#this story makes my heart happy

[stealingpotatoes]

hands you all this cal to announce i’ve FINALLY finished fallen order (by which i mean i finally picked it up again after those couple hours i played a few months ago and then finished the whole game in 2 days lol)

#cal kestis #bd 1 #jedi fallen order #jfo #star wars #my doods #anyway HOLY CRAP YOU MEAN STAR WARS WAS ALLOWED TO BE GOOD BEFORE ANDOR (2022-)??????????????? AND I DIDNT KNOW?? #i love cal i loved the story i love how cinematic and amazing it looked good lord #i don't think i've ever played a game which gets such an amazing sense of scale across #like all the great temples or fallen starships were just Wow #like bracca ALONE gobsmacked me. seeing all these things i grew up watching in tcw as wreckage was like Ough Wow and THEY FELT SO HUGE #im just. wow!! #and THAT FINAL MISSION HUH. MOST FEAR INSPIRING VIDEOGAME ENCOUNTER EVER #my only criticisms are the awkward navigation/ level design in some areas and maybe the ending felt a bit lackluster somehow #i say somehow bc i dont get how lol #the reason im making this post past midnight is bc i got off work at 10pm and then immediately had to finish it LOL #anyway big heart emojis im very happy i sat down and actually played it finally #i want jedi survivor now LOL unfortunately it costs money and i have a rule i never buy games in release year lol #tbh i never rlly buy games til they're £20 or less

[simplyavatrice]

I’m overwhelmed...with gratitude

#ava silva #avatrice #warrior nun #avatriceedit #warriornunedit #avasilvaedit #alba baptista #this girl owns my whole heart #when people ask me like...how i make so much content #it's because of her #like i just want to make stuff about her #tell stories with her #do edits #enjoy alba's incredible performance as her #i'm in so deep and perfectly content #this scene is hard for me to watch #seeing how happy she is to be alive and be loved #knowing that deep down she undrestands that it's probably not going to last much longer #her writing the letter to beatrice #wanting to tell her that she's made being alive so magical #so special #that she loves her #that being loved by her was an even greater gift than the halo that brought her back to life #she came so far #and when she comes back she's going to do so much #with bea and her ocs family at her side #so thankful for ava #myedits

[kinokoshoujoart]

oops all rock (springtime edition)

i’ll be able to draw digitally again soon! ;w; in the meantime i’ve been scribbling a lot on paper…

could not wait for Soon, so i resorted to coloring it using the markup tool in default iphone photos app (don’t do that ever again)

#my art #sos awl #debating whether to just dump my sketches from my soujourn to hell or save them to be transferred and finished as digital stuff #or like both idk. i don’t know how ppl feel about WIPs #i’m happy to post art again ;w; thank you everyone who welcomed me back i’m slowly getting through everything i missed while i was y’know #and thank you for the sweet messages while i was gone i am bbghkjh i need to calm myself and respond !!!! love #rock tumbling (sos) #story of seasons a wonderful life #bokumono #story of seasons #harvest moon #hm awl #harvest moon a wonderful life #bunny sighting 😳 i still have THOSE wips too #there’s certain things i wanna prioritize once i can use my tablet again and those are one of them #but i will also probably post new stuff alongside finishing old unfinished stuff….. i hope that is OK…… #idk i’ll have to talk more later! right now i am nervous!!! i love you all!!!! #fanart #awl rock #bokujou monogatari #hm anwl #unfortunately this scum neet still has my entire heart so. most of the notebook is just him pulling goofy faces… sorry…….. #also a lot of lumina and nami…. and molly…. they r really cool… #ceci is also cool and i’ve drawn a collage of her that i just. never posted #mostly drawing HMDS related stuff about the descendant characters #OK I’LL STOP TAGBLOGGING #i am once again back in DS for girl hell. i want to make a series of posts about differences in the English vs the Japanese version #and also fun secret things related to DS #this is all in the future i gotta finish all my unfinished stuff…. uuuu…. #i love you all mmmmmwah (i cast sleepy time blanket and sleep forever)

