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[nell0-0]

Beware of the boy of many faces

[furuba]

[incognitoeiscue1]

I drew this at like 3am idk why

[stupjam]

the boy without a fairy

[barbwalken]

[safula]

2026

[embyrinitalics]

so they said "They were the Kokiri and each child had a fairy"

and I was like OH NO EXCEPT FOR ONE BOY WHO DIDN'T HAVE A FAIRY

and they said "But there was one particular boy..."

and I just started bawling my eyes out

[nerdyperday]

Day 3554 Deku Link

[embyrinitalics]

Me when I hit 25k words: *creeping towards the ao3 post button*

Brain: Dont do it

Me: *creeping towards the ao3--*

Brain: EMMANUEL! 🦤

[embyrinitalics]

Yall I'm so overwhelmed

I removed a paper wasp nest from inside an old truck my friends are selling and there was larvae in it, so now it's in my house on my writing desk and I'm feeding them meat I PRECHEW FOR THEM on the end of a pin multiple times a day to see if I can get them to pupate

and I accidentally wrote a huge confrontation in chapter four of my alleged "slow burn" fic

I am a mess 😭

[jsong0-0]

Milky Way

[embyrinitalics]

You know how sometimes you go through something traumatic like 20 years ago or whatever and you knew you could never face it again for the rest of your life but then one day you’re like “I’ve grown, I’ve healed, I’ve changed, I can handle it now and I’m not afraid”?

So anyways I watched Death Note episode 25 again 🫠

[blupeeblupee]

lumina - animus

[pocketseizure]

I guess I’ve been around for long enough to feel confident saying that it’s important not to let yourself be discouraged by numbers on social media. I’ve made all sorts of posts here on Tumblr that linger in obscurity until the right person shares them, and then they explode. I’ve posted art that gets five notes on Tumblr, but then it will get a hundred notes on Instagram. I have stories on AO3 that got no response at all until someone translated them into another language.

The point is: art and stories that completely miss people when you first post them aren’t bad; it’s just that you can’t predict or control reception. I’m not saying that positive feedback isn’t meaningful, but rather that not getting it isn’t a reflection of the quality of your work. Don’t let the numbers get you down!

[embyrinitalics]

To tack on: I had someone comment recently on a fic I wrote five years ago that reading it had helped them through a dark time in their life. To me that’s worth infinitely more than kudos. And it had happened without me hearing about it until much later. And sometimes it’ll happen without us hearing about it at all.

I think sometimes we just have to put our art out there as a gift and have faith it’ll find the person who needs it.

[chest-of-sketches]

What if Blupees have wings? :D

Just me having some fun with watercolors brushes on procreate!

[embyrinitalics]

Pour one out for the fics that haven't updated in 20 years that I still think about on a regular basis. 🍺