#hope this is helpful lol

[bitchyblue]

Can I ask what was different between you and Huck vs past romantic partners? I’m starting to think I’m the problem in not finding something steady..

I've thought a lot about this question. There's no short answer, but I'll try to break down what works.

We have known each other for a long time and have sustained love and chemistry. We were best friends, partners in crime, and fuck buddies in our late teens/early 20s and then life drifted us to separate parts of the country. We floated back into each other's lives and it just clicked back into place. The timing was right this time. We were more mature, had learned a lot, but the vibes and the history and the chemistry were still intact so it just WORKED.

We are teammates. We are partners. Whenever disagreements or hurt feelings happen, we address it immediately and from a place of teamwork. We're not trying to "win" or "be right," we're trying to solve a problem together in a way that works out for both of us. We've both been in a lot of relationships and have learned a lot about what we do and don't want, what we do and don't need, and how to communicate these things to each other.

Timing. We're both in a place where we're ready to be family to each other. We prioritize each other and take each other into account for decisions.

We have intimacy. This isn't just about sex, we communicate about our intimate needs to each other. If one of us is feeling un-sexy, we find other ways to be intimate. We compliment each other often. "I love that shirt it makes your shoulders look fuckin hot" or "I love watching you in the kitchen" or "you look hot sucking my dick" whatever.

We are happy to support each other's things. He's super into buying and reselling furniture. I don't know anything about it, but I get excited for him and weigh in on stuff. I love making art and writing. He encourages me and gets excited for me.

So ya know? It's not your fault. My best advice is to learn what you want and need, get good at communicating it, and don't settle for less. Learn what your contributions and strengths are and bring those to your relationships. Get closer to your friends. Don't rush a romantic relationship. In the meantime, have fun dating and enjoy your non-romantic friends! You will be okay, sweet pea!!

[hopetorun]

not sure if a. you’re still playing this game or b. if this is too general, but would you ever go back to writing a relationship that appeared in your older ao3 history? i remember reading many of your hockey fics in like 2016 lol and was curious if you ever get new ideas for any of those guys

it really depends on the ship tbqh! there's some i'd definitely write again if an idea came to me and others where i've really soured on one or both of the players involved and definitely would not. realistically the ship i was writing circa 2016 that i'm most likely to go back to is zach/dylan, which is also the only one where i look for new fic regularly

[wewontbesleeping]

the weirdest fucking thing to me is how men will be like "it's so hard being a man. no one cares that i'm sad. the loneliness we experience could NEVER be understood by a woman" and then also be like "btw i never talk to my friends and i don't know their names and i love hanging out with men because they don't talk about their stupid emotions all the time. women could never understand a bond like this." like ???

[harboretum]

It's Make a Terrible Comic Day

[beldaroot]

there has been more moments than i can count in the past seven months where i felt destroyed by all the death and carnage i've seen due to the colonialism and imperialism of the world. but there was something in particular about hind's death that made me think the world would stop turning bc how could anything continue given how gruesome and inhumane her death was? and yet, the world did not stop. and i thought we were once again left to remember her story only in our minds as she became another number, as her murderers went on killing unpunished, and as her mother grieved with rage when all she wanted was to keep her daughter warm and as safe as she could manage in this man-made hell on earth.

however, hind, a girl who only got to experience her kindergarten graduation, is now being immortalized in universities across the nation. her story did resonate to the masses and we will not let her be forgotten nor forgive those complicit in her death. real justice would be having hind alive, but these students are showing that they will stop the world and burn the status quo it upholds to the ground if it means her people can truly be liberated.

[reimenaashelyee]

The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices is OPEN!!! comicsdevices.com

An online library of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art.

Happy Halloween! I'm really excited to be finally launching* what is maybe one of my most ambitious, largest work yet. This online library is the next phase of a research project that began in May 2020, when I first mused on how comics as a field doesn't have a resource that catalogues devices used in the medium. Like, theatre has devices, so does literature, and film! So why shouldn't comics? I always had an interest in comics studies and analysis. I love reading, making and thinking comics. However most of my knowledge was intuitive - I learned comics from osmosis and experience. This is true for many of my peers. Speaking about comics as a creator is hard, because we don't have a robust system of language. When we had to speak, many of us tend to reach for the language developed for film by film practitioners. If there is language specific to comics, it's either scattered in multiple blogs or hidden away in academic journals. The Comics Devices library is meant to aggregate everything and everybody into a single hub! After exploring some multiple resources, alongside some original, independent research, here is the first edition! * The Comics Devices project is still a work-in-progress! It's not final, nor will it ever be. This is why I am seeking contributors to help build this library. Translations, comics examples, etc. There is a lot of work to do! If you are interested, reply to this post or submit an expression of interest on this page.  Have fun everyone!! (Now time for me to melt x_x)

[lilybug-02]

Pain is a great motivator…

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Meanwhile Toriel:

(Loud noises don't wake her up usually.)

Artist note: I’m so proud of this :))) I know it’s a lot of dialogue and reading, but dialogue is grueling work for me. I’m glad with the art and for the amount of pages I made in such a relatively short time span -w- page 5 was super fun to work on. A lot of blood, sweat, and hours here... :) The backgrounds were a big bore tbh, but I finished them! Yippie!

[cbmagus49]

:D

[scamoosh]

hi guyz i made a quiz abt which horror trope/theme i enjoy you are!! cws are in the description so please mind them!

[gambeque]

masterpost of my favorite CSP brushes 🦖🦖 links below:

Jiwa pen

KaOs Brush

Obongbong’s Pen

Mameo Ink

Artemus Pencil

Wiggle Brush

[linkvcr]

HI HELLO IN HONOR OF DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH I HUMBLY REQUEST DISABLED SKYWARD SWORD LINK OF YOUR CHOOSING

HELLO HELLO! i decided to draw ur POTS hc for Link :-] hope u like it ^_^

[fernsnailz]

cleaning out the files, sonic sketch edition

[pokeberry5]

girl experiences gender euphoria and is immediately slammed by grief

for @litttlittt <3. this was supposed to be a portrait of caroline hill, but litta mentioned tim looking like janet when dressed as caroline and identity issues and angst and things spiraled

something about tim not knowing if he's his mother's child or bruce's or neither's.

figuring out the looks:

i wanted janet to have that poofy 70s hair

[teabagtoaster]

trg as pokemon trainers for this year's D20 zine jam!

this was part of I Choose You! - A D20 x Pokemon Zine, which you can find as part of this bundle (featuring every zine made from this year's jam!) all proceeds go to the oPt Humanitarian Fund :-)

[lilybug-02]

Bribed with Chocolate. The way it should be.

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More to come as this is a two-parter. But you know how I am with schedules.

Bonus:

I think this was an equally possible reaction from Chara.

[oooocleo]

Do you have any tips for drawing faces at interesting angles? I try to draw faces tilted up or down or to the side but it keeps going wrong and I end up reverting to something more stilted. You make it look effortless

the only reason why things can appear effortless is bc the illustrators put lots of effort into practice beforehand! my biggest advice if you're finding an angle tricky is to use reference images - i absolutely do this especially when the angles are more extreme than what i've gotten used to drawing 👍

as for a tip that might be helpful: try to think about the physical space what you're drawing would occupy - i've said this before, but thinking about heads (in this case) as a 3d shape with certain characteristics will help you understand what changes in the viewer's perspective (= what you put down on the page) when you turn it this way and that

whenever i start sketching a head i almost always include those convex lines to help me treat it as a 3d object: