#still younger than my main blog LMAO

[helicopter-seeds]

It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

#10 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone #wow... 10 years... #still younger than my main blog LMAO #shut up ashley

[project-sekai-facts]

project sekai twitter once again fighting over tsukasa having nuance. this week's episode: the bedroom vs the sekai

lmao i actually wrote an analysis of this on my personal blog a couple days ago but i'll do a quick one for here too because I don't wanna link it.

So something I learnt in college last year is that when writing a character, designing their room can really help to give them personality. Like it can tell you about who they are as a person, what their hobbies are, what they like, the situation they live in (<- that one doesn't really apply here all we can learn w Tsukasa is that his family is rich).

The thing is, his room doesn't really tell us a whole lot about him. Compared to every other character, there's way less to learn about him from his room. Imagine looking at this from the perspective of someone who knows absolutely nothing about the game. His room is mostly tidy which suggests he likes to keep things clean, maybe he's a bit of a perfectionist. There's a desk so he's probably a student. There's some books on the floor so maybe he likes to read. He's got that big mirror and he puts his lamp above it like a spotlight, so maybe he's a bit vain and showy. His display cabinet is filled with trophies (only at night but that's probably an art error), so there must be something he's really good at. But there's nothing that tells us what that is.

That's the thing. There’s a limit on how much we can learn from what we’re given. He’s a student, he’s a perfectionist, there’s something he’s really good at and won awards for, and he’s got a bit of an ego on him. But look at this from the perspective of someone who knows nothing about the character again. Would you be surprised to learn that his main interest is theatre? Because aside from the desk lamp spotlight there’s no way to tell (the desk lamp spotlight doesn’t really tell you either). You have to read Dazzling Light to learn that those trophies are for piano, because there’s no way to tell by just looking that he plays piano or has any interest in music.

There’s a lack of anything that interests him. That’s the thing. Even with Mafuyu and Toya, who also have pretty plain rooms, you can learn more about their interests than you can with Tsukasa. Mafuyu has a fish tank and there’s a synth on her bottom shelf. The synth being tucked away might mean she's trying to hide it. Toya has a collection of plushies and a sound system, as well as a piano covered with a sheet. We can infer that he likes to collect stuffed toys and he likes music, although he doesn't want to play piano. But with Tsukasa there's nothing. Well, there's some books, but reading isn't really a huge interest of his. It's the fact that the biggest part of his character is missing from his room that gets people.

However as soon as you go into the SEKAI there's a fucking theatre. The SEKAI mainly reflects his childhood interests but it still does more than his present-day bedroom.

So while yes, his room tells us about who Tsukasa is as a person, it doesn't tell us about anything he likes or is interested in. It's... boring.

The thing is since the game doesn't address it, there's multiple different ways to interpret why his room is like that, and neither of them are wrong or right until it actually is brought up in the game or confirmed by devs. On the one hand, maybe he just likes to keep his room as neat and tidy as possible. Maybe he doesn't want to put any playbooks or costumes or posters or anything because it would create clutter. But on the other hand, we already know that when he was younger he put on an act to be more brave and mature because of the situation with Saki, so maybe that carried over into his room. Neither of these are wrong until proven otherwise.

i lied this wasn't quick it's just a complete longer rewrite of what's on my personal blog

#asks #mod talks #tsukasa tenma

[anti-spop]

i've talked about this show on my main blog and how it always bugged me the way they romanticized abuse because it was a girl doing to a boy...

and that one show is pucca. yeah. pucca. (putting this under the cut if you don't want to read me ranting about a show no one really thinks about nowadays lmao)

i was the biggest pucca fan as a kid, i still have some merch with me. like i have some good childhood memories. i loved the shorts when they aired on jetix, and i was very enthusiastic for the full series they made in 2007/08. like i still love most of the characters to this day, like garu (i had a little crush on him lol), tobe and his ninja goons, abyo... they were all so funny and memorable.

but the main character, pucca? i just can't like her anymore. YES, i'm very aware she's a kid. she's like 10. i get it. i don't want horrible things happening to her or anything.

but honestly, even when i was a kid, younger than pucca even, it always bothered me how garu was the punchbag in most episodes. and the worst part is, he was always pucca's victim. at least the 2007/08 pucca cartoon romanticized stalking. pucca does the absolute worst things to get garu's attention, usually by kissing him without his consent or even outright kidnapping him, even though garu in this series never showed that he liked pucca back. EVER. if that ever happened, it was never the real garu, or he would be under some magical effect. all garu wanted was to be a ninja and go fishing or whatever. once he even preferred GOING TO JAIL than to be with pucca.

still, the show tries to shove down your throat that pucca and garu were meant to be and all the other characters encourage pucca to keep pursuing garu. none of the adults, not even pucca's uncles/guardians, try to tell her that like. kissing your crush without their consent is wrong. they just think it's cute. because she's a little girl.

to this day, when i see ppl talking about this show, they still romanticize pucca and garu's relationship. and it's really fucked up. like i know i saw through it when i was younger, but it concerns me that other kids probably didn't have the same realization, and the new fans won't either. i very rarely find people calling out the issues with pucca, and when they do, they will always be harassed by a legion of fans saying "it's just a kids show". one person even assumed i hated kids for some goddamn reason.

i know it might seem random mentioning pucca here, since it's very different from spop (pucca is definitely not on catra's level), but the fans always use the same arguments, that it's a kids show and we don't understand "true love". also because the abuser here is a girl, and to many people, women can never be abusers. (unless you're Evil and "ugly" like shadow weaver tho)

no yeah, i think pucca is in a very similar state as spop. no one thinks there's anything wrong with the main pairings. even though pucca is like, a decade older than spop, i find the fandoms very similar. they simply gloss over abuse because both pucca and spop do not take the abuse seriously. garu and adora are treated like jokes, or prizes to be earned by pucca and catra.

it's pretty disgusting.

#i post #abuse tw #ranting

[pan-magi]

I see that youve been a fan of magi for a long time, how do you cope with the lack of content and pretty much dead fandom? Ive been a long time fan or magi too and ive been trying to get my friends into magi.

