#but I need original characters for my portfolio lol

[wigglebox]

Arrival! [original characters Max and Jude]

[plushkips]

school stuff

[imaginesbymk]

*that tiktok sound* hey!!….. hey…….. how y’all doing………..

i have a lot to say but lemme start off by saying i am SOOOOOooOoOoO sorry for ghosting this blog for a year. same thing’s been happening with wattpad. i ghosted 2 fics on there. and that includes my original dystopian scifi novel that has been in self development hell (as i like to call it)

my only explanation is that i grew unmotivated and grew out of writing fics. it came to a point where im just maladaptive daydreaming, the maladaptive daydreaming takes over and it doesnt let me actually create anything. the other reason is timing. i worked my ass off and finally graduated college with a 4.0 GPA, i did more commercial modelling and runway for a university fashion show so i can build my portfolio, i work full time and my pay is big, i made more art in my sketchbook... basically i just lived my life outside of tumblr.

another thing, the giant elephant in the room, i met cameron monaghan and morena baccarin at fanexpo canada! cameron went through my sketchbook, signed my jerome/jeremiah fanart, and asked me if i was an art student. after i told him i was rejected twice, he looked through every single page in my sketchbook and told me, "aw. well, fuck 'em!" that "it looks like [you] don't need art school" after all. he saw my reservoir dogs acrylic portraits of mr. pink and mr. white and told me he used to watch that film almost 600-700 times when he was 12. he then took a pic of my Grace Van Dien fanart (when i met her in 2022 at fanexpo canada) and he told me he's gonna send it to her. i had no idea they even knew each other.

i couldn't afford a table selfie+autograph combo at morena's autograph sessions so i only paid for a selfie. i said "oi" and "obrigada" to morena before and after taking a selfie with her and she said thank you back with a big smile :D so fanexpo was surreal.

i've always wanted to meet cameron monaghan and after years of writing fanfic for jerome and jeremiah valeska and other gotham fandom character imagines, i *finally* got to meet him.

ive been thinking about coming back and writing again, not just tumblr but on wattpad and getting serious with my original scifi dystopian novel. there's so much that i wanna do in life other than become financially stable and become a successful petite model until i no longer look the part. its hard for me to write because i get so easily stumped. even when i create some ambiance and rewatch the fandom to get inspired, it just drops again. writing is hard. that is why i have respect for my mutuals and my favourite famous authors that got me to write when i was 12. (lol) and anyways, i made new friends and im the happiest ive ever been romantically that i dont need to *imagine* anything with a fandom character, i do it for those who imagine it themselves!

im so sad to come back here and see that a few of my mutuals are inactive or have deactivated. and i became like them and abandoned my work. to be fair, my writing isn't that good, and it still isn't, and if i get something written and published here or on wattpad on a professional hardcopy of my book, i won't believe that it's my best work - and i aced my creative writing elective in my program, so that's a bummer.

i think meeting cameron is giving me a nudge to get back to writing. it feels weird wanting to write jerome/jeremiah fanfic after interacting with the actor himself for less than 5mins of his time, and that he's a human being that experiences human stuff like we all do, the only difference is that he's famous. im not sure if it healed my parasocial mindset with my fave celebs. i do want to take my time and write *something*. i am not doing the requests that have been in my drafts and inbox for a year (sorry :O) im just gonna take my time and readjust and get something down.

<3 mad love to my mutuals @myriadimagines @spacetalbot @arrogant-sonofa-bitch @littlemissvincentvega @emcon-imagines @writerdream22 @jjsmaybank20 @witchthewriter @musicallisto @locke-writes @zodiyack @mahvericks @karasong @moonlit-imagines @randomfandomimagine + many more moots

[lycheesodas]

🌷 LYCHEECAFE 2024 MENU ✨

[Likes & Reblogs greatly appreciated!]

Hey everyone! Commissions are open again :D I'm opening only 3 slots at a time.

The merchstore is also open! Now updated with new goods that I usually bring to conventions (❛◡˂̵ ̑̑✧) And new stuff is always in the making! If you have any suggestions on which of my art I can make into merch, you can send them my way as well :3

WHAT'S NEW

🐱 Animal sidekicks! Get a portrait with your pets, or your favorite character getting eaten by an alligator. Or whatever you like, I suppose.

🌼 Chibis! A cuter and more affordable option. Also a great pick when you want to further babygirl-ify your blorbos.

🍡 Custom Emotes! Send cursed emotes to your friends, but with their own face on it.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

💌 Contact Details:

Please include your preferred contact method (email, Discord, Tumblr/Twitter username) as I will confirm your order before getting started.

Mutuals and returning customers, you can simply DM me wherever we chatted last time to place an order, no need to go through the Ko-fi menu since I trust you guys lol

If you have any questions before placing an order, my ask box is open (Anon asks are enabled. No trolls pls, I will block you.)

