#but in terms of the drawing itself…

[zebratimw]

Spirit animal SQH

#svsss #shang qinghua #but mainly I'm just here to vague post LMAO I don't like to vague post its not very effective in terms of venting but #but basically I guess I'm becoming hyperaware of my like... cognitive dissonance codependency and derealization ee #also my general laziness ig and where it overlaps into executive dysfunction or whatever like I may genuinely have some issues but #I am also a lazy son of a bitch jfjfkgkg and i need to figure out how to figure it out so I can work on both in more effective ways hhggg #oh yeah but basically the thing to remember for later is the silence in the call and the immediate unmute and chat activity once I left #I should remember this and stop interacting I think? I should try to give em space I think I'm being too clingy or something #or maybe my own silence is too awkward and dampens the call? I was kinda just spacing out and not doing anything so I get its kinda weird #LMAO so I should just like try not to be in call for those times mm #I just like being in call with my friends jdhfkg but I suppose its not very good either #I overindulge I suppose another friend pointed it out to me before too haha but fjfjjt its just easier than facing bouts of dread by myself #eehh and that's why I gotta do something about my Metnal Ailneses hfjfj but ngl I don't really know how to go about it... #I get embarrassed looking stuff up djfnfkg and half the time I don't even know what to look up I just draw ?s and I give up #I suppose I also have commitment issues too but that ones not new which is an issue of itself aaaaaaaa #man idk idk I just don't really get it I guess djdjfjf and I've got existential dreads and think maybe it doesn't really matter whats wrong #cause there's no point to fixing them because ultimately I'm gonna die alone and a failure anyways? so like ehfjgkg idk #its depressing and I know its like sabotage cause my brain is being a little silly a little goofy and its not a shared sentiment #with the better half of me and the entirety of my friends but yknow its just ee harder sometimes to believe in the optimism ig #and i can talk about it somewhat normally and without like having a ✨️break down #but yknow djfjgkg I'm very emotional a person ya? I think sqh is relatable for gods sake 💀 #irrationality sentimentality nihilism and existential dreads... wanting to die because living is too hard despite all my hopes for living... #just the ol regulars yknow? #and another thing... do I talk to my friends about these things? I vent them out here a lot but what do I really want? #I'm not strong enough to keep it to myself clearly but I'm also too proud to share these thoughts? I dump them out in the open and for what? #whenever someone reaches out with concern and care I don't respond in kind and refuse to elaborate? #so like what do I want with this? I guess I want someone to know I'm going insane half the time I'm awake? but not do anything about it? #that's pretty unfair I guess... and stupid I think I do want to share my thoughts with someone but I'm too scared of the ramifications #and that my pride can't stand the fact I might be looked differently by my friends even tho the image they have of me is already quite silly #man.... idk.... I'll come to conclusions myself and do nothing about them so I guess that'll happen again aah idk idk idk

[betweenlands]

so like do people understand there's a difference between "i dislike this thing because it's cliched" and "i dislike this thing because the person who made it personally bullied a friend of mine, used their platform as a big name fan to send their own fans after other people in similar ways, harassed one of the hermits off tumblr, and made the fandom incredibly inhospitable to anyone who didn't align with Their Specific Opinions" or

#the fic itself was mid. i have read it. i'm not a fan of the author's godawful attitude #and the way that entitled attitude has poisoned fandom to this day #so you'll forgive me if i dislike a fic that's held up as one of the greatest things of all time #on account of its author being just absolutely godawful to the people around them #and genuinely setting back the fandom several years in terms of overall maturity and conduct #and all this for a fic that is just... solidly mid. the h*rry p*tter of fics really. #salt #txt #orig #misc #anyway i cannot believe i had to unfollow someone over this but i draw the line at being called ignorant over disliking this thing #as though i don't have an INCREDIBLY GOOD REASON for doing so.

