#memories from summer

[oobbbear]

Dumb art advice for people who can’t understand logic like me:

First, turn off your brain and just draw a bunch, for example you want to learn to draw hands, go on Pinterest search ‘Hands’ and just copy what you see, do this everyday for 30min-1hour, slowly you’ll get a vague understanding of how hands work

THEN, go and watch some tutorials and the learn structure of the hand. The logic and structure are important but you won’t understand anything if you don’t already have a good picture of what the thing look like in your brain.

(This method works really well if you want to learn anatomy, don’t go dig into the muscle and skeleton, draw figures first, you don’t need to know what you’re drawing you just need to have an understanding of the flow of human body, it will help you greatly later on when you really go into the structure of body)

Of course this is only based on personal experiences, you can learn the theories and then practice but that did not work for me, if I don’t have hands on experience on what I’m drawing I won’t understand a single word in the tutorial. Do what works best for you I’m just putting this out here

#bearz rambling tag #I remember that one summer I spent an entire month just copying hands from Pinterest #well hands and sneakers #i got it tattooed into my muscle memory #it helped me a lot #i could draw very convincing hands even tho I don’t know shit about it #I know I know smart practice is better than brainlessly drawing #but #it works #okay #don’t overwork yourself 1 hour a day is enough #rush it will only give you carpal tunnel #I’m a dumb learner #muscle memory save me muscle memory

[ruporas]

revisiting a memory

#kingdom hearts #roxas #roxas kh #cue dearly beloved #a tune i'll never forget for the rest of my life actually #i could Overshare so much of my memories about kh in these tags but i think i will refrain #its so embarrassing but. #yeah. im just posting some kh work ive done awhile back... there was a particular time during the summer #where i was just rereading the 358/2 days novel #and roxas has always shined as a character to me. and most people who got obsessed over kh2 the moment it came out #and maybe its just me who when rereading the 358/2 novel got particularly focused on the perspective of axel and xion's bc it wasnt as #explored in game but #seeing roxas' actions and emotions pour through from another person's lens #like axel's and xion's. man. he's just so genuine and always has been and it's so clear the one thing he wants :( #im RAMBLING again but i love kh #anyway #gk posting soon #ruporas art

[derangedrhythms]

Come here, memory of him.

Tiffany McDaniel, from 'The Summer That Melted Everything'

#tiffany mcdaniel #the summer that melted everything #prose #memory #o #quotations from books i didn't like

[pzyii]

i love dawn and willows relationship like- so much. So honestly one of the things i spend most time thinking about is like times theyve bonded in the fake memories.

you want examples? well, i will provide:

the first time they met. willow is over at buffys house for the first time. she has no clue buffy has a sister cause buffys embarrassed. dawn has heard all about willow cause buffy thinks willow is fucking awsome. dawn pretty instanly very much agrees. Willow eats dinner at the summers, the whole family is bickering and apologises for it but willow being used to quiet and cold or just lonley dinners adores it.

Halloween in s2. Joyce is out of town (like in canon) and buffy sure as hell doesnt want to take dawn. and joyce doesnt want her with a stranger so willow offers to take her with the rest of her kids. Dawn who hasnt hit her growth spurt can wear the same costume as last year(a witch) and stays herself the whole night. When willow leaves the group to talk to giles she puts dawn in charge to make sure no one gets themselves or anyone else killed, her included. cause with slayer princess, shooty xander and cordelia, shes the most reliable and she knows dawn can be responsible if it calls for it, sometimes. Dawn loves willow more than ever and when its all over she quietly admits she was terrified and willow says she did wonderfully.

the end of s2. dawn is staying over at the hospital while willow is in her coma (and that way misses buffy and joyces fight). Shes as terrified as the rest. shes there when willow does her first spell, she thinks its so much cooler than being a slayer.

between season 2 and 3. joyce is depressed and spending alomst all her time looking for buffy. willow is guilty cause she thinks she failed the soul spell, and therefore caused buffy running away. she comes over with cookies and realises dawn is kinda being neglected, so she offers to babysit. Joyce appreciates it a lot. willow thinks its nice too, takes her mind of her guilt and this way she can get out of her empty house and almost pretend she has a family.(she does, the scoobies, dawn and joyce included, but like yk what i mean, normal family)

gingerbread. MOO never tried to kill dawn but they stopped her from interfering and kept her close saying stuff like "were doing this for you, the children". She doesnt talk to her mom to at least a week and when she bumps into Sheila in the street she spits on her.

