#creatively no less!

[dailymantra]

i've read several articles now about how to establish writing routines and habits (cause man howdy oh boy the lack of inspiration from mental fatigue yikes) but the advice is never helpful cause it boils down to "you should establish a routine. so do that." and my neurodivergent procrastinating ass just spent twenty minutes attempting to read a five minute article so we need to boil it down even further folks

#i am very lucky to be in a position where i have time to write #and a monetary reason to write #creatively no less! #i just really need my brain to be on board #but building self-discipline is hard when #you actively sabotage yourself #unintentionally #it's a lot to unpack #and adhd advice of make a list is not helpful either #i love lists #but they have to be for physical tasks #i can't make creativity lists

[inkskinned]

i love when words fit right. seize was always supposed to be that word, and so was jester. tuesday isn't quite right but thursday should be thursday, that's a good word for it. daisy has the perfect shape to it, almost like you're laughing when you say it; and tulip is correct most of the time. while keynote is fun to say, it's super wrong - i think they have to change the label for that one. but fox is spot-on.

most words are just, like, good enough, even if what they are describing is lovely. the night sky is a fine term for it but it isn't perfect the way november is the correct term for that month.

it's not just in english because in spanish the phrase eso si que es is correct, it should be that. sometimes other languages are also better than the english words, like how blue is sloped too far downwards but azul is perfect and hangs in the air like glitter. while butterfly is sweet, i think probably papillion is more correct, although for some butterflies féileacán is much better. year is fine but bliain is better. sometimes multiple languages got it right though, like how jueves and Πέμπτη are also the right names for thursday. maybe we as a species are just really good at naming thursdays.

and if we were really bored and had a moment and a picnic to split we could all sit down for a moment and sort out all the words that exist and find all the perfect words in every language. i would show you that while i like the word tree (it makes you smile to say it), i think arbor is correct. you could teach me from your language what words fit the right way, and that would be very exciting (exciting is not correct, it's just fine).

i think probably this is what was happening at the tower of babel, before the languages all got shifted across the world and smudged by the hand of god. by the way, hand isn't quite right, but i do like that the word god is only 3 letters, and that it is shaped like it is reflecting into itself, and that it kind of makes your mouth move into an echoing chapel when you cluck it. but the word god could also fit really well with a coathanger, and i can't explain that. i think donut has (weirdly) the same shape as a toothbrush, but we really got bagel right and i am really grateful for that.

grateful is close, but not like thunder. hopefully one day i am going to figure out how to shape the way i love my friends into a little ceramic (ceramic is very good, almost perfect) pot and when they hold it they can feel the weight of my care for them. they can put a plant in there. maybe a daisy.

#warm up #writeblr. #i am not going to personally comment on the pineapple debate #some things are too big for me. #maybe we could have everything on earth choose their own names. #wouldn't that be fun #it is a creative writing exercise. okay. ily #''why only these languages?'' ..... bc i dont know every language #sorry :( #PLEASE leave me comments about what words u think are correct. i love learning them #btw! this isn't saying these are the most BEAUTIFUL words for it... just the words that are the most CORRECT #like i quite like the word ''keynote'' as mentioned. it's got a lot of fun sounds in it. #but it is not CORRECT. #''gloaming''' is interesting and fun and poetic but it is NOT correct . evening is MORE correct #but less beautiful. #does that make sense?

[madamemiz]

sad: falling out of a hyperfixation

tragic: watching your beloved friends and mutuals fall out of the hyperfixation while you're still in it

#oughhhhhhh #this is about the dca fandom but also about every other strong fixation ive had over the years lol #i know it's normal and inevitable esp for less popular works or minor characters with little canon content #and there's nothing wrong with smaller communities of course those rock #but there’s just something special about getting into something at the same time as a lot of other people all at once #and existing in this chaotic fandom space that's just bursting with creativity and passion #i've been in fandom spaces for as long as some of you have been alive and i've only come across that sort of unbridled joy like #a handful of times at best #it's just a heartbreaking feeling to see real lightning in a jar fandoms like that wither away as people drift away #(understandably so!) #anyway don't mind me i'm just having thoughts #musing about fandoms past as well #that i too eventually moved on from but remember fondly even if im not active in anymore #also my music just aint hitting right so im just sitting in silence which makes me more Contemplative(tm)

[ultravioletness]

gay knights and dames collages part two

#gay knights #knightcore #knight x knight #arthurian legend #medievalcore #john william waterhouse #edmund blair leighton #lesbian dames #pre raphaelite #decidedly less so this time around #uuh what tags did I use last time #the other post really blew up this will be its less successful cousin #although there are some real gems in here not to brag lmao #anyways I was feeling so many knight feelings that I started historical fencing #again I did this on my tiny phone at work so be nice i know they’re wonky #the hardest part is finding head rotations that actually work #also since people mentioned a lack of lady knights nothing is stopping the ones in armor from being lesbians be creative

[bixels]

Posting a sneak-peak of this now because I'm about to be In The Shit school workload-wise, so this'll take me a while to finish.

