#I hope this helps!!

[arcadekitten]

Oml I've played every single one of your games and I still have no idea how a pathospire feeds🤕 I understand what a pathospire is, but I wanna make sure I have the correct definition of it. Do you mind giving an explanation of what a pathospire is and how they feed?

Pathospires are emotion-based vampires who receive energy from heartbreak!

Pathospires can "eat" normal food, but it doesn't give them energy. They only get energy from heartbreak!

Pathospires can feed on all forms of heartbreak (from breakups, death, betrayal, etc). Pathospires only need to be around the broken-hearted to be able to feed, but if a pathospire is the cause of a broken-heart, they receive even more energy from it!!

If Pathospires eat a lot, they can become really strong and powerful! (like super strength!)

Pathospire feeding is an essentially passive process, like photosynthesis. They absorb the energy from a broken heart like plants absorb energy from sunlight.

#i hope this helps!! #pathospires #noisrevverse #lore #ask

[strawbubbysugar]

Do you have any tips for growing your skills as a concept artist or even getting into the industry? I want to do character concepts eventually here, but I don’t know a huge amount about the details behind the job.

Here’s my advice!

the industry is incredibly fast paced, and in being a concept artist you need to produce dozens of concepts a day. Speed is a very valuable asset- my main tip here is to build muscle memory by practicing drawing as much as you can (by drawing things you like, of course!) and using longer strokes rather than feathered, shorter ones.

Also, don’t be afraid to use reference. I see a lot of people feeling like it’s cheating but it’s NOT, in my job every single concept artist uses references daily, with every concept.

No art is truly original, take inspiration from everywhere and everything, proudly!!

#ask #personal #I hope this helps!!

[natjennie]

do the ghosts in ghosts ever like. move on. you know go into the light. or do they just not want to? every day i get this much 🤌 closer to watching the show

no no genuinely this is a good question! so yeah, the ghosts can move on, which they colloquially refer to as "getting sucked off," but it happens seemingly at random and the ghosts are very nervous about it.

basically, when you die in the bbc ghosts universe, one of two things happens. either your spirit sort of goes all glowy and floats above your body and you get a few seconds of afterlife but then you sort of whoosh upwards and that's it. OR you die and then open your eyes again right where your body still is but you're a ghost now. and once that happens, you just sort of hang out. and then, at any point, there's a warm glowing light and you get a second of recognition and then whoosh upwards and gone.

but yeah, the ghosts have a lot of different attitudes towards moving on and big episodes touch on it that I can think of are happy death day, the thomas thorne affair, speak as ye choose, gone gone, and especially carpe diem. I don't want to spoil anything specific in case you watch the show, but moving on is actually a huge point of interest for them.

I also wrote about the sadness inherent to the in-universe rules of moving on here, which I thought was a good post but it got derailed by people making jokes about yknow. the fact that they call it "getting sucked off" which. fair play.

#i hope this helps!! #also. please watch it. #it's so good #bbc ghosts

[skiaskai]

Hi I’m a new digital artist and your art style is so beautiful, definitely what I aspire to be!!! I was curious if you could share any info about brushes you use or your process (shading especially)

Ahh welcome to digital art!!

Thank you for the kind words! I use a Procreate for all my works, and I use Georg’s manga and ink brush pack for most of my inking. (Enpitsu, fude, g-pen texture the most)

for shading, it’s hard to explain, but I do my flats, then a gradient layer (multiply), cel shading(multiply), then some lighting effects with overlay and addition depending on the piece. Then I finish it off with some painting on top!

Also art hack I’ve recently started doing: copy the canvas at the end, then blur it slightly, and put it on overlay mode with lower opacity. Magic.

#I hope this helps!!

[librarycards]

do you have any reading recs for the intersection and/or similarities between the disabled & trans experiences? the community of trans, disabled, and trans disabled people working together? tysm sarah

i have many, too many to list here! below are a few links and names to get you started, but trans disability studies is a rapidly-growing field really exploding with new scholarship right now. trans studies specifically is having something of a "crip turn," particularly since the publication of Hil Malatino's long essay, "Trans Care." I don't know what's going to happen going forward, but as it stands, there is active and growing interest in the nexus of trans and disabled subjectivity, especially w/r/t social conditions that design (for) us lives deemed unlivable.

i'm going to focus in this post on scholarship that explicitly engages both with trans and disability studies thought, rather than just work from one area that happens to bring in a topic from the other. Of course, it isn't possible to fully delineate these areas, nor should we try. but trans studies and disability studies are whole academic fields with distinct genealogies and theoretical orientations, and it sounds like you're looking for work that brings these sometimes-disparate orientations together very deliberately. Mad studies also has its own disparate genealogy that is sometimes at odds with disability studies, depending on who you're reading; on the other hand, neurodiversity studies tends to follow and cite DS a little more closely. i'm not going to get into the weeds here, but i did want to provide a disclaimer about how complicated this shit is before i give a LIMITED! INCOMPLETE! list of places to start reading.

my work in transMad studies (which I made up; Trans Disability Studies and Feminist Disability Studies, and intersections therein, predate me) draws explicitly on trans, disability, and Mad studies approaches, as well as/alongside the critical digital humanities, poetics, and science & technology studies. i've written about transMadness / trans disabled digital work / Mad gender noncompliance / trans autie-biography. I also co-authored the chapter on the trans/disabled intersection in Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, 2nd ed.