Hi, Anon! I guess I have. It doesn't really feel like it though? I got into Magi early 2017 sometime and ran this blog for about 6 months or something until I vanished. This was meant to be my hyperfixation dump blog. The first one was Magi, and it... stayed Magi, lol.

This becomes very long but the tl;dr is Magi was more popular once upon a time and you can track down and return to older stuff with the lack of new content. And be honest to your friends about the ups and downs of what you like or what they could like about the series and keep conversations going with them.

At the time, I'll say Magi content was fairly active. The manga was ongoing but wrapping up, the main anime had ended but Adventures of Sinbad was only a year out or so. It wasn't anything to do with the series of why I left. More so I found new shiny things to focus on -- I had recently graduated college, yes, I'm old -- and fell out of love with tumblr more so than Magi and soon was not producing the content or consuming enough to stay interested in the series after it wrapped.

I'd love to give some great advice to stay interested in less popular series because I feel honored you asked. I can't claim to be good at it myself though. I got back into the series when I was sick late 2021 and binged everything. I re-watched the anime and then reread the manga when I got better.

You can try promoting it to your friends as good binge material. Magi does deal with themes you can sink your teeth into but it isn't super heavy. You don't realize how much you've gone through until you have.

I apologize for such a long answer. Let me try to get to your main point. I don't really think of it as something that's inactive or dead. The anime may be incomplete but the manga is done with. I don't think Ohtaka has much more to say on it, and that's why she has moved on to Orient. The series is wrapped- for better or worse. I'm not here to dissect how good or not the final arcs are. This is long enough and getting off topic XD. If you only have/can watch the anime then that's understandable. Accessibility and availability options are different for manga. For me, knowing the author has a complete version out there in some form and having access to it makes it easier. Content will come and go. Yes, I want more. I at least have a full course meal even if part of the dessert has disappeared into the ether.

Another thing that helps is that Magi is a young series. Not in the age range it appeals to but in how long it has been around. 14-15 years? Baby isn't old enough to drive in most places, lmao. The majority of fandoms I've been in are older or about as old as I am (30s). I am used to droughts in content and things coming in and out of popularity. Both in my ADHD-wired brain and by the fandom at large. I don't mean to say that younger fans are too fickle. As I said, I'm awful at it myself. There's a large gap of time (late 2017-2021) where my interests and priorities were elsewhere. I've only been active in the fandom for a few years at most.

I will say to help out try to explore the backlog of content if you have the chance and haven't already. New fan content may not be the most plentiful. Out of all the fandoms I follow the most relate to Magi and all of the tags are the quickest to breeze through what's new. It's sad. I haven't been active in this fandom for years, and there's stuff in its peak that I haven't gotten around to seeing that is still there for me to find. 14 years may not be that old in the grand scheme of things but that is still a long time for various fan art, fic, and other content to have been put up. If there's not enough new stuff to interest your friends, recommend older stuff you are aware of. Tumblr does not have the best search option and in my experience tags dry up after going back far enough even though I know older stuff exists. That is annoying and don't have a good counter on how to combat it.

Remember the old when you don't have enough new. Cycle through your favorite things at different intervals. Not for Magi specifically, but I reread some of my favorite fic that were over a decade old at the point of me discovering them. Now they're almost twice that age. One day go through one artist's backlog, then the next do someone else's, or read the fic that got you to love the fandom in the first place. If you get tired of older things or seen the same old too often- no worries! You can take a break or watch/read the series again (accessibility or availability again to be determined and yeah that majorly sucks). Scribble your own ideas down, regardless if you want to post them. Scratch that itch for you and no one else.

That is the best advice I can give. Try finding something else you haven't seen before or let yourself enjoy stuff you have. For your friends, this may sound counterintuitive but one thing I do when recommending stuff is give them a heads up as well on stuff they may not like. Like, mine is that I despise Aladdin being a little pervert. I've mentioned before how it turned me off the manga when I first picked it up at random. Don't try to catch them off guard by saying how wonderful something is and leaving out something that may turn them off. In my experience, that leads to annoyed friends. Give them the full picture, with spoilers being whatever you guys agree to, and let the strength of what you enjoy outweigh the caveats they have. Sometimes something is just not for them, and that is okay too. If they do start getting into Magi, keep the conversation up, ask them their favorite or least favorite thing, ship, how annoying and annoyingly charming Sinbad (or anyone) is, etc. Be someone to talk to about it even if they can't find new good shit to enjoy. Be that for each other. I dunno. I don't have friends irl who like Magi. If I did that's what'll I do. *shrug*

I am so sorry for the length and I don't feel as if I have been very helpful. I tried to edit it down and be as concise as I could. I can't do that on short notice or not being able to save drafts on asks. I hope this was a fun anecdotal read at least.

#magi #magi: the labyrinth of magic #magi labyrinth of magic #answered ask #lmao this ask coming in when i already had queued a post dreaming about season 3 #clearly i'm more starved for content than i appear #but yeah best advice is not limiting yourself to only new content #idfk how to answer asks #i'm sorry anon i'm sending you lots of hearts <3 <3 <3 #i answered this on my desktop so don't have access to emojis lol

[my-blessed-prince]

Writeblr Introduction

Hi! You most likely know me from my main blog @my-cursed-prince

I decided to make a second writeblr account for a different set of projects that are mostly less tragic. These projects are within a fairytale universe. They are naturally all satires, because, well it's still me <333

It's just these are silly funny satires, and not cry yourself to sleep at night satires. The actual definition of satire lmao.

I suppose if I have a wip that's not fairy tale and isn't We Lost Our Sunshine, I'll put it on here too. So far, I haven't fully developed or even halfway developed any of those wips.

If you have any questions about my canon OCs, continue to ask my main blog! If I answer an ask for this blog, it will be for one of my side projects. These side projects can include AUs that I put my main OCs in. Although, the focus of this blog rn is more fairytale oriented.

Here are the projects I've been slowly, but surely working on!

