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I can't speak for other art forms, but when it comes to lyrics, in my experience, when folks do the "why does this work? why does this sound good?" thing, they're not downplaying the artist's effort – they genuinely can't articulate why it works, because they have no concept of scansion. They can intuitively feel that some lyrics "fit" the music and some don't, but they couldn't explain why to save their lives, and when they try to write lyrics of their own, there will be absolutely no relationship between the syllable count and stress patterns of the words they come up with and the rhythm and metre of the music. They can tell their lyrics sound like shit and don't know why – from their perspective it's pure magic and people who can make it work are wizards.

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Finished this in the wee hours of the morning today. When we visited Grand Forks in December for graduation, my brother and I tried to get a cool photo of him at a park in East Grand Forks and we just couldn't make it work, so when I got back to the hotel I started working on this :)

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been thinkin bout bearchild again lately, so here's a drawing of Parks, my Beautiful Child.

and this is the place where the story starts, the safe ground. im trying to decide if im gonna color it, idk.

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this is a multi-use arts url (writing, art, comics, music, etc) BUT I do lots of lgbtq writing (comics, prose, worldbuilding)

genres are like...

• mundane setting but theres definitely ghosts and an afterlife, everyone is queer

• ya dystopia (cyberpunk but in like a watch_dogs way not a neon lights way, also most characters are queer)

• got a post/during apoc thing thats zombies but its about community building

• short stories all over the place, including science fiction, magitech, science fantasy.

What’s up! I’m Jay! Every so often I forget that I run this blog and then come back to it with energy, as most of my creative pursuits work. Anyways my dash has been a bit dry as of late, so do me a favor and reblog/introduce yourself if you are a writeblr who works in any of the following:

high fantasy or mid-fantasy

urban fantasy

sci-fi-fantasy / magitech

stories with a focus on LGBTQ+ characters

Thank you and have a good one! <3

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This is Gershom, he's a dwarf rogue, I'm gonna be playing him in a Dragon Age ttrpg that I'm in !!

I feel like he probably flirts a lot lmao.

(hey Jakob, did you literally just give him your Hebrew name? why yes, yes I did,)

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Have created a new novel-writing approach for myself that I am calling Very Gentle Writing. Very Gentle Writing is an approach for people who live nearly every waking second in self-castigation and actually need peaceful slowness to unleash their creativity. 

Very Gentle Writing does not set staggering word count goals and then feel bad about it. No! Very Gentle Writing for me sets an extremely low word count and then feels magnificently productive when the low bar is exceeded (which is easy…it’s a low bar, I mean really low). 

Very Gentle Writing is about saying hey yo maybe I just want to listen to a chill playlist for a while and feel one sentence spill out. Go me! 

Very Gentle Writing is kind of about realizing I have a really limited amount of time to write in between work, and adulting, and taking care of a thousand life responsibilities, and trying to heal&deal from trauma in 2020. So I want that writing time to be….just…..nice. 

Very Gentle Writing means I have a goal of enjoying every single time I sit down to write. Really. I use all the fun words first. 

Very Gentle Writing came to me as an idea when I started to think about how as someone actively trying to recover from a lot of lifelong trauma, the usual word harder!! Work harder!! mantras in the world of “people doing hard things” didn’t motivate me at all, they only hurt me. I truly need a voice saying work less hard, personally.

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champagne snail (chail)

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i made some doodles during class today

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Here's an Elliot for @bigdamnproject !!!!

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i havent posted in a HOT MINUTE but this has been a good week for my patreon so if you wanna go see SOME OF THAT

we got, 2 new pages of My Cat is a Hopeless Optimist (page 4 is here, follow the links for page 5 or go to the beginning: https://www.patreon.com/posts/27537132)

ONE hopefully final version of a song that i've been noodling on for several years: https://www.patreon.com/posts/27572208

and ONE song that i started writing LAST WEEK and LOVE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/27572222

these will all eventually be available for free- the comic pages when that story is finished and the songs when there's enough for an album. but, if you like to hop on trains early, now's a pretty ok time!

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Page 3 of "My Cat is a Hopeless Optimist" is up for patrons! you can see it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25281946

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Finally posting pages of My Cat is a Hopeless Optimist! These ones are patron only until they're all up- there's only 24ish pages and most of them just need to be inked, so hopefully it won't be too long!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/25030495

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Heckening trying the ol' patreon again! I just posted the first part of a story i'm feeling out called "Bearchild." Patrons can read it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/24565567

I love you and I hope your week has been treating you well <3

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Hey friends! I'm starting the ol' patreon back up!

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[gets in all close and sexy to the microphone]

i dont know if you know this about me, but i dont know how to play the guitar

[takes a deep breath]

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hey whats up i know a lot of ppl are leaving or getting booted so heres some Hot Occoris Locations

twitter: @ occoris

mastodon: occoris@snouts.online

instagram: @ occomoo

i think i’m on pillowfort @ occoris but i am not a regular user there yet.

art stuff

twitter: @ art_hopping

instagram: @ arthopping

facebook : look for “arthopping”

mastodon: arthopping@mastodon.art

also arthopping.com

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twitter: @zoofonix

facebook: look for “zoofonix”

bandcamp: bandcamp.com/zoofonix

soundcloud: zoofonix

zoofonix.com

you can also search for us on spotify!

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Calling all artists!

If your commissions are open and you do draw OC’s, please reblog this post! 

If you are not an artist but know of one, please reblog this and tag them or just mention their url in the tags! 

And hey, even just reblogging helps! I will be keeping a comprehensive list of artists who can be commissioned to draw characters/OC’s on the blog!