#also in the fake memories comics when they realise angels lost his soul in s2 and he grabs willow by the throat. in those comics he grabs #-dawn first and willow tackles them so dawn is safe thats how she gets taken #and i just think thats amazing on so many levels. #and yk more #i keep coming up with new ones now and tgen #but yeah they maje me go insane #and while i love dawns relationship with tara #hers with willow makes my head spin so much more. #because of 1: willows my fave #2: dawn and willow are a lot more alike(see: my hc about the monks taking inspo from will when creating dawn that i really should make a sp #and 3: just theyve known eachother a lot longer(tara and dawn probably didnt meet untill end of/after s4) #dawn summers #willow rosenberg #headcanons #dawn and willow #willow and dawn #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #buffy fandom #pzyii rants #can i make short posts about this show?(no) #i really want to write a fic with a bunch of these and hopefully more but boy am i bad with motivation when it comes to writing

[ladydevena]

Can I just say, the fact that the high lords don’t all wear generic crowns in their colors, but it actually ties to their courts makes me happy?and they probably all have quite a few different themed ones?

Tamlin with his burnished gold laurel leaf crown at the wedding that was a courtly version of the calanmai crown he probably dawns each year? And his tithe crown is so suited to more strict moments with its representation of wealth and stability?

Tarquin with his silver cresting waves and blue gemstones for a casual night out on the town? As asymmetrically stunning as the very waters he connects his court to, the blues of the stones glinting with white and green and the depths of the very ocean hidden by the brash, crashing beauty created by the surface?

Helions spiked gold crown as vicious and pointed yet beautiful and picturesque as the suns rays? As warm in color as his skin yet simple and statement making in it power just like helion himself- not needing much adornment to radiate the strength, beauty and deadly power and wicked intelligence he holds?

Rhys has a raven feather crown which makes me wonder if previous highlords of night weren’t just serpentile like the creatures of the hewn city but dark winged and raven featured in some way? (And Feyres crown - complimentary to Rhys isn’t just a newly made item, it existed in tandem with his for previous ladies of night I’m assuming so it ties to the court that way as well?)

Autumn court with its mixture of Medieval English and conqueror era Spanish style in my head? With traditional red and green stones highlighted the most and silver and gold alike, crosses and points to their headwear? Very formal and structured, not just to denote their position, but to reinforce tradition, wealth, class structures, very inline with what I’d assume of the autumn courts viciousness mentioned in the books? Beautiful but vicious.

Winter court with near white shining metals, carved glass and crystal bases for ice diamonds; blue, gray, & frosty fogged stones? Dark blues and wicked gnarled features representing barren branches and shards of ice????

Dawn court with its sweeping elegance and love of beautiful embellishments and pension for color? The people are noted to be largely from Xian as noted by SJM and I always imagine dawn court to be a beautiful mix of Indian and Chinese culture, and the jewelry reflects it, beautifully Intrically carved warm toned metals that depict stories or symbolism entertwined with the culture? Stoned used abundantly yet they’re never garish? They only enhance and bring out the beauty of the crowns and reflect the cultures within the court itself?

(Like I’d love to dive deeper into it and maybe make or paint the crowns one day but that’s a different story)

That’s it that’s the post grammar be darned.

#this was written from memory so if any of the crowns are wrong please comment and I’ll edit!!! thank you!! #acotar #sjm universe #sjmaas #tamlin #pro tamlin #tamlin acotar #high lord #night court #rhysand #feyre archeron #day court #dawn court #winter court #autumn court #summer court #spring court #prythian #tarquin #beron vanserra #kallias #helion acotar #helion spell cleaver #thesan acotar

[definitelydailydocm77]

Daily Doc Doodle! This one took about an hour and a half. The daily poem attached to this one is: Early Frost by Scott Cairn

Full poem under the cut!

This morning the world’s white face reminds us that life intends to become serious again. And the same loud birds that all summer long annoyed us with their high attitudes and chatter silently line the gibbet of the fence a little stunned, chastened enough. They look as if they’re waiting for things to grow worse, but are watching the house, as if somewhere in their dim memories they recall something about this abandoned garden that could save them. The neighbor’s dog has also learned to wake without exaggeration. And the neighbor himself has made it to his car with less noise, starting the small engine with a kind of reverence. At the window his wife witnesses this bleak tableau, blinking her eyes, silent. I fill the feeders to the top and cart them to the tree, hurrying back inside to leave the morning to these ridiculous birds, who, reminded, find the rough shelters, bow, and then feed.

Early Frost by Scott Cairn  

#definitelydailydocm77 #docm77 #docm77 fanart #early frost by scott cairn #daily poem #daily doodle #hermitcraft fanart #this one definitely isn't inspired by the fact that the weather went from cool summer to frigid winter in one afternoon here where i live #the days are short and black the sun sets at 6pm #but the mornings are crisp and golden like god is sharpening their knife on the horizon #its pretty #anyway this brought back fond memories of standing with my friends in the snow #and breathing into the air and pretending to be dragons

[braisedhoney]

some tragic love stories be like: if i could bottle the galaxy, i would pour it into a cup so it would be easier for you to drink. do you want them? do you want the stars? or do they suit you better as adornments for your eyes than glitter on your lips?

but they don’t want the stars. they don’t want the galaxy. but how can they not? is that not enough? (it’s too much, that’s the problem. it’s too much.)

