#thank you for askin!

[thicccqueyoongimin]

4,7,9,12,19,25,27 for the Bob asks!

thank you so much for the ask, friend! 🥰

here’s the answers:

4. which character do you relate to the most?

i think maybe george luz! i am pretty outgoing and i loveee attention unfortunately, so im always cracking jokes and its very satisfying to me when i can make someone laugh!

7. how did you first find out about the show?

my husband showed it to me! he’s in the army and one day, back in august of last year, he sat me down and told me i was going to watch it. i was reluctant at first, since im not really a tv watcher but needless to say i absolutely loved it! and now i like it more than him lol. but he’s happy that i loved it so much :D (fun fact it’s our 1st anniversary today!!)

9. which actor in the show is most suited for their role?

so, i think they all did an absolutely wonderful job.. but ross mccall seems to really embody liebgott for me. i was thinking about this the other day after i followed him on instagram… and all i can see is liebgott lol. i don’t know why, but that’s just how i feel!

12. which aspect of the show shocked you the most when you found out it wasn’t true?

so i kind of talked about this in the last answers i gave, but when i found out that blithe died much later than the show stated i was startled. it definitely shocked me, and i wonder why they didn’t change it! but i also remember reading that on google somewhere so i could be totally wrong about this whole thing.

19. which character would you let babysit? 

definitely winters or lipton… i feel like they would be responsible enough to keep everyone safe but they would also be very sweet! i wouldn’t have any second thoughts about leaving my babies or pets with them. if i wanted to take a more risky route i would choose luz, at least i would know they were all having a great time.

25. favorite friend pair in the show?

winnix definitely! i know i also answered this in the last one but they’re so tender and i can tell they luv each other! but also in contrast to that i do love me some webgott. they’re very angsty and i enjoy that.

27. do you have any merchandise related to the show?

not yet! i actually am thinking of getting some stickers to put on my laptop or waterbottle or even making some of my own with my own art.

anyways thank you so much for asking me, this really made my day! 💕🫶🏼💜🥰

[a-luran]

4, 15, 19 for the author asks?

hello!

4) favourite character you’ve written

tough to say! I'm inclined to say Alasdair, though, because I love him very dearly and he has been with me for so long now. Him and the OCs I've written for my original novels.

15) why did you start writing?

I was very young and very lonely so I started writing letters I imagined I might send one day. I never did, but I filled notebooks with them and started writing stories to go along with them.

19) when it comes to more complicated narratives, how do you keep track of outlines, characters, development, timeline, ect.?

I have a tremendous head for details! and are otherwise tremendously disorganised-yet-organised in my own way. I leave notes scattered everywhere but I have a good sense of where to find them when I need them. A lot of what I write I based off the things I see or think when I'm out and about so a lot of the time just having a glance or a walk will remind me of plot points and details. When it comes to characters I have other ways! I fill journals or take no hobbies that they would to develop them a bit more; inconsequential things that in the end have a bearing to the narrative I'm trying to craft.

[astrangeavenue]

HI i was wondering if i could use your art from this post: https://www.tumblr.com/astrangeavenue/747939434826268672/fanart-of-a-post-i-like-without-text?source=share

as an icon for a rescue bots community i’m trying to make? if not that’s fine but i wanted to ask before i did anything !! /gen

oh yeah go ahead!! as long as you credit me properly feel free

[longlivelindanny]

💼 - What do they do for a living?

Brie is a psychologist, while Harry is head of/owns his own company. Phoebe is the secretary at Brie’s office

[seafoamsol]

Hey, different post than usual, but this is just a PSA for people who may follow or have purchased anything from @/kagebros, or are looking to join any of the zines run by them @/allsparkzines. They have a history (and present) of tracing for profit.

I don’t think this one requires an overlay. It’s a trace of the yolopark bumblebee shockwave model kit promotional image, as a “sketch”.

Which they changed, once people noticed it! Changed most of it. They traced a different promotional image for the gun, which remained largely the same, even in the final piece (right).

Their matching Optimus Prime poster is a trace of the still from a [ Paramount promo video ], 36 seconds in.

There are several other examples that I can’t fit into this post without making it overly long, but if you have purchased or have been gifted anything from them, there is a chance it has been traced.

Regarding tracing as a tool:

Go hogwild! Trace all you want! Tracing is a very useful tool for learning shapes and forms, but like any other tool, it’s only useful if you use it correctly. The ultimate goal of tracing is to understand. It’s training wheels. Just don’t hide and lie about it, because as soon as you do, it becomes plagiarism.

Even within the finished versions of the Shockwave poster, it’s still clear where parts have been traced or copied without understanding. It’s a shame, because transformers as a franchise having so many toys makes it very easy to make references!