Doing some character design exploration/expression sheets for Celestia and Luna. Figuring out Celestia's weird ass anatomy while I'm at it.

#mlp #celestia #fanart #my art #wip #the grand galloping 20s #delete later #look at me fucking smart guy signed up for 4 art classes in one quarter #so now i have 4 concurrent art/film/creative writing projects going on at the same fucking time #taking bets on how fast i burn out #anyways the idea behind the faces is the front face is the surface. it displays whatever emotions celestia intends when she's in control. #the two side faces––sadness and anger––are sides of her she has less control over. i drew all 3 faces active for the exploration #but in reality only 1 is active at a time. the others will either close their eyes or go catatonic like a puppet or doll #the final face on the back of the head is the deep subconscious. every ugly and violent and hateful thought and emotion #that lies buried under the surface. celestia has no control over that side of her. if she ever wakes

[teacupsandcyanide]

Something I miss from earlier eras of the creative side of the internet was things just being unabashedly low-budget. Just all unashamedly amateur, unprofessional, ‘I don’t own a good camera but I have a story to tell you’, ‘I can’t afford a good mic but I have a song to sing for you,’ ‘I don’t have any kind of background in editing or lighting and I only just picked up this guitar last Tuesday but here’s an entire musical me and my friends wrote about our favourite book, we filmed it on a potato and put it up on YouTube in ten minute segments because we thought it was pretty funny.’

#everything felt so much less like Content then #and as someone who wants to share creative stuff online #it’s now incredibly daunting thinking about doing that bc #especially as a disabled person who can’t work full time #it feels almost impossible to extricate art from being Content #like there’s this immense pressure to produce things that could pass as professionally produced by a team of educated people #and to make smart decisions so that somehow eventually you can profit off your art #and instead of it being a ‘hey look at my silly little song’ it becomes #competing in an over saturated market already dominated by the nepotism afforded by wealth and connections #and it feels like it would very difficult not to measure my personal satisfaction with how a certain piece of art turned out #by how much attention it got online #even though I genuinely have zero desire to be famous and it sounds like a complete nightmare #anyway I’m gonna have ice cream for dinner how about you guys #hmp42

[t00thpasteface]

messing around with a more retro style batman design bc my parents are both DELIGHTED to see the retrobat in any context and their enthusiasm is contagious... this is a real thing my dad said about the 60s show

#as usual my mix-n-match mashup designs are less a creative vision and moreso a result of me being indecisive 24/7 #art #sketch #dc #batman #bruce wayne #dc robin #dick grayson

[yoomschoocs]

Some team RWBY warm-up doodles that I ended up using as experimental coloring practices!

The process of this was a messss but hey you gotta learn somehow :)

#yoom's art #rwby #team rwby #I used so many funky colors in the process #you can't see most of them anymore cuz I refined a lot #but it was fun! #I like caring less about the colors I use hehe #allows for more creativity :) #ruby rose #weiss schnee #yang xiao long #blake belladonna

[rookeryyy]

REINVENT

YOURSELF

tumblr HATES my 44.1mb image swag so it has SO MUCH COMPRESSION and downsizing here. :') peep the actual intended size & quality (or as good as i could get it exported)

post-return Q!Tubbo :] Tee hee.

un hamburgesa para tubbo (he lookied ungry)

#qsmp #qsmp fanart #tubbo fanart #qsmp tubbo #yippeeee :D #i forgor what other tags i usually use for my art on this blog. fngbnfdj. oh well. #WHY DID THE WATER TURN INTO LAVA [SHAKES CCTUBBO] WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT HELLO. DID ANYBODY ELSE NOTICE THAT BC I DID. IS IT FROM #THE MACHINE OVERHEATING? HE WAS BURNING WHEN HE SURFACED or is it a less physical creative choice... #this is why theyre surrounded by water and lava (and also bc of dying by the ocean monument ^w^ teehee) #if you notice all the details i had in mind when i drew this ily foreva and eva #i drew this over the course of a few days after the revival/return stream but i never posted it IM SHY OK #i wonder how long i spent on it... must be over 6 hrs atleast? considering i also spent like an hour touching things up b4 posting rn.. #nice. im in my hours-long compositions era :D smiles irl so happily i love it #<- usually never spends longer than like 1-2 hrs on one drawing #i shared this with a couple of qsmp-enjoying friends of mine and they convinced me to let it fly free ksksks. FOR THE TUBBLINGS o7 #also if anybody has a better image sharing option lmk. DHBFK. #blood #ALMOST FORGOT THAT. THERE IS BLOODIN HERE #CONTAINS BLOOD. #guy whos flehs and bone #debatably

