#surreal but nice

[pastelwell]

Chapter 3 of Surreal, but nice is here…

As usual, small preview:

Greg looks at Tom then, looks at his fragile and resigned face that’s somehow still smiling, allbeit without any happiness attached to it. Like he’s wearing a mask.

He finds himself thinking about the bookstore, for some reason. About things always working themselves out in the right ways, even though you don’t always see how when you’re in the thick of it. Maybe this is going to be one of those ways. Maybe everything that has happened in his life has led him to Tom, and everything that has happened in Tom’s life has led him to Greg. Maybe this is the turning point for both of them.

Or maybe they’re just two losers in a park, too high and too sentimental.

Greg clears his throat, “I mean… Nice try, but I don’t think that quite trumps ‘absentee gay dad’,” Greg says, in an attempt to lighten the mood, and Tom laughs then, really laughs, deep and rich, and Greg hopes he doesn’t feel embarrassed for being so honest with him.

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#tomgreg #Surreal but nice #fanfic #Notting hill AU #again sorry if the formatting of this is fucked?? #tumblr app wildly broken

[alinalal-art]

Commission for Yukari's VA Heather Gonzalez!

Getting paid to draw my girl ship by one of the voice actors was definitely a moment. :D

#I met heather a few weeks ago and she was super nice :D #It was surreal to see her signing my prints! #yukamitsu #yukari takeba #mitsuru kirijo #persona 3 #p3 #persona 3 reload #illustration #art #fanart #digital art #artist #my art #anime

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔄𝔩𝔢𝔨𝔰𝔞𝔫𝔡𝔯𝔞 𝔚𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔷𝔢𝔴𝔰𝔨𝔞

#Aleksandra Waliszewska #art #Illustration #artwork #illustrations #surrealism #surrealism art #painting #macabre art #no face #skull #pantera #spider #nice works

[aquanutart]

they are living happily in meteor falls

#pokemon #whiscash #hoenn #pokemon ruby and sapphire #pokemon rs #aquanutart #this time i thought 'i am going to make a WHISCASH because i LOVE WHISCASH because they look very happy yet i have never drawn one' #then i thought 'i am going to make TWO WHISCASH because there is room for another one THERE' #and i put the other one THERE and they looked like this #i love whiscash i love all the things with silly happy faces #as you can see they have a very nice place here. they just use the waterfalls to go up and downstairs #i'm fascinated by meteor falls.. the pale yellow stone the quiet and mysterious vibe #being distrupted at the moment by the giant catfish falling through the ceiling #the place feels kinda surreal though and honestly i think so is a giant falling catfish

[mumpsetc]

The Art of Holding On

#Abstract Art #artists on tumblr #Surrealism #Adobe Illustrator #graphic art #Dreamy Art #Caption From The Go! Team Song of the Same Name #I've Been Uuuuh Ive Been Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh #Ok I Have Found Out the Song is Not Called That. Its Called 'The Art of Getting By' #Shows How Much I Know (I Know a Lot I Apparently Scrobbled It 130 Times) #Click if You Want But Tumblr Totally Shitted Up My Nice Vector Graphics...

[bluecapsicum]

#drawing #illustration #artists on tumblr #landscape #traditional art #countryside #surrealism #surrealist art #just a nice day out #frankly #wax pastel

[blinkpen]

sky becomes water

#mog art #artists on tumblr #surreal #abstract #eldritch #monolithium #cosmic horror except this one is friendly #cosmic benevolence??? but its pitted against Horrors so #(still futzin' with it but i think the logo is coming along nicely)

[emry-stars-art]

update again ✨

Thanks again for all your well wishes about the move, I am currently in the process of unpacking and organizing! Still spending a lot of money on furniture and stuff bc I have none but that’s okay because I’ve been saving money specifically for this 😅 anyway now that I’m trying to get settled I feel like I can get a head start in some other things, so here’s some announcements:

1) I’d like to order pins and patches for us! But since I am eating through my savings I can only pay for one on my own :,) I made it a ko-fi goal (link here) to hopefully fundraise enough to be able to order pins so I can open shop with them. Here’s a mock up/colored version of what I’ll send to the company, and see how close we can get:

2) because two (2) people have asked I do in fact have an amazon wishlist for things I’d like for the apartment! As soon as I get a bed frame and a desk in here I can start showing off my room lol but it is still a Mess. So this is absolutely completely unnecessary but on the off chance you both have extra cash and would like to send a housewarming gift, here’s the link to that.

Neither of these are expected honestly, I will always understand if donating/funding is just not in the cards. Or if you just don’t feel like it lol that’s cool too, either way I hope you guys have a great rest of October and I hope to be back in full force very soon 🥰 (and if you can only pick one let’s get some pins in here, that’s the thing we can all enjoy)

#Emry’s back asking for more money 🙄 smh #uh yeah I appreciate all of you #even just nice tags #actually especially just nice tsgs #they give me the serotonin boost I need for the day #I’m just!! #finally in my own place!!!! #surreal #not art sorry guys #life update #kofi

[digitvlvom1t]

the eternal worm devouring connecticut

#a quick one before the eternal worm devours connecticut #somewhat bloodborne inspired #drawing #art #vent art #vent post #my drawing #illustration #have a nice life #deathcon #deathconsciousness #surrealism #sketch #have a nice life band #connecticut #new haven

[milfbro]

just when you think it can't get any worse, you have the hots for a french guy (swann arlaud in anatomy of a fall)

#all the top posts abt the movie in here are people thirsting over him asdfghjkl #i can't even be mad #it was surreal. like. he was just nice to look at. when he was on screen you just wanted to linger on him #swann arlaud

[aviul]

magnetic resonance impressions

#my art #abstract #abstract art #surreal art #i recently went into a big magnet tube for the first time #it was pretty cool the nice doctor let me look at my flesh images afterwards #allegedly nothing dangerous going on... my bodys just being a weird little freak #AGAIN........ this aint the first time #my bodymeat loves to cause problems on purpose

[danhausensboots]

Y’all I actually met danhausen today holy crap

He was very nice!