Here's an example of how I use them:

Luckily for me, the Cybertron toys and models are more or less exactly the same. I don't own the toys, so I have two images from a [ toy reviewer ] on top. Many angles to help me understand exactly what's happening. Granted, I could just ask my friend who does own the toy for him in the same pose, but tracing over that directly would make it too stiff and it wouldn't mesh with my style.

TL;DR: Kage traces, blindly and without disclosure, for profit.

[bepoucorp]

(Me running on 2 hours of sleep asking this lol) Could you draw Batman and joker as WOMEN CMON MAN WOMEN 🪭🪭🪭🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥💥💥💥 (I love women)

little comic + some bonus stuff nothing would really change about them if im being real LOL

[14dayswithyou]

Hello hope you’re doing well!!

How does it feel to sleep with Ren/Redacted in one bed? I mean how would they cuddle and other stuff,do they sleep less hours then needed? How would they react if angel went to get some water in the middle of the night.

Thank you!!

ANSWERED: Cuddling/sleeping with both Ren and [REDACTED] have been answered here already!

Ren would be observant enough to pick up on Angel's night habits, so if they often went to get water, he'd probably already have a glass/bottle ready on their bedside table. If not, he's more than happy to get it himself. Very much golden retreiver energy!!

[birdmitosis]

Are you still dining the ask game? If you are what are your thoughts on the pristine blade

[ask game here]

LOL okay I will definitely do this one. This is a very cool ask actually and I am so excited to share my thoughts on the pristine blade itself!

First impression

This is just our implement. We had to have a weapon of some sort available to us to be able to slay the Princess, right? Mostly I just kinda dismissed the blade as a storytelling convention and that's about it.

Impression now

Much more intrigued, honestly! The pristine blade is one of the only parts of the Construct besides us, the Princess, the Narrator in our head, and the environment. It is almost always there (besides in The Wraith, interestingly enough) and it is always "pristine" -- even in the dirt or covered in blood. Is it a piece of us? A piece of the Princess? A piece that came from the messy tear that separated us? And does it have any connection to the Princess's chains -- the only other part of the Construct besides those things? What does its being "pristine" signify? There is definitely something about this blade...

Favorite moment

When you hold it the "cool" way by default if you take the blade in The Apotheosis. That combined with the swell of epic music and us facing down a Biblically Accurate Princess large enough to have her own gravitational pull just made me cheer out loud when I first saw it!

Idea for a story

This one's a bit harder. I haven't had any real ideas up to now, except to explore in various fic how the voices might choose to arm themselves post-Construct, who would continue to choose blades, or if they managed to have the blade when they left who would most often have it (or be allowed to)...

I could also, though, see a fun fic coming from the idea of "what if the blade was available in The Wraith?" Or maybe what if it wasn't available at all in The Den or The Thorn?

Unpopular opinion

IDK if this is super unpopular, but I think it is even more interesting and fucked up and badass of her if you go the route of screwing up so bad with Thorn that she swallows the blade whole. If nothing else, it really shows how much of Witch is still in her, and I love that!

Favorite relationship

I can't narrow it down to just one!

I love the relationship Cold has with the blade as almost an extension of himself, as both being weapons. I love Contrarian's dedication (until the Stranger ending) to throwing it out the window and also his insistence to hold it the other way that comes back in The Apotheosis even though he's not there! I love Hunted's relationship to the "steel claw." I love Paranoid's moment of "steel can't lie to us," and how she's perfectly willing to use it to slit our own throat despite desperately not wanting to die before. I love Skeptic refusing to let you not take the blade and being willing and able to stop your heart if you don't use it in the leadup to The Grey!

I also love Adversary wanting us to stab her with it. How Damsel is perfectly willing to let you chop bits of her off with it (how metaphorical), and accepts her death if you slay her with it with tears in her eyes, and has it firmly in her heart as the Burned Grey, and if you reach for it she gently holds your hand there. How Prisoner uses it to cut off her own head. Everything about Witch and Thorn's relationship to it, whether things go well or terribly. How in The Wraith it just disappears entirely, for the only time in the entire game!

And I love how desperately the Narrator clings to it, needs it to be there. And I love the relationship the Princess (Harsh, Soft, or Stranger) in Shifty's heart has with it; her line that since you chose to take the blade, it has to be used, just gets me right in the heart.

I guess if I had to chose, out of those three... "categories" I suppose? I'd choose Skeptic, Damsel -> Burned Grey, and Shifty's Heart.