Prince Snow White

A fairy tale retelling of the Grimms Brothers Little Snow White! I decided to keep the story pretty much the same, except I switch everyone's gender! The land is ruled by women, because for them that's the only way it would be. I give men stereotypical feminine roles, that I mostly take inspiration from the 1950s in America.

Prince Snow White is trying to escape his evil stepfather, and he runs into seven dwarves (all women) who take him in at the price that he keeps house like the good little boy he is :)))

He befriends the local princess, Princess Carlota, who is a rambunctious girl that is always getting into different types of trouble. The two children have fun in the fairy tale of Snow White.

Cinderella Retelling: Rising Embers

Ngl, this is the least developed wip. This is very loosely based off of Cinderella, and honestly, it would probably be better if I made it more original instead of a retelling slkfjdklsljkfd. Essentially, the plot is that Elanor (Cinderella) is asexual. Okay, there's more plot than that, but that is the original idea. I have yet to write much for this one so things could change, but basically the idea is that Cinderella decides enough is enough. Hearing there is a ball, she gets involved in a gang of older ladies that help her prepare for the ball. She wants to buy her estate back from her evil stepmother, so the goal is to seduce a lord at the ball. Stealing his money, she would purchase her estate back and kick out her step mother.

Which is so much fun, when you're asexual and realize you know absolutely nothing about being seductive. Lucky for her, Prince Charming would fall for anyone with nice feet.

Things get more complicated, as Elanor accidentally 'seduces' Prince Charming, and in the same breath befriends his younger brother, Alexander.

Through the power of friendship and the sheer audacity, Elanor fights to get her estate back.

The satire here is asexuals feeling forced into relationships they don't want because allo-society said so.

Fairy Tale AU

This is where I put my canon OCs in a fairytale. I have not decided, but I may put these three wips in the same universe, with Prince Snow White's country as a neighboring one to Cinderella's.

This fairy tale is primarily about Verity, who lives in the same country as Ella and is actually friends with her. However, instead of her story centering around a prince, it's with a commoner--Lao.

Verity lives with her mother, who maltreats her and expects her to take care of Ray for her. (yes this is the wip that is a little more sad. BITE ME). Verity, who is getting older, wants to leave this arrangement and is seeking a way to move out with her little brother.

Unsure what to do and how to pursue work when she has a whole estate to keep, she seeks out Lao to court <3

(is Lao going to provide for her) (no ofc not. it's Lao. he'd rather sell his soul than let Verity think she's reliant on him)

Ray is a fourteen year old boy, who is growing increasingly concerned for his sister. He also has two friends, Min and Juni, that also concern him with their homelessness. Bestie is worried 24/7. The boy is on a mission to make sure his dumb friends and sister find a stable to place to live. Because he is Ray, he naturally takes all the worst routes with a smile on his face and a heart full of pride of how helpful he is.

Lastly! We have Min. Very similar story to Poisonous Medicine. He is fourteen and an alcoholic. He shares a corner with Juni, and they keep each other safe. Min has some secrets buried deep in his chest that he doesn't want anyone to know. Secrets that are slightly different than Poisonous Medicine.

Min and Juni are offered a place to stay from Lao. Lao frames it as the boys are doing him a favor. If they stay with them, Lee will stop pestering Lao about getting married and doing 'gross' things. They're 'chaperoning' (in lee's eyes) and they can help cover for Lao if needed. We have the boys being slowly welcomed into a family :)))

Ray's plot and Min's plot are side plots though, and the main plot is Verity's romance with Lao <333

Oh, and the satire for this one is the Christianity aspect. I poke fun at Christians, and I talk about the aspects I like and the way I wish things were (I.e. what if we were inclusive with our religions as a whole. what about that)

#writeblr #writer introduction #my wip: prince Snow white #my wip: rising embers #my wip: fairy tale au #my ocs #my wips #I can only write if I'm making a point apparently

[jungilhoon]

from 2015 to 2023: a retrospective!

i’m mostly writing this for myself, but if you happen to take a look and even get something out of it, that’s cool too.

i started this blog in march 2015; it’s now december 2023. back then, i was still a student, reaching the end of my teen years and preparing to progress towards the next stage of my life. i’m now twenty-eight (birth year buddies with sungjae, let’s go).

to be honest, my main goal in life during that time – aside from surviving university and then finding a job – was basically to spread recognition of btob as much as i could lmao. it was as if my well-being depended on their happiness and success. i wanted to watch them succeed so bad, and i feel like their rise equated to some of the most exciting years of my life. they gave me something i thought i was missing, and i needed them. at the same time, i think i was experiencing a lot of difficulties during the years 2015-2017. btob became my escape and comfort that helped me get through that period. looking back, i could have been relying on them a bit too much, but they certainly brightened my world. for that, i’ll always be grateful.

one of my fondest memories will forever be seeing them live for the first time at their 2017 concert. being in the presence of the seven people i had been supporting so hard was profoundly touching. hearing fellow melodies singing their hearts out to ‘it’s okay’ alongside myself brought tears to my eyes.

anyway, as time passed and i started to spend less time online due to changing commitments offline, i began to notice changes in myself. i stopped posting here in 2019 for no significant reason other than that i had gotten busy, and i was finding myself genuinely enjoying life by then. i was discovering happiness in more ways than i had before, but btob stayed a part of me. they were my reliable friends, my found family – the ones i could come back to at any time. my home.

in late 2020 and 2021, i distanced myself for a while. i don’t think i ever fully processed the news back then. i might have even told myself that not paying attention and blocking it out would be for the best. i basically took a break, only checking in here and there. (4u ate up on kingdom.) i’ve naturally drifted away from people i knew back then, but i’ve also stayed close to a few. eventually, i found myself accepting the way things had become, albeit slowly. i still miss and care about ilhoon. i understand if he will never be a ‘public figure’ again. i think i can simultaneously acknowledge and hold both of these perspectives. every now and then, such as when i’d finished watching the btob time movie last week, i do feel sad about it. it’s hard to just get over it. yeah, i’m an adult, but so what.

