#they all make great progress

[bees-with-swords]

I love how Discworld's mentor characters are all deeply flawed actually. Tired of old people having everything right, I love how these ones set up the next generation with room to grow and be idealistic, even if the mentors themselves are deeply rooted in the old practices of the system they've already changed so much. Pratchett really said we should revere our elders but also seek to push past their limits

#thinking abt jackrum AND Vimes AND granny Weatherwax #they all make great progress #but also facilitate the younger generation to make further progress #even if they don't fully understand what the next phase of progress entails. they are helping the kids get there gdi #it reminds me a lot of the elders in my life #who can't fully disentangle my naiveté from my aspirations #there's confusion #everyone deals with new frontiers and new ideas differently #but the best mentors will encourage you to push on even if the type of liberation they fought for is mostly already won #cause they aren't built for the next step but you could be #discworld

[magichats]

all the news going around with unity's really got me worried for games that are already several years into development like Hollow Knight Silksong and Billie Bust up.

Just rough because I don't suppose a whole lot of games are going to be able to pivot game engines, let alone so late in development. Like it is easier said than done to pivot early in development but i've been following the development of several games that are years in at this point and the fact that they're grandfathering older titles into this is just... it's just bad.

The potential loss of games in terms of archival on such a massive scale....

#Like with the news that Cult of the Lamb's getting full stop deleted due to this is not great news #and I can't imagine they're going to be the only ones who decide to simply delete. #Unity #Unity Engine #Silksong #Hollow Knight #Should also specify that BBU is not a unity game but just a really good example of a game that likely couldn't pivot engines on a dime #knowing what Little I know about BBU's back engine and the work they put in to make all the musical aspects *work* #thank goodness it's on unreal because given the fact that they've got a lot of progress on a working game #i'd legit hate to see them have to redo everything from scratch #same cannot be said for some of the other long term game projects i've been following unfortunately

[flame-shadow]

Nosk Party Time !!!!!! ✨

The final result of a collaborative project run by @flame-shadow and @fly-sky-high-bug-games with folks contributing drawings of their nosk OCs.

Credits and characters:

@brennustheskeleton (Damson), @real-live-human (Aril), @slimeel (Shade Nosk), @notthesaint (Belfly nosk), @zombugz (Saccharin), @monotone-artist (Inkwell), @wabbitears (Vic), @wolfieolfie (Gyre), @localcornflake (Mosskin nosk), @ratcandy (Den Elder), @devilcatdarling (Hive Bee Nosk), @charlieghostcrab (Seashore), @vulturereyy (Boofly Nosk), @reveks (Flora), @ahntherootvessel (Ahn Nosk), @daily-mossfly (Mnoskfly), @littledc5 (Sol Nosk), @flame-shadow (Chalice and Candy), @fly-sky-high-bug-games (Crucible)

#hollow knight #hollow knight oc #nosk party collab #nosknosknosk #id in alt #this was so fun to work on!!! shout out to everyone who contributed and/or got hyped for this project #and special shout out to Sky for being an awesome partner both behind the scenes and with making that colorful spider-webby background!! #i love love love all the nosk designs. y'all have great ideas and i enjoyed figuring out where they all should go to compose the scene #alsooo we'll share some progress pics in a few days since it was a more involved process than just slapping characters onto a background ;D #okay okay stopping now haha! #please enjoy the party :) #OC: Chalice #OC: Candy #othersocs #flameshadowart

[upsidedowngrass]

sorry for the radio silence. heres a bunch of these guys from the past while as compensation

#hfjone #liam plecak #amelia euler #charlotte stern #bryce hansen #hfjone backpack #scentpack #thats all im tagging LOL theres too many ppl #eye strain #ask to tag #my art #some of these r older than others #but umm yea :) #been inactive cus i have been busy and not doin 100% great but i still love drawing all of them and thinking abt all of them #also i reccomend clicking some of these cus tumblrs gonna make them soooo teeny tiny #sorry for the weird ordering on this theres too many for me to figure out like... a Natural progression for them #so instead just. Art Blast

[aquapede]

some oc refs and icons in preparation for art fight

#original character #character design #going2nowhere #ms paint #mspaint #scribbles #oc-candle #oc-alabra #oc-undone #oc-director #theres still a lot i want to get done before art fight begins but i feel like im making great progress #kinda hilarious that literally all the characters besides 2 that i had up last year got retconned out of existence #or moved to a different story (<hasnt worked on that story)

[acoraxia]

