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[Stardew Valley] felt compelled to draw some ponies..

#!!! #It took a minuet for the stardew valley in this to click #Was too mezmerized to notice the description lol #These are fantastic. The best of the best #can't get over how cute these are

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"Your true face... What kind of... face is it? I wonder... the face under that mask... Is that... your true face?"

—Twinmold Child from Majora's Mask

Late Halloween art! It’s such a relief being able to finally liberate this project from my WIPs purgatory.

I haven't posted any development processes in a while so I wanted to share this one. It's interesting being able to see how much something can change from beginning to end. Just before I posted this I remembered the first sketches were still jotted down in my old sketchbook from well over a year ago. I found them and thought they were amusing, so I've squished them in there as well.

#legend of zelda #majora's mask #late halloween art #mm link #fierce deity #art process #link #loz mm #tatl #the four giants #fairy #nintendo 64 #fan art #my art

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Sneak Peek!

I'm finally getting back to these WIPs again. I have a lot of Fall-themed ones that have been sitting in my laptop since last year. Burn-out got me then but thankfully I've been managing better this season. So excited to be working on these again!

If all goes well, I'll be able to post these and a few others soon :)

#wip #my wips #sneak peek #loz #link #trees

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It's not diving underwater, but he still looks pretty good swimming and burrowing up like a mole.

#You can't convince me that this isn't the most mesmerizing new ability Link's scored by losing an arm #He's not that great at it but makes up for it by winning through his usual clever bullshit #legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #totk link #totk bokoblin #ascend mechanic #loz #totk #link #cucco #my art #my fan art

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Played Tears of the Kingdom. Felt like I was going through the 5 stages of grief the entire time lmao.

I'm too tired to really explain everything this game made me feel. In a few words, I had high expectations going in and none of them were met :(. It felt like 6 years of anticipation quickly flushed down the toilet. I actually preordered the game and cleared some of my week to play it on release— two things I had never done before. That should give you an idea about how excited I was; the efforts I took in order to best enjoy the newest game of my favorite videogame series. The crash and burn was imminent, really.

I wanted to humorize the pain and absurdity I was put through during my playthrough. It's my way of accepting Totk for what it is and moving on now

#totk #loz #reflecting on tears of the kingdom #humor #There it is. My synopsis 🤡 #let it be known that I was delusional to ever think preordering was a good idea #It might surprise some of you but I do still want to make some drawings for this game in the future #Gotta try to make my own fun regardless of the results we got #There's some really interesting critiques out there about the game if you really wanna know what I'm on about too #Hard to miss the growing number of discussions and video essays that have popped up since it came out #my art #my doodles #my mini comics

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every writing tip article and their mother: dont ever use adverbs ever!

me, shoveling more adverbs onto the page because i do what i want: just you fucking try and stop me

#writing advice #never thought of it that way. It's a good tip!

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Oot Link WIP

#wip #my wips #sketch #oot #link #been struggling to draw. My energy's just been really low lately #I don't have much to show rn but here's something for the day and season

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Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

#signal boost #fanfiction #I'd be more suprised if I hadn't heard about this sort of thing before. Happens all the time with art #the fact it goes under their radar for an indefinite amount of time is astonishing tho

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Om nom nom nom nom 

#illustration #food illustration #egg art #art study #eggs #ketchup #my art #my illustrations #Trying new things #Also I was hungry so I drew my desires #My inner artist is full but my stomach alas is not 😔

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Link taking a breather with his bff Epona

#legend of zelda #twilight princess #loz #tp link #epona #sketch #my art #my fanart #felt like doing something a little more casual. The shading is kind of smudgey but that's ok #this started with just wanting to draw a little thing with Link's horse but then well.... #cozy thoughts apparently come in a bundle lol

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Nintendo really decided to leave her down there for another 8 months 

#legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #zelda #princess zelda #loz #totk #botw 2 #my art #fan art #Our poor girl's been in a bottomless pit for the last 3 years and still no word oh no #But at least she has the slate! Assuming she pawed it off Link before being plot-deviced into the hole #knowing him he's not coming for her until the last possible second

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I played Alttp & LA HD for the first time this year and they were both GREAT! 

