I have no set days to post art, I just do it whenever I feel like it. There's not much to see, just stuff I felt like sharing to the world. I don't care for follower numbers or popularity, so it's all chill here. Enjoy my brainrot.
If you like to read fanfics, I have an Ao3 account! It's pretty quiet there, mainly because I have writer's blockage but I have a ton of unfinished works and concepts in my Ellipsus :'> I have so many fics......help me
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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I wanted to hold of on posting this to finish drawing Lace in one of my outfits to go as a companion piece for this, but I haven't even started on it for weeks and I don't think I will :'>
The shirt says "I already want to take a nap tomorrow"
I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too.
I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.
I've said this before in a different way, and this post said it so well. With real examples.
If you like something, tell people.
If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well.
Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two.
Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.
And for the love of heaven, use the like button on all sites which have it for its intended purpose, which is to indicate (mainly to the maker of the thing) that you liked the thing they made
Do Not use the like feature to bookmark things or make lists to look back on. There are other means of doing that. Like things that you like for the love of decency. Give people that little thumbs up. Acknowledge that they filled your time with something worthy.
This is an art GIFTING game ! Do not attack people expecting revenges. You do not owe anyone revenges !
Always COMMENT on every attack you receive ! It doesnt have to be a big wall of text for as long as you thank whoever draws for you, it's the bear minimum :] (note: if an attack is malicious just report and block)
Enjoy and have fun ! Artfight is a fun event meant to spend a good time. Do not feel pressured into doing lot of attacks !
Make sure to read one's permissions ! Everyone cares about their boundaries so please respect them. If you're unsure just ask !
STAY HYDRATED AND TAKE CARE !! It's really hot in some countries so remember to drink water, take a break every now and then, stretch if you're sitting for a while and go outside a bit :]
Hey, we’re in line for some absurd temperatures here in the southwest this week. This is very important to know and keep in mind. Be safe, stay hydrated, stay out of the sun as much as you can.
Additional you can also put them on your palms, also, make sure to always use a light towel or kitchen paper and don’t put the ice bags directly onto your skin!
What's the matter, sister?
You look as if you have seen a ghost.
- Phantom's ghost, having waited to find Lace specifically to say that
Here's how we can bring Phantom back-
The Masked Spectre is an AU where Phantom's silk dregs congregate back to their mask and their body is reanimated. Now free to wander Pharloom, their ghost drifts aimlessly through the caverns, looking and calling out to their sister to reunite with her.
Pilgrims describe Phantom's apparition as sad and lost, their wails echoing through the caverns they wander through in search of someone. The only defining feature the bugs can make out is the floating broken mask that is often seen before their body, and thus having given the creature the name The Masked Spectre.
The word of the ghostly figure reaches Lace, and teams up with Hornet to hunt it down and see if they can either cut it down or help it find peace. The last known sighting was somewhere in Greymoor, so the two set off to find it.
Lace sees the white glow of the apparition before the mask, its back turned to her as it cries out towards the open caverns. She approaches, pin drawn, and just as she was about to speak, the apparition turns, and Lace freezes in place.
Staring at her was Phantom's mask, and attached to it was their body, or at least what remained of it, floating over the ground. She stared back, unable to speak, or move, as her sibling's ghost drifts up to her and looks at her with recognition in their mask's empty eyes.
No words were spoken. Instead, Phantom leans forward, and pulls Lace into a tight embrace, to which she returned almost immediately.
Now reunited, Phantom and Lace are near inseparable. Wherever Lace goes, Phantom's ghost is likely to follow, and she rarely complains. Unless it's things like when they follow her around as the stupid sheet ghost thing to purposely annoy her.
I am of the belief that Phantom would be the more annoying sibling, because I love it when it's the older siblings that are the ones lovingly bugging their relatives. Lace can tolerate a lot of their bullshit, but they know ways to get a reaction out of her and it's very amusing to them when they get it to happen.
They won't do anything that genuinely makes her angry. It's all harmless fun for them both, but mostly for Phantom. :>