[betterthanbatman1]

Tim after having 3 hours of sleep, wordlessly entering a room and handing Dick a paper covered with sketches: These are all the faces I can see hiding in my carpet :)

Dick looking at the sketches with absolute horror: oh…

#Based on an interaction I had with my sister #I had less sleep and the patterns in the rug just stood out #I was not hallucinating lol #My creativity peaks when I’m tired #batfamily #Tim is just a silly guy #incorrect quotes #dc #dc headcanon #tim drake #red robin #dick grayson #nightwing

[thebramblewood]

Exciting news: I now have a story page and a characters page! They're pretty basic at the moment, but I'm hoping to think of some fun stuff to add later. For now, you might find a few new nuggets of insight in the character bios! I just wanted a cute little hub for readers new and old to find everything they need in one place. Let me know if you think anything (or anyone) major is missing or if you notice any errors. Here are all the character portraits. Aren't they cute? And thanks to @buglaur for the incredibly easy to modify template!

#ts4 #sims 4 #story: hzid #the zhaoverse #i'm going to change my pinned post to this #at least until i get a better blog theme where i can more easily add links #but that will have to wait for another day #i know it's kind of silly to include some characters that showed up for only a post or two and exclude others #but i tried to choose based on relevance/relationship #so julia's friends feel more important than that dude in helena's creative writing class even if they appear less

[craniumknight]

timber hearth block print

#===[ #◉ #▥ #◬ #]=== #craniumknight art #[2024] #outer wilds #timber hearth #printmaking #ignore the terrible quality this was a test print #I love making prints of art that I've already done #takes less time/energy for the same creative fulfillment #in my busy era........

[chiiroptereh]

If I lay here ... would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I was sad one night and wanted to watch something fun and colorful, so I tried Fionna and Cake and really liked it! Adopting Prismo as my surrogate blorbo he is such a pal (everyone's pal, for that matter)

I've been enjoying getting to explore some new fics, which is what this was inspired by (primarily this one), and then it went kinda off-the-rails and got experimental hahaha but that's okay, I was having fun!

#digital art #fan art #adventure time #fionna and cake #prismo #scarab the god auditor #prohibitedwish #more or less #could be platonic if you want! #man i couldn't really get into adventure time #nothing wrong with it just not for me (the love and creativity is amazing tho i have tons of respect for it) #i liked f&c's more matured and serialized approach a lot more #so i just watched every AT episode with prismo lmfao #he's the first choice for my dream blunt rotation tbh #also trapped in a cube (apartment) doing nothing but writing fanfics and not taking care of my body while grieving unhealthily so #he's just like me fr #excited for season 2!

[apt502-if]

Hiii! Can we choose the gender of our siblings? and most importantly: can we have drama with the siblings? Since there's clearly a favorite one 👀

Yes I want to do that. You will be able to choose the gender (and names) of your siblings and yes there can be drama :> Middle child syndrome is REAL

#mail #about: mc's family #making things customizable is also less pressure on me to have to be creative :P

[stealingyourbones]

Working on the twitch streamer Tucker animatic and I decided to cave and switch from animating in Photoshop to Adobe Animate and oh bOY are the controls confusing

Oh and update on it all, I have completed the script, storyboard, and Tucker’s emotes. Next is voice acting and animation.

#bones speaks #y’all I may not be like Super Good at art #but I have stubbornness and a creative vision so I’m Gonna Do It #will it look incredible? no. will it be shaded? no. will the jawlines change with every frame? yes. #I feel like I can’t be the one to voice act Tucker. like you see a black dude and out of his mouth- #- comes a sporano midwestern 20 year old with absolutely 0 voice acting talent #i feel like it’d certainly be funny but it would be hella jarring #i might ask a friend to help me with the voices. make it less ‘what the fuck’

[francy-sketches]

😂stupid baby didn't even get an anime nosebleed😂

#my art #got #kinda funny to me how myrcella just died the same way as joffrey (just less purple) like ok no creativity #I think in his case it's like. scientifically accurate that your nose bleeds if you choke to death #but it does seem like she died of just a nosebleed lol. like what does the poison even do #they both kyaaa'd to death 😔