just thought i'd share some more poses of my profile picture. thank you to おいちぃ牛乳 on picrew for your image maker! i am absolutely obsessed with this little avatar. i do have more poses if you guys are interested in seeing them! go check out this picrew if you're in need of a new avatar.
This Picrew is "天使ちゃんメーカーDECO" by DECO. It's angel themed, has okay skintones, but I wanted a bit more clothing colors. I still really like it! I made my OC Kitty, then made a randomized oc.
Concept for your desire to do a specific bracket tournament that isn't weighted against OCs: EVERY character is represented by a Picrew or a stock image, and EVERY character has the name of their source work written without any indication if it's actually published (if the WIP does not yet have a title, a placeholder title is used without indicating that it is such). Voters won't know if the character is from something published that they simply haven't heard of yet
The problem with this is that it would still have the issue of things being weighted towards popular characters - people still know who The Knight from Hollow Knight is, even if we don't use an official image and instead used a stock image of the void or painstakingly reconstruct them in a Picrew. The main thing that gets people to vote in a tournament is connection - knowing the character or the people attached to them.
The thing that biases things against OCs in this tournament is, primarily, their limited spread - the lack of people who would be familiar with them. Though more well-known OCs can circumvent this enough to stand on firm ground with characters - someone like spotsupstuff's Three Sparrows On A Wire, for example, might have a solid chance in a tournament with canon characters, there will still be less people invested in Sparrows than there are, say, people invested Humans-B-Gone!'s Sophodra.
Because the thing with canon characters is that, by definition, you've already seen them in action. They already have a story that you can readily access, compared to an OC, where the creator has to write and present the story themself - and a story that's never been written is very, very difficult to invest people in. You can't put the emotional impact of someone you've followed for a million words up against the emotional impact of a cool design you saw in the interwebs, and if you have to create emotional investment in the space of a bio, you're naturally going to fare worse than someone who's had hundreds of pages to win you over.
Really, the only way we can see it working well is something like that @guess-that-ship's format of "text only, can't name anything that would give the game away in regards to who it is", and for obvious reasons, that's... not quite going to work the same way.
#being the only one on this taglist makes me feel like this is being written for me specifically 😌
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116 notes - Posted January 25, 2022
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god, please. cozy fics single handedly got me through the last two years.
250 notes - Posted January 26, 2022
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wip page 07 - a simple wip page
preview / code
revamped one of my very first wip page codes! it was originally posted on my old themes blog, which i deleted recently, so i figured i’d update and re-release it here.
features: any google fonts. feather icons (which you can find more of here). includes a featured image and sections for details, a synopsis, relevant links, characters, and additional info.
icons in the preview are from here and the featured image is from unsplash. please like/reblog if you use! ♡︎
756 notes - Posted August 16, 2022
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deify your self 💫 tag game
tysm @pinespittinink and @flowerprose for the tags!! 💕
rules: using this piccrew by @malachitinous, create yourself as you’d look as a god/goddess/deity; feel free to either make this a chain or do your own post from scratch!
tagging: @writingbyricochet @mr-writes @carminasolis @hyba @kaatiba @ryns-ramblings and pls consider this an open tag for anyone who wants to do this! you can say you got an open tag from me :)
#(( writing novel length stories in a language that has given me tons of in securities through my school years is a struggle ))
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
His Light in the Darkness
A soft white curl slid on her cheek, brushing it lightly as the teal eyes moved from up to down. The love of his life inhaled deeply and when the air waffled out the curl quivered on her skin. The beauty in front of him didn’t seem to notice any of this; tiny fingers squeezed his thigh instinctively as the soft, rosy petals moved along with the words that had captured her mind.
The mind that should have belonged only to him, but now those tempting sentences had spirited away the very soul that was usually devoted to its one and only master. Yet the view was too adorable for him to get annoyed. If the tome in his hands had imprisoned the spirit of his loved one, the pureness of the angel had equally conquered his very being to the core. Never before had he met anyone who not only shared his passion, his yearning for perfectly formed paragraphs and poetically chosen words but also had stayed with him no matter what had come their way.
This delightful creature in his arms had once been a simple possession, a mere livestock, yet now she had become his precious light in the darkness.
(( Art made by @dlyuiannii as a commission for me. I'm ever so thankful and totally love this. Thank you so much!
48 notes - Posted October 27, 2022
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"AAAAARGHHHH, DAMN IT!"
Yuriko slammed the door of her bedroom shut and tossed her bag on the floor, screaming her lungs out. A couple of pens rolled around, and a notebook banged against the desk leg. She panted, clenching her fingers tightly against her palms as her heart bounced almost painfully against her chest, pulse beating in her ears.
"I hate everything and everyone!"