#ney's idle chatter (random textposts) #me trying and failing to capture why hadestown has embodied Love in a way i don’t think i’m really capable of comprehending fr #but also this can be about whatever blorbo you want #when i think about that one line in chant #when hades says ‘brighter than the light of day’ #‘look. look at what i can make for you—see?’ #meanwhile the last thing persephone wants is to be reminded of this hollow echo of what their love is in her memories #when i think about that scene when eurydice tells orpheus they need to get food #but he’s working on his song and she makes the choice to trust him and go #to work harder and longer and search for things to feed them and trust he’ll bring spring back #THE WAY PERSEPHONE TRIES TO KISS HADES GOODBYE AT THE START WHEN SHE COMES BACK FOR SUMMER #AND HOW IT PARALLELS EURYDICE KISSING ORPHEUS GOODBYE WHEN SHE GOES TO LOOK FOR FOOD #and hades pulls away. because she’s leaving him and he’s terrified. he’s terrified and turns it into anger because otherwise he’s helpless. #and orpheus doesn’t respond when eurydice leaves because he’s working—he’s working and he’s going to give her what he promised. #but she needs his help. she needs his help now—she needs his support and he isn’t there. #thinking about the moment she takes the ticket from hades and #it almost implies she starves. that she dies. that she starves to death trying to find food for them both #i promise you however unhinged i seem about this musical i am being purposefully restrained so i don’t spam you all too much orz #holy SHIT these tags are LONG #even for me this is ridiculous there’s a whole other post down here #high five to you for reading it ig damn #hadestown

[slappappy]

I hate to have nostalgia for bad times but…

#I’m going to post more pics from this day because it was a really pretty place/day #nostalgiacore #dreamcore #weirdcore #oddcore #liminal spaces #nostalgia #suburban gothic #memories #appalachian gothic #pennsylvania #nature #forrest #graffiti #summer #summercore #abandoned

[ylvasart]

This time it will be a double feature for today's Femslash February!

#Femslash February #Ranma 1/2 #Kanekari #Akane Tendo #Akari Unryu #AkanexAkari #fanart #being in a mud puddle probably woke up a precious childhood memory for Akari #she do breed and train pigs for sumo. of course they would probably do mud baths in the summer to protect from the sun #so she would probably not be that bothered by it herself #but they would go home to Akane and shower and change clothets #and continue their date there

[mindofserenity]

My peaceful escape الحمدلله

#mindofserenity #07/05/2023 #sharing more memories from my peaceful walk with my husband #one day of blissful summer #I had missed my camera but I settled with my phone #subhanallah #mine #nature #nature walks #photography #life

[kronehaze]

Trying my best to draw with my non dominant hand for the last couple days since I hurt my right shoulder out of no where a bit ago and it’s made me decide that I wanna teach myself to be ambidextrous

#it’s very slow to draw with my left hand #it’s a lot easier digitally than on paper #I’ve tried to doodle in pen for l #pen holding muscle memory development #but it’s really hard to hold my shitty old ball point pens comfortably #I’ve had a box of ball point pens from summer 2022 I’m using and I don’t think dirt cheap ball points are made to last that long #but ye #miraculous ladybug #miraculous fanart #ladybug pv #felix agreste #miraculeakless #ml leak free

[tearlessrain]

seriously can catastrophes stop happening for five minutes my brain is already fried from the ones we're already experiencing

#I fucking. missed d&d tonight by accident #I straight up forgot #and just didn't show up to the session #my sleep schedule is absolutely fucked #I should be sleeping now but brain won't shut up #my creative output is the lowest it's ever been and I've been in some level of depressive funk since like early january #I am just deeply unfathomably exhausted #like mentally and spiritually #all the time #my memory and sense of time are both shit #my spelling is worse than it used to be for some reason?? #I really don't know what to do to make my brain start functioning again it's frankly worrying me #I couldn't even handle college so it should come as no surprise that I'm reacting poorly to the world being a perpetual screaming trash fir #and yet #idk it's been hitting again lately that I have never succeeded at anything in my life and just keep tripping and falling up for some reason #fucking everyone is in hell right now and with my overall success rate I should be dead in a ditch but I'm actually doing spectacularly #due to a series of improbable accidents and weird circumstances that happened to turn out in my favor instead of completely fucking me #aside from the looming spectre of my various failed attempts to have some kind of life trajectory #it just doesn't feel like this can keep up forever #like surely at some point the luck has got to run out I can't just keep living like some kind of folkloric trickster archetype #but my motivation and sense of purpose kind of died after the last failed attempt so I'm still just here #doing whatever this is #maybe I should drive out to the coast #maybe staring at the ocean would fix me I've been away from it for too long #I mean it can't make me worse #I should wait until further into summer though so I don't have to drive back in the dark #everyone around here has trucks with those goddamn LED headlights and I've got a little sedan that's directly in their blast zone

[bitchfitch]

I've already decided that if I do do yehawgust one of the characters I make for it is gonna be named Whiskey, they're gonna be frisky, their daddy grows corn, and they love the rain. I know Nothing else about them yet.

