#i want to create something meaningful

[tiredfoxtf]

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[skunkes]

My issue is I do have feelings i want to make into art but I'm stupid and dont know how to filter them into beautiful visual symbolism and meaning also if I could do this u better believe I'd be making crazy fanart of thistle dungeon meshi

[chronically-ghosted]

I read this post and the one that preceded it, and I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to offer such a thoughtful and nuanced post. Nuance! On the internet! 💜

You have given me the language to articulate the discomfort I’ve had with some of the ways we all create around here. Often it feels like the tension between attention and self-expression is too hard to tolerate so I don’t blame anyone for the choices they make about what they create. But I do think reframing writing fanfic as engaging in art is a brilliant place to work from. Maybe the more we talk about the art of our creative work here, the more we gently nudge ourselves to raise the bar.

Anyway! That was long. But I wanted to thank you and say I respect so much the way you spoke about this. 💜

megan my darling thank you so much for this 🤍

i never want to come down on any one piece of fic or any one author - this is just an observation that i personally have had. doesnt even mean its true, just a pattern i'm sensitive to.

also, just to cover my ass once again: please don't stop writing the fic you want, especially if that includes writing for a character from a movie that hasn't been released. my frustration with seeing that phenomenon was TO ME PERSONALLY NOT AS A SOURCE OF TRUTH that it felt like people were using popular tropes on a popular character for the sake of notes - not because they felt artistically inspired by the original media. but at the same time, i understand the inclination to ride the wave of popularity: our time to be creative is so limited we want our work to be appreciated so why not do what's popular. it's hard out there for writers, for all artists, but i encourage all of us to stick through the frustration because ultimately, writing for something with artistic merit will make us better writers and, dare i say, better people.

As you darling megan said: "the more we talk about the art of our creative work here, the more we gently nudge ourselves to raise the bar."

[astragatwo]

In contrast to my last two Rain World OC posts, these guys aren't one offs and are part of my current core OC group. More info about them under the cut since it's lengthy.

First starting with The Serpent —

The Serpent is one of AV's many bio-engineered slugcats - if you can even call him a slugcat at this point - as part of a simple passion of experimenting with flexible slugcat biology

They share several traits in common with red lizards, those being constant hyper-aggression, tremendous strength, projectile spit and size

As for similarities with slugcats, well, a general elongated shape? Oh, mobility, unlike red lizards, the Serpent is very adept with vertical movement

AV didn't really have a clear goal in mind with the Serpent unlike the rest of their tube babies, they just sort of... happened.

The spontaneity of their creation though has been very interesting as despite initially being created with the solitary lifestyle of a red lizard, the Serpent still keeps his slugcat instinct of adopting random children they find

Though the Serpent seems at first, displeased with this development but rest assured that if you ever LOOK at his pup wrong they will kill everyone in the room and then himself

Though not pictured in his reference since he was my first Rain World OC, created with very little knowledge of the lore and started as a one-off, he has a citizen ID drone which AV uses to keep track of him

He was also simply created out of my desire to have a long slugcat and my obsession with red lizards combined so there's that, too

Speaking of AV, moving on to Administrative Violence —

Named after the song of the same name by Lauren Bousfield, you'd expect them to be - well - violent. They're not, at least not with those they commonly interact with

They are actually quite sweet with Blown Blooms, their partner, and Peach the slugcat

Weather conditions, all things considered, are pretty mild where they are but far, far off into the distance their partner Blown Blooms isn't so fortunate and natural erosion as well as other random unfortunate events unrelated to weather, has taken quite the toll on them

As a result and fearing for Blooms in every way possible but especially for their communication's inevitable severing and also Blooms being lonely all on their own, AV created a slugcat who resembles a strawberry lizard - a species of lizard Blooms is especially fond of

Peach was designed for protection and companionship first and foremost and an emergency messenger/relay secondly.

Outside of worrying for Blooms' condition and yearning & longing for close physical proximity to them the way creatures who aren't supermassive structures have the luxury of, AV spends most of their time studying their bio-engineered slugcats.

Each and every one of them is given a citizen ID drone for ease of tracking as well as general classifications

They couldn't give a shit about whatever problem the other iterators are working on - just these funny little slugcats

They take the occasional interest in other animals too but it's mainly slugcats

And finally, Blown Blooms and Peach —

Blooms, like AV, is named after a song of the same name by Lauren Bousfield. Peach is just named after her colors.

