#but also that's a tag I use to sort stuff

[zillychu]

Can we please politely push for DPxDC content to not use the main DP tags?

An AU overtaking a main tag is a fairly common fandom thing to happen, and when it does happen, this is generally how it's dealt with. There's no solid guideline of when to do it, but at some point, an AU becomes so widespread that blacklisting doesn't really help.

It's also simply not fair, nor logical to shove a fandom out of its tags and into a different tag or community. What about new fans who peek into the main tag and see nothing but an AU they weren't looking for?

(This is a great place to also remind people that only the first five tags on a post get sorted site-wide. Anything after those are purely for your own organization in your own blog. So you can still tag your stuff with canon tags after the first five!)

I really think DPxDC stuff needs to be posted in a dedicated tag/community. I really don't want to have to start blocking individual users, but after waiting for... what, three years, I think? In hopes that fans would self-govern and use a bit of common courtesy I've seen in other fandoms? I'm unfortunately almost there. Not to say that this is deliberately rude! I'm not sure the fandom at large has really talked about it enough for DPxDC fans to catch on, so I don't blame any party here.

I just think this is something we could very politely ask for more. Be kind, be patient, and see if we all can't make this fandom space a bit more comfy for everyone, yeah?

[reallycoolsoup]

I don't mean to sound rude but I think your researcher friend could use the dewy decimal system the library of Congress uses to find subject matter. The dewy decimal system isn't perfect but it's widely used because it's one of the best ways to organize massive amounts of information.

And the system gets updated, and while the DDS doesn't use keyword searches if you know how it works it is better than keyword searches because it sorts things by discipline. You want philosophy you go to the 100s, religion stuff you go to the 200s, you want social sciences you go to the 300s. ao3 might have a really robust tagging system and keyword search functionality which works well enough, but it's also not keeping track of research literature it's mainly organizing fiction, which is a bit easy to sort through by keyword search but wouldn't be helpful if you're trying to research something where the terminology changes over time so specific keywords might not pull up everything

Just because a system is easier to use doesn't mean it's the best system, keyword searches and tags are great but the library of Congress is working with a lot more types of literature so it's organized differently.

at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

[white-weasel]

Thinking a lot about the implications that Bernard’s parents are/were physically abusive towards him… makes me ill

[i-nssomniia]

You're moving to his house

Headcanons with boys from Shabbat

Tags: Deviation from the canon, established rs, a little agnst with Vinny

Note: I don't pretend to be 100% in the canon and character of the character. I just wrote situations because I see these boys!

@shintaru @dzvelinaskebiyars @wthphe1n

I think it's going to take a lot of time for you to move in with him. like, first he has to admit all his feelings for you, then he has to win you over and build a serious relationship with you, and then he has to come to the idea of living with you.

and it's definitely going to be a little bit of a surprise. like, you're just sitting at your house when he's sitting in front of you. you're painting his nails and complaining about your landlord who wants to raise the rent. and when he adds 2+2, he'll just say, "We can move in together." you even look up from his hands, - "move in with you?", he nods briefly, pulling his hand back to look at his nails. he said it so casually that you didn't even realize it was serious.

so when he comes to your place the next day with a bunch of empty boxes to pack up your things, you're confused. is he, fuck, serious?

I swear it will be a VERY long time. because he will comment on every single thing you put in the box, - "I've never seen that hoodie of yours", "Why do you have so many dirty pieces of paper in your drawer, are you drawing?", "OH MY GOD THAT'S WHERE MY SERPENT RING WAS!", and so on.

but he won't create chaos in your home. He will arrange the items neatly and properly. he can even sort your clothes based on criteria like, - "she wears this at home, so it goes in that box", "hey, move that bag over so I can put your study shirts in there"

and maybe he'll steal a few things from you that he finds good. a funny-printed hoodie? now it's his hoodie. your old earrings? "Look how good they look on me, sweetheart!"

and then he'll call the movers and maybe Joker to move your stuff to his apartment, without letting you pay a single cent. but he'll put some of your everyday items in his car.

but the most difficult stage is ahead, it's to settle in his apartment. if you can still put your favorite mugs and plates on his kitchen shelves, or your clothes on the shelves next to him, your skincare products will be next to his in the bathroom cabinets, but what about the rest? your cosmetics, books, notebooks, jewelry, and everything else that was on your table in your apartment.