#i dont want to play the cowboy thing straight #i want to keep the aesthetics of like. rio grande area because thats Home #Maybe something to do with purple sage? Whiskey is out on a ranch many miles from home. #Nah. Whiskey is the thing someone is going to be meeting. #Whiskey take my mind.... #take care of me. youre all ive got... #dont let her memory torture me #Maybe a heat stroke delusion? Maybe something luring a cowboy further away from a path that might lead them home? #im drowning in a whiskey riverrr #dont run dry... #Cowboy and mermaid maybe? #Ill figure it out #spirit of spring? or summer?

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! Do you have any advice for a nine year old who wants to make video games? Is there like a program he can use to learn how to do that, or a game that teaches programming aimed at kids, or heck idk what to ask here I know pretty much nothing about making games Basically, the kidlet I used to babysit wants to make his own video game, and has been (somewhat inexplicably) making google doc slideshows about it because he doesn't know how to make games but if there's a way he could that would be awesome! Any advice is appreciated, I seriously know nothing about this but I want to support him

#the person behind the yarn #I love him so much but also I have no idea what he's talking about #and tbh I don't think he knows where to start either #I only know very very basic programming #because one summer as a teenager a then-friend bet me I couldn't learn it #so I did a whole bunch of...codecademy? I think? #but that was before I got sick-sick and the memory is sorta blurry #like. I know at one point I knew it. I also know I do not know how to do it now #but suspect if I tried learning it again it'd be easier the second time #for the record I did prove that friend wrong! I did learn programming #my memories from before I got super sick are just very hit or miss and that's not one of the skills that I kept once I got better #I am also not as good at catching lizards as I once was and I gotta say #the lizard thing is more disappointing to me than the coding thing lol

[just-nonsense-bungaku]

I was listening to a livestream that n-buna and Suis did back when Tousaku was coming out (it had English subtitles, thank you b_kuta) and I realized that n-buna is always Like That. He was supposed to be reading fan mail and then spent 20 minutes of the stream talking about haiku lore. The only reason why his characters all like haiku is because n-buna wants more chances to talk to everyone about his hyperfixation. This makes so much sense

#yorushika #ヨルシカ #to be fair it's easy enough to see that all of his characters com from the same place mentally #gods forbid n-buna doesn't write a character whose pronoun is boku and expresses a yearning for summer and knows haiku and says dou demo ii #and has a weird relationship with someone else's memory and some unresolved grief and doesn't really get what they want in the end

[skyward-floored]

Hii!! Back for my occasional visit as I’m slowly easing into a Zelda phase again as the totk anniversary creeps up on me. I managed to get some more Zelda games on the 3ds and I’ll probably get to playing phantom hourglass soon! Gotta finish up all the Pokémon games first though. How have you been? Anything new you’ve been interested in or wanna talk about? Any good fic recs?

Hi Lainey!! Hope you’ve been doing well!

Holy crap I guess it has been about a year since totk came out O_O it doesn’t feel like it’s been that long, wow. I have a fair amount of Zelda games on the 3ds and I’ve enjoyed every one of them, I hope you’ve been having fun with them too! I myself haven’t played phantom hourglass, but I’ve heard it’s fun :)

I’ve been okay, had a bit of a mental health slump last week, but it’s been generally better lately. I’m trying to think what I’ve been up to lately on here... I guess just the usual sporadic fic updates and random AUs taking over my brain XD I have a new Link oc I’ve been playing with, and a hyrule warriors AU I’ve slowly been moving over to ao3, so I guess that’s something.

Hmm fic recs... haven’t done a lot of fic reading lately, but there’s this one that updated recently (that I need to sit down and properly absorb because it’s soooo good) that’s an original zelda story, I’ve been following it for a bit now and it’s really enjoyable! It’s called On My Honor and I highly recommend it :D

#answers from the floor #lovely thatguylainey #I can’t believe totk is almost a year old #it feels like just yesterday that first commercial came out... #that commercial was part of what got me through the worst summer of my life #man we still called it botw2 back then... #ah. memories. #someday I’ll get over my fear of spending money on myself and actually buy a switch and a copy of it