#you get to know a lot more about someone's oc when that oc is in trouble or in pain or afraid

[insipid-drivel]

One of the hardest things for artists to do is feel as though they've successfully established their own unique artistic style that's identifiable from the works of other successful artists in their field.

It's absolutely normal and okay to begin your career as an artist through copying/tracing and mimicking the art of professional artists you've admired and that have helped shape the style of your imagination. That's how we learn - by copying. However.

When an artist is establishing themselves as a formal artist - as a professional or just More Than Just A Doodler - and cares about the work they're putting out a lot, having their art compared to pre-existing works by unrelated artists becomes extremely unflattering and detrimental. It can be demotivating and harmful to the health of that artist's growth and much-needed sense of confidence.

A professional artist wants to know how they're standing out. A professional artist wants to hone what makes their work absolutely and completely unique (and if you start to argue "but nobody's art is totally unique!" I will come to your house, dangle you off the roof by your ankles, and shake you until the Midjourney scrapeware falls out of your eye sockets) and continue mastering and adapting their style and its uniqueness.

Every character has a soul. Every landscape has a silent song. Every brush stroke, line, and blot of color represents something unique inside of the mind and heart of every artist. Nobody wants to be known as "the artist that draws just like [other popular artist]" unless they are plagiarizers.

An artist's style isn't just a style. It's who they are, and a veritable road map that can tell much more about that artist's life experiences, emotions, and passions are centered around than the casual viewer may fully realize. Every piece is a more refined, more crystallized (and sometimes scrunkly) offering of a window into their ideas, their hopes, their feelings, and everything that truly matters as they enrich the lives of every single person on this earth.

Saying someone's piece "escaped" from another person's work is essentially suggesting they've intentionally ripped off someone else's style. You're trying to compliment an artist by sweetly accusing them of potential plagiarism, and outright disregarding and dismissing how much they, on their own, have had to practice and study just to get to the point that they feel comfortable publishing a single piece.

If you like an artist's work enough to want to send them a nice comment, just focus on what you like about their art. Not how much their art reminds you of someone else's. It devalues the time, energy, and sacrifices an artist makes to hone their craft and muster their confidence enough to share their work. When that artist is also a professional, you're also basically saying, "Hey, you're good enough to fill in for another professional's animation team even though you've spent your entire education and career in the arts for your work to be valued for its own merits."

If all you can think to say is, "I love how your OC makes me think of another person's OCs," then maybe consider just going through that artist's blog and reblogging more of their work without comment. Especially when they've clearly established they do not like having their work compared to another artist's the first fucking time they respond.

Your Crowley escaped from Hazbin Hotel

[gyuuberryy]

No fucking way, that bitch accused you too? WTH

https://www.tumblr.com/aifairy/767667992231280640/not-sure-but-this-fic-genuinely-seemed-odd-when-i?source=share

LMAOO I CACKLED WHEN I READ THAT POST THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME KNOW😂 They're using free AI checkers online and claim that they "can tell if a fic was AI generated or not". These may not really be professional credentials, but I am a computer science student(IB Higher level that too!!) AND planning to pursue it in uni, so I know enough about AI. Using AI for unethical work is..well unethical! Which is why I've never used it for writing fanfics, a purpose that doesn't really hold a lot of importance in people's lives??? AI generates the same ugly, repetitive response everytime so I wouldn't even think about resorting to it, and I don't see how Fatal Trouble shows that pattern.

@aifairy claims that chatgpt generated a similar response to my fic. first of all, the images they've attached are not the same as what I've written at all. it's talking about sunghoon giving a bite mark on the reader's neck and her thinking about the night it happened. HELLO HAVE YOU READ THE FIC? he hasn't bitten her even ONCE??? there was just a suggestive allusion to it in the end. And seriously? They're using AI checkers like ZeroGPT and GPTZero for this? Hilarious.

I can assure you I've never wasted my time by using AI to write my fics like I couldn't even think about it. Here are some things about me which will hopefully make my intentions of writing on this platform clearer:

I've been writing online since the age of 13(2020) I don't think most of the population knew about generative AI. I used to be on wattpad before tumblr and my writing has improved quite a bit since then. I joined Tumblr in 2022 and wrote a fic about the show Wednesday(again, generative AI was not trendy, where I live atleast)So what I'm trying to say is I've been writing A LONG time before language modeling AIs became trendy. I've never switched to them.

