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sleepytownzzz · 5 months

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work has been hectic lately, so as an apology for my inactivity please accept this little abby drawing 😔

#fan art #digital art #art #drawing #the last of us #the last of us part 2 #tlou 2 #abby anderson #tlou art #abby anderson fanart #i’ve been wanting to draw this expression for awhile #winter visit will always be my favorite to reference #tumblr always ruins the qualityyyy #it’s so upsetting #like i swear my art is good quality #sleepytownzzzart

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graceful-not · 4 months

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|MANAGER OF REALM REASSIGNMENT|

#ninjago #jay walker #jay gordon #dragons rising #agent walker #his OG suit is good but its boringness bothered me. His suboordinates slay wayy more than him (turtleneck swag) so i wanted to redesign the #the suit to have more detail + more of his actual colors sjdhhs.#I KEPT TRYING TO PUT LITTLE LIGHTNING OR ELECTRICITY SYMBOLISM BUT IT KEPT LOOKING BAD. LIKE I TRIED TO MAKE THE TIE INTO THE SHAPE OF #A LIGHTNING BOLT BUT IT RUINED THE WHOLE LIKE. BORING CORPORATE OFFICE AESTHETIC SJDHBDBS #uhh anyway Jay fans *clicks my tongue like im calling a cat* hiii #today I learned drawing freckles is Hard Actually #my art #WHY DID TUMBLR MAKE THE QUALITY SO BAD AJSHBS

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eternalwyrm · 1 year

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spreading mobaganda wherever i go now

#@ all the ppl who can draw by like. blacking out the whole thing. what the fuck #how do you do that. what the fuck #i love you i’m kissing your hand i’m giving you flowers but huh??#i spent like 20 min (gave up easily) trying to do a black/white lettering for ‘mob psycho 100’ at the bottom/middle #and AUUGGHH worst 20 min of my art life (lying)#anyway splatoon 3 good 👍#do i suck at it? yes #horrendously so #however i have never had so much fun before #i am absolutely terrified of people thinking i suck tho #like i can’t stop thinking that after a fight they go on twitter and are like ‘yo this one dude…’#but whatever either way i’m having fun!!!#everyone go play splatoon 3 and everyone already playing splatoon 3 go watch mob psycho #GRRRGGGRG. MOB PSYCHO. BTW. IF YOU EVEN CARED.#it is so :((( WAUGH #also. staring at tumblr AND nintendo.#why the fuck did you fuck up the quality so bad #the both of you. go in the corner. my quality is ruined.#anyway <333 #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mp100 art #mp100 mob #mp100 shigeo #shigeo kageyama #mob psycho 100 art #splatoon #splatoon 3 #splat3 #splatoon art

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jupiter-nwn · 16 days

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This drawing is titled "What if Blue worked at some random 24h place (restaurant) and got night shift (not his usual shift) and was on break and wanted Food and Dust's like wtfffff who's this guy, bc that's his 2am smoking spot ig"

...as always Tumblr ruins the quality man lmao

More stuff under cut :3

LOOK AT MY GUYSSSS

So last night I was pretty sad over not feeling like my art was Good Enough. SO! I decided to! Draw something to prove that I CAN. I never draw backgrounds and wanted to try, and I got the idea for this drawing and it was so random I wanted to do it ajfnnsnf

I've wanted to draw Dust and Blue interacting for a while, now that the general fandom has moved away from infantilizing Blue and the interactions between them don't have to be like THOSE dustberry fics on wattpad ajfnnsn

Blue has freckles and is taller than Dust :3

Here's the faces cause I added these closeups when I posted it on instagram ajfnnsnfn!

#my art #art #blue sans #swap sans #dust sans #digital art #digital artwork #digital drawing #underswap sans #dusttale sans #murder sans #blueberry sans

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shima-draws · 2 months

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Idk why im doing this but I just wanna say you're a huge inspiration for me hence why I started my art account on here and other medias! Though a quick question, how do I not make like tumblr or like instagram not ruin the quality of my art/drawings? I don't know how to fix it and I just want a clear clean image to show off my art in its truest form.

🥺 Omg...I'm so happy to hear that anon, good for you!!

I know tumblr is a bit more lenient with picture quality? At least from my experience. It might show up a bit blurry on the dashboard but if you click on the image it should be in full resolution there.

