aka Avernine

Hup, hup! Drive on the plaisham | they/them transgender beast of Scotland | 18+

[laird-o-gerblins]

Art and Illustration by Corin | Instagram | Linktree

A (very) queer Scottish artist, creating weird, whimsical and spooky shit.

[calebwittebane]

are we serious

[what-even-is-thiss]

I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip n’ slide to dissapointment again.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You ever been 30,000 words and hundreds of research hours into a project when you realize hey wait a minute. I don’t like this. This is bad.

[fassina]

Ok adding to this though that even though it is extremely relatable, this is a KNOWN thing with professional writing. 10k is often referred to as "having a pot boiling" or "having a stew" - it's the point where you often see an idea coming together and it's exciting! But THEN... 30k-50k is the point where that fun has to start coming together. In theatre, it's usually week 3 of a 5 week rehearsal period where you have to stop talking about the play and really get it all up on its feet and cohesive. In art, it's committing to what are going to be the final visible layers of colour and texture, in sculpture the moment where you're truly at the point of no return with carving out the shape.

It usually feels really bad. Because this is the point it becomes real craft. It's so, so difficult to really be able to identify if it's truly not going to be anything or you're just in the hardest part of the process, and really the only way to know is to... write through it. Write it badly. Or, if you really can't, put it in a drawer and come back to it after a few months of breathing space. Remember, you can fix so much in the edit, but you can't fix nothing!

(I say, fully looking at my latest draft of my book and considering throwing it in the bin. But my editor said exactly this to me, so I'm passing it along.)

[tjalexandernyc]

this is 100% true. I've written 6 complete novels at this point and every single time around the 40k mark I feel lost in the woods. Nothing seems to be working. I feel awful; I can't sleep. I keep going even though I'm convinced I'm going to fail. And then... It's like leaving a tunnel and getting back out in the sunshine. Stuff starts coalescing. Things that weren't working have obvious fixes. I "can write" again, except I was writing the whole time. It just felt hopeless in the moment. It's not. You just gotta get out of the woods.

[ariaste]

Ah yes the Slough of Desponds. Professional author with 13 books, and this is normal for me as well. (Checking for tension issues usually helps!)

[sainamoonshine]

Lmao I literally wrote a whole blog post abt it once.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/writing-advice-1-82451675

Writing Advice #1: The 90% project completion Dark Night of the Soul | Marie Blanchet

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[kodasea]

Artfight 2026 (Pt. 1)

♦️Olin for @curseforks

♦️Lyra for Sketch_wolf

♦️The Beast for yourearealmonster

♦️Aynjel for theFishmarsh

[crabussy]

formal menswear enthusiasts want to slut it up so bad but they're frightened. so they wear shirt-stays and sock garters under their clothes. this is my scientific theory it's making waves in the guyologist world right now

[crabussy]

like seriously. seriously. "oh I just want my shirt to stay tucked in and my socks to stay up" riiiiiiight.

[nebulanomz]

Am I the only one who views this/type of guys that wear these attractive? Or does anyone else think this I wanna know..

[crabussy]

(blocking the note count with my incredibly broad-shouldered frame) yuppp it's just you my friend. sorry

[weaselle]

this is masculine lingerie. Feminine lingerie mostly came from similar things in women's fashion -- garter belts etc. I think there is a lot of room for developing it more, but this is, imo, absolutely masculine lingerie, and i wish men's fashion designers would start focusing on that more

don't forget sleeve garters and suspenders

[weaselle]

since i've seen it asked what purpose sleeve garters serve:

Sleeve garters are just so you can keep your cuffs right where you want them, typically used professionally by people like bartenders, who are wearing dress shirts to do manual labor and don't want their cuffs brushing through spills when they are wiping down the bar etc... but also useful for keeping cuffs exactly the right length for your suit without having to tailor all your shirts, or, if you have several suit coats with slightly different length sleeves, you can always have your dress shirt's cuffs showing that perfect half inch below the suit sleeve or whatever the fashion is for the time

right now it's about 1/2 an inch, but that's the sort of thing, like tie length, that can change a little with fashion trends -- but basically, you never want your shirt cuffs to be doing this

Because that looks SO sloppy, right? Looks like you're wearing your father's shirt under your little brother's jacket

BUT! you do want the cuffs showing, like this

because it makes the suit sleeve look precise and on purpose, or you might push it and show even more if you are wearing nice cuff links

because this clearly still looks purposeful and precise, and shows off your jewelry.