Writing and reading has been a passionate hobby of mine since I was very young. I've received several academic proficiency awards for high level subjects in english literature, english language as well other languages at school, my works have been published in my school magazines and literary competitions multiple times. I have absolutely no problem in coming up with good content and am able to execute it properly as well.

I dedicate a good amount of time every week to writing. I only stick to fanfics online, because they're more popular and in demand than writing stories with your own OCs from my experience. I want to work on writing actual stories but I'm still a school going student so I don't have enough time for that. And at the same time on tumblr I get to connect with people who share the same interest as me :)

So basically what I want to say is I do not use and have NEVER used AI to write fics, I have not used it for Fatal Trouble or any other fics from my master list. I'm literally putting out fics I've worked hard on for FREE on this platform so others from the same fantom can enjoy it as well. Be respectful about it and stop being discouraging. DON'T LIKE IT DON'T READ IT. Writing on this account helps me improve my skills and get feedback. I don't care about what someone random online accuses me of, because ik that irl, my family, teachers and friends are aware about my skills and support me and I'm doing well in them as well :)) so I'm not going to be discouraged and stop writing<33

[unionizedwizard]

oc love onterest. double dipping. v'rhym and raubahn, irma and lyna

ok this is funny because v'rhym and raubahn have actually had something, though i don't know exactly how or when (it was just a (couple?) of one-night stands). i'm inclined to think it started after the rescue mission in HW (the vulnerability of it all. emotional support that ended up being something different) and kept going sporadically during SB (stress of a military campaign you know how it is). a lot of it is not my business though (as is often the case with v'rhym) so i haven't actually figured it all out #privacy rights. but raubahn is DEFINITELY his type, a Lot, and also not inclined to start any kind of stable romantic relationship, so the sex is good and raubahn gets to gush about nanamo (whom v'rhym does like a lot) which is as fair an exchange as it gets in both their books! i think raubahn is the type to need a lot of strong liquor to get vulnerable, and more importantly, someone he can trust/rely on (and whose combat skills match his own) so for that v'rhym is the perfect candidate. the grand melee was foreplay actually. an almost strangely balanced and nontoxic relationship

lyna/irma........... GOD this one is so terrible. and hilarious. imagine having your crush of 100 years date your GRANDDAUGHTER. how do you recover from that. this is the worst most advanced version of the friendzone holy shit. possibly the funniest and worst thing about it is that i could actually sort of see it? they have very very similar personalities, which also. hey g'raha what's up with that actually? (we're not going to think about it.) lots of mutual respect and admiration here. irma deeply respects her and loves that lyna still bosses her around and treats her just like another soldier despite the whole warrior of darkness spiel ("you may be able to eat lightwardens for breakfast but that doesn't mean you'll be spared amaro dung shoveling duty") <- i could envision either psychosexual yuri or straight-up kink shit here honestly. or maybe both. (and they were both tops (oh my god they were both tops)). obviously the compelling part of it is that they're both incredibly repressed and duty-oriented soldiers first and foremost so it would need a LOT of narrative heavy-lifting to get there in the first place. irma is not that fucked up that she'd go for this as part of her Wage 5D Chess Psychological Warfare On The Lying Wizard agenda (hit 'em where it hurts), or rather it's not her flavor of fucked up, so this is (luckily) not on the table. honestly i'll have to think more about it because it's hilarious if extremely cursed

[cclassiccore]

Ah yes another sans OC to add to my collection! (And there’s still two more others I’m working on- 🧍‍♂️)

Some things about him:

When he was made by his creator his creator told him to go and find some outfit idea that he likes and when he agree to doing that he found Ink!Sans and got inspired by his outfit a lot but made sure not to copy it fully because “copying someone art is not art.”

The “vials” on his arms and waist arent actually like ink!Sans, there not his emotion are anything else not even his soul, he actually puts blood/dust in them to “keep” later. (He might be a silly guy but he has problems.)

