#gonna be my band name

[beatlesmenrock]

It’s getting better, since you’ve been mine!

( blood version under )

[bunniebi]

Seb and Maya are rooting for you!!

(or in this case my mc's band but still! <3)

[splootdoolies]

i think kessoku band took a wrong turn somewhere..?

[rockybloo]

I love Karrie, she’s such a little cutie 🥺🥺🥺

Everyone's favorite little cryptid and monster nerd (this is old but it's the only solo pic I got of her since the rest of them are her with her boyfriends)

TBH I need to draw her more often

[technicolourcowboy]

RAAAAH this lil metal au has got me in a chokehold,,,, I’m making the content I want 2 see in the world

Had to doodle the gals 😔 my mind wouldn’t be stopped

Daria belongs to @frenchfry99, Riley belongs to @wampabampa, and nina belongs to @evillillad! Drawing them was so fun I love bug ocs sm <333

Full (ish) versions in the cut below :] vvv

[preqvelle]

( credit )

[0palnova]

‘What summer meant to you’ hugo sketchhhhhh

[soulsludge]

I started journaling again... I wrote a few pages but I just wanted to share just this one, for some reason I really like it. Yesterday I had therapy and then went to the Sessanta aka Puscifer/A Perfect Circle/Primus show. Text:

Yesterday I talked to my therapist about feeling past my expiration date and not being able to imagine my future. At the concert, a dad and his daughter and some other man were talking about how the them of 20 years ago would high five them now and making a pact to see a show once every 6th months. The dad was telling his daughter how she was one of the coolest people there because he raised her on good and unique music. She seemed awkward yet grateful. Maybe I just want to be happy and at good concerts in another 20 years. Almost 20 years ago - 18 years almost 19 actually - my dad took an 8 year old me to a different A Perfect Circle concert and I journaled about that too, and how I was all dressed up in baby goth for it. In the parking garage, I saw a young girl, maybe 8, in a big - too big - APC shirt. She was smiling and holding her mom's hand. (Aside: Then, we saw a car with a license plate - MYSHDOW. Dad said 'that's pretty cool'. He wanted one too.)

[autumnblooms]

You walk in a room and see him, what do you do?

[jtl07]

What have I done?!? 🥁🎸🎹 This is so, so cool! You wrote the audition like i mini-fic 🤩 Drabble? I don’t know, it was very cool, thank you 👏🏼 And Mary’s comment when she was adjusting the chair, hahaha. Loved the idea with neon colors, what a cool concept 🎨 Who’s the singer of this band? And how would Ava know of their music? Has she seen them live, or is their music out? Maybe it could be combined with your earlier thoughts? That Ava worked in a bar they played, and that’s how she found out about them (and Bea). Does the band have a name? And/or will it change/develop when Ava joins? Thank for taking my questions seriously, this is so much fun 😘

anon oh no, oh no now we're getting into the details aren't we. i'm torn between the band being primarily instrumental (akin to Polyphia) and having guest vocalists every now and then, vs having some hella strong vocalist - i'm thinking like Fuki from Doll$Boxx or omg what if someone like Tatiana Shmayluk from Jinjer?!? yoooo that would be intense. if the latter, then Lilith would be a terrifying analogue oh geez.

okay yknow what, i'm leaning towards instrumental first with guest vocals because i kinda like the idea of them working with different vocalists occasionally, which would be kinda like canon what with how their "front man" / halo bearer changes. but also like, that puts more pressure on each instrument to be on their game (which Beatrice impresses upon Ava when they have their two-day bootcamp).

as for how Ava first heard of them (aside: anon I am the absolute worst at naming things, their band's name is just going to be "the band" for the forseeable future lolol) maybe she happened upon their music online or heard about them somehow - someone playing a cover, someone mentioning them in passing, or maybe someone watching a video on their phone and Ava happens to see - oh that would be amusing if it was JC, yeah, lol okay, maybe JC's also a musician and someone sent him a video of their band but he's not really paying attention to it because it's not his vibe but Ava is enthralled. she goes home, looks up all their stuff, immediately starts playing along and it's difficult and brilliant and it pushes her to the limits of her skill level but she still has the utmost fun and it pushes her to keep learning. she becomes a fan but while she's eaten up every video and interview she could find about them (perhaps she happened upon one of those explainer videos that Beatrice did lol) she hasn't had the chance to see them live because they'd been on hiatus - hence why Beatrice (and Mary though she tries not to show it) are stressed about the upcoming gig, because while it's a small one, it is important to them since it's their first one in a long time.

oh and maybe also they're debuting new music for the first time in a long time at that gig - and maybe, after Ava's proven herself to Mary, they work through the song with Ava and Ava is able to play it perfectly, but then maybe during a break or something she's playing along to the track - not exactly practicing but like casually playing like she does at home alone whenever she listens to their songs, adding stuff here and there - and maybe Mary and Beatrice come back from break early and hear her and Beatrice looks at Mary and is like, "I'll make sure she keeps to what we've written" but Mary forestalls her, steps into the room fully, which catches Ava's attention, who abruptly stops playing and somehow manages to stop the track too without falling over.

"hey boss," Ava says, twirling the drumsticks between her fingers nervously. "that was a uh quick walk."

Mary's face is unreadable still, and she rewinds the track a bit. "do that fill again."

Ava blinks and Mary gives her a look that's like, 'do not make me repeat myself' and Ava scrambles to remember what she did and fumbles.

Mary shakes her head. "no, you did it differently last time." she kinda beatboxes what she remembers and Ava's like, "oh yeah" and repeats it correctly this time and Mary's taking up her bass and is muttering to herself about voicing things differently to match and Beatrice is like, "you want to change it? the performance is the day after tomorrow" and Ava's like, "hey I was just messing around" but Mary looks Ava straight in the eye and says, "it's a good idea. let's use it." then she looks at Beatrice and raises an eyebrow. "two days is more than enough time, right?"

and Beatrice kinda helplessly laughs because of course Mary would get caught up in this, in this energy Ava's brought with her - it's the renewal they've needed; Ava's exactly what they've been looking for.

[speakergame]

Bi-Weekly Update - 1/10/23

hello and happy new year!

Taking time last month to recharge ended up being exactly what I needed. The folks on Patreon already know this, but while working on Partially Stars I ended up figuring out a better way to do the coding that I've been struggling with in Speaker. Hopefully it means I can finally finish this up and move on from this scene 🤞

Last week was the post-holiday scramble of getting my kid back in school and remembering how to keep normal human hours again, but now that we're settled back into something resembling a normal schedule I'm throwing myself completely into finishing up this tangled code-bramble of a scene. And hopefully the things I've learned while working on this will make it easier if I run into something else like this in the future.

That's all I've got for this week! I hope you're all having a great 2023 so far, and I'll see you next time!

[lagtrain]

friend just signed up for a youtube channel with my fucking phone number

[honeyvenommusic]

❗️NEWGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSAN-

[crabsdaily]

one of my friends unknowingly sent the gc a bears in trees tiktok, it’s time to enter Insufferable Mode

[percreates]

Saw some cows today :)

The cows in question (ft. me)

[alas--pringles]

If my phone fills up with photos of randy with puppies I will not be mad about it 🥺😭🥹🥹🥹