#to no longer have time to do a fancomic.

[julie-su]

Quick doodle of Hecate the ant. I am drawing so much, but showing so little, it's mo-o-ostly shorthand quick'uns as I pour my life and soul into that dang comic XD

Hec, child of Archimedes, mentor of Julie-Su and Lara-Su. Except, oops - they're not supposed to be training Lara-Su just yet... Bad ant! -squirt bottle-

#Did I even say I drew my future JS in not-shorthand for the first time the other day?! delighted how much her ju-su-ness shines through. #I was scared that she didn't look a thing like JS. That I'd messed her up for good. But no - she looked scarily like my girl XD #on the cover of LSC I mean #not. not to be confused with TLSC #... why did we do that again?! That was not my choice -wheeze- #-shakes fist- EMMA LEMUR #... This is also the ant that Zara-Ra tried to eat. Did NOT learn from grandpa #Anyways I am doing things with the fire ant council #everybody forgets the fire ant council :( #HECCY #.. I wasn't going to call her Hecate.. But I remembered Hecate the Geckate and I wanted to #This comic is getting all of my life and soul in it anyways. That art room is my own art room when I was a teen. Hec the Geck can live on #through Hecate #We even have a catweazle-like magpie named after my youngest sib's magpie character :P (with permission) #I think art is about leaving little bits of yourself in there. #Anyways the whole dumb comic is just a test of my abilities to adhere to industry standards #Gotta use that comic art qualification somewhere XD #I think I can get issue 1 under my belt. I'd like to do issue 2 but I'm going to go for as many issues until I have enough other obligation #to no longer have time to do a fancomic. #right now?! this is motivating me to get up in the mornings XD #tho yesterday I slept in. when my muscles ache too hard I get really tired and I just sleep. They don't tell you that about being disabled #hurting a lot? makes you really fckin tired. #.. Essay in the tags. Eh. Hecate the ant

[bestomato]

something i have a tendency to do is write fanfic or on the rare occasion develop OCs and/or original stories (these require more mental effort for me and i'm just perpetually tired and also i don't like analyzing myself to the degree of making stuff from scratch LOL) but you will NEVER get me to post the fanfics i do. NEVER EVER EVER EVERRR. it's for me and me only. nobody else will read them and i don't plan to change that.

#blog tag #everytime i do post a fic i delete it because i end up regretting it deeply and it stresses me out to have that out in th open #NOT GOOD at prose. i like comics though those are ok but i haven't had ideas for fancomics #short ones especially. i ha ideas for longer ones but i dont wanna waste so many hours of my time making smthing that isnt mine technically #i have ideas for original comics though i just need to develop them more. yea

[under-lore]

I might not be one of those who have Sans as one of their favorite characters, but frankly i truly feel like there is something unique in the way Toby Fox wrote Sans' character compared to the others.

Something about the way Sans was written is incredibly difficult to replicate for a fan.

What i mean is, for instance, let us say for the sake of example that i decide to sit down and try to imagine or even write down a short scene involving Sans. (Like you might see in a fancomic.)

Despite having done so much research about the character, the way he works, talks, acts, etc... It will take me far longer to do this for him than with any of the other characters. Like, three times as long !

And even then after all that, it usually doesn't quite feel quite right...

It speaks like Sans, it acts like Sans, its character is accurate to Sans', but it is like it misses something. A sort of more profound "Sans vibe" that is incredibly difficult to convey even if you write the character "accurately".

This is something that happens on a much wider scale, too. I've talked to several people who have reported feeling the exact same way whenever they looked at comics or other fan content featuring Sans. Especially the pacifist/neutral routes Sans.

People may replicate Sans' character with varying canon accuracy, but it nearly always feels like it is lacking a part of Sans' charm when you compare those ones to the very few official Sans content that pops up once in a couple years from Toby's hand.

Toby Fox really seems to be the only person able to write Sans "that way" in a very consistent manner.

Sans is the only character in the game that gives me this feeling...

#undertale #sans #sans undertale #toby fox #deltarune #sans deltarune

[randomyuu]

A JJK GoYuu fancomic... of a fanfic (read right to left)

You know… despite me getting into JJK fandom this year, I’ve never drawn any JJK characters. (cue me drawing 9 whole-ass comic pages-)

This wonderful fic is titled (you'll whisper, serpent tongue) what you fear you have become by @voxofthevoid​. This comic covers chapter 1 scenes.

