#or I write out the instructions

[sodacowboy]

finally figured out how to combine these two crochet patterns but now I have to write it down :/

[d8tl55c]

oh boy !! ! ! ! !!! ! thANK y0u all for the kind words on my last art posts. you all get it and i was/still am so happy about it

as promised, here's some close-ups of the comic for image quality's sake, and other screenshots i rescued from the community whiteboard (and something else)

first up another sketch of mystery gender-ambiguous being. (please send me more name ideas for them if you got one- i like to hear em! (reminder it's the side character that appeared for <10 seconds in AvM Ep. 30))

a few fav scenes

emotional support cwab

they weren't meant for this purpose exactly, but i do have countless "fluffy sticks" loose in my notes and homework sheets from the school years.

papery critter.

even when i wasn't confident in fur or feathers, they helped me practice posing and create some satisfying gradients/flowing poses. (im a sucker for good tail poses) (oh yay! i found a good pic...)

and finally, little sneak peak for you for reading so far ;3

i realized that whiteboardfox is pretty great for my working needs. simple and to the point and all. feels nice with the mouse and the tablet.

so i started hashing out a big project idea just to see if it holds up and

[

several hours later ...

]

oh

oh man

it's a little bigger than i expected

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[crybaby-bkg]

ripping out your vampire lovers fangs in order to keep them in check as their human handler. hm. much to think about. and also to consider.

[handageddon]

Oooouuugghh having issues

Back a long time ago. A looooong long time ago. When cosplay was still mostly a crafting hobby. I got into electronics. Like 2008.

Now that I have space and money to do electronics finally, everything is done in CODEBLOCKS and my lack of a formal college level math education means I have NO IDEA WHAT ANY OF THESE THINGS ARE CALLED

[mlobsters]

how i find the source of art (and other things) to provide proper credits!

on (windows) desktop, i get the link of the image -> for ex, in tumblr:

then go to https://images.google.com/ and click that little square icon

so you can enter the url for the link without needing to download the image

drag the little selection thing on the image to pick the full thing otherwise it will only try to match the selected area

at the top result, it will have a link for see exact matches:

and fortunately for us, in this case, it takes us to the source right away. often times i will scroll through a bunch of pages of reposts, sometimes eventually tracking down the original source, and sometimes never finding it. but i feel like it's worth the time, especially with art

on mobile, i will download the image and use google lens from google photos, which is the same service - and a way to copy text from images easily, which is also extremely handy

art i used for this example: My turquoise bottles (170), 2023 by Serpil Ümit - source

[philcoulson-redtapeninja]

Wip Wednesday| Instructions on Mindful Focus | chapter 1 | Past posts: X X X X X

Agent Hunt 'relaxed' further into the couch. Martha couldn't help but wonder if he was shifting the tension from the core and into his limbs, or maybe he was forcibly relaxing his muscles. Not that she could blame Hunt for his ruse, most field agents viewed a visit with the Psych Department like most people view a visit to a dentist. Unnerving, uncomfortable, and, occasionally, painful. It didn't help that there was an annoyingly persistent rumor that everything the agents said in a session would be funneled directly to the CIA. The rumor was completely false, of course, but agents tend to be paranoid at the best of time. For pity's sake, the counselors and therapists of the psych department weren't even allowed to use real names in their documents! Each patient had to be given a code name to be used in place of name, pronoun, or any other identifying article in the written documents. 'Safety through obfuscation', the unofficial motto of the IMF, or at least it was for the Psych Division. All documentation produced before, during, or after a session had to be written by hand, never typed on computer or typewriter, and stored in self-immolating file cabinets. Press the right spot or enter an incorrect code, and all of the files would be burnt to ash in seconds. It wasn't anything new to her. In Martha's last job, anonymity was a selling point to most clients. Martha preferred to wait 'til the end of the first session to give a pseudonym. It gave her a chance to get to know them and let the nickname cement itself in her mind. Right now her notes were filled with little blank spaces just waiting to be filled with the distillation of a person. Flicking her eyes over the man on her couch, she couldn't help but correlate the unnatural stillness of Agent Hunt and a Sheep dog belly down in the grass after an order to Wait.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

HOT DOCTOR HOT DOCTOR HOT DOCTOR HOT DOCTOR

[parab0mb]

Really love the vibe of the first-person cutscenes/sections, feels like something straight out of an ENA animation.

What the fuck man?

[bmpmp3]

in general i think its better to push different mediums, artforms, techniques, etc to accommodate the disabled artist rather than pushing the disabled artist to accommodate the medium. perfectionism and perserverating on doing things the "right" way is the enemy, any shortcut (photocopying, copypasting digitally, whatever) that gets you part way there is hashtag innovation and i think its worth exploring that

[raiiny-bay]

wip

[cerbreus]

baking never feels more like science to me than when i'm trying to cobble together an intricate multi step recipe together from several different recipes and tutorials online because the recipe I'm imagining doesn't exist....

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Anyone else have near-perfect executive function at work; but at home, have literally no energy or motivation to do anything except lie in a dark room, with something in or on your ears for several hours?

[kon-konk]

Not me trying to salvage what I really think might be an AI generated pattern for the damn coveralls x.x

[kinnoth]

I stg I don't even ship Dante/Nero as like, a real thing, it's just all my Dante/Vergil stuff is LONG and fULL OF YEARNING and is taking WEEKS to get Just Right

Whereas Nero is just horny

(honestly I'm enjoying using him as a 3rd party POV to Dante's Vergil issues too much to leave him alone)

[storytimewithtibby]

like the local trash semi domesticated eldritch abomination that i am, i cannot hear an evanescence song and not immediately have a hugo strange fic idea

do not come for me it will not avail you i do not control the insp it possesses me, rides me ragged, and then leaves for like three to five business days while i try to recover.

[philcoulson-redtapeninja]

Wip Wednesday| Instructions on Mindful Focus | chapter 1 | X X X X

Ethan Hunt is trying very hard to look at ease and comfortable. Martha Colligo took in his deliberate sprawl across the couch. Shoulders purposefully loose, arm draped over the back of the couch, calf propped on opposite knee, an easy grin spread on his face. If she hadn't been looking, she might have bought the act, but Martha was looking. There was a tightness around his eyes that belays his unease, an unnatural stillness about him that could not be comfortable. It was actually a very comfortable couch, and Martha was almost offended on its behalf. It brown, over-stuffed, and could fold down like a futon in case she had to spend the night on-call in the office; in-short, it was a very nice couch, thank you very much. She had picked it out herself, along with most of the rest of the office. The therapists and counselors that tended to the Impossible Missions Force were given a budget and almost free-rein to design their office. Of course, there were official, thou shalt have a 'panic' button, and unofficial guidelines, don't have a chair facing directly away from the door. However, there were certain themes that their offices fell into. It could have been coincidence, but their seniors might just be that good at subtle manipulation. Martha's new office fell into the warm, dim, and cushy schema; one of the more common gestalts, but she was quite happy with how it had turned out.