Some key authors in the area of trans disability studies // transMad studies include but are not limited to:

Eli Clare

M. Remi Yergeau

Nick Walker

Mel Chen

Jake Pyne

Jess Rauchberg

Lydia X. Z. Brown

J. Logan Smilges

Justine Egner

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha

Alexandre Baril

Hil Malatino

Merrick Pilling

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Sky Cubacub

I have included alongside each name a link to one piece of their work that I like. Again, MANY people write about trans / disability / Mad issues in concert, or who talk about certain issues through a t/d/M lens. I listed only a small number of people for the reasons I mention at the start of the post.

Also, much of this work I have selected deliberately to trouble preexisting assumptions about trans disabled solidarity/activism/scholarship – namely, that it starts and ends at the question of pathologization. When we limit the scope of trans disabled liberation work to the boundaries of the clinic (material, discursive, or otherwise) we do ourselves a grave disservice.

i'm going to leave it there as a starting point, but encourage you to check the citations of each of the linked pieces, as they're often treasure troves of further resources.

#i hope this helps!! #antisisyphus #ask #book rec #madness #disability #critical disability studies #trans #trans studies #critical mad studies #transmad #readings

[chococolte]

Hii is there anyway you could make your character setting public? I'm trying to make my own character ai but I can't figure out how to do the example messages at all. Your bots are written so well please help T_T

ok so i can't make zhongli's settings public because of his high interaction count, but here are screenshots of what i put for him:

i made al-haitham's settings public too so you can look at those to reference as well!! ^_^

#[🦇] — sophie's musings #i hope this helps!!

[againagainagai]

Hello!! This is the warning chart I promised earlier. Thank you all for your patience, I hope this works for whoever needs it. I'm super proud of this so I hope it helps!! <3

It includes a disclaimer, color key, and explanation for the ratings I have assigned.

#neon genesis evangelion #epilepsy #I hope this helps!! #end of evangelion #NGE #NGE spoilers (technically)

[tunastime]

hello! do you have a permissions list for ppl making podfic or fanwork stuff based on your writing? or are you okay with that at all? thanks :p

ah!! howdy!! that's a really good question, thank you for asking! I don't have a permissions list, but I think I'm generally okay with things like fanworks and podfic, especially if you tag me or link the original!

I've never had anyone make a podfic or fanwork of my works so I don't really have a list of anyone working on anything either—but I've had mutuals and such make art and bookbind my fics before, which is totally fine and encouraged too :>

I highly encourage anyone inspired by my stuff to make more stuff :3 but I also wanna see the stuff because I love being excited about things and it still warms my heart to this day to see people inspired by the things I write—I hope that answers your question!

#i hope this helps!! #honestly anything i've posted is fair game to podfic or write fic of fic for #besides maybe the dbhc stuff but that's only because it's not my concept :3 but even then i don't think shep would mind! #text #asks #conscious-naivete

[mack-anthology-mp3]

mack!!! ik its been a while since you posted your photography portfolio but recently ive found myself going back to it and taking some inspiration from it. i was curious what kind of techniques you used and what processes you kinda went through while making some of the pieces?

OMG REALLY?????? not just being modest but i genuinely think some of it is pretty mediocre, so i'm happy you like it! idk which ones you mean in paticular but some of the more *experimental* ones -

these ones (ignore the bad image quality lol)

are photograms!! my school has a darkroom which is pretty cool and was wonderful to be able to use!! the main objects in these are actually locks of my hair (i kept if after i got it cut), and after i exposed that onto the paper, instead of just submerging it into the developer i painted it in with a big brush to get the sort of splashed effects (photograms are kind of a thing you need a darkroom for, but you can get paper you can expose with just the sun.)

the bottom left ones are a picture of a picture frame printed out onto transparent plastic, top left are just developer onto the paper with no objects.

