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emilykaldwen · 1 year

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Asking about writing - do you have a current favourite writing project right now? What is it about?

Oh! Thank you so much for this! I was popping in to look up something I saved and saw this!!!

So I really just have the one main project I'm working on right now and that's The Maiden and the Drowning Boy, which is a canon divergent AU for House of the Dragon/Fire and Blood.

Basically, I aged down one of Lyonel Strong's daughters to be the same age as the kids, and it's Arranged Marriage, Childhood Friends/Sorta Sweethearts to Lovers to Oh shit we have a war to get through because cycles of generational trauma and terrible coping skills and do we keep going down the paths our parents set for us or do we make a better world.

Abrogail Strong and Aegon Targaryen own me body, heart, and soul and I wouldn't give them up for anything in the world. It's been a really exciting challenge of creating a character that can exist in the world on their own - I don't want Abby's existence to simply be because she's in a romance, you know? I want her to exist as her own being.

Additionally, I'm really using this as an opportunity to work on my own perfectionism issues, practice the craft of writing, and challenge myself (god, am I fucking challenging myself) in terms of themes, through plot, and basically just... IDK. I'm writing this for me, but I want people who read it and stick with it to experience pay off in the little things I put in that come full circle. It's romance, yes, but I also like a ton of plot in my romance, and so I want to try see how I can give a lil bit of everything in terms of 'here's a story, and here's some yummy romance' and balance those out.

I've been working on this since last October! But then I had bariatric surgery, scrapped the initial 35k, and now I'm on four chapters in caught up with that previous word count. I'm HOPING to start posting soon, I'm just slow AF and I sorta want a consistent posting schedule while I'm also trying to pack my house up and move. So.

#mihrsuri #fic: the maiden and the drowning boy #ah thanks so much for this!#I'm trying to be braver in terms of talking about this project #because I do adore it so much #and I'm so invested and so proud of it #but 13 yo me still kinda traumatized by being screamed at as a self insert mary sue writer from back in the day #*offers my sweet abby up* pls pls love her cause I love her so much

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jaratedeguadalupe · 11 months

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life update: i still don't how how to use the vaccinator

#revamping my entire artstyle #the tf2 pill is kicking in #i have traded my precious 3 hour long video essays for random audiobooks my friends keep recommending me while i draw #surprisingly there's a lot of free audiobooks on youtube #unsurprisingly the quality is dookie water #i'm so invested in this story that it's borderline distracting #a double edged sword #anyways i've played soldier and soldier alone for 2.5 weeks straight #and i'm proud to say that i can do a successful rocket jump 7/10 times #jaratemisu #tf2 #team fortress two #team fortress 2 #tf2 medic #tf2 fanart

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okkennymay · 7 months

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Two commissions for the always brilliant @waezi2

Top page features Pat, the Bard turned King- he was just here to look pretty and sing songs for The Queen and be a good dad to Dimi ;w; It's not his fault the world took her too soon by illness leaving him unprepared to run a kingdom and fight off an Orc invasion (Thats the enemy ruler's daughter Mayari, whom starts to visit him in the dungeon and ends up considering him her best friend ;C; hOW CUTE IS THAT)

The second is Veronica, an Older Gorgan woman, an irredeemable, self serving and scheming villain of Royal Punch, and god I love her- the very reason Ivan the Minotaur has to hide away in a small village and keep his head down, He cost her big time when he brought down her illegal boxing operation and by gosh does she want revenge ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

#Commission #sketch page commission #Royal Punch #I'm so invested in these characters okay i'm giving you no choice but to love them too #i don't know how yah do it waezi but every character you create no matter how big or small a roll they play in Royal Punch is a treat #okkennymay #waezi2 #Royal Punch Pat #Royal Punch Mayari #Royal Punch Veronica #Look at me go posting stuff!!#WOOHOO!!#proud of myself

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moggettt · 2 years

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Study of a frame from “One Way Out” - eVERYONE GO WATCH ANDOR IT’S SO VERY GOOD

The writing! The acting! The visual world building!!! The scoring choices!!!! AAAHHH