#danhausen #very chill #all elite wrestling #he was so nice! #aew #I told him I really look up to him and he’s a big inspiration #it was really surreal though #like I’ve seen him at shows but it was crazy being face to face #very kind person ! #not too evil #it was my first real signing #I’ve had signatures from other wrestlers but not in an environment like this #and it was at one of my favorite stores in Savannah so that was a plus

[starryluminary]

ZAWG YOUR IN THE FANLORE.ORG FOR NOCO!!!

I'm in the WHAT? For WHAT??

I'm a WHAT???

#I had no idea this website existed before right now but lord I'm happy it exists #IM A BIG NAME FAN??? HUH???? #like yeah i draw them kissing a lot but to be called a big name fan feels so SURREAL. IM HONORED #THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME THIS IS VERY NICE TO KNOW!!! #total drama #noco #total drama noco #td noco #Starry has a question

[dmc5se]

it is a singular few minutes after midnight but that means its the 7th and that means that me and ally have been dating for a year .!!!!!!

#my art #i wrote a long thing on twitter but ill try to summarize .. #umm. first and foremost i love him with the power of every sun possibly imaginable and the genuine joy i feel about him is unmatched to any #known feeling currently documented. #oum.. ill also be honest and say this is probably the first healthy relationship ive been in like. ever. and its still surreal to me even #after a year #very genuinely i feel so safe + loved with him. he listens to me talk about the most nonsensical things and he never makes me feel like im #talking to a brick wall. we talk abt whatever and its so nice. #we've talked abt stuff we like and gotten each other into stuff that we weren't already into !!! #like im crying rn bc i have so much love in my heart for him !!! #he means so so much to me . i still cannot believe its been a year .!!!! #im so happy ive gotten to spend the past year with him and i hope i get to spend even more years with him 🥺

[nyehilismwriting]

helloooo! i've been following your writing/coding journey since the early days of sentinel and it's been so nice watching your story-telling blossom into a masterpiece. i love project hadea a lot and the characters are all so compelling i always have trouble choosing who to romance (rohan refuses to kiss me lmao). forgive me if you've been asked this question a million times already, but i was wondering what are some of your literary inspirations? what sort of writing shaped your style? it's one that i wish i could achieve one day tbh!!

WAH this is so kind of you 🥺

i'm sure i've spoke before about some of my inspirations but i am always happy to do it again:)

my writing style tends to go through phases- i feel like i write hadea slightly differently to some of my other projects, particularly the shorter ones. often, when I'm going for something poetic, i can't maintain that for as long, or i feel like it gets effortful; some authors seem able to maintain a really lovely style for long-form works. i'd say max gladstone (and there's no way you've followed me this long without seeing me talk about him before lmfao), julia armfield (who wrote our wives under the sea), louise erdrich (the painted drum, the antelope wife) are all authors whose prose particularly sticks out to me as something i'd like to emulate.

i'll also have to shout out adrian tchaikovsky and peter watts as scifi authors who manage to maintain a very effortless, easy to read style while writing hard scifi; it's not easy to do, but they pull it off, often with clarity and humour i really admire. and their work is not without poetry! i also really like adrian tchaikovsky's tendency to skew sharply into and out of horror: he's got such a knack for atmosphere and tone, something that really stands out to me whenever i read his work.

i'm trying to read more nonfiction/autobiography type stuff, as well: i recently finished billy-ray belcourt's 'a history of my brief body', and in the summer i read ocean vuong's 'on earth we're briefly gorgeous' (which is fiction, but in a similar vein); I'm hoping to read more joan didion this year, as well. i think reading stuff like this is a good way to develop both empathy and also an interesting study in tackling highly personal emotional stuff, and in a lot of cases i do feel i can learn a lot from the prose of these works.

i also read quite a bit of poetry, in itself, which i think helps; i like my writing to have a rhythm to it, and i tend to find that reading poetry helps a lot with that.

finally, as i think i've mentioned before, i love the magnus archives and the writing in that: i think that writing stuff that's meant to be read out loud/performed is a really interesting exercise, even if that's not the final goal, and it really helps to develop a sense of rhythm for your prose.

#i try to read as widely as i can #obviously i have favourite genres. i'm a scifi bitch at heart #but i do tend to chameleon my writing style after the last thing i read #so it can be quite variable #and i'm not as vigilant as i could be about reading back my own writing #i also wanna get into more surreal fiction. i need to read house of leaves sooooo badly #if u want specific recs i can do that but i've listed a bunch of authors i've read in the last year i find inspiring:) #hope this answers your question a little bit! #therosejamjournal #thank you for asking<33 and for saying nice things to me MWAH

[hotmessmaxpress]

Italians…. my coworker and I may be on some website or show or something because there was an Italian news reporter in front of Tr*mp tower… she and I had a little lesbian kiss in front of it and gave it the finger… the Italian news man saw and was very excited and asked to film us

#it was a surreal moment honestly #it was just a funny little thing we did and out of NOWHERE comes an Italian camera crew #the man was very nice #neither of us asked what the fuck he was filming us for #we just kissed and went on our merry way