#wips are fun easy and valid to post

[snackugaki]

chewing through my feelings about #150 and my baby girl

[snackugaki-jestsjapesjokes]

wip li si hard mode vs easy mode

[wikiangela]

tease tidbit tuesday/wip wednesday

tagged by @thewolvesof1998 @theotherbuckley @tizniz @diazsdimples @dangerpronebuddie @spotsandsocks @exhuastedpigeon @underwaterninja13 - tagging y'all back for wip wednesday 💖💖

doing two in one bc it's technically wednesday already idc lol - started a new wip I mentioned before (inspired by this video lol) and rn I'm rewriting what I wrote yesterday bc the past two days words were not wording and I hated everything I wrote, but I think I'm happy with it now haha I hope I'll manage to write it like I want to bc it's sooo good in my head istg haha

(wasn't gonna post until i have more but i need validation before i drive myself crazy over this lol)

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It started as a random idea, more like a throwaway thought, really. Tommy was just checking the weather for the next few days – his hot pilot boyfriend always likes to be prepared – while they were hanging out, and he casually mentioned that “it’s gonna be nice on Saturday, perfect barbecue weather,” which got Buck to mention how they often have family barbecues at Bobby and Athena’s. Somehow, the conversation spiraled, and Buck’s not sure who threw out a more concrete idea, but here they are now, standing side by side in Tommy’s kitchen, preparing food – Buck’s currently slicing veggies for a salad, while Tommy takes care of the meat – for the barbecue where they invited way too many people than Tommy’s backyard can probably fit. It really is nice weather, the sliding door leading from the kitchen to the backyard open and letting in warm sunshine and a soft breeze that makes the air feel cooler. They work in pleasant silence, the only sound is quiet music playing from the speaker, and Buck can’t help a fond smile when he hears his boyfriend hum along, so off-key Buck’s not sure he even knows the song, but it’s still adorable.

The silence is disrupted by the doorbell ringing, and before Tommy can even move, Buck is dropping the knife on the cutting board, wiping his hands, and sprinting towards the door, shouting an “I got it!” over his shoulder. He’s followed by an echo of Tommy’s fondly amused chuckles. So he’s a little excited, sue him – they haven’t had a family day like this in a while, and there was only one he brought Tommy to, all of their schedules not so easy to align. And today his whole family will be here, including their spouses and children, and Tommy invited a couple of his friends and their families, too, and it’ll be just a big, loud, chaotic get-together that he’s hosting with his boyfriend. Buck never hosted one of these before, and he’s really enjoying it so far, and he just wants everyone to have fun.

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no pressure tags: @elvensorceress @thebravebitch @shortsighted-owl @eddiebabygirldiaz @watchyourbuck

@eowon @loserdiaz @evanbegins @ladydorian05 @wildlife4life

@diazpatcher @lover-of-mine @monsterrae1 @weewootruck @loveyouanyway

@spagheddiediaz @rainbow-nerdss @epicbuddieficrecs @pirrusstuff @alliaskisthepossibilityoflove

@nmcggg @rogerzsteven @hippolotamus @bidisasterevankinard @giddyupbuck

@sunshinediaz @honestlydarkprincess @911-on-abc @jesuisici33 @steadfastsaturnsrings

@buddieswhvre @fortheloveofbuddie @your-catfish-friend

@daffi-990 @hoodie-buck @aroeddiediaz

[diodellet]

*slides in*

How about 3, 16, 17 and 29 for the fic writer asks?

omg i didnt think id ramble this much (thank u for enabling me ner 🤧💕💕)

3. how you feel about your current WIP

tbh i'm not super confident about my writing any time i come out from from a long long hiatus of not posting anything. also like… i'm not super confident writing other charas aside from jamil since i don't really think ab them as much… (sorry leona-natics* whenever this drabble gets posted, but like fingers crossed the sitch will hopefully be exciting enough)

*i think it might have to do with the fact that i kinda hc leona on the grayspec++have more vv specific hc characterizations i like of him, but ig i do see his appeal (one of m'oomfs is a leona-natic and well ahu her propaganda might've been subconsciously assimilated)

but ahaha i tend to write things that i'm very personally interested in so i'll find a way to have fun with it, i'll be gucci i just get too into my head, it's a vicious cycle as a writer.

