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kabru and mithrun's fun succubus adventure

#IS THAT THE FUCKING HENTAI FIGURINE #IT IS #we have seen whats being cropped here. not good. dont like it. #anyways #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #art #questionable content

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a moth

#bugs #art

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Life or Death for Emil

#sorry. we are boiling her #ocs #polls

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Welcome to the end of April. We wrote more than 100k words this month! More specifically, 107,336 words. Slowly catching up on pace, though we aren't quite there yet. Here's hoping that we can actually hit 1 million by the end of the year, even if not everything fully makes it to postable state.

#we speak #writing #our normal usual project update for the month

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Bug Fables OC Collab Announcement Post

Okay, here we go!

A little background: Last year, we did the Bug Fables NPC Collab where a bunch of artists worked together to illustrate all of the NPCs in the game set in locations they're associated with. In addition to the NPCs themselves, we made the backdrop art. And so this year, I thought it would be fun to reuse the backdrops to stage OC art instead!

I made most of the backgrounds, and I have gotten permission from some of the other background artists to include their pieces as well, so we have most of Bugaria represented.

And now, this is where you come in - it's time to draw your OCs!

A quick run-down of how this will go: -Read the Full Guide (a google doc) for information and details -Fill out the Interest Form so that I can gauge how many potential participants there will be and have a means of contacting folks. -(Optional) Join the Discord Server (invite provided after you fill out the Interest Form. You do NOT need to join the server to participate. -Make your art. Take your time. You have three-and-a-half months to do it :) -Submit your character art to the Submission Form on or before Saturday, August 17, 2024. -After the art is all submitted, I will arrange the characters on the preferred backdrops and post them by the end of September.

If you don't want to join the server to see updates/announcements, be sure to follow the tag #BF OC Collab

I hope you will consider joining this project! The more, the merrier. I'd love to see as many art styles and character designs as possible included in these pieces.

#bug fables #ocs

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Blocking people prevents them from interacting with your stuff. Which is good if that's what you want annoying people not to do. But sometimes I find someone's posts annoying as hell and I don't want to see them. I'm pretty sure blocking doesn't make that happen. I want people to know that the way to make that happen is to put their username in the "filtered content" section of your settings. And you don't even have to block them if they're a person who like you actually don't mind if they interact with your posts but you just don't want to have to see their shit. You CAN block them. I'm just saying these are two different mechanisms you can mix and match to curate your experience. Do with that what you will.

#misc. #tumblr

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Hey guys, look! It's team Not-Slacker!

#bug fables #art #ough we love your art its SO shaped

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[VIDEO TAKEN: SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2023 | Video ID: A video of a black, yellow, white, and red lubber grasshopper on a piece of paper, wriggling its abdomen and opening and closing the dorsal and ventral valves of its ovipositor in a way that makes it look as if the back half of the animal is its own snapping creature /End IDs.]

Encountered this grasshopper and scooped it up with a letter! Which is about when I noticed it exhibiting this fascinating behavior! It's freaky but very interesting!

#THIS IS SUCH A GOOD BUG #bugs

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Another dream comic. Had a dream where I was tied to a chair in a dark room and some hooded figures killed me after I begged for my life—but then I got caught in a time loop and so I kept trying to figure out what I could say to get them to not shoot me but they killed me no matter what I said. Started just shouting random stuff eventually.

#misc. #art #we should put a guy in this situation #sent to us

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my take on team snakemouth!! ^_^ love the err. creechurs

some other doodles i did prior to the ref :]

#these are SO FUCKING GOOD we love them #bug fables #art

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mantis based bug eeveelution sketchy

#pokemon #bugs #art #mantis

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reblog for sample size !!

#points at you. orange #misc. #polls

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reblog for sample size !!

#hmm. cream cat we think #cream tabby #misc. #polls

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reblog for sample size !!

#tuxedo cat for sure #misc. #polls

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reblog for sample size !!

#you would be like. black cat we think. little bit of white spotting but mostly black #or like. brown tabby with white #misc. #polls

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reblog for sample size !!

#tortoiseshell for sure #or maybe a flame point or an orange with particularly dark tabby stripes #misc. #polls

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Every once in a while we will read a fic where it's blatantly obvious that the author is deeply, deeply mortified to be posting A Fic Like This, where the mortification of posting that which they Wanted to write and presumably put effort into writing leaks right out into the fic to the point that it actively dilutes the emotional beats.

Like, you probably know the sort. It pulls its punches, even more so the more embarrassed the author is to be Writing Something, to the point that you can practically taste it in the writing - the author expects you to be just as uncomfortable with this as them, that the mere suggestion of something is so deeply Gross and Offputting and oh, it's weird of them to be even Considering writing this, that they pull back in actually selling the discomfort - that the prose grows oddly detached, telling rather than showing and cutting out reaction and follow-through and anything but the barest sketch of action.

The author's lack of willingness to follow through, their chains to the invisible audience in their head, actively impact the work, and purely to make it Worse - dulling the impact, dulling the edge, dulling the story itself until it says nothing but the echo of that invisible audience. It becomes less about what it is, and more a simple refrain. "I, the author, am afraid that you will read this and deem me strange and offputting and Bad", and that in and of itself offputs you from the story. The same impact as "oh this is probably bad", the same impact as "oh im inexperienced so don't expect too much of me aha", the same impact as talking yourself down for some illusion of Modesty.

It sucks to read. It, presumably, sucks to write. It also knocks us right the hell out of spirals on occasion because whenever we think poorly about our work remembering how much worse it gets if we pull back from what we want to write will knock us out of things enough that we'll start making an active effort to feel less ashamed of stuff we wanted to write or draw or whatever.

We should all get rid of the concept of shame entirely and just start making whatever the fuck is what we're saying we feel more secondhand embarrassment than we do firsthand nowadays and we want that to happen Less.

#misc. #fanfiction #reblogs with these tags because our beloved mutual is correct and so right about everything