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The blog where everything's made up and the points don't matter. Follow me everywhere: https://linktr.ee/DarkMuse112

[darkmuse112-og]

I heard today was Jeankasa day, so here’s my contribution! But also, this is the 2nd part in a series. Full Image

I finished the first one last week. The preview is on my blog and the full image of that is also at the link.

[darkmuse112-og]

A Soldier's Requiem Chapter 27 is probably going to be late again this weekend. FYI for anyone following.

[darkmuse112-og]

Jeankasa - Full

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[abbielauren2024]

Reblog if you’re grateful for your commenters <3

[hersurvival]

[goth-queen]

[ooppo]

The beginning of the end for every digital artist

[sarcasticsciencefictionwriter]

"I sort fics by kudos and only kudos on stories with high kudos counts, why aren't there more stories with high kudos, I ran out of things to read." You're part of the problem.

"Authors artificially inflate comment counts by thanking people, I can't find anything with a real comment count to read." No they fucking are not, they're grateful for engagement.

"I can't read anything under 100k." That's the majority of fics you're ignoring, most novels aren't even that long.

"I don't have time to look for the incredibly rare diamond in the rough, so I won't read anything below a certain amount of kudos, comments, and hits." Those fics are popular because people gave them a chance and then snobs like you found them.

"I won't read anthing with a single typos." You made typos in that sentence, get off your high horse.

"One singular author didn't thank me for commenting, I'm never commenting on any fic again so I don't get burned." You're punishing people because someone didn't give you engagement they don't owe you that they might not have seen.

"This fic is three months old, it's so old, it doesn't matter if I comment or kudos, it's old." Fics do not have expiration dates, comment and kudos.

You're killing your fandoms with your snobbish behaviors.

[darkmuse112-og]

My 2 cents, because it's my personal experience... I don't think I really ever actively look for fics to read on Ao3 or anywhere else they could be. They kind of just... fall into my lap. Like, people share them on discord or on tumblr and that's how I find things to read. And I do the same thing I do at the book store: I read the description and if it sounds interesting, I'll read it (or save it for later by adding to my many, many open browser tabs, which is more often what I do these days). I don't even think to look at stats, it just doesn't occur to me.

[thememedaddy]

[darkmuse112-og]

I'm planning on posting new Jeankasa art to Patreon tomorrow, that is, if I can finish it tonight. It's a 2 or 3 parter, (I haven't decided) so those parts will happen tbd. Previews on tumblr and other socials will be later though because I have to glaze and nightshade everything first and that takes 5ever.

[billyshearsyuri]

silly brba x aot crossover

my twitter: billyshearsyuri

[safire-lupe]

No paperwork was ever completed that night.

Tea was good though.

(And something else was better 😉)

[creature-adjacent]

Carnivorous plants doin this is so funny to me

They don't wanna eat their pollinators :(

[questionablepastries]

[darkmuse112-og]

A Soldier's Requiem - Chapter 26

Chapter 26 - Visiting Hours

After Mikasa's takedown of the imposter doctor, Gabi, Falco, Onyankopon, and Diana arrive to keep Levi and Mikasa company until visiting hours end. Because of the security threat, the hospital requests police assistance to guard the hospital, but it does little to calm the nerves of Levi's friends. So they do their own surveillance, which doesn't go as smoothly as they expected.

Read it from the beginning

I'm getting so excited to get into this final part of the story, you have no idea. It's gonna be fucked up, it's going to be scary, it's going to be suspenseful (hopefully—all of these descriptor words are by my own definition. Maybe you won't think it's any of those things, guess we'll find out.) but it's going awesome. There's going to be some familiar faces making an appearance eventually too.

And I also have to admit that, in the upcoming chapters, I decided to change a detail that I originally thought was pretty out there, because the alternative, I felt, was taking it too far. Like, really. How much trauma do I want to give these characters.

But go big or go home, as they say.

[sandmandaddy69]

[get-thee-to-a-shrubbery]

[ferret-on-pancakes]

[its-your-mind]

[miteistic]

[nick-nonya]

[cleanedupcorporationprogress]

[boothyghost]

[all-save-challenge]

I love this post especially the rat part

going on me feed

[trolleybusaberrations]

what do you mean there are exactly zero rats i. this post

[bingle-official]

[primordialsoupvendor]

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

[cthoseris]

[souf-vs-staff]

You should be able to listen to a full album without looking at your phone. You should be able to watch a 3 hour film from beginning to end without checking social media. If you can't do this, you need to start training your attention span as if it were a physical muscle. I don't experience boredom or restlessness because I've trained my brain to not be dependent on quick stimuli and dopamine hits. If you can't chill on a park bench while waiting for a friend with just your imagination to keep you company, you need to learn how to do it ASAP because one day we may not have access to the internet.

[darkmuse112-og]

It pisses me off so much when people look at their phones in the movie theater. Because not only are you blinding/distracting me with your screen, but you're wasting your money, having paid for a ticket to NOT watch the movie. It's as rude as talking during a movie imo