#It's the same thing I've previously posted but rewritten a bit!

[marbit-enthusiast]

A deaf Stevepop drabble!

[the-savage-garden]

Why am I anti SJM?

I've previously mentioned this in posts before but decided to make this to clarify my thoughts. Look, I didn't go out of my way to become anti SJM when I started reading her books, I actually had been looking forward to reading them!

About... 3 years ago I think, I convinced my mom to get me Throne Of Glass. After reading through a few chapters I realized I made a huge mistake in getting that book. And sure, it was my fault in not looking into it before then. I'm not familiar with YA books so I had no idea what to expect, as a teen I skipped over to adult books like from Stephen King. I always wanted to read romance books though so I thought it would be good to try new things. Well, lesson learned.

I felt guilt for wasting both me and my mom's time, can't even bring myself to tell her that I hate the book that I convinced her to buy for me. So I hoped if I found a way to read ACOTAR (which was what I originally wanted to get but couldn't find it) that I'd feel better and, well, I actually enjoyed that one. It was like glorified Disney's Beauty and the Beast fanfiction (seriously, tell me that Feyre isn't just Belle, Tamlin is the Beast, and Rhys is Gaston) but I found it fun, I thought that I just had the wrong impression of SJM with Throne Of Glass.

I decided to glance through ACOMAF as I was considering buying the series later and wanted to make sure that ACOTAR wasn't just a fluke. Then I read it... it's hard to describe how disappointed it made me feel. I wasted my time... again.

That's when I decided instead of feeling sorry for myself I'd use SJM's books as a learning experience and how to avoid the same writing pitfalls as her.

Reading through other anti SJM posts also helps me feel better, feels like I'm not crazy for hating these books.

I know besides the writing there's other problems with SJM but I try to not bring up anything with her personal life. The only time I would bring it up is if it's tied to her writing in some way (like for example how she writes siblings, found out she has a brother which makes me wonder why she writes sibling dynamics in such an odd way in her books because I assumed she was an only child before).

I'm a bit... mixed on her prose, sometimes it's fine but others it's bleh. Y'know how people think of characters as "I can fix him/her"? That's what SJM's books are like for me, I want to fix them so much. I see where things could've worked if it was rewritten, I'm not going to do it myself though, I'm just going to nitpick them instead.

Anyway, if anyone was confused on why I'm still going over SJM books even though I hate them I hope this explains why I'm still reading them. I do plan to go over other authors (maybe YA authors as they seem to be pretty bad from what I can tell) I'm just being a bit slower going over SJM.

[pamaizai]

Hi, I'm quite new to tumblr, but I've found Your account through witcher tag, I love your style, a bit cartoonish, while also having a lot of details (like this OC version of witcher, i can't belive that you had so much patience for all those intriquete details). So I suppose that I can ask for something? So tell me abaut this OC of Your's - Pam. What are They exacly and what's Their story(sorry if you posted it earlier but i didn't scroll through it all yet . And a bit of offtop question, because i saw that You like Rats, what's your favorite breed and color type of rats?

Oh, thank you qwq I'll be honest, i myself had no idea i could do details like that. Drawing that armor was a first detailed thing i made. At first it was "i have to" because im a perfectionist that needs to draw as close to the original- but with each time i drew that armor i started to enjoy doing details with adding even more than previously. For example buckles on belt on first and latest wip artwork

I am actually in the process of drawing a fullbody with a sword (i was avoiding them until now and even made two versions with aerondigh and a silver wolf school one- at an angle i may add)

ALL RATS ARE GOOD NO ONE IS LEFT BEHIND! tho i have a soft spot for hairless and werewolfes <3 i myself owned in the past 3 girlies- hooded black dumbo, ivory and one with very light bristle coat with greyish spot(!) on back with black eyes- theoretically fitting lynx variation. I want to own rats again i miss my pocket puppies. Also yeah i have a weird habit of trying to name the specific variation of a rat haha

About who Pam is its… kinda complicated. Especially when its mostly a persona of mine but an oc with different story too . i do have a written backstory and lore but it was rewritten like 3 times and then dropped, but it still lives rent free in my head and as a txt file(s). I can say that Pam is a weird creature- he can be called partially a human,a monster, an animal, a bug,an alien… so a lot xD Aizai is at the same time a surname and a name of race they belong to. Think of it as colony of ants or bees- they make a one big family with a parent that they have to obey- and yes there is more than Pam in that "family". I took inspiration from masks, headcrabs from halflife, purebreed race from ben 10, bugs/ shrimp and more animals. about Pam specifically.. oh too much to tell and i actually dont want to start writing because i will hit text limit quickly (and because he has a lot of things im not yet comfortable about telling out of fear the sona thing is too true) And i drew some doodles that may explain some things about him.