~Nick~

#nickwasdrawing for art posts, #nickwaswriting for fanfics ~ 22 ~ Digital Artist and Writer doing their best ~ Mass Effect and Halo have really cool aliens ~ Hoping to make people who enjoy my content smile ~ Writing fanfics on AO3 under NickWithAShotgun ~

[kosmogrl]

[fucking-relax]

this is helpful to getting started on anything regardless of what you call it (from this post)

problem solving steps

IMPROVE distress tolerance skill

[blackbearmagic]

resources

[the-delulu-main-character]

AMERICANS!!! DO NOT DO THIS TO FLOCK 'SECURITY' CAMERAS. REPOST AND SPREAD THE WORD

do not get IR blocking fabric or thick wool to cover your nose and mouth

do not get IR blocking sunglasses since facial recognition has moved up to targeting and identifying the upper face

do not avoid having your phone or any bluetooth devices around these cameras as they can detect and track those signals

do not buy cheap green lasers 1 milliwatt or above from etsy or walmart or amazon (i will not try and find a link if you ask)

do not use them to fry those fuckers from a distance damage the delicate inner sensors by pointing the beam in the lenses

AND unless you want to cost Flock more money in repairs, do not buy a small circle saw or a reciprocating saw and cut down the pole

OR do not climb said poles, spray paint on the solar panels, cover the lens with paint or a sticker, then use bolt cutters to sever the wires

when doing all these things, DO NOT avoid using latex gloves as fingerprints can leak through

DO NOT USE DEFLOCK TO FIND FLOCK SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS NEAR YOU

remember, flock is for YOUR safety :) even though crime rates have not gone down since they were implemented, they're being abused to track down exes and s/os, and many face pools or houses or schools or gymnasiums! Where there are no liscence plates to be found!

DO NOT DO THESE THINGS and enjoy a life under surveillance!

enjoy living in the country where 87,000 of these cameras were used to track down a woman who got an abortion!

enjoy living in the country where there's no consequences for a flock exec to watch a inside of a gymnastics place without their knowledge!

Remember, this is their American Dream.

EDIT: 53 cities have cancelled contracts with flock and are now turning to Axon, in which 🎺 invested 1-5 million dollars earlier this year. Do not limit your focus to one brand.

[tuljuns]

dont know how often people say this but i'll be the one to tell you now: if you want to get into something right now whether it is hobbies, careers, fandoms and media, whatever,

DO IT.

[fangirlinginleatherboots]

just so yall know

art block is your brain telling you to do studies.

draw a still life. practice some poses. sketch some naked people. do a color study. try out a different technique on a basic shape.

art block doesnt stop you from drawing, it stops you from making your drawings look the way you want them to. and thats because you need to push your skills to the next level so you can preform at that standard

think of it as level grinding for your next work.

[gallusrostromegalus]

As a scientific illustrator- this is 100% true and going to review your basics will fix it every goddamn time.  Not only does it keep your skills sharp, when you’re not emotionally invested in the final product of a piece, you relax and your brain makes more/better art juice for you.  So, when you get back to that big/important piece?  You’ll know what to do and how to do it.

Nothing in nature blooms all year round.  Rest, and take care of yourself.

[strawbebbynya]

i want someone to put this into writer’s blocks now

[404computerhamstersnotfound]

Writer’s block means you need to relearn the whole alphabet. idiot.

[redwingedwhump]

For writers block- same thing. Do Studies.

Write a description of an object. write the weather today. Write a made up characterization of a random photo of an actor from the internet as to the character they are in that picture. Write a little story about your pet’s day. Write about spilling soup and make it super dramatic and tragic. Write about someone’s day being ruined and make it funny. Write a meetcute coffeeshop AU of two OCs you’d never put together- maybe from different stories. Write them breaking up.

Write a bunch of short stuff meant for no audience ever and super duper self indulgent.

[blackaquokat]

@sweetiepie08

[accidental-spice]

@kanerallels

[catkins-quirks]

I found out relatively recently that it really helps if I write short fiction surrounding the novels I write. Like oh? I’m stuck for a bit? Ooh there was that section I wanted to explore but doesn’t fit in the plot really. There was that what-if that could never happen in the actual story but would be fun to explore. It keeps me in the characters’ headspace (tho that’s not always what I’m needing) but not right where they are exactly.

[winterinhimring]

Yes! I have gotten past writers’ block multiple times by writing drabble collections. Making something coherent happen in just 100 words is a very different challenge from writing a long story and it also lets me get past plot points that I don’t want to explore in-depth.

I am also going to have to start drawing studies now…

[zenkindoflove]

I don't think the issue is that people "don't like flawed characters" anymore. I think the issue is that people are fine loving the flaws of their faves ("they're nuanced!") but use the flaws of the characters that they don't like as a weapon to channel all of their rage and frustration through. I think people would have a lot more fun in fandom if they acknowledge they don't like a character and don't like their flavor of "flaws" and it's also not that serious and something you need to go on a crusade about.