my mindset has changed as i’ve gotten older. in the past, i was hostile and quick to react in the face of negativity. i was chaotic; i always wanted to prove a point. i guess i’ve calmed down a lot since then. i’m pretty mellow these days. on the whole, i’m not fond of spending too much time engaging with strangers or acquaintances online. truthfully, it did make me anxious then too. i kind of prefer just tossing things into the void, like this post, and quietly enjoying what i like. that’s why being active online the way i used to be doesn’t seem to work for me anymore. still, maybe with rose-tinted glasses, i miss those days i spent just waiting on the next btob update and having fun here. i scrolled through my archive for a while last night, riding on a rollercoaster of emotions.

what i actually mean by my mindset having changed though, is that i seem to view things in life more positively these days. i’ve somehow stopped being so pessimistic all the time. i found it difficult to look on the bright side when i was younger. i was colder, filled with dread, and eternally expecting the worst. as a person, i think i’ve become warmer, more appreciative. precious things can disappear just like that. i try to be thankful, in case it’s true that nothing gold can stay.

i’m undecided on if i’ll randomly appear with the odd post when i feel like it. there’s no harm in it, so perhaps! at present, what i want to say is that i still wholeheartedly love and support btob. always will. i have their season’s greetings pre-ordered. now that they’re out of cube, i’m so excited for what they might have in store next. i don’t know what it’ll be, but that’s okay. whatever it is, and even if it’s not what i’m expecting, i trust them. i’ll be proud of them. really! 비투비 예전에도 지금도 앞으로도 사랑해요! 🩵

(p.s. i impulsively bought hour moment photocards at 2am last night, so maybe i actually still need to relax.)

#okay #i feel better now!

[wibble-wobbegong]

Hey wibble! I know you & @aemiron-main were talking about the eye thing recently, & how it may be tied to possession show that Henry’s being hurt by Virginia when supposedly he’d be using his powers. You guys mentioned that El doesn’t do the eye thing, and that that supports it being a possession/being-haunted-thing, i think? The thing is, El HAS—when she’s finding Will in the radio room at Hawkins Middle school in season one stands out, and a little when she’s channeling the Russian in her memories of Hawkins lab/papa, and even for a brief moment when she’s looking at the DnD board & setting it up/flipping it upside-down/pointing to figures as “will” versus “the monster.” Idk if that affects the theory at all, just thought I’d mention it! Hope you’re having a good day!

(Also, I was wondering about the grid theory??? Specifically… what is it? 😂 i keep seeing it & i think its related to owens/virginia somehow but I’m still confused lol. Which tag should I search for to find out more about it?)

HI!! okay so i put a bunch of clips together comparing el, henry, and will and here’s the thing; el does close her eyes to focus her powers but she doesn’t engage in that same rapid eye movement we see with younger henry and possessed will. we aren’t give any close ups of her eyes in this state, but even when you zoom in it doesn’t seem that she rolls her eyes like that. the only time we’re ever actually given any similar shots of el to these REM shots are when she’s wearing a blindfold. either she does do that under the blindfold and for some reason that information needs to be hidden or it’s meant to show the contrast between what’s happening to henry and will vs what’s happening to her

em is coming up with a bigger theory regarding small details like this and how they relate to powers (specifically virginia’s)!! it seems as though this REM thing may not actually be a signifier of henry’s abilities but rather something else, because iirc he doesn’t do this as an adult and whatever that something is somehow affected will during his possession. i have my own theories about how the shadow and virginia are connected but em is doing a deeper dig than i am lmao

(there are a couple different theories surrounding grid imagery simply because it’s EVERYWHERE. the most popular theory, in a very simplified summary, is that it’s representative of henry’s childhood trauma with virginia (csa) and as a result we see it where he appears! i don’t have a specific tag for it, but i’m sure one of the other theory blogs has one. it’s a really interesting thing to break down because it’s everywhere from steve’s bedroom to the walls of the lab to max’s shirt when she gets vecna-ed to the dnd boards to owens’ shirts when he’s at the lab/running experiments. i’d like to do my own dive into it at some point)

#asks #henry creel #el hopper #will byers #csa mention

[intertexts-moving]

haven't watched trigun in years, but how's the new one holding up so far?

god. made a like, 6 paragraph post detailing my thoughts on this on my old blog.. i miss her..

i just finished ep 3 out of the 4 that are out so far! i like it. i think it's solidly holding a tone that is, while not identical to the original, at least. resonates with it. the same tone in a different octave, perhaps. disclaimer that i've not watched the 98 anime LMAO. manga only fan i watched the first, like, two eps of the 98 show & went man. i should really read this first. & then never got back to the show </3

studio orange is doing fucking stellar work with the animation!! this is perhaps my favorite thing ab the reboot. i don't get the 2d purism thing. the animation is sparkling and full of motion and extremely expressive in a way that's real similar 2 the original manga. ep3 has some gorgeous shots that i think wouldn't work as well w/ traditional animation, & they're extremely evocative of some of the big atmospheric high emotion spreads in the og. i like em! the vash design is cute, it's growing on me. i've still got a beef w/ the visible prosthetic & the younger design bcos the whole reveal in the original was so emotionally weighted & so important fr like. character & stuff. but. it's cute! same w/ the villain designs we've seen so far. eg mine looks way less goofy, for the like, 15 total minutes he's alive here.

tonally it's also holding up well! i think the whole show suffers a lot from pacing- this is my main beef w/ it lol. i mean, it's an understandable problem fr a show. i understand Why. but i still think it would rlly benefit from a much slower more even pacing. in terms of tone, this means it skips most of the whole like, volume one's worth of worldbuilding and setup & goes straight to This is Vash! he's involved with seeds and he's got an evil brother named knives who he hates for Killing Humans! we're gonna get fucked up about this! which is a pity imo. it would be much better with a little breathing room i think.

that being said, i rlly do think they're doing a great job capturing the.. vibe, i guess. of the original. the whole, this guy will put himself through the shredder for tired desperate people who won't hesitate to shoot him in the head for the money after he saves their lives, eternally the scapegoat for other people's crimes & is fine with it because he's got a guilt complex the size of texas type vibe.

there r admittedly goofy as hell moments. the fuckin.. dad from the nebraska family being like, a loveable kook once we get past the murder. which is.. fun, actually. knives shows up ex machina playing the piano, which is, like. why are u here other than furthering the story??? etc etc. but overall it's solid they're kinda starting frm scratch with the same overall frame & i think its fun seein em weave a new story from my favorite manga :]

#📨 #hooly shit.. new blog i get a new ask tag.. very exciting ! #my fave will always b the classic design n stuff sigh :( but. this ones pretty solid. #trigun

[genericpuff]

Hi! This is actually super off topic from the "main" (? theme of your blog, but I was wondering. As a person who works full time in making art, do you do anything to protect your hands? Asking this as a younger artist who is worried about getting carpal tunnel and stuff djfndk

Great question!

