as an artist, my art is made by the people for the people, so i don't care where it goes or who uses it so long as it's done out of appreciation and not out of jealousy or malicious use.
sooo, when my art is spotted and I'm notifed of it personally, the least you could do is not lie about where you found it or who made it, because I DID. 💀
as an artist, my art is made by the people for the people, so i don't care where it goes or who uses it so long as it's done out of appreciation and not out of jealousy or malicious use.
sooo, when my art is spotted and I'm notifed of it personally, the least you could do is not lie about where you found it or who made it, because I DID. 💀
OMG UR POST ABOUT ANGELA REMINDED ME ABOUT SOMETHING!!! i was gonna ask like a week ago if u take art reqs and if yes could u draw her plsplspls🙏🏽/nf
your wish is my command, anon !!!
i spent a strange amount of time on this (about an hour and a half) but i really enjoyed making it
went based off the referenced post i made that you mentioned since it was still playing around in my brain; the only silly part about it was the fact i had to use ,, myself as a reference, so that was really entertaining to have to look back and forth between
i was just throwing shit in the background since i felt like the space looked a bit empty 💀 a bit of angela perspective if you will — i think it ,, works decently GIGGLE
the request was a drawing of platonic ponyboy and johnny in the lot together being physically affectionate, and upon scrolling past that, i remembered i DID IN FACT make a sketch for it.
only issue is that it looks a little wonky, soooo... i redrew it just now :D
i decided to dive to the bottom of my askbox to see what stuff I might've missed (spoiler alert, a LOT) and i found an art request an anon sent me all the way back in JULY of last year.
wherever you are anon, i hope you get to see this and like it !!!
sorry for no colors. unfortunately, i HATE outside scenes w grass. the shading process is horrendous. but you can imagine it if you so please to /silly
happy 400 followers to me, and happy pride month to everyone! a gift for myself, made purely for fun, i hope you enjoy a bit of self-indulgent art of stevepop as jack and marla :)
★ ramble under the cut!
HOHHHH MY GOSHHHH i got it finished finally. that was really fun. really really really fun to make, actually. i mean, the colors were ATROCIOUS but the concept was a delight for ME personally. I'm having a time with just making doodles of these two. what better than an au that makes absolutely no sense, with two characters you wouldn't even recognize without the tags / mentioning their damn names 💀.
I've officially been on tumblr for over a year now, and just earlier this week i finally hit 400 followers !!! WAOW ! isn't that something. i felt. so accomplished seeing that number. the largest amount i ever had on a social media where i posted my art was 200, so seeing double the amount for the first time ever made me feel reaaaally happy. it did !!!
i think it's kind of funny i managed to finish this drawing on the first of june, but i think it felt appropriate for both celebration timing and for the art piece itself. i think that's my first ever rendered drawing of a "kiss" I've ever made. saying / typing that makes me laugh a little because MY GOD. YOU LOSER (@ self)
the original sketch of the drawing, I'd say, is just as pretty to stare at. but also you can tell i kinda drew it at an angle, because soda looks... like he's leaning.
eyeah, i fixed that in the rendered version 💀 by a LOT — he was clung onto steve beforehand, now he's just holding him, i think it works a lot better for it but also i kinda wish i kept him clung on just bc of the probability of him falling over since ... in jack's scenario, he was actively bleeding out, so i think he would've grabbed more dramatically — now soda just looks tired and drowsy, which feels a bit more in character for HIS version of the narrator. ykwim?
i was gonna make a gif version of this drawing where it blurs out like the actual end of the movie, but i chose against it bc my program wouldn't work... but you can imagine it for cool points if you want 😭
I'll shush up now, but GAHH. AHHH. i don't even care if this flops honestly, I'm over the moon. I'm having a fun time. that's what I'm here for man. I'm gonna go finish another brownie for 400.
thankyou thankyou thankyou a thousand times over and to the stars !!! 🫶
People make jokes about phm being the trolley problem but if you think about it it's worse than that because after the trolley finishes running over a bunch of people it'll circle back around to run over the guy you originally spared so he'll die anyways
if you're curious how i spent my evening by the way, i participated (with myself) in making art and redesigning a character whilst torturing myself by watching saltburn since it leaves max on sunday, and now I'm watching the lego movie to cleanse myself after Whatever the hell that was
OH MY GOSH, i never even debriefed all of the books i read this semester! lets do that yeah !!!
