Burtlederp Whumps

When I'm online, I WILL be reblogging, and I will be reblogging literally everything. Straight, her/she pronouns, member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This was supposed to be my original content blog, but I reblog too much. Oh well.

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Damian showing off a floor length painting of his fursona

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Sketchbook stufffff

I’ve got so much work right now so there’s not a lot of time for fancy digital paintings but doodling Jason helps me through the pain 🤭🤭🤭👍👍👍

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found this sketch I forgor about :))

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Dick Grayson

[aylendoesart]

Managed to finish one more piece of animation before the new year! Part ?/??? of my Super Sons anim project, based on Superman #10 by Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason.

To anyone who's read the comic: why yes this DID get away from me when storyboarding, but I was having so much fun.

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This animation is so pretty 😭😭

[cake-crumbs]

Rocky now in chonker form! This one was another custom commish for a d20 chonk die.

[danshive]

Okay, but seriously, if you find yourself putting something off because you’re not sure how to do it—and we’re talking about writing or drawing or learning a game or something, not something like open heart surgery—sometimes just putting yourself in the context of actually doing it will get the balls in your brain rolling.

I realized the phrasing issue the moment I wrote it but it’s staying because MOMENTUM!

Anyway, as much as stepping away from the thing you’re struggling with to give your mind a chance to settle and process things in the background can be important, thinking about doing something is not doing that thing, and parts of your brain might not have the context they need to do what you want them to do.

Sometimes you need to get started, or need a break to end, before you feel ready because you need to be in the right place contextually to get those balls rolling.

Somehow sounded less dirty that time.

Anyway, context counts for a lot. Hands on the keyboard, pencil in hand, whatever. And if you find you still need more time, maybe get some other things done for a bit. I wasn’t kidding about brains processing stuff in the background.

[bumblebeebats]

All throughout childhood, while my peers were socializing and making friends, I studied the blade read so many books that I am now almost legally blind, which left me with vast and deeply instinctual understanding of English grammar - and next to no ability to explain how it actually works. Friends will often ask me to proofread their writing and then get very mad when I say things like, "You need to completely reverse this sentence and cut this clause entirely; no, I'm sorry, i don't know why, I just know that the way it is now ITCHES 😭"

Now, what I want to see is a fantasy story where this plays out with MAGICAL grammar. Someone from a backwater town deeply steeped in folk magic arrives at Wizard Uni where all their fellow students are like "What do you mean, we should add another '𝞯∘⋇𝞿' to the incancation because it 'sounds better'? What do you mean, 'it could just be a regional thing'?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'THIS SPELL JUST FEELS LIKE IT NEEDS A LIVE RAT'????"

[bisexualbaker]

"I mean, on the plus side, there's live rats in a lot of places, so the odds of you casting that spell within close enough range of a live rat to work is pretty high? Like, if you've ever had that spell just randomly fizzle out on you, then you tried it again ten minutes later without changing anything and it suddenly worked, a rat probably just wandered into range in that time."

[alexseanchai]

disclaimer: spell does not work in Alberta

[eatyoursparkout]

approaching the wip carefully from the side like a skittish animal. speaking in a low, gentle voice so it doesn’t run away

[ramblings-of-lola]

I click the doc open and it runs away

[animentality]

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

It doesn't matter if that fic has been in your drafts for years and is now self-indulgent to the point of parody. If Steven Moffatt is allowed to do it professionally, you are allowed to do it for fun.

[greenjudy]

weird cultural shift detected

Fam, be careful with your time online. I highly recommend sinking some time and energy into offline pursuits.

Try: knitting or crochet; gentle movement, stretching, walking if you can; playing a musical instrument, whether it's piano or penny whistle; and especially reading.

I do not mean performative BookTok reading that we do for likes because our neurotransmitters have been nerfed by modern life.

I mean actual reading that we do for ourselves alone.

If reading is hard, if attention or energy or memory are operating at a deficit, I get it. Nevertheless, please try. If you notice you're skipping across big chunks of text like a river stone, if you can't finish a paragraph, slow down, pronounce the words out loud. Stop sometimes and ask yourself what you just read. Explain the story or article or poem to your blorbo or your cat or a stuffed animal.

If your head feels scrambled up, no judgment. We may have incredibly intractable neurochemical reasons that this is hard. Just tell the blorbo, "That's hilarious, I don't remember any of what I just read. Let's read it again, together."