As for Instagram, I use the Imgur app to upload all my full res art to a private folder so I can easily download it to my phone and upload straight to IG from there. Unfortunately IG is a bit more picky with that; there's this app called SquareFit that I use to resize my art and make sure IG doesn't cut off the borders of anything.

If anybody else has more knowledge on the subject feel free to chime in! Wishing you the best of luck with your online art journey, anon 💕

#Shima answers questions #I know that tumblr and IG have a preferred image size for the best resolution but like #Drawing on the same size canvas every time is boring :(#So I just work around that lol

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cola-losers · 9 months

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Maybe it's because of the terrible summer I had, maybe it's because I'm dealing with loss but man

This blog doesn't feel fun anymore

It's a case of, I don't get that same enjoyment digging through the tag every day anymore

Not when I get to see the same type of posts, the same discourse, the same drama blah blah

Shipping Discourse

-TomTord bad

-Pauktryck killed my parents

-Shipping them at all is a crime

Then we have Crew Discourse

-Matt H said this, Christopher Bingham did that but it's always just like a he said she said kind of thing

-This crew member that is more like just a guy that draws some of the comics ships this one ship and it is SO bad (it's literally one of the popular ships)

Then we have merch discourse

-Edd figure overpriced and ugly (That's Yootooz, that's the style, that's like getting a POP figure but ^^ instead of ••) but instead of just saying you're not going to get it you have to turn it into some sort of moral thing?

-Edd Plush Ridiculous, ugly, and overpriced. I have literally only one makeship plushie but the whole appeal is that they actually are pretty good quality plushies and they're a one time deal. That's what you're paying for, once again you don't have to buy it just don't act like you have a moral high ground because you don't have enough money in your piggy bank for it

-An indie team (yes they are by definition indie) unsurprisingly wouldn't want you to get knock off merch from Temu/Amazon/Ebay. Now commission stuff that's a tricky field but but like, I feel like most people would agree commissioning someone is much better than getting a cheap knock off from a big company

Then we have headcanon discourse

I'm not even going to list the most common ones I just think it's dumb it's someone's head canons if you don't like it just don't follow the person?

And then of course we have multiple artists leaving Tumblr or just leaving the fandom just because, honestly yeah there is too much discourse I can't really blame them.

Anyways I'm not kicking the bucket on this blog it's still like a huge hyper fixation of mine but oh man, until they drop a new episode it's getting hard to keep excitement when there's so much negativity

Like if you truly do not like this show anymore or the crew has ruined it for you, go find something else. Keeping yourself in a negative space is not good for you mentally. Yes it hurts to say goodbye to comfort characters but if their canon hurts you this much, leave

#bleh #I'm not going to put this in the tag because I actually have class #I'm going to let you guys reblog this but behave #mostly because I just don't have the spoons to reply #my pet of almost 10 years passed away on Monday which honestly was the straw that broke my already stressed out back

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literary-illuminati · 11 months

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Book Review 14 - The Best of Nancy Kress, by Nancy Kress

Okay, continuing to work through my backlog on these! And learning the perils of letting it build for a month because my memories of most of the stories in this are already getting a bit vague and scattered.

So, getting the basic details out of the way – my first short story collection of the year, 600 pages of the works of Nancy Kress, curated and selected by the author herself as all her favourites that would fit in one volume. Someone on here (can’t remember who and tumblr search is being its usual unusuable self, unfortunately) recommended Beggars In Spain to me a while back, and this was the only volume my library system had that included it. So, 500-ish pages of other stories as a nice bonus until I got to the end and remembered that that’s the reason I’d gotten the book out in the first place.

The stories run from less than ten pages to a novella, and Kress includes a little half-page afterward following each. Usually either a reflection on the meaning of the story or an anecdote about its writing or reception, and then where and when it was originally published and any awards it won. And there were a lot of awards You can get a lot of short stories nominated for Hugos over 45 years of writing. The little snapshots of a, like, SF/F writer subculture and the relationships therein were all charming, anyway.

The stories themselves were of pretty wildly varying subject matter, though all science fiction of one kind or another. Everything from post-apocalyptic ruins to spaceships studying the galactic core to the drama and intrigue of gene-modding among high class ballerinas twenty minutes from now. The quality varied – it would pretty much have to, for like two dozen stories written across a span of decades – but overall it was really quite good.

