backgrounds;; just the thought of the effort needed for them exhausts me o<-< (I'm actively trying to improve dw ahhahaha)
17. what do you love getting compliments about
tbh a "LMAO" makes my day already. It's always amusing to read reblog tags on here ahhahaha. I like it when I can make people laugh. Or any emotion really, like, "This made me cry" is such a huge compliment I wouldn't know how to reply other than keysmashing ahhahalksjdlkfjslk
We do not know how the hell the Gay Pirate Plate was first acquired. This being a point of contention is actually pretty plot-relevant; the saga of the Gay Pirate Plate began with my grandmother and her sister, who, for some ungodly reason, both BADLY wanted the Gay Pirate Plate and believed it to be rightfully theirs.
I should back up, firstly, to establish: The Gay Pirate Plate is the cheapest, tackiest, ugliest plate in existence.
It is in no way a collector’s item. It is physically impossible for it to complement anyone’s decor, because the colors in it are garish. It’s just a ceramic plate with a gay pirate painted on it, and the painting is, this cannot be emphasized enough, extremely bad.
(How do we know the pirate is gay if he’s just posing on a plate? Listen. Fully 100% to stereotype, but he is. He is gay. There’s an energy. That pirate is a flaming homosexual. That pirate has sex with men and does it frequently. That pirate is fucking gay, all right, he just is.)
Anyway. The point is that this is an extremely cheap and ugly plate with a poorly-executed painting of pirate on it who is like a nine on the Kinsey scale.
My grandmother and her sister fought a blood feud over this plate for their entire lives. It would be on the wall in my grandma’s house, and then her sister would visit, and then it would be gone. She’d visit her sister and the plate would be on the wall and her sister would pretend it had always been there. She would steal it back, hang it up, and, when her sister visited, pretend it had always been there. This continued for DECADES.
When the sister died, the Gay Pirate Plate lived triumphantly in my grandmother’s house. And then my grandmother died. And my aunt, who had lived with her and been her carer throughout her life, rightfully inherited their house.
We visit my aunt after the funeral and stay with her for a week or two.
Me, my sister, and our dad. Her brother.
The three of us look at each other. We don’t say anything. We studiously avoid making eye contact with the Gay Pirate Plate mounted proud and ugly on the wall. We notice one another studiously avoiding looking at it. We notice one another noticing. We say nothing. We come to a silent consensus. We pack up to leave. We get in the van. Our aunt comes out to say goodbye. I loudly announce I need to use the restroom before we leave. She obviously stays outside to continue talking to my dad.
I take down the Gay Pirate Plate, stuff it under my oversized sweatshirt, go outside, and get in the van. She happily waves goodbye as we drive off.
Two days later my dad gets a phone call that opens with hysterical laughter and “You FUCKING ASSHOLE did you seriously STEAL THE PLATE–”
Anyway. The gay pirate plate lives in my dad’s house currently.
But he’s trying to get me and my sister out to visit him. And plate mounts are cheap.
So I've been working on this 24 long ass pages of a tartali comic for 2 things: in the hopes that it could generate a bit of income for me to survive the next month (i plan to sell it but also release it free in a span of weeks), and to see if I am capable of creating something *long*.
It took me a week to write, almost 2 weeks running now just to draft the whole thing and I still have 3 pages left, and probably another 2-3 weeks to finish the whole thing. I am dying.
I usually only write short stories, something I can churn out in 3 days max--I tend to lose interest in my own work if it gets too long and it's already happening now. I've doubled down on this project and asked friends to review it throughout the entire process but gods i am losing so much hope is this even worth it or is this fated to just be scrapped like the rest of my plans ahahhaha
Here is a suggestion for the sketch request! Could you do dragonli falling off the bed while he is sleeping, and Ajax’s subsequent laughter after the noise wakes him up and he realizes what happened? :)