16. favorite place to write

uhhh im a very sedentary person, probably a result from the pandemic, and being a thorough homebody even after that

hmm i would say id like a nice ambient public place with coffeeeee my blood my life force Some amount of people engrossed in their own work, but like in the ph, esp in a place populated by a lot of uni students, cafes end up being hella cold (im skin and bones the cold is Evil)++noisy (which i don't see as a big bad thing esp since i like socializing with my friends...at the cost of putting off my own writing oops HAHAHA)

17. talk about your writing and editing process

oh boy. here we go. one thing to note throughout all this: my only consistent practice as a writer is inconsistency. (and ig, if i try hard enough, i can usually put out a passable 200-300 words in one sitting)

sometimes i can outline a fic and take forever chipping away at it

^^(case in point: that sebek x vampire!reader x silver fic... i joked abt waiting until book 7 would drop on EN but it has been Stuck. i wanna write bi-disaster sebek so bad though 🤧🤧)

other times my actual writing veers waaaaay into a diff plotpoint instead of what i have plotted out

^^(there're these 2 now-removed bullet points in wcidfy's outline for ch 3 that went: "do i have the balls to write a fever scene… gaguhan anhirap nito pag walang ob [tl: fuck this is hard (to write) without overblots]" and "i also keep thinking of a scene in the (scarabia) gardens…and lying about bees…weird")

and sometimes i can just shit out 1k-ish words unprompted.

^^though this last example leads to my most rough writing++editing ('ily but leave me tf alone' and 'no id rather pretend'), i only look over for immediate errors, but keep iffy-phrasings and repeated words, but sometimes i still miss incomplete sentences that i jus quickly fix after posting ahahaha.

in terms of my more "polished" writing, i edit as i write (<- i do Not recommend this style. it's very unsustainable if ur planning to do more conventional writing/publishing and it's very easy to get trapped in your writer's block)

and after finishing 80% of it, i try to get a second pair of eyes on it (thanks @jessamine-rose mwaps) because validation of works in progress feels good it also helps to have a trusted outside person look at the work with fresher eyes. also smtimes we get into bouncing ideas back nd forth that we spawn new brainrot lmao like this👇

i like to call my writing a "semi-polished first draft" partly out of self-defense and self-criticism. but really, i think i'd rather have "good enough" writing posted than "my best" because i could spend forever hoarding my wips. i think i'll always have regrets over not fleshing out certain beats/using certain phrasings and references, but i also enjoy looking back on my writing and seeing the incremental, microscopic progress. it makes the process more enjoyable than self-flagellating.

on a personal note, the writing workshop scene can be brutal. with some criticism being needlessly harsh, sure it produced some of my "best" writing but the process was Not Fun. while i get that being able to revise meaningfully is an important thing, i think the endgoal of feedback (from my short exp of betaing for friends) shud always be aimed towards uplifting the writer's aim to create/improving the writer's vision of what they wanna achieve, especially in a craft that is as solitary as writing. wait ill rb a post about making ur shitty pots, very in-line with making art in general

29. how easy is it for you to come up with titles?

very hard. i hate thinking of titles, thats why i yoink lines from songs (who cares if the vibe doesnt fit im adding layers of interpretation or sumn🥴🥴). ACTUALLY wcidfy had like 3 other possible names (it was either *rolls out list* hairtie, nonequivalent exchange, or ben franklin effect* wcidfy was the most bearable one.) *i tried to look up how to distill the psychological phenomenon of someone probably liking u more after u do a small favor for them into 2-3 words, but it had to be a WHITE MAN'S NAME 🤢🤢NAW!!!!

for few other examples:

'say what you mean' was initially titled 'oh how the tables turn'

'roommates? more like roomfoes' was first titled 'pet peeves'

'hypothermia' was first titled 'frigid' but then i thought of paradoxical undressing nd stuff and da pseudo-warmth

i've also moved a bunch of other plot beats from wcidfy's main document into a file called "part 45678 of wcidfy"

as u can see i prioritize making myself laugh wid my wip titles. i wanna put the illusion that my writing's not that serious. unless it is? idk i'm not sure how to describe my writing in terms of its vibes.

(list of fic writer asks, ahaha bug me ab my wips)

[cinnamon-bunni]

hm... 4, 7, 11, 12, 17, 21, 22, 24! happy new year, bunni!

4. Total number of words you wrote this year That's hard to find tbh....I didn't end up posting a lot of fics, so i dont only have to just check my statistics on ao3, but all of my possible fics ive written this year in my wip docs as well. the total i got was 58,171 words (~35k of it being WIPs and not posted)! so definitely not as much as i wrote last year which was (i think over 100k), and also not including all of my notes ive written. i did not do a lot of writing this year, so hopefully next year i'll wrap up all of my big fics and post them all <3

7. longest completed fic you wrote this year Again, i did not write a lot this year, much less finish them lmao. if you were to ask about uncompleted fics, we would have a different story--but alas, the longest completed one was Once More, With Needles, sitting at 4,414 words!