His and blight relationship is very complicated, Cursive is mute and is not allowed to speak but he is very expressive with his face and body movements to show how he feeling, meanwhile blight who doesn’t like how cursive sometimes acts will always tell him “Your being annoying cut it out!” Straight to his face but cursive doesn’t let that get to him at all!

cursive has a weapon but his weapon is (NOT) like inks weapon, he actually has a normal size pencil that he can make magically appear out of nowhere, he can sketch anything out (hints to his nickname-) and use whatever he just drew as a weapon or as a food source (basically he took “I’m a Artist.. I can draw anything.” To a whole new level.)

Cursive like you. He always likes you.

he knows you.

he see you.

he is there for you.

[moongumi]

⁀➷ ∵  ❝country boy and his clown❞

⟶ phillip graves x oc/reader

⟶ cw. graves babygirl confused, funny banter, shadow boys, aloof OC, lots of jokes, third person <3

⟶ note. this is basically my little drabbles collection that will accumulate into a long story at some point about my OC Leech xd she's also the ones in all the other MW2 fics i've written

everyone likes that new girl. all the boys were drawn to her and graves can't believe the god damn sight of it all.

on the first mission the damn girl had her little portable gaming device, graves didn't catch what it was called. she whistled as she played whatever game on it. graves felt a fuckin' tick itching on his face from the clicking and tapping.

"shut that god damn thing off, fucking hell."

the girl sighs, putting it into her cargo pocket. "Sorry, Commander." she listens well, at the very least.

graves walks over to her and within an instant she stands up and salutes him. "What they call ya'?"

she's a new transfer, a sort of trade off with a friend. graves needed someone like her but her age was somewhat of an issue, not that young but maybe not old enough to know the ropes of an elite company.

"leech."

the fuck? grave left a migraine forming in his head now. "what?""

"leech, sir."

"got a backstory for that one?"

she laughs, "of course, i would never pick it myself. bit some guy's carotid off during my first deployment—i swear i didn't drink his blood though—"

"i didn't think that," graves sighs, pressing his fingers between his brows. "continue on then, sergeant."

"yup yup."

she catches on quick.

──────⊹⊱♝♜⊰⊹──────

"get this thing open!"

she sighs, tapping away at her little computer in her crouched form. "look boss, you've given me 2 seconds how about you give me 10 more seconds and maybe—oh, look it's open, you're welcome."

graves can see this girl making him lose his will to live. but he was no patient man and well, she was far too chill and nonchalant for this type of work.

when they get inside she's on the computer right away, jamming combinations of numbers and symbols to get what he wanted from this place.

"yikes, lots of porn on here."

graves almost snaps his neck turning to her. "what?"

"joking, got what we need." she pulls out the drive from the computer and pocketing it. she pulls her gun from her side back into her hands. "time to find out way out, commander."

──────⊹⊱♝♜⊰⊹──────

"i don't think i've met anyone more annoying." graves admits.

shadow 1-1 laughs, "boss, she's pretty cool and she's cute."

"she's funny, she said her callsign was because she ate a live lizard on the field—" shadow 1-2 mentions.

hes interrupted by 1-1, "wait what? she told me it's because she was sucking on her military ex-boyfriend's dick one time in the barracks and she accidentally cut off his foreskin."

"that's a fuckin' lie, if i've ever heard one."

1-1 takes offense, "yours sounds more fake than mine."

somehow this makes graves grab his head, what the hell has this girl been doing to my men. now it makes him doubt if the story she told him was even real.

she ponders, pursing her lips, "sir, i told you the real story—it's just fun telling all the boys different shit, they all go around tellin' each other the wrong thing and it's funny when they all get confused."

the girl looks around aimlessly, seemingly waiting for him to say something. "alright, you're dismissed. see you tomorrow, leech."

graves sighs in his office, the girl in front of him now dressed in a more business attire even if her skirt was far too short and the buttons her shirt were on wrong—the sheerness of that top too, jesus christ could she not afford a shirt didn't look like a piece of tissue? he could see her bra straps through the damn thing.

"are ya' lying?"

"maybe."

[typewritingyip]

For @keferon mecha AU, my sister and I have been talking about this for days.

