#tldr am sick

[ask-the-badman]

Just a side note, I've been a bit under the weather lately. Got some kind of head cold, so returning Johnny to normal size may take a bit to write out as my brain feels very stuffy. So it'll happen.. just whenever my brain wants to cooperate.

Until then, these last few days have been real fun for me. G/t stuff has been a very enjoyable indulgence with Johnny and I hope to maybe do more in the future. Though that all depends on whether ya guys also had fun with it too. Wish I could have done more but I'm always leery of Tumblr TOS and what they do and don't like...

Anyways, just a lil update on me and my health, but I'll do my best to answer any asks when I can between naps. Thank you all in advance ♥

[weenie-kun]

it is pretty nuts that once you realize you shouldnt be working the standard fulltime then you can never see it the same fjshf

i want more people to be paid more to work less and have more rest and less pressure and im not kidding. besides it accommodating less abled people everyone should have more time on their hands. i hate greed and money and capitalism

[juniper-clan]

I have a question about how you designed Slickpaw.

The sprite looks like it has spots, but the final design doesn't. How come?

Good question, he’s a black tabby / sokoke (?) with white patches technically.

I left out the darker black spots and stripes on him because they would add unnecessary detail to his design, and it’ll be faster to draw him and not have to worry about the tabby pattern.

For patterns I try to simplify them for ease of drawing. That’s actually why I chose Heron to be a patternless cat!

[mintjeru]

i should probably be practicing how to draw yuder given i'm having a hard time w/ him but kishiar,,,

open for better quality | no reposts

[bastiodon8]

i drew (and headcanoned some of) people's courtneys. too out of it to tag the specific ppl these courtlets come from so if you see your courtlet say hi i guess? wanted to post this since i love this piece so much and i love seeing how people interpret concepts.

and a bonus featuring my own courtlet. thank you.

[pathos-logical]

Do you know of any resources or posts specifically about captioning comics? I am very new to this, but I love comics and I make comics so I want to learn how to caption them properly. Thank you for your blog and all you do!

Delighted you asked this, since it gives me the excuse to share one of my top favorite posts about exactly that!!! I used @/TheQueerWithoutFear's addition in this post as a personal bible when starting out with art IDs! I think this post also has advice which is generally applicable to lots of comic IDs, since people can get bogged down writing every single detail of a piece when the broad strokes would do and thus detract from the overall comprehensibility of an ID. I also really appreciate this site as a great resource for examples on how to write concisely and with an audience in mind, and this post also lays out a lot of good tips! I'll round out this post with some general advice/guidelines:

Neither alt text nor caption IDs are better or even necessarily more accessible than the other; what matters is good formatting (so please don't put IDs below a readmore or use anything but plain text, use sentence case and primarily formal language, use brackets and "ID/End ID" formatting for caption IDs but omit them from alt, etc!)

For comics, especially long ones, I personally favor conciseness over strict fidelity to art, though this is highly subjective and depends on the piece and sometimes my mood. What I would boil this down to is that you don't need to include every detail in a piece to write a good ID, and using narration/prose is often more understandable than transcribing visual techniques (Ex: "She notices something to the side" is clearer and more succinct than "Action lines next to her face indicate she saw something to the side")

Organizing an ID's information in a top-down format is best for comprehensibility: start with who/what is featured (and where they're from, if applicable) and what they're doing, and then move on to background, style, and details

Last, you're welcome, and thank YOU so much for reaching out!! Artists like you make the world go round!! Please feel free to reach out if you ever have more questions, and have a wonderful day!!!

[scattered-winter]

every day i kick a rock and bash my head into the wall because i'll never get to go on a big space adventure and become tightly close-knit with my new found family up there <//3

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

hai guys :3

[dirtbra1n]

it’s always when I have things to be doing that this happens but it’s like. I don’t know I’ve gone so far into weird love territory and I’ve been here so long that when I go back and really look at canon it’s like it’s new to me. because like do you ever think about how hanzawa masato just sort of DECIDED that tashiro would be the next captain of the ping pong club. like it wasn’t a recommendation or anything that decision was made. and absolutely if tashiro genuinely GENUINELY didn’t want to do it nothing bad would have really happened, someone else could have done it, sure. you know? but at the end of the day tashiro, in the midst of his running away, had that thought, like. not in a thought bubble but in a b Hold on

in the narration box. like it’s not a fleeting in-the-moment thought like the whole poor shmuck thing. I’m not explaining this well. it’s just you get the impression that tashiro thinks about things a lot and also tangentially kind of thinks about his hanzawa senpai a lot and that realization of burden is so significant to tashiro that he takes on the position of captain