Favorite headcanon

I mean, it's not confirmed, but I think I like the idea that the pristine blade and the Princess's chains are similar things. Only you can use the pristine blade to attack with, though the Princess can use it against herself (Prisoner and Thorn most obviously), she never stabs you with it even when she winds up with a blade of her own; you have very little effect over the chains, only being able to be trapped in them in The Prisoner, while Prisoner can attack you with them, several of the vessels can free themselves from them, and the ones you free from them plant the idea in your head first (Damsel, Tower). The chains, like the blade, are always in the same place until certain Chapter IIIs, where sometimes they disappear.

The pristine blade is tied to the Long Quiet in some way, may be a part of him, while the chains are tied to the Shifting Mound in some way. Again, not confirmed, but I really like the idea.

ETA: @salty-an-disco pointed out a thing that makes EVEN MORE sense and is super cool: the idea that the pristine blade is actually a piece of the Shifting Mound (a piece of death that you can use to kill with), while the chains are a piece of the Long Quiet (stagnancy trying to trap her)! So the pristine blade is actually tied to the Shifting Mound as a part of her, while the chains are tied to the Long Quiet likewise.

Again, not confirmed, but this idea rocks so much that I am immediately adopting it forever.

ETA 2: I AM SO EMBARRASSED I forgot the three damn times the Princess canonically uses the pristine blade to kill you. Scratch that part. /)////(\

This actually makes Sal's theory more likely to me, too, though: The blade can be used to kill, but the chains actually never are; the Prisoner is never able to kill you before you can kill her if you get close enough that she attacks you with the chains.

[pixlokita]

Question:What is your favorite FNAF game and why?

Question:, In your "Gregory into the pit AU" comic how did Gregory and C.C manege to get Michael's body back to their house?

1: Help wanted because it has everything and Helpy 💖

2:

They both had to carry him in a little wagon since the house was pretty close to the restaurant it wasn’t that hard ^^

[spicyraeman]

What pronouns does your tav use? and do you have a gender identity/sexuality in mind for them?

My main tav Virranan uses he/they/she pronouns and they're about as much a man as they are a woman, which is to say... debatable (somewhere in the nonbinary area or adjacent)

As for sexuality they're just your average tumblr bisexual

[shinesurge]

I, for one, would love to read your thoughts on comics vs novels.

A similar bugbear I have is the conflation or comics and animation, two mediums that are both lamentably infantilized. In my opinion we've seen this more in the past twenty years with the mainstream acceptance of anime in the US, the idea that comics are just a storyboard for animation, or just an ancillary tie in.

Utterly foolish.

Hard same about the lack of respect for animation AND viewing comics as a jumping off point for more """legitimate""" forms of art, that's a whole different conversation but UGH ughgjsldjf. Guillermo Del Toro has a lot of good stuff to say about it and he's smarter than I am hehe

ANYWAY I reserve the right to come back and write another essay on this later when I have more time and stamina but my opinion here mostly boils down to the difference between looking at a picture and reading a word, right

In prose, as an author, I have room to take time and use the EXACT words I want to communicate. Those words have definitions, and while I can already hear poets (and my fellow english majors i'm sure) complaining that words are extremely malleable and context dependent, ultimately they DO have definitions no matter what because the writer chose them.

Like, okay, Phineas is looking at Ulrich and I go, in a scene where Phineas is leading, "Ulrich's face is unreadable." It doesn't MATTER what other ways you could read that, I THE AUTHOR have indicated that the thing to take away from this is "Phineas cannot get information from Ulrich's face." Ultimately there's no other way to interpret that sentence in that context, literally just by virtue of having to describe the interaction with words that have definitions I have dictated what I want the takeaway to be. We can discuss that decision all day long, but it IS a concrete aspect that can only ever be concrete, and it must be acknowledged in any analysis; jumping to prose is WILD because I suddenly have infinitely more influence over the audience. Not an inherently bad thing! It is a feature of the medium! BUT

In a comic (IGNORING the thousand billion framing/coloring/lighting/paneling/layout decisions that could multiply the context) this scene would probably be the audience looking at two characters from the outside, with zero concrete guidance from me the author for how exactly to interpret the interaction. Every single reader who looks at those panels could find something different about the art to extrapolate different data from and ALL of their findings could be correct. Looking at their expressions could feel different to everybody, maybe she CAN read his face and still feels confused, maybe she DOES get it and is choosing not to share for reasons. Could be anything!!

And again, listen listen to me I respect prose SO so much and I am not saying at all that it isn't an equally complex and nuanced medium worth analyzing. I went to school specifically for this, almost ALL my biggest artistic influences are prose writers. This is apples and oranges don't anybody dare take this as me putting down writing as art. My point here is I am goddamn tired of comics not getting their due as an extremely complex form of art on its own from anybody anywhere, audiences or publishers or critics or (it often feels like) anyone besides us freaks who are masochistic enough to make them. It's the single most frustrating thing I've encountered in my career and I have no idea what to do about it tbh.

