#<. ooo that's rly cool

[yumenosakiacademy]

its so ??? when ppl criticize fuj0s 4 not liking ge!kkomi/b4ra or w/e or say theyre fake or it proves theyre solely fetishizers as if, like, Preference isnt a thing.

i dont identify as a fujin but jus as im not rly a fan of bara content, i dont like big hairy men in my m/f ships either or solo in general. n jus like ppl who rly like those bigger hairier guys will prob not b attracted 2 the slender bishies found in most animanga media, ppl who arent attracted 2 hairy men wont like 2 see them featured in what they watch/read all tht much either. ur not a better person 4 preferring the lesser liked 1 over the common 1, or 4 liking both.

same goes 4 yuri, where himej!n who might not like the cutesy uwu kyaa girls n prefer mature older women wont gravitate 2 schoolgirl yu/ri n instead go 4 ones w women more their type bc thts what they prefer 2 look at (tho they might dabble in a cutesy lady x mature women every once in a while, should it strike their fancy. same w the BL ships in the prev paragraph)

n sometimes, 4 both GL n BL, liking a ship 4 its charas or their interactions can trump over personal preference (esp if the ship is from an anime/game/etc thts not romance/BL or GL oriented aka u didnt come 4 the pre-made ship content, u jus discovered a ship or 2 tht u liked from charas tht were there); but tht doesnt mean some1 will seek out content featuring types of guys or girls tht they dont find visually appeasing, whether in BL or GL or HL.

[janeya]

I've been a bit obsessed with hangar theatre's jane... i think punking her out is a really cool choice because it almost gives you an idea of who she was in life. It marks her out from the rest in a really unique way i dont think i've really seen in any other production. And it still keeps with the character because, the lines being exactly the same, she's still an eery ghost girl, inhabiting the body and sensibilities of someone she cannot remember. Perhaps i'm overthinking though. I'd love to watch their ballad. One of the actor's recently released what was obviously a proshot of noel's lament, so i'm hoping the ballad is given the same treatment. Fully fanfic on my part but i'd love for it to have a more rock-based instrumentation to fit with the punk theme. Wishful thinking though. Anyway, that's enough of rambling in your inbox ^_^

ooo i havent even really thought abt this take! this is such a good analysis of this design i rly loved reading this :3

[miraculousmaker]

SPOILERS FOR TMAGP 15

LIVE REACTION

listening to podcasts is v interesting for me bc I have issue with absorbing sound sometimes (subtitles on all shows, having someone repeat themselves all the time). It’s especially weird for this bc I have to rly focus on what everyone’s saying, and sometimes I miss auditory cues, like the lying static everyone’s been talking about.

Anyway

Weird way to flirt my guy, you’re so damn sweet.

O it’s theatre pn isn’t it?

Alice giving her two cents as always.

Hehe Alice learning abt Celia having a kid is quite funny. Girly pop can’t wrap her head around it.

“What? I said babies were cool!”

This guy slowly sounding more relaxed as he gives his report.

Ooo a hunting one!

The rich being cannibals is so….

Oooo matriarch. Love a good matriarch.

The way that they let the staff go back inside before starting their hunt. Loyal workers get to go inside for the murderfest, but the hired folks are dinner.

Mommy issues.

Honestly, being threatened point-blank to ‘hunt’, then automatically ‘knowing’ what was being asked…

The hunters def have this little party at a regular basis, just to see if any of the caterers are susceptible. Like, the way that only the reporter bent to their will, and also the way it seemed like the dude was a vet or something.

And also he starts talking in a distant, somewhat gleeful way.

Damn okay.

I’m rly confused.

ARE THE BOUCHARDS PART OF SOMETHING???

O no this is going to be not-good.

O NO THIS IS NOT GOOD

ALICE FUCKING RUN

I would’ve been so confused when she started singing nelly the elephant. For those of you who don’t know, when Alice gives the cpr, it’s just the British song for the rhythm. Gotta love dimension 20

Alice was def just ‘touched’. Trying to bring a cursed person back to ‘life’.

[leorawright]

Hihihihi it's a long lost rare 🐰 anon who forgot tumblr exists. I hope ur okay and having a good time!!!

I'm here for the matchups! Overwatch specifically pls.