[ohmuqueen]

Comments from sherlockwols in the SHINee Reddit on the MV trailer that got me even more excited

Edit: more additions to the above comments

#taemin #lee taemin #shinee #taemin guilty #I’m so blown away #I’m just so so excited and freaking out #like I think my heart rate sped up watching it #and I’m SURE he meant to allude to the military- and it just is so impactful #that he would use his art to give voice to that experience #also I LOVE that this is so narrative based - it makes me so happy that he’s telling a story #not that I didn’t except it but to see it happening I am just ECSTATIC #the narratives of NGDA era were so masterful and the message of advice so impactful I just love to see more storytelling from him 💜 #*​not that I didn’t expect it #ltmguilty meta

[silverskye13]

in the past week i have sent 3 ppl the link to RnS. i am the local RnS propagandist of my server >:D

I'm glad :'D you're sharing the story with your friends :'D I hope they like it!!

#queue #some-mossy-pebbles #oh that makes my heart happy #i'm glad ya'll are enjoying sharing the story with friends #i'm glad its a story worth sharing

[spearxwind]

Oof I'm kinda scared to ask... Why do you not want to be an artist professionally?

Its just like, incredibly miserable in my experience.

Everyone wants their dream job of being paid to draw whatever the hell they want but 99% of the time you are hired and tasked to draw things that you don't have a lot of interest in, professionally speaking, and constantly getting your artistic efforts undermined by the rest of the team (this is esp. true in the videogame industry) artists always try to push for better designs and get their takes watered down for the sake of general public pleasing. Also you don't have a security blanket unless you're under long term contract. Most freelancers live gig to gig with the fear of not being able to support themselves if they don't take a job to take a break. Videogame and movie jobs arent stable because companies never keep the art teams, they are laid off and rehired whenever there is a new project

During my major, I drew nonstop for 4 years for class. Not always things I enjoyed, but also not always things I didnt like. In fact I enjoyed my major immensely! It was so fun. But the burnout is very, very real, and the workload was similar (even inferior to) regular art jobs. What happens if you like to draw in your off time? You spend your days making and pumping out art nonstop for hours, and then on your free time breaks you draw some more? I personally couldn't do it. I just wanted to do other things

And like.... I spent the first three years being told by teachers (people with stable, contract based jobs) how cool of a job it is to do art, and then the last year getting grilled on how insanely hard it is to make it out there. If you don't have connections, money, an audience, a studio, it's actually impossible. You need to be your own lawyer, abide by the very strict self employment rules that take a severe chunk out of your earnings. Do all of your finance/schedule/marketing etc while on top of that constantly producing work (I know there's people who can do it but, personally, I cannot) I really admire the people who were able to build themselves up as artists from the ground like this (because its definitely possible, just insanely hard)

Also, making something you love into your job ends up being miserable too. I experienced this with patreon, which I posted to as like a chill thing and it just got increasingly hard to make content for it or just post in general, even drawing my own ocs and sharing stuff about them started to feel like a chore.

Maybe it's just me though, this has just been my personal experience but yeah in general I realized I am immensely happier just keeping art as a hobby or its gonna suck my soul out (Since I already experienced it)

I don't mean to discourage anyone, I think the world in general needs more artists. But for that we would need to actually be taken seriously and valued, which sadly we are not, at all. And if there's anyone reading that is considering art as a job: it is absolutely grueling. It's not an easy job. Even if you desperately love art it can suck the life out of you and the joy for what you do

(As an extra sidenote. Artists are usually exploited using this mentality as well. That they are supposed to love their job. So they expect you to work your wrists off "For the passion". Dont fall victim to it)