11. fandom you enjoyed writing for the most this year hm....obey me, I suppose. its hard to say really, but enjoyment from writing specifically, i'd have to give it to obey me. what can i say, the cast is just really fun to write (even when levi is impossible to write, like what the hell man i have rewritten your part in my undead fic like 3 separate times and am continuing fixing it, like what the hell man i trusted you and then you dont behave for me). like this year specifically i realized how much i love each and every character--those like lucifer reminded me as to why i love the game and the characters, and people like mephisto and raphael randomly won a spot in my heart. theyre all just so so fun to write <333

12. favorite character to write about this year lucifer!!! even though i only have like, one fic that features him thats out and finished lmao; hes such an interesting and complex character, yet is one whose mind i can easily slip into when i need to write when its his pov. idk, sometimes i find myself struggling to write characters like levi or even asmo sometimes--mainly from my own failures to pay attention to their canon interpretations and making them not out-of-character--but lucifer is surprisingly one i can always rely on to be easy and fun to write!! he is angst galore and so emotionally constipated, hes great <3

17. fics you’ll continue next year Heart Melts for sure!! i originally wanted ch3 to be out before the new year, but ive been drafting and redrafting all of my future chapters (i am trying my best to make it a psychological horror in order to match the tag that i put on the fic, but idk if its going to live up to the hype that people have for this fic ^^;;) so i sadly didnt get time to finish it. maybe by the end of January ill have it out--heres to hoping its done by then! and maybe i might continue Dirty? I didn't even update it this year lol--its def one i dont wanna leave discontinued, as i have all of the chapters planned out, but i just have many other projects that i wanna focus on and also i really wanna rewrite it, so ive been debating doing that first or just to finish then rewrite it. in a perfect world, i'll update that one too lol

21. most memorable comment/review I have two that come to mind!!! in all honesty all comments make me sooo happy, but these ones specifically is just,,,idk man, they just hit a certain way that itches that scratch in my brain that needs validation lmao i love rereading these all the time <3 theres these comments for Messy Makeup:

(make me go insane from them saying i wrote multiple fics that were their favorites <33) and of course there's this banger of a comment from @/snugglebunnies!!! idk if youre reading this but thank you thank you thank you for inspiring me so much with your fics!!! i love them so much, and this comment was just incredible! from the fic Heart Melts:

(love when people leave quotes, no matter how long or short!!!! such deep analysis is what i live for!!!!) and of course, sending out so much love to everyone who leaves a comment on any of my fics, no matter how big or small they are <333

22. events you participated in this year i didnt participate in any events this year! i tend not to do events tbh, theyre not really my style, as i dont do well with due dates unless i have months in advance lol;; usually i might do one, maybe two, events a year, but those are usually simple gift exchanges or something. nothing caught my eye this year, and ones that did i just didnt have the time to do, sadly. but! i do plan on doing the sonic big bang next year, which will be my first ever "bigger" event ive been in! exciting, but also really nervewracking as ive never posted sonic content and idk how well i'll do staying on schedule. but its still something i really wanna do (have a great fic planned for it!) so i still wanna give it a shot and do my best on it lol

24. favorite fic you read this year from this year is really hard to say--i think all of my favorite fics were found last year lmao so its a struggle to think of one. @heleentje's BOTW fic Moonlight has been a fantastic read (even though i havent finished it yet;;; i promise will soon!!) and just hits all of the right notes for me!! The batman fic Performance Piece is also definitely up there for me, as it captures so well what i want in my own writing when it comes to writing characters, especially when it comes to inner-dialogue (i might just go back and reread that one again lmao)

as of posting, i have about twenty minutes left before the new year. so happy early 2024!! 🥳🎉💝

[lunarheslwt]

I saw a couple of people doing this, (only @daggerandrose comes to mind) so I wanted to set out some goals for this year too, with regards to writing!

Write and post at least one work per month: I did this for the last 8 months consistently and I wanna try and continue it this year even if it'll be challenging with some of my planned wips likely to be longer

Finish my works for fests on time: also a challenge bc I truly suck with time management but I hate stressing out at the last minute so let's see if I learn from my past lol

Take part in more fests: easy enough. I've signed up for two, and so many more I'm looking forward to that I'm actually worried I'll end up signing up for too many

Surpass my 2022 overall word count: this is a fun one, not necessarily one I'll be upset over if I don't meet. I managed 80k last year so I feel like this should be somewhat doable.

Actually write my feral alpha au: ideally I wanna do this for the abo fest. I'm worried I won't make it in the time frame though. But I really love this idea, it'll push me a lot as a writer which is scary but I wanna do it.

Works to eventually be properly betaed: I'm still working up to this. I'm still finding my confidence in my work and until I do I'll struggle to let others pick my work apart but I'm hoping I get to a place where I feel comfortable in my work enough to let others help! I'd also kill for cheerleader betas tbh I do be needing external validation.

Do my monthly fic recs: I've already done this for two months but I hope I keep doing it!

Read more: self explanatory. With how much I'm writing, I don't get to read as much as I'd like so I hope I find a balance.