So I find most of my work - both webcomics and my day job - is actually more of a threat to my back and hips than my wrists. I've tried to mitigate these threats by having a mounted tablet that can be set at eye level (or even become a standing desk!) and investing in chairs that are comfortable and keep my posture somewhat reasonably adjusted (but the ADHD bisexual in me still finds ways to sit weird LMAO)

But as for wrist problems! There are some changes you can make to the way you draw to ensure you're not putting too much stress on your wrists:

Take breaks. You aren't under any obligation or expectation to be drawing every minute of the day. You should be trying to let your arm and wrists rest for a few minutes each hour. When you do, shake 'em out, do some stretches and rotations, massage them a little, do what you can to encourage movement other than drawing because it's repetitive movements that will put you at risk for carpal tunnel.

Learn to draw from the shoulder and elbow. This is a technique that was drilled into us during life drawing classes back in college, but learning how to draw from your shoulder will not only reduce the risk of damaging your wrists, you'll also find yourself creating way more confident lineart and brush strokes as drawing from the shoulder will create more lines and less strokes (like the difference between cursive writing and chicken scratching, if that makes sense lol). Focus less on wrist flicks and more on pulling lines through elbow/shoulder motions.

This isn't an option for everyone, but if you can invest in a bigger tablet, do it! It's one of the few times where I can attest that bigger = better, because a larger tablet will give your arm more room to move and will make drawing from the shoulder that much easier. A couple years back I switched from a 13" Wacom tablet to a 22" Huion one, it was a bit of a pricey buy but nowhere near as pricey as Wacom products are and I haven't looked back since because the large screen gives me soooooo much room to pull lines. It's why I have a hard time drawing on iPads nowadays, the tiny compact screen and how easy it is to just draw in your lap makes it ripe for drawing from the wrist. You really just want to try and find a way to mitigate any repetitive wrist flicking motions in general and having a bigger tablet can really help with that.

I hope that helps! I find my wrist is barely ever a problem nowadays, I've yet to end up with signs of carpal tunnel (knock on wood) and when I do have wrist pain, a day of rest typically clears it right up. Now if only I could fix my back/hip problems, then I'd be all set LMAO (but that's something that can only be solved with serious exercise which I... definitely don't get enough of x.x)

[sashas-selfship-void]

Blog intro I guess

so turns out i still don't know how to make introduction posts but fuck it I'll try my best

also idk what image to put here other than this art i made today so that's something i guess

anyways, hello! my name's sasha (you can also call me larry, i don't mind which name you use). i go by he/him pronouns and i'm a minor (i'm fine with 18+ people following please just don't be weird lol).

this is gonna be my selfshipping sideblog where i just post self-indulgent stuff (mainly art) about my current main f/o, travis phelps.

my main interests are sally face, the owl house, rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles, moral orel, bendy and the dark revival, and bugsnax (and that's all i post about lmao).

my main blog is @larrycommitsarson (it's where I'll mainly be posting and interacting with stuff other than self ship stuff) so if you want to see the stupid bullshit i do over there then be my guest.

also here's a list of the f/os i'll post about here i guess:

-Travis Phelps (Sally Face, main romantic f/o)

-Ash Campbell (Sally Face, romantic f/o)

-Gramble Gigglefunny (Bugsnax, romantic f/o)

Sal Fisher (Sally Face, familial/older brother f/o)

Larry Johnson (Sally Face, familial/older brother f/o)

Lisa Johnson (Sally Face, familial/mother f/o)

Donnie (Rottmnt, familial/sibling f/o)

Mikey (Rottmnt, familial/younger brother f/o)

Bendy (BatDR, familial/younger brother f/o)

Vee Noceda (ToH, familial/younger sister f/o)

Luz Noceda (ToH, familial/younger sister f/o)

King Clawthorne (ToH, familial/younger brother f/o)

I'm fine with sharing any of my romantic f/os (as far as i can tell)

my main things for my dni are proshippers, bigots (homphobes, terfs, racists, all that jazz), and nsfw blogs (because, y'know, i'm a minor)

idk what else to add but the tags for all of the stuff i'll be posting will be around in posts eventually, so apologizes if i'm doing this wrong

#sasha's rambles #sasha's art #self ship #self shipping #selfship #self shipping community #self ship intro #blog intro #f/o community #sasha starbite #🍂travis phelps🍂 #🍂sashvis🐺 #i’m not gonna know how to do anything here lol #once again I’m sorry for not knowing how to talk to people

[saitama-division]

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mom’s out there and especially towards our mommy Sayaka! Mom’s are awesome and it doesn’t matter if you’re an actual mother or a mom-like figure (or the mom friend lmao), if you have biological children or adopted some, hell, if you even have fur babies, that’s fine! All mom’s are valid and awesome and thank you for literally everything!

Now, onto the self indulgent shit

So I made fan children of my OCs (with canon characters) because I literally had nothing to do and decided why not celebrate Mother’s Day….by making children (on picrew, get your head out of the gutter ya nasties). Big reminder that this doesn’t have anything to do with the main storyline nor is this canon on this blog, they are fan children and that’s all they are for now.

Now, let’s get to it!

1. Eiji Jinguji

Toddler | Child | Teenager

Sayaka and Jakurai’s son and Yoshiko’s younger brother, literally the splitting image of Jakurai, the only thing he got from Sayaka, physical wise, is her eyes. Something that pleases Jakurai because Sayaka has beautiful eyes and something that makes Sayaka pout because Jakurai has such pretty eyes!

