#artist to artist communication (literally)

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look alive, sunshine

[internetgremlin-writes]

IMPORTANT: TUMBLR & FANFICTION

Alright kids, listen up because @staff have pulled off a corker of a hot mess and have decided to add "Community Labels". I guess they've decided we can't be trusted to add our own warnings and people can't make sensible choices with what they engage with.

But why does it matter to me?

Tumblr have made labels AN OPT IN SITUATION which means every single blog here is automatically set to hide any triggering content

If you want to continue to be able to access and read fanfiction PLEASE go into your settings and click "show" on at least the "Mature" and "Sexual Themes" labels!!

ALSO IOS USERS: there's an extra fun "Hide additional content" bit just to really try and block us from any hopes of success. Make sure you opt out of that too otherwise I think content will be blocked on the mobile app!

Attached to this post are screenshots from my settings so you guys know what to look for. I could only find it on my desktop settings and not on the mobile app (for now at least)

[I feel like I should add I don't want to sound like I'm pressuring anyone... if you don't want to see certain content obviously keep it hidden and protect yourselves BUT this post is mainly targeted at the horny little gremlins I write for who will be suddenly deeply confused when their smut supply is cut off]

[glitchedcosmos]

* Danny phantom theme playing* he’s an ally~

[jollymalt]

animal crossing redraw!

[onceandfutureheartache]

[sergle]

this wasn't directed at me but these tags WERE from a rb off of mine, and this IS a real question!!

you're not the only person who instinctively goes Formal Email Mode when ordering commissions. (esp when they are. through email.) I do that too- and this is something people wonder about placing commissions!! how do I talk? the answer: you can talk pretty much however you want. I've gotten orders that are basically "hiiiii are you taking orders rn? i would love for u to draw my guy!!!! [photo] [photo] this is his outfit :3" the end. and I've had orders that are like 8 paragraphs long, typed like a college essay. when I reply, I basically just match whatever the tone is that I'm receiving! mostly the tone doesn't make it through, though, I'm just trying to glean the details for what the client wants.

[starfruitsomething]

I don't care if they never kissed- Johnlock could not be more canon.

[puddledfishhh]

Let's go lesbian's

Or not

They're bi

Still girlkissers tho 💥

[nightcomet01]

Basically Sonic Prime Shadow in a nutshell

[theartsyghost]

Gender is actually a scam made up by bathroom companies to sell more bathrooms

[toasty-self-shipping]

those “oc x canon is weird” videos are so funny because 90% of them are like “EW CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS PERSON SHIP THEIR OC WITH A CANON CHARACTER THAT IS SO CREEPY!!!” but yet they be doing the same thing but it’s not weird because they are a popular YouTuber with good art but if your art isn’t good your a creep and a weirdo

[sunn-mechanic]

[ID in alt]

HAPPY 13 YEARS NINJAGO!!

We've done a whole bunch of jumping up, kicking back, whipping around and spinning, so let's fuckin do it again this next year guys

[radicalribbit]

tldr at the bottom

alright so i found out about another very unconventional artist and.... im currently going insane cause it has 7 monthly listeners on spotify and their oldest album is from last year but their music is so funky and groovy and the lyrics have some kind of weird ass meaning LIKE LEMON DEMON AND THATS really good like thats how you get good lyrics with funky music in the background,,, also their name is "ol' tangerine and the rhomboids" but even though that sounds like a collab theres no such thing as a single ol' tangerine and a single the rhomboids as that wouldve appeared on spotify while i was looking for them

but like im getting this out here because they deserve WAY MORE than 7 listeners and theyre unconventional like will wood tally hall lemon demon tmbg ALL O THOSE GUYS AND I WANT OTATR (ol tangerine and the rhomboids) TO JOIN IN WITH THE FUN okay so since most of yall arent used to readin allat heres the

TL;DR: new unconventional artist makes funky groovy music yall go listen to ol' tangerine and the rhomboids or i wont have any community around them to be autistic with

[ecruvianfancontent]

FIDDLEFORD PSA!!!!!!

OKAY, THIS HAS BEEN DRIVING ME ABSOLUTELY BONKERS FOR A WHILE NOW.

Dear Fiddleford McGucket fanartists:

First of all: draw how you want. The following is not intended to be judgmental, just educational. <3

On to business:

Here is how you fingerpick a banjo.

This is three-finger. There are more styles, but this is how I play. (I did not include fingerpicks because Fidds doesn't use them in the show and they're a pain to draw; you can also play just fine without them, although they are useful.)

Fingerpicking is usually done on a five-string banjo. Old Man McGucket's theme sounds like it's fingerpicked to me. Please note that your pinky and ring finger are planted on the banjo itself, next to the strings.

The first two images are to show posture, the third image is what it would look like to draw:

When I'm just holding my banjo and not playing it, my pinky and ring finger just naturally rest this way because it's comfy.

Here is how you play clawhammer style.

This is just an approximation; I almost never play clawhammer. The big thing is that your fingers curl in in a "claw" and you pick with your thumb.

Here are the tuning pegs on a five-string banjo.

In the show, Fiddleford has a four-string banjo, not five-string. (We see two banjos; they are both four-string.) Honestly, that surprised me. I'm not sure what the folk scene looked like in the 80s, but most players you see today have five-strings, so I think they were just streamlining the design.

A four-string banjo has four tuning pegs at the top, like any other instrument. The fifth tuning peg is about a third of the way down the neck.

BONUS: Nobody gets into this much detail, but clever eyes will notice that the string widths look funny. If you have played a bass or guitar, you're used to the top string being lowest and thickest, the bottom string - which is the "first" string - being highest and thinnest. A four string banjo is tuned like this, but with a five-string banjo, the fifth string is the same diameter as the first.

Anyway, there are plenty of great banjo video and image tutorials on the internet if you want to get into the weeds, but I got the impression that a lot of you have literally never seen a banjo being played often enough to even realize how different it is from a guitar. Some people absolutely do strum banjos like guitars - in fact, I think that's more common with four-strings - but the McGucket music we hear is very obviously not being strummed.

There! Now you may freely choose to draw his hand however you want to, and it won't be from a place of ignorance. <3

(Oh, one last thing: that round thing that comprises the body of the banjo is literally just a drum. Drumming it is fun. You can and should draw Fiddleford tapping his banjo with the tips of his fingers like I do.)

[kitkatriel]

Heart with retractable wings because I'm a tried old artist who's about to collapse into dust if I had to draw wings again

Proceeds to give Harmonia 3 fucking pairs of wings

[rotzaprachim]

everyone calling for the end of translations into and out of the hebrew language, removal of israeli novels and movies from discussions and events, deplatforming of israeli artists from international events, "isolation" from israeli media...i hope you are getting a fat fat check from miri regev and miki zohar i hope you are the likud's favorite rabbit for how you've been doing their work for them