Blooms, like their partner AV, has a complete disinterest in the great problem and a very big interest in bio-engineering

This time with plants rather than animals though they have a soft spot for small critters but they're usually never the subject of any experiments - just study and admiration

However, due to a deteriorating state, Blooms isn't quite able to use their equipment to manipulate genetic information like they used to - which is upsetting

So instead, they help AV with their current studies as well as keeping tabs on their own prior experiments

They have Peach now, though, which brings a much appreciated break from constant studying and nice close companionship

Peach will often catch prey outside and come back to eat it with Blooms and occasionally Blooms will play around with Peach and levitate the prey around for Peach to chase in anti-grav

The event that pushed AV to create Peach was when a creature entered Blooms' chamber and attacked them, partially damaging their puppet before being killed and then expelled from the chamber

Blooms is absolutely still capable of themselves and ultimately damaging the puppet a bit is nothing when taking account the sheer scale of an iterator - but AV will be AV

Plus, Blooms isn't complaining about getting a cute little companion from AV

And general trivia/info —

Everyone here is aroace. All of them. AV & Blooms' relationship is non-romantic in a sapphic way

The Serpent's pup's name is Pipsqueak

I know rudder tails shouldn't curve like that but I decided that after I finished drawing the Serpent and I wasn't about to redraw anything at that point

The other Iterators in AV and Bloom's local group are Illuminated Crown of Fire, Projections of Watchful Eyes, and an unnamed lunar-eclipse inspired iterator.

I have little information on them right now, but they are each based off of solar eclipses, stars and lunar eclipses respectively

In all, this local group is just a bunch of experiment freaks to varying degrees except for ICoF whose presence is often forgotten because of how little they speak but is also ever looming

And that's all! Thank you for reading this far in <3

[thetriangletattoo]

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[herrlichersonnigertag]

thinking gay thoughts. if you even care.

[femmeidiot]

also I’m always nervous in situations with people I don’t know well but things have been going really well like everyone has been so nice to me and idk there is something about being in a group of like girls and feeling a sense of belonging that is so rare for me but when I feel that sense of belonging and not being othered by girls it’s literally like healing my childhood self idk

[whyisntketchupasmoothie]

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[tiffanylamps]

I want to create. With this heart, this mind, this sensitive soul, I was made to be a creative; engineered before broken down for parts. And yet, I am without. Without words, movement, image, or sound. No painter's brush, no click-clack of a typewriter, no red light of a darkroom. I am bursting with want, but these fingers are frozen; this mind shrouded in a mist so bleak, I find myself unable to see the path ahead.

15/11/23: i'm in my feels. the irony of this post isn't lost on me, i'm just indulging myself.

[radspeon]

art you dont like is still art

reminding myself of this because i struggle with remembering it. i am not immune to art snob propaganda. i need to become immune if i am going to follow my philosophy of 'be cringe be free.' life is a learning experience. i can still do it.

[jinzouactor]

Big fan of your worm! Out of curiosity - what made you choose that title for your Shimamine comic? Like a mayfly in milk is a peculiar name

t-thank you?🐛

Ok I guess, well partly its a reference to the lyrics of Haru Hisagi by Yorushika. It's a song that i LOVE even if its themes aren't particularly relevant to the plot (yet?). I like the mayfly imagery in that song. For me the word evokes something thats fleeting or short-lived.

I also used the idiom "like a fly in milk" which, honestly I thought was about being out of one's depth / floundering in a situation you're not suited to / not being able to handle one's circumstances (like "a fish out of water"). Apparently the phrase is more like being conspicuous in a negative sense. Either way works I guess..

I don't even know if im happy with this title but even now i can't think of a better one 😭 so we're rolling with this

[the-kipsabian]

so ready for the funny number fic lmao

[thegirlwholied]

my only qualm about the writers' strike is that I wish it had somehow been able to happen even sooner because AI has exploded in the cultural conversation these past few months, I want it beaten away from creative jobs with sticks, and I'm concerned it's already at the point studios will never come to a good term there and will in fact use this period to up their AI-writing explorations

[bootwearingfairy]

I understand shit now. I'm this kinky cause i'm not just dangerously horny, I'm dangerous and horny. There is a fine line between it being good and fun and it being way too much and no longer fun and I'm so afraid of crossing that line with how much raging feral rage that's in my skin so I need someone who is either A) into that or B) significantly stronger than I am and not only able to handle me but stop me. I see so much shit on here about the person being topped is so small and so frail and just so easy to throw around like a rag doll but no no no no I have to fight. I gotta use my teeth. I gotta use my nails. My rule of thumb when it comes to this shit is "nothing that'll land me or you in the hospital cause I can't afford the hospital bill and I can't afford a funeral and I'm not leaving it to my family to pay." Thing is I'm squeamish, kinda. It's weird and situational but like I know if I obviously get past a specific point My brain will not like it and Their body would suffer and I want neither of those things to happen. If I'm fucking around with a partner, I want it to be fun. That's why the horny's there, y'know? If we're both sadomasochists and we both do shit that we consent to and we both feel good then that's the winner right there. That's why this is kink and not like plotting murder. But like that's it tho, like if I'm going to fight someone, I want them to win. I will lose, and that will make me more competitive, sure. But there are ways to settle that. I feel like this is a Something Something Honor thing, which feels very gender, but also at the bottom of it, I feel like it's also proof to myself that I'm not as bad and dangerous as I think I am and that I'm not going to magically wake up in a pool of someone else's blood and then have to figure out the rest of it from there. I have no idea what the fuck I'm rambling about at this point but like uhhhhthanks for coming to my bathtub

[silverysongs]

the way that any song about strong friendship can make me cry

[faggot4faggothour]

ohhh questioning the point of life again .