📅 Rough Timeline:

Approximately 2 days for sketch, 1 day for base colors, 3 days for rendering.

I'll update you at each stage and you may make 1 revision each time.

All numbers above may change depending on the level of detail and my workload.

Significant revisions after the coloring phase (for example changing of pose and concept) may incur extra costs.

✅ Will draw:

Fanart

Original characters

Real people

Cute animal sidekicks

❌ Won't draw:

NSFW

Excessive gore

Mecha

Furries (ears and tails are fine)

RPS (eg. celebrity shipping)

🖼 Usage:

For personal use only! You can use on your social media or print it out for yourself, but please do not resell/make merch/mint as NFT/feed to AI machine, etc.

I may ask for permission to use the final piece on my own social media or portfolio.

If you're posting the finished piece on Tumblr/Twitter/Instagram, please tag me so I can share it on my page as well!

[kurolini909]

Little announcement!

Hey guys! I just have something to announce that might be relevant regarding what to expect from my content from now on...

Well, as part of my new year's resolution, I won't be focusing solely on Undertale as an artist anymore. :"3

Don't get me wrong! I'm absolutely NOT leaving the fandom!

I don't think I ever could.

(summarized version is that I'll be indulging my own fluctuating interests from now on in other fandoms and original works. More under the cut!)

It's just that I'm trying to be more free spirited, so as to no longer feel as if I have an obligation (not like I ever did but brain brains wrong lol), my art and posts from now on should be less frequent and regarding whatever new hyper fixations I am harboring at the time!

I want to expand my artistic horizons and portfolio a bit. So things should become more random around here as to whatever has grabbed my interest.

Overall this is me indulging myself more for 2024.

•°{*}°•

Allowing my other interests to shine through a little bit, as opposed to popular demand, albeit imaginary.

Does this mean no more Undertale on the blog?

Of course not!

Again, I'm not leaving this fandom. It is an important part of who I am at this point, and helped me a lot with many of my skills! I will continue to occasionally post Undertale/Deltarune content!

Except just when I really feel like it. :"3

Again. This game has a permanent spot on my heart.

I simply dislike leaving things unexplained that's all. A sudden change of content out of nowhere seems unfair to do without some kind of warning to me.

Oh. Okay then! But, if you're not leaving, then why'd you make this post?

Don't be shy to still tag me about Undertale stuff, or ask about my Undertale characters still if you'd like! But I do ask that art requests are avoided.

(commission, which I plan to open this year, will still very much include Undertale as one of my specialities though. Again, more than three years of experience here!)

This warning is, therefore, valid from here on. Whatever I decide to go with, this isn't a [thing]-specific blog. It may change according to my interests!

•°{*}°•

Finally:

If you've read up until here, thank you for being interested in my reasons as a person, not just an artist! 🖤🤍🖤🤍

I hope you can support this new chapter I'm turning over. And if you want to leave, that's alright, too, it was a pleasure to have you! <3

If you stay, I hope you'll enjoy all I have to offer still!

Oh! And PLEASE to all my mutuals I made in the UT fandom, do keep in contact!!! I still love to hear about it and see what you guys create!

More than that, for a good part of y'all, changing main fandoms doesn't mean I don't adore the friends I made over here still.

There's so many friendships I owe to this incredible community, and I'd hate to lose even one of them. I understand if they want to, but know this is in no way a turn down if your contents are also UT.

Again: I love to see what you can do, and always will!

I'll hunt you down if I need to, you all loveable ppl know who you are. '^'

•

On to new adventures beyond the Underground!

Always remembering...

Despite everything, it's still me. ❤️

[weremagnus]

Ok, several questions bc you have my dream job lol:

1. How did you get into the video game industry as a concept artist?

1a. Was it hard?

1b. What kind of degree did you need to work with the company ur currently employed with?

2. Is it hard being a full time artist?

Hi! Thanks for asking these questions. I'll do my best to answer based on my experiences.

1. How did you get into the video game industry as a concept artist?

I spent a year after graduation from college taking on any work that came my way. All really low budget stuff, a real hodgepodge of things: some of it was games, some of it was like... logos for local businesses. In that year I also took a trip to Burbank to attend the CTN Animation Expo (there's another one called Lightbox now) and I brought my college portfolio with me to show recruiters. I ended up meeting some folks who worked at a studio that interested me and they passed my name along to their recruitment department.

I do want to note: I didn't start as a concept artist. My first position involved concept art, but was primarily creating 2D game assets. As I kept working I was given opportunities that eventually earned a concept artist role.

1a. Was it hard?

At times it felt really difficult. Between jobs during that post-grad year, I was online researching what studios were out there and sending my portfolio to any hiring email I could find. Here are some of the places I was looking (originally I thought I'd get into the animation industry)

ANW

Canadian Animation Resources

These are newer resources that I know of since then:

Game dev jobs

Canadian Game Devs Discord

I often felt discouraged and out of my depth. I had no idea how to get in, and it could feel hopeless when I'd never get any worthwhile responses. It took a lot of patience, perseverance and determination to keep at it.