I'm fine with any character, gender plays no role. I'm really short and physically weak, soooo someone stronger that could make up in strength (and height, IT'S UNFAIR I CAN'T REACH THE TEA CUPBOARD IN MY OWN HOUSE, COME ONNNN) would be rly cool to have around :3 I'm also autistic and practically fitting a stereotype, i stim a lot with movement and vocal stims so that's something to take into account and tolerate bc it happens a lot. I also can and absolutely will sneak in for a hug and will sneak my partner under a blanket. or steal their hoodie or jackets. size be damned, it's nonnegotiable. better have spares. my love language is physical contact quality time, but quality time is also doing my own thing while my partner coexists in the same space doing their own thing. all time together is quality time. i will also praise them a lot. they made tea? they look particularly pretty? they did something they enjoyed? hell yeah expect praise. as for hobbies i dabble in everything, my hobby is "what if i tried xyz". yes, i do random unexpected stuff, better tolerate it :3. i also organize stuff, put me in front of a box of buttons and ill organize everything.

(i rly rly love what you have going on here btw with your blog, im happy to see someone enjoying stuff in front of people and sharing it!!)

Ooo I've got the perfect person...

Junker Queen!

Considering she's seven feet tall I think she might be taller than you

Absolutely loves to carry you if you let her

Perfectly happy to grab anything on high shelves for you

She honestly thinks your stims are pretty cute

She's happy to hug you or hold you at any given interval, she's never too busy for cuddles

She doesn't have a lot of long clothes but feel free to wear anything she has (also if you ask nicely she let's you wear her crown)

While she often gets compliments, getting them from you makes her ten times happier

It's good that you like organizing because her room is a mess and she can never find anything she needs

[matoitech]

What are your top-3 werewolf tropes (popular or obscure) or things you wish to see more in stories about/with werewolves?

ooo rly interesting question and surprisingly tough for me to answer.. i think 'tropes i hate' are probably easier to identify LOL but for some tropes i like hmmm:

i tend to enjoy werewolf transformations however it goes in that universe's werewolf lore, whether its painful and bone breaky and screamy or painful but feels good afterward or magical and painless or whatever, i think theyre all cool and they can all say a lot abt how u want ur werewolves to be viewed and what ur trying to say w them. i think my personal favorite is like, there is some level of pain but more than anything its a RELIEF to get to shift so its worth the pain. theres lots of things in life like that and growing up i could relate a lot to feeling like i was ready to burst out of my 'shell' as in body into who i REALLY was. on multiple levels lol

pack as being a better version of family was a huge one for me as a kid. i didnt have a good home life or childhood so i dreamed of finding out i was a werewolf and getting to run away and live in the woods as a wolf with a group of ppl that loved me, that was better than 'family' and meant more. tho it should also be stated this was more like a fantasy scenario for KID me; as an adult i love political dramas in fiction so complicated pack politics seem really fun to write now. i still wrote them to an extent when i was younger into my werewolf stories too but more than anything i had the dream of it being like a total freedom and actually getting to be loved as who you really were thing. i also like werewolf universes where they DONT rly have either packs of groups that function as packs, whatever works for the narrative and lore the best, but i loved the whole pack thing a lot growing up

i love werewolves being able to be used to represent so many things.. this isnt rly a trope in particular but i love the expressiveness and creativity and originality and fluidity their stories can have and i think its rly cool how many ppl can be compelled by them and attracted to the potential in these stories. theres so MUCH you can do w them that goes incredibly underutilized. if i wanted to always write a different way of looking at or approaching or relating real human experiences to werewolves, or even just slightly different ways the werewolves function (and you have so many different KINDS of werewolves; dif levels of animal and human mind combo as a four legged wolf, furry anthro werewolves, beast werewolves, etc) i would never run out of material or alternative ideas. thereis so much that can make a werewolf story a werewolf story and a werewolf a werewolf. theres so many personal reasons ive always loved and felt connected to them. this is partly getting into the 'what id love to see' thing, but just HUGE massive potential in writing abt stuff like disability for example that u just never see. werewolves r smth ive always rly deeply loved a lot and been fascinated with and i think it shows in how like Personal me talking abt werewolves tends to get lol. this wasnt rly a trope but im counting it

for more things i want more in werewolf stories.. lots of stuff specific and niche to me personally lol, but i want them to stop being so goddamn cisgender i think werewolf stories r one of those things where the way gender is handled is so unneccessarily bad SO much of the time for no reason i can see. i guess ppl want to be '''realistic''' to animals but gender does Not work like that for animals so theyre just being annoying for no reason. theres a lot of gender essentialism in a lot of werewolf stuff? which is incredibly grating. and obviusly shitty