Beware of the tags, as the fanfic is NSFW. Oh, and also, manga spoilers! Major character and arc spoilers! I’ve read until chapter 4 and no NSFW so far, but still, beware!

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43446157/chapters/109219954

I hope you enjoy reading this comic and the fanfic if you decide to!

Update: Chapter 6 scene fanart

More of my random thoughts and an early drawing of GoYuu below:

Have I told you I’m not used to drawing manga as well? Manga panels are pain. PAIN, I tell you. I shouldn’t have done this, but I did. I did, because every time I read the synopsis of this fic I keep picturing manga-like scenes. You should blame me for reading those AllYuu doujinshis.

It was… interesting experience. I was struggling a bit with the balloon consistency, like, do I use white boxes or just italic words for thoughts? Or maybe a balloon with a cloud-like border?

And there’s GoYuu (YuuGo? Idk honestly, don’t care lol) themselves. As I said, I literally have never drawn JJK-related content before. So when I started thinking about the panelling, I realised that I don’t really know how to draw Gojo, even more a thousand-year-old Yuuji. A whole day is spent researching Gojo, Yuuji and Sukuna’s appearances lol. Sukuna’s markings are a problem since I can’t find a full view of his markings. I know I can just finally watch the anime (yes I haven’t watched the anime, only some short clips; yes I know the animation is good, and I really want to watch it but my brain doesn’t want to) or re-read the manga, but I don’t want to ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿

After going through Google images, Twitter and Reddit, I whipped up a front drawing of GoYuu as my reference:

Gojo’s is easier because he hasn’t changed from the official (I blatantly eyeballing the character sheet I found haha), but Yuuji is different. Yuuji’s hair is longer; if I recall, there’s no exact description of his clothes. I assume he’s topless due to this description: Messy pink hair, long enough to cover the creature’s nape but not to hide the segmented dark markings running down his back, shifts in the wind.

And halfway through storyboarding, I realised that I have no experience using screen tones. Whatsoever. So off I go searching for a screentone bundle I can freely download and slowly figure my way out after fully lining the page.

And we haven’t even touched perspective, background, achromatic colouring, non-human characters—man, I really bite more than I can chew lmaooo

Ah, the things you would do to satiate that drawing mood ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Also, I hope I’ll have time to draw more fanarts of JJK GoYuu fanfics because they live rent-free in my brain and I need them to get out. Maybe other pairings as well? I like quite a lot of pairings that involve Yuuji. He’s precious, and I love having it shown to me over and over through fanfics.

#Yuu's art #jjk-fic-fanart #jjk-ship #goyuu #fan comic #omg idk what to put here #attempting at manga-ing #is that even a word #jjk ship #fanart #unrelated to this but I was so tired that I didn't notice two mistakes in the title lol #fixed them though #jjk fic #五悠 #5u #gojo x yuji #gojou x yuuji #gojo x itadori #goyu

[jjinx1998]

xxtc-96xx Callout post

To start I want you to know I didn't want things to have to come to this but after recent developments and discussions from others I cannot ignore what's been going on for years now. This is a problem revolving around the user @xxtc-96xx , the comic Endertale, and the Undertale fandom. I will try to explain what I know and offer proof when I can, but there might be some sloppiness as this is my first real post on Tumblr. If there is any technical issues about this post, please let me know so I can fix it.

Let me start from the beginning. I have been a long time fan of xxtc-96xx since about 2016 (I will refer to them as TC to make it easier). I have enjoyed looking at the art they create for many years, mainly the ones revolving around Endertale.

Endertale is a fan comic that TC made of the game Undertale. It's a very decent story with a pleasant art style. I would recommend it but I cannot and I will get to why. You see TC has suffered from something that just about any creator can relate to, burnout. The most recent comic page being posted in 2021 though there was already a hiatus established before that.

While they made it long clear that they needed to go on break for personal reasons, people wanted to ask for when they will continue it. Some of them calm and reasonable and other's were very much not nice. TC answered them honestly at first.

Then it started to devolve into troll responses or just not answering.