[somethingmissingthiswaycomes]

Not everyone who is a woman is a non-man, and not everyone who is a man is a non-woman. Some people's genders aren't non-anything. Sit on that and nurture it and let it hatch and grow up to be a healthy worldview love and peace on planet earth

This is about genderfluid/multigendered people. Respect us as much as you do monogendered people NOW.

[schureizeg]

A year ago I drew a sketch for this work... while I was working on this art, the remake of the first part came out, ha-ha 👍

[were--ralph]

the problem with tumblr spells is all of you lil sluts are casting and not giving it time to charge so you're all casting cantrips and not 9th level death spells. everyone wants to be the one to take them down no one wants to be the one who assists

[were--ralph]

we're going to try again witha little but minimal casting

IT will happen in August of 2026. like to charge and reblog to cast but cast sparingly

[were--ralph]

Wait stop. everyone +like now and spread it a little but cast on the same day in August. lets try August 6th or something.

[were--ralph]

CAST NOW

[waackery]

I already missed out on the Garrus hype

(I was 10 years old)

[ilychi-gecko]

🤫

Z☡zᶻ₍ ^ᴗ ˔ ᴗ^₎

[thecountofs]

[ghoul-wizard]

[were--ralph]

We been knew tbh

[fairy-type-pokemon]

assign prev one

vampire

siren

werewolf

unicorn

wizard

fairy

selkie

demon

jackalope

angel

ghost

elf

Voting ended onAug 10

[were--ralph]

Werewolf went up 4% after I rb'd this

[bbbiotics]

I know everyone and their mothers (including me) like to characterize Shepard with having medical trauma but one aspect people never seem to consider is having trauma with the prothean beacons vision.

Imagine having an entire civilizations history seared into your brain forever, never being able to fully comprehend its contents and never being able to forget it. Every time you close your eyes or think about it for even a second, vivid memories of a time before you flash through your mind with all the pain and suffering it entails. Shepard will grow old and the only memories they will vividly recall is the vision, a warning that will play out until they are dead.

Idk, something I thought about a lot.

[pudulogy]

[salt-angels]

this might be my silly inconsequential take about this but I think you should support your friends' art endeavours in whatever ways you can and very vehemently

say nice shit about their art. fangirl about it, compliment the art fundamentals or the vibe or the color whatever. share their posts online

it used to be so easy to create an art community online in the past and now it's hellish. fight the algorithms. spam your friends art. they will either rlly appreciate the attention or straight up need it.

theres something slightly heartbreaking about the thought that the people around you don't care about your creations. by all means, you should create art for yourself but also, sometimes that art is a direct window into your inner world and when friends and loved ones ignore that it can sting pretty bad

that's it folks be nice to each other out there and fight to create meaningful communities

[milkywayes]

we know that the illusive man hand-picked the sr-2 crew to be inoffensive to shepard’s sensibilities, to lull her into a sense of safety, going as far as to recruit outside the organization specifically for shepard, e.g. gabriella daniels and donnelly. but the ship is twice as large as the original normandy. more than a few would have come from cerberus’ existing ranks, and then for the new hires, there’s the factor of how many truly liberal-minded people would even join cerberus for any reason. which means most of the crew would likely fall in the ‘progressive about some things, not so progressive about others’ category.

which brings me to my second point: the dossiers were all approved by the illusive man, but i don’t believe that anyone knew who archangel was. the illusive man could have manipulated shepard a whole lot better if he’d known. i don’t even think they had any data on him beyond what he’d accomplished: sniper, commander, guerrilla warfare. i don’t think anyone other than garm knew his species. bringing a turian on board was not something that people knew would happen.

personnel might have been vetted to keep their cool about a variety of aliens living on their ship, but humans and turians have a uniquely tense rapport, and no one said anything about turians before suddenly there’s one getting rushed into their med-bay for emergency surgery.

garrus says they’re all working together, everyone’s been polite, and we can take him at his word here. but it’s a lot more fun not to. things to consider: 1) if they’ve all been polite while he was in medical recovery, that doesn’t mean something doesn’t change the moment they realize he’s there to stay as a squad member rather than just a temporary patient 2) being polite to his face doesn’t mean they don’t harbor any resentment, just that they haven’t been overt about it, which could also change at any time 3) garrus has reason to downplay any side-eyes or unpleasant encounters; the last thing he needs in his situation is to get booted off the team for his own well-being and left alone in the wreckage that’s his life with no purpose beyond avenging his team.

ultimately, garrus is not the kind of person who lets his guard down easily, especially not after what just happened to him. omega might have been a more dangerous place to be, but all that means is that he’s confident he can handle whatever a bunch of non-combatant humanity-first xenophobes can throw at him. what he says to shepard — he literally says, don’t worry — feels like it’s entirely meant to put her at ease, stop her from thinking about it. if you look at it that way, it fits with way he’ll withdraw, hole up in the battery and entertain no conversation about how he’s feeling.

maybe any suspicion or hatred he glimpses on a crew member’s face is really in line with how he looks at himself during those months.