Pardon any use of OC’s or of any characters seem OOC, I am trying my best.

———

September 17th of 1984 was the first time anyone saw one of those bastards, it had been small and seemed non-threatening off the shore of Honolulu. It had made the cover of a handful of newspapers and got looked at by someone in the US government before they chose to leave it be.

Weeks had passed and it was forgotten, just as passing day of news for most people. It wasn’t until they hit the California coast that people became concerned. When they started to kill people and cause property damage to the extreme was when there was government response.

Then they started to attack other countries and eventually inland cities. Basic military response was not cutting it. There needed to be a bigger and more coordinated response, though the powers that be kept that off the table for a while. Cold War and all.

Most of the first generation pilots are either long dead, generals who can hardly move, or in long term care facilities. The first few generations of “Mechanical Enemy Challenging Housing” were terribly ineffective and highly dangerous. Over a thousand people took the challenge and didn’t live to see the end of that first generation of war.

Even now the suits are incredibly dangerous to operate, but they learned a great deal over the years. It took almost a decade for the US to start tying up the fight, and now there is some chance at success.

Back when the fighting first started, the world knew every pilots name. There was a sense of glory in it, for you and your Mecha to be known by the masses. The first hundred or so pilots will always be named in history textbooks, whether locally or for the bigger international battles, everyone watches the footage in school and every child dreamed of being those pilots.

Only now though do they realize how pilots drop like flies, a man whose call-sign was Zeta, was one of the first pilots ever. He made it barely through that first year and died on national television with millions watching; no one would forget how blood poured through the chest seams in his Mecha. It turned that shining white to pink and red. Most of them died on the news, so the government began to realize that making these heroes into idols might not be the brightest of ideas. The suits though, those could be re-used after the death of the pilot.

Now the numbers painted almost haphazardly on the front of the Mecha are to identify the pilot, for the sake of any family they may have watching. To know whether your family member is alive or dead, or what suit they’ve been assigned to. Rather gruesome when you think about it long enough.

—

The program was going on for decades when they finally started to have to properly hire people and stop taking volunteers off the street, the volunteers were wanting in more often for the wrong reasons and were getting killed in their first fight. Finding pilots, actual pilots, became a lot harder when their standards went up. For every program and organization across the globe, it was getting harder to find the people who’d be able to go the distance.

An organization based out of the United Stared called Mecha became the top performer, above the US government and its military units, above Japan, and every other private company especially. They hired the best of the best, the ones who could become one with their suit. Of course, a great deal of their funding came from the United States government contracts, so they had to answer to them to an extent, but when both organizations were willing to pay out the nose to your family to become part of Mecha, why not go with them?

They had some of the most ambitious projects and most advanced suits the world had ever seen. A company that preferred to stay in the shadows with their geniuses and all stars, for what reason, who knows or cares. They dressed everyone up in BDU’s and hid behind the cover of their command structure with the US. But they were the ones ready to end this fight and that was good enough for most of the pilots to hear.

When you have government contracts, plus private funding from who knows where, you can hire the best in their crafts for whatever you might need. Whether bringing in the pilots from the military, scientists from their think tanks, engineers from national labs, or who knows. You can start to do some pretty amazing things.

Like space travel, to bring the fight to them and hopefully get it off Earth. The first space suit that went up lost contact just two weeks into their mission, pilot 1061, call-sign Jazz. He’d been inside his custom to him Mecha when they’d lost contact, his vital signs cut first followed all other connections, as if the reaction had simply just died.

Most of the active pilots had known Jazz in some way, especially the pilots at Mecha who’s trained and tested with him. One of the current longest standing pilots and someone a lot of other pilots looked up to. When he went mission, a group volunteered it be the recovery team whenever Mecha was ready to send another suit and pilot to space.

His loss was swept under the rug and kept from the media, he didn’t have much in way of family and those he did have were either in the world saving business or happy to take a check to keep their silence. The family that he did have that cared were the ones willing to risk their lives day in and day out to fight the same bastards he had. To take the weight of one of the suits and go out there to save the planet.

