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they call me the griever because halfway through a thing I enjoy Iām already sad that itās closer to being over
#blue chatter#trying to work on not doing this#and just enjoying the thing in the moment#this happens to me a lot with school breaks and such#like āoh I love being on spring break but Iām sad bc Iām already 3 days inā#āoh I love summer vacation so far itās too bad itās already a month overā#and Iām like NO!!!!! blue!!!!!!!! youāre missing the point!!!!!!!!#you have the joy *right now* and you are SPOILING IT bc youāre too busy looking ahead to when it will be gone!!!!!!!!!#it happens with friend visits a lot. itās less bad now but it still happens.#like. the first time I visited friends over spring break I woke up in the early morning of the last morning and just cried#because I only had a few hours left before I had to get on the plane home#and I start hurriedly stuffing seconds and minutes into my mouth and refusing to swallow#because maybe if I just cling extra hard then the time wonāt pass-#but it does pass. and thatās okay. and I know thatās okay because life had more joyful things after that moment#had I stayed there on that day I would have been frozen as a much more miserable person#my friends themselves would have been very different people#I mean. fuck. between then and now two of us figured out our genders. both of them got married. they moved somewhere else now.#thereās a lot of little joys that got left behind there. a church they loved. a local park. mountains and windy streets.#but I wouldnāt hold ourselves there. which I try to remind myself when I start crying about lost time again#because yeah. this will end someday. human lifespans arenāt infinite.#but the future is full of life I still have to live. thereās no saying that I canāt have good things again.#and this period of my life is rapidly rushing towards a much more uncertain future and I know that and itās scary#I know I have about 11 months to make several very adult decisions that will determine a lot of my future#but no matter what I choose this period of my life is not wasted#and I donāt need to hurriedly optimize every second and mourn losing them#and I know that. and I still feel sad and mourny. but that might be more indicative that Iām hungry or smth.
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yeehaw, baby!
#if u know me u knew this was inevitable#kon el#conner kent#tim drake#timkon#im gonna ramble after the boring tags ok#dc comics#fanart#western au#superboy#OK !!!! ITS TIME#so kon. obvs is a cowboy here#definitely a bit of a magnet for trouble but not an outlaw#still not the sort of person the son of the drake family's supposed to be talking to but yk kon's gonna try anyway#on tims end it pretty much follows the same events as the comics bc if it aint broke dont fix it#<- in terms of the whole sneaking out at night to do his own secret detective work thing at least#i have a whole silly story for the rest of it but im not gonna get into it all here lmao#but yeah i love cowboys and actual cowboy history vv much so this probably wont be the last u see of this au ą“¦ąµą“¦ą“æ Ėź³Ė )ā§#for now this post's rlly just for goofing around with design ideas#my art
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How the gentle wind,
Beckons through the trees,
As autumn colours fall.
#Iāve been trying to do some more full illustrations#working on colours and environments#which is awful and I hate it#but I feel like Iām at least progressing so yknow#a win is a win#PLUS! Iāve been meaning to draw these lil dudes for FOREVER#Itās certainly the weather for it#my art#over the garden wall#otgw#wirt#otgw wirt#otgw greg
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I'm curious. what job would you do if money was no object (you just automatically had an income you could live comfortably on)? including work like volunteering, studying etc. please share in the tags :)
#under this premise part time work is valid too!#personally i think i'd probably study. maybe do another masters maybe part time across two years this time#if i were to do a job job i think i'd try out working in a library (ideally an academic library). which would technically be more studying#since i'd need to get a library qualification first#i'm just very curious what people would choose if it was purely a choice of what appeals to you over the practicality/necessity#talking
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you just got to survive
#pearlescentmoon#impulsesv#wild life smp#life series smp#ive always wanted to try this color palette but also what the hell why did i do another yellow piece. i swear i used to never use yellow#anyway !!! I WANTED TO PAINT!!! before i go back to work week :'( life is rough#eydidraws#my art#trafficblr#mcyt
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Sudoku on the train home
He is like. Really good at it.
