#but regardless i'm proud of it

[alrightbuckaroo]

culture around fanfiction has just gotten so...weird? not necessarily on the writer's side, but it seems to really be showing on the passive reader's side. not every writer is writing something to be the "next big thing" in a fandom, and hoping it's seen as a "staple" of fandom culture.

they're not writing it with the hope it going the way of "the love hypothesis" and becoming a published piece of work. they're not writing to compete with other writers, especially those that they're genuinely friends with.

most of us, in my opinion, are writing because, well, we just love to write and have a story we want to share! we care about these characters just as much as you do and just want to tell a certain type of story with that same amount of care; no matter how many kudos, hits or shares it gets.

we don't see stories as "content" that need to a reach certain metric; we see them as a way to celebrate something we all love.

#like as someone who's favorite fics for the 911 ls fandom are some of my least read; i wouldn't change it for anything! #i'm so proud of those stories regardless of what the metrics say #also if you don't think this applies to you then guess what it doesn't apply to you !!

[a-s-levynn]

You want to watch me bleed?

#it's high time i post this #i made y'all wait long enough #not gonna lie regardless of the weird sloppy hands i'm really fucking proud how this one turned out #especially the eye area #vessel iii #sleep token fanart #iii sleep token #sleep token iii #iii #sleep token #sleeptoken #sleep token band #levynn tries to draw

[amaranth]

sunshine! ♡

#jongdae #chen #exo #exosnet #mgroupsedit #dailybg #i don't loveeee the coloring but considering the way the video looked i'm pretty proud regardless ksdjnf #ee #gifs

[ehlnofay]

this was partly a practice in drawing khajiit faces so I left the hood down but I DO need you to know that it DOES have sewn-in room for his ears

#anyway I'm a master in drawing khajiit now. it's not even hard #(that's a lie it's so hard I don't know what I'm doing at all but somehow this came out in a way I really like??) #proud of it regardless!! #j'zargo #my art #fay draws #college of winterhold #skyrim #the elder scrolls #tes #tesblr #khajiit

[ragequitsobbing]

on some gang shit

#first art post. hey p3 gang #keisuke hiraga #andre laurent jean geraux #persona 3 #persona 3 reload #drew this back in october 2023 so this has been lying around in my files for quite some time #regardless i'm still kinda proud of this one. esp the way i colored bebe #well not necessarily “proud” but it's something nice to look back at

[peridots-pixiwolf]

sketches from @mipexch 's whiteboard a couple days ago!!

also feat. a very small reference to @onlineviolence :]

#peridots-art #bugs #bots #ultrakill #gabriel ultrakill #swordsmachine ultrakill #bugzapper ultrakill #minos prime ultrakill #v2 ultrakill #plus the rest of the fumos but those weren't done by me. someone was drawing v1 so i put a v2 beside them and came back later to like 5 mor #hence why they are out of frame. anyway this was a LOT of fun I lost track of time and stayed up till dawn even #there were so many cool and/or recognized artists.... i keep checking the ultrakill tag to see if anyone else posts their own sketches #it was posted at like 2am my time though so i didn't get to stay very long.... i checked in today on the fumo drawings and there was #just so much new art over there and in general. so many people doodling and having fun and complimenting each other and bonding over #the things we all like. im gonna cry #anyway. i think this is the longest period of non-posting (not inactivity. lol) on tumblr i've ever had #so might've forgot some tags. also i think i'll use alt text for multiple images and regular id for 1-2 #edit also i wrote 'today' in the tags up there but it was in fact two days ago. regardless #ALSO. sorry if the alt text is hard to read or anything. never used it before + penchant for lengthy descriptions #can you tell i'm really proud of the beetle gabe btw. men will see a character say 'anyone gonna buggify that?' and not wait for an answer #WAIT i've already made that joke haven't i. whatever turn your blorbo into an insect or some sort of gay bug today

[wherearetherobots]

Totalimmortal

#my art #cyberpunk #cyberpunk 2077 #cp2077 #cd projekt red #cyberpunk 2077 fanart #cp2077 fanart #goro takemura #Takemura Tuesday #takemura #goro Takemura fanart #totalimmortal #the devil ending #arasaka #arasaka corporation #I free-handed sketching Goro... Probably shouldn't have but I'm proud of this regardless!! #artists on tumblr #clip studio paint #rome kanda

[silverskye13]

I wish I was a slave to an age-old trade Like riding around in rail cars and working long days Lord have mercy on my rough and rowdy ways Lord have mercy on my rough and rowdy ways...

Sheriff Jimmy :D

#the barking artist #jimmy solidarity #solidaritygaming #sheriff jimmy #EmpiresSMP #empires s2 #this canvas looks like its on fire #my eyes are like... really having a time of it #but i'm proud regardless

[ghastlytofu]

i officially have wyllstarion brainrot and i just cant stop thinking about playing origin wyll romancing astarion and getting to the scene where astarion asks wyll "your smile could light up the entire bay of balduran" ravengard to describe what he sees when he looks at him...... we already know wyll has A LOT to say about astarion's charms...

welcome to the brainrot station. would you like some coffee? tea?? we have canapés... plasma of dubious origin.....

you know what i can't stop thinking about, anon? the vision that assaults me at 3am? it's wyll addressing astarion as my shining star, telling him he's proud of him, saying that the people of Baldur's Gate "will see what I see: a shining star beckoning them to a brilliant future" with the exact same conviction as he says, "one day they will see [not a fearsome devil, but] the Blade of Frontiers again."

