#so i appreciate any encouragement

[etchabot]

Winter Break 2022 Album

Hey, y'all! My winter break is essentially over, but I've had a great time doing a lot of drawings. This is probably the most I've been able to do in while I've been in college. I don't get to buckle down to draw that often these days, so it's fun to see how much I've managed to get done during this period.

I've been really happy with what I've made, so I decided to compile all of my sketch files and some final drawings in an Imgur album. The album starts with general how-do-I-draw sketches from December 23 last year up to now, so there's about a month worth of material.

The spring semester starts up tomorrow, so there will likely be some large pauses in production coming up. Going through peaks and troughs of drawing is something I've come to accept in college, but I'll be finishing my degree within the year, so perhaps things will change in the future. For now, we will enjoy the time that we have to explore creatively!

Most everything in the album is OC art and doodles, but feel free to take a look if you're interested! Thank you!

Winter Break 2022 Album

[ducktracy]

there are a lot of evil people in the world and a lot of darkness in the world and so it’s very important for me to stress that now more than ever is the time to spread kindness and compassion. combat the evil by not only not partaking in it, but actively refuting it. destroy the notion that being compassionate or generous or kind to someone is uncool or embarrassing or even scary. be the change you want to see. start a chain reaction. positivity only breeds more positivity. do an act of kindness for someone so that that person who is too afraid to do it themselves can see you, realize that they’re not alone, and perhaps sheepishly follow your example. and then the next person who is too afraid but sees that person can do the same. when bad news comes out about bad people or horrible atrocities in the world it’s such an easy impulse to despair, and obviously it’s important to feel what you need to feel. grieve. be angry. be sorrowful. be empathetic. but dust off your pants and get up and be a part of a chain reaction that, no matter how small the scale, and spread compassion and love and care. all the reasons why you might not—“it’s hard! it’s scary! people will make fun of me! it’s useless because there’s too much evil!” are all grade A arguments as to why you should. you have no idea how many people you could inspire to do the same. even if it doesn’t get you anyway far, you can at least say you have the nobility of trying. please choose love and please choose life. you are worth loving and you are worth inspiring others to love

[satans-knitwear]

Feeling a little bit delicious today ✨

Treat me ~ Tip Me ~ More of me

[iishmael]

Ice and Mav crash in a remote forest. The trees are deciduous, but there’s a lot of pining involved… 🌲

Teaser:

“This is all your fault!” Jumping up from his position on the forest floor, Ice grabbed Maverick by the shoulders and shook him. “You were supposed to pay attention to the fucking radar!”

Not wasting a second on trying to stay calm, Maverick immediately pushed Ice’s hands off him. “I’m not your fucking RIO! We were co-pilots, it was as much your responsibility as it was mine!”

Maverick’s eyes glittered with fury, and for a second Ice thought Mav was going to hit him.

When the expected punch failed to come about, Ice laughed humourlessly. “Oh, sure, one system failing after the other and all you could think about was trying to take the steering control away from me!”

“Because you were flying in the wrong direction!”, Maverick shouted back, angry vehemence colouring his voice. “Our last known position was north so logically we should’ve been heading south-“

“The compass was pointing south!”

“But the fucking evening sun isn’t south, is it!” Maverick was yelling at the top of his lungs now.

The forest only offered up tense silence in response.

TBC…

[herboreal]

Gonna be making merch again, hopefully soon. I'm working out a decent amount of designs first.

Here are two designs to look forward to! hEDS life: crying zebras (with rainbow (queer) sad zebra option)

[ofide]

good for the transmasc bloggers having fun with the "forcemasc" images but those don't seem very forced to me. which is also why they're not very sexy

[creatively-cosmic]

missing numbers was secretly a ploy to get really really into doing worldbuilding based on this extremely specific in-universe pseudo-meta horror based in the pokemon franchise. a lot of stuff we're cooking past gens 1+2 is original content based in the spirit of the classic trainerpastas based on those games... something something its all about the natural next step and the world of Pokemon is so fundamentally fucked. idkkkk smiles

[kitkatsgalore]

Happy birthday, Yechan! 🥳

[jeremy-lemon]

Forcing myself to get into studyblr aesthetics and romanticizing my education when I finally go to college in the hopes of making sure I actually study and do the work cuz then I'll think it's pretty and makes me cool or something

[ozdicaff]

I WROTE A LIL 800 WORD DRABBLE ABOUT GITM NOVA BUT IM. SO NERVOUS ABOUT PUBLISHING IT

Im not at all used to publishing my writing even though i write a bunch, usually i jus share it in dms or write it out as bullet point headcanons

[innocence-wont-save-you]

Ok quick question, can you like, confirm you’re genderfluid? I know that I should technically already know this since I’m your overseer and we are connect to you, but I’ve been headcanoning you as a boy this entire time. Have I like, been misgendering you?