—

It took five years for the first team to be ready to head for the stars, to where ever those things were coming from and this time the media was invited. NASA was supposedly running the operation, giving it the title of the Arcturus mission. Arcturus One, though most of the pilots felt that they were more so Arcturus Two, biting their tongue whenever they wanted to mention Jazz and his sacrifice. Remember the big checks that would be sent to their families on the first of the month for the rest of time practically, if they kept their mouths shut and accepted to being team one.

The plan was to send up four suits, all attacked to a shuttle that held all the necessities the pilots would need. Not terribly different from how the ISS function with the attached pods, though instead of pods it was giant Mech’s that were made to kill aliens.

A crew of four people, whose names would be known along with their numbers, for the first time in over a decade.

Call-sign: Hound, pilot 1124

Call-sign: Breakdown, pilot 1457

Call-sign: Sunstreaker, pilot 2450

Call-sign: Sideswipe, pilot 2451

Actual names would not be released until a later date to protect their families, it was already a deadly job that they were now taking to an unfamiliar environment, they didn’t need reporters following them everywhere. It was certain that they’d be in the history books no matter the outcome of their mission anyways.

Launch day was scheduled to be the same as when these things chose to attack Earth, a day that each person who ever stepped into a mech suit hoped that they’d make these freaks regret.

Hound was the primary pilot for the shuttle, with Breakdown as chief engineer, then the twins were the primaries for battle, come to be known as the front-liners. They were likely to remain in their suits the most. It was an imperfect mission, but one that they’d take on just as they had all those on Earth.

The night before take off, the four all sat together in Mecha’s barracks, unable to face what little family they each had left as they prepared for their fate. One of no return and if not most certain death, coming to accept that didn’t take long but it was still needed. After a while, they raised their glasses to Jazz, determined to find whatever one of these things that had taken the great pilot from then and tear it apart.

—

A/N: Alright, it’s the day after I initially posted this and realized I made a lot of spelling/grammar mistakes while typing on my phone. So I took it and re-typed it and now had put it back here with the slight updates. Sorry for those who read it before I fixed it. Look out for a part 2 soon though, hopefully.

Also, I did think about putting First-Aid on Arcturus One, but I felt he’d fit in better with his haunted suit on Arcturus Three so.. yeah. He’s coming, promise.

[dykedvonte]

I keep seeing fanarts of ppl's OC's being on the ship, so do you think that if there was 6st crewmember (specifically, another woman) Anya would've been more safe? Like, someone to actually call Jimmy's begaviour out, someone Anya might wanna trust? Is there a possibility something might have changed (even if a little) or it would not have mattered at all?

-💀

I feel like the game would make it part of the commentary on where she would believe and help Anya but still be sort of dismissive? Like the whole “don’t waste time crying and being scared keep going and move on, don’t let him win”. It’s supposed to be positive and reinforcing but sometimes it does more damage in those times of mourning and grief, it feels patronizing, like you don’t understand what you’re going through but they do. Even if they did call out his behavior it’s still on Curly to act and while another voice would help, it’s still 4 against 2 on guys that don’t get it until they have to vs women who always have to.

I don’t mind mouthwashing OCs but I do get a bit bored as they tend to be borderline saviors or like Jimmy aligned. They are either more complicit than Curly or just Jimmy haters for no reason, outside of what the creators know about what he did to Anya. I am never irked by OCs but in a story like mouthwashing you really need to think about what your character adds to the commentary, especially if they are there during the crash. It’s nice to have like characters on Anya’s side more whole heartedly and interesting to see characters who placate Jimmy but sometimes it’s one note.

I can’t and don’t want to police peoples OCs it’s never my intention when I comment on trends I notice, but I do feel like the way people make their OCs interact with these two characters and especially Curly, really show a grave misunderstanding of the narrative and these characters as people vs roles in the story. Still, I know people just make up characters for fun and that’s fine. Great even, but I guys I’m focusing more on OCs that are supposed to have those serious dynamics. My favs tend to be pretty-Tulpar or post-Tulpar au OCs.