anyway as a dif thing one of my biggest qualms w werewolf stories is that i rly dislike the incorrect 'alpha' dynamics + crazy aggression of the pack members against each other like werewolves r Biologically Evil thing that shows up a lot in werewolf stories by ppl who dont know anything abt wolves or wolf pack dynamics, or just dont care i guess. i dont care abt 'alpha/omega' shit at all i never write that kinda stuff. so i want more things that Dont use that. lol

id love to see more werewolves who Like being werewolves lol. being realistic abt like the pros and the cons here but there is NO reason why there r so few stories abt werewolves who actually like being werewolves or at least like some aspects of it. theres not enough furries writing these things i guess. oh i forgot to mention i like never think of lycanthropy as a 'curse' unless im writing it For A Reason. other characters viewing it as a curse while the werewolf doesnt, thats another story. i think its just boring and too like horror werewolf tropey to me. being able to turn into a wolf man is not a curse what the hell thats like the coolest power ever. i see ppl complaining abt how werewolves r 'too happy to just realize they have cool powers and start killing ppl they dont like for fun, i want to see them be SAD abt it' but i dont actualy see the 'enjoying murdering for fun' a lot in media so idk what theyre talking abt. i guess horror, maybe, where the werewolves r the villains? i see way more of them moping abt how hard it is to be cursed to be a furry. bite ME then if you hate it so much

i could keep going but i am gonna cut myself off now lol, tysm for asking! i could say lots more but its 2 am lol

[pumpkzsafeplace]

hiya!! i had a pretty rough week bc i came back into contact with a toxic friend and that was very upsetting but good things happened too! i went to a rly cool museum with a family friend, re-stuffed my dino pillow pet (i've decided his name will be matcha biscuit :3) and i got a new makeup palette and perfume today so yayyyy

- 🌍

- hihi cupcake'! <3 ⭐

oh no sweetpea :< i'm sorry your week was rough.

i'm so so so proud of you though for noticing that good things did happen too! & distracting yourself with them! that's always a tough thing to do <3

matcha biscuit is such a cute cute name!! i'm obsessed! <3

ooo what makeup looks are you planning to do??

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[secretworldofmadeline]

Hi, G / T Gravity Falls content? I need some wholesome Giant Dipper content. Also, Giantess Mabel Pines too. They are cute twins no matter what heights.

Also, Adventure Time G / T with Finn growing to be a 50ft giant hero of OOO.

Love Cartoon G/T Headcanons.

heyyy first of all just wanted to say thank u sm for the ask lol!! second of all, ive never seen adventure time sorry!! i think my boyfriend (@im-a-heartstomper) has tho so u can ask him? idk tbh

anyways i didnt rly know if you meant both of them as giant siblings at the same time or one being giant and one being tiny so i made it the latter. and i just did hcs, sry if that isn't what u wanted!!

giant!dipper pines:

if he grew randomly and was normal size before, he would TOTALLY boast about being taller than mabel. i do not make the rules. u remember little dipper? yeah.

he makes fun of her for being short all the time

he would still love to go on adventures with mabel and by himself!!

he'd also want to display real paranormal beasts in the shack (boss mabel) but all the creatures would be able to fit in his hands dghsjdgdhsj

his height makes him even more awkward

he's totally still into wendy btw and is even more insecure of it

giant dipper has a huge fear of scaring people he loves and doesn't want to hurt. (haha HUGE <3) like he hates when people feel intimidated by his size and he always wants them to know they r safe around him

except gideon fuck that bitch

he scares him for fun

we all know he loves mabel and is protective over her and because hes giant he feels like he can protect her even more which is so cute

he was prob teased and bullied for his size in school :(

he hates it when people make him feel like an outsider bc hes a giant

he for sure has an "i just wanna be like everyone else" mentality

which makes for a lot of good angst and hurt/comfort

he's altogether much more of a gentle giant

and hes BIG. like around 50 feet.

i cannot think of anything else LMAO i just love him soo much

giant!mabel pines:

mabels a BIG girlie with a BIG personality

like shes still super hyper and always running around the house and probably screaming and bouncing off the walls

which can cause. issues

cuz if u like scream and jump and ur a giant that can cause property damage

but its ok cuz that usually doesn't happen?