Not just on Tumblr but people kept asking on Deviantart as well. In fact people are still asking today in 2024. It has gotten so frequent that TC felt it necessary to change their profile header to this:

And it has stayed that way for so long I lost track of when it started. To be fair, even I found the frequent questions to be overwhelming and they just like every artist who makes stuff for free is entitled to take a break from their work. However this post isn't a complaint about how long it takes to finish a comic, it's about something that started because of the wait.

See, their original reason to take a break was because they were too busy with personal matters for them to commit to an actual comic. But as their history up to today has shown that's no longer a valid excuse. As time went on they started to show an interest in the Pokemon fandom. specifically the pokemon known as Mewtwo. To make a long story short, what started as small doodles grew into a whole bunch of fancomics and animations. To compare, they have drawn nearly four times as many Pokemon drawings compared to Undertale. Now, it is perfectly fair and acceptable to find an interest in a different fandom. And while I personally prefer Undertale over Pokemon I completely supported their decision to focus on other fandoms and enjoyed what they made. I also understood their issues with the fandom at the time, some people were rather aggressive, rude, or demanding the comic to be completed, a comic that's completely free that they make no profit out of. I even recall one point they tried to unsuccessfully drag a different content creator into this issue as if it would somehow work.

However I started to notice they had a warped perception on the fandom. Rather than blame the few people that harassed them online with constant asks, they believed that the entire fandom as a whole is to blame as declared it all toxic. Something they insist on repeating to all their fans and making them believe their opinion as fact.

Now for the record I am very aware of how toxic this fandom was and can be at times. I was around since the beginning and have seen just about every drama that has come. From the fans harassing you for not doing the pacifist route in the first time playing, people arguing if either Frisk or Chara is a really bad person, arguing over Frisk's and Chara's gender, is genocide the right choice, is Toriel the bad guy or Asgore, and a controversy revolving around a certain creator of the au Glitchtale (the last one TC coincidentally emulates their "Delay work for one week for every ask" and finds it amusing). I know this fandom is not the best but I love it all the same, it's as much a part of my life as it is for TC. I know I am not perfect at showing my interest for Undertale, as this image of a private ask shows.

Or this time I made a obviously joke ask and apparently I didn't realize a lot of people don't understand sarcasm.

Or when I tried to ask this sincere and nonaggressive question, one of the few times TC isn't putting up some kind of attitude.

Or this other ask from me.

At the end of the day this is just a comic. No one has any right to demand them to continue it or make death threats, this is completely unacceptable. However, at the same time this doesn't mean the creator should dehumanize the entire fandom or punish the few that are being respectful. They wait and what do they get, people mocking them and bullying them. That's what I realized in the past week when I engaged in the comments of a few posts. TC allow their fans to bully the fandom.

I tried to be as calm and reasonable as I can and yet I get called out as a toxic fan. And in the end did TC scold everyone else, no, they basically told me to shut up. I overestimated the fans intelligence and if they could handle basic logic, read the comments for yourself to see my point. As someone with Asperger and anger issues, it's a god given miracle I am still trying to maintain my composure within this insanity that has been going on for years. I have spoken with several content creators who asked to remain anonymous about this entire fiasco and we have similar conclusions about TC.

TC has been through a lot of painful and hurtful comments over the years that they did not deserve in the slightest. They are entitled to do whatever they want with their comic and works. Saying a fandom is or isn't toxic is unhelpful as you fundamentally miss the mark on how fandom culture works. As a creator, it is not right to hang this hiatus over people's heads and string them along. TC does not respect their Undertale fans in the slightest and mocks those who is still waiting. They indirectly encourage their other fans to bully and dehumanize the rest.

I held back on making a comment about all this for two reasons. One, TC's fandom terrifies me. They are complete smug hypocrites who spend way too much time on the internet that they don't realize that if they use their words in real life they will get punched in the face for it. Two, despite everything I still believe that TC can change. I like to believe the best in everyone and that there is hope that maybe this time TC will realize they have become the very thing they hate. That hope has faded to cinders. I'm done with TC, my only concern is the people remaining to wait for the comic.

To everyone who is waiting for Endertale and/or following TC because you like their Undertale stuff, leave them and never come back. They do not respect you, they look down on you, they laugh watching you wait, you deserve better than them. Even if they do finish the comic eventually it will not be made out of love or passion.

DO NOT harass and bully them because of my words. I will not tolerate any attempt to do so.

