"D.A.T. Art Tho"

18+ Blog; commissions open Drawing - Painting - Writing - Poetry - Pewter Commissions and Art Store are OPEN! Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/delicateartisantrash Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheSqueeingOnion Just an artist like many artists, working hard to make my way in the world. I do a bit of everything, though my primary profession is a digital artist and jewelry designer. I paint pinstriped skulls. My primary fandom focus right now are Transformers and The Mandalorian

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Feels really good to have my main directory as a pinned post again! My housing situation is still tenuous, but so far, we're managing. I'm doing as much work as able to keep an income <3 My health gets in the way, but I gotta keep going.

Please consider checking out my Ko-fi store for commissions and goodies! I do digital art, skull paintings, and sell hand-cast Pewter jewelry I sculpted the masters for. https://ko-fi.com/delicateartisantrash

MasterList directory of my writing record, as well as other art info, below the cut:

one of these days i'll get around to updating this and making it pretty...

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D.A.T.'s Blog Info & Writing Masterlist

Find me on BlueSky! 18+ only Requests: Open!

Use my ask box, make my day :D

I primarily write / draw right now for the The Mandalorian & Transformers (various timelines)

I currently only voice act for the Transformers fandom

I will happily entertain drawing requests outside my fandom!

I will happily entertain writing prompts for anything that's not promoting hate/non-con/etc. You get what you get xP Might be a short story, might be poetry!

Want to place an art order and help me pay vet bills? Here's my art commission post!

[COMMISSION LE FANCIEST ART]

My tags:

DatArtTho - Anything I've done that's visual art related (so not writing)

DatPoetryTho - all my poetry posts

DatChapterTho - New Chapter Drops

DatLoreTho - Behind the scenes information about how I create my stories. Unpublished lore and deleted scenes might get posted under this as well.

DatVoiceTho - Voice Acting audio skits (Transformers only at this time)

Dat Rambles - Me rambling about stuff relevant to my blog or me specifically. (99% of my rambles get posted to my reblog blog)

Valveplug - NSFW and Suggestive Transformers things are tagged with this *UPDATE: I have started tagging my NSFW/Suggestive posts with a "NSFW version below the cut" as that seems to be the norm on Tumblr.

Uncensored versions of my NSFW art may be found on my Bluesky account (link at the top)

My gallery website:

I'm learning how to Tumblr, I swear

This, being my main, is where I will be posting my own artwork, drabbles, content, etc.

@datschaos is where I will be sharing all of my reblogs.

Writing Masterlist:

(Link directories posted below the cut)

Transformers:

Star of the Show Story & Excerpts: (A Mirage and Starscream-centric crazy story following a woman named Clara, who emits Energon radiation.)

The Entire Story:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

• "Comfortable Place" - (768 words, excerpt) Knockout and Breakdown relax together in a moment of peace. [SFW, cuddles, comfort & relaxation, mentions of alcohol use (Energon Wine)]

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Leaking Spark Story & Excerpts: (A Knockout and Soundwave-centric Reader insert fic, following the Reader who accidentally befriends big bad Decepticons)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

• "Racing Heart" - (8,434 words, Excerpt) Knockout owes you, and convinced you to attend a race with him in order to collect the prize money he wins. Things get... A little more exciting than you anticipated. [NSFW mildly; teasing, non-consensual unplanned vouyerism, illegal car racing, Knockout and Reader are both Very Into Each Other but haven't confessed]

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Gladiators of Kaon: (A saucy Megatronus x Cybertronian!Reader x Soundwave tale that centers around the time period of the gladitorial pits of Kaon, the formation of the Decepticons, and Dadwave having a bunch of little sparklings to care for.)

The entire story:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[NSFW: Soooo NSFW :3 I am honestly terrible at tagging my longer stories; I will do my best to tag trigger warnings on individual chapters.)

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The Mandalorian:

• Travel Buddies (>276,000 words, ongoing, multi-book series, Ao3) [SFW with NSFW scenes posted separately; action, adventure, serious plot, romance, Force shenanigans and more plot, Moff Gideon is scary af, Din Djarin keeps his helmet oath, Grogu is an adorable menace and Mars wants a refund on babysitting duty]

This fanfic started as an exploration of Mandalorian culture and ways it could manifest, and my want to write cute fluffy feels interspersed with lots of action-packed fisticuffs and shoot-outs. I wanted to write a thrilling romance story that was deeply meaningful, without Din breaking his helmet oath. It really bugged me how they handled that aspect of his culture in the series, and I wanted to represent it in a more deliberate, tangible way.