however when/if it does she always feels so bad

also she loves picking people up! whether its her brother or her friends, or even her grunkles, she loves holding people in her hands

like dipper, she taunts him for his height

her and her friends + dipper can do so much cool stuff bc she can just lift them up and stuff

wanna stargaze? do it in the hands of a giant, even closer to the sky

wanna climb this fence? she can lift u instead

mabel isn't actually that insecure about her size

she used to be a lot more but then she realized how awesome being a giant can be

she probably makes bad puns about being a giantess

yes she STILL HAS WADDLES

she carries him in her pocket and hands and has tiny stuff for him

her friends brag about her they're like "we have a BADASS COOL GIANT FOR A FRIEND SO THERE"

she loves carrying people in her pockets too

mabels sweaters are HUGE

her friends lay on them and are like woaaahh so soft and big

they also do her makeup. idk why we don't talk about g/t makeup scenarios more tbh but like on girls nights they totally would

although things are crazy she almost always has a positive outlook

and when she doesn't feel so good she still has her tiny brother dipper <3

again thank you for the ask! and im sorry i couldn't give u any adventure time content :(

[ayatoscupid]

1 and 11 and 17!! :D

thank u sm for the ask aaaa!! 🩷 ykw i’ll bite the bullet and answer for.. for…… d…… d.an heng. since he’s such a new and out-of-nowhere f/o i will probably be a bit more incoherent but good god i am TRYING

1. Gush about your f/o’s sense of style/fashion!

this is less about fashion but his colour palette is just soooo so pretty!! it suits him so well and ahgudhkd.. even before i started really liking him i thought he was quite pretty!! and his visual themes were gorgeous to me, he still has one of the prettiest bursts to me in the game, even if more simple compared to recent ones (for the love of god look at f.u xuan’s leaked one). his burst was what made me so excited abt the visual quality of the game back in beta!!

as for his fashion….. ahguahighsjfhdh@;£:&/£!!!! yeah. Hes pretty. even if the two zippers at the front of his collar are so silly (seriously why are they there) his outfit is very pretty n fitting for him. i dont wanna talk about y.inyue jun. thank uou.

17. Gush about how talented your F/O is!

i’ll answer 11 last bcs i’ll be talking about spoilers!! ummmm. he’s. ooo i wanna gush abt him with spoilers but i’ll try my best not to!!!! anyway he’s v strong and skilful with his spear cloud-piercer (i cant believe he kept that name but also i can) but he’s also very well-read, given he’s the archivist of the express!! ask him anything related to the data bank and he can give you answers. he’s also v organised with it and bookmarks things t.railblazer might want to read if they ever visit. he says to ask h.imeko or w.elt if they ever have any questions but he’s very smart too!! let me ask him instead!! (ok tbf idk if this is a talent but let me gush anyway)

11. Gush about your favorite chapter/book/episode/scene etc. your F/O is in!

ok so the main reason why i started liking him so much in the first place was getting to know his past reincarnation as yyj and how he feels about it and his development(?) from it so. i’ll put this under the cut

the fact that he’s someone so.. somewhat rooted in the present, and has moved on completely from his past reincarnation as yinyue jun/dan feng is just? really admirable to me?? he was so firm in saying that he is not dan feng anymore and he won’t let dan feng’s past hang over him. and he’s right- he really isn’t dan feng anymore and the fact that he’s so self assured made me admire him a lot.

his conversation with jing yuan was so tense but bittersweet, and while i can tell jing yuan had some mixed feelings about it (i imagine he saw dan feng as a dear friend.. or more, and seeing him again—sorta—only for him to say that he is not that friend anymore, n being told that wld hurt obviously), he was ultimately very happy that dan heng choose to leave it behind and really. move on to a new life with his found family in the express. and i’m also rly proud n happy of dan heng for being so….. so Agh. i can’t explain. so assured!! it’s so nice to see.

i can only imagine how hard it wouldve been to get to that stage- but that scene. that conversation with jing yuan where he firmly tells him that he will not walk in dan feng’s shadow anymore was what made me start liking him so much. it made me quite emotional ngl

but also that scene where he was forcibly turned into yinyue jun and the one whr revealed the dragon palace (with samudrartha playing in the bg) were so cool n hype i just ghdufhekgleklejf;@:£&/

