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Bait a Yellow // Secret Life Animatic

This one is pretty fun to draw! (lots of frames as well asdfghj)

I hope you enjoy it :DD

Youtube Link

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I would love that! I cannot wait to hear about what you've written so far. I'll give you one small spoiler about my current work, it's the hobbit themed.

Might have started a little project I hope to be able to finish! First time writing in like a year or more (⁠•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;⁠) So I'm starting of relatively familiar, with something very fantasy like, starring everyones favorite hermits of course! @elis-corner I think I might have gotten inspired by our little 'tea time in your new Tumblr corner' exchange!

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Might have started a little project I hope to be able to finish! First time writing in like a year or more (⁠•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;⁠) So I'm starting of relatively familiar, with something very fantasy like, starring everyones favorite hermits of course! @elis-corner I think I might have gotten inspired by our little 'tea time in your new Tumblr corner' exchange!

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Signal boosting!!

Hi all, I wanted to put a post here as well as on my main and ask for a bit of help.

So, I got a bill of £984 from a previous employer in the mail and I'm currently unemployed. As many of you are aware I'm diagnosed autisitc and suffer from anxiety and depression as well.

I'm now at a point where savings aren't going to be enough and my partner and I are going to struggle to feed ourselves.

Full post on my main here. If you have any questions please leave a dm or ask on my main and I'm happy to answer.

So I've set up my Ko Fi and a gofundme, anyone who donates is welcome to ask me for a drawing of a cat in my style as well (its an experimental style right now). I'm happy to do some digital art as a thank you to anyone who donates.

If you can't donate, don't worry. I understand many of you aren't in a position you can. It would also be helpful if you could reblog to signal boost, that helps too.

Thank you all, Love Nix

Here are the cat examples, I'm just trying some stuff out really and want to give back to anyone who donates in the only way I really can right now

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Both are great options, but hear me out, life as a hobbit. Eat as many times as you want a day, and the best food, hide in a hobbit hole for the people you don't want to visit. Read books in the trees, play by the river, you can be as lazy as you want pretty much.

Hobbit is cottage core life

Elf is noble castle core life

The urge to be tall and sexy like an elf, but also to frolic in the fields and read books in the branches of ancient trees like a hobbit. I am overwhelmed by my options.

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Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

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After spending a painful amount studying those plant classifications, it brings me so much joy to see it here. What a wonderful addition!

now to my fave minecraft worldbuilding topic

what can you cook? what's edible? what's possible with enough imagination?

I'd like to start with things that are present in-game (vanilla), first, the foods and drinks (ingredients too), having a loaf of bread with a nice mushroom stew seasoned with dandelions for breakfast is an option taken straight from the game

now let's say that I take the apples, wheat, milk, sugar and eggs to make an apple pie, that isn't in the game, but it's something possible to craft

in an extend things like salt can exist because the presence of sea water, same as things like bacon (pigs), cheese (milk) and so on

what if I throw the existing leaves in hot water to make tea?

or since all the dyes have an organic source can I make a rainbow cake?

how you cook things must be important too I imagine, maybe steak cooked in the smoker tastes way better than cooked with a fire aspect sword

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Thank you so much for the tag!!

I've done 13 years of ballet but quit a few years ago because of busy school life.

I study biology yet I'm afraid of a ton of animals, so my boyfriend and friends call me 'inside biologist'. I love studying the theory of animals and plants though!

I have been considering doing a rebrand of this account and make a more real life blog out if it because i wanna interact with people more but i simply do not have the time to write right now in my life.

@nixoxia @starsyoubreaklikesugardust @frog-writes-for-fun @moriiartist @shepard-ram

If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send this to the last 7 people in your notifications, anonymously or not.

Ok um.....

1. I can't stop reading on Wattpad or Tumblr

2. I like to dance when I'm alone

3. I play assassin's creed just to jump off the buildings

@chibichanntheoneandonly @sunfl0wer-h0ur @embarrassedauthornerd @wingless-cupid @yaboibex @faeriisms @glitcheddefect

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I don’t think They can get away with this

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I will not confirm or deny those hashtag suspicions (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠)

Mae govannen!

The cling wrap saga is so great!! Am loving watching it unfold, the drawings are killing me (⁠人⁠ ⁠•͈⁠ᴗ⁠•͈⁠)

Love, Alice 🌸

P.s drink more water!!!

I'm glad you've enjoyed the saga; it was fun to do! @katiky-png, we should do that kind of thing more often!

I promise I've drank enough since we last spoke! I get quite thirsty when it's cold for some reason.

