#keeping the Crafts alive

[chrisuminga]

Joker Watercolor with acrylic ink

I’ll have this original with my this weekend @comic_art_expo .

[flamboyant-king]

Howdy, I'm still alive. Not many drawings lately, but a lot of ling fun time. I just wanted to share my crafts hehe

My niece had fun playing with the ling plushies, I taught her about the goolings, and she drew Wiwi a couple times. I made her a Wiwi plushie and I'm gonna make a Lewling and a Hoardling too since she really wants her own. Makes me happy. That's what they're made for to make folks happy.

But sewing is so tedious 😵‍💫

[avacadokin]

Yes yes the QSMP Federation is probably evil or whatever, but more importantly imagine the process for giving the eggs their little signs

Like in universe someone had to make them, so it probably required some mad scientist arts and crafts to design and make each individual sign

imagine someone in full lab coat and goggles laughing maniacally as they carefully attach little egg-shaped stickers to each sign

[soldier-poet-king]

Normal people keep an ongoing list of Despair Characters on their phone. They gotta have some combo of depression, terrible circumstances, isolation, grief, and a commitment to Duty or a sense of Fundamental Decency that makes them drag themselves through the Horrors even though they're Unending. Often they die or are sole survivors left to live with the grief.

Crucially, they CANNOT have a happy ending. Bittersweet and melancholy and full of grief, with maybe some slight hope? Sure. But happy? Illegal. There will be no rewards for Goodness, it must be Obeyed and Pursued anyway

[milkweedman]

Celebrities are nothing to me. I only want to talk to the 70 year old woman who came in just now and talked to me about my spinning and said she has a navajo spindle and used to do bobbin lace and was wearing a kippah she spun and knit and told me about this book she got about shetland lace.

[thermo-catz]

This was originally just supposed to be left as a warm up sketch of my sdv farmer (Mousse) but I ended up coloring it

Crunchy vs smooth peanut butter ... .. cuz i couldn't decide

[buckevantommy]

watching Quantumania like: 

[kibbits]

So I just wanted to do a quick warmup before going back to work, but have an accidental Yulia thirst pic fndndnd

[revasserium]

I suck at writing friends to lovers or anything where a relationship wasn't / hasn't been really established. Like, I jump straight into awkward feelings and blurred lines. Any tips for fleshing things out more?

oKAY so -- friends to lovers is one of my FAV TROPES bc it just *clenches fists* has UNLIMITED potential to either be the most whOLESOME shIT or SUPER GODDAMN AnGSTY.

right but, i think the most important thing is to establish the basis of the friendship first (at least imo). for me, friendship (at least the GOOD, TRUE kind) is always a kind of comfort, a certain level of familiarity with each other. and there are things that show that in text:

inside jokes

(lovingly) shitting on each other (one of my FAV TROPES!!! see: iwaoi)

physical touch

emotional vulnerability

etc etc etc

and i think esp for the FRIENDS aspect of this, there's nothing better than looking at your own life and your own frienships -- how do you act around your closest friends? what walls do you take down when they're around? how do you talk differently? how do you move around them?

start there, and take stock of those things. and then, translate them to the characters ur writing! and boom, you have the "friendship" part down.

if you want to go even further back and detail the beginnings of friendship -- the one thing to keep in mind is that usually friendships start because you share something in common with another person and then you bond over it right. so -- i have friends who are all writers, i have friends who went to the same college i did, i have friends i met through my bf but we all love fuckin drinking good wine and eating good food so we send each other insta reels of all the newest restaurants that we wanna try in town --

again, look at how your own friendships start, and transpose that into the story.

do your characters meet at school? in the library? on a crowded subway station when it's fucking 98 degrees outside and they're both so damn tired of the day but there's a dude screaming into his phone standing way too close and they catch each otehrs eyes and roll their eyes at the same time???? like -- commonality brings people together. shared experiences and honestly shared suffering brings ppl together too.

mOST of my best friends are my best friends bc we're all shady as fuck together. LMAO. use that. take that and put it into your story.

that's what builds a solid foundation and then -- you already know the rest :) the blurred lines, the awkward feelings -- the ????? WTF WAIT DO I LIKE THIS PERSON ?!?!??!???!

yeah, the gUD stuff.

anyway!!! i hope this helped! :D

[chrisuminga]

Kingpin watercolor .

[wildflowercryptid]

i already made a post sharing some of my ideas for paldean pokéship names, but i ended up coming up with more! so, here are some more names for the paldean ships i like / find interesting:

katy & tulip — SelfCareShipping

katy & saguaro — SecretSweetsShipping

eri & mela — EstrellaShipping

eri & nemona — BattleStarShipping

raifort & sada — PreservedPastShipping

jacq & turo — FutureTechShipping

[mamorigami]

thinking about utahimes forehead...

[coffinseas]

So the old woman went and said that I had to "build a stall" to "attract customers". As if anyone would come to this shithole.

Gonna do it, though. Keeps me busy.

[lesbx]

eso is a dress-up game with some auxiliary rpg elements

[dreamslessordinary]

The past few weeks have been *fucking hard* and I am having a lot of feelings about Critical Role and Taliesin Jaffe that probably have very little to actually do with Critical Role and Taliesin Jaffe

[noxtivagus]

multitasking sm rn 🥹💪🏼 ffxiv on ps4 / gbf on browser / enstars or pjsekai on iphone / other gacha game on ipad / studying on other tab / doing school assignments