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tagged by @assortedara \o/

shuffle your on repeat playlist and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people

equally to my predecessor i don't use spotify, but good ol' youtube and my winamp playlists... so here's a youtube recs list instead !

The Big Push - Praise You (Fatboy Slim Cover)

Dio - Rainbow In The Dark

Journey - Seperate Ways

Midnight Oil - Forgotten Years

The Big Push - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joydivision Cover)

Viagra Boys - Sports

The Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep

Red Dead Redemption 2 OST - Eastward Bound

AJJ - Backpack

Lethal Company OST - Ambient Music 3

half the list is dad music lmao... i stan my inner dad.

tagging @faduin, @slingerapen, @luckyspike, @ardate, @jawbonejoe ! and everyone who wants to do this

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i wish to devour your art <3

thank you very much <3

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Hey, I just came across your post about how you’ve been feeling a disconnect from you and your art and about how you feel a mix of guilt for drawing the same fanart for so long….i just want you to know how nice it felt to see someone I have admired for so long going through the exact same thing I am. I have never played Overwatch or anything, but I’ve been following you for years….your art has always been such a source of inspiration. So I’m really sorry you’ve been feeling this way…..but I’m in a very similar boat…so please don’t feel like you are alone. I’ve been drawing Homestuck garbage for years and I also feel that mix of “it’s fine because it makes me happy” but also “you should be doing more”…..it’s not a fun cycle to constantly be battling with in your brain. But being an adult sucks ass, it has honestly felt like a process having to adjust to not having a sense of community like we did in the earlier days of tumblr or whatever else. But please know that your art has meant so much to me and everybody else and that you are not alone in your feelings ❤️ sorry this was massively cheesy….just wanted to give a virtual internet hug lol Also being a part of a “dead” fandom is always very lonely….i feel you on that so hard my guy lol

hey thanks so much for reaching out, it means a lot. i'm sorry to hear that you are in a similar pickle tho...

to give an update on that particular feeling and situation over here, i've been drawing more again, the pace just got adjusted, and i've kind of made my peace with this. doing a deep dive into older fandom bits also brought some sense back into my head... i actively reconnected with the things that made me love my blorbos in the first place again. which feels great. there is some lonliness to this because as current news about the game and fandom tendencies go still make me feel alienated. but i'd rather take this and do my own thing with the few people who also remember the good times than giving up on my boys or trying to bend myself into a different shape and draw sth that i actually don't want to for the sake of staying relevant.

it all actually boils down to "do what you want, draw what you want, write what you want, share if you want". because at the end of the day i make myself happy by just indulging into envisioning them and drawing unspoken interactions and their faces a hundered times from the same angle <3

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Just realised that you are THE tf2 artist. I've adored your art for years even though I've never played the game, so your art has completely molded how I perceive tf2, like when I think about tf2 I think about your art.

I love the shapes in your art everything is so lively and amazing, and you draw all the characters so perfectly, you've imbued their personalities in your art so accurately that you can look at any piece and instantly get what the characters like its very cool

Thank you for making such awesome art, youve been a major inspiration for me to keep drawing over the years, everything you've made makes me really happy and pushes me to want to draw more

I hope you have a good day !!

aaaaaa thank you so much??? it's still wild to me and always will be that the silly things i've drawn and draw are a motivators for you to engage in drawing. that's honestly the biggest compliment. so i can't even begin to describe how much this means, thank you so much <3

and being called THE tf2 artist made me smile so hard, but honestly, there are folks out there with much more gusto in their art and all in all it's a team effort, the creative part of the tf2 fandom is just that fantastic.

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The ACLU has launched a petition against Mastercard’s policies on adult content!

Mastercard put into effect a new policy regulating adult content sellers that makes it extremely hard for sex workers to earn a living online. It must be stopped.

The policy itself imposes strict and invasive requirements on adult content websites using Mastercard’s financial services – including pre-approval of all content before publication, forbidding certain search terms, and monitoring the age and identity verification process for all performers.

Americans sign here!!

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UNRWA, ANERA and WCK have all been forced to pause or halt their humanitarian operations in Gaza because Israel has deliberately targeted any means of lifesaving aid to a starved, maimed, and tortured population of over 2 million Palestinians, almost half of which are children.

This has been broadcasted by Israel so that it sets the precedent of what is deemed permissible in the face of "international law". I said it before, it does not get any more obviously genocidal than this.

