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I’ve added subtitles to Osomatsu-san’s season 4 trailer! There’s not, like, a ton of information we can’t infer from the video only, but I thought it could be interesting! Enjoy!

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I wanted to draw the Matsuno sextuplets for their birthday, but existence is suffering right now so I guess it's not gonna happen this year either. Happy Birthday anyway to my beloved NEETs!

I recently did draw something unrelated that I'm thinking of sharing, so maybe I'll get around to scanning and posting that, eventually. Nothing big though, so it doesn't feel worth the effort right now

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Back to suggestions for characters I know nothing about. Google told me that he's basically a loser who tries to act cool. So... yeah.

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Deltarune and Kirby Air Riders PLEASe I can't Kirby Air Ride was my CHILDHOOD

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sometimes the best writing advice is "just let it be bad." revolutionary. terrifying. but it works.

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Why am I only finding out about the Osomatsu-san season 4 announcement now?? OTL

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I've gotten a few asks warning of a raid of sorts on Christmas where a group of people are going to send gore etc. in asks to random people. Whether or not this will actually happen I don't know, but there are some simple things you can do to protect yourself if you are worried!

Turn off anonymous asks

Turn off media in asks

You can see both of these in your blog settings (not the general settings for your whole account, specifically the blog settings).

You can also turn off asks entirely if you're really worried. I take warnings about things like this with a grain of salt, but there's no harm in taking precautions for a day or so if you're worried! I figured a single short post like this would be more efficient than answering each ask about it, haha. You can change your settings back once you feel like the coast is clear.

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A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

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Socializing with strangers is hard. One moment you're responding to obligatory small talk, the next you're sweeping the floor together in awkward silence, and then the very second you finally think of something else to say and break the silence, the other person vanishes before your eyes. Typical.

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home🍂

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"Leave a trail of light behind you Everywhere you go. Whose darkness you'll illuminate You may never know." ~ L.R. Knost

🌛Digital Art By Juan Brufal

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don't give up

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So I got into Cookie Run: Kingdom, and uh. Let's just say I've found it quite difficult to put down. Low-key it's kind of a problem ahdgkhsk

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I would like to apologize to every single one of my wips ever

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I am actually begging some people to just let some spaces exist untouched by real-world issues and horrors.

Like I've lost count of the amount of times peaceful game or fandom servers have been ruined by people stampeding in with political rants, bitching about world issues, demanding internal activism, demanding vent channels so they can whine about their shitty parents, ect.

Like. Respectfully. Not every single space has to be inclusive of and welcoming of outside topics. The real world sucks. We don't needed to be reminded of that absolutely everywhere.

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New fear unlocked: sketchbook bugs