Lots of love, El <3

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The stationary series

Part IV

Mumbo Jumbo and ImpulseSV

Synopsis: a series which depicts my view of what type of stationary each of the hermits would use, and how their office would look! To avoid a massive post this has become a series. Under the headcanons of each hermit I’ve included a list of stationary mentioned for reference.

Mumbo Jumbo:

He is chaotic, somewhat of a mess, and definitely would not feel responsible enough for a fountain pen

It's mostly due to the fragile nature of the pens, and he knows that he would ruin it somehow

He's tried it out, which is how he became certain it wasn't anything for him. When he would use the pen, the nib and cap would be filled with leaked ink, creating quite a mess, or the pen wouldn't write because of some blockage forcing him to clean it again and somehow there are issues with the nib itself too now

He's given up to be honest

The fountain pen he liked, and therefore tried out, was the Lamy Nexx in dark grey (picture at the bottom for reference)

That was before he found out a lot of fountain pens get released in sets with ball pens and mechanical pencils

Those are actually way more up his alley, and so he finds himself using those instead

They give him the elegance and aesthetic he searches for without the problems of a fountain pen

Whenever he is out, he always carries his own set off ballpoint pen and mechanical pencil, kept safe is a small leather pouch (picture at the bottom for reference)

He has a separate set he carries with him than what he uses when at his base, and to keep the two apart he prefers to keep a blue ink in the rollerball pen he carries with him and a black ink for the one stationary at his desk

Not that he has ever needed to keep the two apart, but if he does, and when he does, he'll be able to

His mechanical pencils do not get the same treatment, and both carry the same HB refills

While on his way, in his little leather pouch hidden safely in the inside pocket of his suit jacket, he keeps a Lamy all-star rollerball pen in the colour anthracite, because it is the closest to the Nexx fountain pen he wanted at first, and a Caran d'Ache 849 FixPencil in 3mm width (picture at the bottom for reference)

He likes the sleek look of the pen, the metallic shine that almost reminds him of his redstone contraptions, and the slight resistance the rollerball has on the paper

For the pencil, he likes the sleek look the solid black design gives, but above all the patterning on it which makes it easy to hold and use for longer periods at a time which is good when he is out of his base. On his desk, where he sketches new additions to his vault, writes his material lists and keeps track of things, there is a Montblanc Meisterstück classic rollerball pen, as well as a Caran d'Ache Ecridor mechanical pencil (picture at the bottom for reference)

These pens are, and definitely feel, more luxurious

He prefers to keep these at his desk to avoid any damage to the pens, since they have adapted to his hand after copious amounts of use it is harder to replace them and find the same comfort in them, unlike the pens he carries with him which are very replaceable, so he doesn't have to worry about any damages

He doesn't really have much of an office yet, more of a base camp where he keeps his stuff and creates his plans for the vault, so for now the most of his stationary are on a bedside table and occasionally on the crafting table

He has a chest for his papers and plans, keeping them relatively tidy when he binds them together, when he doesn't however - which is most     of the time - they are everywhere and anywhere

Even though he writes a lot of things down, he usually has to do this at least twice as he keeps losing the original ones in a quickly growing chest monster around his temporary base whilst he works on the vault

Left to right: Lamy Nexx in dark grey, Lamy all-star roller ball anthracite, Montblanc Meisterstück Classique Rollerball, Galen leather two pen flap pouch, Caran d'Ache 849 FixPencil 3.0 MM, Caran d'Ache Ecridor mechanical pencil

ImpulseSV:

His dwarven aesthetic, the black and golden - mixed with lava- colour palette, if anything he has trouble choosing a fountain pen that he likes the most

He is a dwarf, but not just any dwarf, he is rich

As a businessman from varying businesses and a lot of farms that give him the material wealth he seeks, he has no problems affording the most extravagant fountain pen to use whilst bookkeeping the costs, earnings and his savings in different notebooks

Writing out contracts for other hermits, what he has gifted and to whom, his earnings, the costs, output schedules of different farms, stock in his shops, and various other things

He is tidy in his organising, keeping track of everything in designated notebooks, each labelled with specific titles, subtitles and some are even colour coded

In his office there is a bookcase with archives of past seasons, or simply past notebooks that have gotten filled up

That, with various other books he keeps, is all displayed in his office in a wall of bookshelves, they are grand, made of the darkest wood to match the aesthetic of the entire base

On his desk however, which is just as grand as the room itself, there is a clear organisation

The notebooks he is currently using are neatly organised in drawers on the side of the desk, a stack of loose papers with varying purposes are     neatly piled up on the edge of his desk,

