Thank You For Waking Me Up

Call me Autumn! Art & writing Commissions info HERE! Status: CLOSED - White, Queer, and An Adult - She/They pronouns. -Art Blog! - AO3 account - Unquiet Tag. AKA my personal HxH AU centering on trans girl Gon and AFAB gender fluid Killua. About this AU If you need anything tagged, just ask~!

[monodramatical]

I have something controversial to say

[monodramatical]

I think all labels are inherently opt-in. Because they're just methods of describing an experience, you don't have to identify as anything even if "technically" you fit the definition. Or if you don't really fit a certain definition but it's helpful to describe yourself as such. I think society loves concoctining artificial boxes to put things in but none of those boxes have to apply to you if you don't want to. Free yourself from "having" to be anything at all

[monodramatical]

And by all I mean all btw. I think people understand to an extent with man/woman or sexuality labels. But also cis/trans, racial labels, and diagnostic labels apply to this too. You can be proud of and happy to identify with all of those labels, or you can also just exist as you. They're just words

[moretheta]

zoldyck.mp4

ok long rant about characters:

the idea for this came from my fascination with the zoldyck family, and how their arcs tend to run somewhat parallel. growing up they were all pitted against each other in an environment that encouraged abuse. yet slowly, one by one, each of the siblings was offered an out— a person who came along and showed them a different way of living. for Killua, that was Gon--- then, later on, Killua himself came back to help Alluka. Meanwhile, Illumi has started to go against his family's wishes post-Zodiac arc (we see him defying direct orders from his father to leave Alluka alone, seeking her power for himself), and I personally believe this is due to influence from his person—Hisoka. here we see the split: Killua and Alluka were rescued by someone who loved them, who wanted more than anything to see them happy and safe. Illumi (already a maniac) was influenced by an even worse maniac to selfishly seek power. but that's interesting to! it's still a departure from the constraints of his family. and then we have Kalluto, who, for reasons largely unknown, has aligned themself with the Phantom Troupe. they are-- at least physically-- no longer under the thumb of their parents. now, the only child remaining is Milluki... who, unfortunately, is too much of a shut-in to make any outside connections. maybe he'll get there one day, maybe not. in the meantime, i can bask in the tragedy of this anime assassin family by co-opting a song about the french revolution.

even longer rant about personal feelings:

sooo ok. i started working on this in the summer of 2022 during one of the worst times of my life, desperately needing some kind of distraction. i did the bulk of it that summer and fall, in between work and rehab and other bullshit.... and then i went through a few more major life changes,  my priorities shifted, and i dropped it. for like, a year. since then i've gone back periodically and added things/redone segments/ smoothed some shit out, but i always found myself kind of unhappy with one thing or another; such is the case when you work on something for a prolonged period of time, and your art changes a lot in between. every time i'd feel ok with something i'd go back a few months later and be like, "ew". the hurdles of being an art hobbyist. and then, last year, i started a new project, which kind of ramped up my passion for all things art and hxh. so naturally, i took another look at this oldass animatic and realized that, regardless of it being outdated to my personal style, it represents a period in my life where i really needed an outlet for creativity and i found it through animating a crazy family to the tune of a musical virtually no one remembers. and that has merit on its own. also shoutout @your-local-granny for being with me on this journey. thank you for your words of encouragement and unbridled enthusiasm, you're about 60% of the reason i'm even posting this at all. and thank you to all the lovely mutuals who've engaged with my stuff in the past and been very very nice about it. love y'all 💞

[moretheta]

in the spirit of New Animatic Debut, i wanted to share some behind the scenes work. mostly for posterity's sake, but also bc i always found this kind of work-in-progress stuff cool personally.

ok so: usually when i have a concept for an animatic i'll sketch it out tiny on a piece of paper, both só that i have a physical copy but also just to get the feel of it. as you can see, there were obviously some changes made in the final product, (the "we shamble on through this hell- till there comes a day" part probably being the most notable), but the general idea is mostly the same. anyway, then i take photos of my sketches -> upload them onto my computer -> upload to photoshop and create a timeline -> use that to figure out the timing (how long will this shot be, when the transition come in, etc) . so eventually we have a very rough outline for the beat-to-beat storyline. from there, i make a digital copy, refine, move forward to the keyframes stage, refine, then the in-betweens, then colors if that's a factor, then going back over and refining everything again.

