#tags i need to reference tbh

[lilybug-02]

hey, so a lil help is required... got any tips for making a comic? if you can't help me with that, how do you keep drawing after you draw one thing. (lol, HELP ME)

I've answered what my own comic development has been like before, in some older asks. (And some other ones that are lost forever in my blog q-q)

Regarding my own tips for comic making? Hmmm...

My main take away would be to have FUN!! Your enjoyment drives the story forward. It is important, not just for the comic, but for YOU the artist! :D

don't stress too much over a comic's quality or quantity :) your art is not a fast food truck <3 And your friends will like it anyways

I recommend starting on small ideas you have! You could make some doodles before you actually start making a comic. This may help you feel more attached and/or interested in the story :) It could even flesh out stuff you didn't think about previously!

Having trouble drawing so often? Draw "one-shots"! This can include small snippets of major events you want to see in your story!

Don't be afraid to tell your ideas to ur friends! Ppl will love hearing creative ideas

Thats some tips i've found that really help me. I hope you enjoy the art of creation ;)

[lycandrophile]

i absolutely cannot believe people are trying to start discourse about whether nex benedict was actually nonbinary / whether it was okay for him to describe himself as nonbinary to some people if he didn’t actually identify that way as if he isn’t literally DEAD because he was KILLED. this is a MURDERED CHILD and these monsters are so busy getting mad at the possibility that he might have been a trans boy who described himself as nonbinary to his family because that was easier for them to take that they’re turning a CHILD who was MURDERED into fucking discourse. even when we die at the hands of cis people’s violence, our own community finds a way to make us the villains of the story.

and all of this bullshit on top of the ways that cis people are already trying to say our grief over his death is unjustified. all of this on top of people claiming he wasn’t murdered and speculating on other causes of death (i literally saw someone say he “clearly went home and took the coward’s way out” and i have never been more disgusted) or claiming that he started the fight as if any action on his part could’ve been enough to justify his death. i am haunted by the sound of his father screaming that his child was not filth because that is what people have been saying about this poor kid, that’s how cruelly his memory is being treated, and even the trans community can’t get it’s shit together enough to look past the stupid discourse and see the tragedy in front of us. did you all forget that it was supposed to be up to us to grieve him in the way he deserves when the rest of the world fails to care if people like him live or die? did you all forget that this child was our sibling, the future of our community, a life that we should have had the chance to know and treasure while he was still here but that we now have a responsibility to hold close to our hearts in his absence? nex’s life was precious and it was ended far too soon and if you truly believe that anything is more important than mourning his life and fighting for a world where no more trans people have to meet such an awful fate, you’re a traitor to this community and you do not deserve the place you occupy within it.

i’m so tired. i can’t even imagine how tired his family must be, to see the public treat the child they’re grieving so horribly, to see the world fail their baby again. leave him alone. he was already robbed of peace in life; the least you can do is let him finally have it in death.

[xenasaur]

have u ever been having a convo with someone and they drop something that drives u into a white-hot rage so deep u can literally fucking feel ur heart start to give out

[stevens-pastrami-sandwich]

screenshot redraw YIPPEE 🐁🐁

We NEEDED to see more of the monkey sidekick having duo 💔 It's okay though, im not angry about this. *my nails dig into my fists*

[cobaltfluff]

happy april fools' from your big brothers, dumbass (affectionate)

[torchickentacos]

Finished another :)

[klutzytomb]

I never thought I'd say this, but there's no way I'm one of the only ones here that isn't chronically online. Right? Right??

[intuitive-revelations]

Hmmm....

Thematically i kind of liked that.

But man that plot was... not good.

[arttsuka]

Guess what movie I watched yesterday (it was 'Chicken run: dawn of the nugget')

Anyway British chicken am I right 🐓 (I know that this is a rooster but I didn't like the chicken emoji)

[graveyartblog]

Their blood type is O-

[pine-arten]

play colors

[deus-ex-mona]

tokishun’s qrt of the ed announcement t h o u g h lmaoooooooo

[rosetheocto]

Lee when Dan actually bothers to play Miitopia (he isn’t forgotten about anymore)

I just don’t question my failtopia memes anymore man

[solar-halos]

for this mood board monday, i present yet another ficboard. the board in question is of franka by @ongreenergrasses

[yayforocs]

[New Name]

No it has not been six months since i last wrote about nora absolutely no way what do you mean time passed-

Anyway i wanted to write and see what aron's thoughts on nora were :0 so it's short, but it was very fun to feel out! and it was nice to write aron again =7=

enjoy!

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Aron stared at the empty space in front of her, hand stuck in a partial raise, the wave unneeded now.

Her double had left so suddenly, it took the realization that her senses weren’t matching where she was to put together that the other was leaving. She’d stepped outside of the cave, but instead of feeling the cool shade on her skin, light breeze wisping past, and soft dirt beneath her feet, she’d smelled heat, and could have sworn that it sounded as if she were in a small room- and felt it too, with the lack of wind. Once her brain caught up to what was happening and she whipped around to say goodbye, she was met with a blinding flash and empty air before she could get a word out.

…Which, understandable, she guessed. Her other (-wait, ‘’other’’, that’s what Kale had referred to Kid as initially. She tucked that thought away for later.) never really liked her, not from the moment they’d met, and the disdain had never let up once, and especially not on this mining trip.

Which. Also understandable.