[belligerentbagel]

even Atlas has only two hands

vent art

#this one's for all the teachers out there #horror cw #hands cw #draws #after 2.5 years of caution and masking everywhere; i tested positive for covid on wednesday morning (first day of fall semester) 😔 #at earliest; i can be back in the classroom on monday #wednesday itself was an absolutely horrible 24 hours (but admittedly the anatomist side of me has been going 'ah! physiological data!') #but thursday and friday were a grim indicator of how much capitalism has rotted my brain #because after getting through 24 hours of a MASSIVE illness with undetermined long-term effects; i felt compelled to return to the #6-hr-sleep 18-hr-waking cycle that i was accustomed to; out of GUILT for falling behind in work #(note: i was NOWHERE near 100% back on thursday. i could have charitably been put at 50% - still headaches & fatigue & productive coughs) #a friend had to very sternly tell me 'you cannot solve structural problems through constant 80-hour-week heroic measures' #'you especially cannot do this when you are recovering from a debilitating illness which has the potential to remain a - #- serious lingering problem if you overwork yourself' #like. gods. yeah. it's not my fault that my classrooms are stuffed to the student maximum that our union has valiantly maintained #it's not my fault that the district only gave us one pre-semester prep day; meaning that my room & plans were left unfinished before day one #and - even bigger; it's not my fault that public health in the US is careening into 'can we pretend hard enough like nothing's happening' #my students will have a milquetoast start this fall semester. that is fine. #their teacher might not be able to stand and talk for longer than ten minutes at a time #i will do what i can. i still care about them. i am reading their introduction emails and smiling a bunch. #but i refuse to allow myself to be consumed in order to keep this fire lit.

[illir]

oh right i talk abt this sometimes on twitter but never here so

if you want to repost my art, please ask me first. i will most likely say yes, but PLEASE ask! not only for my art but anyone's art, really. it doesn't matter if you're going to give credits or not. some artists don't want their art reposted at all, not even with credits. make sure to ASK FIRST.

same way if you're going to use someone else's art for personal use (icon, header, etc). DON'T DO IT UNLESS: 1) the artist has stated that it's okay to use their art for personal use (check their twitter bio, about page, carrd, etc), or 2) you personally ask them and they say it's fine. if they don't answer, it means NO.

don't treat someone's art as a free drawing you can use however you want!! is all.

#the thing with reposts is a general problem within the art community itself but #in yuumori fandom we've had 'fights' with several reposts account especially on instagram LMFAOOO #it was tiring every time... since they were all being defensive instead of just deleting their posts #there was even one time where a japanese yuumori fanartist made a callout post and asked everyone to report this one acc on ig #and they only deleted the tweets once the reposter took down all their posts #it was... an experience 💀 i didn't expect them to do that lol #fortunately our fandom isn't that big in terms of number of ppl who are constantly active #plus the intl and jpn fans generally get along pretty well too i'd say #so these things are resolved quickly bc words tend to spread fast #it's just sad that this keeps happening #i feel like the only people who get defensive about reposts are people who don't draw #like i hurt my back and arm while drawing this shit's not easy #it can be super draining #people who say “artists are so whiny” piss me the fuck off because it's not like we're whiny for no reason #oh my god that was long jhfjdsk #anyways

[marsbotz]

goodnighttttt ^_^

#just remembered when i was on twitter and ended up making literally daily goodnight tweets. i was insane #im gonna try not to do that agin. my last goodnight. #but look at this horse its silly #jesus christ i was soooo ill on twitter. not even an effect of twitter itself just long term social media exposure does that to me #i get like addicted to ppl liking my posts. like bot even in a numbers way just i like ppl acknowledging me #if we go back further like 2017 iwas super fucked abt that LOL like literally every other dya like ‘does anyone like me 🥺’ LOLLL #i was likeee 15. man #i mean im still like that now if anything im getting worse w it again but immmm trying to not follow thru w stuff #lol watever ! [shruggles] #wait srry thats referencing arlly specific image. im not just being weird. lol #i thinkkk tmrw. tmrw. i want to be out of bed by 8-9 LATEST. and i need to do uni notes #but id also like to DRAW. and mayeb ill play some more hl #maybe a bit ambitious but oh well #ok anyway gn actually now

[aria0fgold]

Staring at the WIP of my OC Lulu just so I can figure out what kind of length I want for his dress to actually be cuz I'm so indecisive for it. Tea-length looks nice and it makes the translucent part of the dress be longer than the main dress itself but an A-Line looks just as good too and makes the translucent part seem shorter yet makes the dress more flowy in an elegant manner. I don't know which to go for...

#aria rants #i like... giving nicknames to my ocs so long as its possible #lulu is the nickname i gave my oc named lucifer btw. i was thinkin of going for luci #but i was like: lulu sounds cuter for him tho. so lulu it is #also if im still indecisive with this am gonna start a poll cuz i cannot choose for the life of me rn #i even went to pinterest to check out some wedding dress guidelines and stuff #its where i got the tea-length and a-line terms. didnt know that was a thing before #theres also another design i wanna try but i think??? it can overcomplicate the design #but ill try to draw that too. its a design with a slit. i just dont know where to put #the butterfly motif of the dress on once i do add a slit on it. this dress is making me #use my brainpower to the max and i can understand how tough it is to design #outfits with a motif in mind now. esp one with more than one motif like where do i put these things #that wont make the design itself look cluttered and complicated???

