In general, a dumpster fire

Hi, I'm Irbis, she/her. I draw and I write fanfiction, and I obsess over fictional characters.

[felis-irbis]

Drawing @chizuuchii's OC, Auri, as The Hermit. The idea sprouted from a recent conversation we had, and I expect that now, after I've ventured into drawing Tarot again, more cards will follow.

[wintersnails]

assigning Scully to the X-files was the funniest thing the US government ever did because imagine you send this logical, rule-following scientist to spy on the Basement Weirdo but instead they fall in love and soul-bond so intensely that it’s actually a legitimate threat to national security. all the super-important super-evil government conspiracies are at risk because you (the US government) accidentally pulled the best matchmaking job in history and now they’re so in love and oh shit they’re breaking into another top-secret facility, they’re discovering evidence of another war crime, they’re gazing longingly into each other’s eyes next to a crashed ufo and it’s all your fucking fault

[felis-irbis]

Summer is coming, so I drew a portrait of Subira as a gift for @chizuuchii <3

[felis-irbis]

Once again drawing Hassian and my OC Irbisica (yes, they are what I'm drawing like 90% of the time when I'm drawing for myself)

I just had this image appear in my head and I wanted to see if I'll be able to make it happen. I'm actually quite happy with how it turned out.

[felis-irbis]

My OC Irbisica and the best boy in the world, Tau <3

[luna-azzurra]

Writing is lonely in a specific way that is hard to explain to people who don't do it. not lonely like isolated. lonely like you are trying to build a bridge to another human consciousness using only words on a page and you will never actually know if you got there.

You send the thing out and maybe someone reads it and something moves in them and they have no way to tell you exactly what moved or why and you have no way to know if it was the thing you meant or something else entirely.

You're working in permanent uncertainty about whether any of it lands. and you keep going anyway. you have to develop this strange faith in the act itself, in the value of the attempt separate from the outcome, because if you need confirmation every time you sit down you will never sit down.

Most of the writing happens in a silence that never fully gets broken. you learn to be okay in that silence or you don't last.

[felis-irbis]

A portrait of Reth in a modern AU setting for @piltoverfinest <3

Here's to another year of being creative goblins together ✨

[felis-irbis]

So this is a family friendly version of the most recent drawing I made of my OC Irbisica and Hassian (I will probably post the original version to my AO3 once I finally drag my ass over there to post something)

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[felis-irbis]

A portrait of Subira that I drew a couple months ago for @chizuuchii <3

[chizuuchii]

A Hassian piece I did a while back for @felis-irbis and as a way to practice doing colours. Still loads to learn and fix!

[felis-irbis]

This is one of my bit older drawings that I haven't really posted anywhere except for my AO3.

I just needed an "I <3 Kenyatta" T-shirt design, really.

[felis-irbis]

I have no idea what I'm doing and how tumblr works, but for a (hopefully) good start, I'll drop some art of Hassian and my OC Irbisica :3

Drawn in Rebelle, which is currently my favourite art software.

Also, hello. Have a nice day.

[chizuuchii]

Hello, I have no idea how tumblr works, but here is my first post as a test. Some fanart in progress of my OC Auri and the lovely Miss Subira. A little Angel Demon dynamic :>

Please if you have any advice to help me (for I am very lost) share your amazing wisdom!

[felis-irbis]

I love these girls so much