Ok so I saw Ragnarok a second time and damn it I had to draw Thor and Loki. Maybe I’ll draw the hug scene at some point but now have these two dummies getting drinks~
it's so funny seeing people on twitter pining after tumblr like "damn the tagging system was great" or "i miss customizing my own page" it's like that scene in movies where everyone eulogizes a character who's very much still alive and in the room
i don’t think people really get how little feedback fanfic authors actually get? like the effort to reaction ratio is so abysmally skewed here that a fic nearly 50,000 words long takes an entire year to amass like. 16 comments. someone reblogged a fic i wrote at 4 am and tagged it with a 5-word compliment and i can’t stop thinking about it, not because it was so nice but because half the time you post a fic you’re going to hear nothing and anything feels like so much
fandom culture is so, so good about giving artists the credit they’re due, but we gotta start doing that for writers too. you’ve got no idea how much people put into their stories and get maybe a handful of reblogs and a dozen-odd kudos. that’s not enough. writing is an endurance sport and y’all need to start giving fic writers a reason to endure it and improve their craft. encourage writers like you encourage artists. reblog fics, leave tags, leave comments, acknowledge that these stories do not just spring into being for your entertainment.
every single damn writer i know feels like half of their readers see them as a machine. that’s gotta change.
Spring is my favorite season and I’m sad that we’re more or less stuck inside… so I drew this piece imagining my own fantasy of a perfect springtime! I also tried playing around with a bit of a different style this time. My relationship with drawing has always been muddled with anxieties about performance, and it’s been especially bad this year. So I am resolutely trying to keep drawing “fun” and experiment with new things without worrying about the final product 😊.