✨Oui bonjour✨
Hi, hello. Please call me Lavender.
I'm a 20 year-old doodler with a fair amount of imagination but too much self-doubt to actually do or draw anything about it. I usually like to draw and play The Sims 4 on my potato laptop. When I feel like drawing myself/my persona, I give myself bunny ears, butterfly wings, and a giant frohawk.
As I'm writing these small introduction lines (12/28/2023), I believe that I'm doing awfully bad in terms of motivation and self-worth/esteem. I feel pessimistic towards my future and my art. I feel like burning every drawing I barely start and I only need myself to mock any idea I might have about my OCs or the universe I've been trying to build for years.
So, uh, what the heck am I even trying to accomplish here?
I think I've been building unnecessary pressure on my shoulders. So the goal here is to yeet that pressure out the window, because it's killing my joy to create, bit by bit. (I mean, I can't even relax when I play TS4 because I feel compelled to play the most perfect household with impeccable storytelling and arcs... and for what? talk about a useless perfectionnist.)
I'd like to be as transparent and as chill as possible with my art (and possibly myself), so I'll draw anything that comes to mind, without the pressure to make it look polished and ready on the first try. That's impossible and I need to take that false belief out of my head.
Expect WIPs, casual doodles, actually finished illustrations, and uuuuh maybe some random thoughts here and there, if I feel like it. I also have a giant list of things I'd like to draw or animate that's been sitting on my notes app for years now. I think I'll post it here so I can keep track of my progress on this blog, and so can you!
I think that's everything. Guess I'll see you soon!
Take care, and keep drawing.
(an example of a doodle I like, but I'm too scared to fail to replicate the same vibe in a polished drawing. But I'll make it someday, right?)
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it honestly frustrates me when i see people reduce the ericsons cast down to "just some teens in the woods" acting like theyre no different than any other group of lone teenagers from other existing properties and treating them like an overused trope
it is sooo important to acknowledge the "troubled youth" aspect of the whole equation. theyre not just some random teens in the woods clem stumbles across. these kids were abandoned by their families for their various "difficulties" and fucked up by The System before the outbreak even began. and then once zombies started roaming the streets their familes never came back for them and the adults that were in charge of taking care of them just left them there to rot in that old boarding school (except for ms martin who was like their lee 🥺 the only person who ever saw them as the scared traumatized kids they were and died protecting them)
the whole aspect of them already being fucked up by the adults that controlled their lives is like.....kind of important when discussing the whole "delta is stealing kids to force them to fight in a war they have no real part in and want nothing to do with" aspect of the season. and its important when comparing them to clem and her journey of also suffering at the hands of the adults around her forcing her to become self reliant. AND its important when discussing the "just trying to build a safe home (and future) worth fighting for in this world that wants them dead" aspect of the season as well
these kids were forced to come together to survive. and a Lot of them didnt... theyre the only family they have left and you can tell that even when they argue with each other theyre still a close knit group who looks out for each other. theyre a Real family before clem even gets there (and its why what really happened with the twins and brody and marlon hits them all so especially hard)
all of this is what REALLY makes ericsons such a perfect home for clem. its a Real community of her True peers. theyre not Just teens. they mightve had a layer of safety clem never had by at least having walls to keep them safe. and having the benefit of the school being hard to find. its the only reason theyre still alive when clem shows up. but theyre also some of the only people who can Truly understand where clem and aj are coming from. and its why it hurts so much when they vote to kick them out. but its also partially why she merges back into the fold so easily when she returns. plus the fact that shes Really the only one who has any idea what shes doing. shes their rock and she makes them feel safe because underneath it all theyre still just those scared traumatized kids ("EVERYONE is scared, clem..." vi was Definitely including herself in that 'everyone'), and on some level, so is clem
they saved clementines life. and she saved theirs. "the school was supposed to help them with their trauma, now they help each other" its about the LOVE the COMMUNITY the SUPPORT!!!! and thats the shit that makes good zombie media honestly 👌
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The Gromph plushies are done!🪄
Unfortunately I only had 3 amber eyed drow plushies left, so one of them has Red eyes. His hair is also curlier than the others since it was the last of the skein, so I'm gonna say that one is from WotSQ. Which... if you know, you know.
And as a bonus, her's MY Gomp "saving" Kimmuriel from my giant spider web light (and also demonstrating the strength of the magnets in their hands!)
"Let go of me, mal'ai!" - A Very Annoyed Kimmuriel
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Doing my T-gel (stupidly fucking early in the morning oh god why capitalism I hate waking up in the dark 😔😔😔) thinking about,,, doing my T-gel 😳😳😳
Well, y'know, how it'd be fucking hot to have someone else do it - their hands on me, oh there's a thought, bare hands a bit of the gel a bit of me sinking into them, ough 😳🥵
But also uhhh doing it myself and uh um - I use my wrists to spread it on like so I don't need to wash it off my hands like the instructions tell you to, don't need to waste any - but uh well - I can touch you, you see, but you're not allowed to touch me until it's all sunk in? Yeah? No? Is that -? I think so
I suppose "accidental" transfer would be hot too, yeah, but I don't want to get any on the sheets, lovely, so be good for me and stay still there while I'm sat up, hm? Hands to yourself for ten minutes pup you can do it
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psst... how on earth do you come up with fic titles????
tbh i also want to know how to come up with fic titles😓
I honestly couldn’t decide whether or not this was actually asking my advice since I feel like my titles are kind of weak and they are also the absolute last thing i add when publishing my fics since i never want to come up with one but if it IS a genuine request the way i do it is usually by going one of three routes (using examples from my own fics):
1) Descriptive - if you can condense the plot down into a few words do it essentially. It’s like taking the summary and making it even smaller kind of.
Example: one of my naruto fics is called ‘Joke-Married’ because it’s literally just about them getting married as a joke, i like this method cause it’s easy, simple, and i know the title makes sense and isn’t too funky
2) Direct Quote - love this method why come up with a title when you already came up with so many words in the actual fic? Pretty much you just pick out a short and significant line (preferably one that doesn’t spoil an important moment or anything) that highlights a theme or important plot point.
Examples: My ace attorney fic ‘it looks cool’ makes sense since its title is a recurring and significant line in the story. Conversely, my bsd fic ‘When was the last time you slept?’ only has that line in it once but it’s already clueing the reader into the plot - a character is tired and gets some sleep🤷♀️ again it ensures the title is relevant and can also work as a hook, I also suck at descriptions and use directly quoted sections for those a lot too
3) The Vibes™️ - idk how to explain this it’s kind of just picking out a saying or phrase that matches the fic’s vibes, it runs a bit of a risk of the title becoming a bit irrelevant though so I don’t use it often, usually just when I wanna be a little artsy or dramatic
Example: my bsd fic ‘slowly but surely’ is probably the best example from my fics, it’s a common phrase and although it isn’t used in the fic it fits because that ones like a falling in love over time kinda deal idk how else to say it but that it matched The Vibes™️ to me
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