#the sketches are so encouraging for real!! ❤️ ❤️

[greensagephase]

Hi Alondra!! Thank you for replying back to me on the New Year's fanart!! there's really no pressure replying and I truly appreciate every response 🥹❤️ hearing that you still love the New Year's fanart makes me so happy!! (I promise there is more fanart for NC in the near future!!) I’m glad you took some time off social media for your mental health because that’s very important!! I’ve been quite busy lately too so I’ve been off social media more than usual this past week. I’m also happy that you’ve been sticking to drawing daily for 30 minutes!, and even if you miss a day here and there it’s still great! There are days where I just don’t have the energy to draw, so if you need to take breaks from that too it’s okay! But I really do get excited hearing these updates! Also, omg I’m very happy that you drew Miguel in a way that you liked and you’re feeling more comfortable and confident with drawing!!! Hearing that makes me so excited and i’m rooting for you!!! ❤️

Also, I just have to mention again that I’m really happy you took a little break from social media and writing, sometimes it can be too much and the last thing I’d want is for you to be burnt out from everything! (and I'm happy my little words of encouragement helped you decide to take some days off, I want to make sure you're doing okay too 🥺) you really do so much on here and you deserve the rest! ❤️❤️ Thank you so much for all the support and words of encouragement with my schooling!! (and when you mentioned getting another degree in the future- I might actually consider it!! maybe even study in a subject more for fun!) I’ve been very busy with everything and preparing for the first presentation of my capstone this Monday (the nerves are there but I'll maybe update you on how that goes! 😭) but one thing’s for sure- I still love to take the time to go on here and talk to you when I can!! And I’m so excited to read the next part when it comes out!! (please don’t stress about when you’re going to post it though 🥺) And I also promise that I read all your responses too, often times more than once because they make my day!! They mean so much to me and you don’t have to worry about replying late or anything, I understand! the weather where I live has also been arctic, haha!! (no fr today when I went out I was still shivering with all my layers 😭) and if it's also still cold where you are stay safe and warm too!! I hope you’re doing well and that you’re having an amazing week Alondra!! sending you a warm virtual hug, friend!!! ❤️✨❤️

Here are some little sketches of encouragement with your writing and everything!! a soft smiling Miguel and ok I imagine the 2nd one Miguel is giving look of like he’s proud of you 🥺 but also, he just has that signature smirk too 🤭

@sunsetdoodler thank you for being so understanding and of course, I love talking with you, so I've been trying to reply to everything!! I just got really behind on my responses 😭 but yes, I LOVE the New Year's fanart!!!

Still thinking about it and how cute your OC and Miguel look together, I can't wait to see them again (and omg, more fanart!!! I can't wait to see it but of course, take your time!!!)!! And you being off social media is so understandable with your school!! I hope everything is going well so far!! I'm thinking about you and sending you the best of luck, and hoping everything goes smoothly for you as always!!!! ❤️ Also, thank you for the well wishes on my drawing journey!! I took off yesterday and today because I've been busy doing other things but I'll hopefully be back to it tomorrow, thank you, really!! And yes omg, I've been studying Miguel (I've been studying your fanart and other lovely artists' fanart plus using the amazing drawing references I've seen on here; that's actually how I finally got his hair down haha), and feel like I'm moving forward in drawing him, but it's a working process! 😂