The inevitably of the crash is on Jimmy. He did that not because he wasn’t stopped but because all his means to kill Anya were taken. The gun, the axe. Even if Curly did strip him of his co-pilot privileges and try to keep him contained there’s only so many people. An extra body helps but they have jobs they have to do, he’s the only one steering the whole ship and Jimmy would likely have an out: food, bathroom, etc. He’s not new and if he couldn’t crash the ship directly, who’s to say he wouldn’t sabotage something else? A clunker like the Tulpar wouldn’t take much. An extra person helps but it’s just another thing that prolongs what a person like Jimmy is willing to do to shirk responsibility.

It’s more than just needing someone to stand up to him and think that’s what is missing when it comes to inserting a character into the mouthwashing setting.

[seaquestions]

blake lets him keep it. this is a dire lapse in judgement on his part but they're just gonna have to live with it. (ids in alts)

[adriartts]

more side character designs now to the tune of the Kil sisters

[miodiodavinci]

i saw that you used to hint at oc stuff on twitter (don't ask me why im digging im looking for zola stuff lmao) why don't you post more about them?

i am simply terrified that if i post oc things online someone will steal the concept and run with it faster and better than i ever could have and then i will be devastated forever and ever

more seriously i have very little to show for any of my oc things (adhd brain making life difficult as per usual awawawawawa) and every time i've shared oc things in the past i've ended up never following up on it and it makes me feel bad and guilty so i've just convinced myself i will Never talk about my ocs until i have something substantial i can put out there

[designsdefiance]

day 21: lost

it's bad enough being in a new world totally alien to her. to not recognise her sister? agonising. unbearable.

[swordmaid]

having shri’iia thoughts as one does bc GUESS who’s save file completely died when the new patch came out nooo we have to replay her again 🤭 alas. just stewing on the thought of how she never got to fuck her Mistress even though she wanted to…!!!! like she was out there getting psychologically tortured and mind broken but she was just like WHY won’t you fuck me im literally doing everything for you. which is so bad for her, woman who already has an excruciatingly low self worth because she missed the mark on the standard for lolth’s children (and that’s worse than not fitting in the standard at all) by something out of her own control btw (not being born in a noble house) but she’s been recognised and blessed by her goddess, and she’s been invited to join a drow house so everything should be good right?? she should be desirable right?? finally everything is correct and well and good and the way it should be right????? but no..!! it’s not..!! and so she’s doing everything for this woman, no dignity left, literally doing anything to get her approval, to be told that she’s finally enough, and she’s finally fitting in - and she gets it sometimes, she gets ignored most times tbh and it’s just this painful excruciating stew of self loathing and insecurity that she’s in, and she’s in there for a century but the thing is she can’t even give up. it’s not in her nature to. and she’s done too much to just give up , and she’s been doing this for a long time that she can’t give up and lolth didn’t raise no quitters so she sticks by it, trying to achieve that hopeless praise. but then one day she gets dropped like nothing, everything she’s done and suffered and worked towards and sacrificed gets thrown out bc her goddess isn’t pleased with her and good luck going home btw you’re not welcome here anymore bc ur pathetic. the rug gets pulled under her feet and she’s left in this strange world that she can barely navigate in let alone speak the language and u expect her to b fine with that…?

[arklay]

DIANA x ALBERT WESKER / template.

[neverendingparable]

In a less salty way of putting it: interacting with characters is the best way to get to know them and getting to know the chemistry your muses will have.

It's one of the reasons I'm against pre-established relationships, especially with new partners because I can't actually predict how close our muses could be.

Everyone puts a lot of thought (and love) behind their OCs and its rewarding for both parties to work for that lore.

[papakhan]

I love playing with characters who have unshakeable resolve and endless confidence like Papa and jessup and Sun but i myself have awful confidence so it's something

[peapod20001]

Birthday you say?! Hm..... by any chance do you have any particularly favorite oc? That you would want to see fanart of? Jk jk..... unless👀👀👀

Lol Shirley is usually my go to when ppl ask what character they should draw. I’ve had them longer than most and they are easier to get for some people than my other characters. Also you can just dress him in literally anything and it works so that’s a bonus lol

Some others I’m more biased towards are Felix and Rory, I think really hard about em lol. Honestly I’d enjoy anything someone makes with any of my ocs especially if it’s a character THEY like cus I enjoy seeing which of my ocs ppl fancy hahahagahaga