[kingofdinosaurs]

i like kagutsuchi a lot i think he's a really effective overarching antagonist for arena even if he does kinda step on nyarlathotep's toes a bit but BY GOD HIS BOSS FORM IS SOOOOO UGLY LIKE

ok. i could probably be convinced to LIKE that if his ugliness was in service to a more. interesting design. but he's kind of just a big fire man with big scary teeth and weird hands. the coolest thing about him is his eyes, and the manga makes the excellent move of putting those on minazuki when he gets possessed. so like, he doesn't even have that going for him. i think kagutsuchi is honestly at his coolest when he's forced to work through intermediaries or just speak from nowhere. the idea of him not really having a body in the traditional sense and kind of just being whatever physical manifestations he creates (the doppelgangers, the red fog, general teddie, etc) is like really interesting to me as a hypothetical and i feel like he just. loses a lot when he actually gets to manifest.

#it's kind of just a bad looking design. i don't actually think I've seen anyone draw it? #everyone who draws him draws him as general teddie which feels a little glory-stealing from shabrys #she came up with the idea after all #or at least there's no evidence to suggest otherwise #ALSO THE BOSSFIGHT ITSELF FUCKING SUCKS #LIKE IN TERMS OF GAMEPLAY

[taonpest]

Today I give a Skeletor doodle. Tomorrow? Who knows.......(obviously another Skeletor doodle)

#motu #the new adventures of he man #skeletor #sketch #doodle #I have to put this tag too now 🤷 #my art #it's shiny as fuck sksksk #to be honest #to be honest I'm thinking of. maybe redesigning him a little bit #y'all know already that I think that motu designs are random #like the design itself and the colors too #I mean he's my favourite Skeletor but not in term of chara designs I have to admit sksks #it lacks of ✨purple✨ 💁 #but if I redesign him I'll definitely keep his lil leggies #they're perfect I love them <3 #they're fun and easy to draw #though I don't like shading them. 🫥 I'm already bad enough at shading and then you tell me I have to make them look metallic? bruh bruh bruh

[goldensunset]

If you're still taking drawing requests, maybe something with Master Xehanort and Sora, but not menacing maybe almost... civil? Understanding? I don't know just, something that's not just outright antagonistic.

i love the idea but i think that’s above my skill/effort level for the time being!

#i’ve never drawn mx. or an old man for that matter lol #and i’ve very rarely ever drawn multiple characters interacting in a single drawing #depicting a specific situation through a still and textless image isn’t something i have a lot of experience with #although that is something i’ve been wanting to work towards! i’d just have to practice with something simpler #there’s my flower siblings art but that’s pretty much it. and that one was simple for me #in terms of conveying an idea. the art itself was crazy difficult lol #asks #thanks anon

[bythepen98]

I've been so busy that I can only spend a handful of hours at night to draw before I get too sleepy to continue.

As far as wips go, I'm currently working on a Tomarry one. Been at it for days because I keep adding more to the canvas, which is nothing new at this point,bso I won't be able to post it yet today....or tomorrow depending on how much progress I'll have later.

Then again, maybe I'll surprise myself by finishing it in record time. Predicting these things are difficult.

In the mean time, I already have an idea on what to draw after that, although not hp related, and it has temporarily made a lodging in my brain so that I wouldn't forget or lose the motivation to make it.

#my schedule fcking me over #in terms of my drawing hours #not so much with my sleeping #bc I'm actually getting semi decent hours of sleep now #too tired to stay up long #wips #tomarry wip #tomarry #enjoying it #but still wish i was faster at it #not to keen on posting the wip itself #so I'm sticking with a worded post like this for now

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 163

Adjective: Elegant

Noun: Ritual

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Elegant: pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; (of a scientific theory or solution to a problem) pleasingly ingenious and simple

Ritual: a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order; the prescribed order of performing a ceremony, especially one characteristic of a particular religion or church; a series of actions or type of behavior regularly and invariably followed by someone

