#as promised here they are!

[frosty-tian]

“Rescue bots!”

“…”

“Just, rescue!”

The magical rescue bots shall save not only Griffin Rock, but also anyone from despair!

(Thank you so much for everyone’s kind comment and support when this illustration was still in the sketch stage, and definitely to those who helped with voting in the poll which helped Afuro to win. It was a very wild but enjoyable ride, and I’m deeply thankful for the experience!)

#rescue bots #transformers rescue bots #transformers #maccadam #rb boulder #tfrb boulder #rb blades #tfrb blades #rb chase #tfrb chase #rb heatwave #tfrb heatwave #my art #digital #as promised here they are! #until I plan to possibly change details one million times #but it’s here for now #now I sleep #will try to reply to messages once I’m not half-dead #maybe I have more to say but I can’t remember #once again thank y’all so much I still can’t believe all of this happened! #(positive)

[hamletthedane]

I keep seeing ads for cotton candy flavored vape pods on tumblr and it made me wonder…

Why/Why not in the tags?

I’m interested because I feel like when I was in high school/college in the mid-10s, almost nobody smoked - even if you otherwise had some pretty hard vices. I think it was considered not really worth it for something with such a small buzz. But now, idk. Maybe the advertisers are right to target people here because it’s just that popular again??

(Reblog for a bigger sample size etc etc.)

#i know this sounds like I’m a sleeper advertising agent or something but I promise I’m not #I’m just curious bc I’ve never even been vaguely tempted by that. But maybe it’s popular on here?? idk #seems like it would not be based on the demographic #but who knows? #also sorry regular followers I know this is random and off topic blogging but I want to KNOW #smoking #shut up e

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME #there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing #and the writing is what i need to be doing #writeblr #this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to #edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol #i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!! #my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means #i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her) #hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong #i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet. #i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse #i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!! #i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO #i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness #and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it #im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us #i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer #and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art. #i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work #even if it means being miserable #but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.

[gothamslostboy]

POLL TWO HERE

REBLOG FOR BIGGER SAMPLE SIZE BC IK YALL MOSTLY GOING FOR VAMPIRE AROUND HERE

#glb poll #poll #tumblr polls #tumblr poll #polls #werewolf #ghost #demon #mummy #zombie #vampire #fairy #dragon #mermaid #if you’re reading tags I’m gonna tell you a secret #pinky promise me real quick #ok here’s the secret #the results of this poll is gonna get a post about how I think certain characters will be in a relationship with them #supernatural creatures #supernatural creature #fantasy creature #werewolves #ghosts #mummies #zombies #demons #vampires #fairies #dragons #mermaids

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

#personal #dumb #my art #immediately after finishing i was pumped to watch some analysis vids on it #cuz i heard a lot of the drama about the original author being a pro military fascist and the director going “fuck that” and making a satir #scrolling through youtube search results was not promising. lots of male film buffs i would Not trust even on a first glance. #“The Critical Drinker” (pfp of a bearded man drinking alcohol) lol. #and then I saw cinemawins did a video on it and was like oh nice i haven't seen his stuff in a while but he's a pretty leftist creator #scrolled through the comments #second panel face #this sucks i'm outta here. #just leagues and leagues and leagues of anime pfps and right leaning people dogpiling on him for “not understanding what fascism is” #idk it's pretty alien and weird to me watching this movie and going “wow yeah that was pretty obvious huh” like literally the from opening #to the teacher preaching militance and only giving voting rights to “those who serve their nation first and earn it” #and then seeing droves of people online going #WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? It's not anti-fascist and even if it was it's #the director's fault for desecrating heinlein's incredible sci-fi epic vision. ermm media literacy is dead.

[paper-lilypie]

pay attention, idiot

Bonus:

recruitment! (sad attempt at flirting)

#I keep my promises #here ya go ya heathens #bowuigi #mario movie #bowser #luigi #fanart

[radioroxx]

this is kerdly 2 me. btw

#utdr #deltarune #kerdly #kris deltarune #berdly deltarune #roxx art #ok hear me out. ok . ok #AHDKFK LISTEN. LISTEN HEAR ME OUT OKAY LISTEEEN #guys. guys #hi #ok tbh i really like the kris’ i did here… might have to change a pfp or two….. we’ll see #also. erm. this was supposed to be a dumb stupid doodle comic but then… i liked how the colours were turning out so….. </3 #anyways. ill draw more deltarune promise. u can even request it of me #love and light. signing out goodbye

[o0kawaii0o]

Wet cheese

#it started out as a normal redraw and a good opportunity to practice a wet aesthetic #(wet fabric and wet hair and stuff) #and then it became somewhat thirsty? 💀 #trust me that was not the intention yet here we are #I'm sorry to the people how started following me for my latest s/tardew art 💀 I promise that will return too #one piece #sanji #op #ig zosan with the extra pic?? #o0kawaii0o #redraw #sanji pre time skip

[thecruel]

