I didn't know what to write here.

Full legal name: Cheeseworth Reginald John Josh Steve McDude (she/her)

[cheesemcdude]

pinned post because I am a real boy

hi this is my main blog. I post art usually either about Aurora (webcomic) (only fandom I actively interact with) or my original characters. Sometimes I also whinge heedlessly but that is less common.

only side blog I am willing to admit to:

@rewritten-inthestars (<- dedicated specifically to my webcomic of the same name)

I have an undiagnosable wrist problem, so I can't draw very much or often for the time being, and most of what I can draw is dedicated to my webcomic, so this blog, until my wrist recovers, is mostly just me dicking around and having fun.

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The way I suddenly develop the instincts of a prey animal whenever I walk into a book store should be studied by scientists. No I can't go over there, there's straight women my age there, and they are my natural predators. No I can't go out in the open, there's nothing to hide behind and I might be spotted. By a predator.

I'm pretty sure I looked like a thief to the book club who saw me scuttle over to the sci fi and fantasy section and grab the book I had been eyeing for the past twenty minutes before sneaking away with a hyper-vigilant glance backwards, as if to check for anyone following me.

I only act this way in bookstores. In every other kind of store, I am capable of behaving like a normal, well-adjusted adult. Yet in bookstores, for some unknown reason, I revert back to my primal form.

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I was looking through some old drafts of fanfiction that I wrote of my own OCs a few months ago and I saw this paragraph and I was like "huh, that's kind of Kendal-core," and then I started drawing this sketch and then my hand hurt so I had to stop, and then I didn't finish it for three months because I didn't feel like it, until today, when I figured I might as well just post it as is (with added colors) if I'm never going to finish it.

I feel like I did not really draw Alinua's hair curly enough :(

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Okay so I am not against piracy, BUT I think that if you are looking to read a book (SPECIFICALLY a book) and you don't want to/can't buy it, then you should at least check to see if your local public library has a copy before you try to pirate it, because if public libraries go the way that other third spaces are going, then one of the pillars upon which society is resting so precariously will collapse. Library is free. Library exists because it is free, and library is necessary. Especially because I see people talking about pirating books in the most inconvenient possible ways. Like, dude. Library. Come on.

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low appetite life hack: smoothie. It's awesome because it doesn't feel like I'm eating actual food yet has the caloric and nutritional content of a meal if you mix enough stuff in it. Also a good way to eat more fiber. Doesn't work if your low appetite is so bad that even liquids feel icky, but hey, it's worth a shot. Like I just drank a bowl of fruit with honey and protein in it.

Smoothie maker is a true marvel of modern technology. We as a species peaked at smoothie maker.

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Oh wait I forgot to say: smoothie can also be beneficial if you have a very particular kind of sensory issues and hate the texture of fruit because it's too unpredictable. Because smoothie is liquid paste. Smoothie is all one texture and that texture is fruit paste. Does not work if you hate the texture of strawberry seeds and the like. Works wonderfully if you just really can't stand the Mushy of it all.

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low appetite life hack: smoothie. It's awesome because it doesn't feel like I'm eating actual food yet has the caloric and nutritional content of a meal if you mix enough stuff in it. Also a good way to eat more fiber. Doesn't work if your low appetite is so bad that even liquids feel icky, but hey, it's worth a shot. Like I just drank a bowl of fruit with honey and protein in it.

Smoothie maker is a true marvel of modern technology. We as a species peaked at smoothie maker.

[googlyowo]

pain and misery and suffering <3

bonus doodle inspired by server shenanigans below the cut:

[peepingthehorrorsrespectfully]

back on my bullshit once again

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Damn so I forget that most people are not familiar with more than one measurement system in their daily lives (at least in the US; we may recognize that the metric system is better, but that doesn't make us any less attached to our imperial units), and it turns out that most of my friends think that a centimeter is like, a millimeter, and not like, a little more than a third of an inch. Like 4 inches is about 10 centimeters. They're not as itty bitty teeny weeny as you think guys. Your hat making you taller by "only about two centimeters!" would mean that it is making you almost an inch taller, which is a significant boost when you are 5'1" and trying to make the argument that you are actually 5'3".

To be fair, I only know this because I like to use imperial and metric units in all of my character reference sheets to communicate height and weight because I have definitely seen non-Americans express confusion over the imperial system before, and I want my measurements to be easily readable by people outside of my country since the internet is and should always be an international space. It's not like I'm superior or anything, I just happen to hold a certain viewpoint that has led me to develop a very obscure skill that I do not need in my daily life almost ever, because I still do not understand kilometers or degrees in celsius.

Also I am very much coming around to centimeters as a preferable method for measuring height because they are just far more precise than inches and feet, and they don't group up weirdly, either. Like, feet are starting to remind me of stones, which have to be the most confusing way of measuring weight that I have ever been witness to. What do you mean "it's 14 pounds??" Why would you measure weight in UNITS OF 14???? Do you have 14 fingers? 14 toes? 6.35 kilograms is even worse. Switching to the metric system just made stones even more ridiculous. At least us burger people aren't responsible for perpetrating that one.

[pocket-wizard]

He do be pondering…

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Apples taste really amazingly good after you forget to eat anything for six hours in a way that they do not otherwise.

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So since I’ve started reading again I’ve been getting recommended videos from book influencers and yeah damn some of these people really just don’t like reading, huh?

My brother in Christ, the author put those words there for a REASON. Because they wanted you to READ the WORDS that they put in their book ON PURPOSE to TELL a STORY.

[pocket-wizard]

Panel redraw time! this is from 2.7.26 of Aurora

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I haven't posted in a long time because I haven't done a finished illustration (or really any sketches I'm super proud of) in a while, but my hand is starting to feel better so I thought I'd post the first, like, actually finished piece I've done in actual months.

I drew it to practice more dynamic posing and anatomy, which I feel satisfied with for this piece, but I feel like she doesn't look quite insane enough. This character is meant to have a semi-constant look of slight derangement about her despite being incredibly unwillingly sane. She's just... like that. For fun. She likes jumping off buildings just to feel something and she has the eyes and mouth of a predator animal and a general Slightly Off vibe. I love her because she's a weird freak <3

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Crustables from my crustables mermaid au #my au for day 3's prompt alternate universe [:

@aurorabigbang

[melandrops]

the aroace read of ryland grace is so personal and haunting. "you don't even have a dog." was it not enough to love the world for the sake of living in it. was it not enough to live for the thrill of discovery. was it not enough to smile at your students. was it not enough to be afraid.

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Quick drawing of Alinua from arora

her hair looks like cotten candy