#its like. implied but still

[awriterandabird]

we're back with yet another stinky palette from that funny challenge and uh. i really don't know what possessed me to make an extremely story-important scene that ive been meaning to draw for ages in a fucking meme palette. idk i guess ive been feeling Sillayyy and Funneyyy today. (info on the piece below the cut)

anyways im no stranger to killing my characters and wouldn't it be fucked up if a character had multiple lives but still felt the horrible pain of death each time? and even more fucked up that they had no idea until being MURDERED one time? yeah i think that'd be properly fucked up.

so yeah this is ceris, hes been around for a long time (going on 6 years i think (i mean just scroll to like one of the first posts ever on this blog LOLL)). in all this time he's not changed a whole lot actually. this plot point of having 9 lives and rutherian taking one of them has been around since rutherian was created (so shortly after ceris).

i really ought to give ruth more love. i had a period i gave him Too Much and he kind of became a problem. simply because he started to refuse the story beats i wanted to give him. bitch. so i put him in jail (literally lol) for a while. i haven't worked on Unwarranted in a while but this info IS important to Game of Cat and Mouse since this happens shortly before that i think.

first time adding a color (black) in the challenge- i tried to avoid it but i needed more dramatic lighting </3 sorry gamers.

also by Sillay and Fuuney i mean angsty. ive been feeling incredibly out of it lately. i know exactly why. i just have to fucking get over myself tbh. easier said than done.

EDIT: IM A DUMBASS AND FORGOT HOW TO USE MY OWN FUCKING NUMBER SYSTEM AAAAAA explodes the glyph at the bottom would be '❭ -' and not the '⦻'

[ithinkdogshouldvote]

Guardian swap au for 4/13 ^ ^

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[lotus-pear]

mourning black and the death of ideals

[mipexch]

i love animating these little freaks

[corvidcall]

"heres how mike schmidt could actually be an afton-"

"heres how mike schmidt could actually be an emily-"

[crafting-mojo]

Postmaster Pearl's new line of *Official* PostOffice Merchandise! Get yours today!!

[maskofnova]

It's 5 am and the staff is in the kitchen working up the courage to kick both of them out.

[drbtinglecannon]

Remember when Willow first met Darius and how, despite his title and power, immediately fought back

Vs in the epilogue she immediately bursts into laughter over him teasing Hunter

The dynamic between them has so much potential to be hilarious, just, so much

[bixels]

Bit of a weird question, but what is your overall least favorite thing about MLP? 

Sparity.

[arsenicflame]

izzy getting adopted by them is EVERYTHING to me. fuck you youre part of our found family now, whether you like it or not. we have claimed you.

bonus: the way jim defends him here. theyre So mad:

[deoidesign]

For my birthday... read my webcomic! It's literally free! (Unless you want books. Those are not free)

It's beautiful, it's gentle, it's funny, they're canonically t4t and gay... And it's about time traveling vampires solving supernatural mysteries!

I've spent thousands of hours writing and drawing it, and it's really good! I'm not biased!

It's on hiatus right now and coming back in 2 months, so it's the perfect time to get caught up

[starrysharks]

maybe this is a stupid question but it's been on my mind and i want to know what other people think;

examples: the creator of my life as a teenage robot supporting the trans jenny headcanon, voice actors in general stating that the character they voice is a certain LGBT+ identity, etc. i really want to see people's views on this so reblogs are appreciated!

[nurssieee]

gang do we still fw fugio . gang. gang answer

[wolfsnooze]

normal things happening to hunter theowlhouse

[pouletpourri]

PLS DRAW MORE POMNI AND RAGATHA

does this count