#and working from life is also Essential

[elvisqueso]

Heeyyy, Elvis! So... I have a question: when did your passion for art begin? When did you start drawing and writing too? ✨

Oh hey there! I hope your cold is clearing up!

I've always loved drawing, but I didn't start to get serious about learning art until I got that How to Draw Manga book from Scholastic when I was, like, 8:

^^^^ A revelation for so many kids....

Everything kinda grew from there. I didn't take any actual art classes until high school, and it was only a couple workshops at a community art center. I'm very much self-taught overall, but I also work as a figure model sometimes and I get to learn some tips and stuff while I'm posing for classes. Very nifty. I highly recommend sitting for a portrait class at some point; you can learn a lot! And it's fun :)

For writing, I think I wrote my first "fic" when I was 9 or 10. It was Redwall fanfic and I turned it in for homework 😅 but I wrote a lot of fic for myself for a long time and it took me a while before I got brave enough to post anything online.

Thank you so much for the ask! I look forward to seeing your own art journey progressing, too!

[mobius-m-mobius]

Mobius + being the only one to notice

[brontes]

I had a thought today about all that vampires lose in the twilight lore. Sure sure they’re fast and strong and invulnerable BUT they lose the chance to earn things because of that. The Cullens are rich but like…that just happens when you invest for three centuries. They can lift incredible amounts of weight…but just by nature and not because they’ve built up to it. They build projects and make paintings and learn…but they will always lack the satisfaction that comes from managing those accomplishments amidst the regular demands of life. Edward was seventeen…he never got the chance to earn anything by the sweat of his brow or the burning of the midnight oil.

Beyond just the bloodlust, they miss out on the regular daily challenges that make our time and pleasure meaningful. Something that is easily overlooked by teenagers reading a love story but honestly something heartbreaking to contemplate.

[whiteboardartstudios]

I SAID I WAS GOING TO DRAW THAT CAR SO HERE WE ARE (I hope you enjoy this is the stupidest thing I've drawn in months /affectionate)

(I put the image descriptions in the Alt text this time because there's so many images. If it doesn't work please tell me and I'll yeet them in the actual post!!)

happy finale of Wild Life everybody! :D

[valtsv]

Yesss im so here for the inception fixation. Its world building is genuinely fucking wacko, i love it. If you wrote anything in the setting, I would devour it

i don't have much more than thoughts and ideas rn, but i do have one that's basically bluebeard's wife but inception that i keep returning to time and time again (also bluebeard's wife is in this is not his lawfully wedded wife, but in the process of being seduced by him - not for her beauty or charm or anything like that, though she has some wit, but for her creativity and intellect; he disappears and eventually murders people and imprisons them in his mind in order to use their intellectual property without retaliation in reality - through the provision of dreamtech and opportunities to use it, and isolation from anyone who could recognise the danger she's in, who doesn't recognise his fixation on her for the threat it is until she realises that the jealous ghost that keeps showing up to terrorise and brutally murder her is one of his previous victims)

[yunisketch]

I er, may have taken one of my fav books to bookbind a few of my favorite fanfics into a lil collection (all by THE Transformers writer of all time @doomspoon888 ).

It was a gift to my friend @not-a-mang0 ^w^

I kept the sleeve to easily disguise the book on a shelf (Well, it’s book #7 of a series by itself but shhh)

[stratopshere]

i havent been into tog in like 4-5ish years but one thing that really bothered me when i was into it was the whole simp bam thing idk. i think people need to stop seeing rachel and bam as exes and start seeing them as mother figure and son. yes even though they look/act somewhat close in age. like i mean quite literally she raised him and taught him everything he knew up until the point he entered the tower. even his kindness was taught to him by rachel even after every horrible thing she's done. yes this is even though she looks more like his older sister. i feel like her youth/youthful appearance is intentional (at least to me) since irl girls and women are also forced into motherly roles much younger than theyre ready for

[skeletalheartattack]

for the past couple of days, i've been working on Boe's house in limbo and getting it to look close to how i've been picturing it in my head - here's a couple of shots so far showing off the exterior and interior, with the top screenshot being further along in progress than the other exterior shots.

[darcyolsson]

also happy 1 year anniversary to me thinking i was going to get a 16-track album about joe alwyn and instead having the experience of pressing play on a song and thinking "ok time for some tea about joe.... hm. actually somehow this seems to be about... matty healy...? i didnt think she would ever speak about that man again. ah a direct 1975 reference OKAY" nearly 31 times in a row

[aroaessidhe]

2025 reads / storygraph

Kiss Me, Maybe

contemporary romance

an ace lesbian has an accidental thirst trap go viral and uses the attention to talk about her experiences - which ends up developing into a silly idea to do a scavenger hunt where the winner gets to be her first kiss

she starts to plan it, with the bartender she’s had a crush on for years, and realises she’s starting to fall for said bartender - and as their relationship develops so does her understanding of her identity & connection towards her community

grey-ace lesbian MC

arc, out may 6!