My final words are for TC if they even decide to read this:

TC, I know we are not friends, you made that clear long ago but I was hoping we could've been. You were a huge inspiration for me in the past and was what pushed me to attempt learning about art. I looked up to you and tried to support you when you were feeling down. You are no longer that person.

You do not have the right to condemn an entire fandom as toxic and declare it as a fact of life. It's people like you that keep the fandoms so divided to this day. It's because of people like you I am scared for my life if I ever mention Undertale in public. Your fixation on the sins of the past prevents us from moving forward. I do not excuse what happened but the past is in the past, get over it and grow up, you are an adult so act like it.

You say you don't owe us any comic or works, well at the same time if you want to mistreat the fandom I care about then I or anybody don't owe you any respect yet I did for nearly five years.

Why? Because I cared about how this all made you feel. What do you see when you look at me, another obsessed toxic fan who should keep their mouth shut or a PERSON with their own thoughts feelings and beliefs?

One of your problems is that you think nothing ever seems to be your fault, just the fans who keep asking. Well maybe they wouldn't have asked if you didn't leave them hanging for almost five years. To me, it no longer matters if you finish Endertale or not.

Maybe you still think it isn't your fault, then that makes me the idiot for hoping you can be better. You hurt me, really hurt me. I don't think I can ever trust someone like you again.

Do you know what I really want?

Your apology. I want you to make a genuine apology to me and the fandom at your actions over the years. I won't block you because being the idiot I am I hope my words mean something to you and you'll want to chat.

But until you wise up ask yourself this familiar question,

Do you really think you are above consequences?

#Endertale #Undertale #call out post #toxicity #cw: vent #undertale comic #long post

[skyward-floored]

I looked at the tags of the patreon thing and some people were like “I’m disappointed” :( like this isn’t the first fancomic to have a patreon it’s really not a big deal 😭 from what it seems, there’s only one tier you pay for and that’s the update tier. And it’ll be public eventually!

Also it’s legal for her to do this. It’s different enough from the Nintendo games that she’s not straight up ripping them off

Again fancomics have Patreons all the time people need to C H I L L

Ah but Smiles, this fandom is literally never chill about anything XD

But yeah, it's... really no big deal. I maybe would've been upset about it a year or two ago as well so I get it, but... it's really not that bad. You just have to wait a little longer. And once again, it's Jojo's decision. if you don't like it go read some other comic *shrug*

#I constantly feel so bad for Jojo seriously #the amount of crap she's had to put up with over the years is ridiculous #not that this is that extreme but still #I'm so grateful she keeps making lu even through it all #she DESERVES to be paid fr #answers from the floor #smiles my beloved

[soundbluster]

So I've been tightening up / replanning out the long term plot threads I hope to do in the fanfic /fancomic, and breaking it down into volumes/shorter "episodes" the series.

It's kind of daunting to be honest, it's quite a lot.

When I started posting SG Prime back in December 2018 I expected to get bored of it within ten pages. Five years later it's still going... And it's likely to be just as long until I finish, if not longer... (Though all things going well I will have more time in the second half of this year... Though I've said that before...)

Like many fanfic projects SG Prime may ultimately end up unfinished. I've no idea what will happen to me in future etc. but I just wanted to thank all of you who've been along for the ride so far.

#transformers #transformers shattered glass #fanfiction #fan comic #tfsg #maccadam #fanfic #tfp #transformers prime #fanfic ramblings #fanfic update #i dont really know why i posted this

[tamarinfrog-art]

Hi there! I know it might jumpscare you a bit to receive a message from another human being who uses tumblr, so I'll make this brief. *sighs* I JUST FINISHED READING HEROES OF INKOPOLIS FROM YOUR DEVIANTART & IT WAS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! seriously, I didn't even expect it to be THAT good :D I plan to read the Cafe Calamari blog when I have some free time, but seriously, it was a MASTERPIECE of a fancomic. (if you couldn't tell, I am literally sending you this about like 1 minute after I finished reading it :]) It's really nice to see that you're still making art, I wish you the best endeavors! (btw, i just want to say: the moments when Blue/Whinter & Orange/Clementine were beggin each other to wake up emotionally D E S T R O Y E D m e .)

