#but i wanna start sharing them

[awesome-shoes-with-wings]

So I really love Time Loops. And I have decided I'm gonna write a Time Loop fic with Percy Jackson. But first I need to finish my reread of The Last Olympian!

Current plan - Kronos has one more trick up his sleeve - send Percy through enough loops so that he gives up and lets Kronos win!

[moeblob]

Happy Birthday to Ferdinand von Aegir!

I actually made 33 emotes, affectionately known as Aegirglyphics to some, for my own personal use on discord. However, I figure why not share some of them! They're free to use for discord servers/icons/pfps or whatever. However, my only request is Do NOT use them as subscriber emotes on Twitch. You can make them free follower emotes but you are not to make them locked behind a paywall.

[clownsuu]

I have no clue if tumblr ate the ask or not (if it didn’t, I apologize for the double posting) BUT

BUT

Im glad to see so much art of Robbie getting so many friends who roughhouse with him, especially after the Robbie lore dump (possibly by coincidence? Since it wasn’t here) because he deserves friends who can handle and even match his energy :)))

YEAHHH IM GLAD TOO!! specially for a lonely guy like him,, he’s dumb and sometimes even criminal in what he does, but my golly he’s a really excited and happy guy,,,,,

[yonpote]

i spent the majority of 2016 with another person, dan howell,

so i think it's only fair that he comes up here and shares this with me

[mic-check-stims]

Walkshipping board for that one anon from forever ago who asked about my ships

X-X X-X X-X

[gen4grl]

dad red! 🍎🍊

[hajihiko]

like 70% of my Posting origin story is just "I need someone to be talking about (x). If I draw (x) maybe people will at least acknowledge (x) in their tags or somesuch. *it happens* OMG WAIT OK I ALSO HAVE THOUGHTS ON (Y&Z&Q)--"

[lily-ohfally]

WoL QotD: Do you relate/associate any flower any flower with your WoL and if so, what does it symbolize if anything?

Follow up: What made you pick the flower?

[garuye]

I'd like to get to a point where I can draw again and not be completely overwhelmed or underwhelmed by the attempt. I guess I'm just in a messed up place mentally, I miss drawing but any time I sit down to do it, it. Doesn't happen.

[crovoroh]

theyre enjoying a moment in the sun 😌

[spearxwind]

Oof I'm kinda scared to ask... Why do you not want to be an artist professionally?

Its just like, incredibly miserable in my experience.

Everyone wants their dream job of being paid to draw whatever the hell they want but 99% of the time you are hired and tasked to draw things that you don't have a lot of interest in, professionally speaking, and constantly getting your artistic efforts undermined by the rest of the team (this is esp. true in the videogame industry) artists always try to push for better designs and get their takes watered down for the sake of general public pleasing. Also you don't have a security blanket unless you're under long term contract. Most freelancers live gig to gig with the fear of not being able to support themselves if they don't take a job to take a break. Videogame and movie jobs arent stable because companies never keep the art teams, they are laid off and rehired whenever there is a new project

During my major, I drew nonstop for 4 years for class. Not always things I enjoyed, but also not always things I didnt like. In fact I enjoyed my major immensely! It was so fun. But the burnout is very, very real, and the workload was similar (even inferior to) regular art jobs. What happens if you like to draw in your off time? You spend your days making and pumping out art nonstop for hours, and then on your free time breaks you draw some more? I personally couldn't do it. I just wanted to do other things

And like.... I spent the first three years being told by teachers (people with stable, contract based jobs) how cool of a job it is to do art, and then the last year getting grilled on how insanely hard it is to make it out there. If you don't have connections, money, an audience, a studio, it's actually impossible. You need to be your own lawyer, abide by the very strict self employment rules that take a severe chunk out of your earnings. Do all of your finance/schedule/marketing etc while on top of that constantly producing work (I know there's people who can do it but, personally, I cannot) I really admire the people who were able to build themselves up as artists from the ground like this (because its definitely possible, just insanely hard)

Also, making something you love into your job ends up being miserable too. I experienced this with patreon, which I posted to as like a chill thing and it just got increasingly hard to make content for it or just post in general, even drawing my own ocs and sharing stuff about them started to feel like a chore.

Maybe it's just me though, this has just been my personal experience but yeah in general I realized I am immensely happier just keeping art as a hobby or its gonna suck my soul out (Since I already experienced it)

I don't mean to discourage anyone, I think the world in general needs more artists. But for that we would need to actually be taken seriously and valued, which sadly we are not, at all. And if there's anyone reading that is considering art as a job: it is absolutely grueling. It's not an easy job. Even if you desperately love art it can suck the life out of you and the joy for what you do

(As an extra sidenote. Artists are usually exploited using this mentality as well. That they are supposed to love their job. So they expect you to work your wrists off "For the passion". Dont fall victim to it)

[lilacevans]

it’s amazing how men can just ruin everything

[hamartia-grander]

I love seeing the "mutuals" thing when my mutuals are in my notifs it makes me happy but genuinely I think actively making it so everyone can see statuses of like who is their mutual and who they're only just following and not allowing people to disable it is so sinister and BAD. Like I have genuinely in the past been unable to follow certain people who make me uncomfortable because I didn't wanna risk them checking their followers and realising I wasn't following them anymore and hating me/confronting me when I wasn't able to handle that, and now it's only made WORSE because those people can instantly see I'm not longer following them if I so much as reply to a comment or ask?? It isolates me from being able to interact with someone after I've unfollowed them because I don't want them to think I hate them or that it's anything personal, but tumblr has put my following on full display now and there's nothing I can do to stop it. Adding "activity icons" was foul but at least you can turn it off. It's all fucked up and I wish we could go back to keeping things actually private for once.

[verflares]

hard work at the "objectify that blonde man" factory today

[ask-the-dweets]

An interaction between Pizza and David, a while after he returned from being a killer and reconnected/reconciled with David. 

[but-the-library-of-alexandria]

I'm starting a new tumblr trend called Standup

it's where you write a standup set but instead of performing it irl (the hard part) you just post it on tumblr in text format and the audience (your followers) respond by reblogging it with gifs of people laughing