#pokemon#art#animation#sirfetch'd#sl#im weirdly proud of that BG tbh#im trying to get a finished look on animations in my own style just to see what i can do#not perfect but im working on it
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get MOLTED, idiot
#genshin impact#venti#jean gunnhildr#zilly art#could he just use the wind to help? probably yeah#is he smart enough to do this? absolutely not#he either always got dvalin to lick it better. or liyue's water system get clogged#venti tries rubbing himself all over morax like a cat trying to get burs off but that rarely works#rip diluc's place would also be covered in feathers and a whiny archon#venti excuses himself to the bathroom mid-performance at angel share and promptly tells diluc he's got a mess to clean up in there#goes back to singing and drinking#diluc frantically stuffing feathers in a bag#he and jean ponder if they could make pillows with the down? sorry the pillows curse your dream with The Edlritch Horrors
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More boys being silly with each other ;w;
#gravity falls#stanley pines#stanford pines#stan twins#sea grunks#my art#sketches#stan pines#ford pines#id in alt text#sorry Iāve been slacking on the ID#Iām so used to not doing them but iāll try to remember!#and sorry for no art in a bit#been back to work after a week off and itās rough lol
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The FNAF Mikes talk about their extended family..
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#michael afton#mike schmidt#henry emily#aunt jane#fnaf movie#fnaf pizzeria simulator#fnaf fanart#AUNT JANE FINALLY MENTIOMED š„š„#tbh I didnāt mean for it to take this long just to draw Jane but here we are#I still got a handful of fnaf movie characters I still gotta draw BAHA#one day Iāll do em all#THIS IS a lil joke of comparing Michael and Mikeās extended family relationships#itās actually kinda interesting we donāt get much insight into Michael and Henry#but I always kinda assumed Henry was close enough to the family to be considered family#so to Michael Henry is his uncle#and they have a complicated relationship in their later years#WHILE MIKE knows aunt Jane and doesnāt like her BAHAH#she did keep trying to bank off Abby#and sent a crew to vandalize his work to get him fired#SO YEAH UNDERSTANDABLE they donāt have the strongest relationship šš#the differences are pretty funny though.. ones angsty and the other is almost comedic#no shade to aunt Jane btw we love awful women here šš¾
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since I've seen it talked about in several places recently:
if you are going to do a whump- or kink- or ANY-tober or other similar challenges please please please don't post them as one fic with 31 chapters unless it actually is one coherent fic. if they're 31 completely separate fics or ficlets then please just make a collection for them or just post them as separate fics. it doesn't matter if they're only 100 words or if you think they're too small or insignificant to post alone, they're not.
and why this?
because if you post all 31 of them in one fic the tagging is absolutely useless. if I look for things to read on ao3 I'm gonna look at the tags, and if the tags include something that's a dealbreaker for me, i won't even click on the fic. I might not even SEE the fic because I've filtered out the nope-tag! so I'm gonna lose out on reading 30 perfectly nice fics because of one fic that my nope-tag applied to.
ao3 is about archiving. it's about clear tagging and being informative. there is nothing informative about it if the tags in the fic apply to random chapters while others have nothing to do with it. it makes so much more sense to have each work as an individual fic with its own individual tags and warnings, so readers can make informed choices.
of course, you do you. I can't police what other people decide to do. but personally, I find it incredibly frustrating to weed through 31 chapters to find the ones I actually want to read. so I don't. I automatically scroll past all works posted like that. and I know some others do, too.
there is absolutely no shame in posting short things on ao3. there is no minimum word count. no one is going to look at you funny if you post a small ficlet on its own, I promise. it's just going to make some readers very happy when they can actually find the things they want to read.
so, please. at least consider the upsides of posting each work as their own fic.
signed, one very frustrated fandom grandma.
#ao3#fanfic#fandom#I'm not trying to dictate what others do#so if you still wanna keep posting#completely unrelated works as chapters of one thing#then go for it#i'm not your mom#but please at least consider the alternative#and how much easier it'll be for people to#both find it and to make informed choices#of what they want to read
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There's a version of the "don't go grocery shopping while hungry" rule specifically for writers where you should never under any circumstances be allowed to touch your draft within 3 hours of reading a really good story. Because sometimes when you read something great your head goes "fuck this is so much better than my stuff I should make that more like THIS instead!" Look at me. That's the devil talking and you should close the document NOW.