Oh spooky! But that is the name of the game in October! Anyway! Thank you for the kind message. Glad you enjoyed the comic. I may have left behind the crown of Queen of Squid Hell and no longer really do splatoon art but I do still consider HOI one of my best comics and I am still proud of it. So nice to hear people still enjoy it.

#ask tammy #not art

[ladytauria]

👻 What is one WIP you think you may never pick back up?

🤔hmmm

so in recent years i've mostly stopped posting wips bc, despite the best of intentions i have a hard time finishing them lol

buuut. looking through my drafts...

there are a couple i don't see myself working on again any time soon lmao.

two in particular stand out. one is a selkie!jason wip & the other is one that was, according to my notes, inspired by a fancomic. past me did not think to leave a link to this comic, bc she's helpful like that <3

the latter wip takes place at a winter gala. tim is by himself, keeping an eye on the others & making his rounds through the gala, checking off a mental list of people to talk to. he's kinda starting to flag, though; keeping up his timothy drake-wayne personality through so many conversations is kinda taking a toll on him.

and as he's mid conversation with one of the people on his list--

“Excuse me.” Tim catches a whiff of expensive cologne, chased by gunpowder, smoke, and leather. A warm hand finds the small of his back, and—almost without his own permission—he finds himself relaxing into it. “I hate to interrupt, but—” Jason steps into view, dressed to the nines in a perfectly fitted tux and deep red waistcoat. His hair is artfully messy; a roguish smile on his face. “Could I have this dance?” He cocks his brow. Tim knows him well enough to see the nerves—the sheepishness in his eyes, the way he braces himself for rejection. He doesn’t have anything to worry about. Tim is helplessly, hopelessly endeared. He barely manages to tamp down on his grin, keeping his answering smile something more polite.

their relationship at this point is still new and tentative--it started when one of their cases crossed, and each realized the other was working a lot of hard, dangerous cases with little to no back up. which was fine when they were doing it, but not so fine that the other is. u know. the usual :P

so they start working together. mostly. but then jason gets injured doing something dumb, without calling for tim like he should have. and tim reminds him that they'r partners. the whole point of them teaming up was that neither of them is supposed to be fighting alone anymore.

which---when tim asks why jason is at the gala, when he hates them & also has no reason to be there since he's not been legally resurrected... jason tells him more or less the same thing.

"we're partners, right? no more fighting alone."

and then tim kisses him in front of everyone, not caring even a little bit that it will probably be all over the society pages the next morning <3

but! i have two issues with this fic. issue a) writing the gala. and then issue b) it almost feels like it should be a scene in a longer work, so i can work that backstory in? but i don't... really have a plot. i could probably make it work anyway, but! i dunno. right now too many other wips have my attention so even if i don't abandon this one entirely, it will be a long time before i pick it back up.

and then the selkie!jason wip is p easy to explain. i had an idea for a single, solitary, poignant scene and utterly NO ideas for the plot that would lead UP TO that lovely scene.

so.

here's the scene, which would, theoretically, be the closing lines:

Jason runs his thumb over his coat, the leather of its disguise buttery soft, and watches Tim. He’s utterly at ease on Jason’s couch, scrolling through his phone, one arm dangling off the armrest. Jason swallows, stomach twisting with nerves. He takes a breath—in through the nose, out through the mouth. Then, he strides forward, clenching his coat a bit tighter. He kneels in front of Tim, capturing his attention. His phone falls to the side as Tim’s brows furrow. Before he can ask what Jason is doing, Jason unfurls his coat, wrapping it around Tim’s shoulders. His eyes grow wide. “Ja— wh—“ Jason can feel the heat on his face. Knows he has to be pink, at the very least. But he doesn’t stop, tugging Tim forward and into the briefest, chastest kiss before resting their foreheads together. “Caught you,” he murmurs. The smile he receives is the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen.

context? ur guess is as good as mine <3

[ fanfic writer ask game ]

#jaytim #asks and answers #deepwithintheabyss #thank you for asking!! #ive been wanting to post about the selkie fic FOREVER lmfao #tauriawritesfanfic

[ladyadalicialove]

My Favourite Things - Pg. 5

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Here we have the My Favourite Things - Pages 5

Chapter One is entitled “Raindrops on Roses.”