i scanned them all and put them into photoshop & upped the contrast, flipped the colours of one furthest - the pinkish bits i did in photoshop, they're kind of pixel-ey which i thought was cool

the one with the key and the ribbon - the ribbon was another photo which i photoshopped around badly on purpose so it was super grainy with lots of leftover pixels around the edge, which i then overlaid on the scan of the photogram with the key (below right is close up of the computery texture i managed to get while fiddling around with curves (idk what exactly curves is but it was like... adjusting contrast & colours at the same time)

these ones (again sorry blurry picture) are a light shining through cd cases from the back, which i then edited to make look grainier and found-film-ier

most of the other photos are just standard pictures i think - the kind of blurry ones of the hair in the middle of panel two were converted to black and white but with the colour levels in the original image changed?? which made them look cooler but i don't really know how to explain it lol. they were done with a macro lens i think.

also here are slightly better quality pictures of the whole thing lol my original post was pretty los res

#i hope this helps!! #sorry i actually know very little about the technical stuff i was doing photography was not exactly my strongest subject hehe #my art #i'm actually so surprised anyone even remembers about this #flabberghasted you like it tbh #also the key with the ribbon on the guys chest - the guy is the cover of love will tear us apart lol #thank you so so so so SO much for the ask!!!!

[nerdy-arty]

Any good sunflower fic recs? I joined the fandom recently and I’m starved for sunflower content 😭

OH GOD THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD ONES. There's a lotta diff options you can go for if you're looking for specific vibes. So lets seee

My fave writers for SF in general are Karma_Kalanchoe, BlueFieldAbove and Painkitty. If you're looking for good vibes with optional mild angst/drama they're a good bet.

For some oneshots I really enjoy:

Kleptomaniac Basil fic, short but sweet and a lil unhinged. Good shit.

CW for assisted Suicide but the characterization here is INCREDIBLE, I go back to it when I wanna feel pain.

My absolute FAVE fic that came outta sunflower week. The banter here is incredible.

This writer is really good at crawling into Basil's brain.

As far as longfics go, there aren't very many I actually really like that aren't by the three writers I shouted out at the top of this post. B-But uh... there's also the fic I've been drawing art of as of late..... It's not as depraved as it sounds, I promise!!!

I'm being very biased here, but I promise it's really heartfelt and funny. I PROMISE

#I hope this helps!! #hope I don't get killed cuz some of these recs are kinda... UH #anyways!! enjoy!!! #and yes #at this point its kinna obvious #but I am the cowriter of the last fic #this is why I'm biased #I PROMISE ITS NOT THAT DEPRAVED I PROMISE!!!! #ask box

[coweyed]

do you have any favorite italian films or tv shows? it’s okay if you don’t (trying to learn italian)

hi anon! what a great question! it took me so long to gather my thoughts on this because there's simply so much good stuff when it comes to italian media! especially movie-wise. since i couldn't rec you everything, i decided to curate a small list but feel free to ask me for more in case!

TV

my brilliant friend

the lying life of adults

luna park (2021)

the law according to lidia poët

made in italy (2019)

MOVIES

cinema paradiso

la dolce vita

c'eravamo tanto amati

profumo di donna

suspiria (1977)

matrimonio all'italiana

il gattopardo

rocco e i suoi fratelli

l'eclisse

i soliti ignoti

le notti di cabiria

roma città aperta

ladri di biciclette

miracolo a milano

pane, amore e fantasia

un americano a roma

una giornata particolare

travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzuro mare d'agosto

#i hope this helps!! #anon #asks

[candyheartedchy]

Hi! I really like your art and I'm just curious to know your drawing process :]

Hello! I’m not very good with explaining things when it comes to art, but here’s a video of me making my most recent drawing it that helps!

#as you can see I change my mind a lot when I draw lol #i hope this helps!! #💌 letters 💌 #anonymous #video #🎨 chy creations 🎨

[iturbide]

Do you have any thoughts (or headcanons) on Emmeryn for like. writing her? The game gives us so little, I have a lot of trouble with it, but I refuse to give up and write her out!

OH MAN I HAVE A TON OF THOUGHTS ON WRITING EMMERYN I honestly love getting to play around with her and I wish I had more opportunities to really do so.

She may look frail, but much like Lissa, she's not delicate, and actually a lot stronger than she appears. Emmeryn experienced firsthand what her father's strength could do when he used it carelessly, and she had made every effort to be gentle in all matters; however, when her emotions are running particularly high, she can slip and be more forceful (things like hugging her brother extra tight when he gets back from a dangerous mission because she's just so relieved to see him safe).

Similarly, while she may appear calm and measured, it's actually a mask that she's spent years perfecting, starting with interactions with her father and proceeding through her early years as Exalt. Emmeryn is much more emotional than she lets on, but she's had to be this perfect icon for so many people in her life -- a guardian for her siblings, a leader to the Ylissean people -- that it's become habit by now to wear it. When the mask does slip, it's usually because something has pushed her to a breaking point (though her partners can see the full measure of her trust in them when she purposefully sheds it).

