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I always liked the anime illustrations in the original NES Zelda manual, and it saddened me to find out these weren’t actually part of a real animated promotion for the game. So I decided to take those illustrations and re-create them as if they were!

Enjoy this long-lost VHS promotion for the Legend of Zelda on the Nintendo Entertainment System!

Voice narration by Streamy McDreamy

Animated in Procreate and Procreate Dreams.

View this video on YouTube here.

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I’d like to live through a week that’s not a whole new verse of “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”

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Hitting the gym (AC6) (for Make a Terrible Comic Day 2025)

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I've seen your "go learn embroidery" posts and I'm tempted! But. I've not touched a needle and thread since making a single very bad pillow when i was small (7-9ish?). Do you know of any resources for getting from 0% skill to 10% skill, so I can start using all those other resources you've posted about?

Yeah sure! honestly starting with a kit will get you all the supplies you need without worrying about how to get started or what to buy, and then if you keep with it you have a hoop and needle already. Sometimes kits can be expensive (because indie artists gotta eat) but you want kits from indie artists not from like. amazon or mass dropshipped etsy shops. There's lists online of places to start but I like Capital Stitch Co - theyre a company local to me who don't know I exist lol. The friend I've mentioned who stitched up her cat's portrait, one of their kits was her second project, after a Diana Vingert project she did where I gave her a list of patterns and let her shop my stash for materials. Cozyblue is also great. This is starting to get long but honestly what I look for in 'beginner' patterns are designs that casually use a variety of stitches so that you can get used to handling a needle in different ways. Floral designs are usually a good way to showcase that and get in a lot of texture. It's also in my experience easier to get discouraged when an embroidery of an animal or person looks 'wrong' lol. With plants or bugs or mushrooms, it's kinda easier to process what its supposed to be vs getting hung up on details.

I have another post about getting started with supplies that I can reblog after this but: don't overthink it. Pick a design, pick up the supplies, and start stitching.

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Happy terrible comic day 2025. I weighed on contributing or not, but like an hour ago realized I couldn't be a hypocrite about something relating to art, and there's nothing worse than that to me. so i ran for my supplies and tackled a subject that comes up a lot. Art and studying art take practice. It takes being willing to keep at it. This goes for drawing and embroidery both - music, drawing, sculpture, sewing, it all takes physically getting into it and working at it. But also we can't just decide we're not gonna do art because we think we suck at it.

To stave off the questions: yes my handwriting really is that bad. no i did not exaggerate any of the doodles here. yes i own every shirt mentioned here. my hair is in a curly fauxhawk. this was drawn with sharpie on printer paper, no sketching beforehand, and no allowing myself any redos.

Anyway, go learn embroidery.

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you're cute and it's tuesday

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you might think the princess and maid thing is just a schtick but while making tea I did just manage to catch the teabags on fire

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uh oh, we're in a tight spot!!

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I love the bad luck brian memes going around tumblr because about 80% are long detailed descriptions of him waking up in a labyrinthine hell of unknowable fractals and getting turned inside out and sent back to the moment of the big bang and the other 20% are like “GOES TO BATHROOM // PEES TOO HARD”

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maidtroid

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just met a three month old pomeranian named horchata. her paw was the size of my fingertip. she looked like half a dandelion fluff

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the kind of thing prowl is being sent on a daily basis

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maidtroid

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Beautiful siblings insider trading and money laundering

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One day I am gonna grow wings (freedom).

One day I am gonna grow wings (success).

One day I am gonna grow wings (love).

One day I am gonna grow wings (understanding).

One day I am gonna grow wings (happiness).

One day I am gonna grow wings (growing up).

One day I am gonna grow wings (acceptance).

One day I am gonna grow wings (purpose).

One day I am gonna grow wings (detachment).

One day I am gonna grow wings (hope).

One day I am gonna grow wings (knowledge).

One day I am gonna grow wings (meaning).

One day I am gonna grow wings (family).

One day I am gonna grow wings (peace).

One day I am gonna grow wings (revenge).

One day I am gonna grow wings (friendship).

One day I am gonna grow wings (mindset).

One day I am gonna grow wings (independence).

One day I am gonna grow wings (recovery).

One day I am gonna grow wings (coming out).

One day I am gonna grow wings (moving on).

One day I am gonna grow wings (justice).

One day I am gonna grow wings (victory).

One day I am gonna grow wings (safety).

One day I am gonna grow wings (survival).

One day I am gonna grow wings (belonging).

One day I am gonna grow wings (kindness).

One day I am gonna grow wings (proof).

One day I am gonna grow wings (potencial).

One day I am gonna grow wings (self control).

One day I am gonna grow wings (identity).

One day I am gonna grow wings (resolution).

One day I am gonna grow wings (death).

One day I am gonna grow wings (self love).

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Brushbuddy embroidery, stitched with 1 strand of white floss on white canvas