I think he'll move his furniture around a bit to make it comfortable for the two of you, and he'll buy some shelves and a desk for you. But if he has a two-room apartment or more, he'll definitely make space for you. But most of your stuff will be in his room, so just accept it. You'll never sleep in your own room. only him.

Oh, and I think he'll post all these Instagram stories with your photos, videos, and you at his place.

he gets to know his feelings pretty quickly, so if he wants to be with you, it's going to be serious from the start. like, honey, why would he waste time on someone he's not sure about in the long run or who he might not want to be with later on? he might as well find something more fun to do or just sleep.

so the idea of moving in with you comes to him pretty quickly, and it comes even faster if you start visiting each other and staying over at each other's places.

and it's also convenient for him, why spend a lot of time going to your house when he can have you in his own home? so he'll just tell you straight up that he wants to see you in his apartment. you might start making excuses like "it's too early to live together", and stuff like that.

so he'll just keep terrorizing your house. staying over at your place, coming over late at night just so you can't kick him out. At this rate, you'll have his toothbrush, a few of his t-shirts, and a pack of masks in your drawer in the hallway.

and when you get used to it enough, he'll start preparing your things for your departure, and he might not even warn you, - "Have you returned home yet? That's good, your landlord came by, and I told him you'll be moving out by the end of the month"

however, unlike Wooin, he will sort your things in a slightly chaotic way that only he can understand. He might put all your skincare products, your everyday clothes, your laptop, and your bedding in the same box. This is because it will be the first thing you pick up at his place. It might annoy you, but seriously, why? What if your hair shampoo spills on your clothes or laptop? And you can't get another one because he's mixed it with other items, like dishes. Why do you need to get dishes now when he has plates and mugs for both of you at home? later.

but along with that, he's going to throw away some of your things. maybe the old packaging that you had by accident? the pens and pencils, and "are you sure you want to bring this flower into the apartment? aren't I your main flower in life?", and keep a close eye on his hands, because he might throw away a half-finished bottle of your perfume. because I don't think it's that important to him.

but.. "hey, put this bedding air conditioner in that box. what's the difference if it's half empty? it smells sweet, almost like bananas", - you don't understand his logic, you offered to buy him the same air conditioner, but he responded with words about the inflated price. he's confusing you.

so when you arrive at his home (he'll either use Joker and Wooin or call the movers. but most likely Shabbat will take your boxes) he will sort your things himself.

and I think his room will be big enough, because he definitely keeps his bike in it. it's so convenient. and when he's alone at home, he just spends some time on his bike, doing some simple tricks or standing up. it's strange, but it's so comfortable for him.

he puts your things in with his, and he doesn't even give you any other shelves. now your things are his things, and vice versa.

but he still doesn't understand why you need so many creams and shampoos in the bathroom. they don't even smell like bananas. I think he might find something with a banana scent and replace your things with it.

And after you scold him, you will have an evening of skin care, his face is moisturized and buried in the bend of your neck, "you smell like bananas, now you are my banana..."

And I also think he will take photos and videos with you on Instagram. but not in the process of moving, but when you move to him completely

this is where it gets hard. it's not because he was afraid to take the first step towards you or was irresponsible. no. it's about his brothers.

can he put the extra responsibility of them on you? no, no, it's only his job. but here he miscalculated, in addition to taking care of them, he has the duty of earning money and preparing for the race outside the house. so you unconsciously start to take more care of him and his family.

look after his younger brothers when you're free and he's running late, or cook dinner for them? and you also spend a lot of time with his brothers, so it would be so right for you to be in his house.

he might refuse at first.

"don't worry about it, I can feed them myself"

"am I a bad cook, Hajun?"