Quite a reserved boy but definitely knows how to defend and stand up for himself, he just likes his peace and quiet and actually prefers to avoid conflict if he can help it.

Heavily doted on, especially by his mother and sister. He usually doesn’t react to affection but when it comes to his family, his cheeks always flush a bright pink.

Very intelligent, the top of his class actually. He’s very interested in his father’s work and wants to be a surgeon when he grows up.

The ‘Silent Protector’ type, keeps an eye on his sister from a distance, knowing she can handle herself but he feels at peace knowing that she’s nearby should something happen. Boy’s got a killer glare, gets it from his dad.

The oldest of the group, is on good or at least neutral terms with everyone but has a sorta love-hate friendship with Anne Amemura.

He is secretly, very much, a mama’s boy.

2. Anne Amemura

Toddler | Child | Teenager

Lola and Ramuda’s daughter…and a very, very, very unexpected surprise but they’ve come to love her immensely, she’s their little princess.

The perfect mix of two of them in both looks and personality, which makes her the perfect Angel to some and an utter hellspawn to others.

There were a few…complications during the pregnancy and her birth, she was quite weak and frail during her early stages and extra lollipops were made for her to sustain and kept alive. However, as she grew, she steadily gained her strength and stopped needing lollipops, however she still keeps a few on her just in case.

Totally loves and is obsessed with fashion, kinda inevitable when your parents are pillars in the fashion industry. She actually works as a model, part time of course but she’s quite famous, magazines that feature her and her mother always sell out within the hour.

Spoiled with a capital S, would honestly get away with murder if allowed.

The most popular girl in Shibuya, if that wasn’t obvious. Revels in the spotlight and becomes pouty if the attention isn’t on her.

Best friends with Kazuha Yamada and loves to annoy the hell out of Eiji Jinguji.

3. Kazuha Yamada

Toddler | Child | Teenager

Kureha and Ichiro’s daughter, 1st of the new Buster Kids and everyone’s favorite big sister. Kureha chose the name ‘Kazuha’ due to personal reasons and upon holding his daughter for the first time, Ichiro was a blubbering mess.

Takes more after Ichiro than Kureha but she does have her moments of quietness, it’s usually when she’s in a somber mood.

Despite her parents wanting her to actually have a normal life, she still wants to help them out, whether it be doing errands, cooking meals, or the very occasional helping her dad with the odd jobs shop. She loves her parents very much and wants to do whatever she can to show that even though they know.

Absolutely loves and adores her younger brothers, dotes on them, hates it when they fight and always breaks their arguments, can and will throw hands with anyone who disrespects them. Like father, like daughter, she is a bro-con.

Not really an artist but she does little doodles in her notebook when she’s bored, thinks art is really cool though and likes watching her mom paint.

Anime fanatic, her and her dad always make plans to watch episodes of their favorite anime and then rant wildly about it afterwards.

A complete and total daddy’s girl, someone you dont want to fuck with because her dad is someone you definitely do not want to fuck with.

4. Mako Yamada

Toddler | Child | Teenager

Kureha and Ichiro’s first son, a couple years younger than Kazuha but not by much, the older-middle brother mix.

Looks like he could be a jock but is actually an artist, he likes drawing manga panels and wants to be a manga artist.

Speaking of manga, he has a giant collection in his room that serves as his main inspiration, he has a wide variety of genres but his favorite is romance, he’ll frantically deny it though.

He reads manga with his dad, watches anime with his sister, has paint sessions with his mom, and plays games with his brother on the rare occasion they’re not fighting. He definitely values his family.

Despite the fights they get into, he actually really cares about his little brother and wants to be closer with him, he’s just not sure how.

Is popular at school but super oblivious about it, even has his own fan club that he has no idea about.

Has a giant crush on Anne Amemura (one sided).

5. Asahi Yamada

Toddler | Child | Teenager

Kureha and Ichiro’s youngest son, a few years younger than Mako and the baby of the family that everyone dotes on making him absolutely embarrassed.

Takes after Kureha the most out of the three of them, both physically and in personality.

Socially awkward and has a hard time talking to anyone outside of his family but his personality does a switch when he’s with his family, becoming more bold and outspoken.

Didn’t inherit the heterochromia and is kinda bummed about it, wears different colored contacts when going out because he wants to be like his dad.

Got into computers and electronics due to his cousins, aunt (Sumire), and uncle (Saburo). He likes playing games and is really good at them, also quite smart as well.

Mama’s boy pt.2, loves his mother very much and spends the most time with her.

He fights with his brother because he’s always been envious of him, doesn’t actually dislike him, quite the opposite but he doesn’t know how to express that.

6. Bonus: Yoshiko Miyuki

Toddler | Child (current) | Teenager

Looks more and more like Sayaka the more she grows

Wants and studies to be a veterinarian

Still has a passion for art (thanks, big sis)

Has pretty much adopted the kids as her little siblings

#hypmic oc #hypnosis mic oc #hypmic #hypnosis mic #hypnosis microphone #sayaka miyuki #lola takahashi #kureha koizumi #jakurai jinguji #ramuda amemura #ichiro yamada #fan children #eiji jinguji #anne amemura #kazuha yamada #mako yamada #asahi yamada #yoshiko miyuki #picrew

[uta-no-sin-sama]

5 Fun Facts and 5 Headcanons - Part 8/23: Few Words Needed Edition

Hi all! I really need to start posting here more often now that school is out for the next few months. I've been thinking about turning this blog into a general otome game blog since I've been getting interested in a few different games like Utapri (my biggest current hyperfixation is Obey Me lmao) while slowly losing interest in Utapri oops, would anyone be open to me turning this blog into a more otome-based blog rather than purely focusing on Utapri? I'd still write stuff for Utapri, it just wouldn't be my main focus of the blog.

Anyway, the next part of this series might be posted a little earlier than expected because I happen to share a birthday with the next character.

A very happy birthday to this quiet but gentle soul!