That's all I can think of. If anyone else wanna do this, do it and tag me! You can say I tagged you! Meanwhile I'm just gonna tag a few of y'all anyways (if you wanna do it): @huggieshalo @alwaysxlarrie @larrysballetslippers @onlythebravest @hellolovers13

Happy writing year ahead 💗

[if-confessions]

Hey :) aspiring author here… or hopefully some day. So i posted a demoless intro before i really started writing and the reception has been really nonexistent. I don’t get any asks and i’m sadly a person that needs at least a little validation for motivation. But i have been writing even though there’s not much encouragement but it’s been a slog to get through. I just wanted to ask, do you think once my demo is out i’ll be able to get more people interested or excited? Kind of like a catapult? I’ve been really annoyed at myself for posting this intro cause maybe more people would have been interested if i structured it differently. I hope this doesn’t sound conceited or anything but it’s really affecting me seeing all these other demoless intros blow up with 1000< likes and constant interaction and asks. I’m getting sad just thinking about it right now… I know i can’t force anyone to like my stuff and maybe my story is just bad i don’t know… It just feels like everyone is starting their wip at a massive advantage with an audience that’s already there and excited and i’m right at the bottom looking up. Was this how it used to be a few years ago? Did everyone start at the bottom? I’m trying to tell myself once people see my world they’ll fall in love with it just like me but seeing new intros come out left right and centre, all achieving things within days that i’ve been trying to do for many months makes me want to cry.

Hey Anon,

I don't want to give you any false hope or promise you that when you do publish your demo your blog will be catapulted into stardom. It could, but it also might not... Honestly, I really don't know what combo of action makes a popular project (see demo/no demo debate). Maybe your intro post is the issue, maybe it is not. Maybe your story is bad, or maybe it's just fine and the people who would click with it just hasn't seen it yet. I tried listing things that could affect a project becoming popular (and it's not even an exhaustive list), but even then it doesn't ensure results. There really are a lot of factors at play... and luck and timing.

I'm not even sure whether it was easier a few years ago or if everyone started at the bottom. There were less people working on/starting massive/epic IF projects, so it was easier to stand out from the crowd. But there were also less people in the community, so less readers, which might mean less interaction overall compared to now. But maybe it was the same as now, with a few project blowing up overnight and many staying at the bottoms for a while, and the difference is much striking than it used to be. Also, the IF Tumblr Scene in the early 2010s looked very different to now... But to get a clear answer on that, it would be easier to ask long-term IF creators whether they've seen stark differences. I wonder if COG creators opening Tumblr blogs had an effect on this too...

So what now?

Well, you really are not alone feeling this way (author tag).

But I don't also have a magic answer either to wash away those worries (if I did, I would probably be also in the super popular group of author). Here are some options?

Join a writer's group or an IF author one

Interact with other authors outside of those groups (asks, comments, regular conversation...)

Post your project on directory blogs and IF communities (discorgs, forums, other social media)

Join jams and competitions to get your name out there and receive some feedbacks

Or my favourite one that's been working for me personally:

Write for yourself, because it's fun as a hobby by itself; find the reason why you are doing this (it was learning new stuff for me); stop putting the numbers centre stage (because they are meaningless); take breaks from the internet...

That one is not easy. You are kind of forced to look inward for motivation and pushing yourself to continue. Do I slip up sometimes? Yeah, I get a but envious of other creators getting more attention that me, and I still check my stats often. I still get frustrated when only one person react to an update I worked so hard on, or even get absolutely nothing about the stuff I really enjoyed doing (sorry Detective Rye...).

But it's been less frustrating and stressful overall. I get to share the stuff I want to share when I want, and have grown a lot more over the past 6-8months than I did since I started working on it*. I feel like I've done my best writing because I'm just having fun. *I did start with an I don't care attitude when I got into IF, but when CRWL got some momentum, that didn't last...

Sidenote: the massive advantage of getting a lot of notes/followers also often comes with a lot of expectations and pressure.

[forabeatofadrum]

writey writey askie askies for youuu: 🌈🎉

🌈is there a fic that you worked *really fucking hard on* that no one would ever know? maybe a scene/theme you struggled with?

I admit I try to answer these asks/tag games with fics of the fandom we share (Glee, in this case), but my baby when it comes to this is my CO fic Call Me Maybe, that I co-wrote with @captain-aralias. I am no stranger to using my own life and experiences for fic but oh my GOD Call Me Maybe not only lifted from my own life, but it also felt like a way to express my struggle with one specific thing in fiction writing: ROMANCE!

Romance. Yeah. Weird. I write fics about romantic ships and I love doing it, but I have talked several times on this blog about how my aroace ass does struggle with it, because I have no idea what the fuck I am doing. I had a huge convo about it with @thnxforknowingme, which I should find again, and there is a post that's been in my drafts for almost a year, I think, which is a reply to something @quizasvivamos said about this (fun fact, that draft has been on my mind lately).

What is romance? Bro. That's the million dollar question. What is attraction? Who knows! So Call Me Maybe was kind of my way to express that. It started out as a shippy fic, but Aralias let me change it into a friendship fic (thanks!) after I tried to turn it into a shippy fic as well, but it just wasn't working. And then I realised that this not working is the story. Agatha tries to make it work. Agatha wants to have feelings for Ginger, and she is confused and somewhat angry at herself when she doesn't have them. She loves Ginger so much, but she also doesn't love her like that and what is wrong with her? Shouldn't she be in love with someone? Writing wise, it wasn't the hardest to write (that's Ebb & Flow, lol), but if I focus on the second part of the question: it really was a way to express my struggle with the theme of romance.