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The Bad Batch:

• "Comfort" - (2,230 words, completed one-shot) A comforting scene with Echo. [deals with PTSD, cuddles]

• "The Little Details" - (1,184 words, completed one-shot) Crosshair isn't as unshakeable as he likes people to think. You're just the peace he needs. [deals with PTSD/panic attack]

• "Kittens and Soldiers" - (1,601 words, completed one-shot) Omega and Echo find a pregnant cat, and ask Hunter to keep her. [PURE. FLUFF. Warning: cuteness overload. Hunter misses an important memo but it's all good.]

Bad Batch Fic Excerpts:

Excerpts from a larger, currently-very-jumbled-up fic I have in progress, that can be read as one-shots.

Follows the tale of "Butterfly," a mildly force-sensitive, female Reader character who ends up joining the Bad Batch as a janitor after Things and Stuff.

While I tend to write with the image of a very petite Reader in my head (because I myself am a tiny little lady lmao), I go out of my way not to describe them in the story. Butterfly is described as having long hair.

I actually have two slightly different versions of the same general storyline on two different documents. One is called Scoped Out and the other one is Butterflies and Bones

• Excerpt 1 - "Tech Talks; Comfort" - (134 words, excerpt) Tech provides comfort in the only way he knows how; gently and factually. [Reader is distressed]

• Excerpt 2 - "Blushing Trooper" - (3,330 words, excerpt) Echo, acting as medic, is Butterfly's primary caretaker on the hyperspace journey home. It's a little different helping a pretty lady to the fresher than one of his injured brothers... And back out. [Mildly NSFW, mentions of medical treatment/past injury, Reader is injured and dependant on help. Hurt/comfort fic scene]

• Excerpt 3 - "Toothpicks" - (1,443 words, excerpt) Crosshair joins Butterfly for a quiet conversation while she's recovering from her injuries. This scene also explains where Butterfly earned her nickname. [pure fluff, a little flirty]

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Finished commission!

i'm so happy to be done with this one, i've been picking away at it for weeeeeeeeeekkkkssssssssss, and i'm so happy with how it turned out.

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Commission: wip

Weeeeeeeeeeeee i just started the hair rendering on this cuddle scene ;v; everything else has underpainting done, now it's rendering time~

Thank you @emeraldsquishmallow for commissioning me!

chicken friend 😭👌

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PB Pelt Commission: Finished!

well, the first of two pelts in this order anyhow ;D

Click to view full size i beg, tumblr absolutely trashed the detail ;-;

Same pelt, rendered to two different poses~

i've been commissioned to render a living kitty into the style of Paw Borough's game art for a private pelt. The first half of this comm is the above coat coloring and eyes; the lineart and body shading is all PB's handiwork, the coloring and eye rendering are all mine ;)

wow, tumblr crunches the quality even on the close up pics sob sob

Wish us luck, i just sent my client the files for them to submit!

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A scene from chapter 11 of Why the Caged Bird Sings (part 2 of The Butterfly Effect) by @delicateartisantrash (who has emergency art comissions open). This is exactly what happened, right?

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this still lives rent free in my head forever

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Life Updoot

brief cause I'm Very Tired

wip on a very intricate commission I've been working on for a hot bit now. Kitty lines are from Paw Borough which you should totally join me in obsessing over if you like animal sim games 👀

close up on the harness and radio

Cats not my art, just the ice cream on top of they're head xD someone posted this kitty draft and i Had To Doodle

nowi get to render that in this composition:

eeeee my client approved the blocking so it's on to lineart now

🥹 my memorial pelt is now live in game. Colored after my first parrot friend, Chicken.

Spent some time with my baby girl today

Imma cry waterfalls when i finally move out. Imma miss her so bad, bit she understands video calls so we'll stay in touch 🥹😭🫶

I'm SO CLOSE to getting done with the move. Fuuuuuck meeeee it's taking up so much mental and physical energy. Wish me luck on the last leg of things.

I miss writing so bad. It's been like three+ months since I've had the headspace and time to write, everything else has been rest recovery, work, and moving. I had a really fun break with a friend who came up to see me and he'll with the move, that was a much needed break and also productive.

Sorry I've been so quiet y'all; I've been really busy doing commissions and finishing the move + continuing dealing with the daily health stuff and etc etc. Sooooon, soon I'll have more time again to write and post more regularly

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I'm writing my first work in the Transformers fandom thanks to your inspiring works! Most notably Leaking Spark. It's going to be Soundwave/Reader, and I've admittedly already yoinked a couple of headcanons from your writing (IE, Laserbeak being a girl and Soundwave being an Absolute Disaster).