#ask #anon #genuinely i just wanna share my stories and content. see others stories in turn and make friends about it #the desperate need to monetize everything that makes you happy is such an insidious mentality. #people need to learn that you can have hobbies without needing to monetize them. your joy has inherent value and you dont need to sell it #like... i need people to stop being like 'oh you are so good at art/crochet/writing you should sell things : )' it fucking sucks #there is a lot of nuance to the topic of course but im talking like. in general #doing art out of ones heart is always good but having to pump out content under the crushing wheel of capitalism and need to survive is not #this is about my experience with drawn art but this goes for any other artistic discipline #music... writing... etc. we are all in the same boat #sorry for the long winded answer and tags i am just so passionate about this #and especially as someone whos skill wasnt taken seriously until i started making money from it........ fuck that so fucking much #you are allowed to create. in fact you should create. without feeling the need to put a price on it #not everything needs a price tag to be valuable. #especially not your joy.

[obihoe]

aughhhh, he is literally so babygirl to me ..

#posts #😔 i luv him ... #was going thru some screenshots last night and immediately sat down and drew this asdfdgds #he looks so baby here ... #and this scene its so touching to me somehow #its when hsrm and him have just founded the village #and theyre planning and talking abt how they will further proceed. and hsrm has all these good news abt how more and more clans #will be joining them #and mdr is. he is sooo ... he is so happy and so content here. and so nice .. #there is also this scene where he helps this girl who they see running around and then fall on her face lol #and mdr gets there and tries helping her .. he is so nice here. and kind ... #there's such a warmth between them u know. mdr seems so warm and so peaceful and content #its the only time during the WHOLE story where u see him like this #bc hsrm and him they are close here ... and he gets this warm feeling from him #and he's full of hope and all asdfgdss #i also think its so cute how they talk to each other here like hsrm suggests the thing w the carving mdr's face in the stone hills #and mdr is like. ummm are u sure lmao like he's so Embarrassed #asfsfdfds #its so cute #and then hsrm is like 'well we'd need to make some adjustments tho cuz ur face looks kind of brutal' asfsfdfds #and he Winks at him as he says it! aughh. its like literally they are flirting here #also mdr going 'well at least im not Moping around all the time like u do. my face is still better than urs' asddfdfds #its so aughhh u can just feel the affection between them ... it makes my heart ache #madara #hsmd

[iluvmatt]

chapter ten, boyfriend, girlfriend? taglist: @taking-a-footnote-in-your-life​, @lostwonderwall​, @lomlolivia​, ​@sturniolomads, @kylespencersvocalcords, @stxrniqlo, @sophialimass, @loonielol, @siriusfahey, @getbillzoned, @kjd55, @ceceswriting​, @dancingintheedark​, @yoongoboongo, reach out to be added :-)

new plans, matt sturniolo smau synopsis: coming home for the holidays has its perks; you get to see your childhood best friends again, you get to spend the holidays with the people you’ve always loved, and the list goes on. of course, it also had its cons— you have to face your best friend, matt, the one that you’re madly in love with and have been in love with since you were merely thirteen. little do you know, though, that he’s dealing with the same mixed emotions of you and the holidays; biting his nails as he waits for you to knock on his front door.

previous ♡ end. | m.list © iluvmatt, 2022.

#nick just wanted to take all the credit although at one point in a previous chapter he said 'we' and i respect him for that! #but here we are #at the end of something i've put my entire heart into. #i'm so excited to make more stories for you all and i hope the ending wasn't too bad. #i hate ending things so i just wanted to make it lighthearted #like with chris and his jokes; the litany of bickering #and of course matt and y/n being sappy!! #who knows; maybe i'll write about their relationship at some point based on this au. #but thank you all for staying and following me through this journey. #i should have named the last chapter 'confessions' but i'm also nitpicking myself SO! maybe that's why i'm overthinking #but i'm also so devastated to let new plans end. it truly has made me so happy to meet you all through this story #i hope my new pieces keep us together. #thank you all for giving me this opportunity and being here #i love you all. #matt sturniolo x reader #matthew sturniolo #matt sturniolo #matt sturniolo x you #matthew sturniolo fic #matt sturniolo smau #matt sturniolo fanfic #sturniolo triplets #sturniolo #sturniolo triplets smau #nick sturniolo #nicolas sturniolo #chris sturniolo #christopher sturniolo #sturniolo triplets fic

