#these picture frames btw

[pierogish]

I grew a spine

[rexwrendraws]

spotted on the wall behind the white horse theater!!

Happy one year to Bolt in the Blue by @valeriianz ! Truly the best band au fics I've ever read, I am Endless' #2 fan forever (#1 is Hob, of course) 💙🎸✨

+ alt. colors for the flyer & other scans:

i love taking advantage of my art uni's massive (MASSIVE) scanners for literally anything i can. it's got the most gorgeous grit and scan banding that photoshop trickery cant replicate (though i try lol). so, yes, i literally printed out the b&w flyers, scanned them in, then added color and printed them again to stick on my wall haha.

when digitally adding color, i wanted it to really feel like black ink on colored paper instead of trying to print on color paper and then scan it again (i have done this before idk). i think the xerox-y look is pretty convincing! the green, pink, and purple are my personal favs.

an irl friend suggest i try non-black-ink versions to see what i liked. i think they look cool but some of the text gets a bit lost. still, i like the pale yellow+red ink one. (this almost makes me want to try riso printing this to see what it'd look like 👀👀).

^ this is what the white horse metal barrier edit looked like before I added the Huji Cam filter lol. it wasn't feeling convincing enough like this, so i actually took a photo of my laptop screen with the filter and somehow that looked more real than the actual shot from the show lol. (also, because i've stared at this screenshot for so long, the orange/yellow June 12th poster? is everything on it a reference?? loll)

anyway, had a lot of fun making this!! feel free to print if you want!! READ THE FIC EVERYONE GO READ BOLT IN THE BLUE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[parasolemn]

[Image description: In the first image, Encyclopedia from Disco Elysium talks directly to the viewer, hands raised. He says: "The sound outside -- you recognise it. It's a Coupris Kineema motor carriage..." In the second image, Harry, standing in the middle of his broken room, asks "WTF do any of those words mean???" A blue thought orb responds, "LOL". End ID.]

SKILLTOBER DAY 2!!!!!!! LOVE IS REAL AND BEAUTIFUL originally I was gonna do the bit with The Greatest Innocence but @/spilledkaleidoscope did that (and it was soo pretty!), and my second choice for encyclopedia went to interfacing instead. so i did my Third choice which is this line at the start of the game :)

please don't mind the messiness and general weirdness I didn't do a sketch before I drew this today wkhshs. anyways as promised a few other encyclopedias I have drawn (EDIT: the one I did for the prompt format thing died so im putting it back in ! hooray)

[nullapophenia]

7thSense

(alt under the cut)

[majiinatc]

peterhobie friendship is one of my favorite spidey friendships in comics and i really love how much they care for each other. how different yet very similar they are to one another. the narrative foils.

bonus:

[denjidenjiji]

Noe, 10 years into the future.

Greetings, I’ve returned with a new interest. I don’t want to be here anymore.

[theninjazebra]

Shit photo, but I'm so ridiculously pleased with myself about the frames.

[butchjess]

i understand jess mariano bc if i saw her at 17 i would also be convinced i was going to marry her forever for the rest of my life like yeah of course. shes like if you invented a beautiful autistic girl that was nice to you for 1 second

[compacflt]

i’ve got a question about your writing process: in order to write a 30 year narrative, you create it out of hundreds of individual moments & actions, and each one has to function by itself and also part of a whole—have truth to itself and emotional resonance in a timeline. imo the key to doing this successfully is to care about each moment and make each one memorable, which seems very difficult: you have to get at the meat of the human behavior, believably, in a way that matters and explains and progresses the story, every time. and to write 200k words of it you do it hundreds of times! could you talk a bit about idea generation for each moment and how you brainstorm and write them?

omg an excuse to make more diagrams ! Thank you so much for this lovely ask!

okay: in case you don’t want to scroll through like four/five months of my inane icemav Poasting, I’ve done a couple other posts that go into my process — here about specifically chapter 1 and here about the fatal flaw of my fics from a construction standpoint

but from an idea generation standpoint… it’s pretty boring and cynical. I literally just make checklists. “things that HAVE to happen.” here’s my notes app check list of stuff that HAD to happen for the story to make sense in my rewrite of what is now chapters 8 & 9. this is from last december lol

and here’s a checklist/diagram of the major story beats and the changes in relationship dynamics throughout the story. any one of these dynamics changing reflects on the others in a way that‘s worth talking about. the hard part is finding a framing device or scene to talk about them.

the A plot of the fic is ice’s relationship with the navy, primarily. his arc is defined by his rank. so that’s the number 1 dynamic I wanted to focus on in such-and-such scenes, and why I stuck as stringently as possible to the “one rank per chapter” formula until ice got to the top & had to reckon with what being at the top actually means. His change in ranks is inspiration enough for most scenes because it shifts the dynamics in a way that is worth remarking upon in and of itself.

as an example im thinking of this scene (mostly because it’s short but also) because i think it’s kind of representative of how my idea generation process works

It fills a lot of gaps that i needed filled at that specific juncture in the story. the idea started with a stupid little section of dialogue in my head (mav would be surprised that ice’s official Navy docusign signature isn’t his actual signature) that happened to be symbolically relevant too (of course ice would have two different signatures for his two different personas). Then it morphed into a discussion of Ice’s canonically unhappy-looking compacflt portrait, which is canonically unhappy-looking. Then add onto that ice admitting he’s only happy at home (home obviously meaning with maverick, given that he’s literally in his house right now and still doesn’t feel like he’s home) and maverick telling him, “well that’s a problem that has literally the easiest fix in the world. youre making this way more complicated than it needs to be. just come home to me.”

so it’s literally just checking off boxes of things I wanted to talk about. as I said, a very cynical creation process. ✅ ice and mav doing the long-distance-relationship phone call thing (framing device for the whole scene). ✅ mav knowing ice’s real vs fake signature ❤️. ✅ ice’s canon unhappy compacflt portrait that makes an appearance in TGM. ✅ ice not feeling at home in Hawaii. ✅ ice not being fulfilled by the job & only being fulfilled by mav. ✅ ice coming up with excuses to see mav at any possible chance he gets. ✅ ice still obviously thinking of mav and Bradley as his family & maverick as his home. Etc etc. You see what i mean? how many stupid little ideas, symbols, and dynamic shifts can i cram into a page or so? that’s pretty much my thinking.

[tomfoolery-m-coolatta]

Me³ ^___^

[mildmayfoxe]

the people have been clamoring so here it is: three befores and two afters. it feels soooo much better now, i'm so happy to have it cut! i could've even gone a little shorter but as it is i got probably a good five inches cut off; i kept having to tell the stylist to cut off MORE! i feel like i have a real hairstyle again and not just Length™

[retroquarium]

I had a dream the other night of a hot guy based on Lightning McQueen anyway completely unrelated here’s a picture of 3 year old me with Lightning McQueen

[dandyshucks]

local man turned into dog, forgets how to smile normally

[meatsex]

u do not have to answer this bc I Get It but is it vinny in the photo holder :) <- he is my favorite generic white guy

who else but vincent... (please dont judge i accidentally printed the pics (2 more) a tad bit smaller so i made it a custom background dies)

[theauthor27]

The analog horror series after the main character gets brutally mauled by the main monster

[marcsnuffy]

I should be doing an assignment but I got distracted by these tags on the gold teeth post