#i'm sure it'll be fine in the end

[dormiloncito]

i'm at that point where i'm like you know what? let's just go to bed and hope for the best tomorrow

[dkettchen]

oh also in other news, I had my revision top surgery today and it went well!!

I keep fucking having to remember like omg right I had surgery today bc it was such a tiny revision so it's like the babiest surgery I've had to date compared to its "I can't straighten my spine" and "I can't fucking breathe" predecessors 😅

[wizard-tinky-winky]

see, if aftg is reliable to represent Nora's writing structure (which it is, considering how tsc has been following the same general flow pretty well), then in tsc book 3 things will get much much worse before they get much much better. smth to fear about methinks

[jichanxo]

sooooo... *twirls her hair* how many asks should i send until kuwagami art. jk as well. the real question will be: does it happen often that someone else’s art inspires you? in fandom spaces specifically

well you see it’s like a loyalty card program, every 10 asks or so you get a complimentary kuwagami

just kidding you can just breathe in my direction and I’ll be tempted to draw them. kuwagami blast! (you've caught me on a... just okay art day lol)

(people still like kabedons, right?)

anyway for my actual answer: in terms of direct inspiration, it doesn't really happen much? the last two times i did art directly based on someone else's work is probably this one from this fic, and also that time i drew art of someone else's judgment au. oh! and there's that moriohpsycho art based on this comic! (filthyguts' work is so very. hgngngghh. very good.) nothing else really comes to mind, and when i think of the other things i've been into recently there hasn't been as much opportunity for that to happen...

flex and herds = strong fixation but lmao. almost nobody else made stuff about them. nobody is surprised umineko = surprisingly i don't read much umineko fanfiction? and in terms of illustration, i certainly picked up imagery and indirect inspiration but nothing concrete enough for me to give an example... now that i think about it, i did once draw andromalius from redaction/sunny, but that was years ago, and also mostly because i was acquainted with the writer. ...i don't have that artwork on hand right now death note = didn't really get involved with the fandom + i enjoyed my own ideas well enough! ...i can't recall if i drew long-hair-L art before or after seeing other artists do it. and as for everything else the same kind of reasoning applies. didn't really get involved with the fandom or wasn't really compelled to make art in response to stuff i saw, or i just don't remember anymore.

buuuuuuut if we're opening this up to just... pulling ideas from other people? then yeah, all the time, though that kind of goes without saying when you have a creative hobby. ...it's probably going to be hard to come up with examples of this since it's more ambiguous.

there's uhhhhhh... kuwana listens to nickelback which was a @/four-white-trees invention, wasn't it? (EDIT: and @/overdevelopedglasses!) (not tagging in this post so he doesn't feel obligated to read my big ass ask responses 💀) as of writing this, it's not posted but i did end up making kuwagami art based on a nickelback song so. yknow. there's that LMAO

for sawashiro and arakawa, i do sometimes go reference @/todayisafridaynight 's art to help me with my own. ("how did he draw this part of the suit? oh, like that huh? hmm" <- this kind of thing)

and um. i'm not trying to pander to you (at least not this time), but genuinely it's one of the few examples that come to mind at this moment. but when i was writing my first kuwagami fic, i could feel the influence of the ever-changing on my brain... was turning over some of your ideas there...

you remember this? (you even pointed it out in your comment on my fic, and i should've said something then, but whatever i'm saying it now)

that was absolutely because of this

(obligatory poke at anybody else reading this post that you can read passthroughtime's fic here.)

so, um. yeah. not really sure what else to add to that. pretty self evident i think. (i'm always talking about the ever-changing but i don't think i can overstate the impression it left on me at the time)

anyhow there aren't really any other examples off the top of my head! these are all recent examples so they're not so difficult to recall, but there are probably others i've forgotten...

[dividedskylane]

thinking back to that time last june when i rewatched love, simon for the first time since i was a teen and sobbed so hard that i got light-headed. anyway should i do that again this year

[moongothic]

I know you're not really passionate about OPLA, but. I there two actor who "rumored" Will cast as Crocodile around internet. And i wanna know your opinion about them. They are Oscar Isaac and Joe Manganiello, what do you think from your personal taste?

For the record I'm not really into IRL celebrities/actors, and don't know jack shit or who's who or what they've been in. Like had Oscar Isaac not being in Fucking Star Wars (an extremely mainstream giga franchise even a dumbass like me would be vaguely familiar with) I wouldn't even know who he is. Like Manganiello. Who the fuck is he? No fucking clue. That sure is A Guy I guess. Point is. I don't know anything about celebrities or actors, I understand rocket science better than this

And... I do feel like I just struggle trying to picture actual people in the roles of cartoon characters, like I have some kind of a disconnect there, putting the two together in my mind.

So like. I don't know. Like I'm sure either could deliver on the role just fine probably, and they could. Probably. Look the part. I guess? I think?? IDK makeup artists are straight up magicians. Like looking at some photos of the two actors, I may be more inclined to go with Oscar Isaac because I have a vaguely easier time picturing him as Crocodile (based on photos where he has black hair that's kinda slicked back), but like. That could also be just the bias of me being vaguely familiar with the actor where as I have no idea who the other guy is at all???? So??? I dunno man I don't know what to think I'm sowwy 😭

Honestly the coolest thing OPLA could do would be to cast a trans man as Crocodile but I may be delulu wishing for that (And I'm not saying that for Crocodad Propaganda or my evil Queer Agenda either, it's just that trans actors can struggle getting roles in general and so giving such an important, starring role to a queer person would be poggers as hell. Like generally speaking. And like, Crocodile doesn't have to be trans for a trans actor to be assigned for his role. But if Netflix feels like they "need" some kind of an "excuse" to cast a trans man as a character who is ~supposedly~ cis, Croc being trans being a highly popular, widespread and well-known theory on its own would be enough of an excuse for Netflix to just go for it imo)

[trans-yllz]

AKHDMCUKSNDM Hours after essentially giving up on getting an education job I got an email back for a position I applied to literally yesterday?? which would be an after school teacher at a private school in the richy rich part of town which is actually so so funny to me but well. it's a job

[synthaphone]

so there's a Stop Making Sense cover album coming out in honor of the movie's 40th anniversary, and i listened to the preview tracks that are out, and the best thing about it so far, for me, is that its reminded me that Girlfriend is Better is a really fucking good song

[shiraishi--kanade]

GOOD MORNING. HOW ARE WE FEELING

Good morning! I'm about to start chewing at my skin like a stressed animal

[yusuke-of-valla]

Funny idea.

Everyone's so focused on The Promised Day at the end of the month they're not really keeping track of the date beyond "X days until we maybe all die?" So no one clocks it's Yusuke's birthday on the 28th until Hamuko checks her calendar and has a panic attack

[iggy-hands]

I'm going to be real with y'all, I want to be excited but the depression is winning atm

I'm too exhausted to rewatch s1, or to even think about S2 😢

I'm going to try though

[seeinganewlight]

just realized i still haven't finished setting up my theatre journal from the shows i saw in february 😭 i wanna do that and add a spread for the b&c pro shot. i won't get it done before my trip next month, but i do want to get it done

[girlwiththegreenhat]

april please be kind to me. please

[colorstormx]

what if I renamed Storm as Zephyr instead. what if I renamed myself Zephyr. hmm. hmmmmmm.

[swordsonnet]

t minus three hours... how are we feeling, magnus people

[sysig]

I have writing to offer this week, keep an eye out, but still no art