Now I don't think I am bad at writing romance. If I did, people probably didn't read all my versions of Kurt and Blaine or Simon and Baz or Jack and Bitty falling in love. But it's always a bit anxious to do, since I really have no clue what I am doing.

🎉how often do you celebrate completing & posting a work? how often do you give yourself the credit/validation that you seek from others when you post? (if you don’t, you should!)

I celebrate posting my work by obsessively reading my work. I love reading my work, mostly because it is easy to read. I already know what is going to happen, ya know? And there are some parts that make me go "hot damn I wrote that". Re: validation, I actually don't really seek that after I post, but mostly before I post. I love the feedback I get during Wip Wednesday or Six Sentence Sunday. Not saying that comments etc. after I completed it don't make me feel happy 😊, but I notice that I love that people are there during the process.

[silvershorthair]

Log cabin (WIP)

EMOTIONAL JUNK! SKIP IF YOU WANT

So, I've been feeling very discouraged about 3D artwork and my future and myself and all that fun stuff, and I think that I personally just want to lay down in bed and sleep until things just magically change to be better. At the start of the month I was planning on doing a really big animation for the end of the year with a script and whatnot, but I gave up on the second day of the month. I think yesterday or the day before or whatever, I decided I just wanted to make a cute little Christmas-y animation for the end of the month. And so I started working on it.

POSTING THE IMAGES NOW

So I decided that I wanted to make this animation take place in a cute log cabin in the forest.

So as you may have noticed, this doesn't look a lot like a log cabin. You might also be asking what's wrong with that snowman. Well, to explain, what I'm doing here is making a general layout using basic shapes and whatnot so that I can try and figure out exactly what I want. When I've figured out exactly what I want for this, then I'll start making it look actually decent. But while we're here, I might as well give you a little tour.

You aren't allowed to be mad about the lack of things to see, I said I'd give you a LITTLE tour. But wait, this cabin isn't the only thing that I've worked on.

THE TREE

Wouldn't be a forest without trees, right? Well, good news is we have trees. And look at how highly-detailed it is!!! Great tree, right? WRONG. Take a closer look at this tree.

Dear god. How low poly and horrid, right? Well, there is a valid reason for this. Polygons are expensive and we're going to be making a LOT of these trees. I tried following a CG Geek tutorial on easy low poly trees to get the branches right. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of great photos out there on pine tree branches covered in snow. I tried my best, but it just didn't look great.

Yeah, I bet you're appreciating the new tree now. Either that or you wish I kept the old tree in which case um

Point is now what I'm doing is using these little branch things as particles on the bigger branch things. Here's a photo of what the little branches look like by themselves, and what the big branches look like by themselves

The actual poly count of the big branches should be lowered because by themselves they're 33,840 polygons, which is probably not what I want for a low-poly mesh there'll be a lot of, but I'll deal with doing that later. For now, I'm going to rest.

OH WAIT I ALMOST FORGOT

THE SNOW TEXTURE

You might've noticed the snowman and the snowy tree, but there's more. I tried to mimic the way that snow is sparkly, and the way I did that was by throwing a static image I made in Gimp into the roughness slot of the material

This got me a very nice sparkly texture which I think looks close enough to snow (I haven't seen snow up close in like 2 years so cut me some slack). I'll be using this material on all the snow-related things, and I'm hoping it'll work well. I'm going to ramble a bit at the end of the post, so I just wanted to say thank you for reading this mess, and I hope you like the stuff I make.

CONCLUSION (yes I did just now look up Christmas light colors also the emotional junk is back)

I'm going to keep working on this over the next couple days, and hopefully by the end of it I'll have a cute little animation. 2022 has probably been a better year for me than 2021 in terms of good things that have happened to me. A lot of great things have happened this year which I should be happy about, but unfortunately I don't think I've fully been able to take advantage of that because of some personal problems. Joining Twitter probably didn't help that very much, but it led to me joining this site, which I do like a lot so far. I think I'm certainly going to enjoy being on here a lot more than Twitter. Anyways, that's all from me, I'm going to go lay down and be on my phone instead of going to bed like a normal person (bit of a lie, I think a normal person would've gone to bed about 6 hours ago). Bye!