#you will make superficial edits that do not gell well with the rest of your work#and won't actually capture what you thought was so good about that story#close the doc. sit down. think about it for a while. inspiration is fine. getting a 'eureka' moment from another story is fine#but if you find yourself comparing your work one to one with someone else's and taking any differences to be flaws on your part then STOP#you will never write good stuff by trying to make it look less like you wrote it#writing#writing advice#guess who just had to go into her google doc history and undo a bunch of panic-induced edits#because she read a fic about the same characters she's writing for?#meeee. they aged badly within just a few hours of hindsight. learn from my mistakes#self-hatred is not a good motivation for creation#fic writing
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they share a single braincell when together š§
#sillie.jpg#dont bother trying to convince me kento āwork is shitā nanami wouldnt do this#he can be a lil silly as a treat#jujutsu kaisen#nanami kento#gojo satoru
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"karasu search how 2 cheer human up"
"karasu search difference between sad human and zoning out human"
"karasu search how long is it safe for humans to zone out for?"
(+ a longer look at each scene:)
#art#gif#obey me#this was meant to be a quick test. it was not quick. i think this is was the longest i've spent on drawing something since rolling ik#for some reason procreate keeps fucking up the colours on export and i'm too tired to figure out how to make it stop#can you tell that satan and lucifer were animated first?#funnily enough satan showing ik his book was pretty simple but lucifer walking was like. impossible. he kept turning out fucked up#i was so worn out by the end of it that everyone else's animations are way simpler#(the walk still doesn't look right but i've made peace with that.... i should've done some tutorials or smth first)#(such is my hubris: when i try to do new art things it's mainly by brute-forcing my way through it and hoping it works)#jtta ik#obey me lucifer#obey me mammon#obey me leviathan#obey me satan#obey me asmodeus#obey me beelzebub#obey me belphegor#anyway i'd like to experiment more with trying to animate things in future so!! look forward to that?
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VIII Strength redraw
#setting: inver#i posted this on patreon aaaaages ago half-finished and then today was like well... i've run out of stuff to do so might as well try this#the original one had a kind of foresty element in the bg and i wanted the cut branches to resemble blood vessels. it didn't quite work#so i just cut out the middle man#artists on tumblr#i sacrificed his arm hair for this o7
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Personally, it's always a bit wild to me to see commentators interact with the Hunger Games franchise as if Collins were writing science fiction stories instead of essays with faces. She's just not that interested in fleshing out side characters or digging into the details of the worldbuilding. These characters are concepts and symbols before they're people. There's an almost mathematical precision to who and what she explores and how deeply she does it. This is a step or two away from pure allegory. If she were writing a couple of centuries ago, she'd have named her characters things like Innocence and Anger and Watch-Carefully-Your-Soul-Lest-Ye-Be-Damned, but since she's writing for modern audiences, she has to settle for puns and allusions. If she has another essay to write, she'll assign some faces to it; she's not going to look into backstories or other eras just for the sake of storytelling, and it's not a failing as a writer that she doesn't.
#the hunger games#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#suzanne collins#i've done plenty of comparisons between her work and tolkien but this is where she turns chesterton#this is partly in response to an article and comments about where the franchise could go next#(where the usual suspects like finnick and haymitch's games were mentioned)#and also a bit about a comment on a prequel fanfic i saw#where they're like 'you're better than collins in fleshing out the worldbuilding and characters'#as if that was something she was trying to do
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your pearl is one of my favorite designs for her iāve ever seen <3 her face shape feels so right, and i love how you draw her hair. by way of a request, have you ever drawn her as an avian?
thank you so much! pearl's design is definitely my favorite to draw :')
ive done a bit of practice with pearl and grian as avians but that was way before i started posting hc publicly! ( these ones are new :D )
also played around with an alternate version! i dont know much about birds but i saw the australian barn owl and took more inspo from them
#pearlescentmoon#i also drew pearl with her head tilted all the way like how owls do but it ended up a bit freakier than i expected heh#me barely dipping my toes into more crechur designs... im too scared to try#eydireqs#asks#hc#my art#pearl was THE first hermit i ever drew (cleaning lady pearl and suit pearl)#she's always looked like this to me in my head#although in my earlier sketches she had curlier hair in the front that slowly phased out to the swoopy ones she has now#anyway this was really fun to do!!! i definitely need to do more studies on how wings work but :DD#learning many a things over here
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