Floral Soup

She/They | I draw, I write, I hyperfixate

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Hiya, I'm Floral Soup!

You can call me Flossie, Flo, Soup, I don't really mind :)

I go by She/They pronouns!

🩷💛🩵 | ♾️🌈🦋| Goth 🖤

I draw and I write. I also have a tendency to hyper fixate over things.

I like to draw and write in my spare time. I've got a bunch of ideas for different books and hope to one day publish them (that'd be cool, right?) Ask me about my stories and I'll talk nonstop.

I write fanfiction too - but only a small sliver makes it out of the drafts

I also don't commission.

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Courtney piece I did a while back

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Zoro with cheek acne scars, also my first time drawing him, so I messed around a bit :)

Inspired by this post by @miffchoro

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Art of my oc, Katelyn!

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blind, deaf, mute, and stuck in the arctic (sekai) with niigo

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Lowkey forgot about this lmao, but I posted the third chapter of my TDI rewrite about a week agooo.

I actually loved this chapter so much. I had masses of fun writing the Gwent interactions as this is when we kinda see how compatible they are. The challenge lasted for something like three days and you're telling me they were just chatting for most of it? I actually love them omg 😩

I also wanted to play around with giving the characters slightly different outfits each episode and tried to do a hand-camo pattern thing on Trent's turtleneck. Not sure how well it came out.

Chapter 3 if you fancy a read.

First post is here, along w/ chapter 1 stuff

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the bells of parting toll

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they're all so hard to draw????????

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The Cage

The fluttering of the butterfly wings In my stomach Desperate to escape along with my feelings for you

The lock on the cage clicks and rattles

When you talk to me When you smile at me When you're around me

You speak to me… I feel to inferiority The pedestal I placed you on is non-existent

The rattling of the lock continues Keen to escape, feelings desperate to be released But I can't. I won't Let them out

For I am a burden A beacon of destruction The feelings must stay locked away

After all, It's silly A silly little crush No more

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I've been putting off finishing this for a while.

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As someone with life-impairing OCD I have a bunch of thoughts and feelings about Trent's character derailment and they are here, packaged into a fun little OCD box ('fun'). Like the person I am, I wanted to share some of my thoughts and opinions about the inclusion and execution of OCD in Trent's character.

There are different types of OCD, but it all sort of stems around doubt. An intrusive thought enters the brain, then you feel almost required to carry out the compulsion to create a short-lived sense of comfort and relief. Personally, I struggle with contamination, and it seems like Trent might have something along the lines of: 'if I don't blink nine times my family with die' or kinda what they were trying to push in the show, 'if I don't do everything in set blocks of nine, Gwen's gonna break up with me.'

There are so many ways that Trent's OCD could've been written better, but there are two things that bug me the most: the inconsistency, and the fact that the writers gave Trent OCD to make him 'undateable' to Gwen. Instead of making them talk about it and communicate, the writers had them break up, pushing the narrative that people with OCD are weirdos and should be pushed away just because of their mental state.

For the consistency side of things, I would've been much happier if the writers were even consistent with handling Trent's OCD within action. But they weren't. It only showed up when they wanted to use it as a plot point - and I'm not really even mad about that. They could've chosen to focus on Trent's OCD for his character arc that season, like make it a tad more subtle (and accurate) and have him trying to work on it and let his friends know what's going on with him.

I'm not even going to talk about how his OCD disappears in his brief World Tour moments...

Okay rant over.

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Chapter two of my Total drama rewrite!! I mentioned in before in this post, along with the art for that chapter too!

I'm really enjoying writing this and the fact I'm pushing to have at least two drawings for each chapter is really helping me pace myself and get a grips of workload - being more efficient etc.

If you'd like to read the link is here and chapter two is here.

For some parts of my reread whist editing, I was thinking 'this is cringe,' 'this is soooo bad!" THEN I reminded myself, the cast are teenagers, and doing "cringe" shit is sometimes part of being a teenager, things they might do, things they might say; the maturity but also lack thereof (chapter two has quite a bit of that).

So, I was fine with it - it's only chapter two... of twenty-eight, no, plus action, plus the specials, PLUS world tour (I'm not rewriting ROTI), PLUS the All Stars grand finale shabang I haven't written yet but sure have been doing a lot of thinking about whilst having my autistic headphone time before bed - edit audios and playlists and stuff... UGH! At least with Action and WT I know how the plot is going to change...

AND THE IMAGES FOR CHAPTER TWOOOO abovee!!!

You might feel the last one looks messy and rushed - that's because it was. Essentially, I just wanted to have the chapter done and shortened my drawing time down to 4 hours instead of the 33 hours and 25 hours of the first two respective drawings.

I also like posting on here for all the little changes I made and want to ramble about that would take up far too much time in my authors notes.

I wanted to keep in mind the little details about the characters, like Bridgette doesn't wear makeup, so I drew her eyelashes less visible and such (same with Gwen in the last picture). I am also so happy with how Courtney turned out - I think I locked in whilst rendering her (we don't talk about her sweater, can you tell I don't like shading breasts??)

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I can't help but want to do screenshot redraws. There was supposed to be more, but I forgor

Also, outfits are a callback to this post, since... same episode

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Silly little Gwent sketch to finish off my sketchbook <3

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pretty, don’t you think?