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cervus minor✨

alt caption: deerly beloved— *gets hit by a brick*

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4 + 4 = THE8

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yoo sangah!!!!!

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starting off July with kazuha

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guess who watched spiderverse !

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a scribble of a tarsier and her fox

alternative caption: I've started doing self-indulgent doodles when I'm stressed so I can work in peace!!!

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the way I told myself that maybe I should give up on animation only to speedrun this clip in 2 days bc I saw the scene where fidel's eyes lit up when he saw klay for the first time in 13 years

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bsd fans I'm here to present to u my 'akutagawa is mimikyu' agenda

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I swapped my icon for the first time in almost a year and nearly jumped a foot bc I couldn't recognise my replies to one of my own posts,,,,,,

lunase the fish girl needed a new hairstyle, so I gave her a jellyfish haircut!

I'm still deciding on what her final look should be, but she looks better with this hairstyle than her OG design tbh (*>_<*)ﾉ

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lunase the fish girl needed a new hairstyle, so I gave her a jellyfish haircut!

I'm still deciding on what her final look should be, but she looks better with this hairstyle than her OG design tbh (*>_<*)ﾉ

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I joined my very first character design contest last year and somehow managed to win by the sheer grace of God alone,,, so many things went wrong in the process of making this but I'm quite proud of how it turned out!

the contest theme was Mindanao, so I decided to draw a character inspired by pre-colonial traditional Mindanao clothing. I also incorporated elements of my heritage from southern Luzon and Visayas ( ´∀｀)

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as a writer how do you stop thinking about like getting kudos/comments? I've just started writing fanfic, and when I start a writing something -- it goes well and then eventually I get to point where I'm like "ahh but what the readers don't like that? or what if I don't get as many kudos or comments" and it makes it difficult to continue because then it becomes stressful -- I guess how do you deal with "wanting to write stuff for yourself" and "wanting validation" thanks!

You're going to hate this answer, because I hated it too, but TIME. When you first start writing and you get kudos and comments and people love what you're doing, it's a huge validation of your effort and talent, and it's natural that you want MORE of it. When I first started putting up fics I already had been writing for 15+ years, knew I was good at it, and still for a good few years found myself really glued to the hit counter, and the kudos, and wondering how I'd be able to get people to comment the same way they did on things like Seven Suitors.

But the thing is that commenting comes and goes in waves, and unless a fandom has a big comment culture, or is large enough that you're guaranteed a good glut of them every time you post...you're going to hit a point where you write exactly what everyone wants and get crickets. And at that point you'll get ANNOYED, because LOOK, I MADE THIS, i made it for YOU GUYS, and now y'all don't have anything to say? It'll get to you. It'll make you doubt that you know what anyone wants at all. It'll happen and it'll suck the whole time.

Lots of advice will say "write for yourself," which is an excellent sentiment. You should always write what YOU want. Put into your fic what you want to see, write the nitpicky poetic metaphors and craft the most screwball twists your heart desires. Pour yourself into the most niche AUs and most tin-hat canon theories. At the end of the day, you want the IDEAS you put down to be for you, because comments and kudos are nice, but if they don't come...you have to be proud of what you put out, even when it feels like an echo chamber.

But also...we don't POST things for ourselves. We post things to share. Fic are a conversation with canon and it is perfectly natural to want to create something that creates conversation among other fans. So you're never going to fully get the need for validation out of your head, you're not. You can hide hit counts and ignore your inbox all you like, but the want to have someone interact with your work, to inspire someone to reach out to you will ALWAYS be there. You just have to create a healthier relationship with it.

Be confident in what you write. Think less about whether people will like it, and more about how you WANT them to react. The reader is the most important character in any novel, but it's the one most authors forget to manage. When you come to a point where you go "oh man, I hope this is good for them!" stop and go, "what do I *want* them to be feeling here?" Focus on where you're putting their attention and whether you WANT it there. There's so much you can do when you visualize your relationship with the reader as PART of the work, and it takes off a lot of the pressure of "is this good? is it disappointing? will this get me validation?" and brings it back into the realm of storytelling. You are taking your reader on a journey, and when you do it well people will think less about "did I like that?" and more about "what comes next?"

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filay, but make it ✨pride and prejudice✨

I haven't painted in so many years so I'm a little bit rusty, but I'm very happy with how this turned out 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼 I've been super obsessed with maria clara at ibarra lately and I am RIDICULOUSLY invested in filay's shenanigans!!! THEY ARE SO CUTE!!!!!

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crocheted a tiny biyoo plush to accompany me wherever I go,, she would also like to know whether you have games on your phone !!

she's just the right size to hold in my hand aaaa :((

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a certain bongo-head has arrived home

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when he has blue hair, pilots a robot and is voiced by tetsuya kakihara >>>>>>

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rushed lighting practice

chromatic aberration is my favourite fascination of the year and a lot of the time I wish I could just skip straight to shading bc of how fun it is to draw