DuelFeather

Greetings. Lee here, an NB Aro Ace. Welcome to my blog. I draw from time to time. lgbtqia+ friendly. I DO NOT DO COMMISSIONS. P.S. Undertalenobody is also me.

[duelfeather]

Roommate let me borrow his iPad so I could do digital art again. Been messing around with Clip Studio Paint. Man… I really miss sketching digitally. Still prefer a desktop (and owning the thing), but I’m still ecstatic to be working on a tablet again.

Here’s a sketch I’m proud of:

I’m accepting Critique on the outfit. (I have traditional sketches that I’ll try to post here soon. Most of those are on Bluesky.)

(Edit: March 11, 2025)

Traditional One / Two / Three / Bonus

Remy is nonbinary and about 14-15 years old. They’re also, unknowingly, not human. (Nor initially from that dimension.) Also, this outfit is inspired by the medieval era. They are not from, nor living, in the past.

Currently using them for possible Trollhunters/Tales of Arcadia story. (I have about… 10+ other oc’s connected to Wizards. … Didn’t realize I had that many. Plus some concepts for some homes, apartments, and living quarters. Might post those some day.)

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

fanfic writing culture isn’t “oh dang! I wanted to write about this prompt with this character but someone else already wrote it, so now I can’t”.

fanfic writing culture is always “two cakes is better than one. the more the merrier. there can ever be enough fics of this character with this prompt!”

[thebroccolination]

There was an Aragorn+Legolas writer I used to read who wrote multiple 20k+ fics in which they went on a little mini-adventure and one of them got injured. They had like. At least ten that followed this exact format, and I fucking loved all of them. I’d finish one and be like, “AGAIN!!!” so like. Two cakes is great but it’s even better when it’s ten cakes by the same writer.

[jewishvitya-movingblogs]

I saw a post that said no one reads a fic they love and goes to the author's page saying "that was amazing, I hope they don't have anything else like this one." And same thing is probably true with tags and prompts.

[toa-archive]

For those of us who have the audacity to not be cis in the UK today has been A Day and thus this post is very late. Sorry.

Many people don't know is that for some reason, the first four of the fluff cannon books written by Richard Ashley Hamilton were also released as a boxset! An ebay listing popped up a few days ago with fantastic photos of it so figured would be a rare opportunity to show it off in pretty good condition to boot:

This source link will only work while the listing is still active which is is at the time of posting.

[toa-archive]

Oh no is this like twitter when me pointing out ebay auctions make things sell again? Think we sold like three RotT Crew jackets that way.

[duelfeather]

I am very grateful. Now I shall have some ToA books. Finally! The collection begins! :D

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. (So glad I had money saved up.)

[kosmogrl]

is anyone else feeling stuck and waiting for something that will never come in order to start living or is it just me?

[writingmaz]

Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

✧

➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

[herstories]

omg this is so helpful

[writing-prompt-s]

!!!!!!!

[x23innocencelost]

I love when there's characters that are pair bonded and you know that wherever one of them is the other is also gonna be there.

[x23innocencelost]

Not necessarily romantic (either in the text or through a shipping lense). Yeah this is my guy don't split us up. No particular reason.

[nattousan]

it was not on wheat...

[nattousan]

[yotzuyu]

[arachnerd-8-legs]

prev: #u forgot the best part#the artist figured out the gig and was like#i draw for u for the rest of my life#these chinese netizens are having shojou level romances

[tevyaa]

[kianamaiart]

i’m in 2D animation at college right now, and my prof keeps talking about the importance of XSheets and how they’re everywhere in the industry, but I’ve literally never seen them before and he’s mentioned they’re kinda getting phased out.

Do animators still use them? If so do you use them personally? Do you have any advice for them because honestly i just write down whatever feels right on the sheet. No idea if Im doing things correctly but I haven’t had issues yet.

I don’t use xsheets for my job as a board artist or director but they’re still really important and used all the time for the actual animators as well as the timers. There are entire jobs built on JUST doing xsheets

I’m glad that’s a skill being taught because the amount of people who can do it is dwindling but it’s still needed

[jayalaw]

What are x sheets, for non animators?