[thetantiger]

doing this 'cause I'm already experiencing art withdrawal from my hiatus I've forced onto myself with light encouragement from my friends so here we go

also I realize "game" likely implies some schmo is supposed to be like "please answer #69!" but fuck you I go by my own rules and have fun with it too

LMAO so this computer is only about a year old, a while ago my other computer literally shit itself and died so I used to have paint tool SAI on there but now on this one I legit only have the one I actually use which is FireAlpaca

Forward, but left is easier than right

I used to have this warriors self-insert OC when I was REAL YOUNG named Moonfeather that I still hold near and dear to my heart but haven't made art of in literal years and don't have a concrete design for. yes she was special, yes she could turn into a dragon (???) But if you mean ideas I currently use, Ray's been around since I was 10 so

EDITH LOL drawing little kid her is easy as fuck 'cause she looks almost exactly like kid-Gray but current/teen her is so aids 'cause she has all that dragon shit going on + her hair is complicated

literally I post everything online (that I can ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)) because I need validation there is not a single piece of digital art that I've made that hasn't been posted on the internet (for the most part ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°))

my own goddamn trauma. literally half the time I look at an arc a character just had and went "yo the way snarky like came back in a new form with blue reminds me of how my current cat acts exactly like the one I lost" and then I mental boom

gouache (spelling?), that shit's so pretty

literally just made a video about this lmao, the Animals PMV. RIP

if it's a finished piece in the form of a png I name it the piece's title, if it's a WIP art program file I name the file something like "ass" and move on

hoodies.. or scarves. belts are fun too

music or podcasts. sometimes vcs

face/expressions, I fucking LOVE drawing expressions SO MUCH

lotta them undertale/deltarune fanartists are fucking amazing but I've never been into that fandom. Also my husband is super into FNF mods and those are neat too

the little fucking ocean wiggles on fantasy maps y'know the ones

my house/desk lol

fuck idk. the shit I've trained myself to get good at is the shit I've really cared about, however my least favorite part of a piece is lineart

dear god no I HAVE to separate food from that shit, I have enough food anxiety as it is. I watch videos while I eat

not a whole lot actually, I don't distinctly remember doing so pretty much ever

literally fucking none actually. like I legit scoured my art and animation for this shit and couldn't find ANYTTHING. I adore drawing characters so much and anytime I have to draw something inanimate that's not directly clothing -on- the character or weapons it makes me want to kick a baby. broken glass is fun tho I guess???

hands. not that it's easier for me but I like how expressive I can be with em

tybaxel is so fucking amazing but that's like my only answer, not that I don't like other people's art that doesn't look like mine either but that's literally the only example I could think of because I don't keep track of this sorta thing, if it looks pretty I follow. that's my philosophy

lol

not sure what this means actually so no

only rarely for like purposes of poses or perspective. almost all the time my reference window is just a wow screenshot

nothing is coming to me off the top of my head but I have noticed characters or concepts I thought of before I found certain media crops up in said media anyway. like Detective looks very Lackadaisy and I'm not tryna say I'm salty about it I think it's neat actually

any piece with amab characters whose design includes being shirtless. like bro, tree is just chillin'

sometimes I scribble cool/dramatic expressions before drawing but only occasionally

i helped paint a mural in my hometown :D

vivzie's creations, a lot of the character designs are too spiky/thin for me but I understand the stylistic choice

LITERALLY the one I JUST posted based off the song Mama by My Chemical Romance I'm literally in love with it and I don't think anybody saw it fucking rip

anyway yeah fuck it I just felt like doing that lmfao

Weirdly Specific Artist Ask Game

Didn't see a lot of artist ask games, wanted to make a silly one.

(I wrote this while sick out of my mind last year and it's been collecting dust in my drafts, I might as well let it run free) 1. Art programs you have but don't use

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

3. What ideas come from when you were little

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

9. What are your file name conventions

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

12. Easiest part of body to draw

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing

14. Any favorite motifs

15. *Where* do you draw (don't drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

17. Do you eat/drink when drawing? if so, what

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any

23. Do you use different layer modes

24. Do your references include stock images

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with

28. Any art events you have participated in the past (like zines)

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated

[snackugaki]

idk

[karlachismylife]

Dont feel bad about making content you like! I love your x readers sure and I can't wait for some of the X Reader stuff you've been working on to be updated. But you should also enjoy yourself, I personally am iffy on fandom mingling but not because I think it's bad. I think the hate rare pairs get these days or cross-fandom shipping hate stems from people who had never participated in fandom joining the fandom spaces in 2020 who now have made all these rules around everything including stuff like rare pairs and cross-fandom shipping. Like everywhere but Tumblr absolutely rags on stuff like that now because we can't have fun anymore. Keep shipping and making content you enjoy :D

Hello, darling, this is such a nice message, thank you a lot! Kinda feel a little awkward that I have so many people reassuring me when for me it was just another mood swing and no big deal in the grand scheme of things, but I won't lie, this is very comforting.

I guess I just feel bad that I "abandoned" something that was more personal in favour of the thing that gives me more feedback/validation? Luckily I don't get any hate on my rarepair, but I don't get nowhere nearly as much feedback on it wither, even if we compare like a Karlach x Soap work that's fully fleshed out and some x reader headcanons that I literally pulled out of my ass in 40 minutes because adhd go brr. Of course it feels good to know that I'm capable of making someting enjoyable for people even at rapid speed (and I certainly put love in the quick thingies too, I cannot write without love), but then I sit and think like. Yeah I guess I am incapable of making anyone interested in something really personal like Karlach x Soap? Cuz what? Cuz I suck? Cuz I'm not good enough? Cuz I can't convey how much love I feel for the rarepair and infect people with it?