When I picked the first one up I was kind of worried that I wouldn’t be able to appreciate the classic. I’ve played 2D games before but it’s been many years since I’ve touched one. I’ve also primarily grown up with 3D games, especially where Zelda’s concerned. Ironically though, that’s probably why the experience it created for me felt so special. It’s old with it’s own brand of challenges, and yet I really wasn’t expecting how much it would move me all throughout my playthrough. I was already giddy by all the charming details and character, so discovering just how deeply this game and it’s sequel has obviously inspired all the Zelda games I grew up playing with? I was floored. It all suddenly clicked and it was like discovering something old and completely brand new all at once. 

I enjoyed both games so much. There’s so many characters and scenes that caught my imagination and that has been calling me to draw. For now, here are some illustrations of Link in the mountain regions of the first game. The Bully and Gumball in particular (and as I like to call them) were some of my favorite character encounters. It must of been so surreal for Link to run into them only briefly after getting turned into a rabbit. They were a really amusing pair, and it was really fun trying to reimagine them!

#a link to the past #legend of zelda #alttp #loz #bunny link #bully and gumball #lost old man #my art #fan art #I'm back to working a regular work schedule #should of anticipated how severely that would impact my art time #having the summer off made me forget how tough it gets to work on personal stuff during the rest of the year hhhh #I wanted to wait to post these until after I finished another related piece that I've mentioned in previous tags but #might not be ready for a while. So have these early. Probably should of just posted them sooner anyhow #Hey! so here's a fun fact: #Bunny feet look NOTHING like a dog's or cat's. They aren't padded at all and are actually just as fluffy as the rest of the bunny! #Found this out almost immedietly after posting a drawing including a rabbit and the truth has been eating me alive #I think I've only ever seen a rabbit once or twice in person. And never up close. How was I to know? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #But you think I would of noticed what with all the bunny photos I was looking at. smh big fail on my part #So yea anyway that's why Twi Bunny still has canine feet and this Bunny Link's got pillowy toesies

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Wind and Four

#linked universe #lu #lu wind #lu four #my art #fan art #wip that i'll never finish #This has been sitting in my wips folder for half a year now and it needed releasing #polished it up and added a background. Original context's lost forever lol #summer got unexpectedly busy last month and I've been holding out on posting my summer projects in favor of something else I've been making #I was going back and forth on it a lot but I got it worked out for the most part. Hopefully I'll be posting more stuff soon

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Kikwi!

#kikwi #skyward sword #legend of zelda #loz ss #loz #ss #sketch #sketchbook #my art #fan art #wip #maybe this is a wip? I might color it later #ironically sayin' this #but I'm actually not all that fond of the kikwi folk. I just never found them all that cute or interesting #I wanted to know whether or not I'd enjoy drawing them as a subject #and they were fun to play around with I won't lie

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Twilight Bunny and Dark World Wolf 

#legend of zelda #linked universe #a link to the past #twilight princess #wolf link #bunny link #lu twilight #lu legend #loz #alttp #lu #tp #zelda au #role swap au #fan art #my art

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Oh my gosh

Four as a dog

Is the most precious thing ever and your art is so good he is such a good doggie

Aww thank you so much! ^^

The weenie-dog breed felt like the perfect choice for Four too. Sweet-natured, playful and stubborn, and tends to easily forget their own small size? It just felt too fitting of a combo

#ask box #anonymous #apparently this was a good idea too because it completely cured the chronic artblock I was going through up until this year #doggy Four really came through for me

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More silly sausages! 

This drawing absolutely refused to be leashed btw. I meant to keep it close to the original concept’s style, but without a time-limit or some other form of restraint I think I end up with too much leeway sometimes. Not that I’m displeased! I quite enjoyed getting to bother my dog for this one.

Now that it’s summer break I’m hoping I’ll be able to create art more frequently.

#linked universe #lu four #lu #four swords adventures #art process #dachshund #my art #fan art #That first process image is really rough on the eyes #but I think it's kind of cool to share the not-so-perfect side of a process #also #I found out how to keep my drawings from disappearing #had to repost to solve the issue #so yea if this looks familiar that's why. blame tumblr #it gave me the opportunity to sharpen up the close-ups more properly at least. Now they look nice and crispy! :D