#we're animals too.

[spengsart]

Holy crap how is your art so incredible?! ;3; I admit I envy your ability to draw the TF2 dorks so easily! Please give words of advice for someone who can’t draw people well

~ TF2 Gremlin

Thank you so much!

I find it hard to give advice to other artists because in all honesty I don't have too much faith in my own artistic ability, even after getting an illustration degree, but I will say that I exclusively drew animals up until I started playing TF2 like 11 years ago.

Study artists! I recommend staying away from studying online artists when you can, because it can become too easy to compare your art to theirs, (at least it is for me). Whereas studying an artist whose process is vastly different to yours can offer a lot more insight.

I value motion, expression and emotion far above anatomical correctness, and I think this is foundational to my personal style. I think one of the worst things artists can do is rely too heavily on things looking "correct" or "right", rather than pleasing or fun.

Who give a shit if the eye shouldn't really be there or whatever, its about the moment you're capturing. idk if any of this is even slightly helpful but just do your thing and keep doing it! There is no wrong way to do art, which is what makes it so special. Experiment, do wacky shit. Enjoy doing it.

[bixels]

The Ryoko Kui interview's reception is such a disaster over a pretty normal (yet still flawed) interview between a non-Japanese fan and Japanese artistic. This is discourse for discourse's sake, and it's no surprise that almost every Twitter user I've looked at who's using this interview to parade Kui around as a goated mangaka standing strong against Western ideology is anti-trans.

Like, I do think the interview was kinda wonky with its focus on fandom culture, which Kui clearly didn't have much interest in. But sometimes that happens. Sometimes interactions between two people, especially a fan and a creator, two people who view and interact with a piece of media in completely opposite perspectives, don't click. Does this really need to get blown up into a "West vs. East culture war" issue.

Anyways, Kui saying "I don't consider my audience's interpretations when writing. I leave it to their imaginations, but I have my own read on things too" is the healthiest, most normal thing an artist/writer who wants a non-parasocial audience could say. Artists and writers use this line all the time. If Kui didn't enjoy autistic Laius or Farcille headcanons, she would have probably voiced/signalled her discomfort, like she did on the topic of Senshi fanservice. Overall, Kui handled the interview really well. Props to her to sticking to her guns and keeping a healthy disconnect from the fandom. While I think the interviewer could've/should've been more tactful and restrained, the flaws in their questions is not a symptom of the woke mind virus trying to wriggle its way into the pure Japanese psyche. It's the sign of an over-eager fan who sees a piece of fiction differently than its creator.

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

wear headphones :)

Transcript:

As much as I'd love to witness more of your prowess, I'd very much like to have that body of yours.

Is that a strap-on?

Machine, I'll cover you in more than blood.

Fuck. *exhale* Shit. Fuck-God! mmmm-ohohoho. fuck. fuck. h-Harder, Machine. Mph! *whimper* Hah... Come on!

End transcription

Sorry for this. I promise this is the worst thing I'll ever post. Unless he somehow manages to do something worse.

I can't really provide the audio sources in a neat way because this is 6 clips stuck together.

[jetsandflowers]

context: I think he got hit too hard and it swapped his faces

[guideaus]

i keep seeing posts talking about the recent animeexpo interview, and i think a lot of the dungeon meshi fandom is being massively inappropriate concerning ryoko kui. it's fine to have headcanons, but people are being very disrespectful to her, same as before when people were discussing her sexuality just because she drew a lot of women they thought were attractive. like you guys know this is a real human being, right..?

[chickpea0]

Do you guys ever think about historical age regression? And no I don't mean in fiction I mean like how there's so many people that regressed. What was it like? Do you wonder if there was a regressor and their caregiver who lived in the 60s? Did any adults or teens in the early 1900s wish they had a rocking horse every time they saw one in a shop window? What about even further, in the 1800s? The 1600s even. Older?

We're not alone, maybe modern day is during a time where regression is more present because it's a perfect amount of certain factors, sure but it's not like someone in 2014 just decided to! I think it's really facinating and intimate to imagine all these people throughout the years going through what we go through. And I bet a good lot of them lived happily. And maybe quite a few found a good support system.

[aroaceleovaldez]

i think a lot about how early-series, demigods are referred to pretty equally as "demigods," "half-bloods," and "godlings," - the last used particularly by gods at demigods - but after that "godlings" is almost exclusively used to refer to minor gods.

something something i am literally always chewing on the concept of the line between immortals/demigods/monsters/etc being thinner than it appears

[temeyes]

gonna meet tsukki tomorrow!! (his life-size standee that is... LOL)

[ask-but-beware-the-consequences]

Friender-Bender! (Dreamy for the Summer Vacation already...~)

Let's be honest, we all wanna kiss that belly by now.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

everyone gaze upon them

[sskk-manifesto]

Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple and how “ability users” (opposite to “normal people”) learning to accept themselves through the acceptance of their own abilities is a queer metaphor of acceptance of own's sexual orientation and gender: an essay by me

[pactw]

tbh the note at festa junina made cellbit decide to trust jaiden, but seeing the giant field of roses at her house is what made him say ohhh she's just like me: completely insane! and that's when he decided that he needs to be her bestie

[little-pup-pip]

25 Days of Agere Moodboards! Day 25: My regression aesthetic!!

[shadyufo]

All the cool tadpoles hang out in the writhing mass.

[the-kipsabian]

i stole this from twitter shhhh they dont need to know

[uncanny-tranny]

You know, if animals can have comfort objects and favourite people and relax when they have nothing to do, maybe we have that same permission. Maybe life - regardless of size - is about finding comfort, happiness, and security.