time turning up the volume

i dont have an off switch so welcome to this textpost hell curated by yours truly dont repost my art or use it for icons or whatever (it/its or they/them) talksprite commission info [4/5 slots]

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Hi there! I think something in your theme broke.. I heard something about a theme reset across Tumblr or something?? Anyways, at the top of your blog there's links labeled 1 through 4, but they all just lead back to dave strider ebooks! Thought you might like to know.

whoops yeah it looks like my theme reset back to the base a while ago. ive gone and fixed it now so it should be back to how i originally set it up

thanks for the heads up

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i wish it wasnt a million degrees outside so i could have hot chocolate without risk of melting

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Um, I hope this isn't a stupid question, but is reblogging (clicking the little swirly arrow thing) the same thing as reposting? I think that your art is super cool and neat, but I don't know if I'm allowed to reblog it. Thanks!

its alright!

but yeah reposting and reblogging are different things; im fine with reblogging! i just prefer people to not take my art and upload it onto their own blog/post it on facebook or wherever

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wtf

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if the youngest DA troll is 30ish then it's it in blood order? like fef is ancient (being hundreds of earth years or so?) and if terezi's like 80 then karkat/aradia is the 30ish one? what I'm saying is do u have troll ages planned out?

edit bc mobile asks r too short and I’m way too hype for DA: do troll ages correlate (loosely) w/ human aging or no? like if terepy’s age is 80 chronologically but her lifespan is 160, will she look abt 35-40? (if human lifespan is 70-80)

my friend and i were still talking over about how we wanted to handle the trolls’ ages last i checked so bear in mind this isnt set in stone

more or less yeah! though feferi isnt quite that old. she was probably somewhere around 16-19? when she fought HIC and that happened in the 60s, so she hasnt been empress for very long relative to how long the condesce was. shes actually around the same age as terezi (and i got my math wrong earlier it turns out- terezi is closer to like 90 in earth years)

pretty much how it is is that trolls terezi and higher are the same age with kanaya and lower being younger. theyre all generally the same “age” physically though, so like mid-late 30s with feferi probably being the equivalent of maybe early 30s and by then her physical aging has all but stopped completely

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hey sorry you've probably gotten this ask before, but what program do you use for making sprites and drawing stuff?? everything looks so sweet

for like 99% of my art i use paint tool sai and then use photoshop for finishing touches like adjusting colors, animation, etc

sometimes i use solely photoshop but its not something that happens very often because im not actually very fond of how pen pressure works in it

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i dont know if anyone has asked this before, but how is deuteraggregate pronounced?

personally ive been pronouncing it “dew-ter-ag-gre-gate” but for all i know i could be saying it completely wrong

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hi ! i checked the tag but i couldn't find the brush settings for what i presume is your sketching brush? it looks kind of like a regular traditional graphite pencil if that makes sense, and it's what was used on the latest AU dave you posted? i hope i didn't confuse you but would you mind sharing the settings? i love how it looks !

sorry but that pic it just a regular pencil + paper drawing so theres no brush for it

ive been messing around in SAI to try and replicate the effect but to no avail. im not really good at messing with the settings though

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oh jeeze i am SUPER behind on answering asks sorry about that everyone

im going through them now so ill try and answer as many as im able tonight while i still have the energy for it

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“i am very much awake!

and i intend to stay that way :)”

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the man of the hour

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i am a functioning individual

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i was going through some old art and i came across an old design i made for an AU i remember little to nothing about 

i redrew it because why not

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ponytails ...........

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i really dont have it in me to actually draw anything besides low-effort garbage

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Hi! so I feel kind of awkward shooting an ask like this one but I noticed something when I have been checking out some of your cool posts (like your sick superhero au), I can't find any way to go to a new page or older posts and was wondering where/if there was one? sorry to bother, but I was reel-y curious. Love your arts, and hope you keep having fun drawing them!

oh do you mean like… next/back buttons? because if so then theyre under my description labeled as “back” and “forth” like this

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very minor redesign for jade in the hero AU in that i decided that maybe having the helmet wasnt that great of an idea and to make it just a visor instead

it goes a long way in making her look less like a supervillain which was definitely not my intent with the first design