The lack of decent Kira gifs (or anyone who isn't in STARISH or Quartet Night, no shade to either group) on here is absolutely criminal btw.

As always, I hope you enjoy!

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Up first, 5 Fun Facts!

1. Kira's birthday is May 5, which makes his star sign a Taurus.

2. He often finds it difficult to express his feelings by speaking alone and uses music as a way to better convey what he is thinking.

3. His hobby is pottery.

4. Partly due to how difficult it is for him to express his emotions and partly because he is used to his group leader's bullshit antics, Kira is not easily flustered by Eiichi's praise.

5. Though not necessarily canon, it is widely suspected that he has a soft spot for rabbits because of his accessories that feature the adorable animal.

Next, 5 Headcanons I Have!

1. Kira doesn't usually try to get revenge on others, but when he does he is brutal. He once went an entire week without saying a word to anybody in HEAVENS just to get revenge on them for leaving him out on planning a photo shoot.

2. When HEAVENS was still a three-person group, Kira was the one who would latch onto Nagi like how Shion does now.

3. He has made too many various pieces of pottery to count for each of his fellow HEAVENS members that he gives to them for every birthday, Christmas, album and song release, and anniversary of the group being together.

4. He's not very caught up on internet memes, but he knows enough to mess with the younger members of HEAVENS (Nagi in particular) by purposely misusing dead memes.

5. One time for April Fool's day, Kira played random songs instead of the one that the boys were supposed to be rehearsing. These songs had a chaotic range, from "Der Flohwalzer" and "Moonlight Sonata" to the Mii Channel theme and of course Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".

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Up next, the strong S-Class teacher himself!

#utapri #uta no prince sama #5 fun facts 5 headcanons #kira sumeragi #sumeragi kira

[shinagawa-division]

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mom’s out there! Mom’s are awesome and it doesn’t matter if you’re an actual mother or a mom-like figure (or the mom friend lmao), if you have biological children or adopted some, hell, if you ever have fur babies, that’s fine! All mom’s are valid and awesome and thank you for everything!

Now, onto the self indulgent shit

So I made fan children of my OC (with a canon character) because I literally had nothing to do and decided that why not celebrate Mother’s Day by…making children (on picrew, get your head out of this gutter ya nasties). Big reminder that this doesn’t have anything to do with the main storyline nor is this canon on this blog, they are fan children and that’s all they are for now.

Now, let’s get to it!

1. Kou Yamada

Baby | Child | Teenager

Sumire and Jiro’s first son and the older twin, whereas his twin is the one that makes things happen, he is the brains of most of their “operations”.

The more responsible twin but definitely has his moments of mischief.

Likes spending time over at his cousins’ house, he’s especially close with Asahi and manages to bring him out of his shell.

Is more of a computer whiz than anything else, when he’s not typing away, he’s reading somewhere.

He loves his parents a lot equally but tends to be around his mom more

Auntie Aiko is his favorite, he used to love it when she babysat him and his brother.

Still keeps the ladybug bot his mom made him when he was younger.

2. Jun Yamada

Toddler | Child | Teenager

Sumire and Jiro’s 2nd son and the younger twin, he’s the one who’s got the things necessary to execute their plans, the more charismatic twin according to himself.

Was a little terror as a kid and while he’s calmed down as a teenager, his mischievous spirit won’t die.

Also likes spending time at his cousins’ house, always hangs out with Kazuha.

He likes to build (and destroy) things but is more active than his twin, he’s mostly outdoors when not occupied with other things.

Also like his twin, he loves his parents lots but the more he grew older, the more he and his dad found out they have more in coming

Auntie Aranai is his favorite, he would always sit and listen to her stories for hours. (Learned a lot about his parents that he wonders if he should even know.)

Has his own spiderbot his mom built custom made for him.

#hypmic oc #hypnosis mic #hypnosis mic oc #hypmic #hypnosis microphone #sumire shinomiya #jiro yamada #fan children #kou yamada #jun yamada #picrew

[synf3ll]

i know i complain about this a lot lmao but having no friends or family or any support system at all IRL is the actual worst thing ever (serious)

and by "no" support system, i mean none. people say all the time that they have "no" friends, and not to undermine their struggles but having friends you rarely talk to is a thousand times different than having no one whatsoever.

i've talked about this on other blogs but probably not this one? anyway

i've never been much of a "friends" person. attachment is difficult for me -- even disregarding the attachment disorder, i'm still autistic. i struggle to communicate properly, and it severely limits my social abilities. and i've straight-up never seen the point in having a lot of friends because i'd never get to know some of them well. quality over quantity or whatever

i've had varying success with internet friends. (it was easier when i was younger and forums and spontaneous interaction were more common...) it's difficult, just in a different way. no one ever wants to message first (i'm very guilty of that 💀). knowing what is "appropriate" to talk about is always hard for me, so i tend to just not talk so i won't make anyone awkward or uncomfortable.

don't get me started on family -- they're the sort of people who think people like me don't have the right to exist. i won't get into it but they're the direct cause of my attachment disorder and a large part in my CPTSD and various other mental issues.

anyways i've generally i've had around 2 close friends at any given moment. that's the way it was, up until last year, which was when i lost the remainder of my support system.

the main reason i can't make friends is because i don't relate to people. they're always too noisy, too unfocused, too involved in social drama, too immature in general. and that's how friends always are. that's the only people i could ever find.

and i guess i just got sick of it all. i always had to be tbe therapist friend -- everyone would come to me with their issues and drama because i was good at analyzing it or providing comfort or whatever. i always made an effort to respond to messages in group chats, i would check in with my friends when they hadn't texted me in a while.

and none of them ever did that for me. no one ever has.

i'm ngl i'm kind of unpredictable when it comes to emotional situations -- i can get really clingy, angry, or stop interacting altogether. it's all out of fear. something something no one pays attention to me i'm sad and alone so i push them away out of fear of not being liked or i grab them as hard as i can so they won't run away

ㅤ

sideplot: i had been dumped by my girlfriend a week or so before all this happened. she had been a friend for several years and i'd been crushing on her the whole time, we got together and i really liked her etc but she broke up with me after a few months, probably because i'm emotionally constipated. we haven't spoken since then. that had been my closest relationship and it was over too quickly and at a very bad time.

i got tired of everyone and their bullshit. i had been giving them hints, indirectly and directly, that they either need to grow the fuck up or i'd quit tolerating them.

and i just left, and no one came looking, and i had and still have no one.