HERE'S THE LIST (11 books total):
All The Pretty Horses, Taming the Star Runner, Dandelion Wine, Of Mice and Men, Holes, Lord of the Flies, The Hunger Games, Teen Angst? Naaah..., The Infects, Animal Farm, and Some of Tim's Stories.
All The Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
ATPH was a story about 3 cowboys and a horse. Reccomended to me by a friend who read this book with their english class, this felt like perfect literature to really bite my teeth into as someone who loves more modern-timed western aesthetics and oh my DAYSS was it everything i could've wanted and more. it had two best friends. it had a tag-along kid with lore and secrets. it had a LOT OF HORSES. it had stars to stare at in the night. it had people dancing. it had a gorgeous girl with dark hair and soft eyes.
unfortunately, what i will bitch about, is the gorgeous girl with soft eyes — Alejandra (the MC's love interest) only really takes part in the 3rd chapter, and i wish she both did and didn't at the same time because of the fact their romance became a main factor when his friendships should've been stronger priority with how much he was going through.
the book stitches mexican traditions and cowboy culture together really beautifully, it respects the lands it walks across with our cowboys, it speaks about the lands like each part of it is a treasure — and it is. and i REALLY love that.
obviously, with cormac mccarthy, you come without "quotation marks" (such as used just now LMFAO) but all in all once you get used to it you really Get into it. i loved that story a LOT. i would reccomend it to any reader who likes cowboy stories. or even just a trio of 3 ragtags.
Taming the Star Runner – S.E Hinton
Taming the Star Runner must've just became my favorite Hinton book the second i opened it, because holy shit is it golden for being so unknown in her bibliography. Travis is a really intricate main character, probably the most sensible of all of Hinton's main character's I've come across. He's kind of a dick, but he's self aware. He's attentive. He's curious. He protects his family. He tries to understand people. He's kind of a ditz when he tries to be cool. He's a creative. He's a writer. It's the first thing you learn about him !!!
all of the relationships you get to see him gain and learn about himself through are all special individually. SHIT, even with the Star Runner he has an interesting relationship with because you learn about that horse and the second you meet him it's like he's always in the back of your mind. travis displays that in a strange sense.
Taming the Star Runner gave me the closure i wanted out of Tex honestly, it closed off the southern area of reading for me with something special. it left me thinking, and it left me kind of content. i don't really know how to explain it.
Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury
Dandelion Wine was a name I kept coming across that kept biting me in the ear everytime I'd trace past it. I read it during March, so it felt at a more awkward emotion for me, but ohhh my goodness. the writing is something transcending. the literature in that book makes the pages feel alive. after reading All the Pretty Horses, Dandelion Wine gave me even more beautiful visuals to chew on and lick at like sticky candy it's so GOOD.
every character in Dandelion Wine can exist in another person. in another story. in another vision. i love how easily you can take them out of the book and envision them with their own lives because that's how ALIVE they're written. the scenes within their town make you wish for a time before cell phones, back when everyone was "inventors" and made entertainment for the rest of the neighborhood. the happy machine.
GOD, that book had me all over. it lagged me behind a bit because once you read it you really have to sit and READ it, but it's one of those stories I'd love to read to a class of kids or a library full of lil'uns. like it's just a nice, childlike dream of a story. it's precious. loved it to bits.
no I'm not FUCK THIS BOOK. okay, listen, for classic literature, i actually really admired this book. i loved lennie. and that was all i loved. i loved how morally grey the story was, i loved the dust and grime written on every page to make the writing feel old, old before it could even collect dust on a shelf.
this story was one of the few that weirdly made me think back to the first book that started my reading back up (We'll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss, a more modern book about 2 kids and a plane rather than 2 men and a land), because it demonstrates another person committing a crime for a reason the law wouldn't be able to understand. you have to sit and think "well, what else could they have done?"
to which you reply: Literally anything else. Fuck the system. Fuck death penalties.
anyways.
