EverafterAshley

✨ I'm Ashley, I am a comic artist and character designer. This is my main blog, but I have a separate one for my art and fanfictions. ✨ ✨My main fandoms are Arcane, Merlin, Kingdom Hearts, and Tokyo Mew Mew. I also really enjoy Castlevania, Monster High, Love Live, and the Ben 10 franchise✨

[eixd-deactivated20150710]

The rest of the space is going to be pretty pissed when they see this. 

[thesassycat]

did you google how to take a screen shot

[yaminerua]

Can’t believe this year it will be 20 years since my 12 year old self stumbled by chance upon a volume of Tokyo Mew Mew and first learned what anime and manga were. Life changing moment right there.

TMM had such an incredible effect on me it only felt right to commemorate that 💖

I’ll hopefully be able to make these girls available as stickers soon!

[nocturnaltigerrevelation]

[smilepre]

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

[ insp.1 | insp.2 | insp.3/original ask | insp.4 ]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[klimtsonian]

“None of us can choose our destiny, and none of us can escape it.” 🏰🐉✨

[saeedlutfi]

Hits you with a huge Ben 10 fanart dump out of nowhere 💥

[half-gobbled-piece-of-toast]

“I ain’t reading all that” your brain is rotting and shrinking

[phantomrose96]

Personally? I would never deny Hiromu Arakawa her right to a short bratty braided blond character in a kickass red coat

[phantomrose96]

Invent a look this iconic and I think you should get to use it in every series.

[kibumkim]

[dogger38]

Wind blowing so hard you can read her ear tag today. 🤣

[goldenguenon7]

Greetings again fellow plumbers. As full illustrations take a good while, I've decided to share sketch pages so I can post more regularly.

Here's the Gwen follow-up to my Ben and Albedo designs.

[rythms-of-synthax-deactivated20]

Quote of the day

[baffledtreesquid]

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

[angelnumber27]

Hey bitches. Let’s fuck Monday hard

[angelnumber27]

Hey bitches. Let’s fuck Tuesday hard

[angelnumber27]

Celibacy Wednesday

[angelnumber27]

Hey bitches. Let’s fuck Thursday hard

[algenpfleger]

here’s a quick-ish lighting study from a fury road screencap

[bace-jeleren]

What…?

*Zooms in*

WH A T!?!?!?!!!!!!

[tibalt-the-fineblooded]

[trilllizard666]

nice screencap edit there op-

w-wait.

“study”

holy shit

[klubbhead]

For those of you still figuring it out: THIS ISN’T A SCREENSHOT, ITS A FUCKING PAINTING.

[simpleanddestructivechemistry]

HOLY SHIT

[asynca]

I watched an insane amount of TikTok and other short form videos for the story I'm writing right now. I gotta say, afterwards, I found myself picking up my phone and opening the apps, almost unconsciously. I was walking and I thought about watching some vids at the same time. I was on hold to the ATO... maybe some videos.

I also happen to specialise in gambling addiction (although I'm not practicing in that area right now), and all I could fucking think about was how these fucking apps were conditioning me in the same fucking way gambling apps do. To be constantly plugged in, consuming. To not even think about just picking it up and having a look. To feel bored when I wasn't watching them, to think about watching them when I wasn't watching them....

That shit is fucking evil.

I deleted it. I'm not exposing myself to that.

That shit will fry your dopamine/reward system so fucking bad you will never read a book or watching a movie again without it.

Love yourself and your potential enough to put that fucking shit away. Watch longer form things that require focus and engagement. Listen to podcasts and audiobooks. Read books. DO ANYTHING BUT CONSUME SHORT FORM CONTENT IN AN UNSTRUCTURED WAY.

If you MUST consume it (I'm sure people will be like 'but my classmates' or 'but my own channel'.... etc), do it in a siloed and structured way. 30 minutes between x time and x time on x day. Focus on it. Don't eat and do it. Watch each short form video to completion. Engage critically with the content. ANd never watch them first thing in the morning or last thing at night.

PLEASE. From a gambling professional, short form videos ping your SAME circuitry and you will fuck up your life and your brain so badly if you don't put up guardrails for yourself.