"no, that's not what I meant, I just-"

"great, then let's make a delicious soup and apple pie for your brothers"

you use a trump card when you say "apple pie". he doesn't know if you're doing it on purpose or not, but he's fascinated by it.

and you can give his brothers pocket money in secret. and when he finds out, just say "I wanted it, especially since you won't let me pay half of the utilities in your house, even though I'm here more than I am at my own house", and make puppy eyes. he'll stop breathing for a few seconds.

so when he comes home late and sees a clean apartment, some food on the stove for him (the biggest portion just for him), his brothers sleeping in their room, and you dozing on the couch because you were waiting for him, his heart melts. he carries you to your shared bed, which smells like the air conditioner you took. and that air purifier with the cinnamon and apple scent? it's too much for him, and he gives in.

so moving in with him is a gradual and natural process. but I think he's more into traditional things, do you remember how he courted you? flowers, soft toys, your favorite sweets. he doesn't consider himself a romantic, but he's so gentle with you, he's willing to do anything for you, I'm not kidding. your whim is his law, and your words are his confession.

and when your belongings start to accumulate in his home, he simply says, "I'll take a few days off to move your things in with me. I want to live with you"

wait a couple of years, when his financial situation will become more stable, his brothers will grow up, and he will start saving for an engagement ring.

After all, moving in with him is just a deposit on your future life with him.

I don't think you'll move in together. With Joker, it's easier, because you're taking some of his responsibility for his brothers, and they're not little kids anymore, so they can be independent due to Joker's frequent absences.

but in the situation with Vinny, or rather his mom. Yes, you can help Vinny take care of her, but let's be honest, it's not easy to take care of a sick person. It's not even about the money or the fact that you're not ready. You could, but it's scary. The further you and Vinny move forward in your relationship, the closer you become to his mom. You could help her with dinner, buy groceries or medicine, or take his mother to the hospital, or secretly put money in their house, making it look like it wasn't you.

"oh? I don't know, Vinny, I think your mom got a bonus at work, so here's the money" or "Vinny was a good employee this month, I saw him put the money there, so I guess he got a bonus."

play your words correctly so they can't move on your little lie for good. because none of them will accept your money, so be clever.

of course you will have some of your things in his house, and his things will be on the shelves in your apartment (because when his mother is in the hospital, he comes to you. he won't complain or ask for your support, but he will seek your comfort and find your presence reassuring. he just won't say it out loud).

and he's glad that you don't insist on moving in with him, because he won't let you take on the huge responsibility of taking care of his mom. but he secretly wants to live with you, and he really wants to, but he's in so much pain that he can't afford it.

and when he breaks up with you, it's a blow to him. He doesn't throw away your things or give them back to you because he's afraid to look into your eyes and it hurts. He might wear your clothes at home, smelling of you, and put off washing them for a long time. Or that bear headband to wash his face? He might use it occasionally when he misses you too much, but it's still a reminder of you, and it still hurts.

but the most painful thing is to find out that you come to his mother's hospital, bring her food, and talk to her. he doesn't want to know how often you do this, because his heart would be torn to shreds, and he knows it. but one warm smile from his mother is enough to know that you're okay. because she would definitely tell him if something happened to you. it calms him down, but only a little.

and after his mom's surgery, he'll be happy, but it won't be enough. He wants to bring you back to his home, to spend evenings with his family, because you've become his family.

he wants to get you back, to take the first step, but it's just too scary for him. what if you threw all his stuff out of your house? what if you kept coming to the hospital or his races out of pity for him? it's going to take him so long to even ask you to meet with him. and it might be a silly excuse like "you have my jacket at home, can I take it if you haven't thrown it away?". it's so stupid, because it's not the season, because it's been several months since your breakup, and he knows. and God willing, he won't delete this message.

and when you tell him "you can", he takes off almost immediately. You know his personality well enough to know that it's not about the jacket. And of course, you haven't thrown away his belongings, you're still using them.

So, wear that jacket when you meet him.

And he'll pick you up right in it.

And maybe, after his life starts to improve, he'll start hinting at living together.

he wants it, but he doesn't know how to get there yet.

MASTERLIST

[changingplumbob]

Kirsty!! I truly have to thank you for always being such a great person. You are by far one of the most supportive people I've met through Simblr and I hope you know that every post you make is beloved by, at the very least, me.

I hope your day, your week, the whole rest of your month are wonderful because you truly deserve happiness and joy! 💜

THANK YOU 🥹 seriously I had a tough day and this was such an uplifting message to come home to. I know I've been slacking on the love trains lately but as a woman stuck at home most days with chronic fatigue it is so nice to be able to talk/connect with people like you 💗 I'm so happy that while it may seem that I can't do much with my spoons of energy I'm able to bring some joy to others, knowing that I've made just one person smile each day helps keep my plumbob green

Have this screenshot of Emily dressed as a watermelon blowing a raspberry that is excess because... I don't actually know, my guess is there wasn't enough surrounding screenshots for it to be a whole scene?