[kwyw]

No, but the daisies on the ceiling are so prominent. 🙈

#this never fails to make my heart happy #it’s so LOUD #kaylor #gaylor swift #love story #daisies #daisy #eras tour

[mishapen-dear]

one thing thats really fun about the current jaiden sus situation is that like... cucurucho is winning here. maybe.

jaiden is unintentionally succeeding where cellbit failed. cellbit didnt want people to trust him but most people immediately clocked he hadnt actually betrayed them. They stuck together and worked it out the whole community became stronger because of it

And jaiden is being completely honest and people arent trusting her. she’s in the perfect position to cause that fracture. They dont know her as well, she’s grieving (and grieving parents have been proven to do horrible things), and it seems like she’s just retreading the same road thats failed them so many times.

it’s all just ! people are having trouble agreeing on what to do about her. there’s something So Tasty about a narrative where the isolated causes others to isolate themselves.

i love cucurucho. its doing the same thing and expecting different results but this time its RIGHT

#qsmp #SUCH a fun story i am chewing on the narrative like a feral beagle #they have reason not to trust her #they have reason to be lenient #everyone is doing their best but maybe it wont be enough and that makes the storyteller nerd inside my heart Very happy #i hope they figure it out and canwork together again but id be lying if i said i didnt like the opportunity for some of these characters #to just start being absolutely awful #theyve gone through so much and been so strong but they cant stay strong forever #eventually they start to crack.... #(and then you can fill the cracks with gold with a Delicious redemption/healing arc)

[jilliancares]

I had no clue you had a book but I just found out and I missed your writing so I made my library buy it. Hopefully others will get to pick it up when I’m done with it. I hope life has been treating you well 🤗

woah!!!! that is so sweet, i had no idea you that was even something you could do! i really hope you enjoy it, thank you so much!!! and i've been really great, i hope you are too :) ♡

#my heart :"))) #unrelated but some life updates: #i've been working as a technical writer for like a year and a half now #a lot of my friends Scattered across the country after college and i was scared that i'd have trouble making friends in the Real World #but about a year ago a friend from college invited me to join a rec volleyball team even though i'd never played volleyball #and now this group of people are some of my best friends #and one of them is my boyfriend :) #he is the first relationship i've ever been in and we're in love :) #it's funny bc i write a lot of love stories and always kind of couldn't imagine myself in a relationship. and now it consumes me #if you're reading this i hope you're happy and healthy <3

[kedreeva]

hi Ked! hope the snakewatching is going well. I've been meaning to ask, because I know you've been writing fanfiction for quite a while: do you ever feel as though community engagement has trended down over the years? and if so, do you have any advice for fighting the feeling that you're wasting your time/energy for a silent audience that just consumes and moves on?

I think it has, but I think it hasn't. But I think our perspective on it has changed, vastly.

The thing is, fandom back in the day was just plain old smaller and more tightly-knit by necessity. Before the net was so big, spaces we could go were limited, mostly fan-controlled, often difficult to find, sometimes clunky to use if you were learning (waving at IRC, hello, I hate you still), and due to all of this were often just... smaller. You could know MOST of the people in a fandom space. You had some degree of genial relationship with readers because you talked to them. Archives outside of ff.net were common, curated spaces with amounts of fic that were relatively consumable in total, as in you could go to a fan-run archive, read every piece of fiction there, and then have to find a new one, which probably had at least some of the same fic on it. Even ff.net, a lot of the fandoms present in the early days it was just like. you had 20 fics, you had 100 fics, whatever the number was, and because the spaces were small and the population online was smaller than now, there just... weren't enough creators to constantly have access to new fic or art. I remember waiting for archives to update their collections because most of them you couldn't just add your work to yourself. And I remember that the best way to encourage that to happen faster was to go and get the creator worked up/excited about their thing again by talking to them about it.