Scissors, tape, a stapler, and other various things you may just need to have on hand when working, are all slightly scattered over his desk, though none on the pristine clean black desk mat he has to prevent indents on the desk below and make writing on singular papers more comfortable

In another drawer, he keeps the most recent full notebooks to look back on and compare when needed

A lot of the other drawers are filled to the brim with papers, sketches for his base, statues to have in his base, shop ideas, shop designs, texture ideas, block palettes, just everything, these drawers keep every creative idea he has ever had during this season

Despite the rest of the office those drawers have no organisation, no planning and are quite chaotic

The ideas he uses at the moment are displayed on the black desk mat

One drawer is reserved for various pots of ink and other, less fancy, fountain pens he uses for daily necessities

For these, he likes to use the Visconti homo sapiens, just like Doc who actually gifted the pen to him after a gift Impulse had given him instead, a Parker 51, a Parker IM, and a Leonardo Momento Magico (reference pictures are below)

Though the colour palette of these pens might be similar, the colours of the ink are certainly not, which is partially how he keeps things colour coded, and he uses a variety of ink colours, mainly from the brand J.Herbin (picture below)

His prized possession, however, is a golden fountain pen called the Gaia high luxury fountain pen from Omas, which he only uses for important deals, signatures, and special occasions

Left to right: Parker IM in black and gold, Leonardo momento magico in black, Omas Gaia high luxury fountain pen, Parker 51 in black with a gold plated nib and cap, Visconti Homo sapiens, a sheet of different colours ink by J. Herbin 

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Somewhere this weekend a now hermit stationary will be uploaded, have the text and reference sheets ready but really don't have time to edit the headcanons, cause I've got work in like 6 hours and I should probably be sleeping.. hope y'all can wait till then!

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Expectation: sites thinking I'm gonna spend a fortune on fountain pens

Reality: me searching what pen fits block men the best

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The stationary series

Part III

Tinfoil Chef and Rendog

Synopsis: a series which depicts my view of what type of stationary each of the hermits would use, and how their office would look! To avoid a massive post this has become a series. Under the headcanons of each hermit I’ve includeda list of the stationary used for reference.

A/N: I’m very sorry to hear about TFC’s passing, and his headcanons for this series is extra long and detailed as this is my way of remembering him. 

Tinfoil Chef:

He is a true hermit at heart, spending most of his time down in the mines

There is enough light, provided by torches and other light sources in his bigger, more complex roads, so he definitely carries notes with him

From block palette's he used to make the broader, more decorated parts of his mine, to a small map with directions, he jots it all down

He's mostly a fan of mechanical pencils, they're easy to use, and the lead doesn't break as easily with the metal encasing (alike to the rotring rapid pro-0.5)

They are also way easier to clean all the dust off from spending the days carving new passages out of stone

He makes the lead refills himself, as they are made from the carbon of all the coal he finds deep down

Using the coal for this also leaves the lead darker than the average pencil which is convenient for low light levels!

Some fellow hermits seek him out, the short moments he spends above the ground, for his brilliant craftsmanship of the lead fillings (especially Iskall)

For the times when he does prefer ink, he tends to go for a plain metal dipping pen

There are no complicated ink channels and cartridges to keep clean, or prevent from drying

Just the nib that has to be cleaned with water after use, and he prefers the simplicity of it

The wooden handle is worn, and the position of his hand is carved in the worn gloss that had once covered the wood

Because he is quite attached to it, though he most likely wouldn't admit it directly, it is almost always placed on a small stand in his small base under the ground as he is too afraid it would get damaged if he took it with him on his travels

This does mean that once he returns, sometimes after a few days, to draw the new passages on the large map he has on his wall of his cave     system, it can be covered in a small layer of dust which will always be  gently and carefully wiped away before use

The ink he uses is most often black, he likes the neutrality of it, and how visible it is in low light levels, he also has grey inks in various degrees of darkness

He uses these mostly for drawing passages on his map he plans to add later or things he isn't quite sure about yet

His actual base underground is small, simple, and optimised for its tasks

He has a bed, a lot of storage for all his materials, and a small wooden desk against the wall

His desk is quite neat, a lantern sitting on the edge to provide adequate lighting, the pots of ink ranging lightest to darkest on the other side, a small wooden (personally carved) stand for his pen and a spare mechanical pencil against the wall

There are some notes on the wall, sketches of what he thinks would look good when he creates the main hallways, countless of coordination's of which some he has forgotten what the destination was, various other notes and- off to the side- hangs a picture of him with his wife