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IM BACKKKKKKKKKKK 

hide your wives and kitchen knifes cus Im here to finish this comic

So i will be updating one page at a time every 2-3 days - I do work and no longer have uni to worry about it so this is my long time project Ive set for myself so please enjoy as deep dive back into my Miraculous Ladybug fancomic

also Rusti baiting Audrey with the idea of Marinette as an intern so he can drag his own boss through the mud we stan an icon

you guys have no idea what I have planned some things from the original story I had planned have changed and of course my art style has changed but I hope you can all bear with me

be afraid kids I had a three hour brainstorming session with my sister about this entire series and we decided on what the final scene would be 

THATS HOW MUCH WE THOUGHT ABOUT IT 

BE 

AFRAID 

HAHAHAHAHAH also the way Im literally posting this and going to sleep so Im afraid of what I will wake up to 

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To follow this comic you can follow these tags: #mft comic, #mftcomic or #myfavouritethingscomic

You can send me asks about this if u want and i generally I reply sometimes i forget but I do see them !!! 

Or you can go to the mft master post and keep an eye on that :)

#mft comic #mftcomic #myfavouritethingscomic #miraculous ladybug #miraculousladybug #mlb #marinette dupain cheng #marinette #miraculousau #fanart #miraculous #audrey bourgeois #chloe bourgeois

[thisbelongsto-nohbodys]

Be sure to take a break every now and then to help prevent creative burnout.

I do, I’m currently working on the summer themed comics for next month with my alien oc. That is usually a good way for me to relax and not worry about creative burnout as I enjoy writing for her and the sci fi pulp fiction cover world that it’s in.

I already have in mind what I want to do for my next fancomic(s) so hopefully it won’t take long when I start drawing those since it’s the longer ones that usually gets me frustrated. I have so many ideas and jokes that I wanna share but not enough time in the day to make all of them and so I often get “too many options” burnout, rather than a creative one.

#ask #personal #might delete later

[ratherbeabrcharacter]

Tag 9 people you would like to get to know better!

Thank you for tagging me, @flockofcrowsinatrenchcoa, @namelysanet @eltheabberation! I've never done one of these before either, so I'm just going to copy your format lol.

Currently reading:

Quite a lot in at least 5 fandoms, but for Ninjago there's:

"Too weird to live, Too rare to die" by @bumblebeeenby

"Ruler from another Realm " CyberSearcher on ao3

"Trials of Trust" by @sunnylighter

"The Rights of a Nindroid" by @fangirl-616

"You don't have to do this" by WTFGayLittleZooid

"Same People, But Not Really." by @kittydemon9000

"Skytoucher" by PreciousCosmos

"Land of the Living" by Captainbrookworm

"Dreamweaver" @peachpopfizz

"lost soul" by DietCokeIsLife which you can find here:

Favorite color:

My favorite color is pretty much any shade of blue.

Last song:

Stitches by Shawn Mendas - going through a nostalgia trip rn

Last movie:

Probably Avatar : The Way of Water. I don't actually watch movies that much anymore - I'm more of a reading kind of person.

Sweet/spicy/savory:

Depends on what mood I'm in! I can handle some spicy because I grew up eating Spicer stuff, and since I LOVE bacon I like eating all sorts of savoury stuff. I'm also a notorious sweets consumer in my family - when I was younger my parents actually had to confiscate my Halloween candy!

Currently working on:

A short fancomic of @fallentale4's Heart full of Soul au! It's a Morro decides NOT to run away and die™ au and has currently one chapter on ao3. It's actually taking longer than I expected haha.

Edit: As of 4/20 when @eltheabberation tagged me I'm still not done with it haha. I also want to draw some fan art of their aus as well if I can find the time.

Tagging

@fallentale4, @registered-morro-simp, @leesbian42, @l0on, @forecast-rain, @iamlivinginsideyourwalls, @artical3237, @articalextraordinaire, @pixanefan

#my post #text tag

[cindersalad]

It's time for the usual end of the year thoughts post on this blog. Horay!

Hey, hello. ❤ I hope you're having a fantastic day, or that it'll get better if it's not a good day! It's the last week of the year, another Christmas has gone by ('thankfully', whispers I, a very Grinch-y person), and I'm sitting here thinking about my year. And what a year. It has been a roller coaster, and on the personal level I got probably the most full year I've had in the latest, what, six years? I'm learning to kind of manage my anxiety, I'm learning to ask for help when I can't (which is probably the biggest thing)... I got a job, too, finally! It'll start the first days of next year, which will reduce a lot my free time, but I've never been happier. I feel useful.