Holes – Louis Sachar
AHHH HOLES! HOLES, I LOVED HOLES I DID! Holes is a really cute story, definitely outside of my age-range because it's meant for kids about 5 years younger than me But Hey. Listen. My school read Bridge to Terabithia and Because of Winn-Dixie instead. so a lose is a win.
Holes revived that part of me that was obsessed with groups and gangs that The Outsiders brought to me; i missed that so bad about the outsiders but unfortunately Holes really doesn't have much of a popular let alone alive fandom (because again, 5 year difference in demographics here 💀 the outsiders has way bigger range) so my interest didn't really live on long, but stanley and zero were such silly guys. my favorite was probably zigzag and that's just bc i needed to obsess with a background character AND DID. he's so fucking silly man.
i love those kids. it's a cutie little read with a delightful story and the movie for it was fucking AMAZING, i Will be rewatching it AGAIN soon best believe. would absolutely recommend if you just wanna read some books you missed in your development, because i did and i LOVED this one.
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Lord of the Flies was terrific. For being a book written in such a strange time, by an even stranger author who didn't even like the story, it was terrific. I cannot explain how much i loved all of the characters in this story — going from Holes, to this one, to the Infects right after, it was a REALLY interesting combination of "kids stuck in a pile having to fend for themselves and learn how to survive"
LOTF carried a lot of interesting story to it. i don't have much to say on it other than how obsessed i was with simon and his visuals, him and the "little'uns" all having this kinda silent shared pact, the fact he stood out the most yet seemed to be deemed by the narrative as one of the lesser important ones
you can kind of tell how much an author doesn't enjoy a story, so i don't dawdle with LOTF much, but GOD is it a good read. it shows humanity. it shows how rules can be both a problem and an assistance. it shows how education rules over instinct and "brute force", but also how they both work together to create the best forces — which of course, the boys couldn't do. because what else would a bunch of boys with no direction do? work together? PAH.
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
HAHA, this one was an additional read to my original list funnily enough, and i read it because of the middle school class i work with. i'm mostly talking about the book here though and not the class, so– ahem, ahem ahem ,., ,, /silly
i loved the first book by itself just for what it is. i know it's a part of a series, i know i should probably read the entire franchise (and i will, someday), but the messages it brings, the lessons it teaches not just on a teaching level for students but as an individual learning process it's REALLY intricate.
the writing for katniss is flawed in a beautiful way, showing how scared and how horrified she is and yet still allowing her to hold herself and be Katniss.
i want to learn more about each individual character - about how peeta felt, about how katniss' family at home was doing, about gale as an entire person, how the capitol explodes itself
i need to finish the movie honestly, because i know it gives more insight on all of those but AHHH. you'll have to pay me to do that. /j
Teen Angst? Naaah... – Ned Vizzini
aaaawh, shit.
Ned Vizzini is probably my all time favorite writer. which is a shame, because he's a really shitty writer. (lovingly LMAO)
reading a autobiography was a first for me. reading his quasi-autobiography was a one-and-only done thing for me because WOW does reading a book about someone's life, knowing how it ended, just really fucking hit you hard in the head. you read an autobiography and it inspires something within you to keep going. you read this person's words that they wrote to themself, and you think "wow, that's so true and relatable, and amazing" and you can't help but feel the book weigh in.
an autobiography that's characterized is absolutely amazing– it's something i would do if i had started it earlier, but unfortunately I Hate Writing About Myself! so that's why other people have that specialty and not ME /silly
but i just ,,, no, yeah. this book was just someone's memories. this book was life and it was sweet and bitter and kinda cringe but it was interesting. i wish i could've gotten to write a letter to ned vizzini before he passed, but I don't think i would've wanted to hear from my heroes anyways 💀 i can acknowledge that he was still a pretty weird nerd.
aghh.