Tone was rather more consistent. Some were happier than others, of course, but even the most fantastical and high concept worlds were pretty grimy and compromised and full of petty politics and pettier assholes. Capital H Heroes were pretty thin on the ground, even (especially) among the various protagonists. Kress seems to have a rare love for women who aren’t just, like, spiky, but genuinely flawed and unpleasant to be around (easier to pull off with short stories than novels, I suppose).

Short stories are great for just putting people in situations generally, really – not sure how long you could really draw out ‘feeling awkward and shitty because the guy you’re having an affair with was on a ‘business trip’ to visit you when aliens abducted and/or killed everyone in the city his wife and kids were in. He absolutely blames you for this,’ but it’s sure a hook!

Familial relationships that are, lets go with troubled, are a whole other recurring theme, too. Sororicidal sisters, deadbeat dads, obsessive ex-wives, parents putting their children through experimental gene-therapy to make sure they grow up with the ideal body to vicariously live out their dreams, the whole set. There’s even some dubiously consensual clone incest at one point!

Though honestly the lack of capital-h Heroes goes beyond just morality – thinking about it, most of the short stories are told from the perspective of observers, survivors, sufferers of exotic diseases, journalists poking at a mess from the outside. People whose world is being acted upon by forces far beyond their control, if not beyond their understanding entirely, and either bearing witness or struggling to adapt and get by. The stories where the protagonists had real agency – the scientists exploring the galaxy’s core, the time-travellers taking an alternate Anne Boleyn hostage to prevent the English Civil Wars – are usually the tragedies. There are a lot of those – or, if not tragedies, then at least stories that end badly for almost everyone involved. I’m halfway convinced that short stories are just a more appealing format for properly bleak fiction, really – less investment in characters’ wellbeing, or narrative expectations pushing towards growth or happy endings.

And now, before I focus on discussing Beggars In Spain specifically, some call outs for the short stories that really stuck in my head

The aforementioned gene-moding scandals in New York ballet, partially told through the perspective of the engineered-to-be-as-smart-as-a-5-year-old bespoke guard dog contracted to protect a start ballerina. Nicely understated cyberpunk setting and also felt extremely realistic as the sort of thing we’ll absolutely be having scandals about in fifty years tbh.

A woman discovering that the aliens are here amid the ruins of postwar Earth because they started getting our television broadcasts and decided that the only thing we had worth taking was dogs, but are stuck here until they figure out how to train them to be as good and heroic as they are in the movies.

A disenchanted and nostalgic man in the 80s finding a specific cupboard that goes back to one specific day in 1935 (I think. Pre-war but Roosevelt administration). He uses this exclusively to make his social security cheque go further and buy little presents for his friend with what in the 80s is pocket change. The actual plot involves despairing over how cynical and bleak-minded his granddaughter the artist is, and deciding to go back and a Good Man to introduce her to.

An extremely short one – just a one-scene vignette, really – about a waitress in a vaguely ‘50s diner when one of the aliens whose been in the news so much escapes their minders and wants to try an apple pie.

(There were also, I must admit, a decent number of stories that left me cold or that I just didn’t see the point of including, but, again, pretty much inevitable in any big collection, isn’t it?)

But okay, so! Beggars in Spain! It’s definitely an interesting novella, and given the fact that it’s 30 years old and was by all accounts incredibly successful I do kind of wonder how many common tropes about the whole super-intelligent designer babies conceit I’ve encountered elsewhere first are downstream of it?

Because I mean, ostensibly it’s about children modified in utero to not need to sleep, but practically that cashes out to them all being creative productive polyglot geniuses. Which is certainly the fantasy of never having to sleep with zero downsides, though honestly I’m pretty sure I’d spend at least half the extra time fucking around online. That said, the sense of alienation the protagonist has dealing with a world where almost everyone around her seems to just be wasting a third of their lives laying down is really well done.

It’s the sort of novella that you could probably write a dozen a dozen different essays about, and would probably benefit from being analyzed with less than a month’s distance and quotes on hand, but for all the futurism (and really not the best story in the collection for that, honestly), the thematic throughline that stood out to me is actually just libertarianism? Or not quite the right word, probably, though it is our heroine’s ideology (she is, after all, the favoured daughter of a self-made magnate, amid a social circle of the golden children of the striving upper-middle class). But the specific idea of enlightened selfishness, that the contract is the basis of all society, that no one owes anyone anything, and you are only worth what you can produce to offer up in exchange to others.

