#which is the most flattering compliment i have ever received about my art and I'm still reeling about it right now

[carlyraejepsans]

i was chatting with two gamedev friends of mine a few weeks ago and mentioned wanting to make a videogame myself one day. and they talked about when they were younger and did game jams crammed in dingy cheap hotel rooms in milan for 3 days straight and how hysterical and fun it was and what a fast way to start making friends "in the industry" while sharpening your skills in a short amount of time and like. man... that does sound kinda fun

[silenzahra]

Hey there, did you know August 21st is Fanfic Writer Appreciation Day? So I'd just like to take this opportunity to tell you how much I appreciate you both as a friend and as a writer. As you probably know, I enjoyed all of your stories. You also write amazing posts - headcanons etc. Heck, even your commentary in reblogs is always so nicely written. I think you're very talented!

It's one of your stories, Anything for him, that I owe the fact I met you on this site. It's still one of in not my favorite Luigi's Mansion fanfic. I guess it's just a reminder for the occasion since I'm sure you already know it.

And I've actually been planning to reread another of my favorites from you, Keeping you warm in the near future,

Thank you for your hard work. I know you've only recently overcome your writer's block and general burnout, so I think it's all the more important that you know your effort and dedication, past and present, is still very much appreciated. I love how passionate you are about the Mario franchise and how you share that passion in so many ways, most of all your fics.

I can't wait for your nexts works, but also please remember that it's okay to take as much time as you need and that your physical and mental health always comes first. Take care!

And happy Fanfic Writer Appreciation Day!

My dear @megamagimugi, have you any idea of how much your words have moved me and made my heart swell? 🥹🥹🥹

First of all, I'm sorry that I'm a day late, but the fact that you took the time to write this ask and tell me about how much you love my content and appreciate me as a writer and as a friend... I'm so honored and flattered and BLESSED I swear. Thank you so so so so SO much 🫂🫂🫂

I'm seriously so happy we got to meet thanks to you enjoying Anything for him! I can never forget about how excited you were when I announced I was working on the final chapter, which in turn made me even more excited to finish and post it 🥹 I'm truly so touched that it remains as your favorite Luigi's Mansion fanfic! That's seriously one of the highest praise I've ever received 🫂💖 And of course, the amazing and beautiful drawings you made for this story will forever live in my heart rent-free 🥹 (And hopefully soon in my walls at last!)

Oh my, you wanna reread Keeping you warm? 😍 My God, I don't think I can ever get used to people rereading my stories. It's just so incredible and amazing to think that you liked them so much that you feel like revisiting them months after they were posted! 🥹 Again, that's one of the highest compliments I believe any writer can get. I'm just so honored to have gotten it from you, dear friend 🫂💖

I really feel so validated by your recognition of my efforts to overcome this writer's block and burnout I've been fighting for the past month 🥹 It's thanks to you and this wonderful community that I'm feeling so much better! And I'm also so happy and blessed that I get to share my passion with you and our wonderful friends 🥰 Thank you so much, Mugi, from the bottom of my heart 🫂💖

I deeply appreciate both your advice and your enthusiasm! I'll still be slow at getting back to writing and actually posting something, but I'm glad to announce that I've started making progress at last! 🥰 I'll go at my own, slow pace, but just as Mario taught us: we should never give up 💪❤️

Thank you once again for this lovely surprise and for your unwavering support, dear Mugi! I hope that you know that I deeply appreciate you as a friend as well 🫂 You're such a kind and sweet person, and I feel so connected to you! I'm so incredibly happy that we met 🥰💖

And of course, I'm deeply in love with your art style as well! 😄 I'm just so glad and honored that my story inspired you to create the beautiful pieces you gifted me with 💖

Please have the biggest hug ever and take care, dear friend! 🫂💖

[saguette]

Hello!!! I'm just here to say how much I love your art! *a very serious look appears over the once silly, I pull out a comically long list and clear my throat.*

The way your art style is reminds me so much of a morning funny cartoon which adds so much to everything you make because a lot of the stuff I've seen you make is gory, so the morning funny cartoon affect paired with the gory art really gives your art a gasp from me everytime I see it.