[fairyhaos]

yena !! i hope u still remember me ʕ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴥ⁠ꈍ⁠ʔ it's the wind chime anon !! 🎐

how have u been omg (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠) i had my exams last month n i have da notifs on for way too many blogs on here so i just uninstalled tumblr instead,,, but im back now (i was about to send this ask sooner (2 days ago ?) but i was a bit scared lmao,,, but i just saw ur post about shua so i had to come and say hi >:3) but wahh congrats on all ur milestones ! before i left i think u were about to start ur 500 followers event ! ! n i think u crossed 1234 already !! and probably even more ! that's supa cool n 'm so so proud of you ☆૮꒰ˊᗜˋ* ꒱ა also i love love love ur new theme *ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ✩

ooo n about finding jeonghan's colour,,, u looked at his pictures to figure out what colour he is ?? that's super intriguing actually. bcs the thing is idk if i have this type of synesthesia,,, im afraid what im doing is just strongly associating colours with people ? like the aspects of their personality play a major role in determining their colour but similar to the process of getting to know someone, it's v hard for me to decide on their colour. for example, jihoon. it's like, , the more i see him the more i feel like i don't even know him yk? for hansol, even tho i don't know what his colour is, i can at least tell that his colour would most prolly be a cooler shade. but for jihoon n sometimes even mingyu i can't rly figure them out? it's like i have options but i don't know for sure. n i don't rly know if this is synesthesia ?? lmdoajdjska i think i should just take the test by synesthesia battery but im just scared lmao </3

anygays i read the rest of your synesthesia posts and wahh, , yena ur just so talented. ur so cool ! ! i rly don't know what else to say. you have a way w words and it's as if i can feel the colors permeating through the descriptions. honestly it's such a gift to be able to share your vivid perception with others and i just wanna thank u for that (⁠✿⁠^⁠‿⁠^⁠) i have sm to say about each member's colour and esp shua's but this got rly long so i'll do that in another ask ?? heh >:3

-🎐

WIND CHIME ANON OMGGGG YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I MISSED YOU :<

i hope you've been doing okay!! how did your exams go????? literally i'd be sitting here and just thinking :(( i hope wind chime anon is doing okay in this world :(( haha ive missed you sm

it's okayy there's no need to be scared im super nice!! (i think?) thank u sm for loving my new theme too haha i love it a lot as well

and abt jeonghan: yeah! honestly synaesthesia is a really really different experience for anyone so i like to think of it as one of those sexuality labels. if you feel like it fits, then you're allowed to use it! those tests online are sketchy af anyways unless you wanna pay for a Real and Scientific Test

i think assigning colours to vibes and personalities is very interesting though!! i don't think i could do that haha, personalities have always just been so complex and different for me that a colour just doesn't come to mind at all (i don't think my synaesthesia works in that way lmao) so that's really really fascinating! honestly tho,,, im also struggling w jihoon too and maybe that's bc i haven't spent several minutes just Staring at his face yet but i just have a gut feeling that he's gonna be one tough cookie

aww thank u so much please that's so lovely to hear ^^ that really makes me the happiest oml, being told that people are able to feel my writing and my descriptions <3

aww yess please do lmk what you think of the others !! it's so nice to see you in my inbox again 💗

[stuffbyshelby2]

top five smells / scents ? Or top five places to visit ? owo (or both if u rly wanna)

ooo i think i'll do places to visit !

florida (emphasis on VISIT. nice climate and beaches but absolutely would not want to live there)

banff, canada (beautiful!! rains a lot but when it's sunny the lakes up there are a gorgeous bright blue)

grand canyon (probably one of my favorite places to visit ever! got genuinely emotional looking into the canyon at rock layers over 2 and a half billion years old, plus lots of cool american history attached to the site)

new zealand (VERY cool place, has literally every cool geological feature at once, plus lotr)

key largo, florida (adding this separately to main florida bc it's removed enough from the rancid political climate of the rest of the state that it's a genuinely nice place to be fhfvdfhfv, lots of beautiful nature)

thank u !! kisses u !!

[moontoastt]

best mod!!! You are- just- ✨amazing✨- <333333333

fnensmmdmemem you are SO cool-

JUDE>>>>>>>>> :D :D :D

🌼🌼🌼

also, can I have Chloe recs?