...that's right about when i have my regularly scheduled break down and re-do entire sections because what the hell, why not. then i get in my head about it and convince myself it'll never be done, not really, so whats the point, who cares anyway. but im hashtag breaking my pattern, and find myself surprisingly ok with the fact that my work is not (and never will be) perfect. i would like to give everyone in this community a big hug for all the support, and encourage those who are hesitant about posting their work (whether it be art, fic, or other creations!), to join me in my discomfort and put themselves out there. we can all be imperfect together <3

[emcapi]

good evening everyone i am here to inform you about the single funniest fucking piece of fishing gear in existence

it is called a fish fighting belt/harness.

BEHOLD.

anyways i discovered this was a thing and laughed my ass off for like 5 minutes straight. you're welcome.

[nongunktional]

SPECIALIZED EQUIPMENT FOR THE HEAVIEST OF FISH

HARNESSES AND LEVERS, ALL AS TOUGH AS YOU COULD WISH

WHEN YOU'RE ON A BOAT, YOU CAN'T JUST BRACE AGAINST A ROCK

WIELD YOUR FISHING POLE LIKE IT'S A MASSIVE FLEXY COCK

[patchworkbearss]

"Grace wouldn't teach Rocky swears"

WRONG

GRACE WOULD THINK THAT LANGUAGE ACCESSIBILITY IS VITAL

GRACE IS THE KIND OF TEACHER TO ENSURE A STUDENT WITH AN AAC WOULD HAVE ACCESS TO THE SAME LANGUAGE AS THEIR PEERS

[gachahugs]

they keep making exploding spells and getting ink on their cloaks

[rook-jemmy]

"becomes" 🤨🙄

[rook-jemmy]

portal 2 is an american gothic horror story about an incredibly traumatized and exploited girl who was forced into a perpetual hell of servitude by the forces of capital and infinite growth. portal 2 is about how science owes its greatest achievements to women who never received any credit or control over the industries that they created. portal 2 is about how tech companies dehumanize and exploit feminized labor. portal 2 is about physically exploring a woman's repressed memories and realizing she was right to kill all those people with deadly neurotoxin. portal 2 is about fighting the piece of you they created to keep you weak and easy to control, ripping it out, and sending it to the fucking moon. portal 2 is about helping your traumatized girlfriend come to grips with her violent past. portal 2 is about how tech CEOs are so fucking stupid they would probably die from snorting moon rocks. portal 2 is about rape and exploitation and capitalism and vivisection and everything that would make you go 'ewwie' if it wasnt happening to a gigantic robot

[alphacrone]

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

[huckleberryhal]

Mary Oliver in “Dog Songs”

[concidineart]

What does your happy ending look like?

This and other wolf 359 art are on my Patreon!

[madootles]

started wolf 359 this week …

[nickysowl]

this post by @repetitionandvariation made me giggle so i had to draw it

[weepylucifer]

okay this makes me feel like an ancient hag to say, but i was thinking some younger listeners to wolf 359 might not know of this: "the artist formerly known as warren kepler" isn't something he came up with, it's a reference to prince (the singer) who changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph for a bit, so no one knew what to call him and everyone started saying "the artist formerly known as prince".

now i personally didn't think there was anything further to this. oh kepler made a pop culture reference, fun. he likes funk, sure he likes prince! but then i looked up "the artist formerly known as prince" just out of idle curiosity and turns out what i didn't know is that prince didn't change his name out of eccentricity or as an artistic expression but because he was in a legal dispute with warner brothers who had trademarked "Prince™". which was the man's legal name and not a pseudonym. and so when he split from wb, they disallowed him to perform under his own legal name. it is a true story of a man being held captive by a corporation so thoroughly, his very identity no longer feels like, no longer is his own. so yeah, the artist formerly known as warren kepler. goddard really had that man in a gorilla grip

[commsroom]

system overload ❌ (by @hehearse)

[blignick]

[paxamericana]

[maxvelocity]

kingdom of predators 🌱🐜

[pierogiy]

Caught Up On My Stories BTW. Handling It