Birdy

Occasional artist • 30 + • Ao3: BBSC • comics only account: @birdys-crisis-corner

[birdblacksocialclub]

Crisis Core.

(Based on this)

[cannibalchicken]

[pinehutch]

You're never too old to:

Stay up late thinking about the character

Be haunted by the memory of the character

Wonder if you'll ever finish that fic you started (x 20)

Reread your old fic and ask if you'll ever write anything again

Be tormented by visions of a made-up guy (gn)

Unfortunately, neither your body, your phone's bedtime mode, nor your job agree

[birdblacksocialclub]

Have you any idea how ridiculous you look?

(He’s lying of course. He’s into it)

[cosmic-honeyy]

[tothechaos]

the thing they dont tell you about learning to "trust the process" is that you forget and relearn it every single time you make a new piece of art. unfortunately there is no cure either

[tothechaos]

a chart of what i mean for the visual learners in the audience

[absoluteconceptofbeauty]

How about Other people start worrying about how I perceive them

[birdblacksocialclub]

He’s trying to distract me…trying to dismiss me…

And it’s working.

[theserpentspsalm]

[anishenanigans]

rlly fascinating phenomenon to me is when a character is extremely popular, and that popularity seems understandable enough because they've got something interesting going on, and then you look at the fandom and realize 99% of their fans don't actually care about engaging with any of the things that make them interesting and instead seem to be fans of an imaginary milquetoast version that exists solely for ship and/or angst content and is so far removed from the canon character they might as well be an unrelated OC at this point

[bifauxnenarmand]

[cuntyvampires]

Armand and Benedict, Blood Communion

[zoesupreme]

sometimes the nut doesn't bring any clarity at all no matter how hard you bust it. the delirium only deepens.

[zoesupreme]

man...

[elbiotipo]

remember when I made that post that basically said "don't forget about a southern hemisphere when worldbuilding" and a lot of people said "ahhh but what if my fantasy world is flat or shaped like a kia sorento? checkmate I Write What I Want" and then you go and find out that people actually forget that the southern hemisphere exists in real life, like right now here in earth

[elbiotipo]

my worldbuilding posts have two key components:

here's a thing you should think about to make your world more believable and cohesive :) it could really enhance your plot and characters and it's also fun to think about it, when you know how the real world works you can make more vivid fantasy worlds!

and you also should think about it so you think about something else that isn't your own fucking hemisphere pedazo de gringo imperialista

[corn-pit]

So half of the fantasy planet needs to be experiencing summer when its winter in the north? Is that the endpoint of this post? An episode of the magic schoolbus?

[elbiotipo]

I don't know what to tell you. Read the post again.

[headbenzhawk]

[ficwip]

reblog and put in the tags the 13th sentence from any WIP

[handweavers]

i'll never understand why people who don't read books want to write books like just plainly it's so confusing it's like if you didn't listen to music at all but wanted to be a musician it doesn't make sense

[birdblacksocialclub]

tell me more about the music thing like what was the thing you worked to and do you think the music like added something to the piece that you didn’t plan for until you were hearing it with the work open in front of you !!??????

I think the thing with music is it’s always a great ideas booster. By that I mean sometimes you’ll have an idea and then you happen to hear a piece of music and go - OH. This is exactly the feeling I want to invoke with the piece of art I’m making/writing. And sometimes you just hear the song out in the wild and your creative brain just clicks and suddenly you have THE IDEA (and then immediately have to run home and get it out before you forget…or stop on the side of the road and try to smash a legible idea into your notes app while your dog would rather drag you into oncoming traffic because there’s a bird over there they would like to meet etc)

And yeah I definitely believe music always adds to the work - I have a couple things I’ve done where I’ve literally just had the song on loop while colouring because it just SO encapsulated the mood I needed to sit in to make the piece (this one and this one aaaaaand this one ) and nothing else would do. In all of these cases the one thing I remember the music amplifying was the sense of longing and grief - because music is such a amazing conductor and it allows you to tap into those parts of yourself that have felt those things and, for me anyways, it just helped me to pour everything I had into the characters to fuel their emotional responses and make the beats hit how I imagined /wanted them too.

(I always think of it a bit like making a film or even a music video - the music is the soundtrack and so the art needs to follow a similar cadence to said soundtrack…I don’t know if that makes any sense lol but that’s how my brain looks at it XD)

At the end of the day I just think music, like writing and drawing, is such a personal thing. It can make you feel so much - sometimes too much - but those are the feelings we want our art to bring out in the reader/viewer. Like … you want to create something that leaves a lasting impression that makes people remember it long after the book (or tab lol) has been closed. And for me, I think the music I listen to has done the lion’s share of the heavy lifting to help me get the art to where I think it needs to be to make those feelings happen.