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Another black bird, based on a frogmouth chick born looking old and already done with everything xD

#bird #birb #black bird #ink drawing #digital tinkering #I tinkered a lot around the eyes #I struggled to get the right expression #but I got it the way I wanted in the end #traditional art

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Birb inspired from a Nightjar ^^

#birb #ink drawing #grey alcohol markers #digital tinkering #I squished it #it looked too proud and not squished enough #so I squished it :D #only a little bit #I'm not a monster #art #traditional art

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Absolutely my experience I've noticed CQL fic usually have The Untamed first in the "fandom" tag list but it's not 100% accurate and a few times fic writers have noted explicitly that their fic is CQL canon in the opening notes and it's… just… not. like, blatantly. i'm not talking just a few details *sigh*

*gently closes yet another fic tagged with 'the untamed' that is very clearly novel canon*

NOT EVEN FRANKENCANON guys please tags have meanings

#literally happens to me all the time #I read way too much CQL/MDZS fanfic #is it THAT hard to tag correctly ?? #even if you're frankencanoodling just say it #I truly appreciate fic writers who are upfront about this

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Have you come across 90s coined expression "ça le fait" yet ? xD I leave France for ONE YEAR and everybody is using this when I come back and I'm just… ??? Brutal xD

So I've been learning French for a while and 'faire' is actually an incredible word. Like what a fucking breakthrough in economy of language.

Faire is a verb that is usually translated into English as "to do/to make," but it covers way more actions than that, which is very confusing for new speakers. because (I have realized) that's not really what faire means.

Faire is actually a word that just gestures vaguely in the direction of the object of the sentence and goes "you know." "Je fais du velo." "Je fais du courses." "Je fais mes valises." I'm biking. I go grocery shopping. I'm packing my bags. You're just sort of pointing at a bike and going "you know, the obvious thing you'd do with it."

English: "You mean RIDE it??"

French: "Sure whatever."

Like idk I just really enjoy the concept of a catch-all verb that you can just slap onto almost anything because who fucking gives a shit, you get the idea. There's a bike. what do you think I'm going to do with it.

#français #french #le verbe faire #I guess “faire un truc” is the vaguest expression you can get xD

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My quest for cute birbs continues. … and then I frightened myself yesterday night, when i was reading in dark mode on my laptop and I saw the birb inverted XD … way more ominous xD

#cute birb #bird #ominous cute birb #he's glaring at you #what did you do ?? #ink drawing #art #bird drawing #the original photo is from the internet #it's the eyes. the eyes are glaring. even tho it's the same eyes xD

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My new endeavour is "trying to draw birbs, but cute"

#ink drawing #art #grey markers #color markers #birb #he is the night

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State of Kinou's Crochet Blanket n°2 : ongoing It will be 4 big C2C (40x40) squares surrounded/separated by a border of little C2C (8x8) little squares. Or maybe a border with more little squares, I dunno, I need to see how much yarn I'll have left. All hemmed by a beige (I thought white would be too stark) border. My hemming is rustic but I don't care >.> I'm kinda half done, I still have about 25 little squares to make and finish hemming everything and then assemble it. I've never done this ^^; Anyway. It will work out.

As usual my phone is making the reds a bit too saturated, but heh.

The time it's taking me to make this gives me a renewed respect for people who make all that stuff by hand. It's not like I didn't know, but still.

#crochet #crochet blanket #variegated yarn #wool yarn #acrylic yarn #crochet noob noobing along hypnotized by all the colors #I don't really have a plan beside putting a lot of colored squares beside one another #crafting

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:)

#calligraphy #rudy giuliani #terry pratchett #erkhyan got a beautifully calligraphied quote °o°

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I made this chart for an 80-slide presentation explaining all of the main characters of CQL using only their connection to Jin Ling. I was so proud of this chart I figured someone on here might like it.

#I wanna see the 80 slides presen now #where is it OP xD #this would work extra well as a wheel with Jin Ling in the center actually #“adoptive” should really be “martial” but WWX is like a ward so heh that works I guess #CQL #The Untamed #jin ling's uncles

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Happy New Year from bébé fantasy moss-fern gecko :D

#2024 #new year #late #very late but not that late #I literally haven't drawn in a whole year #like the last thing I made was last year new year greetings #why the slump ? no idea #ink drawing #digital coloring #drawing #traditional art #art

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I finished my crochet blanket, finally ! I had a hiatus because I was waiting for a second batch of yarn to arrive, but finally, IT'S DONE.

AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*munches on blanket*

*pets blanket* Like, for real, look away, I'm petting my blanket right now

It ended up being slightly rectangular instead of square because I wanted to finish the yarn. Also ended up having a bit more colors than initially anticipated, but that's fine. I used 20 balls of Ilkadim Yarnart Harmony A1, plus the orange/red/blue parts of the same wool in A2 (I think that would be 16 balls, but only like half of the yarn) mostly. I added a few strands of yarn from the same brand in other orange/green here and there. This yarn is from Germany, as far as I can tell, so it might very well not be available easily outside of the EU.

The yarn is 60% wool 40% acrylic. The thread can vary wildly in size (but that's something I like in this case). It tends to stick and be a bit difficult when you have to undo stitches. Still, I love the colors. It's not super expensive, but I used a lot of it so it adds up I crocheted it with a 8mm hook.

Anyway. I love it. I can't believe I made this.

#crochet blanket #crochet #chevron stitch #my blanket I wuv you <3<3<3 #ALL THE COLORS #crafting #arts and crafts #crafting stuff #hand crafted

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Bad Party Guests

Wang Pangzi, Tomb of the Sea

Mei Changsu, Nirvana in Fire

Wei Wuxian, The Untamed

Zhang Rishan, Tomb of the Sea

Ling Buyi, Love Like the Galaxy

#Mei Changsu for sure #look he's winning xD #nirvana in fire #not me considering rewatching NiF for the third time ^^; #cdrama #chinese drama #mei changsu #RIP Xiao Jingrui's birthday

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I'm crocheting a blanket, and I thought I had made it way smaller than it actually is ^^; It's the size of my bed so 1m90 more or less. It's going to be square so I'll go on until it reaches peak squaritude and I can stop. I think i'm about one quarter done. I'm using two different variegated yarns, but the one with the orange colors has colors that don't go well with the rest so i've been unspooling and snipping and tying together stuff, and I'll have a lot of stuff to tuck in but I think it does look nice, and I really enjoy the randomness of combinations I get as I progress. It's a bit irregular but I embrace my relative noobiness.

#crochet #throw blanket #craft #yarn #chevron stitch #well one of the many chevron stitches out there anyway

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#yes to no ! xD #fox #art #fox art #very foxy art #<3

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And the final opus, Mimi Being Cute The Continuation and the End xD

#mimi the cat #my cat #pet #cat #a very cute cat what can i say ?

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40 more seconds of Mimi Being Cute, Continued. xD (it was a long vid)

#mimi the cat #my cat #mimi #cat

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40 seconds of Mimi being cute.

#mimi #my cat #pets #cat