#andor #star wars andor #cassian andor #star wars #fanart #andor series #my scribbles #look I was dubious about another star wars show #tbh I haven't particularly enjoyed most of the others #and it took me an ep or so to get into it bUT #I'M NOW SO FULLY INVESTED #it's genuinely extremely well-done there's so much to consider and unpack and analyze #just a wonderfully cinematic tv experience #DO IT GO WATCH IT GO GO GO #also I'm really proud of this study actually #I feel like I'm getting closer to the style of rendering that I love looking at

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bugsnbites · 1 year

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I was watching that clip of Scar and Grian putting on creeper costumes to scare Cleo and couldn't help myself. Scar and Gri scare Cleo by disguising themselves as Homeworld Gems, probably regret it immediately

#personal #my art #gemcyt #zombiecleo #grian #goodtimeswithscar #gtws #If I didn't already have three projects going at once I'd animate to the dialogue #But hey a comic works #And I'm actually incredibly proud of this it took me like an hour and a half #Took designs from Chrisrin of course because those are like. THE designs #I literally already have so many projects I CANNOT get invested in this. I simply CANNOT. I've got too much on my plate as it is

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yuriyuruandyuraart · 1 year

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ready to be funky!

#illustration #art #my art #fresh #utmv #undertale au #fresh sans #fresh!sans #fem!fresh #human!fresh #hooo boy am i proud of this one waaa look at my girl!!!!!#i tried emulating that 90s to 2000s whole vibe and i'm honestly very pleased with the end result!! she looks so cool aughghg #i love playing around with fresh's color palette and inventing new clothes that should never be worn by a human other than her<3333 #i started this as a doodle for the poll i held yesterday (fresh was winning at the time lol) but then i got too invested HHH #i'm so glad people liked my first fem!fresh post cause istg i'm starting to see the appeal too and i'm scared....#fresh truly IS a parasite cause he's living in my brain rent free rn omggg >:'D #thank you all so much for your patience!!! see you next weekend SOBS<3333

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seeinganewlight · 2 months

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2024 mens us gymnastics team you will always be so special to me

#they're so fucking adorable and i'm SO proud of them #i have never been this invested in men's gymnastics before #but i want all the best things in the world for those guys i adore them #except you brody #post: mine #sport: gymnastics #post: 2024 olympics #paris olympics: gymnastics

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jichanxo · 3 months

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how it started:

how it's going:

#jitxt #my stuff #proud owner of This Specific Photo of Kimura Takuya #not to conflate the two bc my enjoyment of yagami and kimutaku are connected but separate #but obviously it would be bs to pretend i would've been interested in smap without playing judgment #truthfully i was eyeing a magazine too but i don't like investing money/shelf space into an interest unless i'm certain it's here to stay #unfortunately kimura takuya is still only a recent interest so. something small like this is fine #though i might have to get a bromide holder to keep him safe... i know there's an aus run business that sells idol goods like that...#anyway uhhhh first picture context for those who might've missed my lore earlier:#is that post-JE pre-LJ. i didn't really care for yagami. lmao.#i saw yagami fans and it seemed like they were having fun but i genuinely didn't understand their affection for him #and so getting through LJ and starting to like yagami i was like WHAT IS GOING ON WITH ME #thinking “lol look at his lame flat ass (affectionate)” and then going “WHAT. WHAT WAS THAT.”#<- girl who realised that she sounded exactly like the yagami fans online #and so i wrestled with it for a while #and bc i was talking in my friend's discord server about my experience with LJ i have this golden screenshot #of the day i finally gave in. pretty sure i'd been looking at pictures of yagami and kimutaku for like an hour beforehand lol #AND MY MESSAGES AFTERWARDS WERE STILL DRIPPING WITH COPE ABOUT IT #said something along the lines of. that i thought they tried way too hard to make yagami seem cool #and then followed it by saying i felt genuinely upset thinking about how i could never be on a date with him #THE DENIAL IS CRAZY... JUST SAY YOU LIKE HIM #anyway i've long accepted my fate but it's still funny to think about #jichan is asked to leave the fandom for needing to play 2 games to start liking yagami #meanwhile my sister's opinion on him hasn't changed at all. “he's alright” <- real quote about yagami from days ago #anyhow that's one of the main reasons i'm playing JE. so i can reevaluate that game with fresh eyes/new perspective #excuse my impromptu storytime. but i guess this whole post is about landmark moments in Jichan Liking Yagami so it's not entirely unfitting #i like yagami takayuki 👍 and now i like kimura takuya too 👍#gave this photo a goodnight kiss last night btw

