#so yeah I like the idea of it ig in theory but I'm always expecting to fail not in a negative way tho lmao

[dan-crimes]

POV me trying to act like a normal human in order to give my OCs traits that normal people have (it isn't working and I'm overdoing it)

[canmom]

i can relate so much to your art struggles, you are really not alone in this 😭

i think ultimately it comes down to the eye/visual library becoming much more advanced and much quicker compared to what youre actually capable of replicating from your imagination, so almost all of the time your skills have to catch up to the high standard your eye sets, which is soo frustrating!!

(and im a mid-tier artist at BEST lol, so not sure if its just a thing you grow out of after you learn all of the anatomy/light/perscpective/color theory/etc.?? be free to update me on that if you make it past fundamentals hell :P)

so youre kinda always setting yourself up for falling short of your own expectations.... in the end i suppose one way of dealing with this is just to remind yourself that youre learning, and being ok with making "bad" things but also tell yourself that not everyone sees the same flaws in something that you see so the thing you consider "bad" is not necessarily in the eyes of another person!

yeah it's tough. i feel like i have no real idea how to assess what's good about my work, i can usually only see the flaws in it, so i'm grateful when people tell me it's good but i also feel like... they probably wouldn't feel that way if it weren't for our existing personal connection ig. i felt kinda good seeing all those decent pieces in pixiv thumbnails but then i clicked onto the front page and saw a lot of considerably more confident and accomplished pieces... which of course, they're only gonna put the best stuff on the front page!

my main barrier is simply not making enough stuff i think. i don't think i'm fundamentally off in my approach, i have a decent and gradually improving ability to eyeball perspective and create good shapes and keep good proportions and anatomy and so on, my lines are gradually getting cleaner, but there's a sort of indescribable element of confidence that comes with just cranking out enough pictures and brings all the elements together. and that only comes from muscle memory and practice.

some part of me has this naive belief that as soon as i get on stimulant medication (hopefully before the end of this year) i'll be able to start practising art like it's a fulltime job (while also holding down a fulltime job?)... but right now i know for certain i'm not drawing enough and i just can't figure out how to get myself to "draw, antonio, draw and do not waste time", like i always love it when i'm doing it but it's just such a barrier to start each day, gahh.

like i need to do more of everything: more fun pieces to develop my feeling what i enjoy and want to create in the long run, more drawing from life/photos, more studies of artists i admire...

anyway i'll stop going on. good luck anon, may we both reach the place we desire...

[masterofmaagnetism]

‘ no, hold the gun/staff like this. ’ and ‘ focus! ’ with you and Splinter!! Go ham dude!!

[ love the focus part how'd you know Emille is insanely easy to distract wjebfewhbewjbjefw also written pre-relationship! i really like yearning ]

[ Prompts: "No, hold the staff like this." and "Focus!" ]

[ Characters: Emille Newell, Splinter/Hamato Yoshi ]

[ Warnings: gay people am i right. also fighting/sparring ig ]

Emille, decidedly, did not like any of the weapons Splinter tried out with him.

As someone with absolutely no fighting experience and had never been in danger before, Splinter was trying to get him comfortable with an array of weapons, rather than focusing on choosing one he was good with right out the gate.

That idea, while good in theory, sucked hella ass in practice.

"No, hold the staff like this." Emille could have sworn he'd heard that a million times already. He glanced up to see how Splinter was holding it, only to suddenly have hands covering his own.

Splinter- very gently, almost as if he was afraid to break him- moved his hands to the correct positions on the staff, squeezing his hands lightly to make him tighten his grip.

"There. Do you feel how much more comfortable that is? How balanced? If your staff is making you wobbly, then you are holding it wrong, and will be wide open for attacks."

Right. When was he going to tell Splinter that his center of balance wasn't, well, centered?

"Okay, yeah, got it. Please don't tell me I need to attack you.'

"... I want you to attack me."

