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You can put this out for people who draw. I think so. :3

pick-me-ups for writers

for the self-conscious beginner: No one makes great things until the world intimately knows their mediocrity. Don’t think of your writing as terrible; think of it as preparing to contribute something great.

for the self-conscious late bloomer: Look at old writing as how far you’ve come. You can’t get to where you are today without covering all that past ground. For that, be proud.

for the perfectionist: Think about how much you complain about things you love—the mistakes and retcons in all your favorite series—and how you still love them anyway. Give yourself that same space.

for the realist: There will be people who hate your story even if it’s considered a classic. But there will be people who love your story, even if it is strange and unpopular.

for the fanfic writer: Your work isn’t lesser for not following canon. When you write, you’ve created a new work on its own. It can be, but does not have to be, limited by the source material. Canon is not the end-all, be-all. 

for the writer’s blocked: It doesn’t need to be perfect. Sometimes you have to move on and commit a few writing sins if it means you can create better things out of it.

for the lost: You started writing for a reason; remember that reason. It’s ok to move on. You are more than your writing. It will be here if you want to come back.

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sleepy bulbas doodle for fantastic @yihagathe and their success in animation related jobs 

many congrats my friend <333

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Ray's so precious!! 😚😚😚

How can you not love him?? He's like a teddy bear, so soft and playful...

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It's May-- I know! :P

Two wolves in me? Nah, I have these two idiots! Krampi and Mari Lwyd, what a wacky pair!

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dancing with your memory

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My favorite yokai

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Typically believed to have been a misspelling of "Amabiko" a similar three-legged yokai with the same functions and prophecy.

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Just a trad. drawing (even if unseasoned, but she's not just for the Winter) of Mari Lwyd, cause she's the best goofball (especially with my borderline Aardman style of her here), as well as an attempt on the Rhondda valley in Wales.

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[ID: Three screencaps from Taskmaster. Julian Clary stands behind a fake reception desk set up in a living room. Alex Horne stands on the other side of the desk wearing a white bath robe. Alex asks, "Why is your colleague playing the French horn?" Julian says, "She's French." Lucy Beaumont walks around the outside of the house blowing awkwardly into a French horn. End ID.]

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Oh, how cute. (That was sarcasm)

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Pencil sketches

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As much as I enjoy Reignited, they couldn't top the shenanigans of the original, such as these frog fodder and their detached eyebrows 🤗

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Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.

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illustrations from 'days with frog and toad,' arnold lobel, 1979.

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Few more character bios involved with Aether 2, which is still underway of publishing. Been thinking about using Books.By as an ideal place to sell my books, including Aether 1.

Alistair; a gentlemanly golem in the marshlands

Mayor Perry; the mayor of Melsey

Aethmos; a strange ivory creature looking for something

Ms. Dyllis; a cantankerous lady, who somehow appears in places

Jester; a rather strange fellow lurking around much of the Southern Island.

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A message from Rob Wilkins.

Shortly before he died, Terry Pratchett assured me that, if there is an afterlife, he would give me a ring and let me know. That was ten years ago - and still no call.

From which, incidentally, I draw no firm conclusions. What if there was an afterlife, but with no phone signal?

But of course there is one place where Terry indisputably lives on: in the pages of his books and in the minds of the millions of readers around the world who turn those pages and continue to find them funny and true. For, while his words live on, so does Terry, and that will be the case, no question, not just for this one decade so quickly gone, but for many further decades to come.

So let me join Lyn and Rhianna in raising a glass today to the magical persistence of books and to Sir Terry; gone but still so very firmly with us.

Rob Wilkins

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