One entire wall is covered in parchment paper, a lantern hanging from the ceiling on its two sides, once he had hung one lantern in the middle of the room and called it a day, however his shadow started to bother him increasingly  when he added details to the map and so he had come up with this solution

The map is surprisingly neat; however, it has the occasional drop of ink running down a line, or the splatter of a drop of ink

It is the cost of convenience, he'd said

With his base in the middle, the passages featured different access points to the surface (with some even leading to someone's base) with small notes where they ended up, and broader roads for his intricately decorated halls

left to right: metal dip pen with wooden handle, brand unkown, several grey ink swatches of several inks, specifics can be read in the picture, Rotring mechanical pencil 0,5mm width, and a sketch of what i’d think his map would look like in charcoal

Rendog:

Before Ren became a king he thrived with simplicity and a more modern \ technical aesthetic

Regarding his writing in ink needs, he likes to use a TWSBI eco white RGT fountain pen (picture below)

The reasoning is actually quite simple, it writes quite nice and smoothly but above all it is practical

You can see far in advance when the ink will run dry through the see-through barrel of the pen so if he will be out for a long time building and the ink is almost empty, he can refill before he goes

Not only that, but if there are problems with the pen, he can see the ink, where it is, and observe what the problem is and how to fix it

Maybe it will be fixed by a run through with water, or he'll haveto take the pen apart to some degree, at least he'll know before acting

He is also secretly in love with the modern design of the pen, the aesthetic of which reminding him of the GIGA Corps space station in a sense

Ren would be a hoarder of some kind, be it different brands and colours of ink, or a fast growing collection of more fountain pens, possibly with similar designs or the same brand that do not fit on his display tray anymore, or perhaps different types of paper and parchment until he has found the best paper to use, but he hoards something, and it probably won't be something a lot of hermits know about

He is less fixated with pencils, and instead of using one, or a few designated pencils he will leave those small (Ikea sized) pencils all over the place

Ren after he has become king has a more different style than before, everything is a bit more classical, everything has to be shown off a bit more, and above all, it should show he is the king of the server

His modern designed fountain pen will have to make room for the more extravagant Forbidden City HRH Limited Edition pen by visconti (picture below)

The gold, silver and royal red colour is, in his opinion, more fitted for a king

With this, one most write in a similar extravagant coloured ink, for which the gold resembling ink Golden sands by diamine (pictured below) would be used (for the record I DO NOT recommend putting any shimmer inks     near a fountain pen of that price, but I digress)

Though for the less official documents one can occasionally see the king reaching for his retired TWSBI pen, or at the very least, use a more muted royal red colour such as the ink Red dragon by Diamine which was  probably a favourite of his from before he became King

Maybe he would care to invest in a better pencil as King, but most likely would he leave the drawing of any drafts to his loyal subject Bdubz

This doesn't mean however that his hoarding abilities cease, instead (with the newly acquired budget) it would most likely get worse

The castle (or Crastle) must have a separate office room to suit his needs, with a grand desk for all the paperwork that is needed to rule over a server as big as Hermit craft

The room would be big, two walls covered with bookshelves, a dramatic window with his desk in front of it, a chair across his for small audiences, and a red carpet on the floor

The desk would have a small stand for his fountain pen, while he'd keep his old favourite pens in a drawer for easy access, two pots of ink for easy refilling (the red and gold previously mentioned), a whole lot of papers and a set of candles off to the side

Ideally his office window would overlook the shopping district, so he'd have something to watch when he gets bored or distracted

left to right: TWSBI eco RGT fountain pen in white, Red dragon diamine ink, Golden sands diamine ink,  extravagant Forbidden City HRH Limited Edition pen by visconti

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🌟 If you get this answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send this to the last 7 people in your notifications, anonymously or not 🌟

Thank you for this, I'll make sure to pass it on! Most likely anonymous cause I'm too shy to send it to some i don't interact with often (＠_＠;). Also I'm sorry for answering late but i just got back from a two week vacation with like no service or wifi.

I got my writing style from writing a ton on Wattpad when I was younger and it developed over time (surprisingly enough people do read it and enjoy it still)

Besides loving MCYT, i really enjoy watching various anime, and I am a massive lover of various books (for example LOTR and The Hobbit)

Because English isn't my first language I'm very conscious about what i upload and what i keep hidden within the safe space of my drafts which results in a lot of ideas / drafts but not a lot of uploaded fics

Thank you for sending this to me, my love, and I'll make sure to pass it on.

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Hello please reblog this if you’re okay with people sending you random asks to get to know you better

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