Oh, it was so tempting to say something like "fuck". But god forbid one of the turtles hear him say a "grownup word"- he'd never hear the fucking end of it.

After taking a moment to hype himself up, he made his move, swinging the staff down in the hopes that he'd at least hit Splinter's shoulder.

He didn't.

He, however, hit the ground with a thunk and a groan as the pain shot through his spine to his bad hip, almost making him instinctively curl in on himself. That'd be a sign of weakness though, and he'd rather die.

"You need to stay balanced. Keep both hands on the staff, and make sure it is always aligned with your body. Again!"

Slowly, Emille pulled himself to his feet, and went back in again.

"Focus!" Splinter finally snapped after a few more failed attempts, making Emille flinch ever so slightly at the sharpness of the word. "You cannot keep allowing your mind to distract you! You will never be able to use your surroundings as a weapon if you cannot focus."

"I can't even use this as a weapon!" Emille snapped back, huffing as he caught his breath. "Splinter, I don't know what you're expecting me to do, but I'm not gonna suddenly know how to use a two handed weapon when I've been using a pocket knife my whole life!"

Apparently, Splinter was used to getting responses like that, because he just looked amused at the other's outburst. "I did not think you would. I had simply been hoping that a teacher would be better at keeping his mind on the correct topic."

Oh, that was low. Emille was gonna remember that one forever.

And the fact that he instinctively swung the staff out and got Splinter in the ankle, he'd probably remember that one forever too.

Splinter didn't hit the ground like he'd hoped, simply catching himself right before impact. "That was good," he said, pulling himself up and helping Emille to his feet as well. "But perhaps the staff is not for you."

No shit.

[chaos-in-bright-pink-hair-dye]

Honestly, at this point I just hope the DD tv show fizzles out as fast as the Nat Anthem comics have. Like, dudebros™️ are bound to happen if it gets anywere near the same amount of attention TUA has and like. If it gets to the point where we have a date announced and not some random article going "hint hint nudge nudge", I'm genuinely going to jump ship. Full stop.

Like, idk, the DD show has always been fun in theory because it was ours and we spent a lot of time dissecting it and stitching it back together without some of the ever-present flaws in canon as we saw fit, but no creator will ever take the time to do self-reflection on their work like that! Hell, I'm not even sure that's possible, as a writer and artist myself, because in that position you already know what you meant, so you can't begin to formulate what someone else might interpret your work as.

*infographic voice* And this is why sensitivity readers are important, kids! Don't be like Jared.

Anyways, I'm rambling and just waiting for the whole thing to blow over so I can go back to making silly little jokes about DD being a bury your gays story, g way plot hole mining business and mortuary service, and just the end of g way white-knighting. I am tired of these mcr bitches and if anyone has a problem with that you can send them right my way. ~ Maxx 🧷

Yeah like I don't really believe it will happen because no one actually important for a project like this said anything about it and few random articles dropping it out of blue don't seem like a very reliable source. And well if it really happens and the dudebros find this fandom my block list will just grow a little bit longer ig XD

It was fun when it was like haha what if? Nah that could never happen...unless? and even though, let's admit it, many of the ideas we as fandom came up with fucking sucked it was never real so it was just a great thing to laugh about.

Turning Danger Days into a show does need a lot of reflection on the whole story and changing many things for it to make sense which as you said they probably won't. Actually recently my friend read ttlotfk and even though she likes other similar media she was completely lost. So if they are really serious about this and don't find a way to communicate their expectations and ideas well they are digging themselves a hole to fall into because no one will enjoy the result, fans will be disappointed and others won't understand what's going on. Generally there's just so many flaws about this we could talk about it for days and days and not mention all of tem tbh

But you're right it's time to burry this underneath more posts that have literally nothing to do with canon, stupid little jokes and shit posts because we all know that this universe is ours at this point and everyone who thinks otherwise, including Mr Way himself, is making a fool of themselves