and he doesn’t look him in the face when he does it, and I love it. I love when things are indirect and subtle and sort of reluctant because it’s human and speaks to sincerity and tashiro’s grounded…ness that he isn’t unflinchingly happy to do it. he still doesn’t really want to do it. but he will. and he’ll do it WELL. because and this so matters hanzawa masato just sort of DECIDED that tashiro would be the next captain of the ping pong club because he knows tashiro and has been watching tashiro as a fun kouhai who he likes a lot and who makes him laugh like literally no one else in the world, and he knows that he would be a good president because he is, amongst other relevant things, a good person. the right kind of good person! he wouldn’t have forced tashiro to do it because frankly he couldn’t REALLY force tashiro to do it, tashiro has a way of getting around things (pudding head….) but he decided tashiro would be captain, because he knows tashiro, and tashiro decided to take that on, because he sees hanzawa. he decided that tashiro would be captain, and tashiro decided to accept that decision because hanzawa decided correctly.

and tashiro cares, and encourages his senpai to rest, and we get the FUCKING.

that just speaks VOLUMES. hanzawa masato who notoriously stays busy for at least one of two known reasons that sound a little contradictory but aren’t actually is resting right now. hanzawa masato who is so weird and so unknowable to his juniors is wearing a small smile that, unlike so many of his other ones (ominous as they are, usually), shows for only contentment. he’s resting right now. like the tashiro gonzaburou hanzawa masato dynamic IS so weird I’m not delusional for that. but my favorite thing that I think I do a really bad job of showing is that their exchanges go back and forth and are so much fun for the both of them, and it’s exactly like PING PONG. well matched and silly and hanzawa masato knows tashiro gonzaburou and if tashiro gonzaburou doesn’t know hanzawa masato he sure as hell sees him, and wants to know him, just a little at least, and it’s all so much. I’m resting right now. fuck. anyway

[allgremlinart]

an important skill is recognizing my oppositional media consumption habits approximately a week or two before they hit catastrophic levels; this is a skill I have painstakingly developed over the years but I can now say with confidence its a skill I've mastered. I now know when to start filtering tags for something before my brain closes off any future avenues of media discovery.

[eye-in-hand]

disliking kids is not a moral failing thanks for coming to my ted talk

[ballercollective]

Im going to kill like 10 different people if i hear another peep about payjay because oj ans paper interact in the trailoR IM GONNA LOSE ITTTT IM GONNA GO FERAL STOPPPPPPPP

[blackvahana]

I deserve a little ink. as a treat (said because im feeling drawn to squid ink completely ignoring the fact that i darken spaces when i walk into them and seep into reality as black)

[torchickentacos]

taylor idk who chappell roan is i think that makes me disqualified from being queer forever (←sapphic girl)

She's a musical artist! She's pretty up-and-coming right now and is seen as a wlw queer icon in the music industry, but I've never been able to get into her music even though tons of other sapphics love it. I probably just haven't given it enough of a chance. Casual is a good song though!

[lee-hakhyun]

Hey lime!! This ask is gonna be sad, just in case you don’t have the spoons for it rn and reading this makes it worse. Take care of yourself!!

I haven’t read the orv side stories yet (because I’m a coward) but I’ve seen some spoilers and it got me thinking.. what if this is about grief and living on with it(for the kcom). The stages of grief. With the side stories ending with acceptance. Knowing that they tried everything and in the end he was still gone.

I desperately don’t want him to be gone. But he has already been reincarnated.. and they are living somewhat happier lives than he had. I feel like I’m being selfish by wanting him to come back.

Just wanted to hear your thoughts on the whole stages of grief thing

so! i had this in my drafts for a while. trying to figure out how to word my thoughts, and maybe think of how things might go. but then the newest chapter came out, and ah! it addressed (part of) this.

they know they can't get all of kim dokja back. and they know that when someone is lost, grief cones through several steps. it's normal for humans to mourn, but eventually they would have to accept that fact and live with their absence.

that is, if they were normal. kim dokja, and kimcom, are not ordinary beings. they were saved over and over, there's no way they can just grieve normally. while acceptance may have been feasible at some point, maybe, it's clearly not the case anymore. in the same way han sooyoung said she'll write for eternity, all of kimcom are willing to be 'characters' for as long as it takes to get him back. they will not be able to move on. maybe that's not healthy, but. that's just how they are.

also, about the fragments. they are collecting the scattered fragments, but only the pieces that haven't been reincarnated into new people yet. <- also kim dokja is kinda. confirmed alive? at least some part of him..? he did leave them a note saying he'll be back (????) anyway they're not like attacking reincarnated kim dokja fragments (as of now) so there's no need to fret over that.

[peapod20001]

If u thought I died you thought incorrectly <3

Still kickin and scuttling. Like a roach