And thank you, omg!!!!! 🥺🥺 I was debating taking a break because I always feel so guilty disappearing from social media even if it's just a day or two, but your words of encouragement to take it easy helped and I decided to do it. I tend to feel a little off after the holidays and just feel overwhelmed by everything, so this little break really helped my mental health, and honestly - it helped my writing! I was lowkey forcing myself to write prior to it, but all is well now, and I feel great now. I've done so much more writing in two days than I did over the span of several days prior to my break, so yay!! About your schooling - of course!!!!! I'm wishing you the best and rooting for you!!! As I said already, I'm always hoping and wishing that everything goes smoothly for you!!! I hope you're taking care of yourself and that these first two weeks have been kind to you so far!!! You should def consider earning another degree for fun if you're interested!! I'd love to hear what you'd like to do if you were to get another one (if you're open to sharing, if not, I understand, so no pressure!!)!! Omg, your first capstone presentation is this Monday!! I'm sending you, and will continue to send you, all the best of luck!!! I know you got this and it'll go great!!!!!! 🥺✨ It'll be one presentation down, and hopefully it will get easier as the semester goes!!!! And thank you for taking time out of your day to come on here and talk to me, it truly means so much to me!!! Please know that I understand life gets crazy, so I totally understand if you can't reply right away or not at all (don't feel pressured to, friend!! I get it!!)!! And I'm happy that my words make your day, yours make my day as well!! I always look forward to reading your responses/asks!!!❤️ And omg @sunsetdoodler I hope you're staying warm and cozy, too!! It has been very cold this week for us (there was even a busted pipe this morning because of how cold it has been this whole week). I hope you stay warm and be safe if you're out on the road driving!!! I hope you're having a fantastic week, too and that you have a great weekend!! Hopefully you get to do some fun cozy things and relax a bit despite your presentation!!! Sending you the warmest virtual hug and the best wishes as always, friend!!!! ❤️✨❤️

And OMG THE SKETCHES!!!! Miguel saying "you got this!" - that's so ENCOURAGING!!! 🥺 And his proud face in the second sketch - stop, now I'm going to imagine that Miguel cheers me on when I write and try to draw him and the second sketch is him watching me while I do my thing,😭😭 THANK YOU, FRIEND!!!! These sketches are so freaking CUTE!!!!! And his signature smirk - everything this man does gets me, I swear!!!! 🤭 (I'd get so distracted if I saw him like this actually) I'm going to have these sketches pulled up whenever I write or draw, for real!!! THANK YOU!!!! ❤️✨🥺

[altraviolet]

Hi, I'm AltraViolet. The SW/Rodimus banner sketch was drawn by @themanlylobster. You can find me here as well:

AltraViolet on AO3

AltraViolet on pillowfort

AltraViolet00 on twitter

altraviolet on bluesky

I like robots, rarepairs, horror, worldbuilding... all the good stuff.

⚠️ In general, my content is neither tailored/suited for, nor intended for minors.

⚠️ Not open to beta unless I know you very well.

💜 I am friendly but I am also very tired. Please be nice to me.

📖 Posts!

Writing Advice:

Writing Advice & Resources

What Writing Program Do I Use?

How do you write a character's voice? (I want to expand on this in the future!)

A couple literary lols and why they Don't Work (examples of what not to do and how to fix them)

Sentence variation & details, comparing/contrasting 2 novels

How to Self Edit like a Developmental Editor (youtube video rec)

Show and Tell: A Useful Guide

Editing Advice: Looking at a badly written Published Novel

Mountain scenery descriptions: comparing that badly written Published Novel with a well written one

Writing Encouragement ❤️

Stylesheet! (keeping details consistent as you write a long story)

The Heroine's Journey

Nice Prose Examples - The Lathe of Heaven

Picking POV Characters for Scenes

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest - a dissection of sea marshmallows looking at purposefully badly written prose

Echo Garden Related:

Can I tag you in TEG art/animations/ficbindings/etc I've made? Yes! Absolutely! I would love to see it and I will link to it from the fic. Exception: no minors. TEG is 🔞 and for an adult audience.

Am I a Real Writer?

Where did the idea for Echo Garden come from? / Why MTMTE Rodimus/TFP Soundwave?

Why did you make TFP Soundwave so tall on the Lost Light?

Did you ship Sound/Rod before or after Cyberverse?

