#subbyp

[hermannsthumb]

ok so I read "Taken by the Vampire Highwayman" and while, don't get me wrong, I love it, I really feel like hermann is more of a "gargantuan space opera web novel with intricate world-building wherein the romance mostly consists of Highkey Yearning and a Passionate and Fascinating Exchange of Ansible Messages" type of guy. hear me out on this. several messages to follow

(web novelist rant 2/?) like. if this is not a man to attempt to process his unfortunate crush by filing the serial numbers off of his Star Trek self insert he made when he was 10 and attempting to get him together with a thinly veiled Newt stand-in but getting sidetracked by more and more worldbuilding and side plots/other exorcisms of personal demons and self-perceived failings until, oops, it's actually kind of a half-decent story, guess it would be a shame not to make it good--

(cont. below cut!)

(web novel rant 3/?) --and, further oops, someone came across it and found it moving in some fashion, and one #ownvoices tag on twitter later it has a small but dedicated following, a following that by some fucking hideous fluke contains the one person who was definitely never supposed to read it, and especially was never supposed to get really invested in the whole Yearning aspect of the whole thing... well...

(web novel rant 4/?) basically what I'm saying is picture Newt opining on this web novel he's been reading, and how the narrator (a fastidious, acerbic, and crabby but not-so-secretly passionate and sentimental starship navigator) should just nut up and confess to the love interest (a brilliant and irresponsible marine xenobiologist with anarchist politics, obnoxious habits, and a heart of gold), dude it's been going on for like 5000000 words and FIFTEEN IN-NARRATIVE YEARS--

(web author rant 5/?) whilst, unbeknownst to him, the author of said web-novel is sitting across the table from him in a cold sweat, praying that Newt does not realize that he is shipping--has practically kinned--himself.

THIS IS SOOOO FUNNY I LOVE THIS....you're absolutely correct too. also I think newt would draw fanart

[subbyp]

my fiancée, to our gourami, with absolute adoration: it’s Friday, you flat fuck~ <3

[kebbopulos]

I was inspired by this post by @subbyp

Close-ups under the cut :3

[pingo1387]

did better than i thought honestly

[ID: Three images. The first image is a screenshot of a reply from @subbyp, reading "eSwatini."

The second and third images are of the flag of the eSwatini. The first of these images is drawn from memory. The flag is a horizontal tricolor with blue on the top and bottom and a wider red band in the middle. Separating the blues and red are yellow bands, which in turn are edged with thinner white bands. In the center is an eye-shaped black and white shield; the black and white are split vertically with a wobbly line. On either side of the shield are two yellow lines, representing spears.

The second of the images is the actual flag. The main differences are as follows:

The yellow bands are not edged in white and are thicker

The shield has rows of short vertical lines on both the black and white sections, in the contrasting color of each

The spears are horizontal and behind the shield, and have white pointed heads on the right; there is also a horizontal yellow staff with two leaves, one on each end, and there is a leaf on the shield

End ID.]

[ladyyatexel]

Hi Lady! I've taken up marker/ink cartooning, but I'm feeling discouraged because 99.9% of the fan art I see floating around here is digital. I don't enjoy digital painting nearly as much as I do using the actual physical art supplies, but I'm worried that my stuff is just gonna get written off as crappy because it hasn't got that digital polish. You do "analog" art--do you have any thoughts on that?

Experiences and mileage may vary, but I used to get a lot of people very excited by my Doctor Who work because it was traditional physical media and they had seen so little of it.  I haven’t noticed a lot of disparity between the two types when I put out fanwork in general, though it’s hard to measure something like that perfectly without putting out exactly the same image in both media or something.   Based on my own experience, I would think the reason most of the art you see is digital is because it’s ‘easier’ on many levels.  There’s no mess or extra space taken up to do it, you don’t have to scan or photograph it, extreme lighting and effects are vastly easier to create, and it’s something that doesn’t have to be paid for more than the cost of the tablet and/or software once.  (My work right now is largely digital because of this - the bleeding into my retina nonsense has made doing things traditionally more challenging so even though I’m truly happiest painting in the physical realm, I’m making it work with digital at the moment.)