Mask or not, Emm is a very compassionate person, and despite her cultural upbringing, she makes every effort to treat everyone -- regardless of their history or heritage -- with kindness and respect. Because of this, she tends not to react instantaneously to anything: whatever her gut reaction is, she does not voice it, instead taking a moment to examine it before speaking so that she can avoid causing offense with a thoughtless remark.

Emm is a pacifist: she has no intention of making war the way her father did, only of defending her nation's borders when needed. This does not, however, make her a pushover: Emmeryn is much more stubborn than her brother, and staunchly refuses to back down when she sets her mind to something. We get at least a glimpse of this when news arrives about Maribelle's kidnapping: she turns both her brother and the captain of the pegasus knights down when they insist on making Gangrel pay, insisting instead on speaking with Gangrel directly to try finding a way to peace.

This can, however, be something of a double-edged sword. Emm's pacifism extends to the point where she hesitates to use the power that she has at her command, having seen the horrors wrought by its abuse under her father. This can lead to its own kind of abuse -- specifically by those who realize that they'll never be punished for disobedience because she won't bring her power to bear against them. This rarely happens out in the open, of course, but I suspect that it's much more widespread than she would ever want to believe.

Above all else, Emmeryn loves her siblings and her country. She walks the street without any barriers between herself and her people, clear proof of her trust and affection for them. I suspect that, along with her routine bureaucratic and legislative duties, she makes time whenever she's able to hold audiences for the common folk, listen to their grievances, and offer what aid she can to ease their burdens. She recognizes that they are the heart of the nation, and Ylisse would crumble without their support; her popularity stems in no small part to how she tends to their needs, rather than prizing the nobility over all else as her father had.

Again, though, this is something of a double-edged sword, as she has not done herself any favors with the nobles. Between the way she favors the common folk and her stubborn refusal to give them the benefits they got used to under the former Exalt; while they're polite to her face, more than one noble is frustrated by how she's chosen to rule the halidom. Their pushes to have her marry are not only so that she will have an heir to continue the Exalted Lineage, but in hopes that her spouse will be able to wrench some measure of favor back to the family that weds her; on top of that, some have far more wicked plots to depose her entirely, like the hierarch who sold her out to Gangrel for the likely promise of power.

#answered #anonymous #fire emblem: awakening #emmeryn #i absolutely love writing emmeryn #and i absolutely love seeing emmeryn in writing #she's /so much fun/ to play with as a character #politically she's an immovable object who will not back down #but also she's definitely not perfect #she does in fact fuck up #and i adore her for it #i hope this helps!! #if you have any other questions or need any other insights #i'm always happy to talk more about emm

[gotchibam]

I'm confused. I always see artists ask for refs if you commission art, but every artist I've seen ask/require refs? So who do I go to to make the refs in the first place?

Hi anon!! It's not easy for most artists to work w/ descriptions / words alone since we might not be able to interpret the way you want it that's why we ask for refs :)

If you don't have an existing ref for a character, you could describe what you want & supply supporting images (stock photos, google images, etc.) for how you want them to look like! For example, you can provide pics for the character's hairstyle or outfit! But ofc this still depends on the artist so it's best to consult / discuss it w/ them first beforehand.

In my case, I think it's something I can work with but then again — it's best to discuss it through dm (or email if you'd prefer?) first so I could check if it's doable for me!

#asks #anon #I hope this helps!! #also heading to bed now so if you have follow-up questions i'll have to reply to it later!

[tortureandtickles]

I have a question about Tumblr if you can help me. How do you have 3 posts on your front page. Is it because you did it on PC? I don't know how my page looks for others but I'd love to revamp my page I'm not happy with it.

hey!! i did it on my iphone - if you go onto your settings and scroll to the bottom, there should be a toggle that says “show top posts”. if you do that then your 3 top posts should appear!!

#asks #i hope this helps!!

[lifeandtimesoftrying]

I saw you reblog something about Riz's new art having an aro (aromantic) ring! I did not know that that was a concept. Can you explain that to me? I'm very intrigued.

Sure thing! An aromantic ring is a white ring worn on the left middle finger. It's designed to be inconspicuous to those who haven't heard of it, but still noticeable to other aromantics. According to wikipedia, it first started being used in 2015, and took inspiration from the asexual ring, which is a black ring worn on the right middle finger, which began in 2005. Obviously not all aro and/or ace folks wear these rings, and you don't have to be aro and/or ace to wear them, but since a main part of Riz's Sophmore Year arc was around being aroace, I'm inclined to believe that it's intentional :)

#anon #I hope this helps!! #we can't see his right hand in the art but I'm deadly curious if he also wears an ace ring