often, fashion dictates taking any opportunity to show your layers -- for example in medieval europe it was fashionable to literally slash expensive outer garments so you could ALSO see some of the expensive clothing underneath, which is how before long you get "slashed" sleeve patterns like this becoming popular among the wealthy

(notice the roughly half inch of sleeve cuff showing at the bottom here as well)

So a sleeve garter allows you to keep your sleeve cuffs positioned exactly where you want them, for either fashion or activity

[wastrelwoods]

spotted across the coffeeshop and sprinted over for a closer look

[inkyami]

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[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Do you like this song? #886

Yes I like it, I already know it

Yes I like it, first time listening

No I don't like it, I already know it

No I don't like it, first time listening

Voting ended onAug 11

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Dan Tyminski - Southern Gothic 2017

Dan Tyminski is an American bluegrass singer-songwriter and musician. He is a former member of Alison Krauss's band Union Station, and has released four solo albums. He is known for his updated version of the song "I Am Man of Constant Sorrow" (poll #26), which was featured in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?. In total, he has won 14 Grammy Awards for solo and collaborative projects. In 2013, he was the vocalist on Avicii's international hit "Hey Brother" (poll #164). Tyminski received the Bluegrass Star Award from the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation of Dallas, Texas, in 2021. The award is bestowed upon bluegrass artists who do an exemplary job of advancing traditional bluegrass music while preserving its character and heritage.

Tyminski says the "Southern Gothic" theme, which emerges in both the lyrics and the music, came about by accident. "I remember the day we came up with that song. We started at 11 at night and worked later into the night. We decided to evaluate it, and we realized we were trying to dress up a turd. We were either going to quit or start something different. Jesse [Frasure] played some different music to change things up, and he played the bones of what would become 'Southern Gothic'. The first thing that struck me was that it was creepy and dark." Someone in the studio said, "It's kind of Gothic." Frasure responded, "If Dan is going to sing it, it has to be Southern Gothic." The guys then all Googled Southern Gothic to see just what the term meant.

"What laid in front of us was a wealth of material you could have written 10 complete albums about," says Tyminski. "We picked and choosed the parts we thought would help us make the song we were trying to make. I really wasn't familiar with the literature until that day. It's interesting how it unfolded. I didn't expect this record to come along the way it did, but after I realized that I had this opportunity, I've had to honor that and that's carried through into the band I hired and the shows we played. We're playing this record as it sounds; we're not doing bluegrass music. It's been amazing to play with this much energy — it's pretty far left for me."

"Southern Gothic" received a total of 48,3% yes votes. Previous Dan Tyminski polls: #26 "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow", #164 "Hey Brother".

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

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[meanao3thoughts]

a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

[nukeli]

People in the comments going "b-bUt hiTs" as if that's engagement! Even a kudos matters more than just clicking on a fic and leaving without doing anything. Not commenting or even leaving a kudos if you like a fic just means you didn't like it! (Or were too lazy to click a like button...)

Some people do sort by the amount of hits (or comments....iirc sorting by kudos is also an option?), but that's also bad because your refusal to read fics that aren't already popular means most fics will never become popular no matter how good they are...

[kakyoinryoko]

i think if you showed minecraft or fortnite to a little medieval peasant boy he would probably start writing parodies of church hymns. it’s human nature

[kakyoinryoko]

this has rendered me speechless

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

I have never read or watched Death Note and i know the whole ‘book that kills people’ premise but from all the shit i see on here it seems to be two teenaged boys acting out this scene over and over

[awesomebutunpractical]

steps to make character

Take standard character trope

Add a contradiction

Take one part of their personality, preferably not contradiction, instead of balance, weigh everything in them towards that.

Choose something they want, then something they value. Pick which one they'll chase over the other.

Give them friends. Preferably enemies.

Shake vigorously.

[theblogginggoth]

By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

[nadiacreek]

This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.

[elodieunderglass]

This is a tremendously impactful short story and every time I see it, it serves as an excellent reboot button for my state of mind.

[sturionic]

"Learn the fundamentals first" seems like really sound universal advice, and as a former classical musician, I can vouch for it. You will have a more solid foundation for increasing complexity if you put in the time to study in a structured way. If you don't, you'll have a lot of shit to fix later.

As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.

I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!

The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.

With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.

Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!

Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.

You have official permission from your local pretentious classical music snob: fuck the fundamentals. You can always unfuck them later (but only if you want to).

[fella-lovin-fella]

i hate it when people mistake "etymology" with "entomology." like, i know where they coming from but it still bugs me

[fluentisonus]

no eclipse glasses we are experiencing things allegory of the cave style