The colors in your art are so fun and sometimes eyestraining in a way, which also adds to the surprise people feel when they look at your art. It just goes so well when you put every aspect of your art style together. A lot of the times when artists mix up a lot of crazy opposite traits together in their artstyle it can be really hard to make all of their drawings look harmonius or well put together even if they spend a really long time focusing on that, but you do it wonderfully.

I really enjoyed looking at your set of not fanart drawings, the extremely colorful ones. They had great composition, I feel like all of your drawings just have a chefs kiss level composition to them. It's so cool.

Your posing when drawing people is something I will take inspiration from. Your posing is on point fool. The first one of your drawings I saw I went "Damn!!!" In my head. Your art is just so friggin' cool!!!!

This is the most in depth compliment i think I've ever gotten i don't even have words for how flattered it makes me every compliment i receive sticks with me and this is gonna live in my head forever, I'm so grateful for someone to have this much to say about my art. not to get sappy but art style used to be a huge struggle for me because i felt like it wasn't on the same levels as i should've been. i thought everyone would assume the reason i preferred cartoon-ish stuff wasn't an artistic choice and instead was to make up for being "lazy", "inexperienced" or "not talented enough" which made me feel like i should've developed a more "realistic" or "detailed" style to prove i was "good enough" so that id have the right to draw cartoony things. there's too many rules people think they can reinforce in art and trying to follow rules or expectations stunted my growth back then way more than anything. I was so happy to let those thoughts go and I'm so happy to get such love for just doing whatever i want. its so freeing and i cant be anymore grateful than i am. I've had a few other people tell me I'm an inspiration and stuff and it literally blows my mind and fills me with joy i cant even describe, things like this have helped me shake off that self doubt and insecurity and i feel like my best drawings come when I'm not trying hard. I'm still not confident in colors and rendering but stuff like this makes me rethink my doubt and reminds me that i can just draw what i want and someone will like it and that's all that matters. i feel so happy today, thank you groovypaws

[drunkonimagination]

I'm sending this on anon because I'm embarrassed to be nice on main, but we're mutuals lol and i just want you to know that, in my opinion, your art is 1000x better than Cassandra Jean's lol I just... love your warm, cute style? And you draw Thomas and Alastair just as I imagine them? That's all lol

anon.

AHHHHHH????!?!!?!!! 😭

first. omg are we mutuals?? pls pls don't be embarrassed and feel free to reveal yourself in the future!! <3 asks like this mean everything to me, everything. especially right now (i'm feeling a bit down bc of uni, exams, etc.), so thank you so so much <333

second. did you just compare my silly little art to cassandra jean's??? like for real????? oh. my. god. what can i say...everyone has their preferences in terms of art-style (i have too ofc) and the fact that you like mine even more than the official tsc artist's style is....woah. thank???? you??? so????? much???? i'm so flattered rn 😭💕

omg i'm so glad about that, warm and cute vibes is really what i'm trying to convey all the time here!!! and you can't possibly think that my tom and alastair are just like you imagine them....no way. *screams internally for a good five minutes* that's one of the greatest compliments i've ever received. thank you 😭

btw yess!! i got which post you are talking about!! (this one i think jsjs) and about that, i personally like cj style a lot (especially in terms of colours and composition) and i must say that among all the official artworks we had over the last three years cj's illustrations are definitely the ones i like the most and that get closer to the image of the characters i have in my head! (even though, for instance, i prefer when she draws thomas with longer and messier hair rather than spiky and super short, just like in the postcards she made for the choi release!! i loved those ahhhhh)....so that's why i desperately want more cj drawings 😭

but thank you so so much, i gladly accept the compliment (i still can't believe you said that *screams*) and i'll definitely draw more thomastair in the future (i have so many plans hehe) 😭🙏🏻✨

[unreadpoppy]

⚠️Which wip your most likely to finish or update next?

✍ Do you have a beta reader?

🥰 How do you feel about reader interaction? Are you open to receiving questions about your fics?

🎨 How do you feel about fan art of your stories?

💖 What made you start writing?

✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉

⚠️ - I think it might be Plus One, because I began writing the new chapter and like, it's the one I have a better idea of where it's going

✍ - No, but I wish I had but also I'm too anxious to ask someone and idk i get anxious about the idea of someone """"""critiquing"""" my fic (i know it's not like this but again, social anxiety is a bitch and also some past bad experiences don't help)

🥰 - I LOVE READER INTERACTIONS, PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS, I LOVE ANSWERING QUESTIONS AND TALKING ABOUT MY FICS AAAAAAAAAAAA. Please, if you ever want to question something or just gush about it, my askbox is always open (i promise i won't bite)

🎨- This has never happened but if it did, i would probably die of happiness and then have to be revived. On a serious note, I'd be very flattered and happy and honored if this were to ever happen (like, i've said this b4, if conversion rate of dollars to reais wasn't so shitty, i'd be commissioning art to hell and back).

💖- Having a very specific idea for a story that I knew it would be awkwards to request some other author to write it and having to be like "ok i guess i'll do it myself then"

✨ - The hardest thing you could ask of a deppressed bitch like me but i'll try. I think I've gotten better and better on my writing skills over the past few months, like i've been feeling more proud of the work i'm putting there now then I was back in october and I feel like I've gotten a better grip on how to write the characters.

[aueua]

just wanted to say that I love your drawings and I hope I get as good as you some day

thank you very much!! we all start from somewhere

aand my apologies in advance; you probably weren't expecting some incoherent mumbling, but it's been a long day and I'll just say things nobody has to pay this much mind.

I did this one late october in 2013! beautiful, ain't it? I don't even remember this OC at all aside from being a bunny/wolf hybrid, giving her features I liked at the time (yet they're somehow not black and red, I know, it's shocking). I wasn't really well-versed in digital art yet, not that my traditional was much different. used GIMP—which might explain the pixelated grass—and an airbrush at 100% for everything. lines. coloring. absolutely no layer modes/filters.

but, I thought it was very cool back then. it's still pretty cool to me now. my lines were shaky, not necessarily clean, and the year or so with a trackpad was hell and I had actively used a mouse for nearly a decade right after that.

waves hand.

point is, I'm really flattered! that I'm part of your aspirations. I don't really process the extent of my impression on others.

you really don't have to be as good as me. actually, you can be. most likely you will be, probably even better—if it's really somewhere you want to be. just might take time albeit, but I hope that art's fun for you. I wish you the best of luck in your journey at every step—that you develop your style in the way that makes you most comfortable and happiest doing things that also end up in exciting results no matter the medium.

these honestly might seem like empty words since... gestures vaguely. but I really do mean all of them. I had a depressing streak of self-inferiority and deprecation when I was younger. frequently compared myself to other artists in all forms, just in all the bad ways. got bothered tons by numbers and feedback. got even more self-conscious after some light teasing from peers and getting onto a cringe blog. (sometimes I still feel that way when I get really bad.)

that one was a tangent. o|-<

if you ever need someone to cheer you on, I'm here!! I enjoy looking at images. I love looking at art. I love getting to see what others are interested in enough to make something out of nothing with all of their heart and soul. does this make sense? I would have never had such a vehement streak for drawing if it were not for the support back then even among all the Childhood "Angst", so like.

strikes a pose. I'm bad at doing it nowadays, but I don't mind spending the time to give a more sincere compliment (or feedback otherwise, to the best of my ability) if someone has a specific piece—or anything really—that they're real proud about. I have Been there in the pit of zero response leading to zero motivation before even if art is supposed to be for fun and not shared with the purpose of attention but like. it's fun getting microdoses of serotonin for stuff ya know... it's sharing a piece of you...

erm. maybe this has gone on for too long, so I hope this makes somewhat sense. it's just. I would hate someone to be discouraged because of the lack of attention they receive for something they bled their heart over? this is redundant.

whatever the case and however you do it, I really do wish you well. I will Hit and Hurt anyone that would deter you otherwise (even if that is yourself, in which case I would just gently rattle you). we don't know each other I imagine, but still. come to think of it maybe you already ARE happy with your stuff and HELL YEAH that is THE WAY TO GO!!

but I do not know, so I wanted to be safe in the case that it was not.

anywho! to anyone reading this spiel, we do not have to speak about this ever again!! I will probably forget about this tomorrow honestly because that has been the pattern nowadays for rambling at dead o'clock hours.

eat, drink, stretch, and rest; do what you must. I hope that today is yours, and if not, tomorrow. the days after. may they be manageable enough, and I wish you all things good and kind. maybe even a pleasant surprise to shake things up a little...

(´▽`ʃ♡ƪ) please take care.