-a user (pretend I used a cool name 😭)

I hope you don’t know who I am 😭

oh my god will cry 😭😭😭💚💚 you’re cool too whoever you are <33 (people who send nice asks = god tier) also i hope you’re having a nice day !! i send u bread <3

OOO OKAY RECS *rubs hands together* so blood bunny is my favorite album of theirs :D i’d recommend “i wanna be with you” (the mv is great) and “rly dont care” and “take your time” those are probably my favorites.

if the style of the new album is more to your taste i’d say my favorites from there are probably “plastic purse” and “cry” !!!!

thanks again i hope u enjoy :333 (damn this was long)

[matoitech]

How do you come up with super pretty design and fur patterns??

ooo this is such an open ended question theres a lot i could say ill ramble more abt more technical n specific tips under the cut, but honestly my biggest tip would just be to like, look at so much fucking furry art. looking thru other ppls art n character design is both rly fun and literally studying for ur own work. i mean id recommend looking at char design both furry and not furry in general cuz its all useful stuff and rly good to get like a diverse variety of shit to live in ur brain u can take out as insp or little things here n there for ideas for ur own design when its useful. looking at actual animals of all types and species is also useful, lots of cool patterns u can find that way and for some design in particular i will primarily be using markings similar to actual animals ive seen (at least like for example the concept of a darker mask of fur that goes under the eyes a certain way, etc). canines and felines in particular have a very very wide variety of markings u can use as inspiration. other animals too but those tend to be popular w furry art n design n r some favorites for me personally lol

for me its like, a lot of practice to get good at furry art and furry character design specifically, like pretty conscious effort since i was a kid cuz thats what i was interested in and those were the artists i admired and found as big inspiration and wanted to draw like. and ofc i am still trying to improve n learn more myself! so id say to start like.. a lot of practice, ofc looking at actual animal markings cuz u can get a LOT of good ideas that way, and big time: studying other ppls art and character design. u r never looking at other ppls art Too Much u r learning when u r having fun doing that

looking at a wide variety of dif furry styles w furry design in particular is pretty useful, especially when theyre all made for dif purposes; fursuit design vs designs for comics vs furry adoptable designs vs designs created to be animated (’animator friendly’ designs), to name a few, all r serving dif purposes n have dif goals n dif reasons for why they look the way they do.

on a more technical level of How i come up w them/make them, i sat w this one for a bit n here r some ideas i wrote down. i was trying not 2 ramble but u asked the autistic guy who is very interested in and passionate abt furry art n character design so <3 many thoiughtz under the cut so its not massively long

first is that i fuck around a LOT before i settle on smth. slap colors on shit and take colors off. if ur drawing digitally and u have a program w a filter -> color adjustments option like sai 2 u can mess w hues n saturation to get combos u never wouldve thought of without that bonus help. i tend to start working on colors/markings w digital (while i may do preleminary traditional sketches of what the character could look like before colors) cuz its way easier to test smth out and then undo it if u dont like it on digital lol. and even w how i tend to try many dif things i test around before i decide on smth i like, i always keep open the possibility that this design (if im using it as an oc) is open to being changed in the future if i find smth i like more w them

getting attached to pieces of a design and wanting to build around that is great cuz its how u figure out what u like and what is important to u w this design/character, but whats also important is being able to recognize when smth just isnt working (at least the Way ur approaching it, or maybe the character ur trying it with, etc) and u need to try a different track. u can always keep that trait u rly like and want to put on a character and just rework it into a dif design later, i do that all the time! just be content with some designs maybe just taking more time to come together and thats cool too, u need time to stew on ur thoughts n try things in ur brain b4 u test them in actual art sometimes (i mean, for me at least). sometimes u just need to sit on a character design for a while and try a lot of things before smth Clicks. at least for me! sometimes its very easy to design a character and figure out markings n stuff but other times it takes me a lot of attempts and building up a design w new ideas i am getting along the way. maybe i realize this particular design trait is cool but just isnt working on this character/design so i file it away on the backburner to test on a new character later till i find a design (or oc if i RLY like it and want to draw it a lot) who it DOES fit. 