She kicked the bag under her bed, grabbed the pillow, and threw it against the closed door. Next went the blanket, ending up on the floor too.
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50 notes - Posted November 13, 2022
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I found this cute Picrew and now I want to see you all doing it too~
#also i was trying to write this story and i was going to push the coming out until like five chapters in and no it happened like right away
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Sister: "Don't date your friends, you're not going to be able to stay friends after you break up"
Me, a demiromantic:
61 notes - Posted July 11, 2022
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this is kind of a half-baked thought but here we go
there's this thing commonly said in the trans community of "we didn't pick our genders, this is just the way we are"
yes, this is true
however, I do want to bring attention to the idea that perhaps it isn't true 100% of the time. And for those people, whoever they may be, who maybe don't feel as if they were always trans, you're valid too in whatever gender you choose to be!
I think that saying we were born this way is how we kind of argue against transphobes and people saying that we're just confused or we don't know what we're talking about. And for so many of us, it's true! personally, yes, I feel as though I was never a woman but have always been something else but hadn't yet figured that out. (which is why I feel weird saying I discovered I was nonbinary because yes that is the true but in a way I've always been nonbinary. that's a talk for another day though)
But as I've thought about it, I've come to the conclusion that in any other timeline, when placed with the option to be a cis woman, I would choose to be nonbinary every time.
And not everyone would.
And that's okay! We're all different! Being trans/nonbinary is a struggle. It's isolating and sometimes feels hopeless and it's frankly just a lot to deal with. And everyone deals with it in different levels and different situations.
So I believe that not all trans people are born this way. AND THAT'S OKAY. They are every bit as valid as any other trans person, or any other person in general! And people who were born this way? Also valid!
Whatever reason someone may feel as if their gender switched, maybe it's trauma, maybe it's preference changing over time, maybe it's just something random and not completely understood, it doesn't matter.
I think they should be recognized and included just the same as anyone else.
-- I haven't ever actually met someone who has told me that they don't feel as if they were trans their entire life. However, if someone can change sexuality over time, then why shouldn't it be possible for someone's gender to change over time as well? I understand that there are a lot of differences in how sexuality and gender evolve, but there are also a lot of similarities.
Just something to think about.
64 notes - Posted August 25, 2022
#3
Here is the longer version of the thunderstorm for anyone who wants it!
71 notes - Posted August 3, 2022
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oops I made another one
Aromantics:
and another one
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79 notes - Posted September 8, 2022
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Alrighty folks, you know the drill.
I found another picrew
tagging! @earthtokit @gemstarstarlight @venusqq @thatfaecreaturee @jinxneedssleep @eleilinnrallin (if you're into this sort of thing!) @quinnick @chaserofstarsandtheabyss @secretsinthevoid @lilywolfgray @elumax-archive @ringnea (ONE DAY YOU HAVE TO SUBMIT TO MY WILL AND DO ONE OF THESE)
#silver has ahold of tumblr and this is what she does - 315 posts
#silver gets an ask - 258 posts
#save - 190 posts
#ask rb - 158 posts
#not my art - 88 posts
#ask game - 43 posts
#yes - 41 posts
#cat - 39 posts
#rogue one my beloved - 38 posts
Longest Tag: 135 characters
#no but ive been craving brownies like nothing else the past month or so and im gonna bake some this weekend so thank you for gifting me
My Top Posts in 2022:
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heck yes we are @authorofemotion @bookdragon1811
97 notes - Posted January 26, 2022
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hey, you. Yes, you! You reading this post? This is your sign to go be ✨creative✨ and you don’t care what anyone thinks! Paint something! Write something! Be creative and work your mind! You’ll be surprised by what can happen
131 notes - Posted February 28, 2022
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I love when new mutuals don’t hesitate to like my posts like yes bestie come in
136 notes - Posted February 25, 2022
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now I don’t know who needs to hear this but: no matter how depressed or sad you’re feeling, even if you don’t feel like you can do much to help yourself, some of the smallest steps you can take can help so much. be around your family or people that will love you. don’t isolate yourself. drink water. eat if you’re hungry. go outside and take a walk. don’t be afraid to be around people and don’t be afraid to smile or laugh. it really goes such a long way for your mentality
281 notes - Posted February 22, 2022
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I FOUND ANOTHER PICREW
no pressure tags (and I’m gonna tag everyone I can think of cause I CAN)- @kazoosandfannypacks @bookdragon1811 @authorofemotion @kanerallels @accidental-spice @cielo-estrellado-rebloguear @heckin-music-dork @laughingphoenixleader @distracted-milkshake @wannabcool-blr @bluebellwren @marr-ble @fairytale-lights @taleweaver-ramblings and anyone else lol