1b. What kind of degree did you need to work with the company ur currently employed with?

I have a bachelor's degree of Visual Communication and Design with a character design specialization. I don't think I needed it to get hired, but it certainly helped. I think it helped most in getting hired for a position that was slightly above entry-level.

I've been part of the hiring process and I can confidently say that while post-secondary education credentials are great to see on a resume, they've never been the deciding factor. I've seen more importance assigned to a portfolio with strong fundamentals, examples of work that prove an artist can match the project they're applying for, and that they interview well.

2. Is it hard being a full time artist?

It can be challenging, especially when you're starting out, but I don't think that's exclusive to the art profession. My biggest challenges were lifestyle changes when I was suddenly no longer a teenager/student but now an employee who has to be accountable to others and be good at managing their time.

Challenges specific to the career: you'll have to learn how to be willing and open about having your work critiqued, by both peers and superiors (art director, professors, etc). You'll have to disconnect yourself from the work you create on the job otherwise you risk taking every piece of feedback personally.

There are many days where you have no will to draw or design, but you have to do it anyway because it's your job. And there's no secret to getting through those days: you just force yourself.

There are also days, sometimes weeks, where you have to work on an assignment that doesn't interest you at all, but you're responsible for getting the work done.

[freebooter4ever]

Hi I wonder

If/when you finish Geno’s sculpture will you be able to program it to move? Like animation?

I’m not familiar with 3d modeling

this is a very good question, actually! cause the easy answer is yes, absolutely. the more complicated answer is that the topology i've modeled is optimized for sculpture rather than animation, so to turn it into an animated character and get clean movement i would have to make some modifications around the sections that deform the most (shoulders, elbows, knees, etc). brief lunchtime course in topology under the cut :)

the topology or 'wireframe' of a character represents the polygons. and each polygon is defined by vertices which are the actual coordinates stored in the computer that tells it to render these objects!

on the left is the sculpt that im working on, and on the right is the 'smoothed' version where the computer calculates a curved spline between points instead of a flat polygon (with certain specific case like where i've told it to 'crease' edges which will keep the sharp polygon line).

My goal in this sculpt (like the skate and the helmet and the gear) was to keep polycount as low as possible to give myself the cleanest lines in a way similar to how i process drawings. This means i have large shapes with as few polygons as i can get away with, so there's certain areas that have very very few polygons entirely. The biggest example of this is the back and the shoulder/arm connection:

if i were topologizing this for animation the 'wireframe' lines would be concentrated where deformation happens. So when I raise the arm the shoulder would have enough geo to stay defined and smooth instead of stretching. right now if i bent his elbow it would cause this problem. luckily, im only planning to bend his elbow for a few poses in a final sculpt - so when i finish with the pose i will go back in and add whatever extra geo is necessary.

anyway the purpose of my sculpting with as little polygons as i can is to keep the silhouette as well as keeping it as clean as possible so that it'll look good in toon shaders. (you can see the 'active points' is under 4k' in the corner there)

the best example i have of this is the face which is absolutely not done so dont judge me but its finally at a point where it doesnt look too terrifying:

on the right is the quick sculpt i did just to get a feel for his face in 3D - this was done with clay sculpting and you can see even though i used the hard surface brush its made up of millions of little vertices so doesn't have that 'clean' look. the goal is to make the gray spaces between as flat as possible to make that toon 2D look in 3D. :)

my face topology is based off which lines i want to 'show' as my 'drawing' lines and wouldn't necessarily result in good animation. geno's lips are driving me crazy - i have so many photos and still they aren't good enough. there's that bow shape on his bottom lip that i'm trying to recreate in geo and its slow going. i take a break from whatever apps or shit im working on, tinker with his lip shape for a half hour, and then go back to working lol.

here's an example of a hard surface object which doesn't deform (because if a helmet squishes thats....thats probably a very bad sign for the player) and so can be as high res as i want it to be to get the level of detail i want:

why am i doing all this? i dunno im crazy. sometime in october a character artist from a big name studio told me my portfolio needed to reflect their 'style' more if i wanted to be hired there and my reaction was well fuck this im figuring out what my OWN style looks like in 3D. probably not the smartest career move. (ive spent 10 years in this industry and i have been a chameleon the entire time blending into everyone else's style. if im spending my own money on this i want it to be mine)

but, going back to the original question, my vision back in october was a beauty sculpt of geno in some action shot - on the ice with the puck or celly. and the sculpt would be crisp and clean and lit with sharp angular lights like how i draw (getting his cheekbone right is a must and makes me cry). and on a turntable. so thats the goal, no animation necessary, and its looking like i might get there in the next month. :)

the, uh, torso sculpt is cause i want to do an extra pose of him looking sexy in his locker stall with his armor gear and shit (pants ON though, you can see i have not sculpted past the waist :P). thats just for me lmao.