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mahikamihan · 6 months

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Hullo!! What is the artwork you are proudest of?🎤🎤🎤🎤

oooh that's a great question, I'm pretty proud of how this old one turned out:

it took me almost two days on photoshop when i was still learning how to paint digitally.

looking back on my art, i really just don't do finished pieces a lot 😅 but the ones where I really try-hard to use color and paint semi-realistically are epic imo

And the one for last year's dtqkbigbang was so hard! idk what took over me to think I could do 6 pieces (o.O)

#yumi answers #i feel like i'm very neutral with my artworks right now #like not really proud but also not really down on myself with impostor syndrome #i just don't do it professionally so i don't have a lot of feelings invested towards it you know?

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fruitageoforanges · 2 years

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aemond & aegon's valyrian wedding, with helaena officiating, from my fic.

(please zoom in for more detail! there are a lot of details, for example, the handfasting binding is embroidered with vhagar and sunfyre!)

#hotd #hotd fanart #aegon ii targaryen #aemond targaryen #helaena targaryen #aegond #helaegond #holy fuck this took forever #my back is so sore now #but i'm so so proud of it #helaena is officiating bc the only precedent of valyrian weddings in westeros was maegor's #which was officiated by queen visenya #so it makes sense to continue tradition and have a queen officiating #also so she isn't left out bc this is basically a marriage between the three of them #i'm still crap at actually drawing backgrounds #this background was frankensteined in #anyway once again sorry for rambling about my fic #but i'm so invested in it #with the second part it's over 30k words

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haohaobinbin · 1 year

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ZEROBASEONE 1ST WIN!!!!!!!!!!

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silas-is-sleepy · 1 year

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Ok this is actually really fucking cool, Quackity has really outdone himself with this. I'm so excited to see where this goes<3

#I'm so proud of him #this is so fucking cool #qsmp #silas speaks #I'm so invested in this story and all of the people in it #props to the team too #Ik they're working so hard on this too

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boileddogchicken · 4 months

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wuh oh i'm thinking so hard abt several of my ocs at the same time and as a result none of the thoughts are coherent it's all just aaaaaaaa my women up in there

#doesn't help that it's after midnight but what can i say i'm thinking about everybody #also i hadn't thought abt ella in a while until today and aaaaa i love her so much and i'm so excited to see how her narrative progresses #im also so excited for next sesh of the onearc with rosemary bc wow last session was wild and im so proud of her she defused a high stakes #situation and got gayer in the process #also. of *course* erika is on my mind too i don't know what i put in her when i was cooking her up microwave style but holy fuck she has #become so permanently lodged in my psyche and aaa she's so good it's a combo of the terrifying shit she does and her fun build and her being #cute and silly and she speaks emoticon #idk where i was going with this but yeah holy shit i'm invested in my own ocs oh shit i should draw ella and rosemary

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emometalhead · 4 months

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#having a day full of mixed feelings #I suppose this is how life goes #I'm officially done with my Bachelor's degree as of today #obviously I'm proud of myself for the accomplishment and I was excited to be celebrated today #it was a long and difficult road and there were many times where I didn't think I'd live to see it through but I made it #I'm the first person in my family to get this degree and I was really looking forward to having today be my day #I had a really lovely morning and then things kind of waned #there were a few arguments. someone I spent the day with repeatedly made negative comments about something I care about #it felt awful. I know it was intended as more of a playful jab than anything but I directly asked for the comments to stop and they didn't #it especially hurt that it was a fandom thing and the person is so invested in their own fandoms yet they felt it fair to step on mine #even though I've never done that to them #then people kept talking over me and acted like I was wrong for trying to interject to finish my own sentences #also as I said in the last post I was deeply upset by how my family members spoke of my 12 year old cousin #she's just a kid and some of our close family members have such a nasty opinion of her. she's so young and she's had a rough few years #but it seems like no one except my brother and I are willing to give her any grace #I think everyone else has forgotten what it feels like to be a kid and feel as if the world is against you #on a more positive note. I had a decadent slice of chocolate cake. it was heavenly #unfortunately I was really too in my head to fully enjoy it #literally every day for 3 weeks I've been talking about the lunch I planned to have today #I knew exactly what meal and dessert I wanted from the restaurant. it's my absolute fave and isn't available at any other local restaurant #I was totally starving by time we got to the restaurant. we were out all morning and I ate a tiny breakfast in anticipation of this meal #when we got there we found out they removed what I planned to order from the menu. I was devastated.#I know it's stupid but like this was the one part of my day that I've had planned for MONTHS and I've been thinking about it for weeks #we had a 40 minute car ride where I mentioned my excitement for the food no less than 10 times so this crushed me #also I'm just really picky in general and typically restaurants only have one or two things I'm able to eat #I offered to just eat the dessert while everyone else ordered food because they were all really hungry too but they wouldn't allow it #we left the restaurant and I still feel horrible for walking out. if I had known the item was removed we wouldn't have even gone there #it happened so recently though and I feel dumb for not even thinking to check the menu online beforehand #so we went to another restaurant and I barely ate anything and now I have no appetite for dinner and I feel bad for ruining the afternoon #even though it's my day and my celebration and I feel like I'm entitled to a slight amount of unreasonableness

