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Oh my God...

I just finished this fiction today and it was one of the most beautifully written fiction I've ever read. 😭 This one really made me tear up. 🥲😅

I'm not sure what your stance on soulmate tropes are, but I felt like you might really enjoy this one if you haven't read it already.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43791936/chapters/110121222

Hi, thanks for the rec! Well I love a good soulmate fic and even more so one that brings out such strong emotions :D I haven't been that interested in Katsuki/Shouto, but if the fic is good, why not! I'll put it in my marked for later list, and if I get to read it, I'll let you know what I think (if I don't forget it. High possibility of that, but I'll try)

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Saw a pug in a sweater today

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This week, my contributor's package for the BKDK Pride Zine, a zine project which donated to the Trevor Project, arrived...I am absolutely floored with how much beautiful merch and artwork there is!! I'm going to dig through the zine itself on a calmer day, to really sink into the art and fics in the book, for now I'm content just looking at everything with amazement :D

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Testing out some things with hatching, and liked how this looked.

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My inbox told me I have a new message but nothing was shown? So if somebody just wrote me something and I don't reply, I'm sorry! Tumblr might be acting weird!

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My Hero Academia started off so innocent and it's going so hard now with these last arcs, wouldn't have imagined that, damn

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Quick sketches of some people from the monthly colloquium from Dock11 I'm visiting here in Saarbrücken. Talking about our creative projects, getting and giving each other feedback!

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OMG NO there's no couch added here I wouldn't be so cruel

only for you, my tumblrinos: Without knowing how far I'll come I want to make a vashwood animatic to the song "Between the bars" by Elliott Smith. (Beautiful vashwood song *Mwah*) Something to work on from time to time, and I want to approach the storyboarding aspect more like I would drawing comics. I'm still at stage 0, and here's how that looks like with super rough scribbles:

I'm not yet sure what I want to show in the animatic, so let's see where this'll go!

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only for you, my tumblrinos: Without knowing how far I'll come I want to make a vashwood animatic to the song "Between the bars" by Elliott Smith. (Beautiful vashwood song *Mwah*) Something to work on from time to time, and I want to approach the storyboarding aspect more like I would drawing comics. I'm still at stage 0, and here's how that looks like with super rough scribbles:

I'm not yet sure what I want to show in the animatic, so let's see where this'll go!

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Protective Vash

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Commission for @/stratajem1 on Twitter: A looming Phtalo, from their fic "Finding Hope in Noman's Land". Give it a read if you're intrigued! :D It's been a pleasure drawing this boy (in goofy style, too!)

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Hello here! First, i'm feeling kind of shy because this is my first time using the ask option on this website so thank you for being the one to make me want to do it. Anyway, thank you for sharing your wonderful art. I always had like warm tea in my body whenever i see it. Since the beginning, i found something charming in the way you draw eyes and nose and it was scratching on my memory. I finally found what it is make me remember. There are french BD I read when i was a teen, "l'enfant de l'orage" by Bichebois &Poli and "la quête de l'oiseau du temps" draw by Loisel. I love Loisel way of drawing faces and your art make me feel the same warm, nostalgic and cocconing way as him. Do you know them? So I was wondering if you had some big inspiration for your art, some major artists or if it just... like that? (idk how to make the emoji who is shrugging -_-") Idk how to finish so I will just write a funny (to me) french word : Esperluette!

Hello! Thank you for taking your time to write such a sweet ask! <3 I'm glad my drawings can evoke this feeling in you of nostalgia. Sadly, I don't know these series- my home village in germany only had the classical comics like Lucky Luke, Marsupilami and Asterix & Obelix which I read over and over. I guess thanks to that I missed on a lot of great stories, because those two you mentioned look really good, full of live and creative setting. I think I'll try to remember to look those up again to have a read!

Inspirationwise, as a kid and teen it was mostly different mangas that influenced my style. But these last years I've started studying the old disney masters more and more, because I adore their way of simplifying a pose to its most quickly readable and dynamic core...that is coming through in the way I draw eyes and noses I guess. And, there might be a slight influence from W.I.T.C.H., which is kinda from the same time period as L'enfant de l'orage, and similiar in style!

Esperluette! I put that into the dictionary, and I guess that's some vocabulary knowdlege I'll probably rarely need but is inscribed into my brain now :D

Have a nice day!

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Drew a Kacchan today ♥

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Here's a little animation I made today for my thesis project! My sister said that the style reminded her of The Emperor's New Groove, possibly because of some backgrounds, and I do see the resemblance :D I'm pretty happy with the way the water turned out, it's my first real splash animation.

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Commission piece of Vash which I really enjoyed! I never get tired of drawing this boy ♥ I added the other version I drew as a sketch, because I liked how that turned out, too.

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Two recent commissions I did! :) Had a lovely time drawing another person's ocs.

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Any Attack on Titans shippings??

Oh dear the last time I read AoT was like 10 years ago...I think I liked Reiner and Berthold (had to look up those names again) but I'm really not into that franchise anymore (did like it when it came out though)