It’s where the title comes from, after all – the eponymous beggars with nothing to offer except their need who are entirely superfluous and inconvenient to the lives of the Sleepless ubermensch; what are they owed? The orthodox answer of the movement basically every major character at least ostensibly ascribes to is ‘nothing’.

Not that any of them actually act like individuals interacting solely through mutually beneficial contracts, which I’m fairly sure is in fact the point – the Sleepless invent nationalism before any of them turn thirty, going to great effort to support and look after each other on the basis of Sleepless-solidarity and an assumption that each of them is the future of humanity. And on the other hand, the protagonist’s father is a domineering, overbearing ass of a partner, draining both of his wives’ personality and will to live in turn until they get tired of being bitter social secretaries for him and quit. Equitable, contractual relationships are thin on the ground – and of course the entire climax is the protagonist relying on friends and an estranged sister to rescue an abused child who surely isn’t likely to pay any of them back for the effort anytime soon.

I thought the hypocrisy was neatly done, anyway. Especially since it’s never really confronted – none of the Sleepless ever show the slightest awareness that the lengths they’ll go to for the sake of each other purely on the basis of their shared enhancements seem to contradict the ideology they treat as holy writ.

Overall not exactly my favourite book of the year, but a fair bit better than a lot of what I’ve read so far. So I’ll call it a win. Just for the time capsule effect of reading stories written by the same author across four decades, if nothing else.

#book review #Nancy Kress #the Best of Nancy Kress #sff #short stories

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silvysartfulness · 1 year

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Obviously sxx for the ship ask game though I suspect you got another asks about them already bc, well, *gestures vaguely* they are the ship (as they deserve to be). Maybe specifically the songxue side of it..?👀

Do I ship it?

Yeah, I guess you could say so.

What made you ship it?

I mean, I watched the Yi City arc and there it was? The XueXiao side of it had me ugly-snot-crying like a baby and I drew my first piece of fanart a few days later. And then, like, another week later I was like "Actually, you know what, adding Song Lan back into this mess makes it even better" and yeah.

That was 300k and lots of art ago. 🥲

What I like about the songxue angle of the ship specifically is the hurt, the mutual hate and blame for their shared loss, and how all those complicated feelings translate to a deeply unwanted understanding. In a world that forgot and moved on without the Bright Moon and Gentle Breeze long ago, who else will understand the tragedy, the unbearable the grief of his death? Song Lan and Xue Yang are bound together from their very first meeting - as enemies who ruined each others' lives, as master and slave, as broken companions in a deserted ghost city for endless long lonely years - and that bond is cause for both bitterness and an odd unspoken comfort. Whatever else the other is... he's there.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

The yummy emotions of all that trauma, and how their different personalities will both contrast and reflect each other! At their worst, they can hurt each other like no other by stabbing right at the very most vulnerable spots. At their best, they can bring unexpected qualities out in each other; Song Lan's steadiness offering Xue Yang a sense of stability and security he'd never ever admit to wanting but yearns for all the same, Xiao Xingchen tempering Song Lan's black and white and rather judgmental nature with mercy. Xue Yang's irreverence and humour bringing out something more relaxed and, dare I say it, fun in Song Lan that he wasn't even aware he'd been missing, and allowing Xiao Xingchen the selfishness of simply being human, loved for simply being human. And Xiao Xingchen offering the other two a bright light, his love and his stubborn belief that maybe the world could be something better - even if they have to build that world themselves, no matter the blood, sweat and tears it will take.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

I have realized the SXX fandom is divided into groups with some very different takes on the characters (mentally I refer to them as the twitter crowd and the tumblr crowd) and I personally just don't vibe a whole lot with the former..?

In some cliques, there's a great fondness for mean dom Xiao Xingchen, or just Xiao Xingchen as a diva/sadist in general, and I just... really don't vibe with that take on his character. I'm glad others are having fun with the stuff they write and draw! It's just very much not for me. So I presume those fans would feel similarly about my interpretations of the characters. Don't know how much of an unpopular opinion that is, but there's certainly a difference of opinion, so I'm happy for those people to do their stuff over there, and I'll just sit over here and smoosh the blorbos together my preferred way, and we can all be happy out of each others' way. ♥

If you take a step back and look at the MDZS/Untamed fandom in general, I guess the unpopular opinion would be the Problematic shipping of these characters in the first place. The problematic, messy elements of it of course being exactly what makes it good. 😊

Thank you so much for the ask! ♥

#asksilvy #shipping ask meme

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tavs-kin-korner · 9 months

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Hello Tavros, thank you so much for the stimboard! If this doesn’t bother you, I kind of need some kin advice/help here.