You give your overseer a long, bewildered stare. "Yes? I am genderfluid? What do you—why are you asking me to confirm I'm genderfluid?"

[edge-oftheworld]

one thing I love about following celebrities/artists who are honest and proactive about their mental health struggles etc is I can’t count the number of times someone I know is going through something and I’m like ‘I’ve got a song for u’ and how much of my life involves telling myself ‘if [redacted] can do something/get better/etc then so can i’ (and having actual real evidence of it in front of me) and I can’t understate how much I appreciate these things.

but at the same time it involves a whole lot of watching people I care about suffer and you learn to read the signs and infer between the lines in songs and interviews, and yes we can never fully know what they don’t share with us, but when they do share things it’s not a big stretch to be like ‘this seems like it’s what life is like for you and I have taken encouragement from it but you deserve so much better’. and it’s easy to find ways to get angry at a predatory industry and realise things that could be hurtful if you’re already fragile.

and we can advocate for some things and help ourselves and the people around us feel better but it’s hard to meaningfully reach your faves as an individual. and there are things we can’t say on the internet in too much detail, speculation becomes the harmful kind of gossip, and so sometimes it’s a whole lot of internally saying ‘you’re doing incredibly well to have gotten to where you are but I wish for your sake things would get better faster’

[theshadowrealmitself]

pretending I got frozen and am waking up centuries later to garden on a peaceful earth. your star trek oc posts are getting me through it! thank you for posting

No problem!! It makes me so happy that people are still enjoying them!! I keep meaning to get back to them but lately I’ve been hyperfixating on a fandom I was super obsessed with as a kid (too embarrassing to admit what it is) (regression going hard with all this stress)

I was actually just thinking about maybe doing more fandom posts so we aren’t all doomscrolling but I’m not in the right headspace to think of anything nice, maybe I should be looking at those old posts too 😭

[kris-mage-fics]

I woke up with idea that I should take an experience I had as a baby, and fill in all the unknown parts to make a horror story. Because why not write a story where a Christmas tree turns into a monster and tries to eat a baby? Totally normal thoughts from a totally normal person.

However, in trying to write the scene where the tree transforms and attacks the baby, it has very clear that I don't really know how to write a suspenseful and creepy transformation. I've avoided horror most of my life because I'm a scaredy cat and can't handle much in the way of jump scares, body horror, or gore. (I know not all horror has those things, or has them in large amounts. But in the past that was mostly what I knew about.)

So I'm wondering if y'all have suggestions of horror stories or comics that do a good job building suspense and being creepy, without being super scary or gory. Because the only way I'm going to do a better job of writing horror is to read more of it, but I'm not sure where to start when I'm such a wimp. Like if it gets much gorier or scarier than Scarlet Hollow I probably won't be able to handle it.

I did read some Edgar Allan Poe back in my teens, and while I don't really remember much about "The Pit and the Pendulum", I do recall it creeping me the fuck out! But I don't remember enough to know how it compares to my current comfort level. (I used to be able to handle a lot more than I can now.)

[blindaysblogforturtles]

I am getting the sense splinter is a himbo

Yoshi is absolutely a himbo. Like, yeah of course he is smart and has awesome abilities but like, man is horny. The opportunity to die crushed beneath a pretty woman's tighs appeared and he said yes sir that's the way to go.

Splinter not much so, but he does have a weird affection for women belonging to the species of natural predators. Funny how you mentioned him, though, since I didn't talk about at all in the first post.

The second one is ongoing so I was like omg yes bestie but then I stopped and was like. Wait a dang minute... YOU CAN SEE MY NOTES????

[kakusu-shipping]

Guess who's finally trying to understand Self Ship Moodboards