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I will be fully abandoning this blog on

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022!

please go give @axe-of-ender a follow instead ♡

old pinned post | reason for switching blogs | new blog [axe-of-ender]

redirect any questions to the new blog, not this one! we will not see it!

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why are u moving blogs?

i started answering this and it got long so uhh bullet points yay?

mm i feel like a lot of the followers here don't really interact? and the high number is very intimidating. (it feels like walking onto stage in an auditorium full of a thousand people. like they may not all be staring at me but they might be and damn that is way too much attention /lh)

old embarrassing posts i can't find+delete now

interactions with people i don't support/things i regret now

i can be stricter with my boundaries/making sure weirdos don't follow me

i can stick to ONE tagging system

similarly: when i follow/like/send asks it'll show up that it's from this blog (axe-of-ender) rather than being from my main (atlas-sky) which i hardly use anyway

tbh the only bad thing is i'll have to re-enter my blocklist 😭 and a lot of things that i AM proud of may be lost. so i think i'll just keep this blog up? i won't use it any more, but that way i can still technically control the posts (since when i deactivate i won't be able to control my old posts)

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TUMBLR IS SHOWING ME GERMAN VIAGRA ADS

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an xbox 360 was sold in japan this week

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Hey btw, to new writers who want to write angst: Nothing illustrates darkness as well as sparse and brilliant highlights.

If you want to write a character with an unspeakably awful past, there's no need to go into deep and gory details about how horrible it was. Readers who can't relate to it won't relate to that, and the readers who have been there generally don't want to see that. Instead, highlight some of their happiest moments but make them unsettlingly small.

Sprinkles in some realism, too. Having a character go "my parents were abusive monsters and I've literally never had a happy moment in my life" isn't realistic, and both the people who haven't witnessed that kind of thing outside of fiction, and the people who have personally lived it will just go "yeah, yeah, tragic childhood, misery, darkness, we've all seen it", and being nothing but negative makes the character both uninteresting and unlikeable.

Now, having someone casually think or say shit like "I think my happiest childhood memory was that christmas when dad was in prison. Nobody was yelling or throwing anything and mom was sober the whole time", and be genuinely surprised by other peoples' concerned reactions - now jesus christ that's bleak.

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If you try to bring up my old ass Bible name ur gettin blocked

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When websites go "oh actually you have to use our app to view things on mobile now :)" evil. I will simply not do the thing now. Fuck your app.

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I refuse to be controlled by a calendar. Happy halloween everyone

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Y'all know that post that was like “Tumblr updates are like if someone got into your house while you were away and did nothing but move everything a couple inches to the left”?

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some tom cardy out of context because I just think he's neat

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I feel stupid for asking this so im using anon, but how do you draw the hijab? Whenever I try it looks like an egg www

also, Ramadan Mubarak! May Allah bless you

Don’t feel stupid for asking! Drawing is hard no matter what you’re drawing, so don’t be afraid to ask for help^^ But honestly even I feel like the best of my hijabis look a little egg-like, and that’s okay!

This tutorial is already taking so goddamn long, so I’m just gonna link my coloring and shading tutorial I did a month ago 😭😭

Gosh, I hope what I wrote made sense 😅 But thank you so much for the well wishes! Happy Ramadan (Eid Mubarak at this point WAHHH), and the same to you, may you and your loved ones have many blessings!!

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES

Winchester Meg's Hijab Drawing Tutorial

Souratgar's Hijab Drawing Tutorial

General Tips for Drawing and Shading Fabrics

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British media priming us into being complicit in the days ahead.

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accidentally ran into the literal coolest person on this earth

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let’s see how this goes

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sensory overload is wonderful because it’s like Well yes i would love to relax and breathe normally and not suddenly feel like a cornered prey animal :) but i can’t, you see. on account of The Sights & Sounds

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Keyboard-related PSA: these Procreate macropads are a scam. Procreate themselves have even gotten involved to warn people about them.

https://twitter.com/Procreate/status/1379174891425959936

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I’ve never met Chris Pratt but I trust him