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gokaiju

風の谷のナウシカ - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Hayao Miyazaki, 1984 Design by Gokaiju

sunnydr0pp

rooftop ramblings

possumq

Pokemon x One piece feat SABO!!!!

I have a whole team for him, I have yet to draw them awwwlllll…

scutesketch

YOUR ART ON TUMBLR IS BEING USED TO TRAIN AI!

The setting that prevents your work being used to train AI models is turned off by default! I had no idea about this until now! Artists, go to your settings, click “visibility”, and turn on this setting! Protect your work!

portlandalites

《Made a visual guide of how to get there, because it's under a weird tab.

Go to your blog (you have to do this for each individual blog) and the visibility tab

It's this last option here

Hate this shit, but turn it off babey》

midnightsnackclub

l-a-clift

“That’s why it’s hard to make friends when you’re older,” she said. “Friendship is rude.”

Her friend’s eyes widened. “What?”

“Think about it! When we’re kids we decide who we like and stick by them no matter what. As adults, we’re taught to be polite.

But, friendship is an imposition— at least, I want it to be. Call me after nine o’clock. Don’t think you’ll ever wear out your welcome. Overshare, show up at my door, go to the grocery store with me so we can waste another hour chatting.

We’ll never be friends if we spend all of our energy trying not to bother each other.”

the-haiku-bot

“That’s why it’s hard to

make friends when you’re older,” she

said. “Friendship is rude.”

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

emry-stars-oc

I made myself an oc-tober list ✨ not even to like make sure I finish the challenge, just because I felt like it and to give myself options that work for my characters and interests lol I don’t think I’ll get to all of these. If you do see a prompt you’d specifically like to see me draw for any of my characters, send me an ask to guide my decision making 😌 it does not have to be in the “proper week” or in order or anything, and you're welcome to send them early!

So as it says, feel free to use! And maybe tag me if you do :D I wanna see even more ocs this year

tossawary

I read Naomi Novik's "Spinning Silver" and enjoyed it! We have many books of fairy tales in my house, including some Eastern European ones, and this felt like revisiting those with much greater depth and feeling. I liked the worldbuilding and how full and busy and dangerous the world felt.

Uhhh, no spoilers stuff... I like how all the different character backgrounds informed their flawed perspectives, from the serious and frightening to the downright (sad) cute stuff like Wanda initially thinking that basic addition and subtraction and bookkeeping was a kind of magic. Aw, Wanda!

I liked how we got to see these characters really problem-solve, constantly making choices and trying to be practical and clever to survive their abuse. I liked the acknowledgement and exploration of the tenuous positions of women, from rich families and poor, daughters and wives alike. It's not a romance, while still being very much about marriage, and marriage here is A Thing That Might Kill You. I like angry female characters.

A fair amount of tension in this book was created just from the main character Miryem being a Jewish moneylender in an incredibly hostile environment. It was nice to see those kinds of prejudices and the constraints of the marginalized threaded through the world, and then to see the ways in which her background also mattered when dealing with very dangerous magical problems like fairies and demons. I like it when fantasy worlds and their characters feel very specific rather than Generic Western Fantasy.