Earliest Screenshottable Proof for MTMTE Rodimus/TFP SW (Jan 2017)

Tracking How Rodimus Feels About Soundwave, notes from nikkimna

[intricate-ritualz]

hi i don't know how to respond to your post asking for interest checks on the spongebob charm but i want one. i WILL buy one. i have your nygmobblepot charm and your art is so charming to have on my bag 24/7. please i want a spongebob charm. the faces you have sketched out already are so cute. Thank you for doing the lords work

OKAY . sponge charms shall be real! everyone thank anon for encouraging me to make the decision official lmao

it might be a bit before i actually make and sell them due to some personal shit, but !!! look out for a shop update in the coming months 😋 if there’s anything i’ve posted abt that you’d rly like to see, do what anon did and let me know! it’s hard for me to justify putting time and money into making stuff when i don’t know whether it will sell or not AJSJSJ

there’s been a good amount of people asking abt the sponge charm and the umbrella/question mark charm so those will most likely be a part of the etsy update : )

lastly, TY FOR SUPPORTING MY ART ANON AHHH ❤️❤️ 💥

[ephemerastardust]

[DCBTV2022] Art for Enchanted

Link to fic

I was paired with tricia_16 in DCBTV with the song Enchanted.

- Banner -

I was not really familiar with Taylor’s songs, but when I listened to the assigned song for the first time I immediately imagined a magical moment of their first meeting, when they stare into each other’s eyes all stars and magic sparkling around them and the whole world around dissipating into the background. When I read the fic I thought “that it is!” And the only challenge was that I was very unconfident with drawing their face in this zoomed-in distance (I always have struggle drawing their faces after all). But Tricia was very supportive and finally it turns out good in my eyes :D I shamelessly love their faces and eyes I drew in this piece 😄

- First meet -

This is the main scene I proposed to draw. At that time the fic was not fully written, but it was the “magical moment” that hit me in my first read, just like the song. I was a little bit intimidated by the Oscar scene hhhh (I never really watched Oscar or drew anything like this 🤣) and the light effect in this piece was killing me hhh it might not be as luxurious as real Oscar but I hope it’s shining enough🤣

- [Cropped] First time -

Apologize for my horrible cropping... (Got warned by Tumblr once so) The full piece can be found in fic, on my Twitter post, or on my AO3 post.

I started this piece pretty late, only six or five days before the last check-in date 😂 I was thinking about a second piece and the idea of drawing their kiss was always in my head, but when I scanned through the fic I saw a missed comment from Tricia suggesting this scene and I was like “woooo go for it!” And immediately did this piece really really quickly (I got caught sketching this one on the subway hhh) ;D sweet smut is always my love ❤️

- To my author, fellow artists, and mods -

I want to say thank you to Tricia. She was so supportive every time I sent her updates and gave me so much positive feedback and encouragement which kept me motivated and working through the challenging scenes. And the fic is so hot and sweet! I love it with my whole heart ❤️

I want to say thank you to all my amazing fellow artists, who provided me helpful feedback and heart-warming encouragement, I am so happy to be in the same event with you!

And to all mods who put a lot of time and effort into this bang, thank you so much for making this amazing event happen and giving me such an enjoyable experience!

(I will say these again in my other post :D)

You can find more of my art on Twitter or Instagram. Hope you enjoy the fic and art!

[muddshadow]

Hey! Not sure if you participate in Worldbuilding Wednesday - if not, feel free to ignore this. BUT IF SO.

I'm fairly new to your work - BUT - is there anything about your WIPs you've been working on lately? Anything you want to share? Perhaps a little detail about a character you figured out recently? Or even a little worldbuilding detail you were thinking about and developing recently? Perhaps even a little bit of inspiration you got from reading or art lately?

Wombo serving your needs well? ୧(＾ 〰 ＾)୨

If not, I'd just like to nudge you and say hi :D If so, I look forward to your rambles 🙈✨❤️

@bloodlessheirbyjacques (:

hello !! i love writeblr themed days and thank you DEARLY for the questions, but i tend to participate in a liminal time space where wednesday could also mean friday <3

SO. Despite my best efforts to focus on my primary projects, this little story has swarmed all the useful parts of my brain. It developed out of a very strange dream and a trope I've always loved: monster x monster hunter. Plenty of the world-building and the exact sequence of events is still an exciting fog, but I've mostly riddled out the plot and character arcs. Artwork and information below, and here's a little summary from my WIPs page...

THE HUNGER ROT // dark fantasy, immortal warriors, magic harvested from blood. After several hundred years of fighting together, the death of her sister leaves Peony hollow. Hollow enough to help a vampyric sorceress pursue revenge against her maker.