[selestialwarriors]

UPDATES

Story

EVERY CLAN FOUNDING LEADER IS NOW DEAD : (

This means I’ll be wrapping up everybody’s origin stories here pretty soon. Groveclan lore has been taking a while just because it’s a bit more of a complex subject and themes and so I want to do it as much justice as possible. So hold on tight for that!!!

New addition to the lore is Starwatcher!!! A cat outside of time and space is charged with the telling and recording the history of all the clans. While she can indirectly cause trouble she is most often trying to make sure her favorite characters survive…she is basically an omnipresent self-insert. She will mostly be used as a vessel to communicate important information to our universe and not much else lol.

Here’s some concept art she mostly stays in star form because her abilities to be everywhere at once make her the ultimate ADHD girlie and maintaining a complex animal form is hard.

Content

Also there is a warrior cats name generator in the works that contains biome specific animals and plants! It’s currently in troubleshooting because I need to weigh the more awkward parts so they come up less than the more common prefixes and suffixes.

With that being said I know the usual format for these types of blogs are webcomics…and unfortunately I don’t have the energy nor motivation to create one. I think that I will just be continuing creating mini blurbs about what’s going on in the clans with the occasional illustration. I think that I will compile it into an updating a digital zine like thing for each clan…something akin to the Ultimate Guide Books that I’ll throw on my ko-fi and Gumroad shops for an optional donation. I know that this seems a bit random but I kind of want to make something that if I ever do decide to change to a more creative career I can put it in my portfolio showing that I have experience in multiple areas.

[aartcia]

some late night rambles for you all <3

for the past 3-4 years I’ve been slowly building a fantasy world. originally it was going to just be a bunch of concept art for a portfolio but since I’ve decided I’m not going to pursue a masters in art I don’t really know what I want to do with all these ideas, characters and stories I want to tell.

I’ve played around with how I wanted to tell these stories (a novel, a comic??) and settled that I would ideally like it as a graphic novel because I don’t know how to make films/games lol.

I had this idea in my mind that I needed to have an audience before I could start seriously making this project, but now I think that maybe I should just start making it instead of finding excuses year after after (previously it was not good enough at art, not enough time, etc).

I have so many ideas and thoughts I want to share about these stories and characters and I know people aren’t really interested in original content and rather fandom stuff but I think I’m just going to take the leap and start posting.

I’ve already posted a lot of the concept art for some of the characters and landscapes but I rarely discuss the actual plot behind it all.

So here is a general explanation of this baby I’ve been sitting on for the past few years!!:

TALES FROM THE SPIDERWEB

TFTS is set in the city of Cassari and follows several characters throughout different stages it’s timeline. Each book would focus on a different character, telling their story and how they impacted the city in their timeline.

Cassari is often described as an evil place, that it corrupts the people who live there and the land around it. Cassari is a cycle, one society is built, then destroyed, then the next society is built atop of it until the ruins of a past people is just a speck in an endless sea.

Many of the characters try to fight this evil, to discover it’s origin. TFTS is about time but also infinity and how the characters come to grips with the fact that things aren’t as simple as good and evil.

The first book is set in a Viking/pirate/magical type of society following a pirate/witch character called Cassandra. These characters will be a type of origin for how Cassari got its “evil/cursed” title. Other books I haven’t really ordered yet include Gemini/Nellasa who is a cowgirl/bounty hunter/rebel character with necromancy powers. I also have a plot in mind for a winged species- might include dragons but I’m also debating giant bugs because ??? Bugs are fucking awesome??

I’m going to slowly start posting information and plots of the characters (Cassandra, Nellasa, Lia). I don’t know how much I want to reveal about some parts of the characters because I don’t want to spoil this story before it’s ready but I hope people find this ramble interesting haha. Thanks for reading if you made it this far.

[annbourbon]

My plans for the following months (probably a couple of years):

A couple of years ago, people used to tell me "I'm busy" as an excuse to avoid me. And my reaction was "yeah me too, and probably more than you."

I don't even bother now cause I know it'll start a competition. Yes. I know you're busy but I also know you're avoiding me cause I just saw you on the mall with friends who were not me.

Most people in my life won't ever understand that I love them beyond me being busy. I count seconds. Each one is really important for me and I'm risking not to finish all my projects by being here and there with the people I love. But okay. Anyway...

I'm finally about to start the next phase of my projects.

Project #1: DDOE Collection

This is one of my favorites but at the same time it is the one that requires a lot of work and editing and... writing lol

Which consists in several steps:

I have to finish a huge reading list. And by huge you can already see how many books i'll have to read per genre.