(Please don't ask A.I. to do this for you. Please. It's your right to read and think about it your own way. A.I. doesn't actually understand anything. Please don't assume it will guide you safely through this next weird phase of our human culture.)

If reading longform, offline, makes you feel bored or anxious, be gentle and patient with yourself. Start with stories you remember well, reliable sources of well-being. But please know you will need to put some backbone into it in the long run.

I think we are going to need to rebuild our ability to think, to process experience. This will be an unsupported activity. In fact, most of the really powerful cultural forces are making it very hard for us to notice, feel, perceive, or think clearly.

Not sure what, but something's happened quite recently that is making this situation much worse, some kind of tipping point.

Please read something every day.

Your friend, greenjudy

[captain-kit-adventuress]

i've been thinking about this a lot lately and how to make it easier for people to accomplish. ability to read and think is not some innate gift, it's a skill you build. i don't think a lot of people realise that school did a lot of the work for us because we constantly had to read and think all the time. now that a lot of us are out of school, we have to continue that work ourselves, but i'm not sure all of us have the tools to make it a thing.

so where do you start? before you even pick up a book, it's probably a good idea to put some thought into how having to do this at all makes you feel, and why that might present another barrier. it's hard, and it's ok to admit it's hard, and that you maybe don't have the skills you want to have anymore. it's good to acknowledge your feelings surrounding this.

then try something small. offline, an actual piece of reading material like a physical book if you can. if it has to be digital, that's ok, too. it's more than ok to start with a book intended for children, even. after all, that's where you learnt these skills in the first place, and so many kids' books are intended to help build reading and comprehension ability. don't be ashamed of it; lots of well-funded groups like corporations and others have worked very hard to make sure this skill has eroded as much as possible.

do what greenjudy says and be gentle. take care of yourself. take breaks if it's hard, try not to get frustrated.

one of the best things you can do for yourself is to not be afraid if it's hard. it's not a sign you're doing it wrong. it's because you're building new roads in your brain, or maybe fixing the bad roads that already exist. if it helps, you can imagine little tiny construction guys in your mind repaving or smoothing out the land for something new, whatever floats your boat. it's not easy for the construction guys, either, but hey, these roads need to get built or fixed, right? they're doing something really worthwhile and so are you.

it's ok to read and think about easy things until you feel ready to take on more of a project. it's like scales at the piano; they're not meant to be hard, they're meant to support muscle memory and technique so that you can tackle bigger challenges. reading and thinking are no different.

reading is itself an act of revolution. being able to think on top of it is even more so. helping people can also mean helping ourselves, because we're people, too.

i can't think of anything more worthwhile than fighting to reclaim our minds.

[deerstepsdraws]

impression of the past

[faustandfurious]

“I don’t put politics in my stories” is the literary equivalent of a cishet guy going “I don’t have pronouns”

[postmodernau]

“characters in fic are too good at identifying scents” is officially an “his eyes did not literally darken” level of complaint to me now like it’s about the drama it’s about the romance it’s about atmosphere it’s about taking you to a heightened version of reality!!! please suspend your disbelief at least enough for vibes-based sensory descriptions it will be So Worth It i promise

[cerayanay]

Tags stolen from prev (sydmarch) but like taking literally TWO seconds of thought and a kindergarteners knowledge of how scent works would have made that line make sense!!! Our olifactory memory is so good that yes, someone who has been in a midnight forest might actually recognize the scent of a midnight forest. When we smell things, the memory of when it was last smelt comes before the recollection of the scent! You might smell a room and think “this smells like a middle school slumber party” before you think “this smells like the exact lotion my best friend used growing up and someone made popcorn recently.”

So like, yes, someone can smell wet pine needles and moss because dew forms at the coldest point in the night, plus all the nearby flowers are closed so there’s less of a floral scent, and the smells of plants baking in the sun are absent. But no one fucking thinks that, they think “I experience this smell in a midnight forest.”

But tbh that shouldn’t even matter, the purpose of the sentence is to a) build the mood b) let you know the mindset the narrator is entering the situation in and c) establish the narrator is someone so familiar with forests at midnight they can recognize it by scent

[charlie-jpeg]

how it feels drawing folds on clothes or strands of hair:

[punksalmon]

whenever you take too much time to write something know it is because stephen king has been stealing your life force