[rodentlegalteam]

While I do think using the four sword causes some bad physical/mental side effects, I ultimately think that the biggest drawback ends up being that none of Four’s colours ever do what he wants unless it’s a life or death situation. Four has a lot of work so he decides to spilt to get everything done on time. It does not go well.

Red and Blue both run on emotions so they immediately get distracted by whatever’s more interesting and leave. Red might eventually get back on track (if he remembers) but there’s still a 50/50 chance that he goes “oh but I don’t wanna do that now.. hope the others do it for me! <3”. Blue’s better at remembering but if the conditions for doing The Task are slightly Off it’s going to make him want to rip his own hair out so he just calls it quits. Green and Vio are more likely to actually get stuff done but the second someone asks Green for a favour he’s gone. He’ll end up spending the entire day running around delivering pastries or something cause people keep asking him for things and hes incapable of refusing. Vio will spend thirty minutes coming up with some sort of convoluted loophole to avoid The Task before disappearing into the woods for the next three days. He could’ve completed The Task in those same thirty minutes but he just didn’t feel like doing it in the moment. Four eventually reforms and literally nothing had been done. The real reason he keeps the four sword a secret from the chain is because he’s embarrassed about the fact that all the colours are literally so fucking stupid on their own

[iron-mage]

DP was like an og fandom of mine on tumblr, back in the day ppl tried to use the phandom tag which was a mix of danny phantom, phantom of the opera, and dan & phil stuff, woe betide anyone who was scrolling through a blog that used #dp to keep track of danny phantom stuff because you were one misclick away from getting a feed full of double penetration XD

RN the fandom im most active in is Transformers, most ppl in that fandom use #Maccadams (in reference to an in universe bar Maccadam's old oil house ) because the actual transformers tag is so flooded with other stuff

Ppl will still tag their posts & reblogs as transformers for sorting on their own blogs etc just include the additional tag when making the original post

This works pretty well for if you just wanna find posts about giant robots however if you wanna find posts specifically about the bot named Maccadam well you're kinda shit out of luck

I sympathise with lex's original grievance since it's the same issue i have with all the incredibly inconsistently tagged XReader content, i have thousands of variations of x reader / (character) x reader filtered because I don't want to see those posts but none of the writers ever use an umbrella tag

(if you want to see examples id suggest looking up the Jujutsu kaisen fandom or demon slayer fandom or any of its male characters' tags, I sometimes scroll for minutes while looking for posts to queue because XD)

Danny Phantom is the umbrella tag for the show & also the main character which compounds the problem here, trying to dictate to people whether they're allowed to use the main characters' superhero name in their posts is just not going to work so the only real way to move forward here is adopting using subtags in addition to the umbrella tag

So including #dponly on original posts in addition to the main/umbrella tag while asking people to use a tag like #dpxover on any crossover content on their og posts to allow people to filter specific posts without having to block a million different variants of a tag

Atm when i reblog/queue a post i usually tag it DP & if it's a crossover the other relevant fandom + a DPxtag since i usually try to keep tags as sort as possible but still wanna allow people to filter stuff if they follow me or scroll my blog but I'll definitely be including a subtag for baseline dp or crossover dp in any of my original posts going forward + the dpxover tag for any crossover stuff

I'm also in a lot of very small fandoms about kids shows that aired the same decade as Danny Phantom & ironically in their tags on here & especially their AO3 works a huge number of works are crossovers with Danny Phantom(& often a long list of other shows) where they're side or background characters XD so this honestly feels a little like karma to me

To give an example with of some of those fandoms The Secret Saturdays or American Dragon: Jake Long

TSS has 211 works on ao3 only 87 of those works are not crossovers (33 of those 124 crossovers are dp crossovers, TSS did actually have a crossover episode with one of the Ben 10 shows so that's where the majority of those crossovers came from)

While AD has 458 works with 161 of those being crossovers with Danny Phantom (also of note AD had a crossover episode with lilo & stitch but only about 10 works include both shows on ao3, only 142 works are not crossovers)

I use ao3 as examples here because it's easy to grab the numbers, as you can imagine scrolling those fandom tags on here are usually dominated by crossover content which is another reason i advocate for a general catch all Danny Phantom Crossover subtag like #DPxOver in addition to the #DPonly tag

Also watch TSS & AD so i can drag yall into eldritch dragon with a destiny/prophecy about them angst/existential horror

This would be used in addition to the danny phantom tag, turning it into a true umbrella tag for everything related to Danny Phantom, while having a few major sub-tags for people to find exactly what they want.