48 books on battles, spying, strategies, fights, tactics

2 or 3 on anatomy

5 on History

3 on Etiquette

13 on Psychology

17 on Politics

150 on Myths

2 on Science and Technology

53 to learn how to write better

28 on Music

Plus finishing my 2024 reading list.

Basically all this it's helping me to develop this whole story: DDOE Collection.

Which is a difficult one. Because it's long:

There are at least two series (yes, series) per box. Sometimes more. Right now it's a total of 200 books more or less. Hopefully while I'm editing all that the quantity will also decrease ╥﹏╥

I'm also editing Vampiric Obsession (which is part of this collection) and translating it, all by myself ^^u at this point I probably need help but I can't afford it right now. Which is why I'm making and selling soaps (to hire and pay some day, to someone, to help me with all this... poor unfortunate soul lol doesn't know what's getting into) and also asking y'all for your donations >-< to support this project and the others here mentioned.

So I have to develop a good technique and be obsessive on it to keep control and

Phase # 1 - Tropes ✔️

Phase #2 - Boundaries ✔️

Phase # 2.5 - Reading List ✔️ (currently reading)

Phase #3 - Consequences (on it)

Phase #4 - Politics

Phase # 5 - Maps (on it)

Phase # 6 - Character Database & Background

Phase # 7 - Timeline

Phase # 8 - Write

If you guys want to reach me, you're welcome to do it. Any time. But I'm gonna be really busy this year, writing lol

Project #2: Fit or Die

I'm quite satisfied with how this is going. Obviously I have had to make some changes, but you can still revisit the first idea before I come around with this title. Uhhh I really hope you guys enjoy it.

Project #3: Other stories

I have at least 20 more stories that do not belong in any of the other two categories. They all are stand alone and will be finished as soon as I can figure them out. Not necessarily in a specific order. After that, I do not plan on writing anymore originals. Probably fanfics and petitions if someone wants to ask me for something. But nothing else.

Project #4: Fashion Design

See, this is where things start to get awkward for most people because they do not expect me to stop writing but lol after writing so much, I really doubt that anything I write after that will be interesting. So that's why I'll be doing my portfolio and stepping away from the ink.

Project #5: YT Channel

I'm currently busy but as soon as I am able to, I'll start uploading more and more videos on YT and who knows? maybe even a live or two? So wait for it! >-<

So if you feel like I'm away or anything, I'm probably, *really busy* but I definitely would never ignore you ^♡^ so keep sending messages and I'll reply whenever I can.

I love you all!

★☆★☆★|| Paypal ||★☆★☆★|| Ko-Fi ☕ ||★☆★☆★

[erikafauel]

⟪I want to melt into the August air of 2014.⟫ PLEASE read this note down below for more information about MY STUFF AND ART!

Hello!! I don't post much art stuff (except, maybe, fanarts) here because idk why I'm just a bit lazy to post it everywhere at the same time (and because there're no active on my original content); all my sketches and artworks are actually in TG and CARA, so:

❗Mostly completed works (and portfolio!!) for people who DON'T like shitpost: https://cara.app/erikafauel <- my CARA page (you can find a portfolio as well as pictures conveniently sorted into public folders, so I suggest you visit my profile there)

❗For MORE CONTENT (sketches, life) go to my TELEGRAM [ https://t.me/erikafauel ] channel <}

Everything is collected there: random shitposts, my art, sketches and so on. Also! That's where I post paid posts, which can be, for example, spoilers. You can get access to them with the internal currency of Telegram (Telegram stars). Also, if you have a desire to donate/support - you can send stars under any of my posts there. BUT. This is the only account where I post completely in Russian. However, if a post is paid, most likely it will be translated as well.

❗Also I have an X (Twitter) account, but I usually post there one-two twits per a half of a year https://x.com/erikafauel] (I don't use it much, mostly checking subscriptions and reposting my feed, but I might throw in something from myself by accident.)

❗and ALSO I have a YOUTUBE channel [https://www.youtube.com/@ erikafauel]

❗and TIKTOK [https://www.tiktok.com/@ erikafauel ] account (I even seem to have videos there)

I have the same username everywhere lol

My mascot OC!

Her name is Fauel. In russian variant the end of the name is softened!

Well, I googled the meaning of "Fauel", and I found out that it's something like strange company...💀

Also it was a name for some guys from soundcloud and spotify I don't know (´0ω0`)?

upd. (old upd)

hi im erika and fauel is my mascot character

u h m also i have another main charactes who I call my kids........//////

by the way I have a lot of original characters ( a l o t o f . . . . . )

Art status:

· Commissions — [Payment with Telegram's internal currency (Telegram stats)]

· Trades/Collabs — knock in private chat or in ask

+ bonus!

Random facts time???