The world didn’t seem keen on being kind to helsmits, after all. She didn’t know much, as the information she’d had access to had been a tad limited, but once her helsmit had first appeared and her headband identified what the person she was looking at was, well. She had to ask it to define ‘helsmit’. It gave a few different definitions- something about a missing half, another about issues that became so prevalent and permeating they spawned a whole new being centered around it, another about actual clones, among others. None of them seemed favorable to the doubles, regardless of which was actually true.

…And there was whatever had happened there with the health potions, which had… brought up unpleasant memories. Of things that had never actually happened of course, but the possibility that suddenly screamed in her mind that an old nightmare of health potions given with blind trust being swiftly turned against her could come true made her flinch when it had been snatched from her like that. She’d thought she’d been doing a good job keeping her conversational distance and giving space and time and letting the air be more casual, but then there was the skeleton and the fall and the mobs and-

Maybe it was just embarrassment? Gods knew Aron snapped sometimes when she messed up, or at least felt like she’d messed up. (“I like making you angry. You function better,” Kid had said once, but she felt like she disproved that within the hour when she found out about Sytri.)

(...Still stings.)

Aside from that… Aron’s eyes darted around as she used her tech headband, navigating UI menus only she could see, and stopped when she pulled up a literal mental note she’d made.

It was a name change.

Last time Aron had seen her double, the headband had simply identified her as:

[Aron] [Human, Helsmit]

This time, the headband had different information for her.

[Nora] [Human, Helsmit]

She’d wanted to immediately ask, but given Nora’s general disposition towards Aron at any given moment, figured it would be a bad idea. Aron had ended up giving in eventually, and sure enough, it had gone about as well as she had figured it would. She’d changed what the marker on Nora would show for her afterwards, making the name ‘Nora’ a footnote on it and editing the main label to still read ‘Aron’, just to keep it how it was. Hopefully it’d remind herself not to use the new name.

As it currently stood, though, she also had a small note with the new information on it, as well as some other notes and thoughts on the helsmit.

Be nice. Likes redstone a lot! Probably! I think! -Try to ask about any projects at some point -Maybe share something first Not great at combat actually. Maybe she’s more of my creative side? Does she like fireworks too? ASK KALE KID OR TAB ABOUT IF THEY HAVE HELSMITS. -actually a good thought. They’re not from here, do they get one too? They probably know something. Advice would definitely help Figure out which definition Aron is!!! Clues: -Hates me -Can travel to me!! So not the other half one -...Can I travel to her actually? Test eventually - - - Maybe can try talking about random stuff and see how she responds? Don’t think she’s just a clone. NAME CHANGE!! 3/23 Headband showed her as “Nora” instead of “Aron”. -DON’T CALL HER NORA. OR ARON. ALSO DON’T ASK ABOUT IT AGAIN.

She read the list over once, and then again, and then added ‘Accepted help when hurt! Doesn’t mean much, but still’ to her list of clues, sticking it as a subnote underneath ‘Hates me’.

She then read it over a third time and, satisfied, closed it out.

Maybe this run hadn’t been… all that bad, considering that objectively, it had been a decent mining trip. Her twin- no, that sounded wrong actually- her double had gotten all the redstone needed, and she herself had gotten all the iron she’d been wanting, as well as her own redstone, and a heap of gravel that she’d have to go through later. She didn’t mind. Having something to do was always nice, regardless of how monotonous the task may be.

Gave her more time to think, anyway.

She glanced up at the sun’s position, and realized it was lower than she’d thought it would have been. With a pop, she tugged on a cord that snapped her wings open, then pulled out a firework. And then she paused, firework at the ready.

Her eyes flicked to the sun again, squints.

Should she?

She wasn’t really sure how it worked, she’d never done it before.

…No. Not right after that, at least.

Maybe later.

Her eyes set forward again, and she took a second to blink spots out of her vision.

She’d go home, with her new supplies, and her new experience with her helsmit, and she’d think it over for a while while she worked on her new project, that’s what she was going to do.

…And brew two new health potions to make up for the ones used. She never did get the other one back- but maybe Nora could use it later. Maybe an extra as a gift wouldn’t hurt Aron’s chances with her helsmit.

Maybe.

She lit the fuse, and took off.

[tulipe-rose]

I was going through a list of flowers, and their symbolism with the intent of finding some info for future reference when I came upon the Belledonna.

Atropa belladonna, commonly known as belladonna or deadly nightshade, is a toxic perennial herbaceous plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae.

An alternative name for the belladonna according to a review on one of the sites I looked through was 'The assassin's drug' in past history, because it tastes sweet, and causes death.

Another review came up to say that Belladonnas help with fevers, and a third one said that the op had a cystoscopy on their left kidney, and the surgical notes stated that once the stone, and equipment were removed, a "Belladonna & Opium suppository" was administrated (B&O for short); they are common after kidney stone removal procedures because they help control what is essentially a painful post-op cramping of the urethra.

The name originates from it's historic use by women, as bella donna is Italian for 'beautiful woman'. It was used to dilate woman's pupils since it was considered to be attractive, and seductive.

In light of my short research, I assume that Dazai used this as a pet name for the women he invites to double suicides knowing all of this. A beautiful woman that agrees to a double suicide would be a deathly one, but her presence would bring comfort alongside the death to come.

It would make a funny pun for florists/plant enthusiasts (me)/pharmacists, and maybe even doctors out there who are exposed to Dazai's flirtatious pick up lines.

'Just being in the presence of your beauty makes my heart race, my dear Belladonna!'

'You should go see a doctor then, my chemistry would start affecting your digestive system pretty soon if you don't hurry lol'