Tangentially, I'm also sick of people going "no totally, comics ARE art. I read Watchmen AND Sandman :)" or like, trotting out some harrowing black and white autobio. Those are fine! It's FINE, but please fucking god I am begging people to consider newer comics and more varied art styles too, additional good comics HAVE been produced in the last 20 years, and also comics aren't ONLY worth something when they're either working hard to downplay the fact that they're cartoons or dealing with fully realistic heavy topics (or in Sandman's case, allowed a pass because Gaiman used to be a respected enough creator to be allowed to do his thing).

I'm just tired dude I love comics so much and I believe in telling stories with them that are allowed to be just as weird and varied as stories any other format. We shouldn't have to constantly justify our existence to everybody before we even get to discuss the art itself, I'm so fucking frustrated lmao

[ask-7-11]

-Pixel walks up to 7-11 and tugs on his sleeve while holding his bat-

Want to play.

-Pixel points to a crate full of grenades-

-Pixel

Kid.

What—

[spinnysocks]

heyo spinny!! whats some of your favourite tlg ships? or just any you like in general

EHEHEHE rubbing my hands together. evilly. hehehe

well, kiburi is my pathetic wet cat blorbo and i happen to love all the crackships for him. kiburi x makuu? funny as fuck. kiburi x ushari? love them in nikki's pirate au they keep me up at night. kiburi x janja? the outlands brotp ever. my favourite character's stupid ships my beloved yknow?

in terms of other ships: reirei x goigoi obviously. baobabfruit ofc (thanks to you :] /pos). jasiri x kion because yeah. and as you could never tell (/sarc) i love poly ships so banzai x shenzi x ed, tano x nne x madoa, & kiara x tiifu x zuri are ones i really enjoy too. oh and i'll say timon x pumbaa too since they were my first tlk ship i suppose :]

[kakimushire]

Cautiously spying from afar. Ah, he remembers the painted face …

From AFAR, hm? So you think you are safe?

[morningstargirl666]

Hi! I’m a HUGE FAN of your story The Big Bad Wolf and I’m so honored to be able to talk with you. I have already read the whole story like twenty times and absolutely love it. Klaus is my absolute favorite character in both TVD and TO and I feel he didn’t get the ending he deserved in canon. I’m so glad you gave him a chance to have a relationship with his real dad, and expanded his relationships with his siblings, particularly Kol. I am trying very hard to wait patiently for the rewrite, and from the sneak peeks you’ve posted I’m sure it’s going to be amazing. Also, absolutely love all the Klaroline moments, those two are just made for each other and I sometimes just watch Season 3 and 4 of TVD just for Klaroline. Also love you chose to eliminate all the Hayley drama, just ugh hated that in canon and I hope Hayley NEVER even appears in your stories.

I was wondering though, do you think you might include Klaus having a baby with Caroline maybe? I just always thought is was so cool in canon how he was the only vampire who could reproduce. And I think including this and making it work with like the mate bond being part of the hybrid loophole would be super cool. Also I feel like a huge part of Klaus’s character and his redemption story is him being a dad and the love for his child motivated him more than anything to be a better person and open his heart. I think having him become a dad with the woman he loves would help him to better himself tremendously. Also, love how Caroline was an amazing “mom” to the twins in canon and I feel like having them have a child together just makes perfect sense and that they would be amazing parents.

Anyway these are my thoughts but let me know your expert opinion about them. Have a great day and wishing the best of luck to continue writing your masterpiece and finish soon.

❤️❤️

Hi! Lovely to meet you! Thanks so much for reading and loving the story; it's close to my heart too. I was working on it tonight in fact! Got a scene done that's in Rebekah's new character arc chapter. It's looking up to be a tearjerker.

And as for Hayley and a Klaroline baby.... um...

Well.

This is awkward.

First, Hayley WILL make an appearance in TBBW. Don't worry though! I have certain... plans for Hayley Marshall that may or may not end with her demise hehehehehehe. As for Klaus having a baby with Caroline....

Yeah... Nah, I'm not touching that.

[bepoucorp]

HI I LUVVV UR JOKER I got into batman for the first time since I was like 11 a few months ago and u were first batman fandom artist I followed... the way u draw Joker made me go Hey Wait I think he's the best and now I've written like 15k words of batjokes fanfic. this is my love note to u ty. Woker 4 life

AWWW oh my god, thank you!! this is so sweet! id love to maybe read ur fic at one point ? /nf but thank you for sending this... ughh