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ariaadagio · 10 months

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There comes a time when fandom becomes less of an escape from anxiety to being the source of anxiety. Sometimes I need to remind myself what’s important to focus on, and I made this chart to help me with that.

(Posting this at the request of a few people. The design/concept was inspired by an instagram post about covid-19 located here).

#on fandom #on fanfiction

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ariaadagio · 11 months

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Lighting critique of a recent panel ! Dark ambient lighting is a favorite art subject of mine, so i figured this would be a good time to give some input ! ii say as if we havent been in the undergroound chapter for like a month in which it didnt occur to me to pay attention to lighting Oh well loool here it is nowwwwwwww hope you dont mind the input

Huh.

Okay, so first off, thanks - this is cool and your lighting looks very nice. I look forward to seeing what you make!

Second - I really hope sending this kind of ask isn't a habit of yours, because unsolicited artistic criticism comes across as remarkably rude.

Art criticism for the purposes of improvement is a social contract entered between two artists, typically in a scholastic environment. An artist presents their work to other artists whose opinions they trust and value, and those artists weigh in with their thoughts. Critical to the process is that the presenting artist is showing their art for the purpose of improvement, and they're prepared to receive that input because they're actively asking for it.

In contrast, I make this comic so people can read it, and while I certainly don't mind if they take it apart to analyze it or find ways the writing and art could be improved, I, the creator, am not asking for that and - more importantly - will not really benefit from it.

For instance, in this case, my style of background lighting and shading is optimized most specifically to accommodate for the fact that I need to make a lot of these pages quickly, and correspondingly cannot give everything 110%. Any individual panel could absolutely be more polished, but I often shade these backgrounds in batches of ten pages or more, each page with an average of six panels that need individual shading. So that's sixty individual backgrounds I need to shade in one go. It doesn't make your advice wrong, or even unhelpful for an artist setting out to learn this kind of technique - but it does make it unhelpful for me. This is something you realistically had no way of knowing, and I don't hold it against you! But this is why I have a short list of artists and writers whose input I actually ask for sometimes, and that list is composed of people who know me, my creative priorities, and how my process works. Because they know what I'm working with, their advice stands a much better chance of being actually helpful to me.

Criticism, like all art, has an audience it is designed for. In art school environments or artistic coworker situations, the audience for the criticism is the artist being critiqued and the other artists who are learning from the communal experience they are all agreeing to share. This is the exception and not the rule, however. Outside of this space, the audience for criticism of a work of art is typically the subset of the audience for that work of art that are trying to learn something from the experience or understand what did and didn't work for them. This group can discuss what they did and didn't like, what they would have changed, what parts worked for them that may not have worked for other members of the audience, etc. This space of critical analysis forms the backbone of most fandoms and can be incredibly interesting and rewarding to play around in.

The audience for that kind of criticism is not the creator of the art. In the same way a creator can never be fully immersed in their own fandom audience, this form of communal critique from the audience side of things does not work when directed at the creator. In the context of this work of art, we exist in very different spaces and operate under different parameters. If there's one thing I learned from back when I used to check in on the fan discord community, it's that most conversation in this space operates under the assumption that the creator will not see it or take it personally. I cannot be in the audience of my own audience.

All that to say, thanks for the thought, but please be careful doing this in the future - tumblr is the land of kneejerk hostility and poor reading comprehension, and I don't want to see you getting shredded for a kind intention. And I hope some people find this impromptu tutorial helpful!

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ariaadagio · 2 years

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Clearly, Lucifer didn’t inherit his fashion sense from his dad, so still the most fashionable in his family.

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ariaadagio · 2 years

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#lucifer on netflix #Lucifer S2 spoilers #lucifer morningstar #lucifer gifset

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ariaadagio · 2 years

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LNC: CHLOE DECKER

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ariaadagio · 2 years

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2.10 | 5.11

God is dead is a widely quoted statement made by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

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ariaadagio · 2 years

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Untitled dating sim Paradise Lost & Found

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ariaadagio · 2 years

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Want to join a fic writing Discord that doesn’t allow fandom discourse?

We did, too! That’s why we created the Fic Writer Resource Hub. It’s a great place to meet people from different fandoms who offer encouragement, ideas, translation help, and general writing assistance. Our goal is to motivate other writers to be more productive, find solutions to problems they are having, and feel as though they have a place to turn to for help.

The chat is 18+ and intended only for writers and betas. Fandom related discussions are discouraged in the chat unless it’s to better understand a question or writing passage. As well, we ask that people police themselves and decide in advance if a topic, writing partner, or beta is a good fit before partaking.

To join, please follow this link to submit your information to the moderators. We are excited for the group to grow and become a welcoming place for everyone!

#fic writer resource hub #fic writers #writer resources #discord

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ariaadagio · 2 years

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I’m not into hurt without a comfort component, so not much whump for me. But I do love me some hurt/comfort something FIERCE. My faaavorite receivers of hurt/comfort are:

Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and/or Angel)

Castiel (Supernatural)

Legolas (Lord of the Rings)

Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer)

Spock (Star Trek)

Clark/Superman (all media types)

Anyone who wants to chime in is welcome! Tag, you’re it!

Favorite whumpees?

There are so many characters that whump so well, emotionally, physically, or both. Why do we do terrible things to the characters we say we love? No clue, but the ones listed here are my current favorites to whump, in no particular order.

Shawn Spencer from Psych

Angus MacGyver from MacGyver

Merlin from Merlin

The Doctor from Doctor Who (Eleven especially)

Jonathan Sims from the Magnus Archives

Jim Lake Jr. from Trollhunters

Reblog with your favorite characters to whump! Tagging a few friends who have been known to whump, but anyone is welcome to add to the list!

@dragonnan @saplesss-tree @holbytlanna @impossiblepluto @here-to-reblog-stuff @nywcgirl @refinedbuffoonery

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ariaadagio · 2 years

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