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lol The Devil's banana

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oh, precious Serpent, why are you crying? [spoiler WIP for "and they were monsters" artbook]

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Gourmet✨

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HEY YOU GOT GAMES ON YOUR PHONE?

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seethrough

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funny phrases to use when something goes wrong instead of jokingly saying "i'm going to kms":

i'm going to kill god

i'm going to delete my blog

i'm going to explode

i'm going to blow up this entire website

i'm going to become the joker

this is going to be my villain origin story

i'm being so brave about it

fuck it we ball

god had to nerf me because i was too powerful

i'm too pretty for this

all according to plan

feel free to add on

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Graha print I never posted from Fanex! <3

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If only you could see what I could see.

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I don’t know which fic writer needs to hear this but it’s unreasonable to expect of yourself to write all the story ideas that your mind comes up with. That’s not how creativity works! Unless you’re some kind of Productivity Georg that types at a laptop keyboard all day long, your mind just needs to rotate ideas and concepts like a room full of rotisserie chicken production lines. Some of them will end up being fully written, some of them will end up being 4 lines, some of them will be concepts inside a long list of fic ideas that will never get written, some of them will just fade. And that’s okay! You don’t have to beat yourself up for having a lot of ideas you don’t write, or a lot of wips you write a few lines or pages of and never finish. You wouldn’t expect an illustrator to just churn out full-ass paintings all the time, an artist will also just make sketches, line art, warm-up exercises, will just scribble some lines on a piece of paper. Your ideas and wips are just the same thing: warm-up sketches, exercises in creativity. And it’s also okay if you never really produce full fics, as long as your brain enjoys the exercise. Jogging across the neighborhood is not useless unless you win a marathon! It gives you endophins and strengthens your muscles and is healthy for you all around, right? Your fic ideas and pile of wips are the jogging. They give your brain the happy chemicals and exercise your creative muscles. You are not a failure for not turning your ideas into finished products. That’s just how it works.

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Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

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Cover art for Cities of Smoke and Starlight by Alli Earnest Now that the cover has been revealed, I’m happy to finally be able to share this book cover illustration that I did last year for Alli Earnest’s debut novel Cities of Smoke and Starlight, coming out May 4th. Make sure to go check out her work! This was definitely a challenging one but I had a lot of fun working on it!

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♪ May I love you, may I be your shield ♪

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i love drawing him looking condescending fr

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finally finished this one ✨

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How do you grapple with a sense of deep indebted onus? I literally pledged myself to one of the worst people I've ever met, to work for them for years, for a bunch of people I haven't seen since.

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Hopefully we'll get to see a date night with all 3 soon 🥰🖤💜🖤