so excited to be bringing you this interview! It’s the last day of March, and therefore the end of our month featuring Check, Please! This has been a fun month full of hockey, pie, fic, art, and getting to know some of the creators in this delightful fandom. To close it out, we talked with @annundriel​and @pawspaintsnthings​. We think this interview is the perfect end to this month’s series of chats. We hope you enjoy it!

Annundriel’s fic is here on AO3! 

Pawspaintsnthings’ art is here!

They are currently collaborating on an absolutely gorgeous Check, Please! Fairytale AU fancomic which can be read here: The Wolf At The Door (@fairytalecomic)

How did you first get into fandom? What was your first fandom?

Pawspaintsnthings: I honestly can't remember.  I do remember getting "obsessed" with things from a pretty young age, and coming up with alternative ways the show/book/what have you could have gone in my head.  But it was never shared with anyone. My first fandom-like experience was probably, on a small scale, "The Legend of Zelda".  My best friend and I would have sleepovers, and stay up all night drawing Zelda fanart for our own little personal Zine.  I'm talking crayola colored pencils on computer paper.  I think we also wrote a couple of fic together and posted it on fanfiction.net. We filled sketch book after sketch book that our parents bought giant tubs to keep them in, of what was basically fanart.  Though we didn't know that's what it was at the time.

Annundriel: I stumbled across something on the internet while looking for something else, probably. The first thing I remember actively reading fic for was Jane Austen. I got into her works in middle school and then discovered people wrote continuations? And posted them online? And sometimes they were from other points of view or were in different settings and times? It was eye opening, and I loved it.

What inspired you to start writing fic/making art?

Pawspaintsnthings: I've drawn the vast majority of days  since I was tiny.  So it was a pretty smooth transition to have whatever I was really into at the time, be it an anime or video game or book, and just incorporate that into my daily drawing.  When I was really young I wasn't interested in drawing anything but animals.  When I got older, met my best friend, and started watching anime/playing Zelda with her I started drawing people.  I credit fanart with being able to jump right into figure studies in college.  I had at least some comfort with it that I might not have had otherwise. I'm not able to exactly pin point what makes me want to draw fanart.  I've had fandoms that were a huge part of my life for years, that I didn't draw a single piece of fanart for.  And others that sparked my interest for only a couple of weeks that I churned out a few pieces for.  Then there are those, like Check Please, where I almost compulsively make fanart for.  And even within those fandoms that I like to make fanart for, there's usually only very specific elements of the story that scream "draw me!".

Annundriel: Oh gosh, I'm not sure I remember any real sort of catalyst? I liked telling stories and making things up when I was much younger. We had a computer program where half the screen could be used to make an illustration and the other half to type the story and I played with that all the time. I was also always a big reader, and I enjoy thinking about and talking about the media I consume, so I think writing fic became a natural extension of that for me.

How did you get into Check Please? What are your favorite tropes and pairings in this fandom?

Pawspaintsnthings: I was between fandoms and one of my mutuals was posting about it back in September of 2015.   I checked it out, and instantly devoured it. I enjoyed it immensely, but I'm not sure if I knew at the time I was going to be as into it as I became.  I experienced a traumatic injury shorty after reading it, and during the physical part of that recovery I had my first burst of fanart.  I've absolutely used it as a coping mechanism.  There's a lot of hurt/comfort being produced on my end! Ha. I discovered it at a very opportune time for me. 

Definitely Zimbits.  That's the one that poked that muse button for me, and poked it hard. I enjoy a lot of the other pairings on a casual level.  Though I tend to not ship anything that rocks the boat of my preferred ships.  Which goes for all my fandoms. Tropes? I'm a hurt/comfort kinda girl. Just give everyone a hug for me.