Swann Arlaud as Vincent Renzi

ANATOMIE D'UNE CHUTE 2023 — dir. Justine Triet

#filmedit #swann arlaud #anatomie d'une chute #anatomy of a fall #i promised i'd post another one #so here it is 🫡 #gif

[dustgeonmeshi]

part 2 of izutsumi meeting chilchuck's daughters

possibly more to come...i still have ideas. feel free to tell me your hcs as well!

part 1 | part 2

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #izutsumi #puckpatti chils #flertom chils #chilchuck tims #he's not here so idk if i should tag him but whatever #sorry that meijack isn't here she doesn't seem like the curious type #if there's a part 3 i promise she will be there #dust art

[neonparades]

hellooooo tumblr i’m momentarily back from the dead to post Ride the Cyclone art what’s the haps

#posting art on here is scary but i will try to post more!!!! promise!!! #antywayz #ride the cyclone #rtc #jane doe rtc #constance blackwood #ocean o'connell rosenberg

[verflares]

i thought i felt your shape, but i was wrong. really all i felt was falsely strong, i held on tight and closed my eyes. it was dumb, i had no sense of your size. it was dumb to hold so tight.

#tumblr murked my quality so bad MY GODDDD please click on this i promise i have somewhat of an idea of wht im doing. kinda #anyway i once again have no idea what i was doing here but i did have fun. they make me miserable in the best way possible #im trying to be a bit more experimental both in style and colour... well. half on tht last one (guy who really likes reds and blues) #but im trying out line weight a bit more. hooty hoo. going to try drawing some more practice portraits n stuff soon #link #zelda #loz #botw #zelink #(a smidge bcus im insane. as usual) #princess zelda #zelda botw #link botw #loz fanart #tloz #i add new tags each time. i just like to get silly with it sometimes tbh :] #my art

[coralnoodle]

Are you afraid of death, little Phantom?

i had this piece in my brain for like a week

#danny phantom #danny fenton #danny phantom fanart #dp #my art #im normal about this show #i promise #i have hidden so many tiny easter eggs and such here

[soldrawss]

Huntlow doodle dump including 3 different aus so yeah enjoy

#my art #toh #the owl house #toh hunter #toh willow #toh huntlow #toh winter #first one is a college au #next two are for a zombie au #last four are from an Dark!Hunter au #that i made so long ago but got bullied on twitter for it #but posting here cause why not #dark!hunter #take my silly warm up sketches #i promise im still working on commissions i just have to do warmups before hand #so that im prepared and ready #and huntlow is my go to it takes 0 energy to draw them #i love them so much #and hunter is my comfort character #hes so fun to draw

[isjasz]

Part 1- The Orphanage

IT BEGINS WOOOOOOOO this was meant to inform ppl of the lore in tpn for the sake of the au then it got out of hand helpme

Designs | Part 1 | Part 2 (End)

#The Promised Hermitopia #dddaily4sherin #day 208 cherrysherin i hate ur guts /HJ #my art #comic #goodtimeswithscar #cubfan135 #grian #featuring #xisumavoid #tangotek #impulsesv #skizzleman #jimmy solidarity #bigb is also in here #trafficblr #hermitblr #ignore that fact that the shading/coloring got progressively better the further u read idfk what happened HSJKADda #Also sorry that this honestly isnt really that interesting if you know the series already #like i mentioned its meant to set up the premise of TPN for our au so ppl who dont at least know whats going on #but then the comic got super out of hand ASJKDASKDJ #i guess ill just think of this as comic practice ig HELPMEEE #Hoping u guys still enjoyed though!! :D #posting this is actually so scary im dipping immediately after pressing post BYE

[egophiliac]

But … how the staff swear? We Need to know that too…(of you want of course … love your art and your Amazing humor!!!)

(thank you! :D)

Trein: said 'damn' once when he was sixteen, still lays awake at night in embarrassment about his deplorable lapse in manners.

Vargas: swears like an old-timey carnival strongman. lots of "poppycock" and "what the devil" and an occasional "deuces!" (this makes classes very confusing for poor Deuce)

Crowley: doesn't intentionally swear, but every once in a while he'll, like...put together a presentation on the new staff policies or something that builds up to an acronym which, by complete coincidence, spells out something shockingly depraved.

it happens often enough that you'd think he's doing it on purpose, except. it's Crowley.

Sam: swears in the text, gets away with it because the character reading is always something else

(this is very specific to the Japanese version and probably too meta but I made myself laugh with it, I...I'm sorry)

#art #twisted wonderland #yeah here's some more characters swearing #i promise i will get back to actual Jokes™ at some point #(sorry for spamming a bit! just catching up on things) #anyway thanks for joining me for today's edition of crewel being slapped in the face with a sudden and unwelcome sense of sonder #trein: mister crewel need i remind you that i also have access to the internet #crewel: la la la i can't hear you #trein: i am aware of the existence of websites other than those that exclusively provide cat videos #crewel: lA LA LA --