astridv

fanartist. recs tag: fate fic recs. astridv on Dreamwidth and AO3

[astrid-v]

fanart process

the other day, as I was cleaning up my HD, I noticed that I had a pretty good line of progress pics for my first Fate fanart and I thought other people might find it interesting too

sketch

ink and prelim color/shade concept

digital/watercolor vs traditional coloring. I started working on both parallel as an experiment and ended up going with the watercolor/acrylics on the right since it was what I was used to, thus faster. But I think the digital version would have kicked too.

The background wash on the left image is two layers of watercolors overlaying, which then I had planned to paint over in Photoshop. Now that I've discovered digital watercoloring with Rebelle Pro, it might be worth revisiting and finishing this pic!

background inks and final version

[philcollinsenjoyer]

Thank you divorce for all you've done for music

[pluckyredhead]

The absolute WORST part of writing a fic is at the end where they've made up/kissed/admitted their feelings but you still have to write a handful of satisfying paragraphs of denouement instead of just throwing down a smoke bomb and running away.

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[everythingfox]

Please wait

[nellasbookplanet]

Something so funny about rereading one's own unfinished fics. Like wow this is pretty good! Almost as if was written exactly according to what I personally like in fact! Someone should finish it!

[thegrayelephent]

Me when I write for 30 minutes: 1k words

Me when I write for 2 hours: 500 words

Me when I write for 4 hours: -300 words

[trekscribbles]

This week, I read a fic that was around 20 years old, which had originally been posted on the author's personal website and which she added to AO3 a few years ago. She listed her email address with the fic, so after I finished reading, I sent her an email saying how much I enjoyed the story, how much I appreciated the work and effort she obviously put into it, and thanked her for uploading it to AO3. She responded the next day and thanked me for my message, then said she had a few more stories in the same series that she hadn't gotten around to uploading. I checked this morning--she added a 35,000 word novella and thanked me in the summary.

👏 comment 👏 on 👏 old 👏 fics 👏

[sgatazmy]

I wrote SGA 20 years ago. Then I took a long break with an occasional story now and then.

I came back to the SGA fandom after a wonderful comment on an older story of mine. I’m now friends with that person, I found a whole community, and I have posted maybe 30 new stories since.

That said, as my fandom gets quieter including less stories posted and less readers/commenters, my motivation to write has dwindled. It may not seem fair as I do write for me, but the community is such a huge piece, too. Comments bring me so much joy that I get a burst of excitement for writing my next story. If I feel alone, a lot of that joy dissipates.

That’s why that comment drew me back. It was like the lights coming back on, saying, “People are here. Come back home.” So I did.

[coelasquid]

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head.

[fangsup-cobrastyle]

Making this its own post because I occasionally remember this and can't stop laughing

When I was 14, my friends and I went to see Madagascar 3 - told our parents and then walked to and from the theater by ourselves. When I got home, my mom asked me all kinds of questions about the movie, and I told her about it, and I kept singing the stupid Afro Circus song

and eventually she gave in and was like, "Wait, you guys really went to see Madagascar? I assumed you were lying to us and sneaking into a rated R movie." And I fear I have never felt so lame as I did in that moment.

[tieflingkisser]

[mementomirare]

[fraterrisus]

Can't believe this didn't happen on Tumblr. We're slipping, people. Thread under the cut. Source attached to post.

[eves-da-best]

New video! I finally finished it after 3 years of trying 😅😂😫

[astrid-v]

Creature Double Feature [SGA comic, overhaul; gen, ensemble]

Page 1/9. The comic has been completed for ages but I'm re-scanning the artwork from scratch and re-doing the lettering. I'll add the other pages over the next weeks whenever I have spare time. When they're all done I'll just replace the old pages on AO3 with these.

Dramatis Personae:

tbc...

[doomhamster]

I just saw someone say "I thought everyone knew that right-wingers never seek to understand, and in fact don't WANT to understand, the things they rail against, like gender identities" and that's true.

But I wish more people would grasp that this isn't a function of being RIGHT-wing, it's a function of being any-fucking-WING. The idea that you don't have to understand how something works in order to judge whether it's Good or Bad, and in fact trying to understand something Bad is going to contaminate you spiritually, is very much in evidence on the left as well.

It's just that the left-wingers have a different list of "I don't want to know about this and you knowing about it makes you suspect at best" topics.

[dogpuppy]

[chickenmim]

Dude... allow me to add to your trove.

I have a folder of these on my phone... I'm not sure what that says about me!

[astrid-v]

I'm overhauling one of my SGA comics because the image quality was, frankly, terrible and my technological means are much better now. It's more work than I expected but I found my original pages for higher quality scans to start off with, downloaded a new font, and I hope the result will be much shinier than before. Stay tuned :)