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Hii! Could i request tf2 spydad? (If you're still taking tf2) I loooove your tf2 art and I wold be so happy if you drew at least one drawing of it againnn

ToT <33

thank you but sorry no, i don't do requests

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Thank u Blizzard for my life with this little pachimari update, I died 234 times today out of sheer joy and all my feelings  💕 💕 💕

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stoned junkers. it’s really just a situation i had with a friend on the weekend i’m sorry…

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good morning, thank you very much for all the boopin' and booping me beyond LOL. i really appreciate it. i feel seen y_y 💐

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hohohooooolly shit the booping is killing my laptop

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i'm currently unemployed... and i'm drawing again... coincidence?

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hi wachtel! i see youre a procreate user so,, which brushes do you use?

hey there! i usually use a basic pencile-like brush and one that's more ink-like, which is called "syrup" (that one has a nice dynamic regarding the thickness)

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your linework is so strong and sweepingggg I love the gravity and solidness of your forms; from one artist to another, excellent work all around <333

oooooh thank you so much 🧡 i feel so rusty because i‘m out of drawing shape (which gets esp apparent with linework i think) but this makes me happy to hear !

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i need hoggie to punch away my problems

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the last thing you see when you say sth mean to hoggie

i really like this one, idk, makes me wanna try animating again (haha WHEN?!?!) but overall, the dynamic... ach i'm stuck again because i really really feel the itch to draw but no time, no head space (gonna be unemployed at the beginning of april and there's again soooo much to do because of that, bureaucracy shit, work stuff, running around organizing stuff, calling a million ppl to get back into work sjhhcgajks so yeah f you, me, guess i'm not drawing the next days/weeks, guess i'm trying to juggle my life again... for the record i'm good at my job, it's just my hospital is laying off ppl left and right despite making millions in profits and my contract ends at the end of march...)

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Hi, I saw your background with studying medicine and being an artist and I wanted to ask something!! hope it isn't uncomfy. so the school system by itself is killing my creativity and Im afraid I'll completely lose myself if I get into college... Even if I choose to study something art related. College is really absorbing and I don't want to graduate and have killed the only talent I have, thats scary!!! So, how did you "go" back? did drawing help with the stress of college or make it worse? Sometimes my studies define me so so much I cant do anything else, its so frustrating :(

hey there ! i really don't know if i can bring sth to the plate that's positive or uplifting in the matter because i've been in a struggle with art myself for almost 2 years now. i'm really trying to come back but the pace has changed drastically. it's still a constant mood crusher everytime i look back and see how my output has declined. nevertheless i'm drawing again in the smallest babysteps so hopefully i'm gonna pick up the pace again at some point.

as for school and art. yeah. i kind of opened with my current situation because altho (med) school was A Meatgrinder technically speaking i still found time to draw here and there. which was mostly thanks to my higher energy lvl back then and my BIG motivation to draw and to share. so i'd say drawing absolutely helped with the stresses of studying and med school. it was my happy place and escapism. and because of that there was hardly any doubt in my head that i'll ever lose that. so i think it is safe to say that as long as you want to draw you will always be drawing.

second thought here which is also important is that you won't be stuck in an eternal grind, even if it feels like it sometimes. there will be times in which everything sucks. and there will be times in which everything could be worse. and if you wanna draw then, you're going to draw. that's at least how i experienced it. even the longer periods of not drawing because of exhaustion/loss of motivation/exam periods etc eventually pass. and sometimes it's ok to remind yourself that drawing is not everything, altho we like to think that way sometimes. it's absolutely ok not to draw for a while.

another breaking point for me was when i actually started to study for art (anatomy as in for drawing etc) because it helped me at a point at which i felt stuck and it made me understand that i will never be done learning in regards of drawing. which is a good reminder whenever you feel like you are losing your "talent", which is not a talent but a work in progess for years and years to come. so in the end, even if you have to step back from drawing for the time being, you have the ability to always come back to it and get better again. like we have to treat making art like learning a language, there is never an end to it and we have to practice to be back in shape. i know this sounds like work but idk for me it made sth click in my head that i'm not losing sth here. i just have to warm up and get back on the track again.

i hope this helped in some way, i'm really sorry that you feel like you are about to experience a great loss (i absolutely get you, it sucks to deal with this, esp. when outer circumstances force you to push your hobbies in the background) but i think that if you really want to engage with drawing again, you won't lose this. you may have to put work into it, and it may not be today or tomorrow, but if you really want to do it, you keep at it.