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Cat sitting for @the-dune-popcorn-bucket while they’re out of town. We’re having a slumber party!

#shitpost #cats #mr love queen's choice #mr love victor #queen’s choice victor #shitposting #video #if you let me hang out with your cats i will inevitably shitpost with them #slumber party #sleepover #idk tags

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#reblog #boop #april fools day

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Apologies if I've booped you and you don't know who I am. I am booping every boopable name that goes by. I want all of us to get all of the badges.

#boop #april fool's day #april fools day

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Sunset walk, March 29, 2024

#flowers #photography #nature photography #flower photography #apple blossom #redbud #sunset #image description in alt

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Speaking of Shimazaki, I learned a lot about myself this week making these terrible memes so I could drop them in the discord chat as I made my friends watch MP100. What I learned was, I have a terrible sense of humor (actually I already knew that, I just didn't realize it was this bad) and that the only thing I enjoy more than watching Shimazaki kick ass, is Shimazaki getting his ass kicked. (I'll have more of these for next week when we get to Serizawa's stuff! Sorry!)

#mp100 #mob psycho 100 #shimazaki ryo #shimazaki ryou #sorry for my terrible humor and my outdated memes #ryou shimazaki #ryo shimazaki #i have to tag every spelling because i won't remember which one i used #personal #jade's blorbos #mp100 spoilers #also the irony is not lost on about how bad i am at image descriptions on a post about a blind man i'm trying my best #img desc in alt text #long post #really though if anyone has any constructive feedback on how i can get better at image descriptions #please tell me! #i probably need to take a writing class or something i am SO bad at words #what i specifically arranged these in the least annoying way possible so it wouldn't make the post too long #and it changed it to them stacked on over the other #i'm sorry i don't know why

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My Mob Psycho 100 hyperfixation has reawakened as I have been making my friends watch it with me. I wanted to try animating Shimazaki! I've never made anything quite like this before, and it maybe didn't match up to what I wanted it to be, but I learned a *lot* about animating. And I have to say, having some real proper software to do this in has made a significant difference, having layers to put things on so they can all be animated at different speeds is a game changer. Last time, I tried something to do an animation with Windows Movie Maker and my sketch pad, it was *real bad*. So even if this isn't what I wanted, it's such a huge improvement from my old work, so I'm happy to see growth and learn new skills!

#art #mob psycho 100 #mob psycho fanart #mp100 #mp100 fanart #shimazaki ryou #ryou shimazaki #ryo shimazaki #shimazaki ryo #tw flashing #tw eye strain #gif warning #fan art #your honor that's my emotional support villain #jade's blorbos #img description in alt text

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I've been working on animated paintings(?) recently and I was wondering how I'd go about glazing/nightshading them. There are too many moving parts to be able to glaze them individually. If I just made a static, idk, gradient? and glazed it, then overlaid it on top of the entire piece and timeline, slightly transparent, would that do anything worthwhile? I feel silly even asking.

#glaze #nightshade

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I finally got a referral to a neurologist and for an MRI for my chronic migraine!

#it has taken YEARS to get to this point because we had to rule out a bunch of other stuff first #and i didn't have insurance until recently so that halted progress quite a bit #i'm scared to get hopeful but maybe we can finally get a handle on this? maybe? #maybe? #personal #tw medical #don't reblog please

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I would say I did a dragon because it’s the year of the dragon, but honestly I just like drawing dragons. This was a practice painting to try out this black watercolor paper. The play of the metallics in the light is a little hard to capture on camera.

#art #watercolor #dragon #painting #fantasy painting #video and image description in alt #img desc in alt text

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How is everyone? It’s cold.

#posted from under my blanket

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Cookies made with mochiko to give them a chewy bouncy texture. Things I’d change for next time: add more maple flavoring than I did because it’s barely noticeable, and not bother swirling three different colors of batter because it just made the finished product muddy looking.

#art #baking #cute food #food #cute baking #tw food #img desc in alt text

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Finally got my painting on the wall. Slowly turning my apartment into a cozier space. I’m probably going to take the stars down, and maybe do two smaller paintings on either side? Originally the plan was for the painting to have the same colors as the rug, but as I painted it, it kind of became its own thing. So maybe the paintings on the sides could be the rug colors.

#art #idk how to tag this #my apartment #decorating #img desc in alt text

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My very first attempt at making meringue cookies. They’re strawberry flavored! My piping really needs work, but it was just as fun adding goofy faces to the messed up ones.

#art #food #baking #meringue cookie #cats #pink #image description in alt #tw food

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Anyway, here are some stickers I made in Sticky Business.

#sticky business #assemble entertainment #shitposting #booty fruity #shitpost #art #i guess

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on chronic illness and being An Artist with Goals

I had wanted to use this blog more frequently and keep up with posting my art or whatever other creative things I was up to, but this past year was a lot. I started the long process of getting all kinds of tests and scans done to figure out why I have chronic migraine, as well as some other chronic health issues. It's been very frustrating because so far we haven't found any solid answers or solutions.

Despite my colossal lack of spoons, I did manage to make a lot and try a lot of new things this year! My original goal was to complete one art piece per month, so at the end of the year I could have a nice 3x4 grid of thumbnails like all the other cool artists and feel accomplished. But pushing through migraines to try to race to finish something for an arbitrary deadline just so I can have a Content makes migraine worse, actually. So this year was also a year to learn how to balance my goals with my health. No self-imposed deadline is worth making myself sicker!

Having the goal really did help me to accomplish more and keep me more focused in where I was putting my energy. At the same time, it gave me the opportunity to learn to be gentle with myself when it became clear I needed to step back and rest. It's a balancing act, and I will be learning and re-learning it probably for the rest of my life, so I may as well do so in a way that isn't so harmful to myself. There's no sense in berating myself for not working on a project when I'm literally in so much pain I can't open my eyes. That's just silly and unrealistic.

It was a fun year even with all the medical stress! I think I will tweak last year's goal a bit for this year: I want to work on something new or try something new each month, and I'd like to have a finished piece each month, but my health takes priority. And I'd like to post here more, but I think I need to let go of the overwhelm of thinking everything I post has to be finished polished Content.

#personal #tw health #tw medical #long post #i want to post some of the things i made this year #even though they'll be late #which probably doesn't matter to anyone but me #tldr i'm a spoony and i feel frustrated that i can't Do More #also your identity isn't your accomplishments! #will probably regret posting this later lol

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My goal was to finish this by the end of the year, and I did it! (Technically I finished it a few days ago). This is the first painting I’ve ever done on canvas, and the first one this large (36” x 24”) I’ve ever done for myself.

#art #acrylic paint #nature art #cherry blossom #flowers #pink #i was going to do gold leaf details but i think it would be too busy #oh gross the colors look terrible on desktop #i posted from my phone #oh well #image desc in alt

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A cute jumper inspecting my spray paint job (thankfully after it had already dried)

#nature #art #spiders #jumping spider #tw arachnophobia #bugs #tw bugs #pastel goth #image description in alt