#thanks for the excuse

[leothetraveler]

for any of my mutuals that may be annoyed in any fashion from me suddenly reblogging other fandoms.

blame [name redacted] who indirectly gave me the go ahead just by reposting something and saying they want it to breach containment.

I know they weren't referring to me, but I use it as an excuse anyways.

[dayundying]

Oh no

[lalla-queendom]

Yes, I was born to huddle under the blanket and stay warm

the worst part about reading ancient roman philosophy is that sometimes you’ll read something expressly saying that people shouldn’t do something that you do frequently and it’s like diogenes threw a plucked chicken at you from 2000 years ago

[daikaiju-arts]

May we see some Gangle x Pomni plspls I just like them in your style 🙏🙏

I don’t necessarily ship them romantically per se, BUT I do like to think of them as being close friends 💚 I friendship them lol

Also a Bonus:

[wishfulsketching]

Both @dangerkrill and @teawithghosts mentioned this meme thanks to the leash art so I just had to do it!!!!

[hollis-art]

they can be best friends. they can be lovers. whatever they are, i am rooting for them

[meanbossart]

Kissing Du Drow looks like a censory nighmare (respectfully)

Well, SOME people are into the extra texture.

[tawnysoup]

Sketchpage commission for @bortort featuring some experience sharing and subsequent comforting <3

[theashenphoenix]

S A V E R O O M

A gift from the ever lovely @refinedstorage! 💖

[lil-lemon-snails]

Moon is king of half-lidded eyes...

Transcript: y/n: I wish you wouldn't watch me like that when I work...

As promised, the moon version of this post :3 + textless version below!

[nikkipettt]

Fontaine’s newest tour guide! 👀🦉💚

[liorlen]

gale origin playthru from astarion’s pov or smth like that

[waveoftheocean]

do you fw superbat?

just a little 😊

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[zorangezest]

Please Please Please may I humbly ask for a crumb of your human soundwave 🙏 Its one of my most fav designs ive seen so far of this cryptid metal man

Please and Thank you, love your art soso much Im gnawing on it with love

I actually have a few human soundwave designs! I wasn’t sure which one to pick for the ask so take them all, please don’t chew him!!! you will get tetanus!!!!!

and there’s this one with the gas mask that I designed to cope with finals…hes out there somewhere in a post-apocalyptic world maybe??

[qqueenofhades]