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After some more discussion with members of the fandom in the notes of my poll asking about a community and elsewhere, it seems like the better option for everyone might actually be a new tag, so I'm making a new poll here!

Some answers to questions I think people might have are below the readmore:

Q: Why are all of these only one word?

A: For the same reason the dpxdc tag is only one word! Tumblr's tagging implementation is Not Good. Tags with spaces don't play well with it, and especially don't play well with blocked tags. If someone wants to block non-crossover Danny Phantom content, we want to make it as painless as possible for them.

Q: What issues were raised around communities?

A: A few! To name some of them:

Limited interactions with posts: Communities only let you react with emoji and leave comments on posts reblogged into them. Not great, if we want to have long reblog chains riffing on one another

Original Posters aren't notified if someone else reblogs their post into a community, even if it's public. So if someone reblogged your post into the community for you, you wouldn't know about it -- or know to look for people interacting with it.

Communities have mods, and therefore would need trustworthy, engaged mods to make it work. Over a short time frame, we could probably manage it! But over a longer one, a community for an entire fandom would probably have moderator drama. That could lead to fracturing, or people leaving specifically because they don't like the mods, etc. A tag is a lot less active maintenance.

A few people also expressed a general dislike for the feature, even if they were willing to move to one. This seems like a much smaller change that will let those people stay away from a feature they don't like, while interacting with the content they do.

Q: What about less-common crossovers? Won't those get excluded from this tag?

A: They will. I'm asking about this poll first because I figured getting the community to make a decision about the other crossovers would be easier if we'd already decided on the non-crossovers.

The current idea is to move those to their own tag as well, so they can get dedicated attention from the crossover enthusiasts who love them. One of the people I talked to about this runs the niche-dp-crossovers blog, so it's on the radar. If you have concerns or suggestions about that, the notes on this post is as good a place as any to suggest them!

[meamiki]

some random reverse entry au [office + reverse isekai loop] drawings :thumbsup:

[mildly interested in this silly au? here is a link to scroll through for all the stuff i've made for it! i'll make a proper master post... someday.....]

[ismyteadoneyet]

~ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴀ sᴏʟᴅɪᴇʀ ᴡʜᴏ ᴄᴀʀʀɪᴇs ᴀ ᴍɪɢʜᴛʏ sᴡᴏʀᴅ,

ʜᴇ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴛᴇᴀʀ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴄɪᴛʏ ᴅᴏᴡɴ, ᴏʜ-ʟᴇɪ ᴏʜ-ʟᴀɪ ᴏʜ ʟᴏʀᴅ ~

FELLOW LEGENDBORNIANS !! I'M BACK !! I may not be very active in the Legendborn spaces, but that's because I STILL HAVEN'T READ OATHBOUND 😭😭 I miss my lil goofs so much 🥺

Life has really taken its toll on both me and my reading-buddy, and we're still slowly but surely making our way through Bloodmarked. I HAVE seen some fanarts already from the new book and I am SALIVATIINNNGGGG 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌 I just know that once I actually crack that book open I will absolutely devour it djsbdbhsbdj 🤭🤭

And THEN the fanarts shall follow not so very close behind, trust 🫡🫡

I have SO MANY three-people pose pictures saved on pinterest for referencing-reasons, and this is the first one of the bunch! 🤭🥳

Hope y'all have a great day ! 🩷🩷🩷

[arodykeism]

time to make your choice only you can be the one

[fantasticalleigh]

Thanks for the tag! This is such an interesting idea and I’ve enjoyed seeing all the responses. I had to do some digging to find my oldest art and turns out i don’t remember where much of it is and i guess i haven’t backed it up anywhere so as of now some of the oldest stuff i have is from 2017/18.