#because the word 'ritual' is involved of course im going to think of one of my favourite movies ever: the ritual (2017) #so im immediately thinking of the visuals of an eerie forest #but its not necessarily scary cos 'elegant' makes it feel more safe and mystical #and this is making me think of another great horror movie: the vvitch (specifically the ending) #all in all i think im going to draw from some of my favourite horror movies in terms of vibe #but the poem that i ultimately write wont necessarily be horror or scary itself #if that makes sense #thanks for reading #writing #writer #creative writing #writing prompt #writeblr #trying to be a writeblr at least

[chaoticwholesome]

bought a new laptop with my own money (woah slay) because my old one has a broken fan, but now my new one....also has a broken fan 🙃👍

#it has been showing a 90b fan error at every restart install 🫠 #tried to do a hard reset but the errors are still showing so this is clearly an issue with the fan hardware itself #so im gonna take the machine back for a replacement on monday :( #fuck HP for shipping out shitty fans so often. i just want to be able to draw and animate for fun again during my term break PLEASE #can can posts!

[napsaps-archive]

i keep coming across drolos who are hate karl /srs losing my faith in drolos :(

drolo used to mean something really bad like if you got accused of being a drolo it was Bad whereas now the term is pretty much synonymous with Someone Who Is A Little Insane About Dream which like isn't a bad thing, so people willingly use it for the latter meaning as opposed to the first and will use it to describe themselves and that doesn't relate at all to what you said but i think the development of fandom language and the dilution of certain terms is interesting ! i personally don't understand why people hate karl but well they're allowed to dislike whoever they want so 🤷‍♀️

#but like the term drolo in and of itself suggests pretty strong dream biases so i don't put too much faith in expecting them to be all that #receptive towards certain people like the topic of dream and karl is . complicated i think and people are allowed to interpret it #differently and draw whatever conclusions they want ! #i said all of this about q tho so i'm like. 😬😬😬😬😬 trying to tread lightly so it doesn't blowup in my face that was so hard #so i'm trying to be the right mix of positive and realistic heart hands #ask #anonymous #// discourse

[angelsaxis]

i will say that the state of (YA) publishing has me both hopeful and upset. because it's becoming more diverse, slowly and surely yeah its becoming more diverse. but quality for a lot of these books is tanking at the same time with the insistence of publishers on marketing and acquiring books based on bullet points of popular things.

so what i keep coming across (and what I noticed before i was aware of the influence of tik tok on publishing) is that there are more diverse authors whose quality of writing is not necessarily better than the white/cishet authors I personally read (for others it may be different). in some cases, the editing seems to even be worse--pronouns switching, missed commas or quotes, or other very little things that are glaring because it's a published book and shouldn't have made it past any of the editors.

and this doesn't get into the writing itself, like the prose and handling of themes, etc. idk the typo one is really getting to me specifically.

#angel posts #idk if others have talked about this #maybe i just keep making bad draws in terms of YA fantasy #adult fantasy has already shown itself to be different for me which makes sense

[blastburnt]

some sona thoughts...

#i dont reeeeally have much in terms of the suit itself because i know the jacket is going to be on 24/7 so like #it feels weird to try to draw them without it #btext #doodle

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

The Spring of Sapphic Satisfaction (2023) by VBL (me)

This is a rewrite in the form of a comic strip of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928). Her novel was about the butch lesbian heroine, Stephen Gordon. The ending is really sad so I wanted to rewrite the story so Stephen got another girlfriend who stays with her. Pipah was a character who came to me to fix that.

There's a glare on the last panel because it's already framed for an art show that they do in my local community.

The mediums are pen, ink and colored pencil. I hand drew/wrote it.

#I did this in less than two days because I didn't realize the show was so soon #and my school break ends in a few days! already #the spring of sapphic satisfaction #the title is very suggestive but the comic itself almost g-rated #Pipah was a character that came to me on one of my walks #and she was like PLEASE let me be Stephen's girlfriend!!! #and I was like 'girl we are going to make this happen!' #because really the depressed butch girls make me sad #so essentially I flung Pipah at Stephen to try to fix the ending of the story- yay? #we can add Radclyffe Hall to the list of historic figures who haunts me- I don't I'll ever be normal about her sorry #my drawings #mychatter #radclyffe hall #the well of loneliness #fanart? #pen and ink #colored pencil #also they're both in their 30s if anyone cares... which was the same time that Hall started her two long term relationships #also Stephen was like 35 or something at the end of the novel any way? Pipah might be like 33 maybe? #this is what I decided to enter into the community art gallery for a local art show #sapphic #wlw #lesbian #they are both lesbians #butch/femme #femme lesbians #butch lesbians #lesbian literature #1920s #brit lit