Annundriel: I started seeing it a bit on my dash around the time of The Kiss, and I got curious so I sought it out. (And then I dragged marswithghosts down with me.) Trope-wise...I really enjoy stories where the characters accidentally fall in love or they realize, like a bolt out of the blue, that they've fallen. I also really like fake dating and Canadian shack fic and bed sharing and, oh! Historic AUs. Give me a Regency or Victorian AU and I'm happy. Give me something with tall ships and I'm thrilled.

What is your favorite thing you have written/drawn so far?

Pawspaintsnthings: Oh, man.  I lack an emotional attachment to most things I make. Mostly by design.  I get intensely anxious about finished pieces so it's best if I just immediately move on.  Once I finish it I rarely  look at it again. As it is, the act of making it is mostly where the emotion is for me.  If I had to pick a piece I'm most proud of, probably the set of realistic portraits I did of Jack and Bitty.

Annundriel: Hmm...well, I really love The Wolf at the Door. It's been an absolute pleasure to brainstorm and create it with Haylee. Of solo work that I've posted, I have a deep love for Perpetual Motion (http://archiveofourown.org/works/7755439), an AU where Kent doesn't show up at the epikegster. But my real favorites are probably two WIPs: a baseball AU and an AU based loosely on a book called The Scorpio Races.

What is your favorite fic/piece of art by someone else?

Pawspaintsnthings: I'm terrible at this question. I have an intense appreciation for fanart/fanfic and I'm loathe to pick just one favorite.  The most recent works that really made an impact on me though where the fic and gorgeous accompanying art of "Everybody Begs to be Redeemed" by cynical_optimist, QueenOfTheCute, and strangetowns on AO3.

Annundriel: I could name so many! The first that comes to mind, though, is A Little Bit Closer (http://archiveofourown.org/works/7289398) by marswithghosts. It was a gift for finishing my MLIS, and so it holds a very special place in my heart.

What pairings do you like to read in this fandom? What pairings do you like to write or draw? 

Pawspaintsnthings: Mostly Zimbits, but I enjoy reading Ransom/Holster and Shitty/Lardo.   I really only have the muse for Zimbits.  My muse is fickle.

Annundriel: I love to read Jack/Bitty, Dex/Nursey, Shitty/Lardo, Ransom/Holster, Kent/Tater...(I also love Kent/Javier Martinez from the sequel to A Little Bit Closer.) I love to write Jack/Bitty and Dex/Nursey. I'd like to expand that, but I'm a bit nervous!

How does collaborating on a project differ from working on your own? What is your process like when working together?

Pawspaintsnthings: I love collaborations.  It's like taking the spirit/the best parts of fandom and compounding it into one project.  I tend to feel very isolated when I work on my own.  Even with fandom friends that I chat with I don't share a lot of process, and I often to have to fight the urge to withdraw from the going's on of fandom. Which is complicated, but in part because I go to a vulnerable place when I'm making something. Which harkens back to the whole not looking at my art once I finish it business.   So when collaborating I have to push myself to talk a bit more about what I think is cute or why I like an idea.   When making art you can just take an emotion, no matter how intense, and put it out there.  But it's harder with words, and to explain how you want to get to the final peice, and not feel like you just exposed yourself in some way.  Mary and I do all of our collaborating over Twitter  DM's.  We generally have a pretty solid, mostly panel by panel idea of how each update is going to go.  I do some roughs and we make changes to those together.  Then I draw it and Mary works on the script which we finalize together.  It can be hard to find times when our schedules match, as things tend to flow more smoothly when we're actively chatting rather than catching messages at later times. But it works out!  We're both flexible with one another which is important.  

Annundriel: I've done several collaborations throughout my years in fandom, and I think one of the big differences for me between working with a partner/partners versus on your own is the need to remain flexible. You might think something is a really great idea or a great moment or image, and the person you're working with may disagree and vice versa. You have to be able to communicate and compromise.

Can you tell us how the idea for The Wolf At The Door came about?