The Infects – Sean Beaudoin
it's book about zombies. it's a cast of juvenile detention kids in jumpsuits RUNNING from zombies. it's a book about a cast of juvenile kids running from zombies, AND it has badass female characters. AND it has cool gorey writing. AND it was written in the 2010s so you know it's fucking cringe and inappropriate and kind of offensive.
it's amazing. The Infects has officially taken over my brain in true gorefest fashion and has molded itself into the damn wrinkles in that ever-zombie-loving muscle. it's a book definitely written for people like me who like this kinda raunchy, stupid humor mixed in with raunchy, stupid teenagers.
i couldn't NOT love this book honestly. it's like taking Holes, and putting these kids on a trip up mountain to go hide from brain eating freakazoids instead of digging holes. READ IT READ IT READ IT —
Animal Farm – George Orwell
i think this was where you can definitely obviously tell i was getting to the end of the school year, because this is one TEENY TINY ASS BOOK (so is the next one though, so, ,, LMFAO) but regardless of size this book was just damn devious.
it's another one of those time appropriate books i decided to read just to get a chew on more political-commentaru writing and all i did the entire read was sit and go "oh, so they're dictators. we're in a dictatorship. with animals. AND humans. cool." and that's pretty much the entirety of the story AND THEY TURNED MY FAVORITE HORSE INTO GLUE GOD FUCKING DAMMIT FUCK THIS STUPID ASS BOOK THEY HATE ME
sorry
anyways
this book goes into the same pile to me as Of Mice and Men. beautiful literature. beautiful message. fucking evil.
Some of Tim's Stories – S.E Hinton
this was there i finally settled in on the fact I've officially read S.E Hinton's ENTIRE bibliography. and like,, holy moly, that's 2 I've read so far, and i still have so many more writers i want to go with that !!!
but either way, i read this in a single day and justtt,, waow. wow wow wow. this book tosses you around quite a bit, but all in all i think i really obsessed over mike and terry while reading it because they're basically "Mark and Bryon if they weren't bitchass teenagers" and i really admire that unfortunately 💀
love twttin. hate twttin. they pissed me off, respectfully 😭
BUT EITHER WAY STT really played out a lot more different than i expected. i half thought of it as like, quite literally a mash up of other tales, just little one shots — but no !!! it's a story, with a plot, just written very strange and out of order and with kinda some details you actually don't need whatsoever for any part of the story you learn later on !!
all in all, it's a bit of a mess, but it's GOOD for being ~60 pages. It shows how you don't need a big ass book with over 120 pages just for it to be a story. it's some of a story, and for this part it just explains to you what tim learns. i like that a lot.
all in all i had a lot of fun speedrunning all of these books to see how quick i could finish them, and i got through more than i expected bc my original goal was only 8 !!!
the only book I didn't finish however that was on my list that i only got about a quarter of a way through was ... House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday.
NOW LISTEN. I AM NOT SAYING THIS BOOK IS BAD. AT ALL. however, i did not like the characters, and i did not like the pacing... so i never finished.
the scenery and the writing is really pretty in individual paragraphs though, absolutely. it's just ... putting it together feels clunky. and seeing a man write female characters is always awkward. this guy wrote them awkward.
maybe I'll give the book another chance, iiii dunno. for the time being though.. .. mmmhhhh. just the colored list is done so far :3c
I can't believe my PBIS advisor asked me what some things he should say for the last day of school announcements and one of the first responses to come out of my mouth was "don't take any ladder shaped pills"
i thank god that he didn't fucking hear that because i laughed more than i should've 💀
i then proceeded to go, after he asked me to repeat it, "oh, uh, wear a seatbelt?"
TrashPandazz @coffeeistired - Tumblr Blog | Tumgag