It's all bullshit in my head, honestly, cuz I know there are people that enjoy them, and that there are other crossfandom shipping freaks (what's up rise of the brave tangled frozen dragons), but I'm just sometimes real self-conscious about everything I do cuz like. Boohoo you feedback slut, abandoning your passion project/rarepair for the easy shiny thing. And it's dumb, because I love what I do for x reader, you love what I do for x reader, why can't I just have fun with you? I dunno. I just hate fun I guess /jk

Anyway, sorry for rambling and going off topic, I want to thank you again from the bottom of my silly heart for enjoying whatever you enjoy that I do. Be it one work, one series, some other random bullshit or my four am polls about stabbing people with forks - I am so happy I have you to share them. I just need to stop ruining my own happiness.

Also side note, I have a fuckton of ideas/wips (that list I posted recently? only got bigger), so if you're waiting for something particular, it's okay to reach out to me and ask (ofc if you're being polite, but you're clearly very kind and nice to me already, so I trust you'll be the sweetest). I basically jump from one thing to another with no system at all, so having a slight direction will be nice. I feel good when I know I make other people feel good, so requests are welcome ^^

[hayakawalove]

The way I am giving my phone puppy face the way sugu would rn AAAA. ima bully the manager at round1 to make the crane machines easier so i can get u any plushie u want >:o..You are so wonderful and it reflects in so many ways in your works, I lit rally got hooked from ur poly stsg fics. SUGUS HUMOR thank you for mentioning that that man is dangerously silly! Knowing that there’s a v vulnerable WIP coming I feel so blessed to know that and excited!! Thank you for sharing more vulnerable sides,, it’s so valid to feel unsure openly diving into those kinds of themes in fics but the comfort it can bring is so beautiful too :’). I wish for better and easy days for you! Suguru just gets it fr and I love imagining being able to take care of him back like the 6’2 cat he is! Playing with his hair would be so soothing:((

He deserves the world and would give u it and more ! Thank you for the well wishes and bear MWAH

-🗿

THATS SO FUNNY AND KIND SIDKEKDKDKDK thank you I will appreciate the plushie and ILL CRY YOU’RE SO NICE I’m so glad you like my poly satosugu fics. At times I’m like maybe I do too much of them and the novelty has run out or people want something else like just Gojo fics or just suguru fics. But then I remember how much I love writing them,, I think I will be writing them until everyone is sick of it KDJCKDKDKKD AND YEAH he is so silly goofy. I feel like it gets overshadowed by Gojo because suguru is the more responsible of the two but don’t let that man fool you. I think it’s sexy with Suguru too because like. When he makes fun of you he does it in a way where you don’t really notice it,, hot of him to do that. OKAY GOOD IM GLAD YOU’RE INTERESTED IN THE VULNERABLE WIPS I’ve just been focused on other things first but eventually I will post them. I feel like it’s scary cause you’re opening yourself up by writing something like that but so many people feel that way. AND THANK YOUU I hope life is treating you kindly.

HE REALLY DOES and babying him back is so,, playing with his hair would leave him crazy he likes it so much. I feel like he’s used to dealing with stuff by himself but it’s like baby you don’t gotta do that :(( let me hold you and play with your hair and talk about how much I love you. I AGREE HE DOES and yes he would do anything to give you the world, all he needs is for his baby to be happy and he’s good

[ladyodaskonpeito]

A while back, I saw a writer's ask reblogged by mutuals with a question that went something like

What makes you consider a fic a success?

It got me thinking because I started out thriving on the engagement I would get when I first posted fics. I believe a lot of people do, and there's nothing wrong with that. I quickly realised that this was a trap I could easily fall into, though. If I do not get as many kudos or comments for a new work, would that mean it wasn't as good as my other works? Does it mean that I haven't improved or that whatever I wrote has lost its touch? Would that thus make the fic a... failure? It's so easy to look at the statistics and base the success of a fic on metrics like that, so that's not something I could afford to do because I'd risk losing myself in search of external validation.

I write fics because it is a way of expressing the love I have for a piece of media I consumed. That is an intrinsic motivation I should centre myself around. So I pondered hard over the question again: what would make a fic successful for me?

Whether I enjoy the writing process when I worked on it? Writing is a lot of fun but oftentimes it's a lot of struggle as well to get the words right and to put the images in your head on paper. This option is hence not the answer for me.

Whether I feel proud of the end result? This wouldn't work for me either; I could only post my fics thanks to deadlines associated with events, meaning an endpoint would have to be reached whether I'm ready or happy with it or not (all WIPs would have stayed unfinished if it weren't for the events I joined since it would have been realistically impossible for me to actually achieve the perfect replica of whatever I envisioned in my head).