i have a pretty big stock of inspiration n ideas i have in my brain bcuz i have been autistically obsessed w furry art and improving at my own since i was a kid so i just have a lot of Interest in this stuff and have a very big like.. amnt of shit to draw from i think? again, padding out what u have to draw from in ur brain in the first place. u could also save character design insp somewhere and look thru it before u start working on a design urself, i do that sometimes! it gets the creative juices flowing for me to look at art i admire and feel inspired by before i work on my own. do stuff to get urself inspired or ur brain working in that direction, whatever way that works for u, u know urself best w it

i often keep notes of little ideas i have or things i want to try so i can try making a character design around it later, i have always loved making characters and character design so i dont rly have problems w lack of ideas or anything, its smth u just work on and if its fun u keep working on it! as a kid id do stuff like, just look thru lists of animals and then just make a bunch of furry designs for those animals, or do stuff like assign colors or plants or elements or whatever animals and then make Furry Versions of those. that was entertaining to me and how i had fun. this kinda stuff is still good practice (emoji randomizers r fun to make character design from, for example). 

when im stumped w my own design or looking for new ideas to try that may click better, or when i just need a break cuz i definitely am not drawing all the time, i take a break from drawing and go back to looking at lots of art, aka, STUDYING <3 read comics, watch movies, etc too, whatever ur interested in and inspired by. i think a lot abt my own designs n ocs n stuff i want to draw and ideas i might use or like (or things i dont care for or am that interested in that i think ‘how can i implement that in a way that i DO like in my own design, how can i make this become interesting to me’) while im like, just living my life and seeing outfits and seeing palettes and seeing other ppls work n stuff, not JUST when im drawing. im playing around w ideas in my head before i actually draw, this is smth u probably improve on with just like, time and practice and gaining the ability to gauge if smth is worth trying before u actually draw it. again i cannot stress enough how important looking at a lot of other character design is; both what u like and what u dont like is going to be internalized and is going to be rly useful for making ur own designs. look at a lot of different art styles, look at how other ppl design characters. know that character design is something u can absolutely improve on, its not like, a talent some ppl have and some ppl dont, some ppl just r going to be more passionate abt it and WANT to spend more time on it and improve Because of that. 

back to colors! the good thing is palettes (and well everything else abt designs) r super dependant on what u personally enjoy so theres not rly right or wrong ways to do them. liek if someone asked me for tips on how i personally often create palettes for characters Right Now i could think abt it and try to pick up patterns w my own art and then explain my like thought process abt it to ppl, but thats just what i personally like doing right at this moment, and that changes! u have a lot of room to just have fun. rly look at character designs n palettes that r RLY speaking to u and figure out whats working abt it for u or how u can incorporate how much u love how that artist uses colors n palettes n what theyre Doing there to make it work into ur own work. fun studying!

now a more personal one: typically (not as a general rule but often) my oc design is built to be drawn repeatedly and not be overwhelmingly complex to me.  the goal is to get smth that looks good and interesting without actually being difficult for me cuz i know myself and know i wont draw a character thats too complicated for me lol whether id get bored or intimidated by the idea of just having to draw a whole complicated fuckin thing when i just want to doodle. for me, this means i tend to pull a lot of character design tips i learned from animation. ‘animator friendly’ kinda stuff, BUT i can typically afford to be a little more complex bcuz im not animating them. im not sure if this is still common but when i was growing up ‘good furry designs’ at least w the artists and other kids i was hanging around were often considered what was the most complex and cool looking over what was actually like, replicatable and feasible to draw consistently without spending a lot of time coloring. stuff that would make having to draw that oc for someone in a commission a complete fucking pain, but sure looks cool as a finished product so u Get why ppl go for those. but personally while i like seeing those designs i know myself and probably wouldnt buy one of those adoptables for that, cuz i know i woldnt draw it enough lol. i enjoy em and can draw some for art fight but as my own oc’s they probably wouldn’t like.. fit my own needs? i may have a much easier time drawing them now bcuz i have drawn furry art and furry character design for a long time so i can figure out what im looking at easier, but it probably wouldve overwhelmed me quite a bit when i got started (been too long for me to remember lol). and thats good to know, its good to be aware of what u want to be drawing and figuring out what kinda stuff YOU like. 