But scrolling through my blog I also fully realized that this has probably been the least productive year in terms of drawings. I think I've posted only 11 drawings, not even one per month, and in general I think I've spent... months? not even touching a drawing supply. It was probably for the best: I really needed to fix some stuff. To finish some of the things I started, too. But, man, did I miss drawing. I think it's one of the biggest voids I had this year, together with just... telling stories. Any story, in any format. I miss drawing comics, I miss writing stories, I just miss it.

Next year it will be a whole new story. With the job starting and a lot of other big changes already in plan, if this year seemed to me full I can't even imagine how I'll feel next year, but for some reason I feel having a lot less free time will make me use that little window a lot better of having an entire free day. I want to return drawing much more frequently, I want to return telling stories! It probably won't be immediate, but I have a lot of sketched illustrations that I want to continue, and my itch for taking the pencil daily is returning stronger than ever. I want to post more often, my sketches as well, despite always feeling so insecure about them. Perhaps some processes, too? And I want to return to write. I have so many stories in my mind, and a lot would work very well as fanfictions - I wanted to draw most of them, but I suddenly realized that I could very well write them too. Nothing stops me from adapting parts of those fanfics into fancomics in the future, anyway! Writing entire stories in my second language won't be easy (and at least one of the fanfics I have in mind will probably be in Italian and I'll have to see if to translate it), but I roleplay a lot in English, so I feel pretty confident. >:)

I don't know what I'll manage to do next year, I'm not setting any real goal in terms of productivity here, but... man, I really wish I can start an original comic this time. Humbert's story and Avi's story are both really well darn developed, but going from notes to an actual flashed out story is a step that has been too big for me for now. But with all I accomplished this year, maybe the step is becoming more and more doable. ❤

Anyway, I've kept you here long enough. ❤ I'm not sure how much stuff I'll actually manage to make, but a year is longer than we think! Everything I'll do, you'll receive updates here, so worry not! Thank you so much for sticking with me all this time despite the very few updates, of all your patience and support, comments and messages. You're the best! ❤ I hope you'll have a fantastic day, and that your future will be golden and full of good things. Take care, and I will see you next year! ❤

#talking

[clambuoyance]

obviously i know it would never happen because its a lego show for children- but I would honestly watch the hell out of a rebooted ninjago that was aimed more towards older audiences instead of kids yknow? i feel like that'd allow for those really dark plotlines to have so much more creativity if that makes sense. the first thing that comes to mind is season 5, specifically with lloyd's possession. in the show after he's freed from Morro he's left weak from the experience, but they kinda just... move on after that? Idk i feel it'd be cool if they sat down and tried to figure out what to do next whilst also trying to help their friend recover from literally being possessed for a seriously long period of time, instead of just... timeskipping lmao.

Sorry for making you a victim of my rant btw- ended up a bit longer than intended :P

no yeah i like to think about what ninjago storylines could do if it wasnt aimed for kids (and there’s nothing wrong with that!) and it could definitely develop things a lil more, but hey i guess thats what fanfiction and fancomics etc are for 🤩

#clam answers #ninjago

[pepperpepperz]

it is back... after ten thousand years!!! I love to make comics tbh and team taka is so fun

1 / 2 / 3/ 4 (you are here) / 5 / 6 / 7 / ?

[ID: a naruto fancomic featuring team taka. in it suigetsu slouches tiredly while walking. he groans "sasuke PLEASE tell me we're taking a break soon..." sasuke replies "no." then continues "we have lots to do & only so much time." Karin turns back to suigetsu and reprimand "idiot, you think we can make it to the bounty office, the tailors, then konoha in less than a month with all your breaks?" suigetsu, sweating, replies "I still don't think the tailors is necessary. what's wrong with the clothes we have now?" juugo answers "right now I'm wearing a curtain as a shirt." suigetsu puts his hands behind his head and says "fair enough. I thought we agreed it was a trap though."Karin shoots back "well yeah, but if it's not, that isn't a great look for us."