Pawspaintsnthings: I wanted to try my hand at a longer comic project than I'd ever taken on. I'm in love with all things fairy tale, and had the very basic foundation idea in place when I asked Mary if she'd like to be my partner in the project. From there we worked together to fully flesh it out and bring it to life.  I knew I needed someone with more experience/talent in story telling than I possess, and Mary both fit that bill, and is someone I consider a friend and knew I could work with.

Annundriel: Honestly, I am just so happy Haylee came to me with the idea. We'd talked before about our mutual love of fairy tales and Diana Wynne Jones, and to have the opportunity to put all that love into something creative? So exciting.

Do you have a favorite moment or image from the comic so far? 

Pawspaintsnthings: Well. My favorite moments are definitely to come!  But, so far I'd say that the first comic was really fun for me to draw.  Just an exciting moment for me overall.

Annundriel: I agree with Haylee; some of my favorite moments are coming up! But I absolutely adore the cover Haylee made for the comic. I remember the first time I saw it and how perfectly it fit the feel and the characters. I also really enjoy writing the banter between Bitty and Bun. I love it when Bitty calls Bun "clever clogs" in the first chapter.

Do you have any advice for our readers who might be considering taking on a similar project? 

Pawspaintsnthings: I'm still figuring out a lot of this stuff, and learning as I go.  So I'm certainly no expert.   But I've been so grateful that Mary and I work at similar speeds and have similar communication styles.  It smooths things out, especially when you need to do a lot of communicating via social media.  I'd also say to be sure to go into it expecting to take your time.  I'm a staunch believer in fandom never turning into or feeling like a second job. So if you need to take a break, take a break. If you want to go full throttle, then do that.  

Annundriel: I'd like to second everything Haylee says. Especially the last part. Be kind to yourself, and if you need a break from a project, take it. If you're working with a partner, be honest with them. (I'm a firm believer in communication, period.)

Any more recs for our readers?

Annundriel: I haven't read a lot of fic lately off of tumblr, but recently I really enjoyed @iboatedhere​‘s Graduation Day (http://archiveofourown.org/works/9850652). Also @porcupine-girl​'s Jack Zimmermann is a Masochistic Fuckwit (http://archiveofourown.org/works/8910685). I love all of @marswithghosts​' work. I also really enjoyed @rhysiana​'s Dex/Nursey AU, The Punk and the Florist (http://archiveofourown.org/works/7652692). In the Dex/Nursey vein, I also love akadiene's row upon row (http://archiveofourown.org/works/7559800). I could go on, haha. There are just so many good works out there!

A heartfelt thanks goes out to @annundriel and @pawspaintsnthings for taking the time to answer our questions and give us some insight into their fandom experiences and how they work on creating amazing content for us to enjoy. 

[circularheartbeat]

This is for @pawspaintsnthings. Your check please art and dog posts have made me smile so many times, I hope this helps you a little.

[meatjunior]

Pawspaintsnthings is an amazing artist. Shes done so much within the check please fandom. Not to mention her love and care for dogs. I really look up to her. Ill miss her beautiful art but more importantly i hope she feels better. Sending my love and best wishes her way.

[fandomtrumpshate2017offerings]

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Type of fanwork: art (including banners, covers, manips, gifsets) Fandom(s): "Check, Please!" (webcomic) Length/size: see Notes Especially interested in: What my fanart tends to usually focus on. Will not: Nothing pairing Bitty or Jack with someone else, all other pairings are okay. I won't create explicit material, but light nsfw is okay. My already created fanart is a good guideline for this. Notes: Lighter volume works (for example: not a lot of background work, one to a few characters present, and or not a lot of detail. Around 2-3 hours work.) minimum bid: $25 Higher volume works (for example: detailed background work, more than a few background or main characters present, and or a lot of details. Around 5-8 hours work.) $60 Very High Volume works ( for example: photorealistic background work, large crowd of characters. Around 10-15 hours work) minimum bid $100

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[jenroses]

I legit got emotional. 

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DIG UNDER YOUR MATTRESSES, FOLKS! BIDDING RUNS OCT 17-23!