#he has so much faith in his looooove #regardless of who they are #but i'll fully admit that 'my star' & 'you are the sun' & 'i'm so proud of u for not being a piece of shit when u could've been :)' #HITS DIFFERENT when he's talking about the dead guy whose name means little star and who cannot (normally) walk in the sun #like. I'M ONLY HUMAN I CAN ONLY TAKE SO MUCH #wyllstarion #bloodpact #wyll ravengard #astarion ancunin #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #anon #asks

[0046incognito]

wasn't gonna post any WIPs of this but i am reeeeally happy with this one part

#art #original art #animation #sketch #wip #my art #it's referenced from the original obviously but not traced so regardless i think i have a right to be proud #especially cuz i'm gonna have to do the sleeves+hair physics Without reference so lord help me

[cosmicnyan]

eats @artifyber's artstyle

#digital art #sona art #furry #my art #taur #i got a bit lazy near the end but i'm pretty proud of how it turned out regardless #artifyber

[onrainynights]

it took me literally all day but I finally finished my second needlepoint

[ID: A small needlepoint project. It depicts a blue chicken from Stardew Valley on a light blue background with a very dark blue border made of a binding stitch. The project is a bit smaller than 2 inches by 2 inches. The border is slightly uneven. End ID.]

#stardew valley #needlepoint #this was my first time doing a binding stitch and I definitely did the corners wrong #I also ran out of thread at one point and managed to keep the edge going but I had to bury the end of the old thread so that part of the #border is a bit bigger than the rest #next time I'll do a different method for the binding stitch. Definitely need to have each side be it's own thread but #I'm not sure how best to bury the ends when I'm done. none of the tutorials I found showed the end #regardless I'm very proud of this. it took me probably 6-8 hours total 😬 #so much work for something so small but I love it a lot

[shredsandpatches]

You know your nerd cred is rock-solid when you get to rehearsal, say hi to the guest choral director, and he starts telling you about a performance of the Fauré Requiem he recently attended where for some reason they used nineteenth-century French Latin diction

#choir stuff #i'm so proud #honestly i love all three of the guest directors we've had #idek which one i like best or am rooting for #although i guess that means i'll be happy with the outcome regardless #but i will miss the other two!

[babacontainsmultitudes]

[just venting a bit into the void you understand you understand 😌] Lately I've been feeling very caught between "I have a lot of thoughts on Sparrow and Normal and all that with the ending and teen talk and feel like I need to get them out and voice them for my own piece of mind and resolution" and "I am lacking the strength and energy to actually sit down and write it all out and kind of really just want to fully move on to other things (AUs, fics, anything else)" but my brain can't seem to commit to either and that's quite frustrating cause it's just left me very restless. *Sigh*. Idk! Just needed to complain about that a bit ig, it's silly but this is what has been ailing me as of late.

#Then there's also a part of me that's like “does anyone even care at this point? haven't I already talked about them too much?” #but I have seen many a take that irk me... #and perhaps at the center of it all nagging at me is that persistent conflation of love and pride #Less about that in Normal's mind so much as in Will's and the fandom's 🤔 #Also that reoccurring issue of the fandom going ''Normal thinks this therefore it is The Truth'' though I believe I've discussed this befor #And... Hooks Will could have grabbed onto but didn't... Quite a few of those... #And the double standard/negativity bias in fandom of ignoring that Sparrow says both that he loves and likes Normal while doodlerized #But not treating those with the same legitimacy we do the pride thing. And ignoring Sparrow's demonstrations of love and change... #And what the love wolf scene actually implies about Sparrow (as I see it) with his own explanation of the pride thing in mind #But also!!! Also on Norm's epilogue and how despite everything taken at face value (i.e. no teen talk influence) I don't actually hate it #and I think it's plenty salvageable #And gah also that like *regardless* of how things turn out with Normal and his dad- #Well I haven't listened to much of the teen talk just the directly Sparrow-relevant clips #so I don't know quite how cynical Will is or isn't about Normal's future #But like. UGH. What I'm trying to say is even if things didn't find resolution vis-a-vis his dad #(which tbh I could go either way on- it's the meta misinterpretations of Sparrow that Bother me not so much Normal's) #(Well that's complicated. Again it comes back to the love vs. pride thing gosh this is so vague of me lol) #With all the positive influences in his life (and just the fact that life is long? and therapy is a thing?) I just don't see Normal- #being Miserable for the rest of his life. Like. I mean I won't elaborate here really but damn it no he can absolutely turn out alright stil #blugh #BUT YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN THAT'S A LOT OF STUFF AND THAT'S ONLY VAGUE RAMBLINGS ABOUT *SOME* OF IT #Like I'm proud of a lot of my essay posts (which I'm hoping to eventually compile in a masterpost eventually actually) but they take a whil #And if my heart wants to do other things... Ah idk... #ANYWAYS a vent to vent a vent to vent

[oldmancopper]

Twinks

Twinks are twinks, regardless of genitals

#twink #ftm twink #gay twink #twinks #kinda proud of myself for not discussing the genitals of the twink I'm planning to rail in a few weeks #because I do rail twinks regardless of gender

[squishosaur]

character to draw from memory? how about jodio joestar from jojo part 9

admittedly i am not an active jojo fan but i do think i remember seeing him when part 9 first came out at least once. so this is probably very incorrect

#i um. saw him one time. so either i have a really good memory or i just made up a jojo. hopefully the former #the jojolands #jodio joestar #my art :> #digital art #jjba fanart #OKAY I'M PROUD OF THIS REGARDLESS LOOKING HIM UP RN....