#I know it's difficult

[bella-rose29]

I hope you people are ready for just how much there is about lockwood's hands in deck the halls part 9 because there's a lot of reader just... looking at them and being distracted

(and yes there's a healthy amount of lockwood wearing a ring don't you worry)

[baronessblixen]

I’m a writer, I’ve been around for a while (more than a decade) and I want to know how do you deal with seeing people who are much more talented than what you think you are capable of being? It’s made me want to completely quit writing multiple times. Everyone I’ve talked to always says don’t, they love my stuff but when it comes time to read my work or actually support it… they don’t. They support other people works though. It makes me feel like it’s not even worth sharing. I love writing and if anything, I wouldn’t stop but I would stop sharing. It makes me very sad, so how do I deal with it? People say I should write for myself and I do but I also want to share and I don’t believe wanting people to like what I write makes me a bad person…

I'm so sorry, anon. I wish other writers (or all creators, really) would constantly support each other. I have read people say they only read and support "quality work". These things don't sting, they fucking hurt.

I haven't found the magic formula yet either. I wish I could help you more - and better. All I can do is support you and hope you continue to create and share. Where would we be if people stopped sharing?

It doesn't make you a bad person at all. We want to be heard when we share our creations. I always feel this so much during the fic exchanges. I try to read them all because yes, there are so many fics, but people have sat there, created beautiful, meaningful stories, and they deserve to be read.

None of this answers your question. I don't know how to deal with it either. There are days when I think, it's okay. Others when like you, I think, why even bother to share? And I know it's just another corny saying, but you never know who your story touches. There might be someone out there who needs to read what you have to say.

Take care, anon ❤️

[blorbosexterminator]

3 and 5 if you haven't answered them already. I'm trying to get back into writing too but aaaugh why don't the ideas in my brain just magically turn to finished written works? Unfair

Hey, Andy! Thanks for passing by. And right??? So unfair. I know the struggle so well. Crying real tears these days begging the words to just get themselves on the page already. (That said, though! If you need to brainstorm or just through ideas at me, if you think it would help, don't hesitate! (And hope that writing includes our berlermo or any of our favorites from this fucked up show👀)

Deep Fic Asks

3. what fic are you emotionally attached to?

Ah, difficult one! I think I'm attached to most of them in different ways. I'd say though, the most ones would be Sunshine and Lights. In spite of their different endings, those are the ones with a faint line of a faint line of tragedy that makes me attached to them. The versions of the characters in both fics are the versions I'm most attached to and feel the most for.

5. What fic of your own won't you read?

That would be War haha. Like I'm very happy with a lot of the ideas in there. But it's a very messy fic. And back then, I didn't even particularly think to edit LMFAO. I was just writing and posting. I think it's structurally messy and over the place, it should have been a tighter narrative. Also the writing mistakes, the typos, etc are very cringe sysywis. I'm still fine with how the characters were written, but it was also a time I was still figuring out the characters and the fic itself was a tool of mine to do so, so while I'm mostly fine with it, I don't think I would make all the choices for them now I made then. I'd definitely still end it the same way though lol. The final chapter is the only one that I go back and re-read.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[millenianthemums]

i want a shirt that has a QR code on it for some kind of horrible malware so that if anyone ever tries to film me in public their phone will automatically scan the code and be reduced to a functionless brick

[captainjonnitkessler]

Do you guys notice how when Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers union, started planning a general strike, he did it by a) targeting his messaging towards unions with the ability to safely and effectively strike in large numbers, b) laid out a clear, actionable plan for those unions to follow (setting contracts to all expire at the same time, since many unions cannot strike while under contract), c) is using union contracts to set clear, actionable demands that can be met in order to gauge success and provide an end goal, and d) started organizing FOUR YEARS before the proposed strike date to give people the chance to plan accordingly, because it takes a really freaking long time to get tens of millions of people organized?

You notice how he didn't do it by slapping a message on Twitter saying 'hey nobody go to work on Monday, that'll really show 'em'?

[equalseleventhirds]

if i were an extremely wealthy owner of a television network i would shrimply pick up all the successful shows netflix and hbo and disney cancelled that ppl made petitions abt and the creators said they have more written for

and then make more seasons of them and my network's ratings would be wildly high and also it'd be baller pr or w/e

[fleshdyke]

hi everyone the aviary has until november 2024 to raise enough money to find a new location or else all the birds will be rehomed

for those of you who don’t know the aviary has been operating out of an old house for years. the house is officially falling apart and is no longer safe to house the birds. the city has completely given up on us. the deadline to find a new place is november 2024, and if we don’t raise enough money to find somewhere else, the aviary will be forced to dissolve and all of the birds will have to find new homes.

it’s not easy to find homes for 20 large parrots, many of which aren’t sociable and have health issues. there is a pair of bonded macaws that cannot be separated and can be aggressive, loud, and destructive - there are not many places for them to go. it is not going to be easy to find somewhere else to go (especially with the current real estate market in canada) but anything and everything helps. please consider donating if you can :)

https://www.hamiltonaviary.com/donate

[not-roboto]

The Gang (20 cm x 20 cm, oil on paper) a series of small paintings I made of the backs of the gang.

[delicourse]

been watching dungeon meshi...🌱

[pmpwbrrs]

Gourmand why are you like this. How can you make living things out of the blue fruit you ate 3 minutes ago. How do you make a living breathing fucking snail? You can't even eat it, and yet you can spit it out, how the hell does that work? Put that thing back!!! Why is it alive??

And how can you make a goddamn neuron from an overseer and. What was this.... Hold on

AND KARMA FLOWER. And how can you make an overseer from neuron+ANYTHING!!!!! FROM ANYTHING!!!!!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!!!!

[frowningclown]

This bit is probably overdone in the fandom but I’m new so plz don’t bully me

[awkwardalpha]

[zuzu-draws]

"Well Well... Aren't we gawking with a little too much enthusiasm?"

[yasmeensh]

A Master Study featuring Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. In which Link hangs out with the two Zeldas post-game (Who do you think became the Queen of Hyrule?)

This was a difficult piece, but I'm happy with it!

Based on 'The Chess Players' by Jacques-Clément Wagrez (1902)

Information on inspiration and process under the cut!

Original piece: "The Chess Players" by Jacques-Clément Wagrez (1846-1908).

The moment I saw this artwork I immediately thought of Zelda II. One of the women is wearing a medieval-esque red velvet dress, and she looks a lot like the design I made for the cursed princess Zelda!

I thought it would be very fitting to reimagine this artwork in a Zelda II context, so I went ahead with it! doubles as a master study and LoZ fanart.

I learnt a LOT from making this piece! Since I worked on it digitally, I got and made brushes that acted as close to traditional brushes, and I also worked on the entire piece in one layer. So whenever I made a mistake, I'd have to paint over. No return. But it was a big learning experience! Learnt more about rendering silk and velvet by observing how they are painted and blended in the original.

Here are some WIP shots! It took a long time to get to where it is now xD It was difficult to finally pen down the right proportions and placement. I probably should've done a grid copy, but I opted to just eyeing it out all the way through. It was... hard. (lesson learnt?)

I read that in a lot of older pieces, they are made in greyscale, then flat colours are overlaid on top. makes rendering much easier. and it truly has! I probably should’ve rendered the greyscale version even more. Since there were still a lot of mistakes that I had to rework and adjust while colouring.

Very fruitful experience overall, and I’m just happy to make a grand-scale Zelda II artwork xD I’ve never seen one so I made it!!!

[stefisdoingthings]

don't look (please do)