I have a few questions.

Do you listen to any music or podcasts when writing?

Do you have any tips for writing Cybertronians?

What is your strategy for writing reader-inserts?

Thank you for the hard work you've done feeding all the hungry Soundwave fangirls! I look forward to reading more of your works in the future! <3

Do you listen to any music or podcasts when writing?

Usually music, though sometimes i do better in the silence and throw on noise cancelling earbuds to help. All depends on the story scene I'm writing and my own mood. If I'm really locked into a scene, i want silence. Birdsong in the background and my kitties quiet steps are plenty backdrop noise.

If my mind is too busy to easily focus, then music helps ground me.

For music, i often find instrumental versions of songs that inspire me for a particular character or scene vibe. Lyrics sometimes distract me because then i want to stop and sing along 😂

I have also thrown the source material in writing from up to play in the background while i write.

2. Do you have any tips for writing Cybertronians?

Get as much real life experience as you (safely) can with other species and with machinery. Everything is information you can use to bring an idea to life; what does it feel like for a human hand to grab hold of a piston bar that's got sandy grit gumming up the surface, versus the impossibly smooth feeling of glass or metal that's got a fresh protective wax or oil coating protecting it? What do light sprinkling of raindrops look like falling down a dusty window, leaving tracks in it, versus a downpour on a clean car? How does it affect the lighting of the space they are in?

I try to think of something to invoke all the senses. Touch, taste, scent, sight, sound, and for many of my characters, Instinct and Intuition.

What do different kinds of oils and fluids smell like? How does this type of engine sound compared to that van over there? What does it sound like to be inside a well built car over a gravel road, versus a rusty one ton van? I love the idea that some Cybertronians are better insulated against sound transfer than others.

All these tiny details around you in the real world, you can collect and use like puzzle pieces and building blocks to create something completely new.

Interacting with and learning to better understand other species in our own world, helps us conceptualize what it may be like to do so with an extraterrestrial species; at the very least, it helps inform an author about the human side to such interactions.

I think one of the best exercises is trying to get into someone else's head through their perspective. What's important to them, that might not be to you? What problems might they encounter that we would never have to even consider, like the weight of their frames falling through floors we think are Very Strong?

What things do we take for granted that they dont... And visa versa?

Writing is a series of asking questions and choosing the most sensible answers to tell the story we're interested in. You could take a scene any direction, but looking at all conceived possible outcomes that come in reaction to X event happening, which do you want to read and write about?

3. What is your strategy for writing reader-inserts?

I'm a fraud, there is (almost) no strategy. 😂 Depends on the book honestly. Usually though, i do exactly what many people say not to do and write shameless self inserts i have heavily edited to make them into their own unique person, but i can still so easily project onto them. I write because i enjoy it, and i publish because i enjoy sharing what i enjoy. At the end of the day, i think the best story is one the author got some kind of positive benefit from the experience of writing, and the audience gets an opportunity to expand their own headspace and knowledge in some fashion.

That said, some things I've learned along the way and have since started including in my published stories;

I keep track of Mandatory Details and am strict about being Intentionally Vague for non mandatory details

Example: hair color isn't important unless i say, need to distinguish a person from others by it in a scene, or i need light to reflect of a particular shade of hair to cause a colored reflection on nearby metal for something else to happen.

Butterfly has a set appearance in Leaking Spark because that book wasn't originally going to be published. Later chapters avoid physical appearance as much as possible, and where able, i stick to implication that should inspire a meta reader's imagination, without leaving them feeling like they're lacking crucial info.

Bob has no set appearance at all aside from having a limp with a cane, being old and kindly, and he's got keen eyes, and sometimes i describe his clothes. But i don't mention his skin tone or the color of his eyes. Originally, because he was supposed to be a one scene and done NPC like character. But he became a regular instead, but since i haven't committed those details to his intro, i am purposefully not filling them in after the fact, so i avoid yanking someone out of immersion by suddenly changing a detail they had already cemented in their mind. If you don't write it in, the audience will fill the void usually on reflex.

For a reader insert, i like to purposely imagine very different looking people in any given scene and then try to find the most similar things between them to focus on describing. For example, i used to struggle with describing embarrassment and blushes. Not everyone has skin light enough to show a color change, so writing that detail for a reader insert immediately loses a significant portion of the reader base. I learned to write the *sensation* or visual *body language* of a blush-- heat rising, blood flowing to the face, stiff posture, these are all details that can be applied to any human.