Now, fandom is easily accessible. Now, there are platforms all over the place. If you don't like the section of fandom you're in, it's easy to find another, even within the same platform. Don't like this part of tumblr? Block some people and follow others. Don't like this discord server? leave and join a different one (or make one). Don't like twitter/instagram/tiktok/tumblr/livejournal/wattpad/pillowfort/whatever the fuck other platform? Try a different one!

I am grateful for this sprawl. I'm grateful for fandom being easy for everyone to access, for it being so much easier to find somewhere you can settle and have others who like things you like. I think everyone should have a home.

But that does mean sometimes fandom spreads thin. It does mean that instead of 100 creators, there could be a thousand. There could be two thousand. And instead of one place to find it all, there's a gabillion.

But... the amount of story and art a single human being is physically capable of finding and interacting with (reading, viewing, commenting on etc) hasn't gone up. I can only read at the pace I read at, same for anyone. The fandom I'm in has created AT LEAST 29,000 works in the last 11 months, on one platform (AO3). That's almost 90 fics a day for 11 months. And I know for a fact that not all of the stuff that's been written gets posted there, that's just the stuff I KNOW for SURE has been written since a specific date because I searched a character tag for a character that didn't exist before a certain date.

I don't know about you, but I'm not Readers Georg. I can't engage with every fic in a fandom anymore. I can't even engage with a tenth of the fic in fandom anymore just to purely read it, and by the time I'm done reading one, there's 7 more to take its place.

So, I don't think engagement has trended downward so much as I think it's spread out as fandom spreads out. I think it's more important now than it was before, to try to actively engage with creators, because of this. And I think it's important for creators to try to engage back, too. But I also know it's impossible to go back to how things were, and impossible to make a large fandom behave the way a small fandom did. I also also know that if you ever go into a small fandom, like a rarepair, you will almost certainly see an echo of the past with regards to engagement. I wrote a couple things for small fandoms more recently, and because they have far, far less fic available, they seemed to comment more on what was there. They engaged in community ways, going back and forth in comments instead of just "good job""thanks" the end. they have more time for it. A small enough fandom may go days or weeks without new fic, leaving them time to do those sorts of things, without the fear they're missing out on one of today's 90+ fics.

I can't offer any kind of quick fix, because I don't think it's necessarily broken. But I can say that you should always try to be the change you want to see. When you read something, leave the kind of comment you'd want to get. There's another fic around the corner, yes, but you can't read 90+ fics a day for 11 months straight. And neither can anyone else, and remembering that might put it into perspective.

If you want community, read the OTHER COMMENTS when you read stuff, and engage with the other readers; if anything, THAT is the major missing factor in this day... readers engaging each other over fan creations, rather than just creator-> consumer or consumer-> creator. The most fun i ever had writing on AO3 was when I was writing Siren's Song and readers started talking to each other in the comments about what would happen. A whole little community sprung up around readers talking to each other about what happened after one of my other fics ended. I think that's a missing element that often goes unspoken, and maybe that could help a lot if you feel like the audience is silent. Maybe they are. Maybe they don't know it's okay to talk to each other, too. Go into the audience and make some noise.

#fanfiction #writing #reading #also not for nothing but #try to write mostly for yourself #I see a lot of people pick up every stray idea they find #and write them all #or to pick just idea they think will get a lot of response #I couldn't do that #if I pick up a story #it's because it is consuming my entire heart and soul #or it's charity work #or it's for a specific person I love dearly #that's it #and at that point it's not about what anyone does or says in response #it's about shutting it up so I can live my life #or make one specific person happy #so all that matters is what that one specific person thinks and says #asks #anon asks

[kimwexlersponytail]

The only thing that kept me going was knowing you were here.

