#what are your burning questions?

[awbarnes-no]

anon call // starting now !

"The mun is having a time of it, but for one I actually feel like opening up about myself. So I don't know . . . Send in some curious anons or whatever they're called. Whatever you're burning questions are. Just, turn on your location I just wanna talk."

[d8tl55c]

oh boy !! ! ! ! !!! ! thANK y0u all for the kind words on my last art posts. you all get it and i was/still am so happy about it

as promised, here's some close-ups of the comic for image quality's sake, and other screenshots i rescued from the community whiteboard (and something else)

first up another sketch of mystery gender-ambiguous being. (please send me more name ideas for them if you got one- i like to hear em! (reminder it's the side character that appeared for <10 seconds in AvM Ep. 30))

a few fav scenes

emotional support cwab

they weren't meant for this purpose exactly, but i do have countless "fluffy sticks" loose in my notes and homework sheets from the school years.

papery critter.

even when i wasn't confident in fur or feathers, they helped me practice posing and create some satisfying gradients/flowing poses. (im a sucker for good tail poses) (oh yay! i found a good pic...)

and finally, little sneak peak for you for reading so far ;3

i realized that whiteboardfox is pretty great for my working needs. simple and to the point and all. feels nice with the mouse and the tablet.

so i started hashing out a big project idea just to see if it holds up and

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several hours later ...

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oh

oh man

it's a little bigger than i expected

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[lobotomy-lady]

sickened whenever I recall the horrid fact that kurapika is literally the only one who speaks his first language, he has not heard a word of it out of another person's mouth since he was 13 & he knows he never will again. not to mention being the only one who shares his spiritual/religious beliefs, whatever they may be. celebrating any kurta specific holidays alone forever. it's literally sooo sick god I'm gonna throw up. probably can't even reminisce & take comfort in the memories of the good times bc the more recent memory of finding their mutilated corpses is always gonna inevitably float it's way to the front of his mind bc untreated PTSD is just like that. it's so fun & cool how he's not only alone as the last of his people but alone in his pain bc who the hell could even begin to relate to what he's been through. other genocide survivors can't relate, family annihilation survivors can't relate...talk about isolating. haha well anyways unrelated but its time to overdose on my antidepressants

[vulpine-gentleman]

What does the Slow Boat do to like lower your wounds? What's happening to the actual body while you're there? Does it patch itself up just by itself? Does that cause problems if there's no one to guide the body through healing (think how you need a cast to heal a broken bone, it puts the bone in the place it should heal in, what if that doesn't happen?)

[badgopher]

Friday

"Does table salt go bad" and "first amendment text" and "richmond virginia suburbs" and other things I've asked the Internet this week.

It was almost warm enough a couple days this week to make park days a thing. I tried. My toes got cold.

I think banning TikTok as it exists today is probably a good idea, but the law to effect that change seems to be in conflict with the first bullet point in the bill of rights. If we lived in a time where precedent mattered, I might be more bothered about how this all plays out. Will the government give TikTok assurances they wont enforce the law that the government enacted to oust them? Who knows. Does it matter? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ At the end of the day, I think I'm mostly just sad about my TikTok (maybe?) going away.

Booked a trip to (the suburbs of) Richmond, VA for the middle of February. A couple nights in Tuckahoe and a couple in Chester. Mostly just a vibe check. I'm hoping to settle on a plan by early March.

[work stuff.]

Rachel Platten is coming to town in March and it took me all of about 12 seconds to buy a ticket this morning, even though I haven't listened to her music in ages.

I have so many pictures to sort through and scan. And a bunch of laundry to fold.

Maybe this weekend.

It could happen.

[the-meme-monarch]

ok sorry i didn’t go insane over emesis blue like i thought I would but it is making me scared irl now. i can’t turn over in bed bc what if there’s a severed head positioned like it’s peaking around the doorframe. what if i look over and The Butcher is there

[ace-disaster-weeb]

I don't think I'd survive being in Castlevania. Not because of all the monsters, but because I'd keep saying out of pocket shit and the pope would want to kill me personally

[light-wrath-paradise]

Can anyone who knows Uglies explain what the hell changed that just 10 years ago it was considered great and groundbreaking and now I see nothing but people saying that it's dumb and uninspired and has no point or meaning?

[skunkes]

guy liker moment

[glasskoi]

has anyone made an au where deuce gets the meramera instead of ace yet.... please....

[tenwhiteandalusians]

and then no one said anything about the fact that if i watched ONE MORE episode tenax pulls a "i'm not angry i'm just disappointed i'm hurt" about scorpus signing with the white faction.

[beautyinsteadofashes]

-furtive glances over shoulder before whispering- "supercorp"

((I don't even go in the source fandom anymore but definitely the top fandom cursed discourse I have ever been misfortunate enough to encounter. XD))

we shall never speak that name again.

if that is the worst you have encountered you are lucky my friend.

but they really did try to come for that man's whole career didn't they? and look at him he's still alive and kicking.

fandom discourse is never worth sending hate to real life people.

[kindahoping4forever]

hi!! not sure if you know off the top of your head, but you are an expert 5sos news source so I wanted to ask! 🫶 are there signed copies of sidequest being sold/up for pre-order anywhere? looking to complete my collection of the guys' signed solo albums!

Hello!! So the answer to your question is kind of yes and no? To my knowledge, despite all the variants made available thus far, there has yet to be a traditional sale of signed copies of Sidequest. Over on Hopeless Records, both the black and blue vinyl and the CD listings say a signed flat is included with the first 300 orders but there's no way to know if yours falls within that parameter at time of purchase. Similarly, JB Hi-Fi lists a signed "CD sized slick card" on their pre-orders for the ultra clear vinyl and CD but it is also a while supplies last, not guaranteed at time of purchase offer (and they also have limited list of countries they ship to outside of Australia).

So basically since there are offers but no separate listings for signed copies, you kind of have to decide if you're ok with the gamble of getting an unsigned copy and potentially having to find and rebuy a signed one elsewhere or if you'd prefer the gamble of holding out to see if another, perhaps more sure opportunity arises over the next month.

[yanderespamton78]

the current state of the arg

sorry guys the art isnt arting D:

(btw if youre confused on why i drew turnip like that i was referencing the picrew he did ages ago bc idk it looked fun to draw anddd i dont like taking reference off real life images)

[venusvity]

can i ask a very random question? what are your thoughts on fictional idols being in a relationship / friendship with irl idols? from what i've seen so far, it seems like most people just interact with their mutuals' ocs for asks and lore or their own ocs if they make several groups.

i'm curious because i'm just starting out in this community and this lil fact got my attention. ofc there are some creators who actively write lore with their ocs' irl idol parters or friends but it seems to be rarer. ( personally for me, if i were to associate my oc with another creator's — say they're dating — it'd be lil confusing cuz i cannot possibly grasp their character's full essence in the way only they can so solo scenarios become nearly out of the question )

also sorry for such a long ask, just wanted an opinion 😅

finally getting to this, so sorry!

rpf is pretty common in the fic! i know people typically interact with others ocs but people also write about real idols as well! i do agree that is a bit more rare now but back in the day it really wasn't. i started venus because originally they were made for a mark lee fanfic skdjndsjs

personally when my ocs are dating other ocs, shout out clover and closure, we write together in a discord server! i don't consider it rp as we're both writing way too much for it to be considered so, editing the works, and publishing it but i can see how some people would consider it rp but that's just how i do things and what works best for me! plus, it's very fun to write with you mutuals!

hope this made sense / answered the question! i tried my hardest kjfnskd

[ask-sammy-lawrences-assistant]

HAHA- Comedy. 🗿

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