A lot of my projects have a strong theme of healing and self-discovery, and The Hunger Rot is about the crush of immortality - the regrets that never fade, the loss that never gets easier, and loneliness as the price for power. I'm still tinkering with the world, but the story has a gritty medieval feel where magic is relatively common and effectually versatile - but all magic requires the sacrifice of life. Ripping up some flowers may heal the bruises on your knuckles, and burning a century-old tree could cure plague from an entire village. Aggressive and powerful magic comes from blood - slitting the palm may summon a swirl of fire, and slitting a throat could burn a forest.

As you might expect, this produces some not-so-friendly sorcerers who prefer that others pay the price for their power. But the truly prolific mages are those that make the ultimate sacrifice - their own life. They become vampyr - unaging mages who don't have to burn flowers or slit palms to use magic. They trade that inconvenience for drinking blood. This practice is incredibly controversial; some countries have it outlawed under execution while others encourage their warriors into it. But not everyone can endure the process - some are too weak for the sacrifice and die instead, some are consumed by the ensuing bloodlust and wither into mindless ghouls.

Fugitive sorcerers and bloodthirsty ghouls (and all the other sharp-toothed hungry creatures lurking about the forests) are challenging threats, and most people (even mages) do not survive the experience. So if you have a nasty ghoul problem, you enlist a handy-dandy Marrow! (also called Sourbloods, Red Warriors, pest control, hunters...) Marrows are mercenaries - they can't perform any magic, but they are immortal through the process of drinking vampyr blood. This stalls their aging, heals minor wounds, and grants them relative protection from anything thirsty for blood (no creature wants to drink vampyr blood - it's already been corrupted through the act of sacrifice). But drinking vampyr blood is also a death sentence for most people - Marrows go through years of grueling training and several sacrificial trials before making the final step.

and now the two main characters!! here are some random sketches i mashed together and colored real quick :v

SASHKA is a very old vampyr, at least several centuries, and time has empowered her, numbed her, and rotted her sense of purpose. When Peony first meets her (a hundred years or so before the story begins), Sashka is obsessed with the thrill of power and the independence it allows. She's charming, cunning, and everything she says or does furthers her own ambitions. Peony would trust the manners of a ghoul before closing her eyes in Sashka's presence. But when years pass and Sashka seeks out help for a desperate quest, it becomes clear that the price for true independence is more than the soul can afford.

PEONY isn't quite so old as Sashka, but the years have battered her worse. After losing their father and triplet to ghouls, Peony and her (now twin) sister Rose endure the trials of the Marrow. Peony has always been stern and sullen, her sister an extroverted opposite, their dynamic a perfect balance as they travel and fight across the lands for many centuries - so when Rose dies rather abruptly, Peony is left a ghost of herself. Continuing on feels meaningless after so many lifetimes, but when her old enemy Sashka approaches with a stupidly perilous plan of revenge, Peony agrees to one last adventure. But sometimes deciding to die reveals all our reasons for living.

ok that's all for now :v thanks for reading <3

[twst-the-night-away]

AAAA I AM SENDING A LOT I AM SORRY but um. ❤️ Savvy's favorite things about Joker and Sia?

What does my muse love about yours?

Savvy loves that she can just laugh and be silly with Joker! She needs more people that she can let loose with. On the other hand, she also feels like she can let her real feelings out when she talks to her. In fact, Joker seems to encourage it, which is honestly something that Savvy needs. She secretly envies how Joker is so genuine when she's with her friends. Savvy feels like she has to pretend a lot in social situations. Joker's effortless charm is something she wishes she had, but she loves to watch her work it on others. Also, that hair. It's so pretty and curly and shiny brown! She'd love to see what she could do with it and a couple of groceries.

Savvy looks up to Sia. She's cool and classy, but still a charming and fun person to talk to. She also admires her love for Mia, because as another little sister she understands how important a big sister can be sometimes. Sia's ability to design and create clothes is also something that Savvy's really impressed by. She loves how Sia can decide she wants something, and then after some sketches and math and sewing, she has it just how she wants it! She can tell that Sia is going to be successful. She's smart and socially ... well, savvy.