Whether I can bear to re-read what I wrote after a while and still be happy with it. That's the answer I've arrived at currently. I have yet to revisit any of my fics after posting them thus far; maybe if I could go back in and not cringe at my own amateur writing, that might be an indicator of me actually enjoying the fic as a reader? IDK, please let me know your answer to the big question in the comments if you're a writer too and if you've read this far (thank you so much <3).

After this self-reflection, I'm thinking of reading my own works again and documenting the musings I have in the form of blog posts. That is definitely something that can help increase my self-awareness and hopefully develop my writing further. 🤞

[lavender-lotion]

11 12 & 17

Love your fics btw ♡♡

thank you!!

11. Link your three favorite fics right now

three favourite to this year

the look in your eye (darling, you set my heart aflutter)

that you trust your lips against mine (as our hearts beat a third echo)

one fire quenched with another

12. how does receiving or not receiving feedback/support impact you?

oooooh boy I am SO motivated by external validation it’s not even funny. a lack of comments/interaction will really kill any inspiration I have and burn me out really fast. I wrote about 30k of glee fic earlier this year and was in the process of writing more when I started posting some of it, and the fact that glee is just an old, quiet fandom really wore me down and killed me inspiration.

more than just that, though, feedback/lack of feedback can really change how I perceive a fic. say there’s something I really like and had a fun time writing that does really bad… it’s pretty inevitable that I’ll start wondering if the work itself is any good. this happens mostly with kink fic lol. I VERY rarely write smut and I’ve posted one lil smutty fic this year that did NOT do good, and now im pretty sure it’s cause it’s trash, not cause it’s kinky so. shrug.

then there is the flip side of that where I’ve had a few fic s preform really well and build up a bit of a following and that makes it really hard to get back into the work. I feel like there’s a lot of pressure with certain wips I have and getting back into them is super hard bc I don’t want to let anyone down!

17. What do you do when writing becomes difficult? (maybe a lack of inspiration or writers block)

there are two answers to this and they are VASTLY different lol. back when I was writing some 500k words a year, if I was ever struggling with writing, I just pushed through. I wrote daily (usually 1k+) for a couple of years, and doing that is no easy feat lol. you absolutely will NOT be constantly inspired, and a lot of writing (in that vein) is just forcing words out and editing them into better shape after the fact.

this was fun ‘cause I was super prolific, but I was also terrified of not writing and constantly thought that if I took a break it would mean that I was done writing forever

I am currently approaching writing and fandom in a much more casual manner, not really adhering to any specific goals or trying to get any sort of quantifiable output. nowadays if I’m not feeling it, I just don’t write lol. I know that I’ll come back to the craft when im ready!

it’s a much better way to approach a hobby lol

ask me something from this ask meme!

[uglynavel]

New Years Fandom Resolutions for me PERSONALLY and anyone else who wants to follow them!

1. Stop arguing with antis on the internet. Their heads are so far stuck up their self righteous assholes that they'll never change their minds and now your mood is ruined because of some jerk on the other side of the world. Reply with a simple "ok" or a funny meme and move on. Hell don't reply at all. Just block them. Don't let them ruin your fandom experience.

2. Vice versa of #1. Stop being an anti for every little ship/character (I have been guilty of this in the past)

you aren't going to change the minds of the people who like certain characters and ships. Why waste your time being mad at them when you can block/ignore them and enjoy your side of the fandom. Tumblr has blacklist tag for a reason. AO3 has exclude tags for a reason.

I'm not saying you can't express your distaste. You can, but stop cross tagging and looking for drama.

You are not morally superior or saving the fandom from "toxic" fans just because you don't like certain characters/ships because I've seen how low some of you go just to prove you're better and its disgusting.

At the end of the day this is all fiction and fantasy. None of it's real and the fiction people consume does not 100% equal their values/morality

3. Finish your wips!! It doesn't have to be all of them but finish some of them!

4. Post more art and fanfiction! Even if you hate it. Post it anyways. You are your worst critic and what you might think is ugly is beautiful to someone else

5. Engage in the fandom more. I think being a silent observer/consumer can lead to fandoms dying. Not all the time but I think it's a small factor

6. I don't really struggle with this one but STOP forming parasocial relationships with the actors of your favorite media.

Stop trying to get them to validate your ships cause More times than not, you're going to get your feelings hurt and be disappointed a majority of the time. Just have fun. Not everything needs to be canon. I'm sick of seeing so many conventions where y'all keep trying force actors to accept your ship. If they said no the first time, leave it at that

It's ok to critic bad writing and terrible directors/writers but sending death threats and making petitions to get ppl fired is going overboard

7. This one is gonna be hard but take more breaks away from the internet. I hate this term but a lot of us are chronically online and it's ruining our social skills. Too many people are lacking basic human kindness and emotional empathy. It's so easy to say hateful things when you can hide behind a keyboard and screen.

This is all I got!! Feel free to add anything else to this post if you want!!