I think people misunderstood my macaque post

Ah well you win some you lose some

#people saying ‘the sun cant exist without the moon’ #yes it can? #it just wouldnt shine #we wouldnt see it #thats why macaque is flawed from the start - you have him DEPEND on the sun to make any progress #with his character #moon and sun symbolisms are great but when you take it away #sun wukong is still SUN WUKONG but macaque is nobody without wukong and thats saying smthing #and i can give you so many examples of characters who have stories without relying on their childhood best friends #like jinx from arcane or marceline from adventure time #sometimes you can make it work if the story is about both of them #but the story has ALWAYS been about wukong never macaque #even macaque’s dialogue and actions and drives are all connected to wukong #and thats a little sad ngl #comeback kid #think pan

[koszmarnybudyn]

So this episode was great :')

#tma #the magnus archives #my art #tma spoilers #martin blackwood #jon sims #jonathan sims #i know its not their full conversation but the comic of it i wanted to make wasnt working out #so this is more like snipets that i liked #martins design is honestly still a work in progress #might have broken the 180° rule in the last two drawings there by accident oh well #anyway i like glowy anime esque glasses as you can probablly tell from all my art lol #oh also gotta draw daisy going feral and all the other stuff #also is jonahs body not decomposed? is that why the lack of eyes is wierd #is jonah kinda switching eyes with his bodies in a wierd coraline esque way? #idk honestly gotta read the wiki for the episode cause im not great at putting 2 and 2 together sometimes lol

[flo-n-flon]

You don't mess with the Bashere ladies

Quick Deira Bashere after a long and eventful train journey because she's pretty badass and hot

#the wheel of time #wot fanart #Deira Bashere #wot book spoilers #I love a woman who's tall and wields knives #That's why both Berelain and Faile are great #Deira will probably end up on my list of minor characters to draw #When I make progress on my current drawing #Out of all the minor characters I've drawn so far she's the one I most confident we'll see in the show with Darlin #Caraline I'm not sure because she doesn't play such a specific role #And we probably won't get Seonid #Sadly

[badassindistress]

~🌺🌼⚘Squashed Flower Stays⚘🌼🌺~

This summer I followed a workshop on natural fabric dying or tataki zomé, or as I like to call it Squashed Flower Dyeing with a Hammer!

And me being who I am, I decided to immediately graduate from test strips into making fabric for stays.

The technique of this is that flowers naturally have pigments. If you place a fresh flower on some cotton or linen, sandwich it between some more linen and smash it with a big rubber mallet, those pigments get squashed in your fabric. You get a coloured squash print of a flower or leaf:

Then you wash your fabric in iron sulfate (your fabric goes yellow and your print goes black) white vinegar (your colours stay, reds go pink) or alun/aluin (your colours fix but go more purple).

The sad thing is, the colours fade very quickly. The fresher your leaf, the brighter the mark, but even the vibrant colours fade when they come into contact with the sun :(

Anyway, it turned out very interesting and was great fun to do for an afternoon:

Stay tuned for the turning it into stays part!

(Link here when I get to that)

#i was too busy hammering to actually take a picture of the mallet #my stays kept colour the best #i pre-treated the fabric in alun and afterwards put it in vinegar and did not wash it after #and ironing to fix it #a talia original #talia's adventures in dressmaking #excerpts from my life #sewing progress #squashed flower stays #the technique is Japanese #searching for it will probably give you the exact how to's #natural dyeing #this was hard on the hands #we all got blisters #great to experiment with though #sunflowers worked great at the start but faded terribly #grapevine actually kept it's colour #it's fascinating #i just found out that the English call it 'pounding flowers' so #make of that what you will

[jichanxo]

sunday six :D

taking the initiative for a change.... so i'm going to boop @four-white-trees @passthroughtime @skysquid22 @overdevelopedglasses

chipping away at sensei fic this week! here's kitakata and yagami making out lol excuse my bluntness... don't feel obligated to read if you're not into that o7

Yagami reached for Kitakata’s arm, found his hand, and guided it to his hip. Yagami pulled away from the kiss.

“Touch me, would you?”

Kitakata’s breath was warm on his lips. “Where would you like it?”

“Figure it out yourself.” He said and kissed him again. Kitakata didn’t seem to complain. His fingers slipped under the hem of Yagami’s shirt, meeting skin. He touched along the base of his spine, and Yagami couldn’t suppress the slight shiver that went through him. He could only imagine how gratifying this was for Kitakata. Hell, just seeing Yagami checking him out probably made his whole week, now this. He’d never be able to stop him from flirting now.

Yagami leaned into Kitakata’s hold, into his mouth, against that eager tongue. He was about to make Kitakata’s whole damn year.