adding on from above but that paragraph got long: of course having designs that r rly complex is a lot of fun n stuff im not saying dont do that im saying for ME personally a lot of my oc design tends to be centered around ‘what do i know /i/ will be capable of drawing multiple times without getting either overwhelmed or bored’. so thats a thought for me w my own designs. i also often make designs that i plan on using for like comics or smth later so i do want the design to not be terribly hard to reproduce if im planning on ‘this character is gonna be showing up quite a bit and i dont want to put a ton of work into every panel’

i will also say that like personally while markings r definitely important i DO try to mix design traits thru a more Character Design lense with a Furry Character Design lense. what i mean by that is its good to expand ur Character Design ability in general by paying attention to drawing differing body types and proportions, face shapes and like cheek/chin/etc shapes/fluff, nose and eye shapes, hair style and hair texture, etc. furry adoptables focus on creative and interesting markings on a base to make the character stand out from other wolf guys. which is also very useful to be studying and getting inspiration from for sure! i enjoy those often complex designs for sure. but for me personally i do try to take the approach of diversifying w designs (particularly w my own ocs), cuz its fun and cuz its pretty necessary when ur talking abt like, Character Design.  even as someone who often puts a lot of design traits i Know i like onto many of my ocs (mohawks <3 muscles <3 etc) like w character design its important that ur characters would not all look completely the same if they switched clothes or palettes or hairstyles yk? even when putting ‘buff’ onto multiple chars of urs cuz u just like that and drawing muscles theres many ways to make a character muscular on a lot of dif body types and proportions, for example. and while there r parts of the making these characters all look different that may b harder w furry character design (like u got all these wolves and now u gotta figure out how they all look different beyond just colors!!) its definitely still like, Necessary to me personally! i assume u were asking more abt like fur patterns rather than this kinda stuff but i would recommend u think abt that when designing characters as well, its fun and it will definitely improve ur own work in general! and it is rly necessary to practice things like a wide range of body types and hair textures n styles. it will make u a better artist overall.

look at tips from ppl who do professional character design, whether its furry artists or ppl who work with dif types of media (movies, tv, comics, video games, etc). a wider knowledge base never hurts! i have always rly personally valued tips from ppl working in the animation industry so i think thats like one of the primary ‘tutorials’ i paid more attention to and integrating from +as well as my history as a furry artist and what furry artists tend to like and consider ‘good’ character design. it just tkes a lot of fucking around n building up stuff u can draw from. and ur taste will probably change with time and as u improve. theres a place for everything and ur eyes will get better at figuring out what looks good paired together, to u, over time. u can also get great ideas n tips n inspiration from artists of all sorts of skill levels of course! 

anyway i hope this helps at all or answers ur question in some capacity, im sure theres stuff i missed but theres a lot of Words here but thats cuz i dont like.. think abt this stuff very consciously so it sounds more complicated when u write it out vs just doing it, which starts feeling more like second nature when u improve at it. i rly appreciate the compliment btw im always flattered to hear ppl like my designs! 

[techiekittie]

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ooo this is really cool!! Go check out their music, they play rly well!!

[weirdratgirl]

which of the lalaloopsy pets are your favs :) i always liked peanuts elephant and toffees dog

OOO i havent thought of that rly but i rly like crumbs mouse and harmonys cat ^_^ i think alot of the pet designs r kinda cool in general though!

[cardiac-arresting-sweetheart]

Cheetahs are cool, my favourite big cat or wild cat is a serval. :)

also as a kid I was really obsessed with dogs, I used to have so many plushies of them. Right now though I only have about 12 plushies of multiple dogs. My favourite one has to be a webkinz plush.

Tell me a fact about cheetahs. -🦴

ooo servals !! those are prettyyyy and cool as well .

ahhh real :3 dogs are super cute . i lovelove plushies (has an absolutely massive collection of them) so i get it for sure. twelve plushies is still quite a lot !! webkinz plush eeee sounds super cool,, ive seen those they look rly cute :0

a fact about cheetahs,, ummum when they're little cubs they get a coloration on their coat (their mantle) that looks like a badger to hopefully scare off predators ! cuz it's like camouflage ,, yaya.

[yumenosakiacademy]

if a smut w itto doesnt hav him sounding cringy is it rly in chara lol hes SO goofy. hes not cool n sexy hes cringefail n excitable n would go "WHOA. bro. u shoot like a champ!! almost as much as Moi kyahaha!" at a big c*mshot lbr lmao hes got confidence thru the charts but w such silly whimsy n an excitable dog aura 2 him tht hes not Suave or ooo rawr 🥴 he thinks hes hot shit but its in a silly endearing way where u can tell hes trying 2 hard, not the delectable way.