Breast size is really common I've noticed to commit as a detail in a reader insert advertised as being, well, a truly self insert... And not everyone has Big Boobs. Not everyone has tiny ones, either. I'm practically flat chested, so it's really jarring to read a scene where there's any focus on the chest in most stories. I keep that entire concept in mind when i write, and try to accommodate.

Sometimes though it's important for a character to have specific attributes; butterfly though I've changed over to very vague physical descriptions, still has to have certain level of athletic fitness in her physical body because of her specific lifestyle, backstory, and what she does for a hobby (she's a dancer :D hasn't come up yet in the book much but SOOOON EEEEE).

I guess I'm saying; decide what details you want to commit to, and what ones you don't need for the story to function. Keep a bullet point list if needed for easy reference as your stories get longer and longer... It can be hard to keep track of all the little details xD

Also, people tend to write what they know. Don't be afraid to bring a bit of yourself into the story, because that's going to make the characters immensely more relatable and believable than only blindly trying to write a headspace truly entirely alien to you. If you find yourself floundering, try shifting to writing something more familiar... Maybe a character who is actively learning and growing, so they can naturally learn in the story as you yourself learn as an author. For example, when i wrote a blacksmith elf years ago, i started with a total novice. I did not know enough about the subject to be able to accurately describe it in written description. She learned more as i myself was learning and researching. In time, i became familiar enough with the subject and had enough hands on experience in real life that it gives me lot more confidence in describing the details of a forging scene happening in a book.

Your life experiences matter, and are your greatest tool for reverse engineering how to describe such a thing in writing.

I'm so so glad to hear you've been inspired to write, wishing you all of the artistic muse fun!

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Paw Borough Pelt - Sounders Personal Pelt

Above! Sounders, my Decepticon purple kitty cat. This is his official game art.

Below! The wip of his custom pelt ;v;

More images below the cut

I redid his helmet design, this was the first draft i slapped together

Imma prolly be picking away at this one for months. I want my boy to have a truly badass pelt and i am working on this personal passion project between my work orders, so, it gonna be a bit

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Pineapple Cat - Mother's day gift

My mom and I both play Paw Borough, and for mother's day i offered to make her a custom clipped pelt of whatever the heck she wanted,

She wanted something pineapple themed.

WE ARE GETTING A PINEAPPLE CAT PELT

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PB Concept Art - Desert Backdrop WIP

Concept art for a desert themed backdrop in Paw Borough :3 wip!

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PB Backdrop concept wip - mountain lake

Paw Borough backdrop concept i am working on :3

messy underpainting stage

I wanna be a game artist for a pet adopt game so bad SOMEDAY. SOMEDAY I WILL BE GOOD ENOUGH YESSSSS---

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Finished Giveaway Prize

One of the prizes for a giveaway i am way too slowly working through the queue on

loved drawing this flirty dragon oc <3

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Finished Commission - Paw Borough Pelt

For my friend Katzchen on Paw Borough, who commissioned me to make her beautiful thrown roses on the ground around the kitties, for her use on PawBorough.net

It's accepted and live in game as a private, exclusive pelt! <3

the roses are my art; the kitties are Paw Borough game art.

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Look more art!

Backdrop concept i made for applying as a game artist to a game I adore, called PawBorough.net

above is with their game kitties (hehehe, that's my Prowl, who is a *Prowler breed eeeeeeeeee*) and below is without:

Ow ow ow my joints

*worth it*

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Commission wip - Keksin's OC

*heavy breathing* okay i really *really* like rendering hair okay just-- just let me--

So much more to do

i'm eight and a half hours in and have at least four more to go weeee--

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Commission wip

A commission wip~ i just started hair rendering now that the underpainting is done

this one is for a trade of two luna stones on Paw Borough

my sore sore hands are gonna be so so happy when i finally get to use the stones in game 😻

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Things are Better 🥳

I had some very good art orders come in and i have a full work roster ahead of me for the rest of 5is month 🥹👌✨

here's some of my latest stuff!

A custom pelt for Katzchen, in the newly open beta released Paw Borough game! The roses are my art, the kitties are game bases~

A giveaway prize (because i don't have enough on my plate do i, i had to go and make more work for myself whyy??.?) of a full color, cell shaded bust <3

My first custom order for a Shrieking Swift adopt! They wanted a Blue Jay themed one <3

Work in progress~