For me, being fictionkin is really hard, bc when im from a smaller media, and it’s seen as childish it’s hard for me. Also, sometimes being fictionkin makes me miss stuff I’ve never had. I feel, a lot of the times, wishing I could be back on Starhenge or Celestial island, or being up in the sky, or being with the other celestials. Sometimes when I vent this in tumblr it doesn’t go well, because people tell me im “delusional”, “being a kid”, or stuff like that.

I tried stuff like making the arm pieces I wear or trying to style my hair. But it seems to look less like myself and more like a crappy cosplay.

And on social medias, It’s hard seeing such hate against me. I don’t like seeing people rank monsters and place galvana as the worst, or saying it ruins starhenge. It doesn’t make me angry or sad, but I don’t blow it off. And I saw a drawing on deviant art with most of the celestials, and it was gory. It wasn’t filtered, so I got super overwhelmed from it bc seeing yourself covered in bl00d is super crazy for a fictionkin.

Do you have any tips or advice? Also, thank you for running this page a ton and giving out lots of advice :]

hI, gALVANA! yOU'RE WELCOME FOR THE STIMBOARD! sO GLAD YOU LIKED IT! i'M SO SORRY YOUR EXPERIENCING THESE TROUBLES THOUGH! D:{

sO, fOR MISSING YOUR HOME, i HAD A GOOD IDEA! sTARHENGE AND cELESTIAL iSLAND ARE BOTH SPACE THEMED, rIGHT? sO, mAYBE YOU COULD TRY DECORATING YOUR ROOM WITH SPACE STUFF LIKE STARS, pLANETS, mOONS, eTC,! yOU COULD EVEN GET ONE OF THOSE STAR PROJECTORS SO YOU CAN TURN YOUR LIGHT OFF AND SEE THE STARS AROUND YOU! mAYBE EVEN SOME BLUE LED LIGHTS FOR AN EXTRA EFFECT? i THINK IT WOULD LOOK REALLY PRETTY AND HELP YOU FEEL AT HOME! }:)

fOR THE ARM PIECES, iF YOU MADE THEM OUT OF, lIKE, pAPER OR CARDBOARD, mAYBE YOU COULD TRY MAKING THEM OUT OF ARM WARMERS INSTEAD? iT MIGHT LOOK BETTER AND FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE! fOR YOUR HAIR, pERHAPS YOU COULD SAVE UP FOR A NICE WIG? i'VE GOTTEN ALL MY COSPLAY WIGS OFF AMAZON AND THEY'RE USUALLY REALLY GOOD QUALITY, (iF YOU FIND THE RIGHT ONES, rEAD REVIEWS! i RECOMMEND ONLY BUYING IF MOST OF IT'S REVIEWS ARE POSITIVE,) yOU COULD STYLE IT TO LOOK LIKE YOUR HAIR! (sORRY IF THESE AREN'T AS HELPFUL, i DIDN'T HAVE MANY IDEAS FOR THIS PART,)

aBOUT ALL THE HATE, i'M SO SORRY YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT! }:( iT'S ABSOLUTELY AWFUL, bUT THERE REALLY ISN'T MUCH TO DO BUT IGNORE THOSE WHO WILL CALL YOU "DELUSIONAL" OR "CHILDISH," i WOULD JUST DELETE THOSE COMMENTS,, aS FOR THE RANKINGS AND GORE, i'M SO SO SORRY ABOUT THAT AS WELL, }:( sEEING THAT KIND OF STUFF WITH MY FICTKINS MAKES ME UNCOMFORTABLE TOO,, mAYBE YOU COULD SUGGEST TO THE ARTIST TO PROPERLY TAG IT SO IT'S FILTERED? i'M NOT SUPER SURE ABOUT THE RANKINGS, oTHER THAN MAKING YOUR OWN RANKING AND SAYING YOU'RE THE BEST? sO SORRY i DON'T HAVE ANY BETTER ADVICE! }:(

hOPE THIS HELPED AT LEAST A LITTLE, aND i HOPE YOU START FEELING BETTER SOON! sENDING LOTS OF LOVE AND SUPPORT! <3 /P

#tw mentions of blood #tw mentions of gore #kin vent #kin advice #kin help #galvana kin #my singing monsters kin #galvana msm #my singing monsters #fictionkin