[kianamaiart]

it's basically a readable format of how animation should be timed (frame by frame). kinda like a music sheet

xsheets are universal and are especially important for productions that send stuff overseas for animation. on bcg for example we send storyboards and xsheets to korea. if you just give a studio the board, they're not gonna know how you want it timed. it'd be like if you sent a musician the instruments and song lyrics and nothing else, hoping they'd figure out exactly what you want. but if you give them a music sheet, they'll know the all the timing and the notes they need to hit and where the lyrics are placed

[forkingandcottage-deactivated20]

via indiarosecrawford

Frog Paints a Water Lily Pond 🪷🎨🐸

𝑓ₒᵣ ⲕᵢ𝑛𝑔 ₐ𝑛𝑑 𝑐ₒ𝑡𝑡ₐ𝑔ₑ

[grumpygreenwitch]

Ok, I adore the Frogs to begin with, but the sheer finesse and dedication of this one boggles my mind.

[fuckyeahdavidandyonatan]

The purpose of life is to get really into stories that drive you so crazy you sometimes feel the need to throw up from how much you love them

[lawnchairz]

happy april 13th !!

[p0tat0-g0ddess]

Hey guys let me tell you about advance fee scams

I hope y'all are familiar with these in this day and age, especially my artists out there, because they're incredibly common.

About half an hour ago I posted a drawing and tagged it #artists on tumblr, and very quickly received this comment.

My scam radar went off immediately, due to the generic blog name and lack of any emotion in the comment, but I decided it might be an entertaining venture so I dmed them. They asked for a drawing "of these", and sent me a random selfie. I got the details and told them it would be $15, and they promptly offered me $300. At this point I know it's a scam, but I play along for funsies and give them my paypal. Shortly, they send me this image for "confirmation" (I blocked out my email)

And they began to insist that I checked my email. I looked in my spam folder and found the following email.

This is fake. This is not a thing. And the "you're to refund the $200.00 back" is the scam. They send vaguely official-looking emails at you to "prove" that they sent you the money, then have you send them $200 (or however much the scam is for). Then, surprise surprise, you're out $200.

I continued to play along for a bit, and in the second email "Paypal" told me that I had to refund the $200 before they could "credit the $300 to my account", along with these lovely threats.

And yeah, it's silly. But it's not silly if you don't know and get scammed. So. Spread, please! And thank you very much to @mlaurel for the opportunity to get these screenshots.

[elljayvee]

This is a variation on a much older scam that often results in the victim being out money and also out whatever they were selling. It goes something like this:

- victim posts an item for sale on craigslist or w/e

- scammer contacts asking if a check is ok

- scammer then asks if they can write a check for more than the agreed-upon price and for the seller to give them the overage back as cash, often with some excuse about it being an out-of-state bank, they don't have a card and need some cash for something else, or whatever.

- scammer gives check, gets cash and item, and bounces

- guess what the check does, too

ANY kind of structure where you supposedly get money but have to give some of it back to someone should twig your scam radar, frankly.

[fizzimus]

Reblogging because some people need to refresh their scam radar, or start building theirs. I see far too many people fall for traps, and don't dare say for a second "this will never happen to me" because all it takes is a momentary lapse in judgement.

[tumble-witch]

As someone who was almost scammed recently as I was doing an anti-scam awareness thing for work (everything turned out fine dw!!)

You are not immune to scams. It's not just old or dumb people. It could be poor timing, you could be tired or it's just a scheme you didn't know about yet (that's me hi!!)

Don't victim blame. Don't assume people know. Consult people around you and don't succumb to shame. We are stronger as a community

[toastyglow]

promising myself little treats in return for a completed task is not enough. I need someone to hold a friend or family member hostage.

[awhphooey]

the discord yearns for more archie content so i am providing

[duelfeather]

We really do need more Archie art. Thank you for providing. ^w^

[cherchezlafatfemme]

I know somewhere there's a hip grandma who survived breast cancer and her transmasc grandson who would love a matching set

[depsidase]

[a-great-immortal]

This is why I get so tired about “whose a real women” and “are transgender people real” and the like because it’s so irrelevant. We have group or people that have an insane suicide rate and we have a solution that reduces that by an insane amount.

No matter how you slice it no theoretical reason nor gender rhetoric can change the gender affirming care is improving more lives than it’ll ever hurt

[aster-is-confused]

i think this belongs here too

all the statistics are massively in favor of gender affirming care no matter how you slice it.

[earhartsease]

the issue is they don't want us happy of course, but we'll be happy anyway in spite of/to spite them

[sapphoandvanzetti]

even if it made people unhappy it would still be their right to do it. being a mormon makes people miserable but they're still allowed.