I'm 18 (2006)

Eng/Ru

My hobbies are: fortune telling using Tarot cards, some more esoteric and witchcraft stuff, nuclear engineering (reactors and NPPs mostly), escapism, music (listening to it and playing it; I can play the piano, also really want to learn how to use a guitar and ukulele), walking with headphones, painting on canvas, languages, some computer games, eating, sleeping; shitposting is also my hobby, I mostly do it in telegram, but I'm afraid you'll need to translate everything there :"D (twitter smokes nearby)

author (me)

[wigglebox]

Jude and Max 🌈

—

I mentioned a few months ago how I was going to make original characters inspired by Dean and Cas simply because I wanted original characters to draw for my art portfolio and it can’t be fanart.

However, despite it being a haha thing with not much thought behind it, I have developed them into full fledged characters now!

Their full names are Maxwell Clarence Charleston (Born 1830) and Jude Smith (born 1980). I’ll be making more art with them and explaining their background and story and I can’t wait to continue developing them!

Jude is an avid movie buff and loves books. He’s a big fan of old classic horror movies and collects old Hollywood memorabilia and his favorite TV show is Gunsmoke. He loves Skittles and wants to be a movie director.

Max loves being outside and during his nature walks would often collect flowers and leaves to press into his book. He’s a big science guy and loves learning new things about the world and dreams of traveling. He also really likes coffee lol.

That’s obviously not all to them, but I figure this can be their official introduction! I wanted them side by side their inspiration which is Dean and Cas of course!

I imagine I’ll be drawing these four together more lol just for fun

(Why does the Vertigo cover look like Nic Cage lmao)

[sugirandom]

I posted 482 times in 2022

11 posts created (2%)

471 posts reblogged (98%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@aisuryuu

@eiledon

@the-stray-liger

@handageddon

@leviathans-tail

I tagged 88 of my posts in 2022

#lol - 9 posts

#references - 3 posts

#sugi rambles - 3 posts

#ooh - 2 posts

#cool - 2 posts

#yeah - 2 posts

#aisuryuu - 2 posts

#lols - 2 posts

#i see what you did there - 1 post

#but yeah there's a shit ton of kids piloting these things - 1 post

Longest Tag: 120 characters

#the fact that professional voice actors who've been in the field for years are getting taking advantage of is disgusting

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

ughh, I’ve gotten what I’m officially dubbing an allercold. That moment when allergy symptoms practically mimic a cold...and I haven’t been able to do auditions since Thursday. It affected recording for FOBG too...so here’s hoping with rest, liquids, and medicine I can kick this to the curb soon! It’s odd because i haven’t experienced this since I was in Japan last...and at that point I’m sure it was because of not being adjusted to Japanese pollen...I guess this time it’s that mix of leaves and rain plus dusty heat vents...ughhh

It is cute though how Gabe meows at me whenever I cough...in almost a worried/annoyed way. Poppy will be here briefly just to pack and I have to pick up a prescription but other than that I’ll be at home alone for the next few days so at least there’s that.

2 notes - Posted October 31, 2022

#4

Six characters: Gino Weinberg, Shirley, Rivalz, Milllie, Nunnaly, Lloyd Asplund

Oooh, I wasn’t expecting to get Code Geass characters! This will be fun but also a bit difficult

Push off a cliff: I guess I’m going with Shirley this time, I really did like her as a character even though she could be annoying and was certainly more self-centered so I don’t need to set her on fire in a fit of rage or anything.

Kiss: Gino Weiberg, one of the only two characters you wrote out the full name of lol. It’s probably due to his interactions with Suzaku but he seems like he’d be fun to hang out with and at least kiss. I don’t know if I’d want to get too close though, poor boy probably has a lot of trauma being a Knight of the Round.

Marry: Millie, She’s super loyal and also a pretty chill person so I feel like we’d be pretty compatible overall.

Set on Fire: I always hate this choice, I guess I’m not sadistic enough lol... anyway, Lloyd just by default lol. I don’t really hate him even though he’s probably partially responsible for a lot of trauma done to Suzaku but I mean he’s doing his job? So, yeah sorry about that Lloyd...

Wrap a blanket around: This was a tossup, I was originally going to say Rivalz but then I decided I wanted to room with him so I’m going with Nunnally.

Be Roommates with: Rivalz, I mean if he can tolerate Lelouch he can tolerate me and he’s a pretty cool and generally under appreciated guy!

3 notes - Posted January 27, 2022

#3

Tomorrow and Sunday my best bro and I are headed to a gaming convention

The one I mentioned previously on here...ha ha, yeah we’re going even though it was last minute but we can’t go today cause best bro has work. So yeah, it’s my first convention in three years so...I’m looking forward to it! 

4 notes - Posted June 24, 2022

#2

My new voice acting website is (mostly) finished

Go and visit it if you get the chance:

http://kevinwilsonvoiceactor.com/

My avatar was done by my talented friend @aisuryuu who also contributed the avatars for our Gaming Youtube Channel (FromOurBasementGaming), highly recommend them if you need any commissions done.