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astrxealis · 1 year

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okay rambles but i started creatively writing in like ... 5th grade? and. oh god just a little encouragement to anyone looking to get into writing or insecure or whatnot, but HELLS, maybe it's to he expected with my (obviously) very young age and inexperience with writing then, but my writing was really. yeah. Yeah. but then i'm what... a lot older now, obviously, and my writing has gotten leagues better. i'm probably not a good example for this bcs childhood years development stuff are different etc etc BUT practicing writing more and whatnot really does go a long way :]

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚#my writing in 2020 is a lot different than my writing now even! especially so compared to my writing from 2010s #reading a lot of media is also really important :] i always read a lot of books BUT i only started to really read poetry since the pandemic #which were uh basically my early teenage years so idk if i'm a good example for this bcs childhood brain development and stuff (???)#BUT STILL ..... playing games like ffxiv and being really invested in the lore and writing + reading more poems and being fascinated with #more authors and pieces of literature + expanding my general vocabulary knowledge whatnot ... it all really goes a long way!#oh man i'm pretty proud of myself actually. i do love my writing. as imperfect (as all things are) it is.#i had a lot of Pauses with writing throughout my uhh relatively short life thus far since i'm NOT yet an adult and all aha but yeah!#so bless ffxiv again for bringing back my writing spirit... and other medias and whatever <3 #rn i have to thank bg3 for bringing back my Creative Spirit bcs i've been writing a lot more again and having/working on my creative ideas!!#okay i just wanted to ramble a bit lol ^_^ there!#idk my being a writer is very important to me. and my journey as one too.#i want to make a book one day! most feasibly would be to make a collection of short stories :] a bit similar to 'm is for magic' maybe bcs #i grew up with that lol neil gaiman i adore you <3 #i have a very special original world in my head but i am a little selfish and want to keep them all to myself... oops. or who knows!#anyway i have a lot of ideas and i adore writing and literature sooo much <3 #anyway. okay. leaving it here.#cheering on every writer author whatever out there !!! unless you're a sucky person of course yuck bigots but yeah ^^ <3 #huge writing inspo for me is uhhhhhhhh. thinking #ffxiv! does ffxiv count. esp drk quests. and shb as a whole. and then... edgar allan poe? neil gaiman? yeah?#can't remember anyone else good gods but i love vivid and imaginative storytelling and writing descriptively :] a bit of prose but also #quite simple in its eloquence (???) unsure honestly oh gods anyway BYE rambles over apollo signing off beep boop AGHHHHH (screams)

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hydrachea · 6 months

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Oh shogun, my shogun! It's been a journey, full of unfortunate rolls and even more unfortunate strongboxing experiences, but she's finally done 🌩

#I CAN FINALLY SAY GOODBYE TO STRONGBOXING EMBLEM OVER AND OVER #I'M FREE #she's so beautiful #alright onto someone else now #well done my shogun you can rest as you are #genshin #ray's records #top 5% is so good i'm so proud #i'm satisfied with that #i am a BIT invested in my akasha rankings but not enough to grind for top 1%#i like numbers i'm not insane

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