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artsybi · 2 years

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hey, hey, tumblr look at me, if you kill the quality on this piece i spent something like three and a half hours on i'll kill YOU (click for the quality that tumblr ruined)

anyway, yeah! i spent a truly hellish amount of time on this piece, because i was hit with the NEED to redraw that one panel from waid's '14 run with my matt design, and uh, here it is!

i'm???? actually really happy with this????? i think it looks good and i think i managed the more complex pose really well :D

anyway, i can't stop drawing matt and i'm not upset about it, bc i keep ending up with pieces i really like, so yeah, expect a LOT more matt on my blog soon asfdsafd :)

original panel that this is a redraw of under the cut

#matt murdock #daredevil #daredevil comics #my art #redraw #digital art #digital drawing #my stuff #i made this #fanart #daredevil fanart #artists on tumblr #image id #id in alt text #also yes this is my preferred design for matt's white cane #it's also how it's drawn at the start of waid's '11 run along with being how it looks in the show #i imagine that it comes apart into four pieces #the two fully white center pieces are what he usually uses as his escrima sticks #but when he takes the tip off the red piece it can also be used as an escrima stick #i have put.... too much? thought into the mechanics of his convertible cane #but i'm not gonna stop now bc it's my FAVORITE thing #anyway i'm so happy with how this came out #also! if you think i've drawn his cane too long compared to the original i actually measured how tall it should be #white canes should reach your sternum when upright in front of you and that's how tall i've drawn matt's cane here #bc i'm a nerd who puts effort into things like that safdsafdsfd #oh and tell me if my image ids suck #i'm doing my best

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sleepytownzzz · 6 months

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aftermath.

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theclo4ked1 · 1 month

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Heeyyy, it's been a looong time... *checks date* Again. It's been almost a month since I last put something on this blog. I've been really busy. being dead. And I haven't been playing Portal 2. But I have been playing a lot of the classic Sonic games via the Mega Collection, the absolutely incredible compilation disc. I think it tops Sonic Origins (which I haven't played). I feel like the comics and older illustrations, commercials, and Ristar (pronounced "Rye-star" or "Wrist-ar"? Or "Ree-star"?) win me over. And also, from what I've heard and observed, there wasn't as much love and care put into it, so the overall quality experience is hindered because

Money money money Is all you need

( Did you know ALL models of the PS3 can play PSX discs? I've been playing my newly acquired PaRappa the Rapper, too. I now own the trilogy. Only UmJammer Lammy is digital. I bought PaRappa 2 physically at my first gaming convention back in 2018, only to find out later my wife can't use PS2 discs. Big sad. You might saying "why don'tcha just jailbreak it?" I wouldn't, but even if I wanted to, I don't have the correct model. It's been so many years anyways, I wouldn't have her any other way :3 )

AND. It was with this compilation that--after all these years--that I finally achieved: 1) Beating Sonic 3D Blast (with the emeralds) 2) Beating the first level of Sonic Spinball (I've recommend some guy on YouTube having also done this, so good for him) These may not mean a lot to you, but to me? Man. And y'know what? I actually enjoyed my time with 3D Blast. It was a...unique game. I really like seeing all the sights and how the game progressed after Green Grove. After Rusty Ruin, I noticed Tails' and Knuckles' locations became way less hidden. Rusty Ruin Act 2, I think it was, had THE BEST hidden location, for Tails it might have been. No, scratch that--the whole ZONE has the best locations, you really have to go out of your way for them. What's that? ... Where did I find him? Pssh, I'm not telling you, play the game and use your brain. Just don't spin yourself around too much tryna find him. Anyways, I've been busy doing things. I've been developing a under-HTML-construction digital portfolio of almost all the art I've posted on Tumblr since uuuhm late 2020. You can find it through the link below: > the link < I'm beginning to have second thought about this one, too, so don't expect me to keep it for too long. Parallel to that, I've been trying animation again. Look guys look it is my greatest achievement: wario land 4 for the gameboi advanced. incrredible incrrrEedible- look guys look