On my website you can hear some demos of various voice over styles, more will be added as I make more but you can get a general feel of what I sound like from them. If you happen to need any voice over work that I’d be good for feel free to contact me and we can discuss it!

Thanks for taking the time to look at my self-promo! Please don’t hesitate to contact me, I need some work for life and portfolio building and all that stuff.

6 notes - Posted March 11, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

This weekend I’ll be attending AnimeUSA

This is the first time in three years that I’ve gone to this convention (my best bro is going with me) so I’m pretty excited!

9 notes - Posted October 13, 2022

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from a few days ago

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I needed an illustration piece for portfolio stuff, so the last few days I’ve been working nonstop on a mock up book cover for an old story I made up when I was twelve LOL

It would be called “A Dragon’s Tail” but i have no graphic design skills whatsoever so there’s no typography on this book cover mockup

If you want a basic (and chaotically organized) rundown of the plot, keep reading under the cut LOL

In the OG story, there's 3 main characters: Adrien (QuetzalCoatl, or feathered serpent), Penny (a normal human) and Silver Stride (a unicorn).

Adrien the dragon was originally the main character that we follow (and if I were to ever rewrite this, she would continue to be the main character. I only put Penny in the center of the cover because it worked better for the composition i was going for, and I didn't have time to explore more variations.)

Anyway, Adrien's mother goes missing, and she teams up with a Penny, and Silver Stride, who have also lost their families to an evil wizard named Rogabas, who for mysterious reasons is kidnapping dragons, unicorns, and other wizards for an evil purpose.

No i can't remember what that purpose was, and i don't think my 12 year old self would know either tbh

The three characters would go on this epic journey to find the lair of Rogabas and meet a whole assortment of fantastical creatures along the way, like a giant talking goat named Merryweather who guards a bridge (a bridge passed down from generation to generation after winning it from a troll and demands golden carrots as a toll to cross it), good werewolves and bad werewolves, gargoyles who guard libraries, and I can’t remember why but in my old drawings there’s also this manticore (or maybe just a lion) with sunglasses for some reason. Maybe he’s just there to chill, idk.

Also there would be two side kick characters, who are two of Penny’s dad’s familiars ((((oh yeah penny’s dad is a wizard, too, unbeknownst to her)))) and guardians of “Magic Rock TM” that the evil wizard Rogabas is after. The side kick characters are two overzealous, punch-first-ask-questions-later rabbits named Flopsy and Mopsy, who are enchanted to know karate. (There is a whole leigion of karate rabbits who guard “Magic Stone TM”.)

(((If you’re wondering why a wizard would enchant rabbits to know karate, well of course every wizard usually has a collection of animal familiars enchanted to know a specific type of martial arts to guard their magical artifacts. This is standard practice, don’t you know? 12 year old me definitely wasn’t going off the title of “kung fu panda” and start making a whole bunch of animals like “Kung Fu Kitty” or Jujutsu Doggy” or “Judo-Penguins” or Tae Kwon Do Tigers)))

Also, I don’t know what “Magic Stone TM” is, I just remember it was a big important thing Rogabas was after.

ALSO also, 12 year old me decided that Adrien was adopted by a European dragon and had 2 siblings, Martin (a european dragon) and Cho (a chinese dragon) who were also both adopted, but If I were to rewrite it think it would be simpler to keep it to just Adrien and her adopted mom, just to keep the keep the already big cast to a more manageable number LOL

(Btw, “Rogabas” is the latin word for “You were asking” and when my sister and I were learning latin, we thought that word sounded like the name for an evil wizard and laughed ourselves silly saying “you were asking, evil lord Rogabas??” Over and over)

Basically the story would be this wild comedy adventure with a lot of magical tropes and shenannigans thrown in.

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450 Followers: Meet The Writer

Hello there! We’re back with another Meet The Writer Q&A and it’s our pleasure to introduce a fellow Brazilian fanfic author for our ninth interview:

Blog: @julia-highstorms​ Name (or petname): Julia/Ju Birthday: July 9 Nationality: Brazilian 🇧🇷 Current residency: I'm one of the 12 million people living in São Paulo, Brazil Languages you speak: Brazilian Portuguese, English and a bit of Japanese Masterlist: Julia’s choices fanfiction masterlist

1. Is there a meaning behind your url name? Yes! For those who have been following me for a while, they already know that I used to change my URL according to the Choices character I was stanning at the time but it was a PAIN to fix all my fanfics links 😩 so I decided to finally create an unique URL that I wouldn't get tired of. So I mixed my two surnames together and it (basically) means Highstorms. I loved it 😌

2. When did you start playing Choices? What's the first book you played? 2017 I believe. TRR book 1 was about to debut. YEAH. It was the Freshman Book 1.