OLDEST ART I CAN FIND: 2017-18

For a long time I considered myself as mostly a portrait artist. I loved drawing people's faces and had a fear and aversion to drawing full bodies. All of these are from 2018 (the black and white one might be 2017) but I wish I'd been able to find even older art than these because the skill jump was huge between high school and my first couple years in uni. In high school I never really used references when drawing and despite taking a ton of art classes I never really paid attention to the fundamentals so whatever I made would come out looking wonky. So fast forward to freshman year of uni and I really started taking that more seriously and I would find images I liked of celebrities and draw them as closely as I could. I was also dabbling in ballpoint pen drawings at the time but couldn't crack a proper technique until later.

I mainly did only traditional art until I got my first job after high school and could save up for an XP Pen drawing monitor and I started dabbling in digital art. I'd owned a pen tablet before from Wacom years before but it was also the kind that had no screen on it and I hated the experience of drawing on a blank slate but needing to keep my eyes on my laptop screen. It felt extremely unnatural so I only used it a few times and then gave up. So having a tablet with a screen directly on it opened up a whole new world for me but I really struggled with learning the ins and outs of digital art. I hated everything I was making but was determined to get better, and the most important thing was I knew I didn't want to go for the level of realism that I usually liked in traditional art. I liked doing cartoony stuff a lot too so I wanted to explore new styles through digital.

FIRST ART POSTED ONLINE

It was difficult to find the actual first art I ever posted online! I have some ancient Deviant Art accounts that probably still have that old art but I don't have the login stuff anymore ;-; I started using instagram in 2012 but sort of don't use that account on the left anymore. Once Instagram implemented AI a couple years ago I sort of nuked it and ended up deleting most of my archive on that account. I mainly use that account to message irl friends. But my earliest art on IG was all straight from my sketchbooks and most of it was like chicken scratch. Very messy, unpolished, and rushed.

I've pretty much always done tons of fan art. I drew the Draco Malfoy thing in the middle for a Dramione fic I was writing at the time--this must have been 2016 or 17... I was/am obsessed with Kylo Ren (and reylo in general) so I drew him a ton. I also was working on my own OCs (the Knight lady in the second image at the top of this post). My art professors at uni kept pushing me to get out of my box and focus on more conceptual/non fan art stuff which I found terrifying. By this point I was growing more comfortable with digital art--in 2020 I (perhaps irresponsibly) used my pandemic stimulus check to buy an ipad and apple pencil and procreate and having a smaller, more portable tablet made it so much easier to practice more often and I think that's when digital art really started clicking for me even though it took a lot longer to actually start developing my own style. I made a second art account on instagram (with this current username) to post all my fanart in since one professor told me it might be unprofessional for me to host fan art on my "serious" art account.

MOST RECENT STUFF:

The top two are admittedly from 2021 but I was and still am super proud of that entire body of work. For my art major senior 'thesis' I had to develop a body of work and set it up in an exhibition at uni. I threw myself into that and by then had really managed to nail down a good ballpoint pen technique that satisfied what I wanted to portray in my art. This process involved layers and layers of delicate hatching with ballpoint pens and it ruined my eyesight and because each piece took me so long I was experiencing wrist pain often. The whole series was supposed to be about fear and madness, hence the super garish and intense colors and weird imagery. I made like 10 or so drawings like this but I haven't really made any more ballpoint stuff since. It just takes way too long and I burnt myself out severely just completing that body of work but I'm still really proud of it. Maybe I'll return to the pens one day...

As for the digital stuff, since I graduated uni I jumped headlong into further developing my digital body of work. Most of it still is admittedly fan art but nothing else has helped me grow quite like fan art so no issue there. I've made several short and long form comics and worked on more illustrative stuff. I have other/new OCs and ships that I draw quite often when I'm not making wrestling fan art and I try to push myself to keep going out of my comfort zone. I have always haaated drawing backgrounds or ornamental stuff but for the past while I've challenged myself to really give a shit and actually put in the effort and it's slowly paying off. I'm still not 100% satisfied with where I am now but compared to where I started I think it's pretty neat :')

Ok here's a little thing i thought would fun for any artists to show off their progress at learning art (plus I'm nosey🤭).