Sigh...y'know, getting guud learning basic anatomy and figure drawing can spark an improved journey... This isn't the "true animation". What I mean is each of the original drawings were MUCH larger than my Flash Document canvas (1440x1080), so by compressing everything into a Graphic symbol, I was able to minimize all the frames at once to fit. It took a few tries to work, so I had to be conscientious as to not save over the "uncompressed" drawings. k cya l8r

#flash animation #short animation #parappa the rapper

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vesperewrites · 6 months

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Ik you probably want to bury this subject so it's ok if you don't respond, but seeing so many people talk about how new writers for lcmd aren't as good, or how old ones were "seasoned" writers is really disheartening. One, because I feel like this goes so far against fandom etiquette where everyone is appreciated and everyone understands that this is literally free content that people share for fun. I've been in fandom since 13y.o. and it was always a huge no-no to even imply someone's writing isn't good - I swear fandom has become much more unwelcoming in recent years.

Two, I'm also kind of discouraged to do anything for the fandom myself, because I stopped being creative around 4 years ago and reentering creative spaces like the lcmd fandom makes me want to draw and write again, especially because there are so many people here that I want to interact with more, but I feel like nothing will be appreciated. Especially with how much people accuse others of jealousy, or of being "talentless" or "contributing nothing to the fandom"... so now I really want to interact with others and be creative but am too scared to.

On a positive note, seeing you saying that you only really started writing a year ago and having read one of your works I am amazed at how incredible your writing is! I read Sovereign Deadly Perfect and I remember thinking "this person has been writing for YEARS they should be writing BOOKS" your prose, vocabulary and character study is all so amazing and to find out you've only cultivated that talent for a year is very inspiring. Sorry to add more to whatever that shitstorm of anons was, but thank you for writing for this fandom and defending authors!

Hi Anon (you can choose an emoji if you want me to specifically address you, if you like!),

Oh, I don’t mind discourse at all, provided that it is done in good faith! Disagreements are healthy and I respect people's opinions/experiences. See here.

To your first point: Yeah, I agree with you. It does go against basic fandom etiquette. I’m not disheartened at all, but I find it discouraging for other people. I think it’s important to note that the sample size is so small. Even if a few people (let’s say, twenty people on TL as an example) all say, “lol new stuff sucks”, that’s their opinion, and isn’t indicative of the entire fandom as a whole. :] There’s a lot of folks without twt/tumblr that comment. Or people that silently kudos.

Fanfic and fanart is free! It’s for the fandom. It’s not done to “elevate the quality” /mustache twirl lol.

Personally, I think 1-3(?) anons saying whatever they want as a means to instigate something is childish (calling people delulu isn’t discourse btw. See here.) Don’t let a few ppl ruin or dictate your fun. Even if it were 10 neg anon asks in your inbox, chances are, it’s the same person trying to bully you out or to seek a reaction. It's important to understand the motivations of those people is meant to scare and harass you. Which isn't okay, but I refuse to let anyone do that to me. The block button is there if I need it. Curating your online space is super important.

To your second point, I totally understand that fear and anxiety completely! I was in the same boat in my other fandom. If you want to create, I say, do it! I only joined fandom about a year ago in July 2022. Never did I think I would do fanart either. And it's all because one author that I was inspired to start creating.

It is scary to put your work out there. It is scary being judged no matter what. If you think you’d be too affected by it, it’s okay to engage from the sidelines, but I would love to see you create. Trust me, if cute Worm!Luke art and Hamster!Luke can be welcomed, I think you will be too <3 Engaging in a new fandom is really scary and I was actually put off at first.

The hugest thing to examine is why you create. Is it for validation? Is it to share your work? Is it for social engagement? How much? Personally, it’s not healthy to expect too much validation or social engagement from strangers on the internet. I write primarily for myself, to get the demons out. Regardless if I get kudos or comments or not, it’s for myself. That deserves its own post of course. The reason I post something up, is to share it. And if one person likes it, that’s enough for me. I’m very happy :]

There are going to be a few people that would love to have you here, me included. I can't promise that everyone is going to be nice, but I've met and engaged with a lot of nice people through honesty and compassion, and they've been nothing but welcoming.

Ad hominem attacks like “talentless” does not affect me at all because these are strangers looking to control/hurt others. Often, it stems out of jealousy. As for copying: as long as you’re not plagiarizing or directly tracing another artist’s work (Van Gogh or other massively well-known historical artists or reference book artists are OK lol), it’s fine.