#bcsedit #better call saul #mcwexler #jimmy x kim #kim wexler #jimmy mcgill #been seeing a lot of people saying that they don't deserve a happy ending after everything and though i get why that's being said #i disagree with the idea that they must be punished by the narrative in the form of an absolutely devastating end where they both die or #are broken down even further because they're Bad People and they Deserve It...their relationship is the heart of the show and #i don't believe that the writers spent over half a decade building this relationship up just to leave everything hanging in the balance #we can argue all day about jimmy and kim being Good or Bad but they love each other. they do. and bcs is a love story #do i believe that they're going to live happily ever after and get a fairytale ending? no of course not but i don't see a doom and gloom end #for them either. narratively speaking jimmy has been in prison all this time and who knows what kim has been up to all this time #i just don't think it would be narratively satisfying if the ending was about punishing them i really don't #i think it's going to be bittersweet for sure but there's no doubt in my mind that it'll be full of heart.... #but god all of the takes about jimmy not deserving to meet up with kim in the gene timeline are just making me root for it even harder #and i really hope the world turns back to color the moment he sees her and idc how many people think it's cheesy <3 #and you know what someday maybe they'll finally get their house. #mine

[sicc-nasti]

All Eyes on Him

"Post-Incarceration Syndrome- a syndrome similar to PTSD, meaning that even after serving their official sentences, many people continue to suffer the mental effects."

Before his time as BLU's Courier, Brady was incarcerated for ten+ years in prison after agreeing to take the fall to protect his family. And being thrust back into society is extremely difficult for ex-inmates that suffer from untreated PTSD. Even grocery shopping quickly becomes overwhelming. So much has changed. Too many people are looking at him now. And it might always be this way.

#tf2 courier #tf2 blu courier #my oc #my art #tf2 oc #tf2 10th class #tf2 tenth class #tf2 10th class oc #the im afraid ill always be this way are tally marks btw u can guess what those stand for aheem #brady is...his story is so deeply important to me ok #he makes my heart cry brady u deserve to be happy and safe #also #acab #and prison reform #theres a companion piece to this that my friend did with her oc #brady and jetta the isolation sisters you will always be in my heart #theres so so much i want to say about Brady

[slumbergoblin]

:)

#pmatga #my art #pacster #I used to hate this show so much as a kid #like even looking at anything pac-man related made me feel so embarrassed #but now it's like i've come full circle man #pmatga is in no way a perfect show. and it's far from great for sure. but it holds a special place in my heart #and probably like everybody else in the fandom. I wish it was treated more like an actual story with fleshed out writing #seeing everybody's art and writing every day makes me so happy that people have not let this show down #and I can't wait to make more art and hopefully at some point in the future fully re-write pmatga and turn it into a webcomic #as a love letter to the show #it feels weird to be so emotionally attached to something like this. but it makes me happy #happy 10th anniversary everyone^^ #pac man and the ghostly adventures

[heartburstings]

bc like while labru is more compelling to me if it's yuri one of the reasons why i'm keeping farcille also yuri is because. well. to me they're gonna lose something if it's yaoi sorry. also i'm more interested in girl laios and falin's relationship if they're sisters than if they're a sister and a little brother in that it will highlight further that laios has no avenue to leave their hometown. i think it would be interesting for girl laios to learn she can do magic and then wonder what could've been if she knew she could. and also because i don't want to fall into the trap of like... they're still originally guy characters. yk? it doesn't magically stop ignoring the female characters who are there if you genderbend/transgendify the guys to focus on them instead.

#wynn speaks #also to clarify labru isn't more compelling to me if it's yuri for no reason #i think girl laios leaving behind a husband and child because she HAD to get out is really compelling #and i think being a queen would be that much more conflicting to her #bc it means she is now easily findable--even tho that doesn't immediately occur to her #and i think girl kabru being a total piner loser who doesn't know she's being a total piner loser is compelling #she's like the queen is unhappy how do i make her happy again. i wanna kno for normal reasons also i hate her ex husband for normal reason #it's a little story/character exploration enhancer. for me #butch chilchuck too btw. canon in my heart #farcille stays largely the same. ur perfect girls <3 #anyway if anyone wants baller farcille fic recs feel free to ask. i haven't read all of them and haven't read thru the whole manga yet #but heehee....so good