#sunday six #good evening kuwagami nation #excuse my eagerness i've been sitting on this snippet for days #funnily enough an accidental pair with the last sunday six i posted #feels like i'm starting to make a bit more progress thank goodness #i've been needing to go over this scene for a long time and i finally did! #unlike my last sunday six this one is basically all new writing #the “make his week/year” thing was from the previous version of this scene and that's about it #for reference they first kiss at.... page 16 of my doc #and this is after the second kiss (unless i make drastic changes) and it's on.... page 44. lol #i know that doesn't say a whole lot since font size but yknow. just for reference as to how i'm going #not used to working on anything that's not a short oneshot so it's been an experience for sure #excuse my waffling i just can't stop yapping about sensei fic #four-white-trees can you just pretend you didn't get sent this whole scene yesterday? great wonderful thank you

[starbuck]

the best is when you watch a film for the billionth time and can STILL notice something new

#watched To Be Or Not To Be (1942) for the sixth?? seventh?? time tonight and noticed an INCREDIBLE reaction i hadn’t seen before #i am at peace 😌😌 #i was feeling kinda freaked out and needed to watch something that wasn’t gonna make it worse #i also REALLY needed to rewatch it for… well… several reasons #but particularly one which will become clear in the coming weeks #(though i got a lot more out of it already - looking forward to my future rewatch when i’m done) #and i finally realized what i needed to do about [redacted] #the solution was so clear and simple! can’t believe i didn’t think of it before #now i just have to take my pick! #great stuff great stuff #really truly cannot WAIT to subject you all to this fic #it’s still very much In Progress - but the parts that are done are just…. 👌🏻👌🏻 *SO* good

[pankomako]

some boat n chat interaction doodles, + trying out a couple things with boat's design :D

#failboat #eye wrinkle? eye wrinkle. #i mean considering shipwreck's design i think this would just be the natural progression #plus i just like drawing eyebags on people #next i plan to make a whole proper ref sheet for my chat design. my very first drawing of them isnt exactly. great #gonna work out ALL the details w/ their functions n parts n everything

[snakes-on-skates]

p03 you are gonna make me cry

#im #oh my god #its a good game this game is great and i love it #BUT #i have been stuck doing the dame two battles #over and over #and over #and over again #i fucking hate act 3 😭😭😭 #p03 is my favorite character. i love it. but oh my god it does not love me #yeah man. i know theres five lanes now. you dont have to insult leshy every time i lose dude #pleas let me make any progress at all #im probably just shit at the game but PLEASE #SCREAMING LET ME OUT OF HERE #inscryption #now i know why i stopped playing for so long #let me back into act 1

[shadowed-yet-vibrant]

Every day I log on and see Warriors fan artists making stories that are infinitely more complex, emotional, and sophisticated than the source material ever has been. It's incredible how such a error-riddled, flat, and continually disappointing series has led to such incredible creative vision.

#warrior cats #warriors #seriously y'all are incredible #you're out here making multifaceted trans cats when the Erins can't even let a female character just exist #increasingly I'm seeing stuff that's just straight up xenofiction with hardly even a WC skeleton #that's still considered a WC fancomic or fan art because of little more than naming conventions and cats living in groups #it's so so great that these tremendous artists have been so inspired but honestly... it's just incredible #how a series that I loved dearly during childhood has unequivocally inspired better art despite that same source material being mediocre #especially as it progressed past Firestar's main arc #*anyway* lol #keep up the good work #I swear I also can't keep up with all the clangen blogs I want to but my poor little brain just can't keep them all separated

[hassianlovebot]

im thinking about reth/hassian...

#like on one hand lots of great opportunities for humor #on the other hand Lots of great opportunities for angst... #ough..... #im thinking of reth constantly going out to bahari bay to drop off packages and hassian always seeing him and being like.. the fuck? #and maybe it starts off a little enemies ish where hassian is like You Work For The Cartel You Freak #but eventually it progresses to reth breaking down and admitting that its all for tish and that hassian Cannot say anything #and if there's one thing hassian understands its familial love and loyalty #hassian still doesnt Like reth but he understands and he's not gonna rat him out #they form a reluctant friendship.. tau Loves reth and reth is always giving him treats... #hassian starts dropping off chapaa meat at the inn... reth starts giving him meals in return... #hassian eventually offers his grove as a resting place on days/nights that reth is making his rounds #oh man... hassian wanting to protect reth... OUGHHHHH #worms in my brain!!! get out!!!!! #and if i wrote a little reth/hassian drabble... what then...

[daandori]

i am doing not great today lads

#the talkies #job hunt is looking extra miserable and hopeless #not having a good body image time #spent last night torturing myself w old photos of what i used to look like #breakouts are not fucking going away even with my increased med dose so it makes me sad every morning when i wake up and look at them #mom is extremely stressed at work so the air in the house is getting poisoned and she’s starting to take it out on me #+extra sad abt the passage of time and all the things i still havent managed to progress on in the last few years #just not having a great time overall #anyways my emo rant of the day #hope everyone has something happy to brighten their day today