And ahhhh, thank you!! I sincerely appreciate your kindness. I met random strangers, now fandom friends, hyping up my work. And oh god, my first fic, VG, is almost unreadable now lmao and I say that with fondness and love. I am extremely self-critical of my own writing and that has pushed me to become a better writer. Even if a person insults my writing (hasn’t happened), it doesn’t affect me because I’d be straight up, “fuck yeah, I agree lmao”. If I ever seem neg my own writing, it doesn’t mean I’m upset at all, it means that I’m striving to do better for myself. Of course, there’s a difference between real criticism and insults (insults are just funny).

I have supportive friends and fandom friends (especially within the DNF fandom). Being surrounded by some incredible writers really motivates me. And I want to support others too.

If you ever want to send me something like art or a fic piece but don't want me to publish the ask, I'd love to take a look at it! And I'll respond with my thoughts in a separate post <3

#author asks #im so sorry anon for the long post #i hope you are well

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I felt the need to talk about this before I officially started the series. The real announcement is at the very bottom for those who don't really care.

I want to make this clear what I'm about to say I'm attending to just be forgotten and then in the future when more of this series comes out I can hopefully reblog it talking about how everything got better and now things are looking bright for the future of comic creators...but that's what I'm hoping for, I don't see that actually happening in reality.

For the people who know me personally they are well aware of my dreams of one day working with DC comics. I would rant and complain about how badly I wanted it to happen often and most of the time it led to me going "maybe some day" after I tried myself out going over every single thing I would do if I ever managed to get hired by DC.

And I imagine the reasonable response to my complaints would be

"Well that's a very cute dream but clearly you're an amateur comic book creator who doesn't have much experience."

And that is true, my skills at drawing are no where near what I hope to accomplish for my own comic on my own. I've always been more of a writer than an artist.

I wouldn't know how I could even manage my stress to keep up with DC or Marvel with a strict schedule I would have to follow.

But the key word is "on my own" and that's where things begin to slowly unravel for the horrible situations most independent comic creators who are starting out have to face.

Because even though it's true that on my own it will be a struggle the people who work at DC and marvel have help and years of experience and guidance to know what they're doing.

While it's hard to even know the right place to get their attention. To know how and where to apply to get a job like that.

So far the only "good" place to post a comic to boost your career that is a place MADE for independent comic creators is webtoons.

Now I could go on and on about how absolutely awful webtoons is as a company who don't care about their creators and never does anything good in our favor but it's all people really have.

Now you could show me many different other websites to post your webcomics that our webcomic only focused but nothing is as well known as webtoons is right now.

Why is that? Why does this website that doesn't care about the users/creators of all these well made comics be so popular?

And yes Tumblr is wonderful to allow the ability for me to constantly post and create even on my phone so I don't have to sit through the pain of drawing on ibis and then switching to my laptop to import all my art and let the quality get ruined instead of sending it directly to the site with no issues. But Tumblr isn't a webcomic only site, I don't expect big companies like DC or Marvel to ever browse the site to look for the next big things and there WERE rare moments of that happening for Disney but it doesn't feel right.

I'm very well aware that I'm probably not going to be able to make a career out of this comic.

That is fine

I'm very aware that I'm going to have to be working on this comic by myself as an independent creator.

That is also fine

And I'm very aware I'm probably not going to find a supportive website that is comic book based and treats its creators fairly.

And I'm not really okay with that. Tumblr is lovely but I don't feel like this is where I should stay to finish this webcomic.

Start it? yes. But not finish it.

Now I have been working on this comic since I was 6 years old, I plan for this comic to have 4 parts and it will probably take me years to complete it all.

And I really hope that once I get there I can reblog this and say how everything is better now.

Independent artists can make a career out of their work.

Independent comic book artists have a much better website to post their works onto and have a better possibility of being hired by a company.

Independent comic book artists can now tell their story and know that someone is going to see it without the website promoting paid favoritism.

That is all

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The first pages of "we're pig farmers" are going to be redrawn to make it look less rushed for better viewing enjoyment. I will also be implementing a different art style as it was something that was planned from the beginning.

Thank you to all my friends, patient viewers and my mentor who might be reading this! I don't think I would have felt so passionate about starting this project if you guys didn't immediately support me like you did.

And I hope everyone enjoys this story I've been working on.

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#art #comics #original comic #we're pig farmers not hitmen #comic books #comic covers #i had to bring it up #webtoons

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