"and that's all sasuke cares about isn't it? looking good?"

to that, sasuke smirks "heh. no comment." suigetsu continues "I guess you're lucky the guy who attacked us had a hefty bounty." Karin says "YOU'RE lucky I had a spare body scroll and I'm not making you carry the corpse." suigetsu says "aw, and you'd really make me do it? juugo's got the shoulders for it." juugo replies "I have a very delicate constitution" suigetsu smiles, and asks "is that so?" quietly. in the next panel, suigetsu and his speech bubble are dripping as he asks "how much longer...?" sasuke throws the map at his head, splatting everywhere. "check yourself." the map is not detailed, but shows them close.

suigetsu says "hey! we're really close to the bounty office!" Karin rolls her eyes and says "ew. I really hate that place. smells like piss." she reaches in her pocket and continues "here, you take the scroll. I'll go hang out. away from here." sasuke replies "ok." as she walks away, suigetsu says "i think we should just leave 'er" irritated, Karin says "I'll come find you when you're done." she hops up onto a tree branch and thinks "guess I'll go the long way... anything to avoid that creep after my kekkei genkai at the bounty office." it shows "the plan," which is to give sasuke a wide berth. Karin leaps through the air and thinks "well at least I can travel by trees. they're too young to support all of us." /End ID.]

#i should make a tag for this #uhhh team taka ruins a wedding aka #TTRaW #that works #naruto #naruto fanart #naruto shippuden #team taka #karin uzumaki #sasuke uchiha #suigetsu hozuki #juugo naruto #has id #comic

[klappertart]

Childe and the 4.1

I never expected that Genshin Fontaine would take me back again to the game, because of a single character: Childe. Ever since I started the game, he's my second reason why I play this game (the first being I simply like the open world), and the main reason why I'm looking for Sheznaya. At the time 4.0 dropped, I almost gave up on Genshin because I no longer have that much attachment to the game anymore... until this ginger dude appeared at the end of the trailer. I'M BACK EVERYONE!

Here I compiled some random Childe theory, between him and Fontaine and abyss and everything else, probably. Bro just casually lore bomb us in 4.0+

This one mentioned Arthurian Legends along with Scathatch and Cu Chulainn, my FGO soul is blessed (cuz finally I kinda understand something from Genshin's way too vast lore LOL)

something that focused on whatever he saw at the end of 4.1

More 4.1

Probably a stretch, but there's a chance that Childe is Albedo's missing brother (lmao??)

And my own analysis based on his character profile, Childe won't die. He may be suffering a bit, but he'll definitely live because of how proud he is of his words and he already promised the traveler to show his homeland and! He also said that he'd do everything to not die in the battle.

So at least his connections are:

Affiliation: Fatui (Sheznaya)

Working Placement: Liyue (Liyue Archon Quest); Inazuma (2.2 event)

Hailed Powers: Abyssal, including Skirk's teachings and the whale; Vision; Delusion since he's a Fatuu

Childe's abyssal powers are the ones that need to be 'studied' to crack the code of whatever happened in Fontaine. Based on the first video I found that Childe's inspiration was probably a mix of the Trojan War, Ulster Cycle, and Arthurian legends (bro this is Fate series all over again). While dude personally seems like Ajax+Poseidon (water+shapeshift)+Cu Chulainn. His "water" (hydro) attribute is the most interesting here, because I think it's the most relevant to the whale.

First video also stated that we can treat Skirk like Circe or Scathatch, and this once again, made my FGO brain digest everything easier LOL so there's another theory that Skirk is also a witch in Alice & Gold's group so she somehow managed to survive long enough AND she's probably also Childe's ancestor (hint: blue eyes).

In the other videos, I found that maybe the whale (or narwhal) is related to the ancient era and it's "will" (?) harbored hatred for the "sinners", thus it wants to devour everything (?) and Childe came to answer it's call? Honestly I stil have no idea what's the deal of primordial sea and ancient ones, I simply don't really understand lol. Maybe Childe need to stop that thing from devour everything, that's why Skirk trained him, because Childe is the one who can hear the call?

I didn't expect bro just spit out his character story in the broad Fontaine daylight, and how the entire 4.1 happened because of him. He's even way more relevant here than in Liyue. I'm so glad that my first *5 is a very relevant character through time, especially in terms of lore and gameplay (I still use him in F12 abyss).

That's all for my brainstorm today, I just want to make properly explained fancomic lol

#childe #genshin impact #genshin impact lore #Youtube