ㅤ

i don't remember why i started writing this. i think i just wanted to complain. i don't expect anyone to have read all this (or to even care). i'll be honest w y'all and say i'm only sticking around for another year or so, hopefully less. i don't want lectures or suggestions, there's nothing i (or anyone else) can do to help. i just wish i could make the going easier.

#og #cw vent

[backhurtyy]

IM okay so. I’ve seen phantom menace and pieces of 5 and 6 and then I watched Force awakens with a friend in theaters all like 7 years ago and haven’t seen any since. Technically me and my dad only just watched force awakens again but I’m about to watch the movies by myself starting at 4, I KNOW I’ve had it engrained in me to start at 4 I very much will. I also need to watch all the xmen movies cause I haven’t seen any. I honestly after having heard what you say about obi wan and everything I think I will like him a lot, I usually attach to character when I see why other people like them and he’s a type of character I’d like. Also I just watched and obsessed over moon knight but we watched this one and I went “I forgot how hot Oscar Isaac is” like huh? You saw him yesterday. The whole main three are 10/10 I love them. I don’t wanna talk about kylo ren. Anyway if you want I will live blog (live anon?) my reactions to them as I go and when I see Mr. Obi I will tell him hello. He is like a friend to me - 🤍

4 as in episode four, a new hope or as in movie 4 phantom menance? I started phantom and it said episode one and I went wait…. Hold on. - 🤍

Also! When I watched this I thought Obi Wan’s mentor (Liam Neeson idk) WAS Obi Wan and it made it quite confusing for the future. Also also! I know like most things about 8 and 9 and that’s why I never watched them despite really liking force awakens. And this is obvious but Finn and Poe are so fucking gay I love those bitches I wanna watch 8 and 9 just for them. They are hot and gay, good for them. Good for them. - 🤍

YESSSSSSSS i love live reactions please do 💖💖💖 and omg the way force awakens was so good and gave me hope for the sequel which was then shattered…. rip. also i was so obsessed w the x-men movies when i was younger (something something i viewed them as a gay metaphor), but some of them are definitely better than others lmao. the best x-men movie is definitely x-men first class, imo. my roommate and i still need to watch moon knight but. i am looking DIRECTLY at oscar isaac, he is such a beautiful person and from all the gifs i’ve seen he did a really good job with it!!!

and i did mean 4 as in new hope!!!! starting with the original trilogy makes the prequels hit so much harder… something something the inevitability of it all 🥲🥲🥲

PLEASE NOT LIAM NEESON OBI WAN IM IN TEARS LAUGHING AT THAT I CAN IMAGINE THE CONFUSION… anyways qui gon has nothing on obi wan and that’s that (i’m not qui gon’s biggest fan whoops).

FINNPOE FINNPOE FINNPOE FINNPOE— i love them i owe mr isaac and mr boyega everything for playing them so incredibly homosexually despite disney refusing to make it canon. if they say they played finn and poe as being in love, then that is good enough for me to count it as canon.

#the way the number system for star wars makes no sense….. anyways. #tldr start with episode four a new hope hehe #answered #🤍 anon

[ralphmaccchiato]

could u do some hcs on steve? maybe surrounding his relationships w the other boys or whatever comes to u💗

notes: sorry this took so long! i spent the morning w my gf & then worked all afternoon lmao but ANYWAY ! i looked through my blog & don’t think i’ve ever posted hcs for steve which is a crime since i love him so much. so without any further ado, i present-

✧˚₊‧ ๑ ♡ ๑‧₊˚✧ ✧˚₊‧ ๑ ♡ ๑‧₊˚✧ ✧˚₊‧ ๑ ♡ ๑‧₊˚✧

- he’s bisexual, let’s get that out of the way.

- he’s a math God but he hates math

- he plays guitar

- he cries during romantic movies, even the ones that aren’t sad

- at one point steve saved enough money to buy evie a necklace with his first initial. it was really cheap & tarnished really fast but she wore it all the time because <3 her bf did all that for Her?

- he’s a romantic, basically.

- he keeps a picture of whoever he’s dating in his wallet at all times

- ponyboy reminds him of himself when he was younger in some ways and it makes him cringe

- soda was steve’s first crush

- steve is a master tree climber!!!!

- he tried to build a treehouse with soda when he was like 12 and it ended up with soda falling out of the tree & breaking his arm

- he used to spend every saturday afternoon catching frogs

- has a pet cat named ford

- when he sleeps at home, he still cuddles a really beat up teddy bear that he’s had since birth. nobody knows this. Nobody.

- as much as he loves chocolate, there is nothing he hates more than chocolate milk. or hot cocoa.

- he doesn’t like mint, either.

- can and will fall asleep absolutely anywhere

- he taught himself how to work on engines by taking engines apart for fun as a kid. anything with a motor, really.

- he took apart the house phone at the curtis place once, just to see how it worked

- steve’s the king of being passive aggressive !

- also great at holding grudges

- his favorite color is green

- he protests the vietnam war and so does keith, so they get super close in the 70s

- super organized, there’s a place for everything & everything in it’s place is his MOTTO

- his main love languages are gifts, acts of service, and quality time

✧˚₊‧ ๑ ♡ ๑‧₊˚✧ ✧˚₊‧ ๑ ♡ ๑‧₊˚✧ ✧˚₊‧ ๑ ♡ ๑‧₊˚✧

more notes: i cant think of anything else that fits in here atm, probably because i’m super tired but i’ll reblog this with more later if i come up with anything <3

#anon #steve randle headcanons #steve randle #the outsiders headcanons #the outsiders 1983 #the outsiders imagines #stevepop #stevie #johnny cade #dallas winston #sodapop curtis #my writing #stevie <3