3. When did you decide to join Choices fandom? December 21 2017. ILITW was in its last chapters and I was obsessed with it. I wanted to talk about it with other people, but I didn't know anyone who also played Choices. So I found the fandom on Tumblr and decided to join. I miss all my friends I made back then and we all went nuts with ILITW finale together 😩 Good times

4. Go back to your archive and tell us what was your first post on your Choices blog was about. My first post was about how I loved ILITW and how everyone was fucked up sjddndossok also a lot of reblogs about MAKE NOAH AN LI 🗣️

5. How long have you been writing fanfiction? I started writing fanfictions in my senior year of high school, although I attempted to write my own stories when I was younger, around 12-13.

6. Share the first fanfic you wrote with us. Do you still like it or would you change anything about it? My first fanfic ever is about The Maine, it was my favorite band back then slfjdfodj but my first Choices fanfic is If Jane Was Here (ILITW told by Noah) Chapter 1. I AM SO PROUD OF IT. Of course, there are some things I would change. Like adding even more angst. Having finished writing it way sooner. But I'm super proud of it overall. My first (and so far only) Choices long series I've ever finished. Wow.

7. What are your favorite Choices books to write about? Definitely Open Heart just because of Bryce Lahela and Rei (my MC). OPH has become a mess, but I love Bryce too much. I loved the It Lives anthology too and enjoyed writing about. And I'm hyped for my upcoming Blades AU series!

8. What is your specialty as a fanfic writer? Oooh I guess it is rewriting certain scenes or events of the books or thinking about AUs. Since ILITW I have enjoyed doing this. Writing on another character's point of view of the events that have happened (the whole If Jane Was Here series, that is ILITW told by Noah's POV). Or adding some depth to a certain scene (did something like this with Julia, my ILB MC, and Tom's relationship. And with Rei and Bryce's). Or even rewriting the story to fit better with my MC's personality (Rei, OPH MC).

9. What aspect of your writing do you most enjoy to see praised? When people say they like my MC's, Rei (OPH MC) and Luxia (Blades MC). Before, whenever I played Choices, I didn't care much about the MCs because they're all generic (which makes sense because we're the ones playing it). They're always the happy go lucky friend that tries to fix everyone's problems and every LI is in love with them. Boooooring. Rei was my first MC that I created a whole non-canon personality to her, and that's why she's my baby 🥺 and when people commented that they felt represented by Rei, that she felt more realistic than PB's usual MC, well, that was my peak as a writer lol so they're basically OC's, with their own personalities and temperaments.

10. Do you participate in any writing events or challenges throughout the year? If so, what do you like about them? I do, but I wish I could participate more often! The prompts are what I like the most, because they give me ideas that I'd have never thought to write about before.

11. Are there any writers (published authors and/or fanfic writers) who influenced your writing? Meg Cabot was my favorite author growing up and I read some of Sophie Kinsella’s books too, so probably my love for adding a bit of comedy, silly little things in my fanfics came from them. I love Jane Austen too. And last but not least, my flair for angst definitely came from reading Fruits Basket, my favorite manga ever. There’s so much angst in Furuba dodksdishd Takaya Natsuki-sensei really enjoys it. I recommend reading her other manga series, Twinkle Stars, too.

12. What element of writing do you struggle with most? Actually writing lmao. You know, taking the plot out of my mind and typing it down on Google Docs. Writing is hard, takes too much time and I'm lazy 😩 I wish I could just transfer my ideas to a document and it's done. No need to write, no need to revise, etc. I love the final product, but I hate the process.

13. Do you have any abandoned WIPs? What made you abandon them? A BUNCH OAJDSKDKD 🤦 Either because my inspiration to write it has faded or because I don't want to spend my whole time writing.

14. You’re applying for the fanfic writer of the year award. What five fanfics do you put in your portfolio? Oooooh great question! I must put:

If Jane Was Here - Alternative ending (ILITW): this is the only finale I accept sorrynotsorry

Too Little Too Late - Jax x MC (Bloodbound): I wanted to feel hurt. People cried. I loved it sclkdsdjsops

The Loudest One - Bryce x F!MC (Open Heart): I wrote this one for CFWC Kinktober! And honestly, this is the best smut scene I have written. I’m quite proud about it.

Satisfied - Jax x Lily (Bloodbound): it was fun writing for my crack ship! My babies. And the first smut scene I have ever written. I’m glad it was with these two. I still can’t get over the fact that either one of them dies in BB’s finale. I cannot accept skfjdpd

Lullaby - Tyril x Elf!F!MC (Blades): don’t get me wrong, I love Tyril and his goth lordling mysterious elf boy personality and the first time he and MC made out was HOT but… I missed a bit of clousure before, you know? It felt a bit sudden to me, so I wrote a couple of fanfics showing their growing interest and attraction towards one another. This one is a light cute one and I really like it.

15. Do you create original content aside from fanfiction (original stories, art, etc)?  I sometimes draw some fanarts in which you can see by searching for #occasional drawings on my Tumblr.

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