Show off the oldest drawings you did (or the oldest that you can still find), the first things you were confident enough to upload online, and your most recent drawings and talk about them and show off how much you've progressed :)

Probably gonna end up missing some people, but I'm tagging a bunch of cool artists I follow/am mutuals with and am nosey to see how they started out, but no pressure :)

@fantasticalleigh, @thlayli-ra, @heelhausen, @stupidmarkzone, @2ndcitynightmare, @punk-o-ween, @normallypassingby, @tvheit, @seasonal-depression-of-punk

And if you wanna have a look at my old stuff, I've got it below =)

Oldest Drawings I Can Find

Of course, the first is an OC. Never did anything with her tho. Notice the lack of forehead and elbows, the arms that barely reach the hips, how indishtinguishable each part of the body is from one another. They're a perfectly smooth pole. and of course those wings. This is the first thing in my first proper sketchbook when I decided I was gonna start taking art more seriously. This would have been when i started secondary in 2014 at 11 years old. And I can't find anything from before that, since I never kept anything in a proper book/folder.

Second image is another of the first drawings in the book. It was my first closeup of a face, and also my first time drawing anime. I know I'm not the only artist who was desperate to learn to draw an anime-style as a kid. I remember doing this while on holiday, trying to follow an online tutorial, taking about 4 hours to get the outcome I did, and getting so frustrated that I couldn't get it to look right, that I was almost brought to tears. I'm pretty sure this was one of those "I'm never drawing again! >:(" moments, lol. Looking back, it was a pretty good first attempt. But I guess I was always a bit of a perfectionist, lol. Funnily enough, while I carried the anime eyes forward in my art style for years, to this day, I still can't draw a proper full anime style character.

First Drawings I Uploaded Online

I put these on insta to show my mates from school. The first picture was an attempt at a close up face with the new brush markers i'd got for christmas. This was 2017 just before i turned 14. Pretty sure I copied the design from an art tutorial book, that was supposed to be hyper-realistic (another christmas present). But I just couldn't bring that to life so just did what I could. Also, first time I used a signature. My signature's very different nowadays cos it's based on my tumblr username and not me actual name. But yeah. I was tryna get more professional I guess.

Second pic is the first full body piece I uploaded a few days later. Again, used the drawing books trying to learn how to draw flowy clothes. Think it was a book about drawing anime clothes that I used for this (another christmas present). By this point, each body part could move seperately and had joints. Also note the anime eyes, cos my simpler-but-still-anime-inspired eyes were something I stuck with a long ass time. This was the style I drew most often, and could usually do without having references (but obviously for this drawing specifically, I had the reference for the clothes). Had a lot of trouble with perspective, so all my characters faced forward, and later they would always face a 3/4 angle. And they could never lean or reach forwards cos I just couldn't get that to look right.

Most Recent Pieces

The most most recent is on the left, being my most recent closeup of a face. Still has a cartoonish edge with the lineart but much more realistic. And I'm fucking with this semi-realistic look atm. Tbh I dunno if i'd have the patience for the tiny details in hyperrealism. Also, fun story, in 2021 when I was doing my a-levels, I did an art piece that we were free to do in any style we wanted, and my teacher saw mine and was like “I wish you’d done it as realism instead of a cartoon style :(“ but it was actually my best attempt at realism and she hadn’t even realised. So I dunno, maybe I’m not cut out for realism 😂😂 I like my style rn tho so who cares

Then I got my most recent drawing of a (almost) full body. I got joints and decent hands and proportions and more body details.

Also this last year is the first time I've really got into digital. I always used to just do pen and paper. I even got a cheap drawing tablet, but couldn't get used to drawing on one surface and the image being up on a seperate screen. So I could never get the lines right. I did draw on my old ipad for a while which was easier, but the stylus was one of those with the thick rubber ball on the end, rather than a fine nib. Again, I had trouble cos I couldn't tell where it would register the contact with the screen and draw the line, which made it hard to do details. I got a new ipad a little while back that supports apple pencil, so I got one for it. And it's so much easier now that I've got a fine nib and can see where I'm drawing. I'm in love with drawing digital atm.

But yeah. That's how i've drawn over the years. Mental to see how much my style has changed and improved :) makes me feel better when I get frustrated with a drawnig and think I'm shit. Cos I know I'm getting better with each new drawing, even if it's only baby steps.

