one for sorrow, two for joy

#omagpies for bird comics. #commissions. reblogs go on @omagpies-reblogs. Magpie, they/it, 30+. This is my art and main blog. Will block on sight if you are rude 💗

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pride month icon btw

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POV you’re interrupting mbart media time. rude, honestly :/

stills:

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[ FIREPOWER ]

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your essay hell art makes my brain immensely happy. the colors, the classical music (motivational??) posters, the slumped magpie-sona. it's just perfection and I want so much more (though not at the cost of your suffering with non thesis writing)!

it's not posters, it's a playlist! i've run through it many a time in the past couple of years

Classical Music for When You're on a Deadline

i am following my own advice/threat from last time and frankensteining last semester's essays into something that might just work. i love academia but i am so tired of this aspect of it in particular (bullshit essays that nobody cares about)

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in the month between me posting this image on Patreon and here I actually got through the bulk of my essay horrors lol! maybe this is what helped

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guess who is back in essay hell

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don’t worry about it!

more of this :) stills under the cut

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Rules: share the first lines of ten of your latest fanfics (or less if you have fewer) and then tag others.

repetitive strain injury (The Murderbot Diaries, murderhelion)

I come back from the dead.

Surfactant (The Murderbot Diaries, murderhelion)

It was supposed to be a normal, regular party.

Playtesting (The Murderbot Diaries, murderhelion)

We'll be staying for four additional standard hours, I inform Iris after a carefully calculated 2-second-long pause when she finishes doing the final headcount and signals for everyone to get going.

Temperance (The Murderbot Diaries, murderhelion)

In the future, when I look back at this moment, I know I will recognize the severity of the issue for what it is when it first comes to my attention.

the hanged man (No I'm Not A Human, Nina/Iver (OCs))

At the end of the ninth night, right before dawn, Nina pulls Iver down from his gallows.

(cause i can feel how) your flesh now is crying out for more (No I'm Not A Human, Nina/Iver (OCs))

"What did he do to me?"

Laudanum (Mouthwashing, Curlya)

The sky is a pre-dawn simmering of colours, the black and blue of a battering carried down swollen veins into the worried landscape of the sea.

nine of swords (Mouthwashing, Curlya)

Curly wakes up in the fog.

to help settle me down (Mouthwashing, Curlya)

Curly isn't sure what time it is.

despite, despite, despite (Mouthwashing, Curlya)

Curly arrives home quietly, despite knowing that Anya is waiting for him.

tagged by @verytinybowties! tagging @loopunderground, @mimsiical, @laxlyricism and YOU !! if you want to do this meme consider yourself officially tagged by the me

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reflecting on how art schools will literally let you do whatever so long as you can explain your life choices

i spent the spring semester of 2020 (yeah) repeatedly cutting myself with broken glass for a project and no one bat an eye. crazy timesXcrazy places

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Hi there! You don't know me from anyone else, but I want to thank you for bein' you. Hope things are going ok, 'specially in this weather.

Anyway, a little rambly, but your words and your art both have always touched me and made me smile. When I see your posts I always get this feeling of someone who's genuinely themselves and you have this strong sense of sincerity in text and art alike. Keep on going, it is always a delight to hear from you, and I want you to know your art has helped me in some of my bad times.

Wishing you the best,

A fellow bird.

you are too kind, thank you :"> i wish you well too

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gearing up for the class presentation tomorrow/the day after (unsure yet) which is basically a check in on our projected thesis methodology and i'm about to be That Guy again by dedicating about half of my packet to ethics. if anyone laughs again i'll...idk probably angry cry in the restroom

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update: i was nigh catatonic with brain fog (and mostly yearning for death tbh) yesterday so idk how well i got my point across, but during the feedback time the person who started the whole conversation last time (and ended up actively encouraged by the guest lecturer to Just Lie) said that they spoke with their supervisor about this afterwards and that i was right

so. the discipline is not yet hopeless lmao

idk man i think if your arguments for concealing who you are and why you are there all boil down to “would they have told me X if they knew who i was” i think you might have bigger things to examine wrt your approach. but what do i know

anyway omw to my supervisor’s place right now for unrelated reasons, so guess who’s gonna be today’s captive audience for my ethics rant

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​update update: my supervisor was proportionately mad and had some choice words to say both about the guest lecturer and the prof who invited him

“well why didn’t you say something?!”

“i did!! i was like, WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE”

“WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE!!”

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ideation

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back with mbart meme redraws but make it human

(more murderhelion human au)

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things to say when you are not a place of honor

original text by @inkskinned can be found here. I’ve made a comic with it before but wanted to make a mbart version for a while

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I don’t bump my art often but I have to with this one. It makes me unwell how the context of mbart turns art not only into the speaker but also into the train it’s trying to warn mb about

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gearing up for the class presentation tomorrow/the day after (unsure yet) which is basically a check in on our projected thesis methodology and i'm about to be That Guy again by dedicating about half of my packet to ethics. if anyone laughs again i'll...idk probably angry cry in the restroom

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Hello hello, I love your art so much!! I was going through your comic tag and noticed that you had links to comics called "glass in my foot" and "don't you just hate it when" that are up on Ko-Fi and Patreon, but not here yet, even though it's been a couple of months since you posted them. So I was wondering when (or if; it's okay if not!) we can see them as a post here on tumblr? Thank you <3 <3

hello!

i have to confess that i have been really low on energy in keeping up with posting comics on tumblr :"3 they are still posted on patreon twice a month (/magpiecrown), i'm just frankly daunted by catching up to the backlog on tumblr now. i hope that it will change and/or i will find a different setup that works, but for now they're just accumulating there

i have considered doing a pay-per-post thing if people prefer not to subscribe, but the minimal payment per post is 3, so with the monthly uploads of 2 and the lowest trier at 1 i don't see what the purpose of per-post would be

thank you for asking <3

(i will also likely be pausing the billing for june and resuming the comics in july, as i have too much schoolwork atm)

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I like your art and writing so very much thamk you for existing you are loved

thank you <3