There’s something to be said for most of the media we see being digital in some manner, too.  All the animated shows we’re watching aren’t painted cells anymore, they’re digital.  Manga art that used to be airbrush is digital.  Disney has been all CGI for ages.  Photographs of humans are more digital.  Everything is HD rendered down to people’s pores.  So there’s a Shiny to the mass media that kind of lingers as The Norm.  I don’t think there are many, if any, people who consciously think, ‘ugh, real ink’ by any means, they just don’t see the ink processed nicely as often as they see digital things that are naturally crisp and internet-ready and so they gloss over it.  

So I think what is critical is having a good scanner and a good grasp on the digital cleanup of a traditional image.  One of the big things I keep being asked about my deer painting is how I got it to look so nice and I’ve discovered people are asking about the quality/clarity/etc of the final scan.   I was baffled for a while (”I just... scanned it?”) but I think I’m just used to cleaning things in a way that not everyone is seeing or thinking to do!

I’m not saying ‘punch up your traditional work with digital effects’ to the point of like adding lensflares or anything -  you definitely don’t have to add digital elements to traditional media to make it worthwhile or enough - just invest in having a nice scanner and learn how to counteract the effects of transfer to the digital realm.  Things like cancelling out indoor lighting conditions if you took a photo, or adjusting levels so white paper is actually crisp white on the screen and not slightly beige.  A scanner can leave a bit of a haze on images and dull some colors, sometimes unevenly, so bringing them back to the hues you see in real life will help other people see on screen what you see on your desk. 

So I wouldn’t be too quick to assume people don’t or won’t like your work because of how it is made, they might just miss it because of what they have been primed to expect (shiny, digital, extremely clean).  If you’ve got a skill and you’re presenting it well, people will see it.  Digital artwork is native to a computer screen, but physical paper is not, so you just have to help with the translation.  

I hope that’s some kind of help!  I don’t know where you are in your art-making adventure, so I apologize if I’ve completely missed the mark as far as what you needed or wanted. 

[kuravix]

subbyp replied to your photoset “Happy Birthday to the precious cook, Sanji!!! Love you ������”

also am I correct in assuming that Zoro was the one behind "YOU ARE IMPORTANT."

That one was written by Franky! I used this as a guide for their handwriting which I did very poorly at

[hashtagonlyingotham]

#onlyingotham do you wind up in the middle of a fight over team comp in Overwatch between the Riddler and Harley Quinn. Somebody's going to have to be a tank, and they got here last, so either he's going to have to switch off Symmetra or she's going to have to switch off Junkrat, and frankly I don't CARE which one at this point, just PICK ONE, we are LOSING

[howprolifeofyou]

"Don't have sex if you don't want to get pregnant, but don't refrain from sex or your husband will cheat on you, and don't have oral or anal because that's sodomy, and don't have sex with people with the same gonads as you, and don't be asexual!" LITERALLY UNWINNABLE.

only missionary with the lights off under the covers for the sole purpose of having kids is allowed, apparently!

[vaspider]

I was referring to the non-ableist version of the Thomas Edison meme. "yeah yeah technology is bad fire is scary and thomas edison was a witch"

Oh! Thank you. :) 

[hermannsthumb]

when you go by jonathan coulton is a very pru-hermann-y song

(song) these are all so SAD

[subbyp]

wish me luck y'all I have an interview for a job I really want today!

[kerfufflewatch]

subbyp

replied to your photo

“these are bullets you put in the freezer so you can make your whiskey...”

he ate 4

BUT THEY ARE METAL

[tfwlawyers]

commanderfreddy said: it’s also the noise i make whenever i look at ur art!

FRED. <3

upsidedownsudoku said: it also kinda sounds like crying which is surprisingly fitting for the agency itself

subbyp said: it means a waluigi is in the vicinity

[pingo1387]

here’s another one 

[uminoakiko]

I actually met one of my current best friends several years before we became friends. We knew some one in common and met as kids through them. Then years later we met up again in highschool and remembered meeting before. Now Ducky is extremely dear to me and I can’t imagine life without them

sometimes i wonder if in a previous time, you’ve ever passed by someone you’re close to now. like what if your best friend now, you passed by them at a grocery store when you were 5 and didn’t know. or like you passed by your future soulmate at a popular tourist attraction somewhere 10 years ago

[meirimerens]

@subbyp just posted a metal gear theory that may interest you...

i have read it just before going to sleep (yes i went to bed at 4 yes I woke up at 7:30 no this isn't healthy) and since then i have done nothing but thigkismh thinfkskf fngggg

thought about it