First: Now:

[asexualjedi]

Still so iconic of Matt fraction to start his run like anyways off screen Clint and Kate who have met a few times before this run have become besties and are fundamentally now intertwined characters. Like and that’s just canon now. I think more comic writers should be willing to kinda just decide a new status quo like that especially with characters that have been under utilized

[beebfreeb]

Hiya! I'd like to ask how do you do your ms paint art? Do you first make the outlines and then colours, or perhaps vice versa? I really adore your ms paint art and would love to know the process (for practice purposes:))

Depends! My two strategies, featuring Cactus Gunman of Gregory Horror Show fame:

I often just color right on top of my sketches when I'm being silly + designing characters + just trying to figure out what something looks like (and tend to use this to fiddle with details and colors) It's usually quicker for me to end up with something that I'm happy with.

Most of the time when I bother to do separate, cleaner line art, it's because I'm making a graphic for my website. LOL. I think it feels a little more cartoonish-silly, which is usually what I'm going for when I decide to do this. It's also a bit harder to make large changes to whatever I'm drawing, so I'm usually working off of a messier thing I've already made.

(Technically, I no longer use MS Paint and instead use Aseprite due to becoming a Linux user, but nothing has really changed about the way I draw + all of this can be done in MS Paint just fine.)

[lucalicatteart]

A new sculpture! Finally... I feel like I never sculpt anymore since I'm always sick or have some 500 other things going on or projects to finish, but I'm trying to schedule time to do it more often this year hopefully..! Just a generic fantasy creature as usual, but did try making the eyes a little more sparkly this time.. hrmm..

[hookedwayfinder]

Fandom Etiquette

Some unspoken rules of fandom communities on Tumblr (aka fandom etiquette) for people new to Tumblr.

If you post AI on your blog, prepare to be blocked by a TON of people. Why? AI shits on artists. The majority of people on Tumblr respect artists. If you share AI art on your blog, a lot of people are going to block you, which is probably not what you want. So don't post AI! (Same goes for reblogging AI shit).

Do not steal art from artists. Reposting art is usually frowned upon and if you wish to do this without people getting mad at you, credit the artist by name and link. For example, "This is drawn by Bob on Instagram - link to instagram here" If the artist if already on Tumblr, just reblog their work, don't repost it!

Do not redraw art from fanartists without their permission first! And if you do get permission, credit the original artist in your post, if not, people will think you are a thief and you will once again get blocked by fandom regulars. (redrawing official art from the fandom you're in is usually ok and a great way to learn. Learn to differentiate official art from fanart.)

Pinterest is the den of thieves. Great for finding a ton of lovely artworks with no way to get back to the original artist. Do not follow their example. That's not what anyone wants Tumblr to be. If you've got 50 fanarts saved on your pc and wish to share them with tumblr while you don't know the original artists? Then don't. That's the answer. Don't share art if you don't know who the artist is. Or learn to reverse image search.

Tagging is a way to communicate with the fandom about what you post on your blog without it afterwards showing up in reblogs. You can tag with character names, fandom names, ship names, and also personal tags such as "my fic" or "my art" - so that people checking your post can verify that it's made by you and not just stolen from someone else. Use tags to clarify if art or fic is yours when you post it.

Posting fanfic recommendations is usually a good way to make friends and earn yourself respect if you're not very creative yourself. Drawing fanarts or making edits for said fanfics will earn you god-status. Answering asks or posting meta or headcanons are other things you can do if you're not very creative otherwise.

Be careful sharing gifs and edits that you did not make yourself, even in-between your essays. Once again, it is technically theft, though I think most people view it as a lighter form of theft than art-theft. Crediting is still usually appreciated. Sadly a lot of photoshoppers accept this type of theft as part of the deal.

No matter which rule you broke in the past, you can always learn to do better. When in doubt, ask around in the fandom what you should do with a specific thing you want to post. Making a mistake does not get you kicked out of the fandom necessarily, so don't sweat it, just do better.

Even if you try to be a perfect fan, you will at some point break a little fandom etiquette here and there. You might reblog an AI art by accident... Share an image that was edited without you realizing it... Use someone else's gif without credit... It's ok. We all make mistakes. As long as you respect the fandom in 99% of your posts, nobody's going to cancel you for that.

This is by no means a conclusive list.

[st4rstudent]

Scary Star Wars ocs

featuring them all standing next to each other + some doodles

I didnt feel like drawing M1-TZ on the last one. pretend he's there