[lovelyisadora]

Also when sep restarts his apprenticeship is he like. Okay so you rlly did cut out a lot of stuff huh. Wtf were u going to if I finished the apprenticeship. And marcia's like idk I didn't think that far ahead. Or like. What happens andjdndjfn I need More

quick context because this has been in my inbox for at least two years but this is about the apprenticeship arrangement in rewrite au (at least I am like 95 percent sure it is).

if Septimus had actually finished the apprenticeship, he wouldn’t have been able to take over as extraordinary wizard because of how she modified it to be age appropriate and because he went into it with little to no experience with or knowledge of magyk (in rewrite au, the extraordinary apprenticeship is more of an elite position; if the purpose is to train potential extraordinary wizards, then only apprentices who are top of their magyk classes or programs are considered). Marcia was never going to have him take over so young, but without the proper training, he couldn’t have taken over ever. so since she didn’t have a plan and never thought that far ahead anyway, and because the arrangement was always about his day to day functioning, she really was just figuring it out as she went (with no help from Silas or Sarah, but only because Marcia is the extraordinary wizard; the apprenticeship hiding the fact that she is his legal guardian is hers to figure out as far as they are concerned).

the hardest part, since she did want him to take over eventually, would have been keeping the arrangement a secret and finding how to prepare him in a way that qualified him without him realizing what was really going on. she would have pushed him to higher education, would have found ways to introduce new books and extra lessons and spells in a way that didn’t clue him in that she was teaching him the way he should have always been taught. anything, so that when she was ready and he expressed interest in replacing her, it could happen. but because he doesn’t have the easiest apprenticeship even modified as it is, none of this happens. it all falls apart because it wasn’t sustainable, but also because he wasn’t ready and neither was she (which she did warn Silas and Sarah about).

she tells him this, after the first three months of his restarted apprenticeship, but only when he asks. because he knew, after they finally talked about it when it all fell apart that the actual apprenticeship was different, but he hadn’t realized just how much. he’s taking magyk classes because Marcia warned him she wasn’t going to bridge his gap in knowledge. he would be more than prepared for some of it, but nowhere near ready for a lot of it. if he was serious about recommitting to the extraordinary apprenticeship then the extraordinary apprenticeship was what he was getting, nothing less, and he needs do the work he missed on his own. Marcia is also Marcia, so she pushes him harder and expects more of him than other extraordinary wizards might have expected of their apprentices if they were in this situation. his first three months are very difficult as a result and he starts realizing that being the extraordinary wizard is a lot harder than it looks, that the work required to get to that position is harder than he thought, and he’s like, oh my god, Marcia, were you going to throw me into that without any of this?

telling him the second part of it, that she still wouldn’t have told him about the arrangement had he finished his original apprenticeship, is almost as hard as it would have been to cover it up. he really does not like hearing that Marcia still would have lied by omission and kept it from him. he thinks that he would have deserved to know, had he not found out by accident when it fell apart.

Marcia ends the conversation there though, to his frustration, because there’s no point in talking about what would have been. he knows now. he’s doing the apprenticeship now, the right way. they’ve already discussed the arrangement, at length. they don’t need to discuss it any further.

except they do, because they resolved it without resolving it. if Marcia kept this from him, if she would have continued to keep this from him, what else must she be keeping from him? he never fully trusts her again.

[wewere-here]

it’s cool and all that we got more maps added to Just Dance+, but WHERE ARE TRAVELER & SI’HA NOVA’S MAPS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[frenchy-and-the-sea]

THIS IS A CALLOUT POST FOR MY DMS @themilokin AND @phoenix-failing FOR HITTING US WITH A SCENARIO SO FUNDAMENTALLY HEARTBREAKING IN ITS IMPLICATIONS THAT WE SPENT THE ENTIRE SESSION ARGUING ABOUT WHAT TO DO AND ALSO LIKE THREE OF US STARTED CRYING. AND THEN, WHEN WE FINALLY MADE OUR DECISION, AND WE HAD TO SAY GOODBYE TO A BELOVED NPC THAT HAS BEEN WITH US ALMOST SINCE THE BEGINNING, THEY HIT US WITH A TWIST SO GRACIOUS AND UNEXPECTED THAT WE STARTED THREATENING THEM WITH PHYSICAL VIOLENCE (EXTREMELY AFFECTIONATE)

HOLY SHIT, WHAT A GAME.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

i think i officially set my sights on a therapist and i'll be contacting her very soon?? therapy was legitimately not on my 2024 bingo card (or in the cards for me at all) but here we are????

[sometimeswritingsometimesdying]

in the years ive been off tumblr ive done a lot of traditional work so here's one of my favorites <3 it's titled "the epilogue"

oil painting & stitching on canvas, february 2024 (words by me!)

[bacchuschucklefuck]

LIVING for your ponytail Yugi he’s so cute 😭💖

thank u! i hold dear in my heart the way yuugi is like a little plushie that wants nothing more than to die a noble death